News

Update, April 27 at 4:01 pm Et: Actress Suzanna Son has parted ways with HBO series “The Idol.” The news was announced just one day after director Amy Seimetz stepped away from the project, with co-creator and executive producer Sam Levinson expected to takeover directing duties despite the series already having reportedly filmed a majority of its Season 1 episodes.

Deadline reported that now “Red Rocket” breakout Son is also leaving “The Idol,” which stars series co-creator The Weeknd and Lily Rose-Depp. The outlet noted that The Weeknd allegedly felt the show was “leaning too much into a ‘female perspective'” according to sources.

Update, April 26 at 3:06 pm Et: Director Amy Seimetz officially exited “The Idol.” The “Girlfriend Experience” co-creator was slated to direct all episodes of the HBO music industry drama. As Deadline reported, executive producer Sam Levinson is now “expected to have more of a role in directing” the series.

Exclusive: Scott Bakula and Bella Thorne are among the final cast to be announced for the indie film Divinity, the latest collaboration between Steven Soderbergh and Eddie Alcazar. Cypress Hills’ DJ Muggs will serve as musical composer.

Chris Santos (The Girlfriend Experience), Danielia Maximillian (Pam & Tommy), Lydia Bielen, and Emily Willis round out the cast.

Previously announced actors leading the project include Stephen Dorff, Jason Genao, Moises Arias, Karrueche Tran, and Mike O’Hearn.

Divinity follows otherworldly brothers (Genao and Arias) that are hellbent on stopping a mogul (Dorff) who is close to unraveling the secrets behind immortality.

The film includes elements of Alcazar’s “Metascope” technique which combines stop motion animation and live-action sequences. The technique was featured in his short film The Vandal, a collaboration with Darren Aronofsky, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2021.

Divinity is targeting...

In the wake of the spread of  'Covid-19', with viral variants now infecting both cast/crew working in live action and animation, TV studios including Netflix, Hulu, CBS, ABC, Fox, Starz, Paramount and a whole lot more, have quietly shut down numerous popular series, despite Season renewals, designating new episodes "on hiatus":

TV Series on Hiatus:

911 Lone Star 

A Discovery of Witches 

After Life 

All American 

Amazing Stories 

American Horror Stories 

Atlanta 

B Positive 

Better Call Saul  

Better Things 

Big Sky

Black Monday 

Black-ish 

Blindspotting 

Blood and Water 

Blue Bloods  

Bob Hearts Abishola 

Bob's Burgers 

Breeders

Bridgerton 

Bull  

Call Me Kat 

Carnival Row 

Charmed  

Chicago Fire 

Chicago Med 

Chicago Pd 

City on a Hill 

Clarice 

Claws 

Clickbait 

Coyote 

Creepshow  

Criminal Minds 

Cruel Summer 

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Dash and Lily 

Dead to Me 

Dear White People  

Dickinson 

Dirty John 

Dollface 

Doom Patrol 

Duncanville 

Elite 

Emily In Paris...

Starz will continue to Run the World, renewing the freshman comedy for a second season, TVLine has learned.

Additionally, the series is welcoming Rachelle Williams — whose credits include Love Life, mixed-ish and Survivor’s Remorse — as its new showrunner, executive-producing alongside Yvette Lee Bowser and series creator Leigh Davenport.

More from TVLine50 Cent Teases a Power Book III Episode 6 Filled with Snitch-Free Streets, Hip-Hop and Studio GangstersPower Book III's Patina Miller and EPs Unpack Raq's Role as a Single MomBMF Trailer: A Black Mafia Family Rises in Starz's New Crime Drama

“Run the World has been so passionately embraced by our...

Exclusive: International production veterans Shebnem Askin and Michael Rifkin have been appointed Co-Heads of Sony Pictures International Productions. Reporting to Sanford Panitch, President, Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group, the pair takes over from Laine Kline who stepped down earlier this year.

Spip is the local-language production arm of Sony Pictures Entertainment’s Motion Picture Group and is active in more than 13 markets around the world including France, the UK, Italy, Mexico, Brazil, India, Korea, China, Taiwan, Germany and Japan and is a market share leader in Spain and Russia.

