After over 100 hours of testimony across six weeks of Johnny Depp’s $50 million defamation trial against ex-wife Amber Heard, the jurors have finished hearing evidence as of Thursday. But in these final days in court, there were certainly more viral moments, including Amber Heard’s lawyer Elaine Bredehoft being struck with a sick burn by
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Oscar-winning writer-director Michel Hazanavicius opted to pull his comedy Final Cut from its opening night slot at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year when Covid forced the event to go virtual. Ultimately, the movie opened the Cannes Film Festival. Speaking to Deadline on the Riviera, Hazanavicius said of Final Cut, “It’s a film that
Ray Liotta is dead … the actor passed away while in the Dominican Republic. Ray was shooting a movie called “Dangerous Waters” on the island, and a source close to the actor tells TMZ … he died in his sleep. We’re also told there was nothing suspicious about the death, and no foul play is
The Paramount Players Parker Finn written and directed movie, Smile, is be hitting theaters on Sept. 30. That’s also the weekend when Universal has the gay romantic Billy Eichner comedy Bros. Smile follows a doctor whose mind begins to turn on her after she witnesses a traumatic event which involves a patient. Kal Penn, Rob Morgan, Kyle Gallner, Caitlin
EXCLUSIVE: Crazy Rich Asians-backer Peter Luo’s Stars Collective has signed Google engineer-turned-viral-YouTuber Jonathan Ma aka Joma to a managing, development and production deal, and he has set first project: a dark comedy/drama about the birth of Bitcoin and the true identity of mysterious founder Satoshi. Ma will be given financial and creative resources to make TV
With the release of Sonic the Hedgehog 2, we’ve had the pleasure of seeing comedy legend Jim Carrey play Dr. Robotnik in not one, but two blockbuster movies. In the goofy role that kids loved, the actor definitely looks like he’s having a ball between the physical comedy and witty jokes. Carrey recently explained his
EXCLUSIVE: Mubi has acquired Lukas Dhont’s Cannes Competion entry Close for the UK, Ireland, Latin America, Turkey and India. Starring Lea Drucker (Custody), Émilie Dequenne (Our Children), Kevin Janssens (Revenge) and newcomers Eden Dambrine and Gustav De Waele, the film will get its world premiere on the Riviera this week. In Close, the intense friendship between two
Jussie Smollett‘s new project will hit the streaming screen for his first time since the actor was allegedly attacked in Chicago … and he’s got a super-powerful Hollywood friend in his corner. Jussie and Monami Productions head Mona Scott-Young were spotted out in NYC earlier this week. Sources with direct knowledge tell us the two
Broadway’s 2021-22 season – 10 weeks shorter than usual, plagued by Covid and the cancelations it caused, not to mention the tourists who didn’t show up – took a beating at the box office, with season-end numbers no less stark for being expected: The industry took in a total of $845,414,915 at the box office,
They all hate one another, Leila (the magnificent Taraneh Alidoosti) tells her brother Alireza (Navid Mohammad Zadeh) when he returns to the family home. It is a rare visit; he works in an industrial plant somewhere on the other side of Iran. He isn’t going to tell his family that he has been laid off
Florence Pugh has had a quick rise to fame following her 2019 breakout role in Midsommar, which has led her to become a Marvel star and reportedly one of Dune Part Two’s latest additions. Unfortunately, being in front of the spotlight has led to Pugh facing the internet’s wrath regarding her dating life, again. The
“As you are all aware, there was another mass shooting today, this time in my hometown of Uvalde, Texas,” Matthew McConaughey wrote in a message posted to social media tonight. The Oscar winner spent the first 12 years of his life in Uvalde, which is about 80 miles west of San Antonio and where today
Play video content TMZ.com It’s the final stretch for the Johnny Depp–Amber Heard trial — and it seems people are well aware of that … flocking to get in line for a front-row seat, and doing so by the hundreds. Check out this insane footage we shot Tuesday morning outside of the courthouse in Fairfax,
The first “official trailer” for Marvel’s Thor: Love and Thunder — not to be confused with the teaser that dropped a little over a month ago — debuted tonight during the NBA Eastern Conference Finals on ESPN. While the teaser gave us our first glimpse of Natalie Portman’s Jane Foster wielding the hammer, tonight’s official
The first time Joe Alwyn came to the Cannes Film Festival in 2018, he walked away with the Trophée Chopard. Now he is back to help director Claire Denis compete for the Palme d’Or with Stars at Noon, based on the novel by Denis Johnson. Alwyn stars in the romantic thriller as a mysterious businessman
