HOLLYWOOD, Calif. The AFI Fest got off to a rousing start on Wednesday night (10/22) when Bruce Springsteen took the stage after the screening of writer-director-producer Scott Cooper’s Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere (20th Century Studios) and gave a solo mini-concert to a capacity crowd at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. Included was a performance of Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) Jesse Plemons has a plea: Pause Netflix and go see “Bugonia” in the theater. The film, in which he plays a conspiracy theorist who kidnaps and tortures Emma Stone’s pharma CEO, believing her to be an alien, is the kind that might seem small in scope. On a certain level, it’s three people — the Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) Sometimes the best films are the ones that are most difficult to describe, the ones that can’t be boiled down to a pithy tagline or plot summary. This is almost certainly the case with “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You,” one of most audacious films of the year, in which Rose Byrne plays a Read More 

TORONTO (AP) In Nia DaCosta’s “Hedda,” Tessa Thompson’s titular socialite sows chaos. She manipulates. She cuts people to the bone with a quip. She pours more drinks. Hedda Gabler, the heroine of Henrik Ibsen’s 1890 play, has long been one of theater’s most tragic figures, a woman hemmed in by societal convention and her own dread of Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) Props, mementos and photographs adorn Adam Driver ‘s Brooklyn office. There’s an artwork Jim Jarmusch gave him for his 40th birthday, the doll from Leos Carax’s “Annette” and dozens of on-set photographs, including one of Driver and his son in the Millennium Falcon. “A friend who saw all this said: ‘Oh, so you care,'” Driver Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) The Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi has been imprisoned, banned from traveling, put under house arrest and ordered to stop making films for 20 years. And, yet, Panahi has continually made films. Many of them rank among the greatest of the century. Most would call that courageous. Not Panahi. “My problem was that I was told Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) Warner Bros. Discovery — the home of HBO, CNN and DC Studios — has signaled that it may be open to selling all or parts of its business, just months after announcing plans to split into two companies. In an announcement Tuesday, the entertainment and media giant said it had initiated a review of “strategic Read More 

NEW YORK Rebecca Glashow has been appointed the new CEO of Tribeca Enterprises, the multi-platform media and entertainment company that owns and operates the Tribeca Festival, content division Tribeca Studios, distribution label Tribeca Films and production company m ss ng p eces. Glashow brings decades of experience working across some of the biggest brands at the intersection Read More 

SANTA FE, N.M. A lawsuit by actor Alec Baldwin alleging malicious prosecution in the 2021 fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the set of the Western movie “Rust” has been reinstated and moved to federal court by the defendants. Baldwin initially filed the lawsuit in state court in January, claiming civil rights violations and seeking damages after a Read More 

SACRAMENTO, Calif. Governor Gavin Newsom has announced that 52 film projects were selected for the latest round of tax credits under California’s Film and Television Tax Credit Program. These projects, representing both studio-backed and independent productions, are projected to inject more than $1.4 billion into the state’s economy and keep thousands of good-paying jobs in California. These Read More 

LOS ANGELES For decades, Los Angeles was the undisputed capital of global production. Films, television, and commercials were born here. Not just in our studios, but in our streets, neighborhoods, and communities. Then, almost overnight, the ground shifted. As other states and countries rolled out aggressive tax incentives, production began to drift away. Georgia, New Mexico, Vancouver, Read More 

NEW YORK Droga5, part of Accenture Song, has appointed Rafael Rizuto as chief creative officer of New York and the Americas. Rizuto will serve as creative lead of Droga5’s New York headquarters. His remit also extends across the Americas, and he will be instrumental in bridging the agency’s teams in the region to maximize its creative muscle Read More 

LOS ANGELES RSA Films has added filmmaker/photographer Santiago Sierra Soler to its roster for commercial and branded content representation in the U.S. A versatile storyteller whose work is known for its visual aesthetic and exploration of cultural touchstones, Sierra Soler has directed brand films for the likes of Absolut x Andy Warhol, adidas x Missoni, Teen Vogue Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) Robert Redford’s legacy and mission was always going to be a key component of the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, which will be the last of its kind in Park City, Utah. But in the wake of his death in Septemberat age 89, those ideas took on a new significance. This January, the institute that Redford Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) When the first season of Netflix’s “Nobody Wants This” premiered last year, the series exploded in popularity in ways its creator and stars could never have imagined. It spent six weeks on Netflix’s Global English Top 10 TV List and was viewed 57 million times in three months, according to the streaming service. “I think Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) Even M. Night Shyamalan — known for making darker movies like “The Sixth Sense” and “Signs” — goes looking for the light sometimes. “I just finished three really dark movies, ‘Old,’ ‘Knock at the Cabin’ and ‘Trap,’ which are really edgy movies where the characters are super, super dark and complicated, and I wanted to Read More 

