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This year’s Zurich Film Festival will present French actress Juliette Binoche with its honorary Golden Icon Award. She will be attending the festival to present her latest movie, La Bonne Epouse, and will receive the prize at a ceremony on September 30. “In the year that France is our guest country, it’s a great pleasure

In some ways, it makes sense though. Before the MCU, the president showing up in a comic book movie, or any action movie for that matter, to give a big speech or form some kind of annoyed relationship with our hero had become a cliché in movies that the studio may have wanted to get

UCLA’s vaunted Department of Film, Television and Digital Media got low marks in a recently concluded eight-year review by the school’s Academic Senate. The study found the department has “experienced chronic operational and procedural problems, a contentious and distrustful work environment, and generally low morale among its faculty, staff and students.” Even so, the review

Play video content Exclusive TMZ.com Jim Belushi says cannabis is a better way for all people to manage and heal from our internal traumas … but he really thinks legal weed will greatly impact our homeless folks, especially veterans. The actor joined us on “TMZ Live” Wednesday and told us all about his legal marijuana

At the DC Fandome virtual panel today, director James Wan teased a new direction with Aquaman 2. Though Wan wants to further develop the stories of Aquaman‘s characters, he yearned to do something fresh and exciting with the second installment. “I think the second one is a little bit more serious, a little bit more

This article contains spoilers for Batgirl #48 by Cecil Castellucci, Robbi Rodriguez, Jordie Bellaire and AndWorld Design. Batgirl is officially the toughest member of the Bat-Family. Only the brave and the bold can survive long in Gotham City – and they pay a fearful price for their heroism. Every member of the Bat-Family has found themselves

BBC sketch show Famalam has been “backed to the hilt” by comedy boss Shane Allen in the row over a sketch featuring a satirical Jamaican version of Channel 4 quiz program Countdown. The clip was tweeted by BBC Three last week ahead of the show’s Season 3 premiere on Sunday. It went viral, stoking anger

EXCLUSIVE: After being closed for over five months, Cineworld reopened about 200 of its Regal Cinemas in the U.S. this past weekend. Health and safety measures — which required an investment in the millions across the parent company’s full estate — were in place, and the response from audiences was “encouraging,” says Cineworld Group CEO

With a filmography that includes satirical high points such as Veep, In the Loop, The Death of Stalin and The Thick of It, you might not have guessed that a Charles Dickens adaptation would be front and center for writer-director Armando Iannucci, but The Personal History of David Copperfield is an inspired choice. Actually, it shouldn’t be

Throughout the video that Tom Cruise himself posted to his official Twitter feed, we see the action superstar taking a taxi through beautiful, rainy London. His destination was a bit of a mystery at first, as the caption to the video simply teased a cinematic experience of some kind. But as soon as Tom Cruise

The androids have escaped and they are coming for humanity in Season 3 of the futuristic HBO series Westworld. That plot development, which posed major new challenges for the production team and stars of the show, has resulted in 11 Emmy nominations. Joining me for a deep dive into the making of the season For

Beyonce is back with another visually striking music video … and Queen Bey says it’s got a very important message in these seemingly impossible times. Beyonce just dropped the music vid for her song, “Brown Skin Girl,” and it’s not your typical eye-candy experience. The video’s really artsy and features appearances from her daughter, Blue

Ahead of its release on Disney+ on September 4, Disney has begun to confirm the international pricing for Mulan, which is being offered at a premium extra for subscribers to the SVOD. In the U.S. the movie is costing $29.99, a price that has sparked a debate about the true value of PVOD: some argue

Love Island USA season 2 is finally here, and it’ll provide plenty of reality TV drama and romance on an almost nightly basis on CBS. This British reality dating series started out in 2005 as Celebrity Love Island. After two seasons, the show was canceled on ITV. In 2015, the show was rebooted as Love Island, and it showed a

Faith-based films, as they now are known, have been a staple of the movie industry almost from the moment it began. But the movement toward more contemporary stories of faith differs from Hollywood’s past infatuation with religion and period movies from The Song of Bernadette to The Ten Commandments to The Story of Ruth to a blockbuster like The Passion of

