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Brittany Underwood, executive producer and star of the rom-com “Exes of Christmas Past,” during filming this week in downtown Libertyville. Cowriter and director Jake Jarvi of Gurnee is at right. Mick Zawislak/mzawislak@dailyherald.com The producers of familiar feel-good holiday movies shot in picturesque suburbs are incorporating Libertyville into their portfolio for the first time and…
Jean Marsh, the striking British-born actress who was both the co-creator and a beloved Emmy-winning star of “Upstairs, Downstairs,” the seminal 1970s British drama series about class in Edwardian England, died on Sunday at her home in London. She was 90. The cause was complications of dementia, the filmmaker Michael Lindsay-Hogg, her close friend, said….
The action spectacle “G20” offers up an absurd fantasy: What if the president of the United States were a gunslinging, martial-arts hero? “Air Force One” (1997) may be the ur-text of this shamelessly jingoistic subgenre, but Viola Davis’s President Danielle Sutton raises the bar on sheer brawniness. The script, in any case, aims for relevance….
Apple TV+ bills “The Studio,” its Seth Rogen-led skewering of the Hollywood studio system, as a “comedy.” It is also, according to the show’s costume designer, Kameron Lennox, a fantasy. “These characters are trying to hold on to this old love and passion of what filmmaking was and should be,” Ms. Lennox said. “But we’re…
Denzel Washington called him his “northern star.” Whoopi Goldberg said “getting to see him onstage was heaven.” Some of the most notable names in show business gathered in Times Square on Monday afternoon for a starry, and sometimes emotional, send-off for James Earl Jones, who died last year at the age of 93. He was…
Film at Lincoln Center, the nonprofit organization that programs the New York Film Festival, has named the British movie executive Daniel Battsek its next president. From 2016 until early 2024, Battsek, 66, was chairman of the British production company Film4, overseeing the financing of “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” (2017) and “The Banshees of Inisherin”…
Good morning. It’s Monday. Today we’ll find out about the national youth poet laureate’s love letter to the school she attends. We’ll also get details on a nonprofit group’s purchase of the Metro Theater building on the Upper West Side. Some universities have alma maters. Harvard sings to “Fair Harvard,” and Yale harmonizes about “Bright…
I’m a long-time defender of movie sequels – I reckon Shrek’s second instalment is as good, if not *whisper* better, than the original. But when you’re looking at your tenth Fast And Furious movie, I reckon some questions need to be asked. In a recent post shared to Reddit’s r/moviecritic, site user u/Eikichi_Onizuka09 asked people…
Hey, this is Jared Hess, director of “A Minecraft Movie.” OK, in this scene, our main character is Jack Black. Jason Momoa and Sebastian Hanson are on a dangerous detour in Steve’s diamond stash. But they’ve got to get away from this big, gnarly biological superweapon, the piglin. Henry hit it. We had an amazing…
“Most actors recognize there’s something different in Val than meets the eye,” Mr. Stone said in a 2007 interview for a segment of the television series “Biography.” David Mamet, the playwright and screenwriter who directed Mr. Kilmer in the political thriller “Spartan” (2004), added, “What Val has as an actor is something that the really,…
