The Los Angeles Film Critics Association is announcing winners for the best films and performances of 2023. After Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” won the National Board of Review and New York Film Critics Awards for best film, all eyes are on the California journalists to see if they will opt for something
In “Maestro” and “The Killer,” the characters played by Carey Mulligan and Michael Fassbender exist in different worlds. Mulligan’s Felicia Montealegre Bernstein, an up-and-coming actress who becomes conductor Leonard Bernstein’s wife and soul mate, breathes rarefied air among East Coast artists from the 1950s through the ’70s. Fassbender’s tightly coiled, mostly silent assassin, meanwhile, travels
As speculation continues over who will be the next James Bond, Andrew Scott, who played the villainous C in Sam Mendes’ “Spectre,” is weighing on his “All of Us Strangers” co-star Paul Mescal stepping into the shoes of 007. “He’d probably be a great James Bond,” Scott told me Saturday night at Los Angeles special
“The Boy and the Heron,” a fantastical coming-of-age story from animation maestro Hayao Miyazaki, earned $12.8 million in its opening weekend, becoming the first original anime production to top the domestic box office. The GKids release is showing in Imax and other premium large format auditoriums, which bolstered its record-breaking revenues and helped secure its
Jada Pinkett Smith says she and Will may have been completely dunzo by now, were it not for literally having some sense slapped into them … indirectly, of course, because poor Chris Rock was the actual target. Jada further opened up about the famous slap to Daily Mail, saying, “I nearly didn’t even attend the
Debutant Ilango Ram’s Sri Lanka-set Sinhala language “Tentigo” (“Nelum Kuluna”) is set for a Tamil language Indian remake. The film is produced by Hiranya Perera for Silent Frames Productions, Sri Lanka, Sanjay Gulati and Neeraj Pandey for Crawling Angel Films, India, Kaarthekeyen Santhanam for Stone Bench Films, India, Navaneethan Nachimuthu and Pon Umapathy Kailash. Perera
Chinese streamer iQiyi used the Asian Television Forum & Market in Singapore to unveil a slate of productions and commissions by its international division. Executives including chief content office Wang Xiaohui and president of movies and overseas business Yang Xianghua said that company plans to roll out more than 280 Chinese language movies, drama series,
Chinese video streamer iQiyi used the Asia Television Forum & Market in Singapore to unveil a slate of productions and commissions by its international division, celebrate a partnership with Singapore-based Chinese-language studio GHY Culture Media, and renew a deal with the Singapore Tourism Board. President of movies and overseas business Yang Xianghua sat down with
Indian film project “Notun Gur – A New Sweetness” has attracted a host of international co-producers. Fran Borgia of Akanga Film Asia, Singapore, Camera d’Or winner Vimukthi Jayasundara of Film Council Productions, Sri Lanka, Ivy Yu-Hua Shen of Betula Films, Taiwan and Ajay Rai of In Front Films, U.K. have boarded the project as international co-producers.
Play video content TMZ.com Kid Capri thinks it’s time for Taylor Swift and Kim Kardashian to end their feud, but not in a grand face-off for public consumption — instead, he says settling scores behind closed doors is the way to go. We caught the “World Famous” DJ out in NYC this week shortly after
Tucker Carlson is asking fans to fork over $72 for a charter one-year subscription to his new streaming video service — which his site says is “days away” from launching. Carlson officially announced the direct-to-consumer service, at tuckercarlson.com, in a post Saturday on X (formerly Twitter). After he was fired in April 2023 from Fox
Streamer Chorki has acquired Bangladesh rights to iconoclastic Indian filmmaker Q‘s latest film “Zewel,” it was revealed on the sidelines of Singapore’s Asia TV Forum and Market. Chorki has also boarded the project as a co-producer alongside Rita Meher, curator of Tasveer Festival and CEO of Luminary Pictures (Seattle). Produced by India’s Oddjoint, the project
Elon Musk, continuing his campaign to make X a “free speech” refuge even to the detriment of the company’s business interests, said he is reinstating the account of far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. Twitter banned Jones in 2018, along with his Infowars program. Last year Jones was ordered to pay nearly $1.5 billion to families of Sandy
Adam Driver is done with your “Star Wars” complaints. As the host of the Dec. 9 episode of “Saturday Night Live,” he performed his monologue while playing the piano and reciting a letter of Christmas wishes to Santa. “I would like people to stop coming up to me on the street saying, ‘You killed Han
