Author: Williams M
Paris-based sales company Luxbox has acquired Katharina Rivilis’ drama “I’ll Be Gone in June,” which has been selected for Cannes’ Un Certain Regard. The film, whose producers include Wim Wenders, is distributed in Germany and Switzerland by DCM. In 2001, Franny, a 16-year-old exchange student from Germany, arrives in the sleepy desert town of Las Cruces, New Mexico. Far from home, Franny struggles through awkward school days, stifling heat, and restless nights until she meets Elliott, a boy whose quiet sadness mirrors her own. As America reels from 9/11, something resonates within Franny and an unexpected tenderness begins to bloom.…
Picture Credit: Netflix It’s official. The 91-day premiere window has closed, the final numbers have been tallied, and we have a major shake-up in Netflix’s most prestigious ranking. The psychological thriller limited series His & Hers has successfully cracked the English TV All-Time Top 10 list, unseating 2023’s first season of the action-thriller juggernaut, The Night Agent. For those who track Netflix’s global metrics as obsessively as we do, you know how incredibly difficult it is for a new series to breach the all-time ranks. The Night Agent has been comfortably sitting in the Top 10 since its explosive debut…
Juan Devis has been named the president of Film Independent, the non-profit arts organization behind the Film Independent Spirit Awards. Devis, who previously served as the chief creative officer at the Public Media Group of Southern California, will be stepping into the role after the passing of Josh Welsh, Film Independent’s longtime president. Welsh died in late 2024 after a battle with colon cancer. During his time at Public Media Group of Southern California, which includes PBS SoCal and KCET, Devis oversaw a production slate that has earned over thirty Emmys. Most recently, Devis co-founded Ninety-Three Media, an independent film and…
Chris Brown and Usher have revealed the dates for their upcoming The R&B Tour, a co-headlining stadium run. The R&B singers creatively used their last names, Raymond and Brown, to come up with the title of their 2026 summer tour. The tour was announced last week with a cool video ad. The 33-date tour will begin in late June and will mostly play shows through the end of the summer, but there are a handful of dates that extend to the end of the year. Tickets will be available starting with Citi presale beginning Tuesday April 21 followed by The…
Even though it feels like the year just started, we’re getting closer and closer to the halfway point of 2026, which is summer. And we all know what summer means (other than great weather): The best blockbuster movies and shows of the year! Thankfully, Netflix has started to reveal some release dates for summer content, including what might be the streamer’s biggest rom-com of 2026.So far, Netflix has dated three original series for releases this summer, which includes Sweet Magnolias season 5, Avatar: The Last Airbender season 2, and the new reboot of Little House on the Prairie. But the…
Warning: This story contains major spoilers for Season 5 of The Boys. Please proceed with caution! For the first four seasons of Prime Video’s superhero show, Karen Fukuhara acted in silence as her character, Kimiko Miyashiro/The Female, communicated via nonverbal language techniques. But all of that changed in Season 5, as the fan-fave supe underwent speech therapy (and watched loads of TikTok) to finally reclaim her speaking voice. “Finding her voice and figuring out what it’s like to be a part of the speaking world was a huge challenge for me,” Fukuhara tells Gold Derby. In prior episodes, Kimiko, the…
Boston Blue‘s Sonequa Martin-Green has the perfect role for Donnie Wahlberg‘s wife, Jenny McCarthy. “I’m always texting with Jenny and Donnie’s always texting with [my husband] Kenric [Green]. So we have this really interesting four part friendship going on, which is growing and it’s really sweet,” Martin-Green exclusively told Us Weekly. “But we talk about Jenny coming on the show all the time.” Martin-Green, who plays Lena on the hit police procedural, pointed out that McCarthy would have to be cast as someone that “we could see often.” “Somebody that we have to go see. Maybe she works in the…
President and CEO of Cinema United, Michael O’Leary put the biggest annual gathering of theater owners on alert today about the risks of “concentrating marketplace power in the hands of a smaller group of distributors that dictate the terms, windows, scheduling, screen-placement of movies, and access to historic film catalogs.” Noting “the ongoing efforts to acquire Warner Bros., the iconic studio that delivered a truly spectacular 2025,” he said M&A in the space has “a real and lasting impact on Main Street and millions of movie fans around the world.” Paramount chief David Ellison has said he hopes to close…
ABC Finding an audience in an increasingly competitive television market has always been challenging, especially for sitcoms. With so many networks and streaming platforms looking for the next big hit, many series get canceled before they have enough time to build a viable audience. Even shows garnering widespread critical acclaim have no guarantee of surviving for more than a season or two if they can’t reach a satisfactory viewership in time. Of course, this isn’t a reflection of a sitcom’s quality but of the industry’s often cutthroat nature. Many sitcoms…
Godzilla is ready to take a bite out of the Big Apple in the first look at Godzilla Minus Zero. Filmmaker Takashi Yamazaki took the CinemaCon stage in Las Vegas on Tuesday to tease progress on the sequel to his original Oscar-winning 2023 feature, Godzilla Minus One. GKIDS is set to release the follow-up theatrically on Nov. 6. “This film will be a direct sequel to Godzilla Minus One,” Yamazaki told the crowd through a translator. “It will continue to follow the story of the Shikishima family.” Yamazaki added, “In this new film, an even deeper despair will descend upon…