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Michael Mann’s “Thief” (1981) reminded me of something that Danny Boyle said during his time in the Criterion Collection’s closet. He picked up the Coen brothers‘ debut feature while speaking about his father, who still compares all his films to his feature debut, “Shallow Grave.” That’s because he thinks it’s his son’s finest work, even if it’s his first. There might be some truth to Mr. Boyle’s theory, which is why “Thief” feels like a blueprint for everything Mann has worked on. Not that he hasn’t made anything great otherwise, but there’s something to his first film that you can’t help but fall in love with, especially if you can’t get enough of his cinematic style.

It’s here when you first hear the synth-heavy electronic music in the fuzzy, neon-lit streets. You also hear the endless city noise in almost every frame,...

"Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy." Those are the words of a famous F. Scott Fitzgerald quote that gives the title of one overlooked HBO series that you might have missed. Following the conclusion of showrunner and journalist David Simon's era defining drama "The Wire," which started as a radically complex look at the drug trade in Baltimore and over its five seasons expanded outwards to encompass every aspect of life in the city, Simon at first attempted to bring a spin-off of the series to life before settling into the War in Iraq miniseries "Generation Kill" and the New Orleans-set drama "Treme."

The common thread across these shows, despite their radically different settings, is a unique, picaresque perspective, following disparate characters whose stories might not intersect directly, but the ramifications of their actions have far-reaching impacts that they might never even be aware of.

Last year, veteran character actor Louis Gossett Jr, who got his acting start in Broadway productions back in 1950s (including Take a Giant Step and a 1959 production of A Raisin in the Sun where he shared the stage with Sidney Poitier), passed away at 87. While we have to get used to the fact that our favorite actors are all human, and like all of us, eventually pass away, it can’t help but hurt anytime we lose a legend like this. But he leaves behind a rich legacy, so let’s look back at five of his coolest roles.

An Officer and a Gentleman:

Louis Gossett Jr. won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Gunnery Sergeant Emil Foley in this, and became the first African-American actor to win an Academy Award in that category in the process. Next to R. Lee Ermey in Full Metal Jacket,...

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"When criminals in this world appear / And break the laws that they should fear / And frighten all who see or hear / The cry goes up both far and near / for Underdog!"

Those are the lyrics to the theme song for the 1964 animated series "Underdog," a series about a canine named Shoeshine Boy (Wally Cox) who would occasionally transform into the eponymous flying, super-strong superhero to protect his girlfriend, Polly Purebred (Norma McMillan), from the evils of the mad scientist Simon Bar Sinister (Allen Swift). "Underdog" was in heavy syndication for years, so those of a certain age likely saw multiple episodes without trying. Underdog was an appealing character because he seemed mild-mannered even while in hero mode, and because he always spoke in rhyming couplets. Curiously, Underdog seemed to get his superpowers by popping "super energy pills," which sounds narcotics-adjacent to the modern ear.

Thomas H. Brodek, a producer on the 1980s films The Aviator, starring Christopher Reeve; The Principal, starring Jim Belushi and Louis Gossett Jr.; and Transylvania 6-5000, starring Jeff Goldblum; has died. He was 86.

Brodek died June 15 of cancer at a hospice facility in Surprise, Arizona, his wife of 63 years, author and former Warner Bros. executive Lorraine Brodek, told The Hollywood Reporter.

Brodek served as a senior vp and executive producer for ABC Productions from 1990-2002, when he worked on two Stephen King miniseries, 1999’s Storm of the Century and 2002’s Rose Red; the 2003 telefilm The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer; and a 2004 series developed by the author, Kingdom Hospital.

Earlier, he was the executive in charge of production on another high-profile ABC miniseries, the 1981 adaptation of John Steinbeck’s East of Eden.

In 2009, Brodek was hired to produce the final four episodes of Showtime’s The Tudors in Ireland, and he...

Alec Baldwin was the perfect Match Game host.

His sly wit and comedic timing were perfect due to his deadpan approach.

However, the show must go on, and it is continuing without Baldwin following the unfortunate incident on his independent film, Rust.

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Match Game was shelved for years, possibly to distance the show from Baldwin, but also to clear the way for a new host.

I won’t get into the minutiae behind the decision-making here, as I often disagree with significant hosting changes like this one.

How the Gen V Season 2 Trailer Sets Up Jordan and Marie’s Relationshipby Sam Huang The Librarians: The Next Chapter Season 1 Episode 6’s Devilish Murder-Mystery Bonds the Teamby Paul Dailly The Gilded Age Season 3 Episode 1 Review: Secret Romance, A Sister Clash, and Bertha Being Berthaby Whitney Evans

I much preferred Patton Oswalt as the host of The 1% Club, but...

An archival recording of the original Blues Brothers — John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd — performing live, The Lost Recordings, will arrive this October.

