Rebecca Eskreis To Helm ‘ClearMind’; Freestyle Acquires ‘The Xrossing’; Gravitas Nabs ‘They/Them/Us’; The New Yorker Studio Sets ‘Nothing To Declare’ Premiere – Film Briefs

Switching coasts calls for switching clothes! Just ask Busy Philipps. The 42-year-old actress has had some difficulty redefining her personal style since making the move from California to New York City. 

JOHANNESBURG -- A South African Cabinet minister on Friday urged the cancellation of an upcoming U.S. auction of a key to the Robben Island prison cell where Nelson Mandela, the country's first Black president, was long jailed for his opposition to apartheid.The key is among Mandela memorabilia being sold by Guernsey's auction house in New York on Jan.

New York State today recorded the highest single-day total of new Covid cases since the beginning of the pandemic. The count of 21,027 new infections is well above the previous recorded high of 19,942 on January 14, at the absolute peak of the winter 2021 surge. That does not bode well for the winter of 2022, which is only just getting underway.

Showing support. Celebrities took to social media to send love to Zoe Lister-Jones after she opened up about her experience working with Chris Noth.

Tonight, Warner Bros. made certain what we first heard, that the New Line Train to Busan remake will now be titled The Last Train to New York, as well as dating the movie for April 21, 2023.

The New Yorker is responding to all of the backlash surrounding their recent profile on Jeremy Strong.

New Yorker profile, with celebs like Anne Hathaway and Adam McKay calling the Emmy and SAG Award-winner on his “powerful intelligence and extraordinary sensitivity.”Strong was the subject of a lengthy and revealing New Yorker profile earlier this week that dug deep into his biography and career… and also provoked astonishingly intense, heavily divided reactions from Strong’s fans and friends, with some even declaring the profile a hit piece.Brian Cox, who plays Strong’s father on the HBO series,

Anne Hathaway is the latest star to speak out with support for Jeremy Strong after his acting method was criticized on social media.

The New Yorker, slamming the piece as a “distorted picture” in a lengthy statement posted online. “After reading Michael Schulman’s profile of Jeremy Strong — a profile in which I participated — I wanted to speak up,” Sorkin wrote.

Aaron Sorkin is speaking out after reading the New Yorker profile on Jeremy Strong.

Aaron Sorkin posted an open letter today disputing what he calls the “distorted picture” of actor Jeremy Strong created by a recent New Yorker profile. Strong is currently receiving raves for his work on HBO’s Succession, to which the profile is pegged.

Jessica Chastain is standing up for Jeremy Strong.

EXCLUSIVE: New Yorker Studios will release the Eddie Alcazar and Darren Aronofsky short film on Dec. 13 across The New Yorker’s digital platforms as part of its “Screening Room” series.

Rebecca Hall said Saturday that her mother told her Hall’s directorial debut, Passing, liberated her family, as Hall’s grandfather was a Black man who decided to pass for White in Detroit.

In Cyrano, director Joe Wright found his first opportunity to direct a musical, bringing both intimacy and scope to the adaptation of Erica Schmidt’s 2018 stage musical of the same name, which was itself based on the classic 1897 play Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand.