LOS ANGELES Bringing Frankenstein (Netflix) to life is an extraordinary feat but paradoxically this daunting task represents what in a sense has become the norm for cinematographer Dan Laustsen, ASC, DFF and production designer Tamara Deverell as they are both well accustomed to helping writer-director Guillermo del Toro realize his creatively ambitious vision. Laustsen and Deverell’s exploits Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) When Sofia Coppola was 20 years old and figuring out who she wanted to be in the world, Angelica Huston offered some advice: “Not everyone’s going to love you. Don’t waste your time on the people who don’t,” Coppola recalled Wednesday night in New York at the Museum of Modern Art Film Benefit, where she Read More 

TORONTO (AP) Oliver Laxe, the spiritually minded, 6-foot-6-inch French-born Galician director, knows that his new film, “Sirāt,” has given him a reputation to live up to. “When I’m on a plane and things are going bad, I say, “Come on, you’re the director of ‘Sirāt.’ You cannot be scared,” Laxe, 41, says, laughing. Since its prize-winning debut Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) “Welcome to the delicious hell that is high society,” beckons the trailer for “The Seduction,” HBO Max’s steamy new French-language drama inspired by “Dangerous Liaisons.” And indeed, when most of us last saw the Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil, she was in her own private hell, wiping white powder off her tear-stained face. This 18th-century Parisian Read More 

TOKYO (AP) “Last Samurai Standing,” a Netflix series launching on Thursday, is set in a Japan where the feudal samurai era is about to end. The hero, Saga Kokushu, played by Junichi Okada, is one of dozens of samurai in a live-or-die survival game to save family, community and honor. Participants receive wooden tags to wear and Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) Sarah Jessica Parker is going from someone who gives out prizes to getting one. The Emmy- and Screen Actors Guild Award-winner — and judge for the 2025 Booker Prize — was named Thursday as the recipient of the Carol Burnett Award for her “outstanding contributions to television on or off screen.” “Sarah Jessica Parker’s career Read More 

LONDON The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, taking place June 22-26, 2026, has announced updates to the awards ahead of opening for submissions in January. As commercial creativity continues to reshape business and culture globally, next year’s awards will continue to recognize breakthrough creativity with the introduction of the Creative Brand Lion, as well as Read More 

LOS ANGELES RadicalMedia has brought directing duo Sam & David Cutler-Kreutz aboard its talent roster. Sam & David have turned their lifelong passion for filmmaking into a prolific career defined by clever ideas, cinematic visuals, and a shared creative language. This marks the duo’s first U.S. commercial representation. Born and raised in New Jersey, the brothers spent Read More 

LOS ANGELES Boutique production company Love Song has added director Fabio de Frel to its roster of talent for representation in the U.S. and U.K. De Frel directed “Homecoming [Thiossane]” for Converse and Daily Paper, a brand film which explores the joyous exploration of self-discovery and celebrates the vital role of roots in our lives. “Homecoming [Thiossane]” Read More 

LOS ANGELES Global creative company Eleanor has taken on U.S. representation of Stoichemaan (STChM), the experimental studio centered on the director-cinematographer duo of Adrian de Sa Garces and Johan-Fredrik Bodtker whose work explores the boundaries between human creativity and emerging technology. Recently recognized at Ciclope for their award-winning film “Everyone Loves Muscles,” STChM has become known for Read More 

LOS ANGELES TBWA\Media Arts Lab (MAL), Apple’s bespoke global creative agency, has promoted Colin Snow and Rhodney Viray to group creative directors in its Los Angeles office. They will continue to report to Brent Anderson, global chief creative officer. Snow and Viray have been creative partners at MAL for over a decade. Their work includes the Emmy-winning Read More 

NEW YORK Multidisciplinary creative studio Hornet has added two individual directors and a helming duo to its global roster: Margherita Premuroso, Anat Efrati, and the team of Carl + Annika. “At a time when so much creative work is driven by speed and sameness, I feel it’s more important than ever to champion authentic voices,” said Hana Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) Disney’s fourth-quarter performance was mixed as a weaker performance from its television networks and some films was buffered by strength in its streaming business and theme parks. Disney is still trying to work out a new licensing deal with YouTube after its content went dark on YouTube TV late last month, leaving subscribers of the Read More 

LONDON (AP) The BBC apologized Thursday to U.S. President Donald Trump over a misleading edit of his speech on Jan. 6, 2021 but said it strongly disagreed that there was a basis for a defamation lawsuit. The BBC said Chair Samir Shah sent a personal letter to the White House saying that he and the corporation were Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) Oscar-winning actors Michael Caine and Matthew McConaughey have made deals with voice-cloning company ElevenLabs that will allow its artificial intelligence technology to replicate their voices. Caine said in a statement that ElevenLabs is “using innovation not to replace humanity, but to celebrate it.” “It’s not about replacing voices; it’s about amplifying them, opening doors for Read More 

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) The tech industry is moving fast and breaking things again — and this time it is humanity’s shared reality and control of our likeness before and after death — thanks to artificial intelligence image-generation platforms like OpenAI’s Sora 2. The typical Sora video, made on OpenAI’s app and spread onto TikTok, Instagram, X and Facebook, Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) There’s a Gary Cole for everyone. Whether you know him from “The West Wing” or “Veep,” “The Good Wife” or “Office Space,” “Dodgeball” or “Midnight Caller,” you most likely know his face. For a while he was the “hero of the schoolyard” with his daughter’s classmates for appearing in “Cadet Kelly” alongside Hilary Duff. These Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) Asked what viewers should expect when television’s MSNBC makes its corporate divorce from NBC News final this weekend, network president Rebecca Kutler points to a poster on the wall of a conference room at its new offices off Times Square. Its message reads: “Same Mission. New Name.” “To me, that encapsulates exactly what we need Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) It’s always interesting when time overtakes the dystopias of the past. In Stephen King’s 1982 novel “The Running Man,” the United States has fallen into a totalitarian state, divided between haves and have-nots, where all movements can be surveilled and realistic video propaganda is easily generated. King’s book was set in the year 2025. Edgar Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) Ten years or so between installments of a successful Hollywood franchise is a lifetime. When it comes to the third “Now You See Me” movie — poof! — time doesn’t matter. These magicians still got it. “Now You See Me: Now You Don’t” does what sequels apparently must do these days — load up the Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) Sally Kirkland, a one-time model who became a regular on stage, film and TV, best known for sharing the screen with Paul Newman and Robert Redford in “The Sting” and her Oscar-nominated title role in the 1987 movie “Anna,” has died. She was 84. Her representative, Michael Greene, said Kirkland died Tuesday morning at a Read More 

LOS ANGELES & NEW YORK (AP) Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan re-teaming as the body-swapping mother and daughter duo in “Freakier Friday” and albums from 5 Seconds of Summer and the rapper NF are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you. Also among the streaming offerings worth your time this week, as Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) “Predator: Badlands” led all films in North American theaters with a debut of $40 million, according to studio estimates Sunday, a better-than-expected result that slightly lifted the box office from its autumn doldrums. On the heels of the worst box office weekend of 2025, “Predator: Badlands” faced little competition from new titles. Not accounting for Read More 

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