News

The 2025 New York Film Festival has announced the selections for its Currents lineup.

The international showcase of daring work from adventurous new voices and inventive artists includes 16 feature films and 24 short films from 28 countries.

The Currents centerpiece selection is the U.S. premiere of Ben Rivers’ Mare’s Nest, described by Film at Lincoln Center, which presents the NYFF, as “an enigmatic road movie set in a post-apocalyptic world ruled by children.”

Other highlights in the Currents slate include the New York premieres of Radu Jude’s Dracula and Kamal Aljafari’s With Hasan in Gaza.

“In a film landscape that is so often homogeneous by design, this year’s Currents lineup is energizing for being a showcase of the boundless possibilities of cinematic language,” NYFF artistic director Dennis Lim said in a statement. “Resurrecting old technologies and subverting new ones, the filmmakers and artists here use an ingenious array...

The Young and the Restless spoilers imply that while the mystery surrounding Aristotle Dumas was solved, as he is Cane Ashby (Billy Flynn), new questions have surfaced in the interim. From how he accumulated his wealth to why all the secrecy, there’s an even bigger query on fans’ minds. Where is Cane’s youngest son, Sam Ashby (last played by the Loo twins)?

Who Is Sam Ashby?

Digging into the Young and the Restless history books, Sam is Cane’s son from an affair he had while married to Lily Winters (Christel Khalil). In 2017, Cane got drunk along with his assistant, Juliet Helton (Laur Allen), while on a business trip.

Juliet ended up even filing a sexual harassment complaint against Cane because of this, even though that wasn’t the case.

Juliet gave birth to Sam but unfortunately passed away due to complications during his birth. Cane chose the...

Ever since the United States dropped the atomic bombs Fat Man and Little Boy on, respectively, the Japanese cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, the world has known with terrifying certainty that humanity possesses the power to end all life on Earth -- or, at least, most of it. Cockroaches might pull through. When Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs) entered the picture and the planet's two superpowers, the USA and the Ussr, engaged in an arms race that produced arsenals capable of reducing the world to, in the words of Klaatu, a burned-out cinder, it's weird that the world didn't stand still, take to the streets en masse, and demand the elimination of all nuclear weapons in order to ensure their future, their children's future, their children's children's future, and so on.

When the world found itself on the verge of a full-scale nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, it...

James Cameron’s upcoming movie Ghosts of Hiroshima promises a haunting portrayal of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Well, it’s not new that we are getting another historical movie set in the horror of the nuclear bombing in Japan. Now Cameron wants us to believe that his movie will finally do justice to the atomic bombing on the two islands.

But let’s not kid ourselves. This movie isn’t about reckoning with history. It seems yet another example of Hollywood’s grotesque obsession with glorifying nuclear annihilation in the name of empathy.

James Cameron’s new movie is following Hollywood’s peculiar obsession with Nuclear bombing James Cameron | Credit: Gage Skidmore/Cc-by-sa-2.0/Wikimedia Commons

According to the Deadline report, James Cameron, the acclaimed director of the Avatar franchise, has announced his next feature will be Ghosts of Hiroshima. The movie will be a dramatic retelling of the atomic bombing of Japan.

Here’s a trivia question for everyone: What’s the connection between Star Trek: The Original Series and the movies The Goonies, Throw Momma from the Train, and Scrooged? The answer is… Logan Ramsey, the late, great character actor whose career spanned from 1948 to 1999 and who would have turned 104 on March 21, 2025.

Star Trek fans will recall that Ramsey low-key chewed the scenery as Proconsul Claudius Marcus in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode “Bread and Circuses.” He’s the character who gave his slave, Drusilla (Lois Jewell), to Captain Kirk (William Shatner), so that Kirk could enjoy “some last hours as a man” before his execution. Sadly, Ramsey died of a heart attack at the age of 79 in 2000.

In addition to Star Trek, he counted among his many theater, movie, and television credits The Devil’s Disciple and The Great Indoors, both on stage; the films Head, Walking Tall, Any Which Way You Can,...

Post-apocalyptic settings offer a haunting reflection of today’s world, exploring how our fears, choices, and vulnerabilities shape the future and echo through society's ruins. One of the most popular subgenres of Science Fiction has to be Post-Apocalyptic Fiction. From ‘The End of the World’ to most recently the Emmy Award nominee 'Fallout'. Neil Gaiman once said “Fiction is the lie that tells the truth” and when it comes to Apunkalypse fiction, nothing could be further from the truth. These stories often reflect our real-world anxieties, particularly those rooted in the catastrophic events of the 20th century. Things to do: Subscribe to The Hollywood Insider’s YouTube Channel, by clicking here. Limited Time Offer – Free Subscription to The Hollywood Insider Click here to read more on The Hollywood Insider’s vision, values and mission statement here – Media has the responsibility to better our world – The Hollywood Insider fully...

Apple TV+ will imminently be premiering Goldie, an all-new animated series for kids and families. Ahead of the show's launch on streaming, Cbr can unveil an exclusive sneak peek featuring the voice of the world's most beloved parodist.

