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Earlier this week, as the clock neared 11 p.m. on Liberty Island in New York harbor, the ABC News production team finally had the window they had been waiting for. David Muir, who had spent hours touring the island and the Statue of Liberty with park rangers, was interviewing singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile, who would follow…
Last year, Stellan Skarsgårdattended the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival to receive its highest honor. This year, the Swedish superstar, who was nominated for an Oscar for his role inNorwegian filmmaker Joachim Trier’sinternationalOscar-winningSentimental Value, is back in the Czech spa town, gracing its big screens as the star of this year’s KVIFF trailer. Such work…
“Like any great love, “ Taylor Swift once sang about New York, “it keeps you guessing. … But you know you wouldn’t change anything.” Well, at least she wouldn’t. New Yorkers have long had what might be called an indifferent relationship with Swift, if not an overtly skeptical one. When the pop star and Travis…
Prime Video’s Elle took a moment during season one for a special dedication to the late James Van Der Beek. The actor died in February after his battle with colorectal cancer,months before the Legally Blonde prequel series’ premiere in July. He was 48. In Elle, Van Der Beek played Dean Wilson, the school district superintendent…
A little after 5 p.m. Thursday in midtown Manhattan, with the thermometer reading 101 but the heat of anticipation much higher, two older women from Idaho found some shade next to a Taylor Swift billboard. “We just want to see…something,” said Gigi, on her first trip to New York City. A whole lot of New…
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…
