Doctor Who star Jenna Coleman's new movie Jackdaw has debuted with a 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes.
Film extra Cristina Stanovici has detailed the severe injuries she suffered when she was hit by a speeding motorbike on the Glasgow set of the Batgirl movie. Stanovici told The Sun newspaper that she felt it would have been “easier if she had died” rather than go through multiple surgeries. Her injuries included a broken …
Joey Gaydos Jr., Veronica Afflerbach and Rivkah Reyes have all come forward with stories of post-fame hell.
The future of working with streamers was on the table at the Zurich Summit on Saturday amid talk that the content bubble has burst as key markets such as the U.S. reach saturation point. Responding to suggestions that streamers are pulling back in terms of investment, Netflix exec Sasha Bühler, who oversees German-speaking content, said …
Zurich Avenue, headed by producers and former Zurich Film Festival execs Karl Spoerri and Viviana Vezzani, has quickly amassed an impressive slate of projects since launching last year, including Annette Bening starrer “Nyad.” Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi’s film, which chronicles the attempt by 64-year-old swimmer Diana Nyad to swim from Cuba to Florida, …
Simon Pegg's new movie has confirmed a UK release date, alongside a first trailer of the dark comedy.
Parker Stevens, best known as the oleaginous comms man Hugo Baker in Succession, has revealed that Leonardo DiCaprio played matchmaker between him and David Beckham. Stevens directed the upcoming four-part Netflix documentary series devoted to the life of the former footballer, and he told the Guardian newspaper that it was DiCaprio who suggested him to …
ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s oldest film festival has been canceled amid controversy surrounding a politically sensitive documentary about the aftermath of a 2016 coup attempt. Antalya Mayor Muhittin Bocek announced the cancellation of the city's Golden Orange Film Festival on Friday night, a day after the Turkish Culture and Tourism Ministry withdrew its support for the event. The ministry objected to the film “Kanun Hükmü” or “The Decree,” a documentary which focuses on the hardships of a teacher
The Exorcist: Believer director David Gordon Green has revealed that the film's demon may not be Pazuzu. And that might not have been the original, either
The journalist at the heart of the GB News storm in the UK says she fears for her safety and is uncertain whether she will be able to carry on in her job. Ava Evans, who works for the Political Joe website, found herself at the centre of a media debacle this week, when actor …
International execs from Unifrance, MK2 and TrustNordisk kicked off the annual Zurich Summit on Saturday to discuss the importance of film festivals when promoting a title and if fests are drifting away from what works in cinemas. Speaking at the city’s Dolder Grand Hotel, where the boutique industry event is hosted each year alongside the …
The Philippines has selected animated drama film “The Missing” (aka “Iti Mapukpukaw”) as its contender for the Academy Awards best international feature. The film tells the story of a gay animator who strangely does not have a mouth called on by his family to check up on a missing uncle. After he discovers that the …
One of the biggest stars of hit Netflix series Sex Education has been the Norwegian-inspired chalet home of lead characters Otis (Asa Butterfield) and his mother Jean (Gillian Anderson), and now the house is for sale, as the show’s finale beckons. The BBC reports that the property where all the exteriors of the house, which …
The first date of U2’s 25-night run at Las Vegas’ Sphere is on the books, and for anyone who doesn’t mind spoilers, the makeup of the setlist can be revealed — although there is a mid-section that, judging from what Bono said, may be different each night during the run. The setlist for “U2:UV Live …
EXCLUSIVE: For some writer-producers, the enthusiasm over going back to work this week was dampened by the news that their overall deals, suspended during the WGA strike, are being reinstated but not extended. Nowhere has this been more prevalent than Universal Studio Group, which includes Universal Television and UCP. The company has reinstated all of …
Influential guitarist Al Di Meola suffered a heart attack while performing in Romania on Wednesday. Di Meola began to clasp his chest while playing a set at the Arenele Romane venue in Bucharest when he suffered the attack. He then reportedly struggled to walk off stage. The other two members of Di Meola’s group continued …
UPDATE, SEPT. 29: A 27-year-old man has been arrested for a widely publicized fight with a 63- year-old man over movie theater seats in Pompano Beach, the Broward Sheriff’s Office announced Friday. Jesse Montez Thorton II, 27, faces one count of aggravated battery with great bodily harm. “BSO detectives worked this case for months,” BSO …
Bill Maher returned to the airwaves with HBO’s “Real Time” for the first time since the strike with only mild praise for the Writers Guild of America for settling the five-month strike. Season 21 of “Real Tiime with Bill Maher” became the first of TV’s prominent late-night talk shows to return to the airwaves after …
“Why is this guy picking a fight with Mickey Mouse?” Bill Maher asked Ron DeSantis on Friday about the poll-lagging Florida governor’s ongoing jurisdictional and legal battles with Disney over the past year. “Well, first of all, they picked a fight with us,” a literally suited and cowboy booted DeSantis replied in Real Time With …
A noticeably thinner Toby Keith says his faith is carrying him during his stomach cancer battle. Keith spoke Thursday before the first People’s Choice Country Awards in Nashville. He said he’s “doing all right” and said, “I lean on my faith and I just pray and lean into it. It was my rock.” Although he …
UPDATE: A Spanish court has ruled that tech titan John McAfee died by suicide, an inquest prompted by his family’s questions on his jailhouse death. McAfee died in 2021 in a Spanish jail, and his death has already been ruled a suicide by authorities. But ex-ife Janice asked for a further probe. McAfee himself had …
It might officially be fall, but Netflix had a “Strong Black Summer.” At least, that was the name of the streamer’s warm-weather months campaign promoting a string of TV, film and documentary projects fronted by Black talent. Among the hot titles were Gabrielle Union’s rom-com “The Perfect Find,” the John Boyega-starring conspiratorial caper “They Cloned …
EXCLUSIVE: Freeform has opted not to proceed with While You Were Breeding, the upcoming Kristin Newman hourlong comedy series based on her memoir, Deadline has learned. Producers of the series, from Freeform Studios, will have the opportunity to shop it elsewhere. The 10-episode series had wrapped production and was headed into post-production when it paused …
Jacky Oh, a regular on MTV’s Wild ‘N Out, died in May of complications from cosmetic surgery, the Miami-Dade County Medical Examiner’s Office said in its official report made public Friday. Oh, whose real name is Jacklyn Marie Smith, died the night of May 31 in Miami at age 32. Her death was confirmed at …
The show must go on! New York Film Festival opened its 61st edition with “May December” as planned, despite a massive rainstorm that’s left streets and subways flooded across the five boroughs. “Thank you all for braving the weather and making it here tonight,” director Todd Haynes told the mostly full theater. “We didn’t know …