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Sharper Image Season 12 Episode 1 Episode Summary

The upcoming episode of “Forensic Files,” titled “Sharper Image,” promises to be a gripping exploration of a tragic case involving the murder of a young girl. Set to air on Oxygen, this episode dives into the complexities of a criminal investigation that initially leads police to make a swift arrest. However, as the story unfolds, it becomes clear that the evidence may not be as straightforward as it seems.

In “Sharper Image,” viewers will witness the intense pressure that law enforcement faces when a violent crime occurs. The emotions run high as investigators work tirelessly to find justice for the victim and her family. Early on, the police believe they have caught the right person, but the case takes an unexpected turn when advanced technology from NASA comes into play. This cutting-edge technology reveals crucial information that...

A mysterious chasm, a deadly secret, and a fight for survival - here’s how to watch the new Apple TV+ thriller.

Imagine being stationed to guard a mysterious chasm, knowing that an unspeakable evil lurks below. That’s the intense setup of “The Gorge,” the new Apple TV+ thriller movie premiering Friday, Feb. 14. The film stars Miles Teller as Levi and Anya Taylor-Joy as Drasa, two elite operatives assigned to watchtowers on opposite sides of a vast, classified gorge. As you’d expect, just when a romantic bond starts to form between the two of them, a cataclysmic threat to humanity emerges, and they must combine their skills and courage to destroy this darkness. “The Gorge” promises to be a high-stakes thriller with some serious psychological undercurrents. You can watch the film with a subscription to Apple TV+.

How to watch ‘The Gorge’ When: Friday, Feb. 14, 2025 at 12:01 a.

A mathematician’s groundbreaking discovery puts him in the crosshairs of dangerous forces in this gripping new Apply TV+ series.

What if you held the key to every computer system in the world? And how far would someone go to stop you? That’s the gripping premise of “Prime Target,” the new conspiracy thriller premiering Wednesday, Jan. 22, with its first two episodes. The show stars Leo Woodall (“The White Lotus”) as Edward Brooks, a brilliant mathematician who uncovers a prime number pattern that could unlock unprecedented access to the global computer system. But his groundbreaking discovery puts him in the crosshairs of powerful forces determined to silence him. Blending high-stakes action with a modern espionage edge, you can watch “Prime Target” only on Apple TV+.

How to watch ‘Prime Target’ When: Wednesday, Jan 22, 2025 at 12:01 a.m. Et TV: Apple TV Stream: Watch with a subscription to Apple TV+ From...

The “Girls” creator is turning a very controversial boy’s life story into a film.

Lena Dunham is set to bring the rise and fall of Ftx founder Sam Bankman-Fried to the screen for an upcoming Apple Original film in partnership with A24. Dunham will adapt the screenplay from Michael Lewis’ New York Times bestselling book, “Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon.”

Lewis’ past books “Moneyball” and “The Big Short” were also previously adapted to the screen. The official description of “Going Infinite” reads: “The book tells the story of Ftx’s spectacular collapse and the enigmatic founder at its center. When Michael Lewis first met him, Sam Bankman-Fried was the world’s youngest billionaire and crypto’s Gatsby. CEOs, celebrities, and leaders of small countries all vied for his time and cash after he catapulted, practically overnight, onto the Forbes billionaire list. Who was this...

Marvel Star Sebastian Stan Didn’t Read the Thunderbolts Script When He Was Offered The Role—Here’s What He Revealed! (Photo Credit – Instagram)

Buckle up, Marvel fans! Sebastian Stan dropped a significant bombshell that’ll sweep you off your feet. The Winter Soldier himself spilled the tea that he hadn’t even skimmed the script for Thunderbolts before signing on!

Since its splashy announcement at San Diego Comic-Con last year, Thunderbolts has had fans splitting up louder than a beehive in summer. The film promises a mash-up of Marvel’s most chaotic characters, and while everyone else is hyping it up, Stan’s just chilling, waiting for his script to arrive. During a chat about his other flick, Sharper, Stan told Collider’s Steve Weintraub, “I haven’t read the script. I still have not been sent it. It’s pretty much on par with how it usually goes.

Briana Middleton and Stella Everett have been cast in leading roles for the feature adaptation of “Ride or Die,” the short film by filmmaker Josalynn Smith.

Smith serves as writer and director for the feature, executive produced by Datari Turner of Foxxhole Productions. Smith will also produce alongside Matthew Keene Smith.

The film follows Paula (Middleton), whose California dreams intertwine with a reunion with her crush Jamie (Everett). A casual errand becomes a cathartic journey through the midwest, where a budding romance is transformed by a plot for vengeance.

