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To quote the Smiths, fame fame fatale fame, it can play hideous tricks on the brain. That’s what’s happening in the album-opening title track from People Watching, the third LP by U.K. pop-rock star Sam Fender. “I people watch on the way back home/Envious of the glimmer of hope/Gives me a break from feeling alone,” he sings over the kind of hungry-hearted neo-Springsteen rock that is his sonic safety zone, before clarifying further, “I used to feel so invincible/I used to feel there was a world worth dreaming of.

The world is Jacob Elordi’s oyster after crushing his role as Felix Catton in Emerald Fennell’s sexy and psychotic thriller Saltburn and lining up projects like Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, new episodes of Euphoria, and reteaming with Fennell for her adaptation of Wuthering Heights. Unafraid to pile his plate high with promising parts, Jacob Elordi is in talks to join the cast of Ridley Scott’s pandemic thriller The Dog Stars.

The Dog Stars hails from 20th Century Studios and is based on the 2012 novel by Peter Heller. Initially, Scott was reteaming with Gladiator II star Paul Mescal for The God Stars, but scheduling conflicts with his part in Sam Mendes’ Beatles anthology kept him from participating. Sources say Mescal plays Paul McCartney in Mendes’ upcoming film, making him essential to the project.

Elordi would play Hig in The Dog Stars, a civilian pilot living a lonely...

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In his autobiography "Born To Run," Bruce Springsteen wrote how when he was first struggling as a musician, songwriting was the skill he chose to concentrate on refining. His writing was "the most distinctive thing [he] had going," he felt back during the early '70s — as do his legions of fans to this day.

When I listen to Springsteen, I don't just feel a story being told or a mood being conjured, I feel the characters, as if years of inner life are conveyed in a few minutes. Springsteen's 1982 song "Atlantic City" is one of the most cinematic I've ever heard, with a simple but evocative story (a desperate young man in love turning to crime). The verses of "Atlantic City" escalate the hopelessness, but one coupled with a refrain of possibility in the chorus.

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Bruce Springsteen wrapped up a productive 2024 on location in New Jersey, which has included spending time on the set of the biopic Deliver Me from Nowhere.

The 20th Century Studios film, about the making of Springsteen’s 1982 album Nebraska, stars Jeremy Allen White of The Bear and began filming scenes in November. The production is scheduled for more Jersey location shoots in January, including concert scenes in East Rutherford, on its way to a 2025 release date.

Much of the filming so far has taken place in Asbury Park, with scenes involving Frank’s Deli and Restaurant on Main St., the Stone Pony, the Convention Hall, the Carousel House, and, of course, the beach. The movie has transformed Asbury Park into a 1980s version of itself, with period-appropriate cars parked on Main St. Inside the Carousel House, the production recreated the old merry-go-round, as well as the rides that were iconic on the Asbury Park boardwalk.

Back in the day, when the likes of Al Pacino, Marlon Brando, and Harrison Ford were ruling Hollywood’s cinematic industry with their outstanding performances, Mel Gibson made sure he was one of the names counted among those A-listers as well. Within a few years of making his professional acting debut through The Sullivans, he earned his breakthrough with Mad Max.

Since then, he went on to score roles among numerous masterpieces, further cementing himself as a household name and establishing his reputation as one of the most admirable actors in the entertainment industry. If anything, in his prime, Gibson pulled off some really iconic wonders as he not only became the recipient of some major awards but also had some epic salary highlights.

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While his controversies — including multiple legal issues and controversial statements — had his popularity as an actor cum filmmaker declining considerably in Hollywood,...

In the early 1980s, Bruce Springsteen thought he was at the height of his career. 1975's Born to Run had catapulted him and the E Street Band to national success, and each release after that only added to Springsteen's reputation and fame. 1980's The River was his biggest album yet, with a raw sound that was an attempt to replicate the energy of a live E Street Band concert. It was on the backs of those years of success that saw Springsteen, already having earned his nickname of "The Boss," begin work on his next album.

At his home in Colts Neck, New Jersey, the singer started work on a more introspective album, focusing on the divide between his new experiences with fame and the blue-collar life he had grown up with. He wound up recording a demo tape in his house, laying down fifteen songs that he then took...

Exclusive: Grammy nominee and 2x SAG Award winner Steven Van Zandt has inked with Paradigm for representation in all areas, excluding his live music performances.

