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World premieres of the Jude Law and Jason Bateman-starring limited series Black Rabbit, Sterlin Harjo’s The Lowdown, and Mae Martin and Ryan Scott’s Wayward were unveiled as part of the Toronto Film Festival‘s Primetime program, where the small screen hits the big screen.

The TIFF focus on new TV series has also booked first looks for the doc series Origin: The Story of the Basketball Africa League from creators Richard Brown and Tebogo Malope, Hansal Mehta’s Gandhi and The Savage, created by Houman Seyyedi.

Netflix’s Black Rabbit from creators and showrunners Zach Baylin and Kate Susman stars Bateman and Law as reunited brothers that centers on New York City’s next hotspot restaurant and lounge. The series will launch Sept. 18 on the streaming giant.

Netflix is also bringing to the Toronto TV showcase the Wayward thriller, which stars comedian Martin, Patrick J. Adams, Sarah Gadon...

Seeing as how the 1980s gave us four Halloween movies, five Elm Streets and no less than eight Friday the 13ths, it’s pretty easy to see why the decade is considered the golden age of slasher flicks. Throw in all the lesser known psycho-killer/dead teenager flicks from the era that have since gone on to become bona fide cult classics – the Sleepaway Camp trilogy, Maniac, Pieces, etc. – and it’s pretty much indisputable that the Reagan years were indeed the glory days of cinematic mass murder.

Even in a decade glutted with degenerate cinema classics like My Bloody Valentine and Silent Night, Deadly Night, there nonetheless remain several unsung, unheralded slasher movies from the 1980s that definitely deserve more retroactive respect and reverence. Sure, none of the following flicks may be on par with subgenre heavy hitters like Black Christmas or Twitch of the Death Nerve, but they...

On July 26, Deadline reported that “Bend it Like Beckham” will be bending it like Beckham once again, or so says its writer/director Gurinder Chadha. The original film, released 23 years ago in 2022 and starring Parminder Nagra and Keira Knightley was an indie sleeper hit, grossing $76 million on a $6 million budget.

The comedy ended up being the harbinger of Knightley’s astronomical rise into stardom — coming just one year before “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl” and “Love Actually.” In it, she is one of two soccer playing girls (the other played by Nagra), who attempt to pursue the sport professionally.

“I’m excited to revisit the original characters and revive the enduring story and build on the legacy we helped to create for the women’s game,” Chadha said, adding that “I’m pretty certain that everyone’s going to want to come back” and that...

Executive produced by Leonardo DiCaprio, and produced by Fisher Stevens, the scattered but stirring eco doc “We Are Guardians” assigns itself the unenviable challenge of providing a small — yet broadly comprehensive — window onto one of the greatest environmental crises in the history of our planet: The destruction of the Amazon rainforest. It’s a topic so vast that even a sprawling miniseries would struggle to contain it, and yet directors Edivan Guajajara, Chelsea Greene, and Rob Grobman manage to wrap their arms around the disaster in a little more than 80 minutes; not by simplifying the situation, but rather by contrasting the apocalyptic plainness of the problem with the infinite complexity of solving it.

The facts speak for themselves, tragic as it is that they don’t always listen to each other. One of several people in the film who help to anchor the project as more of a prompt to...

“We Are Guardians,” a documentary presented by executive producer Leonardo DiCaprio and producer Fisher Stevens, has raised over $1 million in rainforest preservation efforts through its charitable campaign ahead of a New York theatrical release Friday.

The project from co-directors Edivan Guajajara, Chelsea Greene and Rob Grobman is touring nationally in theaters through September and spotlights efforts by Indigenous leaders to protect the Brazilian Amazon amid invasion and deforestation.

“This is one of the most effective and successful documentary impact campaigns I have been involved with over my career,” Oscar-winning documentarian Stevens (“The Lincoln Project”) said in a statement. “Our team has hit and now surpassed all of our initial goals for the film, and we are only getting started.”

The documentary specifically focuses on the Indigenous people of Tembé and Guajajara in Brazil. As illegal loggers and invaders propagate deforestation on their land, individuals within these communities act as “Guardians...

