
Adrien Brody never looked like a leading man.
Casting agents and executives made that message clear over and over again throughout his three-plus decades as a working actor. “Overtly,” Brody, 51, says. “But, yeah, it was often told to my representatives, and my representatives would share that with me.”
Even after nabbing the best actor Oscar in 2003 at the age of 29 for “The Pianist” — making him the youngest winner ever in the category — he never quite maintained A-list status.
While a few directors came calling with the occasional studio lead role, like Peter Jackson for his $200 million 2005 tentpole “King Kong” and Nimród Antal for the 2010 “Predators” sequel, those were the exceptions. Yes, he’s booked five movies with Wes Anderson since joining the director’s repertory company in 2007’s “The Darjeeling Limited,” but other major roles have eluded him, even while peers such as Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Leonardo DiCaprio...
Casting agents and executives made that message clear over and over again throughout his three-plus decades as a working actor. “Overtly,” Brody, 51, says. “But, yeah, it was often told to my representatives, and my representatives would share that with me.”
Even after nabbing the best actor Oscar in 2003 at the age of 29 for “The Pianist” — making him the youngest winner ever in the category — he never quite maintained A-list status.
While a few directors came calling with the occasional studio lead role, like Peter Jackson for his $200 million 2005 tentpole “King Kong” and Nimród Antal for the 2010 “Predators” sequel, those were the exceptions. Yes, he’s booked five movies with Wes Anderson since joining the director’s repertory company in 2007’s “The Darjeeling Limited,” but other major roles have eluded him, even while peers such as Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Leonardo DiCaprio...
- 2/5/2025
- by Tatiana Siegel
- Variety Film + TV


"Wait for me – before you two start hitting each other." Lionsgate has unveiled the first official trailer for a crime comedy called Riff Raff, the latest film directed by New Yorker filmmaker Dito Montiel. Not to be confused with the 1935 classic with Spencer Tracy. This first premiered at the 2024 Toronto Film Festival last year, and will be out in theaters in February. One-time criminal Vince turned his life around when he fell in love with Sandy. Nearly 20 years later, the still-happy couple are looking forward to spending a quiet New Year’s Eve with their son. But then Vince's other son, Rocco, shows up unannounced with his pregnant girlfriend, Marina, and Vince's first wife, Ruth, in tow. It is not a happy reunion. Ruth is rude & lewd, while Rocco — who never divested left the family business — is clearly hiding something. Hot on Rocco's tail is Lefty, an aging mafioso with...
- 1/29/2025
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net


It can’t be denied that as far as martial arts movies go, the best ones come from Asia, particularly Hong Kong during their action heyday, which was arguably the 70s, 80s and first half of the ’90s. It’s tough to compete with the likes of the Shaw Brothers and the drunken master known as Jackie Chan. That said, martial arts movies were also making a foothold in the States decades ago, thanks mainly to Bruce Lee-mania following the release of Enter the Dragon. Before that movie, very few actors in Hollywood seemed like they were credible martial artists, except maybe James Coburn, a student of Lee’s, who pulled off some pretty good-looking moves in the otherwise silly Our Man Flint movies. Steve McQueen also had training but didn’t use martial arts on screen. Up to then, though, the most notable uses of martial arts in movies usually revolved around Judo,...
- 1/23/2025
- by Chris Bumbray
- JoBlo.com


Mark your calendars, Oscars fans, because the 97th Academy Awards will air on Sunday, March 2, 2025 on ABC. The annual star-studded ceremony will honor movies released in theaters within the 2024 calendar year of eligibility. AMPAS members will vote on the Oscar winners in 23 categories, including Best Actor. But who will win? Here at Gold Derby, thousands of users have been making and updating their 2025 Oscar predictions for Best Actor, so let’s take a look at all of the top contenders in our photo gallery below.
These 25 Best Actor hopefuls are listed in order of their racetrack odds, which are derived from the combined forecasts of four unique groups: experts we’ve polled from major media outlets, editors who cover awards year-round for this website, top 24 users who had the best accuracy scores last year, and the mass of users who make up our biggest predictions bloc.
The five most recent...
These 25 Best Actor hopefuls are listed in order of their racetrack odds, which are derived from the combined forecasts of four unique groups: experts we’ve polled from major media outlets, editors who cover awards year-round for this website, top 24 users who had the best accuracy scores last year, and the mass of users who make up our biggest predictions bloc.
The five most recent...
- 1/19/2025
- by Marcus James Dixon and Denton Davidson
- Gold Derby


Claude Jarman Jr., who received a Juvenile Academy Award for his heart-tugging performance as the boy who adopts an orphaned fawn in the 1946 MGM classic The Yearling, died Sunday. He was 90.
Jarman died in his sleep of natural causes at his Marin County home in Kentfield, California, his wife of 38 years, Katie, told THR’s Scott Feinberg.
In films released in 1949, Jarman starred with Jeanette MacDonald in the Lassie movie The Sun Comes Up, played the brother of a rancher on the run (Robert Sterling) in Roughshod and reteamed with Yearling director Clarence Brown to portray a youngster out to prove the innocence of a Black man in Intruder in the Dust, based on the William Faulkner novel and filmed in Oxford, Mississippi.
A year later, he played the son of a cavalry officer (John Wayne) in John Ford’s Rio Grande (1950).
Born on Sept. 27, 1934, Jarman was the 10-year-old son...
Jarman died in his sleep of natural causes at his Marin County home in Kentfield, California, his wife of 38 years, Katie, told THR’s Scott Feinberg.
In films released in 1949, Jarman starred with Jeanette MacDonald in the Lassie movie The Sun Comes Up, played the brother of a rancher on the run (Robert Sterling) in Roughshod and reteamed with Yearling director Clarence Brown to portray a youngster out to prove the innocence of a Black man in Intruder in the Dust, based on the William Faulkner novel and filmed in Oxford, Mississippi.
A year later, he played the son of a cavalry officer (John Wayne) in John Ford’s Rio Grande (1950).
Born on Sept. 27, 1934, Jarman was the 10-year-old son...
- 1/13/2025
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News


“Ladies and gentlemen, Sean Paul.” That’s all Adrien Brody had to say when he hosted Saturday Night Live. Instead, he went full Jamaican, donning a wig, taking on an accent and grooving in a way that nobody expected or wanted. As such, he got a lifetime ban from the show. Or did he? While the moment is undoubtedly one of the more questionable moments to happen on SNL, Adrien Brody isn’t so sure that he is actually banned.
As far as Adrien Brody remembers, his one-time hosting stint on SNL was going well enough, finding the confidence to pitch his faux Jamaican character to the cast and Lorne Michaels. “I think Lorne wasn’t happy with me embellishing a bit, but they allowed me to. I thought that was a safe space to do that, weirdly.” With that sort of confidence, Brody took the stage at Studio 8H and introduced Paul,...
As far as Adrien Brody remembers, his one-time hosting stint on SNL was going well enough, finding the confidence to pitch his faux Jamaican character to the cast and Lorne Michaels. “I think Lorne wasn’t happy with me embellishing a bit, but they allowed me to. I thought that was a safe space to do that, weirdly.” With that sort of confidence, Brody took the stage at Studio 8H and introduced Paul,...
- 1/7/2025
- by Mathew Plale
- JoBlo.com


Music blares as the CinemaScope logo fades—a train guns across the Mojave. It is like a gut punch. The camera flies over the modern streamliner, shooting like a bullet through the desert. Unexpectedly, its horns blow and it halts to a stop in a little nowhere place. The whole...
- 1/7/2025
- by Alex Lei
- avclub.com

