SPOILER WARNING: This story discusses plot points from “A Quiet Place: Day One,” now playing in theaters. Audiences watching “A Quiet Place: Day One” might find themselves rooting for an unlikely hero: Frodo the cat. That’s because director Michael Sarnoski wanted the black and
Sarnoski answers all our burning questions about Frodo the cat (like why he never hisses at the aliens), plus teases a potential sequel.
SPOILER ALERT: This list contains spoilers for Season 3 of “The Bear.” “The Bear” wowed audiences in Season 2 with a head-spinning number of guest stars, most of them appearing in one episode as members of the extended Berzatto family. Many of those guest stars — Jamie Lee
Denis Villeneuve’s next feature is getting a holiday release, though it’s uncertain what that project will ultimately be. Warner Bros. announced Friday that the filmmaker’s next “event film” will hit theaters Dec. 18, 2026, and that it hails from Legendary Entertainment, home
Warner Bros. has announced a slew of changes to their release schedule, most notably slotting an untitled event film from Legendary and “Dune” director Denis Villeneuve for Dec. 18, 2026 in IMAX. Following the massive success of “Dune: Part Two,” Villeneuve entered into talks
Gamers can return to the “Cozy Grove” universe this week with the launch of sequel game, “Cozy Grove: Camp Spirit.” The new titled, which launched Tuesday, is a mobile-only game exclusive to Netflix, which acquired “Cozy Grove” developer Spry Fox as an in-house studio in
Viggo Mortenson, jury member Geoffrey Rush and jury president and independent film veteran Christine Vachon were among the big names strutting down the red carpet on Friday evening for the gala opening ceremony of the 58th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
National Streaming Day is over but Peacock is continuing to churn out deals. The streamer is currently offering a limited-time promo that gets you a full year of Peacock for only $59.99. The monthly plan is normally $5.99/year so by snagging the annual plan, you get 12 months
This pivotal year for the nation was on Greg Berlanti’s mind during an intimate screening of his period film Fly Me to the Moon that took place on the night of this week’s presidential debate. Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum star in Apple Original Films’ romantic comedy
Lana Del Rey and Quavo will release their new country-trap single “Tough” on July 3, the singers jointly announced Friday morning. The pair confirmed the release date following weeks of teasers with a post on Instagram featuring a black-and-white polaroid photo of Del Rey
The Motion Picture Association (MPA) has honored key figures in the Spanish entertainment industry in its first-ever international awards ceremony. The 2024 MPA Awards, held at the Byne House in Madrid Friday night, celebrated Spanish contributions to creativity, policy, and
A covered wagon’s worth of ink has been spilled in recent weeks on “Horizon: An American Saga,” the potentially ruinous three-hour dice roll that writer, producer, director and star Kevin Costner makes this weekend when the first of four planned films about the American West
President Joe Biden returned to the campaign trail on Friday, as he sought to reassure supporters after a lackluster debate performance raised fresh questions about his age and ability to stay in the race. Speaking to supporters in Raleigh, N.C., Biden, 81, acknowledged the
Pop-culture collections have become a personal signifier unlike ever before, and physical media — especially Blu-rays and 4K discs — is no exception. Whether your library is meticulously curated or a clearinghouse for every title no matter how big or small, it tells a story
It would be hard to think of another time when the film industry cooed over every box-office hit like a lost prospector holding up a gold nugget (and for a while this year, finding those hits was starting to feel like panning for gold). It all makes sense, though. Each week,
There are many surprising elements to Camila Cabello’s transitional fourth LP, “C,XOXO.” After dominating pop radio as a solo act with “Señorita” and “Havana,” Cabello’s new effort has her testing new territories that range from glitchy hyper-pop to trap-imbued club tracks. One
Colman Domingo is remembering his late co-star Chadwick Boseman. While appearing in the new episode of Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace? on Max, released on Friday, the Oscar-nominated actor reflected on acting with the late Boseman in 2020’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. “Chad came
“Inside Out 2” continues to dominate the box office, shattering records as it injects a largely absent feeling of joy into a movie industry that’s been in a prolonged funk. The Disney and Pixar sequel about the emotional life of a teenage girl has earned $863.1 million globally
The early results are in, and CNN appeared to be the biggest winner from Thursday’s train wreck of a presidential debate. According to the news cabler’s report of Nielsen Fast National data, a combined 47.9 million total viewers watched the CNN Presidential Debate on TV across
Will Forte has been added to the cast of Netflix’s upcoming comedy “The Four Seasons,” opposite stars including Tina Fey and Steve Carell. Fey, Lang Fisher and Tracey Wigfield are behind the series, based on the 1981 feature film that was written and directed by Alan Alda (who
“Dungeons and Drag Queens” star Monét X Change has landed her own variety talk series at “Dimension 20” streamer Dropout. Titled “Monét’s Slumber Party,” the show is described as an “edgy, playful and queer variety show” where “Monét X Change will welcome friends, comedians and
Benicio del Toro has had enough of schmoozing, small talk and pretending to laugh at people’s jokes in this year’s black-and-white trailer for the 2024 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF), which was unveiled, as has become tradition, on Friday evening as part of
“The View” hosts Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, Ana Navarro and Alyssa Farah Griffin spent 10 minutes at the start of the June 28 episode discussing the disastrous first 2024 presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. Both Haines and Griffin agreed that it’s
At some point, if you are enthusiastically trying to get everyone you know in Los Angeles out to see “A Strange Loop” — and anyone who hasn’t should try to, as the production comes to aclose this weekend — you may realize that some of the things you’re touting about the show