If you remember Frédéric Auburtin's 2015 sports drama "United Passions," then you are a rare individual indeed. The $30 million prestige picture -- mostly funded by the Fédération Internationale de Football Association, aka FIFA -- starred Tim Roth, "Jurassic Park" veteran Sam Neill, Gérard Depardieu, and Fisher Stevens, and it told the history of FIFA, from its formation in 1904 through the 2010 World Cup. It was a multigenerational story that traced the dramas and scandals the organization faced through the decades. Stevens played Cornelis August Wilhelm Hirschman, the president of FIFA from 1918 to 1920. Depardieu played Jules Rimet (president from 1921 to 1954), Neill played João de Havelange (1974 to 1998), and Roth played Sepp Blatter (1998 to 2015).

"United Passions" opened in 10 theaters in the United States in February of 2015 and made an embarrassing $918 on its opening weekend. Reports from Phoenix, Arizona, stated that the film made a whopping $9 opening weekend, meaning only one person bought a ticket.

Exclusive:Zdf Studios-owned Off the Fence, the company behind Oscar winner My Octopus Teacher, has confirmed the UK and Germany release date on Prime Video of its Amazon rainforest documentary We Are Guardians.

The film will debut on the platform in both countries on June 20, two weeks after Area 23a opened the film theatrically in Los Angeles as part of a 50-city summer theatrical screening tour. As previously announced, Netflix acquired rights for Latin America.

We Are Guardians premiered at Hot Docs in 2023 followed by select festival appearances including Raindance, Rio, and the Mostra São Paulo International Film Festival,...

In 2019, Edivan Guajajara, Chelsea Greene, and Rob Grobman began filming “We Are Guardians,” a documentary about Indigenous forest guardians fighting to protect their ancestral lands from relentless invasions and deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest.

The directors followed various forest guardians of Brazil as they fought to protect the Amazon rainforest from destruction.

“Through the smoke and confusion of the media coming from Brazil and the international community, we decided to mobilize and uncover the truth,” Greene and Grobman said in a joint statement.”We wanted to hear from those closest to the forest, and the fires, what was happening, from their perspective.”

After a year, Guajajara, Greene, and Grobman showed producers Zak Kilberg, Maura Anderson, and Fisher Stevens a reel of what they had captured in the Amazon. The producers, who at the time were forming their production company Highly Flammable, were immediately intrigued and decided to make “We Are Guardians...

Panels for shows like ‘House of the Dragon’ and others are launching on Max as it prepares its campaign to sway Emmy voters.

Last year, Max tried a unique tactic in order to win over more Emmy voters over: the platform made its For Your Consideration panels available for subscribers to stream on the service. Several shows on Max won big at the 2024 Emmy Awards, and the panels may have helped to sway some minds. That would explain why Warner Bros. Discovery is bringing back those panels in 2025, as announced on Tuesday.

Key Details: Available now: Max’s For Your Consideration panels are available as of Tuesday, June 3. Access galore: The panels offer access to talent both in front of and behind the camera. Best of the best: Panels for “Dune: Prophecy,” “The Pitt,” and more are available. Sign Up $9.99+ / month max via prime video

These For Your Consideration panels...

It’s not news that the documentary market continues to be in flux, particularly for political documentaries, with many filmmakers complaining about a lack of distribution channels. So it’s good news that Netflix has closed a hybrid licensing deal for six documentary films that played well at festivals over the past year, but were not acquired by any distributor. Rather than leave the orphans in limbo, Netflix opted to give this group of diverse titles a distribution home.

The films include Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk’s “The White House Effect” and “In Waves and War,” Chris Smith’s “Devo,” Kimberly Reed’s “I’m Your Venus,” Matthew O. Henderson’s “A King Like Me,” and the late Sacha Jenkins’ “Sunday Best.”

This out-of-the-box Netflix deal gives the docs Netflix Original status in English-speaking territories the U.K., United States, and Canada. In territories outside the English language, they are available non-exclusively.

L.A.-based the Mediapro Studio U.S. & Canada has secured film adaptation rights to “The Museum of Cursed Artifacts,” an upcoming novel by Evan Spiliotopoulos, writer of 2017 Disney blockbuster “Beauty and the Beast.”

Described by the Mediapro Studio as action-packed, blending suspense, adventure and supernatural twists, “The Museum of Cursed Artifacts” begins with a famed entrepreneur completing his collection of cursed artifacts. He then takes his life in a shocking manner.

His family, gutted that he blew all his money but still hoping to turn a profit with this macabre museum, assemble leading experts to verify the items’ authenticity. All hell literally breaks loose.

