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2011 was a huge year for Kaitlyn Dever. Though she was only 14 at the time, the up-and-coming actor booked small parts in two high profile movies ("Bad Teacher" and Clint Eastwood's "J. Edgar"), popped as tough Kentucky cookie Loretta McCready in the magnificent second season of "Justified," and joined the main cast of Tim Allen's new sitcom "Last Man Standing." That's quite a range of shows and films, and this ensured Dever would get to flaunt her burgeoning talent all the way across the demographic spectrum.

For families with young viewers, "Last Man Standing" was the kind of relentlessly inoffensive sitcom they could watch together without worrying there'd be a ribald gag or profanity. Say what you will about Allen (and I'm quite certain the cocaine dealers he snitched on in 1978 to avoid serving a length prison sentence have said plenty about him), he knows what his audience expects from him,...

The star of Clint Eastwood's 2019 drama defends his Letterboxd rating for the film after being taken to task on social media. Eastwood’s long and storied directorial career began way back in 1971 when the star took the helm on the thriller Play Misty For Me. Over 50 years later, the 94-year-old Hollywood legend is back with his 40th film as a director, the courtroom drama Juror #2.

In a filmography as rich and varied as the one Eastwood produced in the years between Play Misty for Me and Juror #2, there are bound to be a few stinkers alongside the masterpieces. Eastwood-directed films receiving the most critical pans (via Rotten Tomatoes) include The 5:17 to Paris, The Rookie, Firefox, J. Edgar and Hereafter. On the opposite end of the spectrum, Eastwood’s triumphs include Unforgiven, High Plains Drifter, Honky Tonk Man, the aforementioned Juror #2 and Pale Rider.

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Amazon MGM Studios is not proceeding with the Untitled J. Edgar project, one of the Bosch spinoffs that had been in development at the studio. Meanwhile, Amazon Freevee is not moving forward with the Who’s the Boss? sequel starring Tony Danza and Alyssa Milano, which had been in the works at the streamer.

The Untitled J. Edgar project was on of two Bosch spinoffs announced in February 2023 as being in development at Amazon MGM. The other, which centers on Detective Renée Ballard, was picked up to series earlier this year with Maggie Q starring.

Larry Andries (Blue Bloods) was writing the script for the J. Edgar spinoff, which he executive produced with Michael Connelly, author of the Harry Bosch book series. Andries in March was charged with six felony counts of sexual assault.

The J. Edgar offshoot was to follow Harry Bosch’s (Titus Welliver) former partner, Detective Jerry Edgar,...

AFI Film Festival has announced that Warner Bros.’ “Juror No. 2,” the new thriller from Oscar-winning director Clint Eastwood, will have its world premiere as the closing night film on Sunday, Oct. 27. The studio will then release the movie in limited theaters on Friday, Nov. 1.

Written by Jonathan Abrams, the film follows Justin Kemp (Nicholas Hoult), who, while serving as a juror in a high-profile murder trial, struggles with a severe moral dilemma — one he could use to sway the jury’s verdict and potentially convict or free the accused killer. “Juror No. 2” also stars Oscar nominee Toni Collette (“The Sixth Sense”), Oscar winner J.K. Simmons (“Whiplash”), as well as Zoey Deutch, Chris Messina, Gabriel Basso, Leslie Bibb and Kiefer Sutherland.

“There is only one Clint Eastwood – and AFI is proud to present the world premiere of this next chapter in his historic canon,” said Bob Gazzale, AFI president and CEO,...

J. Edgar Hoover, the infamous FBI director, had a history of clashes with various political figures, but his rivalry with a former U.S. president was particularly intense. Hoover’s secretive and powerful hold over the Bureau spanned several decades, allowing him to accumulate vast amounts of sensitive information about America’s most influential people. This contentious dynamic even caught the attention of Clint Eastwood, who portrayed Hoover in his 2011 film J. Edgar.

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Eastwood was so intrigued by Hoover’s complex relationship with the president that he conducted extensive research to capture the depth of their conflict in his $84M movie. The film dives deep into Hoover’s controversial career, revealing the intense personal and political battles he faced.

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As both an actor and star, Clint Eastwood managed to change the trajectory of Western cinema forever and is largely responsible for the genre’s rejuvenation in the late 1960s. Eastwood would soon step behind the camera to direct classic Westerns like Pale Rider and Unforgiven, but many of his greatest directorial efforts are non-Western films. Eastwood clearly has a reverence for significant moments in America’s past and has helmed biographical films like Flags of Our Fathers, J. Edgar, American Sniper, and Sully that framed historical events as heroic and empowering stories. Unfortunately, Eastwood’s personal politics are often detrimental to the narrative cohesion of his projects. Despite being based on an inspiring true story, Richard Jewell exposes some of Eastwood’s biggest missteps as a director.

