A few months ago, Hollywood was convinced that Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy were about to be fired as co-heads of Warner Bros. Pictures. What a difference a few hits and one epic comeback can make. On Wednesday, Warner Bros. Discovery chief David Zaslav confirmed in an internal note to staff that De Luca and Abdy’s contracts were being …
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Jaws dropped in disbelief across Hollywood when The Conjuring: Last Rites opened to a record-smashing $84 million domestically over the Sept. 5-7 weekend, instead of an expected $35 million-plus. Put another way, the New Line and Warner Bros. horror pic earned nearly as much in its North American debut, if not more, than some of the previous eight titles in the Conjuring Universe …
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The Venice Film Festival is running at the moment, delivering the one-two punch of new films from some of the planet’s biggest directors, as well as immediate-aftermath interviews with those same filmmakers. Sometimes, that just produces glowing softballs—the response to Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein sounds like it was a big, gory love-fest, for instance—and sometimes it produces something a little sharper. …
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Luca Guadagnino’s new film After the Hunt starring Julia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri and Andrew Garfield features themes and character conflicts that speak to the #MeToo movement. So what was the Italian filmmaker trying to say by using opening credits inspired by the films of Woody Allen? That’s one of the questions Guadagnino fielded during the film’s official press conference at …
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In the opening credits of “After the Hunt,” a #MeToo-themed thriller, director Luca Guadagnino chose to evoke the aesthetic of Woody Allen’s films, formatting the actor’s names in alphabetical order on one card. When asked at the movie’s official Venice Film Festival press conference why he paid tribute to Allen, who has been accused of sexual assault by his adopted …
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All life on Earth can be traced back to a Last Universal Common Ancestor, or LUCA. A study suggests that this organism likely lived on Earth only 400 million years after its formation. Further analysis also shows that this life form likely sported an early immune system, which means it was probably fighting off viruses. Life on Earth had to …
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Follow the excitement of the 2025 Pokémon World Championships from August 15 to 17 on Twitch or YouTube for passwords that will let you receive a special Pokémon in your Pokémon Scarlet or Pokémon Violet game, supercool Pokémon cards in Pokémon Trading Card Game Live, and a 2025 Worlds in-game sticker in Pokémon UNITE. That’s not all—tune in to the …
Read More »It’s not a surprise that France’s Léon Marchand is one of the best swimmers in the world. Marchand won four gold medals at the 2024 Olympics, destroying the competition and announcing himself as a dominant force in the sport. He took that a step further Wednesday. Marchand set a new standard in the 200m individual medley Wednesday, not only beating …
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Oscar nominee Monica Barbaro is officially set to star in Luca Guadagnino’s “Artificial” for Amazon MGM Studios. Barbaro — whose casting had been rumored, but whose deal is now closed — joins previously reported stars Andrew Garfield, Yura Borisov, Jason Schwartzman, Cooper Hoffman and Cooper Koch. Ike Barinholtz remains in talks to join the cast. Plot details for “Artificial,” described as a …
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Venice Film Festival has unveiled a monster lineup for its 2025 edition, including world premieres of new features from Jim Jarmusch, Yorgos Lanthimos, and Noah Baumbach. The festival is set to open with Paolo Sorrentino’s La Grazia, before a slate that includes Jarmusch’s comedy-drama Father Mother Sister Brother, starring Cate Blanchett, Adam Driver, and Tom Waits; Lanthimos’ sci-fi Bugonia, with …
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