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At first bite, Cookie Monster seems like a harmless creature whose only flaw is acting on the needs of his stomach over the recommendations of his brain. In reality, this is a battle-hardened veteran who is set to play a bigger role in one of the media industry’s most intense brawls.

The furry, azure creature, known for his time on “Sesame Street” and even in a commercial for Apple, will soon boost WarnerMedia’s efforts to win new fans of its kids programming, and to keep those who already have a connection from breaking it. WarnerMedia and Sesame Workshop, currently in the middle of a pact that lasts through 2025, are expanding the work the educational-programming company will do for the media giant. Cookie Monster, Elmo and Abby Cadabby will appear as robot heroes in the new series “Sesame Street Mecha Builders,” which aims to burnish older preschoolers’ thinking about science and technology,...

The drama revolving around the making of Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1972 erotic film Last Tango in Paris will be the subject of a new limited series from Entourage and Boston Public writers Jeremy Miller and Daniel Cohn. Part of the first-look agreement between CBS Studios and Stampede Ventures, Tango will span the 18 months before, during, and after the film’s production. The story will be told through the lens of the film’s stars, Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider, as well as Bertolucci, and is said to explore themes of identity, fame, and artistic ambition. Controversy surrounds the film for its inclusion of a rape scene, which Schneider later claimed was not consensual and not in the original script. “I felt humiliated, and to be honest, I felt a little raped, both by Marlon and by Bertolucci,” Schneider told the Daily Mail in 2007. The series, set in Italy, France, and the U.

‘Tango’, a limited event series based on the tumultuous events surrounding the making of Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1972 erotic drama ‘Last Tango in Paris’, is in the works by CBS Studios. Lisa Brühlmann and Jose Padilha will co-direct the series, with Greg Silverman and Jp Sarni of Stampede Ventures executive producing. CBS Studios will co-produce under […]...

Last Tango In Paris is getting its own The Offer-style making of drama series.

The tumultuous events surrounding the making of the 1972 erotic drama, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci and starring Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider, is to be turned into a television series by CBS Studios and Stampede Ventures.

The series comes from Entourage and Boston Public writers Jeremy Miller and Daniel Cohn with Killing Eve’s Lisa Brühlmann and Narcos’ José Padilha to co-direct.

The project, set in Italy, France and the U.S., will span the 18 months before, during and after the production of the film and will explore questions of identity, fame, and artistic ambition. Told through the lens of those at the center of the events – Schneider, Brando and Bertolucci – the series will begin with Bertolucci traveling to Los Angeles in 1971 to convince a broken-down and bankrupt Brando to take a role in his upcoming...

CBS Studios is backing Tango, a limited event series based on the tumultuous events surrounding the making of Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1972 erotic drama Last Tango in Paris.

Lisa Brühlmann (Killing Eve) and José Padilha (Narcos) will co-direct the series, with Greg Silverman and Jp Sarni of Stampede Ventures executive producing. CBS Studios will co-produce under its international first-look agreement with Stampede, with SVP of international co-productions and development Meghan Lyvers overseeing the project for the studio.

Based on a script by Jeremy Miller and Daniel Cohn, Tango traces the 18 months before, during and after the production of Last Tango in Paris, exploring the story through ...

CBS Studios is backing Tango, a limited event series based on the tumultuous events surrounding the making of Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1972 erotic drama Last Tango in Paris.

Lisa Brühlmann (Killing Eve) and José Padilha (Narcos) will co-direct the series, with Greg Silverman and Jp Sarni of Stampede Ventures executive producing. CBS Studios will co-produce under its international first-look agreement with Stampede, with SVP of international co-productions and development Meghan Lyvers overseeing the project for the studio.

Based on a script by Jeremy Miller and Daniel Cohn, Tango traces the 18 months before, during and after the production of Last Tango in Paris, exploring the story through ...

Is “Dancing with the Stars” Season 30 JoJo Siwa‘s to lose? The singer has been the favorite all season long, but as we’ve seen the past few seasons, that’s been more of a curse than a blessing. Siwa, Amanda Kloots, Cody Rigsby and Iman Shumpert will hit the hardwood one last time on Monday’s season finale for Mirrorball glory. They will perform twice, a fusion dance of two styles, and the freestyle, of course.

Who will win? Let’s break down the final four.

