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Not many actors can say they've had a career as impressive and diverse as Robin Williams. While he could knock comedic roles like Mrs. Doubtfire out of the park, Williams also delivered some amazing dramatic performances, especially with the cinematic masterpiece that is Good Will Hunting. Sometimes he could even be downright terrifying when the occasion called for it. Williams delivered what might be one of his best performances in his final film, Boulevard.

Exclusive: Wattpad Webtoon Studios is building out in Europe with the hire of Mar Vila Barcelo.

Based in Madrid, Barcelo will lead and expand on the LA-based studio’s international film and TV series slate, focusing on the European market. She reports into David Madden, Wattpad Webtoon’s Head of Global Entertainment.

Barcelo joins from ITV Studios Iberia, where she was Development Executive at Cattleya Producciones, the Spanish arm of Gomorrah and Citadel Diana maker Cattleya. There she managed the development slate for feature films and series in Spanish-speaking markets, and worked with literary and publishing agents to source new IP.

Her hire is a major one for Wattpad Webtoon Studios, given her previous roles at ICM Partners, Film London and Pure Grass Films.

Barcelo has also held several production roles in the UK and Spain, and prior to ITV, she worked as a commissioner and exec producer for Short Circuit,...

Dog Man's Pete Davidson and The White Lotus' Jennifer Coolidge may come from very different corners of the entertainment world, but their time together on the movieRiff Raff resulted in a memorable collaboration.

According to THR, Davidson, known for his sharp comedic style on Saturday Night Live and his offbeat roles in films like The King of Staten Island, had a unique way of describing his co-star. Meanwhile, Coolidge, an Emmy-winning actress celebrated for her work in The White Lotus and American Pie, had her own unexpected observations about Davidson’s personality. As both actors reflect on their time filming, their comments offer insight into the dynamic between two of Hollywood’s most distinct personalities.

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Sept. 29, 2006 forever changed Dito Montiel and Robert Downey Jr.’s lives.

It was not only the day that Downey was officially cast as Tony Stark in Jon Favreau’s Iron Man, but it was also the theatrical release date of Montiel’s debut indie drama A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, starring Downey as a semi-autobiographical version of Montiel. The day cemented Downey’s return to industry prominence after a series of highly publicized personal struggles, and the random fall Friday had just as much meaning for Montiel after many of his own storybook ups and agonizing downs.

As a native of Queens in New York City, Montiel was something of a renaissance man before becoming a filmmaker. In the ’80s, he was a mainstay in NYC’s hardcore punk scene as the teenage frontman of Major Conflict. In 1989, his new band, Gutterboy, signed a then-record $1 million deal with Geffen Records.

Nicole Scherzinger will be taking her final bow on Sunset Boulevard this summer.

The 46-year-old Pussycat Dolls alum has received critical acclaim for her performance as Norma Desmond in the latest production of the musical, which made its Broadway premiere in late 2024 at the St. James Theatre.

On Thursday (February 27), it was revealed how much longer fans had to travel to Broadway for a chance to take in the show.

Keep reading to find out more…

Nicole‘s production of Sunset Boulevard will close on Broadway on July 13. Tickets are already available, and you can pick them up here.

Sunset Boulevard has been an exciting run for Nicole. Earlier this year, she made a late-night appearance for a televised performance of her showstopping song “As If We Never Said Goodbye.”

She also revealed how her history in pop music helped prepare her for a starring role on Broadway.

An actress...

Nancy Olson, the last living star of Billy Wilder’s seminal Hollywood satire Sunset Boulevard, still remembers Oscar night 1951. The film was nominated for 11 Academy Awards and won three.

Olson, 96, shared her recollections on a recent episode of It Happened in Hollywood, The Hollywood Reporter‘s eyewitness film history podcast.

Olson was just 22 at the time, and Sunset Boulevard was only her second picture in a seven-year contract with Paramount Pictures. The role — Betty, a studio reader with ambitions to be a screenwriter — earned her a best supporting actress nomination.

“I did not expect to win and I did not win,” Olson told host Seth Abramovitch. “I felt very rewarded being nominated and that was quite enough.”

She says she sensed her fate was sealed when she entered the Pantages Theatre and was ushered to her less-than-prime spot. “I was seated in the back, on the side,” Olson says.

The statuette,...

In the newly released trailer, Riff Raff weaves crime, comedy, and family dysfunction into a high-stakes thrill ride featuring Ghostbusters' Bill Murray, and Saturday Night Live alum Pete Davidson, and the rest of its all-star cast.

