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Brit actress Kelly Reilly, aka ‘Beth Dutton” on the Paramount series “Yellowstone”, poses for “Town & Country” magazine, wearing Dior, Chopard, Balenciaga and a whole lot more, photographed by Sebastian Kim:

Reilly first appeared in 1995 on the TV series “The Biz”. Her other television work includes starring roles in the British crime drama “Above Suspicion”, (2009–2012), the psychological medical drama “Black Box” (2014), the anthology crime drama “True Detective” (2015) and the historical fantasy drama “Britannia” (2018).

Since 2018, she has played ‘Beth Dutton’ on the Paramount Network…

…neo-Western drama series “Yellowstone’ opposite Kevin Costner.

Reilly's movie work began in 2000 in the English comedy feature “Maybe Baby”.

She gained a supporting role in the romantic drama “Pride & Prejudice” (2005), a leading role in the horror thriller “Eden Lake” (2008),…

…the role of ‘Mary Morstan’ in “Sherlock Holmes” (2009) and its 2011 sequel “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows”…

…a leading role in “Flight” (2012), and co-starred in the...

Signature Entertainment has acquired the U.K. and Irish rights to horror film Eye for an Eye from HanWay Films, The Hollywood Reporter can exclusively reveal.

Starring Whitney Peak, next set to headline The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, as well as Bridgerton star Golda Rosheuvel, S. Epatha Merkerson (Chicago Med) and Finn Bennett (True Detective: Night Country), the movie is based on Elisa Victoria’s graphic novel Mr Sandman. Colin Tilley directs.

Co-written by Elisa Victoria and Michael Tully, Eye for an Eye follows Anna, a young woman grieving the sudden death of her parents, who relocates from New York to a small Florida town to live with her estranged grandmother. “Isolated, vulnerable and in need of friends, she finds brief solace in the company of two local teens,” a plot synopsis reads.

“But when she becomes complicit in their unforgivable act of violence, she finds herself ensnared by Mr.

Caught between sophisticated comedy and silly fluff, between Hitchcockian mystery and zany amateur sleuth caper, A Private Life (Vie Privée) is a lot more fun than it probably deserves to be thanks to the disarming chemistry of its seasoned leads, Jodie Foster and Daniel Auteuil. Rebecca Zlotowski’s latest doesn’t have the intoxicating sun-kissed sensuality of An Easy Girl or the emotional complexity of Other People’s Children, her last two films. This one is too busy careening all over the tonal map for any of that. What it does have is the French director’s customary light touch; it’s chaos with charm.

Foster’s French — at least to these ears — sounds impeccable and this is her first feature in the language since 2004’s A Very Long Engagement. She jumps into it with a spiky vitality and an unexpected playfulness that buoy the movie as much as Zlotowski’s zippy direction.

Exclusive: Cobie Smulders (How I Met Your Mother) has come aboard to star opposite Thomas Sadoski (The Newsroom) in Jill Takes a Break, a new comedic drama directed by Independent Spirit Award winner Liz Cardenas.

Written by Scott Rodgers, the film follows Jill (Smulders), a bartender in Long Beach who impulsively buys the dive bar she’s worked at for years — only to discover that owning the chaos isn’t the same as surviving it.

Attached to the project since its early development, Sadoski will play Jill’s longtime partner, Vaughn, and also serve in a producorial capacity. The film will be produced by Talon Entertainment, Driven Equation and Ten to the Six Pictures, with Steven Demmler and Sundance fellow Helena Sardinha (Satisfaction) also attached as producers. WME Independent reps worldwide rights.

In 2024, Jill Takes a Break won a development award from the Austin Film Society, founded by Richard Linklater,...

I am 11 years late to this one, but watching True Detective: Season 1 has compelled me to try and squeeze some of these thoughts out of my brain. It is like trying to squeeze Pate through a plastic ketchup bottle hole. My thoughts are too meaty and chunky, and this is going to cause a huge mess.

Mild Spoilers.

True Detective aired on HBO, the historical home of quality US television. I always thought of their Show Oz as changing the game for quality long-format shows on TV, but likely the far more popular The Sopranos drowns that out. Reading on the internet, it seems that many people credit True Detective with being one of the first shows to bring Hollywood star power into a tight, 8 show format.

Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey star as our Detective duo who are tasked with investigating a ritualistic, folk murder in the deep South.

It’s not uncommon for great actors to have an eye for great scripts, as the late John Cazale famously starred in five movies, and each one of them went on to earn an Oscar nod. Similar is the case with Jodie Foster, who is more keen toward working on stories that are compelling to her, instead of the payday.

However, barring major A-listers, for a substantial portion of working and aspiring actors, acting isn’t just an art form but a way to make ends meet, and unlike Foster, they can’t choose to be picky early on.

Jodie Foster expressed confusion with many young actors’ approach to acting Jodie Foster in The Silence of the Lambs | Credit: Orion Pictures

Having scored several prestigious accolades under her belt, Jodie Foster recently confessed that she’s “not really interested in acting just for the sake of acting”, which explains her illustrious filmography.

