Horror is woven into political drama in La Llorona, the riveting Golden Globe Foreign Language Film nominee and shortlisted International Feature Oscar contender from Guatemala’s Jayro Bustamante. An elderly wealthy man hears ghostly noises in the night. He is revealed to be former army general Enrique Monteverde (Julio Diaz), on trial for genocide. In court,
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That’s right, she wasn’t playing around. Charlize Theron really did love the idea of taking over a Die Hard movie in a spin that would have her racing against time to save her character’s female love interest, especially because it would give her the opportunity to star in another major film with two female leads.
AMC Networks ended 2020 with more than 6 million subscribers for its AMC Networks streaming services across recently launched AMC+, Acorn TV, Shudder, Sundance Now and ALLBLK– up 157% year-on-year. The company Friday reported fourth quarter earnings that beat Wall Street forecasts. Revenue slipped 0.6% to $780.3 million and AMC swung to net income of
She’s gone from “Twilight” to “Charlie’s Angels,” but now she’s taking on her biggest role yet … and it looks like Kristen Stewart royally nails it. The actress is in full Princess Diana mode in Germany this week on set of the upcoming film “Spencer” … rocking a vintage Lady Di look, with glasses and
Disney/Marvel dropped the third trailer for The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, its second MCU-connected Disney+ series after WandaVision. While WandaVision is ending on March 5, Falcon and the Winter Soldier, about Captain America super friends, will hit the service on March 19, but only for six episodes. Marvel Studios Boss Kevin Feige indicated yesterday during the studio’s
Paramount Pictures CEO Jim Gianopulos gets it; just like Disney CEO Bob Chapek gets it: You can’t have a successful streaming service without big theatrical event films. The two go hand-in-hand, so don’t try and muddy the waters. Big screen drives big franchises, which in turn drives streaming features and spinoff series. Exclaimed Gianopulos at
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Thursday revealed the 366 feature films that are eligible for consideration at the 93rd Oscars, which are set to air April 25 live on ABC. The total number of films is up from last year’s 344 films in contention. This year’s list was compiled based on
Jared Leto has worked on a number of impressive films over the course of his career, often while sporting an off-kilter look – including in David Fincher’s 1999 controversial 1999 hit Fight Club. Recently, he revealed exactly why his character in the film, Angel Face, has such noteworthy style, as it turns out that Brad
EXCLUSIVE: Gemma Arterton (Their Finest) and Jason Tobin (Warrior) will lead the cast of comedy Enter The Dragons for Oscar-nominated director Marjane Satrapi (Radioactive, Persepolis), with the film shooting this summer in the UK. Set in the small English town of Coalshaw in 1979, the film follows Gloria Grimshaw (Gemma Arterton). The most she can
Play video content Exclusive TMZ.com Josh Richards is as happy as can be to go from in front of the camera to behind-the-scenes with his new production company … something Mark Wahlberg is making a reality. We got the TikTok star Tuesday on the streets of West Hollywood where we asked about his new joint
ViacomCBS spent the afternoon unveiling details about Paramount+, its rebranded streamer that will launch May 4, and now here is a roundup of the television series and feature films that will be available on the service. Paramount+ will feature a content catalog of more than 30,000 episodes, 2,500 movie titles and 1,000-plus live sporting events
It’s quite clear that we’ll get more Marvel series on Disney+ this year than arguably Star Wars series. At the top of the first Disney/Marvel TCA session, President of Marvel Studios and Chief Creative Officer Kevin Feige gave a brief rundown of the studio’s plans. March 5 reps the end of season one of WandaVision. Then
EXCLUSIVE: For Janhvi Kapoor, playing the lead role in the first major Bollywood film to hit Indian cinemas since they returned to full capacity earlier this month is a nerve-wracking responsibility. The movie, the horror comedy Roohi, has pressure on its shoulders to paint a rosy picture of the Indian box office market when it
Female Empowerment In I Care A Lot? Marla is the most clever person in I Care A lot, and part of the reason why she’s so smart is because she knows how to game the system. Not just the legal system, but the system of life that labels and stereotypes women. Marla is able to
EXCLUSIVE: U.S. sales firm Utopia has picked up world rights excluding the UK to doc biopic Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliché, narrated by Ruth Negga (Loving). The doc biopic, which will unspool at the Glasgow Film Festival this week ahead of its North American premiere at SXSW in March, charts the story of British