Van Zandt is known for starring as hitman Silvio Dante to James Gandolfini’s mob boss, Tony Soprano, is all seven seasons of HBO’s multi-award winning The Sopranos. He received two SAG ensemble wins for The Sopranos in 2000 and 2008.

The guitar player of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band, is the center of the latest documentary, Stevie Van Zandt: Disciple, which premiered on Max and received a Grammy nom for Best Music Film. The documentary, directed by Bill Teck, traces Van Zandt’s career as a producer, musician, songwriter, activist, actor and more as well as features exclusive interviews with Springsteen, Paul McCartney, and Bono, among others.

Van Zandt starred in the award-winning series Lilyhammer, which was the first original programming for Netflix. In addition to starring,...

Tallinn, Estonia — Industry @ Tallinn & Baltic Event, one of the leading industry events in Northern Europe, closed Nov. 22 with an awards ceremony where the focus country Germany dominated the list of 15 winning projects at various stages of development or post-production, on top of two accolades to promising producers.

For the first time, the public was invited to cast their vote for each category, which gave more chances of a larger number of projects standing out at the market.

Among the most coveted accolades, the €20,000 Eurimages Co-Production Development Award from the Baltic Event Co-Production Market was handed out to the German-Bulgarian project “The Worker” helmed by Bulgarian-born Eliza Petkova, whose debut feature “Zhaleika” earned a special mention at the 66th Berlinale.

The drama about Roma Bulgarian Gorgi, pushed into a life of lies and deceit in Berlin to try to make ends meet and maintain his family in a Bulgarian village, was...

Eliza Petkova’s German-Bulgarian co-production The Worker was among the winners at Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event, the professional platform of Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF).

The fifth film from Bulgarian director Petkova, The Worker won the €20,000 Eurimages Co-Production Development Award in the Baltic Event Co-Production Market. Currently in development with a €2m budget of which €450,000 is already secured, The Worker follows a Roma man who leaves his Bulgarian family for work in Germany, where he constructs a façade of living a luxurious life while he struggles as an undocumented worker.

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It is produced by Nicolas Kronauer,...

Prime Video's Cross includes a fantastic soundtrack that helps shape the setting, pacing, and story. Based on the best-selling books by James Patterson, Cross follows a forensic psychologist and detective named Alex Cross, who lost his wife and is raising two kids while solving mysteries. In season 1, he goes up against the Fanboy, a killer who idolizes serial killers and wants his victims to resemble them.

The Amazon Prime show has been well-received by audiences and critics alike, and fans can get excited because Cross season 2 was confirmed before the first season was ever released. The thriller succeeds because of Cross' A+ cast, the well-written story, and the songs that appear in each episode. Music plays an important role in the characterization of the Cross family, making the soundtrack integral to the narrative. Luckily, the creative team chose great songs that amplify every part of the show.

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Ryan Eggold and Eloise Mumford are being sought after by one of literature's most iconic detectives for different reasons in Cross. Having first held down one of the lead roles in The CW's 90210 sequel show, Eggold subsequently found success starring in NBC's The Blacklist and co-leading its short-lived spinoff, Redemption, while also landing a major role in Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman around the same time. More recently, Eggold found acclaim leading the cast of the medical drama New Amsterdam, while also directing three episodes before it came to an end in 2023.

Much like Eggold, Mumford found early success in the world of television with her key roles in Fox's crime drama Lone Star and ABC's The River, a found-footage horror show from the creator of the Paranormal Activity franchise and produced by Jason Blum before Blumhouse fame. Since then, Mumford...

Marc Maron, Gaby Hoffmann and David Krumholtz have joined the cast of Jeremy Allen White’s Bruce Springsteen biopic “Deliver Me From Nowhere.”

Maron will play Chuck Plotkin, the music producer who mastered Springsteen’s “Nebraska” album, turning his unprocessed cassette demos into a high-quality record. Hoffmann will portray Springsteen’s mother, Adele Springsteen, a singer in her own right who died at age 98 earlier this year. Krumholtz will play Al Teller, a record label executive who oversaw the release of “Nebraska.”

From Disney’s 20th Century Studios, “Deliver Me From Nowhere” follows Springsteen during the creation of his 1982 album “Nebraska,” a stripped-down record that marked a creative shift from the anthemic “Born to Run” and “The River.” The movie is currently filming in New Jersey and New York. Springsteen, who is involved in the making of the film, visited the set earlier this week and was photographed hugging White.

