Robbie Robertson, soon to be in the limelight again as the focus of a documentary about his life and career, plans to make good on all that attention by releasing “Sinematic,” his first album since 2011. The album is being heralded with a duet with Van Morrison, “I Hear You Paint Houses,” released as a
Month: July 2019
Magnolia Pictures has acquired North American rights to “Little Joe,” a sci-fi drama that won the Cannes Film Festival’s best actress award for star Emily Beecham. The indie studio is planning a theatrical release for later this year. “Little Joe” centers on Alice (Beecham), a single mother and dedicated plant breeder at a corporation engaged
Sheila Nevins has set her first projects in her new capacity as head of MTV Documentary Films: the feature “17 Blocks” and short “St. Louis Superman.” Both titles will have awards qualifying runs in the fall before airing on MTV’s various platforms. “17 Blocks,” from filmmaker Davy Rothbart, chronicles 20 years in the life of
After world premiering in the main competition at Karlovy Vary, the first Chilean film ever to receive that honor, “The Man of the Future” from Felipe Ríos has released a trailer ahead of its domestic premiere at next month’s Sanfic Festival in Santiago, Chile. Set primarily on the highways and in truck stops along the
Premium podcast company Luminary Media later this year will launch “Villains,” a 13-part show about the U.K.’s Great Train Robbery, under a multi-series pact with Mosaic Media’s new podcast production company, Ninth Planet Audio. “Villains” is currently in production from executive producers Will Green and Aaron Ginsburg at The Cut, and Ben Adair at Western
July 25, 2019 2:21AM PT “National Treasure” scribe Jack Thorne is penning “Best Interests” for the BBC, a drama series about a family’s fight to save their sick young daughter after doctors say the child should be allowed to die. The four-part series is the first commission for Chapter One Pictures, the U.K.-based producer set
REFRESH FOR UPDATES: “The Laundromat,” which stars Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman and Antonio Banderas in a tale based on the Panama Papers exposé, and “Joker“ with Joaquin Phoenix will have their red-carpet premieres at the 76th Venice Film Festival. They join and “Ad Astra,” starring Brad Pitt as an astronaut who must save the world,
A$AP Rocky has been charged with assault in Sweden stemming from a confrontation in Stockholm on June 30. The American rapper has been in custody in the Swedish capital since July 3. Prosecutors said Thursday that they would press charges against the 30-year-old, who maintains that he was acting in self-defense when he punched a
MADRID — Beating out other suitors, Madrid-based sales company Latido Films has closed international sales rights on Belén Funes’ anticipated San Sebastian main competition contender “A Thief’s Daughter” (“La hija de un ladrón”). BTeam Pictures will release the film in Spain. Already one of the most talked-about titles heading to San Sebastian this year, based
Two violent fictional American films have been granted summer releases in China, and an uplifting Chinese movie has had its local release pushed back because of real-life violence. Clint Eastwood’s “The Mule” will hit theaters in the Middle Kingdom on Aug. 26, and “Cold Pursuit,” the thriller starring Liam Neeson, follows on Sept. 6. “Little
The common nostalgia for an idealized simpler time in which tight-knit communities satisfied all personal needs can be warped to serve fascist ideologies, a notion that is not at all lost on “1BR.” In this thriller, a needy, insecure young woman thinks she’s lucked out in being accepted to an apartment complex where everyone is
July 24, 2019 6:16PM PT In this unimaginative French splatter-comedy twist on “The Most Dangerous Game,” a volleyball team gets ambushed by backwoods freaks. Festival midnight slates are always teeming with Z-grade splatter comedies like “Girls with Balls,” which offer the uncomplicated pleasure of attractive young people fighting for their lives in the great outdoors.
July 24, 2019 6:07PM PT Shelagh McLeod’s sentimental drama lacks resources to build a credible world gearing up for the first commercial space travel. But Richard Dreyfuss still manages to inspire. The recently widowed retiree Angus (Richard Dreyfuss) might be in the gutter, but he looks at the stars. Indeed, despite his flailing health and
July 24, 2019 5:50PM PT “Los Espookys” is coming back for more scares. HBO has renewed the comedy for a second season. The series is headlined by “Saturday Night Live” veteran Fred Armisen who serves as a writer and executive producer as well as playing the role of Tico. The half-hour series is set in
Live Nation now has a stake in OCESA Entertainment, purchasing a controlling interest from CIE and Grupo Televisa, the companies announced on July 24. The acquisition brings Ticketmaster Mexico under the Live Nation banner, while adding some 14 venues across Mexico to its portfolio, with a collective capacity of nearly 250,000 seats. OCESA promotes more than
As Sean “Diddy” Combs prepares to reprise “Making the Band,” Danity Kane’s Aubrey O’Day is still recovering from trauma that followed her run on the MTV series. Under Diddy’s guidance, the 35-year-old singer found fame in reality television, first on “Making the Band,” which auditioned hopeful vocalists for a spot in a to-be-formed music group.
