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The competition will be streamed on Peacock in the US on Thursday night. This year, Audrey Eckert from Nebraska will represent the United States at the pageant. She took home the crown at Miss USA 2025 in October following years of turmoil and leadership changes at the pageant. Miss USA 2022 R'Bonney Gabriel was the last American to win the Miss Universe pageant. It had been a decade since a contestant from the US took the crown.

Though I haven't loved all their films, Norwegian director Joachim Trier and his writing collaborator Eskil Vogt remains among the hopes of the medium-an accomplished team whose work is intelligent, involving, thematically ambitious but very human in scale. Their latest Sentimental Value won the Grand Prix at Cannes, and it again largely revolves around Renate Reinsve, the star of their last effort The Worst Person in the World.

The film has Jero (Cristian Mariani) coming home from a workout to find his partner Tom (Gastón Frías) is gone and ghosting him on their anniversary. Jero soon experiences the five stages of grief. As a way of explanation, Tom has left a box of 300 letters recounting his side of their relationship. As Jero starts reading Tom's missives, he learns that his ex thinks he is childish and superficial.

She's in practically every frame as Linda, a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown as she juggles, with increasing desperation and resentment, her responsibilities as a parent, a spouse, and a professional therapist. Her husband is constantly travelling for work, leaving Linda to deal with their young, never-named daughter, who suffers from a mysterious eating disorder that requires her to be attached to a feeding tube.

But what sets "Two Sleepy People" apart is that it was funded and produced entirely by digital creators. The Austin-based creator collective Creator Camp was established in 2021 as a way to disrupt Hollywood by giving creators the funding, tools and distribution they need to expand beyond social media. And Ryan's drifting, cerebral romantic comedy is Camp Studio's first bet out of its three-feature theatrical deal with Attend Theatrical Marketplace.

Richard Dreyfuss and Kevin Spacey are both Oscar winners who were once popular movie stars and hailed as two of the most talented actors in Hollywood. But over the years they have proven themselves to be problematic men whose life choices have arguably hurt their careers and left them struggling financially. Now comes a strange, sad story about how the actors' 2009 professional collaboration figured into Spacey's MeToo-era downfall and led to Dreyfuss becoming estranged from his three adult children.

Ever since there has been enthusiasm for the story to continue further with both Streep and Seyfried offering updates previously. Mamma Mia! producer, Judy Craymer, also said in 2023 a script for a third film was in the "earliest stages" and she hoped Streep would return. Speaking to Entertainment Tonight at the Governor Awards, Seyfried said she thought Mamma Mia! 3 was a "done deal".

That's the world that British actor Josh O'Connor is living in. He starred in four projects this year: as musician David White in Oliver Hermanus' " The History of Sound," as art thief James Blaine "JB" Mooney in Kelly Reichardt's " The Mastermind," as cowboy and rancher Dusty in Max Walker-Silverman's " Rebuilding," and as Reverend Jud Duplenticy in Rian Johnson's " Wake Up Dead Man."

Seeing a film in what the venue calls "shared reality" can be all-encompassing and yet intimate as well as communal and, if everything works out, somewhat thoughtful. The 87-foot diameter spherical screen wraps above, below and behind us, but an emphasis on couch seating invites a cooperative environment. And guests are encouraged, for instance, to pull out their phones and capture and share the moment.

Lindsay Lohan is not afraid of a little nostalgia. After over 30 years in the industry (it's true! she started working when she was just three!), the actress and rising producer has starred in plenty of features that tickle a certain subset of elder Millennials ( cough, like this writer) and retain a big place of affection in our hearts. Consider "The Parent Trap," "Mean Girls," or the crown jewel of early aughts Lohan joints: "Freaky Friday."

A psychiatrist is tasked with analyzing Hermann Göring and other Nazis as they fight for their lives during the Nuremberg trials. These men orchestrated the deaths of over 6 million Jews, homosexuals, Gypsies, and political opponents. Did they feel remorse, guilt, or nothing at all? It is such a great concept for a story and plot, but, in Nuremberg, they really blew it.

What is the one thing that makes life possible in New York City? As mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani would say, it is affordable housing. This was also true in the 1950s, when three women-all newly single mothers-founded an artist haven in a rowhouse in the East Village, a raw neighbourhood at the time better known for shelters like the Bowery Mission.

