Chris Evans Talks About Using Quarantine To Train For His New Movie ‘The Gray Man’ And To Work On His New Political Website

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticLagging a few weeks behind the rest of the world (where Russell Crowe road-rage thriller “Unhinged” released in several territories late last month), the United States is slowly seeing cinemas reopen in anticipation of Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet” — still optimistically dated for Sept. 3.But that doesn’t mean film fans don’t have options, opening on drive-in screens, virtual cinemas and subscriptions services.With more than 30 new movies releasing in the U.S.

The Internet went wild when a report surfaced that Brad Pitt would be starring alongside Harry Styles in an upcoming movie called Faster, Cheaper, Better. A Latin American and European movie distributor called Vertice Cine first reported the news, and it quickly went viral. However, a rep for Brad told HollywoodLife that the reports are, sadly, “not true.”

On March 23, in the year of our pandemic clusterfuck, 9 of our 50 United States issued stay at home advisories for residents as their COVID-19 response: Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Illinois, Louisiana, California, Washington, and Oregon. Since then, most of the remaining states have followed suit.

Tribune Publishing Company, which owns some of the most storied newspapers in American journalism, said Wednesday that it is closing the newsrooms at five of them, including New York's Daily News and The Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: Management and production company 42 (The Courier) is teaming with fledgling LA-based label A-Major Media to develop and produce Megan Chan Meinero’s play Good Fortune for film. New York playwright Chan Meinero is writing the adaptation.Mary Lee, previously head of film at Justin Lin’s Perfect Storm Entertainment, is producing for A-Major, which she set up last year year to champion Asian-American voices in film and TV.

While the US festival season has been in a bit of disarray since SXSW was canceled back in March, it appears that some events will actually take place before the end of 2020, led by the New York Film Festival in September.

A massive fire has engulfed cooking show star Rachael Ray’s New York home.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefPowered by Chinese streaming technology, the New York Asian Film Festival will this year move from the real world to the virtual. With strong focuses on women filmmakers and Korean movies, the 19th NYAFF will run Aug.

Bill Maher welcomed guest Chris Evans to his HBO show “Real Time” on Friday, with the “Captain America” star promoting his new website A Starting Point, which is described as “a video-based civic engagement platform” designed to “create a bipartisan channel of communication and connectivity between Americans and their elected officials with the goal of creating a more informed electorate.”

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticWhile the Hollywood studios continue to keep their tentpoles locked up till most American cinemas reopen, indie distributors are releasing a handful of smaller movies with big stars in supporting roles this week.Can’t wait to see Robert Pattinson in “Tenet”? Well, you can always catch him in the festival-anointed imperialist critique “Waiting for the Barbarians.” While the release date for “Dune” remains in question, Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgård leads the

The New York Times. “Dissolving the corrupt, dangerous, and extremist NRA organization will end an illegal scheme led by the NRA leadership to enrich themselves and push an agenda that leads to the deaths of nearly 40,000 Americans each year,” Lindsay told Metro Weekly in a statement.

Seth Rogen spent 10 months growing out his beard just to shoot one additional scene for his new movie An American Pickle.The Pineapple Express star takes on double duty in the film, which is based on 2013 New Yorker novella Sell Out, about 1920s factory worker Herschel Greenbaum, who falls into a vat of pickles and is brined for 100 years, only to emerge in his great-grandson’s modern-day New York without having aged a day.Rogen grew out his facial hair to play Herschel first and then went

Seth Rogen has scripted and starred in any number of movies that have pulled inspiration from his life, but he says, the HBO Max time-travel farce adapted from a short story by Simon Rich, is perhaps the story he relates to most.The film stars Rogen as Herschel Greenbaum, a ditchdigger living in a fictional Eastern European country circa 1919.

Looking forward to watching An American Pickle this week? The one where Seth Rogen falls into a vat of pickles in 1920 and wakes up in modern day New York? Chances are you haven’t been looking forward to it for too long, since the trailer only dropped at the start of July. You might have also missed Unhinged, the Russell Crowe road-rage thriller and the first new film to reopen cinemas along with Eva Green’s astronaut drama, Proxima.

the Quarantine Island, an online strategy game that began between friends and family during the coronavirus outbreak in March — and has since grown into a network of competitors across the US and Canada, luring interested players from as far away as the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. Taking place in front of a live Zoom audience, it’s the latest example of how people still in lockdown can stay distracted while having fun and forging new personal connections.

Chris Evans was recently photographed on two dates with actress Lily James during a trip to London in July and he was asked about that trip in a new interview.

The Blade’s Chris Johnson beat out reporters from the New York Times, USA Today and other mainstream outlets to win Outstanding Newspaper Article. (Blade file photo by Michael Key)

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticIn what’s shaping up to be the strangest weekend yet since the coronavirus outbreak forced American theaters to close, the biggest release is Beyoncé’s visual album, “Black Is King,” a visionary feature-length companion to her 2019 album, in the tradition of “Lemonade.”A number of studio movies — including Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet” — had tentatively planted their flag on July 31, only to delay amid the latest spike of infections.

UTA has partnered with New York's Metrograph to present the Metrograph Drive-In, an outdoor theater series at Hamptons venue Nova's Ark. In the absence of the moviegoing experience amid the COVID-19 pandemic, drive-ins have been on the rise across the United States.