Goldie is set to premiere on Apple TV+ on Valentine's Day, which is Feb. 14. Inspired by Emily Brundige's award-winning short film released in 2019, the series is described by the streamer as a "larger-than-life celebration of uniqueness and embracing your true self." Embracing classic 2D animation, Goldie tells the story of a giant young girl named Goldie, following her on her adventures in the town of Boysenberg. In Cbr's sneak peek of the show, guest star "Weird Al" Yankovic voices a robot chef with the ability to generate desired foods on command — even if it's not exactly what was asked for. The clip can be watched below.

RelatedWeird: The Al Yankovic Story...

The Berlin International Film Festival has announced its full lineup for the 55th Forum section, the festival’s sidebar focusing on experimental and avant-garde cinema.

Section head Barbara Wurm said the 2025 selection aims to showcase contemporary cinema that “moves beyond the cult and the commercial” while functioning as a “seismograph of our time.”

The program’s exploration of time is highlighted by Stefan Hayn’s 2024 (2023), which juxtaposes political Berlin with private Bavaria, utilizing both film and painting as frames for observation. Cao Yiwen’s AI-driven What’s Next? poses a philosophical question about the future, while Su Hui-Yu’s The Trio Hall presents a pastiche featuring historical dictators engaged in theatrical performances.

Around half the films at this year’s Forum are documentaries, with highlights including Tatiana Fuentes Sadowski’s The Memory of Butterflies, a reconstruction of Indigenous slavery and colonial crimes; Lee Anne Schmitt’s Evidence, which explores...

Exclusive: Paradigm has signed veteran actor Ben Chaplin for representation.

Currently, Chaplin can be seen starring opposite Peter Sarsgaard and John Magaro in September 5, Tim Fehlbaum’s historical thriller examining the 1972 Munich Olympic hostage crisis from the perspective of the ABC Sports broadcasting team. The film delves into how the crew, initially covering the Olympics, swiftly transitioned to reporting on the unfolding tragedy involving Israeli athletes taken hostage by the Palestinian group Black September. This event marked a pivotal moment in live news coverage, as the world watched the crisis unfold in real-time.

Chaplin plays Marvin Bader, a seasoned ABC Sports producer who plays a crucial role in the network’s coverage of the hostage situation. His work in the film earned him the Best Actor Award from the Denver Film Festival.

Premiering to strong reviews out of Venice, September 5 hits limits theaters on December 13 before expanding nationwide on January 17 for MLK Day weekend.

It’s his birthday and clearly, he can do whatever he wants to. But that doesn’t seem to be the case here. Of course, we are talking about Prince Harry. There’s a new report that is accusing Meghan Markle of treating her husband like he’s a little boy.

Royal Family News – Meghan Markle Accused Of Treating Prince Harry Like A Little Boy

In other words, he needs her approval before making any major decisions, which includes where he’s supposed to go, what he’s supposed to do and how he’s even supposed to celebrate his birthday.

Apparently, the Duke of Sussex wanted to celebrate his 40th birthday in style with a huge party that included all of their close friends, but Meghan did not think that was a good idea.

One source close to the situation says that Harry is a “grown man” and can make decisions on his own,...

Lyon's photography of the Outlaws Motorcycle Club inspired the film The Bikeriders, with Lyon even becoming a member himself. Lyon's work extended beyond The Bikeriders, focusing on socioeconomic issues, prisoners, and civil rights movements. Lyon's accolades include a Guggenheim Fellowship and being inducted into the International Photography Hall of Fame.

Danny Lyon, whose work served as the basis of The Bikeriders, enjoyed a long career beyond the events of the film. After spending several years traveling with and photographing the Outlaws Motorcycle Club, Lyon's original work was published in a 1968 photo book titled The Bikeriders. As an artist, Lyon is known for immersing himself in his subject, even becoming a full Outlaw member from 1966-1967. His photography and recorded interviews during this time helped inform the acting of The Bikeriders cast and the production teams greater understanding of The Bikeriders cultural context.

Lyon's influence on The Bikeriders film is evident.

Dianne Crittenden, casting director on the original Star Wars who also worked on Pretty Woman, Spider-Man 2 and dozens of other films during a 40-year career, died March 19 at her home in Pacific Palisades. She was 82.

Her friend and colleague Ilene Starger confirmed her passing to Deadline.

Born on August 6, 1941, in the Jamaica neighborhood of Queens, NY, Crittenden got her start in the entertainment industry working with Howard Zieff, a photographer and director. They worked on advertising campaigns, TV commercials and films.

Her first project as casting director was Terrence Malick’s 1973 drama Badlands, starring Martin Sheen-Sissy Spacek, on which Bruce Springsteen based his song “Nebraska” a decade later. Crittenden worked on a few other films and TV shows, including the Emmy-winning 1976 Sally Field miniseries Sybil, before land the casting-director role of a lifetime — a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.

After working with George Lucas on the iconic Star Wars,...

Oppenheimer's change in opinion about nuclear weapons after witnessing the devastation in Hiroshima and Nagasaki put him at odds with physicist Lewis Strauss, as depicted in the movie. The movie shows Strauss sabotaging Oppenheimer behind the scenes and attempting to strip him of his security clearance for his political affiliations. Despite Strauss's efforts, Oppenheimer's reputation was eventually restored when President John F. Kennedy invited him to a White House dinner and President Lyndon B. Johnson, at the behest of JFK, awarded him the Enrico Fermi Award.

