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Horror legend Stephen King has written a fair few books over the years. Ever since he burst on the scene with "Carrie" in 1974, he's given fans at least one book nearly every year. Since most of his work has been extremely popular, he's also established himself as a bit of an authority on the horror front -- and isn't shy about commenting about either the genre or his craft as a writer.

Thanks to King's status as a horror luminary and extensive work in many other genres, we've analyzed his work many times before. You may have seen us discuss why King's endings have a reputation for being disappointing, look into his biggest career regret involving (of all things) a forgotten TV commercial, and examine the one Stephen King book that will never get a film adaption due to the author voluntarily scrubbing it from his catalog.

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Quick Links West Side Story Brings a New Energy to a Timeless Classic West Side Story Has Some of the Best Acting & Cinematography of Any Spielberg Film Spider-Man: No Way Home's Success May Have Killed West Side Story's Box-Office Run

One of Steven Spielberg’s most passionate projects is one that sadly not many saw while it was in theaters in 2021. As unbelievable as it may sound that Spielberg managed to pull off directing one of the best movie musicals in recent years, his re-imagining of West Side Story proved any doubters of his ability to do so entirely wrong. While it made quite an impression on those who did go out of their way to see it during its initial release and earned high praise from critics, it sadly disappointed at the box office, managing to gross only $76 million against a budget of $100 million. It's quite a shame,...

Since Alan Cumming started hosting The Traitors, the hit reality show has earned him a lot of new fans and become one of Peacock's best series. As a result of how successful The Traitors has become, fans who love the show's most memorable players want to know things like what to expect from Season 3. Those same fans want to know more about what filming The Traitors was like.

Fortunately for those fans, Andy Cohen interviewed Alan Cumming during an episode of Watch What Happens Live. During that conversation, Alan revealed to Andy who the funniest The Traitors players from the show's first two seasons had been.

Alan Cumming Revealed Who The Funniest The Traitors Players Were While Talking To Andy Cohen

As most reality show fans will already know, there are several things that Andy Cohen is excellent at. Some of those things include producing highly entertaining reality shows and...

“We’re in the same business,” pleads the world’s unluckiest Santa impersonator to an armed-and-ready Art the Clown. “We make people happy.”

Comparing job descriptions won’t save Santa or his cherry-red nose and beard of white from what awaits in “Terrifier 3” — but he makes a decent point. Returning for a second sequel in this indie-slasher-turned-runaway-train, star David Howard Thornton reprises his role as Art: a supernatural shepherd of theatrical joy.

Splatter isn’t for everyone and, even Christmas themed, “Terrifier 3” is intense. But if gore, guts, and go-for-broke horror-comedy are on your pre-Halloween wish list, then Damien Leone’s best film will slap a smile on your face so big it might as well be held there with meat hooks.

We catch up with Art five years after the events of “Terrifier 2.” Snowy and scary in that cozy “Black Christmas” way, the cold open takes...

Missy Elliott, Ciara, Questlove, and Ludacris are among the artists paying tribute to New York rapper Fatman Scoop (given name Isaac Freeman III), who died on Saturday after suffering a medical emergency while onstage during an August 30 concert in Hamden, Connecticut. He was 56.

Elliott, who tapped the “Be Faithful” rapper to feature on her 2005 hit “Lose Control” alongside Ciara, tweeted, “Prayers for Fatman Scoop family for Strength during this difficult time. Fatman Scoop Voice & energy have contributed to Many songs that made the people feel Happy & want to dance for over 2 decades.

Prepare to see a lot more of Alan Cumming. Peacock is investing more in “The Traitors” with a Season 4 and 5 pickup, which will see Cumming and his capes return to rule over the Scottish Highlands.

“The Traitors” pits some of the most competitive reality stars against each other in “the ultimate murder mystery game,” a press release for the series reads. Set in an ancient Scottish castle, contestants have to work together on a series of missions to build a prize fund worth up to $250,000. But hidden among the Faithful are the Traitors, contestants whose goal is to eliminate their teammates and take the prize for themselves. If the Faithful contestants banish all the Traitors, they will be able to share the prize fund. But if a Traitor or Traitors make it to the end of this competition, they will steal all the money.