Local-language pictures are an important aspect of the business, key to individual market box office and with the ability to make all boats rise. Some of Sony’s recent notable co-production releases include 2019’s Padre No Hay Mas Que Uno which grossed $15.9M in Spain to become the highest grossing Spanish film that year. The sequel, Padre No Hay Mas Que Uno 2,...

Steven Soderbergh is a fantastically eclectic filmmaker (you never know where he’s going to go next), but if you look back over his roughly 30 dramatic features it’s telling to consider how many of them are some variety of tricky old-school thriller or film noir powered by suspenseful screw-tightening. I’m talking about the “Ocean’s” trilogy, the ebullient Elmore Leonard adaptation “Out of Sight,” the redneck heist thriller “Logan Lucky,” the deconstructed gangster mystery “The Limey,” the brooding noir “The Underneath,” the small-town grunge noir “Bubble,” the sex-industry noir “The Girlfriend Experience,” and the true-life-bumbler noir “The Informant!” Soderbergh has a prankish side, but the truth is he would have been right at home in the ’40s or ’50 churning out moody black-and-white thrillers like Robert Siodmak or Joseph H. Lewis.

His latest, “No Sudden Move,” makes that connection all the more explicit. Opening on a gorgeous vintage version of the Warner Bros. logo,...

Easing back into moviemaking after the months-long covid shutdown seems like a mighty stressful proposition, and from the looks of the cast and crew credits for “No Sudden Move,” Steven Soderbergh decided to alleviate that stress by surrounding himself with people he knew. It’s a picture chock full of reunions: with his frequent star Don Cheadle, with Cheadle’s “Traffic” co-star Benicio del Toro, with Amy Seimetz (of the “Girlfriend Experience” TV adaptation), with Bill Duke of “High Flying Bird”; even Brendan Fraser was previously directed by Soderbergh, on a wonderful episode of the long-forgotten Showtime anthology series “Fallen Angels.” The script is by Ed Solomon, who penned the director’s HBO series “Mosaic”; the music is by his regular collaborator David Holmes; the producer is Casey Silver, who, as head of Universal Pictures, offered Soderbergh the picture that saved his career, “Out of Sight.” (And, of course, he...

Less than two months after David Duchovny‘s novel Truly Like Lightning was released, the actor is planning a series adaptation of the book, with himself in the leading role.

Per our sister site Deadline, the adaptation is in the works at Showtime — the onetime home of Duchovny’s Emmy-winning Californication — with Duchovny also attached to write the script alongside Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz (The Peanut Butter Falcon).

More from TVLineLet the Right One In: Demián Bichir to Front Showtime's Vampire Drama PilotDakota Fanning to Co-Star in Ripley at Showtime, Opposite Andrew ScottTVLine Items: The Girlfriend Experience Returns, Brockmire...

The world of “Blindspotting” is headed to the small screen: Starz has greenlit a spinoff series based on the 2018 film, following Jasmine Cephas Jones’ character.

Per Starz, the series will center on Ashley, who was nipping at the heels of a middle-class life in Oakland until Miles, her partner of 12 years and father of their son, is suddenly incarcerated, leaving her to navigate a chaotic and humorous existential crisis when she’s forced to move in with Miles’ mother and half-sister.

The half-hour series will be written and executive produced by Rafael Casal and Daveed Diggs, who starred, wrote, and produced the original film. Casal will serve as the series’ showrunner and will have a recurring role. Jess Wu Calder and Keith Calder will also executive produce the film alongside Emily Gerson Saines, Ken Lee, and Tim Palen. The series is produced for Starz by Lionsgate Television.

An episode count...

Film journalists, critics, directors, and more are showing support for writer-actress-filmmaker Amy Seimetz on social media after news surfaced she has an open restraining order against “Primer” and “Upstream Color” director Shane Carruth. Seimetz starred opposite Carruth in “Upstream Color” and the two had a relationship that ended in 2018. Seimetz filed for the restraining order against Carruth on June 12, citing years of emotional and physical abuse. One alleged incident that occurred at a hotel in 2016 found Carruth strangling Seimetz until it was hard for her to breathe.