The release coincides with a new graphic novel, The Blues Brothers: The Escape of Joliet Jake, written by Aykroyd’s daughter Stella, Luke Pisano (son of Belushi’s widow, Judy Belushi Pisano), and filmmaker and writer James Werner. The album, pressed on “royal blue” vinyl, is only available as part of a package with the graphic novel. The release, available to preorder now, coincides with the 45th anniversary...

Jimmy Kimmel is about to embark on his annual summer vacation — and ABC has enlisted a rebel spy to fill in as host.

Diego Luna will preside over Jimmy Kimmel Live! the week of Monday, June 23. According to Deadline, the Andor star’s guests will include Adria Arjona, Ariela Barer, David Corenswet, Nicholas Hoult, Dolores Huerta, Heidi Klum, Patton Oswalt, Emma Stone and Alan Tudyk, as well as musical guests Good Charlotte, Hermanos Gutiérrez and Nezza.

More from TVLineJon Bernthal's Punisher to Appear in Spider-Man: Brand New DayShrinking EP Tees Up Brett Goldstein and Cobie Smulders' Returns, Michael J. Fox...

Some The Masked Singer stars have joined a new series amid signs that former panelist Nicole Scherzinger could return to the show after her Tony Award-winning performance as Norma Desmond in Broadway's Sunset Boulevard. Nicole was an original Masked Singer panelist along with Robin Thicke, Jenny McCarthy-Wahlberg, and Ken Jeong, but Rita Ora took her place beginning in season 11 when she left to play Norma in London's West End. Now that her Broadway run is ending on July 20, it's possible that Nicole could come back for The Masked Singer season 14.

Some The Masked Singer stars have joined a new series amid signs that former panelist Nicole Scherzinger could return to the show after her Tony Award-winning performance as Norma Desmond in Broadway's Sunset Boulevard.

According to TV Insider, stars from the Masked Singer, including guest panelist Joel McHale, and former contestants Anthony Anderson and Ana Gasteyer have joined the cast...

The cause of death for Cheers star George Wendt is now known. The actor died from cardiac arrest, according to the death certificate obtained by TMZ.

The certificate, released by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, lists cardiac arrest, congestive heart failure, coronary artery disease, and hypertension as underlying causes. Additional contributing conditions listed include end-stage renal disease or kidney failure, and hyperlipidemia (high cholesterol).

Wendt died peacefully in his sleep while at home on May 20, according to a family representative. He was 76.

Wendt was on Cheers for the entirety of the show’s epic run from 1982–1993. On a series full of beloved characters, his Norm Peterson was arguably the most beloved, with his entry into a scene announced each time as all the bar’s patrons exclaimed, “Norm!” What followed was usually a setup from one of his co-stars followed by a snappy one-liner from Norm.

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A Widow’s Game is a Spanish crime drama film directed by Carlos Sedes. Inspired by true events, the Netflix film revolves around the murder investigation of an engineer, which reveals hidden dark secrets about his seemingly perfect wife. A Widow’s Game stars Ivana Baquero, Tristán Ulloa, Carmen Machi, Joel Sánchez, and Álex Gadea. So, if you loved the intense drama, thrilling mystery, and complex characters in A Widow’s Game, here are some similar movies you should check out next.

Gone Girl (Rent on Prime Video) Credit – 20th Century Fox

Gone Girl is a psychological thriller film directed by David Fincher from a screenplay by Gillian Flynn. Based on Flynn’s 2012 novel of the same name, the 2014 film follows Nick Dunne, who suddenly becomes the prime suspect in his wife’s sudden disappearance, but everything might not be as it seems.

What did she do with that chicken drumstick? Did she really play the jaw harp for the Scissor Sisters? As her new movie High Rollers is released, the actor is ready to answer all

Gina Gershon has been on our screens for nearly 40 years, during which she has starred in scene-stealing roles opposite some of Hollywood’s biggest actors. In her more likable moments, she orders an orgasm from cocktail-maker Tom Cruise in Cocktail (“How many would you like?” “Multiple” – fnar fnar) and takes a bullet for Nicolas Cage in Face/Off. In her less likable (but equally scene-stealing) moments, she receives a lapdance from – and gets pushed down the stairs by – Elizabeth Berkley in Showgirls, chops Val Kilmer into small pieces in Breathless, gets murdered under the supposed watch of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jim Belushi in Red Heat, and is forced by Matthew McConaughey to simulate oral sex on a chicken drumstick in Killer Joe.

Exclusive: Tim Rozon (Schitt’s Creek), Colton Gobbo (Ginny & Georgia), and Jim Belushi (According to Jim) are set to topline Karate Ghost, a new martial arts comedy from director James Mark that has just recently entered production in Toronto.

Set in a town ruled by absurd karate law, the film watches as a lonely teen forms an unlikely bond with the ghost of his late father’s favorite action hero. What begins as a haunted mentorship quickly escalates into a fight for identity, legacy, and redemption. Rozon leads the cast as Johnny Maim, a washed-up ’90s action star who died tragically mid-stunt now trapped in the afterlife and hungry for one last shot at glory, with Gobbo playing grieving 15-year-old Bobby Brody.

