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Here at JoBlo, we love the eighties. Heck, we even have a Facebook page and a YouTube channel called Loving the 80s— that’s how much we’re obsessed with the decade. However, when you think about all your favorite eighties movies, I’m willing to bet that for the majority of them, there’s a song that immediately comes to mind. That’s because the 80s were the heyday of movie soundtracks. Nowadays, movies just don’t have super popular songs associated with them the way they used to (which is why the Best Original Song category at the Oscars is so horrendous). It’s a shame, because there...

The Bold and the Beautiful recap is finally in for Thursday, August 28, 2025. In today’s episode, Will Spencer (Crew Morrow) confronts Sheila Carter Sharpe (Kimberlin Brown).

Meanwhile, Ivy Forrester (Ashleigh Brewer) and Liam Spencer (Scott Clifton) have an honest talk. Also, Luna Nozawa (Lisa Yamada) is experiencing a “miracle.”

Deacon Sharpe’s Encouragement

Deacon Sharpe (Sean Kanan) continues talking to Hope Logan (Annika Noelle) about Liam. He’s urging her to not let another chance with Liam slip through her fingers.

She tells him that she’s marrying Carter Walton (Lawrence Saint-Victor). Deacon says she can take the ring off! He mentions that Carter has a mean punch and is built like a superhero.

With a dearth of obvious candidates for song of the summer, Doja Cat boldly submits an 11th-hour entry with “Jealous Type,” the lead single from her forthcoming album, Vie, due September 26. Produced by Y2K and Jack Antonoff, the track finds the rapper-singer, in her own words, “trying to tough it out for a party boy,” a lyric she previewed for fans on X last week.

“Jealous Type” is a funk-pop workout that—following 2023’s darker, more hip-hop-centric Scarlet—moves Doja back toward the sunny disco-pop milieu of hits like “Say So” and “Kiss Me More.” Boasting squelchy synth stabs, a rubbery bassline, and copious vocal hooks, the song nods to early-’80s Prince and Madonna.

Exclusive: Production has recently wrapped in Philadelphia on Joy Will Prevail, a period drama about the final three years in the life of architect Louis Kahn, and the relationships — both romantic and professional — that inspired his final residential commission.

The film stars Griffin Dunne (After Hours) as Kahn, alongside Alexis Bledel (The Handmaid’s Tale), Ben Rosenfield (Mickey and The Bear), Molly Ephraim (A League of Their Own), and Jennifer Beals (Flashdance). It is written and directed by Max Korman marking his feature debut.

Set in the early 1970s, Joy Will Prevail follows Kahn at the height of his career, designing monumental structures around the world, while quietly navigating a complex personal life: having fathered children with three different women – his wife, Esther Kahn (Beals), and two longtime partners, including landscape architect Harriet Pattison (Bledel) – all of whom live with the knowledge of one another.

When a young father, Steve Korman...

Chicago –Attending Fan Expo Chicago, the region’s longest-running comic and pop culture convention, may seem overwhelming for the first-timer. There is much to see and do, so may we suggest 10 highlights to help the newbie plan their visit to this year’s show, which will run August 15th - 17th, 2025 at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont. For ticket/pass/schedule information, click Fan Expo Chicago

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This year’s all-star roster includes some of the world’s biggest pop culture icons, including “Star Wars” icons Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen; “Pirates of the Caribbean” and “Lord of the Rings” franchise star Orlando Bloom; Oscar-winners Brendan Fraser and Helen Hunt; WWE champion and “Peacemaker” actor John Cena; a “National Lampoon’s Vacation” cast reunion featuring Chevy Chase, Beverly D’Angelo, Anthony Michael Hall, Dana Barron, and Randy Quaid; “Guardians of the Galaxy” stars Michael Rooker, Pom Klementieff,...

Exclusive: The new, post-Skydance merger Paramount has two major TV studio units: the existing CBS Studios, led by David Stapf and overseen by Paramount Chair of TV Media George Cheeks, and the newly formed Paramount TV Studios, headed by former Skydance TV President Matt Thunell and overseen by Dana Goldberg, Co-Chair of Paramount Pictures and Chair of Paramount Television.

In an encouraging sign for their future interactions (and possible collaborations), on Day 1 of the two studios existing alongside each other when the Skydance acquisition closed August 7, they had already agreed on how to split the majority of overlapping existing series and projects in development.

As Deadline reported last week, CBS Studios’ primary focus will remain supplying the CBS broadcast network while still being able to do streaming series for Paramount+ and outside streamers when an opportunity presents itself, especially extensions of existing franchises like the NCIS: Tony & Ziva offshoot...

Joe Eszterhas left Hollywood behind after tearing a legendary swath through the industry in the ‘80s and ‘90s writing iconic, sexy hit movies like “Flashdance,” “Jagged Edge,” Sliver,” “Jade” – and perhaps the most transgressive of them all, “Basic Instinct” starring Sharon Stone as mysterious serial killer Catherine Tramell, pursued by Michael Douglas, a detective in her thrall.