Jodie Foster is remembering how much of a “feminist” filmmaker Jonathan Demme was. Demme directed Foster in 1992 Best Picture winner “Silence of the Lambs”; the “Philadelphia” and “Something Wild” director died in 2017.

When asked by Variety while promoting Cannes film “Vie Privée” about collaborating with female filmmakers, Foster pointed to how feminism is not bound by gender. “It’s hard for me to be in the business of saying, half my movies are going to be made by women or men or whatever. Shouldn’t it be a more instinctual choice?” Foster said. “You would hope that you’d be interested in the human being. I mean, Jonathan Demme on ‘Silence of the Lambs’ was my favorite feminist director.”

Foster continued, “That said, I think some sort of quota system is important when it comes to giving first-time filmmakers an opportunity. You need to start the process early so we all get the same opportunities.

Good news: HBO is adapting George R.R. Martin's Tales of Dunk and Egg novellas as a new show called A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. Set around 100 years before the events of Game of Thrones, it tells the story of a very tall knight named Ser Duncan the Tall and his diminutive, sassy squire Egg. There are no dragons or huge wars, just two people exploring the Seven Kingdoms having adventures. It's lighter in tone and smaller in scale than what fans are used to, and everything we've heard about it is very positive.

Bad news: while A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms was originally going to air on HBO and HBO Max this year, it recently got delayed into early 2026. We've still seen precious little of it, but the actors involved only have good things to say. That includes English actor Finn Bennett, who made an impression in...

Jodie Foster, flashing a broad smile, embraced director Rebecca Zlotowski at the Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday night as “Vie Privée” scored an impressive eight-minute standing ovation. The crowd cheered wildly for Foster even as the actress kept gesturing towards Zlotowski, as if reminding the audience that this was the filmmaker’s moment to bask in the applause. “Vie Privée” is an off-beat mystery about a psychotherapist who becomes convinced that her patient’s suicide was actually a murder — think of it as “Only Murders in the Building” with a dose of ennui.

The crowd for the film was certainly star-studded, a sign of the esteem in which Foster is held. Gael García Bernal and Alejandro González Iñárritu posed for pictures before the screening, while Scarlett Johansson strode the red carpet with her husband, Colin Jost. Johansson was accompanied by June Squibb, the 95-year-old star of her feature directorial debut,...

Jodie Foster can go years without making a movie.

“I’m picky,” she admits. “I’m not really interested in acting just for the sake of acting. It has to really speak to me.”

It’s a few hours before the Cannes premiere of “Vie Privée,” a French thriller that Foster, despite her natural aversion to performing, found impossible to resist. After meeting Rebecca Zlotowski, the French filmmaker who also wrote the script, Foster discovered they shared a passion for character development and narrative. And the story, which finds Foster playing a therapist who becomes convinced that her patient’s suicide is actually a murder, was too tangled and intriguing to turn down.

“Rebecca has this command of the intellectual world, as well as the emotional world,” the 62-year-old Foster says. “We think about cinema in the same way. She wanted to make sure that the audience was brought into...

Ahead of tomorrow's eagerly awaited new theatrical trailer for Jurassic World Rebirth, Universal has released another action-packed new TV spot, this time spotlighting some of the dinos that'll be at the center of the blockbuster sequel: the Titanosaurus, Quetzalcoatlus, and Mosasaurus.

As far as why Scarlett Johansson and her team will be seeking out these three monumental beasts, the synopsis revealed that she'll be tasked with retreiving DNA samples from the three most colossal creatures across land, sea and air, who in their DNA, hold the key to a drug that will bring miraculous life-saving benefits to humankind.

It's expected that the new trailer will be attached to screenings of Tom Cruise's Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning and Disney's live-action Lilo & Stitch this weekend, meaning it'll get maximum eyeballs as it kickstarts its full-fledged marketing blitz in June.

Despite stiff competition from superhero entries Superman and The Fantastic Four: First Steps,...

HBO will submit four cast members from The Penguin for Emmy consideration, Gold Derby has confirmed.

Colin Farrell as Oswald "Oz" Cobb, aka the Penguin, is entering the Best Movie/Limited Series Actor category, as expected. Earlier this awards season, the Irish actor prevailed at the Golden Globes, Critics Choice, and Screen Actors Guild Awards for playing the villainous DC Comics character. A victory at the Emmys would complete his sweep of top awards. A former Oscar nominee for The Banshees of Inisherin (2022), this would be his first career Emmy bid.

Cristin Milioti as Sofia Gigante (née Falcone) is being submitted for Best Movie/Limited Series Actress. She won the Critics Choice Award for this role, but lost at the Golden Globes to Jodie Foster (True Detective: Night Country) and at the SAG Awards to Jessica Gunning (Baby Reindeer). Milioti could receive her first two career Emmy noms this year,...