In what the Mediapro Studio calls a “highly competitive deal,” rights to the novel were acquired in a two-book deal with Emily Bestler Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. Spiliotopoulos — whose screenplay credits also include Russell Crowe starrer “The Pope’s Exorcist,” “The Huntsman: Winter’s War...

Hugh Jackman is set to play King Princess’ dad in an upcoming film, and the pair showed off their father-daughter chemistry during a sweet performance over the weekend. King Princess joined Jackman during one of his recent shows at Radio City Music Hall for a rendition of Sonny and Cher’s “I Got You Babe.”

In the video shared by King Princess, Jackman opens the song, and King Princess continues on guitar as Jackman cheerfully dances, channeling Cher. “C’mon, Kp!” exclaims Jackman in one clip. “radio city baby,” King Princess captioned her post Monday.

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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...

Marvel superstar Hugh Jackman has a couple of projects lined up for release in the near future, and among them is Song Sung Blue. The film, which will see the multi-hyphenate return to his musical roots, is based on true events and follows a musical duo who form a Neil Diamond tribute band. Jackman plays Mike Sardina, one half of the married couple at the center of the story, opposite Kate Hudson, who plays his wife and bandmate, Claire Sardina. The two leads gave fans a sneak peek at the film earlier today by sharing the first look at their characters on social media, along with the announcement that the film is headed to theaters during the 2025 holiday season.

Written and directed by Craig Brewer, Song Sung Blue serves as a narrative adaptation of the 2008 documentary of the same name by Greg Kohs. The story follows Mike and Claire Sardina,...

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...

One of Ted Lasso’s biggest stars has officially secured her next project. Juno Temple, famed for her role as Keely Jones in Apple TV+’s Emmy Award-winning series, will reunite with the streamer for a new series, The Husbands. Adapted from Holly Gramazio’s novel of the same name, The Husbands follows Lauren (Temple), a woman who returns home one night to be greeted by her husband, Michael, a man she’s never met. Michael then goes to the attic to change a lightbulb, and before Lauren can decipher what’s going on, another new husband appears. This leads to the startling realization that her attic is capable of creating an infinite number of husbands. Miriam Battye will write the project, and Craig Gillespie will direct with A24 producing.

Temple may be a Ted Lasso megastar, but she’s also starred in a slew of other projects. She most...

Succession siblings Sarah Snook and Kieran Culkin are both on Broadway right now!

Sarah just celebrated the opening night of her play The Picture of Dorian Gray and Kieran wasn’t able to attend, but he drove by the red carpet to wave to his friends.

The opening night performance of the play took place on Thursday night (March 27) at the Music Box Theatre in New York City.

Succession cast members who did attend included Peter Friedman, David Rasche, Arian Moayed, Juliana Canfield, Dagmara Dominczyk (with husband Patrick Wilson), Sydney Lemmon, Natalie Gold, Zoe Winters, and Fisher Stevens.

Ben McKenzie and Morena Baccarin, Ariana DeBose, Christine Baranski, Cynthia Nixon, and King Princess were also all there.

In the new production of Oscar Wilde’s classic tale The Picture of Dorian Gray, Sarah takes on all 26 roles. Get tickets now!

No Other Land’s Palestinian co-director Hamdan Ballal has been freed, after reportedly being attacked by Israeli settlers in his village on the West Bank and arrested.

Ballal’s Israeli co-director Yuval Abraham posted on X in the past hour: “After being handcuffed all night and beaten in a military base, Hamdan Ballal is now free and is about to go home to his family.”

Abraham raised the alarm of Ballal’s assault and detainment in a military base yesterday (March 24).

“After the assault, Hamdan was handcuffed and blindfolded all night in an army base while two soldiers beat him up on the floor,...

Update: Hamdan Ballal, co-director of the Oscar-winning Israel-Palestine documentary “No Other Land,” has been freed, according to the latest post from co-director Yuval Abraham.

“After being handcuffed all night and beaten in a military base, Hamdan Ballal is now free and is about to go home to his family,” Abraham posted on X on Tuesday.

Previously: A petition to free Hamdan Ballal, co-director of the Oscar-winning Israel-Palestine documentary “No Other Land,” has gathered more than 3,700 signatures on Change.org.

Ballal is reportedly missing after being attacked, according to a series of posts on X from co-director Yuval Abraham.

“We, members of the global film community urgently appeal for the immediate release and safety of filmmaker Hamdan Ballal, co-director of ‘No Other Land,’ the recipient of this year’s Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

Reports that Mr. Ballal was forcibly removed by the Israeli army from an ambulance following a brutal attack by settlers,...

