When CNN launches its new streaming service as part of its All Access subscription tier on Tuesday, it will have a tasty surprise for fans of the late Anthony Bourdain. CNN says that its new subscription offering will include Bourdain programming that has never been available to stream, until now. The program is called Prime Cuts, and it served as...

The Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PFF) has unveiled the lineup for the Baltic Competition of its 29th edition, featuring 11 titles from the regions filmmakers. Sergei Loznitsas Two Prosecutors, which premiered at Cannes, will open the lineup in an out-of-competition slot. The three world premieres in the program are very different. Alise Zarias Flesh, Blood, Even a Heart is...

British writer-director Olly Ginelli has released the trailer for his timely short film The Long Spring ahead of its fall festival appearances. The 15-minute project is inspired by Ginellis time volunteering at the Dunkirk refugee camp in France, when he met and became close friends with a Kurdish man, Saady. Forced to flee the territorial control of ISIS with just...

Charlie Jablonski, who won 12 sports Emmy Awards over a career at NBC and NBC Sports bringing the Olympic Games to TV viewers, has died. He was 69. Jablonski died on Oct. 25 at his home on Lake George in New York State, with no cause of death given, according to the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS),...

Imogen Poots will be swimming her way to honors from the Denver Film Festival. The star of Kristen Stewarts feature directorial debut The Chronology of Water has been selected to receive an excellence in acting award for her performance in the film. The trophy presentation will follow a screening of the film at Denver Botanic Gardens on Nov. 4. Based...

Jennifer Lawrence is peeling back the curtain on why shes grown to not be so fond of speaking with the press. During an interview with The New Yorker, the Die My Love star recalled telling Viola Davis, Every time I do an interview, I think, I cant do this to myself again. I feel like I lose so much control...

TikTok, youre on the clock. A new study from Ampere Analysis has found that YouTube is the most popular social-media destination for viewers of microdramas, with nearly half (44 percent) of those who have consumed the trendy format doing so on YouTube. While vertical video may feel like the domain of TikTok (and to some degree it is: TikTok captures...

Sulley, meet Saquon. The Walt Disney Co. will once again present a live animated alternative broadcast of an upcoming NFL game, this time featuring characters and a stadium set in the world of Pixars Monsters Inc. ESPN announced the game during halftime of Monday Night Football. The special edition of Monday Night Football, called Monsters Funday Football, will be televised...

The original evil child movie that spawned an entire horror subgenre from The Omen to Children of the Corn to Orphan was 1956s The Bad Seed. And its pigtailed protagonist to many, as recognizable and beloved a horror villain as Freddie Krueger or Jason Voorhees is little Rhoda, whose mother (Nancy Kelly) discovers over the course of the film is...

Steve Coogan has settled a libel claim over 2022s The Lost King after a university academic sued over his depiction in the film. The British actor-comedian wrote and starred in the drama following the hunt for King Richard IIIs remains in 2012. But a University of Leicester employee named Richard Taylor later sued Coogan as well as his production outfit...

Theres a powerful movie buried somewhere in writer-director Chong Keat Auns period drama, Mother Bhumi, which premiered in competition at the Tokyo Film Festival. The problem in this beautifully shot but rather murky affair, which attempts to combine recent history, ethnic struggles and magical realism into one troubled family story, is that we never quite grasp all the stakes at...

The inaugural Adriatic Film TV Awards (AFA Awards) have been handed out to honor the regions best achievements in film and television, with Croatian Oscar contender Fiume o morte! being honored as the best film, and director Igor Bezinovi also receiving the AFA for best director and best screenplay. The AFAAward for best debut film went toKaj ti je deklica,...

The 38th Tokyo International Film Festival got off to a gently emotive start Monday night with the local premiere of filmmaker Junji Sakamotos Climbing for Life, a crowd-pleasing biographical drama about Japanese mountaineer Junko Tabei, the first woman to summit Mt. Everest. The films star, Sayuri Yoshinaga, was presented with the festivals lifetime achievement award during a poignant moment at...