In an effort to rein in resurgent coronavirus cases in Seoul, Korean authorities last week tightened restrictions on public gatherings. This dealt a blow to the local box office which has seen strong performances over the past several weeks with titles like Peninsula and Deliver Us From Evil. But the Top 5 films in the

“We’ve only shot 25% of the movie,” said The Batman director Matt Reeves today during his DC Fandome panel, “but there was no way I couldn’t show part of the movie.” And alas, we have a lot here to watch in the first teaser of The Batman, which doesn’t give an exact release date for 2021,

Jewell and other men were able to clear the perimeter enough to minimize the impact. 111 people were still injured, and two people died: Alice Hawthorne and Melih Uzunyol, a Turkish cameraman who had a heart attack while trying to cover the event. On July 30, 1996, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported the FBI investigation of

James McAvoy is to narrate Channel 4 Entertainment reality competition show The Bridge. The show will see 12 strangers come together on the banks of a picturesque lake in the British countryside where they will need to work together to build a bridge in 20 days to an island 250 meters away. Each person in the

Breaking News The Oscar-winning writer behind “12 Years a Slave” is coming back with a new project that’ll see Batman’s cowl donned by a Black man … and fans already think they know who it is. John Ridley is heading up a 4-issue, limited series comic for DC, in which the Dark Knight will NOT

EXCLUSIVE UPDATE: Deadline has confirmed several more who’ll be part of the dozen or so principal agents turning manager/producers and joining this venture being hatched by Pete Micelli with hedge fund billionaire Steve Cohen and two other major financing sources. A big name to add is Rich Cook, a star WME lit agent who ran

Battletoads is a new game that’s a spiritual reboot of the franchise that last saw light in 1994’s Battletoads Arcade. This beat-em-up takes players across a realm of fantastical landscapes where action comes from all angles and never stops. There will be bosses in this game, that sometimes will take up the whole screen. The Guardian

After pulling in $33.5M across five days of previews at the Chinese box office, local war epic The Eight Hundred overwhelmingly stormed theaters today, its first official day of release. Adding roughly $20M across the country on Friday — the biggest single-day box office since cinemas resumed operations — the Middle Kingdom cume is now

The Masked Singer has suspended filming in Australia and the entire production team has gone into isolation after a coronavirus outbreak on the Network 10 entertainment show. In a statement on Facebook, the Warner Bros International Television Australia-produced show said the shoot had been halted with immediate effect, and host and panelists, including former The

3. Mark L (Avengers: Infinity War) I, on the other hand, favor the one with nanotechnology over either of those. Not only does this Iron Man armor, introduced in Avengers: Infinity War, blow Tony Stark’s “Suitcase Suit” out of the water in portability (conveniently housed in a detachable unit he keeps on his chest), it

In between Matt Reeves divulging details about his upcoming 2021 The Batman movie and the trailer drop during DC FanDome tonight, the filmmaker unloaded some intel about the HBO Max series connected to the pic, which he’s executive producing with Boardwalk Empire creator Terence Winter. We already knew that the series would be an examination

Exclusive Jason Mitchell‘s next big role is incredibly timely — he’s portraying the life of a Black man shot and killed by cops just hours before his wedding … one of the most controversial police-involved shootings in recent history. Jason, who’s previously played Eazy-E in “Straight Outta Compton,” has landed the role of Sean Bell

Christopher Nolan’s upcoming film Tenet is set to be released on September 3, and Warner Bros. just released the final trailer. The film stars John David Washington as an unnamed CIA agent on some sort of covert mission. There’s also some form of time-bending, though Nolan insists the film does not deal with time travel.

“Does your head hurt yet?” asks Robert Pattinson’s debonair British agent Neil at one point in Tenet. The answer is, inevitably: yes. This movie revels in its whirlwind of complications, daring its audience to get their heads around its high concept, while simultaneously delivering a massive big-screen wallop. Yes, this certainly feels like writer-director Christopher Nolan

With movie theaters finally lighting back up across much of the U.S., the National Association of Theatre Owners and its members are making a rare show of unity in support of CinemaSafe, a new set of health and safety protocols. The COVID-19 response codifies several measures undertaken by theaters and other businesses, including face coverings,