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Warning! Spoilers For And Just Like That Season 3, Episode 3, "Carrie Golightly"

Sarita Choudhury, Seema in the Sex and the City reboot, shared her thoughts on her character's exciting development in And Just Like That season 3, saying that it should have happened sooner. And Just Like That introduced Choudhury’s Seema Patel in season 1. Seema was Carrie’s (Sarah Jessica Parker) real estate agent in the first season, helping her sell the flat she shared with her late husband, John, also known as Mr. Big (Chris Noth). While Seema was just one of many supporting women added to And Just Like That’s cast, she has taken a leading role in season 3.

Speaking to Variety about Patel’s latest development, Choudhury said it was the best move for her character. She wondered why it hadn’t happened sooner, saying, “This should have been in Season 1, Episode 1." The actor also reflected on...

Armin Amiri and Katharine Isabelle are set to lead the cast of the psychological horror feature film “Blind Owl,” which has started production on Prince Edward Island, Canada.

Scream queen Isabelle has appeared in projects such as “Hannibal” and “Ginger Snaps” (and its two sequels), while Amiri, known for his roles in “And Just Like That,” “Factory Girl” and “The Wrestler,” also serves as executive producer through his company Supernova8 Films Productions.

Necar Zadegan (“Mayor of Kingstown”), Mackenzie Grey (“Man of Steel”) and Sara Canning (“Vampire Diaries”) also star in the film adapted from Sadegh Hedayat’s 1937 novel “The Blind Owl,” considered a cornerstone of Persian literature and Iranian modernism.

Armin Amiri in “Blind Owl.” Courtesy of Blind Owl Productions, Inc.

Mostafa Keshvari, whose previous work includes “Unmasked” and “Colorblind,” serves as writer, director and lead producer on the project. It is composed by Shay Mori in collaboration with Mohsen Namjoo...

Note: This story contains spoilers from “And Just Like That” Season 3, Episode 2.

Since its very first episode, “Sex and the City” grappled with a question that has haunted women for eons: Should you settle? It’s a conundrum that’s haunted Carrie, Charlotte, Miranda and — to a lesser degree — Samantha over the decades. But in the third season of “And Just Like That,” it’s a problem that belongs wholly to Sarita Choudhury’s fearless and fabulous Seema.

After breaking off a relationship with the handsome but work-obsessed Ravi (Armin Amiri), Seema’s coworker sets her up with a matchmaker in Episode 2. The matchmaker’s advice to wear pastels and stay quiet and bubbly horrifies Seema to her core. But though she disagrees with the other woman and leaves with no notable dates, it’s an experience that forces Seema to re-evaluate her love life.

“I’m glad she was tested.

When the news hit that Sex and the City was getting a sequel series, And Just Like That…, fans knew it couldn’t possibly be the same. Kim Cattrall’s well-publicized choice not to return to the role of Samantha was only the most obvious indicator — even if she had come back, viewers would be reuniting with the characters after they’d had marriages, children, career wins, career losses and all the other major changes that come with a couple of decades of living. And Just Like That… has honored both its protagonists and the fans who’d grown into middle age with them by portraying its leads as busy, vital and (most importantly) horny. But after watching the first six episodes of the imminent third season, I can’t help wondering: Is Carrie going to have Any fun this season?

This is a serious question, because And Just Like That…...

The stars of the Sex & the City sequel series are hitting the red carpet!

Sarah Jessica Parker, Kristin Davis, and Cynthia Nixon attended the photo call for season three of And Just Like That… on Wednesday evening (May 21) held at Crane Club in New York City.

Fellow cast members in attendance included Mario Cantone, Nicole Ari Parker, Sarita Choudhury, John Corbett with wife Bo Derek, Dolly Wells, Sebastiano Pigazzi, Christopher Jackson, Jonathan Cake, Mariah Strongin, Elijah Jacob, Jackie Hoffman, Armin Amiri, and Mehcad Brooks.

Sjp also had the support of husband Matthew Broderick at the event.

Season 3 – which follows the ladies as they are they are “navigating the complicated reality of life, love, sex, and friendship in their 50s in New York City” – premieres on HBO Max on May 29. Watch the trailer here!

Fyi: Sjp is wearing a Vivienne Westwood gown and Nomasei shoes. Kristin is wearing a Rachel Gilbert dress,...

Subhash K Jha, takes on Sushmita Sen’s Karma Aur Holi, which released in 2009, in this new This Day That Year feature.