Major Hollywood figures are pushing back against OpenAI and Google’s appeals to the U.S. government to allow their AI models to train on copyrighted works.

Film, television and music figures including Ron Howard, Cate Blanchett, Cynthia Erivo, Paul McCartney, Paul Simon, Taika Waititi and Ava Duvernay have signed on to a letter expressing alarm at the tech giants’ suggestions in recent submissions to a White House office that they should be able to access publicly available intellectual property.

“We firmly believe that America’s global AI leadership must not come at the expense of our essential creative industries,” the letter states, adding that the arts and entertainment industry provides more than 2.3 million jobs and bolsters America’s democratic values abroad. “But AI companies are asking to undermine this economic and cultural strength by weakening copyright protections for the films, television series, artworks, writing, music, and voices used to train...

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Picture This is a British romantic comedy film directed by Prarthana Mohan from a screenplay by Nikita Lalwani. Based on the 2024 Australian film Five Blind Dates by Shawn Seet, the Prime Video film follows Pia, a young woman attending her sister’s engagement party, where she is told by a spiritual guru that she will find true love in the next five dates she goes on and during this time she will also find success in her photography career. Picture This stars Simone Ashley, Anoushka Chadha, Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Luke Fetherston, Sindhu Vee, and Phil Dunster. So, if you loved the swoon-worthy love story, hilarious comedy, and memorable characters in Picture This, here are some similar movies you should check out next.

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Five Blind Dates is an Australian romantic comedy film directed by Shawn Seet,...

Exclusive: The Mediapro Studio US & Canada has joined as a co-producer of the documentary about the life story of Benny “The Jet” Urquidez, the iconic mixed martial arts fighter who introduced the sport to the world.

Production on the as-yet-untitled movie is now officially underway under the direction of Emmy-nominated sports documentary editor-turned-filmmaker Jennifer Tiexiera.

Keanu Reeves and Fisher Stevens will serve as producers, along with Maura Anderson and Zak Kilberg of Highly Flammable, John Scalise and his Faya Project, and Laura Fernández Espeso of The Mediapro Studio. Jc Acosta and Pam Healey are the Executive Producers for The Mediapro Studio. Executive Producers will also include Nancy Weisler, Sol Tryon, Brian Maya, Tiexiera under her Lady & Bird shingle and Chris Quintos Cathcart and Tyler Boehm of Unapologetic Projects.

“The Mediapro Studio team is thrilled to be collaborating with these brilliant creative partners to shine the spotlight on a remarkable athlete...

One of Blade star Wesley Snipes’ most underrated movies is now free to stream. The actor and martial artist, who is best recognized for his role as the Marvel vampire hunter, a role he reprized in last year’s Deadpool & Wolverine, puts in a reliably charismatic performance as a boxer behind bars in the action/boxing/prison drama, Undisputed. You can now discover the movie without spending a dime, and it deserves a second round.

Released back in 2002, Undisputed is written, produced and directed by Walter Hill, the filmmaker behind the likes of the nightmarish ‘70s thriller The Warriors and producer of the Alien franchise. The movie stars Ving Rhames as George "The Iceman" Chambers and Wesley Snipes as Monroe "Undisputed" Hutchen, a pair of fighters who find themselves facing off while serving time behind bars. The rest of the cast features several genre favorites, including Peter Falk, Michael Rooker,...

David Beckham previewed Victoria Beckham’s upcoming Netflix docuseries at Mip London on Tuesday, telling the streamer’s chief content officer Bela Bajaria that “it’s really special” — but getting the former Spice Girl to participate, even after the success of his “Beckham” doc, took some convincing.

“It took a minute to try and get her to agree with it,” the former soccer star and Emmy-winning producer said. “It wasn’t something that was easy. I think I’m the only one who could convince her and I did, eventually.”

Beckham said that viewers will see Victoria “in a different light” in the upcoming doc, which hails from his Studio 99 banner is being helmed by “Becoming” director Nadia Hallgren. The as-yet-untitled series started production in August and will follow Beckham’s journey from Spice Girls superstardom in the ‘90s to modern fashion maven with her eponymous brand.

“My wife...

Martin Scorsese's 1990 crime masterpiece "Goodfellas" is one of the finest gangster movies ever made and has the award shelf to prove it. Still, despite its impressive six Academy Award nominations, the most esteemed awards of the industry largely avoided the mob epic -- except for one particular golden statuette.

