News

El título supone la novena colaboración entre director y actor. © Sony Pictures

Sony Pictures Classics ha desvelado el primer tráiler de la película Blue Moon, del aclamado cineasta Richard Linklater (Hit Man).

Firmada por Robert Kaplow, autor de la novela Me and Orson Welles, Blue Moon se adentra en los últimos días de Lorenz Hart, célebre mitad del dúo Rodgers & Hart. La historia transcurre principalmente en el emblemático restaurante Sardi’s, durante la noche del 31 de marzo de 1943, fecha en la que se estrenó ¡Oklahoma!, musical que marcó el comienzo de la alianza entre Rodgers y Oscar Hammerstein II tras la salida de Hart.

La película reúne a un reparto de lujo, con Ethan Hawke al frente, acompañado de Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale y Andrew Scott.

Te Puede Interesar El teléfono vuelve a sonar en el inquietante primer tráiler de ‘Black Phone 2’, la secuela de la terrorífica película de...

Alexandra Shipp made her debut as Storm in X-Men: Apocalypse, before returning as the weather-manipulating mutant hero in what would turn out to be the final X-Men movie of the 20th Century Fox era before the Disney/Marvel takeover, Dark Phoenix.

Shipp did a pretty good job with what she had to work with, which, by the actress' own admission, wasn't very much.

“I would and I wouldn’t," Shipp replied when asked if she'd like to play Storm again in a 2019 interview. "Because Storm barely has anything to say as it is. I don’t know about [the other actors] but like we never talk. So it would be really nice if we weren’t piled into yet another jam-packed cast, in which you only see me in the back of the shot like f*cking sasquatch.”

The Barbie star was asked if her stance had changed at all last year.

"Not interested.

High-end fashion, jewelry and watch brands are more aligned with Hollywood A-listers than ever before, as even the smallest red carpet would demonstrate these days. But are stars and the labels they wear doing everything they can to ensure mutual red-carpet success and brand awareness? That’s among the questions The Hollywood Reporter and data firm Launchmetrics will address in an upcoming webinar, “Influence that Performs: The Playbook for High-Performing Ambassador Content,” set for Thursday, Sept. 4 at 11 a.m. Edt.

The Hollywood Reporter and Launchmetrics partnered in December 2023 to produce the Red Carpet Power Rankings series, which kicked off with the 2024 Golden Globe Awards and has continued through the 2025 awards season, including the upcoming Emmy Awards on Sept. 14. Launchmetrics specializes in measuring brand awareness and influence, employing its proprietary Media Impact Value (Miv) algorithm to analyze and rank both brands and stars, spanning five categories in the Power Rankings series: fashion,...

Sony Pictures has revealed a new trailer for filmmaker Richard Linklater’s new feature ‘Blue Moon.’

On the evening of March 31, 1943, legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart confronts his shattered self-confidence in Sardi’s bar as his former collaborator Richard Rodgers celebrates the opening night of his ground-breaking hit musical “Oklahoma!”.

Directed by Linklater, the movie stars Ethan Hawke, Andrew Scott, Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale, Simon Delaney, Patrick Kennedy, Jonah Lees and Cillian Sullivan.

Also in trailers – Paramount unveils first look at Colleen Hoover’s ‘Regretting You’

The movie hits UK cinemas on November 14th.

The post “I need a drink…” Ethan Hawke stars in new trailer for ‘Blue Moon’ appeared first on HeyUGuys.

In her nearly 50-year career, Jamie Lee Curtis says she’s only improvised one single line: “Make good choices.” These are the words her character, Dr. Tess Coleman, yelled out the car window to her daughter Anna (Lindsay Lohan) in the 2003 body-swap comedy Freaky Friday. That beloved, heavily-memed quote is brought back for the new sequel, Freakier Friday, which reunites Curtis and Lohan. Only now, things are a little different: Anna is the one shouting “Make good choices!” and consequently mortifying her own teenage daughter, Harper (Julia Butters). Tess sits behind the wheel,...

Aubrey Plaza’s call sheet is about to get a lot longer, as she’s come on to produce and star in “The Heidi Fleiss Story.”

Plaza will portray the infamous “Hollywood madam” Heidi Fleiss, busted in the early ‘90s for what was said to be the world’s largest high-end prostitution ring – which implicated Hollywood, politicians and other power figures.

The project marks the directorial debut of Leah Rachel (creator of Netflix’s “Chambers”). The film hails from Pinky Promise, Jessamine Burgum and Kara Durrett’s production company.

Heatseeking actress and Gen Z icon Rachel Sennott co-wrote the script with Rachel and Travis Jackson. Their take on the tabloid sensation follows Fleiss before trial, scrambling around Los Angeles trying to blackmail and leverage various connections to get the case dropped, with the help of an aspiring young writer named Jaclyn.

Production is set for Los Angeles in the coming months.

