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As Sister Wives Season 19 continues, Meri, Janelle, and Christine Brown are moving through their journey away from Kody Brown. While there are many moving pieces happening, some fans are screaming they are experiencing “maximum boredom” over certain scenes.

Sister Wives Season 19 Unfolds

During the latest episode of Sister Wives, the Browns were sorting through details about Coyote Pass. Seemingly, Janelle Brown couldn’t let Meri Brown get ripped off. Christine Brown Woolley and Meri also shared a beautiful moment at Gwendlyn Brown and Beatriz Queiroz’s wedding shower as they connected over leaving Kody Brown. Furthermore, David Woolley and Kody finally met. Christine and David may not be engaged yet in the series, but they are lining up the wedding venue, picking out rings, and now house shopping together. Although many things are happening in the Browns’ lives, some fans are screaming with “maximum boredom” as Season 19 unfolds.

Christine, Janelle,...

Updated: Disney and 20th Century Animation announced Friday at D23 Brazil that Ice Age 6 is happening. The sixthquel will get a theatrical release. The original franchise was created by Blue Sky Studios, which Disney acquired through the 20th Century Fox merger, later shuttering the Oscar-winning animation division.

Original castmembers Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Queen Latifah, Denis Leary and Simon Pegg are returning. The pic is currently being made.

Through five movies, the Ice Age pics have grossed $3.2 billion worldwide, but like all franchises, the weight of gravity weighs down at the box office with each sequel. The most recent movie, 2016’s Ice Age: Collision Course, grossed $408.5 million globally.

There were various short pics and series starring a woolly mammoth, sloth, saber-toothed tiger and other pre-historic animals. There was also the 2022 spinoff The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild.

This Ice Age is the first pic in the franchise since Disney bought Blue Sky.

With the release of NBC’s new mockumentary “St. Denis Medical” this week, we’re counting down the best of the best.

From boring offices to broken government departments to vampires living in the city, when mockumentary comedy TV shows work, they really work. That’s why you can’t blame NBC for going back to the well with their newest comedy, “St. Denis Medical.” The new comedy series set at an understaffed Oregon hospital is set to debut on Tuesday, Nov. 12 on NBC and streaming the next day on Peacock. So, to celebrate the release of yet another mockumentary (here’s hoping it’s better than the Australian spinoff of “The Office”), here are the top seven mockumentary comedy TV shows on streaming right now.

Top 7 Mockumentary Comedy TV Shows On Streaming Right Now:

No. 7: ‘The Comeback’

No. 6: ‘Jury Duty’

No. 5: ‘What We Do in the Shadows’

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Sister Wives star, Christine Brown Woolley and her husband, David Woolley, have been traveling around together. Some of their most recent trips include Sedona and Disneyland. While they seem to adore each other, he reveals how it has been a ‘hell of a ride’ for him to have a stalker.

Christine Brown Woolley Is Used To People Following Her

While Sister Wives star, David Woolley is getting used to the world of reality TV, he says it is a bit of a shock. Undeniably, seeing himself on TV has almost been an out-of-body experience for him. Likewise, now he is experiencing the phenomenon of being married to Christine Brown Woolley who is recognized almost everywhere she goes.

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When they made a family trip to Disneyland, David got a taste of people afterward saying they had seen them. On Instagram, Christine shared the family having a wonderful time...

In the early nineties, Tom Cruise was at a crossroads in his career. As he approached thirty, the time was fast approaching when he could no longer play the kind of “cool young guy” role that had made his eighties movies such huge successes. Indeed, the formula was starting to wear thin, with Days of Thunder underperforming at the U.S. box office. His follow-up, Far and Away, performed even worse, landing with a thud at the North American box office, despite it re-teaming Cruise with his now wife Nicole Kidman, whose career was starting to take off. It was time for Cruise to tweak the kind of movies he was making, and sure enough, his next film, A Few Good Men, would kick off a streak of 5 back-to-back $100 million hits, which would make him the most bankable actor in the world.

A Few Good Men was based on a play by Aaron Sorkin,...

Tom Blyth in ‘Billy the Kid’ (Credit: David Brown/MGM+)

MGM+ has officially renewed the Western drama Billy the Kid for a third – and – final season. The series will conclude with eight episodes arriving in 2025.

“In season two, Michael Hirst, Donald De Line, along with Tom Blyth and the rest of our talented cast, captivated audiences with the dramatic events leading to the infamous Lincoln County War, during which Billy is struggling to hang on to both his soul and the love of his life,” stated Michael Wright, head of MGM+. “In season three, we are excited to bring the naturally cinematic story of one of American history’s most fascinating, and often misunderstood, characters to its conclusion, as only MGM+ can.”

The series, created by Michael Hirst (Vikings), ranks in the top three of all original shows on the network.

“I’m thrilled to have the opportunity to write...

You can't have "Jaws" without Quint, a modern Captain Ahab if he'd been hunting a great white shark rather than a white whale. It's difficult to picture anyone but Robert Shaw (in one of his last roles before his premature death in 1978) in the part, but the actor actually wasn't who director Steven Spielberg first had in mind.