Seimetz’s restraining order gained visibility on social media after Carruth tweeted an image of the “Upstream Color” soundtrack on vinyl with part of the restraining order document sticking out from underneath it. The photo’s timing has led many people in the film community to wonder if Carruth is trying to take attention away from the release of Seimetz’s acclaimed new film “She Dies Tomorrow,...

An hour ago I hadn’t heard of this show and now the remaining weeks between today’s trailer drop and the show’s November premiere seems like an eternity. Steven Soderbergh EPing a new Netflix limited series written-and-directed in its entirety by Scott Frank? This is a no-brainer.

Soderbergh’s television track record is pretty great; he’s involved to varying degrees with projects ranging from “The Knick” to Amazon‘s “Red Oaks” to “The Girlfriend Experience.” Apparently, Frank had wanted Soderbergh to direct “Godless” as a feature film (the two had previously collaborated as screenwriter and director on “Out of Sight“) but Soderbergh refused due to his fear of horses (“I can’t do Westerns, I’m terrified of horses, which is unfortunate.”) Frank had to settle for Soderbergh taking on the role of Executive Producer.

Continue reading ‘Godless’ Trailer: Netflix Saddles Up Their Limited Series Western at The Playlist.

[Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers through “Outlander” Season 3, Episode 5, titled “Freedom & Whisky.”]

Author Diana Gabaldon has become quite the expert on 18th century Scotland thanks to the research she’s done to write the “Outlander” novels on which the hit Starz series of the same name is based. Since the action takes place over decades, in many different lands, and during times of political unrest, her two main characters have had to take on a number of different names.

On Sunday’s episode, Claire (Caitriona Balfe) has finally returned back to Scotland after spending two decades in the 20th century. She had stayed parted from her husband Jamie (Sam Heughan) for so long because she had believed he had died at the Battle of Culloden, but when it’s revealed that he had survived and imprisoned, she begins to wonder if they can reunite. Finally, she finds evidence of a printer named Alexander Malcolm who had printed a phrase that only her Jamie could have known.

If 50 percent of all marriages end in divorce, why do we even try? That’s the question filmmaker Tao Ruspoli set out to explore following a painful divorce, interviewing relatives, advice columnists, psychologists, historians, anthropologists, artists, philosophers, sex workers, sex therapists, and ordinary couples about love, sex & monogamy. Featuring recognizable sex and relationship experts like Dan Savage and Esther Perel, as well as divorce lawyer Diana Adams and “Sex At Dawn” author Christopher Ryan, “Monogamish” taps into the zeitgeist in a very real way. This flashy new trailer is any indication, it might just cause you to question everything.

“Every new relationship is kind of an adventure, and then the adventure goes away. Then it’s just kind of where you live,” says Savage in the opening beats. Perel, host of the popular podcast “Where Should We Begin?,” adds: “On the one hand, we want security and stability. We also...

The second season of “The Girlfriend Experience” is right around the corner, with the Steven Soderbergh-helmed series (based on his movie of the same name) continuing to explore the stories of young women who pretend to be in love with wealthy men for money. While Riley Keough (a.k.a. the granddaughter of Elvis Presley) won’t be […]...

Sex and politics are usually never too far apart, and in the upcoming season of Steven Soderbergh‘s “The Girlfriend Experience” they’ll be colliding. The sleek Starz series is raising the stakes for the new batch of episodes, which only seems to get more scintillating the more skin that’s exposed.

Louisa Krause and Carmen Ejogo take the leads roles in the ambitious new season that will track two totally different, parallel storylines.

Continue reading ‘The Girlfriend Experience’ Season 2 Trailer: Sex & Politics Collide at The Playlist.

TV Show Trailers for The Librarians, The Girlfriend Experience, Arrow, and More New TV show trailers and promos have been released for numerous primetime and cable TV show series. Those programs include: Waco on Paramount Network, The Gifted on Fox, Arrow on The CW, [...]

Continue reading: TV Trailers: The Librarians, The Girlfriend Experience, The Dead Return in Arrow, & More...