Lionsgate has unveiled the new trailer for the exciting original movie Riff Raff, the latest offering from acclaimed director Dito Montiel. Known for his gritty and authentic storytelling, Montiel brings together a stellar ensemble cast featuring Westworld's Ed Harris, Gabrielle Union, The White Lotus' Jennifer Coolidge, Murray, and Davidson in this darkly comedic crime drama. The film is set to hit theaters on February 28, 2025. Watch the trailer below.

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The trailer introduces us to Vincent (Harris), a reformed criminal striving...

Despite having no real winter weather to speak of, living in Los Angeles often feels like looking out at the rest of the world from the inside of a snow globe.

In January 2025, L.A.’s happy little enclosure for controlled dream-making — the idyllic hometown for legendary A-list celebrities like Dustin Hoffman, Barbie, and the Santa Monica Ferris Wheel — filled with smoke and fire. Dangerous winds that spread the emergency event haven’t stopped blowing yet, but so far, they’ve left the promise of months, maybe even years, of disaster recovery ahead.

The comfortable climate of Southern California usually provides ideal conditions for filming. This has long made the city a prime shooting location and has inspired thousands — even millions — of starry-eyed dreamers to move here from other cities.

Pleasant weather and railroads essential to trade a century ago played key parts in helping Hollywood emerge as the premiere destination for the entertainment industry.

Love them or hate them, obsess over them or ignore them altogether, the Academy Awards are a cultural artifact whose history mirrors the very history of American film. Granted, as a gatekeeping and taste-managing institution, the Oscars have always been better at belatedly following and responding to winds of change in the industry than at anticipating or provoking them, and you could probably count on your fingers the number of times that the Oscar statuette in any given category went to a genuinely bold, bracing, game-changing winner. But they're as good a summation of the congealing of critical and commercial mainstream consensus over the decades as we film buffs have. And, as such, it's fascinating to look at the instances of the ultimate winner being so out of lockstep with that consensus as to cause an uproar.

As we gear up for the 97th Academy Awards in March 2025, it's a...

Exclusive: Andrew Lloyd Webber has unveiled his new West End and Broadway musical: a magical romance called The Illusionist, directed by Sunset Boulevard’s Jamie Lloyd.

During a private audience at his penthouse office adjacent to the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, one of six theatres controlled through his Lw Theatres group, the legendary composer of Phantom of the Opera and Evita gave Deadline an exclusive preview of three of the several numbers he has so far scored.

The impresario says Oscar-winning screenwriter Chris Terrio (Argo) “has done the book very much with me, but he’s the scriptwriter.” British songwriter Bruno Major is also attached.

Lloyd Webber performed an early draft of his score to Lloyd earlier this year as they began preparing to open Sunset Boulevard, starring Nicole Scherzinger and Tom Francis, on Broadway. The show premiered at the St. James Theater on October 20 to ecstatic notices from the majority of critics.

Following the success of Andrew Lloyd Webber, Don Black, and Christopher Hampton’s musical Sunset Boulevard, adapted from Billy Wilder’s 1950 film by the same name, Jamie Lloyd returned with a revival of the theatrical version in October 2024. Starring The Pussycat Dolls’ Nicole Scherzinger as the lead, Lloyd turned the actress’ Broadway debut into a major hit.

Nicole Scherzinger | image: Joel Telling, licensed under Cc By Sa 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Using minimal style and set design, Jamie Lloyd brought back the iconic fashion, replicating the 50s era in Nicole Scherzinger’s Sunset Boulevard. But despite the excitement and ambition surrounding the Broadway show, let’s get straight to the fact that there’s no Hollywood ending. So while buckling up for some heartbreak and star-studded performance, let’s dive into the show and learn what to expect from it.

Lead Actresses Who Previously Appeared in Sunset Boulevard Shows

After music...

In June, Cats: The Jellicle Ball seemed to shake Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats like a bottle of champagne, joyfully letting the old, vexatious material burst out on the stage at the Perelman Arts Center with glittery effervescence. Now, returning to Broadway in a stripped-down West End transfer, the heavy bones of Sunset Boulevard—Webber’s ponderous music, Don Black and Christopher Hampton’s repetitive lyrics, the general plodding approach to Billy Wilder’s 1950 film—drag behind director Jamie Lloyd’s austere vision like a body bag.

Lloyd’s ethos is all about turning the audience toward the text and performance, sharpening the listener’s ear by stripping away all the trappings of traditional productions, including, most of the time, eye contact between actors. That worked splendidly for his Cyrano de Bergerac at Bam two years ago with James McAvoy, as Edmond Rostand’s play is about the power of language itself.