Oppenheimer name-drops President John F. Kennedy, but the scientist's connection to JFK is more significant than indicated. Christopher Nolan's most recent movie, Oppenheimer, explores the life of Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer leading up to, during, and after the Manhattan Project. After the detonation of Little Boy and Fat Man on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the father of the atomic bomb rightfully developed conflicting feelings about nuclear weapons.

Sound of Freedom, directed by Alejandro Monteverde, was initially shelved after Disney's purchase of Fox but found success in theaters, grossing $242 million globally. Prime Video has won the bidding war for the streaming rights to Sound of Freedom, which will premiere on the platform on December 26. The film focuses on Tim Ballard and his team's efforts to rescue children from child trafficking, with Jim Caviezel starring as Ballard.

After its controversial but successful run in theaters, Sound of Freedom is getting ready to be released on streaming, after a heated war between several companies to gain the rights to distribute one of the most debated films of the year.

Directed by Mexican filmmaker Alejandro Monteverde, Sound of Freedom hit theaters in July, after being shelved for several years following Disney's purchase of Fox. Angel Studios, a production company focused on Christian-themed stories, managed to buy it, prompting a strong advertising campaign for its release.

After watching Christopher Nolan's latest masterpiece of a blockbuster Oppenheimer, many have been wondering why the visionary filmmaker didn't actually depict either of the infamous uses of the nuclear bombs in WWII.

The drearily dark drama follows the real-life theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (played brilliantly by Cillian Murphy), the man "who became Death" by giving humanity the power to destroy itself as the architect of the atomic bomb. So it would make sense to actually show the real-life uses of the most powerful and the most horrifying weapons ever made when the United States deployed "Fat Man" and "Little Boy" on the Japanese cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. The explosions killed as many as 226,000 people, mostly civilians, while the radiation left even more with horrible diseases and terrible disfigurements for the rest of their short lives.

One of the biggest themes of the whole film is the evil effects of the bombs,...

Oppenheimer ignited interest in the creation of the atomic bomb, but there are other films, like A Compassionate Spy, that explore different perspectives on the topic. A Compassionate Spy focuses on Theodore Hall, a physicist who was also a Soviet spy during the Manhattan Project, and delves into his story. Despite being discovered as a Soviet informant, Theodore Hall was never charged with treason due to various reasons, including the cracked Venona code.

Oppenheimer is one of the most successful movies of the summer, but as it turns out, it isn't this summer's only must-see movie about the creation of the atomic bomb. Oppenheimer has taken the world by storm, with the tale of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the creation of Los Alamos and the Trinity nuclear test being one of the most popular stories of the summer. However, there is much more to the story of the...

Sound of Freedom, the indie action-drama film that has already earned over $125 million at the North American box office, will begin to move into international distribution from next month.

Angel Studios, the crowd-funded, Utah-based production and distribution firm behind the picture, says it has set releases in territories including the U.K., Australia and Latin America.

The company explained that it has arranged direct-to-theater distribution deals in Latin America, the U.K, and Ireland. In other territories it will take the more conventional route of partnering with distributors. No distribution alliances have been named.

It will first release in South Africa on Aug. 18, followed by Australia and New Zealand on Aug. 24. It ill reach the U.K. and Ireland on Sept. 1 and Spain on Oct. 11. A huge slew of South American territories, including Mexico, Argentina, Colombia and Venezuela, will receive the film from Aug. 31.

“Since ‘Sound of Freedom’ launched in the U.

As Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer has been accompanied by great anticipation and has brought renewed attention to the fascinating career and life of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, most people are unaware of, or have forgotten, Fat Man and Little Boy, which was the last feature film to cover the creation and launch of the world’s first atomic bomb.

Released in October 1989, when Nolan was still a teenager, Fat Man and Little Boy, like Oppenheimer, arrived with great fanfare. Directed by Roland Joffe, the director of the Oscar-nominated films The Killing Fields and The Mission, and starring the legendary Paul Newman, and with such a compelling story to tell, Fat Man and Little Boy was regarded as a prestigious Hollywood project with serious Academy Award potential.

However, Fat Man and Little Boy, which grossed less than $4 million at the domestic box office against a production budget of $30 million, quickly became a commercial and critical failure.

Plot: During a pivotal time in World War II, Professor Robert Oppenheimer is chosen by the army to head up the Manhattan Project, the focus being creating the first nuclear weapon the Earth has ever seen. Gathering scientists from all over the world, Oppenheimer’s obsession with finishing the bomb before the Nazis has an overwhelming impact on his personal life, in ways both immediately obvious and impossible to predict.

Review: Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is a startling, mesmerizing experience, not one easy to explain or sum up. Of course, it wouldn’t be a Nolan movie if it were, but the film sees the writer-director at the height of his powers as filmmaker and storyteller – not to mention nimble time-jumper. Perhaps the most important film of the director’s career thus far, Oppenheimer is an old fashioned Hollywood biopic/historical epic in the way it’s filled with great...

This past weekend, a movie took second place at the box office with $27 million, surpassing two massive franchise sequels, but there were other reasons why it might turn some heads in Hollywood.

