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James L. Brooks to Direct ‘Ella McKay’ for 20th Century Studios

Thirteen years after his last directorial project, James L. Brooks is planning to make Ella McCay for Twentieth Century Fox. Negotiations are reportedly underway with emerging and established actors that include Albert Brooks, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ayo Edebiri, Spike Fearn, Woody Harrelson, Emma Mackey, and Kumail Nanjiani. News of Brooks’s latest venture came this week…

Edward Moran

November 25, 2023

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William Hurt Dies at 71 After 40 Years on Stage and Screen

Legendary Hollywood actor William Hurt has died at the age of 71. He had been suffering from prostate cancer for several years, although the announcement posted by his family attributed his death to unspecified “natural causes.” Death came just a week before Hurt’s 72nd birthday. The actor won a Best Oscar award for Kiss of…

Edward Moran

March 13, 2022

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Tony Awards Nominations 2024: The Complete List

Hell’s Kitchen and Stereophonic have received more Tony Awards nominations than any other production of the 2023-24 Broadway season. Each shows received 13 nominations this morning, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The former is a biographical musical about Alicia Keyes, while the latter is a dramatic stage play whose music was penned by American playwright…

Karen Benardello

April 30, 2024

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Senna | Official Teaser | Netflix : Starring Gabriel Leone

©Courtesy of Netflix In this first teaser video for Senna, the limited series premiering in late 2024, we see the recreation of Formula 1 driver Ayrton Senna’s historic victory, including the narration of Galvão Bueno, at the 1991 Brazilian Grand Prix at Interlagos, following a challenging race where he was mostly stuck in sixth gear…

Nobuhiro Hosoki

April 30, 2024

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‘The Contestant,’ A Look Into the Origins Of Japanese Reality TV

©Courtesy of Hulu Sensationalism is the bread and butter of today’s media and entertainment industry. The competition for higher sales in the field of communications can be traced back to the circulation war between Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World and William Randolph Hearst’s New York Journal during the mid-1890s. This gave wave to what was…

Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi

April 29, 2024

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Greta Gerwig to Head Nine-Person Jury at the 77th Cannes Film Festival

The jury for the 77th Cannes Film Festival has been selected. To be led this year by Barbie director Greta Gerwig (USA), the five-woman, four-man jury includes some of the leading figures in contemporary global cinema: Juan Antonio Bayona (Spain), Ebru Ceylan (Turkey), Pierfrancesco Favino (Italy), Lily Gladstone (USA), Eva Green (France), Hirokazu Kore-eda (Japan),…

Edward Moran

April 29, 2024

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James L. Brooks to Direct ‘Ella McKay’ for 20th Century Studios

William Hurt Dies at 71 After 40 Years on Stage and Screen