Chuck Todd, the former “Meet the Press” moderator, is leaving NBC News, he told colleagues in a memo issued Friday, a move he’s making in order to pursue ventures outside the NBCUniversal empire. Todd had in recent weeks been meeting with other news outlets and
Soheila Golestani, the Iranian actor who stars in Mohammad Rasoulof’s Oscar-nominated drama “The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” has been banned from leaving Iran to serve on the Tiger Competition jury at this year’s International Film Festival Rotterdam. Festival director Vanja Kaludjercic spoke against the
Indian auteur Suman Mukhopadhyay’s “The Puppet’s Tale” (Putulnacher Itikatha), a period drama centering on a young doctor’s struggle between modern medicine and traditional beliefs in 1930s Bengal, premieres in International Film Festival Rotterdam’s Big Screen Competition on Feb. 6. The film, adapted from Manik Bandyopadhyay’s
One of the best-known characters in modern advertising is returning to work. Actor Paul Marcarelli played a “Test Man” for Verizon, clad in a gray jacket and horn-rimmed glasses for nearly a decade in dozens of commercials that that had him checking on the status
After releasing his long-awaited album “Hurry Up Tomorrow” on Friday morning, The Weeknd has announced a massive stadium tour across North America. The “After Hours Til Dawn” tour will make stops in over 20 major cities throughout the spring and summer of this year, featuring
Watch out, “Wolf Man” and “Better Man,” because the box office is about to be taken over by “Dog Man.” Universal and DreamWorks Animation’s new movie has made $1.36 million at the box office in Thursday previews. It’s expected to make between $25 million to
“Emilia Pérez” star Karla Sofía Gascón has deactivated her Twitter/X account after apologizing for offensive posts that resurfaced Thursday. Gascón’s X account @karsiagascon was deactivated as of Friday morning. Gascón came under fire Thursday after X users discovered tweets from 2020 and 2021 that had
Laure Calamy, the Cesar prizewinning star of “My Lover, My Donkey & I,” and “The Count of Monte Cristo” actor Laurent Lafitte lead the ensemble cast of “The Party’s Over,” a satirical comedy which has been boarded by France TV Distribution ahead of the EFM.