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Anne Hathaway's new movie The Idea of You earned a Certified Fresh score of 88% on Rotten Tomatoes. The movie has earned the star her best Rotten Tomatoes score in five years and tied for her second best score ever. Despite her career being dominated by low Rotten Tomatoes scores, Hathaway has had major successes as well.

The Idea of You has earned Anne Hathaway one of her best Rotten Tomatoes scores ever. The Harry Styles-inspired romance movie, which is based on Robinne Lee's novel of the same name, stars Hathaway as single mother Solne Marchand, who stumbles into a whirlwind romance with boy band superstar Hayes Campbell (Nicholas Galitzine). The ensemble cast of the movie also includes Ella Rubin, Reid Scott, Jordan Aaron Hall, Jaiden Anthony, Raymond Cham Jr, Annie Mumolo, and Perry Mattfeld.

Rotten Tomatoes has now aggregated an official score for the Anne Hathaway age-gap romance after its Prime Video premiere.

Ben Affleck's movie The Way Back received high praise for its realistic portrayal of alcoholism and his raw performance, which was heightened by his own struggles with the disease in real life. Despite positive reviews, the film struggled at the box office as a result of its release coinciding with the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020. Now that The Way Back is available to stream on Amazon Prime Video, it has a second chance at reaching a wider audience and gaining the recognition it deserves.

Now that it's streaming on Amazon Prime Video, Ben Affleck's most underrated movie in recent years can finally find the bigger audience it deserves. Though he's had some ups and downs, Ben Affleck has managed to maintain impressive longevity in his career since making his acting debut as a child in the '80s. In the 30+ years since, the two-time Oscar winner...

The Killer.How do you make a good movie in this country and be jumped on?Once, in 1967, in the opener for her Bonnie and Clyde review, Pauline Kael asked the opposite question: “How do you make a good movie in this country without being jumped on?” Now, times have changed. Nothing provokes us to jump and say, “Hold the torches! That’s the key! The way forward.”An automatic film like David Fincher’s new thriller, The Killer, comes and goes with the velocity of a Twitter news cycle: about six fervent days of talk. (The seventh and beyond? Fits and bursts of takes amid miles of silence.) Whether you think it’s good or bad, The Killer has not lingered in the popular consciousness. And I can’t imagine it lingering. It might have passed me by with the similarly fleeting presence of recent moving-image works like Richard Linklater...

In 2018, “Saturday Night Live” captured the public perception of Netflix as a ceaseless river of content. In a satiric ad, the late-night program hawked the streaming service as an “endless scroll,” promising that “by the time you’ve reached the bottom of our menu, there’s new shows at the top.” And when it came to movies, “SNL” joked that Netflix was so desperate for things to make, it had resorted to shooting the fake films from “Entourage.”

Scott Stuber, the head of Netflix’s film division, is the man responsible for feeding the algorithm, and for much of his six-year run, his mandate was clear: quantity, not quality. In 2020, for instance, Netflix announced it planned to release a new movie every week. It never got around to making “Medellín,” Vincent Chase’s passion project from “Entourage,” but the strain of producing so many films showed. For every Oscar winner like “Roma,...

Ben Affleck was on a hot streak in Rotten Tomatoes, but his new movie, Hypnotic, ruined the trend. Ben Affleck has acted in 53 movies since 1992 earning Rotten Tomatoes scores across the entire spectrum from "Rotten" to "Fresh," and the 2020s were shaping up to be a new career high point until Hypnotic's poor reviews and Rotten Tomatoes score brought his average score back down.

After decades of ups and down, Affleck's newest movie, Air, earned a 92 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, giving him a 61 percent average for every movie released since 2020, just one point lower than his career-best 62 percent average for every Ben Affleck movie released in the 1990s. A score of 66-73 percent would have made his 2020s Rotten Tomatoes average tied with his 1990s average, and 73 percent or higher would have bumped him to a career-high 63 percent. Unfortunately, Hypnotic's Rotten review score brought his average down, although...

Exclusive: Jimmi Simpson (Pachinko) and Clancy Brown (Dexter: New Blood) have boarded Audrey’s Children — the biopic that Ami Canaan Mann (Texas Killing Fields) is directing for Amasia Entertainment (Wild Mountain Thyme) and Resonate Entertainment (Sitting in Bars with Cake) — with Brandon Micheal Hall (Search Party), Julianna Layne (Prodigal Son), Ben Chase (The Thing About Pam) and Evelyn Giovine (The Crowded Room) also signing on for roles.

The film currently in production in Philadelphia tells the story of Dr. Audrey Evans (Natalie Dormer), the revolutionary pediatric oncologist best known as the co-founder of Ronald McDonald House Charities — the world-famous organization that provides housing and support to millions of families in 62 countries around the world. Pic’s set in 1969 and follows her as she bursts onto the scene as the Chief of Pediatric Oncology at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, when the survival rate for children with cancer was less than 10. In...

