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It’s all about the money in writer-director Jérôme Pierrat’s fiction feature directorial debut Moolah (La Moula), in which he also stars.The crime drama, also featuring Kader Benchoudar, Jean Ruimi, Jean-Michel Correia, Thierry Coignard, Patrice Kouyoumdjian, Jean-Mathieu Frattaci, Fethi Makdoudi, Michel Ucciani and Jacques Sordi, will world premiere on Wednesday, Sept. 9 in the Horizons section of the 83rd edition of the Venice International Film Festival. And it takes us on an 82-minute cinematic trip into a world that we – or at least most of us – don’t know up close. After all, Pierrat has made a name for himself as a journalist investigating organized crime…
Apple TV Apple TV is hiking their streaming service’s subscriptions yet again. Effective immediately, beginning on Friday (August 28), the subscription price will increase in the U.S. for new and existing subscribers. The monthly price is now at $14.99 (up from $12.99) and the annual price is now $119 (up from $99). Existing subscribers will be notified approximately one month prior to being charged the new price, according to Apple. This is now the fourth price increase for Apple TV in four years. The monthly subscription fee has now tripled from the original $4.99 a month when the streaming service…
Pictured: Overwatch, Halo, World of Warcraft and Doom When it comes to video game adaptations, Netflix has essentially become the final boss of Hollywood. As we’ve documented extensively, Netflix has been aggressively mining video game IP for quite some time. From smash hits like Arcane, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, and Castlevania to upcoming projects like Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft, the streamer has built a reputation as the premier destination for translating pixels to prestige television. According to the latest What I’m Hearing newsletter from Puck News, Microsoft’s Xbox division is currently shopping around a massive, bulk film and TV deal for its deep vault of video game properties—and…
This post contains spoilers for the Season 2 premiere of Dark Matter. The Dessens finally seem to have what they’ve been fighting for. When Season 2 of Apple TV’s Dark Matter opens, Jason and Daniela Dessen (played by Joel Edgerton and Jennifer Connelly, respectively) are living a seemingly ordinary life in the woods, discussing a leaky roof, drinking coffee and making plans for the weekend. And after the mind-bending events of Season 1, the quiet feels almost too good to be true. It is. Based on Blake Crouch’s bestselling novel, Dark Matter returns with Jason, Daniela, and their son, Charlie…
Ella Langley isn’t choosin’ the high road. After Doja Cat went viral for claiming not to know the “Choosin’ Texas” singer by name, she cheekily responded. “Ella Langley?” Langley captioned her…
Andrea Eastman, the casting director for “The Godfather” and former Hollywood agent, died on Wednesday at her home in Santa Barbara. She was 86. Entering the film industry at a time when it was dominated by men, Eastman became one of Hollywood’s first female “superagents,” rising to senior vice president at International Creative Management and serving as an agent at Creative Management Associates and International Famous Agency. Eastman started out working in casting, and was instrumental in casting and developing some of the most pivotal films of the “New Hollywood” movement. When Paramount executives were against casting then-unknown actor Al…
HBO has set a Sunday, September 20 premiere date for Sharon Horgan’s new comedy “Youth.” The network has also released the first trailer, which you can watch above. Created by and starring the “Bad Sisters” vet, the eight-episode series follows Alex (Horgan), a 50-year-old in pursuit of “sex and love whilst juggling caring for her ailing parents and parenting her should-be grown up son,” according to the official logline. Rupert Friend (“Homeland”), Sharlene Whyte (“Small Axe”), Aran Murphy, and Robbie Gee (“The Curse”) also star. “Youth” will launch at 10 p.m.…
Meteorite (Meteorito), Colombian visual artist and filmmaker Sebastián Múnera’s feature directorial debut, promises to be a rollercoaster ride when it world-premieres in the competition lineup of the Venice Critics’ Week on Sept. 8. Just hear me out! Tefa and Nia live in a small town near the Magdalena River, where they raise Nia’s young nephew. Nia then persuades Tefa to join her in smuggling cell phones into the regional prison. Their journey leads them through – here it comes! – an amusement park built on the grounds of a drug lord’s former estate. That’s where water slides and concrete dinosaurs and…
Is Kylie Jenner expecting another baby, like what social media users are now claiming?! Ummm not so fast! The reality TV mogul is addressing those viral pregnancy rumors head-on — well, sort of! During Wednesday’s brand-new episode of the Better Half podcast, Kylie, 29, admitted she’s gotten pretty accustomed to people making up their own stories about her. Related: Kylie Shares Touching Throwback Video Of Grandma MJ After Her Death She said: “I think that I’m so used to people creating their own narrative that I actually have to just laugh about it and I really don’t care. I just…
As a certified Netflix connoisseur (yes, I gave myself that title), I have seen the rise and fall of Netflix shows over the past several years that were canceled far too soon. Not every Netflix show that is canceled comes to an end too soon, of course. Some Netflix shows just aren’t good enough to pick up a renewal for another season. Others, though, definitely should not have been canceled when they were. There are a lot of examples of this throughout Netflix’s decade-plus of making original shows. Some of those shows lasted a few seasons only to be left…