Exclusive: Bartlett Sher, nine-time Tony Award directing nominee and winner for 2008’s South Pacific, will direct the recently announced Dolly Parton musical Hello, I’m Dolly, set for Broadway in 2026.

“How lucky I am to have the great Bartlett Sher direct my Hello, I’m Dolly musical,” Parton said in a statement. “When you decide to put your whole life up on stage, you hope and pray to find the right director with the right creativity and sensitivity to present all the blood, sweat, tears, light, love, and laughter that I’ve experienced over seven decades of living. My heart tells me that Bartlett is the man and the director for the job.”

Said Sher, “Dolly is one of the great songwriters in the American canon, and being entrusted with the opportunity to help her translate that glorious talent into the American musical theater is not only an honor, but absolutely a thrill.

Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance – one of the breakout films of this year’s Cannes Film Festival – will close the new Midnight Madness strand at this year’s Edinburgh Film Festival [Eiff].

The ambitious body horror stars Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley, and Dennis Quaid and is billed as a “ruthless satire on female body standards and the toxic beauty myth.”

The Eiff screening will serve as the film’s UK premiere. Mubi will release the film in the UK at a later date.

Eiff’s brand new Midnight Madness strand will run throughout the festival in August. The festival recently announced a special Midnight Madness preview screening of Chris Nash’s arthouse slasher In A Violent Nature on Thursday, July 11 at the Cameo Cinema. The full Eiff programme will launch on Wednesday, July 10, with tickets going on sale on Thursday, July 11.

“Having experienced the legendary Midnight Madness premiere of Coralie Fargeat...

Bill Murray has joined the already-stacked cast of director Dito Montiel’s upcoming crime comedy Riff Raff. More details below.

Dito Montiel’s crime comedy Riff Raff has set up quite a cast. Jennifer Coolidge, Ed Harris, Gabrielle Union, Lewis Pullman, Emanuela Postacchini, Miles J Harvey and Pete Davidson are all set to appear, and the film has just added another star to its ranks.

Bill Murray, who was just seen in Ghostbusters: The Frozen Empire, will also appear in Riff Raff, Variety reports.

According to the same article, Riff Raff – not to be confused with the 1991 Ken Loach film of the same name – follows a former criminal, whose ordinary life is turned upside down when his family shows up for a “long-awaited reckoning”. John Pollono, whose work takes in Grey’s Anatomy, Masters Of Sex, and the 2021 indie comedy Small Engine Repair, has written the script.

We don’t know who plays who yet,...

Exclusive: Natasha Behnam (The Girls on the Bus), Pete Ploszek (Parks & Recreation), Tom Francis (Sunset Boulevard) and b (Station 19) are set for recurring roles in the fifth and final season of Netflix’s hit psychological drama You.

Based on Caroline Kepnes’ best-selling novel of the same name, You revolves around the question, “What would you do for love?” The series follows Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley), a man who will do just about anything when love is at stake.

In addition to Badgley, they join previously announced Charlotte Richie, Madeline Brewer, Anna Camp and Griffin Matthews for Season 5.

Season 4 was set in London where Joe took on the new identity of Jonathan Moore, an English professor, while following Marienne (Tati Gabrielle) around Europe. Details regarding the focus of Season 5 are being kept under wraps.

Behnam plays Dominique. While appearing to be an aloof hipster, Dominique is in fact a passionate,...

Miami — In a potentially powerful alliance, Spain’s Zeta Studios, producer of Netflix megahit “Elite,” has signed to develop Latin American Spanish-language webnovels from Wattpad Webtoon Studios, the online publisher via Webtoon of web novel “Through My Window.” Its movie makeover ranks as Netflix’s fourth most-viewed non-English film ever.

Both companies will also partner on projects in Spain on a first priority non-exclusive basis, they announced Tuesday, just before first panel sessions at the second edition of Content America, the Miami TV market and forum.

The pact marks another key step in Zeta Studios’ expansion in Latin America. In its first major corporate move, in June 2023, Madrid-based Zeta Studios, also producer of HBO Max banner title “García!,” named Marcelo Tamburri, one of Latin America’s preeminent TV execs, to the newly-created position of director of international content.

The ex-Warner Bros. Discovery exec remains based in Mexico City, Spanish-speaking...

Nicole Scherzinger is bringing her performance as Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard to Broadway.

The former Pussycat Dolls singer has been starring in the musical on London’s West End for the past few months and she will wrap her run in the show this week.

It has been confirmed that Nicole will be bringing the musical to Broadway in 2024 and she will be joined by London co-stars Tom Francis, Grace Hodgett-Young, and David Thaxton.

