David Slade, director of “Black Mirror: Bandersnatch,” “Hard Candy” and “American Gods,” is attached to direct the upcoming thriller “Come Closer.” The film will be produced by Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe winner Michael London (“Sideways,” “The Visitor,” “Milk”). Based on the novel of the same name, and written by the novel’s author Sara
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Check out the official Stockholm trailer starring Ethan Hawke! Let us know what you think in the comments below. ► Buy Tickets to Stockholm: https://www.fandango.com/stockholm-2019-217632/movie-overview?cmp=MCYT_YouTube_Desc Want to be notified of all the latest movie trailers? Subscribe to the channel and click the bell icon to stay up to date. US Release Date: 2019 Starring: Noomi
Timothy Hutton has been cast as the male lead in the untitled Fox drama pilot that hails from Annie Weisman and Jason Katims, Variety has learned. The pilot is based on the Australian series “Sisters.” In the Fox project, only child Julia Bechley (Brittany Snow) has her life turned upside down when it’s revealed that
In a sign of the continuing controversy over “Roma’s” haul of BAFTA Awards earlier this month, leading U.K. cinema chain Cineworld has pulled its support of the British Academy. In a letter to BAFTA members, film committee chairman Marc Samuelson said that Cineworld had made a “unilateral decision to withdraw its support” of the British
YouTube said it will disable the ability for viewers to leave comments on most videos featuring minors, as it tries to contain the damage from a scandal involving child predators leaving coded sexual comments on the site. YouTube said in a blog post Thursday that over the past week it had already shut off comments
Greg Kinnear, Michelle Rodriguez, and Lily-Rose Depp have boarded the cast of the opioid crisis thriller “Dreamland.” The trio joins the previously announced cast of Gary Oldman, Armie Hammer, and Evangeline Lilly. Kinnear plays a university dean whose friendship with Oldman’s character is tested by conflicts of industry. Rodriguez plays a DEA supervisor who clashes
Indian actress Tabu (“The Namesake”) will kick off the 19th edition of the Indian Film Festival Los Angeles in April with “Andhadhun,” directed by Sriram Raghavan. Running April 11-14 at the Regal L.A. Live, IFFLA will open with a tribute to mono-monikered Tabu and a moderated discussion along with a screening of her latest film. The
The U.S. music industry posted its third consecutive year of double-digit growth, according to the RIAA’s year-end revenue report issued today. The report notes that in 2018 U.S. recorded-music revenues rose 12% to their highest level in 10 years — $9.8 billion, up from $8.8 billion the previous year but still below 2007’s $10.7 billion.
February 28, 2019 10:41AM PT A road trip comedy about two girls who devoutly followed *NSYNC on their final tour is in the works from former band member Lance Bass. “It’s a really fun story about these girls that win a Winnebago on ‘The Price is Right’ and follow us on tour — which randomly
February 28, 2019 10:32AM PT Netflix has put out a straight-to-series order for live-action dramedy “The Baby-Sitters Club,” based on the iconic Ann M. Martin book series, Variety has learned. The books were previously adapted for TV in 1990 for a one season run on HBO, and Netflix says the new show will be a contemporary
ESPN unveiled a new “” team last fall, part of a series of maneuvers aimed at forging better ties with the National Football League. Come autumn, the sports network may have to do it again. Jason Witten, the rookie analyst who joined “MNF” last season, is returning to the field. The Dallas Cowboys said Thursday
February 28, 2019 10:30AM PT Ad-supported streaming service Tubi has struck a deal with NBCUniversal to add close to 400 movies and TV show episodes to its service. Some of the titles coming to Tubi’s service due to the agreement include “Xena: Warrior Princess,” “Hercules: The Legendary Journeys,” “The A-Team,” “Punky Brewster,” “The Incredible Hulk,”
Composer John Powell knows a little something about scoring for animation. One-third of his entire feature-film output has been for such top-grossing pics as “Kung Fu Panda,” “Happy Feet,” the “Ice Age” series and “How to Train Your Dragon.” The latter earned him a 2010 Oscar nomination for original score. The adventures of Toothless the dragon
February 28, 2019 10:15AM PT Colin Farrell will star in A24’s upcoming film “After Yang.” Korean-born filmmaker Kogonada will direct the robot drama from his own script. A24 has greenlit the project, which is based on the Alexander Weinstein short story “Saying Goodbye to Yang.” “After Yang” centers on a father and daughter as they
John Turturro and the producers of “The Name of the Rose” unveiled their ambitious English-language TV adaptation of Umberto Eco’s murder mystery in Rome on Thursday ahead of its global rollout, which will kick off March 4 on Italy’s RAI. Producers and the Italian pubcaster have high hopes the show will expand the international footprint
