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When Nicole Holofcener was coming up in the ’90s, she was celebrated as that rare thing: a female writer-director. Today, she’s no longer a rarity, and she’s still delivering sharp, funny observational comedies about flawed middle-class New York women. But somehow, the breadth and potential of her talent remains elusive.

Hollywood gives her scripts to write and rewrite and polish (for the big bucks). She wrote, with Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, “The Last Duel” for Ridley Scott, crafting the Jodie Comer character, and the Scarlett Johansson and Florence Pugh roles in Marvel’s “Black Widow.” She made more on that three-week assignment than three of her movies combined, she said at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, which tributed her this year, playing three of her films for an audience unfamiliar with her work. She’s currently writing for Gillian Anderson and Greta Lee in Disney’s latest iteration of “Tron.

Viggo Mortensen, Daniel Brühl and Clive Owen will receive Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Kviff) honors at the Czech fest’s 58th edition this year.

Organizers revealed on Wednesday that actor-director Mortensen will receive the Kviff President’s Award on opening night, June 28, and also present his feminist western The Dead Don’t Hurt, which he wrote and directed, as the opening film of the fest.

German-Spanish star Brühl will also be a guest of the fest, receiving the Kviff President’s Award and presenting his directorial debut Next Door. And British actor Owen will, at the closing ceremony on July 6, receive the Kviff President’s Award.

Last year’s Kviff honorees included Alicia Vikander, Ewan McGregor and Russell Crowe, who also got the bucolic spa town of Karlovy Vary rocking when he showed off his musical chops in an open-air concert with his band Indoor Garden Party.

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Actor-director Viggo Mortensen, actor Clive Owen and actor-director Daniel Brühl will be honored at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, Central and Eastern Europe’s leading movie event, which will open with Mortensen’s “The Dead Don’t Hurt.”

The festival also revealed Wednesday that director-producer Steven Soderbergh and screenwriter-director Nicole Holofcener will attend the event.

Mortensen, Owen and Brühl will each receive the Festival President’s Award.

The festival will screen Mike Nichols’ 2004 drama “Closer,” for which Owen was Oscar nominated, to mark his award.

Brühl will present his directorial debut “Next Door,” which premiered at the 2021 Berlinale, at Karlovy Vary to coincide with his award.

Soderbergh will present two of his films, “Kafka” (1991) and “Mr. Kneff” (2021), which are being shown as part of the festival’s retrospective for films inspired by the works of Kafka, titled “The Wish to Be a Red Indian: Kafka and Cinema.”

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Opening night at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival often lures a top talent to accept the Kviff President’s Award, in this case Viggo Mortensen, the writer/director/star of his sophomore film, western “The Dead Don’t Hurt,” co-starring Vicky Krieps, which will open in the Czech Republic on July 4.

Every year, Kviff presents a new black-and-white short film at the opening night ceremony, to serve as a trailer of sorts for the festival. This year’s main protagonist is Oscar-winning actor and producer Benicio del Toro (“Traffic”), recipient of the Kviff President’s Award in 2022. The short film was written and directed by long-time creator of Kviff trailers Ivan Zachariáš. Del Toro took time off while shooting Wes Anderson’s new film in Berlin to work with Zachariáš, who collaborated on the trailer with cinematographer Jan Velický and editor Filip Malásek, and composed the music.

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Nicole Holofcener’s latest comedy “You Hurt My Feelings” received a warm bear hug of a reaction from critics and audiences at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The A24 film, which just opened in theaters, certainly isn’t not going to hurt the Memorial Day box office of Disney’s blockbuster “The Little Mermaid,” but it’s perfect counter programming.

“You Hurt My Feelings” revolves around a long-married couple Beth (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), who teaches writing and is an essayist, and Don (Tobias Menzies), a shrink going through a mid-life career crisis. Their marriage hits a snag when Beth overhears a conversation Don is having where he admits he didn’t like her latest book even though he had told her it was good. “The film never doubts or questions their love for each other,” noted Variety. “That’s part of what allows it to explore, with sneaky intricacy, the...

