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American Idol favorites Slater Nalley and Thunderstorm Artis were eliminated from the singing competition on Monday. The two singer-songwriters went home after 19 million viewers cast their votes during the second night of Disney performances on ABC. John Foster, Jamal Roberts, and Breanna Nix advanced to the Season 23 finale on May 18.

Each contestant performed two songs, with Slater taking on "You've Got a Friend in Me" from Toy Story and "Born to Be Wild" from D3: The Mighty Ducks. Lionel Richie told the 18-year-old from Atlanta, "You've come a long way, son," as Carrie Underwood and Luke Bryan praised the teenager's song choices.

Slater's audition was one of the season's most memorable. He had Carrie in tears when he performed "Traces of You," which he wrote in honor of his high school English teacher's son who was killed eight years prior. "Every single person that hears that can fill in that...

Slater Nalley is one step closer to being the winner of American Idol Season 23.

The 18-year-old high school student from Atlanta advanced to the Top 20 during the Easter Sunday episode that focused on "Songs of Faith." After host Ryan Seacrest made the announcement, Slater performed "Soulshine" on ABC's reality TV show in front of the studio audience and judges Luke Bryan, Carrie Underwood, and Lionel Richie. Watch the video above.

Following the performance, Lionel recalled telling Slater, "Don't get psyched out by all of those other amazing voices. Just stay in your lane and be solid. And what did you do? You got here because you stayed in your lane, and you're solid."

Carrie chimed in, "Slater, I mean, you've got the goods. I feel like you've very comfortable with that song. You were at ease behind that guitar. Just keep doing you, man. That's all I got. It's great.

Tonight on American Idol — the top 62 contestants continued their Hollywood Week experience in the Showstoppers Round, where they took the stage once more to prove they've got the vocal prowess and charisma to become America's next superstar. Like last week's Idol Arena, each contestant performed in front of judges Carrie Underwood, Luke Bryan, and Lionel Richie, and then had to wait until the end of the night to find out who advanced in the competition. Unlike last week, they got zero feedback. The two-hour episode aired Sunday, April 6 (8 p.m. Et/Pt) with Ryan Seacrest hosting.

There were certainly plenty of showstoppers throughout the night, but the judges all agreed that the best was saved for last. Platinum Ticket winner Canaan James Hill was feeling the pressure as he waited to hit the stage, but the 17-year-old didn't show it when he belted out Marvin Sapp's "Never Would Have Made It.

In the "Harry Potter" movies, the binary of "good" and "evil" is illustrated pretty well by Harry himself — played by Daniel Radcliffe — and his lifelong enemy Lord Voldemort. Still, Harry has plenty of minor villains to deal with along the way, and one is his schoolboy nemesis Draco Malfoy, portrayed throughout the franchise's eight movies by Tom Felton. So would Felton and Radcliffe work together again? According to Felton, they've chatted about it a bit, but there would be a bit of a twist if the two ever teamed up for a different project.

In an interview with Digital Spy in May of 2022, Felton was asked about any possible reunions with any of his "Harry Potter" co-stars, and he said he'd leap at the chance to work alongside Radcliffe in particular. "We all talk about doing something again in all different ways," Felton told the outlet. "Daniel and I have...

A Marvel star has been cast, along with six other actors, in the upcoming movie adaptation of Shiver, a young adult fantasy romance novel that has drawn comparisons to Twilight. The paranormal romance in the Twilight book series written by Stephanie Meyer became a popular culture phenomenon, which led to movie adaptations starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner. The series' fantastical world and the love triangle between Bella Swan, Edward Cullen, and Jacob Black continues to resonate years later.

Shiver was first published in 2009 and was followed by three sequels in The Wolves of Mercy Falls series. The first bestselling novel written by Maggie Stiefvater follows a young woman named Grace who is saved from a pack of wolves by a yellow-eyed wolf when she is a child. Years later, Grace encounters a young man named Sam who has the same yellow eyes, as a love story reminiscent...

We might be adults or quite old now, but when it comes to Harry Potter movies, the child in us is always ready to say Wingardium Leviosa or Expelliarmus! Growing up, we all wished to be at Hogwarts to fight the dark goblins and have the magic wand. That’s the amount of craze that the Harry Potter movies hold. They created a world of magic and mystery that captivated all of us all these years.

The movie series based on Jk Rowling’s novels starred Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint as the iconic characters of Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, and Ron Weasley. It goes way back to when the first-ever Harry Potter movie was released in November 2001 and ran across eight films over 10 years.

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“We love you, Robbie!” Mavis Staples exclaimed. “We love you!”

