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My guest this week is Jason Segel.  In his new show Shrinking—co-created with Ted Lasso‘s Bill Lawrence and Brett Goldstein—Segel plays Jimmy, a bereaved therapist on the brink of a breakdown. One day, Jimmy cracks and decides to tell his patients what he really thinks of them. His fellow…

Spencer‘s Pablo Larraín has set the biopic Maria on the life of American-born Greek soprano Maria Callas as his next feature, bringing Academy Award winner Angelina Jolie (Those Who Wish Me Dead) aboard to star. The film based on true accounts will tell the tumultuous, beautiful and tragic story of…

Hollywood no longer holds the same allure for top Italian film and TV talent as a result of Italy's recent renaissance as a production hub, Fremantle exec Andrea Scrosati told a panel at Rome's MIA market on Tuesday. "10 years ago, when Italian talents achieved big success with a film or series, they…

Angelina Jolie has joined those demanding freedom for Iranian women, as protests continue after the death of Mahsa Amini. The actress, director and campaigner posted an impassioned appeal on her Instagram account, saying Iranian women needed “freedom to live and breathe without violence or…

Rome's Cinecittà studios are hitting unprecedented levels of occupancy, as the historic site continues to upgrade and expand its facilities under a five-year industrial plan, Cinecitta SpA CEO Nicola Maccanico said on Wednesday. "Cinecittà has never been so full," he told a presentation at the Venice Film Festival…

Salma Hayek Pinault is singing her friend Angelina Jolie‘s praises as a writer and director following the conclusion of production on the film Without Blood. The film, an adaptation of the best-selling novel by Alessandro Baricco of the same name, is the second collaboration between Hayek Pinault and Jolie who…

Salma Hayek Pinault and Demián Bichir have boarded Angelina Jolie’s Without Blood, the debut film from the Academy Award winner’s three-year deal with Fremantle. The pair of Oscar nominees will lead the project, which kicked off principal photography in Southern Italy and Rome this month and is based on the…

Angelina Jolie has struck a three-year international agreement with Fremantle to produce a slate of films, TV series and documentaries. The Oscar-winning Girl, Interrupted, Mr & Mrs Smith and Changeling actress, who is a Special Envoy for the UN refugee agency, will produce, direct or star in each on a case-by-case…

UPDATED, with info on EPA meeting: Angelina Jolie urged the Senate to renew the Violence Against Women Act, making a plea for lawmakers to reauthorize the law she said was essential to offer basic protections to survivors of abuse. Speaking at a press appearance at the Capitol along with a group of senators, Jolie…

Deadline reported yesterday that Marvel’s latest juggernaut, The Eternals, will not be shown in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain and Oman. The film — which contains the MCUs first same-sex kiss — was due to open in those markets on November 11, but censors sought further cuts beyond any scenes of same-sex…

"It's one of the great honors of our lives to tell a story like this, there is a lot of us in this movie," Eternals co-screenwriter Kaz Firpo says of the Chloé Zhao-directed film set to open Friday. "It's the most challenging Marvel movie and it's an honor to make something that feels different," the filmmaker added…

By hiring Academy Award winner Chloé Zhao to helm its much-awaited Eternals and handle the cinematic introduction of 10 new superheroes in its canon, Marvel has not lost its marbles. And no, its not sending the MCU in the art house direction of Nomadland and The Rider, the two most notable Zhao-directed films to date…