Critical consensus is overrated. Rotten Tomatoes may have trained movie-lovers to quantify a movie's worth with a percentage score in recent years, but some of the best movies ever made deeply divided critics and audiences alike. Early Hollywood star Katharine Hepburn made plenty of divisive films in her career, from the John Wayne-led Western "Rooster Cogburn" to her first Oscar-winning film, "Morning Glory," to the bold interracial marriage dramedy "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner." Time Out once called the latter, which earned 10 Oscar nominations upon release, "a wishy-washy, sanctimonious plea for tolerance, directed with Kramer's customary verbosity and stodginess."
It's a truth universally acknowledged that good movies sometimes get trashed by certain critics, but that makes the rare film that achieves complete critical consensus all the more interesting -- if not always necessarily better than the more polarizing films. Plenty of great actors only have one 100% Rotten Tomatoes score under their belt,...
It's a truth universally acknowledged that good movies sometimes get trashed by certain critics, but that makes the rare film that achieves complete critical consensus all the more interesting -- if not always necessarily better than the more polarizing films. Plenty of great actors only have one 100% Rotten Tomatoes score under their belt,...
- 12/29/2024
- by Valerie Ettenhofer
- Slash Film


Charles Shyer, the director and Oscar-nominated writer who teamed with then-wife Nancy Meyers on such audience-pleasing, feel-good comedies as Private Benjamin, Irreconcilable Differences, Baby Boom and Father of the Bride, has died. He was 83.
Shyer died Friday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after a brief illness, his daughter Hallie Meyers-Shyer, writer and director of the 2017 Reese Witherspoon comedy Home Again, told The Hollywood Reporter.
The son of veteran assistant director Melville Shyer, one of the founders of the DGA, Shyer started out writing for sitcoms like The Odd Couple and The Partridge Family with then-partner Alan Mandel before they broke into the movies with the box office smash Smokey and the Bandit (1977), starring Burt Reynolds and Sally Field.
Shyer’s career skyrocketed when he joined forces with Meyers and Harvey Miller to pen the screenplay for Private Benjamin (1980), directed by Howard Zieff and featuring Goldie Hawn in her first big-screen starring role.
Shyer died Friday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after a brief illness, his daughter Hallie Meyers-Shyer, writer and director of the 2017 Reese Witherspoon comedy Home Again, told The Hollywood Reporter.
The son of veteran assistant director Melville Shyer, one of the founders of the DGA, Shyer started out writing for sitcoms like The Odd Couple and The Partridge Family with then-partner Alan Mandel before they broke into the movies with the box office smash Smokey and the Bandit (1977), starring Burt Reynolds and Sally Field.
Shyer’s career skyrocketed when he joined forces with Meyers and Harvey Miller to pen the screenplay for Private Benjamin (1980), directed by Howard Zieff and featuring Goldie Hawn in her first big-screen starring role.
- 12/28/2024
- by Chris Koseluk
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News

Warning! Spoilers ahead for the Blue Bloods series finale.After Blue Bloods' finale, there is one last storyline that the show never took the chance to explore. Led by Donnie Wahlberg (Danny), Tom Selleck (Frank), and a wide array of other stars, the show ran for 14 seasons, before it ended due to the excessive budget. While viewers have been campaigning for another season, the show's final episode aired on December 13 and saw the end of the Reagan family story. Even if a spin-off is eventually greenlit, Frank Reagan is unlikely to appear consistently, given existing salary issues. His story will end with that final family dinner.
Throughout its run, the show never explored one major narrative element for Frank: Romance. After the death of his wife, Frank never had a long-term relationship. In an interview with TV Insider, showrunner Kevin Wade explained why they never went down that route with him.
Throughout its run, the show never explored one major narrative element for Frank: Romance. After the death of his wife, Frank never had a long-term relationship. In an interview with TV Insider, showrunner Kevin Wade explained why they never went down that route with him.
- 12/15/2024
- by Lukas Shayo
- ScreenRant

When my late husband, Stanley Kramer, created his own independent film production company in 1947, his goal was to make some level of difference with his work in Hollywood.
The first success of that stated direction was the World War II drama “Home of the Brave” in 1949, adapted from Arthur Laurents’ play about anti-Semitism in the military. Radically, Stanley saw an opportunity with the material to shift his lens to building racial tensions in the United States, and so, in secret, he cast an African American (James Edwards) in the leading role and translated Laurents’ story about the Jewish GI experience to one about the Black GI experience. It would become the most-picketed film in history. It would also mark the start of one of our industry’s most consequential filmmaking careers.
Stanley did make a difference with his work, from stoking disarmament talks with “On the Beach” to crusading for...
The first success of that stated direction was the World War II drama “Home of the Brave” in 1949, adapted from Arthur Laurents’ play about anti-Semitism in the military. Radically, Stanley saw an opportunity with the material to shift his lens to building racial tensions in the United States, and so, in secret, he cast an African American (James Edwards) in the leading role and translated Laurents’ story about the Jewish GI experience to one about the Black GI experience. It would become the most-picketed film in history. It would also mark the start of one of our industry’s most consequential filmmaking careers.
Stanley did make a difference with his work, from stoking disarmament talks with “On the Beach” to crusading for...
- 12/14/2024
- by Karen Kramer
- Variety Film + TV


Denzel Washington is on his way to making Oscar history for his performance as a former slave who plots to be the emperor of Rome in Paramount Pictures’ “Gladiator II,” the latest from director Ridley Scott. Right now, he has two Academy Awards to his name for “Glory” (1989) in Best Supporting Actor and “Training Day” (2001) in Best Actor. If he were to prevail for “Gladiator II” in early 2025, he would join an exclusive list of seven other people to win at least three times in the acting categories.
Here are the actors who have achieved this important Oscars milestone:
Katharine Hepburn (4)
Won Best Actress for “Morning Glory” (1933), “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” (1967), “The Lion in Winter” (1968), and “On Golden Pond” (1981)
Frances McDormand (3*)
Won Best Actress for “Fargo” (1996), “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” (2017), and “Nomadland” (2020). *She also has a fourth Oscar for producing “Nomadland.”
Meryl Streep (3)
Won Best Actress for “Sophie’s Choice...
Here are the actors who have achieved this important Oscars milestone:
Katharine Hepburn (4)
Won Best Actress for “Morning Glory” (1933), “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” (1967), “The Lion in Winter” (1968), and “On Golden Pond” (1981)
Frances McDormand (3*)
Won Best Actress for “Fargo” (1996), “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” (2017), and “Nomadland” (2020). *She also has a fourth Oscar for producing “Nomadland.”
Meryl Streep (3)
Won Best Actress for “Sophie’s Choice...
- 12/2/2024
- by Christopher Tsang
- Gold Derby


Earl Holliman, the actor best known for playing Angie Dickinson’s boss on the 1970s NBC cop drama Police Woman, has died. He was 96.
Holliman died Monday in hospice care at his home in Studio City, his spouse, Craig Curtis, told The Hollywood Reporter.
Holliman won a best supporting actor Golden Globe for portraying Katharine Hepburn’s girl-crazy kid brother in The Rainmaker (1956) — he beat out Elvis Presley for the role — and then appeared in another Burt Lancaster film, as Wyatt Earp’s assistant in Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957).
In the George Stevens epic Giant (1956), the Louisiana native played the son-in-law of Elizabeth Taylor and Rock Hudson’s characters, was the cook in Forbidden Planet (1956) and appeared as the brother of John Wayne, Dean Martin and Michael Anderson Jr. in Henry Hathaway’s The Sons of Katie Elder (1965).
Holliman also portrayed a man with amnesia in a deserted town...
Holliman died Monday in hospice care at his home in Studio City, his spouse, Craig Curtis, told The Hollywood Reporter.
Holliman won a best supporting actor Golden Globe for portraying Katharine Hepburn’s girl-crazy kid brother in The Rainmaker (1956) — he beat out Elvis Presley for the role — and then appeared in another Burt Lancaster film, as Wyatt Earp’s assistant in Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957).
In the George Stevens epic Giant (1956), the Louisiana native played the son-in-law of Elizabeth Taylor and Rock Hudson’s characters, was the cook in Forbidden Planet (1956) and appeared as the brother of John Wayne, Dean Martin and Michael Anderson Jr. in Henry Hathaway’s The Sons of Katie Elder (1965).
Holliman also portrayed a man with amnesia in a deserted town...
- 11/26/2024
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News