A few minutes into this mish-mash of Woody Allen, George Bernard Shaw, Govind Nihalani, and Keshu Ramsay, you know the narrative is in trouble. The characters who come to Sushmita-Randeep’s home in New York for an afternoon of heavy-duty gossiping, bitching introspection, and confession seem to be speaking dialogues borrowed from a cheap American soap opera. The feelings and thoughts are not only assumed, but they are also devoid of any coherent pattern. The script tries to be sassy without the basic source material to carry off its ambitions.

What was Sushmita Sen thinking when she decided to work in this tableau of titillating possibilities on man-woman relationships all gone to utter and irrevocable waste? Karma Aur Holi with huge dollops of confession thrown in with the...

Lupin star Omar Sy, Picket Fences and Chicago Hope producer Michael Pressman and Jane Seymour are among the presenters tapped for the International Emmy Awards ceremony on Nov. 25 in New York City.

Actor and producer Sy will present the International Emmy Directorate Award to Sidonie Dumas, CEO of Gaumont, while the International Emmy Founders Award will be given to veteran Hollywood showrunner David E. Kelley by Pressman, co-executive producer of Kelley’s shows, the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences said on Monday.

The French studio Gaumont is responsible for global small-screen hits like Netflix’s Lupin, featuring Untouchables star Sy, and Narcos.

Also on the list as presenters for the 52nd International Emmy Awards are Seymour, Ali Ahn, Ken Leung, Laura Benanti, Armin Amiri, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Isadora Cruz, Rhenzy Feliz, Damian Hardung, Skye P. Marshall, Juliana Aiden Martinez, Folake Olowofoyeku and Lorraine Toussaint.

As previously announced, stand-up comic and...

[This story contains major spoilers to the season two finale of And Just Like That, “The Last Supper Part Two: Entrée.”]

When the And Just Like That writers started chatting about the end of the season two finale, even they admitted they were dreading reliving the conversation between Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) and Aidan (John Corbett), the former love of her life with whom she reconciled with earlier in the season.

“She looks out the window and there is Aidan, throwing a rock up at the window, much like she threw a rock up at his window in Sex and the City when she visited him at night after his second return,” said showrunner/writer/director Michael Patrick King about the callback in episode 11, “The Last Supper Part Two: Entrée.” King, speaking on Max’s official companion podcast for the series, And Just Like That … The Writers Room with EPs Julie Rottenberg and Elisa Zuritsky and producers/writers Susan Fales-Hill and Samantha Irby,...

Spoiler Alert: This interview contains spoilers from “The Last Supper Part Two: Entrée,” the Season 2 finale of “And Just Like That,” now streaming on Max.

“And just like that … I ordered two more Cosmopolitans” — that’s Carrie Bradshaw’s last line, delivered in her signature voiceover, in the Season 2 finale of “And Just Like That.”

Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) delivers that proclamation as she relaxes on a beautiful beach, alongside her friend Seema (Sarita Choudhury). “We ran at love,” Seema says earlier in the scene. “And where did that get us?” Carrie answers simply, “Greece.”

Both women have fallen in love during the second season of the “Sex and the City” revival, and for now, are seemingly at peace with the challenges ahead of them. Carrie has accepted that Aidan (John Corbett) — her old love, now renewed — needs to be home in Virginia for his kids for the next five years.

Warning: This post contains spoilers from the “And Just Like That…” season 2 finale (episode 11)

Kim Cattrall improvised a memorable moment in her “And Just Like That…” cameo.

Michael Patrick King, the showrunner for the beloved “Sex and the City” revival, confessed on “The Writers Room” podcast that the “amazing” moment when “Samantha kisses the phone” after saying goodbye to Carrie [Sarah Jessica Parker] was “not in the script.

“It was totally [an instance of] of an actor playing a moment. And it’s really nice,” he admitted.

Read More: Kim Cattrall Returns As Samantha Jones In ‘And Just Like That’ Season 2 Finale: What Happened In Her Cameo

Sarah Jessica Parker in “And Just Like That…” season 2, episode 11. — Photo: Courtesy of Warner Bros. Discovery

Cattrall, 67, appeared in the opening minutes of “And Just Like That”‘s season 2 finale, released early Thursday on Max. In the much-anticipated scene, Samantha, who’s in London, calls Carrie...

After 11 episodes, a rekindled romance and a highly anticipated cameo, “And Just Like That” Season 2 came to an end Thursday on Max.

Developed by Michael Patrick King, the Max original takes place 11 years after the “Sex and the City 2” movie. Instead of following four friends in their 30s, the spinoff follows three of the main friends in their 50s as they navigate friendship, careers, new romances and the complicated rules of dating later in life.

TheWrap already broke down Kim Cattrall’s return as Samantha Jones. But if you’re curious how the season ended for everyone else, here’s what you need to know.

Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) in “And Just Like That” (Photo Credit: Max) How did “And Just Like That” Season 2 end for Carrie and Aidan?

Prepare for heartbreak. “The Last Supper Part One: Appetizer” ended with Aidan (John Corbett) leaving New York ahead of Carrie...

Another episode of “And Just Like That,” another Bravo reference!

After name dropping Bravo talent twice earlier this season, Seema (Sarita Choudhury) literally said “Bravo TV” in the sixth episode of Season 2, titled “Bomb Cyclone.”

Seema and her new Bff Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) were shopping in an Apple store when Seema invited Carrie to share a house in the Hamptons.

“‘I have never asked another single woman to share another summer house,” Seema said. “It’s just too tragic. Too Bravo TV.”

“Are you proposing we go to the Hamptons together?” Carrie asks.

“I can’t spend another weekend sharing a room with a married friend’s kid’s surfboard. But you and me, with our own two bed-three bath on the beach. Fun, fabulous, not tragic at all.”

“Summer House,” of course, is the title of Bravo’s long-running unscripted series where a group of young Manhattan friends...

Psychological horror-thriller launched in US via IFC Midnight in January.

Premiere Entertainment Group (Peg) has closed key international deals on psychological horror-thriller The Night, the US production about an Iranian couple starring Cannes 2016 best actor winner Shahab Hosseini and Niousha Noor.

Peg has licensed rights in Germany and Italy (Koch Media), France (Fip), Poland (M2), Cis (Voxell), Australia and New Zealand (Rialto), and Latin America (Star).

Deals also closed in South Korea (Entermode), Taiwan (Vie Vision), Malaysia (Suraya), Vietnam (Green Media), Thailand (Movie Copyright), Indonesia (Falcon), and the Middle East (E4).

As previously announced North American rights holder IFC Midnight...

Exclusive: After its stateside theatrical release of the IFC Midnight’s The Night in January, the Kourosh Ahari-directed thriller is set to have its theatrical premiere in Iran on February 24. Mammoth Pictures and Ayat Film Company’s release of the pic marks a historic moment as it is the first U.S.-produced film to have a wide theatrical release in Iran since the country’s revolution 40 years ago.

The Night is the feature directorial debut of Kourosh Ahari and stars Iranian actor Shahab Hosseini (Cannes 2016 Best Actor Winner Oscar-winning The Salesman), Niousha Jafarian (Here and Now) and George Maguire (The Pursuit of Happyness). The film also marks Hosseini’s debut performance in a US-based production.

The psychological thriller is cut from the same cloth of The Shining and follows an exhausted married couple, Babak (Hosseini), Neda (Jafarian) and their baby who take shelter in the grand, but eerie...

Premiere Entertainment handles international sales.

IFC Midnight has picked up North American rights to Iranian psychological horror The Night starring Shahab Hosseini, winner of the Cannes best actor prize for The Salesman.

The distributor said The Night is the first US-produced film to receive a license for theatrical release in Iran since 1979, and also marks Hosseini’s debut performance in a US-based production.

Further details about the Iranian release were unavailable at time of writing.

Mammoth Pictures produced in association with 7Skies Entertainment, Indie Entertainment, Orama Filmworks, Leveller Media and Supernova8 Films.

IFC Midnight plans a January 2021 for the story...

Exclusive: Kourosh Ahari’s The Night made history as the first U.S.-produced film to receive a license receive a theatrical release in Iran. Now, IFC Midnight has acquired the North American rights to the psychological thriller which will be released January 2021.

The Night marks Ahari’s feature directorial debut and stars Shahab Hosseini and Niousha Jafarian as an Iranian couple who find themselves locked inside an old hotel with their one-year-old daughter. While attempting to make the best of this creepy hotel, an outside force pushes them to share the secrets they’ve hidden from each other. How, and if, they check out depends on how carefully they question everything and anyone that comes across their path. The film also features George Maguire.

“We feel elated that we have found...

Exclusive: The Kourosh Ahari-directed psychological thriller The Night has landed a license for theatrical release in Iran. This is a historic benchmark for the country’s filmmaking community as it is the first U.S.-produced film to receive a license for theatrical release in Iran since the revolution.

Iran’s strict guidelines about what can be released theatrically in the country and its impact on artistic expression has received backlash from Iranian filmmakers including Mohammad Rasoulof (There Is No Evil), Asghar Farhadi (A Separation) as well as Rakhshan Bani Etemad. The country’s guidelines also require films to obtain a permit on a script before going into production. The Night, which is a U.S. and Iran co-production, managed to receive this permit before the Trump Administration’s new Iran sanctions at the end of 2018.

