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At 2025's 97th Academy Awards ceremony, 10 films vied to win Best Picture. However, the Oscars have not always included this many in the lineup. In fact, less than 30 years ago, there were only five nominees in the category. And the one that came away victorious in the 71st Academy Awards continues to be a controversial pick.

To some, Shakespeare in Love was an unexpected hit when it was released in 1998. Starring Joseph Fiennes and Gwyneth Paltrow (also named Best Actress), it excelled as a period drama and a fun historical reimagining. While some moviegoers continue to believe it did not earn its win, further reflection indicates that the Academy did, in fact, make the right decision.

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Both critics and audiences tend to agree that Shakespeare in Love is a brilliant example of the romantic and period genres. However,...

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The Handmaid’s Tale is a dystopian tragedy thriller drama series created by Bruce Miller. Based on the 1985 novel of the same name by Margaret Atwood, the Hulu series is set in a dystopian future after the Second Civil War, which caused the collapse of the fertility rate and gave rise to a totalitarian society. In this world, fertile women are subjugated to bear children against their will. The Handmaid’s Tale stars Elisabeth Moss, Joseph Fiennes, Yvonne Strahovski, Alexis Bledel, Madeline Brewer, Ann Dowd, O-t Fagbenle, Max Minghella, Samira Wiley, Amanda Brugel, Bradley Whitford, and Sydney Sweeney. So, if you loved the inventive story, thrilling drama, and compelling characters in The Handmaid’s Tale, here are some similar shows you should check out next.

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Fringe is a sci-fi paranormal mystery thriller drama series created by J.J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman, and Roberto Orci. The Fox series follows FBI Agent Olivia Dunham, who is assigned to work with mad scientist Walter Bishop and his jack-of-all-trades son Peter Bishop, to investigate cases involving fringe science. Fringe stars Anna Torv, Joshua Jackson, John Noble, Lance Reddick, Kirk Acevedo, Blair Brown, Jasika Nicole, Mark Valley, and Seth Gabel. So, if you loved the mind-bending storylines, thrilling mysteries, and compelling characters in Fringe, here are some similar shows you should check out next.

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The X-Files is a sci-fi mystery horror thriller drama series created by Chris Carter. The Fox series follows FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, who investigate various cases involving paranormal phenomena. The X-Files stars David Duchovny,...

For some, family is everything. If you cross them in any way, there will be hell to pay. It is the nature of things, especially when your family wields power like a sword waiting to slice dissenters in twain. Today, Paramount+ is ready to give Guy Ritchie fans a taste of the filmmaker’s next star-studded series, Mobland, starring Tom Hardy, Pierce Brosman, and Helen Mirren. Paramount’s MobLand trailer is an explosive look at what happens when the wrong people think they can change the pecking order of a well-oiled criminal empire. Good luck with that, friend.

MobLand debuts on Paramount+ on March 30. It centers around two warring families based in London whose enterprises stretch across the globe and the fiercely loyal “fixer” charged with protecting one of them at all costs.

In MobLand, Pierce Brosnan stars as Conrad Harrigan, patriarch of the crime family, with Helen Mirren playing Maeve Harrigan,...

Hulu’s adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, has become a hit for the streamer since it premiered in 2017. In the dystopian drama, a totalitarian, religious, conservative society has taken over America and subjects women into forced birthing-based slavery.

The Handmaid’s Tale has won 15 Emmy Awards over its five seasons and has now led to a spinoff series called The Testaments,which recently cast its lead.Per The Hollywood Reporter,Lucy Halliday will star in the series,which takes place 15 years after the events of The Handmaid’s Tale. Halliday, who won a BAFTA Scotland Award in 2023 for the film Blue Jean, will play Daisy, who is one of the three main protagonists in The Testaments, which is based on Atwood’s 2019 novel of the same name.

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The sequel to The Handmaid's Tale— Hulu's popular and award-winning series based on the Margaret Atwood novel — continues to beef up its main cast. The series, titled The Testaments (like the book on which it is based), recently began shoring up its main team, bringing Chase Infiniti on board to play one of the three main roles, and confirming the return of Ann Dowd's Aunt Lydia. But now we finally know who will be the third woman to join the fold: and that honor belongs to actress Lucy Halliday.

Halliday — who co-starred in the acclaimed 2022 independent film Blue Jean — will tackle the role of Daisy, one of the three co-leads, alongside Dowd's Lydia and Infinit's Agnes. The story takes place approximately fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, where the last gasps of Gilead are currently being felt and still wreaking havoc on the populace of what once was America.