The film is the latest for mark on the heels of films including sci-fi actioner Fight Another Day, sci-fi thriller Control, sci-fi actioner Enhanced, actioner On the Ropes, and sci-fi actioner Kill Order.

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This June, Tubi is bringing you a lot of entertainment, from two hilarious seasons of Community to the action-filled Taken trilogy. However, for this article, we are only including the films that are coming to Tubi in the next month and have a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score. So, check out the ten best movies coming to Tubi in June 2025 with a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score.

Jaws (June 1) Rotten Tomatoes Score: 97% Credit – Universal Pictures

Jaws is a thriller drama film directed by Steven Spielberg from a screenplay co-written by Peter Benchley and Carl Gottlieb. Based on Benchley’s 1974 novel of the same name, the 1975 film is set in a summer resort town, and it follows a police chief, a marine biologist, and a local fisherman as they team up to hunt a giant shark who has been killing tourists.

The 2025 Cannes Film Festival has wrapped following days of star-studded premieres, red carpets and dealmaking on the French Riviera.

This year’s lineup included major Hollywood premieres including Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme starring Benicio del Toro and Michael Cera, Richard Linklater’s Paris-shot Breathless homage Nouvelle Vague, Jochim Trier’s Sentimental Value and Titane Palme d’Or winner Julia Ducournau’s Alpha to name a few.

They were joined by new films from stalwart auteurs including horrormeister Ari Aster’s buzzy A24 feature Eddington, Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident and Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind. Hollywood star Scarlett Johansson debuted in Un Certain Regard with her first directorial effort, Eleanor the Great.

Related: Standing Ovations At Cannes: How We Clock Those Claps, Which Movie Holds The Record and Why The Industry Loves To Hate The Ritual

Croisette regulars Kirill Serebrennikov, Raoul Peck and...

George Wendt, best known for playing the beer-swilling Norm on Cheers, died peacefully in his sleep while at home early Tuesday morning, according to a family representative. He was 76.

Wendt was on Cheers for the entirety of the show’s epic run from 1982–1993. On a series full of beloved characters, his Norm Peterson was arguably the most beloved, with his entry into a scene announced each time as all the bar’s patrons exclaimed, “Norm!” What followed was usually a setup from one of his co-stars followed by a snappy one-liner from Norm.

As a result of that performance, Wendt earned six consecutive Emmy nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series, but never won.

“I have a hard time talking about Norm. It’s like he’s too close to me,” Wendt once said of the character. “I think he’s the toughest to write for because he’s not really anything.

Saturday Night Live alum Chris Parnell said he “never really knew” why he was fired from the late-night sketch show and later rehired.

“I never really knew, I’ve never known why it happened exactly,” he recently said on The Patrick LabyorSheaux podcast while promoting the upcoming Season 8 debut of Adult Swim’s Rick and Morty. “I don’t know. It was a big shocker. Every summer it would happen that — we were supposed to find out, I think like at the end of June whether our contract had been renewed for the following season, and it was never at the end of June, so we would usually hear from our agents, like, ‘Oh, Lorne hasn’t decided yet, so can you just wait for a few more weeks?'”

At the time, the comedian and actor recalled that he was in touch with fellow castmates like Rachel Dratch and...

Kristen Stewart’s The Chronology of Water translates Lidia Yuknavitch’s fragmented memoir into a cinematic tapestry that pulses with raw intensity. The film traces Yuknavitch’s journey from a competitive swimmer grappling with familial violence to a writer seeking to reclaim her own story. Stewart abandons linear exposition: present-day crises collide with Super-8 childhood recollections, each segment anchored by Lidia’s murmured voiceover.

Imogen Poots embodies Lidia with striking authenticity, her athletic grace in water scenes contrasting sharply with her haunted eyes on land. When Poots slices through rippling waves, the camera tightens to capture every muscle’s tension—an unspoken language of escape. In quieter moments, close-ups of trembling hands or furrowed brows reveal layers of defiance and vulnerability that prose alone could never convey.

Stewart’s impressionistic editing—hard cuts interspersed with fluid montages—mirrors the way trauma shatters and reassembles memory. The narrative unfolds like a braided essay,...

Okay, now Kristen Stewart is just showing off.

The Oscar nominated “Spencer” star steps behind the camera, writing and directing “The Chronology of Water,” which premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. A portrait of pain, rebirth and reclamation, the film’s heartbeat comes from Stewart’s skillful and natural filmmaking. It is bolstered by two veteran actors we haven’t seen do something like this in years, Jim Belushi and Thora Birch.

Adapted from Lidia Yuknavitch’s memoir, it recounts her story of going from a champion swimmer, to an addict, and later a writer. Stewart’s directorial debut has an avant-garde sensibility that’s part “The Basketball Diaries,” part Terrence Malick reverie, with a dash of Jim Jarmusch’s cool restraint and an undercurrent of rebellion that flows through it. The film benefits by being made from a female perspective that never shies...