Shot stateside, The Night marks Ahari’s feature directorial debut and stars Shahab Hosseini...

Heroes alumni Greg Grunberg and Taylor Cole have been added to the cast of the Ali Atshani-directed comedy 1st Born, a U.S./Iranian co-production. The two join Val Kilmer, William Baldwin, Robert Knepper, Jay Abdo and Armin Amiri in the film, which follows a young mixed-nationality couple, Iranian born Ben and American Kate, who are experiencing complications in their first pregnancy. This forces the whole extended family to put aside their differences and come together…...

Argo satirises the events of the Iran hostage crisis, yet, despite being branded 'an offensive act' and added to a list of 'anti-Iranian' films, Affleck's approach is strangely apologetic

In December 1979, a handmade placard outside the occupied Us embassy in Tehran read: "As an Iranian I want you corresponders + journalists + film-takers [to] tell the truth to the world." Whatever the truths of the Iranian revolution – most would agree it began as a popular uprising driven in part by plausible claims against Us policies – film-makers addressing its aftermath from inside Iran have had to depend on allegorical techniques, while those free to address it less obliquely from abroad have had much read into their motives.

Iran's rulers regard foreign productions on Iranian subjects – whether by émigrés or non-Iranians – with prejudice. Warnings of "soft war" and "psychological warfare" waged through culture and entertainment are a recurring theme in Iranian state media. Such...

Actress Kelly Lynch discusses her role in Passion Play, working with her husband Mitch Glazer, her "blonde Snooki" look and much more

Actress Kelly Lynch broke onto the scene in the 1980s with a string of roles in successful movies such as Bright Lights, Big City, Cocktail, Road House, and Drugstore Cowboy. In the 1990s she continued to work steadily and married screenwriter Mitch Glazer. This year, the actress played two roles in her husband's new movie Passion Play, as an actress and the woman who inspired the film.

Passion Play stars Mickey Rourke as Nate Poole, a jazz musician who goes on the run from a gangster (Bill Murray) and discovers a traveling circus where he meets a young woman (Megan Fox) who happens to have giant bird wings growing out of her back. Passion Play will be released on Blu-ray and DVD on May 31, and I recently had...

I recently had the chance to speak with writer-director Mitch Glazer about his feature directorial debut, Passion Play which will be released on Blu-ray and DVD on May 31. We also talked about the new TV series he created for Starz entitled Magic City, which we first reported on back in December. Actors Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Steven Strait have already been announced to star, but Mitch Glazer told us that Olga Kurylenko, Danny Huston, and Seymour Cassel have also joined the cast. Take a look at an excerpt from my exclusive interview below, where Mitch Glazer also discusses the story line of Magic City.

Can you talk at all about the new TV series you wrote, Magic City? Do you have any updates on that?

Mitch Glazer: Yeah, yeah. I just came back from Miami to talk about Passion Play, but we start shooting July 6, 10 episodes. It's a dream.

Passion Play director Mitch Glazer discusses his project which has been in the works for 20 years, his new TV series Magic City, and much more

Screenwriter Mitch Glazer has forged an impressive career, with such diverse titles under his belt such as Scrooged, Great Expectations, and The Recruit. Like most writers, though, Mitch Glazer has also wanted to direct, and he finally makes his directorial debut with the drama Passion Play, a project which has been in the making for the past 20 years.

Mitch Glazer originally wanted his wife Kelly Lynch to star as Lily, a circus performer who has large bird wings growing out of her back, along with his lifelong friend Mickey Rourke. When the studios wanted a different take on the script, Mitch Glazer didn't give into their demands and stowed it away for years until the time was right for him to make his directorial debut.

On May 31, Image Entertainment introduces Passion Play, a daring, seductive thriller that spans from film noir's shadowy depths to the bright hope of redemption. Written and directed by Mitch Glazer (screenwriter of The Recruit) in his directorial debut, the film boasts a heavenly cast including Academy Award nominee Mickey Rourke, Megan Fox, Academy-Award nominee Bill Murray, Rhys Ifans, Kelly Lynch and former Ufc sensation Chuck Liddell. Coming off limited theatrical releases in New York and Los Angeles, Passion Play will be available on DVD for an Srp of $27.97 and on Blu-ray for an Srp of $29.97. The title is also available via digital download.

Nate Poole (Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler, Iron Man 2) is a washed-up jazz musician fleeing from trigger-happy gangster Happy Shannon (Bill Murray, Lost In Translation, Get Low). While on the run, Nate stumbles across a traveling carnival, and is instantly mesmerized by the carnival's prized attraction, Lily "The Bird Woman" (Megan Fox,...