In it, viewers get a closer look at Mabel, an animal lover who seizes an opportunity to use a new technology to "hop" her consciousness into a life-like robotic beaver and communicate directly with animals.

Encouraged by the conspiracy theory of a YouTuber, two cousins kidnap a senior executive at a pharmaceutical company, believing she is an alien from Andromeda sent to destroy human life. Two scientists who have turned the encrypted message of an extraterrestrial signal into a virus will unleash an epidemic of kindness in which all minds connect in unison a harmony that a woman immune to this viral global happiness will fight against.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.

Fortnite's partnership with Disney has brought it some extraordinary crossover events, not least the current chapter's enormous Simpsons tie-in, but after Chapter Six reaches its big finale it's looking like the next season is going to introduce the most unlikely property yet: Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill. In fact, it seems like it might even be about to fill in a gap in the movie's lore by recreating a scripted chapter, Yuki's Revenge, that was never shot, right in time to promote the cinematic re-release of both movies in one, the four hour and 41 minute Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair.

"The age of toys is ... over?"

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Her initial withdrawal is what makes Spacek's gradual transformation so striking. As Pinky begins to emulate Millie (Shelley Duvall), her more established, relentlessly chatty co-worker, she takes Millie's adultness to an extreme: She starts smoking, layers on makeup, hooks up with their married landlord Edgar (Robert Fortier), borrows Millie's car without asking, and generally turns into a sassy pill. Spacek's voice gets a little deeper, her mannerisms more suggestive.

It is difficult for most artists to synchronize clips with their best music beat. Even minor timing discrepancies make a video look unbalanced or less vibrant. Manually syncing all the clips takes a lot of effort and time. But it is not difficult anymore with CapCut Desktop Video Editor, as it is easy and fast to synchronize beats of music with clips. The software enables you to view music waveforms and includes instruments for synchronizing visuals with beats.

Now, the actor who has since apologised for the most atrocious cockney accent in the history of cinema as chimney sweep Bert in the Disney classic has revealed he was in the running to play another UK icon on screen: James Bond. Speaking on the Today TV programme in the US, Van Dyke, who turns 100 next month, said that Bond producer Albert Broccoli approached him to ask if he fancied the role of the British spy in his first big screen outing.

Burns has done more fucking podcasts than I ever thought possible, he says, nearing the end of nine-month promotional tour that included 40 cities, 80 screenings and hundreds of interviews. I think there are 340.1m podcasts, one for every American, and I've done half of them. Fortunately Burns is a force of nature, as loquacious behind the mic as he is prolific in the editing room.

The 4K UHD release's new extras include two American Cinematheque discussion panels: one featuring Anderson and actor John C. Reilly, and the other with Anderson alone. Previously released bonuses include director and actor commentary, 30 minutes of deleted scenes, Michael Penn's "Try" music video, and The John C. Reilly Files, featuring an additional 35 minutes of outtakes and extended sequences.

The script by Baumbach and Emily Mortimer finds Clooney - sorry, Jay Kelly - in a sort of midlife funk. He's 60, a universally beloved, deeply earnest movie hunk who has worked his way to the top and found, well, artifice. Kelly's careful facade - the stories he tells about himself - soon gets chipped away. On his way up the hills of Hollywood, he apparently left some personal carnage behind. Jay Kelly is about those who sacrificed to get him there.

At the risk of sounding like the Grinch, I must once again bemoan the release of Christmas movies before Thanksgiving; the temperatures may be dropping at long last, but it's still too close to the gloominess of daylight savings and too far from the belt-loosening of the actual holidays to fully indulge in Netflix's now-annual buffet of cheap Christmas confections. Nevertheless, their content conveyor belt rolls on, offering treats about as substantial and enduring as cotton candy beginning in mid-November.

Impoverished Latin tutor William Shakespeare meets free-spirited Agnes, and the pair, captivated by one another, strike up a torrid affair that leads to marriage and three children. Yet as Will pursues a budding theater career in far-away London, Agnes anchors the domestic sphere alone. When tragedy strikes, the couple's once-unshakable bond is tested, but their shared experience sets the stage for the creation of Shakespeare's timeless masterpiece, Hamlet.