In an unprecedented Sundance Film Festival deal haul for a single distributor, Amazon Studios gave the clearest indication of its movie future by paying a record near $50 million for five films. The acquisition avalanche began with the fest’s first big pact for Late Night (record $13M for U.S. rights). Within a matter…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Prime Video has exclusively acquired all international SVOD rights to Kevin Hart-Bryan Cranston comedy-drama The Upside. Having quietly been involved from production stage, Amazon will launch the Neil Burger-directed film in all international markets as a Prime Original from April 19, which is a…

The cast and the creative team behind Big Little Lies have said that there are no plans for any future seasons of the HBO drama. This comes as creator David E. Kelley, Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Laura Dern, Zoe Kravitz, Meryl Streep and Shailene Woodley came to TCA on Friday to talk about Season 2, which airs…

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Welcome to a special Monday edition of Notes on the Season.

Hey, Academy members, you have just moments left to make your mark on this year’s increasingly heated Oscar race. Ballots for nominations for the 91st annual Academy Awards are due today at 5…

Nicole Kidman is barefoot in a floor-length gown, ice-blue like her eyes. When she curls into a corner of the sofa, she looks relaxed and regal, a woman whose earned the right to stretch after a frantically busy fall. At this moment, her blockbuster Aquaman is topping the box office. You might not expect to see Kidman…

A singular detective story and genre-defying showcase for star Nicole Kidman, Destroyer weaves its tangled web with confidence. With its immaculate structure and an array of finely drawn characters, the film pursues a fresh, uniquely shadowed corner of a familiar screen world, reflecting with great clarity the values…

Despite the much publicized gains of Netflix and other streamers, Hollywood studios got good news this week about solid increases in ticket sales and attendance, as we discuss in this week's episode of The Bart & Fleming Podcast. And the good numbers stemmed not just from sequels but from several well-performing…

In the golden renaissance of television, the prevailing wisdom is that HBO's The Sopranos and AMC's Breaking Bad put the crime noir genre out of business on the big screen. But with Destroyer, director Karyn Kusama and screenwriters Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi prove that there are still a few 180-degree tales left…

Similar to how Warner Bros. hooked female moviegoers with Wonder Woman, the studio lured that demographic again for Aquaman, but under a different guise.

With Wonder Woman, female audiences finally had a superhero they could claim as their own. Diana Prince’s image easily sold the virtues of female empowerment and…

Today Nicole Kidman received her 14th Golden Globe nomination, and rightfully so, for her portrayal of a haggard, undercover LAPD detective who won’t let the past settle until she’s has had justice.

At a time when you might think that such movies as Chinatown, L.A. Confidential and Training Day have put the LA crime…

Warwick Thornton’s acclaimed western Sweet Country won six awards at the Australian Academy of Cinema And Television Awards (AACTA) yesterday in Sydney.

The haunting tale of an Aboriginal man who is hunted after shooting a white man in self defense scooped best film, best direction, best original screenplay, best cinem…