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Johnny Depp‘s charitable donations are gonna go a long way in helping the orgs he’s vowed to help out … telling us they can’t wait to put the money to work. A rep for Make-A-Film Foundation, a lucky recipient of $200K from JD calls him “one of the most generous people we’ve ever worked with.”

This year’s scaled-down, “special one-year iteration” of the Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) will open on August 18 with the world premiere of Silent Roar, the debut feature from Scottish writer and director Johnny Barrington. Billed as a “teenage tale of surfing, sex, and hellfire,” the pic is set in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides and stars

Lin-Manuel Miranda wants to keep directing movies, but don’t look for him to mount any large-scale spectacles. “My responsibility as a filmmaker — and I really hope to make more movies — is to make the weird little musicals that no one else can get made,” he told Rosie Perez during an appearance Tuesday at

EXCLUSIVE: The WGA pickets has at least temporarily shuttered It Ends with Us, a movie that has been shooting in various locations that include Weekawken and Jersey City, New Jersey.  Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni are starring and Baldoni is directing the film adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s bestselling novel, which Christy Hall adapted. The film was first picketed

Amber Heard‘s million-dollar IOU to Johnny Depp has finally been paid — and now, we know exactly where the money’s going … different charities near and dear to his heart. Sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ … in light of the million recently making its way to Johnny — which, as we reported, was covered

EXCLUSIVE: After the Transformers was gearing down, filmmaker Steven Caple Jr. was able to put gas back into the tank of the storied Paramount Hasbro movie franchise with Rise of the Beasts this weekend which opened to $171M worldwide, stealing the crown from Sony Animation’s strong Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. On today’s episode of Crew

Programs from Elliot Page’s production company and the team behind comedy Letterkenny are among Paramount+’s latest Canadian slate. The streamer’s strategy in Canada was unveiled today at the Banff World Media Festival, with a line-up of four projects in development and an original documentary from documentary filmmaker Dianne Whelan (This Land, 40 Days at Basecamp).

Tenoch Huerta, famous for playing Namor in “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” is denying a recent sexual assault allegation against him. The Marvel star broke his silence Monday after being accused Saturday of sexually assaulting musician María Elena Ríos, who also claimed he was a “sexual predator.” Tenoch says her accusation is “false and completely unsubstantiated.”

EXCLUSIVE: Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken has a lot going for her. For starters, says the film’s director Kirk DeMicco (Vivo, The Croods), “she’s a princess, a superhero” and the first female titular character for a DreamWorks Animation movie. Of course, there have been female lead characters in DreamWorks animated pictures, “but this is the first time where we said

Alex Newell of Shucked and J. Harrison Ghee of Some Like It Hot broke ground Sunday night as the first openly nonbinary Tony Award winners. Newell won for Best Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical and Ghee for Best Actor in a Lead Role in a Musical. Both drew huge ovations with acceptance

Joni Mitchell has been one of the most honored musicians of this century. She’s picked up honors from the Kennedy Center, Library of Congress, the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, and an honorary degree from the Berklee College of Music. But something was missing. Save for a surprise set at the 2022 Newport Folk Festival,

Elizabeth Olsen has been really honest about her time with Marvel — namely, feeling like she invested far too many years working for them — and now … she’s hitting that point home. The actress — famous for playing Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch throughout the ‘Avengers’ movies — got candid yet again this weekend in a

EXCLUSIVE: In what will be her first film promotion appearance in a good long time, Amber Heard is set to appear at the 69th Taormina Film Festival for the world premiere of In The Fire. Heard will be in Sicily along with the film’s director Conor Allyn and co-star Eduardo Noriego. The film will premiere

In the wake of world premiering in Cannes to lackluster film reviews at 50% Rotten, Disney/Lucasfilm’s Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny is currently looking at a $60M+ domestic opening. The movie opens on June 30 heading into what is conceivably a five-day play period given that Independence Day falls on a Tuesday. Dial

Utopia’s Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis) grossed an estimated $10k from one engagement at NYC’s Film Forum, where it was the top-ranking pic. Celebrated filmmaker and photographer Anton Corbijn’s first feature documentary is the story of Hipgnosis, the iconic album art design studio that was a force in the music industry behind some

