Richard M. Sherman, the Oscar-winning songwriter who partnered with his late brother to craft tunes for such Disney classics as Mary Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and The Jungle Book, died Saturday. He was 95. Sherman, who also co-wrote “It’s a Small World (After All)” — considered the most performed song ever — as well
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The Alien franchise has long been a cornerstone of sci-fi and horror movies, captivating audiences with its suspense, groundbreaking effects and unforgettable characters. Ridley Scott‘s 1979 film introduced the terrifying xenomorph and its relentless pursuit of the Nostromo’s crew. James Cameron’s 1986 sequel, Aliens, expanded the universe with an action-packed narrative featuring Colonial Marines battling
The Seed of the Sacred Fig, the new film from Iranian dissident director Mohammad Rasoulof, may or may not be honored tonight when the Cannes jury hands out its awards. But at the press conference for the film on Saturday, Rasoulof displayed his own heroism. The director used his press conference to call out Iran’s
There has been a trend in Hollywood, one that hit it’s peak in the ’70s but continues today, of basing movies on hit songs. Sometimes the movies are directly referencing the song and the story in the song, sometimes they are more loosely based on the song. Looking down the list, it’s clear that it’s
When Andy Dufresne crawled to freedom through “five hundred yards of shit-smelling foulness” in The Shawshank Redemption, it was the ultimate act of hope. As the story’s tagline has it, “Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.” As the movie turns 30, one small Midwestern town is throwing a celebration this summer
Reese Witherspoon slayed the big screen in her rom-com roles such as leading the cast in Legally Blonde, Just Like Heaven, and Sweet Home Alabama. But other than rom-coms you’d find in your streaming service schedule and on the Hallmark Channel, it seems like we don’t have too many of these genre flicks dominating showtimes
Technically, Atlas is a sci-fi flick. Set some unspecified number of years in the future, the Brad Peyton-directed feature concerns a data analyst (Jennifer Lopez) tasked with stopping “the world’s first AI terrorist,” a robot named Harlan (Simu Liu) who’d broken his own programming to orchestrate the slaughter of millions. But Blade Runner this isn’t,
This year marked 30 years since John Candy’s death at the age of 43. His family paid tribute to the comedy actor for the anniversary back in March, but soon more of us will be able to pay our respects to the Planes, Trains & Automobiles star with an upcoming documentary being made by Tom
“This is a painful and crucial moment for all of us who are Jews and who love Israel, and it’s not a time to stay silent,” declared Ari Emanuel, the CEO of sports and entertainment company Endeavor and one of Hollywood’s most outspoken voices in the fight against antisemitism, in a fiery speech as he
If you consider yourself one of Stephen King’s Constant Readers, I surely don’t have to tell you why this week is special. One has to go all the way back to 1976 to find a calendar year without the release of a single King book, and his 2024 tome just arrived in stores everywhere on
Grindstone Entertainment are getting into the ring with Ving Rhames. Grindstone have picked up all rights in North America for Uppercut, a boxing thriller starring the Mission Impossible and Pulp Fiction actor as a trainer who agrees to take on a new female fighter. The English-language debut of German writer/director Torsten Ruether, Uppercut is an
You know her as Emma Stone, who graced us with her presence most recently by winning the Oscar for her Poor Things performance. But fans of the award-winning actress like myself know that the star’s real name is actually Emily Stone. Funnily enough, a reporter at Cannes ended up calling Stone by her real name,
Brad Peyton had his work cut out for him on the set of his new sci-fi action film, Atlas. The Canadian director’s new 2071-set film centers on Jennifer Lopez’s Atlas Shepherd, a data analyst whose deep mistrust of AI is tested to the extreme when she must rely on an AI-driven mech suit to survive
Before Dumb and Dumber was introduced to Jeff Daniels, he established himself as a dramatic actor. You’d see him in a lot of serious movies like the box office weekend hit Terms of Endearment, Arachnophobia, Speed and more. When Daniels took on the role of air-headed Harry Dunne in Dumb and Dumber, he was afraid
Godzilla and Kong have smashed their last building for Adam Wingard. At least for now. Wingard, who has directed the last two of Legendary’s hit MonsterVerse movies, will not be returning for a third installment, multiple sources tell The Hollywood Reporter. The parting of ways is described as amicable and stemming from timing issues. The
In the more immediate run of upcoming Dwayne Johnson movies, the world can look forward to the occasional WWE Superstar mixing it up with the holiday action flick Red One. While that’s a more traditional offering from Johnson’s filmography, he actually has an A24 picture coming in the future that’ll also put his athleticism on
Oliver Stone has always had one eye pointed south of the U.S. border. It began with his phenomenal script for Brian De Palma’s Scarface, which transformed the famous Chicago gangster into a hardened Cuban refugee. After that, Stone directed the photojournalist saga Salvador, about the deadly civil war that gripped El Salvador in the 1980s.