Amanda Kloots and Alan Bersten

For her: Consistency. Kloots has never been bad nor has she had a terribly off week. Hard not to feel like her past as a Broadway dancer and Rockette, performing day in and day out, isn’t a factor in that consistency even if the dance styles are completely different. And she just gave one of her best...

Monday’s semifinals broadcast of Dancing With the Stars was all about the number two.

Not only was the episode — remarkably! — already the second-to-last outing of Season 30, but it featured two routines from each remaining duo, then wrapped with one last double elimination. (Two is also the number of Kleenex boxes you might have burned through while watching this episode. Everywhere you looked, another sob-worthy contemporary!)

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Shakira is marking the 20th anniversary of 2001’s first English language album, Laundry Service with an expanded edition dubbed Laundry Service: Washed and Dried, which arrived on Friday. A 12-inch vinyl edition of Laundry Service will be released Dec. 17 and is available for preorder.

The set includes four bonus tracks: the previously unreleased “Whenever, Wherever (Pepsi Super Bowl Liv Halftime Show Remix),” “Whenever, Wherever” (Sahara remix), “Underneath Your Clothes” (acoustic version) and “Objection (Tango)” (Afro-punk version).

To mark the occasion, on Friday the singer will roll out performances on YouTube...

The music of Janet Jackson served as Dancing With the Stars‘ soundtrack on Monday night… but by the time the broadcast ended, four dancers had been booted from Rhythm Nation.

With only three weeks left in Season 30 — and whoa, how’d that happen so fast? — six couples advanced to next week’s semifinals, while two duos ended their pursuit of the Mirrorball for good. But before we get to that double elimination, let’s revisit Monday’s performances, which yielded perhaps too many perfect scores, no?

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The good news for “Dancing with the Stars” contestants was that Monday night gave them the opportunity to perform to the music of Janet Jackson. The bad news was that it was also a double elimination night, which meant that a quarter of the remaining contestants had to go home when all was said and done. Who were the unlucky celebs on the chopping block. And who advanced to next week’s semifinals? Scroll down for our live blog with all the minute-by-minute developments and commentary throughout the night.

See‘Dancing with the Stars’ slugfest: Is JoJo Siwa still the Mirror Ball front-runner after bottom two shocker?

The celebs had to perform twice on “Janet Jackson Night.” In the first round they performed new routines with their pro partners to classic Jackson hits: cha chas for Jimmie Allen (“Escapade”) and Iman Shumpert (“Rhythm Nation”), paso dobles for Melora Hardin (“If...

ABC had some pixie dust to spare this week — and a hole to fill in its Tuesday-night schedule! — resulting in a double dose of Disney on Dancing With the Stars.

Whereas Monday’s broadcast featured the dances of Disney heroes (read recap), Tuesday’s episode was all about Disney villains. And in a truly wicked twist, Dancing ended the show with a double elimination, counteracting Monday’s joyous announcement that no one would be going home on Heroes Night. But hey, there was no Mickey Dance Challenge this time, so really, everyone wins.

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For the last two weeks YouTube views have been a decent (though not entirely consistent) barometer for who winds up in the bottom two on “Dancing with the Stars” each week; half of the show’s results are determined by viewers voting at home, so popularity is just as crucial as dance quality. If that continues as we head into the upcoming two-night Disney heroes and villains event, could that spell trouble for country star Jimmie Allen and “The Office” actress Melora Hardin? Scroll down for the complete YouTube rankings following “Britney Night,” with viewership stats taken Friday afternoon.

See‘Dancing with the Stars’ fans say The Miz and Cody Rigsby were better on ‘Britney Night’ than judges gave them credit for

“Cobra Kai” actor Martin Kove and “Bling Empire” star Christine Chiu had two of the three least watched dances from the season premiere, and they ended up in...

On “Britney Night,” when “Dancing with the Stars” contestants performed to the music of Britney Spears, almost all of the male dancers scored lower from the judges than almost all the female dancers. That’s been the case all season so far. But when we asked our readers who they thought gave the best performance of the night, many of them thought the judges gave at least a couple of dudes a raw deal. Scroll down for our complete poll results.

WWE wrestler Mike “The Miz” Mizanin actually did pretty well for himself where the judges were concerned. His salsa got sevens from Carrie Ann Inaba and Len Goodman and an eight from Bruno Tonioli, for a total of 22 out of 30. He was the best-scoring man of the night, tied for fifth overall on the judges’ leaderboard, but even that wasn’t as good as fans thought because our readers...