The American Horror Story universe has been replete with chilling performances by some of the most talented actors in Hollywood. Among them is the remarkable Jessica Lange, who joined Ryan Murphy's AHS during its first season as Constance Langdon, a woman who lived next door to the subtitular Murder House. She then starred as Sister Jude in Asylum, Fiona Goode in Coven, and Elsa Mars in Freak Show. She reprised the role of Constance Langdon for 2018's Apocalypse, which marked her last time appearing in the horror anthology. Murphy's been teasing getting some of the show's most beloved stars back for its upcoming thirteenth season, but we can now count Lange out.

At the Glasgow Film Festival premiere of her latest movie, Long Day's Journey Into Night, Lange firmly dismissed the possibility of a return to AHS.

"Oh Christ, no. I mean, I haven't done it for more than 10 years,...

Guy Ritchie’s new organized crime series has finally been given a new title — MobLand — as well as a release date. The series is set to debut on March 30th on Paramount+. Just a little over a month away.

MobLand centers on “two warring families based in London whose enterprises stretch to all corners of the globe and the fiercely loyal ‘fixer’ charged with protecting one of them at all costs.” The series also has some serious star power behind it. Pierce Brosnan stars as Conrad Harrigan, patriarch of the crime family, with Helen Mirren playing Maeve Harrigan, Conrad’s wife and matriarch of the family, and Tom Hardy playing Harry Da Souza, a fixer for the Harrigan family. It also stars Paddy Considine, Joanne Froggatt, Lara Pulver, Anson Boon, Mandeep Dhillon, Jasmine Jobson, Geoff Bell, Daniel Betts, Lisa Dwan, and Emily Barber.

The series actually began life as a...

The sci-fi and fantasy TV world always seems on a paradoxical precipice: Too many good shows get canceled, yet too many keep returning to television. Not that we’re complaining about the latter.

Several long-awaited shows from some of the biggest franchises around, including Marvel, Star Wars, Doctor Who, and The Walking Dead, will return in 2025. Given that most TV shows take a year or longer at least to release the next season, it can be hard to keep track of where we left off in the story. And without catching up with the previous seasons, one could unintentionally commit what is considered in the sci-fi or fantasy community the ultimate blunder: not understanding the references or Easter eggs.

The following are some of the most exciting genre TV shows dropping their next seasons this year. In addition to the ones listed below, Severance (Prime Video), Invincible (Prime Video) and...

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Altered Carbon is a cyberpunk sci-fi thriller series created by Laeta Kalogridis. Based on the 2002 novel of the same name by Richard K. Morgan, the Netflix series follows Takeshi Kovacs, one of the last surviving members of the Interstellar Warriors who wakes up 300 years into the future in a new body. He soon discovers that he was woken up to solve the murder of a wealthy man. Altered Carbon stars Joel Kinnaman, James Purefoy, Anthony Mackie, Martha Higareda, Chris Conner, Dichen Lachman, and Atoh Essandoh. So, if you loved the inventive concept, thrilling story, and compelling characters in Altered Carbon, here are some similar shows you should check out next.

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Westworld is a sci-fi Western thriller drama series created by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy. Based on the 1973 film of the same name by Michael Crichton,...

The past decade has seen some surprisingly high-profile films cancelled, shelved, axed or scrapped. Here they are – all 10 of the poor things.

Film history is littered with abandoned productions, false starts and projects that have withered on the creative vine. What is relatively unusual, though, is for a movie to get through weeks of shooting only for it to be axed at the editing stage.

When we consider how much work goes into a film production before a camera even rolls – casting, building sets, securing locations – the notion that a film could be scrapped at such a late stage seems almost inconceivable. Particularly given that, in the past, films have survived genuine tragedies – The Twilight Zone, The Crow – and still made their way into cinemas.

Over the past decade, however, we’ve seen a number of high-profile films shelved or scrapped. In some instances, they’ve been brought low by...

If The Bad Place ever existed on Earth, it would look a hell of a lot like Gilead, in our estimation. So it makes sense that The Good Place star D'Arcy Carden has joined the fold for the sixth and final season of The Handmaid's Tale. Though production on the show has already wrapped, Hulu is only just now dropping these fascinating casting tidbits in preparation for the series' return to our screens on April 8, 2025.

The Hollywood Reporter revealed D'Arcy Carden's casting in The Handmaid's Tale Season 6. She's not the only new, familiar-to-us face to hop aboard the series in its final outing: late last year it was announced that Veep creep and fellow comedy stalwart Timothy Simons had also joined the cast in a guest-starring capacity. As it currently stands, we have no further details on either actors' characters, but regardless of which side of the revolution they're on,...

Blessed be the fruit, for it giveth us another slice of Margaret Atwood's universe. The author's follow up to The Handmaid's Tale—The Testaments — is also slated for a television adaptation of its own, and is nearing a full series order thanks to some key casting moves. Joining the iconic Ann Dowd — who will be reprising her Aunt Lydia role — is AppleTV+'s Presumed Innocent star Chase Infiniti.