Disney+'s new documentary, Music by John Williams, offers insight into the life of the famed composer and the legendary music that led him to achieve multiple records at the Oscars. John Williams is one of the most celebrated composers in history with a career spanning more than 70 years. He has the unique ability to convey a story and themes through emotional and powerful orchestration. John Williams is responsible for many acclaimed movie scores, and is considered one of the movie industry's most influential composers.

The documentary looks into Williams' impressive career and his decades-long friendship with director Steven Spielberg; since 1974, he has scored music for 29 of Spielberg's movies, including the Indiana Jones franchise, Saving Private Ryan, and Munich. For his musical talents, Williams has been recognized multiple times at different award ceremonies, including the Oscars, where he holds one remarkable record that looks unlikely to ever be broken.

The excitement surrounding the upcoming biopic Deliver Me from Nowhere is palpable, especially as it will chronicle the making of Bruce Springsteen’s iconic 1982 album, Nebraska. This film is set to showcase a pivotal moment in Springsteen’s career.

The American songwriter/singer, nicknamed the Boss, is one of the most celebrated musicians of all time. With more than 140 million records sold worldwide and a bucket-full of accolades to his name, Deliver Me from Nowhere can be expected

Cast of Deliver Me from Nowhere Jeremy Allen White in a still from The Bear. | Hulu

Jeremy Allen White, best known for his role in The Bear, has transformed into Bruce Springsteen, providing fans with a first look at his portrayal through an official photo released recently. At 33, White is stepping into the shoes of one of rock music’s most beloved figures. The cast also features Jeremy Strong as Jon Landau,...

Singapore International Film Festival (Sgiff) has unveiled the full programme for its 35th edition, which includes honorary awards for Taiwanese actors Lee Kang-sheng and Yang Kuei-mei, and the launch of a Sgiff Industry Days conference.

Set to run from November 28 - December 8, the festival will continue to champion local and regional voices, with Asian cinema representing 80% of the line-up. The full selection comprises 105 films from 45 countries and features recurring themes of migration and displacement as well as the influence of technology on the medium of film.

The Asian Feature Film Competition, the festival’s main competition section, showcases nine features by promising directors across Asia,...

Jeremy Allen White is Bruce Springsteen in a first-look image released by 20th Century Fox.

The Bear star features as The Boss in the upcoming biopic Deliver Me From Nowhere, directed by Scott Cooper (Crazy Hearts) and based on the 2023 book Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska by Warren Zanes. Long-time music manager of Springsteen Jon Landau will be portrayed by Succession and The Apprentice actor Jeremy Strong.

The photo released on Monday shows White in a leather jacket and flannel shirt.

Jeremy Allen White is Bruce Springsteen in #DeliverMeFromNowhere. Coming to theaters in 2025. pic.twitter.com/T5qG9SIvrc

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Deliver Me From Nowhere explores the making of Springsteen’s 1982 album Nebraska, which followed the singer-songwriter’s huge The River album. White recently told GQ: “I’m really lucky that there’s sort of a team of folks now...

A few days before Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band convened at the Vogel theater in Red Bank, New Jersey, to start rehearsals for their 2023 Letter to You tour, filmmaker Thom Zimny received a short text from Springsteen. “Getting the band together,” it read. “You should stop by.”

For the next few months, Zimny and his film crew trailed Springsteen and the E Street Band from Red Bank to production rehearsals in Trenton, New Jersey, and then arenas and stadiums all across the globe, capturing intimate backstage moments, thrilling live performances,...

The Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event has selected 17 films representing a variety of genres and production stages for its 2024 Works in Progress program. This film showcase, held as part of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, gives directors an opportunity to gain exposure, feedback, and support necessary to complete their projects.

Organizers received a record number of submissions this year and have divided the selections into three sections based on the films’ origins and subjects. The International Works in Progress section features seven films in early production from countries around Europe. Four of these directors are debuting their first feature films. Another notable category is Baltic Event Works in Progress, presenting four locally-produced films tackling social themes from Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia.

The lineup also includes six films for children and young adult audiences in the Just Film Works in Progress section. Projects like “Little Elephant in the Woods” and...

Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event has selected 17 films in production or post-production for its Works in Progress lab, divided across International, Baltic Event and Just Film sections.

The titles include Jonas Ulrich’s Swiss social drama Wolves. Set in the heart of an underground music scene, a young woman’s relationship with the frontman of a metal band blurs the line between freedom and fanaticism.