In "Spielberg: The First Ten Years" by Laurent Bouzereau, Spielberg claimed his first choice for Quint was Lee Marvin. He wanted a big star and Marvin was famous for playing sinister tough guys. See: "The Big Heat," "Point Blank," "The Dirty Dozen," and "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" (directed by the man who taught Spielberg how to frame a horizon.) Marvin, though, said no. Spielberg recounted: "What I heard was that [Marvin] wanted to go fishing for real! He took his fishing very seriously and didn't want to do it from a 'movie' boat.

The casts of 9-1-1 and Jury Duty faced off in the latest episode of Celebrity Family Feud, and we have to admit, at the beginning, we didn’t see how the former could win. Oliver Stark, Ryan Guzman, Aisha Hinds, Tracie Thoms, and Bryan Safi from 9-1-1, playing for the American Red Cross, faced off against Ronald Gladden, Cassandra Blair, Maria Russell, David Brown, Susan Berger, and Edy Modica from Jury Duty, playing for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Los Angeles. Stark and Gladden faced off first. “We asked 100 men, fill in the blank, you know a date’s not into you if she ____ after you kiss her,” host Steve Harvey said. Stark rang in first with “comes up with an excuse,” but it wasn’t on the board. “Pulls out her phone,” Gladden said, and it, too, wasn’t on the board. Then it went to Guzman,...

Steven Spielberg created one of cinema’s most terrifying horror creatures in Jaws. But the shark used for the film experienced a few mechanical issues that, according to the filmmaker, only improved the movie.

How Steven Spielberg worked around ‘Jaws’ mechanical problems Steven Spielberg | Sunset Boulevard/Getty Images

Filming his 1975 creature feature wasn’t easy for Spielberg. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, the director confided that shooting the movie went smoothly at first. If only because many of the scenes he and his crew shot were based on land.

“I was feeling completely confident for the first 35 days of shooting because I was on schedule,” Spielberg said. “It was all the land stuff. Interior Brody’s house, exterior Brody’s house, interior the city selectman chamber… Even some of the stuff with Chrissie Watkins being killed at the opening of the story, that was all land-based stuff. It was...

While "Jaws" wasn't Steven Spielberg's first movie, it was the movie that put Spielberg on the map. Plagued by production woes (it went over-budget and over-schedule), there was a really good chance that "Jaws" could've ended Spielberg's career just as it was getting started. Instead, the killer shark flick pretty much invented the summer blockbuster as we know it and made Spielberg a superstar. Audiences lined up around the block to see what Spielberg had created, and the massive success pretty much ensured Spielberg could do whatever the hell he wanted for the rest of his career. So what did Spielberg want to do next? Well, it sure wasn't a "Jaws" sequel, that's for sure. In 1975, Spielberg — according to John Baxter's book "Steven Spielberg: The Unauthorised Biography" — scoffed at the idea, saying that making a sequel "is just a cheap carny trick."

But studio Universal definitely wanted a sequel.

Is a giggle fit considered a medical emergency? If so, it’s a good thing we’ve got first responders around.

TVLine has an exclusive first look at the 9-1-1 cast’s appearance on the Sept. 16 episode of Celebrity Family Feud (ABC, 8/7c), including a particularly off-the-rails moment courtesy of Ryan Guzman. Oh, and if you have any interest in watching Oliver Stark use his British accent to describe himself as an animal in bed, this clip’s definitely for you.

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Even the mighty Steven Spielberg had a moment where his directing throne was almost snatched from under him. Picture this: just as Jaws was poised to sink its teeth into cinema history, another director nearly swooped in to replace Spielberg for his own breakthrough. Yup, Hollywood’s golden boy faced some stiff competition right before making shark-infested waters iconic.

Hollywood filmmaker Steven Spielberg | image credit: Gage Skidmore/Cc By-sa 2.0/Wikimedia Commons

It’s wild to think that the film that launched Spielberg’s career into the stratosphere could’ve had a totally different captain at the helm. With the pressure on and the studio having second thoughts, it’s a wonder Spielberg held onto his seat—and thank goodness he did. Imagine a world where Jaws wasn’t Spielberg’s big bite into fame!

How a ‘White Whale’ Slip-Up Led Steven Spielberg to Direct Jaws Instead of Dick Richards Steven...

Exclusive: LA-based production outfit The Screen Company, headed by producer David Brown (The Fallout), is launching a domestic distribution and sales arm.

Distribution arm ScreenReleases will handle third party acquisitions and look to partner with filmmakers on projects in the development phase. Brown says the company will seek projects across all genres and budget ranges.

Former UTA exec Mike Rose has been brought aboard as Chief Operating Officer (COO) to oversee day-to-day operations at the new division and handle acquisitions. Rose, who most recently served nine years at UTA as Head of Story, has also previously worked at Disney, TWC, Miramax, and CAA.

