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Ridley Scott rose to fame and acclaim when he directed the now-classic 1979 sci-fi film Alien. It was only Scott's second feature film (the first being The Duelists in 1977), but already earned an Oscar win for Best Visual Effects. Now, it is considered one of the formitive sci-fi works in the history of cinema.

After Alien, Scott went on to direct many crucial films in the sci-fi, historical epic, and drama genres. He had another sci-fi with Blade Runner in 1982, which went on to get a 21st century legacy sequel with Blade Runner 2049. Other key Scott films include Gladiator, which won an Oscar for Best Picture.

Now, Scott has four Oscar nominations to his name, and his associated films have amassed even more in total. This includes three Best Director nominations.

One of Scott's most influential works falls outside of his more typical sci-fi and historical genres. This movie was...

Since 2018, Neko Case has published a memoir, collaborated again with the New Pornographers, and continued working on songs for a hopefully Broadway-bound musical. What she hasn’t done since then is roll out a record under her own name, but that drought ends in September, when Case releases Neon Grey Midnight Green, her first non-compilation album in seven years.

The album is previewed with its first single, “Wreck.” An homage to the overwhelming, irresistible power of new love, the song is a jubilant sonic whirlwind all its own, as Case...

Thelma & Louise, the female-led crime drama from 1991, has found a new streaming home. The Academy Award-winning film by Ridley Scott joined the Tubi library on July 1. Audiences won't have to pay anything to watch the movie, in exchange for watching occasional ads.

Starring Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis, the film follows two friends who go on a trip to get away from the city during the weekend. When they stop at a bar, a man attacks Thelma. Louise's reaction starts a series of events during which they are portrayed as fugitives running from the law. Per the official plot synopsis:

Two best friends set out on an adventure, but it soon turns around to a terrifying escape from being hunted by the police, as these two women escape for the crimes they committed.

Thelma & Louise was acclaimed upon release, with some labeling it as a staple of feminist cinema.

One of the all-time great cinematic tough guys, Michael Madsen died July 3 at the age of 67. He was best known for his collaborations with Quentin Tarantino, beginning in 1992 with the writer-director's first film, Reservoir Dogs, in which Madsen played the psychotic Mr. Blonde.

Madsen had a robust career with nearly 350 acting credits listed on IMDb, ranging from modern classics to straight-to-video potboilers. And he played key roles in the tapestry of several Academy Award-nominated and -winning films.

As we remember the work of Michael Madsen, here's a rundown of the Oscar nominated films in which he appeared.

WarGames (1983)

As a missile control specialist unwilling to compromise during a surprise drill, Madsen found himself at the center of one of the '80s most iconic suspense sequences. WarGames earned three Oscar nominations — for Best Original Screenplay, Cinematography, and Sound.

The Natural (1984)

Madsen embodied the dirtier side of baseball as the doomed...

Sandra Bullock got her breakthrough in 1994’s Speed, where she gave a memorable performance that impressed critics and audiences alike. Her charm and comedic timing made her a huge star. And, at her peak, she was one of the highest-paid actresses. Despite a string of hits, she still had some disappointments.

Bullock led an ensemble cast of veteran actors in the drama Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. She starred with stalwarts such as Maggie Smith, Ellen Burstyn, Shirley Knight, and Fionnula Flanagan, who played the members of the sisterhood. While the movie has fared better now, critics like Roger Ebert trashed it when it was released.

Sandra Bullock’s 2002 film Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood deserves another watch! A still from Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood | Credits: Warner Bros.

When looking at Sandra Bullock’s filmography, it is easy to get swayed by hits such as Speed,...

It seems the farther away from award season we get, the more 2024 films are finally making their way to streaming. Indeed, Max is not the only service that is adding a few of last year’s best movies to its platform this month. Peacock is also set to host the long-awaited streaming premiere of one of 2024’s biggest, most financially successful and beloved blockbusters. On top of that, the platform has also brought more than a few iconic, timeless film classics into its fold in March, including one of Quentin Tarantino’s best movies and an underrated, often wrongly forgotten romance.

Here are TheWrap’s picks for this month’s best new-to-Peacock movies.

“The Big Lebowski” (Gramercy Pictures) “The Big Lebowski” (1998)

It is one of the most quoted and referenced American movies of the past 30 years, and yet “The Big Lebowski” still feels as original and inimitable now as it...

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This March, Peacock is bringing you a lot of entertainment, from the highly anticipated streaming release of Wicked to Amanda Seyfried‘s crime drama series Long Bright River. However, for the purposes of this article, we are only including the films that are coming to Peacock this month and have an 84% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score. So, check out the seven best films that are coming to Peacock in March 2025 with an 84% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score.