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The film stars newcomer Selma Kopp, alongside Corpus Christi star Bartosz Bielenia. Written and directed by Ulrich, the project won the Zurich Film Foundation Fast Track prize in 2022. It is...

Tsai Ming Liang Guide: As the 20th century drew to a close, cinema, like other art forms, was undergoing a metamorphosis. Hollywood, in a desperate attempt to keep audiences engaged, embraced new technological advancements, such as improved visual effects. It sought to captivate the masses by blurring the lines between reality and imagination, producing sci-fi blockbusters like “Terminator 2” (1991), “Jurassic Park” (1993), and “Armageddon” (1998). However, thousands of miles away from sunny Los Angeles, another group of filmmakers across Europe and Asia consciously took cinema in a different direction. Rather than helping audiences forget the fourth wall, they aimed to reinforce it, creating films that were acutely aware of their own impact, intentionally distancing viewers from the on-screen events by withholding the cut.

In contemporary film theory, this shift is referred to as ‘Slow Cinema.’ To an avid cinephile, it is now a fairly common term. Maestros like Béla Tarr, Pedro Costa,...

Hugh Jackman will perform a 12-show concert series at Radio City Music Hall in 2025.

The show, entitled From New York With Love, will start on Jan. 24, 2025, with one weekend of shows per month in April, May, June and July. The final shows are scheduled to take place Aug. 15 and 16.

Jackman announced the news on social media in a video with his Deadpool & Wolverine co-star Ryan Reynolds, noting that it was a little over two years ago that Reynolds announced that the two would be starring in that film and joking that Reynolds would not play a part in this project. The movie has grossed more than $1 billion globally and marked Jackman’s return to his trademark role after a seven-year break.

“It was the time of my life. Ryan and I had such a great adventure together,” Jackman said in the video. “And I’ve been wondering what comes next…...

After reprising the role of Wolverine, Hugh Jackman will return to the live stage in 2025 with a 12-night residency at New York City’s Radio City Music Hall, where he’ll perform songs from the many musicals he’s starred in and more.

Jackman’s From New York, With Love stage show will take place over the course of six weekends at the famed venue, beginning Jan. 24 and 25 and continuing on through Aug. 15 and 16.

The shows, Jackman’s first live concert series in five years, will include music from “The Boy From Oz,...

Tramps like us were born to run, and Bruce Springsteen was born to perform. The iconic musician, who has made hits like “Born to Run”, “Dancing in the Dark” and “Born in the U.S.A.”, celebrated his 75th birthday yesterday, and today, Hulu has released the trailer for the upcoming tour documentary Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band.

In the trailer for Road Diary, you get an account from Springsteen and The E Street Band members as they embark on their latest tour. The film premieres Friday, October 25 on Hulu and Disney+. ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos will also sit down with Bruce Springsteen ahead of the release of the Hulu Original film for a wide-ranging conversation in an ABC News Studios primetime special, Bruce Springsteen: Backstage and Backstreets, airing Sunday, Oct. 20 at 10 p.m. Edt on ABC, next day on Hulu, Disney+.

The official synopsis reads,...

Garth Brooks has announced the final three weekends of his long-running Las Vegas residency titled “Garth Brooks/Plus One” at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace. The final concerts begin in late February and conclude in early March, 2025.

Find tickets here, and read on for more info, including the full list of Brooks’ residency dates and how to get access to sold-out shows.

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“Garth Brooks/Plus One” began at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas in May 2023, and the country stalwart has continued with numerous sold-out shows since then. Now, the residency is coming to a close, with the final nine dates taking place in early 2025.

The concluding, newly-announced dates will run February 21st-23rd, February 28th, March 1st-2nd, and March 7th-9th.

“I can’t believe it has come and gone, already,” said Brooks in a statement.

Queer East Festival: On The Road will head out across the country from September to December, offering its biggest tour yet and showcasing a remarkable line-up of contemporary feature films, documentaries and shorts as well as special events that highlight a wide range of LGBTQ+ stories from East Asia, Southeast Asia and their diaspora communities.

Founded in response to the systemic lack of East and Southeast Asian representation on stage, screen and behind the scenes, Queer East Festival was formed in 2020 and has made its mark across the UK with its bold programmes of LGBTQ+ cinema and visual arts, growing in popularity and size year-on-year, and celebrating its fifth anniversary this year.

Queer East Festival’s ground-breaking film programme challenges conventions and stereotypes giving audiences an opportunity to explore the contemporary queer landscape across East and Southeast Asia. With its fifth anniversary edition, Queer East Festival reaffirms a commitment to...

