“That was a horrific night, as you can imagine. There’s many nuances and complexities to it. But at the end of the day, I just, I lost it, you know? I guess what I would say, you just never know what somebody’s going through,” Smith said. “I was going through something that night, you know? Not that that justifies my behavior at all, I would just say, you’re asking what I learned....
Along with four-time Academy Award nominee Michelle Williams, Sandler will be recognized for his contributions to the film and TV industry over his 30-plus-year career. The “Hustle” and “Uncut Gems” star will be honored during the 32nd annual Gotham Awards on November 28. “Adam Sandler’s spectacular performances across some of the most popular films of the past three decades have inspired the community of filmmakers that we represent here at The Gotham time and time again,” Jeffrey Sharp, executive director of The Gotham Film & Media Institute, said in a press statement....
The re-launched Orion Television was behind the rebooted “Teen Wolf: The Movie,” which is expected to stream on Paramount+ next year. Gardner came over to lead the division from Paramount Network and focused on comedy and drama series for the label. Read the full memo from Sanders below. Sign Up: Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here. Further to my note on November 7th, I am thrilled to be able to announce two teams that will be an integral part of our US/Global TV Creative Development organization through which we will cultivate five specialized pipelines of original content....
Heard alleged Depp led a PR “smear campaign” against her after she obtained a domestic violence restraining order in 2016. The couple divorced in 2017. Depp is currently suing Heard for $50 million over defamation claims due to a 2018 Washington Post op-ed she wrote alleging she was a domestic violence survivor. Heard later filed a $100 million countersuit against Depp, saying his legal team defamed her by calling her allegations false....
What Cameron had in mind for “The Way of Water” required even greater innovative tech from Wētā and his own Lightstorm studio. The director wanted the look of a NatGeo doc for his sci-fi sequel, which would expand the world of Pandora to include the Metkayina reef clan and their magnificent underwater culture. For this, Cameron and Letteri partnered on their most ambitious undertaking to date. While the director spearheaded the design of a 180-pound 3D Sony Venice camera to shoot first-time underwater performance capture, the VFX team at Wētā expanded its workflow solutions to ingest the massive amount of assets to be animated back in New Zealand....
Speaking to Judd Apatow for his latest book “Sicker in the Head: More Conversations About Life and Comedy,” Cohen opened up about some of the enemies that the show made him in Washington. While few were surprised he was able to trick the likes of OJ Simpson and Joe Arpaio, Cohen recalled the story of duping someone who really should have known better: Senator Bernie Sanders. “We know we’ve only got an hour with Bernie Sanders....
Fresh off bowing her “Come Away” at Sundance, it was reported that Chapman was already teeing up her next project: a live-action hybrid feature based on Claribel Ortega’s YA novel “Ghost Squad,” but in a recent interview, the filmmaker told IndieWire she’s “kind of stepped away” from that project during the pandemic. “I decided to take a bit of a sabbatical and work on some of my own projects with my husband [fellow filmmaker Kevin Lima],” she said....
