On Wednesday, the 2024 Tribeca Festival announced its features lineup, boasting more than 100 entries from 114 filmmakers hailing from 48 countries.The annual event that was co-founded by Robert De Niro and his partner Jane Rosenthal runs from June 5 through June 16 in New York City. This year’s entries include Andrew McCarthy’s anticipated documentary…… read more »
ABC – NetflixA day after it was announced that West Side Story’s Rachel Zegler and Heartstopper lead Kit Connor will make their Broadway debuts in Romeo + Juliet — temporarily tanking the play’s website in the process — they’re apparently at it again. The pair posted to the production’s Instagram a brief video greeting teasing their strictly…… read more »
Jeffrey Wright – Disney/Randy HolmesOn Wednesday, TIME revealed its 2024 TIME 100, its annual list “of the 100 most influential people in the world,” and the world of entertainment was well represented.As is tradition, each of the heralded personalities for the year is singled out by a colleague who sings their praises.Ryan Reynolds, for example,…… read more »
Warber Bros. PicturesWarner Bros. Theatre Ventures — the division that translated movies including Beetlejuice and Elf into Broadway musicals — will be doing the same with its 2018 hit Crazy Rich Asians.ABC Audio has confirmed that the blockbuster’s director, Jon M. Chu, is aboard for the adaptation, which would mark his Broadway debut.That said, Chu…… read more »
Pascal Le Segretain/Getty ImagesAbout a month after news broke that Poor Things’ Margaret Qualley was to executive produce and star in a Hulu project about Amanda Knox, Deadline reports the twice Emmy-nominated actress has exited the project. Scheduling reasons were to blame, the trade says.Knox, an American studying abroad, spent almost four years in an…… read more »
Darko Sikman/HuluThe brutal murder of a teen girl shocked a peaceful enclave of Victoria Island, British Columbia, Canada in 1997. Reena Virk was the victim of bullying by her classmates, the murder trial got worldwide attention, and now the story is the basis of the Hulu limited series Under the Bridge, premiering today, April 17.Recent…… read more »
Pamela Anderson has been tapped to star opposite Liam Neeson in Paramount Pictures’ Naked Gun reboot, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The new movie is based on the Naked Gun film franchise and the TV series Police Squad! which starred Leslie Nielson as bumbling detective Frank Drebin. The new project, from Chip ‘N Dale: Rescue…… read more »
Corey Nickols/Getty Images for IMDbOn a new installment of her podcast The Breakdown, former child star Mayim Bialik welcomed former colleagues Jenna von Oy, with whom she starred on Blossom, and Christy Carlson Romano from Even Stevens to discuss the bombshell documentary Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV.Bialik expressed, “Of course it touched me personally. … You’re…… read more »
NetflixNetflix’s epic sci-fi adaptation 3 Body Problem has spent a fitting three weeks atop the streaming service’s English language list. Netflix just released its weekly rankings, and the show, about aliens’ not-so-friendly first contact with Earth, was tops again from April 8 to April 14, with 4.8 million views in that time. The series has 35,500,000 hours…… read more »
Courtesy OSFIn a clever — and cuddly — bit of corporate synergy, Warner Bros. Discovery has announced the beloved Animal Planet docuseres Meerkat Manor is becoming a movie for Warner Bros. Pictures Animation.The film’s executive producers are Caroline Hawkins and Clare Birks of Oxford Scientific Films, who created the original series that debuted in 2005,…… read more »
