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Exclusive: Vertical acquired North American rights to Rosemead, a dramatic thriller inspired by true events that marks the feature directing debut of veteran cinematographer Eric Lin, and a star showcase for Lucy Liu. The film has drawn critical acclaim at its world premiere at the Tribeca Festival, and won Best Narrative Feature at the Bentonville Film Festival, Days ago, Rosemead won the Prix du Public Ubs audience award at the Locarno Film Festival, where Liu also accepted its Career Achievement Award. Vertical plans to release the film exclusively in theaters this December.

Rosemead centers on an ailing woman who uncovers a terrifying secret: her teenage son is consumed by violent impulses. As her health rapidly declines, she’s forced into a desperate struggle—how far will she go to stop what she fears he is becoming, and what is she willing to sacrifice to protect him? Set within the quiet...

Kayce's Yellowstonespinoff has added its first new character. First announced in March, the latest chapter in the Yellowstone franchise will see Luke Grimes' Kayce Dutton take the spotlight for his own show on CBS. It'll center on Kayce's life in the military, taking him away from the familiar trappings of the Yellowstone ranch.

Titled Y: Marshals, and set to debut on CBS next year, the spinoff picks up after Yellowstone season 5, with Kayce's time at the titular Yellowstone Ranch behind him. Kayce then puts his combination of U.S. Marshals and cowboy skills together when he joins an elite unit of U.S. Marshals.

Variety confirms that Logan Marshall-Green has been cast in Kayce's Yellowstone spinoff. He'll play Pete Calvin, a friend from Kayce’s time in the military.

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Marshall-Green, who recently recurred on ...And Just Like That, will next be seen in Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey.

Since Broadway theatergoing has made a full-fledged comeback after shutting down during the Covid-19 pandemic, there's been plenty of big Hollywood names taking the stage. This past year's Tony Awards included nominees best known for film and television, like George Clooney for "Good Night, and Good Luck" and Sarah Snook for "The Picture of Dorian Gray." However, for the pop culture fanatics who maybe aren't well versed in the history of theater, many of these stars don't originate on the screen, but on the stage. 

While many casual Broadway fans' introduction to famous shows might be through the best movie musicals of all time, they might not know about these 10 stars of film and television whose careers began as primarily theater performers. Even the likes of big movie stars like Pedro Pascal had plenty of experience performing Shakespearean across the country before becoming a franchise lead, though Pascal sadly is...

What came first – the music or the misery? The perfect needle drop can help elevate a movie to perfection. It’s not the only factor, but when a song hits at just the right moment – be it a character introduction, a moment of realization, a drug deal gone sour… – it can make it the scene. Recently, The Hollywood Reporter spun the hits as they released a list of what they consider the 40 Best Needle Drops in Movies. So let’s take a look, discuss and – as is custom with any professional list – rip it to shreds!

THR made a smart choice in listing the movies alphabetically, therefore foregoing any additional favoritism or having to pick the definitive needle drop as #1. Another rule they implemented was that there could only be one song per filmmaker, although they lifted this for one director specifically – yes, it’s Martin Scorsese.

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The 1967 film that has been ingrained in pop cinema culture will get a new 4K Blu-ray release, according to Blu-ray.com. StudioCanal will be distributing a new physical media production of the famous Mike Nichols comedy The Graduate. The film stars Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman, Katharine Ross, William Daniels, and Murray Hamilton. The new 4K Blu-ray is scheduled to hit retailers on September 15. This StudioCanal version is a UK release, but the 4K disc will be Region Free.

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“Winner of the Academy Award for Best Director and winner of five BAFTA Awards including Best Film, The Graduate is one of the most celebrated and highly influential classics in modern cinema. Truly iconic and utterly groundbreaking in its unique visual style and subject matter, it changed the face of modern film and the minds of expectant audiences.

Deep in the suburbs of Pasadena, a bored, confused and alienated...

Paul Simon returned to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Thursday for a performance of “The Sacred Harp” from his most recent album, 2023’s Seven Psalms. The 83-year-old singer also sat down with Colbert for an interview.

While backed by a string section, Simon delivered a tender performance of the track with an assist from his longtime partner and renowned musician in her own right, Edie Brickell. Together, they transformed the song into a gorgeous duet.

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Before he took the stage, Simon chatted with Colbert about topics including his adjustments to performing live and recording music after experiencing severe hearing loss, the lyrical themes of Seven Psalms, and the lasting power of “The Sound of Silence.”

Watch videos of Simon playing “The Sacred Harp” and his conversation with Colbert below.

The Late Show appearance comes as Simon is on the road with his miraculous comeback tour,...