Joe Pesci held the fort at the 1991 Academy Awards ceremony with his Best Actor in a Supporting Role Oscar win for his amazing turn as the volatile Tommy DeVito, the wildest card in a movie full of wild cards. He became an Oscar-winning actor with his signature cool intact. However, unlike his character -- who, as his iconic "I'm funny how?" scene shows, is extremely verbose at most times -- the actor chose to keep his speech short and sweet, uttering only five words as he took the stage to receive the golden statuette. "It's my privilege. Thank you," Pesci said before exiting the stage.

While we still don’t have a title for Guy Ritchie‘s upcoming crime series, the Snatch and The Gentlemen filmmaker is clearly working his ensemble casting magic on the anticipated project. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Geoff Bell, Lisa Dwan, Emily Barber, and Daniel Betts will join Guy Ritchie’s latest series. The group joins Tom Hardy, Pierce Brosnan, and Helen Mirren for the show in production at MTV Entertainment and Paramount+.

Guy Ritchie’s untitled crime series revolves around “two warring families based in London whose enterprises stretch to all corners of the globe and the fiercely loyal “fixer” charged with protecting one of them at all costs.”

Thankfully, while the series’ title remains a mystery, THR knows who several cast members will play in the intriguing crime drama. No stranger to crime-related entertainment, Geoff Bell will play Richie, “the redoubtable leader of the up-and-coming south London Stevenson gang.

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La Dolce Villa is a romantic comedy film directed by Mark Waters from a screenplay co-written by Elizabeth Hackett and Hilary Galanoy. The 2025 film follows Eric, a successful businessman who travels to Italy to stop her daughter from pouring all her savings into restoring a cheap Italian villa. Still, he soon falls in love with the laid-back lifestyle and a beautiful woman. La Dolce Villa stars Scott Foley, Violante Placido, Maia Reficco, and Giuseppe Futia. So, if you loved the laid-back vibes, romantic story, and charming characters in La Dolce Villa, here are some similar movies you should check out next.

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A Good Year is a romantic comedy-drama film directed by Ridley Scott from a screenplay by Marc Klein. Based on the 2004 novel by author Peter Mayle,...

Exclusive: “Ukraine is like Porcelain. Easy to break but impossible to destroy.”

That is a line from the Oscar-nominated documentary Porcelain War, which just won the DGA Award for Documentary Feature for directors Brendan Bellomo and Slava Leontyev, the latter a Ukrainian artist also one of the subjects of the film who stayed behind to use his art, rather than guns, as he says, to put up a powerful resistance to the Ukraine war and Russia’s invasion.

Among others, three-time Oscar-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro is speaking out for the film and its cause, most recently in a virtual Q&a with the directors.

Leontyev explains to him how he learned the camera, such as used for this film, is far more powerful than a rifle, giving him a “new brush” to paint with.

Del Toro praises the film for emphasizing the value of art, but offers a stark...

A gripping crime thriller series, The Blacklist is full of twists and turns, including Heddie Hawkins' faked death in season 9. For 10 seasons, NBC's The Blacklist chronicled the adventures of Red Reddington (James Spader), a criminal mastermind turned FBI informant who used his intellect and experience to help take down lawbreakers just like him. Spader plays up Red's complexities he can be cold and ruthless, but when he lets someone in, his loyalty and compassion know no bounds. One such person he got close to is Heddie Hawkins (Aida Turturro).

Heddie is introduced in The Blacklist season 5, episode 1, "Smokey Putnam". She worked as an accountant on the carnival circuit, and alongside her boss, the titular Smokey, embezzled $2 million. Heddie takes a deal for a lighter sentence in exchange for testifying against Smokey, but Red has other plans for her. He offers Heddie 2% of his business if she'll help launder his money,...

Lionsgate has removed Guy Ritchie thriller In The Grey from its scheduled late January 2025 release slot and has yet to give the film a new date.

British director Guy Ritchie was set to release two films in 2025, but things are less certain now given that the first of those two releases, In The Grey, has been removed from its January release slot by Lionsgate.

Ritchie wrote and directed the thriller, while the cast features Henry Cavill, Jake Gyllenhaal, Eiza Gonzalez, Carlos Bardem, Fisher Stevens, Jason Wong, and Rosamund Pike. Two extraction specialists (played by Cavill and Gyllenhaal) must designate a route of escape for a senior female negotiator (Gonzalez). It was shot in the Canary Islands last year.