The revival of Sunset Boulevard is directed by Jamie Lloyd.

Haunted by her memories and dreams, movie star Norma Desmond (Scherzinger) yearns to return to the big screen. A struggling screenwriter (Francis) who can’t sell his scripts to the Hollywood studios may be her only hope, until their dangerous and compelling relationship leads to disastrous circumstances. Drenched in champagne and cynicism, Sunset Boulevard scrutinizes the ambitions and frustrations of its characters and their intoxicating need for fame and adoration.

Being on Broadway wasn’t one of the goals Nicole Scherzinger set when she was listing off her dreams on the Pussycat Dolls single “When I Grow Up,” but the fame-hungry song is a perfect companion to her latest achievement. When Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard heads to New York from London’s West End, Scherzinger will make her Broadway debut in the lead role as Norma Desmond.

Scherzinger first entered the role during its third West End revival in 2023. It had been seven years since the production was revived there,...

Exclusive: Starring an electrifying Nicole Scherzinger, Sunset Boulevard ends its limited run at London’s Savoy Theatre on January 6. However, Deadline can reveal in its 2024 West End look ahead that the singer will lead the Andrew Lloyd Webber show to Broadway in November, according to insiders connected with the production.

Scherzinger, who won the Evening Standard’s best musical performance prize for her show-stopping turn as Norma Desmond, has indicated to producers that she will commit to a six-month season in New York, we understand. The Es also recently named the show’s helmer Jamie Lloyd as Best Director [Disclosure: this writer is a member of the Es judging panel].

Nicole Scherzinger in ‘Sunset Boulevard’

Meanwhile, another Es winner, Jack Thorne’s glorious drama The Motive and the Cue, staged by Sam Mendes, has transferred from London’s National Theatre to the Noël Coward, and we can also reveal The Motive and the Cue is in the early stages of discussions for a run in NYC.

The best in West End theatre was celebrated at the 2023 Evening Standard Theatre Awards, where Nicole Scherzinger was the big winner of the night!

Tom Hiddleston and Zawe Ashton were among the stars who walked the red carpet at the event on Sunday night (November 19) at Claridge’s Hotel in London, England.

Nicole won the award for Best Musical Performance for her work in the new revival of Sunset Boulevard, beating out A Strange Loop‘s Kyle Ramar Freeman, Crazy for You‘s Charlie Stemp, and Guys and Dolls‘ Marisha Wallace.

Sunset Boulevard‘s Jamie Lloyd won the award for Best Director and Guys and Dolls won the award for Best Musical.

Ruth Wilson received a Special Editor’s Award in acknowledgment of her marathon 24-hour show The Second Woman.

Head inside to check out photos of all the stars who attended…

Keep scrolling to see all of the stars who attended…...

Nicole Scherzinger is opening up about her experience aging in Hollywood.

During a recent interview, the 45-year-old Pussycat Dolls hitmaker said that ageism in the industry was still a big problem.

She also revealed that she felt it when she she was first offered her newest role – starring in a West End production of Sunset Boulevard, which launched last month.

Read more about Nicole Scherzinger’s experience with ageism in Hollywood…

“It’s just as relevant today. And it’s still very brutal,” Nicole told the Sunday Times, adding “Even if I look like I’m 37 or something…” to imply that there was no way around beating it.

On that topic, Nicole also addressed being offered the lead in Sunset Boulevard, which finds her playing an aging Hollywood actress who attempts to find her way back into the spotlight.

“I was like, ‘Are you out of your mind? First of all,...

Harrison Ford filming Raiders of The Lost ArkPhoto: Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images (Getty Images)

We all know that the arrival of Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny marks Harrison Ford’s fifth and final entry in the enduring franchise, but how many of us know about previous...

Todd Haynes will be spending the better part of his May in France. Between a career retrospective at Paris’ Centre Pompidou and the premiere of his latest film, May December, in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, the Oscar nominee will be jetting all over the country. The back-to-back events have meant Haynes has been working on his latest release while reliving the entirety of his film career, which has included Far From Heaven, Carol and Wonderstruck. Says Haynes of the retrospective, which will include a screening of May December, “It’ll be a trip.”

His latest film stars Natalie Portman as a Hollywood actress who travels to Georgia to research the life of Gracie (Julianne Moore, teaming with Haynes for the fourth time), who became tabloid fodder after she started a May-December relationship with Joe (Charles Melton), a man 23 years her junior. While preparing for the film about the couple’s past,...

Shawn Mendes wants the world to know that he is not romantically involved with Sabrina Carpenter.

During a recent visit to the Dutch television show Rtl Boulevard, he clarified that he’s not dating the “Nonsense” pop star.

