The showrunner of Fox’s intense vampire drama has a philosophy when it comes to staffing her shows: “I love hiring moms.” Liz Heldens, who took on the reigns of adapting the popular bloodsucker novel “The Passage” as a series, is a mother herself, and what she believes is that “nobody gets it done like who needs to get home for […]

In his first interview since Lifetime’s damning docuseries aired, R. Kelly “had a lot to get off his chest… and boy did we let him speak,” Gayle King said at the top of Wednesday’s CBS This Morning. Yet no matter how hot things got, King stayed cucumber-cool. No matter how absurd Kelly’s words became, his interviewer stifled the spit take […]

UPDATED, 12:15 PM: Paramount said today that its Alexandre Aja-helmed horror pic Crawl has moved from an August 23 wide release to July 12. The Kaya Scodelario starrer now will open against STX’s Chadwick Boseman thriller 17 Bridges and Fox’s Dave Bautista-Kumail Nanjiani action comedy Stuber. PREVIOUSLY, January 18: Paramount Pictures has set release dates for horror pic Crawl and […]

With this guys-on-a-mission-blowout, Netflix proves it can grind out generic action as well as the next Hollywood formula hacks. Triple Frontier — which Netflix will release in theaters for five minutes (OK, for seven days) before streaming to its nearly 140 million subscribers on March 13th — involves a handful of rogue ex-military types who decide to rob a drug […]

Mario Puzo’s “The Godfather” is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, and writer-director Francis Ford Coppola has marked the occasion by writing the foreword to the novel’s special new edition. Coppola worked closely with Puzo to turn the “The Godfather” into the landmark 1972 movie of the same name. The two remained close collaborators on “The Godfather Part II” and […]

Tristan Thompson is back in New York City — and back with the same mystery woman he was seen with last week. On Tuesday, Thompson, who is in town for the Cleveland Cavaliers’ game against the Brooklyn Nets, was photographed bringing two cups of coffee back to his hotel room, according to TMZ. Later that evening, in photos obtained by […]

The much-talked-about elephant in Hu Bo’s “An Elephant Sitting Still” never appears onscreen, but it isn’t an imaginary beast. The sedentary pachyderm is rumored to live in Manzhouli, a city in the Inner Mongolia region of northern China, some distance from the gray industrial city where the film’s characters struggle and suffer. The elephant is a lure and a metaphor, […]

Corey Feldman's cheeky grin and one-liners charmed audience after audience, but there was a dark side to his youth on the big screen. Here's what we know about him… What has Corey Feldman said about the Michael Jackson Leaving Neverland documentary? Corey hit out at sex abuse allegations against Michael Jackson in new documentary Leaving Neverland – despite previously accusing […]

Whiskey Cavalier is a brand new show on ABC that premiered last week. The show follows the life of FBI agent Will Chase, whose codename in the FBI is Whiskey Cavalier. After breaking up with his partner and struggling with his feelings, he’s assigned to work with a CIA operative called Frankie Trowbridge. Her codename is Fiery Tribune. This series […]

Netflix has been slowly but steadily reviving the once marginalized romantic comedy, but their newest offering infuses the genre with the rather refreshing idea — long overdue in movies — that friendship is perhaps the greatest romance of all. The streamer recently released the first official trailer for “Someone Great,” a comedy that appears to begin as a romance with […]