by Cláudio Alves
Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn's love story is the stuff of Hollywood legend. Whether you believe their devotion or side-eye the whole affair, whether you're charmed by their commitment or support the lavender allegations of some, it's impossible to deny how each of the actors' mythos exists in conversation with the other. Part of it stems from the bleeding of off-screen liaisons into the screen proper, immortalizing their partnership at 24 frames per second. They starred in nine pictures together, starting with 1942's Woman of the Year and ending with 1968's Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, for which Hepburn won her second Best Actress Academy Award.
Out of this silver screen ennead, Adam's Rib is probably their best, joining the couple with George Cukor's elegant touch and a fantastic Oscar-nominated script by Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin. Today, the comedy celebrates its 75th anniversary…...
Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn's love story is the stuff of Hollywood legend. Whether you believe their devotion or side-eye the whole affair, whether you're charmed by their commitment or support the lavender allegations of some, it's impossible to deny how each of the actors' mythos exists in conversation with the other. Part of it stems from the bleeding of off-screen liaisons into the screen proper, immortalizing their partnership at 24 frames per second. They starred in nine pictures together, starting with 1942's Woman of the Year and ending with 1968's Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, for which Hepburn won her second Best Actress Academy Award.
Out of this silver screen ennead, Adam's Rib is probably their best, joining the couple with George Cukor's elegant touch and a fantastic Oscar-nominated script by Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin. Today, the comedy celebrates its 75th anniversary…...
- 11/19/2024
- by Cláudio Alves
- FilmExperience


Adrien Brody and Nicole Kidman are back in the Oscars race this year with their respective films “The Brutalist” and “Babygirl” from A24, both already making the rounds in the awards contention with strong festival premieres. The stars are now looking to claim victory in their respective categories of Best Actor and Best Actress, and if that sounds familiar, it’s because they both won these same races 22 years ago for “The Pianist” and “The Hours.” Can they strike gold for the second time and become the first duo in Oscars history to win the lead categories twice in the same years?
The year of 2002 was considered one of the most unpredictable Oscar seasons in multiple main categories. Starting with Kidman and “The Hours,” the Stephen Daldry movie took home Golden Globe Awards for Best Drama Actress and Best Drama Motion Picture, along with writing accolades for David Hare at...
The year of 2002 was considered one of the most unpredictable Oscar seasons in multiple main categories. Starting with Kidman and “The Hours,” the Stephen Daldry movie took home Golden Globe Awards for Best Drama Actress and Best Drama Motion Picture, along with writing accolades for David Hare at...
- 10/22/2024
- by Christopher Tsang
- Gold Derby


A Genre Too Big to Fail (So They Say) In 2022 alone so far, we’ve gotten Matt Reeves’s ‘The Batman,’ Sam Raimi’s ‘Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,’ and of course (who can forget?) ‘Morbius.’ We’re not quite halfway into the year and we have three big-name superhero movies on our plate — and that’s actually a low number, compared to some past years. I remember, as clearly as if it were yesterday, that in 2017, we got ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2,’ ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming,’ ‘Thor: Ragnarok,’ ‘Justice League,’ ‘Logan,’ and ‘The Lego Batman Movie.’ There was at least one superhero movie for every season, and you simply couldn’t get away from them for long. I’m not saying this is entirely a bad thing, of course; after all, I do like most of the movies mentioned. I don’t think there’s much room for debate,...
- 10/20/2024
- by Brian Collins
- Hollywood Insider - Substance & Meaningful Entertainment
Heretic: Hugh Grant Wants To Test Your Faith In Intense, Chilling Final Trailer For A24 Horror Movie

In A24's Heretic, two young missionaries are forced to prove their faith when they knock on the wrong door and are greeted by a diabolical Mr. Reed (Hugh Grant), becoming ensnared in his deadly game of cat-and-mouse.
The movie also stars Sophie Thatcher and Chloe East and was written & directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods.
The final trailer Heretic has been released (via FearHQ.com) and it both ups the ante and drives home the fact Grant is taking on one of his most twisted, terrifying roles to date. Tormenting the two girls who enter his home, he tasks them with making a fateful decision before pursuing them through the underbelly of his house.
There's a lot which isn't shown here and something tells us this one will deliver some big twists and turns. The sneak peek also includes plenty of praise from critics, no great surprise when...
The movie also stars Sophie Thatcher and Chloe East and was written & directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods.
The final trailer Heretic has been released (via FearHQ.com) and it both ups the ante and drives home the fact Grant is taking on one of his most twisted, terrifying roles to date. Tormenting the two girls who enter his home, he tasks them with making a fateful decision before pursuing them through the underbelly of his house.
There's a lot which isn't shown here and something tells us this one will deliver some big twists and turns. The sneak peek also includes plenty of praise from critics, no great surprise when...
- 10/9/2024
- ComicBookMovie.com

Daniel Day-Lewis recently announced he will be coming out of retirement to star in his son's directorial debut, Anemone. Day-Lewis hasn't starred in a feature film since Paul Thomas Anderson's Phantom Thread (2017) and officially announced his retirement from acting following the film's release. Although Day-Lewis was nominated for his leading role as Reynolds Woodcock, marking his sixth Best Actor nomination, he lost that particular Oscar to Gary Oldman, who won for portraying Winston Churchill in The Darkest Hour. Day-Lewis remains the only person ever to win the Academy Award for Best Actor three times, while nine other actors have won 2.
Focus Features confirmed that Day-Lewis will star in the upcoming movie Anemone, which will be directed by his son, Ronan Day-Lewis. Per Focus Features, the film "explores the intricate relationships between fathers, sons and brothers, and the dynamics of familial bonds." Anemone, which is a common gardening plant, will also star Sean Bean,...
Focus Features confirmed that Day-Lewis will star in the upcoming movie Anemone, which will be directed by his son, Ronan Day-Lewis. Per Focus Features, the film "explores the intricate relationships between fathers, sons and brothers, and the dynamics of familial bonds." Anemone, which is a common gardening plant, will also star Sean Bean,...
- 10/8/2024
- by Greg MacArthur
- ScreenRant


After coming up short on his first two Best Actor Oscar bids for “Walk the Line” and “The Master,” Joaquin Phoenix took the gold in 2020 for “Joker.” The film reaped a whopping 11 Oscar nominations and cracked the billion dollar mark at the box office. The sequel, “Joker: Folie à Deux,” which hits theaters October 4, makes Phoenix the 11th Best Actor victor to reprise his winning role in a feature film.
Only one of the first 10 fellows to pull off this double feature earned another Oscar nomination: Bing Crosby (he won for “Going My Way” in 1945 and was nominated for “The Bells of St. Mary’s” in 1946).
Those who preceded Crosby in reprising their winning roles without academy recognition are Warner Baxter, who went on to appear in both “The Cisco Kid” (1931) and “Return of the Cisco Kid” (1939), and Spencer Tracy, who starred in “Men of Boys Town” (1941).
Edward Flanagan portrayer Tracy...
Only one of the first 10 fellows to pull off this double feature earned another Oscar nomination: Bing Crosby (he won for “Going My Way” in 1945 and was nominated for “The Bells of St. Mary’s” in 1946).
Those who preceded Crosby in reprising their winning roles without academy recognition are Warner Baxter, who went on to appear in both “The Cisco Kid” (1931) and “Return of the Cisco Kid” (1939), and Spencer Tracy, who starred in “Men of Boys Town” (1941).
Edward Flanagan portrayer Tracy...
- 10/1/2024
- by Matthew Stewart
- Gold Derby


