‘Masters of the Air’ Trailer: Austin Butler and Barry Keoghan Fly High in Steven Spielberg’s Miniseries

Amazon/MGM’s Saltburn, the dark-comedy sendoff of British upper class, expanded nicely in a big jump from seven screens to 1,566, nabbing a spot in the top ten. The film by Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman) grossed $1.73 million for the three-day weekend and $2.7 million for the five-day Thanksgiving frame thanks to a strong core group of theaters.

Barry Keoghan dares to bare it all in Saltburn. Now, director Emerald Fennell is opening up about the decision to include full-frontal nudity in the movie.

EXCLUSIVE: New Regency‘s Jeff Nichols-directed crime drama The Bikeriders, which was at 20th Century Studios, is getting acquired by Focus Features. Focus is taking global rights to the pic, reteaming them with New Regency who they partnered with on 2022’s The Northman. A 2024 theatrical release is planned. Universal will distribute the movie overseas.

J. Kim Murphy Focus Features has acquired worldwide rights to Jeff Nichols‘ “The Bikeriders,” ending a short period of producer New Regency shopping the finished film to studios.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor SPOILER ALERT: This story discusses major plot points, including the ending for “Saltburn.” Singer-songwriter Sophie Ellis-Bextor was already a fan of Emerald Fennell when she was approached about the use of her 2001 hit “Murder on the Dancefloor” in “Saltburn.” “I loved ‘Promising Young Woman,’” Ellis-Bextor says. But what really sold it to her was the pitch: “A naked man dancing through the rooms of a stately home…I’ve got a quirky sense of humor, and my main thing was, ‘I’ve got to see that.’” Set in 2006, Oliver is a student at Oxford University who becomes dangerously obsessed with the suave and good-looking aristocratic classmate Felix, played by Jacob Elordi.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter “The Bikeriders,” a drama directed by Jeff Nichols and starring Austin Butler, Jodie Comer, and Tom Hardy, is being shopped around town after Disney took the film off its slate. Disney and 20th Century were scheduled to open the film on Dec. 1.

Saltburn opened in theaters.The dark comedy from Emerald Fennell, the Oscar-winning director of Promising Young Woman, is receiving fairly positive – but not glowing – reviews. The performances from its cast, however, are uniformly earning praise. Now, as some of the actors promote the title, one quote in particular has many gay fans rushing to buy a ticket.In an interview with Variety, star and current sensation Jacob Elordi opened up about one scene in particular that is quite adult in nature.

News has reached us that two big studio movies are on their way to this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Deadline reports that Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis with Tom Hanks and Austin Butler, and Tom Cruise-led Top Gun: Maverick are heading to the Croisette this May.This year’s festival in the south of France will be 100% in-person and runs from 17th-28th May.Elvis explores the life and music of Elvis Presley (Butler), seen through the prism of his complicated relationship with his enigmatic manager, Colonel Tom Parker (Hanks).

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle Editor SPOILER ALERT: This story contains descriptions of key scenes and storylines in “Saltburn.” Oscar-winning filmmaker Emerald Fennell’s new twisted thriller, “Saltburn,” includes several graphic scenes that have left moviegoers debating whether to be titillated or disturbed. “It gets under your skin,” Fennell told me Tuesday at the film’s Los Angeles premiere. “We just want to make something that makes people feel something.

SPOILER ALERT: This story discusses major plot points, including the ending for “Saltburn.” In the final moments of Emerald Fennell’s “Saltburn,” Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s 2001 song, “Murder on the Dancefloor” pumps out over the speakers, while Barry Keoghan’s Oliver dances stark naked through a grand estate house in the British countryside. “Everything is diabolical, but it’s exhilarating,” Fennell explained. “It’s post-coital, euphoric, solitary and it’s mad.” Cinematographer Linus Sandgren said the scene is about Oliver feeling as if he owns the place.

Barry Keoghan bared it all in his movie Saltburn, and now he’s opening up about the experience.

When Bradley Cooper’s sophomore directorial outfit Maestro, an ambitious and extravagant Leonard Bernstein biopic, debuted at Venice, none of the film’s stars or crew made it on to the red carpet. SAG was 51 days deep into its strike against the studios. 

Coronation Street fans were left sarcastically saying 'well done' as they called out Summer Spellman's error that saw her friend Amy Barlow arrested. Meanwhile, others were screaming at their TV screens on the teen's behalf.

The stars of Emerald Fennell‘s new movie are hitting the red carpet!

Adam B. Vary Senior Entertainment Writer The news that multiple Oscar nominee Michelle Williams was the reader for the audiobook of Britney Spears‘ memoir “The Woman in Me” was too delightful for “Saturday Night Live” to pass up.

Apple TV+’s Masters of the Air finally has a trailer!

William Earl Netflix film chief Scott Stuber once ran Universal Studios – today he sometimes feels like the operator of “the AMC 6000” given the volume of movies that Netflix produces and acquires. From Greta Gerwig’s plans for Narnia adaptations to wooing Denzel Washington and Steven Spielberg, Stuber shared Netflix’s vision of film’s future in a wide-ranging Q&A with Variety executive editor Brent Lang that was held Nov. 8 as part of Variety’s Business Managers Elite Breakfast presented by City National Bank.

One of the most anticipated TV shows of some time now, “Master Of The Air” is finally arriving in January. You’ll recall that Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, and Gary Goetzman, brought you the WWII classic shows “Band Of Brothers” and “The Pacific,” and they’re the same team involved in “Master of The Air,” which shows WWII from a aerial fighter and aerial bombers perspective.

“Let’s rack ’em up and knock ’em down.” Those words from Austin Butler‘s Maj. Gale ‘Buck’ Cleven in the opening of the first trailer for Apple TV+’s World War II drama Masters of the Air. The nine-episode limited series hails from Band of Brothers and The Pacific producers Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman. 

EXCLUSIVE: Mamma mia, Bruce Dickinson is starring in a new horror movie.