Getting a role in a major comic book movie is a dream that a lot of actors have, especially when that role is as one of the members of the Justice League. But for Superman star, Nathan Fillion, it's a childhood dream come true. James Gunn's Superman (starring David Corenswet as the Man of Steel) is technically Fillion's second time playing a member of the Green Lantern Corps, as the actor voiced Hal Jordan in several DC Animated Universe movies. But playing Guy Gardner will mark Fillion's live-action Green Lantern debut, and the actor can't believe he gets to wield a power ring in real life.

Nathan Fillion took to Instagram to share his joy at being cast as Guy Gardner in Superman, and the wider Dcu. "Being a part of the new Superman movie is a dream beyond my wildest," the actor wrote in a new post. Fillion...

DC Studios co-ceo and Superman writer/director James Gunn has capped off a busy week for the Dcu with a new look at Pruitt Taylor Vince and Neva Howell as the Dcu's Jonathan and Martha Kent.

We got a better idea of what to expect from the Man of Tomorrow's human parents in the new trailer, and this shot shows them both in Kent Farm alongside Gunn.

On Threads, the filmmaker was asked about a possible timeline for the Dcu. He responded, "As of now it's basically as the movies and shows come out - although of course some of these feature flashbacks - Creature Commandos, Superman, Peacemaker, Lanterns, Supergirl."

This appears to confirm that Lanterns will premiere on HBO Max before Supergirl (which now appears to have lost its Woman of Tomorrow subtitle) lands in theaters next June. That means the Green Lantern reboot will hit streaming in the...

Universal has confirmed today that a brand new theatrical trailer for Jurassic World Rebirth will arrive online this coming Tuesday, and to tease the launch, they've released a brand new TV spot featuring tons of never-before-new footage, including the much-talked about T-Rex river raft chase and we also get to see the Distortus Rex in action!

With the marketing finally starting to ramp up, we should be seeing a lot more dino carnage in upcoming spots as they finally let loose on some of the epic danger Scarlett Johansson and company will be finding themselves facing this Fourth of July.

This will be the latest in a long line of trailers we've seen this past week in the lead up to next week's action-packed double feature of Tom Cruise's Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning and Disney's live-action Lilo & Stitch. Other trailers that have launched this past week include Superman,...

Angelina Jolie is at the Cannes Film Festival, not with a film in the lineup but with official duties thanks to the festival’s longtime (and glamorous) sponsor, Chopard.

The Oscar winner agreed to serve as this year’s Chopard Godmother, a gig that saw her preside over Friday night’s A-list Trophée Chopard dinner at Carlton Beach and present trophies to an actor and actress anointed as next generational talent by a jury comprised of previous recipients of the esteemed festival honor. This year’s awards went to French actress Marie Colomb and breakout British star Finn Bennett, most recently seen in Alex Garland’s Warfare and opposite Jodie Foster in True Detective: Night Country.

The honors were doled out during what is always a glitzy ceremony attended by Cannes Film Festival president Iris Knobloch, general delegate Thierry Frémaux, Chopard co-president and artistic director Caroline Scheufele, members of the competition jury and A-list guests.

Exclusive: In a seven-way bidding war, A24 has landed landed Trigger Point, a drama series spec by writer Harrison Query (JonBenet). Jeremy Saulnier (Rebel Ridge) is attached to direct and executive produce the project, which will be executive produced by former Fifth Season Head of TV Joe Hipps under his exclusive deal at A24.

Hipps has recruited fellow Fifth Season TV executives Patrick McDonald and Katie Giarla to join him at his new company, Cut To. McDonald also will executive produce Trigger Point, with Katie Giarla co-executive producing.

The plot has been kept under wraps; the project is a crime drama, sources said.

Pegged at around $500,000, this may be the biggest TV spec sale so far this year. The goal is to attach talent before taking the project out to platforms, with big-name actors currently circling.

Query is the co-creator and executive producer of the upcoming JonBenet limited series for Paramount+ & 101 Studios.

Word broke yesterday that Warner Bros. Discovery is changing the name of its streaming service from Max to HBO Max, and if that sounds familiar, it should. That was what the platform was first called when it launched in 2020. Fans have been having a lot of fun on social media making fun of Wdb since news of the change was announced, and the company seems fully aware of the irony, as it's gone so far as to troll people by taking some light-hearted jabs at itself.

Posting on X, the official HBO Max account (@hbomax) shared a clip from Game of Thrones of the moment when Jon Snow comes back to life. "What is dead may never die," the caption read, continuing: "Same app, new-ish name." The Max account (@streamonmax) changed its bio to say "These rebrands are trying to kill me." while also sharing a hilarious clip of celebrities like Conan O’Brien,...

Max's The Pitthas been one of the most successful TV shows in 2025. The Pittsburgh-set drama follows a group of doctors and nurses as they go through a hellish 15-hour shift, including multiple deaths and a mass shooting incident. The series was highly acclaimed by critics -- so it is now getting a second viewing window on TNT.

