Rachel Shenton, Emily Atack and Joanne Whalley have been cast as the leads in upcoming U.K. psychological drama “The Rumour,” which depicts how small-town gossip can spiral out of control. Based on Lesley Kara’s novel, the new five-part series sees Shenton play Joanna, a mother who moves to a quiet town with her young son […]

Prime Video has locked in a streaming premiere for Shuchi Talati’s Indian coming-of-age drama “Girls Will Be Girls,” following its award-winning festival run. The Indo-French co-production marks the debut of Pushing Buttons Studios, the production banner launched by Indian actors Richa Chadha and Ali Fazal. The film, which premiered at Sundance 2024 where it picked […]

Indonesiana.TV, the government-backed digital platform, is teaming up with the Jogja-Netpac Asian Film Festival’s new JAFF Market 2024 initiative to expand distribution channels for Indonesian filmmakers. The collaboration marks a strategic push to connect local content creators with international buyers and strengthen the country’s growing film ecosystem. “We aim to demonstrate that the latest media […]

Netflix has revealed that it will stream a documentary series chronicling three generations of India’s Roshan family and their contributions to Hindi-language cinema. The series marks the first time the family has offered an in-depth look at their entertainment dynasty. The documentary traces the family’s journey from patriarch Roshan Lal Nagrath (known professionally as Roshan), […]

Timothée Chalamet’s team offered to pay the $500 fine incurred after the viral Chalamet lookalike contest held in New York City’s Washington Square Park in October, according to the event organizer, YouTuber Anthony Po. Chalamet made a surprise appearance at his own lookalike contest on Oct. 27, where a throng of attendees gathered under the […]

Tyler Perry and Oprah Winfrey have been friends for nearly two decades, but his latest film, Netflix’s “The Six Triple Eight,” marks the first time Perry directed the cultural icon. The film reveals the untold story of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, the only troop of Black women and women of color to serve […]

“Lady Like,” a documentary about “RuPaul’s Drag Race” Season 14 standout Lady Camden, aka Rex Wheeler, has been acquired by Freestyle Digital Media for North American distribution. The banner has set a release date of Jan. 3, 2025 for digital rental and purchase, with a DVD launch to follow on Jan. 7, 2025. Directed by […]

After getting an early release, “Star Wars: Skeleton Crew” is now available to watch on Disney+. Subscribers can stream the first two episodes, as new episodes drop every Tuesday until its series finale on January 14, 2025. There are 8 episodes, in total. Not a subscriber? While Disney+ doesn’t offer a free trial, the streaming […]

New rule: if Donald Trump is getting back his old job, then it might not be worth staying at your current job. That’s the premise that Bill Maher floated on his “Club Random” podcast speaking with Jane Fonda in an episode released Sunday. While interviewing the actor and activist, Maher expressed exhaustion at the prospect […]

Angelina Jolie has played many a real-life figure throughout her Oscar-winning career, from supermodel Gia Carangi (“Gia”) to journalist Mariane Pearl (“A Mighty Pearl”) and now opera singer Maria Callas (“Maria”). But she’s not interested in having her own life story become a big screen biopic. Asked by The Sunday Times what an Angelina Jolie […]

The Producers Guild of Korea (PGK) and the Association of Indonesian Film Producers (APROFI) are deepening their collaboration following their renewed memorandum of understanding, at the inaugural JAFF Market in Yogyakarta, where horror projects dominate the slate of potential co-productions. The partnership, which first began in 2013, comes at a time when Indonesia’s film industry […]

When Kevin Cahoon got his Tony and Drama Desk nominations in 2023 as a featured actor in Broadway’s “Shucked,” he played a hayseed character whose sexuality might or might not have been known to everyone in his straight-laced, corn-fed community. But in “La Cage aux Folles,” now playing at the Pasadena Playhouse, taking on the […]

Anyone flipping past a cable channel late at night in the back half of the 1990s and early aughts probably had ads for “Girls Gone Wild” seared into their brains.  The instantly recognizable infomercials projected purposefully pixelated footage of young women pulling up their shirts to flash the cameras between shots at a college town […]

With “Lake George,” Jeffrey Reiner makes his first indie feature as writer-director since the 1990s, following a prolific quarter-century helming small-screen projects. The filmmaker has cited formative viewings of classic film noirs on television as an inspiration, but this twisty tale feels more like the melancholy genre fictions of the late Ross Macdonald — low-key, […]

Scott L. Schwartz, a former professional wrestler turned screen actor who made an impression playing the heavy Bruiser in Steven Soderbergh’s “Ocean’s” heist trilogy, died of congestive heart failure on Nov. 26, 2024 at his home in Covington, La. He was 65. Schwartz’s death was confirmed by a representative. “Those who know Scott personally associated […]

The first episode of “Landman” hit 14.6 million viewers in its first week of availability, according to Paramount. That total accounts for streams on Paramount+ as well as linear airings on the Paramount Network. Paramount did not define what it counts as a viewer; therefore, it is unclear how much of the episode the reported […]

With an eye on indigenous communities and the women that dutifully anchor them, Bolivian multi-hyphenate Álvaro Olmos Torrico brings his introspective second feature, “The Condor Daughter” (“La hija cóndor”), to Montevideo for Ventana Sur’s Copia Final showcase, touting the fiction prodction at this year’s market, which runs Dec. 2-6. Via Bolivia’s Empatia Cine (“The Visitor”), […]

Fans will be able to check back into “White Lotus” in February, according to Warner Bros. Discovery global streaming chief JB Perrette. The exec revealed the news Tuesday during a tech and media conference hosted by Wells Fargo, along with HBO’s planned spring 2025 premiere for “The Last of Us” Season 2, a late 2025 […]

Olivia Wilde didn’t have any scenes with Charli XCX in Gregg Araki’s “I Want Your Sex.” However, the “Brat” singer did receive quite the cheeky gift from Wilde. “I left it on her chair because I knew she was coming in right after me,” Wilde told me Tuesday at the Baby2Baby Holiday Event at BMO […]