Variety hosted its inaugural Doc Dreams NYC event on Nov. 12, featuring two panels with some of this award season’s top documentary feature contenders. Speakers on the first panel included Carla Gutiérrez, director and editor of “Frida”; Irene Taylor, director and producer of “I Am: Celine Dion”; and R.J. Cutler, director and producer of “Elton John: Never […]

SPOILER ALERT: This story includes major plot details from the finale of HBO’s “The Penguin,” now streaming on Max. It was a dark night on set. At a Q&A following a screening of “The Penguin” finale at the Saban Media Center on Nov. 10, Colin Farrell described the somber tone felt by the collective cast […]

The title for Tom Cruise’s eighth “Mission: Impossible” movie has finally been revealed, along with the first trailer. “The Final Reckoning” is now the official title for “Mission: Impossible 8,” which was originally slated to be the “Part Two” to 2023’s “Dead Reckoning.” It’s scheduled to be released on May 23, 2025. The film originally […]

Kino Lorber has lifted the curtain on Paul Schrader’s “Oh, Canada,” debuting the first trailer for the acclaimed filmmaker’s latest. The film first premiered at Cannes in May, competing for the Palme d’Or. It has since toured the festival season, with selections at both Toronto and New York. The cast includes Richard Gere, Uma Thurman, […]

A new anthem from Karol G, Feid, J Balvin, Maluma, Blessd and Ryan Castro arrived Thursday under the name “+57″ — Colombia’s telephone code. All of the featured artists hail from Medellín, the capital of the Antioquia province in Colombia. Produced by Karol’s longtime and go-to producer, Ovy on the Drums, “+57” was co-written by all […]

The Cherokee Nation has partnered with Prime Video to dub and subtitle a select number of its original titles in Cherokee. The first series to be made available in the language will be “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.” “In our efforts to preserve, share and promote our language, Cherokee Nation continually […]

“The Wild Robot” has won SCAD Savannah Film Festival‘s Audience Award. In attendance at the film’s screening were writer-director Chris Sanders, star Lupita Nyong’o and composer Kris Bowers. The former two were both recognized with the Icon of Animation Award and Virtuoso Award. A total of 162 films were screened at the festival this year, […]

Familiar faces returned to Poguelandia on Saturday. As the cast and crew of “Outer Banks” celebrated the premiere of Season 4 Part 2 at a fan event in Santa Monica, some of the stars also teased future projects. Chase Stokes will be seen starring as a U.S. Army tech specialist in the action thriller “Valiant […]

You can now watch the opening of “Smile 2” for free — as long as you’re willing to smile, too. The sequel to Parker Finn’s 2022 horror feature “Smile,” was released in theaters on Oct. 18, but Paramount has crafted a fun method for fans to watch the first seven minutes of the film without […]

Shailene Woodley scored her first-ever Emmy nomination for playing Jane Chapman on the hit HBO series “Big Little Lies.” But, according to Woodley, she nearly turned down the role. In a recent interview with Vanity Fair, Woodley expressed her excitement over the opportunity to work with Jean-Marc Vallée, calling him an “incredible artist and filmmaker.” However, […]

The documentary television program “Dear Santa, The Series” is set to return to Hulu on Nov. 29 and on the ABC-Owned Television Stations on Nov. 24 for its second season. The series, which premiered in 2022, follows the U.S. Postal Service’s USPS Operation Santa program, which has been running for over a decade. Traverse32 and Sweet World Films […]

You get home from a day at the office and find a Netflix crew in your living room. This is what Domantas Sabonis has experienced during the past year. Only for the six-foot-ten Lithuanian American basketball player, “the office” is Golden 1 Center, synonymous with purple-infused jerseys and crazed fans chanting “Light the Beam!”, a […]

Mark Ruffalo, aka Hulk, gathered a group of his fellow Avengers to endorse Kamala Harris for President on Thursday. “Don’t sit this one out. It’s the one where we will lose big: Project 2025, women’s reproductive rights, climate change, LGBTQIA+ rights, public education, student debt relief, Affordable Care Act, Social Security, and as of today, […]

Stephanie Collie, the costume designer behind film and television projects such as “Peaky Blinders,” died of cancer on Oct. 26 at St Christopher’s Hospice in London. Over the course of her career, Collie worked with talent including Michael Caine, Henry Cavill, Jessica Chastain, Daniel Craig, Penélope Cruz, Morgan Freeman, Samuel L. Jackson, Cillian Murphy, Gary […]

Angelina Jolie will be honored with the Performer Tribute at the Gothams on Dec. 2 in New York City for her role as Maria Callas in the Netflix musical drama “Maria.” “Like the legendary figure she portrays, Angelina Jolie transcends mere performance to craft something extraordinary. Her interpretation captures both Maria Callas’s complexity as an […]

The shark thriller film “Zipline” has launched sales with a cast that includes Ioan Gruffudd (“Bad Boys: Ride or Die,” “Fantastic Four” franchise), Ross Butler (“Shazam!” franchise, “To All the Boys: Always & Forever,” “Riverdale”), Holland Roden (“Teen Wolf,” “Mayans MC”) and Sonia Ammar (“Scream,” “The Equalizer 3”). The feature is written by George Mahaffey Jr. and directed […]

Paramount Global is teaming with United Way Worldwide for a one-hour special to benefit victims of Hurricanes Helene and Milton, which caused an estimated $50 billion in damage. The “United Way Benefit for Hurricane Relief” will air on Nov. 2 from 8-9 p.m. ET/PT on CBS, CMT, and stream live on Paramount+ with Showtime. It […]

SPOILER ALERT: This story discusses major plot points for “Agatha All Along,” currently streaming on Disney Plus. In Marvel’s newest television series “Agatha All Along,” Kathryn Hahn reprises her role as Agatha Harkness from the studio’s 2021 hit sitcom satire “WandaVision.” Although we’ve seen this character before, everything about this iteration of Agatha — and subsequently, […]

“Emilia Pérez” is set to receive the Vanguard Award at the Palm Springs International Film Awards. The Vanguard Award recognizes the collective work of a film’s cast and director on a particular project. This year, “Emilia Pérez” stars Karla Sofia Gascón, Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez and Edgar Ramírez will be presented the award alongside director […]