The last time Paul Simon played a full concert in New York it was July 22, 2018, and he was capping off his Homeward Bound Farewell Tour in front of roughly 30,000 fans at Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens. On Monday evening, after seven extremely long and tumultuous years that saw Simon enter his eighth decade, lose nearly all hearing in his left ear, and record the sparse, meditative LP Seven Psalms, Simon returned to New York City for an intimate night of music, new and old, at the Beacon Theatre.

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In Vitro immediately plunges the viewer into a chillingly familiar near-future, presenting a science fiction thriller framework that resonates with profound dramatic undercurrents and palpable atmospheric horror. We are introduced to Layla and Jack, a couple whose existence on a remote Australian cattle farm is anything but idyllic.

Their struggle is set against a stark backdrop: a climate crisis has decimated traditional agriculture, making natural resources perilously scarce. In this world, meat is largely a factory product, a synthetic echo of what was. The couple has staked their hopes and dwindling finances on pioneering cloning technology for cattle, a desperate bid to cater to a population still yearning for the “real thing.”

From its initial frames, the film masterfully cultivates a mood of pervasive foreboding. The vast, empty landscapes amplify their isolation, while a palpable bleakness seeps into their interactions. The tension in their marriage is an unspoken third presence,...

Jason George has been playing Ben Warren on Grey's Anatomyand the spin-off series Station 19 since Season 6. And now that the show is in Season 20, he's got some stories about the set. One such story was when George got to work with Denzel Washington back in Season 12. Washington directed the ninth episode of the season titled "The Sound of Silence" when Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) is attacked by a patient and is found by her fellow Grey Sloan Memorial doctors, who then have to rush to try to save her. In a new interview with the New York Post, George talked about getting to work with Washington.

"It was an incredible episode that everybody was on their best [behavior] for,” he said. “Everyone shows up professionally anyway, but when Denzel’s directing your episode, everyone came [correct].” He even went on to say that his fellow co-stars, especially the women of Grey Sloan Memorial,...

Disturbed frontman David Draiman had a big surprise for his girlfriend Sarah Uli during the band’s concert at Golden 1 Center on Friday (May 9th) in Sacramento, California. The singer called Uli onstage, and proceeded to propose to her, to which she said, “Yes.”

At a quiet point in the set, after the band had played their famous cover of Simon & Garfunkel’s “The Sound of Silence,” the heartwarming moment happened when Draiman took the stage by himself and asked Uli to come up from where she was standing in the front of the audience.

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As he pulled her in close to him, he said, “Everyone say hello to my lovely lady Sarah. She’s looking at me and she’s wondering, ‘What the fuck is he doing?’ Sarah, my love. You have made my life so much better. You are the light in the darkness for me.

Was Dustin Hoffman underpaid for the Graduate? ( Photo Credit – Wikimedia )

While The Graduate shot Dustin Hoffman into stardom, it didn’t exactly fill his bank account. After the film made over $35 million in six months, Hoffman walked away with just $4,000, and a trip to the unemployment line.

Back in 1967, The Graduate changed the landscape of modern filmmaking. Mike Nichols, already a respected director, wanted a lead who looked and felt real. He passed on Hollywood heartthrobs like Robert Redford, Warren Beatty, and Jack Nicholson. They were too confident, too clean-cut. Instead, Nichols rolled the dice on a little-known stage actor with a big nose and nervous energy. That actor? Hoffman.

He wasn’t convinced he belonged on a film set. “I couldn’t sleep, I was so nervous,” Hoffman told Vanity Fair in 2008. “This is not the part for me. I’m not supposed to be in movies.”

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Paul Simon kicked off his “A Quiet Celebration Tour” in New Orleans on Friday night, marking his return to the stage just two years after indicating he would never be able to perform live again after suffering severe hearing loss.

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The 83-year-old singer-songwriter performed a 19-song set that began with material from his latest album, Seven Psalms, with his wife Edie Brickell joining him for performances of “The Sacred Harp” and “Wait.” Simon then played a selection of greatest hits, including “Graceland,” “Slip Slidin’ Away,” “Homeward Bound,” and “Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard.” The encore featured Simon & Garfunkel’s “The Boxer” and “The Sound of Silence.” See the full setlist and watch fan-captured video of the show below.

In order to tour, Simon worked with the Stanford Initiative to Cure Hearing Loss to find a viable solution that included repositioning the monitors on stage in a specific way.

Filmmaker Michael Tyburski (The Sound of Silence) dives deep into his quirky sci-fi romance film, 'Turn Me On,' in this expansive MovieWeb interview. The film's wonderful cast includes Bel Powley, Nick Robinson, Justin H. Min, Nesta Cooper, Griffin Newman, Julia Shiplett, D’Arcy Carden, Patti Harrison, and Luke Kirby. 'Turn Me On' is now available on digital platforms and on demand from Vertical.

