At the beginning of every Actor Awards (the kudocast formerly known as the SAG Awards), actors give a speech from their chairs in the room, sharing their origin stories. It’s usually about their big break, or how they first got their SAG-AFTRA card. The anecdotes can be amusing, serious or emotional, but they always end […]

Love Monday TV and 53 Degrees Global are producing “Diana: The Unheard Truth” (working title), a three-part docuseries centered on five hours of audio recordings of Diana, Princess of Wales that have never been made public, with the series set to launch on Aug. 31, 2027 – the 30th anniversary of her death. The recordings […]

“Heated Rivalry,” Adam Shankman’s drag queen comedy “Stop! That! Train!” starring RuPaul and “I Want Your Sex” from Greg Araki headline this year’s NewFest. The New York City LGBTQ film festival will kick off Pride month with its five-day program at SVA Theatre May 28-June 1. It will also be available virtually. “Our community doesn’t […]

Two years after Mark Eydelshteyn’s first English-language role helped “Anora” win the Palme D’or, the rising Russian star’s next English-language project is heading back to Cannes, this time to the market. “Becoming Capa,” from writer/director Charlotte Colbert (“She Will”) and first announced by Variety, has been acquired for worldwide sales by HanWay Films, which will […]

Donald Trump is doubling down on his call for ABC and Disney to fire Jimmy Kimmel. The feud between the U.S. president and the “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” host has escalated over the last week after Kimmel made a joke about Melania Trump becoming a widow shortly before the White House Correspondents Dinner, which was disrupted […]

Netflix has added vertical video to its mobile experience, joining the ranks of popular social video apps like Instagram and TikTok that are designed to be viewed while you’re holding a phone upright. But for Netflix, it’s a baby step on the vertical-video front: Users will have to continue watching full-length series and movies horizontally, […]

David Roberts, an ESPN veteran who has oversight of signature properties ranging from “SportsCenter” to “First Take,” will leave the Disney sports-media giant at the end of August, the company announced Thursday. Roberts, who has been with ESPN since 2004, is an executive vice president as well as executive editor of sports news and entertainment. […]

Goldie Hawn has not acted in a movie since 2020’s “The Christmas Chronicles,” but it’s not like the Oscar winner put herself in a self-imposted retirement. Hawn told People magazine that she would very much like to act agan. The problem is that the scripts being offered to her are not up to par, and […]

Ahead of its world premiere in Cannes, Oscar-nominated director Reed Van Dyk’s feature debut “Atonement” has been boarded by The Veterans for international sales. CAA Media Finance and WME Independent are co-handling the U.S. rights. The film — which bows in Director’s Fortnight as the lone U.S. feature in the competition — stars Oscar-winner Kenneth Branagh (“Dunkirk,” […]

A few months before Alden Ehrenreich and Patrick Ball made their Broadway debuts in the hilarious dark comedy “Becky Shaw,” the two men met at a swanky Golden Globes party in Los Angeles. Ehrenreich recalls his first impression of his future scene partner: “Not really a fan,” he cracks from the orchestra of the Hayes […]

Abel Ferrara is set to appear alongside emerging French actress Raika Hazanavicius (“Colors of Time”) and Italy’s Giovanni De Maria (“Robbing Mussolini”) in Italian director Angelica Gallo’s gritty Rome-set drama “The Night Burns.” “Night Burns” depicts contemporary Rome youth through the tale of a group of friends who steal jewelry and other valuables at trap […]

With upcoming Gothic thriller “Victorian Psycho” confirmed for Cannes, an additional member of the cast has now been announced. Evie Templeton, the rising British star best known for her breakout turn as Agnes DeMille in the second season of Netflix hit “Wednesday,” stars in the film, which will premiere in the Un Certain Regard competition. […]