Guillermo Del Toro Says A.I. Can’t Create Art & Can Only Do “Semi-Compelling Screensavers”

U.K. artist turned filmmaker Steve McQueen has followed all kinds of topics in his short but compelling feature-film career: slavery in “12 Years A Slave,” the Irish troubles in “Hunger,” British racism, and Black lives in the 1970s in his “Small Axe” film anthology, and for his latest film, “Blitz,” he recalls the German air raid bombings of London during WWII known as the blitzkrieg.

Upon a second screening of Coralie Fargeat’s incredible opus “The Substance,” there is one thing that stands out. It’s not Stanislas Reydellet’s stellar production design or the exquisite cinematography from Benjamin Kracun that half a dozen young filmmakers and commercial directors will rip off over the next 18 months.

Filmmakers Scott Beck and Bryan Woods are on quite the creative tear right now. While the writer/director pair had already helmed a few indie horror films, things really lit up for them upon the release of 2018’s “A Quiet Place,” a script they wrote that John Krasinski turned into a massive hit.

Kate Middleton's brother James has shared the heartwarming moment he realised his sister was truly in love with Prince William, feeling "reassured" when their engagement was announced.

EXCLUSIVE: As we near TV trade confab MIPCOM, more high-profile deals are being struck off-cycle.

European sales, production and finance company mk2 films has announced a multi-year slate financing deal with investment fund manager IPR.VC, which will provide “significant financial backing for a slate of future projects”.

Netflix‘s latest data dump is here and, as trailed by Ted Sarandos earlier this week, the Brits have dominated the TV series listings.

The North Road Company has made a major hire in the UK, bringing in former Channel 4 drama boss Caroline Hollick.

Norway has selected Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel’s Armand, starring Renata Reinsve, to represent it in the Best International Feature Film category at the 97th Academy Awards.

EXCLUSIVE: Veteran British actress Adjoa Andoh (Bridgerton) and Jimmy Akingbola (Bel-Air) are among the names that have signed on to deliver keynote speeches at The Heritage and Cultural Society of Africa’s (HACSA) Sankofa Summit set to run October 9 and 10 at Columbia University.

CBS‘ upcoming daytime sudser Beyond the Gates (new title) has cast three actors to play prominent members of the fictitious Dupree family.

EXCLUSIVE: The Rest is Politics is to host a live YouTube U.S. election special from New York, bringing together talent from the stable of Goalhanger podcasts.

Tony winner Danny Burstein will play Herbie to Audra McDonald‘s Rose in the upcoming Broadway revival of Gypsy, producers announced today.

Love Island fans have shared a brutal message to Jessy Potts after she and Joey Essex announced they'd ended their romance. Joey and Jessy stayed together after leaving the Love Island villa in August, but it's now been revealed that the pair have parted ways.

Dr Martens, the iconic footwear brand loved for its practical yet stylish boots, is offering a massive discount on one of its popular styles. Known for their 'high quality' and weatherproof designs, a pair of Dr Martens usually sets you back more than £150.

Scott Mills is a busy man at the moment. As well as covering for Zoe Ball’s Breakfast Show while she takes an extended leave of absence, Thursday (19 September) also had to see him hang in the studio and cover for Vernon Kay – whose show airs straight after Zoe's. Scott opened Vernon’s show with a voice note from the missing presenter to explain what was happening.

report from The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights.Additionally, no openly transgender or nonbinary judge has ever been nominated, let alone confirmed, to the federal bench. An openly LGBTQ person has never served on nine of the 13 federal circuit courts, or on 77 of the country’s 94 federal district courts.An openly LGBTQ person has also never served as a lifetime district court judge in 39 states — or within the borders of the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, whose jurisdiction extends to the states of Arkansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota.“Having more judges, including openly LGBTQ judges, who come from all of our communities helps to build more trust in the judiciary and brings vitally important perspectives into our justice system,” Lena Zwarensteyn, senior director of the fair courts program at The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, said in a statement.“As LGBTQ rights are being subject to litigation across the country, it is increasingly clear that we need judges at all levels of the judiciary who understand what’s at stake.

Hayden Panettiere‘s representative is responding to those concerned about her most recent interview.

2023 study by The Trevor Project, an LGBTQ crisis intervention and suicide prevention nonprofit, found that 15% of LGBTQ youth reported being subjected to conversion therapy, with that subgroup being more than twice as likely to have attempted suicide over the past year than individuals who never underwent conversion therapy.Beshear, an LGBTQ ally, noted that he still hopes Kentucky lawmakers will take action to ban such practices but issued the order due to a lack of action by the state’s Republican-dominated legislature.Lawmakers previously overrode a veto Beshear issued of a sweeping anti-LGBTQ bill that bars gender-affirming care for minors, prohibits schools from acknowledging student’s gender identities and pronouns, and blocks LGBTQ-related content from being talked about in schools.“To me, [the issue is] not even about gender or sexuality. It’s about protecting our youth from an inhumane practice that hurts them,” Beshear said during the signing on September 17.He pushed back on critics who claim that banning conversion therapy infringes on anti-LGBTQ individuals’ free speech rights or forces individuals to adopt beliefs that may conflict with their religious views.“Today’s action does not force an ideology on anybody.

Project 2025.More than 92% of LGBTQ adults have heard about Project 2025.

Holly Jones New York-based indie sales outfit Visit Films has acquired international distribution rights to Cecilia Atán and Valeria Pivato’s pensive second feature “Surfacing” (“La Llegada Del Hijo”) ahead of its global debut on Sunday as part of the San Sebastián Film Festival’s prestigious New Director’s Competition. “We have had the privilege of helping launch films in San Sebastián for many years and are so pleased to be working on ‘Surfacing.’ Atán and Pivato have crafted a delicately balanced film that threads the fine needle of emotional subtlety and full-blooded passion.