“I bled, I peed, I cried, and vomited.” This sentence comes at the end of the second paragraph of The Chronology of Water, Lidia Yuknavitch’s extraordinary, extraordinarily raw 2011 memoir about growing up, nearly giving up, and straining to getting a grip on a traumatic past. It follows one of the most striking openings of any autobiography — an extended description of her holding her daughter moments after the stillborn baby has been delivered. Kristen Stewart has been talking about bringing Yuknavitch’s book to the screen for years. But she...

Kristen Stewart’s long-awaited directorial debut The Chronology of Water received a warm reception at its world premiere in Cannes Friday night, with the crowd inside the Palais des Festivals greeting the film with a four-and-a-half-minute standing ovation.

An emotional Stewart embraced her actors with hugs and high-fives as the ovation carried on. She later bounded across the auditorium to give Cannes head Thierry Frémaux a long hug.

“I don’t have anything else to say; I left it all on the screen,” Stewart said in part. “Just thank you all for being here. Seriously, we finished the movie five minutes ago — it’s not even done. We got so lucky, and I’m so grateful to be here.”

She then gestured to her star, Imogen Poots, to take the mic, saying, “Truly, your body is the movie, I’m giving it to you.”

An emotional Poots obliged, saying only,...

Kristen Stewart’s directorial debut “The Chronology of Water” premiered at Cannes Film Festival to a just over four-minute standing ovation on Friday night — and left many in the crowd wiping their eyes.

Imogen Poots’ knockout performance was certainly a highlight of Stewart’s adaptation of Lidia Yuknavitch’s 2011 memoir of the same name, but just as notable was her directing style — raw, artsy and unflinching. Poots stars as Yuknavitch in Stewart’s non-linear take on the bestselling writer’s life, which includes shocking scenes of sexual abuse by her father and her spiral into drug use juxtaposed with the poetic salvation she found from being in water.

As the house lights went up, Stewart — dressed in a chic white short suit and matching baseball cap — hugged everyone in her cast and crew and directed the attention toward them. After kissing her wife Dylan Meyer, she allowed the spotlight to shine on her,...

Kristen Stewart’s feature directorial debut The Chronology of Water unspooled at the Cannes Film Festival on Friday night and was greeted by a 6½-minute ovation by an enthusiastic audience.

Stewart’s long-gestating project, adapted from Lidia Yuknavitch’s bestselling 2011 memoir, went down well in the room, and Stewart was mobbed by her fans in the Grand Lumiere Theater, making it tough to get out of the venue.

Kristen Stewart embraces her ‘Chronology of Water’ crew after this evening’s debut screening #Cannes2025 pic.twitter.com/a9UIVK5yVt

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Stewart took screenplay co-writing credits with Andy Mingo on the pic, which stars Imogen Poots in the tale of turning trauma into art that’s playing in the Un Certain Regard strand. The story follows protagonist Lidia from her earliest childhood memories in the Pacific Northwest, through explosive misfires and mistakes, children that almost-were, toxic relationships, art heroes,...

Imogen Poots takes the lead in Stewart’s choppy but compelling adaptation of Lidia Yuknavitch’s memoir of abuse and sexual uncertainty

Kristen Stewart’s directorial debut, adapted by her from the 2011 abuse memoir by Lidia Yuknavitch, is running a very high temperature, though never exactly collapsing into outright feverishness or torpor. It’s a poetry-slam of pain and autobiographical outrage, recounting a writer’s journey towards recovering the raw material of experience to be sifted and recycled into literary success.

The present day catastrophes of failed relationships, drink and drugs are counterpointed with Super-8 memories and epiphanies of childhood with extreme closeups on remembered details and wry, murmuring voiceovers. It borders on cliche a little, but there is compassion and storytelling ambition here.

Lidia herself, well played by Imogen Poots, is a young woman who was abused in her teenage years by her clenched and furious architect father (Michael Epp...

Actors turning to directing is nothing new, but it’s unlikely you’ve seen a performer’s directorial debut as boldly confident and emotionally precise as Kristen Stewart’s “The Chronology of Water.”

Where other performers have stuck to what they were familiar with from past roles or even cast themselves in key parts for their first film behind the camera, Stewart does neither. This is no safe vanity project, but one of immense passion that she has been trying to get made for the better part of a decade. We can now be glad she did; this is a formally ambitious and raw vision that not only does justice to the acclaimed memoir of the same name by Lidia Yuknavitch, but becomes a distinct work all its own. Visually haunting, with disquieting snapshots of pain, abuse and addiction giving way to something approaching tentative tranquility, it’s a film...

When famous actors decide to try their hand at filmmaking, the results can be — and often are — unremarkable by design. Timid and safe with a network TV aesthetic that screams “I’m a lot more afraid behind the camera than I am in front of it.” Not so of Kristen Stewart’s “The Chronology of Water.” Not in the slightest. Some movies are shot. This one was directed.