Middleton was recently announced as the co-lead opposite Callum Turner in the Apple+ series “Neuromancer,” based on William Gibson’s classic sci-fi novel. She can be seen as the lead role in the Apple+/A24 Feature “Sharper” with Julianne Moore, Sebastian Stan, Justice Smith and directed by Ben Caron. She made her feature film debut in Amazon Studios’ George Clooney-directed adaptation of “The Tender Bar,...

Apple doesn’t make it easy to understand its TV-related offerings. You can buy an Apple TV, but you can also buy a subscription to Apple TV+. We’ll explain the differences and the pros and cons of each. Just follow along.

The Quick Answer

What Can You Watch on an Apple TV?

What Can You Watch on Apple TV+?

Do You Need an Apple TV to Watch Apple TV+?

Do You Need a Subscription to Use an Apple TV?

Apple TV vs. Apple TV+: The Breakdown

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The Quick Answer

An Apple TV is a physical device you can use to watch hundreds of different streaming services. It’s a small black box that plugs into your TV with an Hdmi cable. After you buy the device, there is no further purchase required.

Apple TV+ is a streaming service, kind of like Max or Netflix. When you sign up,...

Jane Schoenbrun confirms their place as a superbly gifted film-maker with the weirdly wonderful story of two misfits finding solace in a creepy TV show

Cinephiles lie awake at night worrying that talented young film-makers are deserting cinema for TV. Jane Schoenbrun, one of the most gifted around, has just made a superb feature film about a fictional TV show, imagined here with such loving and unnerving intensity that it surely can’t be long before they are called upon to conjure up a dozen or so episodes for real. With a compelling cod-90s score by Schoenbrun’s musical collaborator Alexander Giannascoli, or Alex G, I Saw the TV Glow lives on in my head. It deserves cult classic status without the “cult”; it is deeply scary, deeply strange and deeply sad, a deadly serious new version of Gore Vidal’s Myra Breckinridge for the 2020s.

Schoenbrun made a...

Tina Romero, the daughter of late film director George A. Romero, has set her next project. It's a horror comedy titled Queens of the Dead, and Love Lies Bleeding's Katy O’Brian and many other talented actors are set to star.

Described as a queer zombie film, Romero helms Queens of the Dead from a screenplay she co-wrote with Erin Judge. In addition, Vanishing Angle is the film production company behind the movie, and Creativity Capital is financing it.

The film's plot revolves around a group of drag queens, club kids, and frenemies who are forced to put their differences aside and band together to survive a zombie apocalypse that breaks out during their drag show in Brooklyn, New York.

Besides O'Brian, actors such as Margaret Cho (Fire Island), Brigette Lundy-Paine(I Saw The TV Glow), and Cheyenne Jackson will star in the film. Nina West (Rupaul’s Drag Race), Jaquel Spivey (Mean Girls), Tomas Matos,...

Netflix’s rebooted reality competition series The Mole is back for its second season, trading in the beaches of Australia for the varied landscapes of Malaysia. The contest format stays the same: a dozen players work as a team on challenges to build a cash prize pot, without knowing that one of their allies is secretly an undercover saboteur called “The Mole.”.

At the end, those remaining must identify who has been undermining their efforts all along. But this reboot takes things up a notch, expanding locations, ramping up the twists, and adding a charismatic new host in Ari Shapiro. His witty one-liners keep viewers on their toes as tensions rise between the contestants.

Over the course of its episodes, Season 2 develops the characters while putting them through inventive challenges across the diverse areas of Malaysia. This helps raise the intrigue as everyone vies to outsmart each other. All the while,...

The Callum Turner-led Neuromancer has found its main female lead in Briana Middleton. Middleton is set to star in the Apple TV+ adaptation of William Gibson's 1984 cyberpunk novel as iconic character Molly Millions, a cybernetically enhanced "razor girl". Neuromancer, based on William Gibson's 1984 novel, has influenced sci-fi and the internet's rise, including The Matrix franchise and the infamous Keanu Reeves movie Johnny Mnemonic.

Apple TV+s Neuromancer adaptation has landed its new co-lead. Based on William Gibsons iconic 1984 cyberpunk novel, Apple TV+'s plans for a 10-episode live-action adaptation were first announced in February 2024. Despite previous rumors that Miles Teller was being considered for the leading role as the superhacker named Case, Masters of the Airs Callum Turner would eventually be announced as the series lead in April 2024.

According to Deadline, Turner has now found his forthcoming co-star in the form of singer and actor Briana Middleton. Middleton,...

Briana Middleton, who starred alongside Julianne Moore and Sebastian Stan in the 2023 Apple TV+ film Sharper, has been tapped as the female lead in Neuromancer, the streamer’s series adaptation of William Gibson’s classic sci-fi/cyberpunk novel.

First ordered to series in February and spanning 10 episodes in its first season, Neuromancer follows Case (to be played by Masters of the Air‘s Callum Turner), a damaged, top-rung super-hacker who is thrust into a web of digital espionage and high-stakes crime with his partner Molly, a razor-girl assassin with mirrored eyes, aiming to pull a heist on a corporate dynasty with untold secrets.