At first, FX’s new drama “The Patient” is by and large a two-hander centered on psychologist Alan Strauss (Steve Carell) and the serial-killing patient, Sam Fortner (Domhnall Gleeson), who abducts him in a desperate attempt to stop himself from murdering again. But as the taut thriller series unfolds, it also expands, introducing a handful of key players beyond the walls of Alan’s prison/Sam’s basement, be it through memory, imagination, or Sam’s constantly tense trips back to the outside world.

If you’re wondering who’s who in “The Patient” cast, we’ve got you covered with a comprehensive roundup of the series’ stars — and where you’ve seen them before.

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Actor and filmmaker Griffin Dunne paid tribute to his aunt, acclaimed author Joan Didion, who died on Thursday at 87.

Dunne said Didion, who was the subject of his haunting 2017 Netflix documentary “Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold,” “wrote about grief to find out what she felt, but ended up giving hope and meaning to those who needed it most.”

“Yesterday morning I said goodbye to my Aunt Joan for the last time,” Dunne, the son of Didion’s brother-in-law, author Dominick Dunne, said in a statement on Friday. “Yesterday morning her enormous readership also began their goodbyes to Joan Didion, one of the greatest writers of our time.

“In 1961, as a young contributor at Vogue, Joan once wrote, ‘People with self-respect exhibit a certain toughness, a kind of moral nerve; they display what was once called character.’ As her nephew, I was fortunate enough to witness firsthand Joan’s character,...

Joan Didion, the author revered for her coolly dispassionate essays and novels such as “Play It as It Lays,” has died, her publisher confirmed to The New York Times on Wednesday. She was 87. Along with her late husband John Gregory Dunne, Didion co-wrote screenplays for the films “True Confessions,” “A Star Is Born,” “The Panic in Needle Park” and “Up Close and Personal.”

It was the 1968 essay collection “Slouching Towards Bethlehem” and 1970 novel “Play It as It Lays,” which she also adapted for a 1972 film, that secured her reputation as a sharp-eyed observer of the culture and people of California and beyond.

Another essay collection, 1979’s “The White Album,” assembled from her pieces in Esquire and other magazines, took on subjects that defined the era such as Charles Manson and the Doors, further cementing her place as one of the foremost chroniclers of the tumultuous ’60s and ’70s.

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Exclusive: Actor and producer Edi Gathegi has signed with Inspire Entertainment for management representation.

He next will be seen in the Netflix western The Harder They Fall, produced by Jay Z, in which Gathegi stars alongside Idris Elba, Regina King, Lakeith Stanfield and Zazie Beetz. He also recently joined Joel Kinnaman in Apple TV+ sci-fi drama For All Mankind in a new series-regular role for its upcoming third season. Additionally, he stars in the Crackle series StartUp opposite Ron Perlman and Martin Freeman.

Gathegi also can be seen in Sam Esmail’s USA network show Briarpatch, starring as A.D. Singe opposite Rosario Dawson. His recent film credits include Pimp, produced by Lee Daniels; Better Start Running, with Jeremy Irons; and The Last Thing He Wanted, directed by Dee Rees and starring Anne Hathaway and Ben Affleck.

He made his off-Broadway stage debut in Signature Theatre’s Jesus Hopped the A Train,...

Ten years ago, filmmaker Dee Rees changed the game for queer filmmaking with her stunning semi-autobiographical debut feature, “Pariah.” The compelling coming-of-age story is set in Brooklyn and follows 17-year-old Alike (Adepero Oduye), a whip-smart high school student trying to grapple with her identity. At the same time, her straight-laced church-going parents, portrayed by Charles Parnell and Kim Waynes, continue to deny Alike’s evident sexual awakening.

“Pariah” was a force. Arriving at the Sundance Film Festival 15 years after Cheryl Dunye’s “The Watermelon Woman,” Rees’ first feature was nominated for countless awards and cemented her status as a major filmmaker. She followed it with “Mudbound” in 2017, which scored her an Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. Her last effort, the Netflix-produced “The Last Thing He Wanted,” yielded mixed reviews — but Rees has already moved on with a slate of promising new projects, all of which suggest she’s...

Sia and Rudy Giuliani lead the 2021 Razzie Award winners. With the Academy Awards taking place tomorrow and celebrating the best of the best in Hollywood, the Razzies had to reveal their picks for the worst in entertainment the day before. Unlike the Academy Awards, which are taking place in person this year, the Razzies took another year off, due to the pandemic. If all goes well, the annual event will be back in action next year with a live audience cheering on the worst of 2021.

Singer/songwriter Sia's Music led the pack with three 2021 Razzie Awards wins. The Worst Actress award went to Kate Hudson, Supporting Actress Maddie Ziegler, while the Worst Director honors went to Sia. The movie had good intentions, but was criticized for its portrayal of autism and for casting neurotypical actress Maddie Ziegler as a nonverbal girl on the autism spectrum. While many believed that Music...

Sia’s directorial debut Music and Mike “MyPillow Guy” Lindell’s “documentary” Absolute Proof each won multiple Razzies at this year’s Golden Raspberry Awards, the annual pre-Oscars celebration of the worst movies and acting performances of the year.

