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This four-part, so-far-untitled documentary series about the rise and rise of Hollywood’s least likely marquee-name director starts out with a tribute from Christopher Walken that will be very hard for the next three instalments to match. In that inimitable… sta-cc-a-to… WAY… of his, the Sleepy Hollow star recalls his former dance teacher saying to him:

Tribeca Film Festival‘s ode to its 2x Oscar winning co-founder Robert De Niro –De Niro Con– continued Friday night with a screening of Silver Linings Playbook with that pic’s filmmaker David O. Russell and Ben Stiller sharing their candid experiences working with the Stella Adler trained actor. Or as Stiller, who worked with De Niro

Céline Dion has revealed she is working her way back to recovery, and is already planning a new show in her beloved Las Vegas. The French-Canadian chanteuse has given her only UK interview to BBC News, in which she revealed she had struggled to sing on stage several years before she was diagnosed with the

Warner Bros Pictures has acquired Pedro Almodóvar’s English-language feature debut, The Room Next Door, for release in a host of key international markets including the filmmaker’s home turf of Spain. Other markets to figure in the deal are the UK, Germany, Italy, the Nordics, Central & Eastern Europe (excluding Poland), Latin America and some of Asia-Pacific,

EXCLUSIVE: The Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA) will welcome Warner Bros. Discovery, Netflix, Sundance Institute, Roadside Attractions and Film Independent as partners for its inaugural Industry Day. Taking place on June 28, other partners for the festival’s Industry Day also include Macro, The Salon, ColorCreative and CAPE. The Industry Day will aim to

UTA has named Bob Roback, a veteran music and tech exec and entrepreneur, as its chief operating officer. Reporting to CEO Jeremy Zimmer and President David Kramer, Roback will also be a partner and join UTA’s board of directors. As COO, Roback will oversee overall business operations as well as areas like growth, strategy and

EXCLUSIVE: Gail Bean (Snowfall) will topline Both Eyes Open, an indie psychological thriller from writer-director Ariel Julia Hairston (The Comeback), which has wrapped production in Atlanta. Additional cast for the pic from RodFather Productions includes Taye Diggs (The Best Man), Joy Brunson (This Is Us), Christie Leverette (You’ll Never Leave Me), Tristan Mack Wilds (The

EXCLUSIVE: Director Cameron Van Hoy has entered production on The Prince, a new feature drama penned by Pulitzer Prize winner and Oscar nominee David Mamet. Scott Haze (Old Henry) leads a starry ensemble that also includes Nicolas Cage (Pig), J.K. Simmons (Whiplash), Giancarlo Esposito (Parish) and Andy Garcia (Ocean’s Eleven). The Prince chronicles an addict’s

Brush up on those contenders: The Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylists Guild has revealed the timeline for its 2025 MUAHS Awards, which celebrate outstanding achievements for make-up artists and hair stylists in motion pictures, television, commercials and live theater. The 12th annual ceremony is set for Saturday, February 15, at the Fairmont Century Plaza Hotel

While moviegoers await the arrival of big titles in theaters this summer, Netflix has added some new options to its catalogue to stream in June 2024. Newcomers to the streamer’s slate offer options for young adults, history buffs, book adaptation lovers and adrenaline junkies that like action-packed stories. Richard Linklater’s $20 million Hit Man starring

Although some advise against working with animals, Will Smith is fondly remembering his time with man’s best co-star. The Academy Award winner reminisced about his canine scene partner Abbey from the 2007 movie I Am Legend being “a brilliant actress” as he admitted to trying to adopt the German Shepherd, who was known for upstaging

EXCLUSIVE: The Haunting of Hill House actor Henry Thomas is joining the ESX Entertainment produced horror movie The Necklace, Deadline hears. The E.T. actor joins a booming ensemble in the Juan Pablo Arias Muñoz directed movie that includes sisters Madeleine & Violet McGraw (respectively from M3GAN and The Black Phone), Sarah Lind, Felix Solis, Jacob Moran, Christina Moore and Brynne Kurland.

“We have to do something,” says one of the many shadowy extremists who populate the fringes of Mike Ott’s tense drama McVeigh, a condensed account of the events that led Timothy McVeigh, an Iraq war veteran, to blow up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma on 19 April 1995, killing 168 people and

EXCLUSIVE: Academy Award winner Jared Leto is set to produce and star in a new film from h.wood Media, the multi-strategy vertical of L.A.-based hospitality company The h.wood Group, that draws inspiration from the story of retired professor-turned-cat burglar suspect Dr. Lawrence Gray. Currently untitled, the film written by Andy Bellin (Lovelace) adapts the article

So, is it The Watchers or is it The Watched? In North America it’s the former, in the UK and Ireland it’s the latter, and it’s a testament to the all-over-the-shop plotting of Ishana Night Shyamalan’s feature debut that it doesn’t really make much difference whichever way you look at it. Working from a folk-horror

EXCLUSIVE: Emmy-winner Murray Bartlett is set to join Amy Adams in At the Sea, a new drama from Kornel Mundruczó and Kata Wéber — the director and writer of such acclaimed films as Pieces of a Woman and White God — as well as Hammerstone Studios, Ryder Picture Company and AR Content. Set to enter production in Boston in June, the film follows the life of Laura (Adams)

The iconic creator of the wrap dress – which turns 50 this year — Diane von Furstenberg early on in a new doc about her tumultuous, inspiring life, loves and career, strokes her face insisting she loves her wrinkles. “Don’t ask me how old I am. Ask me how long I’ve lived.” In a Q&A

On the heels of its world premiere in competition as the opener for the Berlin Film Festival, the historical drama Small Things Like These, produced by and starring Oppenheimer Oscar winner Cillian Murphy, has been acquired by Lionsgate. The studio holds rights to the film in North America, the UK and Ireland and will release

Matthew Vaughn is responding to the heavy criticism his film Argylle received. The film starring Henry Cavill and Bryce Dallas Howard was not well-received by film critics and the box office, and the director is weighing in on what happened. “My guard came down on Argylle. We had done test screenings that had gone fantastically

EXCLUSIVE: Kate McKinnon and Andy Samberg have joined the cast of Jay Roach’s The Roses, starring Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch. Ncuti Gatwa, Sunita Mani, Zoë Chao, Jamie Demetriou and Belinda Bromilow also are rounding out the cast of the film, which starts production this month. Written by Tony McNamara, The Roses is a reimagining