‘Fremont’: Babak Jalali & Anaita Wali Zada On Their Delightful & Comically Offbeat Sundance Gem [Interview]

Israeli director Guy Nattiv has defended his casting of non-Jewish actress Helen Mirren as iconic Israeli Prime minister Golda Meir in his biopic Golda, which world premieres at the Berlin Film Festival on Monday.

“The Moodys,” “Wedding Crashers”) and follows the personal and professional lives of group of Animal Control workers in Seattle who deal with all kinds of critters and creepy-crawlies.There’s Frank (McHale), a snarky ex-cop fired for exposing corruption who considers himself a “lone wolf” and is bummed to be paired with his rookie partner Fred (Michael Rowland), a cheerful former snowboarder who isn’t the sharpest knife in the drawer and is determined to bond with Frank. Then there’s quirky Australian Victoria (Grace Palmer); Amit (Ravi Patel), who takes phone calls during work where he sings to his son; their nervous and awkward boss Emily (Vella Lovell, “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend”), who Frank likes because he says she’s easy to manipulate; office manager Dolores (Kelli Ogmundson); and their in-house vet, Dr.

Julio Iglesias jr. is sharing insight into his life under the covers. The son of the legendary singer recently revealed that he turns on his dad’s music to “get in the mood.”The admission came ahead of his album release “Under the Covers.” He appeared on Tamron Hall’s talk show to promote the album, and he shared intimate details about his love life.In Valentine’s day spirit, Hall asked him if he listens to his own music to get in the mood.

Some Machine Gun Kelly fans may be speculating wildly about his relationship with his touring guitarist — but she’s doing just fine in the man department, thank you very much!

“Rust” is resuming production after years of litigation.

Work on the film Rust will resume in spring, with Alec Baldwin producing and remaining in the starring role, it has been announced.The widower of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, who was fatally shot on the set of the western in October 2021, has also sanctioned a documentary about her.The currently unnamed piece will explore her life and “final work, including the completion of the film” and feature her partner Matthew as executive producer.The plans come after Baldwin was charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter by the Santa Fe District Attorney’s office over the fatal shooting of Hutchins. A number of original crew members will return to the project alongside director Joel Souza.

Her opinion. Julia Fox expressed her support for Alexander Wang after walking in the designer’s New York Fashion Week show, which marked his first since 2020 following accusations of sexual assault. 

says she's in her “I don’t give a fuck era,” and she made that abundantly clear in her latest interview.On February 13, published “The Gospel According to Julia Fox,” in which the details her current philosophies on everything from dating to marriage to literal murder. On , Fox says she's avoiding and procedures like liposuction, which the 33-year-old had done once before.

The Manchester United co-chairmen Joel Glazer and Avram Glazer are exploring the possibility of buying out their four siblings on the club board as prospective investors prepare to submit their proposals.

Dissident Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof was released from prison over the weekend, according to Iranian news outlets.

The proposed new Michael Jackson biopic will glorify a man who abused children, according to the director of Leaving Neverland. 

EXCLUSIVE: Tosin Cole, Michael Gandolfini, Nadine Marshall, James Norton and Anthony Welsh have joined the cast of the untitled Bob Marley biopic for Paramount. Kingsley Ben-Adir has been set to portray the legendary reggae star, with Lashana Lynch playing his wife Rita. King Richard director Reinaldo Marcus Green is helming.

One day at a time. Alec Baldwin and Hilaria Baldwin are still struggling with New Mexico prosecutors’ decision to charge the actor with involuntary manslaughter for the fatal shooting of Halyna Hutchins.

The Material Girl’s biopic will no longer be materializing. Despite a long casting process to hire someone to play the Queen of Pop, Madonna has scrapped the biopic film she was going to direct herself and is instead going to go out on tour (via Variety and THR).

EXCLUSIVE: Searchlight Pictures is in final talks to acquire Theater Camp, in a worldwide deal that will land in the $8 million range, with a theatrical release guarantee. Directed by Molly Gordon and Nick Lieberman, the film stars Gordon and Ben Platt as longtime best friends who return to an upstate run down theater camp which is imperiled when its founder lapses into a coma due to an unfortunate strobe light incident. Her son takes over, and he tries to stave off foreclosure even though he initially has little interest in greasepaint and the boards. The project grew out of Booksmart, another Gloria Sanchez production. Elbaum & Ferrell produced with PictureStart’s Erik Feig (who financed), Samie Kim Falvey, Julia Hammer, Ryan Heller, Maria Zuckerman, Noah Galvin, Gordon, Lieberman and Platt.

There was a time when it seemed like every movie trailer for every single comedy began with bouncy music and a voice-over artist explaining cheerfully, “[NAME OF PROTAGONIST] had it all!” But at the beginning of Nicole Holofcener’s “You Hurt My Feelings,” Beth (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) does, in fact, seem to have it all: she’s in a long-lasting marriage with a successful therapist, they have a great apartment on the Upper West Side, their 23-year-old son Eliot (Owen Teague) is writing his first play, she teaches writing at the New School, and she’s just finished her second book.

In Montana’s Big Sky Country, a black cloud hangs over the state’s expansive horizon. It looms above the indigenous residents of the Crow and Northern Cheyenne Reservations and nearby towns in Big Horn County most of all.

The thorny, complicated history between the United States and Iran is infinitely more complex for those of the Persian diaspora living in America. It’s this nuanced tension trickling down to identity — between being too much this and not enough that in either homeland — that writer-director-producer Maryam Keshavarz (“Circumstance”) explores in her third film, “The Persian Version,” a decades and generation-spanning dramedy.