It’s no surprise that Nicole Holofcener prides herself in thinking that she can always tell when people are lying to her about her work. After all, she’s as observant as writer-directors come, able to portray even the slightest nuances in idiosyncratic human behavior across the likes of Please Give, Friends with Money, and Enough Said. “There are certainly some tells,” she says, during a recent Zoom interview with Filmmaker on her latest feature You Hurt My Feelings, centered on the white lies we tell loved ones about their work in order to, well…not hurt their feelings. “The bad ones are […]

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It’s no surprise that Nicole Holofcener prides herself in thinking that she can always tell when people are lying to her about her work. After all, she’s as observant as writer-directors come, able to portray even the slightest nuances in idiosyncratic human behavior across the likes of Please Give, Friends with Money, and Enough Said. “There are certainly some tells,” she says, during a recent Zoom interview with Filmmaker on her latest feature You Hurt My Feelings, centered on the white lies we tell loved ones about their work in order to, well…not hurt their feelings. “The bad ones are […]

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For decades now, indie filmmaker Nicole Holofcener has been delivering sharply observed, bitingly hilarious, empathic, complex comedies about the human condition, family, and life’s ordinary struggles. Often compared to Albert Brooks, Woody Allen, and Walt Stillman, filmmakers of somewhat similar urbane comedies, Holofcener’s always had a tenderness and humanity that maybe seemed a little too far out of reach of those dudes, and yet, never dulling her comedic blade.

Continue reading ‘You Hurt My Feelings’ Trailer: Nicole Holofcener’s New A24 Comedy With Julia Louis-Dreyfus Arrives May 26 at The Playlist.

While our summer preview is around the corner, one of the major stand-outs is the latest film from Nicole Holofcener, You Hurt My Feelings. Featuring a reunion with Julia Louis-Dreyfus after Please Give, along with the ensemble of Tobias Menzies, Michaela Watkins, Arian Moayed, and Jeannie Berlin, the Sundance selection follows a novelist whose long-standing marriage is suddenly upended when she overhears her husband give his honest reaction to her latest book. Ahead of a wide Memorial Day weekend release from A24, the fist trailer has now arrived.

I said in my Sundance review, “In a landscape that has mostly lost its taste for comedy, every Nicole Holofcener film feels like a revelation. While she has more on her mind than just making audiences laugh, her gift for humor is undervalued, and her latest, You Hurt My Feelings, is as perceptive, insightful, and funny as her best work. The stakes may be considered low,...

It is always a time for celebration when we get a new Nicole Holofcener film, and that is especially true of her latest one that stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus. You Hurt My Feelings, which had its premiere Sunday night at Sundance, is the pair’s second collaboration, with 2013’s Enough Said co-starring the late James Gandolfini being the first. That film, and other Holofcener writing-directing efforts such as Friends with Money, Lovely & Amazing and perhaps my favorite, Please Give (not to forget the wonderful Can You Ever Forgive Me? which she co-wrote), focused on the quirky nature of our relationships with others in our lives. Holofcener just has always had a knack for getting right to the heart of things, often with a witty, wise and truthful touch.

This film is one of her best — with themes of trust, honesty, truth and lies at its center. Louis-Dreyfus plays happily married Beth,...

Amanda Peet has joined the cast of Fatal Attraction, Paramount+’s series reimagining of the classic 1980s psychosexual thriller film. She joins previously announced series leads Lizzy Caplan and Joshua Jackson.

Written by Alexandra Cunningham from a story she co-wrote with Kevin J. Hynes, the Paramount Television Studios and Amblin Television series explores the timeless themes of marriage and infidelity through the lens of modern attitudes towards strong women, personality disorders and coercive control.

Peet will play Beth Gallagher, a loyal wife, loving mother and successful small business owner whose world unravels when her husband Dan’s (Jackson) indiscretion threatens to destroy their life together.

Caplan plays Alex Forrest.

Cunningham serves as showrunner and executive produces alongside Hynes as well as Amblin Television presidents Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey.

As an actor, Peet most recently starred in season 2 of the true crime anthology series Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story.

The cast for Paramount+’s upcoming “Fatal Attraction” series is getting bigger.

Amanda Peet is joining the cast as Beth Gallagher, the loyal wife of Dan Gallagher (Joshua Jackson), who uncovers her husband’s sexual indiscretion with Alex Forrest (Lizzy Caplan). Peet’s character was originally by Anne Archer in the original 1987 film.

Paramount describes the new series as “a deep-dive reimagining of the classic psychosexual thriller and ‘80s cultural touchstone, the new series will explore fatal attraction and the timeless themes of marriage and infidelity through the lens of modern attitudes toward strong women, personality disorders and coercive control.” In other words, this will be a more nuanced approach than “sexy woman crazy,” which is the general, problematic sentiment of the original (admittedly still wonderful) film.