The movie launched 100 copycats, set the mold for the post-feminist femme fatale and made a boatload of money in release and forever-after in video and streaming.

But while Eszterhas has been holed up in his hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, living a post-Hollywood life of faith and family with his wife Naomi (also writing memoirs and such), apparently he’s not quite done. Last week he made a mega-deal to reboot “Basic Instinct” for Amazon-MGM, at a maximum fee of $4 million if the movie gets made.

WaxWord, who for better or worse has...

Is this the return of the erotic thriller? A reboot of the notorious 1992 box office smash Basic Instinct is currently in development at Amazon MGM Studios’ United Artists. The news was first reported by TheWrap.

The studio and producer Scott Stuber have acquired the rights to the currently untitled reboot of the film, which originally starred Sharon Stone and Michael Douglas. Staying true to the spirit of the original movie, Basic Instinct screenwriter Joe Eszterhas has signed on to pen the new version for a cool $4 million. Eszterhas is best known for writing such box office hits as Flashdance (1983) and Jagged Edge (1985), as well as Basic Instinct. He’s also penned the best-selling memoir Hollywood Animal, released in 2004.

Directed by Paul Verhoeven, Basic Instinct was a massive success and cultural touchstone, pulling in more than $350 million globally. The movie’s provocative themes and legendary interrogation scene featuring Stone helped solidify...

Amazon MGM Studios‘ United Artists and Scott Stuber have acquired rights to one of the most iconic ’90s erotic thrillers.

Basic Instinct (1992) writer Joe Eszterhas is returning to pen a not-yet-titled reboot of the Paul Verhoeven-helmed box office hit, which starred Michael Douglas as Detective Nick Curran and Sharon Stone as his case’s seductive prime suspect Catherine Tramell, a manipulative crime novelist.

“To those who question what an 80-year-old man is doing writing a sexy, erotic thriller: the rumors of my cinematic impotence are exaggerated and ageist,” said Eszterhas in a statement. “I call my writing partner the ‘Twisted Little Man’ and he lives somewhere deep inside me. He was born 29 and he will die 29 and he tells me he is ‘sky high up’ to write this piece and provide viewers with a wild and orgasmic ride. That makes me very happy.”

Producers include UA’s Stuber and Nick Nesbitt,...

Amazon MGM Studios’ United Artists and Scott Stuber have acquired the rights to the not-yet-titled relaunch of the 1992 erotic thriller “Basic Instinct,” with the original film’s writer Joe Eszterhas returning to pen the script.

Producers of the upcoming film include UA’s Scott Stuber and Nick Nesbitt and Vault Entertainment’s Craig Baumgarten. Adam Griffin of Vault Entertainment will executive produce.

Directed by Paul Verhoeven and starring Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone, “Basic Instinct” became a cultural phenomenon and box office hit, earning over $350 million worldwide. The film follows detective Nick Curran (Douglas) investigating a brutal murder that leads him into a dangerous game of seduction with prime suspect Catherine Tramell (Stone), a manipulative crime novelist. Known for its provocative themes, explicit content and Stone’s iconic interrogation scene, “Basic Instinct” became defining entry in the erotic thriller genre.

Eszterhas is a Hungarian-American screenwriter who began his career as a journalist.

Here’s the latest episode of The Filmmakers Podcast, part of the podcast roster here on Nerdly. If you haven’t heard the show yet, you can check out previous episodes on the official podcast site, whilst we’ll be featuring each and every new episode as it premieres.

For those unfamiliar with the series, The Filmmakers Podcast is a podcast about how to make films from micro-budget indie films to bigger-budget studio films and everything in between. Our hosts Giles Alderson, Dom Lenoir, Dan Richardson, Andrew Rodger and Cristian James talk about how to get films made, how to actually make them and how to try not to f… it up in their very humble opinion. Guests will come on and chat about their filmmaking experiences from directors, writers, producers and screenwriters, to actors, cinematographers and distributors.

The Filmmaker’s Podcast #459: Jerry Bruckheimer & Joseph Kosinski join Stephen Followers to talk F1, Brad Pitt,...

This weekend sees the release of F1, a movie which reunites some of the important creatives before Top Gun: Maverick, notably director Joseph Kosinski and producer Jerry Bruckheimer. Starring Brad Pitt, it feels very much like a Tom Cruise movie, minus Tom Cruise, but the superstar has been outspoken in his support of the project. In fact, he took to his Instagram today to pen a tribute to both F1 and his own attempt at racing epic, Days of Thunder, which turns thirty-five this week.

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1990’s Days of Thunder was the end of an era for Tom Cruise. It would be the last movie he’d make as part of his “youth” phase, which began with Risky Business. At the time, he was best known as the cocky young hot shot, but when this movie underperformed at the box office,...