In 'Turn Me On,' in a world where the inconvenience of human emotion has been eradicated by a government-imposed daily vitamin, one young couple skips their dose and discovers love, joy, intimacy and all the baggage that comes with it.

Michael Tyburski is a writer and director based in New York City. His debut feature film, The Sound of Silence, starring Peter Sarsgaard and Rashida Jones premiered in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and was distributed theatrically...

Turn Me On includes a question heard repeatedly throughout the film: "Are you content?" This is the robotic greeting spouted by every controlled member of a repressive dystopian society fashioned after Brave New World. The characters take their daily "vitamin," just like Aldous Huxley's "soma," which pacifies the masses into a constant state of orderly submission. You can imagine what happens when our daring protagonist couple stops taking the drug and regains their pulse. Turn Me On is utterly predictable in this regard. There are scant surprises here, but you will have a positive answer to the film's constant refrain. Good character development and infectious lead chemistry make it a worthwhile watch and leave you more than merely content.

Joy (Bel Powley) and William (Nick Robinson) get up from their separate beds. "Are you content" is followed by their morning yoga session, slurping a pre-packaged breakfast shake and popping their blue and white vitamin.

They were made for lovin’ music, too! Evan Stanley (son of Kiss singer-guitarist Paul Stanley) has teamed up with Nick Simmons (son of Kiss singer-bassist Gene Simmons) to record an album’s worth of music together.

Late last year, Evan and Nick posted a video of them singing an acoustic version of Simon & Garfunkel’s “The Sound of Silence” on Instagram. Now, they’ve taken their musical partnership to the next level.

A few days ago, Evan posted a photo of himself with Nick, captioning it, “One song turned into 10 real quick.” He followed that up with another post of the two performing one of their new tunes alongside singer-guitarist Jacob Bunton, writing, “Wrote this one with our buddy Jacob yesterday.”

Paul Stanley commented on the performance simply with the word, “Magic!!!!,” while Nick’s sister Sophie Simmons wrote, “We Want The Album.”

Evan is already an accomplished musician, as...

Paul Simon, 83, has announced he will be coming out of retirement to perform live once again.

Simon performed what was expected to be his final show in 2018, ending his farewell tour, which came following Simon’s announcement that he was suffering from significant hearing loss. He said at the time, “Quite suddenly, I lost most of the hearing in my left ear and nobody has an explanation for it…So everything became more difficult…”

However, much to the public’s surprise, Simon made a public reappearance on Feb. 16 to open the Saturday Night Live 50 Celebration. Alongside Sabrina Carpenter, he performed a rendition of his classic song “Homeward Bound.”

On Feb. 18, Simon announced that he would be going on a “Quiet Celebration Tour” throughout the spring and summer of this year.

The tour is slated to kick off on April 4 with a show in New Orleans. Simon will continue to make...

Here comes Rhymin’ Simon — again.

After having retired from touring in 2018 due to hearing loss, Paul Simon is hitting the road for a four-month North American tour of intimate venues starting April 4 in New Orleans and running through August 3 in Seattle.

The jaunt, dubbed A Quiet Celebration, will hit 20 cities over 55 dates, with stops at Disney Hall in Los Angeles, the Beacon in New York City and the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. See the full itinerary below.

The trek will support his Grammy-nominated 2023 album Seven Psalms but will feature tracks from throughout his solo career and Simon & Garfunkel days.

Simon, 83, is a Rock Hall of Famer and 16-time Grammy winner, who shared the record for most Album of the Year Grammys until Taylor Swift broke it with her fourth last year. He has six gold, four platinum and two multiplatinum solo albums, led by 1986’s 5 million seller Graceland, which was...

Dick Wolf's Law & Order franchise is no stranger to international adaptations. The U.S.-born franchise began with Law & Order in 1990 and has continued to produce spinoffs and adaptations ever since. In 2024, a Toronto-based adaptation of Law & Order: Criminal Intent debuted and became a Canadian sensation.

Despite only having aired one season, Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent has grown rapidly in popularity. Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent has already been renewed for Seasons 2 and 3 as a result of its growing popularity. With more seasons on the way, fans are flocking to watch the debut season of Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent.

"The Key to the Castle" Was a Lackluster Premiere Episode

The first episode of Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent was fairly basic. Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent opens with the episode "The Key to the Castle," which follows a vanishing...

System of a Down’s “Toxicity” music video has hit 1 billion views on YouTube, marking the band’s second video to reach the milestone.

“Toxicity” follows “Chop Suey!,” which is now closing in on the 1.5 billion mark on YouTube. Both songs are from System of a Down’s acclaimed sophomore album, 2001’s Toxicity, which has been certified six-times platinum in the United States.