Powerful roles and memorable lines have been the hallmark of Clint Eastwood’s career. Cops, cowboys drifters, soldiers and, generally bad ass men’s men … he’s played them all.

The lines that stick with you? Dirty Harry: “You’ve got to ask yourself a question: ‘Do you feel lucky?’ Well, do ya, punk.” Josey Wales: “When I get to likin’ someone, they ain’t around long.” Bill Munny in Unforgiven: “It’s a hell of a thing, killin’ a man. Take away all he’s got, and all he’s ever gonna have.” And perhaps the most quoted of all, Harry Callahan in Sudden Impact: “Go ahead, make my day.”

Eastwood has a cop for so long he should be collecting a pension. He joined the force with Dirty Harry in 1971 and his last movie as a cop was A Perfect World in (1993). He made five...

Los Angeles, Dec 17 (Ians) Jack Axelrod, the actor who played Victor Jerome in ‘General Hospital’ and guest starred in ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ and ‘My Name Is Earl’, died aged 93.

Axelrod died November 28 of natural causes, his representative Jennifer Garland told Variety.

Axelrod portrayed Victor Jerome in the soap ‘General Hospital’ for 40 episodes from 1987 to 1989. He was also known for his roles as the Electrolarynx Guy on ‘My Name Is Earl’ and patient Charlie Yost, who was in a semi-comatose state at Seattle Grace, on ‘Grey’s Anatomy’.

He is also known for his work in ‘Dallas’, ‘Hill Street Blues’, ‘Dynasty’, ‘Outlaws’, ‘Night Court’, ‘Knots Landing’, ‘Everybody Loves Raymond’, ‘Alias’, ‘Frasier’, ‘Malcolm in the Middle’, ‘Scrubs’, ‘Star-ving’, ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’, ‘Hot in Cleveland’, ‘Baskets’, ‘Speechless’, ‘Ray Donovan’, ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ and ‘Modern Family’.

Axelrod made his feature film debut in Woody Allen’s 1971 comedy ‘Bananas’.

He worked on ‘Vice’, ‘Road to Redemption...

Jack Axelrod, the actor who played mob boss Victor Jerome on “General Hospital” and guest starred on such series as “Grey’s Anatomy” and “My Name Is Earl,” has died. He was 93.

Axelrod died Nov. 28 of natural causes in L.A., his rep Jennifer Garland told Variety.

Axelrod portrayed Victor Jerome on the ABC soap “General Hospital” for 40 episodes from 1987 to 1989. He was also known for his roles as the Electrolarynx Guy on “My Name Is Earl” and patient Charlie Yost, who was in a semi-comatose state at Seattle Grace, on “Grey’s Anatomy.” Additional television credits include “Dallas,” “Hill Street Blues,” “Dynasty,” “Outlaws,” “Night Court,” “Knots Landing,” “Everybody Loves Raymond,” “Alias,” “Frasier,” “Malcolm in the Middle,” “Scrubs,” “Star-ving,” “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” “Hot in Cleveland,” “Baskets,” “Speechless,” “Ray Donovan,” “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” and “Modern Family.”

Born in L.A. on Jan. 25, 1930, Axelrod served as a corporal in the U.S. Army, stationed...

Jack Axelrod, who played a mob boss on General Hospital for three years and had notable guest-starring turns on My Name Is Earl and Grey’s Anatomy, has died. He was 93.

Axelrod died Nov. 28 of natural causes in Los Angeles, his rep Jennifer Garland announced.

Axelrod showed up in Woody Allen’s Bananas (1971) in one of his first onscreen roles, and his big-screen résumé also included Hancock (2008), Winged Creatures (2008), Little Fockers (2010), Super 8 (2011), J. Edgar (2011) and The Lone Ranger (2013).

Axelrod portrayed mobster Victor Jerome on the ABC soap General Hospital from 1987-89 and the “Electrolarynx Guy” on the NBC comedy My Name Is Earl in 2005-08.

And on the ABC drama Grey’s Anatomy in 2006-07, he stole scenes as the patient Charlie Yost, who spent a long time in a semi-conscious state at Seattle Grace before dying — just as he was about to get in a wheelchair to leave.

He continued...

Very few performers who became Golden Globe nominees in their teens can claim to have stayed in the organization’s good graces as adults, but, with 13 notices and three wins spread over nearly 30 years, Leonardo DiCaprio is more justified in doing so than anyone else. As it happens, the film star has picked up multiple Golden Globe bids during each decade of his adult life, and he is now working on squeezing in another just before he enters his 50s. If he winds up clinching his third Best Film Drama Actor trophy for “Killers of the Flower Moon” this winter, he will tie the illustrious record for most victories in that category.

DiCaprio’s previous Golden Globe wins came for his lead performances in the dramas “The Aviator” (2005) and “The Revenant” (2016) and the comedy “The Wolf of Wall Street” (2014). This potential new drama bid would be his ninth, following unsuccessful...