Lindell was awarded both Worst Picture and Worst Actor for Absolute Proof, the pillow mogul’s film about rigged voting machines and the 2020 presidential election. Kate Hudson and Maddie Ziegler were awarded Worst Actress and Worst Supporting Actress for Music, with Sia also receiving Worst Director.

Other “winners” include Rudy Giuliani,...

As is tradition, the Golden Raspberry Awards announced its winners on the eve of the Oscars. The Razzies, now in their 41st year, are a tongue-in-cheek ceremony that “honor” the worst films of the year. Scroll down for the full list of winners (and nominees) in all nine Razzie Awards categories ranging from Worst Picture to Worst Remake, Rip-Off, or Sequel.

Leading the 2021 Razzie Awards winners list is “Music,” Sia‘s ill-conceived film about the relationship between an autistic girl (Maddie Ziegler) and her newly sober half-sister (Kate Hudson). Sia won Worst Director while Ziegler, who is not autistic, and Hudson were singled out for acting dishonors.

“Music,” which was filmed in 2017, had been a surprise contender at the Golden Globes, earning bids for Best Musical/Comedy and for leading lady Hudson. Among those that Ziegler faced off against was Glenn Close for “Hillbilly Elegy,” who is also in contention at Sunday’s Oscars.

Rudy Giuliani wins Worst Supporting Actor for “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm,” Sia’s “Music” snags three awards

Here’s a vote that actually went Mike Lindell’s way — the MyPillow CEO has topped this year’s Razzies by winning Worst Actor and Worst Picture.

Lindell and his voter-fraud-pushing film “Absolute Proof” beat out a field that included “Dolittle” with Robert Downey Jr., “Fantasy Island” and Sia’s “Music” for the title of the worst movie of the year at this year’s Golden Raspberry Awards (aka the Razzies).

Lindell also won the title of Worst Actor for portraying himself in his conspiratorial film that pushed false and debunked claims that the 2020 election was rigged and flipped against Donald Trump. The Razzies voting body in a release called “Absolute Proof” a “faux documentary” and a “two-hour, fake news snooze-fest.”

Lindell wasn’t the only GOP figure who got dinged for some of...

Gold Derby users are predicting the “winners” in all nine categories at the 2021 Razzie Awards, which go to the worst achievements in film and will be announced on Saturday, April 24, the day before the Oscars celebrate the industry’s best (though this year there’s some overlap). So who will win? Scroll down for our official racetrack odds, with our projected winners highlighted in gold.

It looks like bad news for “Music,” which is the front-runner to win Worst Picture, Worst Director (Sia), Worst Actress (Kate Hudson), and Worst Supporting Actress (Maddie Ziegler). The film was criticized early on when singer-songwriter Sia cast Ziegler in the title role as an autistic girl instead of an autistic actor. It found itself back in the media’s crosshairs after the Golden Globes surprisingly nominated it for Best Film Comedy/Musical and Best Actress (Hudson). Then reviewers panned the film for depicting autism in harmful,...

Los Angeles, March 13 (Ians) Former Mayor of New York, Rudy Giuliani, has been nominated for two Razzies this year, for his appearance in "Borat Subsequent MovieFilm". The personal attorney to Donald Trump is vying for Worst Supporting Actor, and also Worst Screen Combo along with Bulgarian actress Maria Bakalova, who plays Borats daughter in the film.

Top names from Hollywood who have been nominated across categories at this year's Razzie awards include Robert Downey Jr. in "Dolittle", Adam Sandler in "Hubie Halloween", Anne Hathaway in "The Last Thing He Wanted", and "The Witches", Glenn Close for "Hillbilly Elegy" and Kristen Wiig for "Wonder Woman 1984".

The Golden Raspberry Awards, popularly known as Razzies, is a spoof awards show that ‘honour' the worst of cinematic works of the year.

Here's the complete list of nominees for Razzies 2021:

Worst Picture

365 Days

Absolute Proof

Dolittle

Fantasy Island

Music

Worst Actor

Robert Downey Jr.

As is tradition, the Golden Raspberry Awards announced their contenders on the eve of the Oscar nominations. The Razzies, now in their 41st year, are a tongue-in-cheek ceremony that “honor” the worst films of the year. Scroll down for the full list of nominees in all nine Razzie Awards categories ranging from Worst Picture to Worst Remake, Rip-Off, or Sequel.

Leading the 2021 Razzie Awards nominations roster are two remakes: “Dolittle” and “365 Days.” Each of these ill-conceived movies reaped six bids, including Worst Picture. Joining them in that race are five-time nominee “Fantasy Island,” three-time contender “Music” and the documentary “Absolute Proof.”

“Music” was a surprise contender at the Golden Globes, earning bids for Best Musical/Comedy and for leading lady Kate Hudson. She is in contention here for Worst Actress and Maddie Ziegler is up for Worst Supporting Actress. Among those that Ziegler faces off against is Glenn Close for “Hillbilly Elegy,...

