Month: January 2023

Celebrity acting coach Sandra Seacat, whose students included Jessica Lange, Andrew Garfield and Laura Dern, died of natural causes Tuesday in Santa Monica, Calif. She was 86. Seacat’s unique coaching style made her the acting teacher of a generation and helped actors create honest naturalist performances. Aside from Lange, Garfield and Dern, Seacat taught actors
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Season 3 of Amazon Freevee’s spy thriller series “Alex Rider” is in production in the U.K. and Malta. Cast members Otto Farrant, Stephen Dillane, Vicky McClure, Brenock O’Connor, Ronkẹ Adékọluẹ́jọ́, and Marli Siu return. Joining them are Sofia Helin (“The Bridge”), Shelley Conn (“Bridgerton”), Kevin McNally (“The Crown”) and Jason Wong (“Strangers”). Produced by Eleventh Hour Films
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“Not everything is about money!” exclaims bride-to-be Darcy at the rehearsal dinner for her idyllic-looking island wedding in the Philippines — a rebuke to her multi-millionaire father Robert, who wishes she’d let him pay to make the whole affair even more luxe. Perhaps she means it. Darcy claims she wanted to elope to avoid the
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Robert Pattinson is no stranger to getting in shape for movie roles, from “Twilight” to “The Batman,” but the actor has also been vocal about the “insidious” body standards men face, both in and out of Hollywood. “Even if you’re just watching your calorie intake, it’s extraordinarily addictive — and you don’t quite realize how
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Disney is going back to the grid. After multiple false starts, the studio is back on track for a third “Tron” movie, with Jared Leto attached to star and “Maleficent: Mistress of Evil” director Joachim Rønning in talks to helm. Nominally titled “Tron: Ares,” the film would follow the groundbreaking 1982 film “Tron” starring Jeff
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Actor, writer and producer Maria Bello has signed for representation with the Agency for the Performing Arts. Consistently acclaimed in film and TV roles for decades, the signing with APA comes on the heels of Sony’s box office hit “The Woman King,” which Bello co-wrote and produced. Bello is best known for roles like her
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In Lisa Cortés’ documentary “Little Richard: I am Everything,” the man behind the hit songs, big hair and flamboyant personality is examined. The 98-minute doc, which premieres Jan. 19 at Sundance, traces the path of Richard Penniman, also known as Little Richard, from 1930s Macon, Ga., through underground Black drag clubs to segregated concert halls
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Shooting on Netflix’s “The Decameron” has kicked off at Rome’s Cinecittà Studios, where the lavish period soap will be based for the next six months. The U.S. show, which is being made entirely in Italy, marks one of the biggest international productions lured by the storied studios in recent years. Hailing from executive producer Jenji
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To celebrate its 20th anniversary next week, ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” is going back to the beginning. The late-night series will air a special episode in primetime on Thursday, January 26, featuring guests from the original premiere in 2003: George Clooney, Snoop Dogg and Coldplay. The special will air that night at 10 p.m. ET,
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Yes Studios (“Fauda”) has unveiled the trailer for the second season of its award-winning historical drama “The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem” ahead of its Jan. 23 debut on Israel’s leading broadcaster and streamer yes TV. The show, whose first season launched on Netflix in May 2022, won best daily drama at the Israeli Television Academy
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Streamer BritBox International has made two new exec hirings, appointing Liz Spaulding to the position of VP for business development and Jennifer Moon as head of editorial and programming strategy. Spaulding will be tasked with leading growth opportunities and partnership relations while Moon will take the lead on U.S. and Canada programming strategy, acquisition and
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Milana Lewis is the co-founder and CEO of the distribution and payments platform Stem. Just before the holidays, multinational media companies’ favorite complaint resurfaced: The App Store’s 30% take is too high. It’s interesting to see multi-billion-dollar companies cast themselves as underdogs in a fight against all-powerful Apple, but if the DSPs want to complain
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Alexandria Bombach’s “It’s Only Life After All,” which tells the story of the folk rock duo Indigo Girls, is not your typical music documentary. For one, the doc’s stars, singer-songwriters Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, are not producers on the film. Two, during production no topic was off-limits. Three, Ray and Saliers were the only
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UPDATED: The Rolling Stones and frontman Mick Jagger have officially joined TikTok — angling to introduce a new generation of music fans to the 60-year-old British rock band and its classic tunes. Jagger has joined TikTok (at @jagger) after band mate Keith Richards (@officialkeef) arrived on the platform last year. In Jagger’s first TikTok video,
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Amazon and DAZN have signed a global distribution partnership that will see DAZN’s direct-to-consumer sports streaming service available as a Prime Video Channel. The partnership will give Prime Video customers access to DAZN’s live and on-demand sports content for an additional monthly fee. The service rollout begins Thursday with Spain and Germany and will continue through the year,
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Netflix’s new cheaper, ad-supported plan may have given the streaming giant the subscriber-acquisition lift it was hoping for. Netflix reports fourth quarter 2022 earnings results after the market closes Thursday, and one of the key areas of focus for investors will be the performance of the ad-supported tier ($6.99/month in the U.S.), which debuted in
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SALES Abacus Media Rights have sold S4C’s Welsh-language crime caper drama, “Dal y Mellt” (“Rough Cut,” 6 x 60′) to Netflix. This will be the first Welsh-language only drama licensed on Netflix and will stream on Netflix U.K. from April 2023. The drama follows the troubled story of the main character Carbo as he is drawn into a world of wrongdoing,
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Check out the official Scream VI trailer starring Jenna Ortega and Melissa Barrera! ► Buy Tickets on Fandango: https://www.fandango.com/scream-6-2023-230476/movie-overview?cmp=Trailers_YouTube_Desc Subscribe to the channel and click the bell icon to be notified of all the hottest trailers: http://bit.ly/2CNniBy US Release Date: March 10, 2023 Starring: Courteney Cox, Melissa Barrera, Hayden Panettiere, Jenna Ortega Directed By: Matt
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Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Hill House Home dropped their most romantic capsule collection yet. You probably know the brand because of the beloved Nap Dresses, and luckily for us, they’ve just added a new iteration of the piece to their lineup. The gorgeous Anjuli Nap Dress is available in Victorian Red and Ballerina
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Oble has boarded international distribution rights to “The Firebrands,” a five-part series adapted Camille Rebetez’s Swiss graphic novel saga. Directed by Delphine Lehericey (“The Last Dance”), the five-part drama has been commissioned by RTS, the Swiss national broadcaster and will premiere in 2023. “The Firebrands” is produced by well-established banners, Box Productions and Entre Chien et
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