Ari Elan Lewis, who has worked at Confluential Films, Netflix, Universal and John Legend’s Get Lifted Film , has also joined and will serve as Head of Acquisitions and handle international sales.

Brown says of the strategy behind the company: “We will not prolong Mg payments over...

The Screen Company, a new full-service production, sales and financing entity, has launched with the debut of ScreenFund, its dedicated financing division.

CEO and producer David Brown announced the company’s formation, which aims to provide a wide range of services for both major studio and independent projects. Operating as a parent entity, The Screen Company will offer a comprehensive suite of services including financing, completion bonds, production payroll, collection accounts, international film sales and U.S. distribution. The company’s structure is designed to streamline the production process by providing multiple essential services under one roof.

Industry veteran Chris Cole has been appointed chief operating officer of ScreenFund. Cole brings a wealth of experience to the role, having served as a producer of feature films and television, as well as a media and entertainment consultant. His background includes executive producer roles on co-productions with major studios and streaming platforms such as Warner Bros.,...

Hallmark Star Marcus Rosner On Ideas For Ride Prequel Movie – Photo: Marcus Rosner Credit: ©2024 Hallmark Media/Photographer: Courtesy Johnson Production Group

When Hallmark Channel released Ride in 2013 it received a good following from fans. However, fans were quickly disappointed when the feel-good channel canceled the series after only one season.

It turns out it isn’t only fans that are upset by the rodeo-centric show’s cancelation. In a recent interview, Marcus Rosner, 34, opened up about plans that would allow him to play his character, Austin McMurray, again. Moreover, he even has ideas about a movie that would be perfect for Hallmark.

Marcus Rosner on the Hallmark Channel series Ride Photo: Marcus Rosner Credit: ©2020 Crown Media United States LLC/Photographer: Courtesy Reel One Entertainment

Speaking with Us Weekly, Rosner teased his idea for a prequel movie that would allow him to share screen time with Tiera Skovbye again. Fans will...

From Olivia Colman’s fraught sojourn to the Greek Isles in The Lost Daughter to Jessie Buckley’s terrifying trip up the M5 to the English countryside in Men and M. Night’s bummer beaches in Old, taking a little “me time” away from home is often the single biggest mistake any movie character could possibly make. Horror, psychological drama, comedy, mystery, rom-com. The genre hardly matters. In film, the simple act of taking a vacation is rarely the relaxing, restorative interlude one hopes that it might be, placing uneasy personalities in uncertain—even harrowing—circumstances.

So with another holiday weekend upon us and the summer theoretically in full swing, it’s time to make peace with travel advisories being a moving target and hot spots foreign and domestic getting hotter by the minute. No surprise then, that many of us now eye these “escapes” with more than a little bit of skepticism.

When low-ranking worker Glen wakes up to discover his personal data has been leaked and is spreading virally all over the world, it brings an unexpected tension to his relationship with his girlfriend. In the brief eleven and a half minutes of See Saw, Director Matt Porter’s viral culture comedy, the filmmaker is able to capture the overwhelming paranoia that comes with being at the centre of a viral leak whilst also finding time for moments of levity. What started as an idea for a much larger short, in the wake of the Sony Pictures hack in 2014, has been distilled into a story which conveys the personal amidst the seismic, and how these moments of great stress can force us to face our truth. Dn caught up with Porter to learn more about the origins of his short film as well as the collaboration he had with Dp John de Menil...

Steven Spielberg is now among the greatest filmmakers of all time. Heralded for making several critically accomplished movies that are now trendsetters and cult classics, Spielberg is a true auteur whose every film is a masterclass in filmmaking. However, his career might have looked very different now had he been fired from his first true blockbuster, Jaws.

Steven Spielberg [Credit: Gage Skidmore | Wikimedia Commons]With a new director shooting the first major picture out in the ocean, the movie’s production faced several delays, setbacks, and challenges. Had one studio executive not stood up for Speilberg, Jaws might have never been made or would have been an entirely new movie and Spielberg’s career would have mapped out a lot differently.

Steven Spielberg has One Studio Executive to Thank for Jaws Jaws made Steven Spielberg a renowned filmmaker | Universal Pictures

Steven Spielberg‘s Jaws is a deeply instrumental movie for the whole of the film industry.

Apple, or at least its technology, was worried about the health and well-being of Hollywood’s greatest director.

In the middle of Steven Spielberg’s Tribeca Festival talk on Saturday, where the filmmaker was celebrating the 50th anniversary of his debut feature, “The Sugarland Express,” he was interrupted by his Apple watch with a message that read “It looks like you’ve taken a hard fall.” Spielberg jokingly said “I’m not going to press the Sos [button]” before throwing it on the ground. “I’ll pick it up later,” he said, only to retrieve it a few minutes later when it started issuing some sort of distress signal.

Before the Q&a began, a taped message from “The Sugarland Express” star Goldie Hawn appeared on the screen, thanking Spielberg and reminiscing about the pivotal moment in her career—and his. The film was released in 1974, just one year before “Jaws,...