The first season of the Peacock...

Leonard Engelman, who lobbied the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to install a makeup branch and served as its first governor when they did so, died Thursday at 88 in Northridge Hospital Medical Center.

His death was confirmed by the Cinema Makeup School in Los Angeles, but no cause has been given.

Engelman worked on such films as Rocky IV, The Princess Diaries, Batman & Robin and How the Grinch Stole Christmas and did Cher’s makeup for more than 30 years.

He also served as an Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences VP and board member for many years.

Born in Burbank, he was the son of a Hollywood makeup artist. Engelman graduated from Burbank High School, and received his first film credit on Alfred Hitchcock’s Topaz (1969).

Engelman received Emmy nominations in 1972 for an episode of Night Gallery and in 2001 for the miniseries Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis. He...

Leonard Engelman, the esteemed makeup artist who worked on films including Rocky IV, The Princess Diaries, Batman & Robin and How the Grinch Stole Christmas and did Cher’s makeup for more than 30 years, has died. He was 83.

Engelman died Thursday at Northridge Hospital Medical Center, his wife of 42 years, artist Esther Engelman, told The Hollywood Reporter. The cause of death is unclear, she said.

The son of a Hollywood makeup artist, Engelman labored for a long time to convince the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to install a makeup branch, as those artisans had always been “at-large” members. And when it did so in 2006, he was elected its first governor. Later, he worked to have hairstylists added.

He also served as an Academy vice president and board member for many years.

Engelman received Emmy nominations in 1972 for an episode of Night Gallery and in 2001 for the miniseries Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis,...

Selling Sunset’s Chrishell Stause, actor/model/Britney Spears ex Sam Asghari, and the one and only Tom Sandoval will head to the Scottish highlands for a captivating game of skill and duplicity in Season Three of The Traitors.

Host Alan Cumming revealed the 21-person cast for the Peacock series, which is set to arrive soon, though an exact premiere date hasn’t been given yet. “Well, there you have it dearies,” Cumming quips in the clip after reading off every contestant’s name. “This is sure to be the most treacherous season yet.

Filming for Superman: Legacy is in full swing with the latest update teasing an iconic location in the mythology. A preview of the Kent family farm teases a humble homestead as young Clark Kent's home in James Gunn's reboot story.

Clark has found a home in James Gunn's version of Superman. In photos posted on X, Dcu Updates revealed the Kent farm as a sleepy homestead in Lagrange, Georgia. The property barely has any distinguishing features apart from the single-story house, but it's yet to be confirmed if this is Jonathan and Martha Kent's home. The update also shared a casting call ad for boys aged three and six years old and for 6-month-old babies. The auditions will fill roles in a Warner Bros. Feature Film dubbed as project 'Genesis,' which could be code for Superman: Legacy (filming on location starts on Jun. 6).

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While the Rotten Tomatoes score for Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire has fallen, audiences have nevertheless been enjoying the film much more than critics.

After initially debuting just above 60% with its Rotten Tomatoes score, which had just put the film into the "Fresh" status, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire has since dropped to a "Rotten" score of 55%. However, the audience score on the review aggregator website is much higher, currently at 92%. This audience score is now the highest of any MonsterVerse movie, getting the record by one point over the film's predecessor, Godzilla vs. Kong, which has 76% and 91% scores.

Related 'Exact Costumes and Everything': Godzilla x Kong Director Teases Faithful ThunderCats Reboot Adam Wingard says his ThunderCats reboot film will bring the 80s cartoon show to life.

The respective critics' and audience scores for the other MonsterVerse films at Rotten Tomatoes include 2014's Godzilla at 76% and 66%; 2017's Kong: Skull Island...

In memory of shonen icon and legendary Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama, Toonami will soon air a late-night marathon of episodes from Dragon Ball Z Kai.

The anime community is still mourning the loss of Dragon Ball's late creator, who recently passed away after suffering an acute subdural hematoma at the age of 68. According to X (formerly Twitter), Toonami has announced that it will honor fan requests for a televised tribute by airing the first eight episodes of Dragon Ball Z Kai back to back. This four-hour-long marathon is scheduled to air this coming Saturday, March 16, from 2 a.m. to 6 a.m. (Et/Pt).