Jerry Bruckheimer, start your engines. The veteran producer's latest summer spectacle, F1: The Movie, races into theaters on Friday and is already expected to top the weekend box office courtesy of Brad Pitt's star power and the global popularity of the Formula 1 racing circuit.

Based on advanced looks, F1 also has the right stuff to appeal to Oscar voters — much like Bruckheimer's previous collaboration with director Joseph Kosinski, 2022's Top Gun: Maverick. That legacy sequel received six nominations, including Best Picture. That also happened to be Bruckheimer's first nod in a five-decade career.

"We got recognized for a terrific film and thanks to Tom Cruise, I'm here," the producer said at the time, adding: "I've been doing it for so long and haven't had the accolades from my peers. ... I finally got that which is kind of a completion for making movies for all these years."

While Top Gun: Maverick...

Exclusive: It was 50 years ago that Jerry Bruckheimer got his first full credit as producer, after switching from Madison Avenue to make movies. Billions in ticket-sale grosses from the biggest franchises the business has seen followed his move, establishing him as really the only brand-name producer whose name is featured in ad spots. And he will be the first one to say it’s all an exercise in problem solving.

On F1, star Brad Pitt illustrated a major creative dilemma when he introduced the film at its Radio City Music Hall premiere. As big a star as Pitt is, with his Oscar from Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, how would it be made believable that his 60-year-old butt should be behind the wheel in a Formula One championship race? After all, the film’s North Star, champion driver Lewis Hamilton, was 36 the last time he steered his car to the winner’s circle,...

Tubi is adding lots of free movies and shows in July. There’s something for everyone to watch. All the titles listed below will start streaming on July 1, unless stated otherwise. Take a look and see what’s new!

1. Originals

Great White Waters (7/4),

Get Off My Lawn (7/11),

Tko (7/18)

2. Series Spotlight

“Brickleberry”

“Girlfriends”

“Hap & Leonard”

“Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell”

“Kold & Windy (S1)”

“Major Dad”

“Millennials”

“Sanford and Son”

“The Jeffersons (S11 & S1)”

“Wow: Women of Wrestling (S2-S3)”

3. Action

“12 Rounds”

“2 Guns”

“Baywatch”

“Escape Plan”

“Escape Plan 2: Hades”

“Escape Plan: The Extractors”

“First Blood”

“Hitman”

“Hitman: Agent 47”

“Jurassic World”

“Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life”

“Lara Croft: Tomb Raider”

“Non-Stop”

“Redemption”

“The A-Team (2010)”

“The Fate of the Furious”

“Universal Soldier”

4. Art House

“A Most Violent Year”

“American Honey”

“Bones and All”

“Clemency”

“Hot Summer Nights”

“Rye Lane”

“The Captive”

“Under the Silver Lake”

“When You Finish Saving the World...

Tubi, Fox’s free streaming service, has announced its list of July titles. The Tubi July 2025 slate features new Tubi Originals, TV series, and numerous action, art house, Black cinema, comedy, documentary, drama, horror, kids and family, sci-fi and fantasy, thriller, and Western titles.

As a leading ad-supported video-on-demand service, the company engages diverse audiences through a personalized experience and the world’s largest content library of over 250,000 movies and TV episodes, a growing collection of exclusive Originals, and nearly 250 live channels.

You can watch the Tubi July 2025 lineup for free on Android and iOS mobile devices, Amazon Echo Show, Google Nest Hub Max, Comcast Xfinity X1, and Cox Contour.

You can also watch the service on connected television devices, including Amazon Fire TV, Vizio TVs, Sony TVs, Samsung TVs, Roku, Apple TV, Chromecast, Android TV, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and on the Tubi website.

Tubi Originals

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It’s the rare pop star who doesn’t use his or her sexuality in some way. But the current moment, typified by stars like Chappell Roan, Sabrina Carpenter, and Charli xcx, tends to be about showcasing one’s sexuality ironically, or with an acid flippancy, or from behind a mask, or with a certain cool stance of meta control.

Miley Cyrus never got that memo. In “Something Beautiful,” a 55-minute visual album comprised of music videos, co-directed by Cyrus (with Jacob Bixenman and Brendan Walter), of the 13 tracks from her just-released album, Cyrus struts and pouts and lets it all out, she throws her body around like a gymnastic weapon, and in a way she throws her beauty around, as though she were trying to sear the power of her erotic presence into our souls.

At the Tribeca Festival, where the “Something Beautiful” visual album premiered tonight, the audience cheered every femme fatale glower,...

Exclusive: Fresh from signing with CAA, Run-a-Muck, the company founded by former Condé Nast President Pamela Drucker Mann, The L Word co-creator Ilene Chaiken and Flashdance star Jennifer Beals, has made a number of hires.

The company has hired Rowan Riley, Eliza Mills and Caroline Joyner.

