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Machine Gun Kelly (Mgk) is making waves on The Voice! The singer-songwriter, known for hits like Lonely Road and Bloody Valentine, is set to join Gwen Stefani’s team as her playoff advisor during the November 19th episode.

This collaboration promises fresh perspectives and plenty of artistic flair, with Mgk offering valuable advice to contestants as they pursue their dreams.

A Sneak Peek of Mgk’s Mentorship

In an exclusive clip, Mgk is seen mentoring contestant Jake Tankersley. The 34-year-old rocker encouraged Jake to bring more personality to his performance, saying,

“You have a good smile, so maybe crack a smile on that and let people know they can be close to you. When you have any moment when there is no lyrics though, because there is so many words, step away from the mic and play your guitar.”

Mgk further emphasized the importance of emotional connection in performances, adding,...

OutDaughtered stars, Uncle Dale and Aunt Kiki Mills bring a layer of fun and joking to the show that is unmatched. Likewise, they are wonderful at supporting Adam and Danielle Busby with their crazy life. While Uncle Dale and Aunt Kiki are always entertaining to watch, is their next stop Dancing With The Stars?

Aunt Kiki and Uncle Dale Mills Are Always Having A Good Time

Undeniably, OutDaughtered is a great show. Adam and Danielle Busby are always looking for ways to keep their six daughters happy and healthy. While they are scurrying around with their busy kiddos, they also make it entertaining for fans. Along with the quints and Blayke Busby, fans have watched Danielle’s sisters, Ashley Mowbray and Crystal Mills interact with the family. Fans get to see Aunt Kiki and Uncle Dale Mills insert their funny antics into every episode they appear. Furthermore, no one can...

Pro dancer Witney Carson and NFL star Danny Amendola solidified themselves as top contenders on DWTS after Dedication Night. The pair performed a stunning Contemporary routine to “Unsteady (Erich Lee Gravity Remix)” by X Ambassadors, receiving a 36/40 for the routine.

In the number, Danny pulls Witney up from the floor by her leg. Viewers went wild for the move and tried to recreate it at home, causing a viral TikTok trend.

But what do the Dancing With The Stars contestants think?

Witney Carson & Danny Amendola Feel Honored By Fans’ Response

Dedication Night kicked off on October 15, but fans are still recreating Witney Carson and Danny Amendola’s routine. The pair feels shocked at their newfound viral fame.

“I didn’t really know it was viral. I had to go in [rehearsals] and be like, ‘My algorithm must be messed up, Witney. … Everybody’s doing our dance!’” the former New England Patriot...

Former NFL star Danny Amendola is surprising Dancing With The Stars viewers everywhere. Few thought he would be a front-runner when the season first premiered. But by learning from his partner Witney Carson, he’s dramatically improving week after week.

During Dedication Night, the pair performed a Contemporary routine without shoes. Going barefoot is pretty standard for Contemporary, but it prompted Danny Amendola to make a few raunchy jokes.

Danny Amendola Jokes About Monetizing Feet Pics

Avid internet users know there’s a running joke about people selling photos of their feet online. Current DWTS contestant Danny Amendola thinks photos from his barefoot Contemporary routine might fetch some money on the internet.

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“I love feet, you got to walk on them every day,” the 38-year-old shared with Us Weekly after his Tuesday night performance. “They’re dancing feet, they’re working feet. My feet are terrible to look at,...

The Dancing with the Stars streaming schedule is back to normal after a two-night event last week. Are you caught up with the latest scores (and eliminations)? Spoilers ahead if not! Go stream any episodes you may have missed before reading on.

Last week, we didn’t only get a two night event, but were also hit with a double elimination! These season’s contestants sure are going by fast! No longer participating on DWTS season 33, are Reginald and Emma and Eric and Britt, as they were both eliminated after week 3 night 2. Who are you the most sad to see go?

Dancing with the Stars season 33 week 4 is Dedication Night, a night that saw each couple perform a dance in the honor of someone they admire. Let me tell you folks, there was not one dry eye in the house after all of these brilliant and emotional performances. As for the guest judge,...

Week 4 of “Dancing With the Stars” was Dedication Night, with the nine remaining couples performing routines that honored people who had impacted their lives the most.

Derek Hough took to the dancefloor with wife Hayley for a moving routine, her first performance on the show since her life-threatening brain-bleed last year. Hough choked up while recalling her doctors’ amazement at her miraculous recovery.

Danny Amendola shot to the top of the leaderboard with all 9s for his Contemporary routine with partner Witney Carson set to “Unsteady (Erich Lee Gravity Remix)” by X Ambassadors. The football star dedicated the routine to the late NCAA head coach Mike Leach, who offered him a scholarship to Texas Tech. Carrie Ann Inaba, who stopped by the rehearsal to give Amendola some tips, pronounced the routine a “breakthrough “and said his coach would be so proud, while Hough said it was “stunning.”

Brooks Nader (second...