The Hurt Locker (March 1) Rotten Tomatoes Score: 96% Credit – Summit Entertainment

The Hurt Locker is a war action thriller film directed by Kathryn Bigelow from a screenplay by Mark Boal. The 2008 film is set during the Iraq War, and it follows a bomb disposal team training under Sergeant William James, whose intense training methods and ideologies force the team to revolt against him.

Being a Hollywood icon certainly doesn't make you immune from a critical and box office flop. In 2024 alone, the likes of Joaquin Phoenix and Cate Blanchett were major parts of two of the year's biggest failures in Joker: Folie á Deux and Borderlands, proving that even the finest of performers is always teetering on the edge of a comically poor choice. Back in 2008, one such icon made a movie she'd possibly rather forget, with Diane Keaton starring in Callie Khouri's crime comedy, Mad Money, based on a screenplay by Glenn Gers and loosely inspired by the 2001 British drama Hot Money.

Brad Pitt has yet to bag his Best Actor Oscar but he has been part of several Oscar-winning films. Interestingly, Pitt’s career was truly kickstarted by an Oscar-winning film that cast him in a role that also considered George Clooney. Filmmaker Ridley Scott cast the Fight Club actor as J.D. in his feminist film, Thelma & Louise.

Brad Pitt as J.D. in Thelma & Louise | Credits: MGM-Pathé Communications

The film, starring Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis, went on to win the Best Original Screenplay for Callie Khouri at the 64th Academy Awards. However, Pitt wasn’t paid a whole lot of money compared to the millions he raked in later in his career. He was paid $6000 for his role in the film.

Brad Pitt’s first major role that paid him $6000 went on to win an Oscar Brad Pitt and Geena Davis in Thelma & Louise | Credits: MGM-Pathé...

Famed director Ridley Scott recently clarified how Brad Pitt landed his role in the Oscar-winning film Thelma & Louise. One of the film's stars has beleived she was responsible for casting Pitt in the past.

Thelma & Louise stars Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis as the titular characters who embark on a chaotic road trip to escape their mundane lives in Arkansas. Their vacation takes a dramatic turn that leads to a high-speed journey across the United States as they run from the law and seek freedom. Pitt played the role of the handsome young drifter, J.D., whom Thelma (Davis) falls for. Speaking with GQ about his most iconic films, Ridley Scott recently revealed how his original plans for J.D.'s character changed -- and how Davis's belief that she cast Pitt in the role just isn't true.

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Ridley Scottis one of the highest-achieving directors of his generation. Last year, his movie Gladiator II helped propel his lifetime gross as a director to over $5 billion. This impressive sum puts him as the no. 9 highest-grossing director of all time at the worldwide box office, coming in just above Tim Burton and nearly $1 billion below Christopher Nolan. Several of Scott's films have made hundreds of millions of dollars, including The Martian, Gladiator II, Prometheus, and Hannibal.

In addition to his stellar box office record, Scott is also an accomplished director in terms of awards. He has been nominated for Best Director three times, and his 2000 film Gladiator even won Best Picture. His incredible achievements have allowed him to work with some of the world's most talented actors, including Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Denzel Washington, and Matt Damon. The film that earned Scott his first Best Director nomination is one of his best,...

Country music star and The Voice coach Reba McEntire has had quite a few notable acting roles over the years. Now, the star is set to star in and produce a new film. Notably, the project adapts a novel from famed Southern author Fannie Flagg.

Reba McEntire Is Set To Both Produce & Star In The Project

McEntire has had quite a few acting roles over the years, including her own namesake sitcom. More recently, she has served as the star and executive producer of the NBC sitcom Happy’s Place.

Another upcoming project for the star is a film adaptation of the Fannie Flagg novel, The All-Girl Filling Station’s Last Reunion. Notably, McEntire is set to both star in the film and serve as a producer.

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Flagg is arguably best known for her 1987 novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, which she adapted into the 1991 film,...

Reba McEntire isn’t just a survivor, she’s a thriver, with the country music legend-turned-actress nabbing her latest gig in the upcoming film adaptation of The All-Girl Filling Station’s Last Reunion. Deadline broke the exclusive news today that McEntire will not only lead the cast of Fannie Flagg’s New York Times bestselling novel of the same name but will also serve as a producer on the project. The title will be under the direction of Callie Khouri (Thelma & Louise), with the screenplay adaptation penned by Bekah Brunstetter (Maid). Overseeing McEntire’s latest feature-length role will be Kelly Merryman Hoogstraten and Jon Erwin’s new studio on the block, Wonder Project.

