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Paris-based company Lucky Number has boarded Dominga Sotomayor’s “La Perra” ahead of its world premiere at Cannes’ Directors Fortnight. The film is produced by RT Features, the Brazilian outfit behind Walter Salles’ Oscar-winning film “I’m Still Here,” as well as Luca Guadagnino’s “Call Me By Your Name;” and Planta, the Chilean company whose credits include Lisandro Alonso’s “Double Freedom;” Cannes Critics’ Week winner “Simon of the Mountain;” Nayra Ilic García’s Tribeca prizewinning “Cuerpo Celeste.” Lucky Number will launch international sales in Cannes. Sotomayor already has a track record in the festival circuit. Her feature debut, “Thursday Till Sunday,” premiered in Rotterdam in 2012…
Picture Credits: Netflix A fact of life: stunt artists and stunt coordinators always have stories. Yes, they’ve crashed cars, been thrown off horses, run through fire, and done all that fun stuff — if they’ve been around long enough. Don Lee is one of those guys — a guy who, at the end of the day, cares deeply about storytelling. His list of credits and on-set experiences runs long. He’s travelled the world and experienced car flips, explosions, you name it. Plus, fight scenes – including his work on Cobra Kai. It’s a show that means a great deal to…
We all have dreams of revisiting our childhood, but how many of us have the chance to reconstruct it with the help of an Oscar-winning director? That’s precisely what Brunello Cucinelli, the 72-year-old son of Italian sharecroppers who went on build a multi-billion-dollar global luxury fashion empire, has done with the biopic-doc hybrid Brunello Cuccinnelli: A Gracious Visionary, written and directed by Cinema Paradiso director Giuseppe Tornatore. Earlier this week, Cucinelli hosted a gala screening of the film (to be released in theaters this summer) at the opulent David H Koch theater in New York’s Lincoln Center. Before the film…
HBO and HBO Max have thankfully been renewing some of their biggest hit TV shows over the past few weeks, and we’re here with a full recap. Even more noteworthy: they have not canceled a single TV show this year, as of April 2026. 2025 saw a lot of renewals happen as well, but, there were some big canceled shows that were also unfortunately confirmed. We’re revealing what was renewed in 2026 already, and what was renewed/canceled in the past few months as well. Keep reading to see what has been renewed recently… Continue »
Trecina “Tina” Campbell and Glendon “Teddy” Campbell are going their separate ways. Teddy filed for divorce from the Mary Mary singer on April 13 after more than 25 years together, according to court documents obtained by E! News. The 51-year-old—who listed their date of separation as June 2024—cited irreconcilable differences as the reason for the split in docs filed to the Los Angeles County Superior Court. Although Teddy didn’t check off whom he would like to have legal or physical custody of their 13-year-old daughter and 16-year-old son, he requested “child visitation (parenting time),” according to the filing. The couple…
Ladies First. (L-R) Sacha Baron Cohen as Damien Sachs and Rosamund Pike as Alex Fox in Ladies First. Cr. Rob Youngson/Netflix © 2026. Netflix is set to flip the script this spring with the high-concept satirical comedy, Ladies First. Starring Sacha Baron Cohen and Rosamund Pike, the film promises a sharp look at gender dynamics through the lens of a parallel universe. Netflix just lifted the lid on the project a month ahead of its release with first looks and the trailer. We’ve been tracking this project since its inception, including the initial casting announcement that paired these two heavyweights,…
It’s been a turbulent couple of months — heck, make that years — over at Paramount, which may explain why the studio’s 2026 Oscar cupboard appears to be a little bare. Now part of Skydance Media, the studio that previously gave us Best Picture winners like The Godfather and Forrest Gump arrived at CinemaCon with titles that don’t exactly scream prestige, including revivals of the Scary Movie and Jackass franchises and an all-new Street Fighter movie, a video game franchise that’s still waiting for its Super Mario Bros. Movie moment. But hey, while those movies likely won’t earn Oscar votes,…
A record 102 world premiere feature films are on tap at the 25th edition of the Tribeca Festival in June. While celebrity-driven films have long been a staple of Tribeca (along with Oscar-destined documentaries and work by top-tier narrative filmmakers), this year’s bounty includes a number of recognizable names. Among them are Paul Rudd, Quentin Tarantino (in front of the camera), Katie Holmes, Joshua Jackson, Alicia Vikander, Emilia Clarke and Allison Brie. The festival will run from June 3 to 14. Its slate will feature 117 feature films as well as 86 shorts. The fest dropped the word “film” from its official name…
Bob Riha Jr/Getty Images “All in the Family.” “Sanford and Son.” “Maude.” “Good Times.” “The Jeffersons.” All of these were shows that were executive-produced by Norman Lear. All of them were huge hits. And then came “Hot L Baltimore,” a series which not only wasn’t a hit but which was considered so scandalous that its premiere didn’t even air in Baltimore. Although produced by Lear, “Hot L Baltimore” was based on Lanford Wilson’s 1973 play “The Hot L Baltimore,” which centered on the residents of the decrepit Hotel Baltimore. Indeed,…
The Roots of Madness. The title of the new documentary from Swiss filmmaker Edgar Hagen (Who Are We?, Journey to the Safest Place on Earth) is provocative. Its goal is ambitious. After all, amid the heated political debate about migration and rise of xenophobia across Europe and other parts of the world over the past decade-plus, the film looks to answer the question: Why do so many people become refugees? For his cinematic exploration, Hagen tries to understand “the long-term consequences of Western intervention in the Middle East,” as a synopsis highlights. In his investigation, the filmmaker accompanies veteran German journalist Ulrich…