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Tracee Ellis Ross had always dreamed of being on Broadway, and better yet, in a one-person show. After graduating from Brown University with a degree in theater, Ross saw her career take off with television projects such as Girlfriends and Black-ish, but still felt that pull to the stage. At first, this materialized in Ross…
What do you get when you cross a documentary with the world of pornography? Well, Austrian writer-director Rosa Friedrich (Wander) has done it, and the hybrid doc result is called My Friend the Porn Star. If you are scratching your head in confusion now, let me back up and explain. My Friend the Porn Star,…
Can Ghostbusters pull off a Lucas/Filoni? In the early 2000s, in the wake of the commercially successful but critically divisive Star Wars prequels, George Lucas shifted the franchise’s center of gravity away from features and toward animation. Working with Dave Filoni, he helped build a slate of animated series — including The Clone Wars, Star…
The planned merger of Lotte Cinema and Megabox, South Korea’s second- and third-largest multiplex chains, has collapsed, ending a 14-month attempt to combine the two companies into the country’s biggest theatrical exhibitor. Lotte Shopping, the retail conglomerate that controls Lotte Cinema operator Lotte Cultureworks, disclosed in a regulatory filing that its memorandum of understanding with…
Tom Hanks‘ forthcoming baseball film is ready to hit the ground running. Sony Pictures announced Wednesday that it is set to release The Comebacker theatrically on July 30, 2027. Hanks stars in the movie that Marielle Heller helms from her own script, which adapts Dave Eggers’ 2024 short story of the same name. The Comebacker…
The three notes sent to media outlets involving Nancy Guthrie‘s abduction were phony and not connected to the disappearance of Today host Savannah Guthrie’s octogenarian mother, federal investigators told Reuters this week. Two notes were sent to local media outlets and to TMZ in the days after Nancy Guthrie was last seen at her Tucson-area…
If anyone knows Curry Barker‘s success wasn’t built overnight, it’s Anthony Pavone. Years before Obsession became one of 2026’s biggest success stories, the 29-year-old actor was collaborating with writer-director Barker and his creative partner, Cooper Tomlinson. While Barker and Tomlinson were best known as the duo behind the sketch comedy YouTube channel That’s a Bad…
Wilford Lloyd Baumes, the TV writer and producer who created The Love Boat and worked on Wonder Woman and the critically acclaimed Holocaust miniseries QB VII, all in collaboration with famed producer-executive Douglas S. Cramer, has died. He was 86. A resident of Cincinnati, Baumes died Sunday, his family announced. Also with Cramer, Baumes wrote…
Victor Willis, the lead singer of ’70s disco group Village People, has died. He was 74. Willis’ wife, Karen-Huff Willis, posted to the musician’s Facebook page on Wednesday: “It is with profound sadness that I must announce the death of my husband … Victor passed away on Tuesday … as a result of a short,…
It’s not just all about the film screeningsat theKarlovy VaryInternationalFilm Festival(KVIFF), whose 60th edition takes over the Czech Republic July 3-11.For folks working in film, TV, publishing and beyond, there is also business to be done at the expanded andbroadened Industry Days programof the festival. Hugo Rosák, head of the KVIFF Film Industry Office, has…