“We are not dating,” he adamantly affirmed to the interviewer.

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Rumours went wild that the two were Hollywood’s latest item after they arrived at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party together, though they didn’t walk the carpet together.

Paparazzi caught the two enjoying a breezy afternoon walk with each other in Los Angeles last month, causing the rumour mill to sound off.

Celerity gossip account Deuxmou further cemented rumours when they confirmed the pair’s item status.

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Hampton gave updates on ‘Heart of A Soldier’, ‘White Chameleon’ and ‘Dalila’.

Stephen Frears’ Billy Wilder And Me is looking at a 2024 shoot due to other commitments from cast and crew, according to writer Christopher Hampton.

Speaking to Screen in Doha, Qatar, where he is a master at the Qumra incubator, Hampton said, “We’re in a good space because Stephen Frears is going to direct it, and Christoph Waltz is going to be playing Billy Wilder.”

He said didn’t believe that a shoot this year would be possible, with next year looking most likely.

First announced by Screen in May last year,...

Green Day helped popularize pop-punk music with mainstream audiences, largely due to their successful releases “Dookie,” “Nimrod,” and “American Idiot.” The band’s commercial success has matched their awards success, with five Grammys and 11 MTV Video Music Awards to their name. Perhaps the biggest honor the band has received is the Grammy for Record of the Year for perhaps their biggest hit, “Boulevard of Broken Dreams.” The song’s win marked a big moment not only for the rock band, but for rock music in general, especially with how strong its competition was. Let’s take a look back.

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“Boulevard of Broken Dreams” was a single from “American Idiot.” The album was a huge success and brought the band back to the public eye after a commercial slump. The album’s sharp political commentary and great production made it the band’s first number-one...

Morrissey has announced a new album, and it’s up for grabs to any label who wants it.

News of his forthcoming release, titled Without Music The World Dies, was shared via the musician’s Messages from Morrissey website on Monday (20 February).

According to the former Smiths frontman, the new record was recorded in France and features 10 new tracks, “described by [Morrissey’s co-writer and lead guitarist], Jesse Tobias as ‘a lightning strike’”.

However, the tracklist appears to give clues as to the overarching tone of the album – and it’s not a cheery one.

The ten tracks are listed as: “The Night Pop Dropped”, “Zoom Zoom The Little Boy”, “Boulevard”, “Headache”, “Without Music the World Dies”, “Suspicious Minds”, “Notre-Dame”, “Many Icebergs Ago”, “Happy New Tears” and “The Monsters of Pig Alley”.

As per the website, Morrissey wants anyone interested in releasing the new album to get in touch at an email provided.

The website reads:...

Following the success of Netflix’s Spanish-language teen flick “A través de mi ventana” (“Through My Window”), from Wattpad author and influencer, Ariana Godoy, Wattpad Webtoon Studios is doubling down on its Spanish-language content with plans to adapt two massive YA hits for the screen. Alex Mírez’s “Pefectos Mentirosos,” which has garnered over 105 million readers, will be produced out of Mexico as a TV series, and Flor. M Salvador’s 75-million read “Boulevard” will be developed as a feature film in Spain.

Attached to “Perfectos Mentirosos” are José Miguel Núñez, Anna Grajales and Paola Mazlum. Javier Ruecas will pen the script for “Boulevard.” Wattpad Webtoon Studios’ Aron Levitz, Lindsey Weems Ramey, Taylor Grant, and Carla Zeller will produce the projects.

“Perfectos Mentirosos and Boulevard are massively popular Wattpad stories with millions of reads and have deeply engaged fans in Spanish language markets around the world,” said Levitz, President of Wattpad Webtoon Studios,...

I don’t know if all of the Waldo stories are consistent. I don’t know if they can be consistent, or if Deitch would want them to be.

I kind of hope they aren’t, actually. Memory is flawed, history is misunderstood, the past is a mystery. And demon-creatures shouldn’t be completely knowable, able to be nailed down to a specific timeline.

Alias the Cat! is a Waldo story: it’s almost twenty years old now, but close to the last major Waldo story to date. It followed A Shroud for Waldo and The Boulevard of Broken Dreams (probably the centerpiece of the Waldo universe) and was in turn added onto by The Search for Smilin’ Ed. Deitch’s most recent book, Reincarnation Stories, is a similar style but doesn’t include Waldo as far as I remember.

What does any of that mean?

Well, Deitch presents himself as an autobiographical cartoonist,...