There are nine celebs remaining on “Dancing with the Stars” for season 33, and tonight they’ll pay tribute to someone or something that is important in their lives. The songs and dance styles for “Dedication Night” are below. Watch our video above where we discuss our expectations for the night’s routines and recap what we thought about last week’s show.

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Super Bowl Champion Danny Amendola and pro Witney Carson will perform a Contemporary to “Unsteady (Erich Lee Gravity Remix)” by X Ambassadors and dedicating the routine to former NCAA head football coach Mike Leach.

“The Bachelor” Joey Graziadei and pro Jenna Johnson will perform a Viennese Waltz to “Lose Control” by Teddy Swims and dedicating the routine to Joey’s fiancée, Kelsey Anderson.

NBA Champion Dwight Howard and pro Daniella Karagach will perform a Rumba to “Shoot For...

Over the last year, guitar prodigy Grace Bowers has been showing up on stages from Nashville to Newport. In May of 2023, she joined Gaslight Anthem onstage at the Ryman Auditorium and delivered one of the highlight sets of last summer’s Newport Folk Festival. Now, the 17-year-old player is releasing her debut album. Wine on Venus arrives Aug. 9 and pairs her with the band the Hodge Podge.

Produced by Brothers Osborne’s John Osborne, Wine on Venus features Bowers on lead guitar. Esther Okai-Tetteh handles vocals, with Joshua Blaylock on keys,...

Exclusive: Den of Thieves 2: Pantera has rounded out its cast, bringing on 11 international talents to star opposite the returning Gerard Butler and O’Shea Jackson Jr. The list includes Salvatore Esposito (Gomorrah), Orli Shuka (Gangs of London), Evin Ahmad (Who Is Erin Carter?), Cristian Solimeno (The Glass Man), Nazmiye Oral (Propaganda), Yasen Zates Atour (The Witcher), Giuseppe Schillaci (Romulus), Dino Kelly (Peaky Blinders), Rico Verhoeven (Black Lotus), Velibor Topic (Outside the Wire) and Antonio Bustorff (Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One).

(L-r) Rico Verhoeven, Velibor Topić and Antonio Bustorff

Wrapping principal photography on July 5th — a little more than a week prior to the launch of the SAG-AFTRA strike — Pantera marks the sequel to Den of Thieves, the action thriller from writer-director Christian Gudegast which grossed nearly $45M stateside and more than $80M WW via STX in 2018. The original film watches as a group from the L.

Paul Mescal has clocked his first Olivier Award nomination for his leading performance in Rebecca Frecknall’s buzzy stage adaptation of A Streetcar Named Desire. Scroll down for the full list of nominees.

A Streetcar Named Desire netted six nominations overall, which also included first-time nods for Mescal’s co-stars Anjana Vasan and Patsy Ferran.

In other high-profile nods, Jodie Comer is nominated for Best Actress for her West End debut in the well-received Prima Facie, which has five nominations overall, including Best New Play and Best Director.

David Tennant is in Best Actor for his updated production of C.P. Taylor’s 1989 play Good, and Tom Hollander landed a nom for Patriots, Peter Morgan’s new play set during the fall of the Soviet Union, which is nominated in three categories.

This year’s most nominated production is My Neighbour Totoro, the stage adaptation of Studio Ghibli’s cult 1988 animated film.

Exclusive: Marking her first feature since she won a Best Actress Oscar for The Eyes Of Tammy Faye, Jessica Chastain and Dopesick and The Batman star Peter Sarsgaard have just wrapped on Michel Franco’s (New Order) new film, which we can reveal is called Memory.

Plot details are being kept under lock and key but the English-language project is rumoured to revolve around a New York City staycation. Also starring are Merritt Wever (Birdman), Josh Charles (Dead Poets Society), Elsie Fisher (Eighth Grade), and Jessica Harper (Suspiria).

The project marks Franco’s second American-set film after 2015’s Chronic, and marks the fifth collaboration between the filmmaker and cinematographer Yves Cape. Pic wrapped shooting in New York last Friday.

Franco, a festival-favourite, won the Venice Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize for recent feature New Order. Four of his films have played at Cannes, three winning prizes.

The film is produced...

“American Idol” continues on March 28 for its fifth season on ABC and 20th overall. As always, Ryan Seacrest hosts the reality TV competition series while country superstar Luke Bryan, pop princess Katy Perry and Oscar-winning singer/songwriter Lionel Richie make up the judging panel. This episode kicks off Hollywood Week with over 100 artists singing in the Genre Challenge. If they survive this round they will make it to Round 2: The Duets.

See ‘American Idol’ episode 5 auditions ranked: All 10 Hollywood-bound singers from worst to best — and what they should sing next

This season the judges embark on yet another nationwide search for America’s next singing sensation. Auditions were held in Nashville, Tennessee, Austin, Texas and Los Angeles, California. If given a golden ticket, hopeful idols will advance to the Hollywood round. In a new twist this season, three contestants were given a Platinum Ticket, which allows them to skip...

