The professional wrestler opens up about his blindside elimination, why he believes his personality rubbed some players the wrong way and how hunger pushed him to his limits.
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...
The company launched its New York offices and announced plans to open an L.A.-based operation in 2027.
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...
"American Idol" alum Justin Guarini opens up about the dark spiral after RCA dropped him and how embracing failure led to Broadway, "Wicked" and a whole new identity.
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...
The 34th edition of Camerimage kicked off with Luca Guadagnino’s 'Artificial' and included honors for Darren Aronofsky and the THR Visionary Award for cinematographer Janusz Kamiński.
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 […]
There was a sombre mood at the opening ceremony of this year’s Camerimage Film Festival as organizers kicked off its 34th edition in Toruń, Poland with a minute’s silence for the victims of the mass shooting in Kraków, which happened a few hours before the event began. According to reports, at least six people are […]
This is partner content. Maluma opens up about mental health, vulnerability and life in the spotlight in this episode of Like Minded, in partnership with BetterHelp. Recorded at Billboard Latin Music Week, the global superstar reflects on his personal journey, why emotional well-being comes first and why open conversations about mental health matter. Get started […]
EXCLUSIVE: Jane Elliott Against the World, the Oscar-contending documentary about the Iowa educator who opened the eyes of Americans to the pernicious mechanism of racism, will soon reach theaters. Judd Ehrlich’s film, winner of the Jury Award for Best Documentary at the Bentonville Film Festival, opens December 4 at The Quad in New York City […]
A new Washington DC exhibition aims to show how African Americans have used portrait photography to depict themselves, their communities, their aspirations and their identities. Titled Remember Me: Picturing African Americans in Early Photography , the exhibit at the National Gallery of Art features 70 works from the museum’s archives by African American photographers and portrait subjects, tracing the evolution of photography in Black communities. The show opens on 7 November and runs until 14 March 2027 Continue reading...
The seventh edition of Taiwan Creative Content Fest (TCCF) kicked off today with talk of bolstering Taiwan’s intellectual property (IP); reaching out to international markets through co-production and exports; and a reassuring message on government support. Sue Wang, chair of TCCF organizer Taiwan Creative Content Agency (TAICCA), opened proceedings by first acknowledging the disruption that […]
Sue Wang, chair of the Taiwan Creative Content Agency (TAICCA), opened the seventh Taiwan Creative Content Fest (TCCF) in Taipei on Friday by saying artificial intelligence is reshaping how the creative industries, and even human society, are defined. “We are all asking: Does cultural content still have a future?” Wang said. She said AI could […]
The star had to weigh the difficulties of bringing her family on the road against the emotions of leaving them behind.
Huge, ecstatic canvases are just one of the vocations of the musician who joined the art rockers in 2024. As her show Hotwire My Heart opens, she talks terror, awe and teabags Emma Richardson loves to eavesdrop when people look at her paintings and talk about what they see in them. “They turn into these Rorschach inkblot tests,” she grins. Looking at her works, you do stand back in awe wondering. Is that a nebula, a god or a fleshy, baroque orgy? An explosion, an implosion or an orgasm? Richardson implies all of these and more, her paintbrush chasing in vivid oils the hedonism, desire and breadth of human experience. This fascination with the transcendent has in part been informed by her other life as a musician, formerly in the garage-rock trio Band of Skulls and currently playing bass and singing in Pixies. Continue reading...
A Korean family is willing to sacrifice everything for their children’s education, in the third book in Lee’s Diaspora Quartet “An excellent hagwon,” according to one of the characters in Min Jin Lee’s new novel, “is everything.” Every year, Korean parents pay hefty sums to send their children to these private after-school academies designed to turbocharge academic performance, where they spend evenings and weekends being drilled in mathematics, reasoning and essay technique. In the third book in what she has called her Diaspora Quartet – a follow-up to 2017’s Pachinko , recently named one of the New York Times’s top 100 books of the 21st century – she presents the fierce competition to snag a spot at those hagwons deemed the best as symptomatic of Korea’s scarcity mindset: in a country where university places and white-collar jobs are hard to come by, everyone’s looking for an edge. But over the course of the novel’s 650 pages, they also come to stand as symbols of pretty much everything you can think of: of country and culture; of failure and success; of responsibility, or the lack of it; of what it means to achieve, and of what, in the final analysis, the purpose of our achievements might be. The action in American Hagwon unspools over nearly three decades, and crisscrosses from Seoul to Sydney to California and back to Seoul again. At its centre is the Koh family: John, Helen and their three children, Bo, DH and Mido. When the novel opens in 1992, their life in Korea appears comfortably middle-class – John is a senior manager at a multinational corporation; Helen is an upmarket saleswoman, her commissions covering the children’s hagwon fees. But they are dramatically capsized: first by a personal betrayal and then again, in a brutal one-two, by the financial crisis that clobbered Asia in the late 90s. The family move, then later move once more: sometimes together, more often following their own trajectories; but always connected, and supporting one another as op