In an exclusive report from Deadline, Infiniti was announced as one of the novel-turned-streaming-series' three co-leads alongside Dowd, putting the show even closer to getting the green light from Hulu. And it's no small role, either. In fact, Infiniti's character, Agnes, has a major connection to Elisabeth Moss's character June.

Curious to know more? Read on! But know that there will be spoilers for The Testaments ahead.

How Is 'The Testaments' Connected To 'The Handmaid's Tale'?

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Did anybody think that The Handmaid's Tale would be even more prescient heading into its final season? Surely not, but here we are! The sixth season of the Hulu series based on Margaret Atwood's novel has never strayed from striking a chord since its debut in 2017 — but with the way things are going in the ol' United States of America, the fight for a revolution in Gilead feels eerily too close to home and the future many people seem to want for this country. So, naturally, we're looking forward to seeing how June (Elisabeth Moss) burns it all down in the end.

Maybe it'll give us all a few pointers as we fall deeper into the dystopian fascist hellscape that the more extreme conservatives among us want. That is assuming we can make it to April 8 when the sixth and final season premieres. In the meantime, the series also gave us a chilling,...

Blessed be the fruit, as The Handmaid's Tale is almost back. The series has been a massive hit with the critics, gaining worldwide acclaim and awards, and it's ready to come back with the sixth and final season.

The series, created by Bruce Miller, premiered in 2017 to huge success. Based on Margaret Atwood's 1985 eponymous novel, the series has gone beyond the events of the book, spreading over six seasons in total. The upcoming sixth and final season wrapped production in November 2024, and will premiere on Hulu on Apr. 8, as the streaming confirmed with the first trailer, as shown below.

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The limited series is loosely based on a real story.

"They believed that these garments that they put on our bodies told the world who we are," Elisabeth Moss’ June voiceover says...

Exclusive: The adaptation of Booker Prize-winner Shuggie Bain has emerged as one of the BBC’s “stuck in limbo” projects as drama boss Lindsay Salt blames a “perfect storm” for the funding crisis but says “we are as creatively ambitious as ever.”

BBC shows that have been greenlit but do not have the budget to get to screen have been the talk of UK TV circles ever since super-producer Jane Featherstone told a public inquiry that the BBC has “multiple shows which through no fault of their own they can’t fund.”

Two weeks later, the BBC acknowledged in a submission to the same parliamentary inquiry that it is struggling to get shows across all genres into production, “even those that have been greenlit by our commissioners.” Wolf Hall director Peter Kosminsky said in his submission that there are 15 such shows across the BBC, ITV and Channel 4, with BBC...

Looking for the most popular movies on Netflix? Here’s a list of the Top 10 most watched movies of all Time that have captured the attention of millions of viewers worldwide. From action-packed thrillers to heartwarming dramas, these films have set new records in the world of streaming.

Some new arrivals are on the list and some titles that you are likely expecting. The biggest surprise on the list is definitely the recently released ‘Carry On’ action thriller directed by Jaume Collet-Serra and written by T. J. Fixman. The film stars Taron Egerton, Sofia Carson, Danielle Deadwyler, and Jason Bateman.

The story follows a young Tsa officer who is blackmailed into letting a nerve agent on a flight on Christmas Eve. Released on Netflix on December 13, 2024, the film received positive reviews and had more views in its opening week than any other Netflix film in 2024.

With 149,400,000 views in total, ‘Carry On...

As Terrence Malick and company now enter the sixth year of editing on his Biblical epic The Way of the Wind, 2025 may now finally be time it sees the light of day. After once again placing it highly among our most-anticipated films of the year, we have a few more details on the film, including a potential reason for it being Malick’s longest-ever post-production.

In celebration of his new book The Magic Hours: The Films and Hidden Life of Terrence Malick, author John Bleasdale has published a fascinating new series on his podcast Writers on Film exploring Malick’s work, including a conversation with his long-time production designer Jack Fisk. While Fisk didn’t work on The Way of the Wind, he did heavy location-scouting for the film starring Géza Röhrig as Jesus, Matthias Schoenaerts as Peter, and Mark Rylance as Satan alongside Ben Kingsley, Joseph Fiennes, Tawfeek Barhom,...

Twenty-five years after his epic return to filmmaking with The Thin Red Line, award-winning auteur Terrence Malick is still busy at work with an "endless energy," as one of the stars of his upcoming film recently told MovieWeb. The Way of the Wind is based on selections from the Bible and features a reliably impressive cast, as is the case with all of Malick's features. One of them is rising star Douglas Booth, who recently discussed Malick's unique filmmaking style with us in a new interview.

"He's a very special director. It was a great pleasure to work with him. I can't really say exactly what I was doing in the film because it's top secret, and I respect the way he works and the way he likes to keep things close to his chest," Booth told us, adding:

"But what I can say is he works in a very specific way,...

