When word got out that Jacinda Ardern would be sitting for a documentary about her time as the worlds youngest female leader, Madison Wells founder Gigi Pritzker and film and TV head Rachel Shane knew they had to get involved. After all, the companys goal is to showcase stories by and about badass women, and Arderns tenure as the prime...

Anemone, the directorial debut of Ronan Day-Lewis, featuring the return to the big screen of his three-time Oscar-winning father Daniel Day-Lewis, will open this years Camerimage film festival, the worlds leading fest devoted to the art of cinematography. Daniel Day-Lewis plays Ray, a hermit who has spent the last 20 years away from humanity, in a cabin deep in the...

Whats happened? While millions of entertainment and sports lovers were preparing for big weekends ahead, Disneys beloved channels have vanished from YouTube TV. Disney has removed its channels, including ESPN, ABC, National Geographic, and Disney Channel, from Googles streaming platform following the expiration of its carriage agreement and the failure of both companies to renew terms. The development took place...

Starz is making sure audiences know Spartacus: House of Ashur will be as bloody and sexy as fans of the franchise have come to expect. The explicit red band trailer for the series, which bows on Starz Dec. 5, arrives more than a decade following the last entry in the Spartacus franchise, and finds Ashur (Nick E. Tarabay) resurrected and...

Halloween is a time to watch horror movies, but there is ample room for science fiction to get audiences into the holiday spirit. From the undead creature in Frankenstein to the killer Xenomorphs in Alien, many great scary movies have featured elements of sci-fi to unleash some inventive and unforgettable nightmares. Whether or not youre going trick-or-treating this Halloween, you...

The third iteration of Netflixs Monster anthology started its run in the same place as the previous two: at the top of the streaming charts. Monster: The Ed Gein Story led Nielsens rankings for the week of Sept. 29-Oct. 5 with 1.53 billion viewing minutes (it premiered Oct. 3). Thats a little behind the 1.72 billion minutes for the Menendez...

The premiere of IT: Welcome to Derry enticed a lot of viewers back into Pennywises clutches. The HBO series debuted to 5.7 million cross-platform viewers (measured over three days), making Welcome to Derry the third biggest series debut in HBOs history. It trails only the premieres of House of the Dragon which had nearly 10 million day-one viewers in 2022...

Kent Gibson, an Emmy-winning producer and sound designer, died Oct. 23 in hospice care in Seattle after a struggle with dementia, his friend Susan Lenti told The Hollywood Reporter. He was 77. Gibson received his Emmy in 1981 for his work as a sound designer and re-recording mixer on the PBS miniseries Cosmos, co-written and presented by astronomer Carl Sagan,...

The Gen Z characters of FXs Adults will get a little more time to grow up. FX has ordered a second season of the comedy series from creators Ben Kronengold and Rebecca Shaw. The renewal comes five months after the shows first season released all at once on Hulu. Adults stars Malik Elassal, Lucy Freyer, Jack Innanen, Amita Rao and...

For Peacock, the magic number is 42,000,000. Its also proven to be an elusive number. For the entirety of 2025, Peacock has been stuck at 41 million subscribers. Though there has been ebbs and flows per subscription-measurement firm Antenna, Peacocks monthly churn rate has fluctuated between five to eight percent throughout the year at the end of each quarter, its...

Fire up the propane grill: King of the Hill is staying around for a while longer. Hulu has ordered two more seasons of the revived animated series, the 16th and 17th overall and third and fourth seasons as a streaming original (King of the Hill aired on Fox for its 13-season original run). Season 14 premiered in August and is...

Universals highly anticipatedWicked: For Good is tracking to open to a victorious $115 million-plus at the Thanksgiving box office, according to prerelease tracking. That would set yet another new record for a musical adaptation of a Broadway musical. The second title in Jon M. Chus ambitious big-screen adaptationof the iconic Broadway musical about the witches of Oz opens in North...

Jacob Elordi, Chase Infiniti, Amy Madigan, Wagner Moura, Renate Reinsve, Sydney Sweeney, Teyana Taylor and Jeremy Allen White share little in common except that they are all performers who had a breakthrough, of one sort or another, in 2025 and therefore have been tapped to receive the Santa Barbara International Film Festivals Virtuosos Award in early 2026. At Santa Barbaras...