While Taylor Sheridanis known for his vast empire of television shows for Paramount+, his output on the film side has been as arid as a Texas drought. That is about to change. Despite the recent headlines of Sheridan decamping the new David Ellison-owned studio for NBCUniversal, the cowboy isnt done with Paramount just yet. And he is actually in the...

Giancarlo Esposito may be a go-to bad guy in Hollywood, but he wants everyone to know its just an act. Im playing a human being, who has all kinds of emotions from A to Z, Esposito told a panel on Villains We Love to Hate at the Tribeca Festival Lisboa on Thursday. He broke out as the villainous drug kingpin...

In many ways, writer-director Zhang Lus latest feature, Mothertongue, follows the classic Hollywood rom-com template: A semi-famous movie star, Chunshu (Bai Baihe), returns to her hometown after both her career and love life fall apart. She reconnects with her young mother, Fang Lijuan (Peng Jin), as well as her former acting teacher, Zhang Mei (Liu Dan), who suffers from memory...

Amy Pascal, the trailblazing producer and former studio executive, is set to be honored with the David O. Selznick Achievement Award at next years Producers Guild Awards in Los Angeles. Shes the first woman to receive the prestigious award, which recognizes bodies of work in motion pictures, since Mary Parent (the Dune franchise) in 2022; more recent recipients include Martin...

Elaine Hendrix is up and about but still tender and sore after suffering an injury during rehearsals for Dancing With the Stars, having to be carried out on a stretcher. The Parent Trap alum also indicated shes looking forward to dancing again and returning to the ABC reality show. Hendrix updated people on her condition via an Instagram video Wednesday...

Meg Ryan, acclaimed as the queen of romantic comedies, says shes fine with moviegoers finding comfort in the film genre. A lot of people tell me they watch my movies when theyre sick, Ryan told the Tribeca Festival Lisboa during a press conference on Thursday. The Hollywood star earned critical acclaim for her performance in Rob Reiner and Nora EphronsWhen...

Former Netflix exec Teresa Moneo has joined Mike Goodridges London-based production outfit Good Chaos as creative director and producer. Moneo, who resigned earlier this year from her role as director of U.K. film at the streaming giant, said she has profound respect for the worldview of Goodridge, who set up Good Chaos after stints in charge of Protagonist Pictures and...

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Quick-rising Aussie talent Alyla Browne (Sonic the Hedgehog 3, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga) has boarded the new Australian-set psychological horror film From Below. Browne, who played the younger version of Anya Taylor-Joys titular Furiosa in the Mad Max film and Maria in the latest Sonic movie, will play Riley, a 15-year-old travelling across the outback with her dad. When...

Halloween is shaping up to be scarier than expected for Hollywood and its exhibition partners, but not in a good way. Domestic box office revenue for October 2025 is expected to come in at roughly $425 million the worst showing in 27 years, according to Comscore. This excludes October 2020, the heart of the COVID-19 pandemic, when revenue was a...

Lets get this out of the way first: NBCUniversal and the prolific Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan have a deal that will see the multi-hyphenate leave Paramount for NBCU. Theres a film deal, which will kick in next year, and a series deal, expected to begin once Sheridans Paramount obligations are over after 2028. That being said, neither NBCUniversal, Paramount, or...

Mexican auteurMichel Francohas arrived at the Tribeca Festival Lisboa this week with more than his immigration dramaDreams, starring Jessica Chastain, to show off in Lisbon. He packed a newly-acquired passport for Portugal among his travel documents. Its a strange coincidence. I just got a Portuguese passport two months ago. And strangely enough, Ive never been to Portugal, Franco tells The...

In the five years since Hiroyasu Ando took sole charge at the top of Tokyo International Film Festival, the progress made under the energetic octogenarian former diplomat is palpable. Despite the distinctly inauspicious start of his first full event in charge unfurling under the cloud of a global pandemic, the Tokyo festival is now generating more buzz than it has...