The stated reason for the film’s delay (per Deadline) is a simple one: it isn’t finished. Ritchie has been exceedingly prolific in the last couple of years, delivering two films...

In the Grey, the new action thriller from writer-director Guy Ritchie, has been pulled from its original January 17, 2025 release date, Collider reports. The film's distributor, Lionsgate, announced that In the Grey simply isn't yet ready for release. No new release date has been announced as of this time.

The film revolves around two extraction specialists who have to designate a route of escape for a senior female negotiator. It stars Henry Cavill, Jake Gyllenhaal, Eiza Gonzlez, Rosamund Pike, and Fisher Stevens. This will mark the third collaboration between Ritchie and Cavill, after The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. It'll also be the third time Ritchie has worked with Gonzlez, who appeared in Ungentlemanly Warfare as well as the 2023 film The Covenant. Finally, it's round two for Ritchie and Gyllenhaal, who previously starred in The Covenant.

Fans gathered at CinemaCon 2024 got a sneak preview of In the Grey.

Guy Ritchie's next movie will no longer be hitting theaters in January 2025. Lionsgate has removed In the Grey, which reteams Ritchie with his The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare star Henry Cavill, from its 2025 release schedule.

According to Deadline, the reason Lionsgate has pulled In the Grey from its Jan. 17, 2025 release date is because the movie isn't finished. The action thriller wrapped filming in October 2024, meaning that Ritchie has spent more than a year completing post-production work and is still not finished. A new release date has not yet been announced by Lionsgate. It's a sad update for fans who were looking forward to seeing the filmmaker's third Cavill-led movie. The actor previously starred in 2015's The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and 2024's The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.

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2025 is slated to have several major blockbuster releases in the form of franchise sequels, reboots, and live-action adaptations. While 2024 featured considerably fewer major blockbuster releases compared to 2023's stacked lineup, 2025 is expected to have even more highly anticipated releases. At the time of writing, the biggest blockbuster releases of 2024 have been Inside Out 2 and Deadpool & Wolverine, the only two films to eclipse more than $1 billion at the worldwide box office.

Rounding out the top 5 box office performers of 2024 thus far are Despicable Me 4, Dune: Part Two, and Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire. A few more highly-anticipated releases will come out before end-of-year, the first of which is Ridley Scott's long-awaited Gladiator sequel starring Paul Mescal and Universal's film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical Wicked, both of which release on November 22. Finishing the year at potential top box office contenders are Moana 2 (November...

“Beckham” director Fisher Stevens is set to helm climate drama “The Montreal Protocol,” about a true story of underdog scientists who set out to repair the hole in the ozone layer and avoided a global environmental catastrophe.

Jess Kimball Leslie (“Kings of America”) is adapting the story, which is in development at Stevens’ production company Highly Flammable along with Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way as well as New State Pictures and Curiosity Rights. RandomGood Films (“Beyond Utopia”) is financing the development.

RandomGood, Highly Flammable, and Appian collaborated most recently on “We Are Guardians.”

The movement to repair the hole in the ozone layer – which began in the early 1970s and continued for over 20 years – is considered one of the most successful environmental initiatives ever.

It was the research of atmospheric scientist Dr. Susan Solomon, who discovered what was causing the rip in the protective layer above earth’s surface, that...

Highly Flammable Productions announced Tuesday that Kevin Hart’s Hartbeat and Robin Roberts’ Rock’n Robin Productions have come aboard to executive produce the New Orleans documentary A King Like Me.

The film debuted in New Orleans last week, when it was honored as the opening night film at the 35th annual New Orleans Film Festival. A King Like Me follows the Zulu Krewe, a Louisiana cultural organization of over 800 Black men, which lost 16 members of its members to Covid-19 following 2020 Mardi Gras. “The film explores the impact of the pandemic on this stalwart cultural organization,” per a release, “and what that loss tells us about the United States health inequities, as tied to race.”

“We are so thrilled to have Hartbeat and Rock’n Robin Robin join us on this project,” said producer Fisher Stevens. “We are so grateful to have their support in shining a light on the history...

Aaron Kaufman, the Emmy-nominated director behind Superpower, Sean Penn’s Paramount+ documentary about the Ukraine-Russia war, has died at the age of 51.