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Alexandra Cunningham (“Dirty John”) serves as writer,...

You know Rebecca Hall from her celebrated acting career, Christopher Nolan’s “The Prestige,” “Vicky Cristina Barcelona,” “Frost/Nixon,” Nicole Holofcener’s “Please Give,” Ben Affleck’s “The Town,” Joel Edgerton’s “The Gift,” Antonio Campos’ striking indie “Christine,” Amazon’s “Tales From The Loop” and many more.

Continue reading Rebecca Hall Talks Her Sundance Directorial Debut ‘Passing,’ Her Family’s Bi-Racial Ancestry, Questions Of Identity & More [Interview] at The Playlist.

Alice Spivak, a veteran acting teacher and dialogue coach who appeared in such films as The Muppets Take Manhattan, Stardust Memories, Please Give and Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead, died Nov. 9, her family announced. She was 85.

Spivak taught at Herbert Berghof and Uta Hagen’s Hb Studio for 15 years and in 2012 launched the New York-based OnTheRoad Repertory Company, for whom she served as artistic director and performed.

“While she loved film and tolerated television, and contributed so much to each, the theater was always her greatest passion,” the OnTheRoad company said in a statement.

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Alice Spivak, a veteran acting teacher and dialogue coach who appeared in such films as The Muppets Take Manhattan, Stardust Memories, Please Give and Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead, died Nov. 9, her family announced. She was 85.

Spivak taught at Herbert Berghof and Uta Hagen’s Hb Studio for 15 years and in 2012 launched the New York-based OnTheRoad Repertory Company, for whom she served as artistic director and performed.

“While she loved film and tolerated television, and contributed so much to each, the theater was always her greatest passion,” the OnTheRoad company said in a statement.

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The creators of HBO Max’s Search Party join Josh and Joe to talk about their favorite films.

Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode

Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

Dr. Strangelove (1964)

Tenet (2020)

Piranha (1978)

Piranha 3D (2010)

Jurassic Park (1993)

Jaws (1975)

E.T. The Extraterrestrial (1982)

Looker (1981)

The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)

Waiting For Guffman (1996)

True Stories (1986)

Another Year (2010)

Abigail’s Party (1977)

Brazil (1985)

The Pink Panther (1963)

It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)

Network (1976)

Idiocracy (2006)

A League Of Their Own (1992)

Desperately Seeking Susan (1985)

About Schmidt (2002)

Please Give (2010)

Duck Soup (1933)

The Gold Rush (1925)

The Cocoanuts (1929)

A Night At The Opera (1935)

The Terminator (1984)

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

Love Potion No. 9 (1992) – Sarah

The Birdcage (1996) – Charles

Mandy (2018)

Other Notable Items

Search Party TV series (2016- )

The Coen Brothers

The DGA

Jon Favreau

Garry Marshall

Christopher Nolan

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation TV series (2000-2015)

Jurassic Park series

Laura Dern

Jeff Goldblum

Sam Neill

Steven Spielberg

Jurassic Park novel by Michael Crichton...

If acting is part journalism, part investigation, and part psychoanalysis of the character, actor Rebecca Hall embodies them all. Throughout her career, which began early on with the big bang of Christopher Nolan’s “The Prestige”—which she bagged just on the strength of a video audition she sent in herself— and then quickly lead to head-turning performances “Vicky Cristina Barcelona,” “Frost/Nixon,” Nicole Holofcener’s “Please Give,” Ben Affleck’s “The Town,” Joel Edgerton’s “The Gift,” and Antonio Campos’ startling “Christine”—she has demonstrated the uncanny ability to be charming, but also emotional, vulnerable and absolutely convincing in everything she does.

Continue reading ‘Tales From The Loop’: Rebecca Hall Talks About Her Attraction To Quiet Melancholy; The Practical Jokes Of Judi Dench & More [Interview] at The Playlist.

“Orange Is the New Black” alum Emma Myles has joined the cast of Showtime’s “City on a Hill” in a recurring role, TheWrap has learned exclusively.

She will appear alongside stars Kevin Bacon and Aldis Hodge in the role of Kelly Kinicki’s widow, Babsie. Her grief resurfaces when Jackie (Bacon) and Decourcy (Hodge) re-open the investigation on Kelly’s disappearance, Showtime said.

