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Neon has acquired worldwide rights to “Beba,” the first film from New York Afro-Latina artist Rebeca Huntt. The documentary-memoir had its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, where it was hailed for its “originality, inventiveness and the urgency of Huntt’s voice,” Neon said in a statement.

The film, which weaves together music, 16mm film, poetry and interviews, will get a 2022 release from Neon. The daughter of a Dominican father and Venezuelan mother, Huntt, whose nickname is “Beba,” reflects on her childhood and adolescence in New York City while investigating the historical, societal and generational trauma she has inherited. Throughout the film, she searches for a way to forge her own creative path amidst racial and political unrest.

“Poetic, powerful and profound, ‘Beba’ is a courageous, deeply human self-portrait of an Afro-Latina artist hungry for knowledge and yearning for connection,” Neon said.

Huntt wrote and directed “Beba,” and produced with Sofia Geld.

The wait was worth it for James Bond.

No Time To Die — whose release was delayed numerous times due to the Covid-19 pandemic — grossed $27.2 million on Friday from a raft of foreign markets for an impressive three-day international total of $51.4 million. The movie is opening in 54 markets a week ahead of its launch in North America on Oct. 8.

That puts the 25th installment in the storied 007 franchise on course to come in ahead of expectations and clear $113 million in its foreign debut — the best launch of the pandemic era at ...

“No Time To Die” sees the final outing for Daniel Craig in the iconic role as MI6 agent James Bond and fans have already started giving their own ideas of who should take the part in “Bond 26.”

Various actors have been rumored as potential contenders over the years, such as Michael Fassbender, Idris Elba, Tom Hiddleston, Tom Hardy, Henry Cavill, Jamie Bell, Rege-Jean Page, Riz Ahmed, Richard Madden, Henry Golding, Aidan Turner, James Norton, Cillian Murphy, Sam Heughan, and Jack Lowden.

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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are coming to TV.

Following a multiple-outlet bidding war, Scott Steindorff and Dylan Russell’s Stone Village Television has landed rights to author Charles Leerhsen’s book Butch Cassidy: The True Story of an American Outlaw. An outlet is not yet attached.

Stone Village plans to self-finance the development through Latin American and European sources and possibly production before shopping the premium limited series to cable networks and streamers. The plan is to produce the series to target an international audience, specifically the Latin American market. The story will span a story that follows Butch ...

Another attempt at a “Cruel Intentions” TV series is in development at IMDb TV.

Inspired by the 1999 film of the same name — which was itself inspired by the novel “Dangerous Liaisons” — the new iteration of the series follows two ruthless step siblings who will do anything to stay on top. In this case, of the Greek life hierarchy at an elite Washington, D.C. college. After a brutal hazing incident threatens the entire Panhellenic system, they’ll do whatever’s necessary to preserve their power and reputations, even seduce the daughter of the Vice President of the United States.

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In its first episode back after summer hiatus, “Saturday Night Live” dove back into pop culture headlines by producing sketches that parodied “The View” co-hosts’ experiences getting told they tested positive for Covid-19 live on air and mashed up Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ recent space flight with “Star Trek.” But it also threw things back a little bit by allowing guest host Owen Wilson to return to his “Cars” role.

The former sketch featured Wilson as a doctor who interrupted a talk show titled “The Talking” while it was live to first tell Heidi Gardner’s character that she had tested positive.

The first “Weekend Update” segment of “Saturday Night Live’s” 47th season paid tribute to former cast member Norm Macdonald.

First, current cast member Pete Davidson joined “Update” co-anchors Michael Che and Colin Jost at the desk wearing a shirt with Macdonald’s image on it. Davidson sat down with them to discuss his appearance at the Met Gala, but shortly after, NBC’s late-night sketch comedy series used the last few minutes of the segment to celebrate Macdonald in a larger way.

Instead of talking about him, the show put together a package of some of his greatest hits at the desk,

New “Saturday Night Live” featured player James Austin Johnson made his mark on the NBC late-night sketch comedy series immediately from the start of the Season 47 premiere: He debuted as Joe Biden impersonation during a “special message from the president” cold open sketch.

After winning eight Emmys at the 73rd annual ceremonies last month, including the variety sketch series award for the fifth consecutive year, “SNL” returned to Studio 8H in New York City for the live premiere of its 47th season on Oct. 2. Owen Wilson was the host and Kacey Musgraves was the musical guest. Neither appeared in the cold open sketch,

While promoting his new memoir “Taste: My Life Through Food,” Stanley Tucci revealed that he was still recovering from his cancer treatment during the production of his CNN series “Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy.”

The “Big Night” and “Devil Wears Prada” actor further detailed his battle with cancer in a new conversation with the New York Times, explaining how the illness impacted his life. After three radiation sessions, Tucci started experiencing vertigo and a loss of appetite.

“It was hard because I could taste everything, but I couldn’t necessarily swallow,” Tucci told the Times of production, detailing an incident involving steak florentina.

[This story contains spoilers for Venom: Let There Be Carnage.]

Venom has once again made a bond with audiences, and if the weekend’s box office predictions hold, a third installment is guaranteed. Venom: Let There Be Carnage certainly leaves the door open for more symbiote stories to be told. Tom Hardy has expressed his eagerness to return for another installment during the film’s press rounds, as has director Andy Serkis. While there’s much (to put it mildly) anticipation brewing for after the film’s mid-credits scene to see Venom go up against “that…guy,” something tells us that will only be part of Venom’s ongoing cinematic ...