Actress Margaret Qualley (“Honey Don’t”) poses for the August 2025 issue of “Cosmopolitan” magazine, wearing Chanel High Jewelry, Versace, Chrome Hearts and a whole lot more, photographed by Alana O’Herlihy:

The daughter of actress Andie MacDowell, Qualley was trained as a ballerina…

…then debuted with a minor acting role in the feature "Palo Alto" (2013)...

... followed by the HBO TV mystery series "The Leftovers" (2014–2017)...

...dark comedy feature "The Nice Guys" (2016) and the Netflix supernatural thriller "Death Note" (2017).

Qualley was nominated at the '71st Primetime Emmy Awards' for portraying actress/dancer 'Ann Reinking’, in the FX biographical drama miniseries "Fosse/Verdon" (2019).

She appeared in Quentin Tarantino's "Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood"(2019) followed by "Native Son" (2019), "Io" (2019)…

…”My Salinger Year" (2020), "Maid" (2022), “Poor Things” (2023), “Drive-Away Dolls” (2023)…

…“The Substance” (2024) and “Honey Don’t” (2025).

Click the images to enlarge…...

The Toronto International Film Festival has selected 55 movies for its Centrepiece programme of the 50th fest, movies which are a “global showcase of compelling cinema from around the world” per this Am’s release. TIFF, presented by Rogers, runs from Sept. 4-14.

Titles from close to 50 countries including Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chad, Colombia, Côte d’Ivoire, France, Germany, Iraq, Ireland, Kenya, Mexico, Poland, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand are reflected in the curation.

Those filmmakers with works in this part of the lineup, and that also includes North American premieres, are Hubert Davis, Mathieu Denis, Hasan Hadi, Chie Hayakawa, Anders Thomas Jensen, Jan Komasa, Richard Linklater, Sergei Loznitsa, Pietro Marcello, Christian Petzold, Potsy Poncirol and Álvaro Olmos Torrico.

Centrepiece has 19 world premieres including:

Blood Lines, Gail Maurice’s sophomore feature, a pastoral drama of family and reconnection.

Carolina Caroline, directed by Adam Carter Rehmeier, an outlaw romance starring Samara Weaving and Kyle Gallner.

The Toronto Film Festival on Tuesday unveiled 55 new film titles for its global-film focused Centerpiece program, including titles from Richard Linklater, Christian Petzold, Anders Thomas Jensen, Pietro Marcello and Álvaro Olmos Torrico.

There’s world premieres for the “Brat” singer Charli xcx-starrer Erupcja from director Peter Ohs; the Stephen Graham, Andrea Riseborough and Anson Boon starring thriller Good Boy, from director Jan Komasa and co-producer Jeremy Thomas; Adam Carter Rehmeier’s romantic crime thriller Carolina Caroline, starring Samara Weaving; and Kirk Jones’ Tourette Syndrome drama I Swear, which stars Robert Aramayo as John Davidson, the trailblazing campaigner.

The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo. Courtesy of Cannes Film Festival

There’s also first looks for Gail Maurice’s indigenous drama Blood Lines, where the director stars alongside Tamara Podemski, Dana Solomon and Melanie Bray; Nomad Shadow, Eimi Imanishi’s debut feature about a refugee to Europe forced to return to Western Sahara; The Cost of Heaven,...

Margaret Qualley and Shia Labeouf‘s brief and controversial relationship ended almost as quickly as it began. The pair were first linked in December 2020 after co-starring, naked, in the Nsfw music video for “Love Me Like You Hate Me,” a project created by Qualley’s sister, Rainey. Their onscreen chemistry quickly turned into real-life Pda, as the two were spotted kissing at Lax and spending time together around Los Angeles (via The Daily Mail).

But the whirlwind romance collided with a big scandal just weeks later. In the same month their relationship became public, Labeouf’s ex-girlfriend, musician FKA Twigs, as reported by The New York Times, filed a lawsuit accusing him of “relentless abuse.” The allegations included emotional manipulation, physical assault, and knowingly transmitting an Std.

As the legal drama unfolded, insiders reported that Qualley’s close family, particularly her mother, actress Andie MacDowell, was concerned about the relationship from the start.

Zach Cregger’s (the mastermind behind Barbarian) chilling tale of Weapons, proves that the scariest stories are often the ones rooted in truth. Starring the talented Julia Garner and Benedict Wong, this upcoming horror film, although a work of fiction, is said to be based on real-life cases of missing children.

While Weapons isn’t a direct retelling of any one case, The Direct has confirmed that Cregger’s personal experiences and real-world horrors helped shape the film’s disturbing narrative. After all, the US Child Crime Prevention & Safety Center reports that a child goes missing or is abducted every 20 seconds in the United States.

Therefore, taking inspiration from the horror of several such high-profile cases of missing children from across history, Zach Cregger crafted this film that reflects a dark reality many parents fear every day. From the infamous Madeleine McCann case to the disappearance of the Etan Patz,...

Lenore Zann, the voice of Rogue in X-Men: The Animated Series andX-Men ‘97, has finally explained her issue with Fox’s live-action portrayal of the character. She even has some crucial advice for whoever next takes over the mantle of Rogue in the MCU’s looming live-action X-Men movie, which will be directed by Jake Schreier (Thunderbolts*). Anna Paquin previously played the character in live-action, first debuting in the X-Men movies of the early 2000s.

