Disney might want to rethink any Poe Dameron plans theyve got cooking. Oscar Isaac, who portrayed the X-wing fighter pilot in three Star Wars films across the franchises sequel trilogy from 2015 to 2019, has hit out at the studio in a new piece for GQ Magazine published Monday. Referencing the Disney-owned ABC pulling Jimmy Kimmel off the air after...

Courtney L. Cunniff and Bronte Payne have been named the co-heads of film at LuckyChap. Cunniff joins the Barbie banner as an executive VP of film from Black Bear, with Payne, a LuckyChap veteran, being upped to executive VP of film. At Black Bear, Cunniff produced upcoming titles like Greg Arakis I Want Your Sex, starring Olivia Wilde, and Tuner,...

On Thanksgiving Day 1976, the rock group the Band performed a star-studded show at San Franciscos Winterland Ballroom, in what was billed as its farewell appearance. Among the famous guests were Muddy Waters, Eric Clapton, Joni Mitchell, and Bob Dylan. Up-and-coming arthouse director Martin Scorsese was tapped to shoot the concert. Co-produced by the Bands guitarist Robbie Robertson, the resulting...

Logo text Just like all good things, so too mustStranger Thingscome to an end. Its not a shock that the mega-hit Netflix series has finally reached the end of the line nearly one decade after it turned pop culture upside down. For quite some time, its been clear the Hawkins crew was approaching the endgame. But theres a difference betweentheoreticallyentering...

Trey Parker and Matt Stone are detailing their decision to steer heavily into politics during the current season of South Park, which has been laser-focused on President Trump and his administrations policies. During an interview published over the weekend with The New York Times, the shows creators were asked about the politics of season 28, which has helped generate the...

Norwegian triple threat Mona Fastvold, with buzz growing around her latest film The Testament of Ann Lee, has signed with the London-basedMagna Studios. The director/writer/producers Amanda Seyfried-starring project, following the founder of the Shaker religious movement in the 18th century, premiered at the Venice Film Festival this year and was later acquired by Searchlight Pictures. Fastvold co-wrote the film alongside...

Elizabeth Berkley is so immediately, disarmingly warm in conversation that it takes me a few extra beats to realize shes kicking her publicist off of our Zoom call. I think David and I are good, she says after some preamble. The publicist takes a moment before her off-camera box disappears, and then Berkley continues: I want to have this conversation...

Alongside its politics and policy coverage, the soon-to-be-named MS NOW is making a big bet on the weather. The Hollywood Reporter has learned that the channel (which will be rebranded from MSNBC on Nov. 15) has inked a multi-year deal with AccuWeather to bring its forecasts, data and meteorologists to MS NOW viewers. The deal makes AccuWeather the preferred weather...

Home security camera footage forms the basis for Past Future Continuous, a documentary from directors Morteza Ahmadvand and Firouzeh Khosrovani that will screen in the Envision Competition program of the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam(IDFA) from Saturday. The doc, for which Taskovski Films is handling sales, had its world premiere in Venices Giornate degli Autori, or Venice Days, lineup. Now,...

While attending an awards season event recently, I found myself hearing a sonnet familiar to any of us who have toiled on the Oscar circuit. I wish it was over already, the person said. And though thats a slightly strange thing to say in October like bemoaning how the oral surgeon hasnt finished the implant at the first sign of...

In the wake of her resignation as BBC News CEO, Deborah Turness has responded to claims from U.S. President Donald Trump and vowed that the U.K. public broadcaster is not institutionally biased. Turness and Director-General Tim Davie stepped down from their roles Sunday evening after the BBC was found to have edited a speech Trump made on Jan. 6, 2021,...

One feature of modern AI systems is that the model does not actually reason. Unlike the older symbolic approach, in which humans hard-program a machine to run through a series of options, the current Large Language Models simply synthesize lots of information and predict based on likelihoods. So the model (by definition) cannot conjure up anything of literal substance; it...

The Perfect Neighbor topped the 10th annual Critics Choice Documentary Awards, which were handed out Sunday night in New York City. The film scooped up five awards, including best documentary feature, best director for Geeta Gandbhir, best editing for Viridiana Lieberman, best archival documentary and best true crime doc. Mr. Scorsese, Ocean With David Attenborough and Orwell: 2+2=5 each took...