George Maksian Dies: TV And Film Columnist At NY Daily News Was 94

Imax and Wanda Film, China‘s largest exhibitor, have announced a big expansion of their longtime strategic partnership there spanning technology and content.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Coralie Fargeat’s Demi Moore-starring feminist body horror film “The Substance” has been set as the closing night title for the New Zealand International Film Festival. The picture is one of 16 which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival last month selected for the NZIFF which is now under the artistic leadership of Paolo Bertolin.

Scots should be prepared to be hit by all kinds of weather, as the last leg of June is set to be a mixed bag of rain, thunder and heat.

Bleecker Street released the first trailer for The Fabulous Four, a wedding comedy with an iconic bridal party, during Sunday’s 77th Tony Awards.

Selena Kuznikov The trailer for “The Fabulous Four,” starring Bette Midler, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Megan Mullally and Susan Sarandon has dropped, wedding bells galore. Per the film’s logline, “‘The Fabulous Four’ is an uproarious comedy about a group of life-long friends (Sarandon, Mullally and Ralph) who travel to Key West, Fla., to be bridesmaids in the surprise wedding of their best college girlfriend Marilyn (Midler).

President Joe Biden wasted little time making a biting comment about his opponent Donald Trump shortly after he took the stage at a star filled Los Angeles fundraiser.

which is set to release on July 11. The series is created by Jeb Stuart and is a sequel to Michael Hirst’s “Vikings” from MGM Television. The official logline reads, “Set in the early 11th century, ‘Vikings: Valhalla’ chronicles the heroic adventures of some of the most famous Vikings who ever lived, Leif Eriksson, his sister, Freydis and the Norwegian prince Harald Sigurdsson.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music The Songwriters Hall of Fame, which staged its annual awards ceremony on Thursday night, is an institution and an event unlike any other in the music industry, even though many of its elements are hardly unique and many things about it have barely changed over decades, and possibly since it launched in 1969. Indeed, we say many of the same things about the ceremony in an article very similar to this one every year — it’s a combination of an awards show, a family reunion and a trade event that is invite-only yet features a mind-blowing array of Grammy-level, once-in-a-lifetime performances and tributes, always held at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York’s Times Square.

Howard Fineman, the journalist, columnist and television commentator known for his keen insight and analysis on all things politics, has died at age 75.

Elmore Leonard — cinematically, perhaps the most influential writer of the 20th-century whose name never gave rise to an adjective — casts a long shadow over Jeffrey Reiner’s film, a satisfying LA noir that follows his legacy almost to the letter. There’s no chiaroscuro here, nothing bad happens even remotely in darkness, but there’s a moral shading that Leonard would most likely enjoy. For some reason, though, these sunshine-crime stories never seem to stick like their shadowy counterparts do, which means that Lake George might have to wait a while before it finds out where it sits in the whole noir canon.

A die-hard Scotland fan is set to miss the opening two matches of Euro 2024 holed up in a dark German cell.

“Modern Family” daughter Sarah Hyland when Hyland was dealing with an alleged abusive relationship 10 years ago.Bowen, 54, was on “The Skinny Confidential Him & Her Podcast” Monday and host Lauryn Bosstick told the actress that Hyland, 33, “gives you credit for saving her life after a violent relationship.”“Aw, that’s very sweet of her,” Bowen responded. She continued: “I was a responsible adult that happened to be around at the right time.

Could Travis Kelce be in "Happy Gilmore 2"? As of now, his involvement in the newly announced sequel is a fan conspiracy. On Wednesday's episode of the "New Heights with Jason and Travis Kelce" podcast, the brothers discussed a fan theory circling on Reddit that predicts Travis will be part of "Happy Gilmore 2." "Obviously, been a huge fan of the Sandman," Travis said on the podcast. "Who knows? Theories can come true.Theories can be true, and people just don’t know about it.

EXCLUSIVE: Skydance Media has added two key senior execs in human resources and business and legal affairs and also expanded the roles of two others in the management ranks.

George R.R. Martin has made his feelings known about many TV and film adaptations of novels, saying that “things have gotten worse” over the past few years.In a blogpost, published last Friday (May 24), the Game of Thrones author reflected on a 2022 event he participated in with Neil Gaiman. He referred to a Variety report of the event, where he lamented over his experience writing scripts for episodes of The Twilight Zone.He recalled feeling squeezed to make “illegitimate” changes while adapting a short story for the television series, due to budget constraints.

EXCLUSIVE: Io Capitano, the latest feature from Italian filmmaker Matteo Garrone, and Agnieszka Holland’s Green Border have joined the lineup of this year’s Refugee Week arts and culture festival, running June 17 to 23. 

Edinburgh's Craigmillar Castle, a filming location for the popular series Outlander was crowned the city's top 'hidden gem' according to a study by Bokun, part of the Tripadvisor family.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s 2018 wedding at St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle.Six years after the couple said “I do,” Edwards spoke out about working the event in a new interview with the Sun — and revealed how Harry allegedly made his job all the more difficult that day.“The day was a miserable day. I can tell you now — it was the worst royal engagement I ever did. A royal wedding I ever did.

Darryl Hickman, a child actor in Leave Her to Heaven and The Grapes of Wrath, died at 92 on Wednesday, May 22, his family said. No cause was given.

Alex Ritman Anton, the European production, financing and sales group behind “Greenland,” is set to ramp up its output following a significant injection of funds. The company — which was the first to bring institutional slate funding to European production — has secured more than Euros100 million ($109 million) in new financing through a group of institutional investors, led by funds and accounts managed by BlackRock.