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Trudie Styler arrives at the London offices of Maven Screen Media, her joint production company with Celine Rattray, bearing gifts: bottles of organic extra virgin olive oil. Featuring Styler and husband Sting’s names on the label, they are the last of a batch made from the 2025 olive harvest at Villa Il Palagio, their beloved […]

Democrats won up and down the ballot in the midterms, and votes are still being counted on what could ultimately be a 75-seat House majority and 54 or more seats in the Senate. There also were many firsts, reflecting the party’s diverse coalition that helped them score victories even in deeply red states. Among them: […]

Whit Stillman is currently in production on A Night at Claridge’s, his first feature film in a decade, with shooting taking place across Limerick, a city in the south of Ireland. A Night at Claridge’s was announced in May in Variety. Local news outlets in Limerick this week reported that Stillman had begun production in […]

EXCLUSIVE: Genre specialist WTFilms has boarded comedy-thriller The Dregs, about a group of friends whose trip to the Italian Alps takes a terrifying turn after they drink a cursed bottle of Grappa, for an AFM sales launch. The movie brings together a buzzy cast, announced by Deadline earlier this year, featuring Stephen Lang (Don’t Breathe) […]

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a clip from Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev’s French-produced political thriller Minotaur. Minotaur premiered at Cannes, where it won the Grand Prix, and has since been selected for Telluride, Toronto, New York, and the BFI London Film Festival. The film has also landed several Gotham noms, including Best International Feature, Best Director, and Best […]

La Bola Negra has won the audience award at this year’s London Film Festival. The LFF ended last month, but the audience award was announced this afternoon. Directed by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, the film, which debuted at Cannes, stars Guitarricadelafuente, Miguel Bernardeau, Carlos González, Milo Quifes, Penélope Cruz, Lola Dueñas and Glenn Close, […]

Netflix has slotted Tuesday, December 1 for the premiere of Trinity, its upcoming eight-episode drama series, starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Richard Madden. The streamer also released several first-look images (see below) and the first trailer, which you can see above. Writter by Jed Mercurio, Trinity revolves around a heroic female naval officer (Mbatha-Raw) becomes involved […]

Italian film director Tinto Brass, whose filmmaking spanned many genres but came to be associated with his erotic films of the 1970s, most notably 1979’s big-budget Caligula, has died in Rome. He was 93 years old. His wife Caterina Varzi and children Bonifacio and Beatrice Brass announced the news of Brass’ death on Wednesday to […]

The UK Culture Secretary has taken her examination of the £1.6B ($2.2B) Sky-ITV acquisition to the next stage by asking two competition bodies to formally scrutinize the deal. Lisa Nandy said she was “minded to intervene” last month and has now told Ofcom and the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to report back by January […]

A first look image of Pierfrancesco Favino (Il Traditore, Maria, Rush) in the role of late audacious Fiat-Chrysler automobile exec Sergio Marchionne in Marco Bellocchio’s biopic Falcon has been unveiled. Rai Cinema International Distribution, which announced it had boarded sales on the picture last month, has posted a first look image as it gears up […]

Abdul El-Sayed may have clinched a historic victory in Michigan, but his tense exchange with a Sky News reporter on election night is not winning him supporters in the UK. El-Sayed, who will become America’s first Muslim Senator after beating Mike Rogers, was questioned by Sky News’ U.S. correspondent James Matthews, but was not willing […]

Harry Potter fans lining up to enter the franchise’s new Oxford Street store in London were greeted by trans rights protesters chanting that J.K. Rowling has “blood on her hands.” A group of around a dozen protesters stood to the side of the flagship store, wielding megaphones and placards with messages that included: “Trans kids […]

EXCLUSIVE: Action icon Jean-Claude Van Damme is returning to his martial arts roots in Japan-set Yakuza movie Katana, which is being launched for sales by The Veterans ahead of the AFM. Jeremy Zag, the French producer, writer and director best known for creating the hit Miraculous franchise, is behind the film, which will return Van […]

Johnny Depp is open to revisiting the Pirates of the Caribbean universe and reprising his role as Jack Sparrow. In a new interview, Depp revealed that he is open to working with Jerry Bruckheimer again. “If things are exactly where they need to be with regard to how they are going to top off the […]

The Walt Disney company is laying the groundwork for more cuts, with thousands poised to be impacted. According to sources, the new round of layoffs will be made across multiple divisions, including TV networks and the motion picture studio, at varying amounts. As is customary in the run-up to staff reductions, managers of the affected […]

Mckenna Grace has opened up about refusing to do nude scenes in film, and she has a powerful reason why. In a new interview, the star of The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping shared why she won’t be doing any nudity in her acting roles. “At this point, I definitely don’t do nudity or […]

When Kelly Stewart Harcourt (who is also an Executive Producer) was told about the idea of making a movie about her father, the Oscar winning legend James Stewart, her reaction was that it might be pretty boring since her dad didn’t live a life full of scandals, drugs, drinking or other staples of biopics about […]

SPOILER ALERT! This post contains details from Disney Night on Dancing with the Stars. It’s hard to believe, but the Dancing with the Stars Season 35 contestants are in the final stretch of the competition. Week 8 is upon us, and not only is it Disney Night in the ballroom, but we’ve also arrived at […]

Epic romantic K-drama The Remarried Empress, starring Shin Mina, Ju Jihoon, Lee Jongsuk and Lee Seyoung, will launch with the first four episodes on Tuesday, November 3 on Disney+ and Hulu, one day earlier than the originally scheduled November 4 premiere date. The surprise reveal, announced during a press conference from Seoul, South Korea, is […]

As encouraging as polls are for Democrats, left-leaning Hollywood activists are viewing Tuesday’s midterm elections with a lot of anxiety — and just a bit of cautious optimism. In fact, throughout the cycle, as candidates courted the industry’s deep pockets at tony backyard venues and one-on-one phone calls, the fatigue of donors was well apparent, […]