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EXCLUSIVE: Actor, filmmaker and singer-songerwriter Luke Charles Stafford is launching an indie production company, Dream United Studios. Stafford, who performs musically as Luke Charles, is best known for his performance in Brian Lucke Anderson’s East of Middle West and his song “Still Missin’ You,” and has become a lead role actor in vertical dramas for the likes of GoodShort and ReelShort. He is now branching out into production with Dream United, which will premiere its first short, Against the Wall, which is billed as “an ode to fatherhood.” Also starring in the pic is Stafford’s father, Robert Sheldon Stafford Jr.,…
Crew Girl S1. (L to R) Miku Martineau as Teagan, Sage Linder as Britney, Alaska Leigh as Amber and Olga Petsa as Juliet Morny in Crew Girl S1. Cr. Cr. Courtesy of David Astorga/Netflix © 2026 If you’ve been following our coverage, you’ll know we’ve been keeping a close eye on this one ever since we first covered the news of the cast joining the teen drama series. Now, we finally have our extended real look at the show, and it could be poised to be Netflix’s next big young adult obsession. As announced last month, all eight episodes (clocking in…
On a balmy July Saturday in Southern California, deep in the air-conditioned bowels of the San Diego Convention Center, Dave Green watched his own unreleased movie for the first time in three years. Despite the very long gap, doing so took some convincing. His film, Coyote vs. Acme, had been in development at Warner Bros. for years, only for the studio to shelve it as a tax write-off in 2023 after production completed. Following fan outcry, Warners then decided to explore offers to sell it, only to — after rejecting various bids — seemingly take it off the market. A…
Clavicular I Can Fix You, AOC!!! Published August 12, 2026 6:57 AM PDT Clavicular is shooting his shot at Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez … wasting little time after news broke that AOC and her longtime fiancé Riley Roberts called it quits. The viral streamer took to social media to react to our X post about the split, posting a simple message … “I can fix her.” The flirty comment comes after Clavicular and AOC already crossed paths earlier this summer, when TMZ DC and asked her about the influencer’s viral “looksmaxing” movement. Play video content AOC said at the time she…
Picture: Alamy As we’ve extensively covered over the last few months, Netflix is in the middle of a massive identity shift. In case it wasn’t obvious from our recent dive into the platform’s newly minted “Podcast Era” or the rollout of the massive ‘Culture Edit’ hub, Netflix is gunning, harder than any year before, for YouTube. By throwing tens of millions at Spotify crossovers like Jay Shetty’s On Purpose, licensing library titles from The Ringer and Barstool, and integrating over 5,800 episodes of short-form digital series from publishers like Condé Nast, BuzzFeed, and Tastemade, with that episode count already ticking up…
For Cameron Moody, Washington Black offered the kind of opportunity composers spend years hoping for: a sweeping, unabashedly melodic canvas large enough to match the scope of its story. His score rises and soars alongside Washington’s journey, carrying themes of flight, wonder and resilience through every episode. “To get the chance to lay it all out and have a big orchestra and be able to write in that kind of classic style, especially on your first show, I think any composer would be pinching themselves,” Moody tells Gold Derby in our recent composers’ Spotlight panel. Based on Esi Edugyan’s bestselling…
Rosie O’Donnell wasn’t banking on so much sex when she checked into the city for a cameo on And Just Like That. The actress and comedian, 64, appeared as a nun who ends up losing her virginity to Cynthia Nixon’s Miranda Hobbes in the season 3 premiere of the Sex and the City spinoff. But according to O’Donnell, filming an intimate postcoital moment in bed together was “horrifying.” “I was so nervous!” O’Donnell shared on the “Good Hang With Amy Poehler” podcast on Tuesday, August 11. “First of all, I love her. I love her and have so much respect…
It might be fair to say that Star Wars is now perhaps the President of False Starts in Hollywood. It used to be unstoppable, but since Disney acquired Lucasfilm in 2012, a string of announced films have quietly disappeared from the release calendar as Disney focused on television. And then abandoned that, too. And now, another previously unannounced theatrical project has officially joined that growing list. Screenwriter Simon Farnaby has confirmed that he and Paddington and Wonka director Paul King were developing a Star Wars movie for Disney and Lucasfilm before the project was ultimately scrapped, when Disney decided it…
Apple TV Phil Dunster’s Jamie Tartt is gone, but not forgotten, in “Ted Lasso” Season 4 — and in Episode 2, now streaming on Apple TV, the M.I.A. striker’s whereabouts are finally revealed. When we last saw Jamie in the Season 3 finale, he had come a long way from the arrogant footballer introduced in Season 1. But all that personal growth wasn’t enough to win Keeley back. When he and Roy showed up at her front door and asked her to choose between them, Keeley chose… herself. More importantly,…
Empire creator Lee Daniels, Capernaum director Nadine Labaki, and avant-garde artist Marina Abramovic will be honored at this year’s Venice Film Festival with the 2026 Liberatum Pioneer Awards. The awards, presented by Pablo Ganguli’s Liberatum cultural diplomacy organization, recognize artists whose work “has challenged convention, broken down systemic barriers, expanded artistic boundaries, redefined the possibilities of their respective fields and promoted the importance of preserving human dignity.” The awards presentations will take place in Venice on Sept 6 and 7 as part of the inaugural Liberatum Art & Cinema, a new multidisciplinary programme staged to mark the cultural group’s twenty-fifth…