Movie stars are a thing of the past, a relic of an era of Hollywood that simply no longer exists. But there are still a few performers who have the draw and the talent to be considered as such. Leonardo DiCaprio is one of them, and his list of achievements looks to grow yet again following the release of his latest project, “Killers of the Flower Moon.”

The engrossing film, which is based on David Grann’s 2017 non-fiction book of the same name, details a series of murders during the 1920s after oil was discovered on Osage land. DiCaprio stars as Ernest Burkhart, the permanently frowning nephew of Robert De Niro’s William Hale, a crime lord masquerading as a friend of the Osage who pulls Ernest into his murderous scheme to steal Osage headrights by having him marry Lily Gladstone’s Mollie Kyle.

The film marks DiCaprio’s sixth...

This article contains spoilers for "Killers of the Flower Moon."

Martin Scorsese's new film "Killers of the Flower Moon," based on true events, takes place in the Osage Nation just after World War I. The Osage people have a vast reservoir of oil on their land and have, very quickly, become some of the wealthiest people on the planet. 

The movie mostly surrounds a man named Ernest (Leonardo DiCaprio), a weak-willed former soldier who is just looking for a job. Ernest falls into the employ of his uncle, William King Hale (Robert De Niro), a real-life local politician who claimed to speak for the Osage people and to be a friend of the community, but who was in fact bilking the community for their money, murdering its citizens, and doing everything in his power to rearrange Osage wealth so that it flowed toward white men. Hale even encouraged white...

Leonardo DiCaprio has an impressive acting career, and one little-known fact is that he has played characters from almost every decade since the 1850s. DiCaprio's filmography showcases his range, with roles spanning from Django Unchained in the 1850s to Don't Look Up in the 2020s, missing only the 1890s and 1900s. It would be challenging for any other actor to beat DiCaprio's 165-year streak, as not many celebrities have the same affinity for period pieces. He could even extend his streak further back to the 1800s.

Leonardo DiCaprio is often lauded as one of the best actors in Hollywood, with numerous awards and blockbuster hits to his name. When he finally won an Academy Award for Best Actor in 2016 for The Revenant, after repeatedly being snubbed at the Oscars years prior, the world celebrated, and the internet broke. DiCaprio is undoubtedly a major movie star and is repeatedly recognized as such.

New Line has rounded out its cast for Mortal Kombat 2, with Martyn Ford (Red Sonja), Desmond Chiam (Joy Ride), Ana Thu Nguyen (Suka) and Damon Herriman (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) coming aboard for roles.

Ford will play villainous Outworld emperor Shao Kahn, with Chiam as Edenian King Jerrod, Nguyen as Queen Sindel and Herriman as Netherrealm demon Quan Chi.

New Line’s latest follows up its hit 2021 action adventure Mortal Kombat, based on the blockbuster video game franchise created by Ed Boon and John Tobias, which was released simultaneously in theaters and on the platform now known as Max in April 2021. Amidst an industry hit hard by Covid, the original opened at number one at the box office and went on to gross over $84M worldwide theatrically, also coming in as one of the most-watched titles in Max’s history.

While Mortal Kombat followed Mma fighter Cole Young...

Exclusive: Dermot Mulroney (Scream VI) is currently in production in Tuczon, Az on Last Dollar, an 1880s-set Western inspired by European cinema.

Set during a period of rapid societal change, this tale of love and vengeance is layered with unexpected revelations that push boundaries of the genre. Mulroney plays Dallas Garrett, a former outlaw gunslinger with the wisdom of regret, who serves as a mentor to a young man trying to find his way in the world.

Last Dollar marks the first solo feature for the newly launched Thunderbird Pictures. Veteran actor William Shockley is directing the pic as his first feature, having penned the script with Shelly Reid and Grainger Hines. Shockley, Hines, Tom Brady, Justin Kreinbrink and Tiiu Loigu are producing, with Allen Gilmer and Riki Rushing serving as exec producers. A.J. Raitano is handling the film’s cinematography, with Tommy Fields providing its original score.

Update (5/1/2023): After previously teasing two spinoffs earlier this year, Prime Video and Amazon Freevee confirmed Jamie Hector‘s involvement in an upcoming Bosch universe spinoff. Categorized as the Untitled J. Edgar project, the series will see Jamie Hector reprise his role as Detective Jerry Edgar who is tapped for an undercover FBI mission in Little Haiti, Miami. Amazon also confirmed work on the Untitled Renee Ballard project, a character that hasn’t appeared in the franchise yet, Detective Renee Ballard is tasked with running the LAPD’s new cold-case division in the series. Stay tuned for more as we await further details. Original Story (2/7/2023): Amazon is gearing up to expand its Bosch universe once again with two more new shows in the works at Prime Video. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Amazon is working on two in-house studio spinoffs, one revolving around Jamie Hector’s Detective Jerry Edgar...