Watch the Intriguing and Sexy Trailer for The Girlfriend Experience Season Two...

The Wayward Sisters family continues to expand.

The potential Supernatural spinoff has added Yadira Guevara-Prip (Mad Dogs) to its cast as a young woman with a very special gift, EW.com reports.

RelatedSupernatural Ep on Spinoff’s ‘Different Set of Stories’ and New Characters

Wayward Sisters follows Sheriff Jody Mills (played by Kim Rhodes) and a group of troubled young women orphaned by supernatural tragedy — including Kathryn Newton’s Claire Novak and Katherine Ramdeen’s Alex Jones — who team up as a supreme monster-fighting force. Guevara-Prip will appear in the backdoor pilot and recur during Season 13 of the mothership...

Starz has released the trailer for Season 2 of The Girlfriend Experience, the limited series from Steven Soderbergh that premieres November 5. It comes after the latest installment of the steamy drama series was shown off at the Toronto Film Festival. Soderbergh has shaken up the format for the second season of the series based on his 2009 film. It follows two parallel stories — each written, directed and executive produced by Lodge Kerrigan and Amy Seimetz. Kerrigan's…...

Season 2 premieres on Starz November 5

The post The Girlfriend Experience Season 2 Trailer and Key Art appeared first on ComingSoon.net.

Easily one of the most anticipated returning dramas this fall TV season is “The Girlfriend Experience.” Starz’s reimagining of Steven Soderbergh’s 2009 indie film of the same name was one of the best series of 2016, and IndieWire even named it the best directed drama series of the 21st century after only 13 episodes. Creators Amy Seimetz and Lodge Kerrigan are returning for the more ambitious next run of episodes, with each director tackling one of two parallel storylines.

Read More: ‘Girlfriend Experience’ Season 2 First Look: The Best Directed Drama on TV Returns This November

“Pushing Daises” favorite Anna Friel and relative newcomer Louisa Krause star in Kerrigan’s story. The former plays a commanding finance director of a Republican super Pac who engages in a risky relationship with Krause’s confident escort. Seimetz’s narrative stars Carmen Ejogo (“Selma,” “It Comes At Night” )as a former high-end escort who enters...

TV seasons are a thing of the past, but the fall still sees a lot of new releases. Among the flurry of untested series — a.k.a. brand new shows — there are quite a few returning favorites ready to top their already stellar past seasons. They’re reliable picks for an audience already overwhelmed with options, but even these highly anticipated entries can still get lost in the shuffle.

So fear not, dear readers. The Very Good TV Podcast has got your back. On this week’s episode, IndieWire TV Editor Lisa Shannon Miller and TV Critic Ben Travers have collected the 10 most important, exciting, or intriguing returning series to make sure your favorites don’t go overlooked. Or, if you missed some of these the first time through, maybe there’s a new favorite to be had.

Read More:‘The Vietnam War’ Review: Ken Burns’ Exhaustive Conflict Biography Shows...

Sneak Peek footage, plus images from Season Two of the Starz limited anthology series "The Girlfriend Experience", premiering November 5, 2017:

"...from executive producer Steven Soderbergh, 'The Girlfriend Experience' returns for Season Two with a new variation on storytelling. Breaking with last season's format, the anthology series will follow two parallel stories each focusing on entirely new characters, relationships, plotlines and locations while exploring the price of intimacy and its emotional consequences.

Anna Friel and Louisa Krause star in a Washington DC-set  story and Carmen Ejogo in a New Mexico-set story. 

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "The Girlfriend Experience" - Season Two...

It doesn’t get talked about by the TV press as much as “Male Anti-Hero Drama Variation No. 5743,” but the first season of “The Girlfriend Experience” was one of our favorite bits of television of last year. In fact, it took second place in our Best TV of 2016 piece, so much did we love Starz’s adaptation of Steven Soderbergh’s movie, produced by Soderbergh himself and directed by the indie dream team of Lodge Kerrigan and Amy Seimetz.

Continue reading ‘Girlfriend Experience’ Directors Lodge Kerrigan & Amy Seimetz Won’t Return For Season 3 at The Playlist.

