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The shadow of the Maysles brothers looms large over the surprise winner of the 59th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, a documentary that can’t help but summon up the spirit of the duo’s 1975 masterpiece Grey Gardens. That film told the story of two women living in squalor in the... Read more

Ariel Winter recently opened up about the traumatic experience of being preyed upon by older men as a child actress in Hollywood. The Modern Family alumna discussed her experience while promoting the YouTube true crime docuseries SOSA Undercover in which she appears; the online show follows members of the Safe... Read more

Emily Deschanel recalled struggling emotionally and professionally while filming the first season of Fox’s Bones, to the point where she got a talking-to about her lack of preparedness. In a recent episode of podcast Fail Better with host David Duchovny, who once directed an episode of the police procedural, Deschanel... Read more

Andy Samberg fondly remembered his late Brooklyn Nine-Nine costar Andre Braugher, reflecting on their time together on the two-time Emmy-winning sitcom and how the show has endured for audiences since its conclusion in 2021. During a recent episode of Good Hang with Amy Poehler, the Saturday Night Live alum discussed... Read more

Daniel Craig’s Detective Benoit Blanc is going back to genre beginnings with the next installment in the Knives Out universe, says writer-director Rian Johnson who teased a “gothic” tone for Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery. Speaking to Rolling Stone in a sprawling Q&A published today, the two-time... Read more

In every generation, storytelling has evolved with technology. Let’s imagine the hand-written manuscripts the starting point. We then invented the printing press, then  radio,  and in this decade from television to TikTok. Now, artificial intelligence is writing scripts, crafting loglines, and even generating entire movies. But what does this mean... Read more

Nicole Kidman, Sandra Bullock, Dianne Wiest, and Stockard Channing are all on board, but Evan Rachel Wood is out.... Read more

The actor has kept up a busy shooting schedule, between "The Conners," "The Righteous Gemstones," "Smurfs," and the upcoming Alejandro G. Iñárritu comedy.... Read more

Another setback for South Park fans. The hit animated comedy has been taken off Paramount+ outside of the U.S. as the platform’s license to stream it has expired. The Paramount Global streamer’s negotiations for the rights to the series continue, sources said. The removal is somewhat surprising as South Park‘s... Read more

Evan Rachel Wood is clearing things up and confirming she will not be part of the Practical Magic sequel in the works Wood took to social media to address her fans asking if she would reprise her role opposite Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman. “I am getting asked about this... Read more

Accusations that James Gunn has “politicized” Superman come laughably late, as the world's most famous superhero has always been political, write narrative strategist Andrew Slack and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas.... Read more

GameStop recently dropped a mysterious teaser for something called Push Start Arcade, and now a few details are starting to trickle out thanks to a post by X user @Wiz888999, and it sounds like GameStop isn’t just dusting off old Pac-Man cabinets. They might be cooking up something a lot... Read more

Max Fleischer's landmark 1941 short was the first superhero adaptation to earn an Academy Award nomination.... Read more

James Gunn’s upcoming Superman just got a moody makeover, thanks to a fan trailer that reimagines the reboot through the lens of Zack Snyder’s visual style. Created by YouTube user Joe Trailers, the video pairs the film’s existing footage with Leonard Cohen’s haunting “Hallelujah”, a nod to Snyder’s Justice League... Read more

The veteran comic book director said that the fellow filmmaker did the cameo as a "favor."... Read more

Stars of 'Don't Call Me Mama' and 'When a River Becomes the Sea' won the acting honors, 'The Visitor' and 'Out of Love' shared the directing award, and Stellan Skarsgard received a statuette.... Read more

The annual event, a key festival nestled between Cannes and Venice, hosted its 59th outing, which also honored Dakota Johnson and Stellan Skarsgård.... Read more

Nick Offerman is not here for MAGA and Donald Trump supporters claiming his Parks & Recreation character would’ve been one of them. The actor played Libertarian Ron Swanson on the NBC mockumentary throughout its seven-season run. In a new interview, the Last of Us alum revealed that although MAGA supporters... Read more

Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman are coming back for the sequel, and on Friday, it was announced that Dianne Wiest and Stockard Channing will reprise their roles as the Owens aunts.... Read more

