As his pic starring Anne Hathaway and Chiwetel Ejiofor debuts today on HBO Max, the filmmaker talks about how its third lead is the global pandemic and how an adventurous spirit helped him in putting together the movie that will shoot aboard an Elon Musk SpaceX capsule.
Editor’s note:Yoruba Richen is the director and Mehret Mandefro and Lacey Schwartz Delgado are executive producers of American Masters: How It Feels to Be Free, a documentary that looks at the historical importance and overlooked contributions of Black performers. Focusing on Lena Horne, Abbey Lincoln, Nina Simone, Di…
Conservative publishing house Regnery has picked up Sen. Josh Hawley’s upcoming book The Tyranny of Big Tech that was dropped by Simon & Schuster after the Jan. 6 siege on the Capitol. The Missouri Republican had repeatedly supported and gave voice to President Donald Trump’s disinformation campaign about vote…
Netflix will report fourth-quarter earnings Tuesday afternoon, closing the book on a coronavirus-altered 2020 and setting the tone for a more competitive marketplace in 2021.
The streaming leader has recently been the first entertainment company to report quarterly results, kicking off each weeks-long earnings season…
With his first large-scale, animated short, Canvas, director Frank E. Abney III channeled the pain of a major loss early in his life into a work of art.
Emerging from a moment when Abney found himself stuck in a "creative rut," the film centers on a wheelchair-bound grandfather who lives in solitude, following the…
Turkey's International Feature Oscar entry Miracle in Cell No. 7 was a major box office hit in its homeland last year and went on to score significant success on Netflix in multiple territories.
Director Mehmet Ada Oztekin's emotional drama, a remake of the 2013 Korean film of the same name, tells the story of Memo…
Garth Brooks will perform at Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’ swearing in ceremony on Wednesday, joining Jennifer Lopez and Lady Gaga among the entertainers on the bill.
“In our household, this is not a political statement, this is a statement of unity,” Brooks said in a virtual press conference.
Brooks performed at a…
In a year that has stymied many of his peers, Riz Ahmed has been incredibly prolific, with two 2020 feature releases—Darius Marder’s Sound of Metaland Bassam Tariq’s Mogul Mowgli—as well as an album, The Long Goodbye, which came with a powerful short imagining life in a racist, post-Brexit Britain. If The Long Goodbye…
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said he had planned to attend Joe Biden's inauguration but won't now, preferring to stay close in case of demonstrations at the state Capitol building in Albany.
At a press briefing Monday, Cuomo also said New York's Covid-19 cases are falling after a holiday surge. But clamor for the…
Fox dominated Sunday ratings with the NFL Divisional Playoff game between Tampa Bay and New Orleans, which earned an 8.0 in the adults 18-49 demographic while a staggering 28.81 million viewers tuned in to watch the Buccaneers defeat the Saints 30-20 to advance to the NFC Championship. This was a solid lead-in to…
Matt Damon is seemingly set to return to the MCU via Thor: Love And Thunder after he made a cameo three years ago in Thor: Ragnarok.
Damon recently touched down in Australia where he is in quarantine ahead of the shoot. It’s not clear at this stage whether the actor will be back for a cameo or a bigger…
Kevin Reilly, who ended a six-year run at WarnerMedia last summer amid waves of restructuring at the media company, has resurfaced as an advisory board member of a tech startup called DeepDub.
In an interview with Deadline, Reilly described what he sees as a compelling opportunity for the emerging outfit, and said he…
Netflix has dominated the Oscar documentary race in recent years, winning best feature in both 2020 and 2018. But this year it could be Amazon Studios' Time to shine.
Time, directed by Garrett Bradley and produced by Amazon in partnership with Concordia Studio, enters Oscar season as a favorite, having won prizes from…
