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Jeremy Allen White‘s performance in Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere is so convincing that it apparently even had Bruce Springsteen fooled at moments. After a worldwide promotional tour, the biopic served as the opening film at AFI Fest in Hollywood on Wednesday, where co-star Marc Maron told The Hollywood Reporter that hearing White sing as…
Something strange is going on with Jessica Chastain‘s streaming series The Savant. Exactly one month ago today, The Savant was officially pulled from the Apple TV schedule. And it feels even longer, as The Savant was supposed to premiere on Apple TV when the SVOD app was still called Apple TV+. The Savant, which originally…
Netflix is entering a Black Hole with its latest series project. The streamer outbid other outlets for a series based on Charles Burns’ Black Hole comics, with I Saw the TV Glow writer-director Jane Schoenbrun set to adapt the story and direct. Neflix has given a straight-to-series order to the project, which will be Schoenbrun’s…
Taylour Paige doesn’t watch horror. “I am a scaredy-cat,” she deadpans. “If you ask me to watch, the answer is no.” And yet, here she is, starring in one of the year’s most gruesome prestige dramas — HBO’s Welcome to Derry, a prequel to It from the filmmaker duo Barbara and Andy Muschietti. “When my agents…
Whether Zohran Mamdani’s campaign ends up as a road map for the Democratic Party is an open question. Where, however, the 32-year-old New York City mayoral candidate seems to have provided some (at the very least) clever instruction to his party is in his messaging. Twice now, the Mamdani campaign has rolled out television spots…
Jackie Tohn was at Bell’s house when her best friend and the other producers happened to be discussing potential actors to play Rabbi Noah. Tohn, a self-described “Jew from New York,” who was later cast as Noah’s sister-in-law Esther, couldn’t help but weigh in. “I’m like, ‘Okay, you got your Max Greenfield, but he might…
Noah Baumbach is set to receive the director tribute at the 2025 Gotham Film Awards, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The three-time Gotham Award winner will be recognized for his overall career and latest film, Jay Kelly, starring George Clooney and Adam Sandler. “As a three-time Gotham Award winner and five-time nominee, Noah Baumbach is…
Grammy-nominated recording artist Masego has signed on to produce the original score for N LITE’s upcoming anime fantasy film Mfinda. This makes Masego, who is said to be an anime aficionado, the first Black composer to score an anime theatrical film, according to N LITE, a Black-owned media company and anime studio based in the…
Cameron Diaz’s action comedy Bad Day has rounded out its cast with several bold-faced funny people. Sam Richardson, Ben Schwartz, K Callan as well as Ayden Mayeri, Mark Duplass and Rob Corddry have boarded the project, which is in production in New Jersey and being directed by Jake Szymanski (Jury Duty). Ed O’Neill, Danielle Brooks,…
Superstar classical pianist Lang Lang has earned just about every accolade there is in his profession. This year, the Chinese virtuoso joined the ranks of Mozart, Beethoven and Chopin in receiving the biopic treatment — and even they didn’t get it in their lifetime. But it nearly didn’t happen. In fall 2020, fresh off his…
