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Colman Domingo secretly joined the cast of Wicked: for Good, as none other than the voice of the Cowardly Lion. The movie and actor’s Instagram accounts shared the news Monday, after Jon M. Chu last week made headlines when he teased a big-name actor attached to the role. Domingo joins an already star-studded slate with…
Jimmy Kimmel‘s short-lived suspension from ABC may have had a significant impact on Disney+ subscriptions, according to new data from the subscription analytics firm Antenna, which tracks subscriptions and viewership data for majorstreamingservices. Antenna on Monday released numbers showing that monthly churn rates for Disney+ and Hulu surged from 4 percent and 5 percent in…
Benedict Cumberbatch stars in The Thing With Feathers, writer-director Dylan Southern’s big-screen adaptation of Max Porter’s award-winning Grief Is the Thing With Feathers, which just screened at the 69th editionof theBFI London Film Festival(LFF) after its world premiere at Sundance. ‘A mother dies, leaving two primary school-aged children and ‘Sad Dad’. Before long, ‘Crow’ emerges…
Director and producer Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot, The Hours, The Reader) and Sonia Friedman, the theater producer behind such West End hits as Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and Stranger Things: The First Shadow, have boarded A Friend of Dorothy, a short film starring Miriam Margolyes (Harry Potter, The Age of Innocence) and Stephen…
Run Away, an upcoming Harlan Coben series starringJames Nesbitt, Ruth Jones, Minnie Driver, and Alfred Enoch, will debut on Netflix on Jan. 1, 2026, following the 2025 success of the limited thriller seriesMissing You. On Monday, Netflix unveiled first-look pictures for the series, which uses the tagline: “How far would you go to bring her…
“Women make the harsher films.” Kira Muratova, the pioneering Soviet, and later Ukrainian, filmmaker made that comment when German director Isa Willinger (Hi, AI. Love Stories From the Future; Plastic Fantastic) just started her career and visited her in Odesa towards the end of Muratova’s career. But the thought stuck with Willinger, the author of…
Filming for The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping is underway and Elle Fanning is taking over the role of Effie Trinket — with the endorsement of original star Elizabeth Banks. The newest story in the Hunger Games franchise — based on Suzanne Collins‘ best-selling novel — takes place in Panem on the morning of…
While performing in the Gershwins’ musical Funny Face in London in 1928, Fred Astaire bought a custom-bodied 1927 Rolls-Royce Phantom I Town Car. He was so impressed with the vehicle, he shipped it back to the States after the run, outfitted with a custom Louis Vuitton trunk for his tap shoes. Likewise, when Marlene Dietrich…
The Academy Museum hosted its star-studded signature gala on Saturday night, honoring Penélope Cruz, Bruce Springsteen, Bowen Yang and Walter Salles while also raising over $12 million to support its exhibitions, education initiatives and public programming. The fifth annual event, presented in partnership with Rolex, was co-chaired by Jon M. Chu, Common, Viola Davis and…
Robert De Niro is speaking out on the importance of protests, saying, “We can’t let up,” because President Donald Trump “does not want to leave the White House.” The Oscar winner stopped by MSNBC’s The Weekend on Sunday to chat about Saturday’s “No Kings” protests across the nation and the risk of Trump running for…