Donald Trump thought he could use Matt Damon‘s voice to help raise some dough for his campaign, but the famous actor and his buddy Ben Affleck aren’t gonna let it fly. Trump pushed out a fundraising video on Truth Social last week which was almost entirely centered around a monologue from Damon’s character in the

Paramount/Skydance/Hasbro’s Transformers: Rise of the Beasts is on the prowl overseas with $43.3M through Friday in 68 markets. This portends a $100M+ international box office debut, in line with projections. The domestic three-day is looking at $60M. China, a key market for the franchise, released the Autobots and Maximals at No. 1 on Friday with $11.8M,

Next stop for HBO’s “The White Lotus” series could be Australia, creator Mike White said Since it premiered in 2021, the show has moved around the globe. Season one was set in Hawaii, the second in Italy’s Sicily, and the third leg is now is being produced in Thailand. White made his remarks while taking

Naomi Watts is a married woman for the first time in her life — ’cause she said “I do” to Billy Crudup … who also walked down the aisle as a newbie. The actress announced their marriage on social media Saturday, posting a photo of what appears to be her and BC standing on the

“How do people do this?” asks well-to-do New York book publisher Nicky (Luke Evans) in a state of exasperation. Nicky is in the thick of a bitter custody battle for his eight-year-old son Owen (Christopher Woodley), after Gabriel (Billy Porter), his partner of 13 years, has decided to call time on their relationship. It’s a

Comedians Jerry Seinfeld and Jim Gaffigan will do a four-arena tour together this fall. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. The upcoming dates include Friday, November 3, at the Chase Center in San Francisco; Saturday, November 4, at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles; Friday, November 10, in Chicago; and Saturday, November 11, at

Alec Baldwin seems to be in good spirits after his recent surgery … cuz he’s up and moving around the Big Apple not long after his big procedure — with a little help from a crutch. AB was spotted for the first time since last week’s hip replacement surgery, goin’ through New York with a

More than 30 years after leaving the Rolling Stones, Bill Wyman is back. The 86-year-old bassist will be featured on a song on the Stones’ upcoming album, the Sun reported Friday, as a tribute to their late drummer Charlie Watts, who died in August 2021. Watts will also be on the recording. Mick Jagger reportedly invited Wyman

Two from Magnolia Pictures, the story of an iconic record album design firm back and a sighting of Brian Cox usher in a specialty weekend with smoke clearing over New York City. Acrid plumes from Canadian wildfires have smothered the key arthouse market over the past few days in an unusual air quality event that

EXCLUSIVE: As the Annecy International Animation Film Festival begins to get underway this weekend, newly hired Warner Bros. Animation President Bill Damaschke has announced a rebranding of the motion picture division with a focus on filmmakers. Previously known as WAG aka Warner Animation Group, the Burbank, CA lot’s feature toon unit will now be known

American actress Maura Tierney was in her mid-30s when she first started playing the role of Dr. Abby — the once modest nurse who evolves into a confident doctor — on the medical drama series “ER” back in 1999. Tierney shared the screen with Noah Wyle as the ambitious medical student, John Carter, Laura Innes

EXCLUSIVE: Following months of going through dozens of audition tapes, Warner Bros. and DC Films look to be getting closer to finding the stars of its Superman: Legacy movie as a second round of testing looks to be imminent. Insiders close to the process say the first in person tests with Warner Bros. execs and

Six weeks into the writers strike, the early returns on summer studio films have been some of the best since Covid brought the exhibition business to a screeching halt. But if SAG-AFTRA members trade lines of dialogue for picket lines beginning July 1, the business might well look like pandemic redux. The domestic box office

Casualty, the BBC’s long-running medical series, has been the subject of viewer complaints after featuring a storyline in which a character discusses their top surgery. The BBC received 142 complaints from disgruntled audience members, who said it was “inappropriate” for Casualty to show non-binary character Sah Brockner (Arin Smethurst) discussing their surgery. “I booked time

Play video content TMZ.com Tupac Shakur would be pleased to know some of his running mates are among the hundreds of fans who turned out to see his Hollywood Walk of Fame Star cemented into history!!! TMZ Hip Hop linked with Treach of Naughty By Nature and former Death Row singer Danny Boy … who