Gringo Films does not sound like the kind of company that muscles its way into the global animation business. The Cologne-based outfit is literally a mom-and-pop shop, run by partners Steve Hudson and Sonja Ewers. When they optioned Stitch Head a decade ago, after listening to the audiobook version of Guy Bass childrens book on a family car ride, their...

A pensive Julian Schnabel had much to say about death and immortality in art when he screened his latest film, In The Hand of Dante, as the opening night film at Tribeca Festival Lisboa on Wednesday night in Lisbon, Portugal. Schnabel, wearing his signature artist smock and fedora, during a post-screening QA discussed themes of art and the creative process,...

Wednesdays Paramount layoffs have hit CBS News, with a source saying that every corner of the news division has been impacted. While the cuts are being felt across the division, some shows will feel the impact more than others. CBS Mornings Plus and CBS Evening News Plus, the streaming spinoffs of the networks morning and evening news programs, are being...

Colin Farrell recalled one of the worst days Ive ever had on a film set during a visit to The Late Show With Stephen Colbert on Tuesday. The Irish actor, whos currently starring in the Netflix film Ballad of a Small Player, described a disastrous scene while shooting his big breakthrough Hollywood role in Steven Spielbergs 2002 sci-fi classic Minority...

Margaret DePriest, a onetime actress who spent three decades as a pioneering head writer on such soap operas as General Hospital, Days of Our Lives, All My Children and Another World, has died. She was 94. DePriest died Sept. 29 of natural causes at her home in Greenwich Village, her daughter, Sara Kimbell, told The Hollywood Reporter. DePriest had starred...

As a longtime Spider-Man fan, Im excited to see what Sony and Marvel Studios will unleash with Spider-Man: Brand New Day. But like many other webheads, Im looking carefully to see that this Spider-Man sequel does the right things and improves upon the previous films. Marvel has already shown that Brand New Day is on the right path. Behind-the-scenes footage...

Netflix has won a bidding war for a drama series starring Adam Driver that will follow a tense hostage standoff. The streamer has given a straight-to-series order for Rabbit, Rabbit, which comes from creator Peter Craig (Dope Thief, The Batman) and independent studio MRC. Emmy winner Philip Barantini of Adolescence is set to direct. Driver will also be an executive...

Cheryl Hines is looking back on her recent visit to The View while promoting her memoir, Unscripted. During her Oct. 14 appearance on the ABC talk show, Hines was asked about her husband, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., his decision to support Trumps candidacy, her thoughts on his stance on vaccines and his medical qualifications to be the Department of Health...

The newest ebook edition of Slow Horses author Mick Herrons novel Down Cemetery Road begins with a foreword by Emma Thompson. She recalls first coming across one of Herrons books on a London bookstores staff recommends shelf and tearing through it, after which I instantly read the rest of his work, she writes. Thompson is now starring in an Apple...

There have been endless Hollywood projects made about the city of Los Angeles, but new HBO comedy series I Love LA spotlights two very important things: the Silver Lake Reservoir and Erewhon. I love to walk the res and yap with my girls, so to get that into the pilot was awesome, creator and star Rachel Sennott explained at the...

Steven Paul is bringing Kevin Spacey back to American cinemas. Paul, producer on the Baby Geniuses franchise, and one of the architects of the Trump-backed Make Hollywood Great Again plan to renationalize runaway production, has taken North American rights to Spacey-starrer The Contract. Pauls SP Releasing picked up the film and is planning a theatrical release in early 2026, Italian...

Mia Goth, Dan Stevens and Zach Galifianakis have signed on to star in Hey Bear, the feature directoral debut of Portlandia co-creator Jonathan Krisel. Described as a coming of rage story, from a script written by Emmy Award-winner Carrie Kemper (Beef), Hey Bear follows Claire (Goth), a woman who seeks revenge on a bear after it kills her husband, Gregory...

The sumptuous lensing of Ryan Cooglers Sinners, Chlo Zhaos Hamnet, and Joseph Kosinskis F1: The Movie will be in the spotlight of the 33rd EnergaCamerimage Film Festival, which unveiled its main competition lineup on Wednesday. Sinners, shot by Autumn Durald Arkapaw, Hamnet, photographed by ukasz al, and F1, lensed by Claudio Miranda, are among the bigger titles competing for the...