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Yorgos Lanthimos might be on board with AI, after all. The Oscar-nominated filmmaker, director of movies The Favourite, Poor Things and Kinds of Kindness, jokingly told BFI London Film Festival attendees on Saturday that he’s willing to send out a computer-generated avatar of himself if it helps him get out of promotional duties. Lanthimos spoke…
The inaugural Riyadh Comedy Festival closed on Thursday after a fortnight under the bright lights of Boulevard Riyadh City, and it’s likely that the unprecedented event teeming with colorful and controversial Western comics will leave its mark on the now more outward-looking culture inside the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The two-week event brought together, for…
For Portobello, its first Italian original production, HBO Max is taking us back to 1980s Italy and one of the most infamous miscarriages of justice in the country’s history. Legendary Italian auteur Marco Bellocchio (The Traitor, Kidnapped) directed and co-wrote the six-episode series, which tells the story of the downfall and imprisonment of popular TV…
For years, the narrative has been that movies, in contrast to TV series, were in decline — casualties of a once-in-a-century pandemic that shuttered theaters and a double blow from prolonged industry strikes. But there’s new data that paints a different picture. Streaming services are, in fact, relying more than ever on films to keep…
No Doubt is getting ready to hit Las Vegas. Gwen Stefani, Tony Kanal, Tom DumontandAdrian Young of the 1990s rock band revealed on Friday that they are set to reunite for a limited six-night run at the Sphere. They will headline the nights on May 6, 8, 9, 13, 15 and 16. Stefani, who rose…
[This story contains spoilers for the Peacemaker season two finale.] Peacemaker season two reached its conclusion last night — actually, it reached beyond its original conclusion, James Gunn says. Gunn, who created and writes the John Cena-superhero show for HBO Max, made a pretty big addition to his original ending for the second season’s finale…
Four weeks into its 34th season, Dancing With the Stars is on a ratings roll. The ABC show has grown its first-night audience every week since the season premiere on Sept. 16, hitting a high of 5.88 million viewers for Tuesday’s Disney-themed night. That was up a tick from 5.83 million same-day viewers a week…
[This story contains major spoilers from the season 22 premiere of Grey’s Anatomy, “Only the Strong Survive.”] Natalie Morales has just joined a very exclusive club: the dead Grey’s Anatomy doctors club. Throughout the two-decade run of the venerable ABC medical drama, creator Shonda Rhimes and her showrunning successors have become infamous for killing off…
Directors representing a high profile crop of submissions for this year’s best international feature Oscar race will be sharing the stage in the Windy City this weekend. The 61st Chicago International Film Festival confirmed the details today for its International Contenders Panel: World Cinema Now!, a discussion featuring auteurs representing their country’s official submissions for…
Writer-director Mac Nixon knows that you have sheep and lush green landscapes in mind when thinking about Wales. That’s why he plays with these tropes in his 20-minute black-and-white short Flock, which world premieres at the 69th editionof theBFILondon Film Festival (LFF) with other shorts grouped together under the theme “Pulling the Rug Out.” The…