The Emmys have been getting better in recent years, with winners like Tatiana Maslany and Rami Malek being welcome and deserved surprises, but the Academy’s frustrating history of repeat nominees and winners has made it hard for deserving performances and series to make their mark. No awards show is ever going to be perfect, especially the Emmys when you consider just how many options there are to choose from each year, but it’s never not heartbreaking when you realize the likes of Kristen Bell, Carrie Coon, Michael K. Williams and more all went unnoticed for iconic TV performances.

With the 69th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards airing this Sunday, IndieWire looks back at the 20 best performances that went unrecognized by the Television Academy over the last 17 years. The group is made up of actors both comedic and dramatic, in roles ranging from lead to supporting, but they’re all united in their greatness.

What's in store for The Girlfriend Experience? Recently, executive producer Steven Soderbergh spoke with Deadline about the future of the Starz TV show.The new season of the anthology drama “will follow two parallel stories each focusing on entirely new characters, relationships, plotlines and locations while exploring the price of intimacy and its emotional consequences.” The cast includes Anna Friel, Louisa Krause, and Carmen Ejogo.Read More…...

Exclusive: "Look, the shows are designed to be confrontational,” says Steven Soderbergh of the second installment of The Girlfriend Experience, just before the Starz drama's debut at the Toronto Film Festival today. "The great thing about what's going on in television right now is that if you make something that's polarizing, that's a good thing because people talk about it," the Oscar and Emmy winner adds of the sexualized limited series from Lodge Kerrigan and Amy…...

Exclusive: "Look, the shows are designed to be confrontational,” says Steven Soderbergh of the second installment of The Girlfriend Experience, just before the Starz drama's debut at the Toronto Film Festival today. "The great thing about what's going on in television right now is that if you make something that's polarizing, that's a good thing because people talk about it," the Oscar and Emmy winner adds of the sexualized limited series from Lodge Kerrigan and Amy…...

The “droughtlander” has lasted for over a year, but at long last Starz’s epic time-traveling drama is returning on Sunday, Sept. 10 at 9 p.m. Et for its third season. Diehard fans of the books may already have a general idea of events that will happen, since this season is based on Diana Gabaldon’s “Voyager,” the third book in the series. Some of the information gathered from interviews and official Starz materials below, however, will offer clues as to when they will happen, without any major spoilers of course.

Here’s what you need to know before tuning in on Sunday:

Where We Left Off

With an impending battle threatening to harm her pregnancy, Claire (Caitriona Balfe) had to leave Jamie (Sam Heughan) behind in the 18th Century, believing that he will die in battle. She went back to the 1940s and resumed a life with Frank (Tobias Menzies...

Lineup and Pre-Festival Announcements and News

Tiff Reveals First Slate of 2017 Titles, Including ‘The Shape of Water,’ ‘Downsizing,’ and ‘Call Me By Your Name’

Tiff Announces Midnight Madness and Documentaries Slate, Including ‘The Disaster Artist,’ ‘Super Size Me’ Sequel, and More

Tiff Announces Platform Lineup, Including ‘The Death of Stalin,’ ‘Euphoria,’ and ‘Brad’s Status’

Tiff Reveals Full Canadian Lineup, Including ‘Alias Grace’ Series Premiere and Restored Classics

Tiff 2017 Does TV: Primetime Line-Up to Premiere ‘The Deuce’ and ‘The Girlfriend Experience’

Tiff Adds More Titles, Including ‘The Florida Project,’ ‘Molly’s Game,’ New Films From Brie Larson and Louis C.K., and Many More

Tiff Adds Lady Gaga Documentary & Performance to Special Events Slate

Pre-Festival Analysis

10 Toronto Film Festival Documentaries That Could Shake Up the Oscars

Tiff’s Platform Selection: How the Festival’s Buzziest Slate is Pivoting After Launching ‘Moonlight’

Tiff 2017: 12 Lgbtq Films We Can’t Wait to See...

The series returns in November

The post The Girlfriend Experience Season 2 First Look Debuts appeared first on ComingSoon.net.