The Golden Raspberry Awards "honors" the worst cinematic under-achievements every year, and the full nomination list has been revealed for the 41st annual event. Looking at the movies of 2020, this year's Razzies take aim at Robert Downey Jr.'s Dolittle remake, Sia's controversial musical drama Music, and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell's stolen-election documentary Absolute Proof.

The Razzies also awarded a "Special Governors' Trophy" to the year 2020 as "The Worst Calendar Year Ever." Though he wasn't acting, Rudy Giuliani's "cameo" in Borat Subsequent Moviefilm also has several nominations. Some of the other Razzie noms include the panned Fantasy Island reboot and the Netflix comedies Hubie Halloween with Adam Sandler and The Wrong Missy with David Spade. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jackie Chan's Iron Mask also made the list.

Another title with multiple nominations is 365 Days, a polish ripoff of Fifty Shades of Grey. The universally-panned movie holds...

Sia’s Music, Robert Downey Jr.’s Dolittle, and the Netflix movie 365 Days are among the maligned films to receive multiple nominations for the 2021 Golden Raspberry Awards, a.k.a. the Razzies, the annual celebration of Hollywood’s worst films and performances.

In the prestigious Worst Picture category, Dolittle (“cinematic yak dung,” as Rolling Stone described it), Music, and 365 Days will face off against the Blumhouse horror reboot Fantasy Island and Absolute Proof, Mike “the My Pillow Guy” Lindell’s “documentary” about rigged voting machines.

Lindell also earned...

The Razzie Awards nominations for 2020 are here, recognizing the worst movies in a year that the Razzies acknowledge “sucked big time.” Robert Downey Jr. in “Dolittle” and Mike Lindell (aka the MyPillow guy) both landed Worst Actor nominations.

Downey Jr.’s “Dolittle” led all movies with six nominations, including Worst Picture. Lindell picked up a nod for his election conspiracy film “Absolute Proof,” which Oann aired — but only with a disclaimer that the details in the movie should be taken as opinions, not facts.

“Dolittle” was tied for the most nominations with the mafia film “365 Days,” which was also nominated for Worst Picture, Worst Actor (Michele Morrone) and Worst Actress (Anna-Maria Sieklucka).

Some other low lights of the Razzie nominations include perennial contender Adam Sandler, who was nominated for Worst Actor for “Hubie Halloween” and Worst Screen Combo for himself and “His Grating Simpleton Voice.”

Though Sia’s film...

The annual Golden Raspberry Awards, given to the year’s least best movies, unveiled their nominations Friday, with the Robert Downey Jr remake Dolittle, Sia’s Music, Mr Pillow Mike Lindell’s stolen-election documentary Absolute Proof and Rudy Giuliani’s cameo in Borat Subsequent Moviefilm the most panned by the group.

The Razzies also awarded a “Special Governors’ Trophy” to the year 2020 as “The Worst Calendar Year Ever.”

Other projects that drew Razzie attention were the reimagined Fantasy Island movie and the Netflix comedies Hubie Halloween and The Wrong Missy, as well as the Polish erotic drama 365 Days.

Cats was the runaway winner last year with six Razzies.

Here’s the full list of this year’s nominees:

Worst Picture

365 Days

Absolute Proof

Dolittle

Fantasy Island

Music

Worst Actor

Robert Downey, Jr.- Dolittle

Mike Lindell (The “My Pillow” Guy) – Absolute Proof

Michele Morrone,- 365 Days

Adam Sandler...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Thursday revealed the 366 feature films that are eligible for consideration at the 93rd Oscars, which are set to air April 25 live on ABC.

The total number of films is up from last year’s 344 films in contention.

This year’s list was compiled based on tweaked eligibility rules implemented because of the coronavirus pandemic, which has pushed the ceremony to its latest date ever. For this year, feature films had to open by February 28 in a commercial motion picture theater for a seven-day qualifying run in at least one of six metro areas: Los Angeles County, New York City, the Bay Area, Chicago, Miami and Atlanta. Drive-in theaters open nightly were included as qualifying venues, as were films intended for theatrical release but because of the lockdown made available first via streaming, VOD service or other broadcast.

Today’s news comes...

Exclusive: Newcomer Ainsley Seiger has been cast as a series regular opposite Christopher Meloni, Dylan McDermott, Tamara Taylor and Danielle Moné Truitt, in Law & Order: Organized Crime, and Charlotte Sullivan (Rookie Blue), Nick Creegan (David Makes Man), Ben Chase (The Last Thing He Wanted) and Jaylin Fletcher (Snowpiercer) are set to recur in NBC’s Svu spinoff series.

The drama, now filming in New York after a brief pause earlier this month due to a positive Covid test, will premiere April 1 at 10 Pm as part of a crossover with Law & Order: Svu at 9 Pm that same night.

In Law & Order: Organized Crime, Elliot Stabler (Meloni) returns to the NYPD to battle organized crime after a devastating personal loss. Stabler will aim to rebuild his life as part of a new elite task force that is taking apart the city’s most powerful criminal syndicates one by one.