That movie was Angel Studios’ “Sound of Freedom,” a drama starring Jim Caviezel (“The Passion of the Christ”) as government agent Tim Ballard, who gives up his job to go on dangerous missions to save children in third-world countries from sex trafficking. Co-written and directed by Alejandro Monteverde (“Little Boy”), the film co-stars Oscar winner Mira Sorvino and Bill Camp.

Normally, an indie drama about a difficult topic would barely get released in more than a few hundred theaters, if that, but Angel Studios released “Sound of Freedom” wide with a brilliant marketing campaign to pay it forward in terms of buying tickets for others to see it.

See 2023 box office hits: Every movie that made more than...

One thing that distinguishes 1993's Jurassic Park from a host of other Steven Spielberg films from the late 1980s and early 1990s is the cast. Unlike most blockbusters of the period, Spielberg opted to stay away from big names: Sam Neill's most prominent Hollywood role prior to his outing as Alan Grant had been opposite Sean Connery as the second-in-command of a Soviet submarine in The Hunt for Red October (1990), while Laura Dern – now bona fide Hollywood royalty – had only lately come to prominence with performances in dramas such as Fat Man and Little Boy (1989) and Rambling Rose (1991).

This approach extended to the film's supporting cast, with only Richard Attenborough (Hammond) and, to a lesser extent, a pre-Independence Day Jeff Goldblum (Malcolm) having big-name recognition. It's no wonder that three other members of the cast get surprisingly little acknowledgment from audiences – despite the fact that their pitch-perfect work in...

"The Nightman Cometh" is generally regarded as one of the cleverest episodes of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and it's about time the 2008 episode got a sequel. The comedy series' dark humor and hilariously vulgar and selfish characters have always been the big appeal of the show, and "The Nightman Cometh" perfectly encapsulates those elements with a musical twist. Charlie writes and directs the titular musical to impress the Waitress and attempts to manipulate her into marrying him. The songs in the musical hint at Charlie's trauma and abusive past, and the catchiness of the music make the lyrics all the more disturbing.

"The Nightman Cometh" is the best It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia episode, and ever since the season four finale, the show has become increasingly musical. It has built a tradition of sequel episodes. The episode perfectly lends itself to a sequel episode, and there's no doubt that...

Angel Studios has acquired worldwide distribution rights for “Sound of Freedom” and will release the film theatrically in 2023.

“Sound of Freedom” is based on the true story of Tim Ballard, a former US government agent that quits his job to rescue children from global sex traffickers. Ballard (Jim Caviezel), a federal agent, finds himself losing hope in the dark field of children crime work. However, Ballard quickly uncovers his life mission when he’s able to free a 7-year-old boy that was kidnapped. When the young boy asks Ballard to find his sister who was also kidnapped, Ballard decides to devote his life to rescuing children from sex slavery. Oscar-winner Mira Sorvino and Emmy-nominee Bill Camp co-star.

“‘Sound of Freedom’ is a riveting film that shares the story of one man’s heroic efforts to rescue children from human trafficking, says Angel Studios CEO Neal Harmon. “Through this powerful cinematic experience,...

“Unvaxxed Sperm” reads the poster held aloft by a woman standing outside the theater, and you know you’re in the right place: Joe Rogan’s new comedy club mecca. On Austin’s historic Sixth Street, Comedy Mothership enjoyed its opening night after two-and-a-half years of development.

Comedy Mothership is the comedian and podcaster’s effort to launch what he’s described as an ideal venue for comics and an effort to terraform the Texas capitol into a major live comedy hub. When tickets for the opening week of shows went on sale (for a surprisingly reasonable $40 per person), they sold out within minutes. Tickets are being re-sold online for $500.

“I’m drunk and on mushrooms in my new club!” exclaimed Rogan while wearing a rather odd Obi-Wan-like sweater. “This is as high as I’ve ever been onstage. I need to connect with this moment … You can’t fire me from my own club,...

Issue 2 of Notebook magazine includes an original essay by Lyon, accompanied by a piece about the self-distribution of his works. The issue is currently available in select stores around the world.In September 1962, Danny Lyon, a history and philosophy student at the University of Chicago, flew to Jackson, Mississippi to photograph voter registration workers for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (Sncc). By 1963, Lyon was working as Sncc’s in-house photographer, and for the next two-plus years he would document nearly every major moment of the Southern Civil Rights Movement, including the March on Washington and historic demonstrations led by John Lewis and Martin Luther King Jr., among others. If you’ve seen a photo from this era in a newspaper, magazine, or history book, there’s a good chance it was taken by Lyon.But while the artist’s contemporaneous photos of an outlaw Chicago motorcycle gang and, later, Texas...

Universal just dropped a bomb on everyone expecting a quiet Sunday night, with them finally unveiling the new, full-length trailer for Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer. Now, if you were one of the many folks to see Avatar: The Way of Water this weekend, you’ve already seen this, and indeed, the IMAX-shot movie promises to be a visual spectacle. The film stars Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the enigmatic scientist who’s considered the father of the A-bomb.