Can Cynthia Erivo win the Golden Globe? And is she this year’s… America Ferrera? Gold Derby editors and experts Christopher Rosen and Joyce Eng are here to answer your burning questions of the week on Awards Magnet.

As “Wicked” continues to soar at the box office and generate endless memes, Cynthia Erivo has surged in the Oscar nods and now sits in fifth place in Best Actress. She’s basically a lock to get a Golden Globe nomination on Monday for Best Comedy/Musical Actress, but can she actually win? She feels like she would’ve been as slam dunk winner with the defunct Hollywood Foreign Press Association, but will she be just as, uh, popular with the new and larger pool of Golden Globe voters?

See Experts slugfest mailbag: ‘Wicked’s’ color grading, Kate Winslet, and Demi Moore is Margot Robbie?

Meanwhile, one listener posits that Erivo might...

The BBC has landed on what it hopes will be its next big adaptation, a TV series version of Caleb Azumah Nelson’s buzzy debut Open Water, while drama boss Lindsay Salt has outlined ambitions for a new crime show that “tests the boundaries.”

Open Water follows Marcus and Effie. From the moment they meet, they feel an immediate, undeniable connection. But, as Marcus soon learns, Effie is in a relationship with Marcus’ friend Samuel. It’s a boundary that Marcus is unwilling to cross, but a shared project, photographing and documenting Black creatives in London, draws them into each other’s orbit.

Banijay-backed Mam Tor, which is also producing Richard Gadd’s next project, is making the series alongside Newen Studios-backed B-Side Productions, with Nelson serving as the drama’s lead writer, director and executive producer. Open Water was critically acclaimed when it was published in 2021 and Nelson’s second novel,...

Colin Firth is getting to work on Guy Ritchie‘s Young Sherlock series!

The 64-year-old actor – who stars in lots of fan favorite holiday films like Bridget Jones’s Diary and Love, Actually – was photographed on the set of the Amazon Prime Video show on Sunday (November 24) in Cardiff, Wales. It appeared as if Max Irons, playing Mycroft Holmes, might also have been on set!

Colin is set to portray Sir Bucephalus Hodge in the show, but we don’t have any further details. Hero Fiennes Tiffin, best known for his work in the After movie franchise, is playing the title role in the new series based on Andy Lane‘s novels. Also starring in the series are Hero‘s real-life uncle Joseph Fiennes, as well as Natascha McElhone and Zine Tseng.

Here’s the synopsis for the series: “At age 19, Sherlock Holmes is disgraced, raw, unfiltered, and unformed, when he...

In 1994, David Geffen, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and Steven Spielberg -- three of Hollywood's biggest power players -- united to form a brand-new major motion picture studio called DreamWorks, something that hadn't been attempted in decades. The trio of execs had three stipulations: they wouldn't make any more than nine films a year, they would be allowed to make movies for other studios, and they would be able to go home in time for dinner.

For three years, the trio would wrangle contracts and make deals with various music, film, and television entities to make sure it was standing on solid ground and could handle being the outsize business entity they wanted it to be. In 1997, DreamWorks finally released its first three movies: "The Peacemaker," "Amistad," and "Mouse Hunt." The year after, the studio broke into feature animation with the bad-but-popular CGI insect film "Antz" and the highly acclaimed and very good "The Prince of Egypt,...

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Gwyneth Paltrow didn’t just win an Oscar for Shakespeare in Love—she went to war with Harvey Weinstein behind the scenes. Paltrow didn’t hold back in her Variety cover story celebrating two decades since her Oscar win, calling the disgraced producer a “bully” and revealing just how many battles they had.

“I wasn’t scared of him,” Paltrow said, recalling her early days at Miramax. As the studio’s golden girl, she felt it was her job to stand up to Weinstein. And boy, did she.

The Emma Money Showdown

The first significant fight? Emma is the 1996 flick in which Paltrow earned praise and a big paycheck. When Weinstein tried withholding her back-end compensation, Paltrow didn’t just roll over. “I got him to pay me something,” she said, describing the legal letter they sent with the check.

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Hulu is one of the most underrated streaming services. It airs some of the most brilliant shows while also being overshadowed by the likes of Netflix, Max, and Disney+. The Disney-owned streaming service is one of the most profitable streaming services because it airs great television shows by partnering with cable channels and networks in addition to its own original shows. So, we compiled a list of the best shows that are available on Hulu right now.

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Only Murders in the Building is a murder mystery comedy-drama series created by Steve Martin and John Hoffman. The Hulu series follows a trio of strangers living in the same New York City apartment building. They have nothing in common aside from their love for true crime podcasts and when a murder is committed in their building,...