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The new milestone comes ahead of System of a Down’s highly anticipated summer run of North American stadium shows, including two dates each in East Rutherford, New Jersey (with Korn); Chicago (with Avenged Sevenfold); and Toronto (with Deftones). Tickets are available here.

It’s been more than 19 years since System of a Down last released a studio album (2005’s Hypnotize). In a recent interview with Eddie Trunk, bassist Shavo Odadjian said that if the band does eventually make a new album,...

Grey's Anatomy has a history of breaking fans' hearts with sudden deaths and shocking moments. The show has put its main characters through a lot. Set in a hospital where life and death are just one surgery away, the show is filled with tear-jerking tragedies. Grey's Anatomy has a track record of killing off its characters in a shocking fashion, leaving fans scarred for their lives.

Happiness is short-lived on Grey's Anatomy, and that's particularly true for Meredith Grey. She had a tough childhood, raised by a workaholic mother who had no love for the man she married. Throughout the 20 seasons of the show, she has found and married her one true love, had a family, and met her sister, but her happily-ever-after always had a twist in the end. From fan-favorite character exits to selfless sacrifices, the saddest moments in the show are truly heartbreaking.

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When it comes to medical dramas, fans can expect a little bit of gore every now and then, especially if it's shown post-watershed. But, since Grey's Anatomy tries to be as medically realistic as possible, it tries to avoid certain motifs and stereotypes. Yet, that doesn't mean that the show isn't teeming with uncomfortable moments or gut-wrenching cases.

While this type of content is subject to taste, many fans feel that the show wouldn't be the same without it. These distressing moments help Grey's Anatomy break away from its workplace dramas and diversify itself from other modern procedurals. So, even though these gory scenes are enough to turn any viewer's stomach, they're integral to the show's canon.

A Maintenance Worker Suffers a Life-Changing Accident Season 15, Episode 9, "Shelter from the Storm"

While Grey Sloan often boasts about being one of the most technologically advanced hospitals in Seattle, it isn't immune to a few minor faults.

Jesse Eisenberg believes that his “poorly received” performance as Lex Luthor in Zack Snyder’s “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” and “Justice League” hurt his career.

“I’ve never said this before and it’s kind of embarrassing to admit, but I genuinely think it actually hurt my career in a real way, because I was poorly received in something so public,” he recently told Dax Shepard on his “Armchair Expert” podcast.

The actor, who just received two Golden Globe nominations for his film “A Real Pain” with Kieran Culkin, said, “I’ve been in poorly received things that just don’t see the light of day, and for the most part, no one knows. But this was so public, and I don’t read notices or reviews or movie press or anything, so I was unaware of how poorly it was received.”

At the time, the film’s...

Art Garfunkel revealed that he cried at a recent reunion lunch with his former musical partner Paul Simon.

Garfunkel told The Times newspaper that the duo – responsible for hits including The Sound of Silence and Bridge Over Troubled Water – had not met for many years after falling out. He revealed:

“I looked at Paul and said, ‘What happened? Why haven’t we seen each other?’ Paul mentioned an old interview where I said some stuff. I cried when he told me how much I had hurt him. Looking back, I guess I wanted to shake up the nice guy image of Simon & Garfunkel. Y’know what? I was a fool!”

And he said the pair had made plans to meet again:

“Will Paul bring his guitar? Who knows. For me, it was about wanting to make amends before it’s too late. It felt like we were back in a wonderful place.

It’s been nearly a decade and a half since Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel performed at the American Film Institute’s tribute to Mike Nichols in Los Angeles. The time in between then has been marked with Garfunkel’s four-year struggle to regain his voice after being diagnosed with vocal cord paresis, followed by a delayed Simon & Garfunkel North American tour that never materialized and Garfunkel’s public denouncement of his former bandmate.

However, their long-standing feud has seemed to reach a healing point. Speaking with The Sun, Garfunkel...

If you didn't know that Oscar winner Denzel Washington directed an episode of "Grey's Anatomy," then you almost definitely don't know that he and the show's star, Ellen Pompeo, had a serious conflict during production.

The woman who played series lead Meredith Grey for 19 seasons of the hit medical drama created by Shonda Rhimes opened up about the on-set drama between her and Washington during a 2021 episode of the actress' podcast "Tell Me with Ellen Pompeo." (Pompeo officially left the series in early 2023, but she still regularly appears in episodes and provides the show's voice-over). While chatting with her former "Grey's Anatomy" co-star Patrick Dempsey, whose character Derek Shepherd — Meredith's husband — was killed in season 11, Pompeo discussed the on-set issues she had with the Oscar-winning actor as they worked on a season 12 episode together.

In Pompeo's view, she thinks that Washington potentially didn't take the opportunity very seriously. "I...