Cody Rigsby may not have performed to “Circus” during Dancing With the Stars‘ Britney Spears Night, but that whole “all eyes on me in the center of the ring” thing? It definitely applied.

After testing positive for Covid-19 days after his partner, Cheryl Burke, contracted the virus, Cody still remained in the competition for Monday’s performance show, dancing a jazz number remotely (and separately from Cheryl) to Spears’ “Gimme More.” And though we’ve all gotten used to virtual backup plans during the pandemic, the thought of Cody and Cheryl dancing live from different homes — on different coasts! — was a tad nerve-racking.

Week three of “DWTS” was the show’s first theme night of season 30: the 14 remaining celebrity contestants and their professional partners performed to some of Britney Spears‘s greatest hits. So which performances were “Stronger,” which were “Outrageous,” and which were just plain “Toxic”? Scroll down for our live blog with all the minute-by-minute developments and commentary from “Dancing with the Stars” “Britney Night.”

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Spears has been a pop star since she was a teenager in the 1990s, but her life and career have been reevaluated in recent years, especially with the TV documentary “Framing Britney Spears” that covered her career, the way she was treated by the media, and the mental health crisis in 2007 that forced her into a conservatorship that she’s still struggling to get out of more than a decade later.

It’s time to work, bitch. Because it’s Britney Night on “Dancing with the Stars.” Monday’s Week 3 show will be the first time “Dancing” has devoted a night to Britney Spears — also fittingly less than a week after her father Jamie Spears was suspended as her conservator — but it will also go down in the record books with the first dual remote performance in the show’s history.

As previously announced, Cody Rigsby and Cheryl Burke will perform separately from their homes after they both tested positive for breakthrough cases of Covid-19 last week. They were initially assigned a cha-cha but are now performing a jazz routine — the only one this week — almost certainly due to the remote aspect. You don’t need to be in hold in a jazz, ya know? Risby, a Spears stan, and Burke will perform 11th, according to the latter’s Instagram, and will dance to “Gimme More,...

Melanie C danced to a Spice Girls track on the “Dancing with the Stars” Season 30 premiere and now Jimmie Allen is like, “Hold my beer.” The country star is set to hit the parquet to one of his songs on Week 2.

Allen and Emma Slater will perform the rumba to the former’s “Billboard” Country Airplay topper “Make Me Want To” on Monday. The duo scored a 22 for their first dance, the tango, which was the third lowest score of the night, but the rumba could be a hit or a miss for any couple because of the hip action that may be too early in the game for some to nail. The rumba is one of six dances this week, the others being Viennese waltz, foxtrot, samba, tango and cha-cha. Speaking of hip action, Matt James and Lindsay Arnold are the only ones doing samba.

Martin Kove and Britt Stewart,...

Half of the results on “Dancing with the Stars” are decided by fans voting at home, so it matters how much enthusiasm you can generate with viewers. Each contestant’s YouTube numbers thus might give us a glimpse at their popularity with fans. Of course, we can’t say for sure that the most viewed dances from the season premiere correspond with the most voted-on celebs, especially since voting for week one ended back on Tuesday morning, but these numbers may indicate a few dark-horse contestants we might be underestimating. Scroll down to see the stats and watch the dances.

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Whenever you read this, the numbers will likely have changed; these stats are from the afternoon of Friday, September 24. But unsurprisingly the most watched video by a wide margin is JoJo Siwa...

The first episode of Dancing With the Stars‘ milestone 30th season is in the books, and it’s left me with one very pressing question: How was everybody so freakin’ good?

If you’ve watched a lot of DWTS in the past, you know to keep expectations low for the premiere episode, which usually features quite a few rocky routines (and at least one pro visibly counting out the steps for his or her celeb partner). Monday’s Season 30 debut, though, delivered an exceptionally high number of really excellent routines — so many, in fact, that I’m starting to seriously...

Paris-based Eurozoom has snapped up French distribution rights to “The King of All the World,” a musical drama directed by “Carmen’s” Carlos Saura and lit by “Apocalypse Now” cinematographer Vittorio Storaro.

The deal follows on a private screening of “The King…” by sales agent Latido Films, held for European distributors in a Madrid cinema theater. Eurozoom plans a theatrical release for “The King…,” Saura’s first fiction drama since 1998’s Oscar-nominated “Tango,” at 100 locations in France.

