Scott Stuber has found his post-Netlfix gig, re-launching the storied United Artists studio label under Amazon MGM. The multi-year partnership will see Stuber finance and produce films via his soon-to-be-launched production company that will be released through United Artists, both theatrically and on streaming for Prime. Stuber will be involved in all UA releases, even those …
Charles Barkley has weighed in on the NBA‘s new 11-year, $76 billion TV rights deals with Disney, NBCUniversal and Amazon. In a statement Friday morning, the basketball hall-of-famer and TNT Inside the NBA host ripped into the league for pursuing money from big tech companies, suggesting that the league had planned to cut a deal …
Acclaimed British filmmaker Joanna Hogg (The Souvenir, The Eternal Daughter) will head up the jury of the Giornate degli Autori (GdA) sidebar at the upcoming 2024 Venice Film Festival. Hogg will oversee a jury of 27 young European film fans judging the movies of the parallel section, which runs alongside the Venice festival from Aug. …
[This story does not contain major spoilers for Deadpool & Wolverine. But it does contain spoilers for The Acolyte.] 24 hours after Dafne Keen performed the tragic demise of her Star Wars: The Acolyte Jedi, she was reviving her signature role from Logan in Deadpool & Wolverine. At age 11, Keen played Laura/X-23, the cloned …
Of all the horror subgenres, the werewolf movie is perhaps the hardest to pull off. While there have been some highlights over the years, like the original The Wolf Man, An American Werewolf in London, The Howling and Teen Wolf (for those with major ’80s high school nostalgia), there have probably been many more low …
When the Grammy-nominated husband-and-wife duo The War & Treaty — who have created their own sound by blending genres like country, soul, Americana and gospel — booked Celebrity Family Feud, they immediately thought of which blood relatives they would invite to the famed game show. But the couple thought: Let’s showcase a family of Black …
The Beyond director Hasraf “HaZ” Dulull is set to produce and helm an animated feature based on Mutant: Year Zero Road to Eden, a tactical adventure video game. The Mutant: Year Zero movie is set in a post-apocalyptic world where an unlikely team of animal-mutants, led by a witty duck and a gruff boar, set out on a …
Love Island, The Traitors, Love is Blind: they’re so popular, they’ve gone global. Reality TV is an ever-evolving beast that can guarantee hefty viewership with the promise of drama. But show bosses in the U.K. are facing an influx of concerns surrounding the welfare of their contestants and crew. A two-pronged problem has emerged. On …
Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman, director Shawn Levy and Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige gave San Diego Comic-Con a multiverse-shaking surprise on Thursday, when the panel for Deadpool & Wolverine turned out to be a secret screening for the new movie. “We’ve been all around the world with this movie, but the icing on the cake …
A few years ago, before retiring from her role as artistic director of the National Ballet of Canada, Karen Kain decided to direct a show. “We needed a new Swan Lake,” she says at the top of the new documentary Swan Song, “and I thought: I want to try to find the courage to do …