UPDATED: House Majority Whip Tom Emmer‘s bid for speaker of the House is already over, after he was unable to win over a group of GOP holdouts and after Donald Trump weighed in against him. Emmer, a congressman from Minnesota, was the third Republican nominated for the post since Kevin …
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After weeks of outrage from members about its silence over the terror attack against Israel, the Writers Guild is finally speaking out. “All of us in Guild leadership are horrified by the atrocities committed by Hamas on October 7th,” said WGA West boss Meredith Stiehm, VP Michele Mulroney and Treasurer …
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All Of Us Strangers by Andrew Haigh led the Gotham Awards Nominations today, with some love for Celine Song’s Past Lives and a Best Performance nod to Ryan Gosling for Barbie after the indie-centric Awards removed a longstanding budget cap on eligibility, an opening for big-budget studio and streamer fare …
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EXCLUSIVE: Little Dot Studios and its streamer, History Hit, have struck an exclusive deal with Rishi Sharma, a doc maker known for interviewing thousands of World War II veterans. For the past eight years, digital content creator Sharma has been interviewing WWII vets around the globe, with each lasting between …
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EXCLUSIVE: Mediawan Africa, the Republic of Benin and French-language international channel TV5 Monde are partnering to co-develop original daily fiction series The Best Is Yet To Come. The ambitious project – which has set an initial target of 220 episodes of 26 minutes – aims to break fresh ground for …
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Conor McPherson, the five-time Tony nominee behind the plays Girl From the North Country and The Seafarer, has been set to adapt into a straight play the first novel and film of Suzanne Collins‘ trilogy The Hunger Games. It will mark the franchise’s first-ever live stage adaptation, and a fall …
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Devery Jacobs has watched Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon and has “strong feelings” about the film. In a thread shared on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, the Reservation Dogs star said the “film was painful, grueling, unrelenting and unnecessarily graphic.” “Being Native, watching this …
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Mere minutes after some of Hollywood’s biggest stars and executives issued a letter condemning the terror attacks on Israel and the taking of hundreds of hostages, The WGA East has publicly joined the Guild’s West Coast leadership in deciding to stay silent on the murderous siege of the Jewish state …
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“We should have those hostages released and then we can talk.” said Joe Biden today as two more hostages were let go by Hamas amid further rising tensions and deaths in the Middle East. Speaking at a delayed event on economics, the president’s remark was in response to a reporter’s …
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EXCLUSIVE: Fusion Entertainment has signed the director, writers, and actor of the acclaimed independent drama Mountains, Monica Sorelle (director and co-writer), Robert Colom (co-writer and producer) and Chris Renois (actor). The film premiered at Tribeca Festival, where it received Special Jury Mention for Best Narrative Film. It also won the …
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Thierry Frémaux is best known internationally as the long-time head of France’s Cannes Film Festival, which is organized out of its offices in Paris’s trendy Marais neighborhood. The double-hatted cinema expert is perhaps more in his element in his home city of Lyon, where he is the director of the …
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There were two major new entries this weekend at the international box office, one local (Tamil thriller Leo: Bloody Sweet) and one from Hollywood. Starting with the latter, Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon from Apple, Paramount and Imperative Entertainment, had a big opening with $21M in 63 offshore …
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