Myles’ past film and television credits include playing Leanne Taylor on “Orange Is the New Black,” as well as roles in “Odd Mom Out,” “King of Knives,” “Child of Grace,” “Girl Most Likely,” “Happy Yummy Chicken,” “Law and Order: Svu,” “Spinning Into Butter,” “Please Give” and “How to Make it in America.” She is repped by the Katz Company and Don Buchwald and Associates.

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“City on a Hill” is set in early 1990s Boston, rife...

In today’s film news roundup, Will Ferrell’s sports comedy hires a director, Leonard Maltin launches a film festival and Spike Lee’s “Son of the South” fills out its cast.

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“Fist Fight” director Richie Keen has signed direct a previously announced eSports comedy at Legendary Pictures that has Will Ferrell attached to star.

Keen has directed segments of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” “The Goldbergs” and the Kathy Bates Netflix series “Disjointed.” He will direct from a script by Jordan Dunn and Michael Kvamme with Ferrell starring as a member of a professional eSports team, competing in a sport where players usually retire in their 20s due to slowing hand-eye coordination.

He most recently starred with John C. Reilly in “Holmes & Watson.” The news was first reported by Deadline Hollywood.

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Film critic Leonard Maltin is launching a three-day Maltinfest on May 10-...

The tone of this year’s Film Independent Spirit Awards was set early, when host Aubrey Plaza kicked off the annual awards ceremony with a girl-powered pre-taped show opener, which featured Hollywood heavyweights like Marcia Gay Harden, Rosanna Arquette, Christina Ricci, Sharon Stone, and Marisa Tomei playing at summoning indie film-fueled power in literal witch garb. Putting the focus on women and their impact on the industry isn’t exactly groundbreaking these days, but the Spirits weren’t just going for cheap gags in service of a laugh or two.

Unlike other awards season to-do’s, the Spirits nominated plenty of women, including in the Best Director category, a space that still doesn’t typically find room to recognize the work of creators who happen to be female. Plaza’s opening monologue pointed out that 60 percent of the ceremony’s nominated directors were women, and though she admitted that really...

“Can You Ever Forgive Me?” stunned us all with a Writers Guild of America Awards win for Best Adapted Screenplay on Sunday. Can it pull off another shocker this weekend — not at the Oscars, but at the Independent Spirit Awards?

The Spirits only has one screenplay category that combines original and adapted scripts. “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”, written by Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty, is in second place in our combined odds behind Paul Schrader‘s “First Reformed,” and ahead of “Private Life” (Tamara Jenkins), “Sorry to Bother You” (Boots Riley) and “Collette”. “First Reformed” is the safe pick, as the film got a co-leading four nominations, including Best Picture unlike “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”, and it’s a chance to honor Schrader, the scribe behind classics like “Taxi Driver” and “Raging Bull.”

But two of our Experts, Kevin Polowy (Yahoo) and Gold Derby’s own Tom O’Neil,...

“BlacKkKlansman” is the Oscar front-runner for Best Adapted Screenplay, with “If Beale Street Could Talk” poised to upset, but in our Writers Guild Awards predictions, the Expert journalists we’ve polled point to another possible surprise: “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”

As of this writing “Klansman” is the overwhelming favorite at the WGA Awards with 31/10 odds, and it’s backed by six of our seven Experts: Edward Douglas (Weekend Warrior), Joyce Eng (Gold Derby), Susan King (Gold Derby), Peter Travers (Rolling Stone), Adnan Virk and Susan Wloszczyna (Gold Derby). And “Beale Street” ranks second with 39/10 odds with support from some of our Top 24 Users who got the highest scores predicting last year’s WGA Awards, but not from our Experts.

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However, one of our Experts, Tariq Khan (Fox TV), is going out on a limb for “Forgive Me.” Is he onto something?...

Alfonso Cuaron’s “Roma” has landed a Writers Guild of America nomination for original screenplay, along with Adam McKay’s “Vice,” Bo Burnham’s “Eighth Grade,” Bryan Woods, Scott Beck, and John Krasinski’s “A Quiet Place,” and Peter Farrelly, Nick Vallelonga, and Brian Currie’s “Green Book.”