Channing Dungey -- chairman and CEO of the Warner Bros. Television Group and US Networks -- announced the news today, as reported by Variety. Previously, HBO Max boss Casey Bloys indicated the show was on its way to TNT. Dungey wants to make it clear that The Pitt will be event television, something audiences won't be able to look away from once it gets going.

“When we put Max programming on the T-nets [Turner networks], we want to make sure that we’re telling the audience, ‘This is something special, you want to tune in for this,...

As part of their summer movie previews, Entertainment Weekly, ScreenRant, and Empire have shared new stills from Jurassic World Rebirth, offering a killer new look at the franchise's newest leading lady Scarlett Johansson, who plays covert operations expert Zora Bennett, doing her best to survive all kinds of dino carnage.

Aside from a handful of brief glimpses, the early images from the film reveal remarkably few dinosaurs—likely because the production is keeping the Distortus rex and any other mutant dinos on the island tightly under wraps, so we'll just have to strap in this Fourth of July for all kinds of mayhem.

With How to Train Your Dragon due out in theaters in June, it seems highly probable that a new trailer for Rebirth will be arriving online sometime before the end of this month as they begin to ramp up the marketing campaign for an epic Jurassic June.

The move will be accompanied by a renewed focus on the prestige programming that has defined the premium brand for decades.

Everything old is new again! At the Warner Bros. Discovery Upfront presentation on Wednesday, the company announced that it was turning back time and, beginning this summer, its flagship streaming service would once again be known as HBO Max. Almost exactly two years after Wbd attempted to make Max an everything-for-everyone platform, the company is set to refocus its streaming efforts on the prestige storytelling that made HBO arguably the most influential brand in television for decades.

Key Details: Déjà vu: This summer, Warner Bros. Discovery will begin calling its streamer HBO Max once again. Return to form: The move will be accompanied by a renewed focus on prestige programming. Un-Discovered: Originally called HBO Max, the move to Max accompanied an influx of Discovery cable content. Sign Up $9.99+ / month...

Several best-selling books have inspired new and returning television series this year as well as box office movie magnets like the conclusion to Jon M. Chu’s Wicked and Regretting You based on Colleen Hoover’s book. Still novel adaptations more are in the works, like the many romantic comedies of Emily Henry and a few more Colleen Hoover best-sellers.

The year 2025 will see a few summery series, one returning and one new, based on books hit the small screen for Prime Video. Yes, we’re talking about the highly anticipated returner, Season 3 of The Summer I Turned Pretty, which will include a supersized amount of episodes and newcomer, We Were Liars based on the book by E. Lockhart. Continuing with the beach and ocean theme, Season 2 of Percy Jackson and the Olympians will also bring viewers back to the world of Greek gods at some point this year.

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Before he joined the Marvel machine, this star had already attracted attention not just from fans, but from the Yellowstone mastermind Taylor Sheridan himself. But instead of riding into Sheridan’s Wild West, he ended up starring in a rival Western show that carved its own gritty path.

The twist: he wasn’t chasing fame. He pretty much ghosted Hollywood for a while, choosing character over clout. That quiet rebellion, paired with serious on-screen grit, left Sheridan seriously impressed. And even though he didn’t turn up for the Yellowstone universe, his presence in the Western genre left a mark loud enough to echo.

Taylor Kitsch ditched Hollywood and stole the Western spotlight Taylor Kitsch and Betty Gilpin in American Primeval | Credits: Netflix

Taylor Kitsch was done with the Hollywood hustle long before it became trendy to dip out. The X-Men Origins: Wolverine star found peace in the wild outside Bozeman,...

Exclusive: Vertical has acquired Eye For An Eye, a horror flick starring Whitney Peak from veteran music video director Colin Tilley.

Directed by Tilley from a screenplay by author and artist Elisa Victoria, the film also stars S. Epatha Merkerson (Chicago Med), Golda Rosheuvel (Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story), and Finn Bennett (True Detective: Night Country). Vertical will release the film on June 20 in select theatrical markets and on demand.

The film follows Anna (Peak), who is grieving the sudden death of her parents and relocates from New York to a small Florida town to live with the grandmother (S. Epatha Merkerson) she’s never met. Isolated and in unfamiliar surroundings, she falls in with a rough crowd led by a couple of teens (Finn Bennett and Laken Giles). When she becomes a bystander to an unforgivable act of violence, she finds herself ensnared by Mr. Sandman – the twisted soul...

Academy Award winner Angelina Jolie will attend the 78th Cannes Film Festival to serve as the godmother of the 25th edition of the Trophée Chopard.

Jolie will present the trophy to rising stars Marie Colomb and Finn Bennett during a ceremony on Carlton Beach on May 16. The presentation will take place during a dinner co-hosted by Cannes Film Festival president Iris Knobloch, general delegate Thierry Frémaux and Chopard co-president and artistic director Caroline Scheufele.

“I am so happy to welcome Angelina Jolie as our Trophée Chopard Godmother,” stated Scheufele. “Her amazing film career and dedication to making a difference in the world make her an ideal role model. I know the rising talents we honor this year will be inspired by her journey and advice.”