The idea of a “fall TV season” feels particularly antiquated in 2017, as two of the year’s buzziest series (“Game of Thrones” and “Twin Peaks”) have already wrapped for the year. Fall may even be a bit of an afterthought now compared to spring, as networks aim to catch Emmy voters with prestige TV premieres when campaign season gets underway.

And yet, there’s nearly 70 years of tradition with the fall TV season. It’s when Nielsen still resets the calendar for the new TV year; when blue chip advertisers like the automotive sector roll out their own new wares; football season returns (don’t discount that huge impact on TV schedules); and the weather gets chilly, which conceivably means more viewers watching TV indoors.

This year, they’ll find a lot of familiar titles on broadcast TV, including the return of NBC’s “Will & Grace”; a prequel to “The Big Bang Theory,...

While the fall season has changed a great deal in the streaming age, the months of September through December do feature a flood of both new and returning series across every platform.

Below is our guide to fall premiere dates, which will be updated with reviews and more information as the season progresses. Happy fall TV!

Tuesday, September 5

“American Horror Story: Cult” (FX, 10 p.m.). From our review:

It’s not hard to see how Ryan Murphy arrived at his premise for “Ahs” Season 7. To say that many Americans have been living out their own personal horror story isn’t an overstatement — not with border closings, hate speech, and potential treason all enabled by the White House — but the new season manages to undermine the left’s legitimate fears and amplify the right’s monstrous traits all in one frenzied mess of an allegory.

Wednesday, September 6

“You’re the Worst” Season 4 (Fxx,...

September is officially here, which means one thing: The fall television season is upon us!

With dozens of shows about to hit the small screen in the next several months (from proven blockbusters This Is Us and Grey’s Anatomy to newbies The Gifted and Star Trek: Discovery), we don’t blame you if you’ve been feeling overwhelmed by the sheer amount of TV headed your way.

Related: The Complete List of Which Shows Are Canceled or Renewed

To help you keep everything straight, Et has compiled a comprehensive guide to the most important premiere dates for your favorite returning shows and the latest new offerings on broadcast, cable and streaming for the rest of the year.

We’ll be updating this list regularly, so check back for the latest premiere dates.

Related: 2017 TV Preview: 'Game of Thrones,' 'Riverdale,' 'Outlander' and More!

September

Tuesday, Sept. 5

10 p.m. – [link...

While Starz execs aren't tied to the ratings like regular commercial channels, they have to air programs that will keep viewers subscribed. Which of their shows will be cancelled or renewed? We'll have to wait and see.Scripted Starz shows listed: American Gods, Ash Vs Evil Dead, Black Sails, Blunt Talk, Da Vinci's Demons, The Girlfriend Experience, The Missing, Outlander, Power, Survivor's Remorse, and The White Princess.Last update: Most recent ratings added for Survivor's Remorse.There's lots of data that execs look at when deciding whether to renew or cancel a TV series. The ratings for initial airings don't play as large a role as they do on commercial stations but they are still an indication of how popular a show is. Here's an updated listing of the recent/current primetime scripted shows on Starz.Read More…...

Here's the status of TV shows like East Los High, Easy, The Eleventh, Embeds, Episodes, Escape at Dannemora, Ever After High, Everything Sucks!, Extinct, The Expanse, Eyewitness, F Is For Family, The Fairly Odd Parents, The Fall, Falling Water, Family Time, Famous in Love, Fargo, Fear the Walking Dead, Feud, Fever, Five Year, The First, Flaked, Fleabag, Flowers, For Better Or Worse, The Forgotten Army, Fortitude, The Fosters, Foursome, The Frankenstein Chronicles, Freakish, Friends from College, From Dusk till Dawn: The Series, Frontier, Full Circle, Fuller House, Future Man, Game Shakers, Game of Thrones, Gamer's Guide to Pretty Much Everything, Genius, The Get Down, Get Shorty, Ghostbusters: Ecto Force, Ghost Wars, Gilmore Girls, Girl Meets World, Girlboss, The Girlfriend Experience, Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce, Girls, Glitch, Glow, Godless, Goliath, Good Behavior, The Good Cop, Good Game, Good Girls Revolt, Good Omens, Good Witch, Grace and Frankie, Graves, Greenleaf, Grown Folks, Grown-ish,...

