Every broadcaster and streaming platform is focused on the same thing heading into 2024: trying to get back up and running after a year in which Hollywood’s historic double strikes shut down production for months. Amid the writer and cast strikes, streamers and networks are trying to solidify their programming pipelines as several scripted comedies […]
‘Mean Streets’ actor turned 80 – The Hollywood Reporter
Richard Romanus, the tough character actor best known for his role as Michael Longo, the loan shark from Little Italy who teams up with Robert De Niro’s Johnny Civello in Martin Scorsese’s film Medium streets, has died. He was 80. Romanus died Dec. 23 at a private hospital in Volos, Greece, his son Robert Romanus […]
Generation V Comic-Con Panel – The Hollywood Reporter
In 2019, Lizze Broadway was at San Diego Comic-Con when the whispers started. “The young come. The young A few minutes later, actors like Karl Urban and Jack Quaid walked by seemingly in slow motion. “For a show I knew nothing about, that moment really stands out in my mind,” says Broadway, who plays size-changer […]
‘Hot Bench’ Judges on Jonathan Majors Trial, Danny Masterson Appeal Chances – The Hollywood Reporter
The Hot Bench judges are no strangers to conflict. Every week, the three-judge tribunal presides over small-claims cases ranging from tame disputes over property damage to wild clashes over accusations of sabotage between longtime friends. Judges Michael Corriero, Rachel Juarez and Yodit Tewolde earned a wide variety of legal bona fides before joining the CBS […]
Founding member of the Dixie Chicks was 65 – The Hollywood Reporter
Laura Lynch, a founding member of the Dixie Chicks who played double bass in the band from 1990 to 1993, has died. She was 65. The musician was killed in a car accident near El Paso, Texas, on Friday evening, her cousin Michael Lynch, told CBS News. For a Texas Department of Safety Report received […]
‘Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom’ earns a whopping $4.5 million in theatrical previews – The Hollywood Reporter
DCs Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom opened its domestic Christmas box office with a sluggish $4.5 million in Thursday previews, well below the $9 million the first film grossed. The sequel, which reunites director James Wan and star Jason Momoa, caps a year in which the superhero genre largely struggled at the box office. The […]
‘The Black Book’ Becomes Hit Nigerian Film to Top Netflix in 2023 – The Hollywood Reporter
This was the year Nollywood made Netflix history. The black book, a revenge thriller from debut director Editi Effiong, became the first Nigerian film ever to reach number 3 on Netflix’s global film charts. The film, which was made for “just” $1 million (actually a huge sum for a Nigerian film), garnered 5.6 million views […]
20 Sexiest Movies, Ranked – The Hollywood Reporter
“Why do people not just do this all the time?” That incredulous question comes from Emma Stone’s Bella Baxter midway through Poor Things, following a vigorous introductory bout of copulation with Mark Ruffalo’s caddish lawyer, Duncan Wedderburn. Yorgos Lanthimos’ imaginative riff on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein charts a deceased Victorian woman’s reanimation with the brain of […]
Two Oscar-winning short films that push the boundaries of African cinema – The Hollywood Reporter
In Your perfect life, Onajite Johnson-Ibrahim (played by Pearl Those) seems to have it all. She’s a 39-year-old entrepreneur with the perfect Instagram profile – a fantastic career, a loving husband (played by Ahmed Ibrahim) and two smart and beautiful children – but Onajite secretly suffers from depression. She thinks about suicide. Iyawo Mi (My […]
What Netflix’s data dump reveals about ‘Wednesday,’ ‘Suits’ and more – The Hollywood Reporter
Netflix released a massive amount of streaming data on Tuesday – with total views of more than 18,000 movies and TV seasons for the first half of 2023. Overall, it’s an almost overwhelming amount of information that suggests Netflix’s ability to attract its huge subscriber base (just under 239 million at the end of the […]
