LOS ANGELES After The Tale of Silyan made its U.S. debut last month at AFI Fest in Hollywood, SHOOT sought out one of the film’s producers, Anna Hashmi, a founding partner and executive producer of The Corner Shop, a production company that made its initial mark in commercials, branded content and music videos before diversifying meaningfully into Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) Joachim Trier, Stellan Skarsgård and Renate Reinsve have gathered in a backstage room at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall. A screen on the wall shows the crowd inside, raptly watching their film, “Sentimental Value.” They have all consciously sat facing away from the movie. But if there’s one moment from the film they sometimes sneak Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) A once-overlooked army psychiatrist tasked with analyzing Hermann Göring and other Nazis accused of war crimes is getting the kind of attention that he had sought in his lifetime. “Nuremberg,” starring Russell Crowe as Göring, centers on the Nazi military commander’s conversations with Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, played by Rami Malek. Kelley’s mission was to Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) TV shows like “Abbott Elementary,” “Hacks,” “Heartstopper,” “The Last of Us” and “Yellowjackets” helped increase the ranks of LGBTQ+ characters on prime time by 4% over the previous season, according to a new study by the advocacy group GLAAD. This year’s “Where We Are on TV” study, released Thursday, counted 489 LGBTQ characters across scripted Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) In a rooftop space filled with Hollywood’s most influential figures, actor Kristen Stewart delivered an unflinching speech calling on women in film to “print (their) own currency” and reject the industry’s tokenism while celebrating the next generation of female filmmakers. Stewart, who directed “The Chronology of Water,” an adaptation of Lidia Yuknavitch’s 2011 memoir, began Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) Helen Mirren has portrayed multiple queens, a prime minister, a detective, “Barbie” narrator and many other roles in more than a half-century of acting. Her latest: Golden Globe lifetime achievement honoree. Mirren will receive the 2026 Cecil B. DeMille Award in January, the Golden Globes announced Wednesday. “Helen Mirren is a force of nature and Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) After a long day at work, you rush to pick up your child from a playdate with a new friend. But there’s a problem as soon as you get there: The person who answers the door has no idea who your child is — or you. “I think you’ve got the wrong house,” they say. Read More 

SAN DIEGO (AP) “Predator: Badlands” belongs to a long-established cinema subgenre: two opposed people reluctantly stuck together with a common purpose. The film, the seventh in the franchise (not counting the “Alien vs. Predator” offshoots), has the buddy comedy energy that comes with that dynamic. It also belongs to the narrower subgenre of people quite literally stuck together, Read More 

L.A., NYC, PARIS & BRUSSELS Obsidian officially launches today (11/4), founded by director Wes Walker and entrepreneurial executive Louis Gheysens of the Oscar®-winning global creative studio Gang Group. While it has been active for a stretch already as a creative studio quietly established within Gang Group, developing and producing some select early projects, the formal public introduction of Obsidian now Read More 

SANTA MONICA, Calif. Director Sam Coleman has joined the U.S. roster of Eleanor. “At the end of the day, my job is finding the best in a script and elevating it to be the absolute best it can be,” said Coleman. “Never letting a single second slip, every moment within a script becomes a doorway of possibility.” This Read More 

LOS ANGELES RadicalMedia has added director Wally Pfister to its talent roster for commercial representation. Pfister, ASC made his first mark in the industry as a cinematographer, winning an Oscar in 2011 for his lensing of Inception. Widely regarded as one of the industry’s foremost visual storytellers, Pfister continues to showcase his signature cinematic sensibility in creative Read More 

NEW YORK & LOS ANGELES Multi-hyphenate director/writer/production designer Josh Locy has joined Chelsea for global commercial representation, directing Canadian clothing brand Roots’ “Seth Rogen: Anything Roots” as a debut campaign. Rogen stars as Roots’ holiday concierge offering advice on gifting ideas. This marks Locy’s first representation in the ad market as a director. Chelsea is regarded in the industry for Read More 

