Donald Trump is not welcome on The Joe Rogan Experience, says the host of the popular podcast — at least not yet. Still, Rogan, an avowed Ron DeSantis supporter, is no friend of Joe Biden’s either. “By the way, I’m not a Trump supporter in any way, shape or form,” Rogan said Monday during an […]
The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival’s Eastern Promises industry strand has unveiled the winners of the five project showcases taking place within its auspices from July 3-5. This year’s edition presented 35 feature film projects across five selections, spanning Works in Progress, Works in Development – Feature Launch, First Cut+ Works in Progress and Odesa […]
UPDATED with details: 20th Television Animation has agreed to voluntarily recognize the Animation Guild as the collective bargaining representative of production workers employed on The Simpsons, Family Guy and American Dad! According to the guild, an arbitrator will be conducting a formal card count to certify the results this week. The move to unionize came on May 26 when a […]
The final two episodes Stranger Things season four helped the sci-fi drama become only the second series to cross Netflix’s billion hours viewed mark. The dark ending to the latest season – the final two episodes dropped on July 1 – helped it pull in another 301M hours viewed, which takes it to 1.15B hours […]
EXCLUSIVE: Blumhouse is centralizing their physical production groups across film and television into one department, led by Lisa Niedenthal, a four-year TV vet for the studio. Jon Romano, who joined Blumhouse in 2019, has been upped to SVP Physical Production and will oversee production for all feature projects, both theatrical and streaming, reporting to Niedenthal. […]
Big Brother today announced 16 new Houseguests for the 24th season of the series, including an attorney, a Vegas performer, a hypnotherapist, a private chef, a chemical processing engineer, an interior designer and a personal stylist. The latest crop of players will move into the mid-century inspired “BB Motel” during the live 90-minute premiere Wednesday, July […]
UPDATED, 11:54 AM: Bim Afolami, Vice Chair of the Conservative Party, also has resigned. PREVIOUSLY, 11:24 AM: Embattled U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s grip on power was further weakened on Tuesday as two top cabinet ministers resigned in protest at his handling of allegations of misconduct against a prominent Conservative Party lawmaker Chancellor of the […]
EXCLUSIVE: Mena Suvari (American Beauty) and Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler) will star alongside Casper Van Dien (Monsters of California), Maya Stojan (Newness), Will Peltz (13 Minutes) and Jessica Belkin (The Orville) in the action-thriller Hunt Club, which has wrapped production in Mississippi. The film from director Elizabeth Blake-Thomas centers on a group of male hunters who routinely […]
Members of the Animation Guild, IATSE local 839, have voted overwhelmingly to ratify a new film and TV contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. The vote was 87% in favor of ratification. According to the guild, the number of members who voted more than tripled since the last ratification vote. “This […]
The CW announced its fall premiere dates that includes the debut of new legal drama Family Law, the Walker prequel titled Walker Independence, and the Supernatural prequel The Winchesters. Look out for the series debut of Criss Angel’s Magic with the Stars along with an eleventh season of Whose Line Is It Anyway? Gone from the CW […]
EXCLUSIVE, SPOILERS ABOUND! If you haven’t watched the final two episodes that wrap Season 4 of Stranger Things on Netflix, you won’t want to read further until you’ve done so. The battle between Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) and Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower) claimed a few beloved characters, wrecked the town of Hawkins, Indiana, and nearly […]
EXCLUSIVE: Industry star Marisa Abela is the latest addition to the cast of Greta Gerwig’s Barbie. She joins an ensemble led by Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling that also includes America Ferrera, Kate McKinnon, Simu Liu, Will Ferrell, Ariana Greenblatt, Emma Mackey, Alexandra Shipp, Issa Rae, Michael Cera, Hari Nef, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Rhea Perlman, Ncuti […]