Occasionally, the plot of a movie requires an actor to be aged up using prosthetic makeup, but this isn't always done convincingly. The toll that years take on a person's facial features is difficult to imitate, but special effects artists have come a long way in disguising an actor's youthful glow. Unfortunately, this is a lot easier to pull off for pictures since adding movement to these layers of makeup can be a dead giveaway that something isn't quite right. This is the dilemma of filmmakers everywhere and a factor that can make or break the immersion of a movie.

The nature of films like The Curious Case of Benjamin Button makes prosthetic makeup a necessity and manages to pull it off with mesmerizing effect. It's especially striking for actors like Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett, who are not only recognizable but known for their youthful attractiveness. Still, the movie...

Oscar-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black is set to face trial in the U.K. after allegedly assaulting a BBC host in a nightclub.

Black appeared at Westminster Magistrates Court in London via videolink on Thursday morning local time where he pled not guilty to a charge of assault by beating. Black was released on unconditional bail. His trial is set to take place on August 8.

The charge stems from an alleged altercation with an LGBTQ+ party planner and host of BBC3 show “The Big Proud Party Agency” Teddy Edwardes last summer.

According to reports, Black allegedly threw a drink over Edwardes, who has also appeared as a contestant on BBC gameshow “Unbreakable,” at Freedom nightclub in Soho in August. He was reported to have been accompanied by his husband, British Olympic diver Tom Daley, at the time.

Edwardes reportedly posted on Instagram after the alleged incident, writing: “I went out...

Clint Eastwood was already a notable movie star before directing his first film, "Play Misty for Me" in 1971. In 2021, Eastwood helmed his 40th film as a director, the gentle rescue movie "Cry Macho," in which he also starred. Eastwood would be a Hollywood legend even if he had never chosen to get into acting. Perhaps dismaying to the man's many fans, Eastwood recently announced that he will direct one final film before retiring for good. Eastwood's final film will be distributed by Warner Bros., the studio that has handled the director's entire filmography since "Gran Torino" in 2008. Eastwood's retirement is likely due to his age — he will be 93 in May — although one might hear the words of Warner Bros./Discovery CEO David Zaslav ringing in their ears when he was reported to say that he owes no filmmaker any favors and that Eastwood's films all tend to lose money.

According...

Exclusive: Dermot Mulroney (Scream VI) and Rachel Griffiths (The Wilds) are the newest additions to the cast of the untitled romantic comedy from director Will Gluck (Easy A) that Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell are leading for Sony.

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Details as to the plot of the R-rated rom-com — being shot in Sydney, Australia — remain under wraps. But the pair join an ensemble that also includes Alexandra Shipp, Michelle Hurd, Bryan Brown, Darren Barnet and Hadley Robinson, as previously announced.

The project is based on Ilana Wolpert’s script, which Gluck is re-writing. Joe Roth, Jeff Kirschenbaum and Gluck are producing, with Sweeney exec producing for Fifty-Fifty Films,...

Dustin Lance Black, Oscar winner of best original screenplay for 2008’s “Milk,” revealed that he suffered a “serious head injury” last month, saying that the injury is the reason why he “vanished for a while.”

“A month ago I sustained a serious head injury that put me out of commission,” Black wrote in an Instagram post. “Showing little improvement, my doctors ordered me to shut off my brain in hopes of it healing.”

Black announced the news Monday on Instagram, but did not mention any specifics about what caused the head injury. The Instagram post features a series of photos of Black and his husband Tom Daley in Greece. “But this week my sweet, over the top husband took us to the Greek Islands to make me shut off. I can already feel this trip is a step in the right direction, and I finally feel safe sharing a bit again,...

Dustin Lance Black, winner of a Best Original Screenplay Oscar for Milk, has revealed he suffered a serious head injury last month and is recovering, but that “the road back will be long.”

In a post Monday on Instagram, Black, creator of FX’s recently released limited series Under the Banner of Heaven, did not reveal how he sustained the injury. “So I vanished for a while… A month ago I sustained a serious head injury that put me out of commission,” Black wrote. “Showing little improvement, my doctors ordered me to shut off my brain in hopes of it healing. This has been a challenging, frightening time for a creative type who depends on what’s in his skull to work, care and love. And now I understand the road back will be long.”

“But this week my sweet, over the top husband took us to the Greek Islands to make me shut off,...

“M*A*S*H,” “I Love Lucy,” “Six Feet Under,” “Beetlejuice” and “The Cosby Show.” What do these classic TV shows or films have in common? They all had a deep impact on five of today’s top TV showrunners. We discuss that and more during our “Meet the Experts” group roundtable panel with 2022 Emmy contenders.

This “Meet the Experts” panel includes showrunners and producers Melissa Joan Hart (“Christmas in Tune”), Sarah Burgess (“Impeachment”), Justin Noble (“The Sex Lives of College Girls”), Dustin Lance Black (“Under the Banner of Heaven”) and Gloria Calderon Kellett (“With Love”). Watch our full group chat above and click on each name above to view each person’s individual interview.

