Isabel Coixet recounts that she vowed to never to do another literary adaptation after her 2017 English-language feature The Bookshop based on Penelope Fitzgerald’s critically acclaimed 1978 novel of the same name. Then the Spanish director read compatriot writer Sara Mesa’s dark 2021 novel Un Amor at the tail-end of …
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Amanda Scott is quite familiar with the art of pivoting, considering how much her life has changed over the past year. Back in August 2022, the “Sweet Life: Los Angeles” star happily celebrated the return of her Issa Rae-produced reality series — which followed an ambitious group of Black 20-somethings …
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(Updated with WGA statement) The Writers Guild brass and studios CEOs were working Friday night to close a deal to end the scribes’ strike, but it seems they aren’t quite there yet. Running from around 11 a.m. to 8:45 p.m., the third day of direct talks between the WGA negotiating …
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Before John Wick ushered in a new era of stuntmen turned directors, Expend4bles director Scott Waugh was one of the few exceptions to pull off the feat. Following in the footsteps of his older brother Ric Roman Waugh, the younger Waugh made his own luck by funding 2012’s Act of …
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In Chloe Domont’s upcoming erotic thriller Fair Play, the relationship between two competitive stock traders — Phoebe Dynevor’s Emily and Alden Ehrenreich’s Luke — goes from fairy tale-esque to a ticking time bomb. It’s a rather fitting dynamic for the soon-to-be-wed couple who both work at the same company in an industry …
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UPDATED, 6:36 PM: Negotiators for the WGA and the AMPTP plus top studio CEOs are continuing their talks tonight on a deal to end nearly five months of strikes. Moving into more than eight hours of direct deliberations so far today, the parties — which include Netflix’s Ted Sarandos, Universal’s …
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Gavin Rossdale Jason LaVeris/FilmMagic Getting involved with Artist for Action and Sandy Hook Promise makes sense to Gavin Rossdale as much as America’s epidemic of gun violence does not. “It doesn’t make sense to me that 400 times this year, someone’s gone into a school and shoot more than four …
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EXCLUSIVE, updated with WGA/AMPTP statement: The Writers Guild and studios and streamers are set to meet again Thursday for further talks on a new contract for scribes. After a long, CEO-attended session today that one insider described as “very encouraging,” the WGA and the AMPTP will return to the latter’s …
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Kate Winslet Talks Paying Staff Salaries On New Film, Topless Scenes Earlier this month, the historical biopic Lee premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. The film, which is an adaptation of Anthony Penrose’s 1985 biography The Lives of Lee Miller, stars Kate Winslet as the titular World War II …
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Ask anyone what 2023’s song of the summer is, and they’ll undoubtedly respond, “Talibans by Byron Messia.” The single, initially released in January and with an updated assist from Afrobeats artist Burna Boy, has since earned the 23-year-old Jamaica-born, St. Kitts and Nevis-raised artist his first single on Billboard’s Hot …
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ComingSoon Editor-in-Chief Tyler Treese spoke with Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead star Zeno Robinson about the popular new anime. Robinson discussed starring in the show, his work on Digimon, and more. “After spending years toiling away for a soul-crushing company, Akira’s life has lost its luster,” reads Zom …
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Sia Talks Music Backlash, Autism Diagnosis Sia addressed backlash of her 2021 movie, Music, following her own Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnosis. The movie, which starred Maddie Ziegler in the titular nonverbal role, was met with considerable backlash from the moment its trailer was released. The movie itself was further called …
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