Exclusive Steven Spielberg can breathe a sigh of relief … a judge granted a permanent restraining order against the woman who’s been threatening to kill him. According to new legal docs obtained by TMZ … 48-year-old Sarah Char must stay 100 yards away from Steven, his wife and his daughter for the next 3 years.
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Mexico’s entry to the International Feature Film Oscar race, Fernando Frias’ I’m No Longer Here (Ya No Estoy Aqui), is an ultra-skillful, if sometimes dramatically undernourished account of an enterprising teenager’s attempt to move beyond a life on the streets. There’s no question that the young director knows what he’s doing behind the camera, and
Refresh for latest…: Fans of Kollywood cinema got a treat this weekend as Tamil action thriller Master debuted in India and a handful of other markets across the harvest festival period. While we do not have confirmed figures for the Vijay-starrer in India, estimates had it at around $11M from Wednesday-Friday with the film believed
If there are any milestones worth noting this week, it’s that the Focus Features thriller Promising Young Woman crossed the $3 million in its fourth week in theaters. This weekend the Emerald Fennell-directed pic starring Carey Mulligan played in 1,333 theaters and added an estimated $430K to its box office till this weekend and is on
Fans have been chomping at the bit for details on Spider-Man 3, as Marvel Studios and Sony have remained mum when it comes to the plot of the highly anticipated threequel. This hasn’t, however, stopped reports from surfacing and, if even half of them are true, the web-slinger’s third solo outing could very well be
EXCLUSIVE: In a move that is sure to rock the Marvel Cinematic Universe, sources tell Deadline that Chris Evans is cleaning the dust off his Captain America attire as he is expected reprise the role in the MCU in some form. It’s still vague whether the deal is closed, but insiders say it’s headed in
Liv Tyler has had a terrifying 2021, which began with a COVID diagnosis that left her in physical and emotional turmoil. Liv said she found out on New Year’s Eve she tested positive for the virus … “Suddenly on The morn of the last day of 2020 … boom it took me down. It comes
It immediately says something about the differences between Jean Cocteau’s brilliant 1928 dramatic monologue The Human Voice — as first put on screen in 1948 by Roberto Rossellini with the immortal Anna Magnani — and Pedro Almodovar’s new version of it starring Tilda Swinton, that the latter features six costume changes within the first six
The IFC Films documentary MLK/FBI from filmmaker Sam Pollard (Two Trains Runnin’, Eyes on the Prize) makes its debut in select theaters today as well as on demand. The release aligns with Martin Luther King Jr. Day on January 18 and it is super relevant to America’s wild inequity and racist treatment of the Black community —
Los Angeles county, which has become the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, has reached its grimmest milestone yet as officials confirm more than 1 million total cases of Covid-19. The county continues its trend of at least 100,000 new cases every week, with L.A. seeing a total of 1,003,923 cases to date. Saturday’s numbers confirm
Ever since its debut in 2013, the Nickelodeon children’s animated series Paw Patrol has been a consistent favorite with millions of young kids around the world as well as their parents who have spent hundreds of millions on branded toys, clothes, and other merchandising, not to mention the live performances that crossed the globe the
EXCLUSIVE: It’s been a long time since we’ve seen anything Marvel, and you can blame that squarely on the pandemic. As the greater hope for a better 2021 occurs with incoming President Joe Biden looking to deliver 100 million vaccines doses in his first 100 days, fanboys and girls finally can calm down, for as
Famed breakdancer Adolfo “Shabba-Doo” Quiñones will be remembered by his family in a private service — but scores of his friends in the biz will also get a chance to honor him. A rep for the family tells TMZ … the star of the 1984 film, “Breakin'” will have a memorial service Saturday at an
In another move due to complications caused by the coronavirus pandemic, sources tell Deadline that there are some key changes to the process of shortlisting potential nominees for the International Feature Film category (formerly Best Foreign Language Film). Instead of the main committee of volunteers from all branches of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts
Warner Bros, in the waking of making good with Legendary on the simultaneous release of Godzilla vs. Kong in theaters and on HBO Max, will be releasing the movie on March 26 instead of May 21. It was reported last Friday that Warner Bros and financier Legendary, which owns a majority of the movie, avoided a legal