Late Thursday night in Los Angeles, a few minutes shy of midnight, the soul-stirring vocalist had the crowd at the Forum on their feet. Staples had just performed “The Weight” onstage with Bob Weir, Phish frontman Trey Anastasio, and an all-star band for Life Is a Carnival: A Musical Celebration of Robbie Robertson, a tribute show — produced by moment-makers Blackbird Presents — that honored the Band’s guitarist, collaborator of Bob Dylan, and songwriter who...

The force will be with Star Wars franchise star Daisy Ridley as she is set to receive another accolade for her work in Hollywood, including in the revered sci-fi film series. Ridley will be recognized with the Hollywood Rising Star Award at the upcoming Deauville Film Festival later this summer.

Per Variety, Ridley, best known for portraying the combative Rey Skywalker in Star Wars, will travel to France to receive the Hollywood Rising Star Award at the 50th Deauville Film Festival, which runs from Sept. 6 to Sept. 15. Ridley joins Michael Douglas among the actors being celebrated during the upcoming festival as Douglas will be a guest of honor and feted on its opening night.

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Daisy Ridley will receive the Hollywood Rising Star Award at the Deauville Film Festival which will celebrate this year its 50th anniversary.

Ridley is expected to attend the ceremony in Deauville. She will follow the footsteps of Emilia Clarke (2023), Ana de Armas (2022), Paul Dano (2012) and Robert Pattinson (2015), as well as Ryan Gosling and Jessica Chastain who received the first Hollywood Rising-Star Award in 2011.

Ridley is best known for her role as the combattive Rey in the “Star Wars” trilogy, in which she starred opposite Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac and Jon Boyega.

On top of blockbusters, Ridley has also starred in Kenneth Branagh’s “Murder on the Orient Express,” along with critically acclaimed indies such as Claire McCarthy’s “Ophelia,” and Rachel Lambert’s drama “Sometimes I Think About Dying,”as well as Sam Yates’ “Magpie” which premiered at this year’s SXSW Festival. She most recently starred in “Young Woman and the Sea...

Some of the most illustrious names in rock — and other genres — will pay tribute to Robbie Robertson in a celebratory concert at the L.A.-area Kia Forum on Oct. 17, with the musician’s longtime friend and collaborator Martin Scorsese among the executive producers.

The lineup for “Life Is a Carnival: A Musical Celebration of Robbie Robertson” includes some contemporaries who came up with the Band’s late songwriter-guitarist in the ’60s. These include Bobby Weir, Taj Mahal and three artists who appeared with Robertson in the Scorsese-directed 1986 concert documentary “The Last Waltz”: Eric Clapton, Van Morrison and Mavis Staples.

It also includes some musical figures whose stars have risen in the last 15 years or so, like Eric Church, Allison Russell, Nathaniel Rateliff, Margo Price and — a current mainstay of the Billboard album chart’s top 10 — Noah Kahan.

Mostly, though, the roster is full of veteran stars who...

Daisy Ridley, who made her Star Wars debut in Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens, also her breakout movie playing Rey in the 2015 movie, made a shocking revelation about her role. The actor candidly revealed that her role in the franchise was physically demanding and took a toll on her.

Daisy Ridley as Rey. Credit: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

Ridley is a rising star in Hollywood and has claimed several titles to her credit beyond the umbrella of Star Wars, which includes Murder on the Orient Express, Ophelia, The Marsh King’s Daughter, Sometimes I Think About Dying, and her most recent, Magpie and Young Woman and the Sea. The actor is also booked for another Star Wars movie, New Jedi Order.

Star Wars Anxiety Gave Daisy Ridley Ulcers Daisy Ridley in a still from Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Credit: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

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Daisy Ridley gets "emotional" when she thinks about what 'Star Wars' means to fans.The 31-year-old actress starred as Jakku scavenger Rey in 'The Force Awakens', 'The Last Jedi', and 'The Rise of Skywalker' and after signing up to appear in the next film in the sci-fi franchise - which will be directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and is slated for release in 2026 - admitted that it has been "wonderful" to be part of such a cult fandom. She told Collider: "When we did the announcement last year, it was really, my agent flew over and honestly, I came off and we were all really emotional. Of course, I always feel lucky to be part of it, but it was like a reminder I suppose of, sorry I'm just gabbling, but I suppose a reminder of how people do feel about Rey. I was like, 'It's wonderful.'...

Despite being a box office flop, Halle Berry's Catwoman subtly connects to Tim Burton's Batman Returns through a visible photo of Michelle Pfeiffer's Catwoman, suggesting they exist in the same universe. The connection between the Burton and Schumacher Batman movies is not definitively established, despite references made by the directors and shared actors like Michael Gough and Pat Hingle. Michael Keaton's return in The Flash and George Clooney's cameo further highlight that each Batman movie series exists in its own universe, creating confusion about the overall timeline.

