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In these unprecedented dark times, it is great to welcome any ray of light, and that certainly is the case with Trolls World Tour. Apart from being a satisfying return to this colorful and happy pixie universe, the sequel to DreamWorks Animation’s 2016 hit Trolls also is making a bit of motion picture history: It was…

At 89, Clint Eastwood might be one of the oldest directors ever to make a major studio movie, much less one that already has made the AFI and National Board of Review Top 10 lists for 2019. But that is the case for this remarkably durable actor, producer and director who even writes the music score for most of his…

If it is an awards season, the name Clint Eastwood can’t be too far away. And so it is yet again as another Eastwood movie has just thrown its hat in the ring. Richard Jewell had a rousing AFI Fest premiere Wednesday night at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, as well as a SAG Nominating Committee screening at…

In his first Broadway appearance since his widely acclaimed, Emmy-winning TV performance as serial killer Andrew Cunanan, Darren Criss will join the previously announced Laurence Fishburne and Sam Rockwell in the upcoming revival of David Mamet's American Buffalo, producer Jeffrey Richards announced today. The…

Charlie Chaplin did it in The Great Dictator. Mel Brooks and Jack Benny did in their respective versions of To Be or Not to Be. Brooks also wrote and directed the most hilarious send-up of all with his “Springtime for Hitler” production number in The Producers. And Hogan’s Heroes even did it for six seasons in the…

Laurence Fishburne and Sam Rockwell will return to Broadway this spring in a revival of David Mamet’s American Buffalo, lead producers Jeffrey Richards, Steve Traxler and Stephanie P. McClelland announced today. Directed by frequent Mamet collaborator Neil Pepe, American Buffalo will begin previews in March 2020 with…

Ava DuVernay will receive the Director Tribute and Sam Rockwell the Actor Tribute at the 2019 IFP Gotham Awards, set for December 2 at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City. The annual awards show, among the first of the movie season, announces its nominations October 24. Last year, the tributes went to director Paul…

Monday night at the Zanuck Theatre on the Fox lot, Fosse/Verdon stars Sam Rockwell and Michelle Williams shared stories of the making of their brilliant eight-part limited series which has been nominated for a whopping 17 Emmy Awards – and deservedly so – including Lead Actor for Rockwell and Lead Actress for Williams…

Deadline has confirmed that Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Oscar winner Sam Rockwell is in final talks for Clint Eastwood’s The Ballad of Richard Jewell at Warner Bros. Pic follows Jewell, the security guard whose life was turned upside down after it was leaked by law enforcement to a reporter that he was a…

So, the Upfronts are thankfully over and part of the takeaway has to be that there are going to be a lot of legal dramas on the air next season, wall of superheroes and all of the Big 4 and the CW are trying to be a bit different as well as emphasizing stability (which is a word I don't want to hear for a while after…

In the vein of Oscar-winning movies as The Defiant Ones and In the Heat of the Night all the way up to this year’s big Best Picture winner Green Book, comes The Best of Enemies. Set in 1971, the film somehow manages to put an African-American civil rights activist and a local Ku Klux Klan leader on a path together…

Like an earlier teaser, the new official trailer for FX’s Fosse/Verdon offers plenty of glimpses of Cabaret dancers and onstage strutters, but now we’re seeing more personal scenes of Broadway’s famous couple in good times and bad. The limited series chronicles five decades in what FX calls the “romantic and creative…