Deadline confirmed the news with Chad Verdi of Verdi Productions, who financed and executive produced some of Kaufman’s previous and upcoming projects, including Superpower. He died in Las Vegas of an apparent heart attack on Thursday.

Kaufman is perhaps best known for co-helming Superpower alongside Penn, and the effort translated into a News & Documentary Emmy nod in the Outstanding Politics and Government Documentary category. What began as an aim to track Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s rise from popular comedian-actor to a prominent political leader transitioned to a war doc in the aftermath of Russia’s campaign launched in 2022, when Kaufman was on the ground as a filmmaker.

Speaking to the one-year anniversary of the conflict’s beginning at the 2023 Berlin Film Festival, Kaufman said, “It seems...

Aaron Kaufman, a writer, director and producer whose credits include “Superpower” and “Machete Kills,” died on Thursday evening in Las Vegas after suffering an apparent heart attack. He was 51.

Kaufman’s death was confirmed by Chad Verdi, the film financier behind “The Irishman” as well as several of Kaufman’s past and upcoming projects.

The Long Island native, who was Robert Rodriguez’s longtime producing partner, is best known for co-directing with Sean Penn the Emmy-nominated documentary “Superpower,” which traced the political rise of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy. While Penn became the face of the 2023 documentary, it was Kaufman who had been on the ground in Ukraine in February 2022 when the ongoing war with Russia broke out. Kaufman had been in Kyiv in the weeks leading up to Russia’s invasion and had been in the bunker with the Ukrainian leader during the perilous first days of the conflict. (Penn...

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 Misrables, and now the triple threat is joining Kate Hudson, who just released an album, in a new musical from the director of Hustle & Flow.

Kate Hudson and Hugh Jackman will co-star in director Craig Brewer's new musical drama Song Sung Blue. Based on a 2008 documentary of the same name by director Greg Kohs, Song Sung Blue will tell the story of two struggling musicians, played by Jackman and Hudson, who form a Neil Diamond tribute band,...

For his next trick, the Greatest Showman will impersonate a Neil Diamond impersonator. Variety reports that production has begun on Song Sung Blue, a biopic about a Diamond tribute band starring Hugh Jackman. Kate Hudson will portray the singer’s wife. Michael Imperioli, Fisher Stevens, Jim Belushi, King Princess, Ella Anderson, Mustafa Shakir, and others are also in the cast.

Filmmaker Craig Brewer, who directed Hustle & Flow and Black Snake Moan, is helming the production, which will be a musical drama. It’s based on a 2008 documentary, also titled...

Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson have been cast to star in the movie on the Neil Diamond Tribute Band, ‘Song Sung Blue.’

The pair will play the married couple who form a Neil Diamond tribute band in the musical drama.

Based on Greg Kohs’ 2008 documentary, the story follows the true story of Milwaukee couple Mike and Claire Sardina, down-on-their-luck musicians who became local icons by performing as “Lightning & Thunder.”

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Craig Brewer is set to helm the project, with Michael Imperioli, Fisher Stevens, and Jim Belushi, along with Ella Anderson, King Princess, Mustafa Shakir, and Hudson Hilbert Hensley, filling out the cast.

Producing alongside writer-director Brewer are John Davis and John Fox for Davis Entertainment. Erika Hampson and Kohs are executive producers.

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Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson are to star in the musical movie ‘Song Sung Blue’.The 56-year-old actor and the ‘Almost Famous’ star, 45, will lead the Focus Features film, where they play a married couple who form a Neil Diamond tribute band.‘Song Sung Blue’ - which is being directed and written by Craig Brewer - is based on Greg Koh’s 2008 documentary of the same name, which followed the true story of Milwaukee couple Mike and Claire Sardina, two luckless musicians who went on to become local legends by performing hits from the ‘Sweet Caroline’ singer under the name ‘Lightning and Thunder’.Jackman and Hudson will be joined in the cast by Michael Imperioli, Fisher Stevens, Jim Belushi, Ella Anderson, King Princess, as well as Mustafa Shakir, and Hudson Hilbert Hensley.Jackman was recently seen in the Marvel blockbuster ‘Deadpool and Wolverine’, where he reprised his role as the...

Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson will star in Focus Features title Song Sung Blue about a Neil Diamond tribute band.

Craig Brewer (Dolemite Is My Name) wrote and will direct the project that is based on the 2008 documentary of the same name by director Greg Kohs about two down-on-their-luck musicians who form a tribute band to the “Sweet Caroline” singer.