It's over for Socialista. The exclusive club/lounge was opened less than two years ago in the Jane Hotel by former Bungalow 8 door god Armin Amiri. On the Saturday before Christmas, it was raided and closed down by Health Department inspectors, who found cigarette butts on the floor and a puddle under the sink. "It wasn't anything major," said an insider. "Armin went that Monday to pay the fine and reopen, but they said, 'Where's Giuseppe Cipriani? He's on the liquor license. He has to be here.' " The Cipriani restaurant/catering empire seems to be collapsing while Giuseppe winters in Uruguay.

The story of New York it girl, fashion icon and Andy Warhol muse Edie Sedgwick (1943-71) has taken on the proportions of a cult myth, as do most true tales of brief, intense lives. Focusing on the year or so in the mid-1960s when she burned brightest and crashed most dramatically, "Factory Girl" boasts its own bright intensity, fueled in large part by leads Sienna Miller and Guy Pearce. Director George Hickenlooper captures the energy and ultra-irony of Warhol's scene, but his attempts to give the film a conventional biopic arc end up wallowing in dime-store psychology. The central performances will generate strong word-of-mouth for the picture, which enters limited release today.

A work-in-progress version that the Weinstein Co. screened only weeks ago had a rawer, more immediate power than the final cut. In particular, the addition of a framing interview set in 1970 -- with Miller's Sedgwick in scrubbed California-girl mode, having abandoned Manhattan, heavy eyeliner and hard drugs -- has a defusing effect, explaining what already is evident, especially when it is used in voice-over. Intercut talking-head comments from the likes of George Plympton and one of Sedgwick's brothers, which provided far more interesting context and commentary than the current narration by Sedgwick, are now relegated to the end-credits sequence.

Some of the changes might have to do with Bob Dylan's objections to the original script and threatened legal action. He apparently was concerned that the film would draw a cause-and-effect line between the end of his relationship with Sedgwick and her suicide. (Sedgwick has long been viewed as a key inspiration to "Blonde on Blonde"-era Dylan, but whether they did indeed have a love affair appears less likely.) Coyly unnamed in the film, the famous, scruffy musician who temporarily draws Edie out of the Warhol orbit is clearly based on Dylan. If anything, though, the character, played by a charismatic Hayden Christensen, comes across as the sole voice of reason in Sedgwick's increasingly out-of-control life.

"Factory Girl" draws a too-easy opposition between the musician's authenticity and the artificiality of Warhol's world of surfaces. But at its strongest, it explores a timeless tension between style and substance, form and meaning. At the center of this tug of war is the blueblood gamine Sedgwick, a striking beauty and would-be artist whose unique glamour snags Warhol's heart, inasmuch as he will admit to having one.

Perhaps the cruelest irony of Sedgwick's story, as it is presented here, is that she escapes her troubled family, albeit on trust-fund purse strings, only to end up in the grip of another ultimately poisonous clan. If there is a villain here besides Edie's father (James Naughton), the part goes to Warhol (Pearce). After making Edie the "superstar" of his controversial movies, he jealously guilt-trips her over her involvement with the rock star. He is an unlikely Oedipal figure for Sedgwick, whose suspicions toward happy-family facades are explained in all-too-familiar melodramatic fashion.

Pearce, one of the most versatile of screen actors, is compelling and witty as the pallid Svengali, for whom society gossip seeps into even Catholic confession. His anxious, hungry gaze conveys envy, self-loathing and a childlike fascination with beauty. As the beauty who for a while captivated him beyond all others, Miller delivers a powerful performance, often baring all to give us Edie at her most candlelit exquisite as well as her most degraded. From the throaty laugh and old-money inflections to the extreme vulnerability, neediness and intelligence, she brings to life Sedgwick's legendary allure.

Supporting performances are a mixed bag, ranging from the awkward (a decidedly unflamboyant Jimmy Fallon as a "flamboyant socialite," Mena Suvari as rich girl Richie and Illeana Douglas as Diana Vreeland) to the convincing (Armin Amiri as fellow Factory girl Ondine, Beth Grant as Andy's mother and Edward Herrmann as the Sedgwick family attorney).

Screenwriter Captain Mauzner, who co-scripted the John Holmes-centered "Wonderland", indulges in too much explanatory psychologizing. But stripped of that overlay, his screenplay often sizzles with the self-conscious humor of smart nonconformists. DP Michael Grady ably helps Hickenlooper pay homage to Warhol's inventively bad-is-good filmmaking and renowned B&W screen tests. Playing '60s New York, Shreveport, La., lends a fitting vintage feel, while the production design by Jeremy Reed and John Dunn's costumes create an exuberant blend of high society and underground scene.