Film buffs understand that nearly every movie is, at heart, a travelogue — even if it occurs in your neighboring town — and that most travelogues can come across like love stories, whether anyone ends up together or not. That’s the whimsical, charged appeal of the Charli XCX-starring “Erupcja,” a mélange of romance, escape and…
Comedian and actor Paul Elia’s stand-up special “Good Son” is set be released on Watermelon+ in the wake of promotional restrictions he faced due to a brief mention of Donald Trump. Originally only planned as a YouTube special that premiered on April 8th, the self-financed hour-long special features a Trump impression followed by a joke…
Brendan Fitzgerald has left his role as CEO of Secuoya Studios, which is at the same time handing complete independence to its Latin American arm. There’s been no formal confirmation of Fitzgerald’s exit from Secuoya Content Group, the parent of the studio division but we understand he is segueing to a role working on content…
One of the three men charged in the killing of Jam Master Jay plans to plead guilty, court records show, in what would be the first admission anyone has made in court to any role in the Run-DMC star’s 2002 death. Jay Bryant pleaded not guilty to murder after his 2023 indictment, but his lawyer…
Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour and director Omar Elerian have launched a theater production company, There & Then. They are planning on a West End version of Soleimanpour’s White Rabbit Red Rabbit at the Duchess Theatre as their inaugural production, presented in association with Nica Burns and her Nimax Theatre Group. The play sees a different performer taking to the…
John Davidson’s story has been told in several TV documentaries over the past few decades, starting with a 1988 episode of the BBC series “Q.E.D.,” titled “John’s Not Mad,” which has been credited with doing much to educate the British public about Tourette’s. (Oliver Sacks, one of the episode’s prominent voices, offers a precise, sympathetic…
Paul W. Downs can’t help it that even on the weekends, his life intersects with “Hacks,” the HBO comedy he co-created and co-showruns with his wife, Lucia Aniello, and their friend Jen Statsky. (He also appears on the show as Jimmy LuSaque Jr., the besieged manager of its two stars, played by Emmy winners Jean…
EXCLUSIVE: German TV market Seriencamp is taking on artificial intelligence this year in a big way. The Cologne-based confab is launching a Plot Next strand that will explore the “intersection between storytelling and technology.” More will be unveiled in due course but names so far unveiled include showrunner Pandora de Cunha Telles, who will present…
Iranian-German playwright Nassim Soleimanpour and director Omar Elerian have launched There & Then, an independent theatre company whose inaugural production brings “White Rabbit Red Rabbit” back to London’s West End in its 15th anniversary year, in association with producer Nica Burns. The format places a different performer onstage each week, handed a sealed envelope containing…
It’s April, which means that the Duffer Brothers‘ decade-long tenure at Netflix has come to an end and they are moving to Paramount with a four-year, exclusive deal for feature films, television, and streaming projects. Paramount wasted no time showing off the Stranger Things creators in the studio’s glitzy, big-budget mini-movie celebrating its movie history…
