Trish Dolman and Christine Haebler’s Screen Siren Pictures has launched a genre-focused Scream Siren label with strong women characters in lead roles. The slate will kick off with the teen horror pic IVY, about a malevolent ghost who wreaks havoc on a 17-year-old and everyone who comes into contact with her. Kaare Andrews will direct …
On the first day of filming season three of The Bear, Lionel Boyce realized he was being watched. He was in a Chicago neighborhood shooting a scene for the chef-centric series — which also stars Jeremy Allen White, Ayo Edebiri and Ebon Moss-Bachrach — and when he glanced up at the surrounding apartment buildings, he …
You might be familiar with hit reality shows Big Brother, The Voice, and more recently the sensation that is The Traitors. But did you know all of these programs originated in the Netherlands? The U.S. version of The Traitors is now the most-watched reality show in the States across all streaming platforms, with figures up …
Boots Riley didn’t set out to make I’m a Virgo as a television series. Even a year after releasing the show, which premiered to critical acclaim and received four Spirit Award nominations, he’s not entirely sold on the medium. “I’m just going to be honest for the other filmmakers out there: I’m not a TV …
Pixar’s Inside Out 2 continues to sizzle at the box office, where it earned a record $30 million on Wednesday. It is also the highest gross for Juneteenth since the date became recognized as a federal holiday in 2021. Excluding movies opening midweek, the film scored the biggest Wednesday gross of all time for an …
On the wonderful and ridiculous ride of feature film pre-production, the initial cast table read can often be a white-knuckle experience, waiting to see if the script sings with the actors cast — do they have chemistry together and do the Magic 8 Ball signs point to “YES” or “Try again later”? For us, the core …
Riz Ahmed is returning to television — both in front of and behind the camera. Amazon’s Prime Video has ordered a comedy series created by and starring Ahmed. The Oscar winner will play a struggling actor named Shah Latif, who’s the cusp of landing a breakthrough role when he finds himself thrust into a full-blown existential …
The Daily Show is firming up its plans for coverage of the two major political conventions this summer — including a pair of live shows with Jon Stewart. Comedy Central’s late-night show — which has enjoyed a sizable upswing in ratings since Stewart’s return in February — will go live on the final night of each convention: …
Author Susanna Clarke’s best-selling fantasy novel Piranesi is getting the animated feature treatment. Animation studio Laika has acquired the 2020 book, with the company’s CEO Travis Knight set to helm the project. The novel Piranesi, which won the 2021 Women’s Prize for Fiction, centers on the titular narrator arriving in a parallel universe made up …
At first glance, Young Hearts seems to resemble Lukas Dhont’s Close — in its rural Belgian town setting and its focus on two early teenage boys navigating the tricky boundaries between friendship and romance. But closer acquaintance reveals Flemish filmmaker Anthony Schatteman’s first feature to be something more in line with Heartstopper or Love, Simon, …