LOS ANGELES Lesli Linka Glatter, a three-time DGA Award winner, found an element approaching narrative perfection in Imperfect Women (Apple TV), a limited series starring Kerry Washington, Elisabeth Moss and Kate Mara as longtime best friends. When originally approached about the possibility of taking on the project–which she ultimately did as director and executive producer (helming the Read More 

CANNES, France (AP) The Cannes Film Festival can function like a global water cooler for movies, with prevailing issues and anxieties tending to come to the surface at the event. This year, the topic du jour is artificial intelligence. The 79th Cannes may go down as the time the world’s grandest film festival for the first time wrestled Read More 

CANNES, France (AP) The day John Lennon was shot, on Dec. 8, 1980, he and Yoko Ono gave an interview to a San Francisco radio crew from their home in New York’s Dakota Apartments. They were promoting their new album “Double Fantasy,” but the two-hour conversation was wide ranging. Though the interviewers had been warned “no Beatles questions,” Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) In Ira Sachs’ 1980s-set drama “The Man I Love,” Rami Malek finds the most well-tailored role since his Oscar-winning portrayal of Freddie Mercury in “Bohemian Rhapsody.” While Sachs’ film, which is a competition entry at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, likewise centers on a performer dying of AIDS, it’s otherwise an altogether different and dramatically Read More 

CANNES, France (AP) David Greaves was 26 when his father, the pioneering filmmaker William Greaves, asked him to be one of four cameramen documenting a historic gathering in Harlem. In August 1972, William Greaves assembled as many artists, writers, poets, musicians and organizers from the Harlem Renaissance as he could. They came for a cocktail party at Duke Read More 

CANNES, France (AP) The Cannes Film Festival is not a place that’s conducive to taking your time. Festivalgoers rush frantically between screenings. The protocol department enforces precisely timed red carpet premieres. Standing ovations are clocked. But one of the most lauded films of this year’s Cannes is a patiently plotted, sensitively told three-hour drama about giving people the Read More 

CANNES, France (AP) James Gray has been to the Cannes Film Festival enough times to not entirely trust the response his films get here, for better or worse. “You smile and say thank you and then you fly home and your wife says take out the garbage,” says Gray. Nevertheless, Gray’s “Paper Tiger” has been one of the Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) Stephen Colbert chatted with Paul McCartney and joined him on stage for a raucous performance of “Hello, Goodbye” on the final broadcast of CBS’ “The Late Show” on Thursday night, a bittersweet farewell for a canceled show that still had a few barbs left for the network that ended its 33-year run. At the top Read More 

LOS ANGELES Executive producer and co-founder Bonnie Goldfarb has announced that harvest is closing after 25 years in commercial production. The shop–which she and director Baker Smith launched in spring of 2001–has been an industry mainstay, garnering assorted honors including Grand Prix distinction at Cannes, Gold, Silver and Bronze Cannes Lions, Clios, D&AD Pencils, AICP/MoMA inductions and Read More 

NEW YORK The Elements Music, and Droga5 music supervisors Mike Ladman and Mara Techam, won the Ryan Barkan Best in Show Award at the 14th annual AMP Awards for Music & Sound, taking home the trophy for the music supervision of the General Motors ad, “See You On The Road,” which reimagines the Elvis Presley classic “If Read More 

NEW YORK Based on point totals for wins last week at 2026 One Show, VML New York was named Agency of the Year in The One Show 2026 Global Creative Rankings. Highlights of The One Show 2026 Global Creative Rankings are as follows: Agency Rankings 1. VML New York 2. Rethink Toronto 3. Uncommon Creative Studio London Read More 

LONDON D&AD, the global non-profit championing excellence in design and commercial creativity, has revealed this year’s D&AD Awards Pencil winners. Drawing entries from 89 countries, the highest in the awards’ history, 573 Pencils were awarded across 46 categories, from over 50,000 pieces of work submitted for consideration. Highest Awarded Countries – all Pencil levels excluding Black Read More 

LOS ANGELES The American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Board of Governors has announced a new slate of officers, with Shelly Johnson elected to lead as president. Johnson, who takes the reigns from incumbent president Mandy Walker, previously served as the org’s president from 2023-25. The Board also voted in VPs Charlie Lieberman, Alice Brooks and John Simmons; Read More 

CANNES, France (AP) Sprawling action movies with aliens do not generally compete for the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or. But Na Hong-jin’s “Hope” is not your average science fiction. Few movies were more anticipated in Cannes. It’s been 10 years since Na’s last film, the well-regarded 2016 thriller “The Wailing.” While some of Na’s fellow Korean genre masters, Read More 