Exclusive: Wonder Project, the recently launched faith-based indie studio from Kelly Merryman Hoogstraten and Jon Erwin, has launched development on The All-Girl Filling Station’s Last Reunion, an adaptation of the New York Times bestselling novel by Fannie Flagg, to be produced by and star Country Music Hall of Fame member Reba McEntire.

Oscar winner Callie Khouri (Thelma & Louise) will direct from a script by Tony-nominated playwright and screenwriter Bekah Brunstetter (Maid), with McEntire being joined as producer by Jeremy Latcham for Wonder Project, as well as Khouri. Ben Howard and Erin Mae Miller will exec produce for Third Coast Content, with VP of Film Michael Musgrave overseeing the film for Wonder Project.

Published in November 2013, The All-Girl Filling Station’s Last Reunion tells the story of Mrs. Sookie Poole of Point Clear, Alabama, who has just married off her daughter and is looking forward to relaxing. The only thing...

If ever there was a mainstream Hollywood movie that would appear next to the word “feminism” in the dictionary, it would be the 1991 classic, Thelma & Louise. A film that also happens to feature the earliest films of Brad Pitt. Was it directed by a man? Sure. But at least that man was Ridley Scott, who helmed the feature from a script penned by the legendary Callie Khouri, so we’ll take it. A tale about sisterhood, and getting back at the patriarchy, the iconic title is carried on the shoulders of Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon, who appear as the titular characters, respectively. The cast also includes a myriad of impressive names, such as Harvey Keitel, Christopher McDonald, and Michael Madsen, with a young up-and-comer named Brad Pitt in one of the roles that would pave his path to stardom.

Boyz n the Hood was John Singleton's directorial debut, and it earned him an Oscar record that had been untouched for 50 years. Since its release, the movie has been recognized as one of the most significant films of the 1990s, and Boyz n the Hood is credited with having launched the careers of many of its actors. Boyz n the Hood has received numerous awards, and it currently holds a 96% critics approval rating and 93% audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

The coming-of-age drama explores the lives of teenage boys living in South Central Los Angeles and deals with themes of loyalty, friendship, and love. Along with various accolades for the performers and his screenplay, John Singleton's work on Boyz n the Hood earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Director, breaking a record that Orson Welles had set 50 years earlier.

John Singleton Became The Youngest Best Director Oscar Nominee With...

Gladiator 2 star Paul Mescal reveals his favorite Ridley Scott movie Thelma & Louise. Rising to fame for his role in the Hulu miniseries Normal People, for which he earned an Emmy nomination, Mescal transitioned to film and his portrayal of a troubled father in A24's Aftersun earned him an Academy Award nomination. He's due for an even bigger breakthrough with his leading role as Lucius in Gladiator II from Ridley Scott, the legendary director behind Alien, Blade Runner, the original Gladiator, and over 20 more movies.

During an interview with British GQ, Paul Mescal revealed his favorite Ridley Scott movie Thelma & Louise. The Gladiator 2 star says the 1991 film might not seem like it aligns with the director's typical style, but once he got to know him personally, it became clear it was a story he always meant to tell. Read Mescal's full comments or watch the video below (the...

Geena Davis believes Thelma & Louise is a classic that should never be remade due to its enduring impact on female empowerment. The film, directed by Ridley Scott, stars Davis and Susan Sarandon in breakout roles and became a cultural movement upon release. Thelma & Louise received critical acclaim, box office success, and numerous award nominations, solidifying its place in film history.

There are some classic films that should never be given the remake treatment and actress Geena Davis believes that 1991's Thelma & Louise is one of them. The movie became a seminal film about female empowerment that made a significant impact when it was released. During an interview with Indiewire, Davis got pretty candid about why Thelma & Louise should never be remade. The actress indicated that the film still holds up very well more than 30 years after its initial release, though she admits that isn't true for...

Thelma & Louise, a landmark feminist film, balances progressive elements with lively adventure. Geena Davis believes the movie should never be remade due to its cultural impact and unique place in cinematic history. The film's portrayal of female empowerment and defiance of traditional gender roles inspired cinema as a whole.

Geena Davis explains why Thelma & Louise should not ever get a remake. Directed by Ridley Scott with a script written by Callie Khouri, the 1991 crime drama follows the two titular friends, a homemaker and a waitress, who embark on a road trip that takes an unexpected turn when they commit a crime and are pursued by police. Besides Davis, the cast includes Oscar winner Susan Sarandon, Oscar nominee Harvey Keitel, Kill Bill: Volume 2's Michael Madsen, Happy Gilmore's Christopher McDonald, Groundhog Day's Stephen Tobolowsky, and two-time Oscar winner Brad Pitt in one of his first major roles.

