Month: January 2025

More than a decade after the swift cancellation of the underrated show “Enlisted,” Fox has taken another bite at the apple of a broadcast workplace sitcom set within the United States military. As with its predecessor, the midseason premiere “Going Dutch” counters the global scope of its central employer with the intimate one of immediate
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Lauren Davis has been promoted to associate chair of New York University’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music. She will work alongside Nick Sansano, chair of the Clive Davis Institute. Davis is a highly-experienced music attorney who has represented high-profile musicians, producers and publishers, among others. She’s been teaching at NYU since 2006 and served
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Timothée Chalamet hasn’t even turned 30, but that isn’t stopping the American Cinematheque from embarking on a week-long retrospective of the Oscar-nominated actor’s red-hot career. “He’s an extraordinary talent,” says Imani Davis, film programmer at the American Cinematheque in Los Angeles. “I can’t think of many other times where we’ve highlighted the work of someone so
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Get ready, players: Netflix‘s new mobile game “Squid Game: Unleashed” is adding characters and competitions from the recently launched Season 2 into the game beginning this Friday. Among the additions that viewers will find familiar if they’ve already binged Season 2 (which debuted Dec. 26, following the Dec. 17 release of “Unleashed”) are the “Mingle”
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Just a day after returning to Instagram, Meghan Markle took to the platform to share the first trailer for her upcoming Netflix lifestyle series “With Love, Meghan.” In the trailer, the Duchess of Sussex showcases her cooking and gardening skills with special guests including Mindy Kaling, Roy Choi, Alice Waters and, of course, her husband
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Viola Davis’s upcoming feature “G20” is set to premiere on Prime Video this spring, Variety can confirm. Directed by Patricia Riggen, the action thriller stars the Academy Award winner as U.S. President Danielle Sutton, who becomes the target of an attack at the annual G20 world leaders summit. “After evading capture by the attackers, Sutton
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Spotlighting Oscar hopefuls and international heavy hitters, the Palm Springs Intl. Film Festival kicks off its 36th edition with “Better Man,” an audacious crowd-pleaser in which the character of Brit pop star Robbie Williams appears in the movie as a CG chimp, narrating his life story. “It’s touching and has a unique and personal perspective
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SPOILER ALERT: This article contains mild spoilers about “Nosferatu,” now playing in theaters. Robert Eggers’ horror film “Nosferatu” has been getting high praise for its craft, from the costumes to the cityscapes, boats and carriages. Yet Bill Skarsgård‘s transformation into the horrific Count Orlok has been the biggest topic of conversation. David White, the prosthetic makeup
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Seeing Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande in action is a remarkable study in contrasts. Even after months of their omnipresence on social media and TV screens — as fans have consumed every morsel of the ongoing press tour for their film “Wicked,” in which tears have been shed (and shed, and shed!) — it’s hard
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RaMell Ross has something to say. With his latest film, “Nickel Boys,” the co-writer and director solidifies his reputation as one of contemporary cinema’s most daring storytellers. Adapted from Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, the film unearths the haunting realities of a fictionalized reform school, blending visceral storytelling with an experimental approach that has captured
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Over his more than 35-year career as a filmmaker, director David Fincher’s name has been attached to many projects that later changed hands or otherwise never came to fruition. The list, which includes two sequels to “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” an adaptation of Arthur C. Clarke’s “Rendezvous With Rama” and a sequel to
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Noah Centineo‘s Netflix spy series “The Recruit” is headed to Seoul in its second season. The show’s Season 2 trailer — fittingly soundtracked to Green Day’s “American Idiot” — sees CIA lawyer Owen Hendricks (Centineo) embarking on a new thrilling adventure in South Korea alongside “Past Lives” actor Teo Yoo. According to an official synopsis,
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Billie Eilish kicked off the New Year with yet another milestone, as “Birds of a Feather” became the most-streamed song on Spotify in 2024. The song, included on her third album “Hit Me Hard and Soft,” took the streaming throne with 1,775,172,881 listens in 2024. She just slipped past Sabrina Carpenter‘s “Espresso” by nearly 650,000
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Tom Holland said in a new cover story for Men’s Health that he managed to break up a fight in a Los Angeles supermarket because he’s Spider-Man, of course. Holland has played the web-slinger in the Marvel Cinematic Universe since 2016’s “Captain America: Civil War,” and he’s been at the center of three standalone “Spider-Man”
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If you’re wondering what boots do I need to buy this winter, there were three main trends that stood out on the runways, and they’re sure to stick around throughout 2025 and beyond: over-the-knee lengths, equestrian-inspired designs, and tough biker boots. While each one of those styles are certainly having a moment on the catwalk,
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Over the last quarter of a century, Relentless Records has been one of the most reliable sources for breaking artists out of the United Kingdom. And now it’s heading across the Atlantic, as the label plans to celebrate its silver jubilee by setting up its first American office. Relentless founder/president Shabir “Shabs” Jobanputra was not
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Jeremy Renner marked the second anniversary of his near-death snow plow accident with an emotional post on his Instagram page featuring a photo of himself in the hospital, surrounded by the medical staff who saved his life and helped him recover. “Ringing in my second ‘ReBirthday’ today,” Renner wrote in the caption. “I send out
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India’s Maddock Films has unveiled its most ambitious slate to date: a cinematic universe combining horror-comedy and superhero narratives. The studio, known for releasing films like “Stree 2,” “Munjya,” and “Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya” in a blockbuster 2024, has unveiled a slate of eight interconnected films set to release over the next four
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Believe it: The stars will be out for this year’s Golden Globes. The organization revealed its list of presenters for Sunday’s award show, and it’s a mix of actors, comedians and some of the year’s most celebrated performers. Here’s the list of presenters: Andrew Garfield, Anthony Mackie, Anthony Ramos, Anya Taylor-Joy, Ariana DeBose, Aubrey Plaza,
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Armie Hammer says his career is picking up after three years in industry exile following sexual assault allegations. Hammer, who returned to acting last year opposite William H. Macy in the Western feature “Frontier Crucible,” was accused of sexual assault in 2021 by a number of women with whom he’d engaged in extra-marital affairs. Following
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Two-time Oscar-nominated French-American actor and director Julie Delpy has been unveiled as the recipient of the 2025 Honorary Dragon Award at Sweden’s upcoming Göteborg Film Festival, the biggest film-TV event in Scandinavia. Delpy, known for her distinctive voice in international cinema, will attend the festival for the screening and to accept the prestigious award, participate
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Neil Young has pulled out of this year’s Glastonbury Festival, blaming the BBC’s “corporate control” for his decision. The musician said he and his band, the Chrome Hearts, would not be performing at the famed U.K. music event in June. “The Chrome Hearts and I were looking forward to playing Glastonbury, one of my all
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India’s KVN Productions and Thespian Films have partnered for an untitled Malayalam-language feature, bringing together “Manjummel Boys” director Chidambaram and “Aavesham” writer Jithu Madhavan. The Malayalam-language “Manjummel Boys” and “Aavesham” were among the biggest Indian hits of 2024. A title and genre for the new project have not been revealed yet. The project assembles key
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