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Anybody who is married to an actor like George Clooney is likely prepared for the fact that, at some point, their job is going to require them to kiss other people. It’s a strange job actors have. And while I’m sure spouses and significant others don’t love their partners kissing others, it’s a thing they

EXCLUSIVE: Nancy Buirski, director of feature doc Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy, which just premiered at the Venice Film Festival, has signed a development deal with Cineflix Productions. It comes after Buirski teamed with the production company on the doc, which explores the complex social and political history of John

American veejay, comedian and actor Pauly Shore was just 21 years old when he first gained fame as a veejay for the television network MTV back in 1989 and shortly after became a household name with a long list of iconic ’90s movies credits. Following his days with MTV, Shore took his on-camera hosting skills

Labor Day weekend saw blockbusters old and new buoyed by cheap tickets, as was a limited openings like Saloum with multiple sold out screenings at two theaters, including every showtime on Saturday. Over 3,000 theaters, including IFC Center and Alamo Drafthouse LA, where the French-Senegalese indie film began a qualifying run, offered $3 tickets for

Olivia Wilde’s Don’t Worry Darling had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival this evening. Flanked by stars Harry Styles, Chris Pine, Gemma Chan and Florence Pugh — who flew in late from the Budapest set of Dune 2 — Wilde saw her film receive a spirited five-minute-plus ovation. Pugh got her own hearty

At the current moment, the James Bond movies are still in that sort of free falling uncertainty that happens every time 007 changes actors. The Daniel Craig era of Bond is over, with only the announcement of his successor remaining to officially close things out. As such, it’s a good time to ask if that

Olivia Wilde has arrived on the Lido for the hotly-anticipated press conference for her latest film Don’t Worry Darling. Wilde was joined by her principal cast, including Harry Styles, Gemma Chan, and Chris Pine. As previously reported, Florence Pugh, the film’s lead, is not in attendance because her flight from the Budapest set of the

Tom Cruise is soaring to new heights — and no, we’re not talking about ‘Top Gun’ again … this time, we’re referring to his new ‘Mission: Impossible’ movie — which looks insane. Check out this clip that appears to have leaked online this weekend, without a traceable source. It’s a PSA that Tom filmed a

SUNDAY AM UPDATE: $3 tickets on National Cinema Day helped drive even more audiences to the highest-grossing movie of the year to date, Paramount/Skydance’s Top Gun: Maverick, putting the highest-grossing Tom Cruise movie over the $700M mark in its 15th weekend. However, Saturday’s discount day has many distribution box office analysts confused on what exactly

This was yet another soft weekend at the international box office with no major fresh titles and as summer fully closes out in Europe and beyond. On the positive side, the UK’s National Cinema Day helped buoy that market with ticket prices slashed to £3 at 643 participating theaters on Saturday. There were 1.6M admissions

Having worked on the Jurassic World trilogy for nearly a decade, Chris Pratt and the rest of the franchise’s stars must be having some serious dinosaur withdrawal since Dominion blew away the box office this summer. On that note, Pratt has been sharing posts related to the franchise. After honoring partner in crime Bryce Dallas

French director Rebecca Zlotowski makes her Venice Film Festival competition debut on Sunday with drama Other People’s Children, casting the often neglected, sometimes maligned figure of the stepmother in a fresh light. Virginie Efira stars as an attractive teacher in her 40s with a full and happy life. In the backdrop, however, her biological clock

Anne Heche was not rescued immediately after her car slammed into an L.A. home and caught the house on fire — not even close — it took the fire dept. 45 minutes to rescue her. Getty Anne Heche Dead at 53 New information has surfaced from the L.A. Fire Dept. … a timeline of the

SPOILER ALERT: This video contains details & exclusive behind-the-scenes looks from the second episode of Prime Video’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, which debuted on September 1. A new episode of Inside The Ring will drop every week of Season 1 of Rings of Power. Check out Episode 1 from earlier today here.

