George R.R. Martin is suggesting he’s about to go “dracarys!” on House of the Dragon. The Game of Thrones author and Dragon co-creator posted an eyebrow-raising message on his blog on Friday, saying he’s going to reluctantly describe what’s gone wrong with the hit series. Innocuously snuggled into the bottom of a blog post about …
Matt Tyrnauer’s Carville: Winning Is Everything, Stupid, one of the buzziest documentaries set to premiere at this weekend’s Telluride Film Festival, has been acquired by CNN Films for television and SVOD. It will debut on CNN on Saturday, Oct. 5 at 7 p.m. ET, and will stream on Max later this fall, when it separately …
The packaging and financing of drama films has become increasingly challenging, a panel of experts told Winston Baker‘s inaugural Film & Television Finance Forum Venice on Friday afternoon. “Dramas have gone from being difficult to very difficult,” Benjamin Kramer, co-head of the media finance department at Creative Artists Agency (CAA), said during the panel entitled …
Lauren Lapkus and Carrie Coon star in the first trailer for the parenting-focused comedy feature Another Happy Day. Gravitas Ventures releases writer-director Nora Fiffer’s film via all major digital platforms on Oct. 1. Marilyn Dodds Frank, Jean Elie, Hanna Dworkin, Alex Weisman and Tim Kazurinsky round out the cast for the movie centering on artist …
Medically accurate storylines about abortion can help educate and inform viewers “across all political leanings,” according to a new study from USC Annenberg’s Norman Lear Center. In their paper “Abortion Depictions on Television: Impact on Audience Knowledge and Mobilization,” researchers surveyed 1,016 adult television viewers of three television episodes with depictions of the procedure that …
The first televised interview with Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris and her vp pick, Tim Walz, drew a sizable audience for CNN Thursday night. The 45-minute interview with anchor Dana Bash drew just under 6 million viewers (5.99 million, to be precise), based on fast national ratings from Nielsen. That number will likely go up …
Halina Reijn’s 2022 English-language debut, Bodies Bodies Bodies, was a slender but enjoyably nasty slasher whodunnit that poked around in its Gen Z characters’ heads. The Dutch director’s more complex new film, Babygirl, is an erotic thriller that again considers the ways in which young people are wired differently, knowing what they want and how …
Charli XCX is bringing brat to the big screen, landing her second live-action film role in the latest from Gregg Araki. The singer-songwriter will star in I Want Your Sex from Black Bear alongside Olivia Wilde and Licorice Pizza breakout Cooper Hoffman. Karley Sciortino and Araki co-wrote the film that is due to begin production …
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, The Hollywood Reporter may receive an affiliate commission. One year after the release of the Academy Award-winning movie Poor Things, Yorgos Lanthimos teams up with Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe and Margaret Qualley again for the new dark comedy Kinds of …
[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 …