Adapted screenplay noms went to Ryan Coogler and Joe Robert Cole’s “Black Panther,” Barry Jenkins’ “If Beale Street Could Talk,” Nicole Holofcener and Josh Whitty’s “Can You Ever Forgive Me?,” Bradley Cooper, Eric Roth, and Will Fetters’ “A Star Is Born,” and Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott, and Spike Lee’s “BlacKkKlansman.”

The winners will be announced on Feb. 17 in joint ceremonies at the Edison Ballroom in New York and the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif.

WGA members voted on 63 eligible original screenplays and 60 adapted scripts. The scripts for “The Favourite,” “Sorry to Bother You,” “Isle of Dogs,...

Some have a tendency to overcompensate when something is overlooked, and I have that ailment when it comes to filmmaker Nicole Holofcener. Writing and directing sharp, funny, honest, insightful female-led and driven indie movies for over 20 years, I want to say that I read somewhere recently where “Ladybird” director Greta Gerwig herself said there would be no Greta Gerwig or “Ladybird” without Nicole Holofcener.

Continue reading ‘Land of Steady Habits’: Nicole Holofcener Talks Female-Driven Films, Broken Characters, Netflix, #MeToo & More at The Playlist.

Netflix has released the trailer for “The Land of Steady Habits,” the latest film from “Enough Said” and “Please Give” director Nicole Holofcener. Ben Mendelsohn and Edie Falco star in the Tiff-bound drama, which follows the midlife crisis of a man whose attempts to improve his life end up doing the opposite.

Here’s the synopsis: “Feeling trapped in the stifling, wealthy enclave of Westport, Connecticut, Anders Hill (Ben Mendelsohn) retires from his job in finance and leaves his wife (Edie Falco) in the hopes that it will renew his lust for life. However, he’s quickly faced with the startling reality of his choices; he spends his days looking for things to decorate his empty shelves, sleeping with strangers and feeling terribly lost. Missing his ex-wife and on the outs with his troubled 27-year-old son (Thomas Mann), Anders befriends a drug-addicted teen (Charlie Tahan), sending him down a path...

She has been a fixture as a creative advisor, panelist and helmer who up until Toronto preemed Enough Said (2013) saw every single one of her films preem at the fest from her 1991 short film Angry to 2010’s Please Give with Walking and Talking (Sundance ’96), Lovely & Amazing (Sundance ’01) to Friends with Money (Sundance ’06).

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Ten months into the year, it’s hard out here for an Oscar contender. Being worthy of remembering, or being watched by Academy members, demands a warm film-festival reception, rave reviews, effective marketing and distribution, strong theater attendance, and word of mouth. Check out this curated (alphabetical) selection of long-shot performers who are worthy of Oscar consideration, but may see their movies get lost in the intense competitive awards shuffle.

1. Bryan Cranston

Category: Best Actor

Awards: Nominated for Best Actor by SAG and the Oscars for “Trumbo,” Cranston won three Best Actor in a Drama Emmys for playing Walter White in “Breaking Bad” and won SAG Best Actor in TV movie as Lbj in “All the Way.”

Last Hit: “Why Him?” ($60 million domestic)

Title: “Last Flag Flying” (Amazon Studios)

Bottom Line: This layered New York Film Festival opener stars Cranston in one of his signature large, colorful, entertaining performances as Sal,...

Ten months into the year, it’s hard out here for an Oscar contender. Being worthy of remembering, or being watched by Academy members, demands a warm film-festival reception, rave reviews, effective marketing and distribution, strong theater attendance, and word of mouth. Check out this curated (alphabetical) selection of long-shot performers who are worthy of Oscar consideration, but may see their movies get lost in the intense competitive awards shuffle.

1. Bryan Cranston

Category: Best Actor

Awards: Nominated for Best Actor by SAG and the Oscars for “Trumbo,” Cranston won three Best Actor in a Drama Emmys for playing Walter White in “Breaking Bad” and won SAG Best Actor in TV movie as Lbj in “All the Way.”

Last Hit: “Why Him?” ($60 million domestic)

Title: “Last Flag Flying” (Amazon Studios)

Bottom Line: This layered New York Film Festival opener stars Cranston in one of his signature large, colorful, entertaining performances as Sal,...

The following contains spoilers for the Season 4 premiere of How to Get Away With Murder.

Sorry, Carmen Sandiego. After that How to Get Away With Murder premiere, we’re more concerned with someone else’s whereabouts.