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Silo is a sci-fi dystopian thriller drama series created by FX’s Justified famed Graham Yost. Based on the Silo trilogy of novels by Hugh Howey, the Apple TV+ takes us to a dystopian future where the last ten thousand surviving humans live in a deep underground Silo, and they are told that the outside world is uninhabitable but skepticism about that statement is baked in from the start both in the characters and the audience. The one rule in the Silo everybody has to follow is not to say that someone wants to go outside because if they do they will be sent outside to die alone. Silo stars Rebecca Ferguson, Rashida Jones, David Oyelowo, Common, Tim Robbins, Harriet Walter, Avi Nash, and Rick Gomez. So, if you loved the thrilling mystery, dark dystopian world, and compelling...

We’re still a few months away from The Handmaid’s Tale Season 6.

But we’re getting a new glimpse of the dystopian drama’s final act thanks to some first-look photos and new 2025 sizzle reel footage from Hulu and Disney+.

The show is set to return in spring, though no specific release date has been announced.

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Fortunately, if you’re a subscriber to the Disney+/Hulu bundle, you’ll have plenty of entertainment options in the year to come.

The sizzle reel also provides first looks at:

The Bear Season 4, Andor Season 2, Goosebumps Season 2, and Percy Jackson & The Olympians Season 2.

And there are plenty of new shows on the way, too!

We’ve got Alien: Earth from Fargo creator Noah Hawley and the football comedy Chad Powers starring Glen Powell.

There’s also the highly anticipated dramas Good American Family, starring Ellen Pompeo, and Paradise, featuring...

The Handmaid's Tale, based on Margaret Atwood's eponymous novel, premiered in 2017, and it was a major hit during every awards season. The series has been confirmed for a sixth and final season, and Hulu has treated fans with the first look and release window.

The 15-time Primetime Emmy-winning series takes a dystopian approach to the U.S., where birth rates have collapsed, and fertile women are forced into enslavement to birth children. The series, which stars Elisabeth Moss in the leading role, took a big break since the release of the last season, which premiered in late 2022, and will return with Season 6 on Hulu in the spring of 2025. As Disney+ officially confirmed the titles for next year with a clip filled with previews of what's to come on the streaming platform, as well as Hulu, The Handmaid's Tale also received a first teaser.

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Hulu has released some of the first images of the sixth and final season of The Handmaid’s Tale, which is slated to premiere this spring. We also catch a glimpse of the upcoming season in a sizzle reel unveiled today by Disney+/Hulu. See above and below.

Season 5 follows June (Elisabeth Moss) in the aftermath of Commander Waterford’s (Joseph Fiennes) murder and the consequences she must face for her role in the gruesome slaying. At a minimum, she will have to face off with his widow Serena (Yvonne Strahovski), and on some level Gilead. But mainly, she will be forced to redefine her identity and purpose, now forever changed.

Meanwhile, Commander Lawrence (Bradley Whitford) works with Nick (Max Minghella) and Aunt Lydia (Ann Dowd) as he tries to reform Gilead and rise in power. But who knows what the Commander and Nick—who helped June get her hands on...

As the weather turns colder and the nights grow longer, the fall season is the perfect time to watch incredible dark horror TV shows. There's nothing better than curling up on the couch, swaddled in blankets, watching a spooky show that can send shivers down the spine. The horror genre is filled with a variety of terrifying content, such as psychological thrillers, gruesome slashers, supernatural monsters and gothic horror.

The diversity of types of horror TV shows ensures that every type of horror fan has ample options for perfect entertainment during the fall. A horror TV show's atmosphere can increase the show's scare factor and give it a chilly and dreary fall feel. The atmosphere of a terrifying horror TV show can make a scene truly haunting and fit the fall. From creepy desolate places obscured by fog to decrepit mansions with a dark history, the settings of certain horror...

England's Queen Elizabeth I is a renowned and complicated historical figure who made unique contributions to Western civilization. As a result, it's not surprising that there are plenty of movies about Elizabeth I to choose from. While the English royal family has always been a source of interest for viewers across the globe, TV shows and movies keep that spark of intrigue alive. The line of succession in British history is a bloody one, full of political intrigue, scandal, and reform that makes for great television and movies.

Few royals are remembered as Elizabeth I was, and she has quite a unique place in history. One of England's most esteemed monarchs, Queen Elizabeth I is known as the "Virgin Queen," as she famously never married. She brought her domain into the Golden Age after the oppressive rule of her sisters and King Henry VIII before her. There are many accomplishments to her estimable name,...

The sixth and final season of The Handmaids Tale is reportedly set to debut in spring 2025, but Yvonne Strahovski is ready to share her thoughts about our favorite Emmy Award-winning dystopian drama. In an exclusive interview with MovieWeb to promote her new horror thriller Teacup, Strahovski had plenty to say about working with Elisabeth Moss on the hit shows last hoorah, noting:

We've just begun shooting our last season, so we're deep in it here in Toronto. You know, she's [Elisabeth Moss] directing, so it's always really easy, I think, when she's directing because we all have a short end, and we all know each other so well.