Jamie Lee Curtis is explaining why she came out in support of Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow lawsuit in September in Time Magazine.

“I was asked to write about her in Time Magazine, I have always thought she was cool and I think what she’s doing and saying in this lawsuit is important,” she told Entertainment Tonight of Johansson’s breach of contract suit against Disney, whose settlement was announced Friday, in an interview published the same day. “And women who speak up are called ‘bitches’ and ‘strident’ and men who speak up are called ‘heroes.’ So I’m ...

Stanley Tucci is opening up about how his cancer and radiation treatment impacted his work and life — particularly his love of food — and what he turned to during his recovery.

In a conversation with The New York Times published Saturday, the Supernova and the Devil Wears Prada star described his treatment experience, which involved wearing a specially made surgical mask and inserting a plastic bite block, with a small hole for him to breath, into his mouth. He called those treatments, which he also touches on in his upcoming book, Taste: My Life Through Food, “horrible” and said that he got vertigo, lost ...

Lorraine M. Snebold, a veteran local TV marketing executive who most recently worked for Nexstar’s NewsNation, died Sept. 28 in Augusta, Ga. She was 65.

Snebold died from injuries suffered in a car accident earlier in September.

As a marketing executive, Snebold did work for Fox, CBS, National Geographic Channel and numerous local TV stations. She was senior director of brand strategy for NewsNation, the cable news channel launched in September 2020 by Nexstar as its transformation of WGN America.

“Lorraine mentored our entire creative marketing team, taking us all under her wing on matters big and small, and worked closely with

YouTube TV customers will continue to get NBCUniversal’s suite of cable channels and local NBC stations after Google and NBCU announced an official agreement Saturday.

YouTube TV said the price of the internet-television package will remain the same. In reaching the carriage renewal, NBCU dropped its ask that YouTube TV bundle Peacock Premium with the streaming service.

YouTube TV said in a statement Saturday, “We’re thrilled to share that we have now reached an agreement with NBCUniversal. You’ll continue to have access to 85+ channels, including all NBCU channels, their Regional Sports Networks, and your local NBC station,

Jerry Seinfeld is apologizing for those sexual undertones between his leading bee and a human woman in the 2007 Dreamworks Animation release Bee Movie.

Appearing on The Tonight Show Friday in part to promote all nine seasons of his iconic comedy Seinfeld coming to Netflix, host Jimmy Fallon broached the comedian’s “recent birthday,” to which Seinfeld responded that he had not had a recent birthday. He did, however, acknowledge that he turned 67 this year and explained why that might come as a shocker to some people.

“It always takes longer than people think, you know, to be a comedian. I ...

Makeup artist Kristina Frisch learned quickly that Covid-19 hadn’t slowed the pace of work in film and television production. After accepting her first full-time job following pandemic-related shutdowns, she discovered the gig would entail working six-day weeks for the entire shoot and never being able to break for lunch (she could eat while working). Then, during the shoot, “I went five days without seeing my children,” Frisch says, a new record for her. Overall, after quarantine, “It was like, we got shut down, so we now have to work longer and harder.”

Kristina Frisch, photographed ...

Netflix is cleaning out the cobwebs and removing a number of TV and film titles from its library this month.

Among the films the streamer is dropping from the platform is the Hugh Jackman-led 2011 sci-fi sports drama Real Steel. Based on Richard Matheson’s short story “Steel,” the film is set in a futuristic 2020 where human boxers have been replaced by robots. Also expected to leave is the Ric Roman Waugh-directed Angel Has Fallen, the third installment in the Has Fallen film series, starring Gerard Butler alongside Morgan Freeman and Jada Pinkett Smith. The action-thriller follows Secret Service agent Mike ...

Netflix is scaring up a whole new list of films and TV shows, in addition to its regular new rotation of existing shows and movies.

New Netflix original films dropping on the streamer in October include The Guilty. Based on a 2018 Dutch film and starring Jake Gyllenhaal, this nearly one-man show sees a cop taking emergency calls amid Los Angeles wildfires. Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead heist prequel Army of Thieves is also set to drop at the end of October and will take place six years before the first film in the early days of the zombie outbreak.

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On Friday, a project dropped on Netflix that is unlike any other: Diana: The Musical. What sets it apart is not just that it tells the story of the late Princess of Wales’ life through song and dance, although that is certainly a unique approach. It’s also the way in which it is being released to the world. “It’s the first time a play is opening on Netflix before opening on Broadway,” explained Frank Marshall, one of the producers of the show and the film, in an exclusive interview with The Hollywood Reporter on Friday while en route to the film’...

Alyssa Milano says her uncle Mitch Carp is “doing well” but may need surgery following a car accident in August that required her to help save his life.

Speaking to Entertainment Tonight on Friday, Milano shared an update on the status of her uncle’s health after the two were in an Aug. 17 car accident while on the West Los Angeles Highway. Carp, who had a heart attack while driving, is on the road to recovery though he “probably needs open heart surgery,” the actress said.

“He’s doing well. I mean, he has a long road of ...