There are some types of screen narratives that probably shouldn’t be attempted on limited means, and “international espionage thriller” may well be one of them. That notion is illustrated by “Alarum,” which features Scott Eastwood and Willa Fitzgerald as a budget “Mr. & Mrs. Smith,” ex-spies united in an under-radar domesticity interrupted by heavily armed
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Jeannot Szwarc, the French filmmaker known for directing “Jaws 2,” “Somewhere in Time” and “Supergirl,” died Wednesday. He was 85. Jane Seymour, who played Elise McKenna in Szwarc’s 1980 film, “Somewhere in Time,” confirmed the news. “Today, we say goodbye to a true visionary. Jeannot Szwarc was not just a brilliant director but a kind
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Between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day, NBCUniversal‘s slate of holiday programming reached a total of 88 million average viewers. That total comes from a combination of Nielsen’s measurement of broadcast airings on NBC and the company’s own internal data regarding streams on Peacock. For context, NBCU reported 82 million viewers for its holiday slate in
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David Lynch transformed the landscape of cinema with films like “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive,” and changed the parameters of television with “Twin Peaks.” From one project to the next, he repeatedly merged the surreal and nightmarish with the wholesome and quaint, luxuriating in the grey areas between an idyllic portrait of smalltown Americana and
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The legal battle between Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively in the aftermath of “It Ends With Us” expanded its blast zone Thursday morning, with a new lawsuit by Baldoni including text messages between Lively and Baldoni, her co-star and director. In the texts, Lively seemingly alludes to Taylor Swift as “one of her dragons.” The
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The “Fire Country” cast has come together to support the first responders who are helping with the ongoing Los Angeles wildfires and asking for viewers to do everything they can to help. “We would like to extend our deepest gratitude to all of the firefighters and first responders who are risking their lives and tirelessly
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Adam McKay said in an interview with NME that his satirical comedy “Don’t Look Up” was seen by an estimated “400 million to half a billion” people on Netflix despite being “hated” by “the critics and the cultural gatekeepers.” The director was talking about the L.A. fires and climate change when the topic of “Don’t
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Jim Carrey, Jennifer Coolidge, Kevin Hart, Stephen Colbert, Donald Glover, Mindy Kaling and Jordan Peele. These are just some of the A-list comedy stars who once auditioned for “Saturday Night Live” and did not make the cut. Their audition tapes were unveiled in the first episode of “SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night,” a four-part docuseries on
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President-elect Donald Trump announced Senate aide Olivia Trusty as his pick for FCC commissioner, which would give Republicans a majority at the regulatory agency. Trusty is currently policy director on the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation. In that role, according to Trump, “she has fought tirelessly to grow the Economy, empower Innovation, and
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Cameron Diaz‘s return to acting after 11 years in Netflix’s “Back in Action” means she’s also on her first movie press tour in more than a decade. Joining co-star Jamie Foxx for a video interview with Complex, the “Charlie’s Angels” favorite threw some shade at president-elect Donald Trump by saying it’s actually Elon Musk who
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Kyle MacLachlan has paid tribute to David Lynch, the visionary filmmaker known for “Blue Velvet,” “Mulholland Drive” and “Twin Peaks,” who died at the age of 78. “Forty-two years ago, for reasons beyond my comprehension, David Lynch plucked me out of obscurity to star in his first and last big budget movie. He clearly saw
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After just one season of “Saturday Night Live,” Pete Davidson wanted out. In the new “SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night” docuseries, the comedian revealed that he asked series creator and showrunner Lorne Michaels to cut him loose. “After my first year, I actually called for a meeting with Lorne. I was like, ‘Please fire me,’” Davidson
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“Beast Games,” the reality competition series from YouTube personality MrBeast, is now Amazon Prime Video‘s most-watched unscripted series ever. The series achieved that by reaching 50 million viewers in the 25 days after its Dec. 19 premiere, according to Amazon. That total also makes it the streamer’s No. 2 series debut of 2024, behind “Fallout,”
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“You, Me & Her,” an R-rated indie romantic comedy, will be the first film to use the new Attend direct distribution platform recently launched by The Fithian Group. The film, a Two Hands Productions release, will open nationwide on Feb. 14, 2025. The film is also unveiling its first trailer. Attend is a new experimental
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Ronnie Yeskel, casting director of “Pulp Fiction,” “Reservoir Dogs” and “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” died on Jan. 4 at The Motion Picture & Television Fund Retirement Home in Woodland Hills after an extended battle with cancer, AMPAS Governor Richard Hicks confirmed. She was 76. Yeskel’s career in casting spanned more than three decades, including work across
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Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. It took a little while for the TikTok effect to really hit fashion. Just as Instagram influenced designers to make their collections more frontal, colorful, and texture-forward so they would pop on the grid, once the lockdown doldrums lifted and in-person
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