We had to ask about other plot details, too, but the actress was quick to offer: Its hard to talk about it because I dont want to give anything away, but we certainly spent a lot of time on it. My first two weeks were intense,...

Director Guy Ritchie is once again assembling a star-studded cast for his upcoming TV project with Paramount+, titled The Associate. The series will be loosely based on Showtimes hit crime drama series Ray Donovan, which ran on air for seven seasons from 2013-2019.

According to Deadline, Tom Hardy, Helen Mirren, and Pierce Brosnan have entered final negotiations to star in Paramount+s Ray Donovan spinoff. Mirren and Brosnan will portray the matriarch and patriarch of a crime family. This marks the veteran actors latest collaboration, after being cast together in Netflixs upcoming murder mystery movie The Thursday Murder Club from director Chris Columbus. As for Hardy, he is set to play the role of Harry, whos described as a dangerous and handsome fixer. This serves as The Dark Knight Rises stars first major TV project in a long while, after briefly reprising his role as Alfie Solomons in the final...

The Iceman, a feature chronicling the true-life story of extreme athlete Wim Hof, has been put on hold following allegations of abuse made against Hof by his ex-partner.

Kevin Macdonald was set to direct and Joseph Fiennes to star in the project, which is produced by Genesius Pictures and sold internationally by Cornerstone.

A spokesperson for Genesius Pictures said: “Genesius Pictures can confirm that due to the severity of the allegations, this production, which was in development only and had not begun filming, is on hold.”

The project was first unveiled at the European Film Market in 2022 by Cornerstone. A...

A UK-produced biopic exploring the life of Dutch extreme athlete Wim Hof has been put on hold following allegations of domestic abuse against the cold-water guru, which he has denied.

The film was originally announced in 2022 with Kevin Macdonald attached to direct and Joseph Fiennes signed to star as Hof.

The project reunited London-based production company Genesius Pictures and sales agent Cornerstone Films after their successful collaboration on Good Luck To You, Leo Grande.

The decision to halt the project follows a report in Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant over the weekend in which the athlete’s ex-partner said he had physically and verbally abused her, their son and her two children from a previous marriage over a 13-year period.

Hof has denied the report and since filed a complaint for alleged defamation and slander, but the production company appears to be waiting for the outcome of the case.

“Genesius Pictures...

Guy Ritchie’s new Sherlock Holmes television series titled “Young Sherlock” has found its Mycroft Holmes. Max Irons will play the role of the elder Holmes brother in the Amazon Prime Video show. Mycroft is Sherlock’s sibling who has already established the Diogenes Club in London. Little is known about Irons’ portrayal of the character so far, but it suggests Mycroft will play an important part in the story.

The series will follow the renowned detective Sherlock Holmes during his university years at Oxford. Hero Fiennes Tiffin was previously cast as the young Sherlock Holmes. Now 19 years old, he becomes embroiled in a murder mystery that threatens his freedom. Uncovering a vast conspiracy in the process, Sherlock begins to hone the observational skills that made him famous.

Set against the backdrop of 19th century Oxford, “Young Sherlock” draws inspiration from a series of novels about the character’s early life.

Hello, brother: Max Irons (Condor) will play Mycroft Holmes in Prime Video’s Young Sherlock series starring Hero Fiennes Tiffin as the titular character, our sister site Deadline reports.

Adapted from Andy Lane’s Young Sherlock Holmes books and written by Matthew Parkhill (Deep State), the show reimagines the titular detective as a 19-year-old “disgraced” and “unfiltered” young man embroiled in a murder mystery at Oxford University which threatens his freedom. He’ll delve into his first case with a lack of discipline and uncover a “globe-trotting conspiracy” that will change his life.

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The cast for Guy Ritchie's Young Sherlock series for Prime Video is beginning to take shape, as it has officially found it star to portray Mycroft Holmes.

Per Deadline, Max Irons has officially been cast as Sherlock Holmes' older brother, Mycroft Holmes. Irons is best known for starring as Joe Turner in the series Condor and as Jared Howe in the 2013 film, The Host. Irons joins an elite cast which includes Hero Fiennes Tiffin as Sherlock Holmes, Dnal Finn as James Moriarty, Joseph Fiennes as Silas Holmes, Natascha McElhone as Cordelia Holmes, Zine Tseng as Princess Gulun Shouan, and Colin Firth as Sir Bucephalus Hodge.

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Based on the series of novels written by Andy Lane, Ritchie's Young Sherlock is described as "as an irreverent,...

Guy Ritchie's Young Sherlock welcomes another member to the Holmes family, as the director's upcoming Prime Video series casts the future detective's brother Mycroft. Set during Sherlock Holmes' late teen years as he studied at Oxford University, the series sees Arthur Conan Doyle's detective dragged into a murder case that will uncover a vast conspiracy. Ritchie's return to the classic literature character will not be connected to his Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law-led movie duology, but instead adapt the Young Sherlock novel series written by Andrew Lane.