Collider’s Maggie Lovitt recently moderated a panel at FanX's Tampa Bay Comic Convention for Zann, and a fan in attendance asked if she had any direction to give Rogue’s next live-action actor. She didn’t hesitate to suggest, “Watch X-Men: The Animated Series, then X-Men '97. That would be my number one thing to say.” She then went into detail about her gripes with how Fox handled Rogue in the Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart-led X-Men movies,...

In the surreal horror-sci-fi trip, The Substance, which saw Margaret Qualley crawling out of Demi Moore’s spine as Sue, a younger, seemingly perfect version of Moore’s character, both actresses had rather bizarre experiences. For Qualley, this movie wasn’t just about acting.

She told Cosmopolitan there was a much deeper meaning behind it.

The movie is not a good touchstone for what femininity is—it is quite masculine in a lot of ways.

As the movie focused more on the idealized version of a female body and beauty standards, Qualley felt the true message behind the film was rather masculine than empowering.

Despite its focus on womanhood and beauty standards, the film doesn’t reflect what she sees as true femininity. Therefore, Qualley critiqued The Substance for representing femininity through an external gaze. That’s what left her traumatized by the experience.

So, Margaret Qualley noted that, despite...

A year after “The Substance” made a splash at Cannes and swept awards season, star Margaret Qualley has reflected on why the project was something of “a nightmare” for her.

In the film, Qualley played Sue, the younger version of aging actress Elizabeth (Demi Moore), who battles to take the (literal) spotlight from her spawn. The sci-fi film landed Moore an array of Best Actress nods, including a nomination at the Oscars.

Qualley told Cosmopolitan that “The Substance” made her confront “generations of trauma” within her own family. Qualley’s mother is fellow actress Andie MacDowell, who actually counts Moore as another former co-star (the duo were in “St. Elmo’s Fire” together).

“’The Substance’ was like entering the eye of the storm. It was like dealing with all of my shit, my mom’s shit, generations of trauma,” Qualley said. “It was a nightmare, being this idyllic, youthful fembot. No...

La misma Amanda Knox ejerce de productora ejecutiva. © Disney+

Disney+ ha desvelado el primer tráiler y póster de su miniserie original Amanda Knox: una historia retorcida, creada por K.J. Steinberg (This Is Us).

Amanda Knox: una historia retorcida está inspirada en el caso real de la joven estadounidense que fue condenada injustamente por el trágico asesinato de su compañera de piso, Meredith Kercher, y su lucha por demostrar su inocencia.

La serie de ocho episodios está protagonizada por Grace Van Patten (Tell Me Lies) como Amanda Knox. La acompañan en el reparto Sharon Horgan, John Hoogenakker, Francesco Acquaroli, Giuseppe De Domenico y Roberta Mattei. En un principio, Margaret Qualley (La sustancia) estuvo vinculada al personaje de Knox, pero abandonó el proyecto por conflictos de agenda.

El caso ha sido objeto de múltiples relatos. La propia Knox ha publicado dos libros autobiográficos, fue el centro de un documental en Netflix en...

Margaret Qualley and Jack Antonoff’s earliest dates included long walks around New York City in places like Washington Square Park and near Electric Lady Studios, where they first met during a rooftop party. But while their romance was rooted in the city, the traditional approach they took to dating highlighted the actress’ North Carolina upbringing.

“Before we were together, at the beginning, I would always follow Southern girl etiquette,” Qualley told Cosmopolitan in a new cover story. Antonoff was the first to say “I love you” and often the...

Margaret Qualley is opening up about her love life.

The 30-year-old The Substance actress got candid on the cover of Cosmopolitan for their Fall 2025 issue, out now and on newsstands nationwide on August 12.

During the conversation, Margaret spoke about how her career started, living alone and moving to New York City at 16, meeting her husband Jack Antonoff, how she knew he was the one, her sex life, mental health, meditation, her relationship with her phone, Demi Moore, and much more.

Click through to find out what she had to say…...

Ridley Scott’s most recent directorial outing came on Gladiator II, the legacy sequel starring Paul Mescal and Denzel Washington, but less than a year after the film hit theaters, one of Scott’s legendary sci-fi thrillers has resurfaced on streaming charts. In 2017, Scott directed Alien: Covenant, the monster horror film starring Michael Fassbender and Danny McBride that’s both a sequel to 2012’s Prometheus and a prequel to his first Alien movie, which was released in 1979.Alien: Covenant is streaming on HBO Max in the United States, where it’s become one of the most popular movies on the streamer, sitting at #10 at the time of writing. The film earned scores of 65% from critics and 55% from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes, and it grossed $240 million at the box office against a $97 million budget.

After Scott directed the first Alien movie in 1979, he passed the torch to another acclaimed director, James Cameron,...