Related Akira Toriyama's Colleagues Shed Light on the Late Dragon Ball Creator's Condition Akira Toriyama's closest friends and colleagues are shedding light on the late Dragon Ball creator's health issues before his tragic passing. You asked for it and #Toonami delivered! From 2 A.M. to 5:30 A.

Apples Never Fall features Alison Brie in a dysfunctional family with haunting secrets and a possible murder, far from the lovable found family in Community. The off-screen friendship among the Community cast, especially Alison Brie and Danny Pudi, has been heartwarming and delightful to witness. Brie plays Amy Delaney in Apples Never Fall, a character that wears her wounds on her sleeves and is fighting for self-worth and definition.

Apples Never Fall is Peacock's new star-studded limited series, with Annette Bening and Sam Neill playing the former owners of a tennis academy who haunt the lives of their grown children, played by Jake Lacy, Essie Randles, Conor Merrigan-Turner, and the one and only Alison Brie. It's a very dysfunctional family (with a possible murder exposing the rotting secrets within), far from the lovable, relatable, and iconic found family Brie took part in with the modern classic, Community.

The friendship that...

The Traitors is making the jump from word-of-mouth hit to quantified success.

The Peacock unscripted series is set to make its first appearance on Nielsen’s streaming charts for the week of Jan. 15-21. The show had about 384 million minutes of viewing for that week, which encompasses the first four episodes of season two (three debuted on Jan. 12 and the fourth on Jan. 18) as well as any viewing for the first season, as Nielsen counts all episodes of a series in its streaming totals.

Peacock says season two of The Traitors had the biggest debut for any original reality series on the streamer, growing by 75 percent over its first season. The show will be the first unscripted offering from the NBCUniversal platform to hit the Nielsen rankings (complete charts for Jan. 15-21 will be available in mid-February). It’s likely to be joined by Seth MacFarlane’s Ted prequel series,...

Oscar-nominated actor Ryan O’Neal, who came to prominence on TV’s “Peyton Place” and became a top star of the 1970s in films including “Love Story,” “What’s Up, Doc?,” “Paper Moon” and “Barry Lyndon,” died Friday, his son Patrick said on Instagram. He was 82.

O’Neal was diagnosed with chronic leukemia in 2001 and with prostate cancer in 2012.

“Ryan was a very generous man who has always been there to help his loved ones for decade upon decade,” his son wrote. “My dad was 82, and lived a kick ass life. I hope the first thing he brags about in Heaven is how he sparred 2 rounds with Joe Frazier in 1966, on national TV, with Muhammad Ali doing the commentary, and went toe to toe with Smokin’ Joe.”

In later years, O’Neal’s acting work often took a backseat to media coverage on his personal travails, involving his combative relationship with longtime companion Farrah Fawcett,...

Cat Power and Iggy Pop have teamed up for a new cover of John Lennon’s “Working Class Hero.”

The cover arrives as a single from an upcoming compilation album titled The Faithful: A Tribute to Marianne Faithfull, organized by In The Q Records, Bandbox, and the Women of Rock Oral History Project to help raise funds for Faithfull as she “recovers from Long Covid.” Thus, the version of the song that Cat Power’s Chan Marshall and Pop have delivered pays homage to Faithfull’s 1979 version of the song, with a driving beat and an ambient sense of tension.

Overtop, Marshall’s multi-tracked vocals carry Lennon’s powerful words, while Pop dips in throughout with spoken word lines, sounding almost like a late-career Leonard Cohen, proclaiming a solemn truth with a low, commanding growl. Listen to the single below.

In a statement, Marshall expressed her excitement to be part of the project.

Dawn French and Claudia Winkleman have posed in a picture together, in which the pair look bizarrely similar.

The Vicar Of Dibley star, 65, struck an uncanny resemblance to the Strictly Come Dancing host, 51, in a playful Instagram selfie taken as they filmed a skit based on Winkleman’s hit BBC series The Traitors.

The sketch, which will appear as part of BBC’s Red Nose Day programming on 17 March, will see French perform alongside her longtime comedy partner Jennifer Saunders, according to the BBC.