Most of the action in Steven Spielberg’s 1974 directorial debut, Sugarland Express, unfolds over the course of an extended car chase as Goldie Hawn and William Atherton’s characters try to evade a long convoy of police vehicles in an effort to regain custody of their young son from foster care.

While the film predated high-speed freeway car chases, modern audiences might be reminded of such events, including O.J. Simpson’s infamous white Bronco chase, which unfolded roughly 30 years ago, on June 17, 1994.

And sure enough, Spielberg himself admitted he thought of his own film when he saw the Bronco chase, which riveted audiences as it took over TV.

Speaking after a 50th-anniversary screening of Sugarland at the 2024 Tribeca Festival, Spielberg jokingly said he thought, “Shit, they’re stealing my thunder,” when he saw the Simpson chase.

Elsewhere during the post-screening Q&a, Spielberg reflected on making the film, including casting lead...

In one of this year’s climaxes at the Tribeca Festival, Steven Spielberg showed off his first major studio theatrical release, Sugarland Express, which celebrates 50 years.

“You’re the first audience to ever see Sugarland Express in 50 years,” joked the 3x Oscar-winning filmmaker at the packed Bmcc screening in the lower west side of Manhattan.

How’s that? Spielberg said Universal pulled the movie out of theaters after two weeks as no one went to see it despite good reviews. The movie repped his first big screen release after cutting his teeth as a TV director, and it preceded his work on 1975’s Jaws, the blockbuster that would give definition to the word tentpole.

Sugarland Express failed at the box office per Spielberg, as audiences wanted to see a lighthearted Goldie Hawn in the movie, not to mention, it had a tragic ending.

Here are some of the memories Spielberg...

For only the second time in its 15 year history there is no actor among the honorees for this year’s select group receiving the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Governors Awards. The AMPAS Board Of Governors have chosen to give Academy Honorary Awards to music legend Quincy Jones and veteran Casting Director Juliet Taylor, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award to British writer/director Richard Curtis, and the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award to producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli. The awards ceremony, always a highlight in the very long Oscar season will take place on Sunday November 17, 2024 at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Ovation Hollywood.

You have to go back to the 4th Governors Awards in 2012 to find a group that did not include at least one actor among its recipients. That year the honorees were documentary filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker, director/stuntman Hal Needham, AFI founder and producer/filmmaker George Stevens Jr.,...

Steven Spielberg is one of the most celebrated filmmakers in Hollywood. He is the man behind iconic films such as Jurassic Park, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, and more. He won two Oscars for Best Director for helming the holocaust film Schindler’s List and the World War II drama Saving Private Ryan.

Spielberg had his breakthrough with the survival horror film Jaws. The film became the highest-grossing movie of all time in 1975 and was the first Summer blockbuster. Spielberg became one of the most sought-after filmmakers after the success of the film. However, he was almost fired from the project due to many issues and was saved by a guardian angel.

Steven Spielberg’s Jaws Was Famously Over Budget And Had Many Issues A still from Jaws | Credits: Zanuck/Brown Company/Universal Pictures

Steven Spielberg’s Jaws is often credited to be the first Summer blockbuster and started the trend of...

Steven Spielberg is one of the most prolific directors working today in Hollywood. The two-time Oscar winner is known for making some of the most influential films of the generation such as E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Jurassic Park, Jaws, and the Indiana Jones films. He also crafted acclaimed dramas such as Schindler’s List and Saving Private Ryan.

Spielberg’s Jaws was the first summer blockbuster and was the highest-grossing film of all time until Star Wars. Despite the success, Spielberg reportedly had one regret with the film. The iconic picture of the filmmaker sitting atop the mechanical shark was reportedly staged by the set photographer which led to him vowing to never do one thing on set.

Steven Spielberg’s Famous Picture From Jaws Was Staged A still from Steven Spielberg’s Jaws | Credits: Zanuck/Brown Company/Universal Pictures

Steven Spielberg created history when he directed the survival horror film Jaws.

Steven Spielberg, the mastermind behind some of the most iconic films in cinematic history, has always been known for his ability to craft thrilling narratives that captivate audiences worldwide. Having a solid number of directorial credits to his name, Spielberg is often known for his greatest works in his 1975 thriller Jaws.

Acclaimed filmmaker Steven Spielberg | image: Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons

With the ingenious thriller turning into one of the greatest achievements of 20th-century American cinema, Steven Spielberg shared some insights into the making of Jaws. Speaking with Vanity Fair, the filmmaker revealed using his 1971 television film Duel as the basis for Jaws and argued how the latter became a secret sequel to his TV movie.

Steven Spielberg Drew Comparison Between Jaws and Duel

One of Steven Spielberg‘s most renowned works, Jaws has long been considered a standalone classic. The thriller revolving around a bloodthirsty shark terrorizing a resort town,...

