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John Waters: 'The Movie Business ... Is Over'
John Waters: 'The Movie
Business ... Is Over'
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Jun 21, 2025 1:05 PM CDT

John Waters: 'The Movie Business ... Is Over'

Revered director not optimistic about cinema

(Newser) - Legendary director John Waters doesn't have the most optimistic take on the state of American cinema:
  • "The movie business, as I know it, is over," Waters declared over the weekend, reports MovieMaker .

Top-Grossing Summer Movies Since Jaws

The classic turned summer into blockbuster season in 1975

(Newser) - Jaws incredibly turns 50 this week, and its legacy of the summer movie blockbuster remains strong. The titles that have packed the most summer moviegoers into theaters since 1975 represent some of the best known films of the last half-century, including five Star Wars movies, Pixar favorites like Toy Story ...

Actor: Notorious 'Lost' Jerry Lewis Film Is in 'Very Good Hands'

Hans Crispin says he made copy of Holocaust movie The Day the Clown Cried in 1980

(Newser) - Some big news for fans of the late Jerry Lewis: A Swedish actor has revealed that he secretly copied and kept a notorious lost film by Lewis for decades. Hans Crispin, now 66, admitted in interviews with Swedish media that he made a copy of the infamous 1972 film...

28 Years Later Is a 'Poetic Apocalyptic Downer'
28 Years Later Is a
'Poetic Apocalyptic Downer'
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Jun 19, 2025 7:58 AM CDT

28 Years Later Is a 'Poetic Apocalyptic Downer'

Ambitious horror sequel is 'a truly bizarre piece of art'

(Newser) - A lot has changed since 2002's 28 Days Later, which introduced audiences to the so-called rage virus, and 2007's 28 Weeks Later, which raised hopes of eradicating the virus only to dash them. Foremost, audiences now know what it's like to live through an actual pandemic. And...

Jeremy Allen White Transforms From Bear to Boss
Jeremy Allen White
Transforms From Bear to Boss
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Jun 18, 2025 11:50 AM CDT

Jeremy Allen White Transforms From Bear to Boss

First trailer for Bruce Springsteen biopic is out

(Newser) - The question was whether Jeremy Allen White, the award-winning lead actor of The Bear, could physically and vocally transform into The Boss. The answer, according to Variety , is yes. In the first trailer for the Bruce Springsteen biopic Deliver Me From Nowhere , released Wednesday, White resembles the singer in looks...

Lilo & Stitch Actor Dies Weeks After Release
Lilo & Stitch Actor Dies
Weeks After Release
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Jun 17, 2025 9:30 AM CDT

Lilo & Stitch Actor Dies Weeks After Release

David Hekili Kenui Bell, a native Hawaiian, was 46

(Newser) - A rising actor has tragically died while his most recent movie, the live-action remake of Lilo & Stitch, is still in theaters. David Hekili Kenui Bell, a member of SAG-AFTRA who also appeared in episodes of Hawaii Five-0 and Magnum PI, joined "the company of our Heavenly Father,"...

Kate Beckinsale's Lawsuit Is 'Quite Something'

Actor says producers behind Canary Black didn't provide safe working conditions, leaving her injured

(Newser) - Kate Beckinsale's action flick Canary Black debuted last year on Amazon Prime, but her involvement in it isn't quite done. Per Variety , the 51-year-old actor, who plays a CIA operative being chased by terrorists, is suing the movie's producers for unsafe working conditions while they were filming...

Rude Moviegoers Have Driven Scorsese Out of Theaters

Directing legend says he watches films at home now, put off by obnoxious movie patrons in public

(Newser) - Martin Scorsese says he's had enough of watching movies in theaters, blaming bad audience behavior for ruining the experience. In an interview with film critic Peter Travers for "The Travers Take" blog cited by the Guardian , the 82-year-old Goodfellas and Irishman director said he's too distracted...

Suit: Stunt Double Traumatized by Kevin Costner Rape Scene

Devyn LaBella says she didn't consent to unscripted shoot that violated rules

(Newser) - Kevin Costner has been sued by a stunt performer on his Horizon sequel , who claims she had to perform in a "violent" unscripted rape scene without the required notice, consent, or participation of an intimacy coordinator. Devyn LaBella was the lead stunt double for Ella Hunt, who plays Juliette...