Turn Me On is the second feature from filmmaker Michael Tyburski, known for his directorial debut The Sound of Silence. Starring Bel Powley and Nick Robinson, the movie is a work of dystopian science fiction that explores intriguing themes around human emotions.

The story is set in a future community where feelings are medically suppressed. Each day, residents take a “vitamin pill” that tamps down passions and leaves them calmly content.

Into this sterile world come Joy and William, a young couple who decide to go off their pills. As emotions return, they embark on a journey of rediscovery, celebrating life’s messy beauty but also confronting its complexities.

Premiering at the prestigious San Sebastian Film Festival in late 2024, Turn Me On offers viewers 98 surreal minutes spent in this emotionless society, right up until its two protagonists shake things up by learning to feel again. With his sophomore film, Tyburski...

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Ya se ha publicado el primer tráiler y póster de Turn Me On, una comedia romántica de ciencia ficción dirigida por Michael Tyburski (The Sound of Silence) y escrita por Angela Bourassa (Si fueras el último). La película tuvo su estreno mundial en la sección New Directors de la 72 edición del Festival de San Sebastián donde se llevó el Premio Dama de la Juventud.

Turn Me On transcurre en una comunidad en la que se han erradicado los inconvenientes de las emociones humanas gracias a una píldora diaria. Cuando una joven pareja (Bel Powley y Nick Robinson) se salta su dosis, descubre el amor, la alegría, el sexo y todo lo que conlleva.

La película está protagonizada por Bel Powley y Nick Robinson. Completan el reparto Justin H. Min (After Yang), D’Arcy Carden...

Intro Love them or hate them, movie trailers are an integral part of the proper moviegoing experience. When you go to the movies, you can expect to see numerous trailers for upcoming films that are generally aimed at the same age range the movie you’re about to see is. Trailers are essentially commercials; short advertisements about two or so minutes meant to draw up interest in upcoming films that moviegoers might be interested in seeing. Does this movie look good? Does it seem right up my alley? Or is it something that I’d never willingly pay to see? It’s the nature of advertising in Hollywood; if you’ve got people paying to go to the movies, it only makes sense to show them what else they might be willing to pay to see. As movies have evolved over time, so have movie trailers. Present-day Hollywood trailers barely resemble those of the 60s.

Over 21 seasons, Grey's Anatomy has had a number of high-profile guest stars and main cast members, such as Sarah Paulson, Christina Ricci and Jesse Plemons. But there have also been big stars behind the camera. In fact, one of the most powerful episodes of the series was directed by actor Denzel Washington, but there was some tension on set between him and lead star Ellen Pompeo.

Washington directed Grey's Anatomy Season 12, Episode 9, "The Sound of Silence," which aired in 2016. The episode focuses on Meredith Grey after she gets viciously attacked by a patient, leaving horrible injuries, including temporary hearing loss and inability to speak. The doctors of Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital help her recover both mentally and physically, all while Amelia and Meredith both try to forgive people in their lives. By 2016, Washington had already directed a few feature films, and the Grey's Anatomy episode would be his television directorial debut.

From his era-defining work with Art Garfunkel to the sometimes problematic legacy of 80s hit Graceland, Alex Gibney’s documentary strikes a pure and personal note

Alex Gibney’s docu-celebration of Paul Simon unfolds over an epic three-and-a-half hours, but he persuades you that this is exactly how much time was needed. There is something very involving and very personal here: something to do with the slight, pure line of Simon’s unmistakable vocal presence, vulnerable and even fragile, perhaps, but also insistent and durable. Simon is of course the genius songwriter from New York whose speaking voice, to my ear, sounds increasingly like that of Woody Allen. Gibney’s camera joins Simon – a grandfatherly but spry figure – as he works on his latest choral album Seven Psalms, then flashes back to his earliest years with Art Garfunkel, and brings us up to the present.

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Just in time for Halloween, the LA Opera has put together a spectacular treat for movie and music lovers: a screening of the rarely seen 1931 Spanish-language Dracula complete with a newly commissioned score by two-time Oscar-winning composer Gustavo Santaolalla.

The music will be played live by the LA Opera Orchestra under the direction of resident conductor Lina González-Granados. The Argentine-born Santaolalla, 73, also will play electric guitar (but not his signature ronroco).

Suitably, the screenings on Oct. 25, 26 and 27 will take place at the gothic United Theater — a 1,600-seat palace that first opened in 1927 — in downtown Los Angeles. There will be English subtitles, and the audience is invited to come in costume.

Before the advent of sound in the movies, studios could just change the language of the intertitles to get their message across to overseas audiences. But when the talkies arrived, some elected to shoot new foreign-language versions.

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One of the country’s most prolific musicians, Paul Simon was born on October 13, 1941, in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Queens, New York City. His love for music and gift for songwriting began at a young age, and he has enjoyed a varied career for over six decades.