“I was obsessed with ‘M*A*S*H’ growing up,” reveals Black. “And one day I hope I can write like that. Where you can take really dark, deep, challenging subjects and get people to laugh.

“I was born into a Mormon home and raised in a devout Mormon home,” reveals Dustin Lance Black, the creator, co-writer and co-executive producer of the limited series “Under the Banner of Heaven” from FX on Hulu. “As a kid I started wondering why my mother was treated so differently in this faith that, I will be frank, I really cared for. It felt like home. It’s all I knew. Those questions about why my mother was treated differently, why the church did not intervene when violence entered our home, why they seemed to place the blame at her feet. Those questions ate away at me because I wasn’t allowed to ask them.” We talked to Black as part of our “Meet the Experts” TV showrunners panel. Watch our exclusive video interview above.

FX’s “Under the Banner of Heaven” is an original limited series inspired by the...

Five top TV showrunners and producers will reveal secrets behind their projects when they join Gold Derby’s special “Meet the Experts” Q&a event with 2022 Emmy Awards contenders. They will participate in two video discussions to premiere on Wednesday, June 1, at 6:00 p.m. Pt; 9:00 p.m. Et. We’ll have a one-on-one with our senior editor Denton Davidson and a roundtable chat with all of the group together.

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Christmas in Tune (Lifetime)

Synopsis: Story of Belle, a marketing executive who is worried that she may lose her job.

Bio: Melissa Joan Hart was a Kids’ Choice Awards winner for “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” and “Drive Me Crazy.

There’s nothing tragic about Denzel Washington’s chances at the Screen Actors Guild Awards. And Leonardo DiCaprio shouldn’t hang his head either. Both men are poised to potentially earn lead actor nominations this year. Should they both receive bids, it would extend the record for the most nominations ever in the category to six, as they’re currently tied with five apiece.

Washington was last nominated in 2018 for his turn in “Roman J. Israel, Esq.” (2017). His four previous ones were for “The Hurricane” (1999), “Training Day” (2001), “Flight” (2012) and “Fences” (2016), the last of which brought him his only win in the category. But he’ll likely have a shot to add a bookend soon. Washington stars in the title role of Joel Coen’s “The Tragedy of Macbeth,” and his performance as (one of the) doomed king(s) of Shakespeare received rave reviews when the black-and-white film premiered in October.

Exclusive: Josh Lucas (Ford v Ferrari) will join Oscar nominee Patricia Clarkson (Sharp Objects) and Tony winner Thomas Sadoski (The Newsroom) in the political thriller Lilly, which is entering production in Georgia in October.

Based on the life of Lilly Ledbetter, the Alabama woman for whom President Obama named his first piece of legislation—The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act of 2009—the film explores the psychological cost of putting one’s life on the line for justice. At the heart of the social justice drama is a love story between Lilly (Clarkson) and her husband Charles (Lucas), a man who stood by his wife despite life-threatening challenges and significant family strife.

As previously announced, Sadoski plays Jon Goldfarb, the Birmingham civil rights attorney who navigated Ledbetter’s legal battles.

Rachel Feldman is directing from a script she wrote with Adam Prince.

The independently financed film will be produced by...

Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s Imagine Entertainment has signed a multi-year, first-look deal to create scripted features exclusively for Apple.

Imagine Entertainment’s previous films include 2001’s “A Beautiful Mind,” which won best picture at the Oscars; “Hillbilly Elegy,” which earned Glenn Close a Golden Globe nomination for best supporting actress; “Rush”; “J. Edgar”; “Frost/Nixon”; “American Gangster”; “The Da Vinci Code”; and “Apollo 13.”

The company is currently producing Lin-Manuel Miranda’s upcoming musical drama “Tick, Tick…Boom,” starring Andrew Garfield, Vanessa Hudgens, Judith Light and Bradley Whitford; “Thirteen Lives,” the real-life story of the cave rescue in Thailand; Lee Daniels’ remake of “Terms of Endearment” and more.

Apple and Imagine have previously partnered on the documentary “Dads,” by Bryce Dallas Howard, and “Peanuts in Space: Secrets of Apollo 10,” which won an Emmy for outstanding single-camera editing. Apple will soon premiere Imagine’s documentary commemorating the 70th anniversary of...

This year 14 performers reaped bids at all three key precursor prizes — the SAG, Golden Globes and Critics’ Choice awards. Such recognition certainly warrants getting up early on Oscar nominations mornings. But as Jennifer Lopez learned in 2020 reaping nominations for that awards triple crown for her featured role in “Hustlers” didn’t make her a sure thing in the Academy Awards derby.

