Richard Linklater, the filmmaker behind some of the most celebrated movies of the last three decades — including “Boyhood,” the “Before” trilogy and Netflix’s new “Hit Man” — has also been fairly guarded when it comes to discussing non-cinematic topics. That’s something that he told The New York Times is by design, explaining, “I could share my brain snot with the whole world the way everybody else does, but I don’t see any value in it for me.” Linklater was asked about the different identities he’s inhabited over the years, which prompted him to admit, “my purest self is on the set making a m ..read more

Glen Powell and Adria Arjona’s new film “Hit Man” is getting a lot of attention. For starters, as pointed out in an InStyle interview published this week, the two have fantastic chemistry — something that helped when it was time to craft sex scenes for the film. “Adria did this really, really smart thing where she would print out — we would send images to each other of things we found to be hot and sexy,” he said. “And so we would talk out these sex scenes and these images and these poses and these moments.” The result, he continued, was making “Hit Man” a “really sexy” film, which he attribut ..read more

On Saturday, Charlamagne Tha God again disputed claims that roughly 22% of Black voters in the U.S. will vote for Donald Trump in November. He told CNN’s Michael Smerconish that the same voters aren’t supporting Trump because of his numerous federal cases — an assertion that is racist in and of itself. “Black people are not monolithic, so I can’t speak for all Black people,” he said, “But personally, I don’t agree.” “Donald Trump is not a political prisoner,” the radio host and author continued. “He’s not someone who died unjustly at the hands of the police. He’s a privileged former president ..read more

“Dune: Part Two” director Denis Villeneuve is “disappointed” the movie remains the biggest box office success of 2024, he told reporters after he received the Academy Icon Award at the 2024 Canadian Screen Awards. He’d like to see more films — not just ones directed by him — doing well in theaters. “I think we need movies that are theatrical experiences, that will fully embrace the power of the theater, and I’m not just talking about ‘Dune 2.’ Of course I’m talking about many movies,” he said. “A movie like ‘Civil War,’ for instance, is a strong example of a movie that absolutel ..read more

Martin Starger, the storied Hollywood producer whose credits included Roger Altman’s “Nashville” and Alan J. Pakula’s “Sophie’s Choice” died peacefully at his home on Friday night, TheWrap has learned. He was 92. His niece, casting director Ilene Starger, confirmed the news, telling TheWrap, “He was like a father to me.” She is her uncle’s sole heir and surviving family member. “He was a brilliant, elegant, remarkable man; he had wonderful taste in projects, and, on a highly personal level, he was like a father to me, given that his older brother, my father, died very suddenly when I was a tee ..read more

“Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft” set an Oct. 10 premiere date at Netflix on Saturday. The animated series stars Hayley Atwell voicing the iconic adventurer. The project picks up after the events of the “Tomb Raider” video game trilogy (“Tomb Raider,” “Rise of the Tomb Raider,” “Shadow of the Tomb Raider”). The games were developed by Crystal Dynamics and Eidos Montréal and published by Square Enix. The series is written by Tasha Huo (“The Witcher: Blood Origin”) who will also serve as an executive producer alongside Dmitri M. Johnson, Howard Bliss, Stephan Bugaj and Jacob Robinson. The ..read more

Actor Anson Mount shot down rumors that the “Inhumans” cast from the 2017 TV series will be featured in 2027’s “Avengers: Secret Wars.” In response to a claim from a wildly unofficial “Marvel Updates” social media account, Mount wrote, “This is so interesting. Please tell us more about this contract I apparently signed in my sleep. I’m so curious to hear all the juicy details from a feed that is clearly not a click-farm.” Marvel Updates originally tweeted, “The Inhumans from the Inhumans series will return in ‘AVENGERS: SECRET WARS’.” This is so interesting. Please tell us more about this co ..read more

Maya Hawke is the daughter of two Hollywood greats — Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke — and she made it clear in a recent interview with the U.K.’s Sunday Times that she’s fully OK with any privilege that might come with that. “There are so many people who deserve to have this kind of life who don’t, but I think I’m comfortable with not deserving it and doing it anyway,” she said. “And I know that my not doing it wouldn’t help anyone.” Hawke, who is a talented actor in her own right, continued, “I saw two paths when I was first starting, and one of them was: change your name, get a nose job and go ..read more

Maya Rudolph was in a courthouse when Donald Trump’s guilty verdict was announced on Friday. The actress and comedian told Jimmy Kimmel on his late-night show that she was attending her daughter’s 8th grade mock trial — at a real courthouse — when the news began to ping across cell phones and she received “all these beautiful, glorious texts.” “While the fake trial was happening,” Kimmel interjected. Rudolph agreed, to which Kimmel joked, “While another rigged trial was going on.” Rudolph added that her daughter was playing a police chief solving a murder case when the texts began. “And then t ..read more

Donald Trump hosted a post-verdict press conference riddled with inaccuracies and lies on Friday, an event Jimmy Kimmel devoted that night’s monologue to eviscerating. Kimmel noted that “MAGA Theresa himself” made a point to hold “a doozy of a press conference this morning at Trump Tower” where he took no questions, much like “the drunken best man at a wedding you know isn’t going to work.” Kimmel proceeded to respond to a series of claims made by Trump, many of which became wilder and wilder as the press conference went on. In response to Trump’s warning that “if they can do this to me, they ..read more