When you purchase through our links, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Happy Gilmore 2 is a sports comedy film directed by Kyle Newacheck from a screenplay co-written by Tim Herlihy and Adam Sandler. The 2025 legacy sequel film picks up the story of Happy Gilmore as he has given up golf after a tragedy and taken up excessive drinking instead. Due to his alcoholism, Happy loses everything from his fortune to his house, and when his daughter wants to go to an elite ballet school, he must return to the golf course to earn the money. Happy Gilmore 2 stars Adam Sandler, Julie Bowen, Christopher McDonald, Benny Safdie, Bad Bunny, Ben Stiller, and Margaret Qualley. So, if you loved the bonkers story, hilarious comedy, and entertaining characters in Happy Gilmore 2, here are some similar movies you should check out next.

Happy Gilmore (Starz) Credit – Universal Pictures

Happy Gilmore is...

Zach Cregger’s Weapons isn’t just his next horror movie, but also an expansion of his interconnected work. Barbarian shocked the audience in 2022 with its unsettling tale, but the movie’s end and its reference on Weapons’ promotional website, maybrookmissing.com, suggest that these films exist in the same universe.

This is a possible link that would show how the crimes exposed in Barbarian ripple into the events of Weapons. So, let’s understand the former’s twisted ending, and then look at how it sets the stage for the upcoming horror feature, starring award-winning talents like Julia Garner and Josh Brolin.

The Gruesome Ending of Barbarian: Who’s the Real Monster? A still from Barbarian | Credits: Regency Enterprise

In the final act of Barbarian, Tess and Aj attempt to escape the crumbling house. And after they’re successful, Tess tries to save Aj, even though he’d shot her out of panic.

Happy Gilmore 2 hit Netflix last week, and although the film has been a major hit for the streamer in the viewership column, it makes some controversial decisions with the story. Easily the most talked-about plot point is the death of Virginia (Julie Bowen), which happens between films but is shown early in the sequel. Virginia died after being hit with a golf ball via an errant shot from Happy (Adam Sandler).

Sandler recently caught up with The Hollywood Reporter about the decision to kill Bowen’s Virginia. Before going into details about Happy Gilmore 2, Sandler praised Bowen’s work as a professional, “We love Julie. She’s just a great vibe and a great person. We love working with her, and we did the first one and Hubie Halloween.” Sandler then explained the decision to kill Virginia, saying, “We just knew we needed Happy to have to overcome something in this story.

Hardly a minute goes by in Happy Gilmore 2 without a celebrity randomly showing up for a cameo — from Eminem to Guy Fieri to Margaret Qualley to Post Malone to a ton of real-life pro golfers who presumably never fought any elderly game show hosts during tournaments.

One of the biggest stars to appear in the sequel is three-time Super Bowl champion/zero-time reading champion Travis Kelce, who was one of the earliest cameos to be confirmed by Adam Sandler.

But is it also possible that Kelce’s superstar girlfriend was also in the movie, and most of us just didn’t notice?

Now that Happy Gilmore 2 is out, we know that Kelce plays a dickish golf club restaurant server who fires Bad Bunny’s busboy character, Oscar, thus paving the way for him to become Happy’s new caddy.

Kelce's most memorable scene comes when Happy asks Oscar...

The upcoming horror movie, Weapons, with a rare 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes, is directed by the acclaimed Zach Cregger. But what you might not know is that Weapons and Cregger’s breakout horror Barbarian are based in the same universe. One of its promotional strategies is the in-universe website named maybrookmissing.net, and an article on the site references the events of Barbarian.

The movie has already created a lot of buzz for its chilling premise and amazing performances by actors like Julia Garner. From cryptic trailers to breadcrumbs and structural similarities, everything is pointing towards a larger web. So, Weapons is not a direct sequel to Barbarian, but it is certainly part of the same terrifying world.

The Connection Between Zach Cregger’s Weapons and Barbarian A still from Barbarian | Credits: Regency Enterprises

Fans of Barbarian will never forget the basement, the hidden tunnel system, and the grotesque things they witnessed in it.

While Marvel Studios is currently busy with the ambitious Avengers: Doomsday production and the start of work on Spider-Man: Brand New Day, the company is always looking to the future. Ever since the earliest days of its conception, there had always been a loose plan for the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and which projects would be tackled next. With Fantastic Four: First Steps now released in theaters, one of the next projects being meticulously developed is the X-Men. Now, a new report has indicated that most casting rumors for the highly anticipated re-introduction of Mutants may not be true.

According to a new report via Variety, which drew information from industry insiders, Marvel Studios is developing its upcoming slate with great care. While projects like Blade and another Deadpool film aren't currently being prioritized, there are other films, like Black Panther 3 and X-Men, that are moving full steam ahead. Kevin Feige...

Topher Grace has joined Cristin Milioti in Buddy, an independent horror thriller from Casper Kelly.

Kelly, who co-created Adult Swim shows such as Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell and the horror comedy viral sensation Too Many Cooks, is directing the feature and co-wrote it with Jamie King, who previously worked on the Disney+ family movie World’s Best.