Breaking News George Clooney is so disgusted by the former Ohio State University sports doctor who allegedly committed rape at least 47 times … he’s producing a docuseries about the scandal. Here’s the backstory … scumbag Richard Strauss was a doctor who was employed by the OSU athletics dept. from 1978 to 1998 and allegedly
EXCLUSIVE: Rome Flynn (How to Get Away with Murder), Aubriana Davis (Genius: Aretha), Tracey Bonner (Sweet Magnolias) and Josh Ventura (P-Valley) have joined the Season 2 cast of Netflix’s superhero drama series Raising Dion. Production on the eight-episode second run is underway in Atlanta. Producing director Darren Grant will direct the first block of the
Shares of the nation’s largest theater chain bucked a down market Tuesday, fortifying their advance of the day before after news that cinemas in New York City will open soon after a year-long lockdown as Covid infection rates fall in the city and state. AMC Ent. stock is up 11% in late morning trades, after
EXCLUSIVE: In a hot under-the-radar package, we can reveal that Oscar-winner Mark Rylance (The Trial Of The Chicago 7), Maze Runner star Dylan O’Brien, Set It Up star Zoey Deutch and The Dig actor Johnny Flynn are set to star in Oscar-winning writer Graham Moore’s (The Imitation Game) directorial debut The Outfit. Focus Features has
Borderlands Will Be Written By Chernobyl’s Craig Mazin While his earlier career was filled with unremarkable blunders, including Senseless, Scary Movie 4, The Hangover Part II and III, Identity Thief, The Huntsman: Winter’s War, RocketMan (not the Elton John biopic), and Superhero Movie, which he also directed, Craig Mazin proved himself immensely with the accomplished
The new opioid drama Crisis weaves its way through three alternating stories all tied to the same subject — the tragic addictive nature of these drugs, and three individuals aiming to combat it in their own ways. A movie that undoubtedly will be compared to two multiple-Oscar-winning movies, Steven Soderbergh’s 2000 Traffic and Paul Haggis’ 2005
The first episode of HBO’s new documentary detailing Dylan Farrow‘s allegations of sexual abuse against Woody Allen is out — and the famed director has choice words for it. He and his wife, Soon-Yi Previn, blasted the doc in a joint statement … calling ‘Allen v. Farrow’ a “hatchet job” that they believe had no
EXCLUSIVE: George R.R. Martin is bringing more dragons to HBO. The Game of Thrones creator is exec producing a TV adaptation of Roadmarks from sci-fi novelist Roger Zelazny, which is development at the WarnerMedia cable network. The adaptation comes from Kalinda Vazquez, who has written on Star Trek: Discovery and was a co-exec producer on
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday said movie theaters in New York City will be brought into line with the rest of New York state as of March 5, when they will be allowed to reopen at 25% capacity with no more than 50 people per screen, masks, social distancing and other protocols. The
Anand Tucker’s (Hilary & Jackie) period-drama Curtain Call, which is due to star Colin Firth, Gemma Arterton, Paapa Essiedu and Simon Russell Beale, has been pre-sold by Culmination Productions to a host of key territories ahead of shoot later this year in the UK. In addition to the previously announced sales to Sony Pictures International
At this point in his career, Robert De Niro could sit back, polish his two Oscars (not to mention his Cecil B. DeMille Award), and rest on his laurels, but that’s not the style of the Hollywood living legend, at least not for the next few years. In the near future, the 77-year-old actor, director,
EXCLUSIVE: Here’s some endearing first footage from Mr Bachmann And His Class, Maria Speth’s feature doc which is premiering in Berlin’s Competition program this year. The movie is an intimate documentary portraying the bond between an elementary school teacher and his students. His unconventional methods clash with the complex social and cultural realities of the provincial
Breaking News James Franco‘s sexual misconduct lawsuit has been settled. Franco, who taught an acting class at Studio 4 — the film school he founded — was accused by students of putting them in gratuitous and exploitive sexual situations. Students filed a class-action lawsuit, saying Franco pushed the class into performing intimate and explicit sex
EXCLUSIVE: The Young and the Restless Daytime Emmy nominee Sasha Calle has scored the feature role of DC Universe’s new Supergirl. The Boston, MA-born Colombian actress is the first Latina Supergirl ever in DC and was chosen from more than 425 actresses who auditioned. She will make her debut in Warner Bros’ The Flash. The Flash
EXCLUSIVE: In its first 24 hours after dropping on Feb. 17, the trailer for Disney’s edgy live-action feature Cruella about the famed 101 Dalmatians villainess drew a very notable 71M views per sources. That’s a very exceptional number for a trailer dropping during the pandemic, even beating the 24 hour trailer viewership figures of pre-Covid theatrical releases Maleficent: Mistress