LONDON & LAS VEGAS London International Awards (LIA) has revealed its 2025 Global and Regional Of The Year winners, which are based on a point system value that correlates to a statue win. The points attained from calculating all Grand LIAs (100 points), Golds (40), Silvers (15), Bronzes (5) and Finalists (1) contribute to the Of The Year Awards, Read More 

LOS ANGELES Epoch Films has signed Danish director Tore Frandsen for his first U.S. commercial representation. Known for his elevated cinematic visuals and dry, observational humor, Frandsen brings his sharp sensibility stateside. Blending wit, conceptual precision, and an artist’s eye, Frandsen is known for his ability to move fluidly across genres while maintaining a distinct observational signature. Read More 

LOS ANGELES Director Brit Phelan has joined production company Good Times for U.S. commercial representation. Phelan got her start in the ad industry at Wieden+Kennedy, where she honed her signature style of blending intimate image, motion graphics, and visual effects for Nike projects. She’s since partnered with many agencies and brands around the world on various short-form Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) The focus of Joachim Trier’s “Sentimental Value” may be small and limited — one Norwegian family struggling to connect and communicate — and yet its emotional scope is downright cosmic. This is a film about life in the arts, about fulfillment and forgiveness, about performance, about stories true and falsely remembered, about home, about trauma, Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) The Nuremberg trials have inspired filmmakers before, from Stanley Kramer’s 1961 drama to the 2000 television miniseries with Alec Baldwin and Brian Cox. But for the latest take, “Nuremberg,” writer-director James Vanderbilt focuses on a lesser-known figure: The U.S. Army psychiatrist Douglas Kelley, who after the war was assigned to supervise and evaluate captured Nazi Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) A primal punk spirit rages through Lynne Ramsay’s “Die, My Love,” a jagged, go-for-broke psychodrama starring Jennifer Lawrence as an increasingly unhinged new mother and Robert Pattinson as her husband. In this cauldron of marital nightmare, set in a ramshackle rural Montana home, there are fires, real and imagined, and a variety of wildlife. There’s Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) At one point deep into “Christy,” the boxer Christy Martin, played with ferocious commitment by Sydney Sweeney, describes how she feels being in the ring. It’s not what you’d expect. It’s where she finds quiet, she says. Such a line at the beginning of this two-hour plus film would have been laughable, given that the Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) Elle Fanning delivers one of the most disjointed performances of the year in “Predator: Badlands.” It’s not her fault — she’s a great actor. It’s just that she spends the majority of the movie in two pieces. Fanning plays an android whose torso and legs have different trajectories in this ninth installment of the “Predator” Read More 

OJAI, Calif. (AP) Diane Ladd, a three-time Academy Award nominee and actor of rare timing and intensity whose roles ranged from the brash waitress in “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore” to the scheming parent in “Wild at Heart,” has died at 89. Ladd’s death was announced Monday by daughter Laura Dern, who issued a statement saying her mother Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) Bodies go flying and tumbling in NBC’s latest comedy series, “Stumble,” a mocking but loving look at the competitive world of cheer from a brother-and-sister writing team. Jeff and Liz Astrof have created a mockumentary about a ragtag group of recruits building a cheer team from scratch at a junior college in a tiny Oklahoma Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) The movie exhibition business is closing out one of its slowest Octobers in over 25 years with a sluggish Halloween weekend. Studios avoided opening any major new films with the holiday falling on a Friday. Instead, there were several re-releases including “Back to the Future,” which is celebrating its 40th anniversary, and the Netflix phenomenon Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) President Donald Trump’s razing of the White House’s East Wing to build a ballroom has put some news organizations following the story in an awkward position, with corporate owners among the contributors to the project — and their reporters covering it vigorously. Comcast, which owns NBC News and MSNBC, has faced on-air criticism from some Read More 

LOS ANGELES & NEW YORK (AP) The earnest superhero team-up tale “The Fantastic Four: First Steps” and Tracy Morgan returning to TV with a new comedy called “Crutch” 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 selected by The Associated Press’ entertainment Read More 

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