EXCLUSIVE: Hulu, the streaming home of FX’s Emmy record-breaking Shōgun, is developing another drama about a Westerner’s adventures in Japan, this time set in the 21st century. The project, titled Gaijin, Japanese for foreigner or outsider, comes from Shōgun co-executive producer Shannon Goss. It is executive produced by Joseph Gordon-Levitt with an eye for him […]
Paramount has set a release date for its remake of the 1981 cult horror film Possession from Smile‘s Parker Finn. The film, starring Callum Turner and Margaret Qualley, will open wide in theaters on June 11, 2027. It’s set to open against Universal Pictures’ How to Train Your Dragon 2. Written and directed by Andrzej Żuławski, the original Possession starred Isabelle […]
UPDATED: The Kennedy Center is being ordered to pay more than $250,000 in attorneys fees and costs to jazz musician Chuck Redd, who was sued after he backed out of a performance when Donald Trump’s name was added to the arts institution. D.C. Superior Court Judge Tanya M. Jones Bosier ruled that the center owes […]
Last year, after CBS made the decision to cancel The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel threw his support behind his fellow late-night host to win the main late-night Emmy. Kimmel put up a billboard saying, “I’m voting for Stephen.” Many wondered then, 12 months on, after Kimmel had his own annus horribilis, including […]
Walt Disney Studios today has just passed the $4 billion global benchmark at this year’s box office, becoming the second studio after Universal to do so. Disney/Pixar’s Toy Story 5 carries the torch as the studio’s highest grossing movie YTD with more than $1.095B ($624.2M int’l, $471.3M domestic). But also, the studio gets credit for […]
Taylor Swift will be inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame this year, the foundation announced today. Swift is one of the songwriters revealed today by the Hall of Fame as the class of ’26 inductees. She is being inducted in the Contemporary Songwriter/Artists category alongside Miranda Lambert, Chris Stapleton and Phil Vassar. Lyle […]
“Josephine, can you tell me what you saw?” Those seven words solidify the premise for Josephine, sophomore writer-director Beth de Araújo’s drama that has major awards buzz after landing the Grand Jury Award and Audience Award at Sundance in January. Today we got our first trailer for the film — watch it above — along […]
To date, there’s only been six movies to crack the $700 million mark at the domestic box office, and we’re about to get a seventh one Wednesday with Sony/Marvel Studios’ Spider-Man: Brand New Day. As of Tuesday, the running cume of the Destin Daniel Cretton-directed movie was an estimated $671.2M, with close to $17M made […]
After bowing on the platform last week, the Netflix and Chernin thriller The Last House has landed at No. 1 on the Netflix Top 10 movie list with 27.5 million views. That number comes as the year’s fifth best opening for a Netflix original movie; Chernin now has two of the top original films this […]
EXCLUSIVE: The expanding cast of Prime Video’s Bishop series has added Gerardo Celasco (The Waterfront, M.I.A.), Alex Breaux (Stranger Things, American Primeval), Ally Ioannides (Into The Badlands), and Steven Yaffee (Ghosts) in recurring roles. On Bishop, from co-creators Little Marvin and Tony Saltzman, homicide detective Bishop Graves (Joel Kinnaman) – brilliant, battle-scarred – will put all […]