Month: December 2023

What a funny way of saying hello — by saying “Good Riddance.” But as Gracie Abrams happened to be saying goodbye to certain things in her life in the album of that name, she was also introducing herself to much of the general public. Although the now-24-year-old singer-songwriter had released EPs on Interscope going back
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“The People’s Joker,” a queer comic book parody that garnered headlines after getting axed from the Toronto Film Festival lineup, is heading to the big screen. Los Angeles-based distributor Altered Innocence acquired the film, which will open in theaters on April 5. Vera Drew directed “The People’s Joker,” which was slated to play in 2022
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“Supernova: The Music Festival Massacre,” a one-hour documentary chronicling the attack perpetrated by Hamas during a music festival in southern Israel, has been acquired by broadcasters around the world. The anticipated documentary will premiere on KAN in Israel on Dec. 23. It has now been picked up by BBC World Service, ZDF in Germany, SVT
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“If you’re going to do a Chanel suit, you have to have respect for it,” costume designer Mark Bridges says. So when Bradley Cooper’s “Maestro” script called for one, he went directly to the Parisian fashion house for assistance. Spanning four decades, “Maestro” follows Leonard Bernstein’s (Cooper) journey to becoming the legendary composer and conductor.
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Shannen Doherty and Hollie Marie Combs revealed on the “Let’s Be Clear” podcast (via Huff Post) that Doherty was fired from “Charmed” due to an alleged ultimatum their co-star Alyssa Milano gave producers. A feud among the actors reportedly led to Milano telling “Charmed” producers they had to fire one of them, and if it
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Dan Wootton’s eponymous GB News show and King Charles III’s coronation attracted the most complaints from U.K. viewers in 2023 according to Ofcom. The U.K. media regulator has unveiled its list of the most complained about shows this year. Unsurprisingly, most of them were current affairs-related. A September episode of Wootton’s show, “Dan Wootton Tonight,”
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Taylor Swift, Lana Del Rey, Lorde, Phoebe Bridgers, the 1975’s Matty Healy… those aren’t just artists that Jack Antonoff has collaborated with over the years, they’re people who have performed at the annual Ally Coalition Talent Show benefit concert he and his sister Rachel stage in New York each year. And while the concert delivers
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Hallmark’s canceled western “Ride,” starring Nancy Travis (“Last Man Standing”) is galluping to The CW, which picked up repeats of the show to air next month. The 10-episode series will launch on Monday, January 22 at 8 p.m., paired with “Wild Cards” at 9 p.m. “Ride” is described as “a multigenerational family drama that follows
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With Christmas just days away, Ryan Gosling and “Barbie: The Album” producer Mark Ronson have gifted fans a new holiday version of the film’s “I’m Just Ken” musical number. But that’s not all. Gosling has released “Ken The EP,” which includes three new versions of the “Barbie” classic: a holiday version (“Merry Kristmas Barbie”), an
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The halls are decked with Christmas decorations, last-minute shoppers are bustling to find the best gifts on Amazon, and the Home Alone franchise is playing on cable twice a day, every day. Yes, that’s right: The holiday season is here. It’s a time when festive fashion is heavily calculated, including the coup de grâce of
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Andrew Haigh’s “All of Us Strangers” led the nominations at the 44th London Critics’ Circle Film Awards with nine nods, followed by Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” with seven. Celine Song’s “Past Lives,” Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Poor Things” and Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest” have six nominations each, while Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie received five. All of these
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Madrid-based Rock & Ruz – the production company of Netflix’s “Nowhere,” which has just been confirmed by Netflix as its most-viewed Spanish-language movie of all time  – has pacted new projects with Italy’s Leonardo Fasoli, a head-writer of “Gomorrah” and creator of “ZeroZeroZero,” and Spain-based Alejandro Hernández, a co-writer on Alejandro Amenábar’s “While at War” and
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Berlin Film Festival artistic director Carlo Chatrian is in an upbeat mood as he puts the finishing touches on assembling his fourth and final edition. It appears to be shaping up nicely with a rich mix comprising prestige star-driven titles, such as the world premiere of Netflix’s “Spaceman” in which Adam Sandler plays an imperiled
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SF Studios, Scandinavia’s oldest film studio, is set to start introducing concert films to theaters, kicking off with “Hov1 Forever” which follows the popular Swedish band Hov1 across their sold-out summer tour. Hov1, whose tour spanned 27 cities in Sweden and Norway, was Sweden’s most streamed artist in 2023. Portraying Hov1 members Ludwig Kronstrand, Noel
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Mongrel Media has acquired Canadian rights for “The Birds Who Fear Death” by Indo-Canadian filmmaker Sanjay Patel. Patel is best known for “Union Leader,” which won top awards at the Sao Paolo and Zurich festivals. “The Birds Who Fear Death” follows the Spence brothers, Adam and Ryan, whose every action is motivated by their financial
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Leading Indian studio Yash Raj Films (YRF) has had a phenomenal 2023 with successes across theatrical films and streaming and is looking to build on it going forward. After an indifferent 2022 where the Hindi-language Bollywood film industry was shaded by the mighty south Indian business, the box office roared back in January 2023 with
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