Winner of the best supporting actress Oscar for “Girl, Interrupted,” Jolie was most recently seen in Pablo Larraín’s “Maria,” and stars in Alice Winocour’s upcoming bilingual drama “Couture,...

With awards season all but done and dusted, Oscars. Golden Globes, SAGs, and BAFTAs all having been dutifully doled out over the past few months, this evening saw the BAFTA TV Awards 2025 — hosted by Avengers: Doomsday's Alan Cumming and held at London's Royal Festival Hall — take centre stage for a night of red carpet walking and shiny statue giving. And during a telecast in which the two most nominated shows — Netflix stalker thriller Baby Reindeer and ITV drama Mr Bates Vs The Post Office — took home one award apiece, the likes of Mr Loverman, Shōgun, and Blue Lights all scored big wins in major categories.

On the night, Baby Reindeer's sole win saw Jessica Gunning's turn as Richard Gadd's crazed stalker Martha recognised in the Supporting Actress race, while Mr Bates Vs Post Office, which was elsewhere nominated in both Lead acting categories, took home the coveted accolade for Limited Drama.

Mr Bates vs The Post Office and Mr Loverman were the big victors at the BAFTA TV Awards, meaning Baby Reindeer did not continue its dominant winning streak.

Hosted by The Traitors star Alan Cumming, the BAFTA ceremony took place in sparkling spring sunshine on the banks of the River Thames at London’s Royal Festival Hall on Sunday.

The prizes were fairly evenly shared, but perhaps unsurprisingly, it was a notable night for Mr Bates vs The Post Office, the ITV series that dominated the UK ratings last year and fuelled a national conversation about injustices faced by innocent British postmasters, who were convicted of theft, fraud, and false accounting.

The series won Best Limited Drama, beating Baby Reindeer, which has been a darling of the awards season after cleaning up at the Emmys and Golden Globes. Jessica Gunning did, however, take home the prize for Best Supporting Actress for Baby Reindeer,...

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts presented its 2025 TV Awards at the Royal Festival Hall in London, with a wide spectrum of talent recognized across drama, comedy, factual, and children’s programming. Hosted by Alan Cumming, the event was broadcast on BBC One domestically and streamed on BritBox in the United States, continuing the Academy’s emphasis on broad accessibility for international audiences.

This year’s selections showcased both returning series and first-time contenders. Several winners have already seen cultural ripple effects across the UK media landscape. ITV’s Mr Bates vs the Post Office stood out not only for winning Limited Drama but also for earning the Special Award, recognizing ITV’s role in commissioning a project that helped catalyze national discussion. Based on a real-life miscarriage of justice, the series dramatized the experiences of sub-postmasters wrongly accused of theft and fraud, spurring public and political attention.

The full list of 2025 BAFTA TV Awards winners is in!

This year’s ceremony celebrating all things television was held at the Royal Festival Hall on Sunday (May 11) in London, England.

BAFTA previously announced that ITV won the Special Award for commissioning Mr Bates vs The Post Office. Kirsty Wark, the former BBC Newsnight presenter, won the BAFTA Fellowship, the British Academy’s top accolade.

The BAFTA TV Awards were hosted by Alan Cumming, who currently hosts The Traitors on Peacock.

The ceremony screened on BBC One in the UK and BritBox istatside.

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2025 BAFTA TV Awards

Drama Series

Blue Lights (BBC) - Winner

Sherwood (BBC)

Supacell (Netflix)

Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light (BBC)

Limited Drama

Baby Reindeer (Netflix)

Lost Boys and Fairies (BBC One)

Mr Bates vs the Post Office (ITV) - Winner

One Day (Netflix)

International

After The Party (Channel 4...

The BAFTA Film Awards are done and over with, and now it’s time for TV to get its turn.

Celebrating the best in British television — though of course, there’s an international category too, so American shows are nominated as well — the BAFTA Television Awards will be hosted this year at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall in London.

Here’s what you need to know if you want to watch the ceremony.

When is the awards ceremony?

The BAFTA TV awards will be given out on Sunday, May 11, 2025.

What time does it start?

The BAFTA television awards start 7 p.m. BST, which is 2 p.m. Et and 11 a.m. Pt for Americans.

How can I watch it in America?

It’s a bit challenging, but it’s not impossible to watch the BAFTAs in America. The easiest route is streaming it via BritBox. They’ll stream both...

Mr Bates vs. the Post Office pulled off a victory over Netflix's Emmy-winning Baby Reindeer at the 2025 BAFTA TV Awards on Sunday. The ITV drama that dominated U.K. ratings last year tells the story of hundreds of innocent sub-postmasters and postmistresses who were wrongly accused of theft, fraud, and false accounting due to a defective It system.

However, it wasn't all bad news for Baby Reindeer. Emmy, Golden Globe, and SAG Award winner Jessica Gunning continued her impressive awards streak, scoring Best Supporting Actress, and bringing the limited series’ total to three wins, including writing and directing victories from the BAFTA TV Craft Awards on April 27.