"What do you mean, like, everything?" Would you freak out if your entire internet history and data archives were leaked online? How bad would it be? This very awkward, very dark comedy short called See Saw is about that happening. See Saw is an 11-minute short film written and directed by filmmaker Matt Porter. He's made tons of other shorts and a feature before this, but cooked up this one to make everyone feel extra paranoid about their online presence and potential hacks / leaks. Lock down all your data, folks! And make sure if it ever does leak, your life isn't ruined. Though perhaps it's inevitable nowadays? This stars David Brown as Glenn Harriston and Sierra Katow as his girlfriend. Matt reminds everyone: "put a post-it over your webcam and enjoy!" Is it wrong if I wanted to see exactly what from all his data was going viral? Ha ha.

Exclusive: Peacock is staging the world’s first wildlife reality competition show.

The streamer has ordered The Hungry Games: Alaska’s Big Bear Challenge, a three-part series narrated by Flight of the Conchords star Rhys Darby.

The series, which is a co-production with global natural history brand Love Nature, follows the bears of Alaska’s Katmai National Park as they bulk up for winter hibernation. Over 150 days, the bears battle the elements – and each other – using brains and brawn to consume three million calories and gain up to 200 pounds in Nature’s real-life survival show. Unbeknownst to the bears, their progress is being tracked and ranked for a television audience with narration that combines fascinating facts about bear behavior with color commentary from Darby.

The series is produced by Love Nature and Ample Entertainment. Alison Barrat and James Manfull exec produce for Love Nature, and Ari Mark, Phil Lott and David Brown for Ample Entertainment.

Is "Jaws" the greatest movie ever made? An impossible question to answer, but it's my favorite and the one I've rewatched the most as an adult. I've been lucky enough to see it in theaters a couple of times, including for the IMAX restoration in 2022. As gorgeous as "Jaws" looked in IMAX, the trailer for the restoration is downright uncanny. Almost 50-year-old footage is cut together with modern trailer editing rhythm, from the jumpiness to turning Chief Martin Brody's (Roy Scheider) "You're gonna need a bigger boat" line into the kind of funny stinger you might see in a Marvel Studios trailer.

Now, in the movie, that line happens right after the jump scare where the shark first appears, rearing up behind Brody as he's throwing chum off the stern of The Orca, Quint's (Robert Shaw) fishing boat. Brody's back is turned when the shark breaches the water,...

Steven Spielberg’s 1975 cult-classic film Jaws remains one of the greatest films of all time and is considered the definitive shark film by many, but fans would be shocked to know that he was not originally the director attached to the project. Indeed, it would be difficult to imagine another filmmaker stepping into the boat.

Jaws (1975)

How the famed filmmaker got the gig was quite an interesting one. Although he was not the first choice, he made the film his own even though it cost him so much mental and emotional stress.

Steven Spielberg Was Not The First Choice To Direct Jaws

In an interview for Laurent Bouzereau’s book Spielberg: The First Ten Years via Vanity Fair, director Steven Spielberg revealed how he snagged the project that was already in the hands of another creative.

“That was that, until I got a call from Dick asking me to come meet with him and David.

Steven Spielberg's breakthrough movie, famously, did not come easy. In 1974, the up-and-coming filmmaker — then in his twenties — took on the difficult task of adapting a brand new, super-successful novel into what would become the first summer blockbuster, overseeing complex action sequences, massive practical effects set-ups, and shoots in the open ocean. It was a challenge that the filmmaker was hesitant to take on in the first place, and Spielberg eventually ended up over budget and over schedule.

As a product of movie-making titan Universal Pictures, it would've been easy for executives to simply replace Spielberg with another filmmaker. According to the director himself, though, one exec vouched for him, and it was a decision that impacted the rest of his career. Entertainment Weekly once asked Spielberg why he was never fired from "Jaws," and he replied: "Sid Sheinberg always blocked it." As the then-president of Universal, Sheinberg had final...

What if Bruce, the mechanical shark in "Jaws," had actually worked? It's one of the biggest what-ifs in Hollywood history. While the movie's Great White Shark may have been "a perfect engine" (to quote Richard Dreyfuss' bespectacled scientist Matt Hooper), Bruce -- who got its moniker from Steven Spielberg's lawyer, Bruce Ramer -- was anything but. Because of this, Spielberg and editor Verna Fields were forced to reconfigure the film's raw footage to avoid showing "The Great White Turd" (as the movie's crew came to call it) as much as possible. What emerged was a triumph of minimalistic horror filmmaking where what you don't see is just as terrifying as what you do, if not more so.

But what if Spielberg had never gotten to direct one of his all-time best movies to begin with? It's easy to recognize in hindsight that ol' Stevie Boy was fated to adapt Peter Benchley's pulpy best-seller,...

Hallmark is filming its first Countdown To Christmas movie at Santa’s Village, in The Finnish Line. This movie stars Bold And The Beautiful alum Kim Matula, Ride star Beau MIrchoff, and Nichole Sakura. Best of all, husky lovers should be thrilled because there will be plenty of sled dogs in this movie that is filmed in the Arctic Circle.