Channing Tatum and Adam Driver are joined by an almost unrecognisable Daniel Craig in this warm and witty crime caper

After announcing a hiatus from feature film-making back in 2013, Steven Soderbergh is officially back in the director’s chair (though it’s not as if he’s been away these past four years, having worked on TV projects The Knick and The Girlfriend Experience as well as Magic Mike sequel Xxl).

Related: Steven Soderbergh: 'Film-making is like sex. If I accidentally give someone else pleasure, that's fine'

Continue reading...

The Toronto International Film Festival is pulling out al the stops for its 2017 line-up, having already announced a robust program that includes many of the year’s most anticipated films. Adding a cherry on top to an already jam-packed festival, Tiff revealed its full slate of special events programming, including the premiere of “Lady Gaga: Five Foot Two.” An all access documentary about the tour de force pop star from director Chris Moukarbel, the premiere will be followed by an intimate onstage performance.

Read More:tiff Adds More Titles, Including ‘The Florida Project,’ ‘Molly’s Game,’ New Films From Brie Larson and Louis C.K., and Many More

“Moukarbel’s documentary offers an unprecedented look at Lady Gaga in full creative mode: the ideas, the emotion, the sheer work it takes to do what she does,” said Tiff Artistic Director Cameron Bailey. “We’re thrilled to be bringing this film to audiences in Toronto,...

There has always been something rather Hawksian about Steven Soderbergh. Speaking with the French magazine Positif in 1993, Soderbergh actually brought up Howard Hawks, a venerable icon of Hollywood cinema, stating, “The career I would like is John Huston’s or Howard Hawks’s. You know, very varied, many different subjects.” It’s true Soderbergh and Hawks diverge greatly in terms of form—the latter is straightforward, classically composed, no frills; the former is stylish, spontaneous, technically innovative—but their recurring subject matter, with a little stretching, isn’t far removed. Take the focus on working professionals in Traffic (2000), the Ocean’s films (2001, ‘04, ‘07), The Girlfriend Experience (2009), and Magic Mike (2012); though not exactly traditional Hawksian occupations, there is a firm appreciation for a job to do and to be done well. More than that, though, what connects Howard Hawks and Steven Soderbergh is their uniform consistency, not necessarily in terms of year-after-year quantity,...

Steven Soderbergh frequently claims he’s retiring from directing movies, but fortunately these protests never seem to last very long. His current return from the cinematic grave is Logan Lucky, which opens this weekend; our film staff says the movie proves that Soderbergh is as great as ever. He’s had quite an illustrious film career, ever since his debut Sex, Lies & Videotape wowed audiences at Cannes in 1989. His peak (so far) was likely 2001, when he was Oscar-nominated for directing both Traffic and Erin Brockovich (winning for Traffic). There have been various ups and downs along the way, like Magic Mike, Solaris, the Ocean’s trilogy, The Limey, Bubble, The Girlfriend Experience… the list goes on.

On to about 20-some movies, which is why not one but two sites this week (that we know of) took it upon themselves to rank all of Soderbergh’s movies from ...

Steven Soderbergh, the Oscar-winning director of Traffic (2000) and films as diverse as Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989), Kafka (1991), his two-part biopic Che (2008) and The Girlfriend Experience (2009), returns to features after a four year absence with a cool breeze of summertime sweetness called Logan Lucky. On the surface, this let's-rob-a-racetrack caper looks like a redneck spin on Ocean's 11, his starry (Clooney, Pitt, Damon) 2001 box-office hit. And in some ways it is. "I've lost interest in anything that smells important," the 54-year-old director recently told the New York Times.

Our advice? See...

Scott Glenn has traded in life in the Big Apple for a castle in Maine.

The Leftovers alum has been cast as a series regular in the upcoming Hulu psychological-horror drama Castle Rock. Set in the Stephen King multiverse, Glenn will play retired Sheriff Alan Pangborn, who presided over the fictional titular town during its darkest years.

