The critics have crawled all over Focus Features/StudioCanal’s Amy Winehouse biopic Back to Black like red ants, however, the CinemaScore of B+ (which isn’t far from the Elton John biopic Rocketman at A-) is telling that the fans who showed up weren’t entirely wrought with the film. For filmmaker…

"I was a bad student of classical piano because I would start changing stuff, so I think in that sense I was always kind of 'composing' when I was a horrible student," jokes composer Takeshi Furukawa. "For classical music, you have to be faithful to the composer's intent… and I was not that."  Based…

The American Society of Cinematographers has re-elected Shelly Johnson for a second term as its president and voted in three VPs and other officers. The ASC Board of Governors also elected Vice Presidents Charlie Lieberman, Patti Lee and Cynthia Pusheck; Treasurer Charles Minsky; Secretary Dejan…

Tracker ended on a high note for CBS. The Justin Hartley-led missing persons drama ended its Season 1 run on Sunday night, raking in 7.36M live + same-day viewers across linear and streaming, according to Paramount. That’s up 5% from the week prior and up 3% versus the show’s post-Super Bowl…

Ivan F. Boesky, the disgraced 1980s financier who inspired the cutthroat corporate raider Gordon Gekko character of Oliver Stone’s 1987 film Wall Street, died in his sleep today at his home in San Diego. He was 87. His death was announced to The New York Times by his daughter Marianne…

There have been hot and cold reports about the future of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise over the past few years. Some had a reboot happening with an entirely new cast, others a female-centric film with Margot Robbie. Now, Jerry Bruckheimer is setting the record straight. “It’s two different…

UPDATED, 12:33 PM: A federal judge in Manhattan has thrown out a sexual assault lawsuit filed last year against Former Recording Academy President Neil Portnow after the accuser cited safety concerns over her name being revealed in court. The suit filed in early November alleged that Portnow drugged…

EXCLUSIVE: Actress Cara Santana (Daughter of the Bride) will make her directorial debut with The Shuffle, a documentary on the corruption of the addiction treatment industry, which she’s producing alongside Andrew Renzi’s North of Now. Developed over the last two years, The Shuffle follows what she…

UPDATE: Prosecutors have rested their case in the Trump hush money trial in New York after its star witness, Michael Cohen, ended his testimony. The defense called its first witness, Daniel Sitko, a paralegal in the firm of Todd Blanche’s Trump’s lead lawyer. Still unclear is whether Trump…

The 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival continues on Day 7 with the world premiere of Ali ABBASI's The Apprentice, starring Sebastian Stan, Jeremy Strong, Maria Bakalova and Martin Donovan. The Apprentice charts a young Donald Trump's (Stan) ascent to power through a Faustian deal with the influential right-wing…