Anna Kendrick and J.K. Simmons are signing up for Embassy, a six-part geopolitical action series. Pitch Perfect star Kendrik will play Layla, a resourceful American diplomat stationed at the U.S. Embassy in London when it comes under attack from armed mercenaries. The U.S. Ambassador (Simmons) orders her to extract a high-value asset held inside the compound, and Layla is forced...

Directors representing a high profile crop of submissions for this years best international feature Oscar race will be sharing the stage in the Windy City this weekend. The 61st Chicago International Film Festival confirmed the details today for its International Contenders Panel: World Cinema Now!, a discussion featuring auteurs representing their countrys official submissions for next Marchs Academy Awards. The...

[This story contains spoilers for the Peacemaker season two finale.] Peacemaker season two reached its conclusion last night actually, it reached beyond its original conclusion, James Gunn says. Gunn, who created and writes the John Cena-superhero show for HBO Max, made a pretty big addition to his original ending for the second seasons finale episode. Perhaps a better adjective would...

Iranian dissident auteur and Cannes Palme dOr 2025 winner Jafar Panahi (It Was Just an Accident) didnt make it to the U.K. for a planned Friday Screen Talk event at the69th editionof theBFILondon Film Festival(LFF). Regrettably,the in-person Jafar Panahi Screen Talk is canceled due to a scheduling conflict, the festival said in a statement midday Friday. The Screen Talk will...

[This story contains major spoilers from No Other Choice.] The great Korean auteur Park Chan-wook has produced several undisputed masterpieces over his three-decade career, but none so urgently of-the-moment as No Other Choice, his latest black comedy thriller. A passion project more than 20 years in the making, No Other Choice is adapted from Donald Westlakes 1997 novel The Ax....

The Real Housewives of Potomac star Wendy Osefo and husband Eddie Osefo have been arrested and booked on 16 insurance fraud charges, before being released on Friday, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. A spokesperson for the Carroll County Circuit Court in Westminster, Maryland told THR that a warrant for the arrest of the Osefo was executed on Thursday and they...

Warning: The following interview contains spoilers for episode 1 of The Last Frontier. Occasionally, all it takes is an excellent beard to play a convincing felon. Sam Hargrave is a talented director best known for helming the Netflix movie Extraction and its sequel, Extraction 2. The former stuntman-turned-filmmaker also has a signature feature: a grizzly beard. When The Last Frontier...

Four weeks into its 34th season, Dancing With the Stars is on a ratings roll. The ABC show has grown its first-night audience every week since the season premiere on Sept. 16, hitting a high of 5.88 million viewers for Tuesdays Disney-themed night. That was up a tick from 5.83 million same-day viewers a week earlier and marks the first...

The Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PFF) in Estonia unveiled its competition and first feature competition lineups and the international jury for its 2025 official selection on Friday. The main competition for the 29th edition of the festival includes17 feature films, with16 world premieresandone international premiere. This years selection follows an impressive number of submissions: 1,900 for the main program,...

Jon M. Chu delighted London Film Festival attendees Friday with a sneak peek at the upcoming Wicked: For Good, and also teased what lies ahead in his next musical-to-screen adaptation. The filmmaker pleaded with audience members at BFI Southbank not to record or photograph the short clip before the long-awaited follow-up to Wicked hits theaters Nov. 21. He spoke extensively...

The cast and creative team behind Amazon MGM Studios upcoming film Mercy took to the stage Thursday for a panel at New York Comic Con to discuss their unique approach to filming the upcoming title and to reveal the films trailer. Pratt, his co-star Kali Reis, director-producer Timur Bekmambetov, and producer Charles Roven were present at the panel hosted in...

When AMC Theatres Distribution and Taylor Swifts team first revealed the top-secret project Taylor Swift: The Official Release Party of a Showgirl on Sept. 19, an AMC press release said the project would ultimately be made available in 100 additional countries or more outside of the United States. Thats no longer happening, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The plan was...

If youre looking for hints and answers for Strands for Friday, October 10, 2025, read onIll share some clues and tips, and finally the solution to the puzzle with the theme Im a ladle hungry. For an easy way to come back to our Strands hints every day, bookmark this page. You can also find our past hints there as...