Riley joins as Head of Creative Development. She will lead development of original films and TV projects under Chaiken, who alongside Beals are Co-Chief Content Officers with Drucker Mann as CEO. She was most recently head of development at Julia Garner’s Alma Margo Pictures. She was also co-creator of Hulu’s The Bisexual.

Mills will be Head of Content and Strategy, overseeing its multi-channel content slate and development of new audiences across all platforms such as YouTube and TikTok. She joins from Wondery, where she worked on podcasts such as Hysterical, 9/12, Lemme Say This, The Big Flop and Baby, This Is Keke Palmer.

Studios celebrate their box office hits — unless it’s Paramount, where even success becomes opaque.

Tom Cruise’s $400 million Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning was produced by Skydance Films for Paramount, but Skydance also wants to acquire Paramount, an ambition mired in layers of Trumpian and dynastic complexity. Indeed, the intrigues are reminiscent of those of Barry Diller, the onetime Paramount chief whose dealmaking forays ended in defeat, but then success.

Diller’s new memoir, titled Who Knew, details double-crosses and plot twists among Hollywood majors that could justify its rebranding as Who Cares.

Despite the success of Mission: Impossible, the Skydance morass may trigger a reversal for David Ellison and his billionaire father, Larry. It could further imperil the CBS network and the future of its revered 60 Minutes as well as redefine Donald Trump’s policy toward future mergers and acquisitions.

As I said, who cares? Except...

I wanna go back to 1983! Some essential movies of that year include Scarface, Flashdance, The Outsiders, Strange Brew, Risky Business, National Lampoon’s Vacation, Wargames, Return of the Jedi, Trading Places, Mr. Mom, D.C. Cab, Doctor Detroit, and Spring Break. But what about horror? Curtains Six young actresses auditioning for a movie …

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Prime Video's biggest leading man has found his next big-screen project. Reacherstar Alan Ritchson is set to star in a new Jerry Bruckheimer action-adventure film. The Hollywood Reporter has the news that Fortune, a film penned by the writers of A Minecraft Movie, has been acquired by Skydance.

Fortune will be penned by Neil Widener and Gavin James, and adapted from their short story. Their Minecraft movie has already grossed $930 million Usd at the global box office. So far, plot details are being kept under wraps, but it is being described as a cross between Raiders of the Lost Ark and Memento, suggesting a globe-trotting treasure hunt with an amnesiac twist. It will be the second time Ritchson has graced the screen in a film produced by Hollywood colossus Bruckheimer: he was part of the ensemble cast of Guy Ritchie's World War II romp The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare last year.

Barry Diller has one request before settling in on his living room sofa for a two-and-a-half-hour interview about the juicy revelations in his new tell-all memoir, Who Knew. “Don’t write about my house,” he says. “Don’t describe the decor.”

Photographed by Daniel Prakopcyk

Consider it done. No mention here of the serene, unostentatious Beverly Hills mansion tucked behind a gate, the site of his annual Oscar party. Not a word about the furnishings, some of them chosen by his late friend Sandy Gallin — the manager to Michael Jackson and Dolly Parton and charter member of what Mike Ovitz once dickishly derided as the “velvet mafia.” Color schemes? Fabric choices? Forget it. This is a safe space.

Everything else, though, is fair game. Diller’s marriage to Diane von Furstenberg. His romantic entanglements with men over the years. His close alliances and bitter battles with Hollywood legends from David Geffen...

Based on the hit video game of the same name, HBO's The Last of Us has found great success with its lead stars played by Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey. If the show were to have been made in the 1980s, it could have instead featured Mel Gibson and Jennifer Connelly, and that casting has been imagined by a concept trailer made by a fan.

Shared on YouTube by Multiverse of Movies, the "Retro VHS Trailer" was created with AI-generated voices and imagery. It's presented with the quality of a VHS tape in the style of a TV show commercial in the 80s with some of the era's most notable stars playing the characters of The Last of Us. Of course, it's not something that would've been possible in reality, as the original video game was conceived decades later, but it offers an interesting, "What if?" The video can be watched below.

Is Kevin Costner Quietly Pursuing Demi Moore?(Photo Credit –Instagram)

Kevin Costner, who is still nursing wounds from his high-profile split, has allegedly been quietly making moves on Demi Moore for months. According to new reports, the Yellowstone alum wasted no time swooping in to offer a comforting presence after her devastating Oscar loss, one that saw 26-year-old Mikey Madison snatch the trophy Moore seemed destined to take home.

Longtime Crush Comes To the Surface

Despite her Golden Globe and SAG Award victories, the 62-year-old actress faced a brutal snub at the Academy Awards, and insiders reveal that Costner, smelling the perfect opportunity, has been reminding her just how stunning and talented she is. But those sweet words aren’t without an agenda.

An insider told RadarOnline, “It’s no secret that losing out to a woman less than half her age was a hard blow for Demi. Kevin has...

