Beta Cinema has secured a series of key international presales for Nordic conspiracy thriller Operation Napoleon Tears of the Wolf, which is currently in production across Finland, Iceland, and Germany. Magnolia Pictures acquired rights for North America, with additional deals concluded for the UK and Ireland (Signature Entertainment), France (Mediawan), Spain (Twelve Oaks), and Poland (Hagi Film). The film is...

Womens basketball league Unrivaled is expanding in its second season both in its number of teams and its TV footprint. The 3-on-3 league, co-founded by WNBA stars Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart, is adding a fourth night of games on TNT Sports for the coming season, which tips off Jan. 5. The league is also expanding to eight teams, up...

[This story contains spoilers from episode nine ofDancing With the Starsseason 34.] Happy Birthday to Dancing With the Stars! This weeks episode paid homage to the show itself, with a special 20th Birthday Party. At the end of the night, Andy Richter and Emma Slater were eliminated from the competition. The ballroom was jam packed with legends of the show,...

Landman stars are opening up about Taylor Sheridans future departure. Last month, The Hollywood Reporter reported that Sheridan, the co-creator and writer, would be leaving the shows home at Paramount for NBCUniversal, with a film deal set to begin next year. However, his TV deal with Paramount doesnt start until the end of 2028, and then, he will go to...

Jimmy Kimmel paid tribute to Cleto Escobedo III, his childhood best friend and longtime bandleader forhis late night talk show,Jimmy Kimmel Live!, who died on Tuesday at 59. During his 22-minute monologue (below), which he called his hardest to date, the host recalled tons of memories he shared with Escobedo over the years. The pair became best friends as children...

an open field, a 38-minute short film from director Teboho Edkins and his father and producer Don Edkins, which will world premiere at theInternational Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam(IDFA) on Sunday, is very personal. In March 2019, a Boeing 737 MAX airplane crashed just six minutes after taking off from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. All 157 people on board died, including Max...

Signature Entertainment has acquired the U.K. and Irish rights to the Ellie Bamber-starring period romance drama Ambleside from Vaneast Pictures. Directed by Mitch Jenkins (A Million Days, The Snow), who co-wrote the script with Jason Wingard and Alan Govinden, the feature is based on Romesh Gunsekaras novel Prisoner of Paradise. Ambleside is a love story, boasting a cast that includes...

Pope Leo XIV has revealed his top four favorite films a lineup of wholesome uplifting classics ahead of a first-of-its-kind meeting with movie stars at the Vatican. The Chicago-born pontiff, the first American to lead the Catholic Church, will host a special audience on Saturday morning inside the Apostolic Palace, welcoming a delegation of Hollywood A-listers including Cate Blanchett, Chris...

Gazas Twins, Come Back to Me, a new documentary from Mohammed Sawwaf (Eleven Days in May) tells one of the many human stories in the Israel-Hamas war. When the Israeli army invades the Gaza Strip in 2023, Rania is eight months pregnant. She gives birth to triplets just as her hometown in northern Gaza is bombed, reads a synopsis for...

The charges of Blasphemy! are likely to come fast and furious for Lotfy Nathans supernatural horror film revolving around the life of the teenage Jesus. Based on the apocryphal Infancy Gospel of Thomas (which I confess I havent read), the film strains mightily for a seriousness that it never deserves. I mean, when you cast Nicolas Cage as The Carpenter...

The MV Shorts Awards have unveiled its honors, with the show honoring projects from veterans and active duty military members. The Dedication, directed by Adrienne Lunson, took home the top honor and a $1,000 grant. The short is a Japanese adaptation of the Stephen King short story about a housekeeper whose son writes a bestselling novel under mysterious circumstances. The...

Cleto Escobedo III, the bandleader for ABCs Jimmy Kimmel Live!, has died. Escobedo died early Tuesday, Kimmel wrote in an Instagram post. He was 59. Early this morning, we lost a great friend, father, son, musician and man, my longtime bandleader Cleto Escobedo III, Kimmel wrote. To say that we are heartbroken is an understatement. Escobedo and his band, Cleto...

Life After, the latest documentary from filmmaker Reid Davenport, begins with the story of Elizabeth Bouvia, a California woman with cerebral palsy and drew national media attention in the 1980s when she sought to starve herself to death with medical supervision and was prevented from doing so by the courts. Using Bouvias story and journey to find out what happened...