Cillian Murphy revealed that when he landed his breakthrough role in “28 Days Later,” the actor didn’t consider it a zombie movie. Murphy, a first-time Oscar nominee for his work in “Oppenheimer,” discussed the 2002 hit film at a taping of SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s Conversations program. In the nearly 90-minute conversation, recorded in December, Murphy talks
Month: February 2024
Dozens of advertisers will flock to Super Bowl LVIII this Sunday, ready to pay out a small fortune to CBS in a bid to grab some attention. But they won’t crave as much of that valuable recognition as they might have just a few years ago. The Super Bowl has long offered Madison Avenue an arena
William Wages’ upcoming film “The Neon Highway,” produced by Stratton Leopold and presented by Mountain Movies, will be theatrically released on March 15, following a Nashville premiere on March 13. “The Neon Highway” stars Beau Bridges as a country music artist whose star is fading. Other cast members include Rob Mayes, Sandra Lee-Oian Thomas, T.J.
Heretic has acquired world sales right to Iranian director Aliyar Rasti’s “The Great Yawn,” a debut feature that premieres this month in the competitive Encounters strand of the Berlin Film Festival. “The Great Yawn” tells the story of a man who dreams of a box of gold waiting for him at the end of a
Apple has spared no expense with its embrace of movie theaters, shelling out $200 million to produce historical epics, war dramas and action comedies… all while the global box office contracts and rivals scramble to tighten their budgets. For most studios, these expenditures would be ruinous at a time when hardly any movie is earning
A documentary on Stormy Daniels, the porn star who made national headlines when it was revealed that Trump lawyer Michael Cohen paid her $130,000 to keep quiet about her alleged affair with the former president, is coming to Peacock next month. “Stormy,” directed and produced by Emmy-nominated helmer Sarah Gibson, premieres on the streamer on
“Cobra Kai” is welcoming fans back to the dojo, releasing teaser of the cast celebrating that the show’s sixth and final season is officially back in production after Netflix announced plans to renew the show a year ago. The news comes after show creator and writer Jon Hurwitz took to X to announce that writing
“RuPaul’s Drag Race” producers and World of Wonder co-founders Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato just snatched their sixth Emmy award for outstanding reality competition program and are riding high from Season 16 logging the series’ highest-rated season premiere in six years. Bailey can’t quite believe that the show is still gaining momentum. “The more mature
Coors Light is drafting LL Cool J to help it fight the Super Bowl beer wars. The popular actor and musician makes a grand entrance in Coors Light’s new Super Bowl commercial as the conductor of the Coors Light Chill Train, an advertising icon that hasn’t really been, um, tapped by the brewer since 2005.
The “Outlander” prequel series at Starz has cast its four lead roles. In addition, Starz has announced that production is now underway in Scotland on the 10-episode series, which is officially titled “Outlander: Blood of My Blood.” Harriet Slater (“Pennyworth,” “Belgravia: The Next Chapter”), Jamie Roy (“Condor’s Nest,” “Flowers and Honey”), Hermione Corfield (“The Road
Roy Wood Jr. has found there is indeed life after ‘The Daily Show.’ The former correspondent for the Comedy Central program has sold a memoir, titled “The Man of Many Fathers,” Matt Inman at Crown, by Anthony Mattero at CAA after an auction. Wood Jr.’s memoir will examine the most important lessons to come from
The 2024 Grammys will inspire a good deal of next-day debate among viewers. And that debate will be over: Which was the more moving comeback performance, Tracy Chapman’s or Joni Mitchell’s? Life is good — and awards shows better than they have a right to be — when the hot post-telecast topic is which legend
You might say Chris Pratt has been preparing for his next role for months. On Sunday, Pratt debuts as “Mr. P,” the ubiquitous and mustachioed mascot who has long appeared on behalf of Pringles, the potato-chips-in-a-can that are made by Kellanova. The key? A thick mustache the actor says he grew during the recent Hollywood
In Las Vegas, they’re getting ready to fill one of the biggest containers in the area with virtual gallons of Bud Light. On Monday, the popular Anheuser-Busch beer will fill the outdoor walls of Sphere, the new immersive arena that doubles as a massive billboard, with a new video that could make viewers think they
CNN is turning some of the lights out on its efforts to produce morning news. The network is revamping its entire A.M. schedule as the Warner Bros. Discovery-based cable news outlet continues to grapple with poor ratings. Poppy Harlow and Phil Mattingly, who co-anchor “CNN This Morning,” will leave the line-up, while Kasie Hunt’s early-morning
