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Meghan Markle’s Father Arrested Over Allegations He Possessed Child Sex Abuse Images

Meghan Markle’s estranged father, Thomas Markle Sr., has been arrested over allegations he possessed child sex abuse images, according to CBS News. The 82-year-old was arrested in Florida on Friday in connection with allegations that emerged last month, three sources confirmed to CBS News, though the case remains sealed. A report in The Sun claimed […]

Variety · Nov 6
Sharon Horgan’s ‘Youth’ Renewed For Season 2 At HBO

Sharon Horgan is returning as literary agent Alex after HBO renewed Youth for a second season. The news comes less than 24 hours after the season one finale. Youth follows a 50-year-old divorcee’s search for sex and love whilst juggling caring for her ailing parents and parenting her should-be grown up son. Horgan stars as […]

Deadline · Nov 2
‘Sex Education’ Star Asa Butterfield Signs With Linden Entertainment (EXCLUSIVE)

Linden Entertainment has signed actor Asa Butterfield for representation. Butterfield most recently made his stage debut in Barney Norris’ “Second Best” at Riverside Studios in London, which was based on David Foenkinos’ best-selling novel of the same name, and starred in Oscar Boyson’s “Our Hero, Balthazar.” Known for his role as Otis Milburn in the […]

Variety · Nov 2
‘Screams on the level of a Taylor Swift concert’: horny romp Wicker gets the 4DX treatment

Olivia Colman’s steamy romance, where she plays a woman in love with a wicker man, becomes an unlikely pick for the theme park-like cinema experience What does Olivia Colman’s hot sex with a basket tell us about heteropessimism? ‘I saw the script and went: oooh!’ Olivia Colman and Alexander Skårsgard on their steamy folk-horror movie Wicker Since its introduction in the US in 2014, 4DX, the rollercoaster-ization of the theatrical experience, has primarily been the purview of action movies. And for good reason; the high-speed chases of a Fast and Furious movie, or repetitive battle sequences of an Avatar saga, translate easily to the moving chairs, scent machines and wind/water sprayers of the format, which more closely resembles an amusement park ride than cinema. As a longtime fan of plane turbulence-style seat movement, I thought the immersive pleasures of 4DX – the second most-popular of so-called large premium formats in the US, behind Imax – reached its zenith in the summer of 2024 with the release of Twisters, a perfectly fine action movie about tornadoes that became an 11/10 experience when jostled in one’s seat to actual wind and rain. But a recent, unexpected candidate is finally pushing the bounds of 4DX again, making the most of the format’s potential to enhance the sensorial joys of cinema. Continue reading...

The Guardian · Nov 2
Olivia Rodrigo to Release First Holiday Song, ‘Take Me Home (4 Christmas),’ With Music Video Starring Cynthia Nixon and ‘SNL’s’ Ben Marshall

Olivia Rodrigo is getting in the holiday spirit. The pop star will release her first-ever Christmas song, titled “Take Me Home (4 Christmas),” on Thursday at 5 p.m. PT. The track will be accompanied by a music video starring Rodrigo alongside “Sex and the City” star Cynthia Nixon and “Saturday Night Live” breakout Ben Marshall. […]

Variety · Nov 2
Can Abuse Allegations Against a Celebrity Be Silenced Over Mental Health Claims? A Defamation Lawyer Explains the Unusual Case Gripping the U.K.

As has been widely reported on both side of the Atlantic, a “well-known individual” in the U.K. is currently waiting to hear whether his legal effort to block two media outlets from publishing allegations of “inappropriate and exploitative sexual activity with girls and young women” has been successful. Lawyers for the individual — who denies the […]

Variety · Nov 2
‘Searching for SmarterChild’ Filmmakers Investigate Why We Insult Chatbots

Why do humans tend to vent abuse at their AI bots – and should they think about apologizing? That question is central to “Searching for SmarterChild,” the project that won the New Visions Award for the most promising U.S. project at the Ji.hlava Documentary Film Festival this week. Zan Gillies is co-directing the U.S.-Canadian film […]

Variety · Nov 1
Cynthia Nixon Is Not a Miranda

But she admires her “Sex and the City” alter ego and knows she will always be defined by her. The real Nixon, also a star of “The Gilded Age,” is warm and mellow — until you ask her about politics.

