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Matthew McConaughey Says ‘How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days’ Is “The Gift That Keeps On Giving”: “It Still Pays The Best Mailbox Money”
Matthew McConaughey has said that How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days remains his most lucrative film for residual payments, more than two decades after its release. Speaking on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, he described the romantic comedy as “the gift that keeps on giving” and his favourite romcom, underscoring the film’s continuing…
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Emilia Jones leads Netflix drama about Yale IVF patients
Emilia Jones will lead Netflix’s limited-series adaptation of “The Retrievals”, a drama based on the New York Times and Serial Productions podcast. The series centres on IVF patients who unite to take legal action against Yale University after egg-retrieval procedures were allegedly carried out without anaesthesia because a clinic nurse had stolen fentanyl. Jones will…
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Carpenter, Domingo and Theron to receive Academy Museum awards
John Carpenter, Colman Domingo and Charlize Theron will be honoured at the Academy Museum’s sixth annual fundraising gala on 17 October. The awards recognise their influence on cinema, while the event will raise funds for the museum’s exhibitions, screenings and educational programmes. Theron will receive the Icon Award for her global career impact, Carpenter the…
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If Hollywood Is Dying, Why Are L.A.’s Cinemas Roaring Back?
Los Angeles cinemas are experiencing a revival, with historic venues reopening or upgrading despite wider concerns about Hollywood’s post-pandemic decline. The trend matters because it suggests renewed demand for communal, premium film-going experiences, particularly at theatres with distinctive heritage and large-format projection. Glendale’s 900-seat Alex Theatre has resumed first-run screenings after 35 years, following a…
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‘Traces Of Home’ Trailer: Award-Winning Film From E.P.s Melissa Barrera And John Leguizamo Tells Story Of Love And Forced Displacement
The award-winning documentary Traces of Home, directed by first-time filmmaker Colette Ghunim, will receive a US theatrical release from Watermelon Pictures. Executive produced by Melissa Barrera and John Leguizamo, it follows Ghunim and her parents as they revisit the Mexican and Palestinian homes her parents were forced to leave as children, examining displacement, memory and…
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‘Task’ Adds Stephanie Sigman, Alaíde, Rocío Guzmán & Regina Nava To Season 2 Cast
HBO’s Task has added Stephanie Sigman, Alaíde, Rocío Guzmán and Regina Nava in recurring roles for its second season. The additions expand the cast around a new FBI task-force investigation led by Mark Ruffalo’s Tom Brandis, with the story increasingly questioning who is being pursued. Sigman will play Carmen Belandria, the loyal wife and mother…
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Wild Blue Skies Is Star Fox For Experts
The “fine, I’ll just do it myself” approach has served indie developers well, capitalizing on the hunger for games that emulate beloved classics. Indie metroidvania games, boomer shooters, and retro-style platformers all owe their rise to the same trend of homage for underserved genres. Wild Blue Skies isn’t the first game that aims to fill…
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CoD: Black Ops 7 And Warzone Season 5 Reloaded Release Date And Details
Season 5 Reloaded arrives in Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 and Warzone later this month, and Activision has now revealed all of the details for this midseason update. Season 5 Reloaded adds a new weapon, additional multiplayer maps, and the final round-based Zombies map of the Black Ops 7 storyline. Call of Duty Season…
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“I wasn’t feeling much of anything by the time it was released.” Failure’s brilliant third album Fantastic Planet should have made them superstars. Instead, it broke their hearts and split the band
Failure’s third album, Fantastic Planet, was released in summer 1996 as an ambitious, self-produced alternative-rock record, but its path to release was damaged by uncertainty at the band’s label. Although it was expected to be a breakthrough, it did not enter the Billboard Top 200, and the disappointment contributed to the Los Angeles trio splitting…
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3 Folk Lyrics From 1976 That Hit Harder Now That Their Artists Have Aged
American Songwriter highlights three folk songs from 1976 whose lyrics it argues have gained resonance as their writers have grown older. – Joni Mitchell’s “Amelia” is presented as a reflection on independence, experience and the risks of pursuing one’s own path. – Jackson Browne’s “The Pretender” is described as capturing adulthood’s financial pressures and the…