The ABC drama returned for its fourth season on Thursday, and of the many questions we were left with after the episode, one of them is especially worrying: Where is Laurel’s baby?

Laurel, who’s already having a sufficiently miserable year, kicks off the episode by announcing to her father — aka the man responsible for Wes’ death — that she was pregnant, but had an abortion weeks ago.

Please give a warm welcome to our newest blogger, Jaclyn Stapp!

The wife of Grammy-winner Scott Stapp is currently expecting the couple’s third child and second son. Their son Daniel Issam is 7, and daughter Milán Hayat is 10. Scott, 44, also has a 19-year-old son named Jagger.

The Creed and Art of Anarchy rocker is currently on a solo tour, writing new music during his downtime.

The former Miss New York USA, 37, is focused on Charm, her nonprofit charity that provides education and support to underprivileged children. The spouses revealed to People exclusively in June that they would welcome another baby into the family.

Lrm is giving away 3 copies of Meagan Leavey to three lucky reader on our site. To enter this giveaway contest please fill out the form below, for our mobile users please send an e-mail to contest@lrmonline.com with Megan Leavey Giveway in the subject line. Please give your name, address and phone number. Only one winner will be selected and must be a U.S. resident for this contest. Winner will be notified via e-mail. The deadline for entry is Friday, August 25, by 11:59 p.m. Pst. So good luck!

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Megan Leavey is based on the life of a young Marine Corporal (Mara) whose unique discipline and bond with her military combat dog saved many lives during their deployment in Iraq. When she is assigned to clean up...

Lrm is giving away a Blu-ray copy of The Walking Dead Season 7 to one lucky reader on our site. To enter this giveaway contest please fill out the form below, for our mobile users please send an e-mail to contest@lrmonline.com with Twd Season 7 Giveway in the subject line. Please give your name, address and phone number. Only one winner will be selected and must be a U.S. resident for this contest. Winner will be notified via e-mail. The deadline for entry is Friday, August 25, by 11:59 p.m. Pst. So good luck!

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The dead aren’t the only things to fear when “The Walking Dead” The Complete Seventh Season arrives on Blu-ray (plus Digital HD) and DVD August 22 from Lionsgate and Anchor Bay Entertainment. Rick Grimes...

The Transformers Primitive Optimus Prime was one of the hottest Hasbro San Diego Comic-Con exclusives at the booth. The design (which was in part created by Primitive Skateboarding founder Paul Rodriguez) features Primitive Skate’s classic black and gold colors for a more sophisticated and on-brand look, and comes packaged in packaging to mimic a “skate shoe” box with grip-tape inspired texture. He comes quipped with a ramp, rail, and hoverboard.

The pack includes a Leader Class Optimus Prime figure and a Titan Master Shreddicus Maximus figure, and converts from robot to tractor trailer in 23 steps and from tractor trailer to battle station in 10 steps.

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One of the most sought after Hasbro exclusives at this past San Diego Comic-Con was the Star Wars: The Black Series 6-Inch Grand Admiral Thrawn,. Although Thrawn will be available in the fall, this version comes with a very cool Sdcc exclusive packaging and extra accessories, including all of his trophies in a special trophy room diorama box. 

Lrm is giving away one Star Wars: The Black Series 6-Inch Grand Admiral Thrawn to one lucky email newsletter subscriber on our site. To sign up for our newsletter and enter this giveaway contest please fill out the form below, for our mobile users please send an e-mail to contest@lrmonline.com with Sdcc Star Wars Admiral Thrawn in the subject line. Please give your name, address and phone number. Only one winner will be selected and must be a U.S. resident for this contest. Winner will be notified via e-mail.

It wouldn’t be San Diego Comic-Con without as Hasbro Transformers exclusive, and that’s what Hasbro brought along. An exclusive Transformers: The Last Knight Voyager Class Oprimus Prime figure, which is based on both Optimus’ robot mode and Western Star truck mode featured in the latest film. Optimus comes in collectible display-style packaging, and includes a sword and shield accessory -- as well as an authentic piece of truck tire used in the film accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Western Star.

Lrm is giving away one Transformers: The Last Knight Voyager Class Optimus Prime to one lucky email newsletter subscriber on our site. To sign up for our newsletter and enter this giveaway contest please fill out the form below, for our mobile users please send an e-mail to contest@lrmonline.com with Sdcc Hasbro The Last Knight Optimus Prime Giveaway in the subject line. Please give your name,...

