Movies

You have to have a thick skin when you’re an actor and auditioning. Ryan Gosling revealed during a GQ cover story that his role in 2004’s The Notebook was not cast because he was perfect for the job. “[Director Nick Cassavetes ] straight up told me: ‘The fact that you have no natural leading man qualities is

EXCLUSIVE: Ben Schnetzer has signed on to star as famed Romanian conductor Sergiu Celibidache in The Yellow Tie replacing Rupert Friend. Schnetzer will have a central role in the feature, playing the young Celibidache with John Malkovich set to play an older version of the conductor. The film maps the extraordinary life of legendary classical

Ari Emanuel believes artificial intelligence will help the entertainment industry, not destroy it. Speaking on the Freakonomics Radio podcast to author and host Stephen Dubner — an interview that took place before the Writer’s Guild of America strike, where AI issues loom large — Emanuel seemed to indicate that AI would be a useful tool.

With Ezra Miller being involved in so many personal controversies, many believed that The Flash could be abandoned completely. However, director Andy Muschietti and producer Barbara Muschietti are dispelling the rumors and claim that the film was never in danger. “Not at all. No. That was never real,” Barbara told EW about the movie potentially

The Middle East and North Africa region’s cinema star is rising across every aspect of the chain from production to exhibition to streaming. Fresh energy has been injected into the sector by the arrival of Saudi Arabia on the scene following the lifting of its cinema ban in 2017 as part of its 2030 Vision

Splash Mountain, the Disneyland flume ride which has been criticized for racist and stereotyping related to its roots in the 1946 Disney film Song of the South, will officially close at the end of the day today to begin its renovation into an attraction based on the more modern film The Princess and the Frog.

EXCLUSIVE: Taost Entertainment, a London-based media production startup, has picked up Chinese distribution rights to the star-studded animated feature 10 Lives. Taost acquired the rights to the pic, which features an expansive voice cast, including Zayn Malik, Simone Ashley, Mo Gilligan, Sophie Okonedo, Bill Nighy, and Jeremy Swift (Ted Lasso) from the Chinese-based outfit Original

Tony Gilroy entered the Star Wars galaxy as a credited writer (he came in later in the shoot) for the stand-alone 2016 hit movie, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Now he has taken it much further as showrunner, head writer and executive producer of the Disney+ series Andor, the title of course referring to

Keanu Reeves reunited with his rock band Dogstar at the 2023 BottleRock Napa Valley festival. The star of The Matrix played bass with the group for the first time in public in more than 20 years. His bandmate Robert Mailhouse gave Reeves some advice ahead of performing in front of a live crowd. “He was just

The Monty Python crew always looked on the bright side of life when it came to its classic film parody, Life of Brian. But Monty Python star John Cleese insists he never said that he would remove a politically incorrect scene from a stage adaptation of Life of Brian, even though the film’s 1979 sensibilities

Justine Triet won the the Palm d’Or, the top prize at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival becoming only the third woman to receive the honor in the 76-year history of the event. Triet directed the film Anatomy of a Fall which stars Sandra Hüller, a writer trying to prove her innocence in her after her husband’s death.

What has fallen flat at Pixar? This is the innovative animation studio that pushed all before it in the first decade of this millennium, that invented a way of turning the plastic finish of digital animation to its advantage in the towering Toy Story, that was prepared to start a film with a 20-minute scene

Ken Loach still has more to say against The Man in society with his cinema, that was clear coming away from the Cannes press conference for his latest movie The Old Oak. We asked Loach if the reports are true; whether The Old Oak is truly his finale. Answered the director, “One day at a

Gary Kent, an actor, director and, most notably, stuntman whose career is thought to have been an inspiration for Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, died Thursday at an assisted care facility in Austin, Texas. He was 89. Born on June 7, 1933, in Walla Walla, Washington, Kent’s early film credits include 1959’s

A third Wings of Desire centering on the angels that watch over us, is not in the cards, German director Wim Wenders said today at the Cannes press conference for his latest in competition title at the fest, Perfect Days. “I don’t think I would go back to the idea of angels, if anything this

“Thus with a kiss I die,” wrote William Shakespeare in Romeo & Juliet, and thus echoed a Los Angeles judge today over the alleged sexual abuse and negligence lawsuit from the stars of Franco Zeffirelli Oscar-nominated 1968 adaptation of the doomed lovers play. Stating that the $100 million in damages action against Paramount Pictures from

Gurinder Chadha revealed that Harrison Ford had an unknowing effect on her ability to get UK hit film Bend it Like Beckham off the ground when she made it two decades ago. At the time, the director was struggling to get financing from any of the UK public film funding bodies so she could make her now

EXCLUSIVE: We have your first look at After Sherman, the award-winning documentary directed by Jon-Sesrie Goff that opens theatrically in New York on June 2.  The feature from Cargo Film & Releasing premiered at the True/False Film Festival in Missouri last year. “Goff follows his father, a minister, in the aftermath of the 2015 mass

Brittany Snow is opening up about one of the “hardest mental health challenges” she has faced in the past year and how she has relied on her friends for support. Although Snow doesn’t reveal too many details, the American Dreams alum filed for divorce in January of this year from husband of two years Tyler