'The Odyssey' filmmaker, who was elected president of the Directors Guild of America last year, spoke at Saturday's awards.
Kumail Nanjiani gently skewered a room full of Hollywood heavyweights in his opening monologue at the Directors Guild Awards, taking aim at the Epstein files, runaway production, the extended running times of many movies and the fact that the guild’s top award was named in
On the red carpet for the DGA Awards Saturday night, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos addressed the proposed Netflix-Warner Bros. merger and President Donald Trump’s possible role in the deal. Asked by Variety‘s Marc Malkin if it makes him nervous when the President says he’s
Kumail Nanjiani hosted the ceremony honoring the best film and TV directors of the past year, with 'The Studio,' 'The Pitt,' 'Dying for Sex' and 'SNL50' also taking home honors.
“One Battle After Another” director Paul Thomas Anderson won the top prize on Saturday at the 78th annual DGA Awards. The event, honoring the year’s most outstanding directorial achievements in film and television, was hosted by Oscar and Emmy-nominated comedian Kumail Nanjiani
Days after The Washington Post laid off nearly one-third of its staff, the outlet’s publisher and CEO, Will Lewis, has stepped down. Current CFO Jeff D’Onofrio will step into Lewis’ role, effective immediately. “After two years of transformation at The Washington Post, now is
The first lady's documentary is falling off steeply in its second weekend, prompting Amazon MGM to go on the offensive and stress that the film is in it for the long game, whether theatrically or streaming.
The director admitted he "promised" himself he would work with 'The Notebook' actress again following their time collaborating on 2022's 'Multiverse of Madness.'
Team USA alpine skier Mikaela Shiffrin on Saturday told reporters during a press conference (via USA Today) that she hopes to elevate “inclusivity… diversity and kindness” at the 2026 Winter Olympics despite the current political turmoil in the United States. When asked about
The Milan Cortina Winter Olympics kicked off with an opening ceremony on Friday that averaged 21.4 million viewers on NBC and Peacock, according to preliminary Nielsen ratings and digital data from Adobe Analytics. The official Nielsen Big Data + Panel viewership will be posted
Savannah Guthrie took to Instagram on Saturday afternoon to share another message with her mother’s kidnapper, this time saying she and her family will pay for Nancy Guthrie’s return. “We received your message, and we understand,” Guthrie said in the video, flanked by her
“One Battle After Another” cinematographer Michael Bauman has won the British Society of Cinematographers Award for best cinematography in a feature film. This is Bauman’s first win and nomination at the BSC Awards. He triumphed over “Die My Love” (Seamus McGarvey), “Marty
You have to love Caleb McLaughlin for being so public about wanting to play Miles Morales. “I would love to play Miles,” he told me Friday night at the premiere of his new animated movie “Goat.” The “Stranger Things” star has been a fan favorite to slip into the Spider-Man suit
Sam Raimi told Total Film that Rachel McAdams was “underutilized” in his 2022 MCU sequel “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,” and after that movie, he “promised” himself he would work with her again. This pledge led to Raimi casting McAdams in his latest comedy
No “Joke”: Brandi Carlile is one of the few vocalists out there with so powerhouse of a voice, she could almost be considered overqualified to sing “America the Beautiful.” That’s what she’ll be doing just prior to Super Bowl LX kicking off on Sunday, and although it is not
The Texas native appeared in three films for exploitation director S.F. Brownrigg, including ‘Don’t Look in the Basement’ and ‘Poor White Trash Part II.’
Halle Berry might not be reprising her role as the weather-controlling Storm in the forthcoming “Avengers: Doomsday,” but don’t count the Oscar-winning actor out of a future Marvel reunion. “While I’m sad I won’t be in ‘Doomsday’ this round, there are other rounds,” Berry told
Brad Arnold, the lead singer and founding member of the American rock band 3 Doors Down, died on Saturday after a battle with cancer. He was 47. A rep for Arnold said he died peacefully in his sleep, surrounded by his wife and family. Arnold, the original drummer and vocalist
SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers from Season 4 of “The Lincoln Lawyer,” now streaming on Netflix. As Season 4 of the hit Netflix series “The Lincoln Lawyer” gets underway, Mickey Haller (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo) has lost his cherished vintage Lincoln Continental —
After making its debut on Paramount+ with nearly 5 million viewers a few weeks ago and a quick turnaround with another premiere numbered event with UFC 325, the Ultimate Fighting Championship is travels goes back home to “Sin City” for the first UFC Fight Night of 2026. The
Jennifer Hudson is reacting to Kelly Clarkson announcing that she’s ending her talk show. “Kelly is amazing,” Hudson told me Friday at the premiere of her new animated movie, “Goat.” “I wish her the absolute best. She’s done really well – and she’s a GOAT!” Clarkson announced
An absurdist satire, a horror story, science-fiction, a historical drama, a black comedy: this year’s Oscar-nominated composers were called to score a variety of engaging scenarios. But they had one thing in common: a special scene in which they could take pride, moments where
For only the second time in Academy Awards history, two of the five nominated songs are from documentaries—and one of them is an aria performed an opera star, also only the second time during the 91-year history of the category. Veteran songwriter Diane Warren earned her 17th
President Donald Trump on Friday night told reporters on board Air Force One (via TMZ) that the investigation into the abduction of Savannah Guthrie’s 84-year-old mother is going “very well” and “definitive” answers as to what happened could be released in the coming days. When
Country singer Brantley Gilbert has taken to social media to defend the controversial alternative halftime show being put on Sunday by Turning Point USA, insisting “I’m not playing this show to be divisive” and that diverting viewers from Bad Bunny’s actual Super Bowl
It’s shaping up to be a slow weekend at the box office, with major studios understandably hesitant to launch their films against the unstoppable ratings machine that is Sunday’s Super Bowl. That meant Friday was wide open for the K-pop concert film “Stray Kids: The dominATE
Two days prior to taking part in the Super Bowl’s opening ceremony, Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong made it clear that football fervor has not tamped down his conscience about current events. During a performance by the band at a Spotify-sponsored Super Bowl party Friday
Stoic has boarded the high-concept dark comedy “Damned If You Do,” and will launch the launch worldwide sales of the film at the upcoming European Film Market in Berlin, where it will host the first screenings for global buyers. “Damned If You Do” features am ensemble led by
The best MMA fighters in the world travel to United Arab Emirates for PFL Dubai. The the main card pits Russian Usman Nurmagomedov (20-0-0) defending his PLF Lightweight World Championship against English fighter Alfie Davis (20-5-1) in five-round title bout on ESPN Unlimited.
“Dhurandhar,” the Ranveer Singh-led espionage thriller about an Indian undercover operative infiltrating Karachi’s criminal underworld, has landed at No. 1 on Netflix’s global Top 10 non-English films list – and is also No. 1 in both India and Pakistan, a streaming outcome that
On a faintly misty morning in South Africa’s Kamiesberg mountain region, 79-year-old goatherd Hettie (Hettie Farmer) watches her flock as they hobble and nibble along the rough, khaki-colored landscape, and wonders for the first time if they wonder about her. Is she a mother to
So here we are again, caught up in the never-ending slow-drip flood of cinematic Dracula mythology, now with Luc Besson’s wan, derivative, dutifully time-period-hopping, different-but-not-really-new take on the vampire legend. The movie, big surprise, wants to be more
“Sinners” composer Ludwig Göransson and “KPop Demon Hunters” singer and songwriter EJAE led the winners at the 7th annual Society of Composers and Lyricists awards. Göransson took home two SCL Awards for his “Sinners” score and the original song “I Lied to You,” co-written with
