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EXCLUSIVE: Hugh Laurie is the latest addition to The Trial of Louise Woodward, HBO’s true-crime limited series from creator Matthew Barry. This marks Laurie’s third outing with HBO after Veep and Avenue 5 – both comedies from Armando Iannucci. He joins a cast with Catriona Chandler in the title role. The show also stars Joanne […]

UPDATED with official trailer: Netflix has released the official trailer for La Bola Negra, the Spanish drama from Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi that has been gaining serious momentum since bursting on the scene at the Cannes Film Festival, where it scored a 20-minute ovation at its world premiere and won the directors, known as […]

From Alex Gibney’s mammoth study of the rise of X proprietor Elon Musk to Danny Boyle’s dramatization of the birth of British tabloid newspaper The Sun, this year’s Venice Film festival featured a lot of movies speculating on the past, present and future of the media. None did it quite as disturbingly, however, as Lance […]

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar nominee Lily Gladstone (Killers Of The Flower Moon) and Twilight and Dark Winds actor Kiowa Gordon are attached to star in The Curse of Silver, a supernatural horror-western reuniting the pair with Quantum Cowboys director Geoff Marslett, who co-directs alongside Gordon. Set on the “lawless Texas-Mexico border in the aftermath of the Civil […]

EXCLUSIVE: Altered Innocence has acquired all North American rights to Kasper Kalle’s queer gothic romance No Rest For The Wicked. The film, which world-premiered in Competition at the 2026 Fantasia International Film Festival won the Cheval Noir Award for Best Director and the Cheval Noir Award for Best Actor (Pilou Asbæk). It will continue its […]

EXCLUSIVE: Karl Glusman (Eenie Meanie) has joined the cast of Giant Void, the upcoming independent sci-fi drama from writer-director Michael Reisinger, with The Blair Witch Project co-creator Eduardo Sánchez boarding as an executive producer. Glusman joins Molly Burnett (Law & Order:SVU) , Elaine Hendrix (The Parent Trap) and Shahjehan Khan (Deli Boys) in the ensemble. […]

Harry Smith is returning to NBC News as a contributor, with plans to report on feature stories called Common Good. Smith’s return is official as of Monday, when he will appear at a Common Ground live event hosted by the network. The network confirmed his return, first reported by People. He told the publication, “I […]

Netflix has found its leads for Icebreaker, its series adaptation of Hannah Grace’s bestselling novel. Daisy Jelley (Poser, How To Have Sex) will play Anastasia “Stassie” Allen and Connor Simos (Subversion) will portray Nate Hawkins in the college hockey romance drama series. In Icebreaker, she is the transfer gunning for Olympic gold. He is the […]

EXCLUSIVE: Comedian Tom Segura has announced the first leg of his new stand-up comedy tour, Tom Segura: Preposterous, which includes 30 cities, beginning with Baton Rouge, LA on January 8. Tickets will be available on presale starting Wednesday, September 30th at 10 a.m. local time before the general on sale Friday, October 2nd. Stay tuned […]

Disney has unveiled premiere date for Steven Knight’s Oasis documentary on Disney+ and Hulu. The feature will land on October 9, just two weeks after tickets to Oasis’ next round of tour dates were snapped up, including some shows in the U.S. Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger has already had a theatrical run where […]

EXCLUSIVE: British comedian and mind reader Peter Antoniou has announced a big set of tour dates for 2027. From a childhood fascination with a tarot deck to performing for audiences around the world, Antoniou has built a career around turning the impossible into unforgettable theatre. His live performances combine comedy and audience interaction with moments […]

EXCLUSIVE: A Toxic Love Story producer Curious Films is moving into the live space with a new Boyzone concert film following the smash success of its Sky doc. Last year, Boyzone: No Matter What became Sky’s most-watched unscripted series of all time and was the catalyst for the Irish superstars getting back together. Curious Films […]

Kane Parson’s $400M hit Backrooms, spinning off his web-series inspired by “creepypasta’ horror content on the internet, is invariably and understandably billed as a horror. The director told a panel at the Zurich Summit on Saturday, however, that he does not see it as being aligned with the genre. “I didn’t direct like a horror […]

The previously unreleased song released by Taylor Swift yesterday as part of The Life of a Showgirl: Encore record has already scored some records of its own. Spotify says that one of the four Swift songs released yesterday – “Patient Zero” – immediately became Spotify’s most-streamed song by a female artist in a single day […]

John Sloss’s Cinetic Media has launched Vertical Leap, an investment vehicle and producing pathway for professional athletes. The initiative is designed to give athletes/members “a working seat inside Cinetic’s slate, with access to rough cuts, creative input, and the same industry guidance the company provides the filmmakers behind its most successful projects.” The end goal […]

One year ago, AI ‘actress’ Tilly Norwood blew up at the Zurich Summit when she was introduced to the industry. The line that emerged from the event at the time was that agents were circling the AI creation. One year on, Norwood returned to the Summit with her creator Eline van der Velden from AI […]

EXCLUSIVE: Filipino filmmaker and producer Antoinette Jadaone, whose credits include Berlinale award winner Sunshine, is launching a new production outfit Ilaya Ilaya with a slate spanning genre films, television originals and immersive theatre. Jadaone will run the company with longtime collaborator and producer Reign Anne De Guzman (Sunshine, That Thing Called Tadhana), who has collaborated […]

The White House has blocked CNN from flying on Air Force One as the TV pool network traveling with Donald Trump on his trip to Tennessee on Saturday. A CNN spokesperson confirmed reports that the network was pulled from as a scheduled network providing TV coverage of the president. Because of space limitations, much of […]

After weeks of providing A24’s Primetime with free press, Chris Hansen has finally seen the Lance Oppenheim-helmed thriller. On Friday, the former To Catch a Predator host teased his reaction after catching a screening of the movie, which is now in theaters, based on Esquire‘s depiction of Hansen in the 2007 article “Tonight on Dateline […]

The International Documentary Association is coming to the defense of NAZA filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor. The nonprofit organization posted a letter to its website urging the Israeli government to stop what the IDA terms a “campaign of threats” against the directors, whose film is sharply critical of Israel’s conduct of the war in […]