Lennie James beat out the likes of Richard Gadd (Baby Reindeer) and Gary Oldman (Slow Horses) to win Best Actor for Mr Loverman, in which he plays an exuberant, closeted family man who wants to end his marriage and live with his best friend.

This Mind-Bending Netflix Show Is Ideal For Fans Of Black Mirror! (Photo Credit – Netflix)

For fans of Black Mirror, chasing that same cerebral rush can be an uphill climb. When the latest season landed, it sparked an uproar of excitement. Some even called it the best return to form in years. It’s no surprise people were glued to their screens, swimming in confusion and awe. Netflix was toying with its audience by altering scenes across viewings and introducing the series’ first-ever sequel episode.

A Surprising Contender Hidden In Plain Sight

However, Black Mirror isn’t the only game in town when it comes to brain-bending television. One title keeps surfacing among the sea of Reddit threads and obsessive fan posts: Maniac. This limited series, tucked away in Netflix’s 2018 archives, has quietly become a cult favorite for those craving surrealism with a side of psychological chaos.

Maniac follows Owen and Annie,...

James Gunn’s Dcu is poised to change and transform the way audiences view the characters attached to the brand. Gunn's remake begins with the release of Superman, which is only a few months away. But beyond the return of the Man of Steel, the universe has already begun to revamp itself, with the Max original series, Lanterns, in the works. No major hiccups have hampered the long-awaited Green Lantern series from HBO, which is currently in production. It is the first live-action series set in Gunn's rebooted Dcu, bringing together Friday Night Lights star Kyle Chandler, on board as Hal Jordan, alongside Rebel Ridge star Aaron Pierre, who steps into the role of John Stewart. Now, there is an update regarding the series.

Lanterns also stars Jason Ritter, who is set to play Billy Macon. Ritter offered an update on production for the HBO series in an interview with Forbes.

Prime Video’s next YA book-based TV show with a big audience and set at the beach will likely be We Were Liars, based on the book by E. Lockhart.

The rights to the best-selling novel were optioned in 2022 by Julie Plec’s My So-Called Company and Universal Television.

Read on for everything we know about the We Were Liars television series:

When will We Were Liars come out?

E. Lockhart posted on Instagram to expect the series in 2025, and just recently she revealed that the release date is June 18 on Prime Video.

Entertainment Weekly also gave an exclusive first look at the series with photos of the liars themselves, their mothers and the whole Sinclair family.

L-r: Candice King, Caitlin Fitzgerald, Mamie Gummer, Joseph Zada, Emily Alyn Lind and Shubham Maheshwari in ‘We Were Liars

Is We Were Liars in production?

Yes! The series has wrapped production.

Who will be in We Were Liars?...

As the Marvel Cinematic Universe blockbuster, Avengers: Doomsday, ramps up production, one of its actors shares a chilly behind-the-scenes video, potentially from the set. Star Anthony Mackie releases a cold-weather clip on location for his new project.

On his Instagram Stories, Mackie posted a video of himself filming an unspecified project in a snowy setting. Perhaps ruing that he's a far cry away from spring, Mackie wishes fans a "warm, beautiful sunny day" while looking at the snow falling. Some fans are speculating that this is hinting at Mackie's MCU character, Sam Wilson, heading to a cold location in Doomsday. Notably, Mackie did not state where he was or which project he was working on when posting the video.

Anthony Mackie shared a video while shooting on location.“Wherever you are, I hope it’s a warm, beautiful, sunny day.†pic.twitter.com/6zRBkTdSr6— Nexus Point News (@NexusPointNews...

Jason Ritter has confirmed that he'll be playing a comedic role in Lanterns.

The actor recently spoke to Forbes about a number of topics but briefly touched on his current work, which is portraying Billy Macon in HBO and Max's Lanterns.

Said Ritter, "We’ve shot four episodes so far and we’re about to start shooting episodes three and four. We’re doing it all a little out of order. The story is kind of jumping all around, but it’s been so fun and it’s a really well-written, really fun show. I’m just trying to fit into that world and maybe put a little silliness in there."

There's rumors that the Macon family are really the Hand family and that Lanterns will dive into the origins of William Hand aka Black Hand before he becomes the undead embodiment of death and herald of Nekron. Fans are...

Plenty of characters who did not appear in the now defunct Dceu, a.k.a. the Snyderverse, are going to get a shot at having their stories told in James Gunn and Peter Safran’s DC Universe. Lobo (Jason Momoa), the Green Lantern John Stewart (Aaron Pierre), and Hawkgirl (Isabela Merced) are some examples. Should this latest rumor be true, Adam Strange will also be joining the Dcu, and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 star Will Poulter could be suiting up to take flight as the DC Comics Silver Age superhero. The report, which was posted by @gunnverse on Instagram, reads as follows (below):

"We may see Adam Strange in the new Green Lantern show for James Gunn’s new Dcu! Exclusive: Midsommar and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 star Will Poulter is in talks to play Adam Strange in DC Studios’ developing universe under James Gunn and Peter Safran,...