Since proudly planting a tricolor flag with their viral remix of Simian’s “Never Be Alone” in 2003 (aka “We Are Your Friends”), Justice has kept France at the forefront of the dance music world.

The Paris-based duo, consisting of Gaspard Augé, 45, and Xavier de Rosnay, 42, are famous for throwing everything from heavy metal to vintage disco into a techno blender in pursuit of infectious beats.

After a seven-year hiatus, they released a fourth studio album, Hyperdrama, in April of last year. Its single “Neverender,” featuring vocals by Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker, won best electronic/dance recording at last month’s Grammys — the third Grammy for the group.

Currently on an epic world tour that saw them headline the Hollywood Bowl last October and which next brings them to Mexico and South America, the band snuck through Los Angeles after a stop at Crssd fest in San Diego long enough...

Hollywood is jam-packed with stories of on-set feuds. While some of them are very true (George Clooney still despises David O. Russell), others get exaggerated over time, or simply turn out not to have any basis in reality whatsoever. One famous Hollywood feud that’s turned out to be nothing more than gossip was the rumoured discord between stars Kim Basinger and Mickey Rourke on the set of 9 1/2 Weeks, which was directed by Adrian Lyne.

In a recent, lengthy interview about her career with Variety, Basinger set the record straight, with her saying the rumor is likely due to the fact that neither of them spoke on-set outside of filming. As per Basinger, this was at her request, as it was something she needed in order to get into the character. She says the scene where she meets him for the first time in the grocery store is...

Jane Fonda and Kate Hudson presented the Producers Guild of America Trailblazer Awards to posthumous recipients Paula Weinstein and Lynda Obst. Fonda worked with Weinstein on the films 9 to 5 and Monster-in-Law and the TV series Grace and Frankie. Having made her first film in 1958, Fonda said it was lonely until women made headways in the ‘70s through the feminist movement and in Hollywood.

For Monster-in-Law, Fonda’s first film after 15 years, Fonda remembered Weinstein saving the film after a poor test screening.

“Paula totally saved it by geting Carrie Fisher to rewrite the ending and hiring Elaine Stritch to play my mother,” Fonda said. “Paula knew funny.”

Fonda said Weinstein’s legacy beyond her films would be the hundreds of women she mentored, as evidenced by Weinstein’s memorial after she died March 25.

“We asked anybody who was mentored by Paula to come stand with us on stage,” Fonda said.

The Producers Guild of America announced on Friday that it will pay tribute to two glass-shattering female producers at its PGA Awards in February.

Lynda Obst and Paula Weinstein will be honored with the Trailblazer Award, celebrating their shared commitment to paving the way for female producers and championing women’s voices in Hollywood, after both women died in 2024.

“Lynda Obst and Paula Weinstein have made a lasting impact on the industry with their trailblazing work and steadfast commitment to amplifying women’s voices,” said Producers Guild of America presidents Stephanie Allain and Donald De Line said in a statement. “Lynda and Paula embody the spirit of women who have broken barriers and paved the way for future generations of producers. Their visionary work includes iconic films that have defined eras, alongside their unwavering commitment to championing underrepresented stories. Honoring them highlights their dedication to empowerment, innovation, and mentorship, celebrating...

The National Film Registry stands apart from awards like the Oscars in the way it looks at the big picture. 25 films are chosen each year for preservation based on their historic or artistic value, with a ten-year wait before becoming eligible. Freed from the passing norms of the moment, it can avoid the trap of ignoring "lesser" genres like comedy and horror, something the Oscars has yet to figure out. Its selections -- which include at least some input from the public -- thus tend to be a stronger representation of these movies as an art form, which can take on some amazing and surprising shapes.

2024's crop featured an unusual number of 1980s blockbusters, including the likes of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Beverly Hills Cop and Dirty Dancing. They're notable, not because they're unworthy, and indeed they're not the first commercial films of the 80s to make the list.

Sometimes directors lament over the projects they never got to make, but David Cronenberg - best known for body horror classics The Fly, Videodrome, and Scanners - revealed a film producers desperately wanted him to make, but which he knowingly and proudly turned down, not because he didn't like the script but because he knew he just wasn't the right man for the job.

The film in question? Flashdance, the 1983 feel-good romantic dance drama about a young woman (Jennifer Beals) making ends meet as a welder and an exotic dancer who dreams of joining a prestigious ballet academy. It's an odd pairing to be sure, but as Cronenberg told Variety at the Marrakech Film Festival, the production team of Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer pursued the director relentlessly. He said:

"You might be amazed [they] were totally convinced that I was the right one to direct. Really, I don’t know...

Well, that could have been a real train “Crash.” David Cronenberg recently revealed he was offered the directing gig on “Flashdance.”

Cronenberg (“The Shrouds”) said during the Marrakech Film Festival that he turned down directing the 1983 feature, which starred Jennifer Beals as a welder with dreams of becoming a ballerina. “Flashdance” was directed by Adrian Lyne.