She became the most recent of the 24 performers to stumble at the last hurdle and suffer Oscars snubs since the Critics’ Choice Awards introduced nominations in 2001. In 2019 Emily Blunt (“Mary Poppins Returns”) and Timothee Chalamet (“Beautiful Boy”) got added to the roster of those saddled with this dubious achievement.

Chalamet should take comfort from the case of Leonardo DiCaprio, who finally won an Oscar in 2016 for “The Revenant” after four losses. There were two instances when he didn’t even reap an Oscar nomination despite having done well in the run-up awards.

Video: Hollywood Insider YouTube Channel Armie Hammer Roles: At Hollywood Insider, we are die-hard fans of Armie Hammer, his talent, his looks along with his courage to stand up for humanity constantly. Here we look at all the ways the actor and movie star has evolved since his credited guest-starring debut in 2006 to his mind-blowing leading performances in films such as 'Call Me By Your Name', 'The Social Network', 'J. Edgar', etc. Today, with the release of 'Rebecca' on Netflix, we celebrate Armie Hammer's filmography. In an industry, where most A-list leading men have succumbed to franchises, superhero movies, unrealistic muscles, Armie stands proud away from the crowd, as he continues to win with original films that have made a mark. Hammer is one actor that focuses solely on his talent rather than constantly working out to lure audiences with only skin-show...

HBO Max is set to enter into its second month of existence. And you know what that means: it’s Christmas in July!

HBO Max’s list of new releases for July 2020 is highlighted by one prominent Christmas movie: last year’s Emilia Clarke-starring Last Christmas. But the real cause for Christmas in July is all the exciting animated DC content coming our way on the first of the month. July 1 sees the arrival of just about every animated Batman project ever created. July 1 also features the arrival of just about every Justice League animated series ever created as well.

If that weren’t enough, July 1 is also when every live-action Superman movie (save for Man of Steel) makes it streaming debut. July is starting to look like a month where HBO Max establishes its real potential and geek culture bonafides…despite an at-times difficult rollout.

The HBO original...

When HBO Max launched last month, DC fans hoped it would be the premiere place to go to watch all their favorite DC content. While the streaming service did have an impressive array of films and TV shows available on launch, there were a lot of notable missing titles, too, due to pre-existing licenses getting in the way. As time goes on, though, more DC properties will end up on the site. Case in point: this July will see a whole heap of superhero content go up on HBO Max.

Below you can find the full list of every movie and TV series coming to HBO Now, Go and Max next month, broken down by day of release. It includes an enormous amount of DC animated movies, mostly featuring Batman, the Justice League and Green Lantern. All of the Christopher Reeve Superman films will be up on HBO Max as of July,...

For a man who was so enraged at the administration of Barack Obama that he spent his 2012 Republican Convention speech lecturing an empty chair, Clint Eastwood has made a number of conventional, level-headed — one might even say liberal — political dramas. Films like “Invictus” and “J. Edgar” and “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.” But “Richard Jewell” isn’t one of those. It’s a movie by Clint the chair ranter.

Not that it looks like one. In “Richard Jewell,” Eastwood works in his standard mode of polished no-fuss classicism, and he takes a becalmed, just-the-facts-ma’am approach to telling the story of Richard Jewell (Paul Walter Hauser), the sad-sack security guard who discovered a pipe bomb at Centennial Olympic Park during the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games and, just days after being celebrated for his heroism, became the chief suspect in the case.

If you want to know what happened in the Richard Jewell saga,...

Leo has left Denzel in the dust. Thanks to his lead actor nomination for “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” on Wednesday, Leonardo DiCaprio is now the Screen Actors Guild Awards’ most nominated male performer on the film side with a total of six individual bids.

DiCaprio was in a tie with Denzel Washington at five, but the compositions of their tallies are slightly different. All of Washington’s nominations have come in lead — “The Hurricane” (1999), “Training Day” (2001), “Flight” (2012), “Fences” (2016) and “Roman J. Israel, Esq. (2017). DiCaprio, on the other hand, has five in lead — “The Aviator (“2004), “Blood Diamond” (2006), “J. Edgar” (2011), “The Revenant” (2015) and “Once” — and one in supporting, “The Departed” (2006). He also still has a long way to go to catch up to Meryl Streep‘s record of 11 individual nominations.

Both DiCaprio and Washington have notched one win so far, and in back-to-back years, no less, for “The Revenant” and “Fences,...

The 2019 AFI Fest may have lost its closing-night attraction on Wednesday when Apple pulled “The Banker” from its planned Thursday premiere, but one of the biggest attractions of this year’s lineup still took place on Wednesday, its penultimate night, with the world premiere of Clint Eastwood’s “Richard Jewell.”

And as with all big, previously unseen films that premiere this time of year — particularly if they premiere at an industry-heavy showcase like the AFI Fest — the question that hung in the air immediately after the credits rolled at the packed Tcl Chinese Theatre was, “Is it an awards movie?”

