Latest Steven Spielberg News

A fresh start for NBC Olympics: No more 'plausibly live' for Paris Games this summer

Jun. 26, 2024 16:59 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — The days of “plausibly live” Olympics coverage on NBC are coming to an end. The network displayed some of the new features it has planned for coverage of the Summer Olympics in Paris starting on July 26 — including personalized highlights packages generated by...

Hollywood's A-listers are lining up behind Joe Biden. Will their support matter in November?

Jun. 13, 2024 00:16 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — When Robert De Niro showed up outside a Manhattan courthouse to decry Donald Trump as his New York hush money trial was winding down, it sparked a life-imitates-art screaming match with a nearby group of the former president's supporters. “You are gangsters!”...

Movie Review: Andrew McCarthy hunts the 'Brat Pack' blowback in the documentary 'Brats'

Jun. 11, 2024 13:04 PM EDT

He’s 61 now, well-off and trim. He has many accomplishments as an actor but there's this one thing he finds hard to shake: Back in 1985, he got called something. During the Reagan administration, rising star Andrew McCarthy was lumped into an amorphous group of young actors who...

Jeannie Epper, epic stuntwoman behind feats of TV's 'Wonder Woman,' dies at 83

May. 07, 2024 00:15 AM EDT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jeannie Epper, a groundbreaking performer who did stunts for many of the most important women of film and television action of the 1970s and '80s, including star Lynda Carter on TV's “Wonder Woman,” has died. She was 83. Epper died of natural causes Sunday at...

Chasing ‘Twisters’ and collaborating with ‘tornado fanatic’ Steven Spielberg

Apr. 26, 2024 12:20 PM EDT

Growing up in the Midwest, filmmaker Lee Isaac Chung developed both a healthy fear of tornadoes and a reverence for Jan de Bont’s 1996 disaster film “Twister.” He saw the movie in the theater with his family when he was a teenager. “I remember thinking, ‘I didn’t know you...

Movie Review: Prepare to get hot and bothered with stylish, synthy tennis drama ‘Challengers’

Apr. 23, 2024 17:27 PM EDT

“Challengers” is a bit of a tease. That’s what makes it fun. There is plenty of skin, sweat, close-ups of muscly thighs and smoldering looks of lust and hate in this deliriously over-the-top psychodrama. But get that image of Josh O’Connor,Zendaya and Mike Faist sitting...