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hit the red carpet for the premiere of “Bob Marley: One Love” in Jamaica earlier this week — but the couple’s seats at the glitzy event were anything but VIP. New video shows Meghan, 42, and Harry, 39, looking taken aback as ushers stopped at least three rows from the front to give them their seats.

UPDATED with lineup additions, 11:01 AM: The American Film Institute today added some films to its 2023 lineup. The five films selected by Guest Artistic Director Greta Gerwig are All That Jazz, An American in Paris, Wings of Desire A Matter of Life and Death and Pee-wee’s Big Adventure. She will introduce the latter two.

Want a doc to look forward to on HBO this Fall? How about “AKA Mr. Chow,” which looks at the life of one of the world’s most heralded restauranteurs, Michael Chow? Of course, Mr.

One of 2024’s most anticipated TV shows now has a premiere date.  Apple TV+ announced that “Masters Of The Air,” their upcoming mini-series from Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, and Gary Goetzman, the same team who produced “Band Of Brothers” and “The Pacific,” will premiere on the streamer on January 26, 2024. Two episodes premiere on that date, with one new episode every Friday through March 15.

Daily Dose of Sunshine, starring Park Bo-young and Yeon Woo-jin.Daily Dose of Sunshine will follow the story of Jung Da-eun (played by Doom at Your Service actress Park Bo-young), a nurse who suddenly gets transferred to Department of Psychiatry, and the patients she meets and interacts with there.She’s joined by eccentric proctologist Dong Go-geun (Thirty-Nine‘s Yeon Woo-jin), best friend Song Yoo-chan (Oasis‘ Jang Dong-yoon) and chief nurse Song Hyo-shin (Parasite actress Lee Jung-eun).The new teaser for the K-drama opens with Song Hyo-shin introducing the Department of Psychiatry to newcomer Jung Da-eun. “Dealing with patients feels very alien,” Da-eun says, as we see scenes of her meeting the patients for the first time.“I feel so bad.

Doona!, starring Bae Suzy and Yang Se-jong.Doona! will star Bae Suzy as the titular Doona, a former K-pop idol who has left behind her glamorous celebrity life and retired from the entertainment industry. Meanwhile, Yang Se-jong will play college student Lee Won-jun, who ends up living and falling in love with Doona.The new trailer for Doona! opens with the duo walking through a park, as Doona says: “Won-jun, I won’t fall for you.

Peter Facinelli had the support of his fiancee Lily Anne Harrison while premiering his new movie On Fire.

The American Film Institute on Thursday revealed the full lineup for this year’s AFI Fest, taking place in Los Angeles from October 25-29. It joins the previously announced fest opener, Sam Esmail’s Leave the World Behind, and closer in Bradley Cooper’s Maestro. Maxine’s Baby: The Tyler Perry Story is the Centerpiece film.

Selome Hailu Because of the Hollywood strikes, unscripted fare is king when it comes to fall TV this year, and with new seasons of “Survivor” and “The Amazing Race,” CBS scored some early-season ratings wins on Wednesday night. Viewership of the “Survivor” Season 45 premiere broadcast was about even with the previous season’s debut, with both bringing in about 5 million viewers. “The Amazing Race” Season 35 broadcast was viewed by an average 2.6 million viewers, down from last year’s 3 million.

Benny Safdie‘s turn to acting in recent years has been a pleasant surprise. But now he’s branching out into TV, too.

Castaway Diva, starring Park Eun-bin of Extraordinary Attorney Woo fame.Castaway Diva will star Park Eun-bin as Seo Mok-ha, a girl who dreams of being a pop star. One fateful day, when she’s on her way to Seoul to pursue her dreams, Mok-ha finds herself stranded on an uninhabited island, where she’ll stay for the next 15 years.The upcoming K-drama will also star Chae Jong-hyeop (Nevertheless), an TV producer who gets entangled in Mok-ha’s life when he finds and rescues her from the deserted island.

The Tokyo Film Festival has set the lineup for its bumper 2023 edition, running October 23 to November 1. Scroll down for the full list. 

