It all began with a post on Twitter. It was 2020 during the height of the pandemic and LaDarrion Williams was thinking about the lack of diversity in the fantasy genre. He proposed: “What if Harry Potter went to am HBCU in the South?” “Growing up, I watched ‘Twilight,’ I watched ‘Hunger Games’ and ‘Divergent’ … Read more
Hollywood actor Zack Norman, best known for his roles in Cadillac Man and Romancing the Stone, has died aged 83. The news was confirmed to Deadline by Norman’s son-in-law Jeff Briller, who said Norman died on April 28 of natural causes. Born Howard Jerrold Zuker, Norman was born in Boston in 1940. Stream the world’s … Read more
LONDON — LONDON (AP) — Kevin Spacey, the Oscar-winning actor, has denied new allegations of inappropriate behaviour from men who will feature in a documentary on British television that is due to be released next week. In an online interview with journalist Dan Wootton, Spacey said he has never done anything illegal and admitted that … Read more
Star Wars Lego models are seen at the Bricks & Figs museum in Krakow, Poland, on April 15, 2023. Anadolu | Anadolu | Getty Images If you are a Star Wars fan, Jens Kronvold Frederiksen may have crafted your childhood. A design director at the Denmark-based Lego company, he has spent the past 25 years creating … Read more
Filmmaker Doug Liman realized quickly he wasn’t on his home turf anymore. Matt Damon, who he’d directed in “The Bourne Identity” over 20 years ago, had recruited Liman for his new movie “The Instigators,” an action-comedy about a heist gone wrong. Though two decades of friendship is nothing to scoff at, here Liman was coming … Read more
NEW YORK — The filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun is walking down a path in Green-wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, looking for the pond they sat beside while working on the script to the film“I Saw the TV Glow.” Cemeteries aren’t often the chosen location for interviews but the place holds particular meaning to Schoenbrun. Built in the … Read more
The films of Ryusuke Hamaguchi unspool with elegant everyday ease and yet anything can happen. Lives take sudden detours. Seemingly minor characters become primary ones. People are brought together by mysterious connections. There are even, as in the case of his “Asako I & II,” doppelgangers. Soberly naturalistic as Hamaguchi’s movies are, they’re among the … Read more
In the warmly charming rom-com “The Idea of You,” Anne Hathaway plays a 40-year-old divorcee and Silver Lake art gallery owner who, after taking her teenage daughter to Coachella, becomes romantically involved with a 24-year-old heartthrob in the boy band August Moon. They first meet after she mistakes his trailer for the bathroom. There are … Read more
Wayne’s World and Austin Powers star Mike Myers looked unrecognisable as he posed on the red carpet at the 49th AFI Lifetime Achievement Award gala on the weekend. The event marked the comic actor’s first professional public outing in more than a year, and some fans had trouble recognising him with his grey buzz cut, … Read more
A breakout moment in Hollywood can happen at any age and stage. This summer at the movies, there are plenty of talents to discover, from the formerly incarcerated man whose story inspired the film he stars in to the “It” bully whose childhood dream of playing an ape in a movie came true. Here are … Read more