Exclusive: Briana Middleton (Sharper) has been tapped as the co-lead opposite Callum Turner in Neuromancer, Apple TV+’s new sci-fi drama based on the award-winning novel by William Gibson.

Created for television by Graham Roland and Jd Dillard, Neuromancer follows a damaged, top-rung super-hacker named Case (Turner) who is thrust into a web of digital espionage and high stakes crime with his partner Molly (Middleton), a razor-girl assassin with mirrored eyes, aiming to pull a heist on a corporate dynasty with untold secrets.

A co-production between Skydance Television, Anonymous Content and Apple Studios, Neuromancer will also be produced by Drake’s DreamCrew Entertainment, with Roland serving as showrunner and Dillard set to direct the pilot episode.

Roland and Dillard executive produce alongside David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, and Matt Thunell for Skydance Television; Anonymous Content; Drake, Adel ‘Future’ Nur and Jason Shrier for DreamCrew Entertainment; Zack Hayden and, Gibson.

Neuromancer marks...

The Bear meets The Purge in Get Jiro!, the new animated series from Adult Swim adapted from the best-selling graphic novels written by the late chef and television star Anthony Bourdain and his co-author Joel Rose.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the half-hour series will follow Jiro, a sushi chef living and working in a version of Los Angeles where customers are willing to get their hands a little bloody for a table at acclaimed restaurants in the city. The character first appeared when Bourdain and Rose published their first...

Annecy, France — During today’s Warner Bros. Discovery Adult Animation Showcase at the Annecy Animation Festival, the company unveiled two new series, “Get Jiro!,” based on the late Anthony Bourdain’s graphic novels of the same name, and “Super Mutant Magic Academy” from “Regular Show” creator J.G. Quintel and Jillian Tamaki.

Created by Briand Gatewood and Alessandro Tanaka, co-writers of “Sharper” and producers of NBC’s “Superstore,” “Get Jiro!” unspools in a near-future version of Los Angeles and follows the mysterious sushi chef Jiro in a brutal environment where hungry patrons will kill to get a table at the most prestigious restaurants.

Bourdain “was a big comic fan, a big anime fan. It was a huge anime fan. ‘Mind Game’ from Studio 4ºC was his favorite movie. When I got to Warner Brothers Animation, ‘Get Jiro’ was one of the first things that I optioned from DC,” said added Peter Girardi,...

Adult Swim is cooking up two new series, one of which adapts the late Anthony Bourdain’s graphic novels.

Ahead of Warner Bros. Discovery’s adult animation showcase being held Friday at the Annecy Animation Festival, The Hollywood Reporter can exclusively reveal that Get Jiro! has received a series order from Adult Swim. The animated half-hour project is based on the New York Times best-selling DC/Vertigo graphic novels written by famed chef and TV personality Bourdain and Joel Rose, with accompanying artwork from Langdon Foss and Alé Garza.

Set in the near future, the show centers on a mysterious, revenge-focused sushi chef named Jiro in a version of Los Angeles where customers resort to murder to secure a table at coveted restaurants. Get Jiro! is created by Brian Gatewood and Alessandro Tanaka, who co-wrote last year’s A24 feature Sharper which starred Julianne Moore and Sebastian Stan, and they...

For a title as harmless as Mary and George, the Julianne Moore – Nicholas Galitzine-led historical drama turns out to be unimaginably violent and incredibly salacious. Based on the infamous romance between George Villiers, aka the first Duke of Buckingham, and King James (of Scotland and England), Mary and George tells three decades of story within the span of seven episodes at breakneck speed—the kind of approach that we’ve seen in HBO’s House of The Dragon. And while the series matches the extremely violent nature of the HBO show, it also has a very Bridgerton-like soapiness going on. The result is insanely entertaining, seven-hour binge-worthy television that keeps you at the edge of your seat till the very last minute. Nicholas Galitzine is electrifying as George, while Julianne Moore plays Mary with the same energy of her film Sharper (2023), which, in many ways, had a thematically similar plot.

Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tony Awards ceremonies, curated by Variety senior awards editor Clayton Davis. The prediction pages reflect the current standings in the race and do not reflect personal preferences for any individual contender. As other formal (and informal) polls suggest, competitions are fluid and subject to change based on buzz and events. Predictions are updated every Thursday.

Visit the prediction pages for the respective ceremonies via the links below:

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Best Original Score Killers of the Flower Moon Leonardo DiCaprio and Lily Gladstone Credit: AppleTV+

Weekly Commentary: It’s Ludwig Göransson taking home another Oscar for “Oppenheimer,” following his first win for “Black Panther.”

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Screen is listing the 2023 release dates for films in the UK and Ireland in the calendar below.

