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For much of the past decade, the Toronto International Film Festival has struggled to hold its ground in the global awards-season sweepstakes. Once the launchpad for Oscar juggernauts from Slumdog Millionaire to La La Land, TIFF has in recent years watched rivals Venice and Telluride siphon away its prestige premieres, while buyers grumbled about thinner…
The start of the college football season, and a large cohort of streaming-first viewers returning to school, put a stop to several months of declines in cable and broadcast TV viewing in August. Streaming still outdrew the combined TV use of cable and network outlets for the month, according to Nielsen’s Gauge numbers, but for…
If there was any lingering doubt regarding Bob Odenkirk‘s late-career reinvention as a legit everyman action star, Normal handily seals the deal. Having proved himself up to the task after Nobody and Nobody 2, he wildly ups the ante with an unapologetically over-the-top small-town crime thriller. Directed by genre-hopping Ben Wheatley and written by John…
Tom Brady is coming out of retirement and returning to the football field … the flag football field. The NFL legend will headline a new event called The Fanatics Flag Football Classic, the brainchild of Brady, Fanatics, Fox Sports and OBB Media. The event will be held Saturday, March 21 at Kingdom Arena in Riyadh,…
Paula Shaw, the veteran character actress who portrayed Jason’s mother in the horror crossover film Freddy vs. Jason and appeared in a string of heartwarming Hallmark Channel holiday movies, has died. She was 84. Shaw, who led a workshop called “The Max” at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, for nearly 30 years, died…
Some claims in a novel lawsuit from a production company for Blade Runner 2049, accusing Tesla of feeding images from the movie into an artificial intelligence image generator to create unlicensed promotional materials and Warner Bros. Discovery of facilitating the alleged infringement, have been dismissed. Tesla’s partnership with Warner Bros. Discovery to promote its robotaxi…
The signal is not quite in the sky but will be shining very soon. On the heels of a report this summer in Puck that Matt Reeves was just about to deliver a sequel script for The Batman: Part II, the veteran filmmaker confirmed Sunday that he did indeed hand it over and now the…
Oscar-nominated actress Mary McDonnell is joining the cast of two forthcoming projects. McDonnell is set to star in thriller feature One Second After and will also appear in Marvel Television’s Vision series, The Hollywood Reporter has learned exclusively. The actress joins previously announced castmembers Josh Holloway and Hannah John-Kamen in director Scott Rogers’ One Second…
Patricia Crowley, who starred as the harried suburban wife and mother of four kids and a sheepdog on the 1960s NBC comedy Please Don’t Eat the Daisies, has died. She was 91. Crowley died Sunday of natural causes in Los Angeles, her son, Jon Hookstratten, executive vp administration and operations at Sony Pictures Entertainment, announced….
Longtime CBS Evening News anchor and regular 60 Minutes contributor Dan Rather does not like what he sees happening at — and to — his old employer. Before David Ellison bought Paramount Global and merged it with his Skydance (forming Paramount Skydance), there were “several instances in which the previous owners … tried to sort…