Facebook has funded a documentary series on the rise — and hard fall — of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera, the notorious Mexican drug kingpin who now faces life in prison. The five-episode “USA v. Chapo: The Drug War Goes on Trial” comes from Rolling Stone and Jigsaw Productions. The docu-series promises an in-depth, first-hand
William Baldwin ditched his plans for law school and a career in politics when he caught a love for acting. With credits in films such as “Flatliners” and “Backdraft,” he now has several TV series in the works. Family drama “Northern Rescue” comes to Netflix and the CBC later this year, along with Amazon Studios’
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As vinyl continues to supplant CDs as the physical medium of choice for music buffs, the annual Record Store Day event keeps growing in prominence as a clarion call to get into the groove. The lineup for this year’s brick-and-mortar blowout has just been unveiled, with (by our count) 394 mostly vinyl-excusive, mostly limited-edition releases
CBS’ search for a chief executive to succeed Leslie Moonves has narrowed to a short list that includes – among others – acting CEO Joe Ianniello and Hasbro CEO Brian Goldner, who is a CBS Corp. board member, according to people familiar with the matter. Ianniello is seen as having a potential edge because of
February 28, 2019 9:38AM PT Reddit is experimenting with a new tipping feature that could give its users a chance to earn some real cash: The self-proclaimed front page of the internet is currently testing tipping on a single Subreddit, with tips benefitting just one lucky user. “Anyone in r/shittymorph can now tip u/shittymorph for
It’s one of those coincidences with which film history is littered, that Claudio Giovannesi’s Naples-set young-Camorra saga “Piranhas” played in the Berlinale competition — going on to win the best screenplay award — while Agostino Ferrente’s documentary, “Selfie,” set in the very same milieu, debuted to much less fanfare in the Panorama sidebar. The films
Oscar-winning film composer and symphony orchestra conductor Andre Previn died Thursday at his home in Manhattan, his manager confirmed to the New York Times. He was 89. The former enfant terrible of motion picture scoring and accomplished jazz pianist was honored with four Academy Awards. He won the first two, for best scoring of a
February 28, 2019 9:05AM PT CNN is coming to augmented reality: The news network launched an app on Magic Leap’s AR headset Thursday, streaming live programming and on-demand videos on the device. CNN’s app is making use of Magic Leap’s screens framework, which brings linear 2D video to virtual TV screens that can be pinned
So far we already spotted this fall’s it-accessory (Dior’s bucket hat), it-dress (courtesy of Saint Laurent), and it-bag (Jacquemus’ barely-there finger bags). It’s safe to say Paris Fashion Week is pulling out all the sartorial stops and we’re only two days in. Click through for ELLE.com’s favorite looks, and make sure to check back as
Jordan Peele’s horror-thriller “Us” is expected to generate around $35 million in its opening North American weekend on March 22-24, early tracking showed Thursday. “Us,” which follows a family confronted by a group of doppelgängers, stars Lupita Nyong’o, Winston Duke, and Elisabeth Moss. Nyong’o and Duke play a couple who are taking their children (Shahadi
February 28, 2019 8:36AM PT The two-hour season finale of “The Masked Singer” on Fox blew away all of its broadcast competition on Wednesday night. The singing competition series nabbed a 3.1 rating in adults 18-49 and 10 million viewers, both of which represent new series highs in Live+Same Day. That is also an approximate
In recent weeks the Justice Department has been discussing reforms or even termination of the long-standing consent decrees that govern performing rights organizations ASCAP and BMI, but not their competitors, SESAC and Global Music Rights. Earlier this week the Wall Street Journal reported that the DOJ is expected to call for public input on the
February 28, 2019 8:24AM PT TV-news veteran Greta Van Susteren has joined Gray Television as a national political analyst who will provide news operations at the company’s TV stations with coverage of national and international political news. “After more than 20 years on cable news platforms, I am thrilled to move to broadcast news and
Luke Perry has been hospitalized after reportedly suffering a massive stroke, according to TMZ. Perry’s reps confirmed to Variety that the “Riverdale” star “is currently under observation at the hospital.” Paramedics responded to a call about a stroke at Perry’s Los Angeles home on Thursday morning, TMZ reports. He was taken to a nearby hospital, and