For distributors who wish to add/amend a date on the calendar, please get in touch with Screen here. Screen is also running a calendar for festival and market dates throughout 2023 here.

December

December 31

Berliner Philharmoniker Live: New Year’s Eve Concert 2023 (Trafalgar - event cinema)

Previous releases January

January 6

Piggy (Vertigo), The Enforcer (Vertigo), Alcarràs (Mubi), A Man Called Otto (Sony), Rashomon (BFI), Till (Universal)

January 7

Andre Rieu In Dublin 2023 (Piece of...

Actor Sebastian Stan is playing young Donald Trump in a movie titled ‘The Student’ from Iranian filmmaker Ali Abbasi.

The cast also includes ‘Succession’ Emmy winner Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn and ‘Borat 2’ and ‘Bodies Bodies Bodies’ actor Maria Bakalova as Ivana Trump, reports Variety.

According to the logline: “‘The Student’ is an exploration of power and ambition set in a world of corruption and deceit. It’s a mentor-protege story that charts the origins of an American dynasty. Filled with larger than life characters, it reveals the moral and human cost of a culture defined by winners and losers.”

Gabriel Sherman, author of ‘The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News – and Divided a Country’, will write the film about Trump.

As per Variety, his novel inspired the Showtime miniseries ‘The Loudest Voice’, which starred Russell Crowe as Roger Ailes. ‘The Student...

Actor Sebastian Stan is playing young Donald Trump in a movie titled ‘The Student’ from Iranian filmmaker Ali Abbasi.

The cast also includes ‘Succession’ Emmy winner Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn and ‘Borat 2’ and ‘Bodies Bodies Bodies’ actor Maria Bakalova as Ivana Trump, reports Variety.

According to the logline: “‘The Student’ is an exploration of power and ambition set in a world of corruption and deceit. It’s a mentor-protege story that charts the origins of an American dynasty. Filled with larger than life characters, it reveals the moral and human cost of a culture defined by winners and losers.”

Gabriel Sherman, author of ‘The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News – and Divided a Country’, will write the film about Trump.

As per Variety, his novel inspired the Showtime miniseries ‘The Loudest Voice’, which starred Russell Crowe as Roger Ailes. ‘The Student...

Sebastian Stan is set to portray Donald Trump in the upcoming biopic, The Apprentice, directed by Ali Abbasi.

According to Deadline, the film will follow a young Trump’s ascent to power and prestige in New York in the ‘70s and ‘80s, with Maria Bakalova cast as Ivana Trump and Jeremy Strong (Succession) as Roy Cohn.

Per Variety, the film’s logline explains that it’s an “exploration of power and ambition set in a world of corruption and deceit. It’s a mentor-protege story that charts the origins of an American dynasty. Filled with larger than life characters, it reveals the moral and human cost of a culture defined by winners and losers.”

The Apprentice will be written by Gabriel Sherman, whose book, The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News – and Divided a Country, was adapted into Showtime’s The Loudest Voice,...

Sebastian Stan is playing young Donald Trump in a movie titled “The Apprentice” from Iranian filmmaker Ali Abbasi (“Holy Spider”), Variety can confirm.

The cast also includes “Succession” Emmy winner Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn and “Borat 2” and “Bodies Bodies Bodies” actor Maria Bakalova as Ivana Trump. According to the logline, “‘The Student’ is an exploration of power and ambition set in a world of corruption and deceit. It’s a mentor-protege story that charts the origins of an American dynasty. Filled with larger than life characters, it reveals the moral and human cost of a culture defined by winners and losers.”

Gabriel Sherman, author of “The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News – and Divided a Country,” will write the film about Trump. His novel inspired the Showtime miniseries “The Loudest Voice,” which starred Russell Crowe as Roger Ailes. “The Student...

Clockwise from top left: The Beanie Bubble, Tetris, The Banker, Causeway (all Apple TV+)Graphic: AVClub

Unlike Netflix, Amazon Prime, or Hulu, which each offer movies to stream from many studios both large and small, Apple TV+ focuses almost exclusively on Apple Originals that are, for the most part, only available on its platform.

Netflix has shared the official trailer for the upcoming movie, May December. Directed by Todd Haynes, the film stars Natalie Portman as an actress who gets entwined in the tense, twisted world of the real-life subject she’s preparing to portray. Watch the trailer ahead of its December 1st premiere below.

Loosely based on the true story of Mary Kay Letourneau — the convicted child rapist who went on to marry and birth two children with her victim — May December follows Portman’s character as she prepares to play a woman (Julianne Moore) who began an affair with a 7th grader, and then eventually married him. Years removed from when their controversial “romance” caused a stir in the headlines, the couple welcomes Portman into their home, hoping to help her “tell the story right” for a movie about the affair.

But as the trailer shows us, the serenity of the couples...