The New York Times · Nov 1
Judge Dismisses Trump’s Wall Street Journal Defamation Lawsuit Over Published Epstein ‘Birthday Book’ for a Second Time

A federal judge has once again dismissed President Donald Trump’s defamation claims against the Wall Street Journal over a 2025 report by the paper that a 2003 birthday letter to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was purportedly written by Trump. Trump’s lawsuit “falls short of pleading actual malice,” wrote U.S. District Judge Darrin P. Gayles […]

Variety · Oct 31
Joshua Jackson Teases ‘Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll’ in New HBO Max Series ‘How to Survive Without Me’: ‘I’m Getting Too Old For This S—’

Joshua Jackson is teasing his new HBO Max series, “How to Survive Without Me.” Co-created by husbands Greg Berlanti and Robbie Rogers along with Bash Doran, the series follows a family after the death of matriarch Beverly. “The show starts six months after the matriarch of this large family has passed away, and because she […]

Variety · Oct 31
Angel Studios CCO Lays Out “Values-Based” Initiative Banning Sex, Nudity, F-Words & “Misuse Of God’s Name”: “Hollywood Lives In A Bubble”

Five years into Angel Studios’ launch, the Christian production company and distributor is implementing “The Angel Promise” content standards. Co-founder and CCO Jeff Harmon explained that the initiative bans on-screen sex, nudity, the F-word and “misuse of God’s name,” in addition to expanding parental controls and allowing paid subscribers to choose which films and television […]

Deadline · Oct 31
‘I left shellshocked’: writers on their scariest non-horror movies

For Halloween, Guardian writers have picked the most efficiently terrifying films outside of the horror genre from How to Have Sex to The Hunchback of Notre Dame Minor spoilers ahead Hiding in plain sight throughout Lee Chang-dong’s deliciously enigmatic Burning, in which a spirited young woman (Jeon Jong-seo) disappears, and a wealthy playboy (Steven Yeun) gives serial killer vibes, is a disaffected male rage. That’s perhaps the most commonplace horror of our times, whether on the internet or politics, and you feel the tremors of it steadily breaking the surface in Yoo Ah-in’s performance. He plays Jong-su, an aspiring writer, quietly frustrated with his lot in life. Jong-su works odd jobs and tends to his incarcerated father’s dilapidated farm, growing more desperate to grasp some sense of control over the world around him, which is where the scary part comes in. Lee is the master dramatist who with Burning tilts violently into thriller territory, navigating elements from Taxi Driver, The Vanishing and Michael Haneke’s Caché, using the language of horror movies to conjure up a creeping anxiety and dread that erupts into pure existential fear. Radheyan Simonpillai Continue reading...

The Guardian · Oct 30
Elke Sommer, prolific German star of A Shot in the Dark and And Then There Were None, dies aged 85

The Berlin-born performer had a gift for languages that took her to Hollywood, landing roles alongside Peter Sellers, Dick Van Dyke and Paul Newman Elke Sommer, the prolific German star of the Pink Panther film A Shot in the Dark, early 70s Agatha Christie adaptation And Then there Were None, and British sex comedy Carry on Behind, has died aged 85. Bild magazine reported that Sommer died in Los Angeles of heart failure. German-born Sommer, whose best-known film roles were in the 1960s and 70s, was one of the wave of European performers who crossed over to Hollywood and English-language cinema with considerable success, following the postwar emergence of European new wave cinema. Sommer was one of the few German actors to make waves at the time, as Hollywood made much of her bombshell image. Continue reading...

The Guardian · Oct 29