Having held back from showing “The King…” at the Pre-Cannes Screenings, Latido will introduce the musical to more buyers at its cinema theater market premiere at Cannes.

“This is a film to be enjoyed on a big screen, and then re-thought on a smaller one. But first in cinema,” said Latido Films CEO Antonio Saura.

“When you have the talent of Vittorio Storaro, incredible music, some of the finest actors in Mexico and Spain,...

Touch is an exotic thriller written, directed, and starring Aleksandra Szczepanowska.

Set and filmed entirely in China, Touch follows Fei Fei, a western woman married to a Chinese man, Zhang Hua (Yang Jun), as they navigate her immigration challenges trying to get permanent residence status in her adopted home of China.

At times erotic, fanciful, and thrilling, but does Szczepanowska pull off the film's many layers? Let's take a look.

Despite adopting China as her home, marrying Zhang Hua, and sharing a son with him, gaining permanent residence is an entirely frustrating process.

They're called on to share their most intimate details, and while Fei Fei's existence in China hangs in the balance, she discovers Zhang Hua withdrawing his support, sending her into a tailspin.

Initially, it seems the couple has a loving marriage. Fei Fei seems happy taking on a traditional role in the relationship despite her western upbringing,...

South and West Asian films make up the entirety of this years Brooklyn Film Festival’s (Bff) Asian film line-up. As with the rest of their programme, the festival has a good mix of movies. Of the features spanning from Turkey to Syria to Nepal, some are East Coast premieres; some US; some even world. While the standard Asia-based narratives persist, the festival also leans into modern-day trends to feature more diaspora narratives. Notably, of these entries, almost half of them (3 out of 7) highlight Muslim or Islam-influenced narratives.

Earlier this week, the Brooklyn Film Festival announced the film lineup for its 24th edition, “The Clearing.” The 2021 edition will feature 36 World Premieres, 28 USA bows, 34 east coast debuts, and 25 first-time screenings in NY. In total, Bff will show in competition 147 features and shorts from 35 countries. The full lineup includes 13 narrative features and 9 documentary features highlighted in this release. The festival will also present 39 narrative shorts,...

The masterful Spanish director has once again teamed up with Vittorio Storaro to add a little extra sparkle to his latest project, filmed in Mexico and now in the home stretch of postproduction. We can hardly say that Carlos Saura is back, because he never really went away. At 89, it’s still rare to see this indefatigable filmmaker, illustrator and photographer without a camera around his neck. His new musical project has been marinating for a good while, and now, finally, The King of the Whole World is almost ready to hit the screen. Shot in Guadalajara and Jalisco (Mexico) in 2019, the film boasts a three-time Oscar winner, Vittorio Storaro, as director of photography. It’s not the first collaboration for this legendary dream team: Storaro has worked with Aragon-born Saura on no less than six previous projects, including Goya in Bordeaux, Tango and Flamenco, flamenco. Once again, dance, music.

After three weeks of “Dancing with the Stars” season 29, teenage Disney Channel star Skai Jackson has had a topsy-turvy run with the judges, topping the leaderboard in the season premiere, getting the lowest score in week two, and then receiving one of the lower scores on “Disney Night” as well. But if her road has been a little rocky on the dance floor thus far, you wouldn’t know it from her popularity online. She has generated by far the most YouTube views of any dancer in the competition. Scroll down to see how the celebs’ video totals stack up as of this writing (the numbers go up by the minute).

Out of the 13 remaining contestants, Jackson’s dances have been viewed more than three million times, more than double the next most viewed contestant (Nelly with 1.4 million). In fact, Jackson’s very first dance, her high-scoring tango, has been...

Even before “Dancing with the Stars” began its 29th season, figure skater Johnny Weir seemed like a natural front-runner, but it took him a while to find his footing in the ballroom. He finally had a breakthrough on “Disney Night,” though, going from the middle of the pack to the top of the judges’ leaderboard. Watch his game-changing rumba above.

Weir has a lot to live up to. He’s an Olympic figure skater like three previous Mirror Ball champions: Kristi Yamaguchi, Meryl Davis and Adam Rippon. And he has a vibrant, outgoing personality like Rippon that, on paper, made him seem like an almost inevitable champion. However, he didn’t seem quite as comfortable as his predecessors in his first couple of weeks. His season premiere cha cha scored straight 6s from the judges for a total of 18 out of 30. His second-week tango got the exact same scores. Both...

