Hollywood Reporter
Tartikoff comes to SiriusXM after holding top comms positions at Paramount Pictures and Spotify.
The Guardian Culture
As Stand By Me is re-released for its 40th anniversary, we look at the late actor’s most intense, enduring roles – from a goofball boffin to a narcoleptic hustlerIssue-of-the-week TV movie about elder abuse, with Tuesday Weld as a harried mum taking out her frustrations on her own ageing mother. Phoenix slaps on the hair gel as the essentially decent son who blasts his music too loud, lets his rowdy if unusually spiffy pals put their feet on the furniture and resents the new house guest: “Grandm
The Guardian Culture
Their parents were Womack & Womack, Uncle Bobby was a superstar and so was their grandfather, Sam Cooke. The trio explain how, after driving Ubers and being told soul was dead, they joined the family businessBackstage at a London festival, on a Sunday afternoon, the Womack Sisters are assembling themselves on a sofa, still clad in the clothes they were wearing on stage a few minutes ago. They look very stylish in their black dresses, tights and high heels, but they are not, it has to be said
Hollywood Reporter
The official trailer for A24's dramatic take on Chris Hansen's controversial 'To Catch a Predator' series: "We're going to be bigger than 'Lost'!"
Variety
Toronto Midnight Madness selection “Half,” the Malayalam vampire action thriller from Fragrant Nature Film Creations (FNFC), has been boarded by Ritesh Sidhwani and Farhan Akhtar’s Excel Entertainment, which will present and distribute the film in Hindi across North India in association with AA Films. “Half” will be Excel’s first release from the Malayalam-language film industry. […]
Variety
U.K. sales and distribution company Blue Finch Films has picked up worldwide sales rights, excluding Australia and New Zealand, to Nick Kozakis’ action horror “Kick On,” which will have its world premiere in the Midnight Madness section of the Toronto Film Festival. The company will launch sales on the film at the festival’s newly established […]
Hollywood Reporter
The Icelandic-born producer behind 'Wild at Heart,' 'Candyman and more reflects on a career built across genres, auteurs and formats — and why he still won't greenlight a film without a great actor.
The Guardian Culture
Explore Antarctica as a flightless bird – and dodge some earthly monsters – in this surreal adaptation of HP LovecraftWhile watching the 2006 animated film Happy Feet with his daughter, Origame Digital founder Naphtali Faulkner noticed something interesting. “[In the movie], they see the digger fall into the ocean, and it has an almost eldritch quality,” he says. Over time, and with plenty of iteration, Faulkner’s inspirations coalesced, from HP Lovecraft to the 1982 version of The Thing and the
The Guardian Culture
The alt-rock veteran answers your questions on Buddhist time travel techniques, duetting with Michael Stipe, and her autobiographical new albumDo you think Throwing Muses would have sounded different were it not for your bicycle accident? [Hersh was struck by a car when she was 16, resulting in a concussion that changed the way she heard sound.] Bhafc99Yes. I think people might have liked us more, but we would have been more forgettable. Our songs were not very marketable. They came from a place
Variety
The Toronto International Film Festival just can’t quit “Obsession.” On Thursday, TIFF, which runs Sept. 10-20, 2026, announced its Midnight Madness lineup of genre films, including filmmaker Anna Biller’s highly anticipated follow-up to 2016’s “The Love Witch,” titled “The Face of Horror,” about a 14th century cheating widower (Jonah Hauer-King) who’s haunted by his late […]
Hollywood Reporter
Peter Kuplowsky's 2026 thrills and spills film showcase has pics by ‘Universal Language’ director Matthew Rankin, Anna Biller, Eugene Kotlyarenko and Joshua Giuliano.
Variety
The most important prop in Netflix series “Operation Safed Sagar” isn’t a fighter jet. It’s a wing badge. When creator and showrunner Abhijeet Singh Parmar first sat down with Alka Ahuja – widow of Squadron Leader Ajay Ahuja, who was killed in the 1999 Kargil War – he and his team arrived with a list […]
Variety
The Zurich Film Festival will pay tribute to filmmaker Martin McDonagh as it gives a gala premiere to his latest film, “Wild Horse Nine,” starring John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell. The London-based director will receive the festival’s prestigious A Tribute To … Award in recognition of his “outstanding contribution to cinema,” and will also take […]
Variety
Did Lachlan Murdoch just tackle the NFL? The Fox CEO on Thursday surprised investors by announcing that Fox’s current deal with the National Football League would remain as is through its end after the 2029 season, despite the league’s recent interest in using an “opt-out” clause baked into the 11-year pacts it struck with all […]
The Guardian Culture
From mind-boggling murder investigations to decade-long scams, there’s no shortage of documentaries about real-life awfulness. We list the most incredibleSince the true-crime explosion a decade ago – kickstarted by Netflix’s Making a Murderer – audiences have been fed a steady small-screen diet of cold-case killings, catfishing scams and creepy cults. And, after years of varying results, Netflix’s latest show, A Toxic Love Story – which recounts how a California couple framed an innocent woman f
Variety
A24 has released the trailer for “Primetime,” giving a first look at Robert Pattinson as “To Catch a Predator” host Chris Hansen. The drama-thriller sees Pattinson step into Hansen’s shoes during a significant chapter in the history of the show, which followed Hansen and a camera crew as they executed sting operations designed to catch […]
Hollywood Reporter
Rockstar Games teams with streaming's rockstar.
Hollywood Reporter
He’s marshaled Oscar campaigns, launched a venture fund and thrown some epic parties on his way to building Gold House, a formidable engine for AAPI power in Hollywood.
Hollywood Reporter
The 'Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri' filmmaker will receive Zurich's A Tribute To... award and present his new feature, 'Wild Horse Nine' at the festival next month.
Variety
What’s the mood among the Warner Bros. Discovery rank and file amid the pending Paramount takeover? Some WBD execs have privately expressed hope the antitrust case brought by 12 states, with a trial set to take place in March 2027, can slow down or stop the merger. Paramount and WBD had hoped to close the […]