“It’s kind of a blurry moment,” Jake Thomsen says of the second host Rocsi Diaz named him the winner of “Alter Ego,” Fox’s reality TV singing competition where contestants belt it out backstage while motion capture technology creates digital avatars in their place onstage. Thomsen performed as Dipper Scott and won over judges will.i.am, Alanis Morissette, Grimes and Nick Lachey to become the Season 1 champ and winner of a $100,000 cash prize. Watch our exclusive video interview with Thomsen (Aka Dipper Scott) above.

“I just remember it being whittled down from four, to three, to two and thinking, ‘There’s no way that I’m actually gonna win this,'” Thomsen explains. “So when [Rocsi] announced it I feel like I fell to the ground. I actually don’t remember what happened. I just remember being like, ‘This is insane!'” (Read our minute-by-minute recap of the season finale.

“Dancing with the Stars'” annual synergistic Disney Night is Disney Nights this season with two evenings of competition — spotlighting heroes on Monday and villains on Tuesday — but most notably it’ll mark the return to the ballroom of Cody Rigsby and Cheryl Burke.

Rigsby and Burke are cleared to return to the show after recovering from their breakthrough cases of Covid-19 that forced them to miss the last two tapings and perform the first virtual routine in “Dancing” history. For Heroes Night, they’ll do a jive to “Stand Out” from “A Goofy Movie” (a true choice to assign the couple who just had Covid a jive), and for Villains Night, they’ll perform a Viennese waltz to one of the greatest villain tunes of all time, “Gaston” from “Beauty and the Beast.” (The Miz and Witney Carson are also right up there with the iconic “Be Prepared” from “The Lion King...

Hallmark Channel announced that former “Desperate Housewives” stars James Denton and Teri Hatcher are reuniting in the upcoming original film “A Kiss Before Christmas.” The film will premiere during Hallmark Channel’s annual “Countdown to Christmas” programming event. This is the first time the pair has worked together since the “Desperate Housewives” series ended in 2012.

“A Kiss Before Christmas” follows the story of Ethan Holt (Denton), a real estate development executive and married father with two teens, who learns he’s losing out on a promotion on Christmas Eve. Due to his laments paired with some Christmas magic, Holt awakes the next morning to find that his life is entirely different. He’s no longer married to his wife Joyce (Hatcher), doesn’t have his children and is CEO of his company. He has only a day to reclaim his original life.

“A Kiss Before Christmas” is from Crown Media Productions,...

Imagine if “The Masked Singer” costumes were computer generated. That is the idea of “Alter Ego,” a new reality competition series that starts on Fox right after the season 6 premiere of “The Masked Singer” on Wednesday, September 22. Over the course of the next 10 weeks, “Alter Ego” will showcase a score of singers from around the country who will be singing back stage while animated avatars appear in front of judges Grimes, Nick Lachey, Alanis Morissette and will.i.am.

Follow along with our minute-by-minute “Alter Ego” Season 1 Episode 1 recap below.

9:00 p.m. — Host Rocsi Diaz tells us that for the first time in their lives, these singers will be judged solely on their talent. The competition for the $100,000 grand prize starts now!

9:10 p.m. — Tonight’s first alter ego is named Queen Dynamite and the judges are a little tripped out to be interacting with her in real time.

Exclusive: Singer Sam Nelson Harris of rock band X Ambassadors is teaming with Schitt’s Creek’s star Emily Hampshire on superhero origin story podcast The Beautiful Liar.

The audio drama, which is being produced by LA-based podcast outfit QCode in partnership with Interscope Records, will serve as a companion piece to X Ambassadors’ third studio album, The Beautiful Liar, which will be released September 24.

Harris will star in and produce while Hampshire will voice the role of Shadow and serve as an executive producer. Minnie Schedeen is co-creator.

The drama will follow Clementine (Dahl), a young teenage girl — who has been blind from birth — whose world is suddenly upended when she loses her father and gains powers she didn’t know she had, which take the form of her secret friend, Shadow (Hampshire). As she moves to a new school, Clementine has to juggle hiding her newfound abilities from...

MPTF’s NextGen Board has found a host for its Summer Party on Sept. 12. The Neighborhood star Max Greenfield will handle duties for the Sunset Tower-set bash which will raise funds for the Motion Picture & Television Fund during a year that marks the organization’s 100th anniversary.

The event will feature a VIP cocktail hour followed by the main event emceed by Greenfield. The program includes remarks from Paramount Pictures CEO Jim Gianopulos, who serves as chairman of MPTF’s board of directors, a special performance by Sam Nelson Harris of X Ambassadors and music from DJ Julia Sandstrom.

The ...

MPTF’s NextGen Board has found a host for its Summer Party on Sept. 12. The Neighborhood star Max Greenfield will handle duties for the Sunset Tower-set bash which will raise funds for the Motion Picture & Television Fund during a year that marks the organization’s 100th anniversary.

The event will feature a VIP cocktail hour followed by the main event emceed by Greenfield. The program includes remarks from Paramount Pictures CEO Jim Gianopulos, who serves as chairman of MPTF’s board of directors, a special performance by Sam Nelson Harris of X Ambassadors and music from DJ Julia Sandstrom.