The legal battle between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard in these weeks has been a wild affair, whether we’re talking solely about the events that have been viewable on TV or also taking into account the online commentary. We’ve also seen how quickly things can change with this defamation trial. For instance, it was reported
After she ascended to the Competition last year with Bergman Island, it’s bittersweet to see Mia Hansen-Løve back in the ranks of Directors’ Fortnight with the deeply personal film One Fine Morning. In the film, Lea Seydoux stars as Sandra, a young mother trying to care for her ailing father, fighting to get him the care he
Jamie Foxx is living it up in the South of France … making out with a super hot blonde on a yacht and tooling around on a jet ski!!! It’s good to be the Foxx. Jamie is at Cannes for the Film Festival, but it ain’t all work — he’s onboard a luxury yacht with
SUNDAY AM UPDATE: Refresh for more analysis and chart Focus Features’ Downton Abbey: A New Era is coming in at $16M, and while some might snipe that it’s lower than the first one’s robust $31M start, particularly against a production cost that’s double from the first at $40M, keep in mind this is a sequel to period
Director Emily Atef’s Cannes Un Certain Regard drama More Than Ever is a careful, fastidious, Tradition of Quality film about impending death that’s easy to admire but won’t exactly pack ‘em in. Vicky Krieps impresses yet again, here playing a woman in her early 30s suffering from a likely fatal condition who travels from France
I like to imagine that there is another Bruce Willis in a parallel universe somewhere who is not an action movie star, but instead is a New York cop who single-handedly thwarts German thieves at the totally-real-in-this-world Nakatomi Plaza. Within the multiverse theory, the plot to Die Hard may very well have played out somewhere
EXCLUSIVE: Entering the second week of the Cannes Film Festival, Sony Pictures Television has snapped up multi-territory Latin American rights to FilmSharks’ Amor Bandido, with Raymond Murray’s CineNova Releasing taking U.S. rights. The film, from Daniel Werner, premiered last year at the Buenes Aires Film Festival (BAFICI) and has already sold to Bluelabel Pictures (South Korea)
Laura Dern was just a 20-something in ‘Jurassic Park’ — opposite a then-40-something Sam Neill — and the Internet can’t believe it … although we aren’t sure if that’s a good thing. 🤔 The actress dropped this bomb in a new interview with the Sunday Times, claiming she was just 23 when she starred in
Refresh for latest…: Disney/Marvel’s Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness crossed $800M globally this weekend, now with $803.2M after three frames. Of that $342.1M is from domestic and $461.1M from the international box office. The offshore drop was 53% with $40M from 49 markets. Last weekend we posed the question as to how high
Cannes has had another protest on the red-carpet, two days after a naked woman demonstrated against violence towards women in Ukraine. Just now, a group of woman dressed in black unfurled a banner and let off black smoke grenades, while raising their fists in the air. There’s no official word yet on the who has
Every teenager has rebellious moments that push against their parent’s authority, and The Adam Project’s Ryan Reynolds was no different. For a teenage Reynolds, it was getting an ear pierced. The only problem was that his strict police officer father was against it. While one might think they know how the situation ended up, things
Ukrainian filmmakers are here in Cannes and, in the words of poet Dylan Thomas, they will not go gentle. While some are here to promote films screening here in Cannes, many are here to drum up support for their country and ensure that their voices are not forgotten as media headlines about the Russian invasion
Amber Heard might not be getting much of a shoulder to cry on from the public amid her trial with Johnny Depp — but her legal team certainly is … specifically, Elaine Bredehoft. It’s been a strained week for Team Heard … at least that seems to be the general consensus online, with many noticing
It’s a bizarre world, this (almost, more-or-less, maybe) post-Covid movie landscape. Pieces are falling into place: Production starts have been up for a year, box-office revenue continues to climb, though it’s still a long reach to pre-Covid highs. But so much is so different, and I don’t mean just the obvious shift toward streaming. Look
Scottish writer-director Charlotte Wells lights up Cannes Critics’ Week with Aftersun, the absorbing story of an 11-year-old going on holiday with her father. Paul Mescal (Normal People, The Lost Daughter) stars alongside Francesca Corio in a terrific two-hander with engaging supporting performances. Shot on location in Turkey, the film is partly a comedy-drama about a