Of all the films vying for honors in this year’s awards season, only one heralds the return of not just one of cinema’s most iconic duos, but one of its most dastardly villains. “Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl” — longlisted in BAFTA categories for outstanding British film, children’s and family film and animated film, and […]

Across several banks of screens in a small TV production control room, a group of American pundits are screaming at each other. It’s a Monday afternoon in mid-November and, naturally, the topic is the election. “That’s me playing the world’s smallest violin for all these crying Democrats!” hollers a red-faced Vincent Oshana, a right-leaning comedian. […]

Piers Morgan is exiting Rupert Murdoch’s media empire following a lucrative three-year deal and taking ownership of his “Piers Morgan Uncensored” show and business. The chat show — which pivoted to YouTube-only earlier this year — will be acquired by Morgan’s own Wake Up Productions company, with what it says is a “view to further grow and […]

Demi Moore’s leading actress win — and subsequent speech — at the Golden Globes for “The Substance” was one of the highlights of the night. It was a win that catapulted the 62-year-old actress ever closer to her first-ever Oscar nomination, and for a hugely daring role as an aging Hollywood star in a shocking body-horror that […]

The British Academy has unveiled the nominees for its 2025 Rising Star award for up-and-coming onscreen talent, the only honor among the BAFTA film awards to be voted on by the public. Announced more than a week before the full lineup of BAFTA nominations is revealed on Jan. 15, the latest lineup of Rising Star […]

Both Angelina Jolie (“Maria”) and Tilda Swinton (“The Room Next Door”) will be in attendance at the Beverly Hilton on Sunday night as they compete for the Golden Globe award for best actress (drama). There’s a chance they’ll both leave empty-handed, with Nicole Kidman (“Babygirl”), Fernanda Torres (“I’m Still Here”), Kate Winslet (“Lee”) and Pamela […]

“Gavin & Stacey: The Finale” has broken viewing records in the U.K. since airing on Christmas Day. According to the BBC, the final episode of the hit British sitcom — co-created by Ruth Jones and James Corden — is now the U.K.’s most-watched scripted show across all broadcasters and streamers since current records began in 2002. […]

The British Academy has unveiled the results of the first round of voting across all 25 categories for the 2024 BAFTA Film Awards, with two very different thrillers leading the pack of longlisted features. Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Pérez,” a Spanish-language music thriller that was picked up by Netflix in Cannes, has emerged ahead of the […]

John Capodice, a character actor best known for roles in “Ace Ventura” and “General Hospital,” died on Monday. He was 83. The news was confirmed on the website for Pizzi Funeral Home in New Jersey, although no cause of death was given. Born in 1941 in Chicago, Ill., Capodice fought for the U.S. Army in […]

Michael Moore has joined the production team of “From Ground Zero” — the recently shortlisted Palestinian entry for the 97th Academy Awards’ best international film category — as executive producer. A collection of shorts made by 22 Palestinian filmmakers living through war in present day Gaza, “From Ground Zero” blends animation, documentary and fiction to “capture the […]

While 2024 will be remembered by many in the entertainment biz as an uphill battle and a make-or-break transition time, for a number of talents working in international film and TV, it will be considered the year where everything changed — a breakout period when new doors opened, calls were answered and bigger projects started […]

By most standards, Sandhya Suri’s fiction feature debut “Santosh” is already a hit. After premiering in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard sidebar, the Hindi-language crime thriller about a widow who inherits her late husband’s police officer job in rural India, has gone on to win the Golden Frog for debut director in Camerimage, land a European […]

Timothée Chalamet and Saoirse Ronan may both have two films each vying for awards contention this year in Chalamet’s “A Complete Unknown” and “Dune: Part Two” and Ronan’s “The Outrun” and “Blitz,” but the pair took the time to reunite in London to discuss two films they appeared in together at the earlier stages of […]

Writer and executive producer Ed Solomon, whose extensive list of credits includes the “Men in Black” and “Bill & Ted” film series, has signed with London and L.A.-based management and production company 42. Solomon’s upcoming projects include Steven Soderbergh’s “The Christophers,” set to star Ian McKellen, Michaela Coel and James Corden and about the estranged children […]

Liverpool FC, one of the best known and most successful soccer clubs in the world and current leaders of the English Premier League, is getting the TV drama treatment from A24, with Jack Thorne (“Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” “His Dark Materials”) attached to write. The series, being produced in association with sports content […]

Artem Vasilyev, the Russian producer and CEO of Metrafilms and its animation arm Studio Metrafilms, has launched the new label Lazy Sunday, based in Ireland and dedicated to developing and producing both animation and live-action projects for international audiences. The new outfit will serve as a bridge linking Western Europe with Eastern Europe, Vasilyev hopes, […]

It may still be early days in the awards race, but when it comes to the actual number of gongs won so far, a low-budget Irish-language comedy biopic about a rowdy Belfast rap trio can count itself among the leading pack of films. “Kneecap,” a wild and semi-autobiographical tale about the formation of the band […]

Paul Mescal’s next major project looks set to be Sam Mendes’ much-discussed four-part biopic film series about The Beatles for Sony Pictures. The casting — which was first rumoured in the summer — was brought up by Mescal’s “Gladiator 2” director Ridley Scott in a conversation with Christopher Nolan on Tuesday at the Directors Guild of America, […]

“There’s a real honesty and integrity to it all,” says Felicity Jones, looking out across a sea of concrete. “You can really see the correspondence between the psyche coming out of the Second World War and the architecture.” The British actress is taking in the view at the Barbican, perhaps London’s most famous Brutalist construction […]