The notoriously tumultuous making-of story behind Steven Spielberg‘s hit Jaws and the writing of its best-selling source material by Peter Benchley is getting the documentary treatment. Timed to the 50th anniversary of the 1975 film, Nat Geo has greenlit Jaws @ 50 (working title), a doc feature that will focus on both the Spielberg film …
Bill Kramer, who has served as the CEO of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences since June 2022, and whose contract was not up for renewal until 2025, has reached an agreement with the Academy to remain its chief through July 2028, the organization announced on Monday. The deal, which the Academy says …
Paramount+’s spy thriller The Agency has found its lead spy. Michael Fassbender will star in the espionage thriller (formerly titled The Department), which is based on the French series Le Bureau des Legendes and has started production. The two-time Oscar nominee will also serve as an executive producer of the show, which will stream on …
The Bear will be accepting reservations for season three a little earlier than previously announced. Hulu will premiere the Emmy-winning, FX-produced show’s new season at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT on June 26, three hours ahead of the show’s original June 27 date. The streamer is staying with the binge release of the first two …
Set on a trash-filled, uninhabitable Earth in 2805, Wall-E tells the story of a lonely robot left behind to clean up the mess — and 16 years after the Pixar film’s release, that robot has become something of an environmental icon. In the film, Earth has been destroyed by corporate greed and consumerism, with humans …
The sequel to Bob Odenkirk‘s 2021 thriller Nobody has found its director and is slated for release next summer. Timo Tjahjanto (The Night Comes for Us) is set to helm the follow-up movie for Universal Pictures and 87North, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. The project has a script from Odenkirk, Derek Kolstad, Aaron Rabin and …
Freaky Friday is heading back to theaters, with the sequel getting a nationwide 2025 release date. Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis are returning for the film, which began filming today in Los Angeles. Late Night helmer Nisha Ganatra will direct. The sequel picks up years after Tess (Curtis) and Anna (Lohan) switched bodies, with …
The Savannah College of Art and Design is again bringing a generous helping of Southern hospitality to France’s Luberon Valley for the SCAD Lacoste Film Festival, which runs June 27 to 29. Now in its third year, the fest was conceived as a top-up highlight for college students doing their semester abroad at SCAD’s sumptuous campus …
Meg Bellamy, the young British actress who portrayed Kate Middleton in season six of Netflix favorite The Crown, has revealed an onslaught of “torment” from social media trolls who said she was “too fat” to play the Princess-to-be. Bellamy, just 21 years old, was tapped to take on the role for the show’s final ever …
One prevailing word comes to mind when beholding the eponymous forces of nature in Twisters: fear. The term, in the biblical sense, connotes an awe and respect of a greater, not entirely knowable power that puts humanity in its proper place. That’s the impression that helmer Lee Isaac Chung (the Oscar-nominated writer-director of 2020’s Minari) …