With the elections less than two months away and the highly anticipated debate between former President Donald Trump and current vice president Kamala Harris on Sept 10, it’s time to revisit classic political movies. TCM is currently presenting a nine-week series “Making Change: The Most Significant Political Films of All Time.” Political films run the gamut from thrillers, to dramas (“Mr. Smith Goes to Washington”), to the historical, to satirical comedies.
Speaking of satires, Preston Sturges received his one and only Oscar for his screenplay for 1940’s “The Great McGinty,” his smart, funny comedy about a hobo (Brian Donlevy) who rises to governor only to lose it all. Sturges had originally written a piece “The Story of Man” in 1933 with Spencer Tracy in mind. Tracy had just starred in 1933’s “The Power and the Glory,” which marked Sturges’ first film script. He attempted to sell it to Universal which also turned the story down; so,...
Speaking of satires, Preston Sturges received his one and only Oscar for his screenplay for 1940’s “The Great McGinty,” his smart, funny comedy about a hobo (Brian Donlevy) who rises to governor only to lose it all. Sturges had originally written a piece “The Story of Man” in 1933 with Spencer Tracy in mind. Tracy had just starred in 1933’s “The Power and the Glory,” which marked Sturges’ first film script. He attempted to sell it to Universal which also turned the story down; so,...
- 9/9/2024
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby

Any kid who ever dreamed of striding the boards, meticulously prepping for their glamorous on-camera close-up, or adorning the walls of teenagers all over the world as the most fetching heartthrob on the planet, did not entertain for a second that steady work as less-than-studly screen presence like M Emmet Walsh could be its own gloriously gruff reward. If you were born with a face that looked like it went 12 rounds with Sonny Liston before exiting the birth canal, or walked in heels like they were a pair of Carhartts, you're probably destined to be a working stiff like the rest of us for the remainder of your life.
And there is dignity in this. There is meaning. And not to get your hopes up too high, but if you can strut across the stage like you were born to it, hold the gaze of a camera, or fire off one-liners with buffoonish aplomb,...
And there is dignity in this. There is meaning. And not to get your hopes up too high, but if you can strut across the stage like you were born to it, hold the gaze of a camera, or fire off one-liners with buffoonish aplomb,...
- 9/9/2024
- by Jeremy Smith
- Slash Film


Denzel Washington has consistently delivered standout performances — including as a director in recent years! — across his decades-long career. He already has two Oscars to his name and could be on his way to a third Academy Award with his role in Ridley Scott‘s “Gladiator II.”
This follow-up to the 2000 Best Picture champ stars Lucius (Paul Mescal) as Lucius, the grandson of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius. Lucius is forced into slavery but resolves to fight as a gladiator under the leadership of power broker Macrinus. And that’s where Washington comes in. The titanic Washington plays Macrinus, who is the mentor figure to Lucius and also opposes the rule of emperors Caracalla (Fred Hechinger) and Geta (Joseph Quinn).
We are predicting that Washington will be nominated for Best Supporting Actor alongside Samuel L. Jackson (“The Piano Lesson”), Clarence Maclin (“Sing Sing”), Kieran Culkin (“A Real Pain”), and Stanley Tucci (“Conclave...
This follow-up to the 2000 Best Picture champ stars Lucius (Paul Mescal) as Lucius, the grandson of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius. Lucius is forced into slavery but resolves to fight as a gladiator under the leadership of power broker Macrinus. And that’s where Washington comes in. The titanic Washington plays Macrinus, who is the mentor figure to Lucius and also opposes the rule of emperors Caracalla (Fred Hechinger) and Geta (Joseph Quinn).
We are predicting that Washington will be nominated for Best Supporting Actor alongside Samuel L. Jackson (“The Piano Lesson”), Clarence Maclin (“Sing Sing”), Kieran Culkin (“A Real Pain”), and Stanley Tucci (“Conclave...
- 8/26/2024
- by Jacob Sarkisian
- Gold Derby

Well into the new dark crime comedy Greedy People, I had to check IMDb to make sure this wasn’t some movie one or both of the Coen brothers had actually made and somehow I didn’t realize before diving in. Nope, it was Potsy Ponciroli who directed, and Mike Vukadinovich who wrote it. No Coens anywhere in sight except as the clear inspirations for this entertaining movie of which the masters behind Blood Simple and Fargo would probably approve, and might even have made at the beginning of their illustrious careers.
So get this for a plot.
New and very inexperienced cop Will (Himesh Patel) arrives in the small East Coast town of Providence for his new job as a deputy, partnered with quirky vet Terry (Joseph Gordon-Levitt). With a pregnant wife (Lily James) and their loving dog in tow it seems like a good career move. However, Will...
So get this for a plot.
New and very inexperienced cop Will (Himesh Patel) arrives in the small East Coast town of Providence for his new job as a deputy, partnered with quirky vet Terry (Joseph Gordon-Levitt). With a pregnant wife (Lily James) and their loving dog in tow it seems like a good career move. However, Will...
- 8/21/2024
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV

There have been several successful filmmakers in Hollywood, but talents like Stanley Kubrick and Steven Spielberg are a rarity. The two are cemented as the epitome of class and creativity, and stand tall in their respective genres.
Jack Nicholson in The Shining| Warner Bros
However, the two greats did not always agree with each other’s opinions, but the difference only led to something greater. Kubrick, being the pioneer in film adaptations of several written works, once gave an important lesson to Spielberg with the help of his movie, The Shining.
Steven Spielberg didn’t like The Shining on his first watch
Steven Spielberg is counted among the legends of the film industry today. In his career spanning decades, he has learned from some of the best in the field, including Stanley Kubrick, an expert in the psychological thriller genre. The Shining is often considered his magnum opus in that field.
Jack Nicholson in The Shining| Warner Bros
However, the two greats did not always agree with each other’s opinions, but the difference only led to something greater. Kubrick, being the pioneer in film adaptations of several written works, once gave an important lesson to Spielberg with the help of his movie, The Shining.
Steven Spielberg didn’t like The Shining on his first watch
Steven Spielberg is counted among the legends of the film industry today. In his career spanning decades, he has learned from some of the best in the field, including Stanley Kubrick, an expert in the psychological thriller genre. The Shining is often considered his magnum opus in that field.
- 8/18/2024
- by Sayantan Choudhary
- FandomWire


“Because I can, goddamn.”
So said Halle Berry last night when asked by The Hollywood Reporter why she selected a sheer, lingerie-style La Perla creation last night for the world premiere of Netflix’s The Union. The Julian Farino-directed action drama casts the 57-year-old Oscar winner as Roxanne, a member of a covert intelligence operation who recruits Mike, a down-to-earth construction worker from New Jersey played by Mark Wahlberg, to join a high-stakes mission. They happen to be high school sweethearts, and that’s another reason Berry braved the red carpet in the daring dress.
“I thought with the theme of this movie being lovers reuniting, it was time to bring this out,” she continued. “This is also where I’m at today.”
Berry, styled by Lindsay Flores, poses in La Perla outside Hollywood’s Egyptian Theatre.
Another place Berry finds herself with The Union is starring opposite Wahlberg...
So said Halle Berry last night when asked by The Hollywood Reporter why she selected a sheer, lingerie-style La Perla creation last night for the world premiere of Netflix’s The Union. The Julian Farino-directed action drama casts the 57-year-old Oscar winner as Roxanne, a member of a covert intelligence operation who recruits Mike, a down-to-earth construction worker from New Jersey played by Mark Wahlberg, to join a high-stakes mission. They happen to be high school sweethearts, and that’s another reason Berry braved the red carpet in the daring dress.
“I thought with the theme of this movie being lovers reuniting, it was time to bring this out,” she continued. “This is also where I’m at today.”
Berry, styled by Lindsay Flores, poses in La Perla outside Hollywood’s Egyptian Theatre.
Another place Berry finds herself with The Union is starring opposite Wahlberg...
- 8/14/2024
- by Chris Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News


