When it came to the production of Luca Castellani and Aly Muritibas short film America, art really did imitate life. The story follows Tom, a Brazilian immigrant trying to make his way in the United States, as he meets and falls in love with a writer searching for his next big story. It began out of conversations that Muritiba had...

The ladies of MomTok are back, and theyre just as over each other as they were last season. Hulu released the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives season three trailer Wednesday morning (below), and the in-fighting and drama of season two is back tenfold. When we last left the group of Utah-based women during the season two reunion special, MomTok made...

This story was created in paid partnership with Sling TV. With the NBA 2025-26 season beginning, the San Antonio Spurs take on the Dallas Mavericks in season opener. Spurs superstar Victor Wembanyama is back in the starting lineup after missing half of last years season with a blood-clot injury, while the Mavs are putting their championship hopes on rookie Cooper...

The FilmLight Colour Awards, celebrating the best of the industrys color grading professionals, have announced their 2025 nominees. The craft involves manipulating color to create a specific mood, visual style or narrative theme and is widely-used across film, TV and music. Among the well-known features nominated in major categories this year are Sinners, The Brutalist and, on the TV side,...

Bugonia has been getting a lot of attention this week for its viral screening held only for bald people, and the movies team weighed in on the event at its New York premiere on Tuesday. The Yorgos Lanthimos-directed film followsconspiracy theory-obsessedbeekeeper Teddy (Jesse Plemons)and his cousin (Aidan Delbis), who kidnap high-powered CEO Michelle Fuller (Emma Stone) after they become convinced...

After the success of Scott Coopers 2010 debut film, Crazy Heart the music drama about a faded country singer that landed Jeff Bridges a best actor Oscar the filmmaker was deluged with offers for music biopics about some real-life legends: Elvis Presley, Miles Davis, Chet Baker, the Grateful Dead, Jeff Buckley. Instead, Cooper veered off in several different directions. He...

Over a mid-October Saturday, Focus Features, the awards season mainstay and home of filmmakers like Wes Anderson and Yorgos Lanthimos, launched its inaugural FocusFest, a film festival dedicated to their movies, past and upcoming. In one corner of an upper floor of the Commons on the Universal Lot a coffee counter has been erected that looks like the caf where...

Leave it to Shane Black to turn the lonely act of screenwriting into a contact sport. The Lethal Weapon and Iron Man scribe has launched TheGauntlet, a competition that puts aspiring writers through a rigorous series of critiques and rewrites sort of American Gladiators for the Final Draft set. Its a competition, he says, but I like to think of...

Superstar classical pianist Lang Lang has earned just about every accolade there is in his profession. This year, the Chinese virtuoso joined the ranks of Mozart, Beethoven and Chopin in receiving the biopic treatment and even they didnt get it in their lifetime. But it nearly didnt happen. In fall 2020, fresh off his documentary on Luciano Pavarotti, classical music...

Lily Collins Emily Cooper is feeling the love in Rome in the latest teaser trailer for Emily in Paris fifth season, all 10 episodes of which start streaming on Netflix Dec. 18. The preview highlights her romance with Marcello (Eugenio Franceschini), who Emily met in season four. Over images of Emily and Marcello getting closer and more intimate, a voiceover...

The Industry@Tallinn Baltic Event portion of the29th editionof theTallinn Black Nights Film Festival(PFF) has unveiled 18 works in progress that will be in the spotlight this year. Works in Progress presents films currently in production or post-production and seeking sales agents or festival premieres. This years 18 projects cover three categories: Baltic Event Works in Progress, International Works in Progress,...

The Tribeca Film Festival, originally an effort to unite New York City after the 9/11 attacks, is bringing its healing ways and select indie movies from its 2025 festival to Tribeca Festival Lisboas second edition amid a widening transatlantic rift between the U.S. and Europe. I was thinking how can we in the spirit of collaboration which this festival came...

This may be Wicked, but its certainly not Something Bad. NBC has released the first photos from its Nov. 6 primetime musical special, Wicked: One Wonderful Night, which airs 15 days ahead of Universal Pictures Wicked: For Good release. For two wonderful hours, Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande will sing and dance alongside their co-stars Michelle Yeoh, Jeff Goldblum, Ethan...