Author: Deadline

The first trailer for Goodrich debuted on Friday, teasing Michael Keaton and Mila Kunis as an estranged father and daughter reconnecting. Keaton stars as Andy Goodrich, whose life is upended when his wife and mother of their 9-year-old twins enters a 90-day rehab program, leaving him on his own with their young kids. Thrust into the world of modern parenthood, Goodrich leans on his grown daughter from his first marriage, Grace (Kunis), who is now pregnant, as he ultimately evolves into the father she never had.  “I am 27 years older than you, which is basically unheard of for siblings……

Taiwan‘s Ministry of Culture (MOC) has selected Old Fox as its entry in the Best International Feature Film category for the 2025 Academy Awards. Old Fox is directed by Hsiao Ya-chuan, who won Best Director at the Golden Horse Film Awards last year for the film. Hsiao has directed works like Taipei Exchanges (2010) and Father to Son (2018). Selected as Taiwan’s submission from a pool of 14 films, Old Fox follows an 11-year old boy living with his poor father as he navigates the struggles between the worldliness and kindness of humanity. The boy soon befriends his landlord, nicknamed…

The Lord of the Rings IP owner Embracer Group saw net sales in its Entertainment & Services division fall sharply in the first quarter of 2024. The Sweden-based company posted sales of SEK848M ($81M), down 54% year-on-year for the April to June period. Overall net sales were down 24% to SEK7.93B, with lower numbers posted in its PC/Console Games, Mobile Games and Tabletop Games units. Losses before interest and tax were SEK1.44B, compared with an SEK421M gain a year ago, while adjusted EBIT was SEK828M, versus SEK1.67B. The results in the PC/Console and Entertainment divisions were broadly in line with…

The far-right rioters came for a hotel housing 130 asylum seekers. They laid siege to the grey Holiday Inn building in Yorkshire with bricks, chairs, and fire extinguishers, smashing open glass windows and marauding through corridors shouting obscenities at people who had fled their homelands for the sanctuary of Britain. Residents told The Times reporter Tom Witherow that they were terrified of being harmed. One shared a video of a rioter threatening to slit the throats of those in the building.  This was just one moment during six days of disorder in Britain this month. The riots were sprawling and…

EXCLUSIVE: The latest original from African streamer Showmax, sci-fi drama The Fix, will open MIP Africa. This marks the third year in a row a Showmax original has opened the event, which is an offshoot of MIPCOM. Last year, Canal+ co-production Spinners took the slot. MIP Africa is part of FAME Week Africa, a Reed Exhibitions initiative focused on African creativity. The Fix, written and directed by Kelsey Egan, is set in a dystopian future Cape Town in South Africa where the air is toxic. A model, played by Grace van Dien (Stranger Things), takes a new designer drug at…

With a husband like Manny Jacinto, who wouldn’t wanna swap places with Lindsay Lohan for a Friday? While recently teasing the long-awaited sequel Freakier Friday, which is currently filming, Lohan and her onscreen mom/daughter Jamie Lee Curtis revealed some details about the Good Place alum’s role. “Manny plays Lindsay’s husband, but that’s as much as we can say,” Curtis told Entertainment Weekly, before Lohan raved, “Manny is lovely, so funny.” In the 2003 adaptation of Freaky Friday, they starred as single mother Tess and teen daughter Anna Coleman, who switch bodies after opening an enchanted fortune cookie and have to…

Although Disney World already boast its own Pandora—The World of Avatar, the new Disneyland attraction will draw inspiration from the sequels.

Donald Trump’s rally in Montana Friday sparked a strong social media reaction after Celine Dion’s ‘My Heart Will Go On’ – her Oscar-winning song from Titanic – was blared out from the speakers shortly before the presidential hopeful took to the stage. The Daily Mail reports that the irony of an ode to a sinking ship being played at the event was not lost on observers, many of whom took to social media, one even asking if Trump’s team had a mole from Kamala Harris’s side, intent on trolling Trump with the choice of song. This raises the question of…

Fresh off the back of a set of better-than-expected financials, Disney is seeking to splash the cash in Europe. The Mouse House plans to spend at least $5B on blockbuster movies and TV shows in the continent over the next five years, according to its EMEA boss Jan Koeppen, who was interviewed in the FT this morning. Set in context, however, the spend won’t be much of an increase on the past five years and could amount to less. In June, Koeppen revealed that Disney had spent around £3.5B ($4.5B) on production in just the UK over the last five…

Billy Bean, a former Los Angeles Dodger who went on to become the first diversity chief for Major League Baseball, died on Tuesday. He was 60. Major League Baseball said in a statement that the cause was acute myeloid leukemia, but gave no location details. Bean was the second major league player to come out as gay. Glenn Burke, an outfielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Oakland Athletics, announced his sexual orientation after he retired in 1982. Bean retired in 1995 after playing for the Dodgers, Detroit Tigers and San Diego Padres. Bean was named Major League Baseball’s first…