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Tituss Burgess is about to don Mary Todd Lincoln’s bouncy curls and voluminous gowns. The “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” star will take over the lead role in Broadway’s “Oh, Mary!” after Betty Gilpin leaves the show on March 16. Gilpin replaced Cole Escola, who originated the part of Mrs. Lincoln, the presidential spouse and aspiring cabaret […]

Jonathan Majors‘ violent bodybuilding drama “Magazine Dreams” is heading to market for international sales for the first time ahead of its U.S. release on March 21 via Briarcliff Entertainment. Celsius Entertainment has acquired international sales rights to the film, written and directed by Elijah Bynum and starring Majors alongside Haley Bennett, Taylour Paige, Harriet Sansom […]

Pan-European production and sales company Federation Studios (“The Bureau”) has teamed up with prominent Italian producer Alessandro Usai to launch a new film and TV shingle in Italy called No Name Entertainment. Usai (pictured above), who is president of Italy’s motion picture association ANICA, has over the past 15 years led the commercially successful Colorado Film […]

Film Movement has landed North American rights to “Stranger Eyes,” the surveillance-themed thriller from Singaporean director Yeo Siew Hua that competed for Venice’s Golden Lion in 2024. The psychological thriller stars Taiwanese cinema icon Lee Kang-sheng (“Days”) alongside Chien-Ho Wu and Anicca Panna. The story centers on a young Singaporean couple whose world is shattered […]

Eye Haïdara (“C’est la vie!”) and Mélanie Laurent (“Inglorious Basterds”) are starring in “Mata,” a high voltage spy thriller directed by Rachel Lang, whose previous film “Our Men” played at Cannes’ Directors Fortnight. “Mata” has been boarded by Paris-based Indie Sales which will introduce the project to buyers at the European Film Market in Berlin. […]

In “Kinda Pregnant,” it’s Amy Schumer’s go-for-broke honesty that’s funny.

Netflix has unveiled a five-series Chinese-language lineup for 2025, headlined by major stars and spanning genres from supernatural thrillers to romantic comedies. International film stars Shu Qi and Lee Sinje will make their Netflix series debut in “The Resurrected” (Q3), a dark thriller following two desperate mothers who resurrect a deceased scam ring leader to […]

So much of the American cowboy mythos — the way they talk, the silhouette they cut, the clothes they wear — has been codified, if not invented wholesale, by Hollywood. From first shot to last, Kate Beecroft’s “East of Wall” expands our perception of those iconic horse wranglers to consider the women so often overlooked. […]

Irv Gotti, the producer and music industry mogul who launched the careers of Ja Rule and Ashanti, has died at the age of 54, according to the Hollywood Reporter and sources close to the situation. A cause of death has not been confirmed, although sources tells Variety that he had suffered a series of strokes […]

Original “Little House on the Prairie” actors Dean Butler and Alison Arngrim are quelling concerns that the recently announced reboot will tarnish the legacy of the beloved 1974 drama. In a recent interview with Remind, Arngrim, who played Nellie Oleson in the original “Litte House,” said she’s heard two distinct fan reactions to the reboot: […]