Hollywood has been working its way through remaking many popular movies from years past. However, Geena Davis wants producers to stay away from her 1991 movie Thelma & Louise.

Per IndieWire, Davis recently attended the Bentonville Film Festival. She spoke about Thelma & Louise, commenting on the possibility of the film getting a modern remake. Davis is not a fan of the idea, feeling that the original holds up so well that a remake isn't necessary. She went on to praise the work Ridley Scott did as director on the movie, pushing back on some criticism there had been for having a man direct the feminist classic.

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Well, it must never be remade,...

At the Bentonville Film Festival this weekend, the diversity-minded event’s founder and chair Geena Davis spoke about the legacy of her 1991 feminist masterstroke Thelma & Louise, while insisting that remake-happy Hollywood had better keep its hands off this one because updating the story would be “pointless.”

“Well, it must never be remade,” the Oscar winner told IndieWire in an interview at the Arkansas festival. “I mean, it’s 30-something years later, and it holds up more than others. I’m not saying this because I’m in it, but it really holds up. And there’s no need to revisit it. What would be the point? In my opinion.”

Thelma & Louise, with a script penned by Callie Khouri, created a firestorm of controversy upon its 1991 release. Culture wars around sex and gender roles were palpable when the Ridley Scott-directed hit premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and...

In the pantheon of great Hollywood films with a major feminist bite, the Geena Davis- and Susan Sarandon-starring “Thelma & Louise” remains the contemporary standard-bearer. The Callie Khouri-penned MGM crime drama about two best friends on the run (who find themselves and their knack for taking bad men down a peg in the process) was a commercial and critical smash when it hit theaters in May 1991.

With a splashy Cannes premiere to launch it, the film made over $45 million at the box office (in 1991 dollars and on a $16.5 million budget) and went on to pick up six Oscar nominations, with a Best Original Screenplay win for first-time writer Khouri.

And, yes, it was directed by a man. That Ridley Scott was at the helm of this feminist masterpiece still surprises some — or at least those not totally familiar with the filmmaker’s wide oeuvre. Even star Davis...

Alfonso Cuarn was the second director to try to adapt the magical world of Harry Potter to the big screen. He only directed the third installment, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

The Academy Award-winning director talked to Total Film (via GamesRadar+) to celebrate Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban's 20th anniversary. Cuarn shared new details about his take on the famous franchise, but also his reluctance when he got the offer to join the film. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was the first film with a different director at the helm, as the first two were directed by Mrs. Doubtfire and Home Alone's Chris Columbus.

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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban holds a special place...

Alfonso Cuarón knew he wanted franchise installment “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” to be different from the other “Potter” films. So the professor assigned his Hogwarts, Ravenclaw, Slytherin, and Hufflepuff students some homework.

The director wanted the 2004 “Harry Potter” feature to have a “noir” tone, which Cuarón believed would best present the coming-of-age moment for both the trio of characters played by Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint, as well as for the film series itself.

Cuarón was the first new director to step in after Chris Columbus directed the first two films.

“Chris [Columbus] would help them with intonation and get them excited; Alfonso was treating them as young adults: what are you feeling?” the franchise’s producer David Heyman recalled to Total Film for a 20th-anniversary retrospective interview.

Part of getting the core cast to grow up onscreen was to have each actor meditate on their respective characters’ motivations.

10 Best Women-Led Heist Movies To Watch, If You Enjoyed Kareena Kapoor, Kriti Sanon And Tabu’s Crew On Netflix(Photo Credit –IMDb)

Who says women cannot pull off a masterfully planned heist? Rajesh A Krishnan’s directed comedy-drama Crew is proof of that. The film, starring Kareena Kapoor Khan, Kriti Sanon, and Tabu as Jasmine, Divya Rana, and Geeta Sethi, was recently released on Netflix after its successful run in theatres. The story revolves around the crew of the bankrupt Kohinoor Airlines, who struggle to make ends meet. The three crewmates Geeta, Jasmine, and Divya are fed up with their endless hustle and decide to get down to the business of gold smuggling to end their misery.

While the three got richer, their other colleagues suffered as their months of salaries were unpaid. Finally, Geeta, Jasmine, and Divya hatch a plan to rob their boss, chairman of Kohinoor Airlines, Vijay Walia...

John Bailey, the cinematographer on Ordinary People, Groundhog Day, As Good as It Gets and dozens of other notable films who endured two “stressful” terms as president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, died Friday. He was 81.

Bailey died in Los Angeles, his wife, Oscar-nominated film editor Carol Littleton (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial), announced.