The Oppenheimer story was previously made into a (pretty decent) movie in the eighties called Fat Man and Little Boy (named after the two A-bombs dropped on Japan), but Nolan’s epic seems to be a whole other ballgame. The trailer is spectacular and focuses mainly on what could be a career-defining performance from the always-great Murphy. Emily Blunt co-stars as his wife, Katherine “Kitty” Oppenheimer, a scientist in her own right,...

There was a time when it seemed like Cillian Murphy was destined for movie superstardom. The Irish actor was mesmerizing in early-2000s films like "28 Days Later," "Batman Begins," "Red Eye" and "Breakfast on Pluto." But while he's remained busy over the years, Hollywood just couldn't figure out what to do with him, so he wound up bouncing from leads to supporting roles for a bit until he found a role that fit him like a tweed suit in Tommy Shelby, the crime boss of "Peaky Blinders."

Now that Steven Knight's gangster series has come to a close after six knockabout seasons, Murphy has been gifted a prime opportunity to reestablish himself as a big-screen draw in Christopher Nolan's forthcoming "Oppenheimer." Murphy has been cast as the physicist who spearheaded the Manhattan Project's development of the atomic bomb. Oppenheimer's triumph resulted in the end of World...

Jesse Metcalfe has signed on for MGM and Lightworkers’ new faith-based family drama “On a Wing and a Prayer,” starring opposite Dennis Quaid and Heather Graham.

Based on a true story, Quaid stars as Doug White, who’s forced to fly a plane after the pilot dies unexpectedly mid-flight.

The movie is the latest production from MGM’s Lightworkers — the company, founded by Roma Downey and Mark Burnett, is behind “The Bible” miniseries and MGM and Paramount’s contemporary “Ben-Hur” adaptation. Downey will produce the movie alongside Autumn Bailey-Ford, with Burnett serving as an executive producer. Directed by Sean McNamara from a screenplay by Brian Egeston, “On a Wing and a Prayer” is currently in production and slated for release on Aug. 31, 2022.

After kicking off his career with heartthrob roles on “Passions,” “Desperate Housewives” and the 2006 hit teen comedy “John Tucker Must Die,” Metcalfe has found massive success on the...

Exclusive: Christiana Dell’Anna (Gomorrah), John Lithgow (The Crown), David Morse (The Green Mile), Rolando Villazón (La Bohèmme) and more will star in an Untitled Cabrini Film from Alejandro Monteverde.

The film tells the story of Francesca Cabrini, one of the greatest entrepreneurs of the 19th Century, who began with nothing and created the largest multinational charitable empire the world had ever known, her accomplishments equaling those of Vanderbilt and Rockefeller. While Cabrini was faced in her time with the sexism and virulent anti-Italian bigotry of 19th century America, she overcame every obstacle through relentless perseverance and business skill, eventually building schools, orphanages and hospitals that transformed the lives of immigrants worldwide.

The Untitled Cabrini Film also stars Montserrat Espadalé, Romana Maggiora Vergano, Patch Darragh, Jeremy Bobb, Virginia Bocelli, Andrew Polk, and Giampiero Judica.

The Francesca Films pic’s producers include Academy Award and BAFTA Award winner Jonathan Sanger and Leo Severino. Rod Barr wrote the script; he collaborated on the story with TIFF’s People’s Choice Award winner Monteverde.

The film is currently in production in New York; the shoot will wrap up in Rome this fall. The project was the brainchild of financier Eustace Wolfington, whose passion for the story of Francesca Cabrini began over 60 years ago.

“The minute I learned of Cabrini’s life story, I realized this was a story that deserved to be brought to the big screen,” said Wolfington. “As a pioneer of human rights long before today, her story will be an inspiration to today’s pioneers of human rights which makes her story and unprecedented accomplishments as relevant today as ever.”

“As an immigrant myself, I am honored to be able to shine a light on the astonishing story of a true warrior of social justice who transformed the lives of immigrants worldwide,” said Monteverde. “Cabrini was a pioneer of women’s empowerment, making her story as relevant today as in the 1890’s. This picture – like Cabrini herself – is surprising, courageous, gritty… and deeply inspirational.”

“In a time when the achievements of women in every sphere of life have inspired a new generation, it is fascinating to contemplate the work of Francesca Cabrini, an Italian immigrant who came to New York in 1889. She would fit perfectly as a leader in today’s world,” added Sanger.

Christiana Dell’Anna’s film credits include Tensione superficiali, Mr. Happiness and more. She has appeared on the small screen in such series as Gomorrah (HBO Max) and Trust (FX). She’s represented in the U.S. by Cavalry Media, and by Volver Consulenze Artistiche in Italy.

A two-time Oscar nominee, John Lithgow recently earned his 13th Emmy nomination for his supporting turn in HBO’s reimagining of Perry Mason. He’ll next appear in Showtime’s Dexter revival, reprising his role as Arthur Mitchell (aka The Trinity Killer), and in FX’s The Old Man. His recent film credits include Bombshell, Late Night and Pitch Perfect 3. Additional TV credits include The Crown, Trial & Error and 3rd Rock from the Sun. Lithgow is repped by UTA, Anonymous Content and attorney Don Steele at Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren, Richman, Rush, Kaller & Gellman.