On Last Day of Cannes, All Goes Dark
On Last Day of Cannes,
All Goes Dark
May 24, 2025 10:30 AM CDT

On Last Day of Cannes, All Goes Dark

Power outage shuts everything down for hours at film fest in southeastern France

(Newser) - A major power outage struck southeastern France on Saturday morning, disrupting traffic and briefly halting events at the Cannes Film Festival as the prestigious event prepared to hand out its top prize. Power was restored around 3pm local time, amid cheers from bystanders and music blasting again from beachfront speakers....

Kristen Stewart Drops 'One Hell of a Directorial Debut'

The Chronology of Water receives a 6-minute standing ovation at Cannes

(Newser) - Standing ovations aren't unusual at the Cannes Film Festival, but the six-minute-long one that greeted Kristen Stewart's directorial debut, The Chronology of Water, in the early hours of Saturday "didn't feel like a normal standing ovation," writes Jada Yuan at the Washington Post . "It...

Think the US Can't Remake a Foreign Film? Think Again

Guardian provides a ranked list, with the Magnificent Seven at the top

(Newser) - Snobby cinephiles may insist that American redos of foreign films often aren't up to snuff, but the Guardian disagrees—at least in terms of the remakes it found that more than hold their own. At the top of the outlet's list: The Magnificent Seven, the 1960 do-over of...

A Strange Hollywood Gaffe, Solved
A Strange
Hollywood
Gaffe, Solved
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May 18, 2025 7:37 AM CDT

A Strange Hollywood Gaffe, Solved

Forrest Wickman unravels a bird goof in Charlie's Angels for Slate

(Newser) - It is, writes Forrest Wickman at Slate , tongue planted in cheek, "one of the greatest mysteries of recent cinema." Make that "was," because Wickman has cracked the case of a strange bird goof in the first Charlie's Angels movie. Wickman is a newly converted birder,...

Alligator Made Famous in Happy Gilmore Dies

Morris the alligator was likely at least 80 years old

(Newser) - An alligator that appeared in numerous TV shows and films over three decades, most notably the 1996 Adam Sandler comedy Happy Gilmore, has died at a gator farm in southern Colorado, the AP reports. Based on his growth rate and tooth loss, Morris the alligator was at least 80 years...

After Taliban Killed Man Exposed in Documentary, His Widow Sues

Suit says Taliban killed Afghan mine-clearer Omar Khan after he was featured in film

(Newser) - An Emmy-winning National Geographic documentary about Afghanistan's final days under US occupation is now at the center of a wrongful death lawsuit, after a featured Afghan was identified by the Taliban and killed. The widow of the man who appeared in Retrograde has filed her complaint against the...

Steven Spielberg Names the Best American Movie Ever
Steven Spielberg Names
'Greatest American Film Ever'
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May 4, 2025 4:00 PM CDT

Steven Spielberg Names 'Greatest American Film Ever'

For the award-winning director, it's Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather

(Newser) - Steven Spielberg has named the No. 1 movie ever created here in the US—and it's not Jaws, ET, Schindler's List, Raiders of the Lost Ark, or any of his other award-winning flicks. At a star-filled American Film Institute event on Saturday in Los Angeles honoring fellow filmmaker...

Wuthering Heights Casting Riles Book Fans

Emerald Fennell's adaptation stars Margot Robbie as Catherine, Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff

(Newser) - Responses have not been entirely favorable to the casting of Australian actors Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi to lead Emerald Fennell's adaptation of Wuthering Heights. "There was one Instagram comment that said the casting director should be shot," said casting director, Kharmel Cochrane, at a film festival...

After Pope's Death, Ralph Fiennes Flick Gets a Boost

Conclave , about the selection of a new pope, saw 283% streaming spike right after Francis died

(Newser) - As the world awaits the papal conclave that will replace the late Pope Francis with a new head of the Catholic Church, many are taking to their TV remotes to get an idea of how that process works—specifically, by watching the Oscar-winning movie Conclave, starring Ralph Fiennes. NBC News...

Alicia Silverstone to Reprise Her Most Famous Role

Actor, 48, will star as Cher Horowitz in TV series based on 1995's Clueless

(Newser) - Alicia Silverstone was just a teen when she made Clueless, the movie that put her on the Hollywood map. Now 48, the actor is reprising the role of the Valley Girl-like Cher Horowitz for a TV series based on the 1995 film set to air on Peacock, reports Variety . The...

Even Top Indie Directors Make Little Money

IndieWire: Sean Baker, Brady Corbet illustrate the challenges of independent film

(Newser) - Indie directors Sean Baker and Brady Corbet both had banner awards seasons for their respective films Anora and The Brutalist. But as IndieWire notes, both made clear on the interview circuit and in their speeches that it's nearly impossible for independent directors to make a living these days. Corbet,...

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