Amazon MGM has scheduled “I Play Rocky” for a splashy Nov. 20 release following a limited debut on Nov. 13, Variety has confirmed. The premiere comes just in time for the Thanksgiving holiday, one of the busiest times for moviegoing. The 50th anniversary of the original Oscar-winning boxing drama is on Nov. 21. The film […]VarietyRead More
Leave it to Bruno Mars to steal the show before the awards even started. Mars and Rosé opened up the show at center stage, with the Blackpink member planting a kiss on his cheek before the duo launched into a rock-leaning rendition of “APT.” Mars worked the crowd as Rosé belted the opening vocals of…
Kathleen Kennedy will end her 14-year run at Lucasfilm. She will be replaced by not one, but two executives when she leaves the Walt Disney Company this year. Chief Creative Officer Dave Filoni and President and General Manager Lynwen Brennan will both lead the company behind “Star Wars” and “Indiana Jones” as it looks to…
New works from name auteurs including “Tropical Malady” helmer Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Romania’s Corneliu Porumboiu, and Mexico’s Tatiana Huezo are among the 14-title first batch of features selected to benefit from the newly launched Fondazione Prada Film Fund. The Prada Foundation film fund, whose top executives are attending the Berlinale, was officially launched last year at…
Ben Affleck recently told Fox 32 Chicago that he had food poisoning while shooting his emotional goodbye scene with Bruce Willis in the 1998 disaster blockbuster “Armageddon.” “When we shot that scene, I had food poisoning,” Affleck said. “I wasn’t an experienced enough actor at that point to know that you can just pick up…
In a statement probably anyone could have seen coming, Richard Grenell, the controversial president of Washington, D.C.’s Kennedy Center, spoke out to claim that it was the organization’s leadership that decided to end ties with the Washington National Opera, not the other way around. Grenell’s tweets on the subject Saturday followed by a day the…
As a founding member of Duran Duran, you wouldn’t think that much could surprise John Taylor. By 1984, each of the British new wave gods’ first three albums had gone platinum, their cinematic videos were regularly rotated on MTV, and nonstop global touring attracted Swiftian levels of excitable fans. So, to get away from it…