Thom Zimny’s “Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band” is quite a bit different than his past collaborations with Springsteen. In the past, like with “Western Stars” and “Letter to You,” the focus was on the project at hand. “Road Diary” isn’t about a specific album, it’s a more all-encompassing look at the E Street Band’s origins and how 50-odd years of touring informs Springsteen’s latest tour … and being well-aware he’s in his seventies now and this isn’t going to last forever.

Springsteen’s last tour ended in 2016, in support of his 1980 album “The River,” and it included the release of a set of outtakes and the band playing the double album from start to finish — before eventually moving into one the most spontaneous eras of their concerts in the history of E Street.

After almost seven years away from touring...

I’ve always found it strange how Found Footage appears more frequently in film than in television. If you think about it, most of the recovered footage that we see in real life comes from True Crime TV and investigative journalism rather than movies – or at least it used to before the internet turned the whole world into one giant Found Footage horror flick streaming live until the end of time.

Despite this, there were actually quite a few big-name TV shows that recognized the storytelling potential of the Found Footage format and decided to experiment with Pov filmmaking during their run. And in honor of these small screen pioneers, today we’d like to highlight six excellent Found Footage episodes of non-Found-Footage TV shows.

For the purposes of this list, we’ll be focusing on traditionally shot (or animated) programs that only temporarily fooled around with Found Footage – so...

The first of Chef Gordan Ramsay's numerous cooking shows to air in the United States, Hell's Kitchen has run for more than 20 seasons. Hell's Kitchen contestants face incessant yelling and constant criticism from Chef Ramsay as they compete to win a coveted head chef position.

Episodes of the cooking reality show include more than just cooking for one of Ramsay's Hell's Kitchen restaurants. Rewards and punishments are doled when expectations are not met or a team loses a challenge. Punishments range from mundane tasks like cleaning the kitchen to mind-numbing prep work to doing laundry. Punishments can also be harsh, gross, and downright vicious.

Part of what makes punishment days so awful is the lunch the team has to eat while carrying out whatever Chef Ramsay throws at them. The lunch includes some of the most repulsive foods and food combinations possible, like duck feet sandwiches and flower salads crawling with bugs.

Of the many ’90s needle drops in this episodic epic about a smalltown, working class French youth, it is one by Bruce Springsteen that captures its spirit. It takes a special film to earn the right to play ‘Born To Run’ over the end credits, and this does. The fourth feature by twin brothers Ludovic Boukherma and Zoran Boukherma, adapted from a 2018 novel by Nicolas Mathieu, is so close to the essence of The Boss that it might have been reverse-engineered from his DNA.

Set over four summers “And Their Children After Them” drops us into a formative day in the life of 14-year-old Anthony (Paul Kircher). The first shot is of perfect blue sky; the camera pans down to reveal a vista so tranquil as to be almost banal — puffy clouds, forest, lake — until it is sullied by a cigarette butt flicked into the water. In this world, it...

Ernest Hemingway’s final novel, Across the River and Into the Trees, isn’t exactly known to be among his best works, so it’s probably no surprise that it took quite a while for anyone to adapt it to the cinematic medium. Director Paula Ortiz’s adaptation is fine, if unremarkable, elevated by its excellent cast and impressive production values.

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The film follows a US Army Colonel who receives a life-changing diagnosis but meets it with indifference, taking a sojourn through post-wwii Venice. Those familiar with Hemingway’s work won’t be surprised by what Across the River and Into the Trees has in store — it’s poignantly meditative and incredibly simple. However, there is an undeniable elegance in that simplicity that allows this to be a charming drama.

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For over fifty years now, Stevie Van Zandt has been a central figure in rock music and popular culture across multiple genres. Starting in the 1960s music scene of New Jersey, he rose to fame as a co-founder of Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes and as lead guitarist for Bruce Springsteen’s famous E Street Band. Ever the entrepreneur, Van Zandt also produced albums and wrote songs for other artists.

By the 1980s, his interests expanded into politics and activism. He vocally opposed apartheid in South Africa and organized the supergroup Artists United Against Apartheid. Their protest anthem, “Sun City,” united superstars like Bob Dylan and Miles Davis in creative defiance. Van Zandt’s solo career under the name Little Steven also addressed themes of justice and equality.

Despite this globetrotting musical career and outspoken political work, Stevie Van Zandt’s story had only just begun. In the 2000s,...