The ...

Rachel Lang’s Corsica-set drama Our Men follows personal relationships of men who join the Foreign Legion.

Screen can exclusively reveal the first trailer for French director Rachel Lang’s Corsica-set drama Our Men ahead of its world premiere in Directors’ Fortnight on Thursday.

Lang’s second feature after 2016’s Baden Baden, it explores the family lives and relationships of men who come from all over the world to join the Foreign Legion.

French stars Louis Garrel and Camille Cottin lead the cast which also features Russia’s Aleksandr Kuznetsov and Lithuanian actress Ina Marija Bartaité (who passed away earlier this year).

The film,...

Rachel Lang’s Corsica-set drama Our Men follows personal relationships of men who join the Foreign Legion.

Screen can exclusively reveal the first trailer for French director Rachel Lang’s Corsica-set drama Our Men ahead of its world premiere in Directors’ Fortnight on Thursday.

Lang’s third feature after 2013 documentary Zino and 2016’s Baden Baden, it explores the family lives and relationships of men who come from all over the world to join the Foreign Legion.

French stars Louis Garrel and Camille Cottin lead the cast which also features Italian actress Ina Marija Bartaité and Russia’s Aleksandr Kuznetsov.

The film,...

Camille Cottin is having quite a year. As more and more folks locked at home tuned into Call My Agent! (Dix pour cent), the Netflix series in which she stars, her profile has risen internationally. The comedy-drama about the trials and tribulations of a Parisian talent agency already had helped her score jobs in Hollywood films pre-pandemic, and now she’s definitely someone to keep an eye on as she continues to build an enviable cross-border résumé.

The Paris native, who spent ages 12 to 17 living in London when her family moved for her stepdad’s job, is appearing in two films in Cannes this year including Directors’ Fortnight closing title Our Men (Mon légionnaire) by Rachel Lang, and Tom McCarthy’s out-of competition drama Stillwater.

Both of those films tackle serious subject matter (more on that later), which may seem out of character for an actress who broke out...

Although she broke out playing the tough-skinned Andréa in the French show “Call My Agent!,” Camille Cottin comes off as gentle, bubbly and down to earth in real life. The hard-working Cottin didn’t shoot to fame; she became one of France’s hottest actors in her late 30s, after appearing in numerous stage plays, shorts and TV series over more than 15 years. Now, she is navigating between big American movies and French cinema with Tom McCarthy’s “Stillwater,” which bows at Cannes, and Ridley Scott’s “House of Gucci” lined up for later this year, as well as Rachel Lang’s war drama “Our Men,” the closing film of Directors’ Fortnight.

What was your reaction when you read the script of “Stillwater” and what did you think of the character you played?

I read it in one go, and it was a very nice feeling because I got completely pulled in.

The lineup for the 2021 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalisateurs) at Cannes has been announced. See also the full lineups of the Official Selection and Critics’ Week.Our MenFEATURE Films A Chiara (Jonas Carpignano): The story of 15-year-old Chiara whose close-knit family falls apart after her father abandons them in Calabria. Chiara starts to investigate to understand why her father disappeared and as she gets closer to the truth, she is forced to decide what kind of future she wants for herself.Ali & Ava (Clio Barnard): Both lonely for different reasons, Ali and Ava meet through their shared affection for Sofia—the child of Ali’s Slovakian tenants, whom Ava teaches. Over a lunar month, sparks fly and a deep connection begins to grow.Between Two Worlds (Emmanuel Carrère)The Braves (Anaïs Volpé)A Brighter Tomorrow (Yassine Qnia)Clara Sola (Nathalie Álvarez Mesen)The Employer and the Employee (Manuel...

The lineup for the Cannes Directors Fortnight was revealed on Tuesday, featuring new films by Clio Barnard, Joanna Hogg and Alice Rohrwacher. Of the 24 films selected for the lineup, exactly half have at least one woman director.

The 12 of 24 films in the Cannes Directors Fortnight, which is the independent arm of the Cannes Film Festival kicking off next month, dwarfs the number of female directors in the Cannes main competition lineup, in which only four of the 24 selected movies were directed by women. However, some of the movies for the Directors Fortnight feature women as co-directors, so 12 of 29 of the total directors are women.

The Directors Fortnight will host a special screening of Hogg’s “The Souvenir Part 1,” as “Part 2” will be playing in competition. Other notable films include “A Night of Knowing Nothing,” the first feature by actress Payal Kapadia, and “Hit the Road,” another debut feature by Panah Panahi,...

On the heels of yesterday’s announcement of the Cannes Critics’ Week lineup, now comes confirmation of the 25 movies that will screen in the festival’s other prestigious sidebar section, Directors’ Fortnight. The lineup includes eight debut features, including “Hit the Road” by Jafar Panahi’s son, Panah Panahi. Directors’ Fortnight 2021 opens with Emmanuel Carrère’s “Between Two Worlds,” starring Juliette Binoche as an author experiencing job insecurity. Other notable titles include “A Chiara,” the latest movie from “Mediterranea” and “A Ciambra” director Jonas Carpignano.

