While buying traditional network series might have become slightly more complicated for the worldwide market, and the weeklong sales pitch is no longer quite as opulent as it used to be, there was plenty of interest in the latest slate of dramas and comedies.
Director Matthew Vaughn said that the forthcoming Kingsman 3 will wrap up the saga of Taron “Eggsy” Egerton and his mentor, Colin “Harry” Firth.
The gimmicky British spy saga has seen the two survive the wipeout of virtually all of their fellow Kingsmen in 2017’s The Golden Circle, the sequel to 2014’s The Secret Servi…
Elton John claims that he had to fight to tell his story his way in ‘Rocketman.”
"Some studios wanted to tone down the sex and drugs so the film would get a PG-13 rating. But I just haven't led a PG-13 rated life," John said in an article he wrote for the UK’s Guardian. "I didn't want a film packed with drugs and sex…
Simon Pagenaud edged Alexander Rossi Sunday in a close finish to win the 103rd Indianapolis 500 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
With 13 laps to go, Pagenaud and Rossi traded the lead at least a half-dozen times after a restart with 13 laps remaining. Pagenaud took the lead for good with a lap left and then had to…
UPDATE, writethru: Disney’s live-action take on the classic 1992 animated Aladdin rode to a $121M start at the international box office this weekend, coming in right at the top end of industry predictions with a better-than-expected debut in some Asian markets. The global three-day opening is $207.1M.
In North…
Bill Yoast, the football coach whose personality was portrayed by Will Patton in the film Remember The Titans, has died. He was 94 and passed at an assisted living facility in Springfield, Virginia, according to a news release from the Alexandria City Public Schools.
Yoast coached at Francis C. Hammond High School, an…
4TH UPDATE/Writethru, 2nd SUNDAY Update after 5:02AM post: Though Disney, which is usually conservative and safe with their estimate shows an $86.1M 3-day and $105M 4-day for Aladdin(still great numbers), industry averages believe Prince Ali will be much higher with a 3-day of $88.5M and a 4-day in the $110.9M range…
Corneliu Porumboiu returned to Cannes ten years after 2009's Police, Adjective with The Whistlers, one of the freshest genre hybrids in a festival full of them. Set in Porumboiu's native Romania, it concerns a corrupt cop who is in league with gangsters based on Gomera in the Canary Islands. But what makes this film…
Cult British comedy Peep Show is getting another chance at a U.S. adaptation with a script in development at FX. The series, which ran for nine seasons on Channel 4, is getting a gender role reversal with the two leads – played by David Mitchell and Robert Webb in the UK original – set to be played by women.
Portlandia…
Since his 2005 Sundance winner 40 Shades of Blue, Ira Sachs has been synonymous with the U.S. indie sector, so it was a huge leap for the director to make the leap into this year's Cannes competition. With a strong international cast headed by Isabelle Huppert and including Marisa Tomei, Brendan Gleeson, and Jérémie…
Former CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley said today on CNN’s Reliable Sources news magazine that he was fired from his job because he “wouldn’t stop complaining to management” about a “hostile work environment” in the news division.
The remarks came after Pelley was asked about the CBS situation, where a number of…
Bart Starr, the Green Bay Packers quarterback whose sneak dive into the end zone on the frozen tundra of Lambeau Field remains of the National Football League’s most iconic plays, has died. He was 85 and had been in failing health since 2014, when he suffered two strokes and a heart attack.
Starr was one of the faces…
Although Pedro Almodóvar is considered a fixture in the Cannes competition, he's only ever won the main prize once, with 2006's Volver. Indeed, after 1999's Cannes hit All About My Mother was pipped at the very last minute by the Dardenne brothers' Rosetta, the director briefly followed Woody Allen's example by…
Forty years after the Cannes Palme d'Or saved Francis Ford Coppola's masterpiece from oblivion, the ultimate disruptor reflects on life before and after "Apocalypse Now."