Jeremy Allen White says his Bruce Springsteen prep has involved a lot of YouTube rabbit holes — with some advice from the real-life rockstar peppered in.

White will play Springsteen in 20th Century and Disney’s Deliver Me From Nowhere. News of the movie’s production picked up earlier this spring, and the star of The Bear is now deep in preparation for the legendary role.

“I’m really lucky that there’s sort of a team of folks now in place to help young actors portray rock stars,” White told GQ. “I’ve got a really talented group of people helping me train vocally, musically, to get ready for this thing.”

In recent years, Austin Butler portrayed Elvis in Elvis, Rami Malek played Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody, Naomi Ackie played Whitney Houston in Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody and Kingsley Ben-Adir played Bob Marley in Bob Marley: One Love.

Just over 40 years ago, Ronald Reagan became the first American president to name-drop Bruce Springsteen. “America’s future rests in a thousand dreams inside your hearts,” he told a crowd at a New Jersey campaign stop in September 1984. “It rests in the message of hope in the songs of a man so many young Americans admire — New Jersey’s own, Bruce Springsteen.”

Springsteen was, of course, at a pop-cultural peak in that moment, fresh from the release of the world-conquering blockbuster Born in the U.S.A., with a flag...

Backstage at an Illinois festival last weekend, two children of pop culture legends were hashing out a set list. “We’ll do ‘The River’ and then ‘Good Morning Sun’ and then ‘Bones’ last,” says Ben Taylor, the rugged-looking son of James Taylor and Carly Simon. Luke Pisano — whose mother was Judy Belushi Pisano, the writer and artist once married to John Belushi — nods but cautions, “That’s all the time we’re going to have. The most time we have is four songs.”

The setting was the second Blues Brothers Con,...

The subscription-based nonprofit Manhattan Theatre Club has joined producers of the previously announced Broadway production of Jez Butterworth’s The Hills Of California and will offer the play to subscribers as part of Mtc’s 2024-25 season.

Producers Sonia Friedman Productions, No Guarantees Productions, Neal Street, Brian Spector, and Sand & Snow Entertainment, with Stephanie P. McClelland announced the September arrival on Broadway of The Hills of California. At that point, no mention was made of Mtc, or of the show being offered as part of Mtc’s subscription series.

The Hills of California is now on sale to Mtc subscribers as the third production in the company’s Broadway 2024-25 season.

Sam Mendes will direct the first Butterworth play since 2018’s acclaimed The Ferryman. Other Butterworth Broadway productions include Jerusalem in 2011 and The River in 2014.

The Hills of California begins previews Wednesday, September 11, at the Broadhurst Theatre and opens Sunday,...

They blew up the Chicken Man in Philly last night but will they greenlight a movie in Hollywood? Rumors are swirling that a film may be in the works about Bruce Springsteen’s iconic album “Nebraska”, released in 1982. A Bruce biopic seems almost like a given at this point in his life and career; that this supposed project will focus on his most unique and thematically heavy album is all the more promising. Word right now is that Springsteen is in talks with director Scott Cooper, whose Crazy Heart, Out of the Furnace and Black Mass had some dark influences themselves.

“Nebraska” – released between double album “The River” and his reigning best-seller “Born in the USA” – captures some of Springsteen’s darkest lyrics, with songs about people who, as he put it, “just get shot off somewhere where nothing seems to matter.” To give a more direct example, the opening...

Eleven documentary projects from 11 countries have been selected for the Intl. Documentary Assn.’s annual Enterprise Documentary Fund Production Grant.

Selected from 371 applicants, the 15 directors behind the 11 docus will receive a total of $435,000 in production grants.

Established in 2017, the IDA Enterprise Documentary Fund supports in-depth explorations of original, contemporary stories that integrate journalistic practice into the filmmaking process. The fund is financially supported by John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, with additional support from the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation. In its seven-year history, the fund has given over $5 million in grant money to nonfiction filmmakers.

The selected projects are currently in production in 11 countries including the U.S., Philippines, Brazil, France, Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Italy and Afghanistan. Of the 15 directors behind the docs, 46% are filmmakers of color, 69% are women or gender-non-conforming filmmakers, 12% identify as members of the Lgbtqia+ community, and 8% identify as a D/deaf or disabled person or have long-term health conditions.

The intense reaction to the Israel-Hamas war has spilled over into the International Documentary Film Festival, which has now seen several directors pull their films from the lineup after the IDFA released a statement condemning the slogan “From the river to the sea.”