RelatedSissy Spacek, Suburgatory‘s Jane Levy Join Cast of Hulu’s Castle Rock

Previously announced cast members include Andre Holland, Sissy Spacek, Melanie Lynskey, Jane Levy and Bill Skarsgard.

Glenn can be seen next reprising his Daredevil role Stick in The Defenders...

Making the transition to an anthology series is risky for any show. Switching gears to a brand-new story could either help illuminate and expand the themes of a series or, if not done right, allow it to crumble under the weight of its ambition. But with the combination of great talent involved and intriguing storylines set in motion, the high-wire act is one that can certainly be pulled off.

And it appears that could very well be the case for “The Girlfriend Experience,” Starz’s adaptation of Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh’s 2009 critically acclaimed film of the same name, which is hitting the reset button for season two.

Continue reading ‘The Girlfriend Experience’ Season 2 Trailer Hits The Reset Button In at The Playlist.

Steven Soderbergh’s directing career started with “Sex, Lies and Videotape,” a massive breakout that not only launched his career — it changed the industry of independent filmmaking in America. While struggling to find his footing after becoming a household name at age 26, Soderbergh never let himself become frozen by his early success or some preconceived notion of what his career would be. Instead, he dogmatically followed any story that piqued his interest, regardless if it was building the slick “Ocean’s Eleven” franchise or an experimental film he shot in his hometown with friends (“Schizopolis”).

He has been careful to build a career that was commercially viable so as to maximize his ability to be constantly creating and experimenting with films that were sometimes aggressively uncommercial. Along the way, he has fought to be as efficient a filmmaker as possible – constantly trying different approaches and new technology to make and...

A new character is going to think American Gods‘ Shadow Moon is just purrrfect when the Starz drama returns for Season 2.

Or, as Ricky Whittle put it when he stopped by TVLine’s Comic-Con interview suite, “It’s so hard to keep this PG and keep this clean, but Shadow may have some kind of relationship with a cat.”

RelatedAmerican Gods Finale: Bryan Fuller and Michael Green Talk Bunnies, Bilquis and Wednesday’s Big Reveal

Fans of the Neil Gaiman novel on which the series is based know that Whittle is referring to Bast, an Old God who frequently...

“It’s wonderful to be a Campion woman,” Nicole Kidman said during the Television Critics Association press tour panel for “Top of the Lake: China Girl.”

Joining co-stars Elisabeth Moss, Gwendoline Christie, and Alice Englert, Kidman praised the director and co-writer of the new season, and joined her cast-mates in praising women’s growing presence in television.

“I’ve known Jane since I was 14, so I had incredible trust in her,” Kidman said about Campion, who she first worked with in the director’s graduate film. “Since I met her as a teenager, she encountered me with all my insecurities, hopes, and desires, so she really knows me. I feel unbelievably safe. I’ve shared my deepest and most intimate secrets with her.”

Read More‘Top of the Lake: China Girl’ Review: The Highlight of the 2017 Cannes Film Festival Might Be a TV Show

“There’s a freedom,...

The Girlfriend Experience, Starz' anthology series about female escorts, might ruffle some

...

Read More >...

The Girlfriend Experience, Starz' anthology series about female escorts, might ruffle some Republican feathers (hey some people are into that! Nbd) when it returns for Season 2 in fall.

That's because one of Gfe's two storylines takes place during the upcoming mid-term elections, and shows what

...

Read More >...

Outlander fans, take heart: Claire and Jamie’s two decade-long separation — which will be chronicled in the Starz drama’s upcoming third season — will go by in a relative flash.

VideosOutlander: New Season 3 Footage Highlights Jamie’s Torment, Maybe Shows [Spoiler]’s Death?

At the Television Critics Association’s summer press tour on Friday, showrunner Ronald D. Moore all but confirmed that the estranged soul mates would reunite in Episode 6. “As always, we take our cues from the book first,” the Ep said. “The books laid out this episodic story of Jamie. You had five chapters of his life...

The show will have a new format this season

The post New Pics and Premiere Date for The Girlfriend Experience from Starz appeared first on ComingSoon.net.