In an Instagram post captioned: “Coming soon…#traitors #comicrelief,” French and Winkleman smile next to eachother as the comedian wears a jet black wig, cut into a bob with a fringe, resembling the presenter’s iconic hairstyle.

In the photograph, the words “Claudia Winkle” are placed over the real Winkleman, while the words “Also Claudia Winkle” are placed over French.

It comes after the BBC announced...

Back in 1998, a full live recording of Pearl Jam’s concert at Melbourne Park was supposed to get a proper release as a promotional CD, a release that ended up not happening — until now. Today, the band have announced that they’ll release the live album that never was, Give Way, on both CD and vinyl as a Record Store Day 2023 Exclusive.

Give Way was recorded in Australia while Pearl Jam were touring their fifth studio album Yield (geddit?). According to Discogs, the highly sought-after CD was 17 tracks long, including Yield hits like “Do the Evolution”and “Faithful.” The story goes that the day before the Give Way CDs were supposed to hit shelves at Best Buy, Sony recalled and destroyed all but a couple hundred lucky copies of the 50,000 pressed.

If Pearl Jam isn’t your thing, check out some of the Rsd exclusives Consequence is most excited about here,...

Macklemore is opening up about his 2020 relapse. In an interview for The Kelly Clarkson Show, the rapper opened up about the “intense time,” and how it became a “catalyst for art” in his upcoming album, Ben.

“I’m used to a certain schedule of touring, of being gone, of being home, of recovery and being able to go to a physical 12-step meeting. That stopped during Covid. Eventually, I’m on Instagram while being on Zoom and I’m just not really paying attention to the meetings,” he said. “Eventually,...

Vintage high-end Film Noir from the classic year 1947! Low Mileage too — this long cut hasn’t been seen since the early laserdisc days. I didn’t know it needed restoring until George Feltenstein talked about it a couple of years ago. It’s a domestic noir crossed with Double Indemnity with a little An American Tragedy thrown in for good measure. Normally squeaky-clean Robert Young throws his hat into the ring with the lowest of noir hero-villains: in this one he double-crosses three terrific noir leading ladies. We can now spell ‘Unspeakable Cad’ with the initial Ry. The most amazing thing about The Warner Film Archive’s new disc is that it restores a full fifteen minutes — Eddie Muller screened They Won’t on his Noir City show not long ago, with no mention that it was the short, edited version.

They Won’t Believe Me

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1947 / B&w / 1:37 Academy / 95 min.

Caroline Vignal’s “My Donkey, My Lover and I,” Chloé Mazlo’s “Skies of Lebanon” and Aurel’s “Josep” are among the nine French features that will play in the U.S. as part of the 7th edition of the Young French Cinema Program. Seven shorts have also been selected.

The initiative, which is organized by the French Embassy in the U.S. and the promotion org UniFrance, aims at showcasing films and shorts from rising French filmmakers, which have played at major film festivals, including Cannes, Venice, Rome, NYFF and Annecy. Six out of the nine films were part of Cannes 2020’s Official Selection.

“My Donkey, My Lover and I,” sold by Playtime, was a box office hit in France where it sold more than 700,000 admissions before the shutdown of theaters in October. The comedy follows “Call My Agent!” star Laure Calamy as she embarks on a road trip...

Actress Lucy Boynton ("The Politician") is 'the face' of 'Chloé Signature' fragrance, in a campaign photographed by Karim Sadli:

"...the fragrance is a bright fruity woody floral scent which conveys the freedom and audacious femininity that's synonymous with the Chloé brand..."

Boynton is noted for her work in "Bohemian Rhapsody" and the Netflix series "The Politician", now in Season Two. Boynton will next play singer Marianne Faithfull in the biopic "Faithful", charting the her rise to fame during the British invasion.

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Festival to go ahead as a physical event with guests including Thomas Vinterberg and Francois Ozon.

Rome Film Fest has revealed the programme and plans for its 15th edition, which is set to go ahead as a physical event with digital elements from October 15-25.

A total of 24 films and documentaries will comprise the official selection, most of which have proved critically-acclaimed at festivals such as Toronto, with nine having previously received a Cannes 2020 label.