Which isn’t to suggest this aggressively fragmented adaptation of Lidia Yuknavitch’s memoir should be graded on a curve because its famous auteur dared to film on 16mm, or even because she had the skill required to adapt her source material with the same febrile porousness that made it such a striking piece of literature in the first place (a process that required the “Clouds of Sils Maria” star to invent her own language of elliptical thoughts and extreme close-ups). On the contrary,...

The 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival continues on Day 4 with the world premieres of Eddington, directed by Ari Aster; Bono: Stories of Surrender, and Kristen Stewart’s directorial debut, The Chronology of Water.

Aster’s Eddington premiered today, featuring Joaquin Phoenix as a small-town Sheriff in a New Mexico conflict with Pedro Pascal’s Mayor. The film’s ensemble cast includes Joaquin Phoenix, Austin Butler, Emma Stone, Pedro Pascal, Luke Grimes, Clifton Collins Jr., Micheal Ward, Amelie Hoeferle, Matt Gomez Hidaka, and Cameron Mann, who all walked the red carpet at the Grand Théâtre Lumière on Friday, May 16th

Related: ‘Eddington’ Cannes Film Festival Premiere Photos: Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone, Austin Butler & More

The Palais des Festivals played host this evening to the debut of Kristen Stewart’s The Chronology of Water, starring Imogen Poots, Thora Birch, Michael Epp, Esmé Creed-Miles, Kim Gordon, and Jim Belushi.

Buyers are finally wise to the fact that Cannes is driving the Oscar race and even the specialized box office. Everyone wants to find the next “Anora,” “The Substance,” “Emilia Perez,” or “Anatomy of a Fall.” And more buyers like Mubi, Metrograph, Sideshow, and other upstarts have emerged to take on the likes of Neon and A24, who come to Cannes armed with several titles already set to debut.

Below, we’ve identified 13 movies looking for homes that could be the next awards breakout, including new films from Lynne Ramsay and Richard Linklater and the debuts of Kristen Stewart and Harris Dickinson.

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“The Chronology of Water” (Un Certain Regard)

Director: Kristen Stewart

Stars: Imogen Poots, Thora Birch, Jim Belushi, Tom Sturridge

Buzz: Even if it’s in a sidebar for a first-time director, Kristen Stewart’s debut should be a hot ticket with a lot of...

“The Chronology of Water” director Kristen Stewart and one of the film’s stars, indie rock icon Kim Gordon, will headline Breaking Through the Lens’ annual gala at the Cannes Film Festival on Friday, May 16.

Breaking Through the Lens is a global nonprofit dedicated to creating pathways to financing for women, Lgbtqia+ and other marginalized filmmakers working in front of and behind the camera.

As the organization returns to Cannes for an eighth consecutive year, Stewart and Gordon will sit for a fireside chat moderated by Variety, at Hyde Beach by Campari just before the world premiere of “The Chronology of Water” in the Un Certain Regard section. Stewart and Gordon will reflect on their experience working on the buzzy new film, dive into their creative process across mediums and discuss the importance of backing underrepresented filmmakers with proper funding.

Adapted from the bestselling 2011 memoir by Lidia Yuknavitch, Stewart’s...

The Cannes Film Festival has updated its 2025 Official Selection with 16 new films, including two new Competition titles.

Lynne Ramsay’s Die, My Love and Saeed Roustaee’s WomanAnd Child join the Competition line-up, bringing it to 21 films.

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The Un Certain Regard line-up adds a further four films, including Kristen Stewart’s directorial debut The Chronology Of Water, and is now at 20 films.

The festival has also added Ethan Coen’s Focus Features title Honey Don’t!starring Margaret Qualley as a Midnight Screening; and Hlynur Palmason’s The Love That Remains and...

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Jesse Armstrong returns to HBO with Mountainhead trailer

Succession creator Jesse Armstrong's follow-up to his Emmy-winning hit is the HBO movie Mountainhead, which just got its first trailer. The movie is about four tech billionaire friends, played by Steve Carell, Jason Schwartzman, Cory Michael Smith, and Ramy Youssef, who are vacationing together at a mountain retreat when global chaos breaks out. Do they reckon with their role in creating this situation? Or do they keep playing poker and eating turbot? Youssef has described Mountainhead as "funny in the same way Succession is." Armstrong writes and directs the film, which premieres on Max on May 31.

Kevin Hart to host 2025 BET Awards

Comedian Kevin Hart will host the 2025 BET Awards, the 25th edition of the award show honoring achievements in music, film, television, and sports. Hart is hosting for the first time since 2011. The show...

Focus Features has scheduled a wide December 25 US release for the Neil Diamond tribute band drama Song Sung Blue starring Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson.

The studio developed and holds worldwide rights to the film, based on Greg Kohs’ 2008 documentary of the same name.

Craig Brewer directed the new film about Lightning & Thunder, the married musical duo of Mike Sardina and Claire Sardina, a pair of down-on-their-luck performers who followed their dreams and experienced success and heartbreak.

Brewer, whose credits include Hustle & Flow, also produced alongside Davis Entertainment’s John Davis and John Fox. The cast includes Michael Imperioli,...