What is this upcoming Christmas movie about?

Photo: Kim Matula Credit: ©2023 Hallmark Media/Photographer: Paulina Stevens Hallmark Viewers Are Getting Arctic Adventure In Iceland And Finland

On Tuesday, Hallmark issued a press release about the second big 2024 Countdown To Christmas Movie, The Finnish Line. This movie is “An Arctic Adventure.” According to The Futon Critic, there will be an “incredible dog sled ride throughout Iceland and Finland with a stop at the world-famous Santa Claus Village and the Arctic Circle located in Rovaniemi, Finland.”

Photo: Beau Mirchoff ©2023 Hallmark Media/Photographer:...

Winners were celebrated at the 2024 Film Independent Spirit Awards on February 25, 2024. The ceremony took place at the Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, CA and honored outstanding achievement in film and television. Gold Derby associate editor Latasha Ford and senior editor Marcus James Dixon enjoyed an exclusive spot on the red carpet, interviewing many of the celebrities who were honored, presenting or enjoying the night’s festivities.

Watch each short video below from the 2024 Spirit Awards by clicking that person’s name:

Alan Barinholtz and Ron Song (‘Jury Duty’), winner for Best Ensemble Cast in a New Scripted Series

Susan Berger (‘Jury Duty’), winner for Best Ensemble Cast in a New Scripted Series

David Brown (‘Jury Duty’), winner for Best Ensemble Cast in a New Scripted Series

Ronald Gladden (‘Jury Duty’), winner for Best Ensemble Cast in a New Scripted Series

Trisha Lafache (‘Jury Duty’), winner for Best Ensemble Cast...

The rain stayed away from Santa Monica Beach on Sunday (February 25) as Past Lives was named best film and Celine Song best director at the 39th annual Spirit Awards.

While the legacy studio and streamer contenders have dominated much of the big-ticket awards shows this season like Saturday night’s SAG Awards, last weekend’s Baftas, the Golden Globes and Critics Choice Awards, this was a good opportunity for the Oscar-nominated A24 romance and Song to earn gongs for a film which has done well among critics groups since its world premiere at Sundance just over one year ago.

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Past Lives was named best feature at the 2024 Film Independent Spirit Awards, which were handed out Sunday afternoon in Santa Monica.

In addition, Celine Song was named best director for her work on the film.

Elsewhere, Da’Vine Joy Randolph won the Spirit Award for best supporting performance, for her role in The Holdovers, repeating her win from Saturday night’s SAG Awards and other shows this awards season. Her co-star, Dominic Sessa, won the Spirit Award for best breakthrough performance.

American Fiction also collected two trophies: Cord Jefferson won the award for best screenplay, while Jeffrey Wright won for best lead performance.

May December won the award for best first screenplay for Samy Burch (story by Burch and Alex Mechanik). Four Daughters was named best documentary.

On the TV side, Beef was named best new scripted series, while Ali Wong won best lead performance for her role in the show,...

Just hours after the 2024 SAG Awards, the 2024 Independent Spirit Awards return, honoring independent films and TV shows and streaming series.

The ceremony, hosted by Aidy Bryant, takes place on Sunday at 2 p.m. Pt from the Santa Monica Pier. This year’s awards show will stream live on Film Independent’s YouTube channel and X (formerly known as Twitter) page, as well as on IMDb’s YouTube channel and X page.

Or you can watch via the video player embedded below.

American Fiction, May December and Past Lives lead the film nominees this year with five each, while I’m a Virgo and The Last of Us were the most recognized on the TV side, receiving four nominations each. For the second year in a row, the awards categories are gender-neutral. Winners are voted on by Film Independent members.

This year’s presenters include Elizabeth Banks, Joel Kim Booster, Adam Brody,...

The Film Independent Spirit Awards have been dutifully assigned to their worthy recipients, thus putting a button on yet another great year of indie film and innovative visual storytelling. And as awards prognosticators now ponder their Oscar futures with this new data set and the tent falls around our knees, we want to shout out one more time all of the producers, writers, directors, performers and more who made this such a special experience.

This year’s ceremony streamed live on IMDb’s YouTube and across other social platforms, including Film Independent’s own YouTube channel and Twitter (or “X” if you’re being pedantic). The full livestream (see below) will remain available to watch On Demand for the next eight weeks, which highlights, behind-the-scenes moments, arrival carpet interviews and more will are available at filmindependent.org and wherever fine entertainment journalism prevails.

Best Supporting Performance

Da’Vine Joy Randolph

The Holdovers...

“The first time I came to this studio was 1940 when my father brought me here to show me the stage, and I was about 9 or 10 years old, and I thought, ‘Some day this will all be mine!’ It’s finally come to be – it’s only taken me 92 years to get here!” That’s what five-time Oscar winner and 53-time nominee John Williams said as the curtain was raised on the iconic Sony Pictures Entertainment lot’s newly renamed John Williams Music Building.

