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Mel Gibson’s ‘Flight Risk’ is No. 1 at box office, ‘The Brutalist’ expands

Jan. 26, 2025 18:02 PM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — Critics lambasted it and audiences didn’t grade it much better. But despite the turbulence, Mel Gibson’s “Flight Risk” managed to open No. 1 at the box office with a modest $12 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. On a quiet weekend, even for the...

Sundance 2025: 13(ish) movies to look forward to

Jan. 23, 2025 11:10 AM EST

PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — The Sundance Film Festival catalogue can be overwhelming to navigate, with around 90 feature films playing across 11 days. This year the Robert Redford-founded independent film festival has something for everyone: Comedies, dramas, horrors, documentaries, the...

Movie Review: Steven Soderbergh’s eerie haunted house drama ‘Presence’ packs a punch

Jan. 22, 2025 16:14 PM EST

The camera is the ghost in Steven Soderbergh’s chillingly effective, experiential haunted house drama “Presence.” The filmmaker traps the audience in a beautiful suburban home, letting us drift through rooms with this curious being, in and out of delicate conversations as we (and the ghost)...

Everything you need to know about the 2025 Sundance Film Festival

Jan. 22, 2025 13:08 PM EST

PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — As many in the entertainment industry navigate the devastating effects of the California wildfires, some will soon be decamping to cleaner air in the mountains. The annual Sundance Film Festival begins Thursday in Park City, Utah. The 41st edition of Robert...

Steven Soderbergh: 'I'm the cockroach of this industry. I can survive any version of it'

Jan. 22, 2025 12:21 PM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — Steven Soderbergh isn’t just the director and cinematographer of his latest film. He’s also, in a way, its central character. “Presence” is filmed entirely from the POV of a ghost inside a home a family has just moved into. Soderbergh, who serves as his own...

Steven Soderbergh, Questlove, Ron Howard and more pay tribute to David Lynch

Jan. 16, 2025 19:20 PM EST

Reactions to the death of David Lynch, the visionary filmmaker behind “Twin Peaks” and “Mulholland Drive,” whose death at 78 was announced Thursday. — “He’s one of those filmmakers who was influential but impossible to imitate. People would try but he had one kind of...

David Lynch, visionary filmmaker behind 'Twin Peaks' and 'Mulholland Drive,' dies at 78

Jan. 16, 2025 18:17 PM EST

David Lynch, the filmmaker celebrated for his uniquely dark and dreamlike vision in such movies as “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive” and the TV series “Twin Peaks,” has died just days before his 79th birthday. His family announced the death in a Facebook post on...

Today in History: January 14, Lance Armstrong admits to using performance-enhancing drugs

Jan. 14, 2025 00:02 AM EST

Today is Tuesday, Jan. 14, the 14th day of 2025. There are 351 days left in the year. Today in history: On Jan. 14, 2013, cyclist Lance Armstrong ended a decade of denial by confessing to Oprah Winfrey during a videotaped interview that he’d used...

Celebrity birthdays for the week of Jan. 12-18

Jan. 06, 2025 09:47 AM EST

Celebrity birthdays for the week of Jan. 12-18: Jan. 12: Country singer William Lee Golden of the Oak Ridge Boys is 86. Actor Anthony Andrews is 77. Country singer Ricky Van Shelton is 73. Radio and TV personality Howard Stern is 71. Director John Lasseter (“Toy Story,”...