Paula Newsome, Matt Lauria and Mel Rodriguez have been cast as leads in CSI: Vegas, which is nearing a formal straight-to-series order at CBS, I have learned.

I hear William Petersen and Jorja Fox are finalizing their deals to star in CSI: Vegas, which serves as a sequel to the mothership CSI series, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, reprising their roles as Gil Grissom and Sara Sidle, respectively. While billed as an event series, I hear CSI: Vegas, from writer Jason Tracey (Elementary), CBS Studios and Jerry Bruckheimer TV, could become an ongoing series running for multiple seasons.

With CSI: Vegas, the most watched drama series of the 21st century, CSI, opens a new chapter in Las Vegas, the city where it all began. Facing an existential threat that could bring down the Crime Lab, a brilliant team of forensic investigators must welcome back old friends and deploy new techniques to...

CBS is nearing a series order for what would be an event-series revival of crime-lab procedural “CSI,” with Paula Newsome, Matt Lauria and Mel Rodriguez joining the cast, according to a source familiar with the matter.

The Anthony Zuiker and Jerry Bruckheimer series, which aired from 2000-2015, was a longtime hit for the broadcaster. Centering on the crime-solvers of the Las Vegas Crime Lab, the original cast starred William Petersen, Marg Helgenberger, George Eads, Gary Dourdan, Jorja Fox, Paul Guilfoyle, Robert David Hall, and Eric Szmanda. In later seasons, Laurence Fishburne and Ted Danson succeeded Petersen in the lead role.

This iteration has added Newsome, a longtime film, TV and stage actor. She is most recently known for her performance opposite Henry Winkler and Bill Hader as detective Janice Moss in HBO’s “Barry,” as well as a 12-episode arc on NBC’s “Chicago Med.” Other television credits include “City of Angels,...

From buzzy horrors to difficult dramas, this year’s low-key, mostly virtual festival offers a restricted yet intriguing selection

Even in any normal year, trying to predict what will and won’t land at the Sundance film festival is something of a fool’s errand. It’s a lineup filled with small, often totally unknown films, most of which don’t yet have distribution, a long list of italicised question marks waiting to be underlined or erased and what makes it all that much harder to predict is that the movies that premiere with big names are often the biggest disasters. In recent editions, films such as Eighth Grade, The Farewell, Never Rarely Sometimes Always and Hereditary all came from nowhere to end up going somewhere while more obviously starry fare such as Four Good Days (Glenn Close and Mila Kunis), The Last Thing He Wanted (Anne Hathaway and Ben Affleck...

Anne Hathaway has some regrets about using her birth name as her stage name, revealing to Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show this week that she really doesn't like to be called "Anne." On Tuesday night's episode of the late-night talk show, Fallon asked Hathaway whether he should refer to her as "Anne" or "Annie." That's when Anne Hathaway revealed that she much prefers the latter, only going by Anne professionally as that's the name she put on her SAG card when she was 14. Here's what she had to say in response.

"Call me Annie! Everybody, everybody call me Annie, please. Can we talk about my name for a second? Let's spill the tea. When I was 14 years old, I did a commercial and I had to get my SAG card, and they asked me, 'What do you want your name to be?' And I'm like, 'Well, it should be my name.

HBO Max has released the first trailer for Locked Down. This is one of several Hollywood projects that, against all odds, managed to film during quarantine. Director Doug Liman is at the helm of the heist thriller, with a cast led by Anne Hathaway and Chiwetel Ejiofor. As the trailer reveals, the movie makes use of the times we live in by cooking up a crime that could only take place while the world is on lockdown.

The trailer opens with Chiwetel Ejiofor's Paxton having a video chat with some friends. He is on lockdown with his significant other, Linda, played by Anne Hathaway. But there is trouble in paradise. As things go from bad to worse, the feuding couple hatches an ambitious plan to steal an incredibly valuable diamond while the world is otherwise preoccupied. Despite mirroring the dire circumstances many of us are currently dealing with, the trailer...

You’re only as good as your last picture. Nobody knows that better than Ben Affleck, who has been roiled by his up-and-down surf of a career. He’s learned hard lessons along the way. Now, at 48, he’s bent on pursuing the avocation he adopted as a 12-year-old with a SAG card in Boston: acting.

As a multitasker, Affleck occupies an odd Hollywood niche. His star took off when he and buddy Matt Damon won the 1998 Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for “Good Will Hunting.” Damon went on to become a respected movie star, notching three acting Oscar nominations, but Affleck’s talents were shadowed by romantic partners like Gwyneth Paltrow, Jennifer Lopez, Jennifer Garner (to whom he was married for 13 years), Playboy model Shauna Sexton, and most recently, his 31-year-old costar on the pandemic-delayed psychological thriller “Deep Water,” Ana de Armas (“Knives Out”).

And the relentless media coverage of Affleck,...

You’re only as good as your last picture. Nobody knows that better than Ben Affleck, who has been roiled by his up-and-down surf of a career. He’s learned hard lessons along the way. Now, at 48, he’s bent on pursuing the avocation he adopted as a 12-year-old with a SAG card in Boston: acting.