It wasn't until 2013 that DC went all-in on the idea of a cinematic universe when Zack Snyder's Man of Steel was released to launch the Dceu timeline - but a missed Batman Returns reference technically began the process far earlier. Long before the Dceu or MCU, an ironclad contender to be named the comic book company's worst...

Daisy Ridley says Cleaner feels like her "first action movie." Ridley's breakout role came in 2015's Star Wars: Episode VII — The Force Awakens. Ridley has several other projects in the works: Sometimes I Think About Dying and Magpie. She will also be returning as Rey Skywalker in a new Star Wars film.

Learning the ways of the Force represents only a fraction of actress Daisy Ridley’s potential. True, the 31-year-old is best known for portraying Rey Skywalker in the Star Wars sequel trilogy, but she’s accumulated an impressive resume outside of that galaxy far, far away. In an exclusive interview with MovieWeb, the thespian discussed the upcoming projects she’s most excited about working on, which includes teaming up again with her Ophelia (2018) co-star Clive Owen in Cleaner. Ridley said:

"I don't know. I made Magpie from the ground up. So that was like a totally different experience.

Though PinkPantheress’s Heaven Knows is dotted with samples across its runtime, the British singer’s debut album nonetheless presents an original, unique vision. A departure from her 2021 mixtape To Hell with It, which is built around succinct, TikTok-ready songs and easily recognizable sonic quotations from various U.K. dance cuts, Heaven Knows is a full-throated pop album with an eye on contemporary trends.

“The Aisle” is as good a bellwether as any to determine if fans will take the leaps that PinkPantheress is asking of them. It’s more robust than anything we’ve heard from her before, with glossy disco inflections and drum work, and layer upon layer of jittering synths. The track’s invocation of disco and nod to 2Pac’s “California Love” are in service of mainstream pop consumption rather than a revivalist genre experiment. Its pastiche is certainly less “cool,” but PinkPantheress delivers it with a surprising ease.

PinkPantheress has released her long-awaited debut album, Heaven Knows. Stream it via Apple Music or Spotify below.

The 13-song project, which was teased with the singles “Capable of Love” and “Mosquito,” follows the English artist’s breakout 2021 mixtape, to hell with it. Notable features from Ice Spice, Kelela, Central Cee, and Rema are sprawled across the album.

“The record is about grief for a loss but being at peace with yourself in your aloneness,” PinkPantheress said in a previous press release. “Journeying from hell into purgatory, but I’m Ok with being there.”

This weekend, PinkPantheress will play Camp Flog Gnaw ahead of her 2024 tour dates, which begin in February with a brief run across the UK and Europe. After that, she’ll serve as the opener on the North American leg of Olivia Rodrigo’s “Guts” tour. Get tickets to PinkPantheress’ North American shows here and international dates here.

By the time Martin Scorsese’s music documentary “The Last Waltz” premiered in 1978, the legendary Americana music progenitors the Band, whom the film explores, had gone from “Cahoots” to kaput for two years.

The 1976 farewell concert at the center of the film was already a piece of rock and roll history by the time the film debuted. Seeing it Oct. 5 at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles in celebration of its 45th anniversary, it’s clear how much history and American music culture was also saying “Good Night” with Rick Danko, Garth Hudson, Richard Manuel, Levon Helm and the Band’s unofficial leader Robbie Robertson (who called the group “The Brotherhood.”)

To help sort out the importance of “Waltz’s” place in rock history was music historian Harvey Kubernik, who shared his recollections of attending the concert at the Winterland Theater in San Francisco; music rights firm CEO/founder Olivier Chastain,...

One of the best concert films of all time, The Band’s The Last Waltz directed by Martin Scorsese, is returning to theaters in celebration of its 45th anniversary. It will be back on the big screen for one day only on November 5th.

The theatrical return will feature a never-before-seen introduction from the late Robbie Robertson “providing a quick look into the genesis and impact” of the film chronicling The Band’s farewell concert. Showtimes for its return are 4:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. local time. Purchase your tickets via Fathom Events.

The Band’s November 25th, 1976 concert at Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco featured more than a dozen special guests, including Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Ringo Starr, Neil Diamond, Emmylou Harris, Paul Butterfield, Dr. John, Muddy Waters, Ronnie Wood, Eric Clapton, and Van Morrison. First released in April 1978, the film splices interviews with each...

One of the best concert films of all time, The Band’s The Last Waltz directed by Martin Scorsese, is returning to theaters in celebration of its 45th anniversary. It will be back on the big screen for one day only on November 5th.

The theatrical return will feature a never-before-seen introduction from the late Robbie Robertson “providing a quick look into the genesis and impact” of the film chronicling The Band’s farewell concert. Showtimes for its return are 4:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. local time. Purchase your tickets via Fathom Events.