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These include three titles from Steve McQueen’s Small Axe anthology: Mangrove; Lovers Rock; and Red, White And Blue. The...

Actress Lucy Boynton ("The Politician") has been confirmed as 'the face' of Chloé Signature and the new Eau de Toilette Rose Tangerine fragrance, available August 14, 2020, in a new campaign photographed by Karim Sadli:

"...the fragrance is a bright fruity woody floral scent which conveys the freedom and audacious femininity that's synonymous with the Chloé brand..."

Boynton is noted for her work in "Bohemian Rhapsody" and the Netflix series "The Politician", now in Season Two. Boynton will next play singer Marianne Faithfull in the biopic "Faithful", charting the her rise to fame during the British invasion.

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Tucker Beathard has reimagined his recent song “Faithful” as a brooding duet, with singer-guitarist Lindsay Ell joining him in the studio for the collaboration. The track appears in its original solo form on Beathard’s upcoming album King, set for release on August 21st.

Beathard leads off the tune with some slowed-down electric-guitar arpeggios and puts his heart out on his sleeve as he negotiates for fidelity and something long-term. “I say we lay it all out on the table, if you’re willing girl I’m able/Let’s be faithful,...

1986: Another World's "Marissa" made her way to Bay City.

1991: Santa Barbara's Dash and Katrina grew closer.

1998: All My Children's Junior was locked in a cage.

2009: One Life to Live's Fish didn't remember his night with Stacy."History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images."

― Anselm Kiefer

"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.

On this date in...

1967: On Another World, Liz (Audra Lindley) was happy to hear that Bill (Joseph Gallison) suspected Madge of Danny's murder.

1967: Australian Broadcasting Corporation soap Bellbird premiered. It remained on the air until December 1977.

1968: On Dark Shadows, Julia (Grayson Hall) protected...

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Todd Rundgren had a loving history with the band that taught him almost everything he knew about music.

Rock Hall of Fame Class of 2019 nominee Todd Rundgren is a musicians' musician who consistently puts art in front of fame. A True Star, which is also the title of his 1973 album, he broke onto the scene with two romantic pop classics, "Hello, It's Me" and "I Saw the Light" off his third album Something/Anything?; explored the intricate maneuverings of prog rock with his band Utopia, and scored one of his most and least recognizable songs just banging on a drum all day. Rundgren never shied from referencing his musical influences, or ripping down his own idols. Ten years after The Beatles proclaimed "All You Need Is Love," Rundgren confirmed the message when Utopia's Oops! Wrong Planet closed with "Love Is the Answer." But not all Todd's encounters with the Beatles were loving.

Rock stars wanting to be actors and vice versa are a common phenomenon in Hollywood. No one quite managed to pull off the transition with the success of Cher, who remains the only rock icon to manage to not only make a successful transition to acting but also to win an Oscar for acting and not composing.

It wasn’t an easy transition though. Cher paired with husband Sonny Bono in her teens to become the duo simply known as Sonny and Cher. After a string of hit records, the duo launched a successful television variety show where Cher was able to hone her acting and comedic skills as she appeared in various sketches. Her marriage to Sonny would end in divorce, and Cher struggled to transition in to acting. Upon receipt of a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress for “Silkwood,” Cher thanked all the Hollywood moguls who would never give her a job.

Academy Award nominee Chazz Palminteri will join the cast of his Broadway musical A Bronx Tale in the role of Sonny beginning May 24.

Written by Palminteri, A Bronx Tale features music by Oscar, Grammy, and Tony Award winner Alan Menken and lyrics by Grammy Award winner and Oscar and Tony Award nominee Glenn Slater.

Based on the critically acclaimed play that inspired the now-classic film, the musical draws on the wisdom of the stoops of the Bronx in the 1960s, where a young man is caught between the father he loves and the mob boss he’d love to be. Featuring an original doo-wop score, the story is about respect, loyalty, love and family.

The musical is directed by two-time Oscar winner Robert De Niro and four-time Tony Award winner Jerry Zaks, with choreography by Tony nominee Sergio Trujillo. The show opened on December 1, 2016 and is now playing on Broadway...