Apple Original Films is back with another original film after Killers of the Flower Moon and Napoleon. Fingernails is a sci-fi romance that explores the idea of love in the digital age, starring Jessie Buckley, Jeremy Allen White, and Riz Ahmed. The film is directed by Christos Nikou, who made his English-language debut with this project.

Fingernails is set in a world where scientists have developed a test that can prove whether two people are in love or not. The test involves pulling out a fingernail from each person and scanning it with a machine that measures their happiness. Anna (Buckley) is a woman who works at an institute that conducts this test on couples who are desperate to find out the truth about their relationship. She secretly embarks on a new assignment with Amir (Ahmed), her co-worker and love interest, who is also in a relationship with Natasha (Murphy). Meanwhile,...

"May December" reunites Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore in a film about a scandalous age gap in a relationship, with their characters dealing with the impending departure of their children. The film explores the conflicts surrounding the couple's age difference and the intrusion of a popular actress (played by Portman) into their lives. Todd Haynes directs this highly anticipated film, which marks Portman's long-awaited return to the big screen after taking a break from Hollywood, while Moore has been actively starring in multiple projects.

Todd Haynes reunites Academy-Award winners Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore for his next movie, May December, coming to Netflix on December 1st, after its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival back in May.

The story centers on Moore's character, Gracie Atherton-Yoo and her husband Joe Yoo, whose relationship caused an enormous scandal due to the couple's 23-year age difference. Two decades have passed since they were...

"May December" reunites Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore in a film about a scandalous age gap in a relationship, with their characters dealing with the impending departure of their children. The film explores the conflicts surrounding the couple's age difference and the intrusion of a popular actress (played by Portman) into their lives. Todd Haynes directs this highly anticipated film, which marks Portman's long-awaited return to the big screen after taking a break from Hollywood, while Moore has been actively starring in multiple projects.

Todd Haynes reunites Academy-Award winners Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore for his next movie, May December, coming to Netflix on December 1st, after its premiere on Venice Film Festival back in May.

The story centers on Moore's character, Gracie Atherton-Yoo and her husband Joe Yoo, whose relationship caused an enormous scandal due to the couple's 23 year age difference. 20 years have passed since they were at the eye of the storm,...

When it comes to keeping subscribers happy and engaged, one of the tried and true methods that streaming services have employed since the dawn of this era of media is to offer libraries so chock full of steady streams of content, that it would be impossible for any one viewer to ever watch it all. However, one subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) service has bucked that trend, and in doing so has remained relatively small in comparison to its competitors, but is becoming increasingly invaluable to contentious customers. By keeping its streaming offerings limited — and not to mention star-studded — Apple TV+ has cultivated a reputation for consistently delivering some of the best series and films on streaming without the unnecessary swings and misses that other streamers force viewers to wade through.

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Since its launch in 2019, the service has emphasized a philosophy of quality over quantity. While...

Blue Jean, Past Lives, Sharper, Infinity PoolGraphic: Courtesy Altitude Films, A24, Apple TV+, Neon

We may be in the midst of the summer blockbuster season, but we’re also just past the halfway point of 2023, which makes it a perfect time to look back on the outstanding films released within the past six months.

Exclusive: Elias Koteas (Shutter Island) and Briana Middleton (The Tender Bar) have been set to topline Silent Planet, a sci-fi thriller written and directed by Jeffrey St. Jules (Bang Bang Baby), which has wrapped production in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, and been picked up for worldwide distribution by Quiver Distribution.

Produced by Andrew Bronfman’s Good Movies, Jonathan Bronfman’s JoBro Productions and Mark O’Neill’s St. John’s-based Panoramic Pictures, the film follows two prisoners in the near future who are sentenced to a lifetime of hard labor on a distant planet. As things unravel, they become increasingly paranoid and start to lose a sense of who they are and their past lives.

Pic was produced in association with Telefilm Canada, Newfoundland and Labrador Film Development Corporation, Canada Media Fund, New Tang Dynasty and Vigilante Productions. Allan Ungar and Jason Jallet exec produced alongside Quiver’s Jeff Sackman and Berry Meyerowitz,...

In only a few months, the 2023/24 awards season will have more or less taken shape. While a couple of these performances may contend for Oscars (and we’re hedging our bets with one pick), the purpose of this list, which excludes festival titles that haven’t been released to the general public, is to spotlight incredible work we fear could go unrecognized. Sound off in the comments if we missed any of your favorites! Here are our Top 10 movie performances from the first half of 2023 we hope won’t be overlooked this upcoming awards cycle.

Honorable mentions: Dave Bautista (“Knock at the Cabin”), Ben Aldridge (“Knock at the Cabin”), Sally Hawkins (“The Lost King”), Julianne Moore (“Sharper”) and Michael B. Jordan (“Creed III”).

