Tag: cinema

By Joe Otterson Elizabeth Banks and Jessica Biel are set to headline a series adaptation of the Alafair Burke novel “The Better Sister” at Amazon Prime Video, Variety has learned. “The Better Sister” is described as a thriller about “Chloe (Biel), who moves through the world with her handsome lawyer husband Adam and teenage son Ethan by her side while her estranged sister Nicky (Banks) hustles to make ends meet while trying to stay clean,” per the official description. “When Adam is brutally murdered, the prime suspect sends shockwaves through the family, laying bare long-buried secrets.” The series hails from Olivia Milch and Regina Corrado, who will serve as showrunners and executive producers. Banks will also executive produce via Brownstone Produc...

By Brent Lang Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt, two essential ingredients in the“Barbenheimer” phenomenon, will leave Barbieland and Los Alamos behind them asthey team up for “TheFall Guy.” But will audiencesturn up in force to see the “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” stars when their newaction comedy debuts this weekend?Well, “The Fall Guy” isn’t going to hit those films’ box office heights, but it should have no troubletopping charts as it kicks off the summer movie season. The film is expected toearn north of $30 million, with some rival studio executives pegging theopening at between $35 million to $40 million. The catch is that movie wasn’tcheap to produce, boasting a healthy budget of $130 million, so “The Fall Guy”will need strong word-of-mouth if it’s going to leg it out on the long path ...

Rachel Aroesti It was, all in all, a moral quagmire of a TV format. In 2004, There’s Something About Miriam saw six men vie for the attention of Miriam Rivera, a 21-year-old Mexican model who unbeknown to them had a “secret”: she was transgender. Even before it aired, this British reality-dating show had whipped up a tabloid frenzy, fuelled by the news that the contestants who had wooed Rivera were mounting a legal challenge to stop the show from airing. Lawyers claimed their lack of informed consent equated to a conspiracy to commit sexual assault. Miriam: Death of a Reality Star retells the story of this queasy moment in pop culture, while also delving into Rivera’s traumatic early life and suspicious death. Yet despite looking back disapprovingly, this three-part&nb...