SFFILM executive director Noah Cowan knows how to play awards season. He moved the San Francisco Film Society’s annual awards fundraising night from April to December — in the awards corridor — knowing he could lure some awards players to San Francisco. What’s in it for them? Bay Area Academy members, who showed up for a Monday night pre-event cocktail […]

EXCLUSIVE: Freestyle Digital Media has obtained the North American distribution rights to road trip comedy film I Hate Kids, which will get a day-and-date release on January 18. Directed by John Asher (A Boy Called Po), the pic stars La La Land actor Tom Everett Scott, Emmy-nominated Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt star Tituss Burgess, Rachel Boston, Rhea Seehorn, and Julian Feder. Todd Traina and Frank Dietz […]

Polly Walker (Line of Duty) is set for a recurring role in the upcoming Epix drama series Pennyworth, the Batman prequel from Gotham showrunner Bruno Heller, executive producer/director Danny Cannon and Warner Horizon Scripted TV. The 10-episode, hourlong drama series is based on DC characters created by Bob Kane with Bill Finger. It follows Bruce Wayne’s legendary butler, Alfred Pennyworth […]

The reality star has hinted she could be set to marry her rapper beau – who has this week been forced to deny that he's cheated on her. The 21-year-old beauty businesswoman – who shares eleven-month-old baby daughter Stormi with 26-year-old Travis – shared an image on her Instagram Story of the couple posing together from their GQ cover shoot […]

My Brilliant Friend is getting another chapter: HBO has renewed the critically acclaimed literary adaptation for a second season, TVLine has learned. Based on the bestselling books by Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend follows Italian girl Elena and her childhood best friend Lila as they grow up together, covering a whopping 60 years of their lives. Filmed entirely in Italian, […]

This is not “Peter Rabbit.” Or as John Boyega warns in the new trailer for Netflix and BBC’s “Watership Down” remake, “This isn’t about cute rabbits, it’s kind of messed up.” Based on Richard Abrams’ acclaimed 1972 novel, “Watership Down” tells the story of a group of rabbits, led by brothers Hazel (James McAvoy) and Fiver (Nicholas Hoult), who must journey to find […]

The Italian chef, who is renowned for his rib-tickling Freudian slips, was on the mid-morning show to cook a cherry and amaretto tart when he insisted on sharing the story behind his sweet treat. Beginning his story, he said: "My auntie in the seventies went to Sweden, she was my mother's fourth sister. "So she goes to Sweden and married […]

The model painted the town red with her sexy, festive ensemble as she rocked her bold new look. Demi, 23, was a sight for sore eyes as she made her way to the Christmas 'do at The Shard's Shangri La. The Birmingham babe wowed in the revealing red satin number that showed off her famous curves. But it wasn't her […]

Timothee Chalamet says earlier in his career, he felt like a “fraud.” When he attended a screening of Christopher Nolan’s film “Interstellar,” he was among famous co-stars like Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, and John Lithgow. “And I really had no career at this point, so I was the fraud a little bit, in the room,” he confesses. The “Beautiful Boy” […]

Mahershala Ali and John David Washington sat down for a chat for Variety’s Actors on Actors. For more, click here.  Mahershala Ali (“Green Book”) and John David Washington (“BlacKkKlansman”) have catapulted into the awards season conversation with two searing films about race in America. Both movies are based on true stories. Ali, who won the supporting actor Oscar in 2017 for “Moonlight,” […]