[This interview contains spoilers for the first episode of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season two.] The Rings of Power returned for its second season on Thursday and opened with a 20-minute cold open sequence filling in Sauron’s journey from the First Age into the Second Age. Now, the show’s creators …
Yellowstone released the first footage of season 5B — the long-awaited back half of the Paramount Network drama. The short promo includes some narration from previous episodes by star Kevin Costner, who is not returning, and includes some new footage hinting at a Dutton family civil war, with Jaime Dutton (Wes Bentley) warning Beth Dutton …
The ABC daytime panel show The View is shaking things up for its forthcoming 28th season, which will debut next Tuesday, Sept. 3. The program, hosted by Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, Alyssa Farah Griffin and Ana Navarro, is leaving its longtime home on the Upper West Side to move to a …
On the heels of a Venice world premiere, FilmNation has closed deals across Europe for Maria, starring Angelina Jolie as revered operatic soprano Maria Callas. The international sales agent inked deals with Studiocanal for the U.K., Germany and Poland, ARP for France, and 01 Distribution for Italy, where Callas became an opera legend. There are also deals …
Form trumps function in Alfonso Cuaron‘s new, star-studded limited series Disclaimer, a somewhat too obvious piece of narrative sleight of hand, in which the mechanics of the narrative are captivating and the narrative itself is largely perfunctory. Of course, if you accept that the narrative of this adaptation of Renée Knight’s novel is entirely about …
The Apprentice, Ali Abbasi’s hot-button film about the young Donald Trump, has been acquired by Tom Ortenberg’s Briarcliff Entertainment for a pre-election U.S. release on Oct. 11, as well as an awards push, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The film was written by Vanity Fair’s longtime Trump chronicler Gabriel Sherman and stars Sebastian Stan as …
Angelina Jolie enters her mahogany-paneled dining room in Los Feliz in a gauzy white sundress and slides, carrying a pot of herbal tea, three large dogs trailing behind her. It’s mid-August, and Jolie is about to do something she hasn’t done in years—travel to a bunch of film festivals to promote her movies. Maria, the …
The bond between John Lennon and Yoko Ono, mutually inspired artists from very different worlds, is only one of the love stories at the core of director Kevin Macdonald’s vibrant and stirring new documentary. Tracing an eventful year, One to One: John & Yoko is, first and foremost, a portrait of the couple’s love affair …
With Homegrown, filmmaker Michael Premo embeds himself among Trump supporters (some of them members of far-right Proud Boys) during the run-up to the 2020 election to produce a compelling portrait of people usually demonized and dismissed by the mainstream media — or at best, ridiculed by the likes of The Daily Show comedian Jordan Klepper …
“The oddest throuple in Telluride,” joked the filmmaker Matt Tyrnauer, while driving from his Beverly Hills home to the film fest in Colorado, will be Tyrnauer and the colorful characters at the center of the two vérité documentaries that he is premiering in the Rockies this Labor Day weekend: the legendary Democratic political strategist James …