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Sometimes, when you’re looking to be entertained, only a thriller will cut it. If you ever find yourself feeling like life is getting inexplicably dark, and morality is becoming more ambiguous, immersing yourself in a tense world of serial killers, drug dealers, and crooked sleazebags of all...

SAG-AFTRA is about to begin a strike effective at midnight PT on July 14, with actors hitting the picket lines bright and early on Friday morning. But while they will be making signs, marching, and making their voices heard around Hollywood studios as early as tomorrow, there’s a lot the union...

Nominations voting is from January 11-16, 2024, with official Oscar nominations announced January 23, 2024. Final voting is February 22-27, 2024. And finally, the 96th Oscars telecast will be broadcast on Sunday, March 10 and air live on ABC at 8:00 p.m. ET/ 5:00 p.m. PT. We update predictions...

Three months after the Writers Guild of America strike shut down many of Hollywood’s biggest shows, SAG-AFTRA brought the rest of the American film and television industry to a screeching halt when it voted to authorize its own strike on Thursday. The concurrent strikes essentially render it...

This year’s Primetime Emmy nominations once again prove how hard it is to keep up with all the changes in the television landscape. If the narrative last year was about there being too much TV coming out of the pandemic, this year swung in the opposite direction, with shows being canceled and...

The actors are likely set to join the writers on strike. The Screen Actors Guild’s (SAG-AFTRA) negotiating committee has voted unanimously to recommend a work stoppage against the studios after the guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) together failed to...

Netflix is making it easier for you to move your Netflix profile data to wherever you end up, whether that’s moving in with a new boyfriend, out of your parents’ basement, or because you got a new roommate. The streamer on Tuesday rolled out a new wrinkle to its existing Profile Transfer...

Star Wars has once again entered to the Emmys, thanks to Tony Gilroy’s exceptional “Andor,” a limited series about the rebel leader played by Diego Luna. “Andor” is the highest-rated live-action Star Wars property (yes, it’s higher than “Empire Strikes Back” on Rotten Tomatoes), and along with...

UPDATE 9:00 PM ET: SAG-AFTRA has agreed to a federal mediator in negotiations with the AMPTP, but the deadline for negotiations remains July 12 at midnight PT. “We will not be distracted from negotiating in good faith to secure a fair and just deal by the expiration of our agreement,” the guild...

In February, a clip went viral of Steven Spielberg telling Tom Cruise at an Oscars luncheon that he “saved Hollywood’s ass.” Spielberg was referring to the explosive success of Cruise’s return to the pilot seat in “Top Gun: Maverick.” Released in May 2022, the long-awaited sequel was the top...

Universal is getting deeper into the Steven Spielberg business and will be carrying more of the weight of the movies he produces. Universal and Spielberg’s Amblin Partners are forging a new pact under a multi-year deal, but as part of the new arrangement, Amblin Partners will no longer fully...

Rarely in recent years has so much public attention been riveted on three films opening over a single two-week period. Just as “Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One” (Paramount) has arrived, and just ahead of the July 21 openings of “Barbie” (Warner Bros. Discovery) and “Oppenheimer”...

Three VOD charts and Netflix’s top 10 all resulted in films set in non-Earth planetary worlds leading the pack in home viewing. “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” (Disney) is #1 on VOD (at $19.99) at iTunes, Google Play, and Vudu, while “65,” four months after its theatrical release and multiple...

Both on the awards circuit and in the public consciousness, HBO is widely regarded as among the first Hollywood heavyweights to recognize that television, as a medium, had the power to deliver sprawling, large scale stories on a smaller screen. From HBO’s ascent in the late 1990s through its...

It’s no longer just David Zaslav, CFO Gunnar Wiedenfels, and a room full of ruthless Warner Bros. Discovery accountants swinging their Excel sheets like guillotines. Stream your bucket-list series and movies (note: 2008’s “The Bucket List” is only available on PVOD) while you still can — content...

Portland local Todd Haynes turned out at the Oregon city’s art museum in late June not to tout his own movies — and he certainly has a major one on the horizon thanks to Netflix’s Cannes pick-up “May December” — but to celebrate his peers: namely screenwriter and author Jon Raymond, longtime...

We’ll do the tally for you: No Sandra Bullock, only some birds (and not in boxes), plenty of blindfolds, and the singular desire to make audiences (further) loathe humanity. Such is the movie math at play in David Pastor and Àlex Pastor’s “Bird Box Barcelona,” a continuation (if not a true...

Serial killer true crime stories are a genre in and of themselves — so much so that the repeated revisiting of murderers like Jeffrey Dahmer and John Wayne Gacy almost turn them into clichés that threaten to trivialize the very real consequences of their killings. But rarely are true crime and...

Nominations voting is from January 11-16, 2024, with official Oscar nominations announced January 23, 2024. Final voting is February 22-27, 2024. And finally, the 96th Oscars telecast will be broadcast on Sunday, March 10 and air live on ABC at 8:00 p.m. ET/ 5:00 p.m. PT. We update predictions...

With the Writers Guild of America strike now in its third month — and a potential Screen Actors Guild strike on the horizon — nobody truly knows when Hollywood will be able to resume normal operations. Some saw the Directors Guild of America’s recent deal with the AMPTP as cause for optimism...