Francesca Reale (Stranger Things,Haters Back Off), Jaboukie Young-White (The Daily Show, Someone Great), Catherine Cohen (High Maintenance), and Brian Muller (The Deuce) star in Dating in New York, an indie comedy from first-time feature helmer Jonah Feingold. Set in New York, the film explores modern dating tropes…
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Who’s up? Who’s down? Who’s in? Who’s out? After a week that is probably the most consequential yet this shortened awards season, those questions remain after Golden Globes, Critics’ Choice, SAG, ACE, ADG, CDG, LAFCC and who knows who else jumped…
The news that NBCUniversal CEO Steve Burke is planning to exit when his contract expires in 2020 comes at the same time the top job is also open at WarnerMedia. The two transitions atop major media companies — with a third, at Disney, looming in 2021, when CEO Bob Iger insists he will finally step away — punctuate the…
The Power Rangers are returning to the big screen thanks to Jonathan Entwistle, who is perhaps best known as the creator of the Netflix dark comedy series The End of the F***ing World. Entwistle is in early talks to direct a new iteration of Power Rangers for Paramount Pictures from a script which is being written by P…
The International Feature Film Oscar shortlist is due out on Monday, with an expanded 10 titles up from the traditional nine. Preliminary voting closed in the category on Wednesday with the first seven films determined (although still held under wraps) and the Executive Committee will meet Monday morning to decide on…
EXCLUSIVE:Martin Scorsese’s epic 3 1/2-hour-plus The Irishman has been at the forefront of the Oscar conversation since its world premiere at the New York Film Festival in September. It was borne from the 145-page shooting script from Steve Zaillian, the four-time Oscar-nominated screenwriter who won the Academy…
Former Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly says in an Instagram post that her 6-year-old son was “confused” by the movie poster for Bombshell — he apparently mistook Charlize Theron’s look-alike makeover for the real thing — and says she only saw the “loosely based” film “once it was past the point of any possible edits.”
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Found footage movies are of the horror genre, but filmmaker Jack Henry Robbins is changing all that with his forthcoming comedy VHYES. Oscilloscope Laboratories released the first trailer for the film and as you can see, it takes found footage to a whole new — and kind of bizarre — level.
As seen in the trailer, the…
2nd Update, Friday Midday: Jumanji: The Next Levelper industry estimates is on its way to $17.5M-$18M for a 3-day of $46M-$50M, well ahead of the previous installment’s 3-day of $36.1M which was actually a 6-day opener through the then Christmas holiday of $71.9M. Jumanji Welcome to the Jungle was boosted by early…
As tributes come rolling in for Danny Aiello, the Oscar-nominated Do the Right Thing actor who died Thursday at 86, take a look back at his long career in film and TV. Click on the pic of his signature role of pizzeria owner Sal Frangione above to launch the photo gallery.
The New York native got his start with a…
Lodric D. Collins, who currently stars in BET’s The Oval series, is set to play Motown artist Smokey Robinson in the MGM/Bron Creative Aretha Franklin biopic, Respect. Liesl Tommy is directing the film which has Jennifer Hudson starring as the legendary singer. Forest Whitaker, Marlon Wayans, Audra McDonald, Mary J…
Following a frustrating experience with 2017's It Comes At Night, writer/director Trey Edward Shults found a "therapeutic and cathartic" experience in mounting his third feature, Waves.
Feeling the pressure that comes when one's work is falsely framed, or misunderstood, Shults channeled it into Waves protagonist Tyler…