Apple TV+ has a new heist drama in the works with Captain America: Brave New Worldstar Anthony Mackie in the leading role. Now, the series has cast an Emmy-nominated actor to co-star alongside Mackie. Per Variety, Kali Reis, who delivered a breakout performance in True Detective: Night Countryco-starring Jodie Foster, will join Mackie in Apple TV+’s new series, 12 12 12.

The official logline of 12 12 12 states that the series “unfolds across the three propulsive timelines of a heist: the 12 months of planning, the 12 hours of the heist, and the 12 days following the heist. The series follows a disgraced FBI agent (Anthony Mackie) and an American career criminal (The Tourist’s Jamie Dornan) who play a zero-sum game of cat and mouse across Europe. At the center of it all is the daring, epic raid on a bank vault deep beneath the streets of Zurich.” Reis took to Instagram to announce the news.

Clint Eastwood and Steven Spielberg are two legends who made their mark in the industry as prolific filmmakers who have crafted some of the most influential films of the past few decades. While Eastwood never collaborated with Spielberg as an actor, he has directed several projects under Spielberg’s production ventures.

One of the most underrated collaborations of the duo is Spielberg’s TV series Amazing Stories. The anthology show, which followed along the lines of The Twilight Zone, saw Eastwood direct one romantic horror episode starring Harvey Keitel and Sondra Locke, written by Spielberg. The series was revived in 2020 by Apple TV+.

Clint Eastwood’s TV collaboration with Steven Spielberg on Amazing Stories is one of the books Clint Eastwood in Unforgiven | Credits: Warner Bros.

Clint Eastwood got his breakthrough on TV with the Western show Rawhide, after which he went on to star in Sergio Leone’s Dollars trilogy.

Superman & Lois vet Emmanuelle Chriqui might just be the key to saving The Lincoln Lawyer.

The actress will guest-star during Season 4 of the Netflix series, which finds Mickey defending himself against murder charges. Per our sister site Deadline, Chriqui will play Jeanine, “the girlfriend of a local gangster who finds herself mixed up in a criminal enterprise, giving her information pivotal to Mickey’s defense.”

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HBO's long-awaited Green Lantern series is currently in production, and it seems filming is moving forward smoothly without any major hiccups. Lanterns, which stars Aaron Pierre and Kyle Chandler, is the first live-action series set in James Gunn's rebooted DC Universe, which debuts on the big screen this summer with Superman. The True Detective-inspired show follows two Green Lanterns investigating a murder mystery in America's heartland, which could have major repercussions for the rest of the Dcu.

During an interview with Forbes, Jason Ritter, who plays Billy Macon in Lanterns, revealed the current production status for the upcoming HBO series. He confirmed that Lanterns was halfway through filming its first season, with four episodes completed thus far. Additionally, he reveals that it is a "really well-written, really fun show," the latter of which is in contrast to how the grounded sci-fi drama has been described thus far. Ritter's...

Exclusive: Kali Reis (True Detective: Night Country) has joined the cast of 12 12 12, Apple TV+’s contemporary international heist series starring and executive produced by Anthony Mackie and Jamie Dornan. Jack Kesy also stars.

Co-produced by Skydance Television and Anonymous Content, 12 12 12 unfolds across three timelines of a heist: the 12 months of planning, the 12 hours of the heist, and the 12 days following the heist. The series follows a disgraced FBI agent (Mackie) and an American career criminal (Dornan) who play a zero-sum game of cat and mouse across Europe. At the center of it all is the daring, epic raid on a bank vault deep beneath the streets of Zurich.

12 12 12 is created and written by Dudi Appleton and Jim Keeble who will also executive produce. Kari Skogland will direct the pilot, as well as executive produce. Samantha Corbin-Miller serves as writer and executive producer. Mackie executive produces via his...

Yeah… there have been a lot of delays and problems within Hollywood for quite a few years due to a plethora of factors. Some were justified, while others could have been prevented, but the point is, it’s taking too long.

Stranger Things, which debuted in 2016, is currently developing its fifth and final season, but at the moment of writing… It’s 2025! The Netflix show has taken a total of 9 years to release 4 seasons, and some people are quite angry about it.

Stranger Things remained quite hidden for a while!

When the show debuted in 2016, there were no plans to make this series as grandiose and epic as it stands today. In 2016, Stranger Things was just a show set in the 1980s wherein kids got kidnapped and experiments went wrong.

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The series, while being developed by the Duffer brothers, was called Project Montauk.

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Aamir Khan is gearing up for his next theatrical release, Sitaare Zameen Par, which is reportedly based on the Spanish film Campeones. It’s being described as the spiritual sequel to Taare Zameen Par. The sports drama has been directed by R.S. Prasanna and is scheduled to be released in theatres on June 20th, 2025. Fans are waiting with bated breath for the trailer, which should arrive soon.

But did you know that Sitaare Zameen Par is not the only film to have drawn inspiration from Campeones? In fact, three films based on the same subject in different languages have already been released. Continue reading to learn more.