National Cinema Day is underway with 3,000+ participating theaters (30,000 screens) offering $3 tickets, discounted concessions and a four and a half-minute preshow sizzle reel with peeks of upcoming titles from A24, Amazon Studios, Disney, Focus Features, Lionsgate, Neon, Paramount, Sony and Sony Pictures Classics, United Artists Releasing, Universal and Warner Bros. Trailers include Avatar 2:

When the colonels enter the courtroom, they clearly think they are in the clear. A military court has spent a year deciding that whatever excesses the Argentinian police, army and whoever else might have committed, these gentlemen were not down in the muck where these things happened, whatever “these things” were. One by one, they

More than a year following his text message scandal, Armie Hammer now finds himself back in the news due to the situation. The actor, who reportedly sent out sexually explicit messages involving cannibalism and more to various women, is now the subject of a docuseries. As evidenced by House of Hammer’s trailer, it sheds light

The scourge of the opioid crisis has been documented in the press and in government reports; the culpability of the Sacklers, the multi-billionaire pharmaceutical family whose former company Purdue made the painkiller Oxycontin, has been successfully dramatized. The Sacklers are everywhere in Laura Poitras’ gripping documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, but they are

Joey Badass is looking get his acting career up to the level of his rap game — especially after his first movie role was in an Oscar-winner — so now he’s got his eye on a biopic. In a new interview with Revolt, the Pro Era rapper boldly expressed his wish to play late MC

Neon in association with National Geographic Documentary Films said director Sara Dosa’s Fire of Love will cross $1 million at the box office this weekend, becoming the biggest documentary release of the year for combined domestic and international gross. The film opened this summer and is entering its ninth week in theaters nationally. It will stream

It’s Bones and All day here at the Venice Film Festival, where the Timothée Chalamet-Taylor Russell starrer from Luca Guadagnino received a 10-minute standing ovation after its world premiere screening this evening. The audience cheered with shouts of “Luca! Luca! Luca!” — a reaction that delayed the beginning of the evening’s next competition film. Venice

Sooner or later, you knew that Chris Rock’s encounter with Will Smith at the Academy Awards was going to make it into the comedian’s official stand up routine. This is how most comedians process events in their lives. And while Rock would occasionally address what happened from the stage at some of his comedy shows

Given the fragile state of world peace at the moment, it seems like a good time for the latest film from Hoop Dreams director Steve James, a piece of little-known history from the cold war that could potentially have devastating consequences today. Sadly, James’ Venice Film Festival out of competition title A Compassionate Spy just

American actress Paige Turco was 26 years old when she was cast as the kindhearted and spirited news reporter April O’Neil in the sci-fi film ”Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret Of The Ooze” back in 1991. Paige shared the big screen with Ernie Reyes Jr. as the pizza delivery boy who infiltrates the

There won’t be a DC FanDome virtual confab this year. And it’s pretty simple why: “With the return of in-person events, Warner Bros. Discovery is excited to be able to engage with our fans live at numerous comic-cons around the world and will not be scheduling DC FanDome for 2022,” a DC rep said in

EXCLUSIVE, UPDATED with quote and social media data: The Olivia Wilde-directed Don’t Worry Darling doesn’t open until September 23, but on tracking, the film is off to a promising start, trending hot with 17- to 24-year-old women and also young guys. In sum, Harry Styles fans. And as far as all those tabloid behind-the-scenes Don’t

Dear Alejandro: Having just seen Bardo (False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths), it’s clear to me that this is your most personal work, a magnum opus you’ve been building toward throughout your exceptionally successful career. Manifestly, this is your 7½ to Fellini’s 8½, a semi-autobiographical extravaganza of a sort that a precious few elite

There have been some iconic moments in the cinema post-pandemic. Movies like Spider-Man: Far From Home and Top Gun: Maverick have been blockbusters that have brought people back to the theater in droves. However. If you watched those films in an AMC theater, then you likely saw something that has been even more iconic, Nicole

One of the most stirring moments in Christopher Sharp and Moses Bwayo’s documentary Bobi Wine: Ghetto President — a film full of stirring moments — is the sight of Bobi Wine on the back of a truck, spearing through the back-blocks of Uganda with a copy of the country’s constitution held aloft. As a new

UPDATE 12:01 PM PT — The guys behind the new (and improved?) Winnie the Pooh movie say they pissed off a lot of fans of the beloved character — but they say it was 100% worth it to get into uncharted territory. UPDATE Rhys Waterfield and Scott Jeffrey — the director and producer of ‘Blood