Production is currently underway in Ohio.

Plot details are being kept under wraps, but the project is being described as a “new experience in horror.”

J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules are producing via their BoulderLight Pictures, the production company that is having busy year with Companion, Friendship and the upcoming horror movie Weapons on their slate.

Tyler Davidson and Drew Sykes are producing for Low Spark Films, the Cleveland, Ohio, based production company that counts Emily the Criminal and Take Shelter among its credits. The company is co-financing the project.

Range Select...

Who knew that a movie about 17 missing students and their teacher as their prime suspect would be inspired by Tom Cruise‘s darkest movie yet? Not the whole movie, of course, but Weapons, by up-and-coming horror director Zach Cregger, was definitely inspired by Paul Thomas Anderson‘s 1999 film, Magnolia.

In an interview with Collider, Cregger shared that Magnolia was a very big inspiration for his movie, and especially the cold open of the PTA film with all the energetic camera zooms and swinging were heavily discussed for Weapons. It seems to have worked out in favor since having 12 early reviews, Weapons has already received 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Magnolia was a big inspiration for this movie. And the cold open of Magnolia is another montage with really energetic camera moves and zooms on a dolly, and all kinds of swinging, and it’s just never stationary.

He continued,

And so, my cinematographer,...

Sony Pictures Classics has launched the first trailer for filmmaker Richard Linklater’s new feature ‘Blue Moon.’

On the evening of March 31, 1943, legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart confronts his shattered self-confidence in Sardi’s bar as his former collaborator Richard Rodgers celebrates the opening night of his ground-breaking hit musical “Oklahoma!”.

Directed by Linklater, the movie stars Ethan Hawke, Andrew Scott, Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale, Simon Delaney, Patrick Kennedy, Jonah Lees and Cillian Sullivan.

Also in trailers – Teaser trailer drops for ‘Train Dreams’

The post Trailer drops for Richard Linklater’s ‘Blue Moon’ appeared first on HeyUGuys.

Over the last thirty years, Richard Linklater and Ethan Hawke have cemented their status as one of cinema's all-time great director-star duos with their work on movies like the Before trilogy, Boyhood, Tape, and Waking Life. Their latest team-up, Blue Moon, finds Linklater and Hawke turning the clocks back to the evening of 31 March, 1943 for a historical chamber piece centred around feted lyricist Lorenz Hart (a bald-cap sporting Hawke) and the drama that unfolds at the afterparty of his former collaborator Richard Rodgers' (Andrew Scott) new show, Oklahoma! Check out the trailer below;

"We write together for a quarter of a century and the first show he writes with someone else is gonna be the biggest hit he ever had," bemoans Hawke's Hart to Bobby Cannavale's Sardi barman at the start of this slick first Blue Moon trailer. "Am I bitter? Yes!" As tone-setters go, played out against a sprightly,...

Quentin Tarantino's 2019 movie, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, has a sequel in the works. Dubbed The Adventures of Cliff Booth, the sequel is written by Tarantino, but David Fincher is taking over as director.

Brad Pitt returns as the titular lead in The Adventures of Cliff Booth. The movie has just started filming, and set photos are starting to emerge on social media of Pitt's return as Cliff. In the images, Pitt can be seen sporting a different hairstyle compared to the last time viewers saw him in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. He appears to be in a location that's been made up to look like a movie theater.

Brad Pitt returns as Cliff Booth in the upcoming film "The Continuing Adventures Of Cliff Booth".Honest thoughts? pic.twitter.com/bOP2Bp6TZ3— Quentin Tarantino Universe (@TarantinoWorld) July 29, 2025Brad Pitt is back as Cliff Booth...

Adam Sandler can do very little wrong when it comes to his run of Netflix movies, as even if not everyone likes them, millions still tune in to watch them. His long-awaited return as Happy Gilmore, in the imaginatively titled Happy Gilmore 2, is no exception to the rule. With a mixed set of reviews from critics, and only slightly better reaction from audiences, Sandler has still been breaking records.

Happy Gilmore 2 is certainly not one of the most disastrous Adam Sandler movies to land on Netflix in the last several years, and managed to scrape a fresh rating from the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer (on 64% at the time of writing). Audiences were a little happier with Happy, but the 70% score on the Popcornmeter is nowhere near the 85% of the 1996 original movie.

Despite that, Happy Gilmore 2 was watched 46.7 million times in its first three days, which not only makes...

“Blue Moon” is a new biographical period drama, directed by Richard Linklater, starring Ethan Hawke, Andrew Scott, Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale, Simon Delaney, Cillian Sullivan, Patrick Kennedy and John Doran, releasing October 24, 2025 in theaters:

“…on the evening of March 31, 1943, legendary lyricist ‘Lorenz Hart’ confronts his shattered self-confidence in ‘Sardi’s Bar’ as his former collaborator ‘Richard Rodgers’ celebrates the opening night of his ground-breaking hit musical ‘Oklahoma!’.

