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A new documentary featuring never-before-seen photos of Pres. Kennedy, Jackie Kennedy and their family is about to screen in the place fondly remembered as Camelot. Capturing Kennedy, a film about Jacques Lowe, the Holocaust survivor who became the personal photographer to JFK before and during his presidency, will be shown this Sunday at the D.C. […]

David Johansen, the former frontman of seminal punk band New York Dolls and subject of a 2023 Martin Scorsese-directed documentary, has been revealed to have Stage 4 cancer and a brain tumor, his daughter wrote in an online crowdfunding campaign the family has launched as the musician’s health care has placed an “increasingly severe financial […]

Prince William and Kate Middleton are not expected to attend the British Academy Film Awards on Sunday. Kensington Palace confirmed Monday that the Prince and Princess of Wales would not attend the BAFTAs ceremony at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall in London. Although the royal couple will not be in person, Prince William is expected […]

Veteran TV and film actor Peter Navy Tuiasosopo, known for his work on Street Fighter, Necessary Roughness and The Fast and the Furious among many others, died Monday, his son Manoah Peter Tuiasosopo announced on Facebook. He was 61. “With a heavy heart, my family and I want to thank everyone for their thoughts and prayers. […]

More than 50% of British directors say their residuals have fallen over the past five years, according to a new survey from Directors UK (DUK). The survey of nearly 600 directors comes just a few months after the trade body wrote to six American media giants seeking greater royalties for its plus-8,000 member base, and […]

EXCLUSIVE: We are hearing that Amazon and Warner Bros among others have put bids in for a pitch that’s been making rounds from the Radio Silence team with Paul Giamatti attached to star. The pitch is a biopic about the late paranormal DJ Art Bell, who would broadcast his radio show from his home studio […]

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has revealed all the producers for its Best Picture nominees, along with the missing names for a couple of other categories. The producers vying for Best Picture are Nick Gordon, Brian Young, Andrew Morrison, D.J. Gugenheim and Brady Corbet for A24’s The Brutalist; Pascal Caucheteux and Jacques […]

EXCLUSIVE: The Alliance of Women Directors has set its Rising Director Fellowship class of 2025: Mora Carew, Robin Cloud, Lisa Cole, Saray Bravo Guidetti, Dana Nachman, Jenn Shaw, and Allex Tarr. AWD’s mission advocates to increase opportunities for women and nonbinary directors working in the screened content industry through robust advocacy, craft development programs, and […]

Completion guarantee firm Media Guarantors has appointed Angus Sutherland as Senior Vice President of Business Development and Client Relationships.  In his role at the firm, Sutherland will oversee client relationships and interface with indie producers, production companies and financiers worldwide. His focus will be on financial and logistical management, mitigating potential risks, ensuring successful project […]

Following his Oscar-winning feature film Oppenheimer (2024) which swept the Best Picture, Best Director, Best Lead Actor, Best Score and more categories at the 96th annual Academy Awards, Christopher Nolan’s next project is taking shape. Read on for everything we know about the inspiration, story, cast and more When does Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey come […]

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures has acquired the rights to Thomas Ray’s novella, Silencer, enlisting Ben Jacoby (The First Omen) to adapt it for the big screen. Lorenzo di Bonaventura will produce as part of his first-look deal with the studio alongside NeoText Corporation, the publisher of the novella. Russell Ackerman, John Schoenfelder, and Jay Schuminsky will […]

EXCLUSIVE: Hannah Cruz (The Time Traveler’s Wife) has closed a deal to join Merrily We Roll Along, Richard Linklater’s adaptation of the 1981 musical from Stephen Sondheim and George Furth. A Clarence Derwent Award-winning veteran of the theater world, Cruz is set to play Gussie, the wife of Paul Mescal’s Franklin Shepard, who after establishing […]

Colman Domingo is addressing rumors that he was set to replace Jonathan Majors in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and take over the role of Kang the Conqueror. Social media was abuzz about Domingo possibly joining the MCU, which prompted the Euphoria actor to meet with Marvel Studios to find out if any rumors were true. […]

Everyone’s favorite killer AI companion is back with some modifications. The Super Bowl trailer for M3GAN 2.0, premiering June 27 in theaters, sees the return of the “slaying” doll — indicative of a “Femininomenon,” the ear-worm of a Chappell Roan song that soundtracks the new promo. Set two years after the titular AI doll went […]

EXCLUSIVE: The UK actors union has threatened to go to the “courts if necessary” if members’ rights continue to be breached in the training of AI models. In an open letter to bosses at the BBC, Disney, ITV and producer trade body Pact, Equity pulled no punches in delineating what it expects from both past […]

Marvel’s new ragtag group of antiheroes made an appearance during Sunday’s big game. In the Super Bowl trailer for Thunderbolts*, premiering May 2 in theaters, Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ CIA director Valentina Allegra de Fontaine warns the Avengers aren’t coming as she questions “who will keep the American people safe?” Set to Starship’s ‘Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us […]

Check out that image above — look familiar? Return with us now to the rugged isle of Berk, where Vikings and dragons have been bitter enemies for generations, Hiccup (Mason Thames) stands apart. The inventive yet overlooked son of Chief Stoick the Vast (Gerard Butler, reprising his voice role from the animated franchise), he defies […]

The players of the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles weren’t the only ones running at lightning speeds in attempts to achieve glory — that activity is also a favorite pastime of Tom Cruise’s in the new Super Bowl spot for Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning. Ethan Hunt, the spy at the center of […]

This summer’s action-packed monster movie Jurassic World: Rebirth has released its first trailer and glimpse into the latest film in the franchise, starring Jonathan Bailey, Scarlett Johansson and Mahershala Ali among others. Universal opens the film globally on July 2. The fourth film in the Jurassic World series follows a team of scientists and others […]

Paramount bought time ahead of Sunday’s Super Bowl coverage on Fox to air a new trailer for Novocaine, its upcoming action film starring Jack Quaid and Amber Midthunder. The movie is ramping up ahead of its March 14 release date. Robert Olsen and Dan Berk, the duo behind Paramount+’s 2022 thriller Significant Other, are directing […]

Bruce French, a veteran of the stage and prolific character actor who worked with David E. Kelley and appeared in NBC’s aughts soap Passions across the entirety of its nine-season run, died Feb. 7 at the age of 79. He died in Los Angeles of complications from Alzheimer’s (with which he was diagnosed around four […]

When songwriters Abraham Alexander and Adrian Quesada signed on to write an original song for Sing Sing, the duo was captivated by the film’s intensity and genuine approach to the story. With a focus on the idea of dreaming of freedom, “Like a Bird” was born and earned the songwriting pair their first Oscar nomination for […]

Accepting a lifetime achievement honor at Spain’s Goya Awards this weekend, Richard Gere had some choice words about the state of things in the U.S. amid Donald Trump’s second term in office. “We’re in a very dark place in America where we have a bully and a thug who’s the President of the United States,” […]

After The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Anthony Mackie is taking Captain America back to basics. The Captain America: Brave New World star called the goggles-laden, half-helmet headpiece his “worst nightmare” after Wakanda gifted his character Sam Wilson the blue and white ensemble in the Disney+ show’s finale. “Because I told them that I was […]