As a multitasker, Affleck occupies an odd Hollywood niche. His star took off when he and buddy Matt Damon won the 1998 Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for “Good Will Hunting.” Damon went on to become a respected movie star, notching three acting Oscar nominations, but Affleck’s talents were shadowed by romantic partners like Gwyneth Paltrow, Jennifer Lopez, Jennifer Garner (to whom he was married for 13 years), Playboy model Shauna Sexton, and most recently, his 31-year-old costar on the pandemic-delayed psychological thriller “Deep Water,” Ana de Armas (“Knives Out”).

And the relentless media coverage of Affleck,...

Anne Hathaway has entered into final talks to join the cast of the Doug Liman directed pandemic movie ‘Lockdown’.

The film is said to be a heist, romantic comedy hybrid set during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Steven Knight wrote the script, and P.J. van Sandwijk is producing with Alison Winter. Stuart Ford’s AGC Studios is fully funding. CAA Media Finance arranged the financing and is co-representing worldwide rights with AGC.

Producers are aiming to begin shooting by the end of September.

Also in news – 64th BFI London Film Festival full line-up announced

Hathaway was last seen in the Mark Ruffalo led ‘Dark Waters, The ‘Dirty Rotten Scoundrels’ gender swap remake ‘The Hustle’ and ‘Serenity’. Her upcoming films include Dee Rees’ ‘The Last Thing he Wanted’ and Robert Zemeckis’ ‘The Witches’ remake for Warner Bros., which is set to be released in 2021.

Liman, best known for working alongside Tom Cruise, with...

Anne Hathaway is in final negotiations to star in Doug Liman’s “Lockdown,” a heist movie and romantic comedy taking place during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Steven Knight wrote the script, and P.J. van Sandwijk is producing with Alison Winter. Stuart Ford’s AGC Studios is fully funding. CAA Media Finance arranged the financing and is co-representing the worldwide rights with AGC. Producers are aiming to begin shooting by the end of September.

Hathaway won an Oscar for supporting actress for 2012’s “Les Miserables.” Her recent credits include “Ocean’s 8,” “Serenity,” “Dark Waters” and “The Hustle.” She starred in Netflix’s political thriller “The Last Thing He Wanted” from Dee Rees and will be seen in Robert Zemeckis’ “The Witches” remake for Warner Bros., which is set to be released in 2021.

Liman has been working with Tom Cruise on an untitled film set to make history as the first narrative feature shot in space,...

While the entertainment industry is facing a crisis unlike any other in history brought about by the global lockdown, Hollywood actors continue to make bank based on past successes and the promise of future projects. Forbes has released a list of 2020's highest-paid actors in the world, with some expected entries and a couple of surprises, including stars from Broadway, Bollywood, and the Chinese film industry.

Topping the list once again is Dwayne Johnson, whose affable onscreen charisma continues to hold him in good stead with audiences. The actor and producer made an estimated $87.5 million in 2020 thanks to his deal with Netflix to star in Red Notice for $23.5 million, as well as his side gig selling his Under Armour line, Project Rock.

Coming in right under Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds slides into number two position, thanks once again to Netflix, which forked over $20 million a piece for the actor to...

For the second year in a row, Dwayne Johnson topped Forbes’ annual list of the best paid actors. See who else made bank in 2020. In its annual calculation of Hollywood’s top earning stars, Forbes looked at the earnings between June 1, 2019, and June 1, 2020.

10. Jackie Chan — $40 million

These days, the 66-year-old martial-arts star makes the bulk of his earnings from endorsement deals, Forbes reported.

9. Adam Sandler — $41 million

The comedian earned raves for the indie “Uncut Gems” but raked in most of his money from a lucrative Netflix deal that was extended in January for four more films.

8. Will Smith — $44.5 million

The action star has had a string of box office hits in the last year, from “Aladdin” to “Gemini Man” to January’s “Bad Boys for Life.”

7. Lin-Manuel Miranda — $45.5 million

The creator and star of “Hamilton” scored big time when Disney paid $75 million for film rights to hit musical, and an...

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has nabbed the title of the world’s highest-paid actor for the second year in a row.

Between June 2019 and June 2020, Johnson racked up $87.5 million, making $23.5 million alone from his starring role in the upcoming Netflix film “Red Notice,” according to Forbes. In addition, Johnson has found monetary success with his Under Armour clothing line, Project Rock.

However, this is a slight decrease from 2019, during which Johnson brought home $89.4 million from starring in “Jumanji: The Next Level,” among other projects. Johnson first topped the list in 2016, with earnings totaling $64.5 million.

Just behind Johnson is his “Red Notice” co-star Ryan Reynolds with $71.5 million. Reynolds was paid $20 million for the film, in addition to another $20 million from Netflix for “Six Underground.” A third Netflix film starring Reynolds is also in the works, bringing another hefty paycheck.

Another Netflix favorite, Mark Wahlberg, came in third with $58 million. His earnings...

