Alyla Browne isn’t easily shaken. For her role as Charlotte, a young girl obsessed with a pet spider in Sting, she handled live cockroaches. She felt well-prepared, as the real-life former owner of a pet spider.   “It was a little jumping spider. They’re adorable. They follow you around the room with their big eyes and they look at you,” she...

Mamie Gummer and Catherine Curtin have joined the cast of “In The Pocket”, an upcoming short film from writer-director Julie Cavaliere and producer Simon TaufiQue from Cavaliere’s Very Cavaliere Productions banner, MovieMaker has learned exclusively. Gummer — known for True Detective, The Good Wife, John Adams and The End of the Tour — will...

Quentin Tarantino is walking away from his movie The Movie Critic, which had previously been planned as the last film he would direct. Tarantino just changed his mind about making the film, Deadline exclusively reported on Wednesday. It was set to star Brad Pitt, who also starred in Tarantino’s 2009 war film Inglourious Basterds and his 2019...

Sydney Sweeney is firing back at producer Carol Baum, who took aim at the Immaculate and Euphoria star earlier this week, saying that she’s “not pretty” and “can’t act.” Baum, the producer of Dead Ringers (1988) and the 1992 Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie, also said she found Sweeney’s recent rom-com with Glen Powell Anyone But You “unwatchable.”...

Netflix’s Unlocked: A Jail Experiment follows Sheriff Eric Higgins as he gives surprising new freedoms to inmates in the Pulaski County Regional Detention Facility in Little Rock: Reversing rules in which they were locked up in cells 23 hours a day, he ordered that cell doors be unlocked so that inmates could come and go within the jail walls. ...

Brian Cox isn’t sugarcoating his opinion about Joaquin Phoenix’s performance as Napoleon Bonaparte in Ridley Scott’s Napoleon movie that came out last year. “Terrible. It’s terrible. A truly terrible performance by Joaquin Phoenix,” Cox said at London’s HistFest on Sunday night, according to The Standard. “It really is appalling....