See 15 most anticipated movies for June include ‘Across the Spider-Verse,’ ‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,’ ‘Past Lives’ … [Photos]

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The dynamic follow-up to 2018’s...

Hulu lined up a fantastic ensemble with the Pam and Tommy cast, which consists of both comedy legends and award-nominated dramatists. The Pam and Tommy miniseries, which is written by Rob Siegel and directed by Craig Gillespie, is about the early days of romance between Playboy cover girl Pamela Anderson and rock star Tommy Lee. It also focuses on the theft of a private sex tape starring the two, which became one of the first viral videos in the early days of the Internet.

The story begins with a revenge scheme enacted by Rand Gauthier, a former porn star turned electrician, who claimed that Lee failed to pay him what he was owed for setting up a security system and private recording studio in Lee's home. After a convoluted heist that involved posing as a dog and stealing a refrigerator-size safe, Gauthier decided, upon discovering the sex tape, to humiliate...

Sebastian Stan and Maria Bakalova, both veterans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, are attached to star in a new spy comedy for Paramount Pictures with Paul Feig attached to produce and potentially direct, TheWrap has confirmed.

Jenny Bicks, a screenwriter known for “The Greatest Showman” and “Rio 2,” is writing the script based off of an original pitch. Plot details are currently unknown.

Feig is probably best known for directing “Bridesmaids,” which began a string of profitable, high-concept, female led comedies like “The Heat” and “Spy.” In 2016 he directed the all-female “Ghostbusters” reboot, which became a cultural flashpoint, cutting short a potential franchise and leaving Sony to quickly revert to a more traditional approach with the release of “Ghostbusters: Afterlife” in 2021.

Since “Ghostbusters,” Feig directed the delicious dark comedy “A Simple Favor,” “Last Christmas” and most recently “The School for Good and Evil” for Netflix. Feig is currently in production on “Grand Death Lotto,...

Exclusive: Sebastian Stan (Pam & Tommy) and Maria Bakalova (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm) are attached to star in an untitled spy comedy in very early development at Paramount, Deadline has learned.

Jenny Bicks (Welcome to Flatch) is set to pen the script, which is said to involve a failed double agent who becomes an unlikely success, based off an original pitch. Paul Feig (The School for Good and Evil) is eyeing to direct and will also produce alongside Laura Allen Fischer for Feigco Entertainment, as well as Stan (A Different Man) and Emmy winner Emily Gerson Saines.

Stan landed his first Emmy, Golden Globe and Critics’ Choice Award nominations for his turn as Tommy Lee in Hulu’s acclaimed miniseries Pam & Tommy, also recently starring in Apple’s thriller Sharper opposite Julianne Moore, and in Mimi Cave’s horror-thriller Fresh with Daisy Edgar-Jones. The actor is otherwise...

This is turning into a banner year for movies shot on Kodak film, led by such Oscar hopefuls as Christopher Nolan’s IMAX’d “Oppenheimer” biopic, Martin Scorsese’s first Western, “Killers of the Flower Moon,” Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein film, “Maestro,” Wes Anderson’s latest, “Asteroid City,” and Yorgos Lanthimos’ subversive “Frankenstein” re-imagining “Poor Things.”

And those are just the prestige films.

Likewise, Cannes Film Festival boasted 29 features and shorts shot on Kodak film, including such Oscar hopefuls as Martin Scorsese’s first Western “Killers of the Flower Moon,” (shot by Rodrigo Prieto), Wes Anderson’s ’50s sci-fi comedy-drama, “Asteroid City” (shot by Robert Yeoman) Ken Loach’s “The Old Oak,” about a pub in tension-filled Northeast England, (shot by Robbie Ryan), and Steve McQueen’s “Occupied City,” a documentary about Amsterdam under Nazi occupation during World War II (shot by Lennert Hillege).

Four on-film entries compete for the Palme d’Or.

Americans, by and large, still love Adam Sandler. The Sandman’s latest Netflix flick, “Murder Mystery 2,” topped Whip Media’s movie ranker, which looks at the most-streamed movies in the U.S. Friday through Sunday using viewership data from TV Time, its TV and movie tracking app with more than 25 million global registered users.

The sequel to 2019’s “Murder Mystery” saw Sandler join up again with Jennifer Aniston — both reprising their roles as Nick and Audrey Spitz. This time around, they’re private detectives on the hunt for a friend who has been abducted in France. Of course, that means Sandler and Aniston get to travel to some of the most iconic spots in Paris, including the Arc de Triomphe and the Eiffel Tower, as their characters are hot on the case.

The first “Murder Mystery” got a nice boost from the sequel’s release, finishing the weekend as the third most-streamed movie.

Clockwise from top left: The Beanie Bubble, Tetris, The Banker, Causeway (all Apple TV+) Graphic: AVClub Unlike Netflix, Amazon Prime, or Hulu, which each offer movies to stream from many studios both large and small, Apple TV+ focuses almost exclusively on Apple Originals that are, for the most part, only available on its platform.