The Band’s November 25th, 1976 concert at Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco featured more than a dozen special guests, including Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Ringo Starr, Neil Diamond, Emmylou Harris, Paul Butterfield, Dr. John, Muddy Waters, Ronnie Wood, Eric Clapton, and Van Morrison. First released in April 1978, the film splices interviews with each...

Something stinks at Rotten Tomatoes. More than a site for reviewing movies, it’s now a game that studios must play in order to have a successful film. A Rotten Tomatoes score can send a good movie to the can and a bad movie to the Oscars. Now, even at the indie level, if your movie isn’t marketed just the right way, you could be headed for a box office failure.

But it’s more than the system that’s broken. Thanks to an investigative report by Vulture, moviegoers now know that the reviews themselves may be poisoned. Lane Brown and Luke Winkie reported that publicity company Bunker 15 may have been tipping the scales to get small films good Rotten Tomato scores and why it was so important that they do.

Rotten Tomatoes has gone from an independently owned movie review aggregator to one owned by a movie studio and a ticketing website.

Allegations of financial incentives and manipulated critic scores have raised concerns about the integrity of review aggregate platforms, specifically involving PR company Bunker 15 and the popular site Rotten Tomatoes. Bunker 15, known as a "smart-tech Publicity Engine," claims to connect filmmakers with journalists who can amplify their project's visibility. Bunker 15 are accused of going beyond traditional publicity strategies by recruiting lesser-known critics to manipulate Rotten Tomatoes' "Tomatometer" scores.

In a startling revelation that seems ripped straight from a dramatic thriller, it has been alleged that the integrity of review aggregate platforms is under siege by an intricate network of financial incentives and manipulated critic scores. At the heart of this controversy is PR company Bunker 15, which stands accused of spearheading campaigns to artificially bolster film reviews on the widely regarded review aggregation site, Rotten Tomatoes.

This explosive information was brought to light in a meticulous investigative report by Vulture, a revelation...

Bunker 15, a film PR company, tried to boost the Rotten Tomatoes score of the movie Ophelia by paying lesser-known critics for positive reviews. Rotten Tomatoes noticed the manipulation and removed the suspicious reviews, sending a strong warning to the reviewers involved. Despite the influence of Rotten Tomatoes scores on a film's success, it still includes lower-profile reviewers, making its dominance in the movie review industry likely to continue.

A movie PR company bribed Rotten Tomatoes reviewers and now faces the consequences. Active since 1998, Rotten Tomatoes is among the most popular review-aggregation websites. Films seek to be “Certified Fresh” on the website, an honor awarded only to those who are able to achieve a Tomatometer that remains over 75%.

Per Vulture, a film PR company attempted to scam their way into better film reviews. Back in 2018, a film PR company named Bunker 15 was responsible for the publicity of reimagined Shakespeare tale Ophelia.

In a new, withering exposé about how easily Rotten Tomatoes, the popular review aggregator website, can be manipulated, it is revealed that a movie publicity firm called Bunker 15 paid for positive reviews for the 2018 Daisy Ridley movie “Ophelia.”

The firm paid critics $50 or more for each review, according to the New York Magazine/Vulture piece, which cited internal company emails and critics.

The pay-for-positive-reviews bit was part of a larger ploy – if the film garnered enough positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, it would look more appealing to a potential distributor. They would also persuade writers to encourage Rotten Tomatoes that mixed reviews receive a “positive” distinction on the site. They also somehow made it so that negative reviews of the movie weren’t counted.

As for the fate of “Ophelia,” a month after it was certified “fresh” IFC Films announced it had acquired the film for distribution in the United States.

In 2017, director Martin Scorsese wrote an essay in The Hollywood Reporter which referred to the movie review aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes as being "hostile to serious filmmakers." Now, there's new evidence that Rotten Tomatoes is not only hostile to filmmakers, but also to anyone who reads a Rotten Tomatoes score.

Vulture has published an article revealing that, for at least the past five years, Rotten Tomatoes has been hacked and manipulated by a PR firm that has actually paid obscure, low-level members of Rotten Tomatoes to provide positive coverage of the films that PR company represents, all in a shameless effort to boost those films' Rt scores.

This brazen hijacking, combined with film studios' increasing reliance on the Tomatometer as a marketing tool and the long-complained-about and imprecise nature of how Rotten Tomatoes scores actually work, is yet another reason why that platform should not hold the position it holds...

George Lucas took inspiration from many sources for his intergalactic saga, Star Wars. He incorporated the elemental hero's journey, as broken down by Joseph Campbell, to Dune and the Alien films. Likewise, his creative team, including costume designers and concept artists, drew inspiration from a plethora of classical art and design work.

The Star Wars team specifically cites some art and history parallels in their work. Other artistic references are so blatant that it wouldn't be a stretch to imagine it was intentional. The Star Wars saga stretches on through generations, and no doubt it will continue its storytelling for years to come, drawing from various cultures, art, classic myths, plays, and fairy tales.

