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It is no spoiler to say I am going to reveal the final moments of Peter Farrelly’s fantastic crowd-pleasing biopic I Play Rocky, chronicling the making of the 1976 classic Rocky, which not only made Sylvester Stallone a major star but also became one of the greatest behind-the-scenes stories in Hollywood history. Stay all the […]Переглянути повний текст

I have to confess I am a sucker for down-on-your-luck Hollywood stories, especially movies about actresses who once had success and are now scraping the bottom. Of course there is the classic of classics, Sunset Boulevard, but there are many more. A personal favorite is The Star which got Bette Davis an Academy Award nomination […]Переглянути повний текст

As Jimmy Kimmel’s interview with James Talarico nears 7 million views on YouTube, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr weighed in on Saturday evening, accusing the Texas U.S. Senate candidate of orchestrating a “hoax” to drive up “clicks and donations.” Earlier this week, Kimmel told viewers that he would be sitting down with an interview with Talarico […]Переглянути повний текст

After supporting roles in blockbusters like Wicked, Michelle Yeoh has her first all out starring role since winning the Best Actress Oscar for Everything Everywhere All At Once three years ago. Considering her expertise in martial arts and kick ass action (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon for starters), her latest effort in the genre is a […]Переглянути повний текст

EXCLUSIVE: Peacock has canceled the Miami-set crime-drama series M.I.A. after one season. The series, from creator, writer, and executive producer Bill Dubuque, premiered on May 7 with all 9 hour-long episodes. Following the show’s premiere, there was a lot of buzz around M.I.A. It received an extra push from NBC with a special airing on the […]Переглянути повний текст

The devastating documentary NAZA, an investigation into Israel’s mass killing of civilians in Gaza, was shot at night on rooftops in Tel Aviv, in part to avoid potential Israeli eavesdropping, presumably, and to facilitate shielding the identities of participants. Those participants are 24 Israeli military intelligence officers and soldiers who reveal, in almost matter-of-fact tones, […]Переглянути повний текст

After years of fielding questions about whether she wants to be a mom, Lauren Miller Rogen gives the definitive answer in the form of her witty, heartfelt comedy Babies. Written and directed by Miller Rogen, Babies stars Anna Kendrick and the auteur’s husband Seth Rogen as the happily married Aaron and Annie, a couple without kids of their […]Переглянути повний текст

The Diablo video game is coming to Netflix. Blizzard Entertainment chief Johanna Faries revealed at BlizzCon in Anaheim Saturday that the streamer is adapting the game as an animated series. Here’s the description of the project, per Variety: “After decades of bringing entire universes to life through our games, we’re partnering with some creative powerhouses […]Переглянути повний текст

There will be harsh job losses and severe economic pain if Paramount carries out its threat to leave California over the antitrust action a coalition of blue state Attorneys General are pursuing to stop David Ellison’s $111 billion merger with Warner Bros Discovery, an internal L.A. County report estimates. “At a minimum, relocating Paramount’s headquarters […]Переглянути повний текст

EXCLUSIVE: Premiere Entertainment Group is introducing faith-based survival thriller The Rescue, which has Kellan Lutz (Twilight franchise) attached, to international buyers at the TIFF market. The synopsis reads: “After a violent storm leaves a rescue team stranded on a frozen Alaskan mountain, survival becomes a test not only of endurance, but of faith, as hope […]Переглянути повний текст

Taylor Frankie Paul revealed on social media Saturday that she’s “stayed in, single and celibate” since ABC decided to table her run as The Bachelorette. Paul, who can currently be seen in the fifth season of Hulu’s The Secret Lives of Morman Wives that dropped Sept. 10, also said she will not allow anyone “intimate […]Переглянути повний текст

Venice Golden Lion winner May El-Toukhy is not surprised that some pundits considered her win a shock Saturday evening. Speaking at the winners’ press conference this evening, the Danish director of Woman Unknown responded to a question about her win being called a “surprise” by some in the media: “It doesn’t surprise me that some […]Переглянути повний текст