Now that's an L.A. trip to remember! A Dutch tourist got the surprise of his life when he ran into Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson while out and about in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Saturday, Nov. 27, just after the Thanksgiving holiday. Paul Barewijk, who works as a music editor and reporter for talk show Rtl Boulevard and who recently arrived in Los Angeles from Amsterdam, told E! News that he first spent the day going on a walk, during which he stopped to take a photo by the Fendi x Skims collab pop-up boutique on Rodeo Drive, which was closed at the time. "So I went further for my walk, looked at the beautiful mansions and walked to a park, then stopped by the Beverly Hills Hotel for...

When Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical adaptation of Sunset Boulevard premiered in 1993, it became a major hit. But few people then, or even now, are aware of a much earlier attempt to bring the classic film to the stage—by Gloria Swanson herself.

Boulevard! A Hollywood Story, directed by Jeffrey Schwarz, explores how Swanson, five years after her star turn as Norma Desmond in the 1950 Billy Wilder drama, threw herself into the adaptation project with a pair of unknowns. Her collaborators: handsome young composer Dickson Hughes and even more handsome young lyricist Richard Stapley.

“[Hughes and Stapley] were creative partners and also life partners,” Schwarz noted Tuesday night at the world premiere of his documentary at the Outfest film festival. The event took place—where else?—on Sunset Boulevard, at the DGA theater in West Hollywood.

The tale takes as many twists and turns as the celebrated road through Los Angeles. Swanson sought...

“Everybody’s Talking About Jamie” will open the 39th edition of Outfest, the Los Angeles LGBTQ film festival.

The big-screen adaptation of the West End musical of the same name will kick off the festival Aug. 13 with its first ever outdoor gala hosted by Cinespia at Hollywood Forever cemetery. Closing night on Aug. 22 will feature a screening of “Fanny: The Right to Rock,” a film about the first female rock band to release an album with a major label. The evening will include a reunion performance by Fanny.

Outfest returns to in-person screenings and events after having gone virtual in 2020 due to the pandemic. This year’s lineup includes nearly 200 films with more than 50 international entries. There will be seven world premieres Charles Busch’s “The Sixth Reel”; “Homebody”; Outfest alum Jeffrey Schwarz’s true story of Gloria Swanson’s quest to star in a Sunset Boulevard musical, “Boulevard! A Hollywood Story”; “Gemmel and Tim,...

Outfest has unveiled the dates, venues, and lineup for its 39th film festival, which is returning to in-person screenings more than a year and a half after the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Outfest Los Angeles LGBTQ Film Festival will be held this year between August 13-22.

The 2021 edition of the nation’s leading LGBTQ festival kicks off with an opening night screening of Jonathan Butterell’s Everybody’s Talking About Jamie. The screening, which is being put on in concert with Cinespia, will mark the fest’s first-ever outdoor gala, taking place at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Screening at the Orpheum Theatre on August 22, the closing night film is Fanny: The Right to Rock, a documentary about the female rock band of the same name, which was the first to release an album with a major label.

Nearly 200 films will screen at this year’s festival, including 50 international features...

Here’s the question haunting Hollywood about the Oscar show: Why expect next year to be different?

Anthony Hopkins’ no-show put a hole in the show last Sunday, but it was the slate of nominees that represented the biggest “hole.” Audience movies — films that register on some scale of awareness — were on the missing list. But will that change?

The majors are clearly panting to unleash their wannabe blockbusters like Black Widow and A Quiet Place Part II – pricey projects that were pushed back this year. The indies (those that survived) also wait nervously for theater openings and confirmed festival dates. “The pipelines are bulging at the moment but the delivery systems are still iffy,” observes one seasoned distributor.

Hollywood is trying to figure out what sort of product will define the majors in 2022, given their shifting hierarchies and redefined business models. Further, will those indie filmmakers who fueled the...

Actor Selma Blair first appears in the new documentary about her struggles with multiple sclerosis (Ms) dressed as Norma Desmond, the reclusive, washed-up silent-film star played by Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard. In a sparkly turban, a floor-length leopard-print dress and her cane by her side, Blair displays a jokey self-awareness about her public image, especially since announcing her diagnosis in October 2018. “I have probably had this incurable disease for 15 years at least,” she wrote in an Instagram post. “And I am relieved to at least know. And share.”

She is, in fact, exceptionally open in Rachel Fleit’s ...

Actor Selma Blair first appears in the new documentary about her struggles with multiple sclerosis (Ms) dressed as Norma Desmond, the reclusive, washed-up silent-film star played by Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard. In a sparkly turban, a floor-length leopard-print dress and her cane by her side, Blair displays a jokey self-awareness about her public image, especially since announcing her diagnosis in October 2018. “I have probably had this incurable disease for 15 years at least,” she wrote in an Instagram post. “And I am relieved to at least know. And share.”