In 1953, Elizabeth Taylor made the forgettable melodrama “The Girl Who Had Everything,” which also is an apt description of her life and her career. Over her 79 years, she segued from a stunningly beautiful child star to a va-va-va-voon sex symbol to a two-time Oscar-winner to a pioneering AIDs activist. Taylor was more than a star. More than an icon. Even a dozen years after her death, cinephiles are still obsessed with the violet-eye actress.
But a new HBO/Max documentary “Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes” illustrates she didn’t have “everything.” In the 1960s, Taylor gave interviews to celebrity journalist Richard Meryman who died in 2015. Forty hours of their interviews were recently discovered in his archive and are the anchor for this compelling piece. (There is also an interview from the 1980s with Dominick Dunne).
Wrote the New York Times: “For the Taylor enthusiast, the film is unlikely to reveal much new information.
But a new HBO/Max documentary “Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes” illustrates she didn’t have “everything.” In the 1960s, Taylor gave interviews to celebrity journalist Richard Meryman who died in 2015. Forty hours of their interviews were recently discovered in his archive and are the anchor for this compelling piece. (There is also an interview from the 1980s with Dominick Dunne).
Wrote the New York Times: “For the Taylor enthusiast, the film is unlikely to reveal much new information.
- 8/7/2024
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby

Exclusive: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. actress Mallory Jansen and Emmy and Tony Award winner Anthony Lapaglia are boarding Alex Proyas’ upcoming sci-fi satire R.U.R. opposite Lindsay Farris (Ash vs Evil Dead).
Cameras roll on Oct. 21 in Sydney, Australia.
Proyas penned the screenplay which is an adaptation of Karel Capek famous science fiction play R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots), published in 1920. R.U.R. follows Helena, played by Jansen, who visits the island factory of Rossum’s Universal Robots to emancipate the robots from capitalist exploitation, with catastrophic results.
Proyas is the filmmaker behind the $353M-grossing Will Smith 2004 summer hit I, Robot.
The film is being produced by Proyas, Morris Ruskin, former CAA agent Adam Krentzman, Steven Matusko and Brett Thornquest. EPs are Matthew Rhodes of The Hideaway Entertainment, Rohit Khanna,...
Cameras roll on Oct. 21 in Sydney, Australia.
Proyas penned the screenplay which is an adaptation of Karel Capek famous science fiction play R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots), published in 1920. R.U.R. follows Helena, played by Jansen, who visits the island factory of Rossum’s Universal Robots to emancipate the robots from capitalist exploitation, with catastrophic results.
Proyas is the filmmaker behind the $353M-grossing Will Smith 2004 summer hit I, Robot.
The film is being produced by Proyas, Morris Ruskin, former CAA agent Adam Krentzman, Steven Matusko and Brett Thornquest. EPs are Matthew Rhodes of The Hideaway Entertainment, Rohit Khanna,...
- 8/6/2024
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV

Another day, another (unfortunately low-res) clip from Deadpool & Wolverine! This time, we catch up with the Merc with the Mouth and Logan in the diner from the trailers.
They're discussing costumes as an inquisitive Wade Wilson wonders why the clawed mutant wears a bright yellow suit. Logan wastes no time in shrugging off his incessant questions and questions whether Deadpool has been diagnosed with Adhd.
With that, talk (perhaps inevitably) turns to STDs, a topic we never expected to hear discussed in the MCU.
It's a fun exchange between the duo and one which is presumably indicative of the combative relationship they'll have in Deadpool & Wolverine. You can watch it in the player below.
A brand new clip from 'Deadpool & Wolverine' has been released. ⚔️ pic.twitter.com/uliQYS0ZtC
— Deadpool Updates (@DeadpoolUpdate) July 22, 2024
Blake Lively has also taken to Instagram today to share a new...
They're discussing costumes as an inquisitive Wade Wilson wonders why the clawed mutant wears a bright yellow suit. Logan wastes no time in shrugging off his incessant questions and questions whether Deadpool has been diagnosed with Adhd.
With that, talk (perhaps inevitably) turns to STDs, a topic we never expected to hear discussed in the MCU.
It's a fun exchange between the duo and one which is presumably indicative of the combative relationship they'll have in Deadpool & Wolverine. You can watch it in the player below.
A brand new clip from 'Deadpool & Wolverine' has been released. ⚔️ pic.twitter.com/uliQYS0ZtC
— Deadpool Updates (@DeadpoolUpdate) July 22, 2024
Blake Lively has also taken to Instagram today to share a new...
- 7/22/2024
- ComicBookMovie.com

Another day, another (unfortunately low-res) clip from Deadpool & Wolverine! This time, we catch up with the Merc with the Mouth and Logan in the diner from the trailers.
They're discussing costumes as an inquisitive Wade Wilson wonders why the clawed mutant wears a bright yellow suit. Logan wastes no time in shrugging off his incessant questions and questions whether Deadpool has been diagnosed with Adhd.
With that, talk (perhaps inevitably) turns to STDs, a topic we never expected to hear discussed in the MCU.
It's a fun exchange between the duo and one which is presumably indicative of the combative relationship they'll have in Deadpool & Wolverine. You can watch it in the player below.
A brand new clip from 'Deadpool & Wolverine' has been released. ⚔️ pic.twitter.com/uliQYS0ZtC
— Deadpool Updates (@DeadpoolUpdate) July 22, 2024
Blake Lively has also taken to Instagram today to share a new...
They're discussing costumes as an inquisitive Wade Wilson wonders why the clawed mutant wears a bright yellow suit. Logan wastes no time in shrugging off his incessant questions and questions whether Deadpool has been diagnosed with Adhd.
With that, talk (perhaps inevitably) turns to STDs, a topic we never expected to hear discussed in the MCU.
It's a fun exchange between the duo and one which is presumably indicative of the combative relationship they'll have in Deadpool & Wolverine. You can watch it in the player below.
A brand new clip from 'Deadpool & Wolverine' has been released. ⚔️ pic.twitter.com/uliQYS0ZtC
— Deadpool Updates (@DeadpoolUpdate) July 22, 2024
Blake Lively has also taken to Instagram today to share a new...
- 7/22/2024
- ComicBookMovie.com
Ryan Reynolds would “love” to work with his wife Blake Lively on a Marvel film.The 47-year-old actor - who has daughters James, nine, Ines, seven, and Betty, four, with his 36-year-old spouse, as well as a fourth child the couple welcomed into the world last year - is gearing up to the release of ‘Deadpool and Wolverine’, in which he stars alongside Hugh Jackman, 55, and has now revealed he’s keen to share the screen with Lively in another superhero flick.When ComicBook.com quizzed Reynolds on whether he’d be open to the idea of working with his wife, he joked: “She's not half the friend that Hugh is."Before adding: “I would love to."Ryan would like to copy the couples from Hollywood's Golden Age, such as Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, who appeared on screen together.He said: "You know, in the old days, they all got to work together,...
- 7/22/2024
- by Alex Getting
- Bang Showbiz

Spencer Tracy leads a stellar cast in Bad Day at Black Rock, mixing film noir with western vibes. The all-star ensemble includes multiple Oscar winners and iconic actors like Ernest Borgnine and Lee Marvin. The film captures post-wwii tensions in an isolated town, combining the mystery of noir with vast western landscapes.
Bad Day at Black Rock is an intriguing blend of film noir and neo-western featuring one of the greatest ensemble casts Ive ever seen led by the great Spencer Tracy. Throughout his storied Hollywood career, Tracy shared the screen with many legendary actors. In his feature film debut, Up the River, he co-starred with Humphrey Bogart. In Guess Whos Coming to Dinner, he co-starred with Sidney Poitier and his real-life spouse Katharine Hepburn. In Judgment at Nuremberg, he co-starred with Burt Lancaster, Maximilian Schell, Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, William Shatner, and Montgomery Clift.
Tracy appeared in the all-star ensemble of Its a Mad,...
Bad Day at Black Rock is an intriguing blend of film noir and neo-western featuring one of the greatest ensemble casts Ive ever seen led by the great Spencer Tracy. Throughout his storied Hollywood career, Tracy shared the screen with many legendary actors. In his feature film debut, Up the River, he co-starred with Humphrey Bogart. In Guess Whos Coming to Dinner, he co-starred with Sidney Poitier and his real-life spouse Katharine Hepburn. In Judgment at Nuremberg, he co-starred with Burt Lancaster, Maximilian Schell, Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, William Shatner, and Montgomery Clift.
Tracy appeared in the all-star ensemble of Its a Mad,...
- 7/15/2024
- by Ben Sherlock
- ScreenRant