Perhaps the biggest draw for U.S. audiences will be the world premiere of Joanna Hogg’s “The Souvenir Part II,” starring Honor Swinton Byrne, Tilda Swinton, Charlie Heaton, Harris Dickinson, and Joe Alwyn. The film is executive produced by Martin Scorsese, who is also an executive producer on Fortnight title “Murina” (directed by Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović). Hogg’s original “The Souvenir” was one...

A full picture of the Cannes Film Festival is now coming into focus with the unveiling of the Directors’ Fortnight lineup. Following the Official Selection and the Critics’ Week lineups, this sidebar features Joanna Hogg’s highly-anticipated sequel The Souvenir Part II, as well as new films by Miguel Gomes, Jonas Carpignano, Clio Barnard, Pietro Marcello, Alice Rohrwacher, Matías Piñeiro, and more.

See below.

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A Chiara (Jonas Carpignano)

Ali & Ava (Clio Barnard)

Between Two Worlds (Emmanuel Carrère)

The Braves (Anaïs Volpé)

A Brighter Tomorrow (Yassine Qnia)

Clara Sola (Nathalie Álvarez Mesen)

The Employer and the Employee (Manuel Nieto)

Europa (Haider Rashid)

Futura

Întregalde (Radu Muntean)

The Hill where Lionesses Roar (Luàna Bajrami)

Hit the Road (Panah Panahi)

Magnetic Beats (Vincent Cardona)

Medusa (Anita Rocha da Silveira)

Murina (Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović)

Neptune Frost

A Night of Knowing Nothing (Payal Kapadia)

Our Men (Rachel Lang)

Returning to Reims (Fragments) (Jean-Gabriel Périot...

The Directors’ Fortnight parallel section of the Cannes Film Festival has unveiled its lineup for the 2021 edition which runs from July 7-17. Scroll down for the full list.

Fortnight chief Paolo Moretti, who took over the reins in 2019, presented the roster from the Forum des Images in Paris, saying, “After a very painful year for everyone, we are happy to present a selection of discovery.” Out of 24 features, 22 filmmakers are showing their films for first time at Cannes. Half of the films this year are directed or co-directed by women including Clio Barnard’s Ali & Ava; documentary Futura from Alice Rohrwacher, Pietro Marcello and Francesco Munzi; and Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir: Part II with Tilda Swinton and Richard Ayoade.

There are eight debut features in the lineup, including Jadde Khaki (Hit the Road), the first film from Jafar Panahi’s son Panah Panahi, and Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović’s Murina...

Parallel Cannes section will unveil 24 new films.

Clio Barnard’s Ali & Ava and Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir Part II will be among the 24 features world premiering in Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, running July 7-17 this year.

The non-competitive Cannes parallel section, overseen by French directors guild the Société des Réalisateurs (Srf), has unveiled an eclectic 2021 line-up of new films by established directors and emerging talent at a press conference in Paris on Tuesday (June 8).

Scroll down for the full selection

UK directors Barnard and Hogg were hotly tipped for Cannes 2020 until the main festival and parallel selections were cancelled due to the pandemic.

Parallel Cannes section will unveil 24 new films.

Clio Barnard’s Ali & Ava and Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir Part II will be among the 24 features world premiering in Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, running July 7 to 17 this year.

The non-competitive Cannes parallel section, overseen by the French directors guild the Société des Réalisateurs (Srf), has unveiled an eclectic 2021 line-up of new films by established directors and emerging talent at a press conference in Paris on Tuesday (June 8).

Scroll down for the full selection

UK directors Barnard and Hogg were hotly tipped for Cannes 2020 until the main festival and parallel selections were cancelled due to the pandemic.

After canceling its last edition due to the pandemic, Directors’ Fortnight, a section running alongside the Cannes Film Festival, will be back with a stylish and eclectic international lineup, including Joanna Hogg’s highly anticipated “The Souvenir Part II,” Clio Barnard’s “Ali & Ava,” Jonas Carpignano’s “A Chiara,” Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman’s Rwanda-set sci-fi film “Neptune Frost,” and Alice Rohrwacher, Pietro Marcello and Francesco Munzi’s “Futura.”

The highlight of this edition will likely be the world premiere of “The Souvenir Part II,” which will mark the first presence of Hogg, an acclaimed British writer-director, at Cannes. The romance-drama is headlined by Tilda Swinton — who will also be in Cannes for “The French Dispatch” and “Memoria” competing in the festival’s Official Selection — as well as Richard Ayoade, Charlie Heaton and Harris Dickinson. Executive produced by Martin Scorsese, the film revolves around a student who begins to...

Global distributor, producer and streamer Mubi has snapped up major European markets for hot Sundance title “Pleasure,” which delves into the world of the porn industry in Los Angeles.

