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Making of 'The Two Popes': Director Fernando Meirelles Cast Francis After Google Search

While shooting inside a Roman refugee camp and re-creating the Sistine Chapel, the film ultimately focuses on a conversation between conservative Benedict XVI and progressive Francis as it explores "what had made the most traditional pope of the modern ...

Box Office Bust: Clint Eastwood's 'Richard Jewell' Derailed by Apathy, Not Controversy

Richard Jewell definitely did not make Clint Eastwood's day. Over the weekend, the biographical drama launched nationwide to an estimated $5 million in a near-career worst showing for the prolific director. His only movie to have opened lower was Bronco ...

Gabrielle Union: 'Don't Be the Happy Negro That Does the Bidding of the Status Quo'

Variety

Variety

Speaking on a female empowerment and inclusivity panel at the launch of her holiday collection with new York and Company, Gabrielle Union alluded to her firing from "America's Got Talent." While she did not specifically call out the NBC series, Union's ...

Academy Unveils 2020 Oscar Shortlists

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Monday unveiled the shortlists for nine Oscar categories, including documentary and international feature and makeup and hairstyling. Other categories with shortlists released on Monday include original ...

Why 'Jumanji' Director Jake Kasdan Chose That End-Credits Scene

'The Next Level' features a sequence that "suggests something that I'd actually love to see," in a sequel, says the filmmaker. [This story contains mild spoilers for Jumanji: The Next Level.] Two years ago, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle stunned Hollywood ...

Bombshell Is the Latest Example of Pop Culture Reckoning With the Complicated Reality of #MeToo at Work

Warning: This post contains spoilers for Bombshell, Succession and The Morning Show. Megyn Kelly makes for a curious cinematic hero. She's the nominal protagonist of Bombshell, the Big Short-style Oscar hopeful that retells the story of the Roger Ailes ...

The True Story Behind Bombshell and the Fox News Sexual Harassment Scandal

The new film Bombshell, which recently snagged two Golden Globe and four SAG Awards nominations, tells the true story of the sexual harassment scandal that took down Roger Ailes, the head of Fox News and a kingmaker in the Republican party. Ailes was ...

Spies In Disguise balances its absurd premise with clever action and a good heart: Review

When you think about it, "how do you fit a spy story into an all-ages movie?" is almost as tough of a problem as turning a human being into a pigeon. The average spy tale is bound to involve deceit and death, the darker ones torture and betrayal, but they all ...

Hail to the king! His Dark Materials star goes behind Iorek and Iofur's death match

Warning: This article contains spoilers from His Dark Materials episode 7, "The Fight to the Death." Welcome to the Monday Night Smackdown. In one corner, weighing in at a solid several tons with an appetite as big as his ego, it's Iofur Raknison, the current ...

Greta Gerwig had the perfect ending for 'Little Women.' Here's why she kept it a secret

Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles Times

Greta Gerwig knew how to end her new adaptation of "Little Women," the eighth film version of Louisa May Alcott's classic girlhood novel. She also knew not everyone would like her idea, so she decided to shoot it surreptitiously, betting she could pull it off.