Author: Hollyood rep

“I’m still that 25-year-old needy actor,” insists two-time Emmy winner Tony Hale. “Once there’s an opportunity, it’s like: Really? Me? Seriously?” Hale’s latest chance to get in front of audiences comes this weekend in Toy Story 5, playing Forky, Pixar’s closest approximation to Kierkegaard, a philosopher-utensil that is simultaneously horrified and delighted by the realities of his own free will. Forky’s introduction came in Toy Story 4, starting life as a plastic spork who was then fashioned into a toy thanks to some artful placement of pipe cleaners and popsicle sticks by Buzz and Woody’s current kid, Bonnie. Having started…

[This story contains spoilers for Girls Like Girls.] Hayley Kiyoko has accomplished something very unique. She took her 2015 hit song “Girls Like Girls” and turned it into an expansive universe featuring a music video, novel and now a feature film. Though the 35-year-old got her start with roles in Disney Channel’s Lemonade Mouth and the Scooby-Doo! live-action films, she didn’t wait long before turning her full attention to music. She used her lyrics as a tool for self-expression and healing, leading to her personal coming-out anthem “Girls Like Girls,” which established her as a major force in the music…

The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) has completed the lineup of its 60th edition in its 80th year, on Thursday unveiling the program of its popular Horizons section, which is once again chock-full of festival circuit favorites of the past year, including recent Cannes winners, and the genre movies unspooling in Afterhours, formerly known as Midnight Screenings. Overall, the Czech festival will present more than 130 feature-length fiction and documentary films. The Afterhours selection will this year include the likes of Jane Schoenbrun’s feminist slasher Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, Aidan Zamiri’s mockumentary The Moment about Charli XCX, the South Korean zombie film Colony from…

[This story contains spoilers for Prime Video‘s Your Fault: London.] I’m not sure if it’s his charming smile, curly locks or English accent, but it’s hard not to fall for Matthew Broome, especially in Your Fault: London. The 25-year-old actor plays Nick in the newly released sequel to Prime Video’s hit film My Fault: London, based on the bestselling Culpables trilogy by author Mercedes Ron. The second installment continues the forbidden love story between Noah (Asha Banks) and her stepbrother, Nick, as they face challenges with new relationships, secrets and career paths. Broome has also captured hearts with his role…

Netflix on Tuesday shared further details on its global theatrical release plans for Greta Gerwig’s Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew, unveiling that Sony Pictures Entertainment will handle international distribution for the global theatrical release.  “Netflix and Sony Pictures have a strong track record of partnership, including their landmark global pay-1 licensing deal under which SPE’s feature films stream on Netflix worldwide — an industry-first for pay-1 — following their full theatrical and home entertainment windows,” the streaming giant highlighted. As THR previously reported, the film is set to be Netflix’s first wide theatrical release and first foray into releasing a movie into theaters…

Curry Barker was deceived.  Last week, the 26-year-old writer-director of Obsession was told he was going to a routine meeting at the Focus Features offices in Universal City. Instead, he arrived at the production company to find himself facing 250 employees — all holding glasses of champagne. Barker thought — for perhaps the hundredth time in recent weeks: Holy shit. Focus Chairman Peter Kujawski declared, “Congratulations on the biggest movie Focus has ever had!” The employees burst into applause and toasted Barker’s success. Then Kujawski held out a box. “In the music business, they hand out gold records,” Kujawski said.…

It’s tempting to describe English novelist-turned-filmmaker Helen Walsh’s fine-grained gay love story On the Sea as another version of God’s Own Country, switching out Yorkshire farmland for coastal waters in North Wales. But that would be unfairly reductive. Like Francis Lee’s smoldering 2017 debut feature, this is a rugged, elemental drama whose slow-burn potency plays out against a landscape as bleak as it is beautiful, where taciturn men are locked into restrictive codes of masculinity set in stone generations ago.  A palpable sense of place, of milieu and of working-class lives in which pleasure, passion and desire have been dulled courses through this…

Aaron Sorkin is revealing the reason why Jesse Eisenberg declined to reprise his role as Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Reckoning. During a recent interview with Vanity Fair, Sorkin — who penned the 2010 Oscar-winning film The Social Network and wrote and directed the upcoming sequel — shared that he spent three days trying to convince Eisenberg to return for the follow-up pic. “I felt like it belonged to him, and he was certainly battle-tested,” he said. The A Real Pain actor-director earned an Oscar nomination for best lead actor for his portrayal of the Facebook founder in The Social…

Dawson’s Creek fans will enjoy a real nostalgia fest with the latest film written, directed by and starring Katie Holmes. With her former castmate Joshua Jackson as her co-star, Happy Hours proves that the two performers still have undeniable chemistry and make middle-age look damn good. Unfortunately, this romantic drama receiving its world premiere at the Tribeca Festival is one of those movies in which the characters and situations feel so contrived and inauthentic that you find yourself shaking your head in befuddlement. The first tip-off for this film about former high-school sweethearts reuniting decades later is the onscreen quote…

‘Dreams of Violets’ premieres at the festival, as an industry watches nervously.