Both Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson announced on their Instagrams that their Neil Diamond-themed film from Craig Brewer, Song Sung Blue, has sealed a release date for Christmas. Focus Features has set Song Sung Blue for a wide release on December 25, 2025. The film, written and directed by Craig Brewer, stars Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson and tells the inspiring true story of two down-on-their-luck performers who form a joyous Neil Diamond tribute band, proving it’s never too late to find love and follow your dreams.

Hudson’s announcement on her Instagram was accompanied by the caption, “Loved every second making this beautiful film, working with the most lovely work husband you could ask for, @thehughjackman, singing the iconic songs of Neil Diamond, led by our wonderful director @mybrewtube More love notes for everyone involved to come… but right now I am just so excited to share with you that...

Neil Diamond tribute band feel-good drama Song Sung Blue with Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson will hit U.S. theaters on Christmas Day 2025.

Written and directed by Craig Brewer, the movie is based on a true story and stars Jackman and Hudson as down-on-their-luck performers who form a joyous Neil Diamond tribute band, proving it’s never too late to find love and follow your dreams.

Jackman and Hudson revealed the December 25, 2025 launch in social media posts early Tuesday morning, as well as a first look of them in their roles.

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Brewer, who also wrote and directed the Oscar-winning winning 2006 hip-hop world drama Hustle & Flow, produced the film alongside Davis Entertainment’s John Davis and John Fox.

The cast also features Michael Imperioli, Fisher Stevens, Jim Belushi, Ella Anderson, King Princess, Mustafa Shakir and Hudson Hilbert Hensley.

Coming off of the high of the record-breaking summer blockbuster Deadpool & Wolverine, Hugh Jackman has some exciting and unconventional plans for the future. With the incredible box-office performance of his latest Wolverine appearance, people might assume Jackman would ride out the success in other action comedy movies, but the X-Men actor is instead returning to his musical roots. Jackman has shown off his considerable musical talents in movie musicals The Greatest Showman and Les Misérables, and now the triple threat is joining Kate Hudson (who just released an album) in a new musical from the director of Hustle & Flow.

Focus Features has set Song Sung Blue for a wide release on December 25, 2025. The film, written and directed by Craig Brewer, stars Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson and tells the inspiring true story of two down-on-their-luck performers who form a joyous Neil Diamond tribute band, proving it's never too late...

While Wicked has proven once again that musical movies can deliver some huge results at the box office, it looks like a long-delayed all-singing, all-dancing movie could have finally been shelved after going through several combinations of writers, directors, and stars, including former Marvel's Chris Evans and Scarlett Johansson. A remake of Little Shop of Horrors – which would actually be a remake of a movie of a musical remake of a Roger Corman movie – has been on the cards for some time, but according to filmmaker Joe Dante, the project has been dug out at the roots.

Before the Covid pandemic, talk of a Little Shop of Horrors remake began to circulate, with Scarlett Johansson, Taron Egerton, and Chris Evans being eyed as taking on the role of Seymour Krelborn, the weedy hero of the story who takes on a mighty alien plant called Audrey II to prevent it taking over the world.

When Tim Roth was first approached to co-star inGridlock’d(1997), he was hesitant about working with Tupac Shakur.

According to THR, in a recent discussion at Luxembourg City Film Fest, Roth revealed the journey that ultimately led to him acting alongside legendary music and film icon Tupac. The film, a crime comedy directed by Vondie Curtis-Hall, follows two heroin addicts, Spoon (Tupac) and Stretch (Roth), as they navigate a bureaucratic nightmare while trying to enter rehab. Westworld actress Melanie Thandiwe Newton also starred in the film. Initially, Laurence Fishburne was set to star in the film, and Roth was eager to work with him. But after Fishburne dropped out, Roth was informed that a rapper would be taking his place—an idea he immediately rejected.

"But he dropped out, and he was really a big part of the reason why I wanted to do it," Roth recalled. "So then the...

There’s a sentimental heart to Michael Mann’s films, as much as his fans might not like to hear about it. Run a movie like Heat or Thief alongside the finest crime novels of the same bygone era Mann taps as fuel for his ongoing, elegiac meta-saga on heist men, bag men, and hit men. Run them against key works by Westlake, Chandler, Hammett, or Bezzerides—authors whose heroes and antiheroes are all hard, bad edges. In Mann’s world, sentimentality is front and center, the prize beyond the horizon for the Los Angeles cab driver, the storied Depression-era stickup man, or the Miami vice cop. It’s the reason for some of those mournful stares, those knowing half-smiles that punctuate your Miami Vice, your Public Enemies.

At the same time, these stories may also be that of the sentimental dream being crushed, its embers stubbed out by crippling disappointment.

