Month: December 2024

Kate Beckinsale posted a video on Instagram in which she detailed a handful of instances where she has suffered harassment and abuse on various sets. The “Underworld” star shared her horror stories in reaction to Blake Lively‘s sexual harassment complaint against her “It Ends With Us” director and co-star Justin Baldoni. Beckinsale said she was

Paul Rust said in a recent episode of the “With Gourley and Rust” podcast that he saw James Franco “flip out” on a set a few days after he co-hosted the 2011 Oscars with Anne Hathaway. “I saw James Franco flip out once,” Rust claimed. “When ‘Your Highness’ came out, CollegeHumor was going to try

Spencer Boldman is set to star in a new biopic about blind country musical legend Ronnie Milsap. The film will be based on his autobiography “Almost Like a Song.” The film is being packaged by its executive producer, Gary Negherbon of Negherbon Media Group, and Boldman’s longtime manager, Antonia DeNardo. Boldman will also be an

Jason Momoa is returning to the DC universe — but his reign as Aquaman has ended. Instead, Momoa has signed on to play antihero Lobo in “Supergirl: Woman Of Tomorrow.” The superhero movie — starring “House of the Dragon” actor Milly Alcock as the eponymous hero, also known as Kara Zor-El — is set to be

One of the standout moments in Halina Reijn‘s erotic thriller “Babygirl” finds Nicole Kidman‘s Romy being sent a glass of milk from the young intern she’s having an affair with while they’re separately at the same bar. Romy accepts the challenge and finishes the entire glass in one sip. Later on, the intern leaves the

Hit by last year’s Hollywood’s strikes, total box office in 2024 in Spain dipped 2% compared to 2023, breaking three consecutive years of recovery over 2021-23, Comscore Movies Spain announced Monday. At 71 million admissions, attendance edged down 5% compared to last year. At €477 million ($496.1 million), total box office in Spain was 29%

Leading Spanish production house Morena Films is teaming with A Contracorriente Films, one of Spain’s top indie distributors, and “The Beasts” French co-producer Noodle Productions to produce “Fairy Queen” (“Reina de las Hadas,” “Reina de les fades” in Catalan), a feature inspired by “Paris 70” which was shortlisted on Dec. 17 for the 97th Oscars.

Buddy the Elf is back…although not like anyone could imagine. Will Ferrell unexpectedly dressed up as his iconic character from Jon Favreau’s 2003 Christmas comedy “Elf” while attending the Dec. 29 hockey game between the Los Angeles Kings and Philadelphia Flyers. Only this iteration of Buddy was looking quite disheveled with five o’clock shadow and

Talk about having some bite. “Nosferatu” drove a stake through box office expectations, delivering a hauntingly good $21.1 million over the traditional weekend and $40.3 million since debuting on Christmas Day. Those receipts sent box office analysts everywhere reaching for the vampire puns (apologies, apologies) in an effort to explain the bloody fantastic results for

Michael Moore has joined the production team of “From Ground Zero” — the recently shortlisted Palestinian entry for the 97th Academy Awards’ best international film category — as executive producer. A collection of shorts made by 22 Palestinian filmmakers living through war in present day Gaza, “From Ground Zero” blends animation, documentary and fiction to “capture the

There’s a stilted, soap opera quality to Hany Khalifa’s “Flight 404,” Egypt’s submission to the Academy Awards. It never quite transcends these visual and narrative trappings, but its tale of a woman escaping her past, en route to her Mecca pilgrimage, is led by a deeply layered performance from Mona Zaki. While the actress brings

Beta Fiction Spain, the No. 1 independent distributor in the country this year thanks to a barn-storming €8.0 million ($8.3 million) box office gross from Arantxa Echevarría’s “Undercover,” is set to produce new films from Marcel Barrena and Dani de la Orden, directors of two other big 2024 Spanish breakouts: “El 47” and “A House

Woo Min-ho’s historical drama “Harbin” stormed to the top of the South Korean box office for the weekend of Dec. 27-29. The film, set in 1909, follows Korean independence activists plotting the assassination of Japan’s Prime Minister during their quest for independence. Starring Hyun Bin, Park Jeong-min and Jeon Yeo-been, “Harbin” earned $5.9 million over

One ordinary night in a working-class neighborhood of the Algerian capital, a suspicious car drives along a street where several children play carelessly. The driver lures a young girl to the window and violently pulls her inside before driving away as the girl’s brother looks on in despair. The unsettling incident, inspired by real events,

Gal Gadot is opening up about her experience undergoing emergency surgery for a blood clot in her brain during pregnancy, which then resulted in the birth of her fourth daughter. In a post on social media on Sunday night, the “Wonder Woman” and “Fast and Furious” actor revealed that she was diagnosed with a “massive”

Abu Dhabi is stepping up efforts to lure more film and TV shoots to the United Arab Emirates’ capital by enhancing its new rebate which is now set to reach up to 50% of qualified below-the-line spend starting in January 2025. After becoming a prime Middle East hub for Hollywood and Bollywood productions over the past

The final weekend of 2024 witnessed a significant upswing in China’s box office, with Gengxi Pictures’ “Big World” leading the charge by grossing $28.2 million (RMB200 million), according to data from consultancy firm Artisan Gateway. Directed by Yang Lina, the film stars Jackson Yee as Chunhu, a young man with cerebral palsy who assists his

Kieran Turner, a documentary filmmaker who created the web series “Wallflowers,” died Dec. 23 in West Hollywood. He was 56. Turner’s death after a battle with cancer was confirmed by Christy Grosz, president of CLG3 Communications. In addition to creating “Wallflowers,” Turner wrote and produced the online web series which ran for two seasons from