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Naomi Watts remembers David Lynch and how “instrumental” he was in her Hollywood career. In a new interview, the Mulholland Drive star revealed how the filmmaker kept her from quitting acting. “[Lynch] was very instrumental to me even being in America,” Watts said on Live with Kelly and Mark. “I wouldn’t have stayed had I […]

In two days the Sundance Film Festival kicks off in Park City with a robust slate of nonfiction films (we leave it to others to cover the fiction slate!). Opening day/night alone features several world-premiere documentaries including the latest from two Oscar winners: Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson’s Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius) and Mstyslav […]

Once again, Blake Lively and her team have made it very clear they understand that timing is a big part of everything in Hollywood, on and off camera, and especially when lawyers are involved. Very quickly after Justin Baldoni dropped footage today from the filming of It Ends With Us to counter his co-star’s claims […]

The already very public confrontation between It Ends With Us stars Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni is now taking things behind the scenes as the latter attempts to counter the former’s claims of sexual harassment during the making of the big screen adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s 2016 domestic violence novel. As lawyers spar in. and […]

Greta Gerwig’s Narnia film is getting a two-week, global run in Imax theaters next year. However, don’t get too happy that this is a change to Netflix’s stance on theatrical runs for its original movies. Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos said that there is “no change at all to our theatrical strategy.” “Our core strategy is […]

We hear that it’s true — the Barbie superstar is in talks to join Shawn Levy’s Star Wars movie. Levy and Jonathan Tropper have been working on their Star Wars movie for two years. There is an untitled Star Wars movie on the release calendar for December 17, 2027. The next Star Wars movie is […]

Netflix added nearly 19 million subscribers in the fourth quarter, reaching 301.6 million globally, thanks to a wave of high-impact programming in the final weeks of 2024. The tally, a company record for the biggest subscriber jump in a quarter, far surpassed the consensus expectation of Wall Street analysts for 9.8 million subscriber additions. Shares […]

EXCLUSIVE: On the heels of Twisters, which grossed over $370 million worldwide in theaters last summer, Oscar nominee Lee Isaac Chung has closed a deal with Skydance to direct The Traveler, a feature adaptation of the novel Traveler by Joseph Eckert. While the project is in the early stages and the logline is being kept […]

It’s that time of year again, when Hollywood celebrates the year’s best motion pictures and performances and such. It’s also when the Razzie Awards turns all that on its ear. In the running for Worst Picture at the 45th Golden Raspberry Awards — watch a video about them above — are vidgame adaptation Borderlands, musical […]

Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz were this week’s big winners on Netflix, as their new film Back in Action was the most-watched title from January 13 to 19 with a whopping 46.8M views. The spy flick knocked Secret Life of Pets 2 from the top spot on the English films list, but both that animated […]

EXCLUSIVE: Tobias Menzies has joined the ensemble of Ruben Östlund’s next film The Entertainment System is Down. Sources say he replaces Joel Edgerton who had to part ways with the film due to scheduling conflicts. Menzies joins a cast that includes Keanu Reeves, Kirsten Dunst, Nicholas Braun, Samantha Morton and Daniel Brühl. A24 is handling […]

Theo Rossi (Carry-On, The Penguin) has joined The Saviors, a darkly comedic thriller that also stars Adam Scott (Severance, Madame Web) and Danielle Deadwyler (Carry-On, The Piano Lesson). The film centers around a suburban couple whose life spirals out of control when they rent their garage to mysterious tenants.  Highway 10, Invention Studios and Great Scott […]

Original Harry Potter helmer Chris Columbus is praising HBO’s forthcoming television reboot, calling it a “spectacular idea” that will allow for the exploration of previously uncharted Hogwarts hallways. “There’s a certain restriction when you’re making a film,” the Nosferatu producer told People. The Oscar-nominated multi-hyphenate — who oversaw 2001’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and […]

Laura Dern is remembering collaborator and friend David Lynch on what would have marked his 79th birthday. “Happy birthday, tidbit,” Dern wrote on Instagram alongside a warm picture of the two. “I will love and miss you every day for the rest of my life.” (The visionary director was especially fond of nicknames for his […]

The return to Pandora — and its sweeping, bioluminescent seascapes — will not take as long as last time, director James Cameron assured, teasing that progress on his threequel is “well ahead of the curve.” Speaking to Empire ahead of the holiday weekend, the Oscar winner said the blockbuster’s post-production process, a two-year-long endeavor beginning […]

Kiyotaka Oshiyama’s animated debut feature film Look Back, based on the best-selling manga by Tatuski Fujimoto, is a heartfelt coming-of-age drama that has resonated with moviegoers and at home audiences globally, amassing more than $12 million worldwide and landing a spot on Prime Video. At just under an hour, Look Back follows the popular Ayumi […]

Christopher McQuarrie, director of Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning, is teasing the Tom Cruise movie, and audiences are seemingly in for a thrilling film. In what is reportedly the final film of the franchise starring Cruise, McQuarrie said that an audience member at an early screening had quite the reaction. “We had a small […]

Refresh for updates… Hollywood and the Beltway weighed in – right and left – on today’s inauguration of Donald Trump as the 47th president of the United States. Some joked, others were very, very serious. “As of 12:02 EST,” the Daily Show tweeted, “we officially declare an end to Dry January.” “Congratulations to Republicans – […]

EXCLUSIVE: Following news that the 3x Golden Globe-winning movie The Brutalist used AI in post to smooth the Hungarian accents of its stars Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones as well as that of its cast, the pic’s director Brady Corbet has issued a response. “Adrien and Felicity’s performances are completely their own. They worked for […]

Lynne Taylor-Corbett, the Tony Award-nominated choreographer of Broadway’s Swing and Titanic who also left an indelible mark on Hollywood by guiding Kevin Bacon through his famed solo dance in the 1984 hit film Footloose, died of breast cancer January 12 at a hospital in Rockville Centre, N.Y., on Long Island. She was 78. Her death […]

Prime Video Japan has a new Country Manager in the shape of Keisuke Oishi. Effective today, the former Sony Corp exec will take on the post after rising through the ranks over ten years at Amazon. Oishi will report to Gaurav Gandhi, Vice President of Prime Video for Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa. He […]

Kevin Costner honored his friendship with the late and great Whitney Houston on his 70th birthday over the weekend. The veteran actor remembered his co-star in 1992’s romantic thriller The Bodyguard, reposting a behind-the-scenes photo of the two shared by Houston’s Instagram account, which is managed by her estate following the multi-hyphenate’s death in 2012. […]

In stark contrast to a number of Hollywood creatives, Oscar-nominated writer/director Paul Schrader posits ChatGPT can write “original” and “fleshed out” screenplays. The Oh, Canada screenwriter posted on Facebook that he asked the generative artificial intelligence-powered chatbot to come up with an idea for a film for a variety of renowned filmmakers, including himself, and […]

EXCLUSIVE: With yet another week of more lawsuits in the ever increasing obloquy fray between It Ends With Us stars Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, the court of public opinion has proved as much of a field of operations as the state and federal dockets. A front that Bryan Freedman is willing to concede to […]