A couple of new frontrunners have emerged on Dancing With the Stars while one cat-loving YouTuber has sadly had to say goodbye.  The ABC hit celebrated Disney Night this week with a series of rousing performances set to Disney faves, and it seemed like the Mouse had a really positive effect on the majority of the contestants. A lot of people improved and a couple of stars rose to the top of the leaderboard with the highest scores so far.  Nev Schulman and Johnny Weir each earned a score of 24 for their performances, putting them above previous leaderboard leader Kaitlyn Bristowe, who landed a 23 for her Moana dance.  Nev expertly channeled Captain Jack Sparrow for his Argentine Tango and...

Could your weekend playlist use a little more seasoning? Rolling Stone Latin selects some of the best new music releases from Latin America, Spain and Portugal. Keep track of the latest in Latin via our playlist on Spotify.

Carla Morrison, “Ansiedad”

Latin Grammy-winning Mexican songstress Carla Morrison goes head to head with her anxiety in her new song, “Ansiedad.” Directed by Colin Solal Cardo, the accompanying visual sees Morrison brave both chaotic squalls and confining spaces, only to eventually find equilibrium in herself. She most recently appeared in Ricky Martin’s 2020 EP,...

If you’re tuning in to ABC on Monday to catch “Dancing with the Stars,” prepare to be disappointed. As previously announced, “Dancing with the Stars” is not airing on Monday, Sept. 21 and will instead air on Tuesday, Sept. 22 because of football.

ABC and ESPN are simulcasting the “Monday Night Football” game between the New Orleans Saints and Las Vegas Raiders on the 50th anniversary of the very first “Mnf” game, which saw the Cleveland Browns defeat the New York Jets. This will be the first “Mnf” game broadcast on ABC since the 2005 season.

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So that means “Dancing” will shuffle its feet to Tuesday for this week only. This shouldn’t be too big of an adjustment since the results show used to air on Tuesdays. The extra day will give all 15 couples more time to perfect their second...

Did we call it or did we call it? Carole Baskin will hit the floor for her second dance on “Dancing with the Stars” to yet another kitty-themed song: “What’s New Pussycat” by Tom Jones. Tptb can’t stop, won’t stop.

The “Tiger King” star and Pasha Pashkov have the Viennese waltz, which might be slow enough to help them improve on their score of 11 for their paso doble on the premiere. The Viennese waltz is one of seven dances on deck for Week 2 — foxtrot, samba, tango, rumba, cha-cha and jive being the others.

Busting out the tough samba and rumba this early feels wrong, but Skai Jackson has the former and Justina Machado has the latter. They topped the leaderboard Week 1, each with a 21, and all signs so far point to them being able to handle whatever Alan Bersten and Sasha Farber, respectively, throw at them. Chrishell Stause also has the rumba,...

The actor/comedian/writer/director joins us to talk about some of the objectively bad movies he loves.

Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode

Explorers (1985)

Chinatown (1974)

Suicide Squad (2016)

The Oath (2018)

The Last Movie Star (2018)

Tango and Cash (1989)

The Thing (1982)

Runaway Train (1985)

Midnight Cowboy (1969)

Conrack (1974)

Volcano (1997)

Dante’s Peak (1997)

Earthquake (1974)

It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)

Independence Day (1996)

Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)

Road House (1989)

Minnie and Moskowitz (1971)

Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)

The Greatest Showman (2017)

West Side Story (1961)

Chicago (2002)

The Producers (1967)

Outbreak (1995)

Volunteers (1985)

Splash (1984)

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

Tropic Thunder (2008)

Philadelphia (1993)

Bachelor Party (1984)

Con Air (1997)

Bad Boys (1995)

The Rock (1996)

Mandy (2018)

Out For Justice (1991)

Once Upon A Time In America (1984)

Goodfellas (1990)

Paths of Glory (1957)

Hard To Kill (1991)

Above The Law (1988)

Under Siege (1992)

Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995)

The Asian Connection (2016)

Contract To Kill (2016)

The Perfect Weapon (2016)

Sniper: Special Ops (2016)

The Glimmer Man (1996)

The Andromeda Strain (1971)

Contagion (2011)

Other Notable Items

The...

