Новости за 25.05.2024

Patricia Richardson, who starred as family matriarch Jill Taylor on the hit ABC sitcom Home Improvement, said she used the large pay gap between her and co-star Tim Allen to avoid continuing with the show. “I told everybody, ‘There’s not enough money in the world to get me to do a ninth year,'” she said […]

In accepting the Palme d’Or today for his latest movie Anora, Sean Baker gave a shoutout for the survival of cinema. At the Cannes Film Festival awards presser he said he hopes his movie is “certainly one step toward helping” theaters. “You see theaters closing every day unfortunately. I follow a Twitter feed about theaters […]

Special Counsel Jack Smith is asking a federal judge to issue a partial gag order restricting Donald Trump from falsely claiming that FBI agents who searched his Mar-A-Lago estate in 2022 were part of a plot to assassinate him. Smith’s team asked Judge Aileen Cannon to “take steps immediately to halt this dangerous campaign to […]

Often, the juries at the Cannes Film Festival will try to make a political statement in their choices for the winners of the world’s most famous film festival. Not this year. At least, not in the way they might have. I rather thought that director Mohammad Rasoulof would take the Palme d’Or for his stirring […]

“We really led with our hearts for everything we watched,” said 77th Cannes Film Festival Jury President Greta Gerwig on what was a fiercely competitive year. In a Cannes that delivered a Demi Moore comeback pro-femme horror film Substance, a ground breaking trans noir Spanish-lingo musical in Emilia Perez, Francis Ford Coppola’s $120M passion project […]

It just had to be, didn’t it. U.S. distributor Neon only had two movies in the Competition: Anora and The Seed of the Sacred Fig. Neither could have fared any better with the critics and both won prizes tonight. It was Sean Baker’s Anora that stormed to the top prize on the Riviera, making it […]

Nicki Minaj has been placed under arrest in the Netherlands for suspicion of carrying marijuana in her personal belongings while at the airport en route to Manchester for a scheduled performance this evening. Marijuana is legal in the Netherlands, however, flying with the drug is illegal as the airplane is considered under federal jurisdiction. The […]

Demi Moore says she’s intrigued by Channing Tatum’s plans to remake the 1990 Oscar-winning film, Ghost. The film grossed $506 million at the global box office and won two Oscars at the 1991 Academy Awards — one for Best Original Screenplay, and the other for Whoopi Goldberg’s supporting performance. Moore spoke to Entertainment Weekly about […]

Star Wars creator George Lucas was fêted with an Honorary Palme d’Or at this evening’s Cannes Film Festival closing ceremony. In a poignant moment, Lucas was joined on stage by by his longtime friend, mentor and collaborator, Francis Ford Coppola who presented the award. On Lucas’ arrival, the crowd rose to their feet and gave […]

Elton John was not feeling the original choices in The Lion King to sing his Oscar-winning ballad, Can You Feel The Love Tonight? In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Nathan Lane revealed that early versions of the animated classic saw Timon and Pumbaa singing all of Can You Feel the Love Tonight? “Originally, we sang […]

EXCLUSIVE: The California Employment Development Department may soon stop recognizing loan out corporations. Several IATSE locals informed their members Friday night that they’d received notice from payroll service Cast & Crew that, following an audit of the company, the EDD will instead require employers to pay for services directly to contracted employees. “This would fundamentally […]

If an animated film turns up in the Competition at Cannes, chances are it’s not going to be another Bambi — although, if it were made today, the traumatic shooting of Bambi’s mother would certainly tickle the selection committee. No, Cannes prefers its animation to be skewed towards adults, like René Lalou’s surreal sci-fi Fantastic […]

Refresh for latest…: The 77th Cannes Film Festival draws to a close this evening with the prize ceremony about to kick off inside the Grand Théâtre Lumière. The past 10 days have been building to this moment after a somewhat muted start that arrived under gloomy skies. The clouds have since cleared and several films […]

For the second time in just under six months, a key piece of the Home Alone film franchise is on the market. On Friday, the iconic Home Alone house from the first film hit the market. The Winnetka, Illinois home carries a $5.25 million price tag. Last December, the lux townhouse featured in Home Alone 2: […]

Grindstone Entertainment Group has bought North American rights to Uppercut, a boxing thriller starring Ving Rhames, for Hello Moment Productions. World sales are being handled by Sublimity Entertainment, which will be presenting the film to international distributors at the Cannes marketplace. Set in New York City, Uppercut begins in 2014 as Toni (Luiii), a determined […]

As of Friday, Patrick’s Roadhouse was still closed. Plates and pitchers were stacked inside. The old-style coffee maker seemed ready to go, and there were even some bright green lights shining along the roof. But the place looked like a radioactive version of the Spanish Kitchen, frozen in time, plus dinosaurs, leprechauns and the Statue […]

Kelly Rowland stole many red carpet headlines from this year’s Cannes Film Festival, with a visible confrontation with a female security officer as she made her way up the famous steps and into the Palais. Deadline previously reported Rowland giving her side of the bust-up. Saying she felt the French security rushed her time on […]

Jeremy Clarkson’s televised trials and tribulations working the land have already found a huge audience in his home nation, now it appears he’s also conquered the east. A fortnight ago, Deadline reported that Season 3 of Clarkson’s Farm had broken Amazon Prime Video‘s UK ratings record. The Season 3 premiere of Jeremy Clarkson‘s farming show was streamed by 5.1M […]

Taylor Swift has been urged by a BBC nature presenter to reconsider to curtail her “absurd” use of private jets. Chris Packham, a longtime host of BBC nature programs and a tireless environmental campaigner, spoke out after Swift sent in the lawyers to silence a social media blogger sharing a log of her international jet […]

It’s been three short days since UK prime minister Rishi Sunak announced the country would be going to the polls on July 4th for a general election, and J.K. Rowling has made her presence felt on social media, slamming the opposition leader for his treatment of a gender-critical politician in his own party. Rosie Duffield, […]

Of the many films set in India that premiered at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Payal Kapadia’s feature debut is the only one to focus on the country and its character, which it does by focusing on its most populated city, Mumbai. Like London, Paris and New York, Mumbai is a city of contrasts, a […]

Michel Hazanavicius said that when it came to making his Holocaust feature The Most Precious of Cargoes “the question didn’t even arise” when making it animated. “I would never want to make a live film on this.” The Artist Oscar winner adapted from the Jean-Claude Grumberg novel. The story follows a poor woodcutter and his […]

“If we had to deal with cocaine, it would have been easier,” joked The Seed of the Sacred Fig filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof this AM at a Cannes presser about his entanglement with totalitarian Iranian authorities over his cinema which prompted the filmmaker to flee his homeland from imprisonment. “We’re gangsters of cinema,” Rasoulof further quipped […]

Scott D. Pierce, who wrote about television for more than 30 years as a critic for The Salt Lake Tribune and the Deseret News, died today at 64. His death was confirmed. by his partner Rob Sonoda, but no cause was given. Pierce started his as a TV critic on March 31, 1990 at the […]

Five games into her WNBA career, Caitlin Clark is already a target. Clark’s Indiana Fever team is searching for its first win tonight against the Los Angeles Sparks at downtown’s Crypto.com Arena. They are 0-5 heading into tonight after playing a tough early season schedule. Clark has so far done well, averaging 17.8 points, 5.8 […]