Simon’s first successes came as one-half of a duo formed with his childhood friend, Art Garfunkel. Their debut album in 1964, “Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.,” flopped. However, the counterculture movement of the 1960s was just beginning, and before long, the duo’s folk/rock blend would become the anthem for that generation, and “The Sound of Silence” became their first hit.

Fueled by Simon’s masterful storytelling, their unique sound and contributions to the 1967 film “The Graduate,” Simon and Garfunkel became two of the most successful and notable musicians of the time. In 1970, the two released their fifth and final studio album,...

He halted his career after decades of hits, then a dream one night changed everything. From New York to swinging London and apartheid South Africa, he explains his epic journey

As a struggling young singer-songwriter in 1960s Queens, New York, Paul Simon would often retreat to his parents’ bathroom. There, with the tiling giving the room an echo and the sound of running taps generating white noise, he’d sit strumming his guitar in the dark. This experience inspired The Sound of Silence – Simon and Garfunkel’s first US No 1 – and one of pop’s most memorable opening couplets: “Hello darkness my old friend / I’ve come to talk with you again.”

“The Sound of Silence was the first song I wrote which seemed to come from some place that I didn’t inhabit,” says Simon, now 82, over the phone from the city where he penned it. “At age 23, it was unusual,...

An ambitious chef (Ariana DeBose) opens her first restaurant in a remote location and faces kitchen chaos, immense self-doubt, and a supernatural presence trying to sabotage her success at every turn. This is the simple, straightforward premise of House of Spoils, written and directed by Bridget Savage Cole and Danielle Krudy (Blow the Man Down), with DeBose as the main attraction. I consider DeBose (West Side Story) a versatile artist unafraid to take on roles in new genres, as her career has shown so far, so expectations were mostly positive.

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And it’s precisely DeBose that House of Spoils relies on to stay engaging. There’s an intriguing character study at the heart of this film about self-esteem, confidence, and personal ability to overcome obstacles imposed by ourselves and others, as well as fighting...

Vertical has acquired North American distribution rights to Michael Tyburski’s romantic comedy Turn Me On, which world premiered in the New Directors competition at the San Sebastian International Film Festival.

The deal was brokered by UTA’s Independent Film Group and CAA Media Finance on behalf of the filmmakers and the release is set for early 2025.

London and Paris-based Film Constellation handles worldwide sales, with UK distribution recently announced with Signature Entertainment.

Starring Bel Powley and Nick Robinson, Turn Me One is set in a world where the inconvenience of human emotion has been eradicated by a daily vitamin.

Vertical has acquired North American distribution rights to Michael Tyburski’s romantic comedy Turn Me On, which world premiered in the New Directors competition at the San Sebastian International Film Festival.

The deal was brokered by UTA’s Independent Film Group and CAA Media Finance on behalf of the filmmakers and the release is set for early 2025.

London and Paris-based Film Constellation handles worldwide sales, with UK distribution recently announced with Signature Entertainment.

Starring Bel Powley and Nick Robinson, Turn Me One is set in a world where the inconvenience of human emotion has been eradicated by a daily vitamin.

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Although Denzel Washington is arguably the greatest living actor, far fewer people know his directorial acumen. In addition to directing four feature films over two decades, including Antwoine Fisher, The Great Debaters, Fences, and A Journal for Jordan, even fewer people know that Washington directed a single episode of the long-running medical drama Grey's Anatomy. And not just any episode, "The Sound of Silence" is often considered among the most compelling chapters in Grey's Anatomy history.

While Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo) witnessed a touching send-off to cap Season 20, it has been reported that Pompeo will return for at least seven of the 18 slated episodes for Season 24. With the 21st season of Grey's Anatomy fast approaching its ABC release on September 26, 2024, reliving one of Pompeo's...

If Mac suddenly starts staring into the camera and making meta jokes in Season 17 of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, the fandom already knows who to blame.

Back in December 2023, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia creator and star Rob McElhenney posted a video of him and his Always Sunny partner Glenn Howerton answering questions at a Q&a about the series. In the clip, which McElhenney hilariously scored with “The Sound of Silence” by Simon & Garfunkel, Howerton sports a massive smile on his face while watching his longtime friend, colleague and co-star start to answer a question. Then, when McElhenney name-drops his Welcome to Wrexham partner Ryan Reynolds, Howerton’s smile disappears like it’s on the last step of the D.E.N.N.I.S. system.

Ever since McElhenney poked fun at his Always Sunny partner’s well-timed facial expressions eight months ago, fans of the show who...

Former 90 Day Fiance star Jon Walters looks slimmer and trimmer than ever.

The English native has been working quietly behind the scenes to transform his physique, and his hard work has certainly paid off.