IDFA told TheWrap that “around 10” directors have pulled their films from the lineup, while the Palestinian Film Institute has also pulled out of activities at the IDFA film market.

Artistic director Orwa Nyrabia told THR he harbored no ill will towards those who chose to pull their movies.

“We respect the choices and the decisions of all filmmakers, whether that is to speak their minds on stage or online or to withdraw their films, all forms of peaceful protest, including criticism of our work, we honor and respect,” Nyrabia said in a statement to the outlet.

Protestors gathered outside the festival last week, where a banner read,...

Scorsese's Letterboxd list reveals his love for cinema, featuring companion movies from a wide range of genres and time periods. The list demonstrates Scorsese's role as a scholar of film, with many obscure choices that show his depth of knowledge. The cinematic elements in Scorsese's latest epic, Killers of the Flower Moon, reflect his passion for classic works and his ability to reimagine them.

Martin Scorsese details which films are the ideal double-features for his movies in his Letterboxd list. The auteur filmmaker directed his first feature movie, Who’s That Knocking at My Door, in 1967. Since then, Scorsese created more copious iconic epics and features, including Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The Wolf of Wall Street, and most recently, Killers of the Flower Moon, which is currently in theaters.

Taking to Letterboxd, Scorsese reveals an annotated list of the best companion movies to his work. The list included titles across nearly a century of cinema,...

Generally speaking, TV is a less frightening medium than film. (Broadcast news notwithstanding.) Part of that’s the serialized nature of the format; it can be difficult to get really scared wondering whether Scully and Mulder will make it out of any given “X-Files” nightmare when there are 18 or so installments left in the season and you know the show can’t go on without its star characters. It doesn’t help matters that network standards have also kept horror TV decidedly tamer than anything found in R-rated horror efforts for decades; you just can’t put a Rob Zombie or Eli Roth joint anywhere.

And yet, in spite of those disadvantages, the genre has positively flourished on television as of late, with plenty of creepy limited series and spooky serialized dramas bringing terror to the small screen. Audiences curious about what caused this phenomenon can thank “American Horror Story,...

A lot of articles exist on the internet listing the movies Martin Scorsese considers to be the best films of all time, but he’s not actually in favor of such rankings. Speaking to Time magazine for a video interview (see below), the “Taxi Driver” and “The Departed” icon said he is generally against top 10 best lists.

“I’ve tried to make lists over the years of films I personally feel are my favorites, whatever that means,” Scorsese said. “And then you find out that the word ‘favorite’ has different levels: Films that have impressed you the most, as opposed to films you just like to keep watching, as opposed to those you keep watching and learning from, or experiencing anew. So, they’re varied. And I’m always sort of against ’10 best’ lists.”

Scorsese gathered his favorite films into a list as recently as last December, when he participated...

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Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or TV Movie Tiny Beautiful Things — “Pilot” – Episode 101

Weekly Commentary: As Amy, the Goop-inspired, plant-selling businesswoman, “Beef” star Ali Wong has never been better. Fresh off her first Emmy nomination for outstanding writing variety special for “Ali Wong: Don Wong” for Netflix,...

Where to Watch Powered by The River Wild remake was filmed in Central and Eastern Europe, including Hungary, Slovakia, and Bosnia, to capture the spooky and treacherous aesthetic of the movie. The exact filming locations in these countries, including cities and landmarks, are mostly unknown, but it's possible that some scenes were shot near the Danube River. The cast, including Taran Killam, trained at an Olympic whitewater facility in Slovakia to prepare for the intense scenes in the movie.

The River Wild is a 2023 reimagining of the 1994 film starring Meryl Streep and Kevin Bacon, and it takes viewers on a dangerous ride as the characters embark on a whitewater rafting trip that turns deadly fast. The 2023 movie, available to stream on Netflix, stars Leighton Meester as Joey, Taran Killam as Gray, and Adam Brody as Trevor, and the three of them have a past that comes into play as people...

Joy Ride director Adele Lim is addressing a social media reaction to her Lionsgate film ahead of its theatrical release later this month.

Lim took to Twitter on Tuesday to weigh in about an unfavorable assessment from Jackson Murphy, whose Twitter bio describes himself as a film critic for 99.5 The River, an iHeartRadio station based in Albany, New York. Murphy’s tweet criticized the feature as “embarrassing” and “incredibly unpleasant,” along with adding about the movie: “Objectifies men, targets white people.”

