Serving in the military “saved me,” Prince Harry told “60 Minutes” correspondent Anderson Cooper in a revealing interivew that touched in his struggle to mourn the loss of his mother, his fight to defend his wife, conflicts with his father and older brother and his experiments with using psychedelics for trauma therapy. Harry, on the…
Variety’s 10 Directors to Watch Celebrates 25 Years of Close-Ups on Rising Filmmaker Stars
On the heels of crowning the class of 2023, Variety is marking 25 years of keeping a keen eye on the next generation of filmmakers with our annual 10 Directors to Watch franchise. Over the past quarter-century, the editorial initiative has cast an important career spotlight on such future boldface-name directors as Alfonso Cuaron, Christopher…
Prince Harry Makes First TV Appearance Following Memoir Leak, Slams Jeremy Clarkson
Prince Harry has made his first TV appearance since his highly-anticipated memoir, “Spare,” leaked on Thursday. The pre-recorded interview with British anchor Tom Bradby, which aired in the U.K. at 9pm local time on public service broadcaster ITV, saw Harry address some of the most explosive claims in the book, included his drug-taking and his…
‘Pantheon’ Axed at AMC+, Despite Second Season Already Completing Production
AMC Networks will not be continuing its animated science-fiction series “Pantheon,” though a second season has already been produced. There remains a possibility that the series could be licensed or sold to another platform. The decision regarding “Pantheon” was made months ago, declared in a list of programming write-offs in early December of last year….
Final Predictions for Art Directors, ASC and MPSE Guild Nominations: More Love for ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’?
The Art Directors Guild, American Society of Cinematographers and Motion Picture Sound Editors are three artisan organizations announcing their nominations this week. Their nominations will set the tone for the Oscar race for production design, cinematography and partly for the best sound race, now in its third year as a combined category for sound mixing…
Adam Rich, Former Child Star of ‘Eight Is Enough,’ Dies at 54
Adam Rich, a former child actor best known for starring as Nicholas Bradford on the ABC series “Eight Is Enough,” died Saturday, according to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner. He was 54. No further details about Rich’s death are available at this time, though reports state that law enforcement has not indicated to signs…
Box Office: ‘M3GAN’ Slays With $30 Million Debut, ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ Stays No. 1
Move over, Jamie Lee Curtis and Neve Campbell. There’s a new scream queen in town… M3GAN. Universal and Blumhouse’s creepy doll thriller “M3GAN” — short for Model 3 Generative Android — made a killing in its opening weekend, collecting a better-than-expected $30.2 million from 3,509 North American theaters. Internationally, the film has generated $14.8 million…
‘Alert’ Is a Kidnapping Drama More Propulsive Than Engaging: TV Review
It’d been this critic’s assumption that “Alert: Missing Persons Unit,” a new drama launching on Fox, would resemble “Without a Trace,” the case-of-the-week crime story that aired on CBS during what we might call that network’s Golden Age of police procedurals. There, each week brought a new intrigue around a person who’d disappeared, and, eventually,…
‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ Takes Down ‘Jurassic World’ as Seventh-Highest Grossing Film in History With $1.7 Billion
Isla Nublar has nothing on Pandora. James Cameron’s blockbuster sequel “Avatar: The Way of Water” has grossed $1.708 billion globally, overtaking “Jurassic World” ($1.67 billion) as the seventh-highest grossing movie in box office history. After only four weeks of release, “The Way of Water” has generated $517 million in North America and $1.19 billion overseas….
WTFilms Chief on Move into Production With ‘Perpetrator,’ Starring Alicia Silverstone, Xavier Gens’ ‘Farang’
Over the past 12 months, Paris-based sales agent WTFilms has produced two features: “Perpetrator,” by Jennifer Reeder (“Knives and Skin”), which will world premiere in the Panorama section at Berlin Film Festival, and Xavier Gens’ thriller “Farang,” which is co-financed and repped by Studiocanal. “Perpetrator,” starring Kiah McKirnan (“Mare of Easttown”) and Alicia Silverstone, is…