“The Last Thing He Wanted” was doomed from the start. Hopes were high at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival for director Dee Rees’ follow-up to the Academy Award-nominated “Mudbound,” but the film immediately suffered scathing reviews, dimming all hopes for its Netflix premiere. In a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, Rees talked about how she’s made peace with the project, adapted from the 1996 novel by Joan Didion, and “would make that film again.”

“You take your knocks, you live and you learn, you try to do better,” said Rees, who broke out of Sundance in 2011 with her feature debut “Pariah,” and for whom a cascade of bad press was a new experience.

“The Last Thing He Wanted” stars Anne Hathaway as a journalist covering the 1984 U.S. Presidential election who inherits her ailing father’s position as an arms dealer for Central America. The movie was beaten against the rocks in Park City,...

As active discussions continue about setting industry guidelines for safe return to production amid the coronavirus pandemic, Film Florida has released the most comprehensive set of such recommendations yet.

Put out on Thursday, April 30, the six-page document by the statewide trade association features 161 recommendations for “clean & healthy” film, TV and digital production sets that spells the possible end of the signature canvas director’s chairs and ubiquitous actors trailers, and the introduction of personalized mics and hairbrushes as well as clear barriers for actors on stage.

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In addition to general guidelines, the brochure contains detailed recommendations for all sections, groups and departments on set,...

The director of Arlington Road, The Mothman Prophecies, Pearl Jam’s Jeremy and many more reflects on his career and some of the movies that made him.

Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode

Arlington Road (1999)

The Mothman Prophecies (2002)

Firewall (2006)

The Orphanage (2007)

Nostalgia (2018)

Avatar (2009)

Titanic (1997)

Chef (2014)

The Laundromat (2019)

Honeymoon In Vegas (1992)

Demonlover (2003)

Under The Sand (2000)

Mulholland Dr. (2001)

Under The Skin (2013)

The Great Beauty (2013)

Slap Shot (1977)

Network (1976)

Straw Dogs (1971)

The Pawnbroker (1964)

Star Wars (1977)

The Exorcist (1973)

Jaws (1975)

The World’s Greatest Athlete (1973)

All The President’s Men (1976)

Liquid Sky (1982)

The Brother From Another Planet (1984)

City Of Hope (1991)

Stop Making Sense (1984)

Snowpiercer (2013)

The Flintstones (1994)

Matinee (1993)

Batman (1989)

Transformers (2007)

A History Of Violence (2005)

Heaven Can Wait (1978)

Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)

Psycho (1960)

Psycho (1998)

Mandy (2018)

Phantom Thread (2017)

Magnolia (1999)

Boogie Nights (1997)

The Master (2012)

There Will Be Blood (2007)

The Mustang (2019)

Inherent Vice (2014)

The New World (2005)

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)

The Last Word (2017)

Cocaine Cowboys (2006)

The Burglar (1957)

What Lies Beneath...

Actress Anne Hathaway is set to star in an adaptation of "French Children Don't Throw Food".

Based on the autobiography from Pamela Druckerman, the project is being financed by StudioCanal, with Blueprint Picture set to produce, reports hollywoodreporter.com.

The story, described as "Julie and Julia" in tone, follows an American journalist who moves to Paris for her husband's job and raises a family there. As she tries to figure out how to balance her family and career, and battle the feelings that she is failing at both, she observes her French neighbours and friends to uncover the secrets behind parenting well-behaved French children. She discovers that everyone, no matter how perfect they might appear, has their own problems.

Jamie Minoprio and Jonathan Stern wrote the most recent draft of the adaptation.

Hathaway is currently seen in the Joan Didion adaptation "The Last Thing He Wanted from Dee Rees" for Netflix.

Anne Hathaway has landed a part in the adaptation of ‘French Children Don’t Throw Food’ which is currently in development at Studiocanal.

Based on the autobiography from Pamela Druckerman, the story follows an American journalist who moves to Paris for her husband’s job and raises a family there. As she tries to figure out how to balance her family and career — and battle the feelings that she is failing at both — she observes her French neighbours and friends uncover the secrets behind parenting astonishingly well-behaved French children. She learns, however, that everyone, no matter how perfect they might appear, has their own problems.

Described as ‘Julie & Julia’ in tone, the most recent draft of the script has been penned by Jamie Minoprio and Jonathan Stern.

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Blueprint Pictures are set to produce.

In today’s film news roundup, Anne Hathaway will portray an American journalist in Paris, blockbuster director Michael Bay signs with Sony Pictures, and “Extra Ordinary” and “The Etruscan Smile” are added to arthouse streaming services.

Casting

Anne Hathaway is starring in the movie “French Children Don’t Throw Food,” based on Pamela Druckerman’s autobiographical book, “Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting.”

StudioCanal is financing and is set to produce with Blueprint Picture. Druckerman, an American journalist, wrote the book after she had a baby in Paris and noticed that French children were well-behaved and slept through the night by the time they were two or three months old.

Jamie Minoprio and Jonathan Stern wrote the most recent draft of the adaptation. Blueprint’s producing credits include Focus Features’ “Emma” and “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.”