She is, in fact, exceptionally open in Rachel Fleit’s ...

George Lopez has joined the cast of Dito Montiel’s “Afterward.”

It’s unclear what role Lopez will play in the dramatic thriller, but he joins an ensemble that includes Aaron Eckhart and Terrence Howard. Lionsgate Grindhouse is distributing the film in North America. “Afterward” will shoot this winter in California. Angel Oak Films is backing the movie and pre-sold foreign rights. Production was supposed to begin in the spring, but was delayed due to Covid-19.

The film centers on a father’s struggle to deal with the passing of his daughter, which leads him on a quest for truth and justice against corruption and small-town politics.

Montiel made his feature directorial debut with 2006’s “A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints.” His other credits include “Fighting,” “The Son of No One,” “Empire State,” “Boulevard,” “Man Down” and “The Clapper.”

Lopez starred in ABC’s “George Lopez,” a situation comedy that...

Selena was an international music sensation, a Latina phenomenon who filled stadiums and won a Grammy. But before all that, she was a child singing in her family’s band, and that era is where Netflix’s Selena: The Series spends most of its premiere.

In a moment, we’ll want to hear what you thought about the bio-drama’s premiere, which began streaming (along with the rest of the nine-episode first season) on Friday. But first, a quick recap:

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Sunset Boulevard showed the damage wrought by fame. Seventy years on, popular culture is more obsessed than ever with being seen

On its release in August 1950, Sunset Boulevard punched its own industry in the face. Showbiz royalty, normally enclosed in an echo chamber of self-congratulation, sputtered into a rage. At a star-studded private screening on the eve of the film’s debut, MGM studio mogul Louis B Mayer lambasted the film’s Austrian-born director, Billy Wilder: “You befouled your own nest. You should be kicked out of this country, tarred and feathered, goddamn foreigner son of a bitch!” Wilder’s response: “Why don’t you go fuck yourself?”

Audiences, however, piled into cinemas. Serendipitously released in the same year as Joseph L Mankiewicz’s All About Eve – a ruthless dissection of the American theatre world – Sunset Boulevard became a landmark statement on the perils of celebrity culture. But 70 years later,...

Robin Williams would have turned 69 years old today. The late comedy legend and actor passed away in August 2014. Today, in honor of Williams' birthday, fans have taken to Twitter to share tributes to the Good Will Hunting and Mrs. Doubtfire star.

Zelda Williams, the daughter of Robin Williams, actress, director and daughter of Robin Williams, took to Twitter to remember her father on his birthday. Specifically, to honor his memory, she revealed that she would be donating money to homeless shelters, while making a joke about the nature of the number 69, which is how old her father would have been.

"Today would've been Dad's 69th birthday, so to honor him (& that glorious number), I will be donating $69.69 to as many local homeless shelters as I can. Join me if you like, but regardless, know I am wishing you all at least one hearty, immature belly laugh on Dad today"

Following her initial post,...

Cineville has attached writer-director Dito Montiel to the independent dramatic thriller “Afterward,” Variety has learned exclusively.

Production is planned to start in the spring of 2019. Producers are Thomas D. Adelman, production manager on “The Usual Suspects”; Elizabeth Gast Napolitano; Frederic Demey (“Female Fight Squad”) and Carl Colpaert.

The story centers on a father’s struggle to deal with the passing of his daughter, which leads him on a quest for truth and justice against corruption and small town politics.

Montiel made his feature directorial debut on 2006’s “A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints,” followed by “Fighting,” “The Son of No One,” “Empire State,” “Boulevard,” “Man Down,” and “The Clapper.”

“I’m excited to have Cineville behind me as we guide ‘Afterward’ into production,” he said. “While I’m hardly said to have a particular style or type of film I gravitate towards, ‘Afterward’ represents a challenging change of direction and a personal project for me,...

Over a decade ago, Dito Montiel made a well received indie movie, “A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints,” but ever since has largely been failing upwards. A string of movies have followed, that find him working with decent names (Dwayne Johnson, Shia Labeouf, Kate Mara, Al Pacino, Robin Williams, Juliette Binoche) but all them have failed critically or commercially or both (“The Son Of No One,” “Empire State,” “Boulevard,” “Man Down“).

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Always exciting and always affordable, Circus Flora is the best circus in America and the best show in town. Circus Flora’s new production Time Flies takes place under the air-conditioned red-and-white Big Top tent in Grand Center next to Powell Symphony Hall (corner of Grand Boulevard and Samuel Shepard Drive.) Time Flies runs June 1st through June 25th and ticket information can be found Here.