”It is with deep sadness I share with you that my best friend and husband, John Bailey, passed away peacefully in his sleep early this morning,” she said in a statement. “During John’s illness, we reminisced how we met 60 years ago and were married for 51 of those years. We shared a wonderful life of adventure in film and made many long-lasting friendships along the way. John will forever live in my heart.”

They worked on more than a dozen features together.

The Southern California-raised Bailey served as the director of photography for...

The cancelation of TV shows can spark a variety of reactions, and while some are expected to happen for different reasons, some cancelation announcements feel so undeserving that fans join forces to save their favorite TV shows – and in many cases, they succeeded. The era of streaming has made the cancelation of TV shows not that surprising anymore, as there are platforms like Netflix which tend to cancel TV series after three seasons, while the not-so-good quality of other shows makes a cancelation quite predictable.

However, there are many other cases where the cancelation of a TV show came as a big surprise, mostly due to the popularity of the show. Whatever reason given by the network isn’t enough to make fans accept the cancelation of a TV show, so they use their voices and online presence to campaign for the show to be saved. Fan campaigns have been successful on various occasions,...

Amanda Seyfried has high praise for the in-development Thelma & Louise Broadway musical. Thelma & Louise was originally conceived and produced as a movie, with Ridley Scott directing a script written by Callie Khouri (ABC’s/CMT’s Nashville). The film was released in 1991 to major acclaim and has since made an indelible mark on pop culture; thanks in part to homages and parodies, the movie’s iconic ending is known even to those who haven’t seen the original version.

The Thelma & Louise Broadway adaptation has been in the works for years, but only in early 2023 entered the workshop phase. Seyfried stars in the musical as Thelma alongside Evan Rachel Wood’s Louise, and in fact was unable to accept the Golden Globe she won for her in Hulu’s The Dropout true story miniseries because she was busy on the musical. Seyfried touched on the musical recently, heaping praise...

Exclusive: Jake Brennan, the man behind the hit rock n roll true-crime podcast Disgraceland, and his production company Double Elvis, have signed with Range Media Partners.

The company will manage Brennan, whose stable of podcasts also includes Badlands and Badlands.

Brennan has been making episodes of Disgraceland, a true crime podcast about musicians getting away with murder and behaving very badly, since 2018. It is currently in Season 12.

It has told stories about the likes of Jerry Lee Lewis, Sam Cooke, Gg Allin, John Lennon, Grateful Dead and, most recently, Jeff Buckley.

“I didn’t want to do just another music podcast and I don’t think there’s a lot of great music podcasts,” Brennan, who was a member of punk band Cast Iron Hike, told Deadline in 2018. “The best podcasts are all about telling stories. I knew a lot about the general aspects of these stories from being a...

Callie Khouri’s feminist crime classic is a masterclass in narrative and character development and director Ridley Scott delivers pure action brio

Screenwriter Callie Khouri’s desperada road-movie thriller Thelma & Louise is the classic whose Bechdel test credentials go all the way up to the title. Just over 30 years later, it looks punchier, bolder, hotter and sweatier than ever. This is a masterclass in narrative construction and character development and director Ridley Scott puts his pedal to the metal with pure action brio; I always particularly love the shot where the camera lovingly counter-swooshes back along the flank of the Thunderbird while it barrels down the highway, for the pure hell of it. It is a feminist crime classic in the tradition of Gun Crazy and Bonnie and Clyde, whose two heroines, played by Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon, get the Polaroid camera out for the most famous selfie in film history.

As a filmmaker, Ridley Scott has always been somewhat reticent to embrace the urgency of the contemporary moment. Though he’s never less than competent in terms of form and as a director of actors, Scott remains to this day a genre-driven stylist and a lover of the physical design, cultural symbols, and lingo that characterize a specific era. Scott’s best films called for immense design work, the crafting of vehicles and creatures, and the imagining of a culture far removed from our current standings; Gladiator and The Duellists bloomed largely due to exhaustive detailing and accuracy of historical costume design, if not historical events exactly.

Life in the present boxes Scott in creatively, as he’s in a way required to show us a world we will recognize as the same one that we will see when we exit the theater. That world doesn’t bore Scott necessarily,...

Released in 1991, Ridley Scott's Thelma & Louise was one of the biggest films of the year, going on to score multiple Academy Award nominations and eventually being inducted into the Library of Congress's National Film Registry. Starring Geena Davis as Thelma and Susan Sarandon as Louise, the movie follows their attempts to escape the world that constantly seems to be trying to bring them down, all building to a bittersweet but liberating climax.

Thelma & Louise -- which will be available from the Criterion Collection on May 30 -- features one of cinema's most memorable endings, which has been referenced, dissected, parodied, and reimagined over the years. It's lucky audiences got to see it, though, as the film almost had alternate endings that would have robbed its final moments of some of their power. Instead, the original ending remains one of the most iconic finales in modern film for...