As “Ramayana Part 1” opens worldwide on Nov. 5, producer Namit Malhotra says the decision to adapt the Indian epic at this scale came once the talent, experience and filmmaking muscle needed to do the story justice were finally in place. Directed by Nitesh Tiwari (“Dangal,” “Chhichhore”), the first of two films stars Ranbir Kapoor […]
Fuerza Regida, Carín León, Karol G, and Omar Courtz rise in the top 10 of Billboard’s Hot Latin Songs. Narrator: Here’s the Billboard Hot Latin Songs top 10 for the week dated November 7th. “Matadora” opens the countdown at No. 10. Carín León rises to nine. “Alguien que te amaba” pushes to a new high […]
Yung Miami talks about the success of “Spend Dat,” how the hit shaped her new album, and the collaborations she brought together, including Summer Walker, Bryson Tiller and Travis Scott. She also opens up about building her brand, the story behind “Dear JT,” plans for a party-filled tour and what fans can expect next from […]
EXCLUSIVE: Horrible Histories star Dominique Moore has launched a development talent agency for kids. DMA Talent opens with around 10 clients including Waffle’s After School Club actor Sienna Grey Moore along with an agent, Geri Spicer, and employees focused on wellbeing and safeguarding. From age six to adulthood, DMA Talent will work with specialists and […]
Production designer Patrice Vermette promises the third and final instalkment in the “Dune” franchise is going to be “a major spectacle.” “You know when you go see fireworks, and they put everything in, and at the end, it’s ‘Oh, we have this one.’ It’s going to be like that,” he teases. “Dune: Part Three” opens […]
The wife of the 'Grey's Anatomy' star, who died in February, less than a year after announcing his ALS diagnosis, spoke about how she had "no idea that was it" when Dane made his last hospital trip.
The 'Misty Green' filmmaker opens up on "crying like a bitch" in therapy, picking up the pieces after his multi-million dollar divorce and cleaning up his vices: "I haven’t watched porn in five, six years."
Judi Dench has never been one to mince words. And in her new memoir “Is It Too Late to Make a Run For It?”, out Nov. 3 from St. Martin’s Press, the Oscar-winning icon of stage and screen opens up about the highs and lows of her storied career via a wide-ranging conversation with actor […]
The French War Crimes Unit has opened a judicial investigation into the Israeli army’s bombing of a residential building in Beirut in November 2024 in which seven civilians were killed, including the parents of Franco-Lebanese artist Ali Cherri. The decision comes six months after Cherri, who is known in the film world for his Cannes […]
Playwright Richard Nelson’s acclaimed Rhinebeck Panorama series returns for another timely look at the fictional Apple family living in a divided America Richard Nelson learned a great lesson, cliched as it is, late in his writing career: the thing you toss off without overthinking can end up being some of your life’s greatest work. In the program notes for We’ll See, the latest in what has become a 12-play series, he admits he used to view the plays as “disposable, because of their being tied to a given time and place”. Every November from 2010–2013, Nelson checked in on the fictional Apple family in upstate New York during elections and important national anniversaries, with each play set on the day of its premiere and mostly starring the same cast. (We’ll See, which opens this week at the Public Theater, sees them awaiting the results of the midterm elections.) Continue reading...
EXCLUSIVE: UK agent Lucy Loveridge, a former global entertainment chief at YMU, has launched a London agency repping creators. Loveridge’s outfit, Nothing to See Here, opens with her former YMU client Jesse Burgess, who is part of the successful Topjaw YouTube duo. Burgess’ Topjaw partner Will Warr remains with YMU. Loveridge is a former global […]
Cristian Mungiu’s Palme d’Or winner “Fjord” opened the fifth edition of Jakarta World Cinema at CGV Grand Indonesia. Dan Adrian Bălănescu, Romania’s ambassador to Indonesia, said he was proud of the film, which is Romania’s submission for the international feature Oscar at the 2027 Academy Awards, and hoped it would speak to local audiences. “Many […]
An exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts, "Georgia O'Keeffe: Architecture," is building a different picture of Georgia O'Keeffe, best known for her depictions of flowers and desert landscapes.
Dave Chappelle takes over Madison Square Garden, a gay “Fantasticks” opens on Broadway and the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade turns 100.
The cast of “Godzilla Minus Zero” brought the glow of a Hollywood standing ovation to the 39th Tokyo International Film Festival on Sunday, two days before Yamazaki Takashi’s follow-up to his Oscar-winning “Godzilla Minus One” opens in Japan. Kamiki Ryunosuke, who returns as lead character Shikishima Koichi, and Hamabe Minami, who reprises the role of […]
No surprise here, but the No. 2 and No. 3 exhibitors, Regal and Cinemark, won’t be playing Netflix’s Quentin Tarantino penned Once Upon a Time in Hollywood follow-up, The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth when it opens on Wednesday, Nov. 25. That’s because the movie, which is getting a two-week exclusive run in Imax, is […]
