While the house in Saltburn may seem compelling, its real-life owner Charles Stopford Sackville would like fans of Emerald Fennell‘s hit film to stop trespassing on his property. Sackville, who owns Drayton House, told the Mail on Sunday that the success of Saltburn has caused an influx of tourists and …
Read More »Why Cate Blanchett Felt 'Compelled' to Bring the Story of an Iranian Woman in Australia to the Screen
The director Noora Niasari deeply understands the personal struggles of people who often go unnoticed by the mainstream flow of life. Her last short film, the 2020 thriller Tâm, about a Vietnamese woman trapped in a cataclysmic sexual encounter, is a haunting gut punch. Noora and I are from different …
Read More »'The Color Purple' Drained Danielle Brooks. She Says She'd Do it Again
Danielle Brooks knows The Color Purple’s Sofia inside out. She spent a year as the boisterous wife in the Broadway revival in 2015, and boasts that she knows everything from the character’s Zodiac sign to the color socks she wore. A decade before her fiery onstage performance, a 15-year-old Brooks …
Read More »Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney Want to Go on Another Steamy Press Tour Together
Glen Powell and Syndey Sweeney don’t want their chemistry to go to waste. The pair, who starred as romantic interests in the hit rom-com Anyone But You, are already looking for their next project to work on together just months after the film’s box-office success. “When you find somebody that …
Read More »John Oliver Captures the Absurdity of Alabama's Anti-IVF Court Ruling
The Alabama Supreme Court’s recent ruling that embryos created using in-vitro-fertilization (IVF) are legally equivalent to people has caused absolute chaos as healthcare providers try to figure out the implications of this new legal status quo. It’s potentially massive and unsettling, as John Oliver pointed out the core absurdity on …
Read More »Zendaya, Michelle Yeoh, and Nicolas Cage Among Presenters at Oscars 2024
The 96th Academy Awards ceremony will have its fair share of stars in the crowd — and on stage. On Monday, the Oscars announced that Zendaya, Nicolas Cage, Michelle Yeoh, and Michelle Pfeiffer are among the actors confirmed to present trophies at the March 10 awards ceremony. The first cohort …
Read More »Ryan Gosling to Perform 'I'm Just Ken' at the 2024 Oscars
Ryan Gosling will bring his Kenergy to the 2024 Oscars ceremony. After months of speculation over whether the actor would take the stage to perform the Oscar-nominated song “I’m Just Ken” at the awards ceremony, Variety reports that Gosling is officially set to perform. The Academy has yet to comment. …
Read More »Alec Baldwin's 'Rust' Shooting Trial Will Begin This Summer
Alec Baldwin’s involuntary manslaughter trial in the accidental 2021 shooting death of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins will begin this summer. In a memo issued Monday, Feb. 26, Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer scheduled jury selection for July 9 and the tentative trial start date for July 10. Sommer said she expected …
Read More »See 'The Devil Wears Prada' Stars Reunite Onstage at the SAG Awards
The stars of The Devil Wears Prada briefly reunited onstage during the 2024 Screen Actors Guild Awards as Anne Hathaway and Emily Blunt helped Meryl Streep present, with the three actresses briefly reprising their roles from the beloved 2006 film. Streep first took the stage alone to give out the …
Read More »'She's Abrasive — and I Loved Her.' Emily Blunt on Her 'Oppenheimer' Role
Emily Blunt is laughing. Talk to the actor for any given amount of time — it could be six hours, might be six minutes — and you’ll hear her do this a lot. She’s a full-body laugher, not the snorting, shaking-fits kind but the pitching-about type, as if she was …
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