“By the time this night is over, Hart will have confronted both a world that no longer values his talent and the seeming impossibility of love.”

Click the images to enlarge….

In the official trailer for Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon, Lorenz Hart (Ethan Hawke) is killing the vibe. The famed lyricist is settled at the bar in the Broadway staple restaurant Sardi’s, following his sorrows to the bottom of a bottle as he watches his former collaborator Richard Rodgers (Andrew Scott) celebrate.

Rodgers and Hart were once a great duo, creating American songbook classics “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered,” “My Funny Valentine,” “Falling in Love With Love,” and more together in the early years of their partnership. But this was...

Sony Pictures Classics has debuted the first trailer for Blue Moon, its songwriter drama marking the ninth collaboration between filmmaker Richard Linklater and actor Ethan Hawke, which is slated to hit theaters in Los Angeles and New York on October 17, before expanding nationwide on October 24.

Written by Robert Kaplow, author of the novel Me and Orson Welles — which inspired the Linklater film of the same name — Blue Moon profiles the final days of Lorenz Hart (Hawke), part of the hit songwriting team Rodgers & Hart. The film is set primarily in Sardi’s Restaurant on March 31, 1943, the opening night of Oklahoma!, which marked Rodgers’ first collaboration with Oscar Hammerstein II as Hart’s replacement.

Also starring Margaret Qualley (The Substance), Bobby Cannavale (Ezra) and Andrew Scott (Ripley), the film premiered at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, where Scott won the Silver Bear for Best Supporting Performance, for his turn as Rodgers.

Blue Moon will mark the ninth collaboration between Richard Linklater and Ethan Hawke. Starting with Before Sunrise, the pair worked together on The Newton Boys, Waking Life, Tape, Before Sunset, Fast Food Nation, Before Midnight, and Boyhood. Sony Pictures Classics has now unveiled the trailer for Blue Moon. In addition to Hawke, the film will also feature Margaret Qualley (The Substance), Bobby Cannavale (Ezra), and Andrew Scott (Ripley). Sony Pictures Classics had acquired the worldwide rights for the project, which has been scripted by Robert Kaplow.

The official synopsis reads,

“…You know how in marriage they say “for better or for worse”? I think, in terms of my life, I have entered the “for worse” part, and it happened so quietly I didn’t even recognize it.

Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon tells the story of legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart bravely facing the future as his professional and private life...

Director Zach Cregger’s upcoming supernatural horror film Weapons is all set to release in August. Therefore, in an interview with Next Best Picture, he was asked to address the similarities between his film and the 2014 drama series The Leftovers. Cregger said:

There’s no easy explanation ever given for what exactly happens or why. And even when there was, the audience was still left to have their own meaning and interpretations still for what it meant for them.

These associations in similarity stem from the fact that both productions have the same plot device of mass disappearances and their aftermath. While the show, starring Margaret Qualley, took the more dramatic approach, the film will be a full-fledged psychological horror.

The Leftovers’ Influence on Weapons Is About Atmosphere, Not Plot Margaret Qualley in a still from The Leftovers | Credits: HBO Max and Warner Bros.

Based on the novel written by Tom Perrotta,...

"Everybody's in love with her..." Sony Pictures Classics has revealed the main trailer for Richard Linklater's new film Blue Moon, one of two brand new Linklater movies from this year. Blue Moon first premiered at the 2025 Berlin Film Festival (aka Berlinale) earlier in the year, while his French take on Jean-Luc Godard titled Nouvelle Vague premiered at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival a few months ago. Blue Moon is out first - in theaters starting in October this fall. On the evening of March 31st, 1943, legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart confronts his shattered self-confidence in the famous Sardi's bar as his former collaborator Richard Rodgers celebrates the opening night of his ground-breaking hit musical "Oklahoma!" on Broadway. This very talky film takes place entirely in this bar over the course of one drunken evening. The film stars Ethan Hawke as Lorenz, Andrew Scott as Richard Rodgers, Margaret Qualley as Elizabeth Weiland,...

Richard Linklater and Ethan Hawke are up there with Martin Scorsese and De Niro, even Alfred Hitchcock and James Stewart, as one of cinema’s iconic perennial pairings. From the “Before” films and “Waking Life” to “Boyhood” (which earned Hawke an Oscar nomination) and even the underseen motel-room-only Dv thriller “Tape,” they’re operating on an alchemy rare for onscreen director-actor collaborators.

Their latest project together is “Blue Moon,” which may distract at first for the bald cap Hawke wears to play desperate, boozing songwriter Lorenz Hart. But underneath that feat of movie makeup magic is one of Hawke’s most wistful, poignant performances, here as the great American lyricist who was one half of Rodgers and Hart before a creative split.

“Blue Moon” is set over the course of one night, in the iconic New York bar Sardi’s, at the after-party for the 1943 premiere of Richard Rodgers and...

