The duo thought they were safe and were already plotting a third 'Superman' movie. Then, Skydance co-CEOs Ellison and Ynon Kreiz paid them a fateful visit on the Warner Bros. lot.
Sean Penn isn’t exactly a fixture on the regional documentary festival circuit. But SFFILM’s Doc Stories has a way of attracting high-profile supporters. On Saturday, Penn was at the fest’s Vogue Theatre in San Francisco to introduce James Marcus Haney’s “Black Sunflowers,” a documentary about a generation of young Ukrainians coming of age amid martial […]
James Gunn and Peter Safran are out as the CEOs and chairmen of DC Studios, leaving behind a cinematic universe full of questions about the fate of some of Hollywood’s most beloved and profitable heroes. After four years at the helm, it seemed like Gunn and Safran had just set the foundation for things to […]
M. John Harrison’s dystopian tale “The End of Everything” beat out higher profile books by Marlon James, Elizabeth Strout and Douglas Stuart.
Following the news that he and Peter Safran would no longer be co-running DC Studios following the Skydance-Warner Bros. merger, James Gunn has spoken out about his time running the studio. The lengthy statement which Gunn dropped on his social media platforms goes into detail how proud his four years were touching on all the […]
Gunn said he was grateful he took this "unique opportunity," but admitted the corporate demands of leading a studio were "trying"
Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans join Stephen P. Neary's documentary about a poet’s 50-year marriage to an art curator grappling with Parkinson’s, which is narrated by James Cromwell.
The DC Studios co-chief admits that the executive role wasn't quite right for him and looks forward to returning to filmmaking full time.
Skydance CEO David Ellison is addressing his decision to shake up the executive ranks at DC Studios. In a surprise shuffle, James Gunn and Peter Safran are exiting as co-CEOs and chairmen. Jeremy Latcham, an executive who helped shape the Marvel Cinematic Universe, will serve as president and chief creative officer. “We’re thrilled to welcome […]
James Gunn and Peter Safran aren’t surviving the Skydance takeover of Warner Bros
James Gunn has spoken out after he and Peter Safran were replaced by Jeremy Latcham as the head of DC Studios. In a surprising move on Monday, Skydance replaced Gunn and Safran with Marvel veteran Latcham as the president and chief creative officer of DC Studios. It ends Gunn and Safran’s four-year run as the […]
An impromptu song by a Texas rapper has helped immortalize the frisky nickname of Senator-elect James Talarico.
In a seismic executive shuffle unlike anything Bruce Wayne could pull off at Wayne Enterprises, James Gunn and Peter Safran are leaving their posts as Co-CEOs and Chairman of DC Studios, jobs which they’ve held for the past four years. The dynamic duo will continue to produce on various DC projects and returning to their […]
The duo were believed to be safe amid the Skydance takeover of Warner Bros., but now have a former Kevin Feige protege taking over the division.
In a surprise executive shuffle, James Gunn and Peter Safran are stepping down as co-presidents of DC Studios. They will be replaced by Jeremy Latcham, who will serve as president and chief creative officer. Gunn and Safran’s exit is unexpected because they were named as part of David Ellison’s business leadership team at the newly […]
School is back in session for one last time as Harriet Herbig-Matten and Damian Hardung‘s Ruby and James fight for justice and love in the conclusion of the hit series.
In the trailer for the final season of Maxton Hall – The World Between Us, Ruby’s (Harriet Herbig-Matten) future hangs by a thread, but James (Damian Hardung) isn’t about to let her life explode. The Prime Video original from Germany, whose third season premieres on December 9, follows the rollercoaster relationship between Ruby and James […]
Jamaican author Marlon James and Scotland’s Douglas Stuart have the chance to become two-time Booker Prize winners when the prestigious fiction award is handed out Monday in London
As he releases a memoir, the actor opens up about the late James Van Der Beek, the magic of the Creek, and facing homophobia for playing gay in the 90s There are worse things to spend a couple of decades chasing than the feeling of being young, successful and surrounded by people who love you. For Kerr Smith, though, the particular magic of Dawson’s Creek has proved just about impossible to replicate. “I’ve spent the last 25 years of my career trying to re-create that experience,” Smith says of the WB teen drama, on which he played the sensitive jock Jack McPhee for five seasons. “I’ve been trying to measure up to it my entire career.” Continue reading...
U.S. stars Jeff Goldblum, John Turturro, and Moroccan composer-actor Younès Mégri have been unveiled as the honorees of this 23rd Marrakech International Film Festival. Turturro is currently on the festival and awards with The Only Living Pickpocket in New York, which plays in the festival’s gala screenings lineup. The Marrakech honor follows a career marked […]
Hollywood stars Jeff Goldblum and John Turturro, and “Knives Out” director Rian Johnson are among those set to take part in the Conversations program during the 23rd edition of the Marrakech Film Festival, which runs Nov. 20-28. Other movieworld luminaries to take part include actress Monica Bellucci, directors James Gray, Luca Guadagnino, Cristian Mungiu, Laïla […]
Josh O'Connor, Jack Lowden and Callum Turner are reportedly in the frame to replace Daniel Craig.