Apple and Amazon are both reportedly planning to spend billions of dollars on movies for release in theaters. It may sound counterintuitive that these two tech giants with their own streaming services are investing in theatrical releases but they likely have reasons beyond box office revenue to pursue this strategy. An analysis of Parrot Analytics’ data — which takes into account consumer research, streaming, downloads and social media, among other engagement — shows why releasing movies widely in theaters might make sense as a way to boost the profile of and subscriptions to their streaming services.

In addition to attracting A-list talent, who might prefer that their work gets a chance to be seen in theaters, Apple is no doubt hoping that giving its movies a theatrical release will persuade more people to sign up for Apple TV+.

So far this year, the most in-demand movie on Apple TV+ is “Emancipation,” which...

A number of recent releases have flown under the radar due to the hustle and bustle of Oscar season, and Benjamin Caron’s Sharper is among those titles that warrants your attention.

Released last month on Apple TV+, Caron’s feature directorial debut stars Julianne Moore and Sebastian Stan, as well as John Lithgow, Justice Smith and Briana Middleton. And while it’s best to go into the thriller completely blind, it chronicles a New York City-based confidence game that affects a number of interconnected characters. The story’s underbelly hit somewhat close to home for the filmmaker as he was able to draw on experiences from his childhood in the Midlands of England.

Because the film is most rewarding without the foreknowledge of con artists being involved, Caron was rather protective of the film’s marketing campaign. In fact, he even suggested a trailer that would include misdirection in the form of a rom-com.

Apple TV+ is staying in the Julianne Moore business, and the streamer is adding even more major talent to join her. After teaming with indie studio A24 to release the neo-noir, film "Sharper" earlier this year (featuring Moore in the lead role), Apple is looking to expand their modest slate of original films with another highly-anticipated project.

Variety reports that Apple has cast Moore and rapidly rising star Sydney Sweeney (seen below in "Euphoria") in a new feature film project titled "Echo Valley." On the other side of the camera, the story comes from "Mare of Easttown" writer, producer, and creator Brad Ingelsby, and like the HBO Max series, it's set in Pennsylvania. The movie will follow Moore's character named Kate Garrett, described as "a woman reeling from a personal tragedy who spends her days boarding and training horses on the secluded and picturesque Echo Valley Farm." Sweeney will play...

Julianne Moore and Sydney Sweeney are gearing up to play a mother-daughter duo in “Echo Valley,” an Apple Studios feature from “Mare of Easttown” creator Brad Ingelsby.

Like the acclaimed HBO series, “Echo Valley” is rooted in southeastern Pennsylvania, where a grieving woman named Kate Garrett (Moore) lives in isolation on a 22-acre farm. Her days of boarding and training horses at Echo Valley Farm are interrupted when her wayward daughter Claire (Sweeney) shows up one night, covered in someone else’s blood. As the synopsis puts it, that sets into motion “a heart-pounding thriller about just how far a mother will go to save her child.”

BAFTA-winning director Michael Pearce will helm from Ingelsby’s script, developed with Michael Pruss. Ridley Scott will produce through his banner Scott Free, along with Pruss and Ingelsby. Kevin Walsh will produce for The Walsh Company under his multiyear deal with Apple TV...

Get the dialect coach on the line — we’re going back to Southeastern Pennsylvania with “Mare of Easttown” creator Brad Ingelsby. The writer-producer has set the new feature film “Echo Valley” at Apple Studios, and recruited Julianne Moore and Sydney Sweeney as his stars.

“Echo Valley” will follow Oscar winner Moore as Kate Garrett, a woman reeling from a personal tragedy who spends her days boarding and training horses on the secluded and picturesque Echo Valley Farm. Late one night, her wayward daughter Claire (the Emmy-nominated heat-seeker Sweeney) arrives at her doorstep, frightened, trembling and covered in someone else’s blood. From that simple premise, “Echo Valley” becomes a heart-pounding thriller about just how far a mother will go to save her child.

BAFTA Award-winner Michael Pearce will direct from Ingelsby’s original script. The project will be produced by Ingelsby, Ridley Scott and Michael Pruss of Scott Free, and...

John Lithgow and Sebastian Stan in “Sharper,” now streaming on Apple TV+. By the time John Lithgow was cast as Richard Hobbes in the film Sharper, Sebastian Stan had already been attached to the role of Max, who is introduced as Hobbes’s girlfriend’s son. And though the film’s script called for the relationship between the two characters to be a tense one, the relationship between the two actors was anything but tense. Lithgow told us that the more he got to work with Stan, the more impressed he was by Stan’s energy and personality. (Click on the media bar below to hear John Lithgow) https://www.hollywoodoutbreak.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/John_Lithgow_Sebastian_Stan_.mp3 Sharper is currently streaming on Apple TV+.