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The Art of Star Wars, Episode III - Revenge of the Sith cites "Ophelia" by John Everett Millais as inspiration...

Daisy Ridley lines up her next project in Cleaner, a Die Hard-style thriller from Casino Royale director Martin Campbell. Ridley’s life changed forever when she took on the role of Rey in 2015’s blockbuster Star Wars sequel trilogy entry The Force Awakens. Recently it was revealed that Ridley’s Rey will return in a new Star Wars franchise film entitled New Jedi Order, set fifteen years after The Rise of Skywalker.

In addition to her ongoing duties in the Star Wars universe, Ridley continues to line up other projects, including a just-revealed Die Hard-like action film directed by the man who made GoldenEye, Casino Royale and The Mask of Zorro. As reported by Deadline, Cleaner will star Ridley as a former special forces soldier named Joey Locke who now washes windows on London’s towering Shard building, who goes John McClane after radical activists take 300 hostages inside the building.

There’s surprising news out of “Celebration,” the movable feast pep rally that the Star Wars franchise holds for itself. This year’s event is being held in London, and it opened with a bang as big as an exploding Death Star.

Daisy Ridley will return to the galaxy far, far away and reprise her role of Rey (sometimes called Rey Skywalker) in one of the upcoming Star Wars films. The untitled project is set 15 years after the events of “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.” Ridley’s Rey will appear as Jedi master, teaching at a Jedi academy. It is unclear if she is the principal character or not.

Ridley herself appeared on stage with director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and Lucasfilm big Kathleen Kennedy to the gasps of the assembled fans.

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The cast of the Star Wars sequel trilogy includes some of the most renowned actors of their time playing exciting new characters in a galaxy far, far away. When Disney acquired Lucasfilm, the first project the studio fast-tracked into development was a Star Wars sequel trilogy that picks up three decades after Return of the Jedi. The sequel trilogy brought back familiar icons like Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher in their beloved roles from the original Star Wars trilogy, but it also cast a bunch of fresh faces like Daisy Ridley and Adam Driver as brand-new characters.

Some of the actors in the Star Wars sequel trilogy were already well-known stars from other franchises before joining the ensemble, like Andy Serkis and Gwendoline Christie, while others were launched to international stardom by their Star Wars roles, like John Boyega and Oscar Isaac. The sequel trilogy introduced some promising new figures to the Star Wars universe,...

A few months after the book first hit shelves, Tom Felton's Harry Potter co-stars Jason Isaacs and Rupert Grint have a jokingly honest review of his memoir. Much like fellow child actors Grint, Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson, Felton rose to prominence for his role in the franchise adaptation of J.K. Rowling's fantasy novels centered on the eponymous young wizard and his adventures while attending Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. Felton starred in the films as Draco Malfoy, Harry's frequent rival and bully and a member of the Death Eaters for some time.

Though having debuted at No. 1 on the New York Times' nonfiction bestseller list, Tom Felton's Harry Potter co-stars Jason Isaacs and Rupert Grint have an honest review for his memoir.

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Where do you go after headlining a "Star Wars" trilogy? It's a dilemma multiple actors have faced over the decades, and the outcomes have varied wildly. Some have gone on to enjoy incredible careers in fields such as voice acting and script doctoring, whereas others have followed their time playing in the immensely popular sci-fi fantasy sandbox by making actually real movies like the "'Romeo and Juliet,' but with pizza businesses" rom-com "Little Italy." Journeying to a galaxy far, far away can be a proper roll of the dice, in other words, so far as the impact it can have on your professional ambitions as a performer is concerned.

In the wake of the "Star Wars" sequel trilogy, its leads have all found themselves in dramatically different places. Admittedly, not much has changed for Oscar Isaac and Adam Driver, both of whom have continued to make fascinating career choices,...

William Shakespeare's classics like Romeo and Juliet are the best stories to receive the movie treatment, but a powerful tragedy that is difficult to illuminate is Hamlet. Shakespeare's definitive themes of revenge, love, and betrayal, as well as elegant and passionate dialogue, define Hamlet's epic tale. "To be or not to be" is Hamlet's iconic line that has been uttered by esteemed actors such as Kenneth Branagh and Laurence Olivier over the years. The words may seem simple, but there is deep meaning behind them as they convey Hamlet's inner thoughts as he comes to terms with his father's death.

Adapting Shakespeare's tragedy for the screen requires delicacy, not just with the Renaissance backdrop but the discourse and vernacular that impassion Hamlet to seek his arduous journey. The visual interpretation and character study may vary between filmmakers with some choosing a modernized approach or a changed framework that promotes...

Tom Felton addresses rumors that he was once in the running to play Han Solo in Solo: A Star Wars Story. Felton was a very young actor when he was cast as Slytherin bully Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter films. He would go on to portray the same character in all the subsequent Harry Potter movies, ending with 2011’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2.