One of the most popular events at the 34th Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF) was a panorama event where six of the country’s leading indie film lights shared a panel to discuss opportunities and challenges. Opportunities are plentiful, with the festival world embracing Singaporean films and filmmakers warmly. Hong Kong-based Anthony Chen has had a
Mob narratives seldom place women front and center, unless it’s in a flat-out comedy (“Married to the Mob,” recent “Mafia Mamma”) or campy TV movies like “Mafia Princess” and “Bella Mafia.” No stranger to the genre as an actress, Jennifer Esposito attempts to balance that ledger with her debut as writer-director, “Fresh Kills.” This solid
The burgeoning ‘acquimissions’ model of co-productions was one of the points of discussion at Singapore’s Asia TV Forum and Market. Conceptually, acquimissions blend the worlds of acquisitions and commissioning where independent producers and production studios engineer co-productions between themselves and platforms and commissioners across territories and windows. “This is something that has happened because of
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Dave Robb, a longtime Hollywood labor reporter who worked for Variety in the 1980s and ’90s, died Dec. 8 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 74 and had recently been diagnosed with cancer of the brain stem. Robb most recently worked for Deadline, Variety‘s sibling company under the Penske Media Corp. umbrella. Robb
Laufey (pronounced Lay-vay) is captivating Gen Z by writing and singing music that almost sounds like it could be from Gen WWII. Go figure, and go marvel. But the 24-year-old has always instinctively known that a box is no place to be: She hails from Iceland, is of Asian heritage, and is in many ways
Lola Dee, a popular singer in the 1950s who toured with Bob Hope, Jimmy Durante and Johnnie Ray, has died. She was 95. The pop singer, who was signed to Columbia and Mercury labels in the ’50s, died of natural causes in Hinsdale, Illinois at a nursing facility, as announced by her publicist and CD
Is “May December” camp or not? That’s the question the internet is currently obsessing over, but whether you fall on the “definitely” or “no, rude question!” side, one clue can be found in the dark comedy’s notably prominent score by Marcelo Zavros. Ten minutes into the Todd Haynes movie that’s loosely based on the story
Justine Triet’s courtroom drama “Anatomy of a Fall” won best film and best director at the 36th European Film Awards, which took place Saturday in Berlin. The French film also won the screenwriter award for Triet and Arthur Harari’s story about a marriage in crisis. The film was the winner of the Palme d’Or at
SPOILER ALERT: This story contains major spoilers for “Leave the World Behind,” now streaming on Netflix. “There was one ending that was really inevitable,” says Rumaan Alam, whose novel “Leave the World Behind” was the source material for Netflix’s latest apocalyptic thriller. “The key thing to look at … is that the book ends with a
Stan Rogow, a veteran writer, producer and music manager who was a key player in such series as “Lizzie McGuire” and “Fame” and the 1986 feature “Clan of the Cave Bear, died Dec. 7 at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 75. Rogow was most active in television, working on such notable series
As Jeffrey Wright and Taraji P. Henson sit down to discuss their acclaimed performances — as cantankerous novelist Thelonious “Monk” Ellison in “American Fiction” and sensuous singer Shug Avery in “The Color Purple” — Wright is eager to address one topic first: their shared hometown. It turns out both acting titans hail from Washington, D.C.
Hayao Miyazaki’s “The Boy and the Heron” looks to soar atop domestic charts this weekend after earning about $5.4 million across Friday and various preview screenings. Playing in 2,205 theaters, the GKids release has the benefit of Imax and other premium large format auditoriums to boost those numbers. It’s another modest win for theaters in
The Weeknd is doing a Fortnite dance as you shred Queens of the Stone Age’s “Go With the Flow” on an Xbox controller. No, this is not a fever dream. It’s the very real Fortnite Festival, Epic’s new, free music video game built inside the world of Fortnite. Developed in tandem with Epic subsidiary Harmonix,
Sofia Coppola‘s “Priscilla” has earned critical acclaim for artfully pulling back the curtain on the title character’s life with superstar Elvis Presley. However, it has also been met with some criticism over Elvis’ portrayal in the film, which shows the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll (played by Jacob Elordi) being abusive toward Priscilla (Cailee Spaeny).