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The first place David Ellison went after closing Skydance’s $8 billion deal for Paramount Global on Aug. 7 was the offices of CBS News on the west side of Manhattan. In meetings with the journalists and staff there, he praised the legacy of the TV news division, once the home of Edward R. Murrow, and…
Richard Trank, the Oscar-winning filmmaker who spent decades working at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, many of them running its in-house Moriah Films division, and who also oversaw the programming of media content for SWC’s Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles and Jerusalem, has left the organization to launch his own production company, Sea Point Films…
Maggie Gyllenhaal for menswear? Eton said yes. The actress-turned-filmmaker has been tapped as a new brand ambassador for the legacy menswear brand, making her the first woman to represent the Swedish brand famous for refined shirting. Per Eton, Gyllenhaal “doesn’t just wear the brand, she reframes it.” She does so by wearing a variety of…
The team behind 2022’s acclaimed drama The Eight Mountains — Italian star Luca Marinelli and Belgian filmmakers Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch — are re-teaming for Let Love In, a romantic drama which van Groeningen will direct and Vandermeersch will star in, alongside Marinelli. Vandermeesch and Marinelli play a couple whose relationship is thrown…
To an older generation, they were Stiller & Meara, the comedy duo with an endless reserve of gently absurd sketches on The Ed Sullivan Show. To a younger generation, he was the fulminating father of George Costanza on Seinfeld. To Ben Stiller, of course, Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara were something far more intimate: his…
The69th edition of theBFI London Film Festival(LFF) kicks off on Wednesday, screening around 250 titles. So, the challenge will once again be what and how to choose. If you want to explore something completely new, there are27 world premieres, including eight features. Or you could catch up on highlights from this year’s film fest circuit,…
Ike Turner Jr., a Grammy-winning producer who was the son of Ike and Tina Turner, has died. He was 67. Tina’s niece Jacqueline Bullocktold TMZthat Ike Turner Jr. died Saturday at a Los Angeles hospital from kidney failure. She also said he had battled heart issues for years and suffered a stroke last month. She…
Taylor Swift released the video for her new single “The Fate of Ophelia” on Sunday. The music video for the lead single off her new album, The Life of a Showgirl, was released just two days after it premiered as part of the theatrical event Taylor Swift: The Official Release Party of a Showgirl. Swift…
[This story contains major spoilers from Wayward.] Wayward star Alyvia Alyn Lind knows you have unlimited questions about her new limited series that’s currently ranking atop the Netflix TV charts. Created by Mae Martin, Wayward shines a light on the troubled teen industry through Vermont’s fictional Tall Pines Academy. The “therapeutic” school is run by…
Kimberly Hébert Gregory, best known for playing Dr. Belinda Brown on the HBO series Vice Principals, died Friday. She was 52. Gregory’s ex-husband, Chester Gregory, confirmed her death on Instagram. The cause of death wasn’t immediately available. “Kimberly Hébert Gregory You Were Brilliance Embodied, A Black Woman Whose Mind Lit Every Room, Whose Presence Carried…