Since 1966, every student to study at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Acting program has studied circus techniques with Hovey Burgess. He also taught in the Drama Division of The Juilliard School (1968-1972). Hovey created, directed and performed with the Circo Dell’Arte (1969-1970), which included Cecil MacKinnon, Larry Pisoni, Judy Finelli, and Jim Jansen. He taught at Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College (1973 – 1975, 1995), and at the Ultimate Clown School (since 1999) with Dick Monday and Tiffany Riley. His instructional...

After coming out more than two years ago in the U.K., Robin Williams' final movie is going to get released in the U.S. The comedy Absolutely Anything, in which Williams voices a dog, has finally secured distribution from Atlas Distribution Co. Outside of the appeal that comes from Robin Williams, the movie also serves as something of a Monty Python reunion, which isn't likely to happen again on the big screen.

According to Deadline, Absolutely Anything will be given a limited release, with Atlas hoping to get the movie in theaters on May 12. Terry Jones, who directed Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Life of Brian and The Meaning of life, directed Absolutely Anything from a script that he wrote more than 20 years ago. The movie also stars Monty Python alums John Cleese, Eric Idle and Michael Palin. So comedy fans have several very good reasons to go see this movie.

Have you ever woken up next to someone and thought, “Oh, what?” because you didn’t want to deal with the aftermath? That’s what the film “The Morning After” is all about. It follows the stories of eight people – dealing with waking up with someone new or familiar and how they handle their need for instant gratification, intimacy issues and infidelities. The film stars and offers up some terrific performances from Michelle Lombardo (“Entourage”, “Californication”), Vanessa Evigan (“Blood Ransom”), and Roberto Aguire (“Boulevard”, “Struck by Lightning”). Filmmaker Shanra J. Kehl is riding high on her directorial debut, as the film earned her the Spirit of Independents Award at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival earlier this year. Since it’s debut in 2015, “The Morning...

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Shia Labeouf wishes he could have a do over on some of his previous comments about legendary director Steven Spielberg. Shortly after completing Spielberg’s “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,” Labeouf told the Los Angeles Times that Spielberg had “done so much great work that there’s no need for him to feel vulnerable about one film, but when you drop the ball you drop the ball.”

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Labeouf later told Variety that Spielberg was “less a director than he is a f---ing company.” Now, Labeouf says he feels he was too harsh on Spielberg. “I f--- up sometimes, you know,” Labeouf told SiriusXM’s “Sway In The Morning” show. “I probably could’ve gone lighter on Spielberg, that was probably something I should’ve backed off of.” Labeouf...

Exclusive: Wme has signed writer/producer pair Jeffrey Gelber and Ryan Belenzon. Formally at CAA, the two are perhaps best known for their Black List script The Rocket*, which chronicles the relationship between fallen baseball great Roger Clemens and his trainer Brian McNamee. The duo first worked together as producers on the Robin Williams-starrer Boulevard, the indie that marked the final dramatic onscreen appearance by the beloved actor. Also starring Kathy Baker, the…...

Shia Labeouf has leaned toward the art-house in recent years, with roles in “Nymphomaniac” and “American Honey” marking a sharp contrast to his “Transformers” days. He’ll next be seen in a more conventional film, however: “Man Down,” a new thriller from director Dito Montiel. Watch its new trailer below.

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Labeouf plays a Marine who, after returning from a tour of duty in Afghanistan, finds himself on the search for his wife (Kate Mara) and son (Charlie Shotwell); he’s aided in that quest by a friend and fellow Marine (Jai Courtney) whose trigger-happy approach to conflict resolution is both a hindrance and a help. Labeouf’s character is haunted by one wartime experience in particular, which informs his demeanor and behavior throughout the film.

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Exclusive: The veteran executive will head to Toronto next week with the Covert team in his new role as senior vice-president of international sales.

Harvey reports to president of international Liz Kim Schwan and will handle Covert’s production slate and lead sales on the newly launched Lexica Films label.

“Covert have established themselves as one of the go-to places for star-driven material,” said Harvey. “I’m very impressed by their slate of films and I look forward to working with Liz and Paul [Hanson, CEO] and the entire Covert team.”

“I’m thrilled to have such a well loved executive like Jim on board,” said Kim Schwan. “Jim’s experience and knowledge make him a critical member of our growing team as we expand our slate.”

Lexica launched last week with disaster title Earthquake starring Cannes 2007 best actor winner Konstantin Lavronenko and the team has boarded sales on a second title.

Russian-language fantasy...