Producers for nine of the 10 nominees for Outstanding Producer of a Motion Picture at the PGA Awards spoke at a breakfast panel about their films Saturday. Emma Stone called herself the newest producer on a panel that included Oppenheimer producer Charles Roven, Past Lives producer Christine Vachon and The Holdovers producer Mark Johnson. Stone’s […]
Prior to American Fiction, Sterling K. Brown was best known as Randall Pearson in the long-running, award-winning NBC family drama series This is Us. The part that director Cord Jefferson was offering him couldn’t have been more different: in Jefferson’s adaptation of the satirical novel by Percival Everett, Brown plays Clifford ‘Cliff’ Ellison, a caustic […]
The greater Los Angeles area is getting a new telephone area code, according to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC). But don’t panic. The CPUC says it is projected to run out of available combinations in the 213-323 area by June of next year. Existing 213/323 customers will keep their area code and telephone numbers. […]
Foundation, the Apple TV+ series from Skydance TV, is making more changes ahead of resuming production on its upcoming third season following a delay due to budgeting/physical production issues. As Deadline reported, filming is slated to begin March 6 in the Czech Republic capital Prague and four Polish cities, the capital Warsaw as well as Kraków, Lublin and […]
McDonald’s is celebrating a new anime collaboration by launching a Los Angeles exclusive: WcDonald’s, a version of McDonald’s that’s commonly featured in many popular anime shows. The knock-off first appeared in the 1981 manga and anime franchise Cat’s Eyes. The Los Angeles version is a prelude to a similar rollout in 30 markets worldwide. Aside […]
“There are some replications in things and specific references, where it’s almost like Easter eggs for the fans, but they’re not really the same,” says costume designer Jacqueline Durran. Rather than creating large scale versions of existing outfits, Durran says she used them as inspiration for entirely new designs. “The main thing I wanted to […]
Olivia Rodrigo celebrated turning 21 by living the dream and exerting her new rights as an adult. At the opening night of her 57-date Guts world tour at Acrisure Arena in Palm Desert, the singer revealed that she bought something at a nearby gas station just because she could. “I went to the gas station […]
Competition winners are being announced this evening in the German capital as the 74th Berlin Film Festival draws to a close. Scroll down for a live updating list of winners. After a highly politicized run-up, this year’s Berlinale, Carlo Chatrian and Mariette Rissenbeek’s final edition in charge was, in the end, fairly conventional. There were […]
As Italian director Garrone steps on to the Academy Awards red carpet on March 10 with Best International Feature Film nominee Io Capitano, the real-life skipper who part inspired the drama will be watching and rooting for the film from afar. West African born Fofana Amara was just 15 years old when he successfully skippered […]
It could be fifth time lucky for Annette Bening as she heads to this year’s Oscars with yet another nomination – this time for Best Actress for her role in Nyad. Bening has on four previous occasions left the ceremony empty-handed, but she remembers fondly her first Oscars in 1991, when she was nominated for […]
King Charles has shared his thanks for the thousands of cards and letters of support he has received since making public his cancer diagnosis. In a video released Friday evening, the King was seen reading several of the letters of good wishes and was quoted: “Such kind thoughts are the greatest comfort and encouragement.” The […]
More musical chairs in the UK’s national radio ecosystem after popular presenter Graham Norton announced live on air that this will be his last weekend presenting his popular Saturday and Sunday shows on Virgin Radio. Norton – who is also the longtime host of a BBC primetime TV chat show named after him, attracting A-list […]
British grime artist Wiley has been stripped of a national honour, after he posted abusive social media posts aimed at his Jewish critics and other figures. The 45-year-old rapper from East London was seven years ago awarded the MBE – Member of the British Empire, presented by the monarch – for his services to music. […]
In April 2023, HBO announced it had ordered another Game of Thrones prequel titled A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight. Ordered to series in April 2023, the prequel is based on novellas written by George R.R. Martin. During the Warner Bros. Discovery February, 2024 earnings call, CEO David Zaslov revealed the prequel is currently […]
Netflix is no longer going forward with adaptations of the book series Kane Chronicles by Rick Riordan. First announced in September 2020, the planned series used author the books of author Riordan, who is also behind Percy Jackson and the Olympians (currently being adapted into a Disney+ series) and Magnus Chase and the Gods of […]
Call it basket-brawl. In the fourth quarter in New Orleans on Friday night, the Miami Heat and Pelicans got into a huge fight. Things started when Pelicans star Zion Williamson went up and missed a shot, complaining that he was fouled. After Miami’s Jimmy Butler rebounded the ball, Williamson stole it back in the paint, […]
I see London. I see France. And if major league baseball players are to be believed, their new uniforms show off their underpants. While MLB officials have claimed that their new uniforms are not much different from the old models, many players beg to differ. Some claim they have a see-through quality, while others have […]
The Port Charles actor David Gail, who died last month at the age of 58, passed away from brain and heart complications following drug intoxication involving amphetamines, cocaine, ethanol and fentanyl, and his mother is now speaking out about the dangers of pharmaceutical addiction and the fentanyl epidemic. The official cause of death is anoxic-ischemic […]
Emily Blunt revealed on Thursday night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! that Oppenheimer co-star Cillian Murphy smashed his head open in a most unlikely way. The actor was injured while fluffing a pillow she gave him to help him sleep while shooting the film. Blunt, Murphy, and Robert Downey Jr. were all on the show. The Murphy accident […]
Wendy Williams has issued a statement to thank fans for their well-wishes after the revelation that she has been diagnosed with dementia. The statement comes prior to the airing of a Lifetime documentary about her health struggles. “I want to say I have immense gratitude for the love and kind words I have received after […]
Don’t get too hot and bothered over the title of the new Norwegian film Sex. The act itself is this first entry in a new trilogy from writer-director Dag Johan Haugerud but is really only just talked about in this intriguing movie mostly dependent on leaning into its main characters’ words and descriptions, not a […]
The end is near, says Vin Diesel. But he promises it will indeed be a grand finale. The Fast and the Furious star and producer posted to Instagram today and updated fans on the next franchise installment, known as Fast Xi. The film likely marks the end of the long-running series, at least for Diesel. […]
The Holdovers collaborators, director Alexander Payne and screenwriter David Hemingson, are working on another film together—a Western, in fact—and during a Q&A following a screening of The Holdovers at Soho House in West Hollywood on Friday, Hemingson revealed there’s a part earmarked for Paul Giamatti. “I’ve been sworn to secrecy,” Hemingson said, “but what I […]
Kaouther Ben Hania’s Oscar-nominated Four Daughters (Les Filles d’Olfa) won Best Documentary at the César Awards, France’s equivalent of the Academy Awards. The ceremony, which crowned Anatomy of a Fall as Best Film, took place Friday night at the Olympia Theater in Paris. The win for Four Daughters comes in the midst of final Oscar […]
The actor who played “Wolfman” in the original Top Gun is suing Paramount Pictures over what he claims is the unauthorized use of his likeness in the 2022 sequel. Barry Tubb, the actor who played Leonard “Wolfman” Wolfe in the 1986 movie Top Gun, filed a complaint Wednesday in California court. Tubb claims that any […]