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Watching The Smashing Machine was impactful in a variety of ways for Mark Kerr, the UFC Hall of Famer whom Dwayne Johnson portrays in the new A24 movie. Kerr hadn’t seen the finished film about his life until watching with the audience at this summer’s Venice Film Festival, where it received a rapturous response. Emily Blunt co-stars as Kerr’s then-girlfriend Dawn Staples in writer-director Benny Safdie‘s feature that hits theaters Friday and details Kerr’s fighting career and opioid addiction. The project is based on the 2002 documentary The Smashing Machine: The Life and Times of Extreme Fighter Mark Kerr. “The…

Taylor Swift appears to be enjoying the role of box office queen. She’s returning to theaters this weekend with a special event pic promoting her new album, The Life of a Showgirl, which comes out Friday. The big screen album release party, which will also feature the world premiere of the music video for Showgirl single “The Fate of Ophelia,” music videos and behind-the-scenes footage, is expected to tower over the competition and win the relatively quiet Oct. 3-Oct. 5 box office race with anywhere from $25 million to $35 million, if not more. Tracking suggests $35 million, while distributor AMC Theatres…

International Film Festival Glasgow has unveiled its lineup for its 12th edition, which runs Nov. 12-16. Blue Moon by Richard Linklater (Boyhood), starring Ethan Hawke and Andrew Scott, will open the fest, while Joachim Trier’s Cannes Grand Prix winner Sentimental Value, starring Stellan Skarsgård, Elle Fanning and Renate Reinsve, will close it. Among other highlights of the festival will be a documentary tribute to a Scottish punk band. “The iconic but short-lived Scottish Punk band The Skids burned bright when they hit the scene in the 1970s,” organizers said. “Forty years later, the group is back and the subjects of a special new…

Samuel M. Sherman, the writer, producer and marketing mastermind who partnered with director Al Adamson to squeeze success out of such low-budget films as Satan’s Sadists, Brain of Blood and The Naughty Stewardesses, has died. He was 85. Sherman died Monday at his home in Freehold, New Jersey, David Sehring, his creative director, business affairs and sales agent since 2015, told The Hollywood Reporter. Soon after Sherman and Adamson launched the production and distribution company Independent-International Pictures, they supplied drive-ins with such flicks as Satan’s Sadists (1969), Horror of the Blood Monsters (1970), Brain of Blood (1971) and Dracula vs. Frankenstein…

When Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie was filming in Vancouver, the crew wasn’t prepared for the reaction. “We had to start blocking off the set and pushing Laila to get in cars and go down alleys — it was crazy,” says director Ryan Crego of the Gabby’s Dollhouse fandom buzzing around their star, Laila Lockhart Kraner, and the filming of DreamWorks Animation‘s big-screen adaptation of the hit Netflix preschool series. “One afternoon it was two little kids; then it was all of theese kids with ears and the parents and everyone standing across the street and I was like, ‘Oh, my…

The first thing to note about Anemone is that it marks a magnificent emergence from eight years of retirement for the great Daniel Day-Lewis, who stepped away from acting following 2017’s exquisite chamber piece, Phantom Thread. Looking lean and strong, with a shock of silver hair and a thick walrus mustache that might make Sam Elliott feel threatened, the three-time Oscar winner’s magnetic intensity remains undimmed. Playing a brooding, taciturn man living in self-imposed exile for two decades, Day-Lewis’ rugged performance provides a semblance of narrative weight in a drama that’s otherwise lacking. Co-written by the actor with his son…

Worlds are colliding. On Saturday, Meryl Streep sat front row at the Dolce & Gabbana fashion show in Milan, Italy, in full costume as her iconic character, Runway magazine editor-in-chief Miranda Priestly. Backstage, Streep’s Priestly met with Vogue‘s Anna Wintour, who was the inspiration behind Priestly. Vogue took to Instagram to post a video of the viral moment with the caption, writing, “Can you please spell Gabbana? Of course they can. Today in Milan, legendary Runway magazine editor Miranda Priestly caught up with Vogue’s Anna Wintour following the spring 2026 @dolcegabbana show.” In the video, Priestly says to Wintour, “You look so beautiful,”…

Pete Davidson is predicting that Walton Goggins will be the next on the rise celebrity that the internet will “turn” on, similar to what he says has happened to Pedro Pascal. The former Saturday Night Live cast member appeared on Theo Von’s This Past Weekend podcast, where they discussed how Hollywood can “build you up,” which can sometimes lead to a fall from grace in the eyes of fans. Davidson specifically cited Pascal as an example of an actor who has endured a sudden shift in public perception.  “Look at Pedro Pascal right now. Fucking two years ago he’s a…

James Vanderbilt is offering insight into how he shot the courtroom showdown in his latest film, Nuremberg. The filmmaker, best known for writing David Fincher’s Zodiac, has come to San Sebastian Film Festival to present his two-and-a-half-hour World War II flick, following the cat-and-mouse game between Russell Crowe‘s Nazi chief Hermann Goring and Rami Malek‘s American psychologist Douglas Kelley as the U.S., U.K., France and Soviet Union prepared to put dozens of Hitler’s men on trial in 1945 and 1946. At the movie’s press conference on Thursday, Vanderbilt (also writer on The Amazing Spider-Man and Independence Day: Resurgence) discussed filming…

We’ve all watched the credits to a movie and passed some degree of judgment when the star of the movie is also listed as a producer of some sort. We’ll sometimes jump to the conclusion that it must be a vanity credit, one that was offered as sweetener in order to close an actor’s deal. But in the case of Madelaine Petsch’s The Strangers trilogy, her executive producer title is well-merited. Opening Sept. 26 in movie theaters, The Strangers: Chapters 2 once again chronicles Petsch’s Maya as she’s pursued across a small Oregon town by the titular serial killers. Petsch,…