EXCLUSIVE: The director isn’t giving anything away about his next film “Three Thousand Years of Longing,” which stars Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton and shoots in March. But he has plenty to say about not being done with Mad Max, how there is value in blockbuster franchises (“I watch all of them”), and his ongoing search for depth in storytelling.
Caroll Spinney, a puppeteer who brought the beloved Sesame Street characters Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch to life, died today at his Connecticut home. He was 85 and died from Dystonia, a movement disorder.
His death was announced by the Sesame Workshop, a nonprofit focused on helping preschool-age children reach…
The Los Angles Film Critics Association has begun voting this morning for its annual list of the year’s best in film. The group selects a winner and runner-up in 14 categories, and is known for going outside the box with their selections, which roll out in what can be all-day voting sessions.
Winners will be feted…
Refresh for latest…: Sony's Jumanji: The Next Level is out in 18 early overseas release markets ahead of domestic next weekend, and in many, the movie is stepping up versus predecessor Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle. Overall, the Jake Kasdan-directed sequel opened to $52.5M at the international box office, slightly…
The Dec. 7 edition of Saturday Night Live, with host Jennifer Lopez and musical guest DaBaby, delivered a 4.2 Live+Same Day household rating in the 44 local metered markets and a 1.7 adults 18-49 rating in the 25 markets with local people meters. That was off from the last SNL original on Nov. 23, hosted by Will…
President Donald Trump may have 99 Problems, but a tweet ain’t one. The President was up bright and early on Sunday, communicating on Twitter and laying out some of the issues he faces.
First and foremost, the “Impeachment Hearing Hoax,” as the Commander-in-Tweet calls it, was given a zing. House Democrats have…
Frozen 2 and its cumulative $919.7M in global snow dust, have helped bring Disney to the $10B threshold worldwide for 2019. Officially, the studio will cross the mark within the next day. Current studio cumes stand at $3.28B domestic and $6.717B from the international box office. That’s $9.997B global through today…
After yesterday’s ovation for Marvel and Star Wars, you would think that the CCXP crowd couldn’t get any louder. Well, they outdid themselves Sunday during the Netflix panel. A sizzle reel of the best streaming platform’s greatest hits played, ending with The Witcher, which received enormous praise from the crowd, but…
3rd writethru Sunday AM with final chartfollowing Saturday AM and Friday midday post: The doldrums of December are here, and as remains standard following the lucrative Thanksgiving-Black Friday period, most major distributors abstain from opening any wide entries, except for STX, which is handling animated feature Pl…
Empire may be in its last season on Fox but Saturday Night Live's Them Trumps supposedly from the producers of the soapy hip hop series was in full swing and swag tonight.
Yet, the clash between the White House and the Congress was front and center too in the latest digital short premised on the question "what if Dona…
Saturday Night Live re-imagined this week’s hot mic scandal at the NATO conference in London as a bunch of mean kids — instead of world leaders — gossiping in a high school cafeteria.
With Alec Baldwin reprising his portrayal of President Trump, the NBC sketch series brought in Jimmy Fallon, Paul Rudd and James Corden…
Georgian filmmaker Zaza Urushadze, whose credits include the Oscar-nominated drama Tangerines, has died at the age of 53, according to local reports.
The news broke last night (December 7) during the closing weekend of the Tbilisi International Film Festival, which ran in the Georgian capital throughout this week…
Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie and an all-star ensemble take a powerful deep-dive into the downfall of Roger Ailes, with director Jay Roach and screenwriter Charles Randolph.