The Motion Picture Association hosted its 2024 MPA Awards today in Madrid, marking the first time the organization has done so outside of the U.S. During the event, several key figures from Spain’s creative, policy and law enforcement communities were recognized for their
Boat Rocker Media Inc. has sold its stake in talent management company Untitled Entertainment LLC to TPG for approximately $51.6 million CAD. Global investment firm TPG boasts entertainment investments including Calm, Creative Artists Agency (CAA), DirecTV, Entertainment
CNN, facing an avalanche of criticism for letting false claims by Donald Trump go unchecked during Thursday night’s debate with President Biden, defended its decision to not intervene to correct misstatements live on-air. In a statement to Variety, a CNN spokesperson said, “The
In its first week of availability on Hulu, “Perfect Wife: The Mysterious Disappearance of Sherri Papini” reached 3.6 million views. This marks the most-watched Hulu docuseries ever, according to the streamer, which calculates views by dividing the total amount of time a project
The Garden of Allah. The Cocoanut Grove. The Brown Derby and The Luau. They were the hottest places to see and be seen during the Golden Age of Hollywood, from the 1930s to the 1960s. Anyone who dined at these glamorous venues or wishes they had will thrill to the Out With the
Focus Features will release thriller Last Breath in theaters on Feb. 28, 2025. The film, from Longshot Films and Dark Castle Entertainment, stars Woody Harrelson, Simu Liu and Finn Cole. Universal Pictures International will distribute Last Breath in select international
Tinashe is keeping the momentum of “Nasty” at all an time high with a new album, “Quantum Baby,” due out on Aug. 16. Tinashe released her new song “Getting No Sleep” on Friday with a “Mad Max“-themed music video that allow the sultry song’s lyrics — “So I’m like, ‘How does it
David Tennant is the latest “Harry Potter” actor to be called out by J.K. Rowling for publicly supporting trans rights. It all started when Tennant, the “Doctor Who” favorite who also played Barty Crouch Jr. in “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,” accepted a prize at the
In the hour leading up to President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance on Thursday, I peeked inside the flashy studio where MSNBC’s biggest stars were previewing how Donald Trump could derail the proceedings, and I saw megawatt smiles. The hosts were in the middle of a
Viggo Mortensen is eyeing his next directorial project. “It’s only indigenous languages, it has no white characters and there will be no movie stars – just lots and lots of horses. But I am convinced it will have wide appeal, because it’s a universal coming-of-age story about
One of the biggest challenges for any artist is knowing when a creation — a song, a story, a painting — is finished and ready to be shared with the world. More than many, Neil Young has shown a willingness to wait, recording songs and full albums — and even performing them in
SZA, Usher and Victoria Monét were just a few of the musicians to take top honors at the 2024 ASCAP Top Rhythm & Soul Music Awards, which took place last night in Los Angeles. SZA, who released her record-breaking sophomore album “SOS” in late 2022, was honored with the ASCAP
Paramount’s prequel A Quiet Place: Day One made a loud entrance at the domestic box office with a franchise-best $6.8 million in Thursday previews. That’s an impressive start, considering this is the first entry not directed by franchise creator John Krasinski or starring Emily
Make some noise, because it’s time to return to “A Quiet Place.” The third entry in Paramount’s post-apocalyptic thriller series, “A Quiet Place: Day One,” has opened in theaters and made $6.8 million at the box office in Thursday previews. After the 2018 original movie and the
As this album’s cover artwork suggests — it appears to show a restaurant table with one man drinking tea and eating baked beans, and the other drinking syrup — a full-length collaboration album between British avant singer-songwriter James Blake and psychedelicized Atlanta
It’s the most wonderful time of the year for U.K. festival-goers: Glastonbury Festival returns this weekend. Most of the 200,000-strong crowd – including a large chunk of the U.K. music industry – are already on site at Worthy Farm but, for those unable to get a ticket, the
Renowned British filmmaker Mike Leigh believes that if the subjects of his 2018 historical drama “Peterloo” were alive to see the upcoming U.K. general elections they would be “not only horrified but mystified” about “people procrastinating about whether to vote and seeing
Lucy Kerr’s unnerving debut, “Family Portrait,” opens with a sequence where a character is intent on materializing the title in literal fashion. Katy (Deragh Campbell), a 20-something, tries to wrangle adults and children to take a group photo together on a calid afternoon
A collection of concert films featuring K-Pop icons BTS and Seventeen will start to become available worldwide on Asian-themed streaming platform Rakuten Viki from next week. An agreement between agency firm Hybe Corp. and Rakuten Viki provides a slate of nine concert films,
“Second Chance,” the directorial debut of Indian filmmaker Subhadra Mahajan, has been picked up for international sales by Thailand-based Diversion ahead of its world premiere at the 2024 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. The film is set to debut on July 2 in the
Emmy winners Sheryl Lee Ralph and Tony Hale have signed on to announce this year’s Emmy nominations, live on July 17, at 8:30 a.m. PT from Disney’s El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood. The nominations reveal will stream live on the Emmys website, via Emmys.com/nominations. Also on
Dominique Boutonnat, the president of the National Film Board, France’s most powerful film institution, has received a three-year prison sentence, including two suspended, over sexual assault charges. Boutonnat has stepped down from the CNC in the wake of the verdict on June 28
British actor Ben Hardy, whose credits include “X-Men: Apocalypse,” “Bohemian Rhapsody” and Netflix’s “Love at First Sight,” is one of the leads in upcoming film “Unicorns.” Co-directed by BAFTA nominee Sally El Hosaini (“The Swimmers”) and her long-standing collaborator James
Khaby Lame brought his comedic chops to the U.S. — and the producers of his new unscripted series, “Khaby Is Coming to America,” are hoping his millions of TikTok fans will come along for the ride. The limited three-part series follows Lame as he explores the best (and