Damon Lindelof is taking a very Alan Moore approach to his series adaptation of Moore’s graphic novel “Watchmen.” Speaking at the Television Critics Association summer press tour on Wednesday, Lindelof said that Moore has a “punk rock spirit” and that if someone had told him that he was not allowed to do something in his
AT&T reported early Friday that HBO lost linear subscribers in the second quarter of 2019, but HBO programming chief Casey Bloys clarified that under the Home Box Office umbrella, HBO the network actually gained subscribers, and that the overall figure reflected losses on Cinemax’s end. Comcast and other providers have recently removed Cinemax from some
Of all the acts that graced the Woodstock stage that weekend in August 50 years ago, perhaps the most unlikely was Sha Na Na, a group of Columbia University students who previously sang together in the campus a cappella group the Kingsmen and had formed just months before the festival. Perhaps their experience was a
Exclusive Getty Composite One of R. Kelly‘s live-in girlfriend is looking a lot like her old self on social media — which has her family incredibly encouraged they can get her back. Azriel Clary — one of the singer’s girlfriends, who’s stood by his side to this day — has been popping up A LOT
In today’s roundup, “Silicon Valley” returns to HBO for its final season this October, and CBS releases the first trailer for “Why Women Kill.” DATES “Silicon Valley” will return to HBO for its sixth and final season this October. An official premiere date will be announced at a later date. The new season, which will
I know what you’re thinking: ELLE, you can’t be serious. Anklets? Well, the answer is yes! The jewelry you loved in the ’90s and ’00s is officially back in style and we’re kind of obsessed. Sure, at some point, they became the “trashy” style of jewelry (similar to the rise and fall of tongue and
The cast of “His Dark Materials” discussed the series’ religious themes at HBO’s summer press tour event. Executive producer Jane Tranter insisted that, despite the protestations leveled at the 2007 film adaptation of Philip Pullman’s novels, the HBO series “is not an attack on religion.” “We’re adapting the books across the broad expense of television,
Neither “Designated Survivor” nor “Tuca & Bertie” will return for new seasons at Netflix. “Designated Survivor,” which starred Kiefer Sutherland as a low-level cabinet secretary who becomes President of the United States, started out as an ABC drama series but was canceled by the broadcaster after two seasons. It was announced last September that Netflix
Executives from Amazon Studios, Twitter and Tubi, the world’s largest ad-supported video-on-demand service, head the lineup of keynote speakers at content market and conference Mipcom, the event’s organizer Reed Midem announced Wednesday. Mipcom, which takes place in Cannes, France from Oct. 14 to 17, will adopt as its overarching theme “The Streaming Offensive.” According to
In a perfect world, the versatile and hard-working (172 acting credits on IMDb!) Dutch actor Rutger Hauer, who has died in the Netherlands from cancer, would have had a film or even a franchise that capitalized on his range and the blonde good looks of his early years. After early stardom in his home country,
HBO’s president of programming Casey Bloys addressed the report that “Big Little Lies” Season 2 director Andrea Arnold was locked out of the show’s editing process. “Let me clarify. There wouldn’t be a second season without Andrea. We’re indebted to her,” Bloys said at the Television Critics Association summer press tour on Wednesday. “As anybody
Facebook investors had their eyes firmly on the company’s Q2 numbers Wednesday, ignoring anything and everything that could have clouded the pretty picture: The company’s stock went up as much as 4% in after-hours trading after it revealed that it once again beat the expectations of the market in its most recent quarter. That’s despite
Speaking at HBO’s TCA summer press tour event, the pay cabler’s programming chief Casey Bloys was asked about the controversial final season of “Game of Thrones” and the fan petition which demanded that the eighth season be re-shot. “There are very, very few downsides to having a hugely popular show, but one I can think
TV’s latest emerging hit takes all the thrills of a traditional reality competition program and mixes in an awful lot of drama. It’s not a knock-off of “American Idol” or a new MTV series. Instead, it’s something that might be best compared to a Sunday public-affairs program laced with amphetamine. CNN is seeking exponentially high
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