Month: February 2025

Led Zeppelin, if you take in the full measure of their annihilating sunburst grandeur, are a very hard band to categorize. They’re usually thought of as the gods of metal, and few would deny that — though it’s my opinion that the DNA of classic metal owes as much to Black Sabbath’s second album, “Paranoid,”
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Marion Cotillard is taking the blame for her awkwardly staged death scene at the end of Christopher Nolan‘s final Batman film, “The Dark Knight Rises.” “I didn’t nail that scene,” Cotillard said in an interview with Les rencontres du Papotin. “I didn’t find the right position. I didn’t find the right way… I was stressed.
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“Mufasa” is still showing box office strength, with the photorealistic “Lion King” prequel clearing $671 million in global ticket sales. Over the weekend, the film added another $8.5 million from 52 overseas markets. After eight weekends on the big screen, Disney’s musical blockbuster has grossed $235 million domestically and $432.9 million internationally to stand as
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“Friends” star David Schwimmer asked Elon Musk to ban Kanye West from X after the rapper posted a series of antisemitic tweets on the platform Friday. “We can’t stop a deranged bigot from spewing hate filled, ignorant bile… but we CAN stop giving him a megaphone, Mr. Musk,” Schwimmer wrote on Instagram. “Kanye West has
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Puppy Bowl XXI: Meet the Dogs Image Credit: John Nowak This is Zoey, one of the 131 canines taking the field for Animal Planet’s annual Puppy Bowl event. We also have Gumbo. We have Bark Kent. We have Lin Manuel Furanda. We have all these characters — and they all have names so nice, we
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SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for Season 2, Episode 4 of “Severance,” now streaming on Apple TV+. “Severance” fans are used to the confined office walls and hallways that serve as the only home for the severed employees inside Lumon. But right away, the latest episode of Season 2, “Woe’s Hollow,” changes the landscape
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Universal and DreamWorks Animation’s canine crime adventure “Dog Man” sniffed and scratched its way to No. 1 at the domestic box office for the second consecutive weekend. Meanwhile two newcomers, Universal’s action comedy “Love Hurts” and Sony’s gory slasher “Heart Eyes,” mostly settled for scraps in this quiet Super Bowl stretch. “Dog Man,” a family
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In May, the Berlin Film Festival appointed Tanja Meissner as director of Berlinale Pro*, a role that includes leading the European Film Market as well as overseeing Berlinale Co-Production Market, Berlinale Talents, its program for young filmmakers, and the World Cinema Fund. Meissner, a German-French citizen, has more than 25 years of experience in the
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Directors Alexandre Singh and Natalie Musteata have paired with Paris-based Misia Films for a feature adaptation of their award-winning short “Two People Exchanging Saliva.” Narrated by Vicky Krieps, and starring Zar Amir Ebrahimi (“Holy Spider”) and Luana Bajrami (“Portrait of a Lady on Fire”), the absurdist tragicomedy explores a dystopian world where kissing is punishable
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DreamWorks Animation’s heartwarming “The Wild Robot” ran away with the most trophies at the 52nd annual Annie Awards with nine, including best feature. Netflix’s video game adaptation “Arcane” led the TV/Media categories with seven. But Saturday’s ceremony didn’t go off without a hitch, as a pair of fire alarms went off at the venue, UCLA’s,
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Judd Apatow took aim at President Donald Trump, Jeff Bezos, the “It Ends With Us” litigation spree and himself in his opening monologue Saturday at the 77th annual DGA Awards. Apatow, of course, riffed on how the country has taken a sharp turn to the right since the last DGA Awards, and he gently poked
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The Producers Guild of America Awards are underway on a jam-packed awards weekend in L.A. that’s sure to provide some clarity for the upcoming Oscars race. The PGA Awards are widely regarded as strong predictor for the Academy Awards, particularly in the best picture category. The PGA followed suit when the Academy expanded its lineup from five
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The prestigious DGA Awards, one of the most crucial precursors to the Oscars, are announcing their winners. A wide-open year has unfolded with plenty of twists and turns, coming from campaign controversies and surprising Oscar snubs like DGA nominee Edward Berger and recent Critics Choice shocking victor Jon M. Chu for “Wicked.” Legendary filmmaker Ang
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DGA president Lesli Linka Glatter opened the 77th annual DGA Awards Saturday night by calling on studio executives and top producers to work to “bring production back to the U.S. and bring it back in force.” Glatter told the crowd at the Beverly Hilton that she was among the thousands of people who lost homes
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While accepting an honorary lifetime achievement award at the Spanish Academy Goya Awards on Saturday evening, Richard Gere lashed out at President Donald Trump, calling him a “bully and a thug.” On stage at the Palacio de Congresos de Granada, flanked by Antonio Banderas, who presented him with the award, Gere took a break from
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Some may have been surprised by Denzel Washington‘s exclusion from the best supporting actor race at the 2025 Academy Awards, but he’s not losing sleep over it. Amid a chaotic Oscar season, Washington spoke to the New York Times about his reaction to being snubbed by the Academy for his performance in Ridley Scott’s “Gladiator
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In a historic first, Marcel Barrera’s heroic bus driver heart warmer “The 47” and Arantxa Echeverría terrorist org infiltrator thriller “Undercover” became the first films ever to share the best picture Spanish Academy Goya on Saturday night at a ceremony where Richard Gere lashed out at Donald Trump. “We are in a very dark place in
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Sigourney Weaver credits Grogu, otherwise known as Baby Yoda, for the reason why she signed on for the latest “Star Wars” blockbuster, “The Mandalorian & Grogu.” “I get to have scenes with a little Grogu which is probably why I did the movie,” Weaver said in an interview with GamesRadar+. “And he’s a little badass
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“Shogun” star Hiroyuki Sanada said Season 2 of the Emmy-winning FX series could begin shooting as early as this fall. “We are aiming for the fall of this year, and the writers’ room is working so hard now,” Sanada told Variety Saturday at AARP’s Movies for Grownups Awards in Los Angeles. “We’re going to have
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Rachel Brosnahan knew David Corenswet was the perfect Superman even before he was cast as the Man of Steel. Brosnahan, who plays intrepid reporter and love interest Lois Lane in James Gunn’s “Superman,” spoke to Variety on the Critics Choice Awards red carpet about starring in the film and what it was like seeing co-star
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Rob Lowe is having a big week on Fox. The actor closed out his five-season run as the star of “9-1-1: Lone Star” Monday with a bang of a series finale, and is ending Sunday with the start of a new season hosting competition series “The Floor.” The latter gig wouldn’t be as notable as
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“Unspoken,” “Genealogy of Violence,” and “Aferrado” have won a trio of top honors at this year’s Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, with each title winning a grand prize in the respective international, national and lab competitions. Best known for his acting work on Australian film and television, “Unspoken” director Damian Walshe-Howling can now burnish his behind-the-camera
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