Very high on our list of the Most Anticipated TV Series of 2023, Showtime’s “The Curse” finally has a release date and will air November 10 on Paramount+ with Showtime ahead of its on-air Showtime debut on November 12, the network announced. From producers and writers Emma Stone, comedian Nathan Fielder, and Safdie Brothers filmmaker Benny Safdie—all of whom star, “The Curse,” is a bizarre genre-bending comedy series/riff on the Home Improvement series.

Sinéad O’Connor premiered in the finale of the BBC TV show The Woman In The Wall this weekend.The show depicts the Magdalene Laundries of Ireland, institutions run by Roman Catholic orders between the 18th century and the 1990s which have been likened to labour camps for young mothers.Before her death at the age of 56 this summer, O’Connor gave the BBC the rights to an unreleased song called ‘The Magdalene Song’ for use in the series.On the track, which premiered at the climax of Sunday night’s (September 24) final episode of the show, O’Connor sings of the pain of losing a child and calls on her own experience of being in a similar institution from the age of 15.Discussing the track, her producer David Holmes told The Guardian: “The first half of the track is completely heartbreaking, and the second half is pure defiance.“I stripped the song away to just Sinéad’s voice and then let the full power come in for the second half. It’s incredible how the meaning of the song came together with this story It was just meant to be.

Anna Marie de la Fuente A sardonic view of Popular Unity, the left-wing alliance once led by the assassinated Chilean socialist president Salvador Allende, Raul Ruiz’s docu-fiction hybrid, “Socialist Realism,” world premiered at the San Sebastian Film Festival on Sept 23, 50 years after the prolific filmmaker was forced to abandon it. It finally unspools after his widow, filmmaker-editor Valeria Sarmiento, with the backing of actress-helmer Chamila Rodríguez’s Poetastros production company, rescued and reconstructed the film.

The movie world lost one of its greatest living directors when William Friedkin passed away in early August. And Friedkin’s death happened just weeks before his last film, “The Caine Mutiny Court-Marshal,” had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival.

John Carpenter remains one of horror’s most revered filmmakers despite not making a film since 2010’s “The Ward” (or a good movie since arguably 1994’s “In The Mouth Of Madness.” But his name still carries weight, and so it dons Peacock‘s “John Carpenter’s Suburban Screams,” which premieres on the streamer next month. READ MORE: Fall 2023 TV Preview: Over 35+ Most Anticipated Shows To Watch According to Peacock, the six-episode series explores true tales of terror that took place in seemingly perfect American towns.

John Carpenter remains one of horror’s most revered filmmakers despite not making a film since 2010’s “The Ward” (or a good movie since arguably 1994’s “In The Mouth Of Madness.” But his name still carries weight, and so it dons Peacock‘s “John Carpenter’s Suburban Screams,” which premieres on the streamer next month. READ MORE: Fall 2023 TV Preview: Over 35+ Most Anticipated Shows To Watch According to Peacock, the six-episode series explores true tales of terror that took place in seemingly perfect American towns.

#WheelofFortune #JusticeForWheel pic.twitter.com/GF0wE1bN6VIt was announced this past June that “American Idol” host Ryan Seacrest would be replacing Sajak at the end of Season 41.“I’m truly humbled to be stepping into the footsteps of the legendary Pat Sajak,” Seacrest said in a statement. “I can say, along with the rest of America, that it’s been a privilege and pure joy to watch Pat and Vanna on our television screens for an unprecedented 40 years, making us smile every night and feel right at home with them.” “Pat, I love the way you’ve always celebrated the contestants and made viewers at home feel at ease,” he added.

The Little Mermaid seems to have made a splash with its Disney+ debut.

Taika Waititi just attended the premiere of his new movie Next Goals Wins without the cast due to the strikes in Hollywood.

Callum McLennan Toronto’s Platform is set to be enriched by Jaione Camborda’s poignant second feature “The Rye Horn.” The film, set against the backdrop of 1970s Galicia, unravels the tale of María, a midwife thrust into a life on the run following a devastating incident. Her path to freedom takes her from Galicia to Portugal, retracing ancient smugglers’ trails.

TIFF has its share of titles having their world premieres over the next week-plus, but Ladj Ly‘s new film “Les Indésirables” may be one of the most notable internationally. Ly’s follow-up to his previous film “Les Misérables,” which screened at TIFF in 2019 and earned nominations at the César Awards and the Oscars, is another tale of civil unrest in France, told in the director’s signature style.