The answer, I suppose, depends on whom you ask. As soon as the film ended, a handful of pundits and fans hit Twitter to declare that “Richard Jewell” had stormed into the Oscar race, particularly with supporting performances by Sam Rockwell and Kathy Bates and the title role by lesser-known actor Paul Walter Hauser.

Can you recall who was responsible for 1996’s Centennial Olympic Park bombing? Three days after the incident, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (accurately) reported that Richard Jewell, the security guard who discovered a backpack containing three pipe bombs and tipped the police, sparing the lives of innumerable concertgoers, had become the FBI’s main suspect. But was it right to run the story? Evidently, CNN had uncovered the same information (that Jewell was being investigated) but chose to wait. Once the Ajc ran it, the news spread fast, turning Jewell from a hero to a villain in the public’s eyes.

Clint Eastwood’s “Richard Jewell” intends to clear the man’s name once and for all. But “Richard Jewell” is a movie, and movies are notoriously inaccurate, taking what’s euphemistically referred to as “dramatic license” to make stories more entertaining. In this case, at a time when politicians have stoked public distrust of news media,...

Naomi Watts has been cast in the lead role in the upcoming Quibi series “Wolves and Villagers,” Variety has learned exclusively.

The exact plot of the short-form series is being kept under wraps, but Quibi co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg has previously described the show as “Fatal Attraction 2.0.” Jason Blum is executive producing the series, with Stuart Blumberg writing and executive producing.

This marks the latest TV project for Watts. She was recently cast in a major role in the “Game of Thrones” prequel pilot at HBO, and signed on to play Gretchen Carlson in the Roger Ailes limited series currently in the works at Showtime. She previously appeared in Showtime’s revival of “Twin Peaks.”

Watts is also known for her roles in films like “Mulholland Drive,” “I Heart Huckabees,” “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance),” “St. Vincent,” “The Ring,” “King Kong, and “J. Edgar.” She earned Academy Award nominations...

Naomi Watts will star in the “Game of Thrones” prequel pilot at HBO that hails from Jane Goldman, Variety has learned.

The exact details of Watts’ character are being kept under wraps, but it is known she is playing “a charismatic socialite hiding a dark secret.”

It was recently announced that Watts had signed on to play Gretchen Carlson in the Roger Ailes limited series currently in the works at Showtime. She previously appeared in Showtime’s revival of “Twin Peaks,” and is known for her roles in films like “Mulholland Drive,” “I Heart Huckabees,” “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance),” “St. Vincent,” “The Ring,” “King Kong, and “J. Edgar.” Watts also earned Academy Award nominations for her roles in “21 Grams” and “The Impossible.” She is repped by CAA, Untitled Entertainment, and Hansen Jacobson.

Taking place thousands of years before the events of “Game of Thrones,” Goldman’s...

There is nothing like a dame!

Dame Judi Dench, the legendary British actress who is currently vying for her eighth Oscar nomination, for her performance as Queen Victoria in Stephen Frears' Victoria and Abdul, was feted with the Santa Barbara International Film Festival's Kirk Douglas Award for Excellence in Film on Thursday night at a black-tie gala dinner.

The event, which took place at the Bacara Resort and Spa near Santa Barbara, with all proceeds going to Sbiff's free year-round educational programs, featured tributes to the 82-year-old from her admirer Jeff Bridges, her J. Edgar costar (and this...

Timothée Chalamet showed up for a long day of New York Film Festival interviews after his Call Me By Your Name castmate Armie Hammer. When “Timmy” (as the cast and crew affectionately call him) walked in, Hammer blasted Kanye’s Can’t Tell Me Nothing and the two danced until the film’s publicist pulled them into our interview.

Call Me By Your Name is dominating entertainment headlines of late: last weekend the film earned the highest per-theater-average of 2017. Following that, Hammer deleted his Twitter account after calling Buzzfeed’s hit piece on him “bitter Af,” Chalamet won Breakthrough Actor at both National Board of Review and the Gotham Awards, where the film also won Best Feature. For reference, the last three films to win Best Feature at Gotham went on to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards.

Hammer led the conversation, with Chalamet often deferring to the seasoned actor,...

“Call Me by Your Name” opened Thanksgiving weekend with stellar reviews and the best limited release numbers of 2017. Sony Pictures Classics acquired the elegiac romantic drama in 2016, and with a finished movie by summer’s end, screened it for Sundance programmers who immediately wanted the film in its lineup.

Now, “Call Me by Your Name” has become a consensus favorite among critics and audiences. It’s simple yet sophisticated, an escapist summer fantasy that feels authentic, and a lovely romance between 17-year-old Elio (Timothée Chalamet) and his professor father’s 24-year-old grad student Oliver (Armie Hammer). And it’s that rare four-quadrant specialty hit: embraced by straights and gays, women and men, young and old.