“Michael Mann’s “Thief” is a film of style, substance, and violently felt emotion, all wrapped up in one of the most intelligent thrillers I’ve seen.” – Roger Ebert

Glistening wet streets, intense neon lights, transient spaces, reflective objects, cool-blue color palette, and a pulsating score. Yeah, it’s all the recognizable nuggets of Michael Mann’s visual style, which isn’t just about remaining ‘showy’, but also remains wholly attuned to the story’s emotional textures. And, what’s fascinating about these confident and meticulous visuals is that Mann accomplished it all in his feature-film debut “Thief” (1981) itself.

The recurring themes in Mann’s works involving hardened, urban males are also present here. A single, rigorous frame and handful of colorful dialogues in “Thief” could serve as a fine blueprint for cinephiles on what to expect from Mann’s masterful film-making skills. Thematic and narrative wise, Mann’s debut...

If there’s one thing you can rely on “Saturday Night Live” for, it’s delivering good celebrity impressions. Some are so good, in fact, that they draw the actual celebrity into a sketch with them.

Most recently, it happened when then-Vice President Kamala Harris stopped by just before the 2024 election to give Maya Rudolph’s version of Kamala Harris a pep talk. But this is a tradition that goes back literal decades. So, we rounded up each one we could find.

You can relive them below.

Eddie Murphy and Tracy Morgan

During the “SNL50” celebration, the show brought back “Black Jeopardy,” featuring Leslie Jones, Tracy Morgan and Eddie Murphy as contestants. Of course, Eddie Murphy was actually playing Tracy Morgan.

Kamala Harris and Maya Rudolph

Like we mentioned above, Kamala Harris made a surprise stop at 30 Rock just days before the 2024 election, giving her fake self, as well as the country at large,...

It was a massively star-studded affair at the SNL50: The Anniversary Special on Sunday evening (February 16) held at Studio 8H in Rockefeller Center in New York City.

Saturday Night Live celebrated it’s 50th anniversary with hundreds of stars who have appeared on the show over the years.

From music stars like Lady Gaga, Sabrina Carpenter and Cher, to actors like Ayo Edebiri, Emma Stone and Anya Taylor-Joy.

Keep reading to find out more…

The late-night sketch show’s special featured many returning sketches, with past and present SNL cast members reprising their characters, and even several celebrities who have hosted reprising their characters!

We have gathered every celebrity, cast member and more’s looks from the red carpet and you can see over 200 below…

Abby Elliott

Adam & Jackie Sandler

Adria Arjona & Jason Momoa

Aidy Bryant

Alex & Hilaria Baldwin

Alex Moffat & Caroline Kingsley Moffat

Al Franken

Al Sharpton

Amelia Dimoldenberg...

NBC celebrated Saturday Night Live on Friday night with over three hours of music history on SNL50: The Homecoming Concert. The special hosted by Emmy winner Jimmy Fallon streamed live from Radio City Music Hall in New York City and is now available to stream on Peacock.

Musical acts included Arcade Fire, Backstreet Boys, Bad Bunny, Bonnie Raitt, Brandi Carlile, Brittany Howard, Cher, Chris Martin, Dave Grohl, David Byrne, Devo, Eddie Vedder, Jack White, Jelly Roll, Lady Gaga, Lauryn Hill, Miley Cyrus, Mumford & Sons, Post Malone, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Robyn, Snoop Dogg, St. Vincent, the B-52s, the Roots, and Wyclef Jean. Surprise comedy musical performances included Bill Murray, Paul Shaffer, Andy Samberg, Chris Parnell, Will Ferrell, Ana Gasteyer, Maya Rudolph, Fred Armisen, and Tracy Morgan.

But that doesn’t end the festivities. Sunday night’s SNL50: The Anniversary Special will switch over from mostly music to almost...

Nickelodeon is one of the most recognized networks in America and prides itself on making entertaining content for children. From worldwide hits like SpongeBob SquarePants to more niche shows like The Adventures of Pete and Pete, the network has proven time and time again that it understands what audiences want. Thus, even after over 40 years, Nickelodeon still reigns supreme.

Fans of a certain age group will also remember Nick at Nite, a programming block that focuses on showcasing primetime content during the later hours of the day. This block has grown into a bit of a cultural phenomenon, with fans believing that it is superior to its daytime counterpart. As such, some of the network's best programs can also be linked to the popular Nick at Nite slot.

A 1950s Family Moves Into the Modern Age Hi Honey, I'm Home! Image via Nickelodeon

Hi Honey, I'm Home! is one of...

Stars: Eric Johnson, Martin Kove, Chuck Liddell, Michael Bisping, Ken Shamrock, Matthew Willig, Jim Belushi, Paul Braunstein, Christina Ochoa | Written by James Mark, Matthew Nayman | Directed by James Mark

It’s 1989 and Ryan Taylor is a tough cop with a reality TV show, In the Name of Justice. It’s something like Cops, if it was shot live and starred Harry Callahan. That backfires when the subject of the current episode sees him on TV and is waiting for him with a shotgun. The blast doesn’t seem to kill him however, and he’s transported to 2067 where he can continue his showbiz career, this time as a contestant on Fight Another Day, a real-life version of The Deadliest Warrior, pitting him against fighters from all through history.