Song and dance man or gangster? Few stars of Hollywood’s Golden Era could claim they were equally well known for two such diverse genres. Yet, the legendary James Cagney worked hard to be able to make such a claim.
He was born on July 17, 1899, in New York City. His family was poor, and Cagney was sickly as a child. While growing up in a rough neighborhood, he learned a variety of skills, including tap dancing, street fighting, baseball and boxing. When he was 19, his father died, and he took odd jobs to help support his mother and siblings. On a whim, he auditioned for a role of a chorus girl in a local production. Although he had never had professional training, he landed the role and learned the dances from watching the other performers – and it never bothered him to dress as a girl and perform. Despite his mother...
He was born on July 17, 1899, in New York City. His family was poor, and Cagney was sickly as a child. While growing up in a rough neighborhood, he learned a variety of skills, including tap dancing, street fighting, baseball and boxing. When he was 19, his father died, and he took odd jobs to help support his mother and siblings. On a whim, he auditioned for a role of a chorus girl in a local production. Although he had never had professional training, he landed the role and learned the dances from watching the other performers – and it never bothered him to dress as a girl and perform. Despite his mother...
- 7/11/2024
- by Susan Pennington, Zach Laws and Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby


On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first human beings to walk on the moon. It was an inspirational moment for people all over the world. But some people are jerks, so they took that inspiration and quickly spun it into a conspiracy theory that NASA faked the whole moon landing on a soundstage.
Hollywood loves to be topical, so filmmakers latched onto this paranoid fantasy immediately. Only two years after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon, James Bond stumbled across NASA’s top secret film studio in “Diamonds Are Forever.” The government hunted down O.J. Simpson to keep a fake Mars mission secret in 1977’s “Capricorn One.” By the time we got to the present day it wasn’t even a subversive idea anymore. It was just a throwaway gag in kids movies like “Minions.”
Now it’s the premise for “Fly Me to the Moon,...
Hollywood loves to be topical, so filmmakers latched onto this paranoid fantasy immediately. Only two years after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon, James Bond stumbled across NASA’s top secret film studio in “Diamonds Are Forever.” The government hunted down O.J. Simpson to keep a fake Mars mission secret in 1977’s “Capricorn One.” By the time we got to the present day it wasn’t even a subversive idea anymore. It was just a throwaway gag in kids movies like “Minions.”
Now it’s the premise for “Fly Me to the Moon,...
- 7/9/2024
- by William Bibbiani
- The Wrap

Eddie Murphy plans to remake the comedy classic "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" with a star-studded ensemble cast. The original film featured an expansive cast of comedy legends, but a modern remake faces challenges in assembling such a large group. A successful remake could focus on a tight central cast and use the original's approach of filling out margins with comedy legends.
Eddie Murphy is working towards remaking a comedy classic, even if it would be incredibly hard to actually pull off. Eddie Murphy has been a major comedy star for decades, rising to prominence while becoming a breakout star on Saturday Night Live. Since then, Eddie Murphy's best movies have made him one of cinematic comedy's most enduring actors. His latest ambition seems to be bringing of his personal favorites back to movie screens, recreating a sixty-year-old classic for a new generation.
It'd be an inherently difficult task,...
Eddie Murphy is working towards remaking a comedy classic, even if it would be incredibly hard to actually pull off. Eddie Murphy has been a major comedy star for decades, rising to prominence while becoming a breakout star on Saturday Night Live. Since then, Eddie Murphy's best movies have made him one of cinematic comedy's most enduring actors. His latest ambition seems to be bringing of his personal favorites back to movie screens, recreating a sixty-year-old classic for a new generation.
It'd be an inherently difficult task,...
- 6/30/2024
- by Brandon Zachary
- ScreenRant

Eddie Murphy plans to remake It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World with a star-studded cast of comedians, including Martin Lawrence. The original film, a beloved '60s comedy, was nominated for six Oscars and featured iconic actors like Spencer Tracy. Murphy's mixed ensemble approach could lead to a successful remake, with Lawrence as a seasoned comedic talent in the cast.
Eddie Murphy talks about plans to remake It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. The original film is a 1963 screwball comedy about a group of motorists in California who go on a quest for a hidden fortune after they witness a deadly car crash wherein the driver's last words hint at the location of some mysterious loot. It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World was directed by Stanley Kramer and featured a leading cast including Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Ethel Merman, Mickey Rooney, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Dick Shawn,...
Eddie Murphy talks about plans to remake It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. The original film is a 1963 screwball comedy about a group of motorists in California who go on a quest for a hidden fortune after they witness a deadly car crash wherein the driver's last words hint at the location of some mysterious loot. It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World was directed by Stanley Kramer and featured a leading cast including Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Ethel Merman, Mickey Rooney, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Dick Shawn,...
- 6/26/2024
- by Hannah Gearan
- ScreenRant


“You’ll see it! You’ll see it under this big W. You can’t miss it! A big, big, W!” And that’s just what Eddie Murphy is hoping to get with his planned remake of 1963 ensemble comedy classic It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. He has even started lining up the cast, dropping Martin Lawrence into the fold in the early stages.
Speaking with Entertainment Tonight, Murphy said, “I got this other idea for something with Martin. I’ve been developing it for years. Did you ever see a movie It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World? Well, I got a script, it will be delivered any minute now written by Jez Butterworth [Dial of Destiny, Ford v Ferrari] and I’m trying to do a remake of that movie.” He added, “It’s one of my favorite movies of all time and if I do it, if the script turns out right,...
Speaking with Entertainment Tonight, Murphy said, “I got this other idea for something with Martin. I’ve been developing it for years. Did you ever see a movie It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World? Well, I got a script, it will be delivered any minute now written by Jez Butterworth [Dial of Destiny, Ford v Ferrari] and I’m trying to do a remake of that movie.” He added, “It’s one of my favorite movies of all time and if I do it, if the script turns out right,...
- 6/24/2024
- by Mathew Plale
- JoBlo.com


Hammer Films returns to life with a new owner and a new slate of movies, and up first is the Eddie Izzard-starring Doctor Jekyll. While the new Hammer horror film debuted in UK cinemas last Halloween, it’s finally set to make its way stateside this summer.
Look for Doctor Jekyll in US theaters and VOD on August 2, 2024.
Director Joe Stephenson, of acclaimed drama “Chicken” and feature documentary “McKellen: Playing the Part,” developed the new adaptation of the classic tale from Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1886 novella with first time writer Dan Kelly-Mulhern.
Doctor Jekyll focuses on a reclusive Nina Jekyll finding friendship with her newly hired help, Rob, played by rising star Scott Chambers, who must work together to prevent Hyde from destroying her life.
The film is described as “a slow-burn gothic horror that delves into themes of duality, concocting a surprising mix of dark humor and flashes...
Look for Doctor Jekyll in US theaters and VOD on August 2, 2024.
Director Joe Stephenson, of acclaimed drama “Chicken” and feature documentary “McKellen: Playing the Part,” developed the new adaptation of the classic tale from Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1886 novella with first time writer Dan Kelly-Mulhern.
Doctor Jekyll focuses on a reclusive Nina Jekyll finding friendship with her newly hired help, Rob, played by rising star Scott Chambers, who must work together to prevent Hyde from destroying her life.
The film is described as “a slow-burn gothic horror that delves into themes of duality, concocting a surprising mix of dark humor and flashes...
- 6/18/2024
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com

