Bill Maher centered the conversation of Friday’s “Real Time” episode on the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, addressing the topic in his monologue and discussing the fallout with his guests, The Daily Wire founder Ben Shapiro and The Atlantic writer Tim Alberta. “It’s a very ugly week in America with violence of all kinds: […]...
SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for “Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle,” currently playing in theaters. The Infinity Castle trilogy has begun. This weekend, Crunchyroll and Sony Pictures Entertainment‘s “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – Infinity Castle,” drops into movie theaters. It is the first film in a planned three-part cinematic finale for the global anime hit. Based on the […]...
Austin Film Festival has announced the second wave of screenings set to premiere during this year’s festival lineup. The festival will run Oct. 23 to Oct. 30. Newly added Texas premieres will include Chloé Zhao’s “Hamnet,” starring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal, Noah Baumbach’s “Jay Kelly,” starring George Clooney and Adam Sandler, Park Chan-wook’s “No […]...
Fox Sports has launched a new creative campaign for “Big Noon Saturday” starring actor John Turturro. The campaign, titled “It All Goes Down At Noon,” is live across all Fox Sports social platforms and promotes the network’s college football game of the week. In the campaign, the Emmy-nominated Turturro plays an obsessive college football fanatic […]...
Sean Astin, the star of “Rudy,” “Goonies” and “The Lord of the Rings,” was elected Friday to be president of SAG-AFTRA, succeeding Fran Drescher. Astin was part of a slate dubbed “The Coalition,” a unity ticket that included members of the historical rival factions within the union as well as some who were unaffiliated with […]...
“Midaq Alley” (“El Callejón de los Milagros”), the Jorge Fons 1995 gem that launched Salma Hayek’s career, is being re-released by Sony Pictures across Mexico and Latin America, thanks to an agreement between Sony Pictures International Productions and its producer, Alameda Films. News comes after Spain’s San Sebastian Film Fest announced that it would close […]...
In “Lost in the Jungle,” Oscar winners Jimmy Chin and Chai Vasarhelyi (“Free Solo”) teamed with Colombian filmmaker Juan Camilo Cruz to tell the story of four Indigenous siblings, aged 13, 9, 5 and 11 months who managed to stay alive for 40 days in remote part of the Colombian rainforest after the Cessna aircraft […]...
Joel Kuwahara, the co-founder and president of production of Bento Box Entertainment, is stepping down from his role at the Fox-owned animation studio. Kuwahara and Fox/Bento Box are said to be parting on good terms, with both the exec and the company opting not to renew his contract. His last day is today, Sept. 12. […]...
Jon Cryer reveals in Netflix’s “aka Charlie Sheen” that his “Two and a Half Men” payday was “a third” of co-star Charlie Sheen’s despite the latter’s erratic behavior that threatened the show’s survival and ultimately got Sheen fired after Season 8, the filming of which had already been delayed after Sheen entered drug rehabilitation and […]...
Robbie Fulks is one of the funniest singer-songwriters in America, or one of the most sobering, depending on which mindset you find him or yourself in. His sensitivity, wryness and all-around musical dexterity are again on superlative view in a mostly contemplative and occasionally rowdy new album, “Now Then.” It’s Fulks’ second album for the […]...