Hollywood’s weirdest man has entered the fray and the casting decision that has dragged on and on suddenly feels exciting for the first time Why does anyone want to play James Bond? The franchise seems to spit out its leads, leaving them wrecked and disillusioned. “I’d like to kill him,” Sean Connery famously said of Bond, that “dull, prosaic English policeman”; it was Daniel Craig who finally managed to do it, a fifth film torturously pulled out of him because Barbara Broccoli agreed to knock him off . As soon as his Bond took a missile to the bonce, Craig dived right into playing all the oddballs he could get, with Benoit Blanc as palate cleanser. Bond might never be an actor’s most interesting role, but it is always the one that leads the obit. With the auditions for the next Bond under way, reports recently emerged that the official contenders were Jack Lowden, Josh O’Connor, Callum Turner and a mysterious fourth actor who no one seemed to know. But over the weekend multiple sources confirmed to the Hollywood trades that the mysterious fourth – and fifth – contenders were Robert Pattinson and Nicholas Hoult. Both great actors, but one of them has made a casting decision that has dragged on, and on, and on, suddenly feel genuinely exciting for the first time. Continue reading...
James Earl Jones theatre, New York City A ‘mostly true’ tale of 19th-century sisters running from the law is underserved in a production stuffed with superfluous showboating The new retooled musical Wanted, from writer Angelica Chéri and composer Ross Baum, opens with a blare of excitement: a Greek chorus of sorts, clad in billowing white garments like spirits from the great beyond, lay their scene in 1890s Texas. There, we meet two Black sisters, Mary and Martha Clarke, who will become wanted criminals. The tone of Baum’s music is portentous, its volume high, suggesting that an epic journey is about to unfold. What ensues from there is, sadly, not quite as suspenseful, moving or grand as advertised. Chéri based this “mostly true” story on two of her great-great aunts, daughters of an emancipated sharecropper whose absent father was white. Mary and Martha are light-skinned and thus figure they can pass in the white world, at least long enough to earn some money that might allow their mother, Tallulah, to buy the cotton-field land she’s been working for decades. It’s a dangerous gambit, and soon devolves into a gun-wielding crime spree in which the sisters rob various deserving targets. But that potentially invigorating spree is reduced to a mere montage, a quick flurry of activity that saps these daring acts of their inherent tension, of any true sense of risk. Despite its dynamic subject matter – marginalized people violently asserting themselves in a repressive time and place – this is a dismayingly tame production, albeit a more muscular one than was staged at New Jersey’s Paper Mill Playhouse in 2024. Continue reading...
When Denis Villeneuve arrived at LACMA on Saturday night, his black Gucci tuxedo made him look more like James Bond than a director who’s spent the last decade in the desert of Arrakis. Perhaps that’s fitting since the filmmaker is currently putting the final touches on the 70mm Imax print of “Dune: Part Three” while […]
Hollywood heavy hitters turned out to witness Saturday Night Live history on Saturday as comedian Druski became the fist digital creator to host the venerable NBC late-night sketch program. Durski’s Eddington co-star Emma Stone and newly elected Texas Senator James Talarico were expected to join the host for the curtain call at the end of […]
Saturday Night Live paid tribute to a longtime member of the show’s family last night on air. This weekend’s episode of the NBC sketch comedy show featured a title card before the goodnights, in memory of to two-time SNL host Susan Saint James, who remained close to the show over the years. While guest-hosting for […]
SNL booking comedian Druski post-midterms felt misbegotten in low-energy episode failing to capture historic ‘blue-nami’ Four days after the historic “blue-nami” midterms , Saturday Night Live opens at Democrats’ headquarters, where party leaders Hakeem Jeffries (Kenan Thompson) and Chuck Schumer (Sarah Sherman) celebrate, even as they vow to hold on to power in spite of the wishes of their energized base. Their toast is interrupted by the man responsible for Republicans’ shellacking, Donald Trump (James Austin Johnson). The president, who is “now lame duck”, accepts the results, “which is scarier in a way”. But he’s also resigned to focus on the ballroom , even as he laments having to work with millennial Democrats (this leads him down a long diatribe about the show New Girl). We get quick walk ons by a defeated JD Vance (Jeremy Culhane) and extra-aggro Pete Hegseth (Colin Jost), only for Trump to get a taste of his own medicine when James “Telefreako” Talarico interupts him. Texas’s new senator-elect speaks to one of the big issues of the day: “It’s clear people want something new, they want something different. I’m talking, of course, about SNL’s cold opens. How many of these Trump freezes are they gonna do?” Continue reading...