Joining in the celebration — and it was a celebration — were Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group Chairman and CEO Tom Rothman, Spe Chairman and CEO Tony Vinciquerra (who made opening remarks), filmmaker J.J. Abrams and of course, Williams’ longtime collaborator Steven Spielberg, who instigated the idea of putting the legendary composer’s name on the building where they have worked on 20 or their 29 films, as Spielberg noted.

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So many stars stepped out to attend the 2024 Film Independent Spirt Awards Nominees Brunch on Saturday morning (January 6) at the Hotel Casa del Mar in Santa Monica, Calif.

As awards season kicks into high gear, everyone from Lily Gladstone and Colman Domingo to James Marsden and Dominique Fishback made it out to the event ahead.

With more than 30 stars on the guestlist, we pulled together photos of everyone so that you could easily scroll and see who was there and what they were wearing!

Head inside to see photos of everyone at the 2024 Film Independent Spirt Awards Nominees Brunch…

Keep scrolling to see photos of every single star who attended the 2024 Film Independent Spirt Awards Nominees Brunch…

Colman Domingo

Todd Haynes

Dominique Fishback

Lily Gladstone

James Marsden

Da’Vine Joy Randolph

Celine Song

Adina Porter

Erika Alexander

Franz Rogowski

Glenn Howerton and Jill Latiano

Judy Reyes

Trace Lysette

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The Sundance Institute unveiled the lineup of 53 short films for the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, taking place Jan. 18-28 in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah. The film fest will happen in person, with a selection of titles available online from Jan. 25-28. Sundance was forced to re-format its 2021 and 2022 editions as virtual events because of the pandemic, but it returned in physical form in 2023.

Celebrating its 40th edition, Sundance will also feature a slate of special screenings including a restored version of “Napoleon Dynamite,” which first premiered at the festival in 2004, as well as 2014’s “The Babadook” and 1984’s “The Times of Harvey Milk.” Festival programming also includes events with Richard Linklater, Miguel Arteta, Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass, Carlos López Estrada, Sterlin Harjo, Steve James, Dawn Porter, Nzingha Stewart and Christine Vachon.

“Selecting the shorts for the Festival Program every year is an exercise in taking the pulse of film culture,...

The 2024 Sundance lineup is coming into fuller view, including celebrations for its 40th edition and its shorts program. The festival will take place January 18 through 28 in-person in Park City and Salt Lake City, with a selection of titles available online nationwide from January 25 through 28 via digital platforms.

The festival will introduce new short films for 2024 across eight curated programs, including a festival retrospective hosted by Mark and Jay Duplass. This year’s programming for new titles features 53 short films selected from 12,098 submissions, the highest number on record. Of these submissions, 5,323 were from the U.S., and 6,799 were international. The selected shorts represent 22 countries.

In addition to the shorts programming, the special 40th edition celebration screenings and events kick off on January 23, bringing Sundance alumni together for conversations and gatherings while revisiting iconic films like new 4K restorations of “Napoleon Dynamite” for its 20th anniversary, the 25th anniversary of “Three Seasons,...

Nominees for the 2024 Film Independent Spirit Awards — the premiere awards event for the independent film and television community — were announced on Tuesday morning by actor/director/writer Natalie Morales and actor/producer/writer Joel Kim Booster, and HBO’s The Last of Us and Prime Video’s I’m a Virgo the TV pack with four nods each.

Netflix’s Beef followed closely with three noms.

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American Fiction, May December and Past Lives lead the nominations for the 2024 Film Independent Spirit Awards, which were were announced Tuesday morning.

Each film garnered five noms, including best feature. Also nominated in that category are All of Us Strangers, Passages and We Grown Now.

The Robert Altman Award, which is given to one film’s director, casting director and ensemble cast, will be presented to Showing Up, directed by Kelly Reichardt. The casting director is Gayle Keller, and the ensemble cast includes André Benjamin, Hong Chau, Judd Hirsch, Heather Lawless, James Le Gros, John Magaro, Matt Malloy, Amanda Plummer, Maryann Plunkett, Denzel Rodriguez and Michelle Williams.

On the TV side, Jury Duty was tapped for the award of best ensemble in a new scripted series, an honor bestowed on one show (there are no nominees). The cast includes Alan Barinholtz, Susan Berger, Cassandra Blair, David Brown, Kirk Fox, Ross Kimball,...

George Lucas hadn't officially directed a movie in 20 years when he stepped back behind the camera for "Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace" in 1997, and it didn't take long for him to remember why, starting with 1980's "Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back," he'd left the business of shouting "Action!" and "Cut!" to hired hands.

Anticipation for a new, canonical, live-action "Star Wars" movie was feverish. Lucas had been teasing the possibility of a prequel trilogy for over a decade, and now he was set to tell the tragic saga of how a young Anakin Skywalker betrayed his wife, his mentor, and his fellow Jedi to become Darth Vader. The pressure was immense, but Lucas produced these movies independently of their distributor, 20th Century Fox. He could blow a release date deadline if he absolutely had to. The franchise changed Hollywood in 1977, and, with promised advancements in CG,...

