Movies

Xenomorph in 20th Century Studios’ ‘Alien: Romulus.’ Photo courtesy of 20th Century Studios. © 2024 20th Century Studios. All Rights Reserved. Director Ridley Scott‘s 1979 film ‘Alien,’ which featured Sigourney Weaver‘s first appearance as series hero Ripley, spawned one of the most successful and durable science-fiction franchises in cinema history. The series continued in 1986
0 Comments
As the Kamala Harris campaign gets set for a big week ahead during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, the candidate’s political team is also unveiling how they they’ll spend advertising dollars to get their message to voters ahead of early voting and Election Day in November. As part of a $370 million buy between
0 Comments
Eli Roth on the set of ‘Borderlands’. Photo Credit: Katalin Vermes. Copyright: ©2021 Lionsgate. Director Eli Roth is one of the current Masters of Horror. The filmmaker and occasional actor (‘Inglorious Basterds‘) is best known for horror movies like ‘Cabin Fever,‘ ‘Hostel,’ and his most recent, ‘Thanksgiving.’ But Roth has also made films in other
0 Comments
Akiplėša (Toxic), the feature debut from Lithuanian writer and director Saulė Bliuvaitė that explores the human body and mysterious model agencies, is the winner of the Locarno Film Festival’s 2024 international competition, which was honored with the Pardo d’Oro, or Golden Leopard, in the Swiss town on Saturday. Locarno77 organizers called the movie “an incisive
0 Comments
Netflix Renews ‘The Gentlemen’ for Season 2. Photo: Netflix. Preview: Netflix has renewed gangster series ‘The Gentlemen’ for Season 2. Guy Ritchie returns to co-write and direct the series. Theo James, Kaya Scodelario and Daniel Ings return to star. Plenty of audiences seemed to enjoy Guy Ritchie’s small screen spin-off from his 2019 comedy drama
0 Comments
Mingyu’s year of fashion continues with a new Calvin Klein campaign. The 27-year-old K-pop rapper, a member of supergroup Seventeen, is the star of a new Fall 2024 Calvin Klein campaign. The iconic brand released the campaign Friday, flooding social media with photos and videos of Mingyu decked out in Calvin Klein denim. Mingyu of
0 Comments
Fede Álvarez’s Alien: Romulus bit off a strong $6.5 million in Thursday previews, putting the highly anticipated August event on course to open to a better-than-expected $40 million-plus in another win for the Disney film empire and the summer box office overall. 20th Century and Disney held reviews until this week, a strategy that has
0 Comments
(Left) Camila Mendes on ‘Riverdale’. Photo: Warner Bros. Television Studios. (Right) Teela on ‘Masters of the Universe: Revelation’. Photo: Netflix. Preview: ‘Riverdale’s Camila Mendes will be Teela in Amazon MGM’s ‘Masters of the Universe’ movie. She joins Nicholas Galitzine, who’s playing He-Man. Travis Knight is in the director’s chair. After defeating previous efforts to turn
0 Comments
Gena Rowlands in ‘Gloria.’ Photo: Columbia Pictures. Preview: Gena Rowlands has died at the age of 94. She became known for her work with her husband, John Cassavetes. Younger audiences fell in love with her via 2004 weepie ‘The Notebook’. Gena Rowlands, an Oscar-nominated actor whose emotional and impactful performances won her Oscar nominations and
0 Comments
The investigation into the death of Matthew Perry has concluded and prosecutors have reportedly made at least one arrest for involvement in the Friends actor’s acquisition of the lethal amount of the dissociative anesthetic ketamine found in his blood. NBC News reported on Thursday morning that a person in Southern California was arrested Thursday in connection with Perry’s accidental overdose.
0 Comments
In mid-June, star-producer Blake Lively traveled to Dallas to attend author Colleen Hoover’s Book Bonanza for a Q&A in the lead-up to the August release It Ends With Us. Lively surprised the 2,000-plus attendees when she announced they could screen a rough cut of the movie adaptation the following night. The screening of the movie
0 Comments
(Left) Dominic Sessa stars as Angus Tully in director Alexander Payne’s ‘The Holdovers,’a Focus Features release. Credit: Seacia Pavao / © 2023 FOCUS FEATURES LLC. (Right) Anthony Bourdain in ‘Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown’. Photo: CNN. Preview: Dominic Sessa is to play chef Anthony Bourdain in ‘Tony’. The biopic will be directed by ‘Blackberry’s Matt Johnson.
0 Comments
Netflix has renewed Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen for a second season. Ritchie, who set the TV show in the world of Miramax’s film of the same name, will return to direct the series, while Theo James, Kaya Scodelario and Daniel Ings will reprise their starring roles. Additional casting for the second season hasn’t yet been
0 Comments