This November will mark the 50th anniversary of Cat Stevens’ landmark album Tea for the Tillerman, which features “Wild World,” “Father and Son,” “Where Do the Children Play?” and other classics. To celebrate, the songwriter (who now records under the name Yusuf) has re-recorded the entire album with original producer Paul Samwell-Smith and original guitarist Alun Davies. He’s called it Tea for the Tillerman² and it comes out on September 18th, but you can hear the new version of “Where Do the Children Play?” right here.

The new renditions...

The Rhythm Section was way off mark with its opening weekend, which broke records for the single-worst box office debut ever. The Blake Lively assassin movie failed to tango with its competitors this weekend, losing out to Bad Boys for Life, which maintained its No. 1 spot for the third weekend straight. The Rhythm Section box office […]

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Nathan Davis and Essie Davis in Palm Springs.

The creators of Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears were always confident the movie would appeal to the legion of Essie Davis’ Phryne Fisher fans, but what about those who have never seen the TV series?

Any doubts soon vanished during the world premiere of the 1929-set adventure-murder mystery-romance, the first of three sold-out screenings at the Palm Springs International Film Festival.

Director Tony Tilse likened the atmosphere to a rock concert as 865 people whooped, hollered and laughed and gave a standing ovation at the end.

“People who had never seen the TV series told me how much they enjoyed it,” Tilse, who was set-up director on the series, tells If. “The enthusiasm and love for the film was overwhelming and very humbling.”

Every Cloud Productions’ Fiona Eagger, who co-created the franchise based on Kerry Greenwood’s novels with screenwriter Deb Cox,...

The inaugural season of “RuPaul’s Drag Race UK” came to an end on Thursday with the 3 finalists queens showing which of them had the charisma, uniqueness, nerve and talent to be crowned the UK’s first drag race superstar. The artists still in the running are Baga Chipz, Divina de Campo, and The Vivienne. In last week’s seventh episode RuPaul Charles awarded Divina with her third challenge win of the season, bringing her even with Baga and Viv who also had three of their own. Baga, however, was in the bottom two and had to lip synch for her life for the first time this season against Cheryl Hole, who sent sent home after their two strong performances on the stage.

After Cheryl’s elimination, the top three were in high spirits as finalists together, acknowledging that the three of them were the best of the competition. For Divina,...

Hey, "Dancing With The Stars" fans. Tonight, November 25, 2019, another performances/results show did indeed air. All the judges: Len Goodman, Bruno Tonioli and Carrie Ann Inaba were back to give their critiques. There were no guest judges tonight. So, we were back to just three judges. Also, tonight, was the semifinals round, which means we only had four couples dancing tonight for another two rounds. The first round was called a Redemption round because the couples performed a dance that they didn't do so well the first time around to see if they could do it better this time. Lauren Alaina and Gleb Savchenko kicked off the performances with a Paso Doble routine. They were mentored by Len during rehearsals. Their paso doble was to the song, "Stronger" by Kelly Clarkson. Afterwards, Len told Lauren, "It had a lovely mix of aggression and expression. I wanted to see even more paso choreography,...

The “Dancing with the Stars” Semi-Finals decided who advanced to the finale for a chance at the Mirror Ball Trophy, but they were also an opportunity for redemption as the remaining celebs tackled dances that tripped them up earlier this season. So who rose to the top? Find out below in our live blog with all the minute-by-minute developments as they happen.

The first round of the Semi-Finals was the redemption round, during which the celebs took another crack at a previous dance style with additional tutelage from the judges: paso doble for Lauren Alaina, Viennese waltz for Ally Brooke, rumba for Hannah Brown, tango for Kel Mitchell and cha cha for James Van Der Beek.

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In the second round the contestants performed brand new routines in previously unlearned dance styles, and it was the last time this season for...

It’s the semifinal on “Dancing with the Stars,” and for the first time in five weeks, there will be someone other than Sean Spicer at the bottom of the leaderboard.

Which unlucky soul will it be? The final five are all pretty great dancers, and all of them have topped the leaderboard at some point this season, so expect some tight scores on Monday.

There will be two rounds: one redemption dance and one unlearned dance.