Recently, Katie Holmes was reading Haruki Murakami’s “Novelist as a Vocation.” Within the memoir, which is composed of 11 different essays from the revered Japanese writer, Holmes said she found a story that spoke directly to her own vocation: director.

Holmes said she was struck by a story the writer shared from early in his career, in which he lost a floppy disc that held an important first draft for a new work. “He was so upset, obviously, and had to rewrite [this section] and thought it wasn’t as good as the first draft,” Holmes said in a recent interview with IndieWire. “Years later, he found that floppy disk and he saw that actually that [lost] section wasn’t as good as what he ended up rewriting. And I thought, ‘Well, that’s kind of it.'”

That’s the way Holmes, who has directed three films since 2016 — two of them since...

The films in contention for the 2023 Best Original Screenplay Oscar are “The Banshees of Inisherin,” “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” “The Fabelmans,” “Tar,” and “Triangle of Sadness.” Our odds currently indicate that “Everything Everywhere All at Once” (10/3) will take the prize, followed in order of likelihood by “The Banshees of Inisherin” (18/5), “Tar” (9/2), “The Fabelmans” (9/2), and “Triangle of Sadness” (9/2).

For the fifth time in six years, multiple original writing nominees also picked up directing and producing bids. In fact, in a historic first, all five movies in this lineup are also in the running for Best Director, with Tony Kushner (“The Fabelmans”) being the only original scenarist not nominated there as well. He shares his writing notice with the film’s director, Steven Spielberg, who now has 22 Oscar bids to his name and has previously won for helming “Schindler’s List” (1994) and “Saving Private Ryan” (1999) and producing the former.

Of the seven...

The Dropout star Amanda Seyfried appears to have confirmed she’s working on a Broadway-bound musical with Westworld‘s Evan Rachel Wood amid reports that the duo are workshopping a stage adaptation of the 1991 film Thelma & Louise.

The movie starred Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon as pair of friends on the run from the law.

In a red carpet interview with E! News at the Critics’ Choice Awards, Seyfried said, “I wanna go to Broadway. I wanna sing, and I think I’m finally getting to that point where it’s gonna happen.” She added, “You should hear Evan Rachel Wood sing. My god.”

Deadline’s sister publication Variety first reported the Thelma & Louise project after actor Mo Brings Plenty accepted a Globe on behalf of the absent Seyfried and said she was “deep in the process of creating a new musical.”

Seyfried has appeared in a number of movie musicals,...

Lewis R. “Lew” Hunter, a screenwriting professor at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television (Tft) who taught many celebrated Hollywood screenwriters, including Michael Colleary, Alexander Payne and Michael Werb, died Jan. 6 at a care facility in Arizona from Covid-19. He was 87.

Hunter was a professor emeritus at UCLA, where he began teaching in 1979 and helped helm the university’s graduate Ftv 434 course, a methodical guide to writing a full-length screenplay in 10 weeks. He was named co-head of the screenwriting program in 1988, a title he held until his retirement in 2000.

“I never had the pleasure or privilege of meeting Lew Hunter, but his presence is deeply felt in the screenwriting program and his signature 434 workshop,” said screenwriting professor George Huang, who currently teaches the class, in a statement. “The idea that students have to finish a full-length feature screenplay in the 10 weeks of a quarter still seems revolutionary even today,...

Amanda Seyfried is working on a major musical with Evan Rachel Wood, and now speculation has turned to it being an adaptation of the 1991 movie Thelma & Louise.

Amanda Seyfried was one of a handful of winners at the 80th Golden Globe Awards who was unable to attend. Seyfried–who won Best Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Television Film for the Hulu series The Dropout, in which she played controversial Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes–however, had a good reason for being absent from the ceremony. According to the presenters, Seyfried was “deep in the process of creating a new musical.” But it’s not a revival of the Mean Girls musical or even more Mamma Mia!, as Seyfried is reportedly workshopping a musical version of Thelma & Louise.

While not confirming the specifics on what exactly the Thelma & Louise musical might entail, Amanda Seyfried did post...

Amanda Seyfried missed the Golden Globes because she was involved in a workshop of musical adaptation of Thelma & Louise, a rep for the show confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter on Friday.

The musical, which was in early stages of development in 2021, is being adapted for the stage, the rep said. Evan Rachel Wood is also said to be involved in the workshop. Her reps did not reply to a request for comment from THR as of press time.

Variety first reported news of Seyfried and Wood’s involvement in the project.

