Donald Trump says he has offered the job of White House press secretary to UFC President and CEO Dana White, “a violent Fighter and Warrior,” in the president’s words. It was not immediately clear whether Trump was joking, trolling, both or neither. If White accepts the gig, he would fill the vacancy left when the […]
President Donald Trump has offered UFC President and CEO Dana White the White House press secretary role after Katie Zacharia was ousted in October. “I am pleased to announce that the Great Dana White, a violent Fighter and Warrior, has been offered the job of Press Secretary of the United States,” Trump wrote on Truth […]
While his HBO counterpart John Oliver issued an urgent warning about voting GOP during the midterms, Bill Maher spent the majority of his time in the lead-up to the critical election dining with the Trump at the White House (and then bickering with him publicly), conducting an embarrassingly softball interview with Trump’s former press secretary […]
The Romanian auteur’s new film could have been the kind of homogenous ‘Europudding’ he’s railed against for years. Instead, it’s a culture-clash skewering of conservative and liberal values worthy of its Palme d’Or ‘Pffff!” Cristian Mungiu lets out an exasperated sigh. We are sitting in the basement of a London hotel, at the end of a long morning of back-to-back interviews for the Romanian film-maker, and his press handler has just snuck into the room to remind him of his next appointment across town. But Mungiu blanks him and leans on to his table, because he wants to tell one more story. In 2013, Mungiu was part of a delegation of European auteurs who travelled to Brussels to meet the then president of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso. At the time, the EU and US were in talks to slash barriers to trade between the two economic blocs, and the film-makers were lobbying the Commission to spare their industry from the deal . Continue reading...
Major Hollywood studios have gone from banning generative AI outright to shunning visual effects vendors that lack an AI plan, according to Daniel Seah, CEO of “The Lord of the Rings” and “Avatar” VFX house Weta FX. Seah spoke to press in Taipei on Friday, after Weta FX signed a partnership with the Taiwan Creative […]
The world of “Dune” is getting the beauty treatment. Ahead of the Dec. 18 release of “Dune: Part Three,” Glamnetic has teamed up with Warner Bros. on a limited-edition collection of press-on nails inspired by the sci-fi franchise, marking its first foray into the beauty category. Launching Nov. 5, the limited-edition Glamnetic x Dune collection […]
The Southwark Crown Court trial, which dominated the British press for over a month, has come to a close — and condemned the former presenter, comedian and actor.
Heartfelt real-life drama follows the late activist whose groundbreaking struggle helped build a rainbow alliance with gay action groups and the Black Panthers The remarkable story of the late US disability rights campaigner and wheelchair user Judy Heumann – pronounced “human” – is the subject of this heartfelt if Hollywoodised story from director and co-writer Sian Heder, based on Heumann’s own 2020 memoir of the same title. In the lead is British actor Ruth Madeley , who has spina bifida and is herself a disability rights activist; she gives a forthright, smart, sympathetic performance. Heumann’s finest hour was to get the federal government to sign into law Section 504 of the 1973 Rehabilitation Act , whose accessibility provisions had been resisted by Nixon, Ford and then Carter. In 1977, Heumann led a guerrilla sit-in occupation of the San Francisco Health, Education and Welfare offices, her group being a rainbow alliance including gay action groups and the Black Panthers. Secretary of State for Health Joseph Califano sensationally conceded and signed the bill that he and the political establishment had obstructed for years. He is played by Mark Ruffalo, whose nice-guy persona and one-note performance of exasperated detachment does however rather obscure the fact that in real life, Califano at first personally authorised moves to starve the protesters out. In the movie, this grim political decision is not explicitly dramatised. Continue reading...
Thriller series “Trinity” has been set for December release at Netflix. A new trailer gives a first look at Gugu Mbatha-Raw (“Lift,” “Surface”) and Richard Madden (“Eternals,” “Citadel”) entrenched in political intrigue. Commander Katherine Decker (Mbatha-Raw) develops an unlikely bond with Secretary of Defense Webb Preston (Madden) and is drawn into dangerous machinations surrounding a […]
Italian director Tinto Brass, known for the historic erotic epics “Salon Kitty” and “Caligula,” has died. He was 93. Brass’ family announced the news of his death on Wednesday to Italian press agency Ansa. Born in Milan in 1933 to a Venetian family of artists, Brass first studied law before veering towards film during the […]
Italian film director Tinto Brass, whose filmmaking spanned many genres but came to be associated internationally with his erotic films of the 1970s, has died in Rome. He was 93 years old. His wife Caterina Varzi and children Bonifacio and Beatrice Brass announced the news of Brass’ death on Wednesday to Italian press agency Ansa. […]
Culture secretary Lisa Nandy had previously said she was "minded to intervene," citing “public interest considerations.”
The UK Culture Secretary has taken her examination of the £1.6B ($2.1B) Sky-ITV acquisition to the next stage by asking competition bodies Ofcom and the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to formally scrutinize the deal. Lisa Nandy said she was “minded to intervene” last month and has now told Ofcom and the CMA to report […]
Sky’s acquisition of ITV has hit a roadblock as the U.K. culture secretary Lisa Nandy has officially issued an intervention notice. “On 15 October 2026 my Department wrote to Sky UK Limited and ITV plc to inform them I was minded to intervene in the anticipated merger between Sky UK Ltd and ITV Media & […]
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 […]
Exiled Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof pointed to Jafar Panahi’s latest prison sentence as proof that Iranian cinema remains under repression, speaking at a Tokyo International Film Festival press conference for the Kurosawa Akira Award. Rasoulof and Japanese director O Mipo are this year’s recipients. “Of course, Iranian cinema continues to face repression, and my friends […]
Epic romantic K-drama The Remarried Empress, starring Shin Mina, Ju Jihoon, Lee Jongsuk and Lee Seyoung, will launch with the first four episodes on Tuesday, November 3 on Disney+ and Hulu, one day earlier than the originally scheduled November 4 premiere date. The surprise reveal, announced during a press conference from Seoul, South Korea, is […]
Johnny Depp is finally sounding off about the possibility of returning as Jack Sparrow in “Pirates of the Caribbean 6.” Speaking to Entertainment Tonight on his “Ebenezer” press tour, the Oscar nominee stopped short of confirming he will put the pirate costume on once more. Instead, Depp said he would never turn down a request […]
Mckenna Grace told Cosmopolitan magazine on her press tour for “The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping” that she turns down acting roles that require nudity because she harbors dreams of one day playing a Disney princess on the big screen. “At this point, I definitely don’t do nudity or very hypersexual things,” Grace told […]
Fox News viewers still like Fox, they just can’t take any more news. A decline in viewership at Fox News Channel over the third quarter and into last month has attracted the notice of the company’s most senior executive, with Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch telling investors Monday he has seen evidence of “viewer fatigue” […]
The president was asked whether the rapper could take on the role in his administration.
Sanjay Gupta, the Indian director best known for the crime drama films Kaante and Shootout at Lokhandwala, died Friday, October 30, after a fall at his home in Mumbai. He was 57 (though some sources put his age at 59). His death was confirmed by friend and fellow director Milap Zaveri to the Press Trust […]
Indian filmmaker Sanjay Gupta, whose credits include the crime thriller “Kaante,” the gangster saga “Shootout at Wadala” and the Hrithik Roshan-starring “Kaabil,” has died following a fall at his Mumbai residence on Oct. 30. He was 59, according to the Press Trust of India. Director Milap Zaveri, a longtime friend of Gupta who worked on […]
