Month: August 2024

‘Kneecap’, the name of the Irish hip hop group, and the music biopic about — and starring — the groundbreaking trio, opens today on 700+ screens, following up a U.S. tour last fall and leading into another one.   The hybrid documentary, which was a buzzy Sundance title when Sony Pictures Classics nabbed it, recently

Warner Bros. Discovery is shutting down the Boomerang streaming service and moving some of its programming, which includes many classic cartoon series, onto Max. The kids-and-family move is set for September 30, according to an email to subscribers. It comes in the same year as a similar strategic shift by Paramount Global, which shuttered Noggin

The judge in the Rust shooting case lit into the New Mexico prosecutors this week, citing “egregious discovery violations constituting misconduct and false testimony elicited during trial.” In a ruling Wednesday, District Court Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer noted a number of missteps in the state’s case against Rust star and producer Alec Baldwin and earlier the

Netflix is about to release Season 2 of Unstable, the comedy that stars Rob Lowe as a tech genius in meltdown mode as he grieves the death of the wife who grounded him. Lowe co-created the show, he’s Executive Producer, and stars with his son, John Owen Lowe. That brings full circle a 40-year career’s

EXCLUSIVE: Monument Releasing on Friday announced it has acquired rights spanning multiple English language territories to Rule of Two Walls, “a visceral and vital portrait of today’s Ukraine through the lens of artists.” The documentary directed by David Gutnik and executive produced by actor Liev Schreiber premiered at Tribeca Festival in 2023, where it won

Romance author Emily Henry now has five of her most recent novels set to be adapted for the big and small screens. Henry went on a rom-com writing spree that began with Beach Read, which came out in the summer of 2020. She has published a book a year since then, with People We Meet

EXCLUSIVE: Gravitas Ventures has acquired U.S. and Canadian distribution rights to Don’t Fall in Love With Yourself, a documentary about influential musician-artist-actor Justin Pearson. Gravitas plans to release the film, directed by Jon Nix, on August 20 through its “hybrid distribution system,” across Comcast, Amazon Prime Video, Peacock, Spectrum, Apple TV, Dish, Google Play, DirecTV,

Daniel Mayer Selznick, one of Hollywood’s last direct connections to the industry’s founding families, died of natural causes on Thursday, August 1 at the Motion Picture Country Home in Woodland Hills, California at 88. He had been a longtime and beloved resident at the retirement home, overseeing the construction of the Louis B. Mayer Theater

Justin Simien says the Donald Glover-starring Solo: A Star Wars Story spinoff series Lando will not be happening. Collider published remarks Friday from Simien indicating that Lando is dead. Simien is out promoting Hollywood Black, an MGM+ docuseries based on the book by scholar Donald Bogle examining race and representation in Hollywood. That’s when the