A couple of years ago, Taika Waititi slid into Lisa Kudrow’s Instagram DMs with a once-in-a-lifetime proposition: How would she feel about visiting New Zealand for the first time and filming a fantasy show — a genre she had yet to explore — for six months? It was an offer that Kudrow, who was born …
Pedro Pascal posted the first cast photo of Marvel’s next superhero team. The actor revealed the first behind-the-scenes image of the core Fantastic Four cast, along with the message “our first mission.” Fantastic Four stars Pascal as Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic, Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm/The Invisible Woman, Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm/The Human Torch and Ebon …
The Substance, a feminist horror pic where Demi Moore plays an aging Hollywood star who embraces a secret cloning procedure to save her career will open the Midnight Madness sidebar at the Toronto Film Festival with a North American premiere, organizers said Thursday. The Cannes award winner from director Coralie Fargeat also stars Margaret Qualley …
Kit Harington is dipping back into the world of Game of Thrones for the newly launched Legends game. The Emmy-nominated actor plays off his Jon Snow past in a new ad (below) that’s full of references to his iconic character. “The creativity and care taken to create Game of Thrones: Legends is obvious and it feels completely natural to …
The 2024 New York Film Festival has set Steve McQueen‘s Blitz, starring Saoirse Ronan and Elliot Heffernan, as its closing night film. The movie, set in London during the blitzkrieg by the Germans during World War II, will receive its North American premiere on Oct. 10 at Alice Tully Hall. McQueen wrote, directed and produced …
U.K. broadcaster Channel 4 has ordered a one-off hour-long biographical travel documentary featuring Judi Dench and British furniture restorer and TV host Jay Blades (The Repair Shop), entitled Dame Judi & Jay: The Odd Couple. “Despite being born nearly 40 years apart and taking very different journeys in life, stage and screen legends Dame Judi Dench and Jay …
As Netflix’s The Decameron begins, nearly all of our characters are retreating. They might not put it in quite those terms, but it’s exactly what these characters are doing: flocking to the “beautiful, not-infected countryside,” as one character puts it, in hopes of waiting out the Black Plague currently tearing through the continent. But it …
Thanks to Steven Spielberg and his various acolytes, ’80s kids didn’t lack for entertainment made directly for us. But that doesn’t mean we weren’t periodically traumatized by a Gremlins or Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom or, in the case of my younger brother, The ‘Burbs. Nobody, though, specialized in making movies that were …
The Chloe Sevigny-starring adaptation of Françoise Sagan’s classic novel Bonjour Tristesse from director Durga Chew-Bose is set to open the 2024 Toronto Film Festival’s Discovery program with a world premiere, organizers said Wednesday. Claes Bang, Lily McInerny and French actress Nailia Harzoune also star in the English-language contemporary take by the Canadian writer-turned-director. TIFF’s Discovery program, which …
Socialite-turned-businesswoman Paris Hilton turned heads late in June when she bluntly testified to the House Ways and Means Committee about being sexually abused and “force-fed pills” after her parents shipped her off at 16 years old to the Provo School for so-called troubled teens. Of course, turning heads and grabbing headlines is the point for …