Renée Zellweger in WHAT/IF (Netflix) Academy Award winner Renée Zellweger is on the comeback trail in 2019, beginning with her first starring television appearance, the upcoming limited series WHAT/IF from Netflix. In the show, Zellweger plays Anne Montgomery, a successful writer about wealth and making money ‘at any cost,’ who makes lucrative, but dubious offer to a cash-strapped pair of …
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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – MAY 09: (L-R) Michael Schneider, Richard Madden and Keeley Hawes speak onstage during Netflix’s “Bodyguard” screening & panel at Raleigh Studios on May 09, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Rachel Murray/Getty Images for Netflix) No one was more surprised that Richard Madden won this year’s Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor …
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Jimmy Kimmel chats with Ellen DeGeneres (photo courtesy of Netflix) Jimmy Kimmel was on hand last night to interview Ellen DeGeneres during the Netflix FYSEE event for DeGeneres’s Netflix stand-up special, Relatable. After a viewing of the comedy special, which marked her return to stand-up after 15 years, the audience enjoyed listening in as Kimmel peppered his friend with questions …
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The Board of Governors of the Motion Picture Arts and Sciences held their annual board meeting tonight and came out with a handful of new rules, amendments and changes that will go into effect at the next Academy Awards. Changes to Animated Feature, Foreign Language Film (now called International Feature Film), Makeup and Hairstyling and the Animated and Documentary Shorts …
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“For one of us to get through, a hundred of us have to try.” In 2018, 529 women ran for Congress. Four exceptional women mount grassroots campaigns against powerful incumbents in Knock Down the House, an inspiring look at the 2018 midterm elections that tipped the balance of power. When tragedy struck her family in the middle of the financial …
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From left; Zhao Shuzhen, Awkwafina and director Lulu Wang on the set of The Farewell The San Francisco International Film Festival, the longest running film festival in the Americas, is about to embark on its 62nd year and with it brings one of its strongest lineups of female-directed and female-led films ever. 72 women directors in all (including co-directors) make …
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John Cho, Mustafa Shakir, Daniella Pineda and Alex Hassell have been tapped to join Netflix’s all new live action Cowboy Bebop, based on the original Japanese animated series. Alex Garcia Lopez (The Witcher; Marvel’s Daredevil and Marvel’s The Punisher; Utopia) will direct the first two episodes. Writer/Executive Producer Christopher Yost (Thor: The Dark World, Thor: Ragnarok) will write the first …
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Kiernan Shipka and Stanley Tucci in The Silence (photo: YouTube) Part A Quiet Place, part Bird Box, The Silence – coming exclusive to Netflix on April 10th – finds the world under attack from terrifying creatures who hunt their human prey by sound, 16-year old Ally Andrews (Kiernan Shipka), who lost her hearing at 13, and her family seek refuge …
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Mary Zophres, costume designer of The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (right) Costume designer Mary Zophres had created some of the most iconic looks in modern movie history. From The Dude’s robe and sweater in The Big Lebowski to the simple but strikingly effective dresses in La La Land (for which she won a Costume Designers Guild award earned one of …
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Netflix today announced that it has entered into a multi-year overall deal with Darla Anderson (Coco, Cars, Toy Story 3), the Academy Award, Golden Globe, and BAFTA award-winning producer. At Netflix, Anderson will develop and produce new animated and live action projects, both feature films and series, for family audiences around the world. Anderson joined Pixar Animation Studios in 1993, …
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