Have you been following along with the Kendrick Lamar and Drake feud that’s been unfolding over the last several months? The clash between these two rappers has gotten so weird that even GoFundMe got thrown into the mix recently. Well, if this isn’t an area of current events that you’ve been keeping tabs on, not
Kevin Costner‘s new Western epic may have gotten a 10-minute standing ovation at Cannes, but once critics got back from festival screenings to their hotel rooms, they posted reviews for Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter 1 that were far less enthusiastic. Horizon is the first film in writer-director-star Costner’s massive four-picture gamble that he
Kate Hudson has made her bones on rom-coms throughout most of her career, yet she’s now entering a new chapter: music. The Oscar nominee recently released her first album and celebrated at the album release party, where she rocked a sheer black dress. This may be a surprise to those only familiar with her romantic
Three days after the It Ends With Us trailer took the internet by storm, director and star Justin Baldoni is opening up about the reaction and some of the most buzzed-about changes from the book to the movie. The film, starring Baldoni, Blake Lively and Brandon Sklenar, is adapted from Colleen Hoover’s hit novel of
Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan, who officially ended their marriage in 2018, are still in court six years after their separation due to marital finances, including profits from the Magic Mike franchise. Amidst this ongoing dispute, many are curious about how the former couple is managing co-parenting responsibilities and other aspects of their personal lives.
When asked to name her organization’s biggest accomplishment so far, Charlene Deleon-Jones, the executive director for Film AlUla and Saudi Tourism leadership board member, doesn’t hesitate to name-check Norah, the first Saudi film to crack the Cannes lineup. The Tawfik Alzaidi-helmed indie movie, which will compete in the fest’s Un Certain Regard section, was shot in
The newly released trailer for the upcoming Twisters, which references the original film’s thrilling conclusion, suggests that the 2024 movie schedule entry will be sizzling. In Hollywood, grandiose storytelling often overshadows authenticity. However, for Anthony Ramos, one of the film’s stars, a note from the legendary Steven Spielberg himself changed everything. In fact, it grounded
There’s no point in hiring Nicolas Cage if you’re not going to let him rip with a wackadoodle, OTT performance, and he duly delivers in the sly psychological thriller The Surfer. Calibrating his character’s descent into mental and physical disarray so that it happens by evenly distributed degrees, Cage is in only moderately demented form
Ahead of the Minecraft movie joining a long list of upcoming video game adaptations entering our eyeballs in the near future, the phenomenon is celebrating 15 years on our screens! To assist in ringing in the monumental anniversary, two of the biggest members of the Minecraft movie’s cast got together to cut the cake. Just
Ben Stiller, James Woods, John Ales and more Hollywood notables have taken to social media to pay tribute to Dabney Coleman, who died at 92. The legendary comic actor known for his roles in 9 to 5, Tootsie and Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, died Thursday at his Santa Monica home, his daughter, singer Quincy Coleman, told The Hollywood Reporter.
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga marks the fifth movie in George Miller’s franchise which has produced some of the best post-apocalyptic and dystopian movies ever. It’s also the first to not use Max himself in any capacity. The movie’s existence opens up the world of Mad Max in a new way that leaves the door
Here’s how to take a children’s book geared to younger children and adapt it into an animated feature that adults can enjoy just as much: Simply hire Jared Hess and Jerusha Hess, the husband-and-wife screenwriting team responsible for such films as Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre, and have them apply their unique brand of off-kilter
For a decade, writer/director Dean DeBlois expressed his vision for the How To Train Your Dragon movies in collaboration with the talented filmmakers at DreamWorks Animation. Five years after the final movie’s emotional ending, DeBlois has been back in the fictional Isle Of Berk, but this time in a much more physical sense. After nearly
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