LONDON Director Loren Denis’ relationship with Superprime Films has extended geographically. The company, which continues to handle her in the U.S. and France, now adds to that territory with Superprime London taking on representation for the director in the U.K. market. Prior to this, Denis was repped in the U.K. by Rattling Stick. A former model Read More 

LOS ANGELES Good Times has signed director Julian Pugsley for U.S. commercial representation. Pugsley is a comedy craftsman with dramatic flair, engineering slightly off-kilter worlds that are both silly and stylish. Pugsley is an agency creative turned filmmaker. His expansive commercial portfolio includes campaigns for Amazon, Mercedes, Doritos, Miller, and K-Mart. Many agencies, including BBH, BBDO, DDB, Read More 

NEW YORK The One Club for Creativity has named the top global creatives from around the world who will serve as jury presidents for The One Show 2026. These creatives will lead judging for each discipline, and have a vote on the work. Confirmed One Show 2026 Jury Presidents, by discipline, are as follows: –Branded Entertainment: Rajdeepak Read More 

PARIS Bertille Toledano has been named president of Havas Creative Network and CEO of Havas Creative Middle East. Toledano will continue in her role as CEO of Havas agency BETC which was founded 30 years ago by Mercedes Erra and Rémi Babinet, who now serve as chairs of its Supervisory Board. Since joining the Group in Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) The twisted filmography of Yorgos Lanthimos has by now trained us to expect darkly comic visions of contemporary life, both savage and mundane. His movies have perhaps inspired the most “What?!” reactions of the last decade, partly because they’ve tried so hard to do so. His movies — farces, fables, experiments — reside in surreal Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) In his 500-page memoir, “Born to Run,” Bruce Springsteen spends less than three pages on the making of his 1982 album “Nebraska.” Moving on, folks, nothing to see here, he seems to be saying. The first authorized biopic of his life — “Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere” — disagrees, delving deep into the inner turmoil Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) Hedda Gabler, one of the theater’s great schemers, is transported to 1950s England in Nia DaCosta’s deliriously fun, intelligent and impassioned spin on the classic Henrik Ibsen drama. One needn’t know anything about Ibsen’s 1890 play to enjoy “Hedda.” Like “Clueless” and “Bridget Jones’ Diary” before it, “Hedda,” in theaters Friday, is a film that Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) They have cup holders at the multiplex. But as yet, they have not installed Kleenex holders. That might have been a good idea once it was clear that director Josh Boone was going to helm another adaptation of a popular YA novel, this time “Regretting You” by Colleen Hoover. As fans may recall, Boone’s “The Read More 

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) Formula 1 announced a five-year deal Friday with Apple, which will be the global motorsports series’ U.S. broadcast partner beginning next season. ESPN had been the broadcast partner since 2018 and through the explosion of popularity of F1 in the United States, but notified the series at the start of this year it would not Read More 

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) Paul Telfer of “Days of Our Lives” and Nancy Lee Grahn of “General Hospital” won lead acting honors at the Daytime Emmys on Friday, with ABC’s “General Hospital” claiming six trophies in the major categories, including drama series. Sir David Attenborough broke Dick Van Dyke’s record for oldest Daytime Emmy winner, taking the trophy for Read More 

LAS VEGAS (AP) Movies like “The Hangover” and “Ocean’s Eleven” piqued interest in the Las Vegas Strip long ago. But now Nevada labor unions hoping to boost jobs and tourism are pushing state officials to offer tax credits aimed at bringing more Hollywood filmmaking to the state. The effort to offer up to $95 million in tax credits Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) The horror sequel “Black Phone 2” topped the North American box office charts this weekend with $26.5 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday. Not only did it surpass the original’s $23.6 million debut, it’s a much-needed win for Blumhouse after a string of disappointments this year like “M3GAN 2.0.” Though “Black Phone Read More 

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