In this web exclusive, Dame Judi Dench discusses her new memoir, "Is It Too Late to Make a Run for It?," co-written with friend and fellow actor Brendan O'Hea. She also talks with Seth Doane about Shakespeare, James Bond, her vision loss, playing practical jokes, and never taking her success for granted.
Pierce Brosnan singled out Callum Turner as a standout among the actors being considered for the next James Bond role in a Vanity Fair interview.
The Democratic senator-elect from Texas popped up to turn the tables on the show’s Trump impersonator, James Austin Johnson, in an episode hosted by the comedian Druski.
The Texas senator-elect also took a shot at the show's reliance on James Austin Johnson's Donald Trump impression in his surprise appearance as he stood in front of the comic.
Following a busy cold open that saw Texas Senator-elect James Talarico overshadow Donald Trump and a monologue crashed by his future movie co-star Emma Stone, “SNL” host Druski — who made history as the first digital content creator to preside over the show (who had yet to achieve crossover success, a la Issa Rae and […]
The incoming Texas lawmaker embraces Trump's insulting nickname after his resounding win
Newly elected Texas Sen. James Talarico crashed this week’s “Saturday Night Live” cold open — in order to ask the question on everyone’s mind: How many more of these “Donald-Trump-freezes-the-action-to-ramble” cold opens is “SNL” going to do? Responded “Donald Trump” (James Austin Johnson): “Infinity!” Talarico popped up near the end of the cold open to […]
Out of a week that saw MAGA’s political fangs knocked out by a big blue sock to jaw in the midterms, Saturday Night Live tonight leaped into the ring and started swinging from the cold open get-go. In fact, they went Texas BBQ hot with newly elected James Talarico showing up. The Senator-designate mocked his […]
Bill Skarsgård won’t be the next 007, but he would play a Bond villain. In a recent appearance on Josh Horowitz’s “Happy Sad Confused” podcast, Skarsgård revealed he wasn’t asked to test for Denis Villeneuve’s reboot. “They didn’t call me about James Bond. I don’t know what that was about,” he joked. “Every single British, […]
The 'Nosferatu' star also said he wasn't approached to play the next 007: "I wasn't even thrown into the mix."
James Talarico and Adam Hamilton ran on faith and won big. Democrats can thank the president
Harry Styles also "had discussions" about playing 007 as audition process expands beyond the three actors considered the favorites to take over for Daniel Craig
A trip to the Scottish islands, a psychological experiment, a chance encounter in a drugstore… the finalists for this year’s Booker prize reveal their inspirations Who knows where a novel really comes from? I spend years gathering loose threads and then, when I feel like the cloth will hold, I start to weave them into a narrative. I suppose I began internalising John of John back in 1994, the year I went to college and chose to become a weaver myself. Continue reading...
Adam Driver had a major breakout thanks to his role on “Girls,” but the actor shut down the idea of returning for the reboot of the iconic series in a recent interview. While talking about his role in James Gray’s new movie “Paper Tiger,” Driver was asked by Cinema Blend if he will be returning […]
After weeks of wondering who could be up the mystery James Bond screen test, Deadline has not only found out who the actor is, another suitor was also added to the mix. While not confirmed, insiders tell Deadline Robert Pattinson and Nicholas Hoult joined Jack Lowden, Josh O’Connor and Callum Turner in recent screen tests […]
As James Bond casting rumors heat up, a couple more A-list actors have entered the mix: Robert Pattinson and Nicholas Hoult were among the stars who screen-tested to play the new 007. Both British actors have the acting pedigree to play the suave spy. They also have a keen awareness of what it takes to […]
The A-list star, already juggling the Batman franchise, teamed with director Denis Villeneuve on the upcoming third 'Dune' movie.
As one of Hollywood’s staunchest Republicans, the late James Stewart perhaps wouldn’t be rolling in his grave in response to “Jimmy,” a biopic that — in focusing rather less on his artistry than on his military service — paints him in a glowingly conservative light. But either way, he deserves better than this hokey, superficial […]
Exquisite news: The deal starts off with Blumhouse boarding the adaptation of hit comic 'Exquisite Corpses.'
If you grew up in the 80s and early 90s, you may have listened to freestyle music, also known as Latin hip-hop, born after the disco era that dominated the airwaves from New York to Miami, Los Angeles, Texas, as well as Philly and Boston, to name a few areas. Among the genre’s biggest fans […]
Greylan James, who just scored his first Billboard Hot 100 hit, is Billboard’s Country Up-and-Comer Artist of the Month for November.
James Paxton steps into the Western role his late father Bill Paxton was cast in over 30 years ago, calling the film a "conduit" to connect with him.