Then after portraying bad guy Draco Malfoy for over a decade, Felton went on to star in a variety of different movies, including Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Megan Leavey and Ophelia. But according to one internet rumor, the actor was at one time up for a much bigger role in a much bigger movie franchise. As scuttlebutt has it, Felton was among a group of young actors that was considered to take on the role of Han Solo in Disney...

The tragic origin story of DC Comics hero Batman has gotten a tragic new meaning in beautiful cover art inspired by William Shakespeare. The origin of the Caped Crusader is one of the most well-known beginnings for a comic book hero. In fact, the tale of Batman's childhood is so engrained in popular culture that even Harley Quinn has mocked DC for its constant retelling with the repetitive image of Martha Wayne's pearls hitting the floor whenever a new Batman movie hits the big-screen.

However, this doesn't necessarily mean that there's nothing new to learn from Batman's origin. It's just been looked at so often that now new angles need to be approached. For example, season 3 of HBO Max's Harley Quinn approached the death of the Waynes by having the villainess become his official grief counselor. This look at how Bruce Wayne became Batman put the character in a...

[Warning: The following contains Major spoilers for Fear the Walking Dead Season 7 Episode 15, “Amina.”] Just as Fear the Walking Dead is welcoming back Kim Dickens as Madison Clark, the AMC drama said goodbye to another Clark. The May 29 episode, “Amina,” marked Alycia Debnam-Carey’s last, and following its airing, the actress posted a long farewell on Instagram about “the end of an extraordinary and life changing journey of playing Alicia Clark.” The show “has gifted me so much,” she wrote. “It has been the most extraordinary training ground as an actor where I’ve been given the chance to grow and learn. I’ve had the honour of working with so many inspiring and talented people. It provided new opportunities, such as directing and it has bonded me to such incredible fans that have supported me along the way.” The star made her directorial debut with the Season 7 episode, “Ofelia.” Debnam-Carey was with the show from the beginning,...

[Warning: The following contains spoilers for Fear The Walking Dead Season 7 Episode 11, “Ofelia.”] After seven seasons of playing Alicia Clark on Fear The Walking Dead, Alycia Debnam-Carey has stepped into a new role: director. Debnam-Carey talked to TV Insider about which scene she was most excited (and most nervous) to shoot, how she felt about putting Luciana (Danay Garcia) front and center in her episode, and — as a bonus! — we’ve included an excellent question that fellow Fear actor Omid Abtahi asked her during Fear’s preview junket. Lauren “Lo” Smith/AMC During the preview junket, you said you were excited to direct on Fear because you know the show like the back of your hand. How did your longevity on the series play into the choices you made behind the camera? Alycia Debnam-Carey: Because I’ve been on Fear for so long, it weaved its way into my choices without me knowing in so many ways.

Fear the Walking Dead has been straddling the fine line between good and bad throughout Fear the Walking Dead Season 7, but Fear the Walking Dead Season 7 Episode 11 was a step in the right direction.

If there's been one complaint about the series, it's that the characters who matter and deserve storylines are regularly sidelined or forgotten about entirely.

If you watch Fear the Walking Dead online, you know Daniel and Luciana are some of the longest-serving cast members, so their return to the forefront felt more like a way of appeasing the complaining fans.

Daniel's health has been declining for a while now, and titling the episode "Ofelia" reiterated that this outing would be a deep dive into some of the better characters.

The complicated dynamic between Daniel and Luciana has been exciting, to say the least, but it was obvious that, at times, he thought Luciana was his deceased daughter.

Exclusive: Sebastian de Souza, Eddie Marsan and Rich Sommer have boarded the Chloe Domont-directed finance world thriller opposite Phoebe Dynevor and Alden Ehrenreich.

The MRC and T-Street emerging filmmaker label movie, which Deadline first told you about, is already in production.

de Souza stars as Leo in Hulu and MRC Television’s The Great from Oscar-nominated Tony McNamara. Prior to this, he starred as Gareth in the critically acclaimed adaptation of Normal People, for Hulu and the BBC, directed by the Oscar-nominated Lenny Abrahamson. He was seen in the iconic role of Sandro Botticelli in the second season of Medici, opposite Sean Bean, Daniel Sharman and Bradley James on Netflix. Prior to this, he played a guest lead in the feature Pixie, opposite Alec Baldwin and Olivia Cooke, directed by Barnaby Thompson. He also played Edmund in Claire McCarthy’s feature Ophelia, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival,...

Buenos Aires-based Bikini Films, led by Edson Sidonie, has boarded “Ofelia,” the sophomore pic of Juan Pablo Felix whose acclaimed feature debut “Karnawal” won best direction at last year’s Guadalajara fest and best Ibero-American film at the Malaga Film Festival in June.