English Language Film

The English language Campeones-inspired film, titled Champions, is the most popular adaptation of the Spanish film (for obvious reasons). Directed by Bobby Farrelly, the film featured Hollywood actor Woody Harrelson in the...

The Now You See Me franchise has always been a dazzling mix of magicians, heists, and mind-blowing illusions. The first film introduced us to the Four Horsemen, master illusionists pulling off epic heists while staying one step ahead of the law. Though critics had mixed reviews, the franchise’s slick, stylish vibe and clever twists made it an instant hit.

The sequel kept the magic going, and now, the third installment, Now You See Me: Now You Don’t, is officially in the works! Fans can expect to see familiar faces like Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, and Morgan Freeman return, with some exciting new additions. But before we get to the big screen magic, let’s talk about what really disappears: the money! Here’s a look at how the cast stacks up in terms of net worth. Spoiler alert! Some of them are seriously pulling in big bucks!

Morgan Freeman...

Pack your parkas — the critically acclaimed, heartfelt Arctic comedy North of North has been renewed for a second season. Star Anna Lambe, who plays the series’ heroine Siaja, could not be more overjoyed: “When I got the call from Alethea, Stacey, and Miranda about North of North being renewed for a second season, my heart exploded in the best way possible! I’m so excited and overwhelmed with joy, I can’t wait to head back to Ice Cove!”

Created by Stacey Aglok MacDonald and Alethea Arnaquq-Baril and executive produced by Miranda de Pencier, the first season has a rare 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. And, just this morning, Lambe was nominated for a Gotham TV Award for her performance. Watch her reaction to hearing about the series’ renewal below!

North of...

Is life a comedy or a tragedy? Artists from all over the world try to find the right answers to this age-old question. Kafka sees life as endless suffering, whereas Charlie Chaplin sees life as harsh and tries to create a good laugh about it. The question perhaps starts from the ‘fall of man,’ where Adam and Eve were banished from the Garden of Eden and exiled to Earth. Due to this, human life is perhaps inherently a tragic one—a life filled with suffering and sorrow. In season 1 of “True Detective,” the character Rust Cohle identifies it as the ‘tragic misstep in evolution.’ According to him, “We are creatures that should not exist, by natural law.”

But there may be something beautiful about this existence—an existence where we are able to be happy, but in absurd terms, just like Sisyphus in Greek mythology, who was eternally damned to...

Exclusive: Ben Foster (Hell or High Water), Manny Jacinto (Freakier Friday), and Fiona Shaw (Bad Sisters) will topline The Stalemate, an absurdist Western comedy from first-time feature filmmaker Nicholas Arioli, who’s directing from his own script.

Currently in production in Santa Fe, New Mexico, The Stalemate focuses on a robber (Jacinto) and sheriff (Foster) who, out of bullets and far from town, must negotiate their way out of an absurd, unending chase in the Old West.

“I spent many years writing this completely absurd movie,” Arioli said, “and I’m honored to work with such an incredible team who are as excited as I am to bring it to life. The Stalemate is part wacky buddy comedy, part poignant Western elegy – and just straight up a ton of fun. We can’t wait to share it!”

Producers of the film are Molly Conners and Amanda Bowers of Phiphen, Andrew Bosworth of Warden Shortbow,...

Led by “Severance” star Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, “Reykjavic Fusion,” one of the highest-profile competition contenders at France’s Canneseries, is described by executive producer Erik Barmack of Wild Sheep Content as “‘Breaking Bad’ meets ‘The Bear.’”

When protagonist Jónas, a gifted chef imprisoned supposedly for tax fraud, gets out and opens a restaurant backed by a crime lord, his life becomes a daily exercise in damage control, as his life spirals into crime.

All Jonas wants is to develop his passion for haute cuisine, featuring “Icelandic ingredients cooked Asian style, with all kinds of secret twists,” as he explains to his fellow cons. But he’s soon a reluctant accomplice to murder and drowning with debt, jeopardizing his parole, life, and loved ones.

Chic, sleak, fast-paced, packed with action near unprecedented in Icelandic series such as car chases, “Rekjavik Fusion” plays out on a far larger canvas than nearly all Icelandic series.

Yesterday, some images posted by Lanterns actor Garrett Dillahunt sparked speculation that the Deadwood and Last House of the Left star might be set to play Oliver Queen in the upcoming HBO series.

When Dillahunt's casting was announced, he was said to be playing a character named William Macon, who was described as "a self-righteous, conspiracy-minded man who masks his ruthless ambition behind a charming and calculated facade."

It's easy enough to understand why fans might have assumed that he's really playing Ollie - the actor appeared in costume as Green Arrow in some behind-the-scenes photos and storyboard shots, after all - but whatever his reasons for sharing the since-deleted Insta post, it doesn't look like he'll be suiting up as the Emerald Archer in the Dcu.

When asked if there was any truth to the rumor that Dillahunt might have been cast as Ga on Threads, DC Studios co-head...