TCM is always a reliable favorite for those fathers who love to sink into some classic cinematic fare, but this Father’s Day the lineup is specially built for dads. This Sunday, June 16, Turner Classic Movies is putting on a spree of vintage films devoted to dads of all types — and the oft-complicated relationships they have with their families. So if you’re looking for a place to take in some dad-tastic movies on TV this Father’s Day, here’s a look at the holiday-adjacent films airing on TCM. (All times Eastern.) 8 a.m. – Edward, My Son: This 1949 drama is directed by George Cukor and features Spencer Tracy, Deborah Kerr, and Ian Hunter. It follows a father who will stop at nothing to protect his son’s future, no matter the financial or moral cost. 12:15 p.m. – East of Eden: This 1955 Elia Kazan movie stars James Dean as Caleb Trask,...
- 6/13/2024
- TV Insider

You don't hear it mentioned too often in discussions of successful Hollywood franchises, but the "Father of the Bride" saga has demonstrated remarkable staying power. Like the Banks family itself, we've watched as this franchise has grown up, moved out the house, and had children of its own in the form of two reboots and multiple sequels. But things all started back in 1949 when Edward Streeter's "Father of the Bride" novel was adapted into the classic 1950 comedy of the same name. Since then, the series has produced six films, one of which was a short film produced during the global pandemic and the most recent being 2022's "Father of the Bride" remake.
In all, you've got a franchise that has spanned almost eight decades and which continues to delight audiences 72 years after the first film debuted. Modern audiences might finally be ready for more than sequels and reboots, but...
In all, you've got a franchise that has spanned almost eight decades and which continues to delight audiences 72 years after the first film debuted. Modern audiences might finally be ready for more than sequels and reboots, but...
- 6/9/2024
- by Joe Roberts
- Slash Film


Social media is always posting clips of belligerent airline passengers having meltdowns even getting into fisticuffs with flight attendants and fellow travelers. But today’s outbursts look positively tame to compared to the ill-behavior of the passengers and even the crew on a plane bound to San Francisco from Honolulu in “The High and the Mighty,” which opened in L.A. on May 27, 1954. The film went into general release in July. They drink, they cry, they fight and even restrain a passenger who has a gun.Meanwhile, the young pilot nearly loses it, the veteran pilot is haunted with memories of a crash, the navigator is a nervous wreck. Smoking, even by the crew, is allowed.
Directed by William A. Wellman, who helmed another airplane classic 1927’s Oscar-winner “Wings,” adapted by Ernest Gann from his best seller and produced by star John Wayne and his partner Robert Fellows, “The High and the Mighty...
Directed by William A. Wellman, who helmed another airplane classic 1927’s Oscar-winner “Wings,” adapted by Ernest Gann from his best seller and produced by star John Wayne and his partner Robert Fellows, “The High and the Mighty...
- 5/28/2024
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby

This week, two attorneys will stand and make their cases to the jury. Yes, that jury and that trial, which may put a former—and future?—president behind bars. This is when the pressure falls on the prosecution and defense to make their final claims of guilt or innocence.
“At this point, parties are free to use hypothetical analogies to make their points; to comment on the credibility of the witnesses, to discuss how they believe the various pieces of the puzzle fit into a compelling whole, and to advocate why jurors should decide the case in their favor,” explains the official site of the Federal Court System.
Or, we can just recall the most memorable, decisive arguments made on screen. Hey, we can handle the truth! Here is my list of 10 to remember.
“To Kill A Mockingbird”
Gregory Peck won the Oscar — even though he didn’t win the case — as Atticus Finch,...
“At this point, parties are free to use hypothetical analogies to make their points; to comment on the credibility of the witnesses, to discuss how they believe the various pieces of the puzzle fit into a compelling whole, and to advocate why jurors should decide the case in their favor,” explains the official site of the Federal Court System.
Or, we can just recall the most memorable, decisive arguments made on screen. Hey, we can handle the truth! Here is my list of 10 to remember.
“To Kill A Mockingbird”
Gregory Peck won the Oscar — even though he didn’t win the case — as Atticus Finch,...
- 5/27/2024
- by Michele Willens
- The Wrap


Darryl Hickman, who appeared in such films as The Grapes of Wrath and Leave Her to Heaven as a youngster before becoming a CBS executive in charge of daytime drama and an actor once more, has died. He was 92.
Hickman, who lived in Montecito, died Wednesday, his family announced.
He was the older brother (by three years) of the late Dwayne Hickman, who starred on the 1959-63 CBS comedy The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. Darryl appeared with his brother in Captain Eddie (1945) — he played famed fighter pilot Eddie Rickenbacker as a boy — and on three first-season episodes of Dobie as older brother Davey, who came home from college.
In 1951, after appearances in more than 40 movies, Hickman — who had been a contract player at Paramount and MGM — became disillusioned with the business and entered a monastery, though he was back in show business before long.
Hickman had made his first...
Hickman, who lived in Montecito, died Wednesday, his family announced.
He was the older brother (by three years) of the late Dwayne Hickman, who starred on the 1959-63 CBS comedy The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. Darryl appeared with his brother in Captain Eddie (1945) — he played famed fighter pilot Eddie Rickenbacker as a boy — and on three first-season episodes of Dobie as older brother Davey, who came home from college.
In 1951, after appearances in more than 40 movies, Hickman — who had been a contract player at Paramount and MGM — became disillusioned with the business and entered a monastery, though he was back in show business before long.
Hickman had made his first...
- 5/24/2024
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News

Two-time Oscar winner Emma Stone and actor Ryan Gosling have starred together in three films to date and have been lauded for their on-screen chemistry. While they began with the romantic comedy Crazy, Stupid, Love, the pairing worked wonders in the musical romance La La Land, which won Stone her first Oscar for Best Actress.
The two also had many memorable scenes in the Steve Carrell starrer Crazy, Stupid, Love, where they played a budding couple. According to co-director Glenn Ficarra, the makers went with Emma Stone because she was the only one who was not intimidated by Gosling’s presence during the audition.
Emma Stone Was Chosen For Crazy, Stupid, Love Because Of One Reason Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone in La La Land
Actress Emma Stone has become one of the most prolific actresses working in the industry today. She won the Best Actress Oscar this year for...
The two also had many memorable scenes in the Steve Carrell starrer Crazy, Stupid, Love, where they played a budding couple. According to co-director Glenn Ficarra, the makers went with Emma Stone because she was the only one who was not intimidated by Gosling’s presence during the audition.
Emma Stone Was Chosen For Crazy, Stupid, Love Because Of One Reason Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone in La La Land
Actress Emma Stone has become one of the most prolific actresses working in the industry today. She won the Best Actress Oscar this year for...
- 5/14/2024
- by Nishanth A
- FandomWire

The terror in "The Twilight Zone" always comes from "What if?" What if there was a little boy with way too much power for anyone to tell him "no"? What if what you thought of as Heaven turned out to be more like Hell? What if man-eating aliens arrived and made humans as docile as lambs to the slaughter?
These questions may be outrageous fantasy, but the terror of them is timeless. We still watch "The Twilight Zone" decades later, and the best episodes can still leave you chilled -- all thanks to the imagination of series creator Rod Serling.
Serling is synonymous with "The Twilight Zone" even for casual viewers; one could call him TV's first auteur. His reputation was as much thanks to his on-camera work as his writing. Serling was the narrator of "The Twilight Zone," introducing and closing out each episode. (He got the job after...
These questions may be outrageous fantasy, but the terror of them is timeless. We still watch "The Twilight Zone" decades later, and the best episodes can still leave you chilled -- all thanks to the imagination of series creator Rod Serling.
Serling is synonymous with "The Twilight Zone" even for casual viewers; one could call him TV's first auteur. His reputation was as much thanks to his on-camera work as his writing. Serling was the narrator of "The Twilight Zone," introducing and closing out each episode. (He got the job after...
- 5/12/2024
- by Devin Meenan
- Slash Film