Taking to social media this week, Jon showed off before-and-after photos of his results.

In a Facebook post, Jon shared three “before” photos below three “after” photos, and in the caption, he shared just how much weight he’s dropped.

In the “before” photos, Jon weighed 247.5 pounds, and in his “after” pics, Jon was down to 223.5 pounds, for an impressive loss of 24 pounds.

Despite looking the best he has in a while, Jon expressed a heartbreaking truth in the caption of his Facebook post.

Jon Walters has almost reached his pre-marriage weight

“Honestly I’m still fu**ing disgusted with how I looked then and how I still look now,” Jon wrote on Facebook.

Jon has...

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El director Michael Tyburski, que debutó en 2019 en el Festival de Sundance con “The Sound of Silence” (2019), concursará en la sección New Directors de la 72 edición del Festival de San Sebastián con su segunda película, “Turn Me On”, escrita por Angela Bourassa (“Si Fueras el Último”).

“Turn Me On” transcurre en una comunidad en la que se han erradicado los inconvenientes de las emociones humanas gracias a una píldora diaria. Cuando una joven pareja (Bel Powley y Nick Robinson) se salta su dosis, descubre el amor, la alegría, el sexo y todo lo que conlleva.

La comedia romántica de ciencia ficción está protagonizada por Bel Powley y Nick Robinson. Completan el reparto Justin H. Min (“After Yang”), D’Arcy Carden (“Barry”), Nesta Cooper (“Bliss”) y Griffin Newman (“The Tick”).

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The upcoming San Sebastian Film Festival just revealed some really cool movies playing in their New Directors section. That part of the festival is all about finding new and upcoming filmmakers from around the world. This year they picked eleven films from places like Argentina, China, France, Georgia, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, and the USA.

The New Directors section will kick off with a documentary called “The Flamenco Guitar of Yerai Cortes.” It follows a Spanish filmmaker named Antón Álvarez as he records an album with a famous flamenco artist. That should be really interesting to music and culture fans.

One of the hyped films is called “Turn Me On.” It’s a funny sci-fi love story directed by Michael Tyburski. The movie stars Bel Powley and Nick Robinson in a future where feelings are banned and people take pills to not feel anything. This is Tyburski’s second feature film after his first,...

Eleven filmmakers from Argentina, China, France, Georgia, Spain, Thailand, Turkey and the USA will show their first and second films in the San Sebastian Festival’s (Sep 20-28) New Directors section.

Among them are new projects featuring Nick Robinson and Bel Powley, Nicolas Duvauchelle and Denis Lavant, and Roschdy Zem and Bella Kim.

Below is the lineup:

Gülizar / Gulizar is a Turkish-Kosovar co-production about a young victim of sexual assault in the run-up to her wedding. It marks the feature debut from Turkish moviemaker Belkis Bayrak;

Roschdy Zem and Bella Kim star in Hiver à Sokcho / Winter in Sokcho, the first movie from the French-Japanese director Koya Kamura. The French-Korean co-production tells the tale of a young Korean girl whose life is thrown into disarray when a French artist arrives in the Asian country;

Sivaroj Kongsakul made his feature directorial debut with Eternity (2010), screened at festivals including Busan, Rotterdam and Hong Kong.

Michael Tyburski's Turn Me On Photo: Courtesy of San Sebastian Film Festival San Sebastian Film Festival has announced the global films that will join its New Directors section for this year's edition, which will run from September 20 to 28. It follows on from the recent announcement of the 12 Spanish films that will feature across the festival's programme.

The 11 New Directors titles have a global spread and include Turn Me On, the second film from US director Michael Tyburski, who made his debut at Sundance in 2019 with The Sound Of Silence. The film is described as a sci-fi romantic comedy, set in a new age community where people must take a pill every day to eradicate all human emotions and stars Bel Powley and Nick Robinson.

Roschdy Zem and Bella Kim star in Winter In Sokcho, the debut from French-Japanese director Koya Kamura. It relates the tale of a young Korean...

Spain’s San Sebastian Film Festival has unveiled a 10-title lineup of its New Directors competition, the festival’s biggest sidebar, which takes in “Turn Me On,” the new feature from Michael Tyburski, helmer of Sundance hit “The Sound of Silence.”

Starring Bel Powley and Nick Robinson and sold by Film Constellation, “Turn Me On,” a sci-fi romantic comedy, joins buzz titles in the section, such as “In the Name of Blood,” a Nice-set Georgian mafia movie from Georgia’s Akaki Popkhadze, prized at Clermont Ferrand for his latest short, and “Gulizar,” the first feature from Turkish moviemaker Belkis Bayrak, about a young victim of sexual assault in the run-up to her wedding.

