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Berlin-based world sales company M-Appeal has boarded “Zoom In, Zoom Out,” the debut feature from Chinese director Jie Dong, set to premiere in Venice Critics’ Week. The film follows Shi as he searches the city for his missing roommate Gao, a search that leads him to Gao’s girlfriend YY. Together, they begin piecing the fragments left behind, drawn into a space where memory, reality and the digital world increasingly intertwine. Producer Shanshan Cao said: “The film captures the changing living conditions and shifting spiritual outlook of contemporary Chinese youth, in a world where the digital realm is fundamentally reshaping our…
Bob Odenkirk plays another unassuming schmo with secret uberyarbles in Normal (now on HBO Max), a violent comedy that might skew a little too close to Nobody and its sequel than it probably should. Consider: a six-letter title that starts with “no,” lots of blood ‘n’ guts for comedy’s sake, another screenplay by Derek Kolstad, and Odenkirk’s nice-guy persona. But there are enough tweaks to the formula here — and enough nifty moves from director Ben Wheatley (Kill List, Meg 2: The Trench) — to differentiate Normal from most disposable and cynically violent action-laffers. Which is a way of saying…
Ewan McGregor‘s back in Scotland celebrating Trainspotting‘s 30th birthday. The Hollywood star, famed for roles in the Star Wars prequel trilogy, Moulin Rouge!, Black Hawk Down, Down With Love, and who is currently in theaters with The End of Oak Street, spoke at an Edinburgh International Film Festival session on Friday afternoon, shortly before a party celebrating the anniversary of Danny Boyle’s 1996 film, which launched McGregor to stardom. The live event is set to host McGregor and his Trainspotting castmate Ewan Bremner, as well as producer Andrew Macdonald, screenwriter John Hodge and author Irvine Welsh for an in-depth conversation…
Getty Kristen Stewart is looking back at her time in the movie franchise that made her a big star. During a new appearance on Owen Thiele‘s In Your Dreams podcast to promote her upcoming film The Wrong Girls, the 36-year-old actress recalled what it was like filming Twilight and whether she ever gets annoyed that it still comes up all these years later. Kristen Stewart reveals if she gets annoyed talking about Twilight “No, I’m not annoyed at all. It’s really funny because it was like we did five of those movies, and it took five years, and then we’ve…
In brightest day, in darkest night, Lanterns isn’t escaping TV critics’ sight. The latest DC Comics-derived live action TV series is launching on HBO and HBO Max on Aug. 16, and so far the word of mouth is much better than the Emerald Knight’s disastrous big screen debut 15 years ago. How much better, you ask? The Green Lantern movie was slapped with a 25% rotten Rotten Tomatoes score and a basement-dwelling 39 rating on Metacritic. Lanterns, on the other hand, is sitting pretty at 89% on RT and 72 on Metacritic. In other words, there’s no reason for Deadpool…
Mormon Wives’ Dakota Mortensen Dating Shinia Powell Amid Taylor Frankie Paul Custody BattleTaylor Frankie Paul has been given protection amid her ongoing legal battle with ex-boyfriend Dakota Mortensen. The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star was granted a temporary restraining order against Mortensen’s roommate Cru Eaton on Aug. 14, one month after he posted a video of the former couple in a verbal argument on social media. During a hearing in Utah, a judge characterized Eaton’s actions as a “personal attack,” ruling that he “acted with full knowledge of the vulnerability,” according to People. “The court finds and concludes that…
More than a decade later, Kristen Stewart is treating fans to another stoner comedy with her role in The Wrong Girls, now in theaters. While discussing the Dylan Meyer-written/directed film, she acknowledged some similarities between one of the dual roles she plays in the movie and her character in the 2015 action comedy American Ultra, who was also a stoner. In The Wrong Girls, Frankie (Stewart) and Molly (Alia Shawkat) are codependent stoner best friends who have to come up with a way to pay the rent in 24 hours, all while discovering a mysterious drug that allows them to…
Disney/Hulu The Onyx Collective series “Deli Boys” has been canceled at Hulu after just two seasons, TVLine has confirmed. The series had been a priority for Onyx, which pushed for more cast members at the end of its freshman season. After “SNL” vet Fred Armisen joined as a series regular, the show was eventually renewed for Season 2. The series later added a supporting cast that included Andrew Rannells, Kumail Nanjiani, Lilly Singh, Robin Thede, and Tan France, but following the second run’s low ratings, even those late additions couldn’t help it…
Mark Rydell, the director of Cinderella Liberty and The Rose who received an Oscar nomination for guiding Henry Fonda in On Golden Pond, the final film from the iconic actor, has died. He was 97. Rydell died Thursday of natural causes at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, his daughter, Amy Rydell, told The Hollywood Reporter. Rydell also was an actor who played one-half of a young couple that drove the CBS daytime soap As the World Turns to No. 1 in the ratings in the 1950s. He later portrayed a brutal mobster in Robert Altman‘s The Long Goodbye (1973), the real-life mob…
Surrogate McKenna West Child With Same Heart Defect Is ‘Thriving’ Published August 14, 2026 1:45 PM PDT Surrogate McKenna West says she knows a person who was born with the same heart defect as Baby Gabriel … and she claims they are now a “thriving teenager.” According to court documents obtained by TMZ, McKenna says the baby was born with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, just like Gabriel … and they underwent at least three surgeries. The docs say McKenna’s maternal-fetal-medicine specialist got in contact with the biological parents to explain to all three of them how approximately 70% of children…