The service has acquired all rights to the provocative film in the U.K., Ireland, Italy and Turkey. Directed by Ninja Thyberg, the film recently received its world premiere as part of Sundance’s World Cinema Dramatic Competition.

Starring newcomer Sofia Kappel, “Pleasure” tells the story of a young woman (Bella Cherry) who moves from a small town in Sweden to Los Angeles in pursuit of stardom, and lands squarely in the porn industry. Variety’s chief film critic Owen Gleiberman praised “Pleasure” in his review, calling it an “intentionally stark” and “disturbingly authentic” look at what the porn industry has become.

“A movie like ‘Pleasure’ jerks the skeevy, compulsive porn world out of the closet in a way that few movies have,...

This year’s Oscars have set a new record for the largest number of entries ever in the Best Original Song category, but the 105 eligible songs do not include Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’ “(If Only You Could) Save Me,” a 1930s-style big band song from “Mank” that was recently nominated for the second annual Society of Composers and Lyricists Awards.

The song is heard briefly coming from a radio in the background of one scene and plays for only about 40 seconds. Academy rules require “a clearly audible, intelligible, substantive rendition of both lyric and melody,” and the song was judged to not fulfill that requirement.

Other songs that didn’t make the list, although they were thought to be in the running, include “Uh Oh” from “Promising Young Woman” and “Boss Bitch” from “Birds of Prey.” Even without those, the list of eligible songs tops 100 for the first time...

Arthouse streaming service Mubi has snapped up rights to Toronto International Film Festival title “Shiva Baby” for the U.K., Ireland, Germany, Austria, India, Turkey and Latin America.

Written and directed by Canadian filmmaker Emma Seligman, “Shiva Baby” follows a young bisexual Jewish woman at a shiva — a mourning tradition in the Jewish community — at which she must confront her over-achieving ex-girlfriend as well as her sugar daddy, his girlfriend and their baby.

Utopia Media boarded the film ahead of its Toronto premiere.

“Shiva Baby” — which began life as a short written and directed by Seligman while studying film at New York University — screened in the narrative feature competition at SXSW, and received its public premiere at last month’s TIFF. Variety critic Tomris Laffly said of the movie, “Think of this late-coming-of-age farce as a funny ‘Krisha’ or the indoor apocalypse that takes place in ‘Mother!’ — but with broken glass objects,...

Sundance winner and upcoming BFI London Film Festival title “Farewell Amor” will bow in December on curated streaming service Mubi.

Mubi has acquired worldwide VOD rights, excluding North America, Africa, China and Israel, on the film. IFC has acquired the North America rights.

Producer Huriyyah Muhammad won the Sundance Institute/Amazon Studios Producers Award for narrative features at the Sundance Film Festival, where the film received its world premiere in the U.S. dramatic competition section in January. It will play at the BFI London Film Festival’s ‘Love’ strand in October.

Written and directed by feature debutant and Sundance Institute fellow Ekwa Msangi, the film follows an Angolan immigrant reunited with his family in New York City after 17 years. Now strangers sharing a one-bedroom apartment, they discover a shared love of dance that may help them overcome the distance between them.

Stars include Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine (“Blood Diamond...

The Foundation Fighting Blindness, the world’s leading organization committed to finding treatments and cures for blinding retinal diseases, is launching a new livestream music series, Music to Our Eyes.

Foundation Fighting Blindness and Two Blind Brothers present Music to Our Eyes featuring X Ambassadors

The series premiere features X Ambassadors on Thursday, August 20, 2020, at 7 p.m. Et, and is presented in partnership with Two Blind Brothers – founded by Bradford and Bryan Manning, who created the apparel company to create ultra-soft clothing, build community, and donate 100 percent of profits toward research curing blindness.

X Ambassadors’ keyboardist, Casey Harris, was born with the rare genetic disease, Senior-Loken syndrome, which affects his kidneys and retinas. The acoustic performance by brothers Sam and Casey Harris will feature their top hits including, Renegade, Unsteady, Hold You Down, and Belong. In between sets, Jason Menzo, chief operating officer at the Foundation Fighting Blindness, will interview...

Since the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles had to close due to coronavirus worries, the institution is going to start offering some of the collection’s programming and imagery on its archive digitally today.

The Museum’s “Public Programs” series features events it filmed with Billie Eilish and Finneas, Brandi Carlile, Bob Newhart, Kool and the Gang, Greta Van Fleet, and others in the museum’s 200-seat Clive Davis Theater. The first program, available today on the museum’s website, is with pop artist and American Idol runner-up Alejandro Aranda,...

Bac Films has closed several deals on Bernard Stora’s “The Case,” a psychological thriller set in the South of France starring Niels Arestrup. The film had its market premiere at the UniFrance Rendez-Vous with French Cinema in Paris, a five-day showcase of French movies wrapping on Jan. 20.

Arestrup stars in “The Case” as Luc Germon, a famous lawyer whose new client, Gilles Fontaine (Patrick Bruel) is a powerful business man suspected of having acquired his magnificent property on the French Riviera in a dubious condition. The movie was picked up for Spain (Vercine Distribución), China (Huanxi Media), Taiwan (Av-Jet) and Benelux (Athena Films).

Paul Hamy (“Sibyl”) and Michel Bouquet (“Renoir”) complete the cast. “The Case” was produced by Jpg Films and Bac Films which will release the movie during the second semester of this year.

During the UniFrance Rendez-Vous, Bac Films also hosted the market premieres of “Yakari, A Spectacular Journey,...

Continuing the Golden Globes' long-standing tradition of enlisting A-listers' children to help hand out awards, Dylan Brosnan, 22, and Paris Brosnan, 18 — sons of Pierce and Keely Brosnan — will represent the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as 2020's Golden Globe Ambassadors on Jan. 5. The aspiring filmmakers — Dylan is a student at USC, Paris at Loyola Marymount University — will be the first set of brothers to take on the role, which was rebranded from Miss (or Mr.) Golden Globe in 2017 to highlight a philanthropic aspect. For their personal cause, the Brosnans are supporting Feed Projects,...

Event runs in New York from March 19-22.

Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale will open the second annual Australian International Screen Forum, a four-day gathering in New York City that will include workshops and a panel discussion with producer Jason Blum.

Recent Sundance premiere Top End Wedding will close the event showcasing Australian talent, which runs from March 19-22 and will also present workshops, panel conversations and showcases.

This year’s topics include sessions related to financing, audience development, casting, creative relationships, and festivals and markets, with a specific focus on international independent feature film and television production, devised in...

Daniel Radcliffe and Bill Paxton star in The Gamechangers, a drama about the making of the Grand Theft Auto series. Any good? Not exactly...

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How do you make an interesting film about coding a videogame? It sounds like a difficult subject to dramatise on the face of it. But ultimately, all great stories are more about the relationships between characters than what they do for a living. A movie that contained nothing but boxing matches for 100 continuous minutes would leave audiences reeling. The Rocky movies were approximately 90 percent drama to 10 percent boxing, and audiences, for the most part, flocked to see them.

BBC's The Gamechangers takes the Rocky approach to Grand Theft Auto - specifically, the making of 2004's hit sequel San Andreas, the controversy surrounding a hidden sex scene on the disc, and the legal tussle that followed. In its dramatisation of real events,...

Good news for all the Grand Theft Auto fans out there - the BBC has confirmed a title and new details for the forthcoming drama focusing on the acclaimed game franchise.

BBC Two's factual drama, starring Daniel Radcliffe and Bill Paxton, will be named Game Changer.

The show will explore the court battles between Grand Theft Auto developer Rockstar and Miami lawyer Jack Thompson, as well as the wider cultural significance of the game.

The BBC has described Grand Theft Auto as "arguably the greatest British coding success story since Bletchley Park".

Radcliffe will play Rockstar co-founder and president Sam Houser, while Paxton plays Thompson in the 90-minute drama.

Misfits and Black Mirror director Owen Harris will begin production in South Africa.

Game Changer is written by James Wood (Rev, Ambassadors). Jim Spencer will serve as producer, with Mark Hedgecoe as executive producer.

The project is part of the Make It Digital initiative,...

Game on, Harry Potter. Daniel Radcliffe has signed on to play Sam Houser, one of the British video game developers behind the hit "Grand Theft Auto" series, in a new BBC TV movie.

According to Variety, the 90-minute drama currently has the working title "Game Changer." (Too close to the political book/TV movie "Game Change"?) Bill Paxton will star opposite DanRad as lawyer Jack Thompson, who is determined to do whatever he can to stop the relentless rise of "Grand Theft Auto."

So the TV movie will follow both the mega-successful game developers and the moral campaigners who oppose the gameplay, which glamorizes violence and the criminal underworld. It should be pretty fascinating. The script was written by James Wood ("Rev, "Ambassadors"), and directed by Owen Harris ("Misfits"). No word yet on when this might air, but we'll keep an eye on it.

David Mitchell and Robert Webb's BBC Two comedy Ambassadors will not be back for a second series in its current format - but could return as a drama.

According to Radio Times, production company Big Talk are believed to be in discussions with the BBC about reformatting the show.

Ambassadors was written by Rupert Walter and James Wood, who also wrote BBC Two sitcom Rev.

The show, which aired in October on BBC Two, contained strong dramatic elements.

David Mitchell told Digital Spy last year, that Ambassadors was actually "very much on the drama side".

"I think the key distinction between a sitcom and a comedy-drama is that in a sitcom people are bad at their jobs, but in a comedy drama, they can be good at them," he explained.

"It's about some diplomats - I play an ambassador and Robert plays a deputy ambassador in a fictional -stan in South Asia.