Also selected for New Directors are “Winter in Sokcho,” from French-Japanese director Koya Kamura, starring Roschdy Zem and Bella Kim, and “Regretfully at Dawn,” a drama set in a province near Bangkok directed by Thai helmer Sivaroj Kongsakul.

Mubi has unveiled next month’s streaming lineup, including Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s five-part series Penance, Kit Zauhar’s new release This Closeness along with her debut feature Actual People, a pair of films by Paul Schrader, Richard Linklater’s Boyhood, Luke Lorentzen’s stellar documentary A Still Small Voice, Alex Ross Perry’s Queen of Earth, and more.

In his review of This Closeness earlier this month, Ethan Vestby said, “The film is made with a great deal of formal control, and even though the low stakes and small scale will have it be compared to mumblecore films, this is far sleeker than the average Joe Swanberg joint of yesteryear: long takes, a fixed camera, strategic employment of close-ups, and a rich soundscape (the audio emanating from outside the window of traffic and birdsong is instantly identifiable to anyone living in a city).”

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Alex Gibney has Frank Sinatra to thank for his most recent documentary – the two-part Emmy-contending film In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon.

Simon, one of America’s greatest singer-songwriters, saw Gibney’s 2015 documentary Sinatra: All or Nothing at All, and liked it so much he approached the Oscar-winning filmmaker about doing a potential film about his music career. Then, Simon sweetened the deal by inviting Gibney to his home in Texas to see him work on a new album, Seven Psalms.

Gibney joins Deadline’s Doc Talk podcast to discuss what he learned about Simon’s songwriting process and how the artist, now 82, dealt with the loss of hearing in one ear that occurred as Simon was making Seven Psalms.

“It was destabilizing, I think, at first for him,” Gibney observes. The director also shares how a rerecording of Simon & Garfunkel’s “The Sound of Silence” in the...

The music video for Disturbed’s haunting cover of the Simon & Garfunkel classic “The Sound of Silence” has surpassed 1 billion views on YouTube.

Disturbed’s version of the song appeared on their 2015 album, Immortalized, and was bolstered by a stirring live rendition on TBS’ Conan in March 2016. In fact, the Conan performance has 146 million views itself on YouTube. For comparison sake, the most viewed video of Simon & Garfunkel performing the song has 134 million views.

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Paul Simon himself endorsed Disturbed’s potent take on the song, emailing his approval to singer David Draiman: “Really powerful performance on Conan the other day. First time I’d seen you do it live. Nice. Thanks.”

Draiman replied to Simon at the time, “Mr. Simon, I am honored beyond words. We only hoped to pay homage and honor to the brilliance of one of the greatest songwriters of all time.

London- and Paris-based production, finance and sales outfit Film Constellation has boarded international sales on Titus Kaphar’s drama “Exhibiting Forgiveness.”

The film received strong reviews after its January premiere at Sundance in the U.S. Dramatic Competition section, and was picked up for North American distribution by Roadside Attractions, with plans for a wide theatrical release in the fall and awards campaign.

Film Constellation will screen the film for buyers in Cannes.

In the film, an artist finds his path to success derailed by an unexpected visit from his estranged father, a troubled man desperate to reconcile. Together, they learn that forgetting may be harder than forgiving.

The directorial debut of visual artist Kaphar, “Exhibiting Forgiveness” stars André Holland, Andra Day, John Earl Jelks and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor.

Variety’s Owen Gleiberman gave the film a positive review, describing it as “a forceful drama free of feel-good fakery” and praising Holland’s performance as “fierce,...

Incorporating iconic songs like "Take On Me" can enhance comedic moments and poignant scenes in movies and TV shows. Songs like "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)" can bring humor and light-heartedness to scenes in films like Dirty Work and Wanted. Music choices like "Pony" in Magic Mike can add energy and personality to characters, setting the tone for their on-screen presence.

The most used songs in movies and shows prove that some songs seem perfectly made for a cinematic world. Using the right music in movies and television shows is vital to fully immersing the audience into the world of the story. Storytellers can create a full soundtrack around the whole narrative like Baby Driver and Guardians of the Galaxy. Music can also be used to deepen a specific moment, like at the end of The Graduate when "The Sound Of Silence" by Simon & Garfunkel played as the main characters drive away in silence.

When a friend calls, Dave Grohl answers. And when that particular friend is Josh Homme, calling to ask him to make an appearance at the Josh Homme & Friends benefit concert, the Foo Fighters frontman jumped straight into rehearsal mode. Grohl’s process started with pulling up the lyrics to Doja Cat’s rebellious single “Paint the Town Red” and concluded with him penning a completely new song specifically for Homme.

“I spent a couple of days trying to figure out like, ‘What the fuck am I gonna play?’” Grohl told...