Nutcrackers, David Gordon Green’s new comedy starring Ben Stiller, is set to open the 2024 Toronto Film Festival on Sept. 5. The TIFF opener — marking Stiller’s first starring role in a movie since Mike White’s Brad’s Status and Noah Baumbach’s Netflix family drama The Meyerowitz Stories in 2017 — will have a world premiere …
The storm-chasing sequel Twisters is racking up positive reviews (currently at 84 percent “Fresh” on Rotten Tomatoes) and continues a much-needed summer of Glen Powell. The film chronicles an unprecedented outbreak of violent storms that tear through the American heartland and has characters spouting plenty of meteorological jargon. But the one thing Twisters doesn’t have: …
MSNBC Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough says that he was “surprised” and “disappointed” after NBC leadership pulled his show Monday in favor of rolling breaking news coverage about the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. ‘We’ve talked about it off the air, we’ll talk about it on the air, because we talk about everything on the …
Streaming platforms achieved another milestone in June, collectively accounting for more than 40 percent of all TV use in the United States — the first time that’s happened. Viewers spent 40.3 percent of their time with streamers for the month, setting a record for usage on any platform, according to Nielsen‘s Gauge rankings. Cable hit 40 …
Alfonso Cuarón, the Oscar-winning Mexican filmmaker known for the likes of Gravity, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and Roma, will receive a lifetime achievement award at the 77th edition of the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland. He will receive the honor, a tribute to “film personalities with extraordinary careers,” on Sunday, Aug. 11 …
Stephen Colbert‘s The Late Show is airing live this week in conjunction with the Republican National Convention, but the CBS host opened Monday’s episode with a prerecorded message condemning last weekend’s assassination attempt against Donald Trump. “The United States came close to a great tragedy on Saturday when at a political rally down in Pennsylvania, …
Luke Gilford heard Dolly Parton‘s voice over the speakers while attending a 2016 Pride event in Northern California, so he followed the music. Once he located the source, he also discovered a group of people that would change his life and the trajectory of his career. “It was this electric charge,” explained Gilford of seeing …
Seth Meyers opened Monday’s Late Night monologue without jokes, calling the assassination attempt against Trump “poison to our democracy.” “Political violence must be rejected in all its forms — it is both morally wrong and a poison to democracy,” Meyers said in a somber monologye. “We must all condemn it and repudiate it and do …
[This story contains spoilers from the two-episode season six finale of All American.] Two couples in the vortex, as the group of friends at the center of CW’s All American call themselves, have forever changed their relationship statuses from will-they-won’t-they romances to ‘til-death-do-us-part bonds in season six of the sports drama. After Jordan Baker (Michael …
Greta Gerwig has been tapped to receive this year’s Pioneer of the Year Award. She’s only the second female director to receive the prestigious honor after Elizabeth Banks. She’ll be feted at the Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation’s annual dinner on Sept. 25 at The Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles. All three of the …