As classics scholars, Professor Perlman (Michael Stuhlbarg) and Oliver explore the eroticism of Greek statues and fine art; Perlman admires the Grecian ideal of love between two men; he wishes he had experienced what Elio and Oliver share that summer.

“Call Me by Your Name” opened Thanksgiving weekend with stellar reviews and the best limited release numbers of 2017. Sony Pictures Classics acquired the elegiac romantic drama in 2016, and with a finished movie by summer’s end, screened it for Sundance programmers who immediately wanted the film in its lineup.

Now, “Call Me by Your Name” has become a consensus favorite among critics and audiences. It’s simple yet sophisticated, an escapist summer fantasy that feels authentic, and a lovely romance between 17-year-old Elio (Timothée Chalamet) and his professor father’s 24-year-old grad student Oliver (Armie Hammer). And it’s that rare four-quadrant specialty hit: embraced by straights and gays, women and men, young and old.

As classics scholars, Professor Perlman (Michael Stuhlbarg) and Oliver explore the eroticism of Greek statues and fine art; Perlman admires the Grecian ideal of love between two men; he wishes he had experienced what Elio and Oliver share that summer.

Here's the movie of the year for incurable romantics, a rapturous ode to first love that sweeps you up on waves of dizzying eroticism and then sweetly, emphatically leaves you emotionally shattered. For almost a year, Call Me By Your Name – the latest from Luca Guadagnino (I Am Love, A Bigger Splash), a master cinema sensualist – has been a sensation on the film festival circuit. Now this ravishment of image and sound finally goes into wide release. You do not want to miss it.

Set in northern Italy in...

Armand Douglas Hammer is an American actor. He is best known for playing the real-life Winklevoss twins, Tyler and Cameron, in the 2010 film The Social Network, and for portraying the titular character in the 2013 adventure film The Lone Ranger. He also had major roles in the films The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015) and J. Edgar (2011). Hammer was born in Los Angeles, California, to […]

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As we reach that light-at-the-end-of the-tunnel that concludes the 2017 movie year, theatres are now filled with stories “inspired by true events” and “biopics”. This new release is a bit of both, like last weekend’s Marshall, this tells the story of one man, while focusing on one major event or incident of his long life. Unlike the former Supreme Court justice, this person was not well known by the general public. However, his “nickname” became legendary, thanks in part to a Best Picture Oscar winner. Though the film’s title may sound seem like hyperbole, it presents much evidence to support it in Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down The White House.

We first meet mark Felt (Liam Neeson) on a crisp May morning in 1972 as he readies himself for another day in DC as Deputy Associate Director of the FBI (the number three guy at the Bureau). After...

While shooting “Call Me By Your Name,” Armie Hammer acted naked alongside Timothée Chalamet, but moviegoers won’t get to see every detail. Hammer plays twentysomething academic Oliver, who engages in a passionate love affair with Chalamet’s teen Elio over the course of a languid summer at an Italian villa. Nevertheless, due to a combination of no-frontal-nudity clauses for both actors and creative decisions by director Luca Guadagino, the movie’s sexual imagery doesn’t go beyond Hammer’s rear end — and he’s relieved.

“I have a daughter who will one day go to junior high and it somewhat terrifies me, the idea that people would tease her, like, ‘Here’s a picture of your dad’s dick,'” the actor said after his film screened at the Hamptons International Film Festival, which has become an early harbinger of the awards circuit. “We definitely shot more than you see.

From J. Edgar Hoover to Howard Hughes, Leonardo DiCaprio is no stranger to bringing real-life figures to the big screen.

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Here's the latest on upcoming movies about famous and historical figures:   Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese re-team for Roosevelt Baby-faced actor Leonardo DiCaprio is currently the same age as Theodore Roosevelt when he became President of the United States following the McKinley assassination. Now the Oscar-winning actor is set to finally play the early 20th century leader in a movie helmed by Martin Scorsese, according to Deadline. DiCaprio has played famous people for the director before, most notably portraying Howard Hughes in The Aviator. More recently, he embodied another U.S. political figure as the lead in Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar.  He also has tried to get a Teddy Roosevelt biopic going before, as he's reportedly very...

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Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese are once again chasing their dream of developing Roosevelt.

The Oscar-winning star is teaming up with his friend and frequent collaborator to create a biopic focused on the life America's 26th president, Teddy Roosevelt, according to multiplereports.

DiCaprio would star as the titan of American history while Scorsese would direct, based off a script penned by Scott Bloom. The pair are also set to produce the film with Paramount Pictures.

DiCaprio and Scorsese have reportedly been trying to develop Roosevelt for over a decade, but have run into numerous obstacles as the project lingered in limbo.

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This would be the third time DiCaprio has starred in a biopic for Scorsese, following The Aviator in 2004 and The Wolf of Wall Street in 2014 -- both of which earned DiCaprio and Scorsese Oscar nominations.

Together, they've...