Lauren Alaina and Gleb Savchenko: paso doble and Viennese waltz

Ally Brooke and Sasha Farber: Viennese waltz and Charleston

Hannah Brown and Alan Bersten: rumba and contemporary

Kel Mitchell and Witney Carson: tango and contemporary

James Van Der Beek and Emma Slater: cha-cha and foxtrot

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So Brown finally gets her wish to do a contemporary.

Looks like Army just gained a member. Hannah Brown danced it out to “the biggest boy band in the world right now,” Bts on Monday night’s episode of “Dancing With the Stars“. In honour of “Boy Band & Girl Group Night,” Brown and her partner, Alan Bersten, performed a Tango to Bts’ “Boy With Love.” The pressure was on for Brown to...

IFC Films has bought North American rights to the Beanie Feldstein coming-of-age comedy “How to Build a Girl” for release in 2020.

The deal was announced Saturday at the American Film Market in Santa Monica, Calif. The movie premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, where it won the Fipresci Special Presentations award.

“How to Build a Girl” is based on the bestselling semi-autobiographical tale by English journalist Caitlin Moran. Coky Giedroyć directed. The cast includes Paddy Considine, Alfie Allen, Emma Thompson, Chris O’Dowd, Sarah Solemani, Laurie Kynaston, Frank Dillane, and Arinze Kene.

Feldstein, whose credits include “Booksmart” and “Lady Bird,” portrays the protagonist of Moran’s story, which centers on the extroverted teenager Johanna Morrigan on her journey to becoming Dolly Wilde, music journalist as she grows up and discovers her sexuality.

Producers are Alison Owen and Debra Hayward of Monumental Pictures. Executive producers are Daniel Battsek,...

IFC Films has acquired the North American rights to the Beanie Feldstein-led comedy “How To Build A Girl.”

The movie, which is directed by Coky Giedroyć, is based on the best-selling autobiographical novel by Caitlin Moran. Here’s the official synopsis for the film: Johanna Morrigan (Feldstein) is a sixteen-year-old, extrovert from the outskirts of Wolverhampton with raging hormones and gigantic dreams. Even though she loves her big, boisterous family, Johanna yearns to get out and make a name for herself – which she does, reinventing herself as revered and feared music journalist, Dolly Wilde. But as her critical savagery brings her greater and greater success, the lines between Johanna Morrigan and Dolly Wilde begin to haze. She has finally figured out how to build a girl – but is this the girl she wanted to build? “How to Build a Girl” is an irreverent coming-of-age comedy about what it’s...

Exclusive: IFC Films has picked up North American rights on How To Build A Girl, the comedy starring Beanie Feldstein (Booksmart).

Pic is based on the bestselling autobiographical tale by English journalist Caitlin Moran. Coky Giedroyć (Harlots) directed. Paddy Considine, Alfie Allen, Emma Thompson, and Chris O’Dowd also star.

Feldstein plays a sixteen-year-old Brit with raging hormones and gigantic dreams. In a bid to make a name for herself, she decides to reinvent herself as a revered and feared music journalist

The film premiered in Toronto, where it won the Fipresci Special Presentations award. IFC will release in 2020.

Sarah Solemani, Laurie Kynaston, Frank Dillane, and Arinze Kene round out the cast.

Deal was negotiated by Arianna Bocco, Evp of Acquisitions and Productions at IFC Films, with Endeavor Content on behalf of the filmmakers. Protagonist Pictures is handling international sales. Lionsgate will release in the UK.

Producers are Alison Owen...

Hey, "Dancing With The Stars" fans. Tonight, October 28, 2019, another Live performances/results show did indeed air. All the judges: Len Goodman, Bruno Tonioli and Carrie Ann Inaba were able to make it out to serve up their judgments and compliments. The theme for tonight was Halloween. So, we saw lots of costumes and so on and so forth. The performances kicked off with Kel Mitchell and Witney Carson arriving on stage to serve up a Jive routine. They did a “Rocky Horror” jive to “Time Warp.” Afterwards, Len told Kel, “You were rocking, and I was reeling. I was worried about your feet at first, but they turned out to be sharp and clear." Bruno said, "I love how you re-imagined a cult classic and made it original and imaginative and a Halloween treat." Carrie Ann said, "It was incredible, tentative at first, but then it was so tight and...

