Deadline’s Nellie Andreeva on the trends that emerged among the broadcast networks, which seem to be anticipating the seismic changes already underway.
Voltage Pictures has added an After sequel to its sales slate here in Cannes. Stars Josephine Langford and Hero Fiennes Tiffin are set to reprise their roles as Tessa and Hardin in the second steamy romance pic. The first adaptation of Anna Todd's bestselling YA novels, which started out on the fan-fiction website…
The specialty box office is still in the doldrums as summer approaches, save for some breakouts. Showing some zest this weekend was Sundance's The Souvenir from filmmaker Joanna Hogg, taking the weekend's highest per theater average at $21,463. The A24 title starring newcomer Honor Swinton Byrne as well as…
Saturday Night Live closed out its 44th season with a finale hosted by Paul Rudd with musical guest DJ Khaled. The show, which featured appearances by Alec Baldwin and Robert De Niro, averaged a 4.0 rating Live+Same Day household rating in the metered markets, and a 1.6 adults 18-49 rating in the markets with local…
Refresh for latest…: Lionsgate's John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum took out a hit on its predecessors at the international box office, opening to $35.2M in 66 markets. In each of those, the starts were higher than John Wick and John Wick: Chapter 2. Coupled with the terrific domestic launch, the global cume through…
American Un Certain Regard entry The Climb has fast become one of the hits of this year’s Cannes, generating a raft of reviews so good it’s like they’d been written by the filmmakers themselves. No need for that, though, because Michael Angelo Covino’s directorial debut feature, which he co-wrote with his co-lead Kyle…
Fit, suntanned, and with faint wrinkles in all the right places, at 64, Kevin Costner still looks every bit the movie star that he was through the '80s and '90s. It's hard to believe that the iconic baseball film Field of Dreams turns 30 years old this year and his Best Picture winning directorial debut Dances with Wol…
Justin Amash is a US Congressman from the 3rd district in Michigan, which encompasses Grand Rapids. Surprisingly, he’s a Republican, and one of President Donald Trump’s arch foes. Today, he became the first GOP Congressman to call for Trump’s impeachment.
The Commander-in-Tweet responded by raising Amash’s profile…
UPDATED WRITETHRU, SUNDAY AM after Saturday 10:41 am and 2:13AM post: With chart:At a time when talk is percolating that CBS is kicking the tires of Lionsgate’s STARZ unit, the mini-major is making a comeback at the box office with its Keanu Reeves, R-rated action pic, John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum,which…
Call Me By Your Name director Luca Guadagnino’s latest film The Staggering Girl played this week at the Cannes Film Festival. Julianne Moore, Mia Goth, Kyle MacLachlan, KiKi Layne, Marthe Keller and Alba Rohrwacher star in the 35-minute piece which was made in collaboration with Pier Paolo Piccioli, creative director…
EXCLUSIVE: Wolfe Releasing has taken U.S. rights to director Rhys Ernst's coming-of-age comedy Adam starring Nicholas Alexander (I Love You Phillip Morris), Bobbi Salvör Menuez (Nocturnal Animals, I Love Dick), Leo Sheng, Chloë Levine (The OA) and Margaret Qualley (Fosse/Verdon, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood).
In the…
Director Midi Z and actress Ke-Xi Wu have worked together before, but their dynamic strengthened when they made Nina Wu together. The film, which premieres tomorrow night in Cannes' Un Certain Regard, is penned by Wu, and tells the story of a young actress who faces the brutalities of a male-dominated film industry as…
Paul Haggis and Dan Krauss's doc 5B—playing at Cannes as a special screening—seeks to shine a light on the history of the pioneering caregivers at the San Francisco General Hospital who tackled the AIDS crisis at the height of the fear and paranoia as the virus took its greatest toll. Interspersing archival footage of…
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."
