Movies

EXCLUSIVE: Filmmakers Ricki Stern and Anne Lundberg have seen this day coming. For a long time. Their 2108 Netflix documentary Reversing Roe examined how right-wing activists, politicians and jurists were steadily chipping away at abortion rights across the country, with the goal of eventually overturning Roe v. Wade. Today it happened, in a 6-3 Supreme

EXCLUSIVE: Emmy nominee Madeline Brewer (The Handmaid’s Tale) has signed on to star alongside Peyton Kennedy, Anjali Bhimani, Jeremy Radin, Akilah Hughes and Ben Gleib in the indie Pruning. In Lola Blanc’s psychological horror film, which is currently in production in the Los Angeles area, a far-right political commentator Sami Geller (Brewer) discovers that her rhetoric

Apparently The Man From Toronto, which was in production around the start of 2020, became a victim of Covid as Sony Pictures moved it around the release schedule before finally giving up and handing it off to Netflix in a deal earlier this year. So let’s see here: You have an action comedy with Kevin

EXCLUSIVE: It looks like Spy Kids creator Robert Rodriguez has found his new spy family for his beloved family adventure franchise. Gina Rodriguez, Zachary Levi, Everly Carganilla and newcomer Connor Esterson are set to star as the franchise’s new family in the upcoming film from Netflix, Skydance and Spyglass. Rodriguez will write, direct and produce the

Distribution sources are saying there’s a chance that Paramount/Skydance’s Top Gun: Maverick could top the box office this weekend in its fifth session with $32 million, a 28% decline week over week. This will easily send the Tom Cruise movie past the half-billion point at the domestic box office; the pic already is the actor’s highest

EXCLUSIVE: Screen Gems has acquired the rights to Crypt TV’s horror Island of the Dolls, based on the infamous, true story of La Isla de las Munecas south of Mexico City, in a competitive situation. Located in the channels of Xochimilco, La Isla has become a tourist attraction with a mysterious and horrifying history. For decades,

The recently accepted fashion of populating period British romantic melodramas with actors of color, notably in Netflix’s ongoing hit series Bridgerton, continues with Mr. Malcolm’s List, a nicely decked-out, dramatically conventional tale of Regency-period matchmaking dizzily spinning out of the participants’ control. Admittedly “loosely inspired” by Pride and Prejudice, this modestly scaled venture deep into

EXCLUSIVE: Concourse Media has acquired worldwide sales rights to comedy Good Egg ahead of its premiere at the Bentonville Film Festival this week. The film follows a warmhearted schoolteacher, played by Yara Martinez (Bull, Jane The Virgin), who inadvertently gets plunged into a dangerous scheme by her suspicious IVF egg donor, played by Andrea Londo

According to director Baz Luhrmann, a longer version of his newest biopic, Elvis.  When talking about the film, Luhrmann told the Radio Times, “I mean, I have a four-hour version, actually.” In the interview, he mentioned there were extra scenes he wanted to add but with the time constraints, the director had to settle for

For anyone who has seen the documentary Amazing Grace, it’s hard to imagine a film to rival the one about the making of Aretha Franklin’s gospel album. But the new film Stay Prayed Up contains equally ecstatic moments of a gospel singer in performance, in this case a not widely known but deeply gifted woman referred

Loudmouth’s first images are of New York City in the 1980s, startling footage of frothing racism from Howard Beach to Bensonhurst back when Rev. Al Sharpton rose to prominence as an organizer, orator and agitator. The film by Josh Alexander follows the rise of sometime controversial founder of the National Action Network and former TV

Directors Amandine Fredon and Benjamin Massoubre take home the top prize for their animated film Little Nicholas–Happy as Can Be at the annual Annecy International Animation Film Festival in France.  Co-produced French/Luxembourg film takes place towards the end of the1950s in Paris, René Goscinny (voiced by Alain Chabat) and Jean-Jacques Sempé (voiced by Laurent Lafitte)

The Native American Media Alliance announced they are accepting applications for the fifth Native American Feature Film Writers Lab. This is a 10-week program that will take place on-line from September through November 2022 and sponsored by COMCAST NBCUniversal, Cherokee Nation Film Office and A+E Networks. “This lab has been an incredible resource for several

AMC Entertainment shareholders have sent a message to the company’s CEO, Adam Aron, by voting decisively to reject his compensation package. In an SEC filing, the company said the vote yesterday at the company’s shareholder meeting was conducted “on a non-binding advisory basis,” meaning it doesn’t compel AMC to take any action. Aron’s total pay

A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit.  Emmy ballots are live now, marking the first weekend of voting before they are due back June 27, and I have managed to pick up a real sense of anxiety and tension out there from the many campaigners doing everything they can possibly do to

‘Allo Insiders, Jesse Whittock here. The sun is scorching out there in London today (I promise you this does happen occasionally), but I’ve stayed just cool enough to bring you a rundown of this week’s biggest stories. Mountains Of Content In Canada Rockie return: A bleary-eyed Max Goldbart here fresh from touching down at Heathrow

Venom franchise star Tom Hardy took to Instagram on Thursday and shared the cover page of what appears to be a script for Venom 3. While the image does not reveal the sequel’s name, where the title should be is a black box containing a crude illustration of the Symbiote with a long, red tongue

EXCLUSIVE: Zeitgeist Films and Kino Lorber have acquired North American rights to Eva Vitija’s documentary Loving Highsmith, which takes as its focus Carol and The Talented Mr. Ripley author Patricia Highsmith. Zeitgeist will release the film theatrically this September. Loving Highsmith is a unique look at the life of the celebrated American author, focusing on Highsmith’s quest

Common said working on the film Selma turned him into an activist and that a recent seven-month stay in London, where police don’t carry guns, “felt like a weight was off my shoulders” as he talked over his life and career at an event awarding him the Tribeca Festival’s second annual Harry Belafonte Voices for Social

EXCLUSIVE: Director Dave Caplan’s directorial debut is a love letter and inspirational hip hop archive about The DOC, a master of the art who is more than likely your favorite rapper’s favorite rapper. The film chronicles the life of the lyricist and producer who wrote for NWA and Dr. Dre co-founded Death Row Records, mentored