You can tell it’s film noir — even the cabin cruiser has Venetian blinds. Ernest Hemingway’s favorite film adaptation of his work is this uncompromised story of a good man taking a criminal course on the high seas. John Garfield is again ‘one man alone’ against the system, and the moral quicksand all but swallows up Patricia Neal, Phyllis Thaxter and Wallace Ford.

The Breaking Point

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The Criterion Collection 889

1950 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 97 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date August 8, 2017 / 39.95

Starring: John Garfield, Patricia Neal, Phyllis Thaxter, Juano Hernandez, Wallace Ford, Edmon Ryan, Ralph Dumke, Guy Thomajan, William Campbell, Sherry Jackson, Donna Jo Boyce, Victor Sen Yung, Peter Brocco, John Doucette.

Cinematography: Ted D. McCord

Film Editor: Alan Crosland Jr.

Original Music: Howard Jackson, Max Steiner

Written by Ranald MacDougall from a novel by Ernest Hemingway

Produced by Jerry Wald

Directed by Michael Curtiz

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A great film score complements without burrowing too far into the ideas, wrestles with genre without locking the picture into a fixed identity, amplifies actors and actress’ choices without spilling the beans. A composer’s job is a balancing act. More and more, movie music finds itself backing off too far, devolving into incidental muzac, or going too far, where full-blast orchestral sounds pummel us like the Transformers’ energon punches. There’s a sweet spot, and the best film scores of the year ride it for an entire runtime. I shouldn’t be surprised that my favorite film scores of the year line-up closely with my favorite films of the year. As someone who goes to the movies with his ears as wide open as his eyes, I found myself captivated by 2014’s audio-visual offerings. Below, what I’d consider the "best" of the year (along with a few runner-ups,...

Filmmaker Paul Mazursky, the five-time Oscar nominee most famous for films such as "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice," "Down and Out in Beverly Hills" and "An Unmarried Woman," has passed away. According to a family spokesperson, he died of pulmonary cardiac arrest Monday in Los Angeles. He was 84. Mazursky's last theatrical release came nearly 20 years ago with the Chazz Palminteri adaptation "Faithful" but he has maintained a guest actor presence in film and television ever since. (And before -- in fact, a young Mazursky can be seen all the way back in Stanley Kubrick's 1953 film "Fear and Desire.") Younger audiences may know him as Norm from HBO's "Curb Your Enthusiasm" or his appearances on ABC's "Once and Again," but he established a long and distinguished career writing and directing relationship dramas and comedies and had been a singular voice throughout. Four of Mazursky's five Oscar nominations came for his work on the page.

D.W. Griffith movies at the American Cinematheque (photo: D.W. Griffith circa 1915) A series of D.W. Griffith movies made at Biograph at the dawn of both the 20th century and the art of moviemaking will be screened at the American Cinematheque next weekend. "Retroformat Presents: D.W. Griffith at Biograph, Part 3 - 1909 – 1910" will take place on Saturday, April 26, 2014, at 7:30 p.m. in the Steven Spielberg auditorium of The Egyptian Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard. The evening will be hosted by Tom Barnes; musical accompaniment will be provided by Cliff Retallick. Among the D.W. Griffith films to be presented by Retroformat are the following: Lines of White on a Sullen Sea The Gibson Goddess The Mountaineer’s Honor Through the Breakers A Corner in Wheat Her Terrible Ordeal The Last Deal Faithful D.W. Griffith and his stars As found in Retroformat’s press release, those early D.W. Griffith efforts feature "innovative cinematography" by frequent Griffith collaborator G.W. Bitzer,...

Turner Classic Movies (TCM) will open the 2014 edition of the TCM Classic Film Festival with the world premiere of a brand new restoration of the beloved Rodgers & Hammerstein musical Oklahoma! (1955). TCM’s own Robert Osborne, who serves as official host for the festival, will introduce Oklahoma!, with the film’s star, Academy Award®-winner Shirley Jones, in attendance. Vanity Fair will also return for the fifth year as a festival partner and co-presenter of the opening night after-party. Marking its fifth year, the TCM Classic Film Festival will take place April 10-13, 2014, in Hollywood. The gathering will coincide withTCM’s 20th anniversary as a leading authority in classic film.