Hathaway won an Academy Award for supporting actress in 2012’s “Les Miserables.

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UK producer Wayne Marc Godfrey co-founded the firm.

Purely Capital, a financial technology firm founded by UK producer Wayne Marc Godfrey, has launched an entertainment receivables platform backed by a $150m funding line from a host of institutional lenders and banks.

The platform has been established to meet the need of rights owners, producers and distributors to bridge the funding gap that is created by long-dated payments when content is licensed to global streaming platforms, broadcasters and publishers.

The aim is to provide distributors and rights owners access to immediate cashflow when titles are licensed to those content providers, and when those contracts pay out.

Purely Capital, which is headed by Wayne Marc Godfrey, announced Wednesday the launch of their entertainment FinTech receivables platform backed by $150 million from a variety of institutional lenders and banks.

The platform’s founders describe it as a bespoke technology-driven solution to automate, streamline and standardize the process of financing film and TV production, giving distributors and rights owners access to immediate cashflow by bridging the funding gap between when content is licensed to global streaming platforms, broadcasters and publishers, and when those contracts pay out.

“With more high-level buyers than ever hungry for content, it has arguably never been a better time to be producing and distributing film and TV content,” said Godfrey. “While the unprecedented spend by streamers and broadcasters of more than $120 billion last year is impressive, rights owners are being forced to wait two to five years for licensing contracts to be paid out, putting companies under immense financial strain.

Netflix said Monday it is expanding the rollout of a Top 10 listing that will show its subscribers the 10 most-watched titles each day on the streaming giant.

The service said in a blog post that it had been experimenting with the lists recently in Mexico and the UK, and is now rolling it out in the U.S. and globally. “Members in both countries have found them useful, so we are now rolling them out to even more,” wrote Cameron Johnson, Director of Product Innovation.

The lists, which launched today, appear as a newly designed row of ranked titles — overall as well as separately for film and television on the Movies and TV tabs. Netflix, which has been notoriously private with its viewer data, said the lists will be updated every day, and the position of the row will vary depending on how relevant the shows and films are to the user.

At long last, Netflix subscribers will be able to see which of the streaming service’s series and films are getting the most traction. The streaming service is adding a “Top 10” row to its homepage, which will be updated every day to note the most popular titles within the subscriber’s country.

Netflix announced the addition in a blog post on the company’s website Monday. Subscribers will be able to sort the list by overall Top 10 Netflix titles, the streaming service’s 10 most popular television series, and its 10 most popular films. The position of the row will vary depending on how relevant the streaming service’s Top 10 shows and films are to each subscriber and each project on the lists will have a special badge, regardless of where they appear on the service.

Netflix began experimenting with the Top 10 feature in Mexico and the United Kingdom six months ago,...

Netflix revealed on Monday that “Love Is Blind” is currently the top title and top TV series on the streaming service in the U.S., while its No. 1 film among domestic subscribers is “The Last Thing He Wanted,” which is also the No. 2 title overall.

That news came courtesy of Netflix’s newly launched “Top 10” feature, which allows users to see the “most popular” TV shows and movies on the streaming service in their country each day via a row specifically dedicated to those titles.

See the overall Top 10 list, plus the individual TV and movie Top 10 lists, below.

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Netflix’s Top 10 Titles in the U.S. Today:

“Love Is Blind” “The Last Thing He Wanted” “Narcos: Mexico” “Locke & Key” “The Foreigner” “To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You” “Babies” “Girl on the Third Floor...

In a recent interview with Diane Sawyer on Good Morning America, Ben Affleck credited fellow stars of superhero cinema Robert Downey Jr. and Bradley Cooper for helping him to overcome his struggles with alcoholism.

Before he helped kick off the Marvel Cinematic Universe with 2008’s Iron Man, Downey famously went through a period of substance abuse that threatened to end his Hollywood career. Meanwhile, future Guardians of the Galaxy star Bradley Cooper had his own struggles with addiction, and has reportedly abstained from alcohol since 2004.

More recently, Affleck has engaged in a very public battle with alcoholism, which he recently recalled was a factor in his eventual departure from Warner Bros.’ The Batman. But according to the star himself, Cooper and Downey have both been supportive in helping him get back on his feet.

“You know, guys I found like Bradley and Robert have been really helpful to me and really supportive,...

There has to be an explanation for what went wrong here. How does a project, co-written and directed by Dee Rees, her follow up to the Academy Award nominated Mudbound, fall so far off the rails? Rees not only once again had the supporting of Netflix, but was adapting the Joan Didian novel The Last Thing He Wanted. Somehow, despite the considerable talents of Ben Affleck, Willem Dafoe, and Anne Hathaway, the movie of the same name is an utter disaster. One of 2020’s worst so far, it seems destined to end the year in a position of dishonor. It boggles the mind how wrong this all went. The film is drama mixing conspiracy thriller, crime, and mystery elements. Taking place in the mid 1980s, we follow journalist Elena McMahon (Hathaway) as she investigates what will eventually become the Iran Contra controversy. Along with a fellow veteran D.C. journalist...