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Patrick Ball can’t quite believe he’s an Emmy nominee for his first proper television role on The Pitt. The North Carolina native has become a fan-favorite for playing Dr. Frank Langdon, a senior resident recovering from addiction in the Noah Wyle-led series, and last month his performance earned him a Best Supporting Actor in a Drama bid. “The fact that the job that I got was telling the story that I actually believe in feels amazing,” Ball tells Gold Derby. “So I think, yeah, I’ve already won.” The actor sat down to discuss what it means to authentically portray recovery…
Tim Kring, the creator and showrunner of the hit NBC show Heroes, is remembering cast member Hayden Panettiere after her death at 36. In an essay published by Variety on Tuesday, August 18, Kring wrote that the actress was “a seasoned professional” when she auditioned for the role of teen cheerleader Claire Bennet, but “unlike many actors who start working as kids, Hayden had no sense of jaded child actor quality to her.” Kring said, “It was a fait accompli that she would embody the role of Claire Bennet, aka the Cheerleader, from the moment we met her.” Panettiere played…
Australian hybrid-AI studio Red Empire Productions and international production and distribution company Organic Media Group are developing “Alishan Escape: A Mandopop Ghost Adventure,” an original animated musical inspired by Taiwan’s Ghost Month traditions, Buddhist philosophy, local Indigenous tribal cultures and the global reach of Asian pop music. The project marks a creative collaboration between Red Empire Productions founder and CEO Amie Casey and Organic Media Group (OMG) co-founder Steve Chicorel, combining cinematic storytelling, original music and hybrid-AI production techniques for a theatrical animated musical aimed at worldwide audiences. Set against Taiwan’s landscapes and spiritual traditions, “Alishan Escape” follows an international…
This is the end of a story about a girl named Lucky. And in some ways, it’s also the beginning… For the past six weeks, Jonathan Tropper and Cassie Pappas’ thrilling crime drama, Lucky, has taken Apple TV subscribers on a wild ride. Based on Marissa Stapley’s bestselling novel, the series followed Luciana “Lucky” Armstrong (Anya Taylor-Joy) on a dangerous quest to retrieve missing money that her father John (Timothy Olyphant) — and later her husband Cary (Drew Starkey) — stole from her mob boss mother-in-law Priscilla Matheson (Annette Bening) and Wayne Whittaker (William Fichtner), the man who calls the shots. …
The Busan International Film Festival has selected Kim Jong-kwan’s The Table: Day and Night, a tender drama about four couples who experience romantic moments in the same Seoul cafe, as the opening film of its 31st edition. The drama will world premiere at the Busan Cinema Center on Oct. 6, the festival announced Wednesday. Kim has built his reputation in the Korean film industry with a flair for elegantly constructed short stories. He won the jury prize at the Mise-en-scène Short Film Festival for his 2004 debut How to Operate a Polaroid Camera, and has returned repeatedly to anthology work…
Chris Evans is opening up about fatherhood. Earlier this month, the Materialists star appeared at Fan Expo Boston 2026, where he got to talking about the daughter he welcomed with wife Alba Baptista last year. On the subject of working, the 45-year-old dished: “I have a daughter now. You need a really good reason to want to go to work now. [My] priorities have shifted a bit.” Awww! Marvel must really be cooking with Avengers: Doomsday, then, if the film was enough to bring him out of superhero retirement! But in all seriousness, we adore hearing Chris talk about loving…
Freefall: A Reckoning for Boeing. Cr. Courtesy of AIRFLIX-Maxwell Archives. Rory Kennedy’s 2022 doc Downfall: The Case Against Boeing was an engaging and blood-curdling examination against the Boeing company and all the inhuman unaccountability from the companies. The documentation of the executives’ complete disregard for the safety complaints of the workers who constructed the aircraft that led to the 346 fatalities in the 2018 and 2019 Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines crashes was so severe that Ted Cruz was depicted as being mildly compliant when he reprimanded the then-CEO Dennis Muilenburg. You know how much you have to screw up…
Kareem Rahma has a take: his Emmy-nominated series Subway Takes isn’t “new media,” “digital media,” or “streaming media” — it’s just media. “I don’t even think it’s that hot a take,” the Egypt-born ex-journalist tells Gold Derby matter-of-factly about where his quick bite talk show — which almost certainly pops up in your various feeds be it on Instagram, TikTok or YouTube — fits into the current entertainment ecosystem. “It’s literally the reality of what we do; anything that streams is a streaming show, and it’s all digital video. There’s been a flattening of what entertainment is and what that…
Kim Kardashian isn’t skimming over Lewis Hamilton’s family. In fact, the Kardashians star joined her boyfriend on his summer break from the Formula 1 season, spending time with Hamilton’s loved ones, including his niece Willow and nephew Kaiden, during a tropical vacation. As seen in a photo shared on Instagram Aug. 17, Kim hit the waves in a surfboard with Willow. An accompanying video showed that the 45-year-old’s younger kids Saint, 10, Chicago, 8, and Psalm, 7, also tagged along for the beach excursion, as well as sister Khloe Kardashian and her children True, 8, and Tatum, 4. Other images…
Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Cannes Competition drama Minotaur is widely considered one of the live contenders to make the Academy’s Best International Film category. Earlier this week, the Russian-language drama, which won the Grand Prix on the Croisette, was among eleven movies to make Germany’s longlist for the prize. However, it was the only film on the list to have ‘provisionally’ next to its name. That’s likely because it could also be selected as France’s submission, something that should become clearer towards the end of September when the country makes its decision on which film to send to the Oscars. Minotaur, a…