Master of body horror Cronenberg may seem like an odd pick to direct the quasi sports film-slash-love story. Producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer didn’t seem to think so.

“You might be amazed [that producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer] were totally convinced that I was the right one to direct,” Croneberg said via Variety. “Really, I don’t know why [they] thought I should do it, and finally I had to say no.”

He added, “I said to them, ‘I will destroy your movie if I direct it!’”

Cronenberg instead went on to direct “Videodrome” and “The Dead Zone,” which...

Somewhere a version of “Flashdance” directed by David Cronenberg. Speaking at the Marrakech International Film Festival, where he is also the guest of honor and the subject of a retrospective, the Canadian auteur looked back at his almost sixty-year career, musing on some of his greatest works as well as those that could have been.

“The producer of [‘Flashdance’] was totally convinced I was the one to direct it and I told him I would destroy the movie if I did,” Cronenberg told the audience during an in-conversation event.

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It's easy to imagine David Cronenberg's Flashdance. The story of an 18-year-old exotic dancer with a welding nozzle grafted to her arm who competes for entry into a secret society attempting to force evolution through erotic "flash dances" wasn't meant for this world. Still, we could spend all day...

Reflecting on his trailblazing career, Canadian icon David Cronenberg felt particular pride for the one project that got away – or, more to the point, that he pushed away with full force: “Flashdance.”

“You might be amazed [that producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer] were totally convinced that I was the right one to direct,” Croneberg said at the Marrakech Film Festival on Sunday. “Really, I don’t know why [they] thought I should do it, and finally I had to say no – I said to them, ‘I will destroy your movie if I direct it!’”

David Cronenberg attends the opening ceremony and screening of “The Order” during the 21st Marrakech Film Festival on Nov. 29 in Marrakech, Morocco.

While “Flashdance” honors eventually went to Adrian Lyne – resulting in 1983’s third top grossing film – Cronenberg instead delivered the one-two punch of “The Dead Zone” and “Videodrome” that same year. In doing so, he cemented a...

For the first time in almost two decades, the Wayans Brothers are about to reunite for a new entry in their Scary Movie franchise! While there are certainly a whole ton of Wayans' siblings (and children) to keep track of these days, the original trio known by the shorthand of the Wayans Brothers included Keenen Ivory, Marlon, and Shawn Wayans, all of whom were heavily involved with creating the first two films in the Scary Movie franchise.

Of course, the Wayans Brothers (including the prolific Damon Wayans) have appeared in many more movies, both independently and together, outside that outrageously funny horror-spoof franchise. Some of those movies are bonafide classics that rival Scary Movie itself. And while some of the other films they've made over the years may not have lived up to that same level of quality, almost all of them feature outrageous scenarios that can't help but generate...

When Randal Kleiser‘s “The Blue Lagoon” was released in 1981, it was an instant sensation; the beautifully photographed tale of sexual awakening between two teenagers (Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins) set against the backdrop of a tropical island paradise combined prurience and elegance in a potent cocktail that audiences couldn’t get enough of at the time. Its $60-million gross against a $5-million budget couldn’t be ignored — especially by other filmmakers looking to replicate its success.

As was so often the case, Italian filmmakers were particularly aggressive in their plagiarism, with films like the now-forgotten “Due gocce d’acqua salata” blatantly ripping off both the premise and the marketing of “The Blue Lagoon.” But the most well-known “Blue Lagoon” imitator came from an unlikely location for an exotic travelogue centered on sensual exploration: Canada.

“Paradise,” which was released in 1982 by now-defunct distributor Avco-Embassy, was the brainchild of producer Robert Lantos,...

Jacob's Ladder, the psychological thriller from 1990 starring Tim Robbins, will arrive on streaming just in time to conclude spooky season. Deemed one of the scariest movies of all time, Jacob's Ladder will be added to Prime Video's library on November 1, which should help relieve those post-Halloween blues. Well, kind of.

Directed by Adrian Lyne and written by Academy Award-winner Bruce Joel Rubin, Jacob's Ladder is a great example of an underrated thriller that still falls between the cracks on best-of lists. With a narrative that moves between drama and thriller, Jacob's Ladder is a terrifying experience that hasn't lost its effectiveness as the decades passed, and many consider it to be the scariest "non-horror" film there is.

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Two forces behind the beloved Showtime series The L Word have found their way back together.

Creator Ilene Chaiken and star Jennifer Beals have teamed to launch Run-A-Muck, a company described as a cross-platform queer media brand designed to produce content across film, TV and live events. Though they are not ready to reveal any projects that are already packed in their pipeline, the pair did reveal their business partners on the Run-A-Muck endeavor. Beals and Chaiken are joined by founding partners, WME’s director of impact and inclusion, Caroline Joyner, and business executive and entrepreneur, Jenn Smira.