France’s Luz Verde has also come on board as a producer.

“Ofelia” has been selected to participate in Ibermedia’s Ibero-American Project Development Course currently taking place in Madrid. The political drama, set in 2009 Argentina during the tenure of controversial president Cristina Kirchner, exposes the hypocrisies of the Argentine bourgeoisie and the ideological rift in which the country found itself.

“‘Ofelia’ tells the story of an elderly lesbian woman in Argentina who still has not been able to face her sexuality with freedom because she lives in a bourgeois, conservative and patriarchal system, dominated by the men of the family,” said Felix.

“It’s a political film,...

"The modern woman is forward-looking, not backward-looking." Sky Cinema in the UK has unveiled the official trailer for a biopic film titled The Colour Room, the latest from filmmaker Claire McCarthy. This hasn't played at any festivals, but will be debuting on Sky in the UK in November; no US date has been announced. The film is inspired by the life of history-making ceramicist Clarice Cliff. "Her pottery made history, her story broke every rule." This one stars Phoebe Dynevor (from "Bridgerton") as Clarice, "a working-class woman in the 1920s who bounces between jobs in different factories, constantly getting in trouble for not putting up with sexism and trying to push her creative ideas." She teams up with a factory, and then "fights to have her art recognised and for men to acknowledge that women can do whatever they put their minds to." Matthew Goode also co-stars, with David Morissey,...

By the power of Grayskull, Netflix’s list of new releases for July 2021 is here!

As you may have been able to tell by that clever opening, July is the month that Masters of the Universe: Revelation arrives on Netflix. This animated series from Kevin Smith continues the classic stories of He-Man and his buff friends. If nostalgia not be what ye seek, Netflix has plenty other original series this month as well. The amazingly hilarious sketch series I Think You Should Leave With Tim Robinson returns for season 2 on July 6. Also returning for a second season are Beastars, Never Have I Ever (both on July 15), and Outer Banks (July 30).

Netflix’s movie offerings are pretty thick this month since July marks the real beginning of the summer blockbuster season. The streamer is bringing not one, but three Fear Street films based on R.L. Stine’s classic book series. They...

Young adult horror fans (and those who are young adult at heart) will have a great time scrolling through Netflix in July 2021.

The streaming giant announced the new original movies and series coming to the service in July, as well as the library titles it will feature for the foreseeable future.

Among the biggest projects include a trilogy of “Fear Street” films from director Leigh Janiak (“Honeymoon”) and based on the teen horror franchise by R.L. Stine. The three movies will debut over consecutive weeks on Netflix, with the first dropping July 2.

The other big movie project coming to Netflix in July is “The Last Letter from Your Lover,” a time-spanning romance from novelist Jojo Moyes and filmmaker Augustine Frizzell starring Shailene Woodley and Oscar-nominee Felicity Jones.

On the archival front, some major movies arriving on Netflix include all five films in the “Twilight” franchise, the original “Karate Kid” trilogy,...

Daisy Ridley opens up in the February 2021 edition of Tatler magazine (via Yahoo) about being labeled as “intimidating” and “quite aggressive” by crew members during different productions. Ridley’s career includes three “Star Wars” movies, “Murder on the Orient Express,” “Ophelia,” and the upcoming Doug Liman-directed action movie “Chaos Walking,” among other titles. It was on “Chaos Walking” where a crew member told the actress she’s intimidating.

“I’ve been told that I’m intimidating,” Ridley said. “That was on ‘Chaos Walking.’ I was having my hair done, having my wig put on. I remember thinking, ‘God, should I be smaller? Should I be quieter?’ I’ve been called aggressive, too. My energy is ‘quite aggressive.’ That was during a meeting with a director.”

“I was thinking: ‘But why? Is it because I maintained eye contact? Is it because I’m passionate about what we’re talking about?...

Exclusive: Sebastian De Souza, who is a series regular on the new Hulu period comedy, The Great, has signed with Anonymous Content for representation.

De Souza stars opposite Fanning and Nicholas Hoult in The Great, created by Oscar-nominated writer Tony McNamara. The show chronicles a genre-bending, anti-historical ride through 18th century Russia and follows the rise of Catherine the Nothing to Catherine the Great.

De Souza also guest-starred in another critically acclaimed Hulu series, Normal People, based on the bestselling novel by Sally Rooney. Other credits include Medici on Netflix, the Channel 4 series Skins, ABC’s Recovery Road, and Showtime’s The Borgias. He’s currently developing a YA television show for Disney.

Up next for De Souza on the film side is Pixie, the Barnaby Thompson-directed feature in which he appears alongside Alec Baldwin and Olivia Cooke, set to be released later this year. He previously co-starred...