More Snap workers are vanishing from the Snapchat parent’s employee roster. On Monday (Feb. 5), Snap announced plans to lay off 10% of its global full-time employees. “In order to best position our business to execute on our highest priorities, and to ensure we have the capacity to invest incrementally to support our growth over
“Anatomy of a Fall,” Justine Triet’s Palme d’Or-winning and Oscar-nominated film, is getting a theatrical release in mainland China. The film will open in China on March 29, some two weeks after the Oscars ceremony, where it is in the running for five Academy Awards including best picture, director, actress (for Sandra Hüller), screenplay and
Former Cannes film market director Jerome Paillard, Indian actor and producer Rana Daggubati and Nicole Guillemet who was co-director of the Sundance Film Festival have joined the advisory board of the inaugural Cinevesture International Film Festival in India. The advisory board also includes Indian filmmaker Ajitpal Singh (Sundance title “Fire in the Mountains,” SonyLIV series
Agnieszka Holland’s “Green Border” won the audience award at the 53rd edition of International Film Festival Rotterdam in a strong year for the event, which recorded 253,500 visits across its programs. Holland’s Venice Jury Prize-winner derives its name from the swampy forests found at the border between Poland and Belarus, a perilous place where hundreds
Toni Collette is set to star in “A French Pursuit,” a comedy based on the French box office hit “Antoinette Dans Les Cévennes,” from “Twilight” filmmaker Catherine Hardwicke. HanWay Films is selling worldwide distribution rights and will be taking the project to the European Film Market in Berlin. The film, due to start shooting in
The Doha Film Institute has recruited Oscar nominee Jim Sheridan, French auteurs Claire Denis and Leos Carax, Canada’s Atom Egoyan and Oscar-nominated Mexican sound editor Martín Hernández to hold master classes and act as mentors during its upcoming Qumra Arab industry incubator. The event, now celebrating its 10th edition, will run March 1-6 in the Qatari
Sienna Miller has boarded Joe Weiland and Finn Constantine’s short film “Marion” as executive producer. The film tells the story of Marion, France’s only female bull-jumper. “The short tracks the tense fifteen minutes before her first performance in a packed French arena,” reads the logline. “As she prepares, being the only woman in the team,
Jacob Elordi is involved in a police investigation in his native Australia after allegedly assaulting a radio producer on Saturday. As first reported by Australia’s Daily Telegraph, the “Saltburn” and “Euphoria” star was at a hotel in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs when he was approached by Joshua Fox, a producer for “The Kyle & Jackie O
The trailer has debuted for Yorgos Zois‘ fantasy-drama “Arcadia,” which has its world premiere in the Encounters section of the Berlin Film Festival. Beta Cinema will be selling the film at the European Film Market. The film centers on neurologist Katerina and Yannis, a former doctor, who are heading off to a deserted seaside resort.
Freely, the new free streaming service backed by Britain’s public service broadcasters that will deliver live TV over broadband, will launch in the second quarter of 2024. The initiative is from Everyone TV, the organization which runs free TV in the U.K. and is jointly owned by the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5. Announced last year, the
Japan was a latecomer to the video streaming era, with many viewers still preferring the collectability of physical media. But now the Japanese streaming sector appears to have reached maturity. A new report from data analytics company AMPD, that is part of consultancy and research firm Media Partners Asia, shows that Japan’s premium VOD category
Germany’s Studio 100 Media and Spain’s 3Doubles Producciones have teamed to develop animated adventure comedy “Flamingo Flamenco.” World sales agent Studio 100 Film, a subsidiary of Studio 100 Media, will introduce the project to buyers at the European Film Market in Berlin. The script has been written by Rob Sprackling, whose credits include “Shaun the
Phoebe Bridgers had some choice words for former Recording Academy president Neil Portnow. On a night when women dominated the Grammy Awards, Bridgers took the opportunity to revisit some of Portnow’s controversial comments backstage at the 66th annual ceremony. Portnow, who served as the chairman and CEO of The Recording Academy from 2002 to 2009, stirred
Billy Joel officially made his return to the Grammy Awards stage during the 66th annual ceremony, with an emotional performance of his new single “Turn the Lights Back On.” Complete with a live orchestra accompanying him, Joel serenaded the crowd with his latest romantic ballad, which ruminates on the possibility of repairing a flawed relationship.
Everybody gets a trophy! Well, we don’t want to sound that dismissive of the way the Grammys like to spread the love. But it did seem as if the Recording Academy votership was determined to give nearly all the major nominees at least one significant award. And not allowing any of the multiply nominated artists
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