What’s not to love about this upcoming TV series? After the success of “The Queen’s Gambit” on Netflix in 2022, creators Scott Frank and Allan Scott went into high demand. And for Frank’s next project, he teams up with “OZ” and “Homicide” writer and “City On A Hill” showrunner Tom Fontana for a take on Dashiell Hammett‘s legendary detective Sam Spade.

Anthony Hopkins has played several dynamic real-life people over his nearly six-decade acting career, like President Richard Nixon, Alfred Hitchcock, and writer C.S. Lewis.

As TIFF gears up for its start tomorrow, there are plenty of new titles premiering to anticipate. On the TV series side, none may be more anticipated than Prime Video’s “Expats.” Based on Janice Y.K.

As TIFF gears up for its start tomorrow, there’s plenty of new titles premiering to anticipate. On the TV series side, none may be more anticipated than Prime Video‘s “Expats.” Based on Janice Y.K.

If Prime Videos subscribers thought “The Boys” was raunchy and messed up, wait ’til you see what “Gen V” has in store for audiences.

Björk has released a fantastical animated music video for her new single, ‘Victimhood’.The clip, directed by Gabríela Friðriksdóttir & Pierre-Alain Giraud, premiered during the Icelandic singer’s ‘Cornucopia’ tour stop in Lisbon on Friday (September 1).Speaking about the video, Friðriksdóttir said: “I was absolutely fascinated by the song. I couldn’t forget it, I had some dreams about it too. It was a deep connection from the first time I heard it.

Comedian Eddie Murphy and Tracee Ellis Ross star in holiday comedy Candy Cane Lane. In addition to Murphy and Ross, the film also stars Jillian Bell, Ken Marino, Nick Offerman, Robin Thede, Chris Redd, D.C. Young Fly, and Anjelah Johnson-Reyes.

Hollywood loves sequels, but in the nonfiction space it’s rare for a documentary to get a follow up. However, 15 years after Food, Inc. landed with huge impact, the sequel Food, Inc. 2 premiered at the Telluride Film Festival, bringing a fresh perspective on America’s spoiled food system.

Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla got a rousing response at its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on Monday evening. The pic, a biopic of Priscilla Presley, who was in attendance for the move based on the memoir she co-authored, scored a 7-minute, 45-second ovation.

Variety’s chief film critic Owen Gleiberman wrote of the film, “When I saw ‘The Palace,’ Roman Polanski’s garish debacle of an ensemble comedy, I was sitting in the Sala Darsena, which seats 1400 (and was full), and on the rare occasion when a line in the movie got laughs, it was literally coming from about six people. I’m not sure if I’ve ever heard a giant theater this deadly silent for a movie that’s working this strenuously to amuse you.” Polanski has a history at Venice, having premiered his film “Carnage,” starring Kate Winslet and Jodie Foster, at the festival in 2011, as well as 2019’s “An Officer and a Spy.” His return to the festival this year has been cause for controversy, as he has faced several sexual assault allegations over the course of his career.

When it comes to the 80th edition of the Venice Film Festival, there’s any number of in-competition titles that could win the coveted Golden Lion. But a top sleeper pick may be Ava DuVernay‘s “Origin,” which has its world premiere on the Lido on September 6.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Ten Korean independent films will have their world premiere in the Busan International Film Festival’s Korean Cinema Today section. Selectors said on Friday that this year’s crop are films that “delve into profound themes of life, agony, family affection, and personal introspection, inviting audiences to contemplate their meaning.” They add that, “the imaginative depiction of a diverse array of stories, free from the typical rules of genre, adds anticipation.” Delivery presents a “suspenseful irony” as an affluent couple deal with infertility and a young, financially struggling couple face an unplanned pregnancy. “FAQ” is a comic fantasy where an elementary schoolchild innocently picks up a bottle of Korean rice wine or makgeolli at a field camp and then gets to know the secrets of the world through alcohol.

Earlier this year, “John Wick: Chapter 4” became the action franchise’s highest-grossing title, taking in $432.2 million globally off an $100 million budget. Not bad for a series once slated for a direct-to-video release.