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Since Warner Bros acquired rights to make more Middle-earth films based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s works and the canon established by New Line’s original trilogy, Peter Jackson and cohorts hovered over the proceedings for a long time as they mulled how to return and take another deep dive into mythology. Then they found their answer.
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‘Rendez-Vous Avec Pol Pot’ Review: Rithy Panh’s Return To The Killing Fields Spotlights Importance Of Today’s Conflict Journalists – Cannes Film Festival
Rithy Panh has dedicated the lion's share of his career to interrogating the genocidal Khmer Rouge era in his native Cambodia, and it is no trivial obsession. Panh fled Phnom Penh when he was just 11, and after his family was devastated in the Killing Fields, he escaped to a Thai refugee camp at 15. Now…
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‘Megalopolis’ Debuts At Cannes With 7-Minute Standing Ovation
The most awaited film this year at the Cannes Film Festival, Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis, had its world premiere Thursday night, with the dystopian epic decades in the making landing a seven-minute standing ovation.
Coppola, the 85-year-old director and five-time Oscar winners, bowed as the…
‘Shōgun’ To Continue: FX & Hulu Eye Two More Seasons Of James Clavell Adaptation
Shōgun is a limited series no more: FX is gearing up for more installments of the historic drama.
The renewal was expected and foreshadowed by star-producer Hiroyuki Sanada closing a deal to continue as Lord Yoshii Toranaga. Also back are co-creators, executive producers and writers Justin Marks and…
‘Megalopolis’ Review: Francis Ford Coppola’s Mad Modern Masterwork Reinvents The Possibilities Of Cinema – Cannes Film Festival
"When we leap into the unknown, we prove that we are free," says Cesar Catalina, the futuristic architect at the beating heart of Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis (to give it its full title), a mad eco-sci-fi blockbuster some 40 years in the making…
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FX Will Submit ‘Shōgun’ In Drama Category For Emmys
Now that FX has decided to make more episodes of its breakout hit Shōgun, it is changing its Emmy strategy for the James Clavell adaptation.
Deadline has learned that FX will submit the saga — which originally premiered as a limited series — in the drama category. Before, Shōgun would have competed…
‘A Sudden Case Of Christmas’ Starring Danny DeVito & Andie MacDowell Acquired By Shout! Studios
EXCLUSIVE: Shout! Studios has snapped up North American rights to the holiday family comedy A Sudden Case of Christmas, starring Danny DeVito (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia) and Andie MacDowell (Four Weddings and a Funeral), from Notorious Pictures and Riverstone Pictures in association with WME…
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Comedian Kyle Gordon Signs With CAA
EXCLUSIVE: New York-based creator, comedian, actor, writer Kyle Gordon has signed wtih CAA for representation.
Gordon has emerged as one of the most popular comedians on TikTok and Instagram, with more than five million followers across platforms and 150 million likes on TikTok.
He headlined…
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Universal Dates ‘Five Nights At Freddy’s 2,’ ‘Woman In The Yard’ & ‘Drop’; ‘The Black Phone’, ‘M3GAN’ Sequels Pushed
Universal Pictures on Thursday announced release dates for three major genre titles, revealing at the same time that two of its most anticipated sequels will shift on the calendar.
Blumhouse’s thriller The Woman in the Yard has been set to open on Friday, March 28, 2025, with Platinum Dunes and…
Peter Bart: Cannes Festgoers Dote On Parties & Applause While ‘Bleak Week’ Fans Plunge Into Grateful Despair
As the Cannes Film Festival celebrates its parties and standing ovations, audiences in Hollywood and New York prepare to wallow in despair. And they'll enjoy it (almost).
The festival called Bleak Week this week will deliver 43 films to an expected audience of 10,000 at theaters including the…
Tony McFarr Dies: Chris Pratt Stunt Double Was 47
Tony McFarr, a stuntman best known as the double for actor Chris Pratt in blockbusters like Jurassic World and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, died of undetermined causes May 13 at his home outside Orlando. He was 47.
His death, first reported by TMZ, was confirmed on the website of the Wylie-Baxley…
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Donald Trump’s Attorney Fumes At Michael Cohen In Effort To Discredit Testimony Of Prosecution’s Star Witness: “That Was A Lie”
As Michael Cohen returned to the stand for cross-examination this morning, Donald Trump’s attorney loudly accused him of lying about the nature of a phone call eight years ago, which Cohen said was to discuss with then-candidate Trump a payoff to the porn star Stormy Daniels.
"That was a lie," said…
Alex Creasia Joins Navigation Media Group As Lit Manager
EXCLUSIVE: Alex Creasia has joined management and production company Navigation Media Group as a Literary Manager.
Coming aboard after a little over three years at Sugar23, Creasia has spent over a decade working in literary management and production. He often works with on-the-rise…
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