Cineverse has announced that “The Toxic Avenger,” a darkly comedic reimagining of Troma Entertainment’s 1984 cult classic of the same name, is headed to theaters in 2025. Directed by Macon Blair (“I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore”) and starring Peter Dinklage, “The Toxic Avenger” reboot will premiere as an unrated wide release
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Naomi Watts revealed on “Live With Kelly and Mark” (via Entertainment Weekly) that she nearly quit acting before she met the late David Lynch, who cast her as the lead in 2001’s “Mulholland Drive.” The film’s critical acclaim and global success turned Watts into a star after “10 years” of “flunking auditions.” Lynch died on
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TV Asahi, a leading commercial TV network in Japan, is partnering with Emmy-winning producers Craig Plestis and Clara Plestis and their production company, Smart Dog Media, to co-produce a new talent competition show, “Song vs. Dance.” The Smart Dog Media duo will serve as executive producers, with Takaaki Kitano overseeing production in Japan. Smart Dog
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Cameron Diaz‘s return to acting is going smoothly: “Back in Action,” a new Netflix film starring Diaz alongside Jamie Foxx, was the streamer’s most-watched title during the week of Jan. 13-19. With only three days of availability, the film hit 46.8 million views — the biggest opening weekend for an English-language film on Netflix since
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Lyrical Media chief Alex Black got swarmed with “a million emails and messages” on the day it was announced his young production company was teaming with Ryder Picture Company on a film adaptation of Emily Henry‘s best-selling 2024 rom-com “Funny Story,” screen-written by the author herself. A big get for any studio, the deal was
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Beyond the perceived glitz and glamour of producing film and television shows lies another crucial economic engine of the entertainment industry: premieres, award shows and events. These gatherings are not merely celebrations of artistic achievement and publicity, they are vital to keeping Southern California’s diverse workforce employed, small businesses operating and continuing to drive the
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In the world of ice dancing, nothing is off limits. That’s the tone and story that Layne Fargo set to tell with “The Favorites,” her latest novel that has become the talk of social media since its January release. Per the book’s description, “To the world, they were a scandal. To each other, an obsession.
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In the year without a frontrunner, the doors are still wide open. I’m predicting three films will tie for the most nominations with 10 each: “Conclave,” “Emilia Pérez” and “Wicked.” Jacques Audiard’s crime musical “Emilia Pérez” is poised to dominate, and if it can tack on a tech nom or two, the Netflix film could
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Play video content Courtesy of Bryan Freedman Justin Baldoni is staying on the offensive … attempting to shoot down Blake Lively‘s allegation he sexually harassed her, by releasing raw video from “It Ends With Us” that reveals some very telling conversation between the costars. Baldoni’s team dropped nearly 10 minutes of unedited footage — including
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MusiCares has revealed the lineup for the 2025 Persons of the Year Gala honoring the Grateful Dead, taking place in Los Angeles on Jan. 31. Performers at the event include Dave Matthews, Noah Kahan, John Mayer, Zac Brown, Stewart Copeland, Mick Fleetwood, Sammy Hagar, Bruce Hornsby, Norah Jones, Wynonna Judd, Maren Morris, Lukas Nelson, Billy
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By the end of 2024, TikTok has generated approximately $8 billion in ad revenue in the U.S.  As revealed by Omdia’s Senior Research Director María Rua Aguete at a Content Americas panel, it surpassed 1.9 billion monthly active users globally, with 145 million in the U.S. alone. In terms of video revenues, TikTok reached $63.3
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Harlan Coben‘s next Netflix series “Run Away” has announced its sprawling cast, including James Nesbitt, Ruth Jones and Minnie Driver. Alfred Enoch, Lucian Msamati, Jon Pointing, Ellie de Lange, Adrian Greensmith, Ellie Henry, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Annette Badland, Ingrid Oliver, Maeve Courtier-Lilley, Finty Williams, Joe McGann and Amy Gledhill round out the cast. The eight-episode series
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“The View” hosts Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Anna Navarro and Alyssa Farah Griffin appeared on the Jan. 21 episode of the ABC daytime talk show to discuss Donald Trump‘s presidential inauguration (Whoopi Goldberg is out this week due to a previously planned work commitment). The four women took issue with Trump’s polarizing inauguration speech, in
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Latido Films, who’ve previously bet on high-success Latin arthouse cinema in Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s “The Beasts” and Alauda Ruiz de Azúa’s breakout, “Lullaby,” have acquired international sales rights to Colombian filmmaker Gala del Sol’s debut feature “Rains Over Babel” (“Llueve sobre Babel”) ahead of its Sundance world premiere. Latido’s Juan Torres brokered the deal and told
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An unprecedented co-production between Vietnam, Chile and Spain, “The Meeting” has found its director. The project was first announced at the San Sebastian Film Festival in 2023. Arantxa Echevarría, winner of Spain’s Oscar equivalent, a Goya, for her feature debut “Carmen and Lola” and whose €8.3 million ($8.6 million) box office with political thriller “Undercover”
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The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Center in Washington, D.C., has partnered with Italy’s prestigious Cineteca Di Bologna on a curated film screenings’ series called “Stories That Matter” that will launch with Oscar-shortlisted documentary “Daughters.” The powerful Netflix doc, which follows four girls as they head toward a special daddy-daughter dance date with their imprisoned fathers, will
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The deleted scenes also includes an extended version of “Popular,” with a full minute of Glinda teaching Elphaba the art of tossing her hair. But first, Elphie must get a little “pep in her step,” so Glinda urges her to stand on the bed and “bounce” to loosen up. “I’m not really a kind of
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Provocative French filmmaker Bertrand Blier, who scored hits with transgressive comedies featuring Gerard Depardieu and Isabelle Huppert such as “Going Places” and “Get Out Your Handkerchiefs,” has died. He was 85. Blier died on Monday night at his home in Paris surrounded by his wife and children, his son Leonard Blier told French news agency
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Sean Hu’s “Ocean Elegy: The Tragedies of Mudan and Ryukyu,” a seven-years-in-the-making documentary exploring a pivotal 1870s incident that reshaped East Asian geopolitics, will world premiere as the opening film of Japan‘s Cinema at Sea – Okinawa Pan-Pacific International Film Festival. New Zealand director Miki Magasiva’s “Tinā” is set to close the festival with its
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Endemol Shine Boomdog, the producer of Max Limited Series “Like Water for Chocolate,” has joined forces with Brazil’s A Fábrica to launch A Fábrica Mexico & U.S. Hispanic. Both are part of Banijay Americas. The new label will focus on producing scripted content for the Mexican, Latin American and U.S. Hispanic markets, and is set
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