"Cheers" was the third highest-rated show on television when Shelley Long opted to quit the series at the end of its fifth season and pursue movie stardom. Though the show had long since settled into its ensemble groove, the on-again/off-again Sam Malone and Diane Chambers romance was the primary generator of water-cooler chatter. Moreover, the chemistry between Long and Ted Danson was the stuff of a series showrunner's dream. Their banter was worthy of Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. You don't just go out and find another Katharine Hepburn. Could "Cheers," brilliant and popular as it was, survive Long's departure, especially when fans had so much invested in Diane?
This was the conundrum faced by casting director Jeff Greenberg, who'd joined "Cheers" during Long's last season. He knew chasing the next Long was courting disaster, so he looked for an actor who could hold her own with Danson and...
This was the conundrum faced by casting director Jeff Greenberg, who'd joined "Cheers" during Long's last season. He knew chasing the next Long was courting disaster, so he looked for an actor who could hold her own with Danson and...
- 4/20/2024
- by Jeremy Smith
- Slash Film

Man's Castle.“When you’re dead, you get a hunk of earth. When you’re alive, all you’ve got is that hunk of blue.” This is how Bill (Spencer Tracy), the restless hero of Frank Borzage’s Man’s Castle (1933), explains his insistence on sleeping under the open sky. Borzage’s films always cast their eyes heavenward with exalted sincerity; they offer no sop to modern irony or cynicism. No one should watch them who is not prepared to be enraptured.The essence of Borzage’s romanticism resides in the enchanted spaces his lovers create together: sometimes a semi-permanent home, like the Parisian garret in 7th Heaven (1927), at other times a fleeting idyll of shared fantasy, like the abandoned plantation mansion where the outcast couple in Moonrise (1948) waltz amid the shadows and cobwebs. These magical playhouses are spaces of care and refuge as much as dreamy eroticism; in Man’s Castle,...
- 4/18/2024
- MUBI

It had all the elements of a good action movie – jeopardy, revenge, a mega budget – with even some casualties thrown in (albeit corporate).
The Bob Iger vs Nelson Peltz (who?) war is over now and Iger has won. But some filmmakers and ticket buyers might wonder: Did any of it matter? Would a modest change on the Disney board of directors have had any impact on the future of entertainment? (Peltz himself runs a hedge fund called Trian Partners and has no background in entertainment.)
To be sure, it’s been a good show, albeit a throwback to an era when Hollywood was run by Big Personalities, not monoliths like Amazon or Apple. The battles of that era were ego wars, not proxy wars — Redstone vs Diller or Murdoch vs Ted Turner, with bewildered stars and their reps huddled in the middle.
But now Iger has won – again. The onetime...
The Bob Iger vs Nelson Peltz (who?) war is over now and Iger has won. But some filmmakers and ticket buyers might wonder: Did any of it matter? Would a modest change on the Disney board of directors have had any impact on the future of entertainment? (Peltz himself runs a hedge fund called Trian Partners and has no background in entertainment.)
To be sure, it’s been a good show, albeit a throwback to an era when Hollywood was run by Big Personalities, not monoliths like Amazon or Apple. The battles of that era were ego wars, not proxy wars — Redstone vs Diller or Murdoch vs Ted Turner, with bewildered stars and their reps huddled in the middle.
But now Iger has won – again. The onetime...
- 4/4/2024
- by Peter Bart
- Deadline Film + TV


Spencer Tracy was the two-time Oscar winner starred in a variety of classics before his death in 1967, including nine films opposite fellow legend Katharine Hepburn. Let’s take a look back at 20 of his greatest films, ranked worst to best.
Tracy pulled off the rare hat-trick of winning back-to-back Best Actor Oscars, first for his performance as a Portuguese sailor in “Captains Courageous” (1937), then for playing a dedicated priest helping wayward youths in “Boys Town” (1938). It’s a feat that would only be repeated once more in this category by Tom Hanks (“Philadelphia” in 1993 and “Forrest Gump” in 1994).
Tracy would compete seven more times in the category: “San Francisco” (1936), “Father of the Bride” (1950), “Bad Day at Black Rock” (1955), “The Old Man and the Sea” (1958), “Inherit the Wind” (1960), “Judgment at Nuremberg” (1961), and “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?” (1967), which was recognized posthumously.
He’s perhaps best remembered for starring in nine films with Hepburn,...
Tracy pulled off the rare hat-trick of winning back-to-back Best Actor Oscars, first for his performance as a Portuguese sailor in “Captains Courageous” (1937), then for playing a dedicated priest helping wayward youths in “Boys Town” (1938). It’s a feat that would only be repeated once more in this category by Tom Hanks (“Philadelphia” in 1993 and “Forrest Gump” in 1994).
Tracy would compete seven more times in the category: “San Francisco” (1936), “Father of the Bride” (1950), “Bad Day at Black Rock” (1955), “The Old Man and the Sea” (1958), “Inherit the Wind” (1960), “Judgment at Nuremberg” (1961), and “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?” (1967), which was recognized posthumously.
He’s perhaps best remembered for starring in nine films with Hepburn,...
- 3/30/2024
- by Zach Laws and Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby

What makes an actor? Since the very first Screen Actors Guild Awards in 1995, actors have shared what it means to work in Hollywood with the “I am an actor” speech.
The tradition began with Angela Lansbury, who detailed her accomplishments on screen at the inaugural SAG Awards: “I’ve been Elizabeth Taylor’s sister, Spencer Tracy’s mistress, Elvis’ mother, and a singing teapot,” she said. She reminded her peers that, “at one time or another, everyone loves the opportunity to act,” even a child with a creative imagination for playing pretend. And she embraced the spirit of the SAG Awards as a night dedicated to “the art and craft of acting by the people who should know about it.”
Join us on a trip down memory lane as we visit some of the greatest “I am an actor” speeches of the last 30 years.
The Early Era
Lansbury was just...
The tradition began with Angela Lansbury, who detailed her accomplishments on screen at the inaugural SAG Awards: “I’ve been Elizabeth Taylor’s sister, Spencer Tracy’s mistress, Elvis’ mother, and a singing teapot,” she said. She reminded her peers that, “at one time or another, everyone loves the opportunity to act,” even a child with a creative imagination for playing pretend. And she embraced the spirit of the SAG Awards as a night dedicated to “the art and craft of acting by the people who should know about it.”
Join us on a trip down memory lane as we visit some of the greatest “I am an actor” speeches of the last 30 years.
The Early Era
Lansbury was just...
- 2/22/2024
- by Erin Corbett
- Tudum - Netflix

Instead of a direct sequel, Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney should star in a new rom-com together for continued success. Similar to Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan reuniting in You've Got Mail after Sleepless in Seattle, Powell and Sweeney should reunite in a different rom-com. Anyone but You 2 doesn't need a sequel, but Powell and Sweeney could still utilize their chemistry in another rom-com.
Anyone but You was a massive box office hit for lead actors Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney, but their success shouldn’t be followed up with a direct sequel to this story. Top Gun: Maverick’s Glen Powell and Euphoria’s Sydney Sweeney lead Anyone but You’s cast as Ben and Bea, with the 2023 romantic comedy being a loose adaptation of William Shakespeare’s play Much Ado About Nothing. Though the movie received mixed reviews, currently holding a 53% score on Rotten Tomatoes, its unexpected...
Anyone but You was a massive box office hit for lead actors Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney, but their success shouldn’t be followed up with a direct sequel to this story. Top Gun: Maverick’s Glen Powell and Euphoria’s Sydney Sweeney lead Anyone but You’s cast as Ben and Bea, with the 2023 romantic comedy being a loose adaptation of William Shakespeare’s play Much Ado About Nothing. Though the movie received mixed reviews, currently holding a 53% score on Rotten Tomatoes, its unexpected...
- 2/21/2024
- by Jordan Williams
- ScreenRant
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