Tom McCarthy’s A Statement and a new documentary by Jonathan Glazer, Joy of Joys, join Takashi Yamazaki’s Godzilla Minus Zero as world premieres at this year’s New York Film Festival, as part of the festival’s Spotlight section revealed Tuesday. McCarthy’s A Statement is an ensemble piece set at a beachside resort in Florida in 1980 […]
EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has acquired two award-winning documentary shorts that should put the streamer squarely back into Oscar contention. Set to join the platform are an open field, winner of Best Short Documentary at the 2025 International Documentary Festival (IDFA), and One Last Order, which has earned multiple honors including Best Documentary and the Audience Award […]
Hong Kong-based Moebius Entertainment has acquired international sales rights to Peter Ho-sun Chan’s The Road Not Taken, which is set to receive its world premiere in the Special Presentations section of this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. Starring Zhou Xun, Wang Xiao and Tian Zhuangzhuang, the film revolves around a middle-aged former TV host whose […]
EXCLUSIVE: SNL‘s Veronika Slowikowska is set to topline Stephanie, Bride to Be, a comedy marking the directorial debut of Allie Viti and the first narrative feature from exec producer John Wilson (How To with John Wilson). Michael Imperioli (The Sopranos), Amy Sedaris (Kevin), Lea DeLaria (Orange Is the New Black), and Reina Hardesty (Butterfly) will co-star, with […]
Netflix has released the first trailer for Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story, the latest chapter in Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s anthology series. Watch it above. The haunting 56-second clip begins with a theater curtain opening to reveal a nearly empty stage with just a piano and the C key playing repeatedly by itself. The […]
EXCLUSIVE: For 25 years, an international clientele dined in spectacular fashion at Windows on the World, the restaurant at the top of the World Trade Center’s north tower, where guests were served by an equally international staff. On the morning of September 11, 2001, 91 guests and 79 World employees would perish in the devastating […]
EXCLUSIVE: Following work on Ang Lee’s new film Gold Mountain, actor Josh Stewart has inked with Gersh for representation in all areas. Gold Mountain, which recently wrapped production, is an adaptation of C Pam Zhang’s novel How Much of These Hills is Gold, with a script adapted by Pulitzer Prize finalist Chang-Rae Lee. Stewart shares the screen with […]
UPDATED, August 11: The full trailer for Amazon MGM’s Verity film adaptation is here. Based on Colleen Hoover’s best-selling psychological thriller novel, the film stars Anne Hathaway as the titular author Verity Crawford, who has remained nonverbal and unable to walk since a devastating accident left her in that state. Josh Hartnett’s Jeremy Crawford recruits […]
NBC News has named Tammy Fine as vice president, talent development, leading the team tasked with attracting, developing and retaining the network’s journalists and other newsroom personnel. Fine will succeed Liza Eaton, who has led the team over the past year and has decided to take a part time role, according to a memo sent […]
Lucy Davis, best known as Dawn Tinsley in the UK version of The Office, has revealed that she is terminally ill. In an Instagram post on Tuesday, Davis, 53, told her 590,000 followers that she has incurable cancer after discovering a lump on her breast. She was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer, which metastasized […]