Hey, "Dancing With The Star" fans. Tonight, September 30, 2019, another results/performance show did indeed air. All the judges: Len Goodman, Bruno Tonioli and Carrie Ann Inaba were, of course, on hand to give their constructive criticisms and scores. They revealed that contestant Ray Lewis and his pro dance partner Cheryl Burke were out of the competition because Ray got injured. Apparently, he tore a lot of tendons in his foot, and the doctor said they could rupture if he kept dancing. He will also need to get surgery on his foot. So, that was a tough break for him. Tonight's performances kicked off with Lauren Alaina and Gleb Savchenko. They danced a Tango to the song, “Pretty Woman.” Afterwards,Len told Lauren, "It was full of attack, drive and purpose, but a little bit stop-and-start at times." Bruno said, "It was a racy, full-throttle tango, and some of the lines were very good,...

Dancing With the Stars went to the movies in its third Season 28 broadcast — and like any good film, Movie Night had its fair share of plot twists.

The episode’s most notable surprise was the official withdrawal of Ray Lewis and Cheryl Burke, who were forced to drop out of Season 28 after Ray tore three tendons in his foot. (A doctor warned Ray that if he were to keep dancing, the tendon would eventually rupture, which, no thank you.)

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John Saavedra Jun 9, 2019

Tango Gameworks, the studio behind The Evil Within series, is working on a new game called Ghostwire Tokyo.

Ghostwire Tokyo is the new game from Tango Gameworks, the studio led by Resident Evil veteran Shinji Mikami which previously created The Evil Within series. At E3 2019, Mikami described the stylish and eerie Ghostwire Tokyo, which takes place in the aftermath of a Rapture-like event, as an action-adventure game in which you will fight paranormal enemies and rid the city of a supernatural evil."

Ikumi Nakamura, creative director at Tango Gameworks, explained that players will "encounter conspiracies and the occult. You have to explore the world, face challenges."

“We are making a new kind of action-adventure game,” Nakamura said. “It’s spooky! But not the usual kind of survival horror game Tango is known for.”

While an announcement trailer teased the story as well as the aesthetic of the game,...

Happy birthday to Stevie Nicks’ best song ever, “Ooh My Love.” It’s a buried treasure in her legendary career — never a hit, not even a single. She’s never sung it live. Just a deep cut from her most tragically underrated solo album, The Other Side of the Mirror, released 30 years ago, in the last days of May 1989. The album fell through the cracks — nobody was really checking for solo Stevie in the late Eighties. But it’s prized by hardcore Stevie freaks, especially “Ooh My Love.” For some of us,...

The Nightcomers

Blu ray

Kino Lorber

1971 / 1:85:1 / 96 Min.

Starring Marlon Brando, Stephanie Beacham

Written by Michael Hastings

Cinematography by Robert Paynter

Directed by Michael Winner

Between 1944 and 1992 Jack Clayton directed just nine movies but they included some of the most elegant yet clear-eyed films to come out of post-war Britain – from the hard-knock realism of Room at the Top to the broken-marriage reverie of The Pumpkin Eater. A man of letters as well as cinema, his relatively brief career was spent collaborating with writers like Wolf Mankowitz, Harold Pinter and Truman Capote.

Born in London, Michael Winner showed a talent for free-wheeling and mildly racy movies like The Girl-Getters and I’ll Never Forget What’s ‘isname – cheeky entertainments that helped define the myth of sexy swinging London for stateside audiences.

It was in the early 70s that Winner began to traffic in distinctly American product like Chato’s...

We had no idea Barbara Corcoran from "Shark Tank" was This twisted ... but ya gotta love a birthday party that doubles as a funeral! Yes, that's Barbara all snug as a bug inside a casket -- her idea of a surprise for her friends and family members who had shown up to celebrate her 70th birthday last weekend. Once the shock wore off ... it looks like everyone was in on the creepy and totally morbid bash thrown in Manhattan.

Production is underway on the film, directed by Coky Giedroyc.

Paddy Considine has joined the cast of UK feature How To Build A Girl, the adaptation of Caitlin Moran’s semi-autobiographical novel directed by Coky Giedroyc (The Hour).

Sarah Solemani (Bridget Jones’s Baby) and Laurie Kynaston (England Is Mine) have also signed up to the cast, with production now underway and running throughout July and August.

Lionsgate have boarded UK distribution on the film, with Protagonist Pictures handling worldwide sales.

Already cast in the film are Beanie Feldstein (Lady Bird) in the lead role, plus Alfie Allen (Game Of Thrones...