In June 2021, Thelma & Louise screenwriter Callie Khouri told THR about the “very early stages” of development for the musical. Khouri said the musical had director Trip Cullman (who has directed Choir Boy, Lobby Hero and more on Broadway) attached, a score by indie singer-songwriter Neko Case and a script by Halley Feiffer, an actress and playwright who...

Amanda Seyfried is achieving her dream of being on the Great White Way.

The “Dropout” Emmy winner caused waves after it was announced she was unable to attend the Golden Globes (where she also picked up a Best Actress win) due to being “deep in the process of creating a new musical.” Variety reported that the production is a musical adaptation of Oscar-winning film “Thelma & Louise.”

Evan Rachel Wood is also being eyed to join the musical, but no official casting announcement has been made yet.

IndieWire has reached out to both Seyfried and Wood’s representatives for comment.

“Thelma & Louise” starred Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon as two friends who break free of their domestic rut and embark on a law-breaking road trip. Brad Pitt famously made his big screen debut with the film, which went on to land screenwriter Callie Khouri an Academy Award. Khouri is...

If you like gorgeous gals, movie musicals, and stories of road-trip revenge, then I have the best news in the entire world, just for you: Variety reports that Amanda Seyfried and Evan Rachel Wood are working on a musical version of the 1991 Ridley Scott classic "Thelma & Louise." Both performers have shown their skills in musicals before, with Seyfried starring in the Abba musical "Mamma Mia!" and its sequel, "Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again," along with the movie version of the "Les Misérables" stage musical, while Wood performed the songs of The Beatles in Julie Taymor's underrated 2007 film "Across the Universe." These two have the vocal skills to tackle a musical and they're both phenomenal actors who will be able to have a blast playing best friends on the run from the law.

Even if "Evan Rachel Wood and Amanda Seyfried 'Thelma & Louise' musical" sounds like a mad-lib,...

When Amanda Seyfried won a Golden Globe on Tuesday night, she wasn’t in the Beverly Hills ballroom due to being “deep in the process of creating a new musical” — and now we may know what that is. Insiders tell Variety that Seyfried is involved with a workshop on the musical version of “Thelma & Louise.” There’s also talk that Evan Rachel Wood has joined Seyfried in the project.

A “Thelma & Louise” musical has been in the works since at least 2021 with the film’s screenwriter, Callie Khouri, attached, as well as indie singer/songwriter Neko Case creating the score and Haley Feiffer (“Dear Edward”) writing the book.

Reports in 2021 noted that theatre director Trip Cullman (“Six Degrees of Separation”) was also on board to helm the musical adaptation of the iconic 1991 film, which starred Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon, and won Khouri the Oscar for best writing,...

Sarah Polley failed to crash the boys club to land a Golden Globe nomination for Best Director for her work on “Women Talking,” but she did manage to earn one for Best Screenplay for the same film. In the unlikely event she were to win — and we say unlikely because she is picked by few to take home the statuette in Gold Derby’s predictions where she has 4/1 odds, tying her for fourth place — Polley would be the first woman in 17 years to be so honored. It’s a rare enough event in Golden Globes annals that you barely need two hands to count the total number of women (seven) who have been victorious in the category since the Globes started handing them out 75 years ago.

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This television season, there was a network that tried to launch a drama set against the backdrop of the country music business. It failed miserably. By contrast, the show Nashville lasted for six seasons — the first four on ABC, the final two on CMT — and won critical acclaim in doing so. How did it succeed where others failed? As the show was getting ready to premiere, star Connie Britton told us that Nashville’s creator, Callie Khouri, had put the focus on creating characters who you’d really find in Nashville, rather than contrived television creations. (Click on the media bar below to hear Connie Britton) https://www.hollywoodoutbreak.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Connie_Birrtinb_Nashville_.mp3

Nashville is currently streaming on Hulu.

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Oscar-winning screenwriter Callie Khouri had an ace in the hole when she created the ABC-turned-cmt musical drama Nashville a decade ago: She’s married to T Bone Burnett, a songwriter and record producer with 13 Grammys to his name. And Burnett’s supervision of Nashville’s first-season music helped sell the illusion that Connie Britton’s Rayna James and Hayden Panettiere’s Juliette Barnes were actually country superstars. Unfortunately, Burnett left the show after Season 1 amid conflict with ABC executives, but his work on the show helped Nashville soundtrack albums soar on Billboard’s U.S. Country charts. With Nashville hitting its 10th anniversary on October 10, we’re sharing our favorite tracks from the show — including ones performed by costars Charles Esten, Clare Bowen, Sam Palladio, Chaley Rose, and real-life sisters Lennon and Maisy Stella. “If I Didn’t Know Better” by Clare Bowen and Sam Palladio Co-written by John Paul White of The Civil Wars,...

