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Heartbreak does not feel good in a place like this. In the wake of the startling news of Netflix’s proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery (and Paramount’s hostile counter bid), Jane Fonda took to satire to convey her antitrust concerns. Spoofing Nicole Kidman’s zeitgeisty AMC Theatres ad, the activist and...Read more

As the returning production designer from the first film, Nathan Crowley had a lot of new areas to explore in Wicked: For Good. From the seemingly floating castle Kiamo Ko to Elphaba’s forest hideaway, and even new locations within The Emerald City like Glinda’s apartment, Crowley’s work in the second...Read more

Although Jack Nicholson has enjoyed a 15-year hiatus from the big screen, frequent collaborator James L. Brooks anticipates a return for the actor. The As Good As It Gets co-writer/director recently teased that the 3x Oscar-winning “greatest actor of the generation” is preparing to make an onscreen comeback, following a...Read more

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The “Knives Out” creator on how Josh O’Connor's debate with Daniel Craig about faith is “nakedly the two things inside of me going at it.”Read more

Ahead if its world premiere as the 40th SXSW‘s opening-night film, Taylour Paige is looking forward to seeing her collaboration with Boots Riley in I Love Boosters. While discussing this weekend’s Season 1 finale of IT: Welcome to Derry, available to stream Sunday at 9pm ET/PT on HBO Max, the...Read more

The Kitchen has ended its run on Food Network, with the last original episode airing on Saturday, December 13. Taking to social media to commemorate the end of an era, co-hosts Katie Lee, Sunny Anderson, Geoffrey Zakarian, and Jeff Mauro shared their thoughts on the series finale. “The last episode...Read more

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As Vin Diesel goes full throttle toward the Fast & Furious grand finale, he’s expanding the franchise’s star-studded extended cast with the onscreen debut of a global star. On Friday, the producer and star of the action movies announced that he has a role for Cristiano Ronaldo in the upcoming...Read more

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-nominated filmmaker Adam Benzine is releasing a director’s cut of his award-winning documentary on Claude Lanzmann, the protean French author, philosopher and filmmaker who made the Holocaust epic Shoah. Benzine’s new version of the film, which expands his short to feature length, premieres on VOD platforms on Sunday under...Read more

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Oscar Isaac is doing a bit of time traveling these days, cinematically at least, with three new films that all debuted at fall festivals. In current release and airing on Netflix is Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, set in the late 18th century, in which Isaac plays the title role of...Read more

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Lindsay Lohan is taking over an iconic character as she guest stars on The Simpsons this weekend. The actress took to social media on Friday to tease her voice appearance as Future Maggie on the Fox animated series’ Season 37 episode ‘Parahormonal Activity’, which airs Sunday at 8/7c. “Catch me...Read more

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Just in time for Christmas, here are some amazing synth deals that may have you needing a bigger stocking at the end of your bed! Grab these now before time runs out! It will soon be...Read more

Like many, your first guitar isn’t necessarily anything special. I didn’t think that mine was, but 15 years later, here’s why mine is the most special in my collection. ...Read more

Abraham Quintanilla, the father of late Tejano music legend Selena, has died. He was 86. The patriarch, who managed Selena’s music career and produced multiple onscreen projects about her life over the years, died on Saturday morning, according to a social media post shared by his son Abraham Quintanilla III....Read more

SATURDAY AM: The 50th weekend of the year is set to ring up close to $80M, off -15% from a year ago which did $94.2M per Box Office Mojo; but that’s only because last year there were two wide-entries, ironically failed fanboy titles, in Sony’s dud Kraven the Hunter ($11M)...Read more

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A changed landscape in both anime and manga means long-running, blockbuster shonen shows are getting shorter and shorter.Read more

Viltrox has had a busy year, and it looks like the company isn’t slowing down anytime soon. Its latest move is bringing three EPIC series lenses to the Canon RF mount: the 35mm, 50mm, and 75mm T2.0 1.33x full-frame anamorphic cine lenses. Originally released three years...Read more

Sony has dropped a major firmware update for the ZV-E10 II, and the headline feature is a big one: the compact vlogging camera can now shoot 4K120p. For creators who love slow motion, this means up to 5x slower footage and a lot more creative headroom...Read more

Blazar has added a new 135mm T3.2 to its MANTIS 1.33x FF Anamorphic series. The 135mm joins the existing 25mm, 35mm, 50mm, 75mm, and 100mm to form a 6-lens set. Back at NAB 2025 in Las Vegas, Blazar Lens showed prototypes of its MANTIS 1.33x full frame anamorphic lenses. The...Read more

Flanders Scientific has released firmware 3.1.15 for the XMP and XMP C Series. This update features new Quad Mode options, per-input color management, improved DIT LUT handling, and additional enhancements. Features of Firmware 3.1.15 (Unified build for XMP and XMP C series monitors) 3G_INx4 renamed Quad Mode. Adds support for...Read more

Peter Greene, a character actor known for playing bad guys in such movies as Pulp Fiction and The Mask, has passed away. He was found dead today, Friday, Dec. 12, in his Manhattan apartment, Greene’s manager Gregg Edwards confirmed to Deadline. The cause of death for Greene, who was 60,...Read more

Although Heated Rivalry has quickly become an international hit with a Season 2 renewal, not everyone is a fan of the steamy gay hockey romance. Following Jordan Firstman‘s criticism of the Crave/HBO Max show’s sex scenes, stars Hudson Williams and François Arnaud responded to the I Love LA actor’s comment...Read more

Google is cooperating with Disney‘s cease and desist, removing dozens of AI-generated videos featuring characters belonging to the century-old entertainment conglomerate. Following the Disney’s $1B deal with OpenAI for three-year licensing of several characters on Sora, Google has taken down dozens of AI videos from YouTube featuring Mickey Mouse, Deadpool,...Read more

What happens in Vegas… gets a LaKeith Stanfield-starring movie, if you’re Dennis Rodman. Nearly two years after Jonathan Majors was dropped from the role and Lionsgate exited the project, the studio is back on board with Stanfield set to play the former Chicago Bulls forward in the Rick Famuyiwa-helmed film,...Read more

Check out this exclusive, singular "Frankenstein" video Q&A with Smith and the director and star of Netflix's Oscar contender.Read more

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This 2015 horror movie from Universal Pictures is perfect for this holiday season... in the worst way.Read more

Watch how showrunner Michele Fazekas, director Steve Boyum, and visual effects supervisor Karen Heston bring the language of superheroes to the messy emotions of growing up.Read more

IndieWire is introducing a new newsletter from Awards Editor Marcus Jones all about cutting through the noise of both Oscar and Emmy season, to discuss what projects stand out — and who will win.Read more

The German filmmaker tells IndieWire about making her Cannes-winning international Oscar entry, a sprawling portrait of generational family trauma, on location at a farm with child actors tackling adult ideas.Read more

Chinese director Bi tells IndieWire about outdoing even his long-take sequences in "Long Day's Journey Into Night" and "Kaili Blues" for a hallucinatory odyssey through the history of moviemaking.Read more

"Screen Talk" co-hosts Anne Thompson and Ryan Lattanzio share their ranking of the best movies of the year, parse the upcoming WBD merger, and read the latest tea leaves on awards season.Read more