Samuel L. Jackson is looking at the Academy Awards with a fresh perspective. Jackson, 75, did not mince words when sharing his thoughts about the coveted gong, saying Oscar nominations don’t mean much to him. “We’ve been in the business long enough to know that when folks go, ‘It’s just an honor to be nominated.’ … Read more
Josh Brolin has a bone to pick with the academy. The actor, 56, shared that the Oscars got it wrong when they failed to nominated his “Dune” director Denis Villeneuve for the 2021 sci-fi movie. This year, Villeneuve is up for consideration for the award again for “Dune: Part Two.” The sequel received better reviews … Read more
Kathy Bates’ mother wasn’t as excited about her daughter’s Oscar win as might be expected. In an interview with Ben Mankiewicz on “CBS Sunday Morning,” Bates recalled her mother’s response to her best actress win for the 1990 film “Misery.” “When I won the Oscar for ‘Misery,’ she said, ‘I don’t know what all the excitement [is] about, … Read more
The legend is back. Daniel Day-Lewis was seen filming a movie seven years after he retired from acting. The Oscar winner, 67, was photographed on the set of the film “Avelyn” in Manchester, England, on Sunday, Sept. 29. Daniel Day-Lewis and Sean Bean film “Avelyn” in Manchester on Sept. 29. / SplashNews.com Daniel Day-Lewis, Sean … Read more
Forget “Eyes Wide Shut” — this is Nicole Kidman’s kinkiest movie yet. The 57-year-old actress, who recently revealed she feels “sexier than ever,” is earning rave reviews for her raunchy role in the upcoming erotic thriller “Babygirl.” The film, slated for release on Christmas Day, sees Kidman playing a high-powered New York business executive who … Read more
Oscar De La Hoya and his girlfriend, Holly Sonders, said a video they shared on Instagram was removed “due to lames reporting it” on Sunday. The video, which later resurfaced on social media, showed the Hall of Fame boxer wearing a thong while dancing with the former Fox Sports broadcaster, who modeled a pink thong bikini. … Read more
movie review KINDS OF KINDNESS Running time: 164 minutes. <br>Rated R (strong/disturbing violent content, strong sexual content, full nudity and language). There are so many supremely skilled actors in director Yorgos Lanthimos’ latest film, “Kinds of Kindness.” But about 15 minutes into the three-part, nearly-three-hour slog, I found myself whispering of Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons … Read more
The presence of Mr. Ruddy at the news conference so enraged Charles Bluhdorn, the combustible chairman of Gulf & Western, Paramount’s parent, that he fired him. But when Mr. Bluhdorn told Francis Ford Coppola, the director, and Robert Evans, the studio’s vice president of production, to find another producer, Mr. Coppola intervened. “Al Ruddy’s the … Read more
Last year’s Cannes Film Festival was practically a one-stop shop for Oscar voters, premiering three major films — “Anatomy of a Fall,” “The Zone of Interest” and “Killers of the Flower Moon” — that would go on to be nominated for best picture. Does this year’s crop of Cannes movies have the same juice? At … Read more
“It’s baked into the film,” the screenwriter Drew Pearce said in an interview from his home office. “There are not that many members of the crew who can break their back by going into work that day. The idea that they wouldn’t be acknowledged but me sitting in here on a laptop is, obviously, doesn’t … Read more
Eddie Redmayne is doing all he can to keep in shape for his role as the Emcee in “Cabaret” — which includes weekly bouts of “torture.” “It’s quite full on,” he told the New York Post exclusively at the show’s opening on Saturday. “There is this amazing man named Greg, who is kind of a … Read more
Tommy Shelby is headed to the big screen. Cillian Murphy is reportedly set to reprise his role as the Irish-Romani gang leader in a “Peaky Blinders” movie, according to Steven Knight, who created the hit British crime drama. “He definitely is returning for it,” Knight, 64, told Birmingham World of Murphy, 47, at the premiere … Read more
Best in show. On Wednesday, Elizabeth Berkley, 49, attended a “Showgirls” screening at the Academy Museum’s David Geffen Theater in LA, where a sold-out crowd of 1,200 gave her a standing ovation. As she addressed the crowd, she said that after she got cast in the 1995 movie, she asked her agent if there was … Read more
I was at the Oscars when director Jonathan Glazer made his speech after winning a little bald man for his Holocaust film, “The Zone of Interest” — and I was furious. Glazer stood up and in front of hundreds of celebrities said, “Our film shows where dehumanization leads at its worst. It’s shaped all of … Read more
She may not have won Best Actress … but she did win Most Loved. Lily Gladstone officially broke her silence after losing the highly coveted Oscar for Best Actress to “Poor Things” lead Emma Stone. “Feeling the love big time today, especially from Indian Country,” the “Killers of the Flower Moon” star posted on X … Read more
She might have “done the thing,” but Jamie Lee Curtis … won the thing. Angela Bassett felt “gobsmacked” after losing the 2023 Oscar for Best Supporting Actress to Jamie Lee Curtis. “I was,” Bassett, 65, told Oprah Winfrey during a recent interview on the Oprah Winfrey Network. “I thought I handled it very well, and … Read more
“It is incredibly difficult to do, even in a film situation because you have to have really clear marks and you’ve got to practice it over and over. It’s militarylike,” Moore added. “So you can imagine how hard it is to do on a live show.” In the end, the troupe only worked with the … Read more
The comeback of live event TV continues. ABC’s telecast of the 96th Academy Awards on Sunday drew 19.5 million viewers, hitting a four-year viewership high, according to Nielsen. The live TV audience was up from last year’s 18.8 million, the third consecutive year that Oscar viewership has grown. The ratings report will prompt cheers at … Read more
The first thing you notice about Cillian Murphy is his eyes. As a young filmgoer, I clocked them in the historical drama “Girl With a Pearl Earring” (2003), when he was romancing Scarlett Johansson. But over the years I came to find myself more and more taken by the rarity of Murphy’s transmutable talent as … Read more
“My name is Greta Gerwig, and I am the co-writer and director of ‘Barbie.’” “(SINGING) I’m just Ken. Anywhere else, I’d be a ten.” “The thing that I can say most about this sequence is that this was the thing that I most knew what I wanted it to be, and no one else knew … Read more