'House of the Dragon' Director Addresses Shorter Season 2, Which Consists of Only 8 Episodes

When Game of Thrones spinoff House of the Dragon went into production on season two earlier this year, HBO confirmed the stars who will be returning for the upcoming episodes.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent French director Edouard Bergeon, whose Cesar-nominated debut feature “In the Name of the Land” was a box office hit in 2019, has penned another eco-thriller, “The Green Deal.” The movie, which is partly set in the Indonesian forest, has been boarded by Playtime and will be pitched to buyers at the Toronto Film Festival. “The Green Deal” explores crimes and colliding interests in the exploitation of a palm oil and the production of biofuels.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent French director Edouard Bergeon, whose Cesar-nominated debut feature “In the Name of the Land” was a box office hit in 2019, has penned another eco-thriller, “The Green Deal.” The movie, which is partly set in the Indonesian forest, has been boarded by Playtime and will be pitched to buyers at the Toronto Film Festival. “The Green Deal” explores crimes and colliding interests in the exploitation of a palm oil and the production of biofuels.

It’s hard to believe that it’s now over 60 years since Roman Polanski teamed up with Jerzy Skolimowski for the landmark 1962 Polish thriller Knife in the Water. But it’s even harder to believe that these two giants of international cinema reunited more recently to pool their braincells and come up with the most terrible, joyless farce since the heyday of the ’70s British sex comedy. Forget for a moment, if you can, the furor surrounding Polanski’s controversial status as a fugitive from justice and concentrate instead on the fact that the Venice Film Festival, in its infinite wisdom, went ahead and booked this entirely dreadful offering anyway, deeming it somehow worthy of a prestigious Out of Competition slot.

The Real Housewives is a cultural phenomenon.

BreAnna Bell “The Great” is not returning for Season 4 on Hulu, Variety has confirmed. The satirical take on Catherine The Great’s story painted the historical figure as “an idealistic, romantic young girl, who arrives in Russia for an arranged marriage to the mercurial Emperor Peter.

Gigi Hadid is the subject of new romance rumors.

McKinley Franklin editor Sony has released the first trailer for Jeymes Samuel’s biblical epic “The Book of Clarence,” which is set to make its theatrical debut on Jan. 12, 2024.

The Witcher director Marc Jobst has shared his thoughts behind Henry Cavill’s exit, implying it could be due to the show’s “demanding” nature.Jobst, who directed two episodes in the Netflix show’s first season, was asked about the actor’s decision to leave the series following season three.Speaking to ScreenRant, Jobst said: “Look, Henry has done three series, these are demanding shows to make, you know, they are huge. Henry does every single beat of his stunts, he won’t even allow a hand, if you’re doing a close-up of a hand grabbing a sword, it has to be his hand.“So, normally, what you do is you bring in a double.

New episodes of Love Is Blind are on their way.

One of the directors on The Witcher is opening up about the circumstances surrounding Henry Cavill‘s exit from the series.

BreAnna Bell SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains spoilers from the Season 4 finale of “The Upshaws,” now streaming on Netflix. Season 4 of Netflix’s “The Upshaws” left everybody in the family ready to switch roles with each other if it meant saving themselves from their recently upended lives. The family dynamics have changed as Lucretia (Wanda Sykes) finds herself in financial trouble, Regina (Kim Fields) moves back into the family home after taking time to heal mentally and physicallyfollowing her brush with death, and Bennie (Mike Epps) realizes he’s continued to neglect his eldest son, Bernard Jr. (Jermelle Simon).

Sharareh Drury This Emmy season was filled with mothers who defied the odds and often put themselves in harm’s way to protect their children. In the past, I’d watch characters like these with admiration and awe, but never truly understood the gut-wrenching pain that comes with creating and protecting life. That changed last fall thanks to two mothers in particular — a dragon queen and a defiant handmaid.

Todd Longwell From the majestic-but-aged environs inhabited by the British royals Netflix’s in “The Crown” and the decadent sun-drenched luxury of the San Domenico Palace resort in Taormina, Sicily, in HBO’s “The White Lotus” to the foreboding Ontario wilderness where a girls’ soccer team is stranded in Showtime’s “Yellowjackets,” the locations used in this year’s Emmy-nominated dramas loom so large they can be viewed as characters unto themselves that interact with the performers and help shape the narrative. It’s especially true of the role Albuquerque, N.M., plays in AMC’s “Better Call Saul.” There’s no telling if the series would even exist if creator Vince Gilligan had gotten his way back in the mid-2000s and the studio suits at Sony agreed to let him use Riverside, Calif., as the setting for its predecessor “Breaking Bad” (2008-2013), which established the “Saul” characters and their dramatic universe.

Warning: This post contains spoilers from “Big Brother” season 25, episode 7. 

Don’t expect Ed Sheeran to be in the running as the next Super Bowl halftime show performer.

How do you show range as a filmmaker? If you’re directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, you can make a “Bad Boys” movie (“Bad Boys for Life”) and then two disparate movies in one year: 2022’s superhero film, “Batgirl” and then the Cannes drama, “Rebel.” Of course, we all know what happened to “Batgirl.” It was totally scrapped by Warner Bros, but “Rebel,” which had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival last year, is finally coming out this fall.

Bill Hader is getting real about gaining weight.

As a prequel to Game of Thrones, House of the Dragon posed a creative challenge:how to develop a new and distinctive style while respecting the set-up of the previous series. This challenge fell mainly to the craftspeople, whose work resulted in eight Emmy nominations for HBO this year, including Outstanding Drama Series. 

Based on George RR Martin’s Fire & Blood, the HBO and Max series House of the Dragon had a daunting task in being compared to the network’s biggest-ever series Game of Thrones. Set 200 years earlier in House Targaryen, House of the Dragon’s first season was a huge success reflected in the ratings and the nine Primetime Emmys for which the show got nominated.