Emma Slater isn’t leaving anything to chance before the season 35 premiere of Dancing with the Stars. Partnered with Savannah Bananas second baseman Jackson Olson for the season that begins Tuesday on ABC, the popular pro doubled down on her pre-season publicity tour by performing with his exhibition baseball team. Slater and Olson joined the […]Переглянути повний текст

Douglas Sirk , the master of so many great female-driven melodramas of the 50’s (Imitation Of Life, Magnificent Obsession) might have been jealous of Cody Fern’s directorial debut that just had its World Premiere at the Toronto Film Festival. It is what Sirk’s and other movies of the era were once dubbed, “women’s films” that […]Переглянути повний текст

A decade after her sophomore feature The Love Witch, Anna Biller has returned from a whole other era with another technicolor fever dream of female rage. In The Face of Horror, the writer/director updates the Kabuki ghost story Yotsuya Kaidan, which she deconstructs for the medieval era with help from stars Kristine Frøseth, Jonah Hauer-King, […]Переглянути повний текст

Glen Basner and Roeg Sutherland opened their global sales playbook at TIFF: The Market. The duo discussed the realities of working in the modern-day independent film business during a conference session at TIFF’s newly-minted market. They also got into the weeds on the dos and don’ts of packaging indie film projects. Sutherland, CAA’s Co-Head of […]Переглянути повний текст

Gary Myers, the former NASCAR driver, stock car legend and patriarch of a noted racing family, died Thursday, September 10, following an extended period of ill health. He was 76. His death was announced on Facebook by his son, racecar driver Burt Myers. “Last night I lost my hero,” Burt Myers wrote. “He fought so […]Переглянути повний текст

Searchlight Pictures boss Matthew Greenfield broke down how YouTube has become fertile ground for finding new stories and filmmakers. The Searchlight Pictures boss also spoke about the battle with familiarity and the need for original ideas to get people into movie theaters in the streaming age. After Obsession and Backrooms, studios and producers are scouring […]Переглянути повний текст

Danish director May El-Toukhy’s Woman Unknown has won the Golden Lion for Best Film at the 83rd Venice Film Festival. The post-World War Two psychological thriller was directed by one of just two female directors in the running for the Golden Lion this year. Set in Denmark in the summer of 1945, the picture stars Mathilde Arcel […]Переглянути повний текст

ER was an instant hit when it premiered on NBC in October 1994. But the project had not been an easy sell: it was created by an author, Michael Crichton, with no television record and conceived in a style drastically different from any other medical drama. Add to that a cast of then-largely unknowns and […]Переглянути повний текст

As Courteney Cox returns to the director’s chair for her sophomore feature Evil Genius, she’s ready to take on a franchise she’s been with for 30 years. While discussing the TIFF true-crime film at the Deadline Studio, the Golden Globe nominee revealed she’d be open to directing an upcoming installment in the Scream franchise, in […]Переглянути повний текст

The CEO of Anthropic has called for slowing down, or “pacing,” the speed of AI development, warning of recent incidents that have caused alarm that the technology will get out of control and act on its own. In an essay posted to his website on Saturday, CEO Dario Amodei wrote that “over the last few […]Переглянути повний текст

Some exciting news heading into the holiday season: Searchlight has announced a sequel to the beloved 2005 holiday film The Family Stone, with nearly the entire cast returning. This includes Claire Danes, Rachel McAdams, Dermot Mulroney, Craig T. Nelson, Sarah Jessica Parker, Luke Wilson, Tyrone Giordano, Elizabeth Reaser, Paul Schneider, and Brian White. The one big […]Переглянути повний текст

Brian Duckworth, the country musician who performed with his brother and sister as the band Taylor Made, died Monday, September 7, at his home in Clarksburg, W. Va. He was 56. His death was announced by family. A cause of death was not disclosed. Taylor Made, which featured Duckworth, his brother Greg Duckworth and sister […]Переглянути повний текст

Jeremy Thomas, one of the UK’s most prominent independent film producers of the last 50 years, died on September 11. He was 77 years old. His family announced his death in a statement on Saturday. “Jeremy Thomas, the celebrated British producer of The Last Emperor and of over 40 other films, has died, at the […]Переглянути повний текст