1991's comedy-drama "Thelma & Louise'" centers on housewife Thelma (Geena Davis) and her best friend, waitress Louise (Susan Sarandon), whose weekend road trip turns into an interstate womanhunt: Louise guns down a man who tries to rape Thelma during a pitstop at a tavern, and believing the cops wouldn't believe their story, they try to flee to Mexico in Louise's 1966 Ford Thunderbird convertible. Though it was snubbed of a Best Picture nomination at the '92 Oscars, Davis and Sarandon both earned nominations for Best Actress in a Leading Role. The screenplay, written by Callie Khouri, won Best Original Screenplay, and the film's director, Ridley Scott, also picked up a nomination for Best Directing. But the landmark film about women empowerment became one of the most controversial releases of the year for its unapologetic feminist take.

During a 30th anniversary Q&a moderated by The Hollywood Reporter, Sarandon reflected on the initial backlash.

Exclusive: Producer Daniela Taplin Lundberg’s Stay Gold Features has announced the launch of Hollywood Gold, a new talk show podcast that will pull back the curtain on the making of some of the industry’s most iconic movies, through interviews with notable producers and filmmakers.

The series will profile a wide range of films and feature conversations with such producers as Fred Roos (The Outsiders), Callie Khouri (Thelma & Louise), Ron Shelton (Bull Durham), Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa (Election), and Bruce Cohen and Dan Jinks (American Beauty). From stories of how the Weinsteins refused to approve the infamous Scream mask, to how The Princess Diaries inspired Julie Andrews’ return to film after a 10 year hiatus and launched Anne Hathaway’s career, to unknown filmmaker Martin Scorcese discovering Robert De Niro in the casting process for Mean Streets, the podcast will shine a light on the often unseen and...

Exclusive: The Francis Lawrence-directed feature adaptation of the Suzanne Collins prequel The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes has added 11 actors in its final casting round.

This includes Tony Award nominee Fionnula Flanagan, who’ll play Grandma’am, young Coriolanus Snow’s (Tom Blyth) strict grandmother. Years before he would become the tyrannical President of Panem, the 18-year-old is the last hope for his fading lineage, a once-proud family that has fallen from grace in a postwar Capitol. With the 10th annual Hunger Games fast approaching, the young Snow is alarmed when he is assigned to mentor Lucy Gray Baird (Rachel Zegler), the girl tribute from impoverished District 12. But, after Lucy Gray commands all of Panem’s attention by defiantly singing during the reaping ceremony, Snow thinks he might be able to turn the odds in their favor. Uniting their instincts for showmanship and newfound political savvy,...

Dating back to the age of The Great Train Robbery, movies have been fascinated with criminals. As with so many acts in this medium, movies about criminals or heists or anything else in this vein allows us to get the catharsis of rebelling against society without actually committing felonies. Thelma & Louise, the classic 1991 Ridley Scott movie written by Callie Khouri, continues this tradition but adds a new wrinkle to the proceedings. There’s no way to remove this movie from how it functions as a way for viewers to live vicariously through how its two lead characters are thrashing against a misogynistic society. There aren’t just a few bad apples here, men are, almost by default, not to be trusted.

More than 400 prominent female writers and showrunners sent a letter today to the heads of the major studios expressing their “grave concerns” about the companies’ “lack of specific production protocols” to protect their workers in anti-abortion states.

The letters, which state that “it is unacceptable to ask any person to choose between their human rights and their employment,” also demanded that the companies “pledge to discontinue all political donations to anti-abortion candidates and political action committees immediately.”

Deadline has obtained a copy of the letter to Netflix, which organizers say was sent to top executives at Amazon Studios, AMC Networks, Apple, Disney, Lionsgate, NBCUniversal, Netflix, Paramount Global, , and Warner Bros. Discovery.

The letters, whose signers include Ava DuVernay, Shonda Rhimes, Amy Schumer, Marta Kauffman, Callie Khouri, WGA West vice president Michele Mulroney and WGA West secretary-treasurer Betsy Thomas, said that “this situation raises basic matters of equality, health, and safety in the workplace.

The story behind the 1991 Ridley Scott film "Thelma & Louise" is as intriguing as the film itself. The movie was revolutionary for its time, reworking the male-male buddy formula with female protagonists. There are some feminist aspects, but the film is also a take on the road film with Thelma (Geena Davis) and Louise (Susan Sarandon) finding themselves and strengthening their friendship along the way.

"Thelma & Louise" was nominated for six Oscars and screenwriter Callie Khouri made history by becoming the first solo woman to win an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.

But when Khouri shopped her screenplay around...

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