Two-time Emmy nominee David Morse will soon appear in Netflix drama The Chair, opposite Sandra Oh. His recent TV credits include The Good Lord Bird, Blindspot, The Morning Show, The Deuce and Escape at Dannemora. Recent film credits include Thank You for Your Service and Concussion. Morse is repped by UTA, Kipperman Management, Arcieri & Associates, and attorney Diane Golden at Katz Golden Lerner.

Rolando Villazón is an opera singer and director whose credits include Mozart in Prague: Rolando Villazón on Don Giovanni, La Bohèmme and La Traviata. He is repped by Columbia Artists Management.

Monteverde is represented by Sentient Entertainment and attorney Sean A. Marks of Marks Law Group.

Exclusive: Cristiana Dell’Anna, star of the HBO Max crime series Gomorrah, has landed the lead role of U.S. Catholic nun Frances Xavier Cabrini in Alejandro Monteverde’s true story feature retelling Cabrini. Production starts June 28 in Buffalo, NY and NYC.

Mother Cabrini was an Italian-American Roman Catholic nun who founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, a Catholic religious institute that was a major support to her fellow Italian immigrants to the United States. Cabrini, who lived from 1850 to 1917, was the first U.S. citizen to be canonized as a saint by the Catholic Church, on July 7, 1946 by Pope Pius Xii. Her beautification miracle involved restoring the sight of a day-old baby, Peter Smith, who had been blinded by a 50% silver nitrate solution instead of the normal 1% solution in the child’s eyes. Her canonization miracle involved the healing of a terminally ill member of her congregation.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the founder of San Francisco’s iconic City Lights Books and an integral figure in the Beat poetry movement, has died. The publisher and activist’s son, Lorenzo Ferlinghetti told AP that he died Monday at his home of lung disease. He was 101.

The San Francisco icon helped launch the Beat movement in the 1950s, making the works by some of the greats including Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs, more accessible to readers. In has 1953, the Bronxville, NY native founded San Francisco’s City Lights Booksellers & Publishers, a historical landmark that still services Bay Area natives and more to this day.

Ferlinghetti, whose works include Howl and Other Poems, Little Boy, Blasts Cries Laughter and Pictures of the Gone World, brought his talents not only to the literary world, but to the entertainment realm as well. In 2007 he penned the short To Paint the Portrait...

Resurrection, a film from The Bible producers Roma Downey and Mark Burnett that follows the immediate aftermath of Jesus’ crucifixion, will premiere on Discovery+ on March 27.

In Resurrection, Jesus’ followers are hunted, leaderless and desperately searching for understanding, but when Jesus rises from death, they realize that hope didn’t die on the cross. It lives on in them. A production from MGM and LightWorkers, a division of MGM, Resurrection is produced by Downey, Burnett and The Bible showrunner Richard Bedser.

“Faithful audiences crave content that speaks to their faith and values, and we can think of no better home for this film than discovery+. David Zaslav and his team have created an incredible home for family friendly entertainment,” said Downey and Burnett. “We look forward to sharing Resurrection’s ultimate story of hope with the discovery+ viewers and are grateful to be able to share this epic story with...

Two-time Golden Globe nominee and SAG Ensemble winner Dennis Quaid will star in MGM and LightWorkers’ faith-based family drama, On a Wing and a Prayer. The pic marks the actor’s third reteaming with filmmaker Sean McNamara after Soul Surfer and the upcoming biopic Reagan in which Quaid plays the title role as the 40th U.S. President. On a Wing and a Prayer will be released through MGM’s distribution and marketing joint venture United Artists Releasing.

After a small-town pilot dies unexpectedly while flying the plane, passenger Doug White (Quaid) is forced to land the plane safely in order to save his entire family. Based on an astonishing true story, On a Wing and a Prayer follows one man’s harrowing journey to save his family from insurmountable danger.

Brian Egeston (Perfect Harmony) wrote the screenplay which is being produced by Roma Downey and Autumn Bailey-Ford. Mark Burnett will executive produce the project.

Warren Berlinger, a busy character actor whose numerous roles made him one of TV’s most familiar faces from the Kraft Theatre golden age through the Grace and Frankie streaming era, died Wednesday at the Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital in Valencia, California. He was 83.

His death was confirmed by daughter Elizabeth. A cause has not been announced.

With a cherubic face that could seem simultaneously amiable and, along with the hint of an accent from his native Brooklyn, mischievous, Berlinger was a go-to actor for supporting and sidekick roles for decades, both in film, and television.

After the Bishop show,...

I did a double take when I saw the headline myself. Despite only launching a week ago, a not inconsiderable number of titles will be leaving HBO Max at the end of June. Logically, distribution contracts that were already running out weren’t going to stop running out just because Warner launched their new service, so you best get on these quick.

Here’s the list of all the movies leaving HBO Max on June 30th:

The Abyss

Akeelah and the Bee

American Wedding

An Ideal Husband

Arthur

Asylum

The Beverly Hillbillies

The Big Green

Blindspotting

Bye Bye, Love

Empire of the Sun

Glengarry Glen Ross

Grandma’s Boy

Great Expectations

A Handful of Dust

Head Full of Honey

Heaven & Earth

Hellboy

The Hoax

I Love You Phillip Morris

Indignation

Jiminy Glick in Lalawood

Jobs

Johnny English

Keeping Up with the Steins

Kin

Les Miserables

Hellboy Gallery 1 of 6

Click to...