CANNES, France (AP) For Sandra Hüller, eruptions of emotion don’t come naturally. She prefers to be quiet and calm, and often her screen presence radiates intensity when she’s simply watching. But when she explodes — whether in grief or karaoke — she can be magnificent. “It’s not something that I like to do, particularly,” Hüller says, sitting in Read More 

CANNES, France (AP) Cate Blanchett said the #MeToo movement “got killed very quickly” in Hollywood, speaking Sunday at the Cannes Film Festival. In a wide-ranging staged conversation, Blanchett lamented that the tide of #MeToo has been turned in Hollywood, where she has been outspoken about gender equality. “It got killed very quickly, which I think is interesting,” said Read More 

CANNES, France (AP) Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev sent shock waves through the Cannes Film Festival with a soberly damning crime film about murder and corruption in Russia, set against the conscription of young men into President Vladimir Putin’s war with Ukraine. “Minotaur,” which debuted Tuesday night at the French festival, was one of the most anticipated selections at Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) For Daniel Roher, making things is kind of a compulsion. Perhaps it’s not surprising for someone who was able to direct two movies at the same time: A documentary about artificial intelligence, now streaming on Peacock, and the heist thriller “Tuner,” in theaters Friday. But he is the kind of person who is constantly creating, Read More 

NEW YORK Emmy Award-winning producer and actor Kerry Washington will receive the Spotlight Tribute–in recognition of her expansive career as an actress and producer, including her starring role on Apple TV’s Imperfect Women–at the Third Annual Gotham Television Awards, taking place on Monday, June 1, at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City. “Kerry Washington has created Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) After five seasons of death, depravity and digs at the capitalistic superhero-industrial complex, “The Boys” dropped its series finale Wednesday. But the gutsy (in more than one way) Vought Cinematic Universe is not coming to an end, with two spinoffs on the horizon at Amazon’s Prime Video: “Vought Rising” and “The Boys: Mexico.” “Vought Rising” Read More 

LONDON & LOS ANGELES Phoebe Arnstein has joined the directing roster of Biscuit Filmworks for commercial representation worldwide–except for Germany where she is repped by Zauberberg. Arnstein’s films span narrative, documentary, and commercials, with some projects featuring her unique mixed-media approach, using stills she captures and integrates into moving images for added impact. Her instinct for casting brings depth Read More 

LONDON PRETTYBIRD has added writer-director Femi Oladigbolu to its U.K. roster for commercials and music videos. Hailing from South London with Nigerian heritage, Oladigbolu brings a talent for nuanced storytelling, creating warmth and affinity for characters through layered subtext, playful wit, and subtle surreal touches. At PRETTYBIRD, he joins recent signees Laura Marciano, Nono Ayuso, and Read More 

NEW YORK & LOS ANGELES Comedy director Carlyn Hudson has joined Gifted Youth for commercial representation in the U.S. Hudson’s branded collaborations include campaigns for Tinder, JIF, e.l.f., Cheerios, Nike, Google, Jack in the Box, Amazon, OGX, and the New York Festival of Advertising. Her unapologetic spot for Annovera, starring Whitney Cummings, earned a Cannes Lion. Three of her short Read More 

ATLANTA Creative production and technology house RiTE Media has made a slate of moves that sharpen its offering to ad agencies and brands: Halie Graham joins the company as partner/executive producer of commercial & experiential, tabletop/live-action director Xander Bartole signs on to the roster, and Minerva has been tapped as RiTE’s East Coast representation while Marguerite Read More 

NEW YORK The Telly Awards, covering video and television across all screens, unveiled the winners of its 47th annual competition. The organization reported nearly 14,000 entries this season–the most in the award’s history, and a 6% increase over last season–from creators, brands, and production companies spanning 55 countries. “Video has never been more contested, more creative, or Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) Aleshea Harris wrote “Is God Is” with the assumption that it would never be performed as a play, let alone turned into a movie. It was simply a story she needed to get onto the page: A tale of rage and revenge, an ancient Greek tragedy melded with Spaghetti Western tropes centered on contemporary Black Read More 

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) After prevailing in its court fight with Elon Musk, OpenAI — the ChatGPT maker valued at $852 billion — remains on track for what could be one of the largest initial public offerings in history. Musk had been seeking the ouster of his fellow OpenAI co-founder, CEO Sam Altman, among other changes to the company. Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) It’s been nearly seven years since there was a new “Star Wars” movie released in theaters and there are lots of ways to do it. “Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu,” a disjointed off-ramp that lacks the scale and ambition of its sisters, fails the task. As the Mandalorians might say, this is not the Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) After two weeks trailing “The Devil Wears Prada 2,” the Michael Jackson biopic “Michael” reclaimed the No. 1 spot at the North American box office with $26.1 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday. The Lionsgate movie is in rarefied territory, having brought in $703.9 million worldwide and counting. It still has a Read More 

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