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Prime Video released the first trailer for the Russo Brothers’ international spy series “Citadel,” starring Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Richard Madden, offering up a mix of “Bourne Identity” and “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” with a global twist.

The high-stakes thriller picks up eight years after the fall of international spy agency Citadel, which fell to operatives of the shadowy syndicate Manticore. Though top agents Mason Kane (Richard Madden) and Nadia Sinh (Priyanka Chopra Jonas) were able to escape with their lives, they had their memories wiped in the process and began entirely new lives.

But the past returns when a former Citadel agent Bernard Orlick (Stanley Tucci) recruits Kane to stop Manticore from establishing a new world order. After retrieving Nadia, they set out on a dangerous mission to confront Manticore and a relationship built on secrets, lies and love.

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A new king of the box-office weekend was crowned as Creed III dominated the weekend by knocking out last weekend’s champion by $46.2 million.

Debuting atop the box-office weekend top ten, Creed III brought in $58.7 million. In a distant second place was last weekend’s firs-place finisher, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, which brought in $12.5 million in its third weekend of release, lifting its overall total to $186.8 million. The crowning of a new champion also dropped Cocaine Bear a spot to third place with $11 million earned over the weekend. This brings the film’s two-week total of $41.3 million. Meanwhile, the animated Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba – To the Swordsmith Village debuted in the weekend’s fourth spot with $10.1 million. All of this movement left last weekend’s third-place film, Jesus Revolution in fifth place with $8.7 million and a two-week tally of $30.5 million.

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In the wake of a recent act of Cameron-on-Cameron violence at the box office, this weekend brings a clash between "Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania" star Jonathan Majors and Jonathan Majors, star of "Creed III." Playing the antagonist role in both movies -- multiverse-traveling despot Kang the Conqueror in "Quantumania" and an old acquaintance with a grudge to settle in "Creed III" -- Majors is now enjoying back-to-back turns at the box office No. 1 spot. Per Variety, the third chapter in the "Creed" story is projected to gross at least $50 million in its opening weekend, surpassing earlier predictions of a debut somewhere in the $30-40 million range.

"Creed III" is the feature directorial debut of Michael B. Jordan, who also plays the titular lead in a reprisal of his role from "Creed" and "Creed II." Despite being the first movie in the overarching "Rocky" franchise not to feature Sylvester Stallone...

Comedy is what we need right now, says Nicholas Hytner, who ran London’s National Theatre for a decade.

It’s fine to have heavy-lifting dramas by Ibsen or Schiller, but boy-oh-boy laughter is an increasingly uplifting necessity.

Which is where Guys & Dolls and James Corden, post his life on The Late Late Show, come in.

Hytner, partnered with longtime executive Nick Starr, now own and control London’s Bridge Theatre and is overseeing a fully immersive revival of the classic Broadway musical Guys & Dolls, choreographed by Dame Arlene Phillips (Strictly Come Dancing) and now in early previews.

It stars Daniel Mays as Nathan Detroit, Andrew Richardson (A Call to Spy) as Sky Masterson, Celinde Schoenmaker (Rocketman) as Sarah Brown and Marisha Wallace (Aladdin) as long-suffering Miss Adelaide. Cedric Neal plays Nicely-Nicely Johnson. Also in the cast are Jordan Castle,...

Guy Ritchie is in the director's chair again, this time to apply his penchant for gangster movies to a spy comedy in Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre. Now in U.S. theaters and set to debut on Amazon Prime U.K. in April, Operation Fortune brings together an ensemble cast for its globe-trotting adventure, including Jason Statham, Aubrey Plaza, Cary Elwes, Hugh Grant, and Josh Hartnett.

In Operation Fortune, a deadly top-secret weapon known only as "The Handle" is stolen, leading Nathan Jasmine (Cary Elwes) to recruit a team of spies including Orson Fortune (Jason Statham) and Sarah Fidel (Aubrey Plaza) to track it down. With the nefarious Greg Simmonds (Hugh Grant) planning to sell The Handle at a charity event in Cannes, France, the team devises a novel strategy of blackmailing Hollywood star Danny Francesco (Josh Harnett) into helping them retrieve the weapon.

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Julianne Moore in “Sharper,” now streaming on Apple TV+. With more than 75 film credits in the 33 years since she made her big-screen debut, Julianne Moore has been one of the most prolific actors of her generation. Moore, whose latest film is the psychological thriller Sharper, doesn’t plan on slowing down, either. When we spoke to her, she told us that the love of acting that’s driven her career has only gotten stronger over time. (Click on the media bar below to hear Julianne Moore) https://www.hollywoodoutbreak.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Julianne_Moore_Love_Of_Acting_.mp3 Sharper is currently streaming on Apple TV+.

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