The Last Jedi figures of Luke and Rey were sold as a part of the Black Series collectibles this past Sdcc. Rey is labeled as a Jedi in training, sporting a blue garment that looks the traditional garb of the knights. She comes complete with Luke’s lightsaber and her quarterstaff. Luke, labeled as Jedi Master, is wearing is the same cloaked white outfit that he wore at the end of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, with a distinct emphasis on his grown beard and metal hand.

With the San Diego Comic-Con exclusive label that these figures will likely never go on sale to the public, so diehards will have to purchase them from the people lucky enough to purchase them on third party sites.

Lrm is giving away one Star Wars Black Series The Last Jedi Luke & Rey combo figures to one lucky email newsletter subscriber on our site.

It’s not San Diego Comic-Con without an exclusive or two, and one of this year’s Hasbro's exclusive was a 12 inch Marvel Legends Daredevil figure, based on the classic Marvel comic character. The figure features more than 30 points of articulation, and comes with 12 interchangeable parts and accessories, including an alternate head, alternate hands, and a baton, as well as two posters.

The packaging features original artwork by Marvel’s chief creative officer Joe Quesada, and includes braille on the back in a nice added touch to the character.

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Got a scoop request? An anonymous tip you’re dying to share? Send any/all of the above to askausiello@tvline.com

Question: If you’re not going to solve your blind item about the series that was so bad it was nearly pawned off on a streaming service, can you at least give us another hint? —Sarah

Ausiello: It’s a broadcast network show. And it’s currently airing.

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Laurel Lainio lent a hand to two best friends who needed it.

The woman happened upon a dog named Rosie and her owner, a homeless man named Pat Quinn who performs music on the street, after a night out with friends, Australia’s 7 News Adelaide reports.

She found out the dog’s knee was injured and that it would cost $3,000 to fix it.

“When I saw Rosie last week,” she told the station, “I just couldn’t handle the thought of her having to go without her surgery.”

Rather than think about it, she did something about it, and created...

Liam Payne and Niall Horan were up to their old One Direction tricks, playing around together in Indiana, where they both performed on Friday.

The pair documented the partial reunion on their Instagram Stories. They were in the midwest for the Zpl Birthday Bash, which also featured Flo Rida, Fifth Harmony, James Arthur and Aaron Carter.

“Look who I found,” Payne teases in selfie mode before twisting his phone to reveal Horan, who also had his phone at the ready. “What’s up?” he asks his smiling bandmate in the post.

“And we’re here with the horse show, as well,...

Harry Styles‘ stepfather, Robin Twist, has died. He was 57.

“Harry’s stepfather, Robin Twist, sadly passed away this week after a long battle with cancer. The family asks for privacy at this time,” a rep for Styles, 23, tells People in a statement.

Twist married Harry’s mother, Anne Cox, in June 2013. The One Direction member served as the best man at the wedding and even walked Anne down the aisle during the ceremony at the town of Congleton in Cheshire, England.

Earlier this month, Anne celebrated their four-year wedding anniversary on Instagram writing, “Thank you for all the anniversary wishes.

The action-packed, coming of age feature film Saban’s Power Rangers will morph onto Digital HD June 13 and on 4K Ultra HD Combo Pack (plus Blu-ray and Digital HD), Blu-ray Combo Pack (plus DVD and Digital HD), DVD and On Demand June 27 from Lionsgate.

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The Saban’s Power Rangers DVD will include exclusive audio commentary with director Dean Israelite and writer John Gatins, and deleted/alternate/extended scenes and outtakes. Saban’s Power Rangers will be available on 4K Ultra HD Combo Pack, Blu-ray Combo Pack, and DVD for the suggested retail price of $42.99, $39.99, and $29.95, respectively.

Story by Matt Sazama & Burk Sharpless and Michele Mulroney & Kieran Mulroney. Screenplay by John Gatins. Directed by Dean Israelite.