After teaming up with Glen Powell and Adria Arjona last year for Hit Man, the next film from director Richard Linklater just got a thrilling new look. Sony Pictures has released the first official trailer for Blue Moon, the upcoming historical biopic starring Ethan Hawke and Margaret Qualley. The film tells the story of lyricist Lorenz Hart, who pushes headstrong into the future despite the unraveling of his personal and professional life. In addition to Hawke and Qualley, Blue Moon also stars Bobby Cannavale and Andrew Scott, and the film will open in LA and NY on October 17 before premiering nationwide the following week on August 24. Hawke and Linklater previously worked together on Before Sunrise, the 1995 romantic comedy that’s not currently streaming anywhere.

Robert Kaplow wrote the script for Blue Moon. The stars of the film have been extremely busy of late, especially Margaret Qualley, who can briefly be...

So much hay was made of Richard Linklater’s Cannes-premiering Nouvelle Vague that you’re liable to forget, just three months prior, his debuting Blue Moon at the Berlinale. Sony Pictures Classics will begin its theatrical release (already putting it one step above the Godard biopic’s Netflix deal) October 17, ahead of which is a trailer featuring Ethan Hawke, Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale, and Silver Bear winner Andrew Scott.

As David Katz said in his review, “Blue Moon, which world-premiered at the Berlinale, is another beautifully personal work from Linklater, full of authorial idiosyncrasies and tics, but distinguishing the film from his corpus is it being the kind you can only make at a mature career stage. It’s not so much that Linklater has nothing to prove––screenplays like Robert Kaplow’s and its rarified, remote milieu of mid-wwii New York theaterland can typically send financiers balking. With a ‘legacy’ career,...

Nearly 30 years after the original “Happy Gilmore,” its sequel hit Netflix this weekend, and among the many cameos in it, one is hitting fans directly in the heart: Cameron Boyce.

Boyce played Sandler’s son in the “Grown Ups” films, and sadly, the actor died in 2019 at the age of 20. In 2020, Sandler included an homage to Boyce at the end of his film “Hubie Halloween,” and in “Happy Gilmore 2,” he made sure his onscreen son was included once again.

Early in the film, Happy heads to a local golf course to start shaking off the rust and practice for an upcoming tournament. As he approaches the stand to check in, the employees can be seen watching an episode of “Jessie,” the Disney Channel series where Boyce rose to fame. It’s a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment, but the credits of “Happy Gilmore 2” confirm the footage from Disney.

Eagle-eyed fans...

Marissa Bode had quite the introduction to San Diego Comic-Con Thursday night.

Not only was it the first time the “Wicked” and “Wicked: For Good” star attended the San Diego convention, but she was also a judge at the 11th annual Her Universe Fashion show..

Co-hosted by Her Universe founder Ashley Eckstein and Broadway star Michael James Scott, the show’s theme was “Defying Fashion: Fashion That Defies Expectations” and featured 25 “geek couture” designers pulling inspiration from Universal properties.

The judging panel named Lynleigh Sato winner for her colorful “Trolls”-inspired look while the audience picked Caitlin Beards’ black and gold “The Mummy” gown.

“I had a lot of fun,” Bode, who plays Nessarose in the “Wicked” movies, told me after the winners were announced. “First ever fashion show in the books, first ever Comic-Con in the books. I came in hoping for looks, because I’ve seen Comic-Con pictures...

Warning: Contains spoilers.

At this stage in his career, when Adam Sandler goes out to a prospective star of one of his projects, he probably doesn’t hear “no” a lot; it’s probably a lot likelier that he has to give a polite pass to the prospective stars who come to him. So it’s no surprise that Happy Gilmore 2 is loaded with celebrities, to the point where secondary and tertiary roles are filled by faces you know. Bad Bunny may be one of the biggest musical acts in the world right now; that doesn’t mean he can’t show up to play Happy’s new golf caddy. Oscar nominee Haley Joel Osment shows up as a new golf rival to Happy (having presumably been cast before his recent public disgrace). Margaret Qualley has worked multiple times with acclaimed director Yorgos Lanthimos; doesn’t mean she’d...

Welcome to the Gold Ticket, your VIP guide to the best of pop culture for the weekend ahead, curated by the Gold Derby team of experts.

The Main Stream

In a summer movie season dominated by fast cars and soaring dragons, writer/director Celine Song proved that there’s still an audience for conversation-starting love stories. The filmmaker’s follow-up to Past Lives leveraged its A-list cast of Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans and Pedro Pascal to a $52 million worldwide gross—not a bad investment for a movie that reportedly cost $20 million for A24 to make. Materialists is now available on-demand if you’re looking to put a ring on it.

The story of the summer—from a box office perspective, at least—remains Lilo & Stitch, a movie that started its life as a straight-to-streaming venture and instead became 2025’s first and (so far) only billion-dollar worldwide theatrical grosser. The Dean Fleischer Camp...

The release of “Happy Gilmore 2,” the Netflix sequel to the 1996 comedy hit, is just days away. While Hollywood hot shots might be sweating audience awareness polls or gauging social media chatter, Tim Herlihy — who co-wrote both films with star Adam Sandler — has a more pressing concern: catching up with yard work at his quiet Connecticut home.