EXCLUSIVE: Disney music vet Tom MacDougall has been named President, Walt Disney Music. MacDougall’s promotion comes in the wake of the studio’s Fox acquisition and recent content & distribution reorganization. Disney Studios Content is consolidating production of music for its live-action and animated content –both theatrical and streaming– across the Disney, Disney Animation, Pixar, Blue Sky,
While Titanic brought Kate Winslet into the global conscience, the actor had already made a splash in the independent film and period dramas in the 1990s. She made her film debut at age 17 in the acclaimed film Heavenly Creatures before gaining recognition as Marianne Dashwood in 1995’s Sense and Sensibility. After Titanic, she decided
SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details about Disney+’s upcoming Marvel series WandaVision, kind of. WandaVision wasn’t supposed to be the first Marvel series on Disney+, and it shows. Grafted to a premise more suited to the syndicated sitcoms on TV Land than the home of The Mandalorian, the Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany starrer that
Macaulay Culkin has just one word for the petition calling for the removal of Donald Trump‘s scene in ‘Home Alone 2’ … SOLD!!! Macaulay, best known as Kevin McAllister in the insanely popular 1992 Christmas comedy, says he’s most definitely on board with leaving POTUS on the cutting room floor … after last week’s deadly
In what has been the strangest year on recent record for myriad reasons, the International Feature Film Oscar race is not immune to the impact of Covid. Along with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences tweaking submission deadlines, many films vying for recognition in the International Feature category have experienced a lack of
EXCLUSIVE: Voltage Pictures is selling worldwide on The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain, the Morgan Freeman and Lori McCreary production we first told you about, which follows the 2011 fatal shooting of a 68-year-old White Plains, NY Black man by police after he accidentally triggered his LifeAid medical alert. Voltage will begin talks on the title
Streamland Media, formerly Picture Head Holdings, has announced plans to acquire Technicolor’s post-production business. Trive Capital and Five Crowns Capital are supporting the deal, which is valued at $36.5 million and expected to close in the first half of this year. Streamland already owns a range of post-production outfits, including Picture Shop, Formosa Group, Ghost
Of course, Marvel fans will likely hold out hope that Gwyneth Paltrow’s Pepper Potts once again returns to the MCU sometime in the future. While Iron Man 3 marked her last major role, she’s since had minor appearances in a number of Phase Three projects and even suited up as Rescue to fight Thanos. We’ll
Exclusive Armie Hammer is leaving a movie he was supposed to star in opposite Jennifer Lopez, and it’s all over a scandal involving alleged DMs of his … which he’s now addressing. The ‘Social Network’ star tells TMZ … “I’m not responding to these b******* claims but in light of the vicious and spurious online
Amazon is moving into hockey with the latest iteration of its All or Nothing sports docuseries strand. The streamer has ordered All or Nothing: Toronto Maple Leafs from Cream Films, a division of the Canadian production company behind CNN’s upcoming series The Story of Late Night, Amazon Studios and NHL Original Productions. The series, which will
Warner Bros is moving The Many Saints of Newark from March 12 to Sept. 24. New Line is releasing. Remember, WarnerMedia announced that its entire 2021 slate is going theatrical and HBO Max at the same time, but big chains like AMC are negotiating terms on a film by film basis. So that means not everything Warners
EXCLUSIVE: There has been a continuing sense of unease and high alert from the stars and filmmakers behind Mosul, the Iraqi-language thriller based on the true tale of an Iraqi SWAT police squad that took to the streets to wipe out ISIS members to avenge the love ones that unit members lost at the hands
The game from Ubisoft is reportedly still staffing up according to Wired, so the game itself is still years away, but Ubisoft is known for making open world games, every franchise from Assassin’s Creed to FarCry to the endless stream of Tom Clancy branded titles uses a similar structure, a massive map that a player
Spoiler Warning: This piece contains spoilers about Disney+’s upcoming Marvel series WandaVision. Something strange is a foot in suburbia, and that’s the thread which Disney+’s upcoming Marvel series WandaVision tugs on. While Marvel has traversed the streaming space before with a number of Netflix series, i.e. The Punisher, Jessica Jones, The Defenders, Daredevil, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist, what makes WandaVision notable
Exclusive Tanya Roberts‘ longtime partner is planning a celebration of her life, but before that, he plans to honor her in an L.A. location near and dear to her heart. Lance O’Brien tells TMZ … the late model and actress is going to be cremated, and he’s going to spread her ashes in the hills