4K/Blu-Ray/ Digital HD Special Features

· Audio Commentary with Director Dean Israelite and Writer John Gatins

· “The Power of the Present” Documentary

o “Rangers Then to Now”

o “Building the Team”

o “Beyond the Rangers”

o “Suiting Up”

o “Rangers, Welcome to Training”

o “Rangers in the Wild”

o “It’s Morphin Time”

o “Power Ballad: Music and Sound”

o “This is Your Destiny”

· Deleted/Alternate/Extended Scenes

· Outtakes

· Theatrical Trailer with Audio Commentary by Director Dean Israelite

DVD Special Features

· Audio Commentary with Director Dean Israelite and Writer John Gatins

· Deleted/Alternate/Extended Scenes

· Outtakes

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Paul McCartney has revealed who was cut from the iconic Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover.

2017 marks the 50th anniversary of The Beatles‘ eighth full-length album and acts as one of the best-selling albums of all time.

The album cover featured a wide range of famous faces, including Fred Astaire, Edgar Allan Poe, Bob Dylan, Oscar Wilde, Shirley Temple and Marlon Brando.

While most of these celebrities were happy to appear on the cover for free, McCartney says that there was one actor who wanted a fee.

“We all had a list of favourites.

Please give a warm welcome to our newest celebrity blogger, Whitney Port!

Known for her role on the 2000s MTV darling The Hills, Port has since dabbled in multiple television ventures, and even went on to publish a memoir in 2011.

Today, the former reality star is a fashion designer who runs a lifestyle blog. Recently, she launched a disposable dishware line with Target, and signed on as creative head of flower delivery service Bloom2Bloom.

Port, 32, married Tim Rosenman in November 2015. In February, she announced on social media that the couple are expecting their first child.

You can find Port on Instagram and Twitter @whitneyeveport,...

Please give Andre Braugher a comedy Emmy already. Please? We’re not going to ask so nicely next year. On Tuesday’s “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” season finale, Dets. Jake Peralta (Andy Samberg) and Rosa Diaz (Stephanie Beatriz) infiltrate Captain Holt’s (Braugher) Razzmatazz exercise class to discuss an ongoing bank robbery case. Turns out Peralta can’t really hack it in the cutthroat world of Step jazzercise, though his hula hands were Ok. Watch TheWrap‘s exclusive sneak peek via the video above. Also Read: Seth MacFarlane Mocks 'Family Guy' Network, 'Empire' Entertains, We All Get Cookies! Here’s...

If there is one downside to being the go-to hairstylist for Gabrielle Union, Tracee Ellis Ross and countless It-girls in Hollywood, it’s a lack of personal R&R. Just ask Schwarzkopf celebrity stylist Larry Sims, who after years of non-stop styling realized he hadn’t taken a few days off between blow-outs in years. But recently, the pro got the opportunity to not only go on the vacation of his dreams, but to have his getaway taped for a new Bravo series called Invite Only Cabo. With the show set to premiere Sunday, May 14, we dialed up Sims (who...

From Academy Award®-Winning Director Damien Chazelle and Starring Oscar® Best Actor Nominee Ryan Gosling and Oscar® Best Actress Winner Emma Stone, La La Land, Arrives on Digital HD April 11 and on 4K Ultra HD Combo Pack, Blu-rayTM Combo Pack and DVD on April 25 from Lionsgate’s Summit Entertainment Label

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Jessica Chastain would never have made Zero Dark Thirty if it weren’t for one person: Tom Cruise.

“I got cold-called by [director] Kathryn Bigelow,” said the actress, describing how she first got word of the role as a CIA agent for the 2012 film. “I was in Toronto, and I had heard from [producer] Megan Ellison. We had done a film, [2012’s] Lawless, together. And she said, ‘By the way, do you know Kathryn Bigelow’s trying to get a hold of you? She wants to meet with you on something.’ And I was like, ‘What? Please give her...

Now star of The Good Fight, the CBS All Access spinoff of The Good Wife, Sarah Steele is finally playing her own age onscreen.

The actress, who made her film debut as Bernice, the awkward-but-cute preteen in 2004’s Spanglish, has had an extended onscreen life as a teenager, playing Jenny Humphrey’s rival on two episodes of Gossip Girl, the teenage daughter to Catherine Keener in the dark comedy Please Give and, in 2013, a recent high school graduate in The To Do List. In Speech & Debate, the film adaptation of Stephen Karam’s Off-Broadway play opening in select theaters and on demand April 7 and is available exclusively on iTunes April 2, she returns to high school as a Rachel Berry-like student with dreams of becoming a star.

The new film, which she dubs her “swan song” for teenage roles, comes as Steele has evolved into an adult both onscreen and onstage. “I had this...