Thats a wrap on AFI Fest. The Los Angeles film festival concluded its 2025 run on Sunday, and less than a day later comes the reveal of the shorts award winners thanks to a jury made up of filmmakers Sue-Ellen Chitunya and Katherine Propper with film programmer, producer and publicist Rachel Walker. The grand jury prize for live action went...

Kate Hudson and Hugh Jackman got the band back together at AFI Fest on Sunday night, debuting their new film Song Sung Blue, in which they star as two down-on-their-luck performers who form a Neil Diamond tribute act. Its a real-life story of a couple who never let the dream die, as the two actors tapped into their musical sides....

CBS News has its first high-profile exit following the hire of Bari Weiss as editor-in-chief earlier this month. John Dickerson, the co-anchor of the CBS Evening News, said Monday that he will leave CBS News at the end of the year. Dickerson currently anchors the evening newscast alongside Maurice Dubois, having been paired up early this year in a bid...

In the season four premiere ofMayor of Kingstown,co-creators/writers Hugh Dillon and Taylor Sheridan waste no time smacking viewers with a sense of doom and gloom. In the very first scene of the Paramount+ series return, viewers are introduced to a soft-voiced, world-traveled businessman from Detroit named Frank Moses (played by Fear of the Walking Dead star Lennie James). But within...

MSNBCs days are numbered, but the era of MS NOW is about to begin. In a memo to staff Monday, MSNBC president Rebecca Kutler said that the cable news channel will officially rebrand from MSNBC to MS NOW on Nov. 15, ahead of the planned spinoff into Versant. Along with the name change comes a new tagline: Same Mission. New...

Magnolia Pictures has picked up U.S. rights to TIFF Midnight Madness hit The Napa Boys. The distributor plans a theatrical release early next year. Co-written and co-directed by, and co-starring Armen Weitzman and Nick Corirossi, the high-concept comedy is a send-up of Hollywood comedy franchises, particularly of the raunchy American Pie variety. The film is billed as the fourth installment...

ITV hit dramaTrigger Point, starringVicky McClure(Line of Duty,Alex Rider) as an Explosives Officer in London, is back on U.K. screens for season 3, and the creative team is touting its more cinematic look and feel. Season 3 lead writer Chris Brandon (Bloodlands) and director Jamie Donoughue (Doctor Who, A Discovery of Witches), who joined Audrey Cooke (Trigger Point, DI Ray)...

Seoul-based sales outfit Finecut has inked a series of international distribution deals across Asia for Korean action-comedy Boss ahead of the TIFFCOM content market in Tokyo. The hit film, currently Koreas fifth-biggest title of 2025, has sold to Japan (KDDI), Taiwan (Cai Chang International), Cambodia (Abnormal Studios), India (Star Entertainment), Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore (Clover Films), Mongolia (Izagur Media LLC)...

Taylor Sheridan is getting ready to hang up his spurs at Paramount, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. The prolific Yellowstone and Tulsa King writer and director is expected to jump to NBCUniversal, beginning with a film deal that will go into effect next year. The ink on that one is already dry. Sheridans TV deal with Paramount is not up...

The following contains spoilers for the first episode of HBOs It: Welcome to Derry. Oh my God, they killed Teddy! And Phil! And Susie! The season premiere of It: Welcome to Derry introduced a new young Losers Club that was seemingly going to be the focal point of the season moving forward and then promptly seemingly murdered several of them...

Swedish tennis sensation Bjrn Borg is getting the biopic treatment. Borgs bestselling memoir Hjrtslag (Heartbeat) has been picked up for adaptation by indie giant Banijay Entertainment, with Nordic subsidiary Jarowskij/Yellow Bird and Mastiff Sweden handling the production. Jonas kerlund, the Swedish director of Polar, Lord of Chaos, and Netflix series Clark, as well as countless music videos for the likes...

Jon Stewart has said hes not going anywhere, and hes trying to put that in writing. The comedian, whose contract to host The Daily Show is up in December, said were working on staying during a conversation with New Yorker editor David Remnick at Sundays New Yorker Festival, when Remnick asked if the Comedy Central host was going to sign...

Youve probably seen English actor Jason Flemyng in Guy Ritchieand/or Matthew Vaughns films, such asLock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels,Snatch,Layer Cake,Kick-Ass, andX-Men: First Class. You may have seen him in such Hollywood movies asRob Roy,The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen,Seed of Chucky, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Transporter 2 or in small independent films from around the world. Now he...