Abigail Lawrie, Tom Felton, and Val Kilmer have signed on to star in Canyon Del Muerto, a film about the life of Ann Axtell Morris, one of America’s first female archaeologists and a co-discoverer of North America’s first civilization.

Elias Koteas, Ewen Bremner, Bronson Webb, and Hanako Footman also co-star.

Coerte Voorhees will direct the feature from a screenplay he wrote based on Morris’ two novels, Digging in Yucatan and Digging in the Southwest. Voorhees is producing the pic with his brother John under their A Visionary Film banner with First Line Films and The Vladar Company.

Said Voorhees, “Ann’s story has been with me since I was a...

Making the transition from being a complete unknown to playing a major role in a blockbuster franchise doesn’t always lead to a long and successful career as a top-tier Hollywood talent, and it seems especially true when it comes to Star Wars. Mark Hamill never managed to escape the shadow of Luke Skywalker despite enjoying a lengthy second life as one of the industry’s most accomplished voice actors, while Hayden Christensen quickly faded into obscurity once his time in a galaxy far, far away came to an end.

Daisy Ridley will be hoping to avoid a similar fate following The Rise of Skywalker, which catapulted her to worldwide fame and recognition, with The Force Awakens marking just her second-ever movie when it hit theaters five years ago. Ridley has only made two live-action appearances in the interim as the lead of little-seen drama Ophelia and as part of...

The Last Waltz is one of the greatest concert movies of all time. It’s also one of the most over-tributed. But Marcus King and a cast of Nashville’s finest breathed new life into the Band’s storied farewell show on Monday night with fresh arrangements and, in some cases, even new lyrics.

The leader of the Marcus King Band wrapped up his Four of Kind: Live From Nashville virtual concert series by playing 15 songs from the landmark 1976 gig, along with a group of friendly musicians. Opening with a slowed-down,...

‘Hotel Mumbai’.

Nick Matthews was named Australian cinematographer of the year for his work on director Anthony Maras’ Hotel Mumbai at the annual Australian Cinematographers Society (Acs) National Awards on Saturday night.

In addition, he collected the Gold Tripod for features budgeted above $2 million with Denson Baker receiving an award of distinction in that category for Claire McCarthy’s Ophelia.

In the awards presented online, Dion Beebe, Roger Lanser and John Wheeler were inducted into the Hall of Fame and the Ron Windon Award went to Robb Shaw-Velzen.

For features budgeted below $2 million Joshua Flavell received the Gold Tripod for David Barker’s Pimped and Chris Bland got the award of distinction for Heath Davis’ Locusts.

Among the other honorees, Zoe White won the drama series or telefeatures prize for The Handmaid’s Tale and Katie Milwright took the dramatised documentaries gong for Matthew Sleeth’s Guilty, which chronicles the final...

George MacKay has been a working actor since childhood. He got his start in 2003's Peter Pan, then went on to memorable supporting roles in Pride, Ophelia, and Captain Fantastic. His career breakthrough came last year as Lance Corporal Schofield in 1917. The riveting World War I epic was a box office hit and awards darling, winning the Golden Globe and BAFTA for Best Film. MacKay carried the film on his shoulders with a quiet, resolute performance.

His first foray as a leading man was shot right before 1917. True History of the Kelly Gang is a post-modern, punk rock retelling of Australia's most infamous outlaw and folk hero. Ned Kelly waged an insurrection against British Colonial rule in the 1870s. Director Justin Kurzel takes dramatic license and portrays Ned Kelly as a muscled, homoerotic firebrand forced into brutality. True History of the Kelly Gang foregoes a standard narrative with a highly stylized and segmented approach.

Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Albertina Carri's The Daughters of Fire is exclusively showing March 23 - April 21, 2020 in Mubi's Undiscovered series.Dating back to making shorts in the late 1990s, Albertina Carri has become a significant iconoclast in Argentine cinema in both realms of fiction and non-fiction films. Film and politics run in her blood and have long informed her confrontational and subversive sensibilities. As a queer woman, sex and gender amid homophobia, sexism, maschismo culture, and the male gaze also inform her work and career, which in addition to filmmaking also has her working within Argentine film culture as a major creative force behind Argentina’s Lgbtq film festival, Asterisco. Her most recent feature, The Daughters of Fire, is provocative in its explicit scenes among a group of queer women in which sex is presented in shockingly honest and upfront detail in fully pornographic splendor.

In 1968, the Band recorded “The Weight,” a song full of images and characters that Robbie Robertson said he had been storing in his imagination for years. Robertson admits in his autobiography, Testimony, that he struggled to articulate to producer John Simon what the song was even about, but it’s become the Band’s most well-known classic, and it still echoes loudly today. Playing for Change, a group dedicated to “opening up how people see the world through the lens of music and art,” recently spent two years filming artists around the world,...