You might not know Herlihy’s name, but you’ve laughed at his jokes. His movies with Sandler, often featuring characters in various states of arrested development, have topped $3 billion at the box office. Think classics like “Billy Madison” and “The Wedding Singer.” The pair pivoted to streaming in 2015, with Sandler’s Happy Madison Productions signing a megadeal with Netflix that’s led to such films as “The Ridiculous 6” and “Hubie Halloween.”

“Happy Gilmore 2” is poised to be one of summer’s biggest comedies. The first film stars Sandler as a...

Considering past misbegotten sequels to Adam Sandler movies like Grown Ups 2 and Murder Mystery 2, I am not quite sure why it took the star three long decades to fire up one for arguably his best comedy and most memorable character, 1996’s Happy Gilmore. He even named his production company after it for chrissakes. But now fans who have waited a very long time for a second round with the angry but always watchable movie golf icon get a sweet payoff with Happy Gilmore 2.

Considering the mostly upbeat results here I am surprised Netflix held back critics until just a handful of hours before the film started streaming at midnight. There are more than enough Lol moments and multitudes of big-name cameos, as well as devotion to the original and exactly what fans of both the first movie — as well as golf itself — will eat up. With the world a mess right now,...

Plot: Twenty-nine years after winning his first Tour Championship, retired golfer Happy Gilmore returns to the sport to pay for his daughter Vienna’s ballet school.

Review (Warning: contains mild spoilers): When Happy Gilmore hit theaters in 1996, I was a dumb high schooler who had loved the idiocy of Adam Sandler’s Billy Madison and hoped for more of the sophomoric shenanigans that film delivered. Reteaming with Billy Madison co-writer Tim Herlihy, Happy Gilmore was a hilariously stupid sports movie with Sandler’s trademark yelling and bizarre jokes wrapped in an underdog tale. Naming his production company after his first two hit films, Adam Sandler has gone on to make dozens of similar movies interspersed with acclaimed movies like Punch-Drunk Love and Uncut Gems. After three decades, Sandler and Herlihy have returned to give audiences the long-awaited Happy Gilmore 2, which replicates the heartfelt stupidity of the original movie...

On the rink, he was a tough player who could have used a few skating lessons. On the green, however, Happy Gilmore’s killer slap shot helped him score the kind of long drives that could make Mike Austin scream profanity out of frustration. Hockey’s loss became golf’s gain, and Gilmore’s domination on the championship tour gave the PGA a shot of pure rock & roll energy right up its tight, white ass. Not even the furious fists of Bob Barker could slow down Happy’s ascent to sports legend.

Set your expectations appropriately, and “Happy Gilmore 2” is pretty much par for the course. Hold too tightly to your love of the original, and the sequel shanks into the drink for bogey.

The 29-years-later follow-up to 1996’s beloved gonzo golf comedy “Happy Gilmore,” one of the films that launched Adam Sandler’s big-screen stardom, is kinder, gentler and much older (if not wiser) than the original. It’s a palpable vibe shift. Even when the new film drops callbacks to the first one and trots out some gags reminiscent of its predecessor, its roll is slower. Sweeter. Nicer. And that’s not great for a Happy Gilmore movie.

Gone are the first film’s signature blistering tantrums. Come on, you loved them. We all did. It was flat-out fun watching young Happy absolutely lose it on the course as the establishment looked on in horror. In the sequel, he...

After waiting patiently for almost three decades, Adam Sandler is teeing up once again as beloved character Happy Gilmore in the long-awaited comedy sequel, Happy Gilmore 2. The follow-up, which finds Happy returning to the golf course once again after all these years, has now landed on Netflix, with the oft-angry golfer coming out swinging with audiences on Rotten Tomatoes.

The sequel is now available to stream on Netflix, with some audiences eager to catch up with Happy after all this time. And, in a surprise to cinematic cynics, Happy Gilmore 2 may well have been worth the wait. The sequel now stands at a solid 72% from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes’ Popcornmeter meaning, while it doesn’t quite live up to the first movie’s 85%, it’s far from the comedic disaster that many expected.

Awarding Happy Gilmore 2 a perfect rating of five stars, one user writes, “Happy Gilmore 2...

Adam Sandler reprises his role as the volatile hockey player-turned-golfer in Happy Gilmore 2, a sequel that arrives nearly three decades after the original film established itself as a cultural touchstone. The 1996 movie changed the perception of golf for a generation, transforming it from a staid sport into a chaotic battleground and cementing Sandler’s comedic formula of the lovable, blue-collar man-child. Produced by Sandler’s Happy Madison Productions for Netflix, the film marks the first direct sequel to any of Sandler’s classic 1990s comedies, a notable decision for an actor who, for years, dismissed the idea. The sequel finds its purpose not in simple repetition, but in exploring the character through the lens of aging, fatherhood, and legacy, themes that align with Sandler’s own career evolution into more dramatic roles.

A New Purpose on the Fairway

The film picks up with Happy Gilmore long retired from the professional golf tour.