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Ariana Grande’s career is one of transformation. She’s mastered reinvention from her Nickelodeon beginnings to her chart-topping pop career. Now, in her most ambitious turn yet, she’s poised to dazzle the Oscars as Glinda, the Good Witch, in Universal Pictures’ blockbuster smash “Wicked.” But Grande’s venture into the emerald world of Oz is more than […]

Fernanda Torres, the daughter of legendary Brazilian actress Fernanda Montenegro, is dispelling the stigma around nepo babies following her Golden Globe win. While speaking with IndieWire after her Globe-winning turn in “I’m Still Here,” Torres bashed the negative stigma around nepo babies as an “ancient” idea, and deemed herself as the “nepo baby person that […]

American Cinema Editors is pivoting its 75th Eddie Awards, which is slated to be held on Jan. 18, from a black-tie gala to a “community building” fundraiser in response to the devastating Los Angeles wildfires. ACE informed members on Saturday that the honorary society would “still have the privilege to acknowledge the artistry and hard […]

Climate change didn’t start the wildfires that are ravaging Los Angeles County this week. But the big swings in weather patterns that have accelerated over the past two decades serve as rocket fuel that intensifies the flames and spreads the devastation. Environmental experts and scientists warn that Southern Californians will have to come to grips […]

The title of Mike Leigh’s latest movie, “Hard Truths,” suggests a remarkable, career-spanning consistency, tracing back to the stage and screen director’s 1971 big-screen debut, “Bleak Moments.” For more than half a century, Leigh has been bringing audiences into the lives and homes of British citizens of various backgrounds and classes, developing original projects through […]

Roger Pratt, the cinematographer behind “The Fisher King,” “Brazil” and Tim Burton’s “Batman,” has died. He was 77. The news was posted via the British Society of Cinematographers: “It is with deepest sadness that we learn of the passing of Roger Pratt BSC (1947-2024).” The news did not state when he died, nor did it […]