Prime Video India’s crime drama “Mirzapur” has set a new benchmark with its third season, becoming the platform’s most-watched show in India during its launch weekend. The series has also gained significant international traction, trending in the platform’s Top 10 list across more than 85 countries, including the U.S., U.K., Canada, and Australia. Produced by […]
FILMFARE FAME AT LAST 2022 global hit film, “RRR” won the award for the best film in the Telugu language at the delayed FilmFare South awards. For their performances in “RRR,” N.T.R. Jr and Ram Charan were named as winners in the best leading actor category and SS Rajamouli won best director. In the Tamil […]
Former Netflix executive Juan Mayne’s recently launched N&L Films and Beatriz Bodegas’ hugely influential indie La Canica Films are teaming on a new Spanish true-crime-inspired thriller, “Lo que los ojos esconden,” working title “Behind His Eyes” in English, which is now in development with director Lluís Quílez and screenwriter Fernando Navarro. Between August 1989 and […]
There’s ambition exceeding your grasp, and then there’s “Lumina.” The brainchild of writer-director-producer Gino McKoy, who also wrote several songs appearing on the soundtrack, this alien-abduction drama could have used more time on the mothership. The film itself can be likened to a low-flying spacecraft assembled from mismatched parts belonging to other, more fully realized sci-fi […]
Jack Quaid doesn’t shy away from being called a “nepo baby.” “No matter what I do, people are going to call attention to it. People have called me a ‘nepo baby.’ I’m inclined to agree,” said the 32-year-old “The Boys” star, whose parents are Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan. “I am an immensely privileged person, […]
Following more than three years in development, the Los Angeles Chargers is officially opening its new $250 million state-of-the-art training facility and corporate headquarters. “The Bolt” encompasses a 150,000-square-foot complex in El Segundo, a few miles from SoFi Stadium, which sits on 14 acres and includes three natural grass practice fields. The main entrance features […]
Dave Loggins, a singer-songwriter who had a memorable chart-topper with “Please Come to Boston” in 1974, died Wednesday at Alive Hospice in Nashville. He was 76; no cause of death was given. With “Please Come to Boston” being the sole hit in his solo discography, Loggins — the second cousin of pop star Kenny Loggins […]
Cole Escola’s “Oh, Mary!” is the best kind of stupid: a broad, wildly funny comedy that spits in the face of American history and uses it as joke fodder for some endlessly campy humor. In theory, the play is about Mary Todd Lincoln in the weeks leading up to her husband’s assassination, but it has […]
William “Bill” Klages, a television lighting design pioneer and seven-time Emmy winner, died in Santa Monica, Calif., on July 7, his son Jonathan Klages confirmed. He was 97. Klages won one Emmy Award for outstanding visual achievement in special visual effects and six for outstanding lighting direction for his work on “The Lie,” “Mitzi & […]
Over the past few decades, the playing field for music recording has expanded exponentially. Hit pop singles can now be cut in bedrooms, entire orchestral film scores have been recorded one instrument at a time and remote collaboration is often the name of the game. But there’s still no substitute for a thoroughly equipped, expertly […]
President Joe Biden insisted Thursday he was the best qualified candidate to run against former President Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election in a back-and-forth with reporters that had him, at times, railing against the decisions of a conservative-led Supreme Court and explaining in great detail some of the nuances of U.S. foreign policy […]
Katy Perry proclaims it’s a “Woman’s World” in the extravagant music video for her upcoming “143” album’s first single. On Thursday, the single was released alongside a cinematic video that sees Perry dressed as both Rosie the Riveter and a bionic woman. “Fire in her eyes / Feminine divine / She was born to shine,” […]
The second day of Alec Baldwin’s trial went deep into the origins of a vintage Colt .45 revolver and the question of how live bullets got to the set of “Rust.” Baldwin is accused of involuntary manslaughter in the October 2021 shooting of Halyna Hutchins, the film’s cinematographer. Prosecutors maintain that he negligently fired the […]