The NFL gets ready for the start of the football week with the “Thursday Night Football” game. For Week 9, two AFC division rivals go head-to-head with the Houston Texans (6-2) facing off against the New York Jets (2-6) at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey on Thursday, Oct. 31. The game kickoffs at […]

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences laid off a major contingent of staff members in its archive and library on Wednesday, including Academy Film Archive director of 24 years Mike Pogorzelski. A source with knowledge of the changes says that several impacted employees had worked at the Academy for more than a decade. […]

“Asian Persuasion,” the film directing debut of three-time Tony Award- and Grammy-winning producer Jhett Tolentino, has set North American distribution and will have a sales launch at the imminent American Film Market. Hawaii-based Scatena & Rosner Films has acquired the worldwide rights to the romantic comedy. The film tells the story of a lovable underachiever who […]

The last element of a trilogy exploring subterranean spaces that began with the 2015 “Aragane” and continued with the 2019 “Cenote,” Oda Kaori’s docudrama “Underground” ventures from a subway in Sapporo to caves (locally called “gama”) in Okinawa. It also marks a new direction for the director, whose previous trilogy entries were documentaries. “Underground” is […]

Megan Thee Stallion lays it all bare, and then some, in her freshly released Prime Video documentary “Megan Thee Stallion: In Her Words.” The two-hour film, which premiered last night at the TCL Chinese Theater in Los Angeles, explores the concurrent rise of the Houston rapper and the aftermath of a highly publicized shooting involving […]

Madlib, producer for tracks by Kanye West, Mos Def and MF Doom, filed a lawsuit Thursday against Eothen “Egon” Alapatt, former manager of Stones Throw Records and founder of subsidiary label Now-Again. According to the suit, filed earlier today in the Los Angeles Court, the rapper/producer (real name Otis Lee Jackson Jr.) alleges that Alapatt […]

Amazon MGM Studios’ “Red One” will open in theaters in formats including HDR by Barco, as part of a pre-release program for the Belgian cinema tech developer’s new HDR-capable premium line of theater projectors. In cooperation with AMC Theatres, B&B Theatres, and Regal Cinemas, a specially graded and mastered version of “Red One” will be […]

Love it or hate it, “Star Wars: The Phantom Menace” is at least universally beloved for its casting of Ewan McGregor as young Obi-Wan Kenobi. But hold up. A recent interview with “Star Wars” concept and storyboard artist Iain McCaig (via StarWars.com) to mark “The Phantom Menace’s” 25th anniversary reveals that George Lucas was originally […]

“Love Is Blind” has once again returned to the Nielsen Streaming Top 10. The series re-debuted in third place with 1.1 billion minutes watched from Sept. 30 to Oct. 6, during which the first six episodes of Season 7 were available for five days, though it should be noted that this total also includes any […]

Mark Ruffalo, aka Hulk, gathered a group of his fellow Avengers to endorse Kamala Harris for President on Thursday. “Don’t sit this one out. It’s the one where we will lose big: Project 2025, women’s reproductive rights, climate change, LGBTQIA+ rights, public education, student debt relief, Affordable Care Act, Social Security, and as of today, […]

The Los Angeles Dodgers managed to close out Game 5 in a very dramatic come-from-behind win against the New York Yankees at Yankees Stadium in The Bronx, New York to win the 2024 World Series, in front of a star-studded crowd that included Rob Lowe, John Travolta, Tim McGraw and Alec Baldwin. The Dodgers won […]

After a historic drawn-out trial, Young Thug is due to be released from prison after pleading guilty in his long-standing RICO case. Standing before a judge earlier today, the rapper, whose real name is Jeffery Lamar Williams, pleaded no contest to RICO and gang leader counts, and pled guilty to the rest of his charges […]

Apple’s bottom line took a hit from a recent European Union tax ruling, as smartphone revenue — including sales of its new AI-enabled iPhone 16 — rose 5.5% while the tech giant’s services segment turned in record revenue. The company reported revenue of $94.93 billion, up 6.1%, and net income of $14.74 billion, down 36%, […]

Matthew Lillard thought his career would explode when the success of 2002’s live-action “Scooby-Doo” (the film earned $275 million worldwide) launched a franchise. The actor signed up to reprise the role of Shaggy in 2004’s “Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed” and earned the biggest payday of his career. The only way forward for his career was […]

Amazon reported its third-quarter 2024 earnings, revealing ad sales rose 19% year over year. Wall Street forecast earnings per share (EPS) of $1.14 on $157.2 billion in revenue, according to analyst consensus data provided by LSEG, formerly Refinitiv. Amazon reported diluted EPS of $1.43 on $158.9 billion in revenue. Analyst had expected $14.25 billion in […]

Sony filed a lawsuit Thursday accusing CBS of self-dealing and of failing to maximize revenues in its syndication of “Wheel of Fortune” and “Jeopardy!” Sony and CBS have partnered for decades on the iconic game shows, with Sony handling production and CBS overseeing distribution. The suit alleges that CBS has seen waves of layoffs and […]

Stephanie Collie, the costume designer behind film and television projects such as “Peaky Blinders,” died of cancer on Oct. 26 at St Christopher’s Hospice in London. Over the course of her career, Collie worked with talent including Michael Caine, Henry Cavill, Jessica Chastain, Daniel Craig, Penélope Cruz, Morgan Freeman, Samuel L. Jackson, Cillian Murphy, Gary […]

“The Ms. Pat Show” has scored a Season 5 renewal from BET+ as co-creator and star Patricia “Ms. Pat” Williams extends her overall deal with BET Media Group to include linear and streaming projects. The sitcom is based on the life story of Ms. Pat, as told in her memoir “Rabbit: The Autobiography of Ms. […]

Quentin Tarantino has not seen Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune” movies and has no intention of changing that despite the rave reactions. During an interview on “The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast” (the same interview where Tarantino defended “Joker: Folie à Deux”), the filmmaker was asked about whether or not “Dune: Part Two” was the best movie of […]