FCC Chairman Brendan Carr said that the agency’s review of the proposed Skydance-Paramount Global merger is far from finished, as the two companies have said that they expect to complete the deal by the summer. “At this point we haven’t made a lot of progress on any transaction at the agency,” Carr told reporters…
Hollywood is remembering two-time Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman after he and his wife Betsy Arakawa were found dead in their Santa Fe, New Mexico home on Wednesday. The French Connection actor took home a Best Actor trophy for the 1971 thriller before winning Best Supporting Actor in 1993 for Unforgiven. Hackman said how he hoped…
The Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival has announced its competition lineups for the March event, a slate of world, international and European premieres hailing from Greece, Paraguay, Kyrgyzstan, Israel, Kenya, the U.S. and other parts of the globe. The 10 films chosen for International Competition will compete for the Golden Alexander and the Silver Alexander…
Kylie Jenner and Timothée Chalamet are one of young Hollywood’s biggest couples of the moment. And although we all know they’re together, very little is actually known about their relationship. The pair sat next to one another at the BAFTAs on February 17, wearing matching black outfits, and didn’t try to hide the fact that…
Saturday Night Live is no stranger to mythologizing, and no episode has been as elevated to the stuff of legend as the late-night sketch comedy series’ inaugural showing. A tricenarian Lorne Michaels, half a century yet removed from becoming the preeminent juggernaut of television — before SNL produced such comedic powerhouses as Tina Fey and…
Will Vinton’s “The Adventures of Mark Twain” (1985) is the only film to be made entirely in Vinton’s patented “Claymation” technique and remains a one-of-a-kind animated film. Vinton was already an Oscar winner for his short films. “Closed Monday” was Vinton’s breakthrough in 1974, an 8-minute stunner that resulted in the first Oscar ever given…