“Queerness is no longer peripheral, but central to the creation of culture,” said Chaiken, whose other credits include The L Word: Generation Q, Empire, Law & Order: Organized Crime, Stumptown and The Handmaid’s Tale. “We’ve reached a threshold at which queer artists are dominating the entertainment space, and Run-a-Muck...

Women don’t have it easy in Hollywood. And they didn’t back in the ’80s when former New York Times Magazine editor Lynda Obst got her start as a producer. As famously chronicled in her 1996 book “Hello, He Lied — and Other Truths from the Hollywood Trenches,” she sold her first movie “Flashdance” (1983) to Dawn Steel at Paramount, only to have the newly minted production team of Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer take over along with all the credit for its breakout success. Still, it was a winner for the Associate Producer, and she was on her way.

Always a heavy smoker, Obst passed away at age 74 from Copd (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease). She was devoted to her family, including her brother, agent Rick Rosen, and son Oly, a producer/manager, whom she has described as “my confidant and best friend.”

“She was a trailblazer for women in the industry...

Paramount has announced the lineup of movies, TV shows, and live sports coming to the Paramount+ streaming service in November. The Paramount Plus November 2024 schedule includes Taylor Sheridan’s Landman, which navigates the fortune-seeking world of Texas oil rigs.

Sports fans can also enjoy an incredible spread of games over the holiday week, including the Nwsl Championship and UEFA Champions League marquee matches, as well as NFL on CBS and Big Ten on CBS action.

Landman

In November, audiences will be treated to the premiere of the new original series Landman, from Taylor Sheridan, co-creator of Yellowstone and starring Oscar winner Billy Bob Thornton, Golden Globe nominee Demi Moore, and Emmy Award winner Jon Hamm.

Set in the proverbial boomtowns of West Texas, the series tells the gripping story of roughnecks and wildcat billionaires in the world of oil rigs fueling a boom so big that it’s reshaping our climate,...

Producer and author Lynda Obst, of Sleepless In Seattle, The Fisher King and Contact fame, has died after an illness.

A morning of not very nice news today, as we learn that producer Lynda Obst has died, at the age of just 74.

Obst produced and executive produced films such as Flashdance, Sleepless In Seattle, Contact, Interstellar, The Fisher King and Adventures In Babysitting. She also penned a couple of outstanding books about her time in the film industry, namely Hello, He Lied and Sleepless In Hollywood: Tales From The New Abnormal In The Movie Business.

Obst appeared on a special interview episode in April 2021, and it was striking how forward she was in her thinking, bringing up such topics as quantum computing and how that might affect the movie industry.

Lynda Obst had been unwell for a little while, it turns out, but had been working in recent times on...

Lynda Obst, who had producing credits on high-profile films including “Sleepless in Seattle,” “Flashdance” and “Adventures in Babysitting,” died Tuesday in Los Angeles. She was 74.

“I was immensely proud of her. She was a trailblazer for women in the industry at a time when it was very difficult for women to have prominent roles. She was passionate about her work but even more passionate about her family,” her brother, WME’s Rick Rosen, said to Variety.

Obst told the Hollywood Reporter earlier this year that she had been battling chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Most recently, she served as producer or executive producer on TV series including “The Hot Zone,” “Good Girls Revolt,” “Hot in Cleveland” and “Helix.” Obst’s final feature producing credit was Christopher Nolan’s “Interstellar” in 2014. Among her other credits were “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days,” “Hope Floats,” “Bad Girls” and “The Fisher King.

Lynda Obst, one of the most prolific female producers in Hollywood, died Tuesday in Los Angeles, according to her brother, WME partner Rick Rosen. She was 74.

Obst had previously been open about suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or Copd.

The producer’s long list of hit films includes Flashdance, The Fisher King, One Fine Day, Contact, Hope Floats, Interstellar and How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days. She also executive produced Sleepless In Seattle, TVLand’s Hot in Cleveland and had a deal at Sony Pictures Television.

“I was immensely proud of her,” Rosen said. “She was a trailblazer for women in the industry at a time when it was very difficult for women to have prominent roles. She was passionate about her work but even more passionate about her family.”

Obst’s son Oly, a partner at 3 Arts Entertainment, said today: “My mom was a trailblazer...

Lynda Obst, the pioneering producer who put her mark on beloved films like Sleepless in Seattle, Contact, Flashdance, The Fisher King, Adventures in Babysitting, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days and Interstellar, died Tuesday. She was 74.

Obst died at her Los Angeles home surrounded by loved ones, her son, manager-producer Oly Obst, told The Hollywood Reporter.

“My mom was a trailblazer and a fierce advocate for women. Also, she was an amazing mother, sister and best friend,” he said in a statement. “[My wife] Julie and I are incredibly grateful that she was my mom and that my daughters got to have her as a grandmother. We will miss her.”

Obst’s brother Rick Rosen, the longtime and respected partner of TV at WME, said: “Our family is immensely proud of the career that she had and the role model she was for women in the industry, but beyond that,...