Believe it or not, John Travolta’s first screen credit came 48 years ago, when he was still a teen in 1972. By the end of that decade, he’d become one of Hollywood’s biggest stars, thanks to a TV show that made him a phenomenon and a couple of movies (Saturday Night Fever [...]

The post John Travolta & His ‘Little Boy’ Days Of Early Fame appeared first on Hollywood Outbreak.

“Gospel goes deeper than entertainment,” Pops Staples said in 1968, shortly after his group, the Staple Singers, signed with Stax Records. “It is the word of god. But you can’t push that down anybody’s throat. All we can do is get as many people to hear us as we can.”

A new box set, Come Go With Me: The Stax Collection, which gathers together the band’s Stax discography on vinyl for the first time in ages, traces the Staple Singers’ eternal relationship with this central tension–how to...

Actors Mandell Maughan and David Henrie have signed with Abrams Artists Agency to be represented theatrically.

“Mandell and David are incredibly talented actors whose work across television and film speaks for itself,” said Abrams Artists Agency president Brian Cho. “We are excited to have them on board and surround each one with a team of expert agents who can help them reach the next stage of their careers.”

Maughan is best known for her roles on the hit Seeso show Bajillion Dollar Propertie$ and CBS comedy Me, Myself and I, starring Bobby Moynihan. Her work in television also includes shows such as Sean Saves the World on NBC, The Millers on CBS, House of Lies on Showtime, and Undateable on NBC.

Born and raised in San Diego, Maughan graduated from the University of Arizona with a Bfa in Professional Acting Training from The Arizona Repertory Theatre Company. After graduating, she moved to La,...

Your wait for Jack Ryan is almost over.

“Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan” premieres on Amazon Aug. 31, starring John Krasinski as a CIA analyst who’s thrust into a dangerous field assignment. Another new Prime Original series, “All or Nothing: Manchester City” will premiere next month, though the specific date is yet to be announced. It follows Pep Guardiola, the legendary coach and the team’s 2017/2018 season.

Other titles coming to Amazon in August include 2004’s “A Cinderella Story” and 2008’s “Hurt Locker” on Aug. 1. “Mother!,” starring Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem, will be available on Aug. 26.

Also Read: Emmys and #MeToo: 'Transparent' Shut Out of Nominations

See the complete list below.

August 1

Series

#MeToo: Now What?, Season 1

Movies

A Cinderella Story (2004)

American Gigolo (1980)

American Ninja (1985)

American Ninja III: Blood Hunt (1989)

Be Cool (2005)

Black Mask (1996)

Black Rain (1989)

Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000)

Boomerang (1992)

Cold War (2012)

Csny/Déjà Vu...

Francoise Bonnot, a film editor who won an Oscar for Z and a BAFTA Award for Missing among dozens of credits, died Saturday in Paris. She was 78.

The France native worked with a number of top directors during her nearly 50-year career, notably editing seven consecutive films by Costa-Gavras — from 1969’s Z to 1983’s Hanna K. She won a BAFTA Award for his 1982 film Missing. She also worked with such noted helmers as Jean-Jacques Annaud — on his 1976 debut feature Black and White in Color — Roman Polanski, Michael Cimino (1985’s Year of the Dragon and 1987’s The Sicilian) and four film for Julie Taymor: Titus (1999), Frida (2002), Across the Universe (2007) and The Tempest (2010).

Among her earliest editing credits during a career that would span nearly a half-century was 1962’s A Monkey in Winter for director Henri Verneuil. They also would work together on three other films that decade and eventually were married.

Michael Gershman, an Emmy-nominated cinematographer who shot and directed episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Crossing Jordan, has died. He was 73.

Gershman was found dead on March 10 at his home in Malibu, his brother, Jeff Gershman, told The Hollywood Reporter. The cause of death was unknown.

Early in his career, Gershman served as a camera assistant to Oscar-winning cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond on films including The Deer Hunter (1978), The Rose (1979), Heaven's Gate (1980), Blow Out (1981), The River (1984) and Fat Man and Little Boy (1989).

Gershman worked on Buffy, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, during the...

Alphas alumna Laura Mennell and Eijiro Ozaki (Little Boy) have signed on for recurring roles in the third season of Amazon’s flagship drama series The Man In The High Castle. Mennell will play Hedda Parsons, a New York gossip columnist type who is queen of the NY Nazi Reich social scene. Ozaki will portray Admiral Inokuchi, a Japanese admiral who is a cool, calm, rational pragmatist. Based on Philip K. Dick's Hugo Award-winning 1962 alternate history novel, The Man In The…...

One episode was provided prior to broadcast.

Kevin James is a simple entertainer. His blue collar-friendly brand is designed to appeal to undemanding middle-aged schlubs, or at the very least, easy-to-please hard-working people who just want to kick their feet back, gulp down a couple beers and enjoy themselves for a few hours. The kind of people who don’t expect more than the familiar pleasures they’ve been given before. And there’s nothing particularly wrong with that either. James’ style might be boring and repetitive to some of us (well, maybe most of us), but he’s a smart businessman. He knows what his fans expect from him, and he tries to meet their modest demands. That logic drives Kevin Can Wait, James’ return to CBS and broadcast television.

