Tom Cruise Saved Todd Field’s ‘In The Bedroom’ From Harvey Weinstein

There was a moment last November when Channel 4’s senior executives breathed a sigh of relief.

Unknown Mortal Orchestra have announced that they will release a new album, titled ‘V’, next month. They will also be in the UK for tour dates in May.The album was several years in the making, Ruban Nielson having begun work on a new set of tracks with his brother Kody in the early days of the pandemic.But when an uncle in Hawaii fell ill, he, his mother and another uncle moved over there to care for him.

APPOINTMENTSJim Berkus is stepping down as Chair of talent agency UTA, according to Billboard. The company is also adding two new directors, Paul Wachter of investment firm Main Street Advisors and Ceci Kurzman of Nexus Management Group. Wachter will also become Chair.Defected Records has hired Jess Nash as Head Of Sync and Deniz Hilmi as Head Of Events And Talent.

Slowthai has announced a tour of UK pubs kicking off later this month to promote his upcoming new album ‘UGLY’. Tickets will cost just £1 – an increase from his 99p tour in early 2019, but down from the £5 entry he was charging later that same year.Anyway, there ends the analysis of Slowthai ticket prices.

The Great Escape yesterday added a stack more artists to the line-up for this year’s festival, which takes place in Brighton in May.Among the artists newly announced for the 2023 edition of the big old showcase festival are The Big Moon, Sad Night Dynamite, Willie J Healey, James Ellis Ford, Stone, Lime Garden, English Teacher, Billie Martin, Caity Baser, Yunè Pinku, Deki Alem and Mestizo Collective.In addition to the line-up announcement, the festival’s organisers have also revealed that a show will take place in Liverpool on 2 Mar as part of the TGE Presents programme, a series of gigs presented by the TGE team in the run up to the festival in May.TGE is partnering with Licks Magazine and Ticketmaster New Music to stage that gig, which will be headlined by Lime Garden, with supports to be announced.As for May, the TGE festival is obviously accompanied by the TGE Conference for music industry delegates, which includes the CMU+TGE Sessions that this year will put the spotlight on music and education, music and deals, and music and the creator economy.You can find our more information about that here.

It was a comment that had Rangers fans racking their brains as one transfer window came to an end and they already started looking ahead to the next one. Just who was that mystery number nine that Micheal Beale alluded to as he spoke of his plans to strengthen the squad?

A growing Perthshire home improvement firm has sealed an exclusive partnership with a major kitchen manufacturer – as it announces a six-figure investment in its business.

Swansea boss Russell Martin has revealed Rangers fans messaged him on LinkedIn telling him to let striker Morgan Whittaker leave. But the Swans boss simply apologised to them for being “crap” during his short stint at Ibrox.

Paedophile Gary Glitter has been freed from prison after serving just half of his 16-year sentence for sex crimes. The disgraced glam rock singer - who had a string of chart hits in the 1970s - was jailed in 2015 for sexually abusing three schoolgirls.

A former Lanarkshire care home which boasts an impressive 11 bedrooms is going under the hammer with a guide price of £250,000 and above.

When you trace the filmmaking career of Todd Field, you start to see how the filmmaker has had just an incredible number of projects fall apart or just not come together. This is shown in his filmography, where there are huge gaps in his output.

If you don’t know the story of filmmaker Todd Field, who directed the critically-acclaimed “Tár” (our review) this year with Cate Blanchett, it goes a little bit like this. An actor in small indies, and some blockbusters (Jan De Bont’s “Twister”), Field moved up to writing and directing and knocked it out of the park on his first try.

Three-time Oscar nominee Tom Cruise once gave his Eyes Wide Shut castmate — three-time Oscar nominee Todd Field — advice on making his feature directorial debut after disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein nearly chopped it to pieces.When the 58-year-old SoCal native was having difficulty adapting Andre Dubus' 1979 short story Killings, the New York–born 60-year-old actor scoffed: 'You're just making excuses. Figure it out.'Todd eventually wrote the script, got the rights, cast Tom's first cousin William Mapother, and debuted his 2001 indie drama In The Bedroom at the Sundance Film Festival.

The Screen Actor’s Guild had their year-end say at sunrise and a few hours later, the Directors Guild of America revealed their own nominees for the 2023 DGA Awards. For the most prestigious honor, Theatrical Feature Film, the nominees are Todd Field (“TAR”), Joseph Kosinski (“Top Gun: Maverick”), Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (“Everything Everywhere All At Once”), Martin McDonagh (“The Banshees of Inisherin”) and Steven Spielberg (“The Fablemans”).

The Directors Guild of America has nominated Tár‘s Todd Field, Top Gun: Maverick‘s Joseph Kosinski, Everything Everywhere All at Once‘s Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert, The Banshees of Inisherin‘s Martin McDonagh and The Fabelmans’ Steven Spielberg for the top feature film prize at its 75th annual DGA Awards.

Cate Blanchett has been promoting her new film Tár which is up for many awards this year.On Monday the beauty looked stunning on the cover of one of W Magazine's Best Performances issue covers. In the interview, the actress, 53, rocked a chic black dress and a messy blonde bob as she spoke about Tár.After the release last year, she was rumored to be landing her second Oscar award for Best Actress as her performance portraying Lydia Tár - a brilliant composer and conductor in the psychological thriller drama.

EXCLUSIVE: After word circulated today on the fanboy sites that Eli Roth has been supplanted by Deadpool’s Tim Miller on the long gestating Lionsgate vidgame adaptation Borderlands, allow Deadline to lend a little insight to what is actually happening. Roth handed over the reins on two weeks of reshoots to his pal Miller, because he has to get going with Thanksgiving, the horror film based on a mock trailer that Roth made for the Quentin Tarantino & Robert Rodriguez Grindhouse film. Roth has not been fired, despite a flurry of speculative reports to the contrary.

Todd Field has revealed that he crashed his car while trying to cast Cate Blanchett in their new collaboration, Tár.The Oscar-nominated filmmaker, 58, speaking to Variety in a joint interview with the actress, 53, said that he was chatting with Blanchett’s agent Hylda Queally in September 2020 when the unfortunate accident took place.He said that prior to the crash, Queally had informed him that the Academy Award-winning actress was committed to other projects over the next three years. The latest: Todd Field, 58, has revealed that he crashed his car while trying to cast Cate Blanchett, 53, in their new collaboration, Tár 'I think because Hylda felt sad for me doing that, she agreed that if I wasn’t in too bad a physical condition, I could get home and send her the script, and she would read it,' Field told the outlet.In the interview, the Australian actress said that she was drawn in by the script Field wrote for the film, as it piqued her interest in a way others didn't.