In addition, the festival has added several high-profile guests to this year’s lineup, including Oscar®-winning director William Friedkin, who will attend for the screening of the U.S. premiere restoration of his suspenseful cult classic Sorcerer (1977); Kim Novak, who...

HollywoodNews.com: The 16th Annual Hollywood Film Awards, presented by the Los Angeles Times, has announced that two-time Oscar-winning actor Robert De Niro will be honored with the "Hollywood Supporting Actor Award" at the festival's Hollywood Film Awards Gala Ceremony for his fantastic performance in David O. Russell's "Silver Linings Playbook." The announcement was made today by Carlos de Abreu, Founder and Executive Director of the Hollywood Film Awards. He said: "Robert De Niro is not only highly regarded for his body of work as an actor, producer, and director, but also for the passion, integrity, and dedication he brings to his performances on camera, as well as his intense off-camera preparation and study of the characters he brings to life. His performance in the upcoming film "Silver Linings Playbook" is outstanding." The 2012 Hollywood Film Awards has also announced that it will honor Academy Award-winning actress Marion Cotillard with the "Hollywood Actress Award,...

Above all it was her personality. Pauline Kael had an overwhelming presence in a conversation. There will no doubt be many discussions of Kael's work and influence and with the publication of Brian Kellow's new biography Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark, and the Library of America's forthcoming collection of her work.

She was the most powerful, loved and hated film critic of her time, but her work cannot be discussed objectively by simply reading it. She challenges you on every page, she's always in your face, and she functioned as the arbiter of any social group she joined. She was quite a dame.

She might have liked that "quite a dame." She wrote with slangy, jazzy prose, always pepped up, spinning on the edge of a whirlpool. She never saw a movie twice, and wrote her reviews first-draft, in longhand on yellow legal pads. In her years at the New Yorker,...

Impressive retrospective of Judy Garland.s films will feature 31 titles including a presentation of seldom seen short films and rarities as well as a special .sing-along. screening of The Wizard Of Oz.

On the occasion of what would have been Judy Garland.s 89th birthday, the Film Society of Lincoln Center and The Paley Center have announced the details today for Fslc.s comprehensive retrospective of the peerless film icon.s work, All Singin., All Dancin., All Judy! which will screen at the Walter Reade Theater July 26 . August 9 and The Paley Center.s comprehensive retrospective of Garland.s television work,Judy Garland: The Television Years which will be presented July 20 . August 18.

With autumn marking the 75th anniversary of Judy Garland’s feature film debut (Pigskin Parade, 1936), the Film Society of Lincoln Center will screen 31 titles from July 26 . August 9, including each of her big-screen acting performances, to pay tribute to...

Hey guys, Davis here checking in again with your weekly music roundup. How’s everyone’s week been going?

Is everyone pumped for Halloween? I’ve been on a tour of some of Chicago’s amazing Haunted Houses. There are some wildly creative ones out in the ‘burbs.Anyone else hit any up yet?

Well, here we are again with another music round-up. Some ofthe artists we’ll be covering today are Adam Lambert’s latest tour drama, an up and coming artist that I feel everyone needs to give some major attention- Deluka,Will Smith’s daughter Willow Smith’s music video debut, Mariah Carey’s new Christmas album, Boy George is looking like the spitting image of Demi Moore, a new gay male musician to pay attention to – Diamond Rings, Shontelle’s latest beautiful ballad, and the commercial everyone’s buzzing about by Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros.

A beloved Romanian actor, known as his country's Robert De Niro, has died, aged 75.

Gheorghe Dinica died from pneumonia at a Bucharest hospital on Tuesday.

Dinica's movie career began in the early 1960s and he went on to star in top soaps and TV dramas in his native Romania.

He often played gypsies on TV and in films, and was a castmember in Francis Ford Coppola's 2007 movie Youth Without Youth.

In a tribute to Dinica, Romania's President Traian Basescu, who awarded the actor with the nation's Faithful Service Order in 2008, called him "a model of humanity, modesty and generosity".