EXCLUSIVE: After his narrative directing debut, Nickel Boys’ earned rave reviews following its premiere at this years Telluride Film Festival, Oscar-nominated writer-director and acclaimed visual artist RaMell Ross has signed with WME and Jerome Duboz of Ithaka Media for representation. The film is also set to open the New York Film Festival and in October, it will also […]
TKO Group’s UFC and Sphere Entertainment said today their Sept. 14 event, UFC 306 at Riyadh Season Noche UFC, set a handful of records, including highest-grossing UFC event of all time and highest-grossing single event at Sphere, with a gate of $22 million and a sold-out crowd of 16,024. UFC’s previous record holder was UFC 205: Alvarez […]
Busta Rhymes, Chuck D, Dr. Dre, Demi Lovato, Dua Lipa, James Taylor and Julia Roberts are among the line-up of presenters and performers set for next month’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, the hall’s Foundation announced today. See the complete roster announced today below. Additional presenters and performers will be revealed leading […]
EXCLUSIVE: The subversive and experimental works of Portuguese filmmaker João César Monteiro have long been unavailable or difficult to view in the U.S. thanks to tight copyright laws and poor preservation. But that’s all about to change. The NYC-based Cinema Guild has acquired North American distribution rights to Monteiro’s films and is planning a broad […]
Aldis Hodge as detective Alex Cross pursues a ruthless serial killer in the official trailer for Cross, the crime series for Prime Video debuting Nov. 14. Hodge plays Metro PD’s star detective who uses forensic psychology to get into the minds of killers and their victims to identify and ultimately capture murderers. But the latest […]
MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle will interview Kamala Harris this evening for for a one-on-one interview, the vice president’s first such sit down with a national network since becoming the Democratic nominee. The interview, from Pittsburgh, will air at 7 p.m. ET on a special two-hour edition of All In with Chris Hayes. CNN’s Dana Bash interviewed […]
EXCLUSIVE: Dubai-based global management and production company 75East has signed Lebanese writer-director Nay Tabbara, whose short film Ebb & Flow won the Student Visionary Award at its Tribeca world premiere in June. Inspired by real events and the political instabilities of the early 2000s in Lebanon, the short follows 14-year-old Loulwa whose plans for a […]
Charles Dance is to star as Michelangelo in a BBC-PBS docu-drama about the renaissance. Dance is leading Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty, examining how some of the greatest works of art in the Western world were born out of an era of violence, power politics and rivalry. The BBC said the show will “reveal […]
Monika Shergill says Netflix has hit its “stride” in India, but warned that “supply is not meeting the demand” in the world’s most populous country. Speaking at the APOS conference in Bali, Shergill touted Netflix’s growth in the country, noting that it was the streamer’s second-largest territory for paid net adds in the second quarter […]
EXCLUSIVE: Two-time Olympic gold medallist and trailblazing boxer Nicola Adams is set to make her Hollywood debut in the upcoming action-thriller The Gun On Second Street. The film, which will also feature Poppy Delevingne, Tom Arnold, and Rumer Willis, follows two Pittsburgh police partners whose lives are dramatically altered by a tragic incident. The plot centres on Officer […]