Vengeance is sought when “300: Rise of an Empire” arrives onto Blu-ray 3D Combo Pack, Blu-ray Combo Pack, DVD Special Edition and Digital HD on June 24 from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment. Producer Zack Snyder teams up with Director Noam Murro to create the follow up to the 2007 hit “300” in the same visually stunning style as the original. The stylized epic follows two warring nations that fight for glory amidst a raging sea. Adapted from a screenplay by Zack Snyder and Kurt Johnstad, and based on Frank Miller’s graphic novel “Xerxes,” Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures’ “300: Rise of an Empire” was directed by Noam Murro. Gianni Nunnari, Mark Canton, Zack Snyder, Deborah Snyder and Bernie Goldmann produced the film, with Thomas Tull, Frank Miller, Stephen Jones, Craig J. Flores and Jon Jashni serving as executive producers. The film stars Sullivan Stapleton (“Gangster Squad”) as Themistokles and Eva Green (“Dark Shadows”) as Artemisia,...

Poirot dropped over 150,000 viewers for its third new episode on Wednesday (November 6), overnight data reveals.

Despite the small dip in ratings, the crime drama aired to 4.21 million and an average audience share of 18.3% when it was broadcast on ITV at 8pm. A further 365,000 (1.84%) tuned in on +1.

Topping Wednesday night's ratings outside of soaps was BBC One's Britain on the Fiddle. The second episode in the three-part series attracted 4.82m viewers (20.7%) when it aired at 9pm, while Watchdog gathered 3.92m (17.2%) earlier at 8pm.

Over on BBC Two, Masterchef: The Professionals brought in 2.78m (12.2%) at 8pm. David Mitchell and Robert Webb's Ambassadors dropped around 100k viewers to 900k (4.2%) at 9pm.

Channel 4's River Cottage appealed to 880k (3.9%) at 8pm, 2.01m (8.5%) tuned in for Grand Designs at 9pm and 1.56 (8.9%) caught Gogglebox at 10pm.

On Channel 5, 1.12m (4.8%) watched Too Fat to Fly at 9pm, while an added 149k tuned in to the...

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Presumably somewhere out there are people writing serious contemporary dramas that do not feature the maiming and murder of women. Good luck to them, you have to say, because what chance does their work stand of ever seeing the green light of commission?

Nowadays everything from highly crafted series – The Tunnel and The Fall – to the ropiest ITV three-parters are stuffed full of imperilled females and butchered corpses. And lovely interiors.

This is the modern vision of urban angst, all sleek design inside and outside a homicidal psychopath trying to get in. The basic formula to which so much television drama can now be reduced is mutilation plus decoration. It's as if the only way to break through the...

ITV's Poirot held steady in the ratings for its second new episode on Wednesday, according to overnight data.

The crime drama dipped by around 30,000 viewers from last week to 4.37 million (19.7%) at 8pm (285k/1.5% on +1).

On BBC One, Watchdog interested 4.26m (19.2%) at 8pm, while Autumn Supermarket Secrets gathered 3.76m (17.0%) at 9pm.

BBC Two's Autumnwatch appealed to 2.00m (9.0%) at 8pm. The second Ambassadors with Mitchell and Webb dipped by around 200k to 1.00m (4.5%) at 9pm.

On Channel 4, River Cottage to the Core brought in 1.14m (5.1%) at 8pm (193k/0.9%). Grand Designs gathered 2.38m (10.8%) at 9pm (381k/2.3%), followed by Gogglebox with 1.28m (7.5%) at 10.15pm (216k/2.4%).

Channel 5's documentary I Lost Weight But I Lost My Husband entertained 990k (4.5%) at 9pm (109k/0.6%). The latest Wentworth gathered 855k (5.1%) at 10pm (147k/1.6%).

On BBC Three, Don't Tell the Bride was seen by 647k (2.9%) at 9pm, while Family Guy amused 609k (5.8%) at 11pm.

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Keeley Hawes has joined David Mitchell and Robert Webb's new sitcom Our Men.

The comedy drama series has been written by Rev co-creator James Wood with Spooks' Rupert Walters.

Our Men is set in the fictional Central Asian Republic of Tazbekistan, with Mitchell playing newly-arrived British Ambassador Keith Davies and Webb as his deputy head of mission Neil Tilly.

"It's such a good subject," Mitchell said last year of the set-up. "We couldn't believe that something along these lines hadn't been written before."

Hawes plays ambassador's wife Jennifer, with Yigal Naor (House Of Saddam) playing President of Tazbekistan Karzak.

The cast also features Susan Lynch, Amara Karanm, Shirvani Ghai, Natalia Tena and Debbie Chazen.

Guest stars for the series include Tom Hollander, Michael Smiley and Elliot Cowan

Our Men is a That Mitchell & Webb / Big Talk production, produced by Chris Carey and directed by Jeremy Webb.

It is...

Robert Webb's new show is a ''drama with a dollop of comedy.'' The star reunites with his long term acting partner, David Mitchell, for new BBC political satire, 'Our Men', and while he says it won't be as hilarious as 'Peep Show' - the long running series he and David are best known for - there will still be laughs. Speaking of the show, set in the fictional country of Kazbeckiztan, Robert said: ''Well it's not like a serious, serious drama. It's like a drama with a dollop of comedy. ''David plays the new British ambassador to this country, while...