Taylor Wily, who rose to fame on the sumo circuit in the late 1980s before moving into acting, appearing in memorable roles on the TV reboot of Hawaii Five-0 and the comedy film Forgetting Sarah Marshall, died this week in Hawaii, according to the local ABC News affiliate on the island. He was 56. Wily’s …
Jeremy Allen White just got screeners for the new season of The Bear — and he can’t stop watching. “I just got a screener yesterday for all of the episodes,” the star of the hit FX series said during a Thursday visit to The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. “And I watched seven episodes in …
The thrill of discovery that accompanied my first viewing of the Orphan Black pilot is one of the highlights of the 20-something years I’ve been doing this job. It’s rare that a show emerges from so far off-the-radar — relatively mysterious plot, relatively unknown creative auspices, relatively unknown star, relatively unproven network brand — and …
This year’s Transylvanian Film Festival includes a new industry focus on genre projects from Central and Eastern Europe. The Full Moon Creative Lab, initiated by the festival together with Romanian Film Promotion launches this year with a focus on thriller, horror and fantasy TV series projects. The Lab builds on the festival’s Full Moon Script …
Jessica Alba’s new starring vehicle boasts plenty of action movie credentials. The star, making her first feature film appearance in five years after guiding her business venture The Honest Company to a billion dollar-plus valuation, has previously displayed her skills in such film and television projects as Dark Angel and the Fantastic Four and Sin …
Ti West and A24 pulled off a killer surprise Thursday night, unveiling an early screening of their upcoming slasher movie Maxxxine to a group of unsuspecting horror fans. The evening was billed as a double feature of West’s X horror series, which includes X and Pearl, the movies that thrust Mia Goth into the role …
It’s official: Kevin Costner will not be returning to Yellowstone. The actor posted a video to social media on Thursday in which he confirmed long-mooted speculation that he was done with Paramount+’s monster neo-Western drama Yellowstone. “I just, want to reach out and let you know that after this long year and a half of …
The Bear star Ebon Moss-Bachrach weighed in on the future of his character Richie’s journey ahead of the show’s third season. “I think for Richie, he’s become aware that there’s a path for him to find purpose and live a maybe fuller life, a richer life, in a way,” Moss-Bachrach said during an appearance on …
Chinese drama Friday, Funfair, directed by Zeng Zi, was named best film of the 26th Shanghai International Film Festival’s Asian New Talent section, which honors distinguished works by emerging filmmakers from across the Asia-Pacific region. The film is in tune with a recent trend in Chinese cinema of tackling the pressures and hardships women face …
The 461-film lineup for the 26th Shanghai International Film Festival spans the globe, but movies from India stood out this year, led by Payal Kapadia’s Cannes Grand Prix winner All We Imagine as Light, tickets for which were sold out in a matter of minutes. Shanghai’s India Film Week sidebar features four recent releases from …