As filming continues, Deadline reports that the series has cast a pivotal player for the series. Max Irons will take on the role of Mycroft, the elder son of the Holmes family. The actor will star alongside Hero Fiennes Tiffin, who will play the young lead. Irons is best known for his role of Edward IV alongside Dune...

Young Sherlock is filling out its cast!

Guy Ritchie‘s Prime Video series has cast the title character’s older brother, Deadline confirms.

Condor star Max Irons is set as a series regular, playing Mycroft Holmes alongside Hero Fiennes Tiffin as Sherlock.

The actor was photographed on the set of the series, although his character had not been revealed until now.

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Inspired by Andy Lane’s book series, Young Sherlock is described as an “irreverent, action-packed origin story of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s beloved detective in a re-imagining of this iconic character. At age 19, Sherlock Holmes (Fiennes Tiffin) is disgraced, raw, unfiltered, and unformed, when he finds himself caught up in a murder mystery at Oxford University which threatens his freedom. Diving into his first-ever case with a wild lack of discipline, Sherlock manages to unravel a globe-trotting conspiracy that will change his life forever.

Exclusive: Guy Ritchie’s Young Sherlock series has cast the title character’s older brother. Max Irons (Condor) is set as a series regular on the Prime Video show, playing Mycroft Holmes opposite Hero Fiennes Tiffin’s Sherlock. Speculation about Irons’ casting started last month when he was snapped on the set of the series; his character had not been revealed until now.

Inspired by Andy Lane’s book series, Young Sherlock is described as an irreverent, action-packed origin story of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s beloved detective in a re-imagining of this iconic character. At age 19, Sherlock Holmes (Fiennes Tiffin) is disgraced, raw, unfiltered, and unformed, when he finds himself caught up in a murder mystery at Oxford University which threatens his freedom. Diving into his first-ever case with a wild lack of discipline, Sherlock manages to unravel a globe-trotting conspiracy that will change his life forever.

In addition to Fiennes Tiffin,...

All good things must come to an end, including Hulus acclaimed series The Handmaids Tale, which has just cast Veeps Timothy Simons to appear in its final season. Per Variety, Simons will have a guest-starring role in the award-winning series that began in 2017, and is based on the novel by Margaret Atwood. Starring Elisabeth Moss, The Handmaids Tale became the first streaming show in history to win the Emmy for Best Drama, which along with shows like Stranger Things a year prior paved the way for other streaming services to begin presenting viewers with high-quality original programming.

Simons is best known for his role on Veep, where he portrayed Jonah Ryan, who started off as the White House liaison to Vice President Meyer's office, but by the final season became her presidential rival, peddling numerous conspiracy theories akin to what were seeing in the current race for the White...

The Handmaid's Tale season 6 begins filming, with a release window confirmed for the long-running hit Hulu show. Intended as the final chapter of the Emmy-winning drama, which is based on the novel by Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale season 6 was originally slated to begin production last year with an eye towards a fall 2024 premiere. But that deadline has passed, impacted by the scheduling fallout of the writers and actors strikes in the latter half of 2023

The official Instagram account for The Handmaid's Tale has now shared a photo of star and executive producer Elizabeth Moss, with the caption confirming: Production on the final season has officially started.

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Moss, who plays the lead character June Osborne, is seen smiling in the photo, which also reveals that the actor will direct the premiere episode. Along with the announcement of the start of filming,...

At the peak of her career, Julia Roberts was known not only for her charismatic acting but also for her complicated relationships with industry figures. One of the most notable controversies occurred during the filming of Steven Spielberg’s 1991 film Hook, where tensions escalated between Roberts and the acclaimed director.

Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman | Credit: Touchstone Pictures

The conflict, however, was not the only such incident, as the actress also had a contentious relationship with Edward Zwick, the producer of Shakespeare in Love. Zwick has since reflected on their fallout, admitting that their professional disagreements led to a lasting estrangement.

Producer Revealed the Casting Drama of Shakespeare in Love

John Madden’s 1998 film Shakespeare in Love was a huge hit, earning $289 million at the box office and seven Oscars, including for Best Actress for Gwyneth Paltrow, who took on the role of Viola de Lesseps in the movie.

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The Handmaid’s Tale is officially back in production on its sixth and final season.

Hulu revealed Friday that cameras began rolling on the series’ conclusion on September 3, sharing a photo of series star Elisabeth Moss holding the slate for the first scene of Episode 1, which she will also be directing.

Along with the production announcement, Hulu also said that Season 6 will debut in spring 2025.

The final chapter of the Emmy-winning Hulu series originally was to begin production in 2023 for a fall 2024 premiere, but that schedule, of course, was delayed by the strikes.

