Sunday, May 19, 2024

Movies

Lady Gaga About to Drop “Top Gun” Song I Told You About Exclusively One Year Ago

My friends, I told you one year ago on April 30th that Lady Gaga was recording the theme song for "Top Gun: Maverick." Today she...

Broadway Movies: “Wicked” Will Be Broken Into Two Films for Christmas 2024 and 2025

Something "Wicked" this way comes, but not for a while. Jon M. Chu's adaptation of the Broadway hit will premiere at Christmas 2024, and then...

“Titane” Star Vincent Lindon Will Head Cannes Jury Which Includes Rebecca Hall, Joachim Trier, Jeff Nichols, Asghar Farhadi

It's going to a wild Cannes Film Festival when the jury comes to its vote. The jury will headed by "Titane" star Vincent Lindon, the...

Cate Blanchett Awards Ceremony Goes Awry: Presenters Bradley Cooper, Todd Haynes COVID MIA

Cate Blanchett must be wondering what the Chaplin Awards were like in the old days of the Film Society of Lincoln Center. In the heyday,...

Maggie Smith is Not Retiring But “Downton Abbey: A New Era” Likely Marks the End of Her Dowager Countess

We already know that Dame Maggie Smith is not retiring from acting. Even at age 86, Smith is making a new film over the...

Spielberg, Mel Brooks Others Say Goodbye to “Lethal Weapon” Director Richard Donner, Mel Gibson Vows to Make 5th Movie

Beloved "Lethal Weapon" director Richard Donner finally got a proper send off over the weekend. A list stars met at the Warner Bros. lot...

Nicholas Cage’s “Massive Talent” Proved Unbearable at Box Office with Lower Than Expected Crash

I guess the hope for "The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent" was it was going to be "Being Nicholas Cage" a la "Being John...

Library of Congress Acquires the Papers of Neil Simon, Broadway’s Most Successful Playwright

For several decades there wasn't a Broadway without a Neil Simon play, or two, lighting up the Great White Way. Now the Library of Congress...