Michael Imperioli, Fisher Stevens and Jim Belushi will also star, along with Ella Anderson, King Princess, Mustafa Shakir and Hudson Hilbert Hensley.

John Davis and John Fox are producing via Davis Entertainment along with Brewer. Erika Hampson and Greg Kohs will exec produce.

Focus, which was in theaters this weekend on Piece by Piece and will soon release awards-hopeful Conclave, will distribute domestically with Universal handling international.

Jackman was last in theaters with Deadpool & Wolverine and is set for A24 feature The Death of Robin Hood. Hudson’s upcoming credits...

Hello again. Who’s ready for a Hollywood pairing that could bring the house down? Let me hear you say Sweet Caroline because Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson will star in Craig Brewer‘s Song Sung Blue, an upcoming film inspired by Neil Diamond’s timeless music. Brewer’s musical drama hails from Focus Features, with Brewer as the project’s director and writer.

Based on the 2008 documentary of the same name by director Greg Kohs, Song Sung Blue revolves around the true story of two down-on-their-luck musicians (Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson) who form a joyous Neil Diamond tribute band, proving it’s never too late to find love and follow your dreams. Michael Imperioli, Fisher Stevens, and Jim Belushi round out the star-studded cast alongside Ella Anderson, King Princess, Mustafa Shakir, and Hudson Hilbert Hensley. John Davis and John Fox are producing the film for Davis Entertainment alongside Craig Brewer.

Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson will be starring in a new movie musical!

On Monday (October 14), it was announced that the 56-year-old Deadpool & Wolverine actor and the 45-year-old Almost Famous actress will be playing a couple that forms a Neil Diamond tribute band in the upcoming movie musical Song Sung Blue from director Craig Brewer.

Based on Greg Kohs’ 2008 documentary of the same name, the movie “follows the true story of Milwaukee couple Mike and Claire Sardina, down-on-their-luck musicians who became local icons by performing as ‘Lightning & Thunder.’ The film also borrows its name from the 1972 Diamond song,” according to Variety.

Keep reading to find out more…The cast will also include Michael Imperioli, Fisher Stevens, Jim Belushi, Ella Anderson, King Princess, Mustafa Shakir, and Hudson Hilbert Hensley.

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Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson will star in the upcoming musical drama, Song Sung Blue, directed by Craig Brewer for Focus Features.

Michael Imperioli, Fisher Stevens, and Jim Belushi round out the star-studded cast alongside Ella Anderson, King Princess, Mustafa Shakir, and Hudson Hilbert Hensley.

The film’s logline summarizes two down-on-their-luck musicians (Hudson and Jackman) forming a Neil Diamond tribute band to follow their dreams and prove that it’s never too late to find love. The film is based on a true story from the 2008 documentary of the same name directed by Greg Kohs.

John Davis and John Fox are producing the film for Davis Entertainment along with Brewer, who wrote the film for Davis Entertainment. Erika Hampson and Kohs are executive producing.

Focus developed the project and holds worldwide rights on the film. Universal Pictures International will handle international distribution for the studio.

Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson will star in Craig Brewer’s upcoming musical drama Song Sung Blue for Focus Features.

Focus developed the project and holds worldwide rights, and Universal Pictures International will distribute outside North America.

Michael Imperioli, Fisher Stevens, and Jim Belushi round out cast alongside Ella Anderson, King Princess, Mustafa Shakir, and Hudson Hilbert Hensley.

Based on the 2008 documentary of the same name by Greg Kohs, Song Sung Blue follows two down-on-their-luck musicians who form a joyous Neil Diamond tribute band.

John Davis and John Fox are producing for Davis Entertainment along with Brewer. Erika Hampson and Kohs serve as executive producers.

Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson will star in Craig Brewer’s upcoming musical drama Song Sung Blue for Focus Features.

Focus developed the project and holds worldwide rights, and Universal Pictures International will handle distribution outside North America.

Michael Imperioli, Fisher Stevens, and Jim Belushi round out cast alongside Ella Anderson, King Princess, Mustafa Shakir, and Hudson Hilbert Hensley.

Based on the 2008 documentary of the same name by Greg Kohs, Song Sung Blue follows two down-on-their-luck musicians who form a joyous Neil Diamond tribute band.

John Davis and John Fox are producing for Davis Entertainment along with Brewer. Erika Hampson...