Call the super. This unit needs repairs. Apartment 7A, like many prequels, sequels, companion pieces, and reboots, exists solely to revisit a far superior creation. That would be Rosemarys Baby, the bone-chilling 1968 masterpiece directed by Roman Polanski (Chinatown) and starring Mia Farrow (The Great Gatsby). At the time, the story about a young woman braving a sinister plot designed to make her birth the Antichrist was a one-of-kind, gut-punch movie experience. Not since Psycho, which hit theaters in 1960, had audiences experienced such suspenseful terror, nor such a story laced with evil. Unless they read Ira Levins bestseller.

Here, Julia Garner plays the ambitious young dancer Terry Gionoffrio, a minor character in the original film, whose dreams of fame and fortune in New York City are shaken after suffering a devastating injury. When an older, wealthy couple (Dianne Wiest and Kevin McNally) welcome her into their flat in the Bramford building,...

Brian De Palma, the director behind Carrie, Scarface and The Untouchables, was sometimes criticized for “borrowing” from more accomplished directors like Alfred Hitchcock and Jean-Luc Godard. But he was a favorite of Roger Ebert and Pauline Kael, a sought-after director whose visual style led to offers to helm huge Hollywood hits like Fatal Attraction, Flashdance and Taxi Driver, according to ScreenRant.

De Palma, though, told Business Insider he had no regrets about turning down those smashes. But there is one career move that he’d like to take back. “Now a movie I wish I hadn't done was Wise Guys,” he explained. “The studio changed their minds and didn’t want to make it. They just wanted us to go away. I should have just taken my money and walked instead of dealing with a studio that didn’t want to make the movie.”

The screwball plot of Wise Guys...

The Marvel Comics character Thor officially made his live-action debut in the 1988 TV movie The Incredible Hulk Returns. But the year before that, Thor was a major presence in a teen comedy film about a group of youngsters having a wild night in downtown Chicago. The kids deal with gun-wielding car thieves, knife-wielding gang members, a homicidal tow truck driver, and a lot of other odd characters and dangerous situations. Their lives are put at risk on multiple occasions. And throughout, Thor’s iconic helmet is worn by an eight-year-old girl who looks up to the character… and believes he’s real. By the time the night is over, she might be proven right… Or maybe not. Whatever the case, there’s a whole lot of Thor in the 1987 film Adventures in Babysitting (watch it Here). And it’s time for it to be Revisited.

Adventures in Babysitting began with...

Fresh off of its record-breaking debut weekend at the box office (during which it shattered the record for biggest domestic opening weekend ever for an R-rated movie), "Deadpool & Wolverine" has moviegoers quoting scads of profane dialogue while recounting its myriad of outrageous surprises. Plot twists! Cameos! A Jimmy Durante needle-drop! There's so much going on in Deadpool's latest adventure that Marvel die-hards will be lining up repeat viewings throughout the rest of the summer and, considering that solid "A" Cinemascore, well into the fall (though /Film's Chris Evangelista wasn't quite so enthusiastic in his review).

One bit of business Deadpoolers might want to examine is the hero's stunningly deft dance moves to Nsync's "Bye Bye Bye" over the opening credits. Who knew Wade Wilson had moves like Justin Timberlake? Does this mean star Ryan Reynolds can get down like a demon on the dancefloor, too? According to the 47-year-old actor ... no,...

Movie songs used to be marketed based on film success, but "The Ballad of High Noon" changed that trend in 1951. "You're the Best" was actually written for Rocky III, not The Karate Kid, featuring lyrics that don't fit karate themes. Joe Esposito's persistence in pushing "You're the Best" for films like Flashdance and The Karate Kid led to its sports anthem status.

Movie Legend: The lyrics to the iconic theme song, "You're the Best," from The Karate Kid, don't make sense for The Karate Kid, because the song was written for a different movie.

The way that songs in films have been marketed has changed dramatically since the Golden Age of Hollywood. In the old days, you would write a song for a movie, and if the movie was a hit, then the song would typically become a hit, as well. Obviously, the song had to be good, as well,...

Despite its critical and commercial success, 1983's Trading Places has not received a sequel. Star Dan Aykroyd says he has written a treatment for the project and mused that he should resubmit it. Trading Places 2 could be a stronger possibility now that the Eddie Murphy legacy sequel Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F is a hit.

The possibility of a Trading Places sequel has gotten an encouraging update from Dan Aykroyd. The original 1983 movie, which was directed by John Landis, starred Aykroyd as hustler Billy Ray Valentine opposite Eddie Murphy as executive Louis Winthorpe III, who essentially swap lives when Winthorpe is framed for a crime. The comedy's ensemble cast also included Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche, Denholm Elliott, and Jamie Lee Curtis. Although the movie was both a critical and commercial success, the possible Trading Places 2 has failed to materialize in the four decades since its release.

Per Collider, Dan Aykroyd...