Season 5 follows June (Elisabeth Moss) in the aftermath of Commander Waterford’s (Joseph Fiennes) murder and the consequences she must face for her role in the gruesome slaying. At a minimum, she will have to face off with his widow Serena (Yvonne Strahovski), and on some level Gilead. But mainly, she will be forced to redefine her identity and purpose,...

James Graham, the creator of Sherwood, Dear England and Brexit: The Uncivil War, has urged the creation of “new universes” and greater risk taking in place of TV’s gatekeepers “falling back on tried and tested IP.”

Delivering this year’s Edinburgh TV Festival MacTaggart lecture, the prolific British scribe argued passionately for greater working class representation in the TV industry, along with criticizing commissioners’ ongoing temptation to opt for “source material, adaptations and expanded universes.”

Graham used the annual Edinburgh platform to plead for “new universes, which means – taking risks.”

He added: “New stories have to be at the heart of commissioning – scripted, non-scripted, factual, fictional … even in the most difficult climate, where the temptation, and we’re witnessing it, is to fall back on tried and tested IP.”

The industry should see “risk” as a long-term “vital” investment in the future health of the sector, Graham said, coming...

Harvey Weinstein employed an aggressive marketing campaign to overthrow one deserving film from the Oscar race in 1999. Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan was released in July 1998 and was one of the best films of the year. However, Miramax’s relatively unpopular film, Shakespeare in Love, went on to win the prestigious Academy Award for Best Picture.

Harvey Weinstein produced Shakespeare in Love won Best Picture at the 1999 Oscars | Credits: Miramax Films

The film’s Oscar win is largely controversial and can be attributed to Weinstein’s politicking at the time. Weinstein even kickstarted a negative whisper campaign against Saving Private Ryan, spreading the perception that the Spielberg war drama was all in the opening minutes.

Harvey Weinstein Employed a Smear Campaign Tactic Against Steven Spielberg’s War Film Tom Hanks in Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan | Credits: Paramount Pictures

John Madden’s Shakespeare in Love is not a terrible film by any means,...

Snowpiercer is a post-apocalyptic dystopian thriller film created by Josh Friedman and Graeme Manson. Based on a 2013 film of the same name by director Bong Joon-ho, the TNT and now AMC series is set in a frozen wasteland of a world with the only survivors living on a perpetually moving train, where class warfare runs rampant and the politics of survival is deadly to learn. Snowpiercer stars Jennifer Connelly and Daveed Diggs in the lead roles with Rowan Blanchard, Sean Bean, Alison Wright, Annalise Basso, Mickey Sumner, Lena Hall, and Susan Park starring in supporting roles. So, if you loved the post-apocalypse, intense drama, and complex characters in Snowpiercer here are some similar shows you should check out next.

The 100 (Netflix & Rent on Prime Video) Credit – The CW

The 100 is a post-apocalyptic sci-fi action drama series created by Jason Rothenberg. Based on a series of young adult sci-fi novels by author Kass Morgan,...

Lisa Westcott, the British makeup artist who won an Oscar for her work on 2012’s Les Misérables, has died, her husband told The Hollywood Reporter. She was 76.

Westcott died July 30 at her home in Oxford with her husband, Jeremy Ancock, and her twin children, George Ancock and Harriette Rothwell, with her. She was a staunch advocate for crew workers’ rights and fought fiercely for them to be upheld over the years, her family said.

She shared the Oscar for best makeup and hairstyling with Julie Dartnell for their efforts on the musical’s film adaptation that starred Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe and Anne Hathaway.

The pair were photographed accepting the prestigious prize from Jennifer Aniston and Channing Tatum 11 years ago, beaming as they posed for photos afterward.

Westcott also earned two consecutive Oscar nominations for Mrs Brown (1997), starring Judi Dench, Billy Connolly and Gerard Butler, and Shakespeare in Love (1998), with Gwyneth Paltrow and Joseph Fiennes,...

Young Sherlock TV series can explore Holmes & Moriarty's rivalry origin story. Professor Moriarty wasn't expected to appear, but Young Sherlock offers a chance to explore their backstory. Recent adaptations failed to show how Holmes and Moriarty met, but Young Sherlock has the opportunity to fill that gap.

Sherlock Holmes is returning to TV with the series Young Sherlock, directed by Guy Ritchie, and thanks to one character, it can finally answer a big question about the famous detective and his equally famous archenemy, Moriarty. Guy Ritchie is no stranger to the world of Sherlock Holmes after directing Sherlock Holmes and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows in 2009 and 2011, with Robert Downey Jr. as Holmes and Jude Law as Dr. Watson. Ritchie is now returning to the world of the Great Detective, though not as expected.

Ritchie is directing Prime Videos TV series Young Sherlock, based on the book series...