It’s been nine years since James stepped away from King of Queens, pursing a career on the big...

A shamefully miscalculated tale of whimsy and come-to-Jesus inspiration with a bizarrely inappropriate haze of Norman Rockwell-esque nostalgia. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing

I’m “biast” (con): not a fan of “faith-based” movies

(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)

In a seaside town “like you see in postcards” in 1940s California, eight-year-old Pepper Flynt Busbee (Jakob Salvati: Escape from Tomorrow) is sad, because his best friend — his father (Michael Rapaport: The Heat, Hitch) — has gone off to fight against the Japs in the Pacific. Mom (Emily Watson: Everest, A Royal Night Out) was always the one to bring the two buddies back down to Earth from their pretend adventures, but she cannot stop Pepper now: he has been convinced by comic-book and movie-serial hero Ben Eagle the Magician (Ben Chaplin: Cinderella, War Book) and local priest Father Oliver (Tom Wilkinson: Unfinished Business,...

Ali Landry paid a bittersweet tribute to her late father-in-law with a photo of him holding her daughter.

Her husband Alejandro Monteverde's dad Juan Manuel Gómez Monteverde and brother Juan Manuel Gómez Fernández were found dead in Veracruz, Mexico, on Sept. 19, about two weeks after they were kidnapped from their home.

The beauty queen and actress shared an Instagram on Thursday of Juan Manuel getting a kiss on the cheek from his granddaughter Estela, 8. The precious picture was taken while her director husband was shooting the 2015 World War II film Little Boy.

"The tears in his eyes reflect the joy,...

Award-winning director Alejandro Monteverde and wife Ali Landry are in mourning following the deaths of Monteverde’s father and brother, TheWrap has learned. Juan Manuel Gomez Fernandez and his son, also named Juan Manuel, were kidnapped in Tampico, Mexico, after leaving their home on Sept. 4. The two men’s bodies were found in Veracruz, Mexico, on Sept. 19. Each had reportedly suffered severe head injuries. A ransom was paid for the pair’s release but the kidnappers didn’t keep their word, the Latin Times reported. Also Read: 'Little Boy' Review: Faith-Based Drama Revisits Anti-Asian Racism During WWII Landry...

Juan Manuel Gómez Fernández and Juan Manuel Gómez Monteverde were kidnapped a little more than two weeks ago after leaving their home in Tamaulipas, Mexico, but E! News has learned that both have been killed. The victims are the father and brother of Hollywood film producer Alejandro Gómez Monteverde, who is married to former Miss USA Ali Landry. According to reports, the bodies were discovered in Veracruz, Mexico, with severe head injuries. The famous director has yet to issue a statement about his tragic loss, but the producer of his film, Little Boy, Eduardo Verástegui, shared his condolences on Twitter Monday in Spanish.  "With a heart full of pain and sadness, I ask for...

It looks like this is turning into a battle of who has the better vacation!  Kourtney Kardashian has been soaking up the sun and showing off her enviable bikini bod all week with the rest of her famous family in St. Barts.   On Thursday, the mom-of-three posted yet another swimsuit pic, where she's seen rocking a sexy gold one piece while standing among the palm trees by the pool at sunset.   But just a few hours earlier, her ex Scott Disick took to his Instagram page and revealed that he was on a boys trip in Mexico at Joe Francis' house in Casa Aramara!  Little boy time in mex A photo posted by Scott Disick (@letthelordbewithyou) on Aug 20, 2015 at 7:51pm Pdt "Little boy time in mex," he captioned the photo.   In the snap, the 31-year-old chills in the pool with a friend and the "Girls Gone Wild" creator...

Scott Disick isn't exactly sitting at home moping while his ex, Kourtney Kardashian, soaks up the sun with their three kids in St. Barts.

The reality star, 32, has been spending time with pal Joe Francis in Mexico.

"Little boy time in mex," he captioned a pic on Thursday of him and Francis and another friend in a hot tub.

Disick, who split with his longtime girlfriend last month after he was spotted cozying up to another woman in Monaco, also shared a photo of him lying on the wing of a jet along with the caption, "Had to get the last bit of sun in.

Our resident VOD expert tells you what's new to rent and/or own this week via various Digital HD providers such as cable Movies On Demand, Amazon, iTunes, Vudu, Google Play and, of course, Netflix. Cable Movies On Demand: Same-day-as-disc releases, older titles and pretheatrical exclusives for rent, priced from $3-$10, in 24- or 48-hour periods Lambert & Stamp (documentary about the formation of the Who; Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey; rated R) Little Boy (WWII-set drama; Emily Watson, Tom Wilkinson; rated PG-13) Being Evel (documentary; Robert ‘Evel’ Knievel; premieres 8/21 on cable Mod and in theaters; not rated) She’s Funny That Way (love-triangle comedy; Jennifer Aniston, Owen Wilson, Imogen Poots, Will Forte; premieres 8/21 on...

Read More...