Ashley Thomas has been cast as the male lead opposite Mia Isaac and Adrienne Warren in Hulu drama series Black Cake, from Women of the Movement creator Marissa Jo Cerar, Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Films and Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment. Additionally, Zetna Fuentes (This Is Us) has been tapped to direct the pilot episode, replacing Andrew […]
101 Studios has partnered with two-time Academy Award winner Grain Media and the 23-time Pulitzer Prize-winning Miami Herald on the feature documentary Surviving Surfside, which promises to tell the definitive story of the Surfside, Florida condo collapse and the crucial journalistic mission to search for the truth behind it, via unique access and never-seen-before perspectives. It […]
Director Taika Waititi is back in the Marvel business with Thor: Love and Thunder. There is a mix of horror, romance, and drama, but at its core is pure comedy that doesn’t always work but is good enough to entertain. Thor: Ragnarok saw a 180-degree image and personality change for the character and stands among […]
EXCLUSIVE: As the European Women’s Championship football gets underway, Rebel Girls has partnered with Nike EMEA on a set of 25 stories celebrating female footballers. The stories, which will showcase Nike-sponsored athletes and their communities, will be made available across Nike’s website, app and social channels, with seven audio stories available via Rebel Girls’ app […]
Volatile and always headline-making, tennis star Nick Kyrgios’ combustible period at Wimbledon now includes a common assault charge in his home country Australia. The 27-year-old, who is in the quarter finals of the UK Grand Slam tournament, has been charged over an incident in December 2021. He is due to appear at the Australian Capital Territory […]
EXCLUSIVE: British genre festival Grimmfest has unveiled a first wave of films that will be showcased at its 2022 edition running October 6-9 in Manchester. They include U.S. titles Moon Garden by Ryan Stevens Harris, about a young girl struggling to awake from a coma who travels through a strange industrial landscape to consciousness and […]
The British Independent Film Awards is making some changes for its 25th anniversary, going gender-neutral with its acting categories as it also adds new performance awards, a new debut director category for feature documentaries, and two new music prizes. In doing away with “actress” and “actor” honors, BIFA joins other orgs that have recently made […]
Netflix Greenlights Swedish Comedy ‘One More Time’ Starring Hedda Stiernstedt Netflix has greenlit a Groundhog Day-esque Swedish comedy film from Student Academy Award-winning Jonatan Etzler starring Beforeigners’ Hedda Stiernstedt. In One More Time, Amelia, played by Stiernstedt, is hit by a bus on the night of her 40th birthday and wakes up back in 2002, on her 18th birthday, […]
Jake Paltrow has been spending the Independence Day holiday weekend in the Czech Republic for the world premiere of his Adolf Eichmann drama June Zero, which had a special screening at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. The Hebrew-language feature unfolds in the lead-up to the Nazi war criminal’s hanging in Israel in May 1962, […]
EXCLUSIVE: Giles Terera (Death of England: Face to Face), winner of an Olivier award for his portrayal of Aaron Burr in the London transfer of Broadway hit Hamilton, will star in a history-making production of Shakespeare’s tragedy, Othello, with Rosy McEwan, who won acclaim in the second season of The Alienist, as Desdemona. The play will be directed […]
Woody Allen has offered further details about an upcoming feature he plans to shoot in Paris, which he also says may be his last. Speaking with French Sunday paper Le Journal du Dimanche, the filmmaker explained he intends to move to Paris in September to make what will be a French-language thriller. Allen said the […]
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’s Rachel Brosnahan took to Twitter to voice her frustrations with the shooting that took place at a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Illinois today. The actress, who grew up in the area, expressed how she felt about the shooting and her overall exhaustion from the many mass shootings that […]
WARNING, spoilers ahead: After Stranger Things 4 had its monster sized, two-episode finale on Friday, the series’ writers took to Twitter to reveal three moments from that finale that weren’t in the script. At one point, Winona Ryder’s Joyce sees off David Harbour’s Hopper, who’s on his way to battle the prison’s Demogorgon. She asks […]