It’s sponsored by sponsored by Chronocom Pharmaceuticals, the same company that sponsored In the Name of Justice. The company’s CEO,...

The Bold and the Beautiful (B&b) spoilers for the week of January 27-31 indicate some interesting casting changes viewers should take note of.

While the land of fashion is a revolving door, in the coming five days, fans will see some characters that haven’t been on the canvas in a while, pop back on screen to create a little chaos. So, who’s ‘coming’ and who’s ‘going’ in the land of B&b next week? Read on below to find out more!

The Bold And The Beautiful Spoilers – Jack Finnegan Is Sticking Around

B&b spoilers for the week of January 27-31 reveal Jack Finnegan, John “Finn” Finnegan’s (Tanner Novlan) father will continue his run. The character will appear in both the Monday, January 27, and Tuesday, January 28 episodes.

In fact, Sheila Carter (Kimberlin Brown) will force Jack to have a “run-in” with Poppy Nozawa (Romy Park) at Il Giardino.

The late, great David Lynch obviously gave us so many wonderful films over the course of his career. I mean, the guy literally turned a failed ABC TV pilot with no surviving costumes or sets into a movie that some have hailed as the greatest film of the 21st century.

Probably one of his more underrated works was 1997’s Lost Highway, the film that dared to ask: what if O.J. Simpson was a saxophone-playing Bill Pullman, and he briefly had the ability to shape-shift? At the very least, it’s the only movie in history to use “Two Thumbs Down” from Siskel and Ebert as a selling point in its marketing campaign.

Lost Highway is especially notable for comedy fans, because it featured Richard Pryor’s final screen performance. Pryor plays Arnie, who owns the auto shop that employs Pete – the young man who may or may not be some...

Top 1980s and 1990s comedy writer-producer David W. Duclon, who created Punky Brewster and co-developed Silver Spoons, died Wednesday morning, January 15, after a long illness. He was 74.

Born Warren David Duclon in Rockford, Il, Duclon started his career as a writer on classic 1970s sitcoms such as The Odd Couple, Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, The Jeffersons and Diff’rent Strokes.

His first writing credit was on a handful episodes of the The Odd Couple alongside Garry Marshall, who took him under his wing and taught him how to be a showrunner while Duclon worked on his hits Happy Days and spinoff Laverne & Shirley.

Over the next decade, Duclon went on to create a slew of sitcoms of his own. He developed CBS’ 1979 comedy Working Stiffs starring James Belushi and Michael Keaton; co-developed the 1982-debuting Silver Spoons, which ran on NBC for four seasons and another in first-run syndication; and...

The Bold and the Beautiful (B&b) spoilers for the week of January 13-17 suggest some interesting cast changes fans should be aware of. As the land of L.A. fashion can be a revolving door, there are always characters leaving and returning to the soap, every week!

So, who’s ‘coming’ and who’s ‘going’ over the next five days in the land of B&b? Read on below to find out more!

The Bold And The Beautiful Spoilers – Sister Versus Sister

B&b spoilers for the week of January 13-17 reveal that Dr. Li Finnegan, played by Naomi Matsuda, will have massive screen time over the next five days.

John “Finn” Finnegan’s (Tanner Novlan) mom will appear on the Monday, January 13, Tuesday, January 14, and Thursday, January 16 episodes.

Looks like a majority of her time will be spent bantering back and forth with her sister, Poppy Nozawa, as...

Here are the latest comings and goings casting news from all four daytime dramas: The Bold and the Beautiful, Days of our Lives, General Hospital, and The Young and the Restless.

The Week of January 13, 2025

Find out if any of your favorite actors and actresses from yesteryear are returning to the shows you watch, if any newcomers have been cast in contract, recurring, or day-player roles, or if any popular performers are about to make their exit.

The Young and the Restless

Estranged relatives are about to have a surprise and not-so-happy reunion. Look for Colleen Zenk and Hayley Erin to share the screen as Aunt Jordan and Claire this week. They’ll have scenes together on Tuesday, January 14, Wednesday, January 15, and Friday, January 17.

Meanwhile, Ray Wise is back as the dastardly Ian Ward. Look for the character’s revenge against Sharon (Sharon Case) to take a dangerous turn on Tuesday,...

What’s the latest comings and going casting news at The Bold and the Beautiful? Find out if any popular stars from yesteryear are returning to the CBS soap, if any newcomers are joining the show in contract, recurring, or day-player roles, and if any of your favorite performers are leaving.

The Week of January 13, 2025

Jamison Belushi, the daughter of actor Jim Belushi, pops back in as April. The hospital lab technician airs on Monday, January 13, and Tuesday, January 14.

Naomi Matsuda gets some prominent screen time as Dr. Li Finnegan this week. Finn’s (Tanner Novlan) mother appears on Monday, January 13, Tuesday, January 14 and Thursday, January 16.

Meanwhile, Romy Park is back as Li’s sister, Poppy Nozawa. She’ll share scenes with Matsuda on Monday, January 13 and Thursday, January 16.

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