Heartland is setting its U.S. TV return with Season 16 UPtv premiere officially set for Sunday, August 6. The family drama is the longest-running one-hour drama in Canadian television history, and it remains a favorite stateside. Set in the rolling foothills of the Rockies in the fictional town of Hudson, Alberta, Heartland follows the Bartlett-Fleming Family who has just learned a hard lesson that life is short and you must live each day to the fullest. (Credit: David Brown / ©UPtv / Courtesy Everett Collection) While some journeys end, others are just beginning. In Season 16, Amy (Amber Marshall) and the rest of her family are making bold strides toward their futures. Together, the Bartlett-Fleming family will come together to face fears and start a new chapter. Based on Lauren Brooke’s bestselling series of books, Heartland first debuted back in 2007. Announced by People, the UPtv debut of Heartland‘s 16th season will take place...

Oxygen’s true-crime docuseries Real Murders of Orange County revisits one of the most shocking and disturbing murder mysteries that had the system fooled until years later.

In the upcoming episode, “Stolen Youth” Linda Marie Brown, a young mother is killed in her own bed in what seems to be a sudden crime of rage. But the true killer is shockingly revealed years later to be a twisted master of manipulation.

The murder was pinned on the young mother’s teenage stepdaughter, Cinnamon Brown. But during her trial, investigators noticed extremely bizarre behavior from the murder victim’s husband, David Brown, who sat in the courtroom. This bizarre behavior became one of many red flags in this case.

David Brown’s courtroom behavior was shocking

In an exclusive clip shared with Showbiz Cheat Sheet, investigators recalled how David was “never around” throughout Cinnamon’s trial. Investigators thought it was strange...

It was a big win for the underdog on Wednesday as Freevee’s Jury Duty was nominated for four Emmy Awards including Outstanding Comedy Series, Supporting Actor for James Marsden, Writing for Mekki Leeper and Casting for Susie Farris.

Although completely unexpected, the surprise was obviously welcome by executive producer David Bernad, who spoke to Deadline about the momentous occasion.

“I give an incredible amount of credit to the writers, Cody Heller, Andrew Weinberg, Lee Eisenberg, Gene Stupnitsky; Nick Hatton, one of our incredible producers; the cast who were all exceptional obviously James, and everyone else in the cast who really dedicated so much of their life to the show. They all deserve this award,” Bernad, also a producer on HBO’s The White Lotus and NBC’s Superstore, to name a few, told Deadline.

However, the moment is bittersweet for the producer as the WGA strike is on its...

When the list of potential Emmy nominees was officially released on Thursday, the Amazon Freevee genre-bending comedy “Jury Duty” listed six submissions for Emmy Awards comedy supporting actor and actress: James Marsden, David Brown, Susan Berger, Cassandra Blair, Edy Modica and Rashida Olayiwola. That may not seem particularly significant, but for a series that seemingly against all odds caught hold of the zeitgeist this past spring, it’s massive. The craziest part is that it actually has a chance of pulling in an Emmy nom or two – perhaps even in comedy series and (maybe especially) comedy series casting for its casting director Susie Farris.

In fact, I’m going to go out on a limb here and predict that “Jury Duty” is going to be the Andrea Riseborough of this Emmy season and shock the awards world as a grassroots phenomenon by cracking the best comedy nominee lineup. And it...

“Jury Duty” has no business working as well as it does, and Jake Szymanski, who directed all eight episodes, knows it. “It just sounded like a crazy, almost impossible idea, which is what I’m attracted to,” he tells Gold Derby. “It sounded tough. It sounded like a mental puzzle on how to pull it off.”

The Amazon Freevee comedy follows Ronald Gladden, a solar panel contractor who believes he’s participating in a documentary as he serves jury duty. In reality, he had no idea he was on a scripted TV show and that everything in his life for three weeks was fake and heavily planned — from the case and the sequestration to the 11 actors as his fellow jurors (and James Marsden as an entitled version of James Marsden) and that dinner at Margaritaville.

Szymanski and the “Jury Duty” team spent four months in pre-production meticulously creating an immersive...

Joe Pickett: “The Missing and the Dead”- Michael Dorman as Joe Pickett In season 2, episode 1 of Joe Pickett, streaming on Paramount +, 2023. Photo Credit: David Brown/Paramount + Paramount+ revealed the official trailer and key art for the second season of the hit drama series Joe Pickett. The second season will premiere with two episodes on Sunday, June 4 in the U.S. and Canada and the following day on Monday, June 5 in Australia. Following the premiere, new episodes will drop weekly exclusively on Paramount+. Premiere dates in additional international markets will be announced at a later date. All episodes of the series’ first season are available to stream on Paramount+. In season two, Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett (Michael Dorman) discovers a hunter murdered in the mountains and realizes this is just one of a series of gruesome murders. To solve the case and catch the killer, Joe must navigate a radical anti-hunting activist,...