In her response, Lim, who is making her directorial debut following writing credits on such films as Crazy Rich Asians and Raya and the Last Dragon, posted, “Imma need ‘Objectifies men, targets white people’ on a tshirt.”

Joy Ride, which hits theaters July 7, centers on a woman traveling across China to find her birth mother and was written by Lim, Cherry Chevapravatdumrong and Teresa Hsiao. The R-rated comedy premiered...

Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-liang, the arthouse darling known for works including Venice Golden Lion winner “Vive L’Amour” and “The River,” which scored the Berlin Silver Bear, will be celebrated by the Locarno Film Festival with its Honorary Leopard achievement award.

The iconoclastic auteur, who is a key figure in Taiwan’s so-called Second New Wave, will receive the prize from the Swiss fest dedicated to indie cinema during an Aug. 6 ceremony held on its 8,000-seat outdoor Piazza Grande venue.

The tribute to Tsai Ming-liang will also involve an onstage conversation with the director on the future of cinema and a screening of the helmer’s 2020 film “Days” (Rizi), as well as an art gallery exhibition of his experimental works.

The Malaysian-born Tsai made his debut in the early 1990s, breaking out internationally with “Vive L’Amour” 1994, followed by “The River” in 1996 and “The Hole,” which bowed in Cannes in 1998. His “The Wayward Cloud...

The Locarno Film Festival will fete multi-award-winning Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-liang with an Honorary Career Leopard award at the upcoming edition running from August 2 to 12.

Regarded as a key figure in the Second New Wave of Taiwanese cinema, Malaysian-born Tsai Ming-liang made his debut in the early 1990s, breaking out internationally with Vive L’Amour, which won Venice’s Golden Lion in 1994.

Other award-winning titles include with The River, which won the Jury Award at Berlin in 1996, while in 2009, his work Visage (Face) became the first film to be included in the collection of the Louvre Museum’s “Le Louvre s’offre aux cineastes”.

Tsai’s connections with the art world have grown over the years and he has been invited to participate in various art exhibitions and festivals, while he developed aesthetic ideas such as “Hand-sculpted Cinema” and “The removal of industrial processes from art making”.

The festival’s celebration...

Festival to pay tribute to work of the Taiwanese director.

Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-liang is to receive the Pardo Alla Carriera at the 76th edition of the Locarno Film Festival, which runs from August 3-13.

The festival will pay tribute to Tsai’s achievements in film and contemporary art with a screening of Days (2020), plus an exhibition of his experimental works including Transformation (2012), Your Face (2018) and The Tree (2021).

Tsai will also be at the centre of a panel conversation on the future of cinema moderated by Kevin B. Lee, Locarno Film Festival professor for the future of cinema and the...

Let’s get this out of the way right from the top: Wes Anderson has never made a bad movie, and — in all likelihood — he probably never will. He’s too particular, too immaculate, too in command of his craft. Of course, the fact that he has always been so sure of himself only makes it more tempting to chart the progress of his career and to measure his films against each other. Or maybe it’s just fun because there are still only 11 of them, and everyone seems to have their own favorite. Who could say?

Anderson is the rarest of rarities, an arthouse filmmaker who not only finds ways to consistently make ambitious original projects, but also maintains genuine influence on what remains of mainstream pop culture. (None of the other esteemed directors who competed for the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival were...

Carrie White and Princess Leia are two of the most famous and beloved female characters in film history, and they boosted the careers of their respective actors, who almost played the other's character. The 1970s saw the release of a variety of movies from different genres that have now become classics, and from the horror genre, one of the most notable titles is Brian de Palma's Carrie, while in the world of sci-fi, Star Wars started its reign.

Based on the Stephen King novel of the same name, Carrie tells the story of Carrie White, a teenager carrying a lot of trauma due to years of abuse from her mother and who unleashes her telekinetic abilities against those who hurt her. A year after Carrie’s release, the audience was taken to a galaxy far, far away to meet Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, and Princess Leia in Star Wars: A New Hope,...

Ahead of the opening night of Garth Brooks’ new Las Vegas residency, the country superstar has already announced that his Plus One stand at the Colosseum at Caesars Place will extend into 2024.

“When the 2023 shows went on sale, I felt extremely fortunate and blessed. To even think I would get do this for another year makes me happier than I can explain. Thank you for the chance,” Brooks said in a statement.

Tickets for the 2023 Garth Brooks/Plus One residency quickly sold out when they went on sale back in Nov.