After a quarter century as president and CEO of the Independent Film Television Alliance, the association that runs the American Film Market, Jean Prewitt is calling time. Prewitt, who has led IFTA and the AFM through some of the most turbulent years in the history of independent film through the rise of streaming and the collapse of the theatrical market,...

Tatsuya Nakadai, a legendary Japanese actor best known for his roles in Ran, Harakiri and The Human Condition trilogy, has died. He was 92. His death was first reported by The Japan News. His cause of death wasnt immediately available. Born on Dec. 13,1932, in Tokyo, Japan, Nakadai, whose real name was Motohisa Nakadai, was a prominent stage actor who...

Joe Alwyn, Benedict Wong and Sheila Atim are on the jury selecting the 2026 EE Rising Star Award nominees ahead of the BAFTA Film Awards. Alongside a host of industry experts, the trio of acting talent gathered in London deliberate on who should be shortlisted as a BAFTA rising star before the final vote is put to the British public....

German actor-writer-director Til Schweiger and Splitsville star Charlie Gillespie have jumped on board Contra, an underground chess thriller. They join Kal Penn, Booboo Stewart and Nicole Elizabeth Berger in the directorial debut for Emmy-nominated producer Artisha Mann-Cooper. Contra centers on a young chess prodigy, played by Stewart, who is drawn into a dangerous underground circuit where every chess move carries...

An AI-generated country song has reached the top of a Billboard music chart. Called Walk My Walk, the track is currently number 1 in Billboards Country Digital Song Sales chart. Recommended Videos It was released by Breaking Rust, who also isnt real but instead a creation of AI. His debut track, Livin On Borrowed Time, reached number 5 in the...

Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo are officially saying goodbye to Glinda and Elphaba for good. The stars of Jon M. Chus Wicked sequel took to Londons Leicester Square on Monday night for the European premiere of the film. The pair, matching in extravagant black dresses, were joined by fellow cast members Jonathan Bailey, Jeff Goldblum, Ethan Slater, Marissa Bode and...

Sydney Sweeney is proud of working on the Christy Martin biopic Christy despite a low box office debut. Taking to Instagram on Monday, the actress, who portrays trailblazing boxer Christy Martin in the biopic Christy, reflected on making the film that opened to $1.3 million from 2,011 sites and couldnt crack the top 10at the box office. Sweeney also produced...

The Glasgow Film Festival has unveiled the first films for its 2026 edition, taking placeFeb. 25-March 8, including a retrospective program under the theme Truth to Power and a country focus on Sweden. The Truth to Power retrospective will feature 10 classics from the 1930s to thepresent day that stand as cinematic statements of resistance, or feature characters that riseagainst...

Some lucky millionaire will be able to own a key piece of the Wicked Witch of the West for good. Thats because the iconic hat worn by Margaret Hamilton in 1939s The Wizard of Oz is going up for auction on Dec. 9. Offered by Heritage Auctions which last year sold a pair of ruby slippers from the film for...

Hillman College will enroll a new class of students with Netflixs pickup of a sequel series to A Different World. The streamer has given a series order to the comedy, which has been in the works for more than a year (and included a very rare pilot order from Netflix). The show will star Tony Award winner Maleah Joi Moon...

Logo text If there was a Mount Rushmore of Dancing With the Stars greats, Tom Bergerons face would have already been carved into stone. The former original host of the competitive ABC ballroom series is making his surprise return to the ballroom for Tuesday nights 20th anniversary show. Five years ago, Bergeron was fired from the hosting position after he...

Nearly 12 years after it began, Outlander will come to a close in 2026. Starz has set a March 6 premiere date for the eighth and final season of Outlander, which will conclude the story of Claire (Caitrona Balfe) and Jamie Fraser (Sam Heughan). The premiere will come a little over a year after the conclusion of season seven, which...

Anna Sandor, who co-created the long-running CBC series Hangin In and earned an Emmy nomination for writing the lauded 1992 NBC telefilm Miss Rose White, starring Kyra Sedgwick and Amanda Plummer, has died. She was 76. Sandor died Nov. 1 of complications from melanoma at Scripps Green Hospital in La Jolla, California, her family announced. She was spunky and she...