The 59th International Karlovy Vary Film Festival passed by in a blur this week after playing host to a stream of largely uncontroversial guests compared to previous years. With appearances by Festival President’s Award winners Vicky Krieps, Dakota Johnson and Peter Sarsgaard, plus a special cameo from Michael Douglas, it... Read more

Mattel Creations has revealed a cool collectible Hot Wheels Back to the Future set for the film’s 40th anniversary for San Diego Comic-Con 2025.The display box contains the movie’s iconic Time Machine, a 1:64-scale DeLorean DMC-12, and Doc Brown’s custom GMC Value Van as seen in the first film at... Read more

SATURDAY UPDATE: On Friday, Warner Bros/DC’s Superman added another $21.5M from 78 international box office markets. That brings the offshore flying cume to $40M through Friday. Globally, with Friday’s domestic count, the worldwide running total is $96.5M. While we still have Saturday and Sunday to come overseas, what’s clear here... Read more

After Power Station frontman Robert Palmer bowed out, the band asked Des Barres to sub in for the mega event. It was only his second performance with the group.... Read more

Hall is once again enacting the will of the "Dark Passenger" on Paramount+ with Showtime's "Dexter: Resurrection"... Read more

After Power Station frontman Robert Palmer bowed out, the band asked Michael Des Barres to sub in for the mega event. It was only his second performance with the group.... Read more

CinemaStix dropped a fantastic video essay that digs into why Alfred Molina’s Doc Ock in Spider-Man 2 remains one of the greatest comic book villains ever put on screen. The breakdown highlights how Sam Raimi’s team used practical effects and intricate puppetry to animate those terrifying tentacles in medium and... Read more

Directed by James Gunn, the superhero pic appears to be succeeding in rebooting both the Warner Bros.-owned DC and its most prized comic book film franchise.... Read more

In a story that feels ripped straight out of the movie Her, CBS News recently aired a segment featuring Chris Smith, a man who not only fell in love with an AI chatbot… he actually proposed to it.Chris, a former AI skeptic, has clearly had a change of heart, and... Read more

Expand your modular rig with these amazing Eurorack deals from Behringer, Erica Synths and Tiptop Audio. The post Eurorack Deals of the Week: Behringer, Erica Synths and Tiptop Audio appeared first on gearnews.com.... Read more

"The Office" star ended up being shocked by his mom's reaction at the film's premiere.... Read more

The song “Punkrocker” was first released by Swedish group Teddybears in 2000. Continue reading…... Read more

In a fun and clever bit of marketing synergy, Marvel has teamed up with Zillow to “list” the Baxter Building, home of the Fantastic Four. The listing boasts four bedrooms, four bathrooms, and 4,444 square feet for a cool $4,444,444. The symmetry is cute. The price? Well, in today’s NYC... Read more

In his latest video essay, Matt Draper dives deep into the turbulent waters behind Jaws, Steven Spielberg’s 1975 classic that changed movies, how movies are made, and how they are marketed. The video explores everything from the troubled production (including the now-legendary malfunctioning mechanical shark, Bruce) to the massive cultural... Read more

Back in March 1977, comdian Andy Kaufman stepped onto The Tonight Show stage and delivered one of the most unexpected left turns in late-night TV. He kicked things off with a soft-spoken bit in the voice with a strange accent that would later become Latka on Taxi. What followed was... Read more

Nobody in the real world would land like this unless they were trying to wreck their body for dramatic effect. But in the Marvel Cinematic Universe? It’s practically a rite of passage. This wonderfully obsessive video compilation captures every single superhero landing from across the MCU including Iron Man blasting... Read more

I don't really like fisheye lenses. I've never found much use for them and find the surreal look of the images to be of limited utility. But that doesn't mean that I won't jump at the chance to give a new one a try. [Read More]... Read more

With James Gunn's take soaring in theaters, we size up how the (in)famous abandoned Superman movies might have performed in the awards race.... Read more

After becoming 1990's biggest hit, Ghost won Oscar for screenwriter Bruce Joel Rubin and Whoopi Goldberg.... Read more

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