The Academy Award winner was charged in a civil suit filed by former freelance publicist Haleigh Breest, who alleged that Haggis forcibly had sex with her in 2013 following a movie screening party. Breest was awarded $7.5 million in compensation and recommended punitive damages, as reported by Deadline. In the recent trial, Breest claimed Haggis forced her to submit to intercourse and perform oral sex on him while digitally penetrating her while she denied his advancements....

The nominees’ answers are below, organized by Emmy category and in alphabetical order by series title. Outstanding Cinematography for a Single-Camera Series (One Hour) Eddy Chen/HBO “Euphoria” Nominated Episode: “The Theater and Its Double” Format: 35mm (3 perf) Camera: Arricam LT, Arri 435 Lens: Cooke S4, Cooke Panchro, Zeiss Super Speeds/B-speeds, Zeiss uncoated Super Speeds Marcell Rév: Our goal for this season was to make it feel like a melancholic memory of high school years....

“There’s a sentence in a book that Maurice wrote where he says, ‘For me, Katia and volcanoes, it is a love story.’ And we felt like he was really handing us a thesis for how he understood his life and how we too decided to kind of tell this story,” Dosa told IndieWire. “The other thing too that is contained in that sentence [is that] it’s not just a love story, it’s a love triangle between Katia and Maurice and volcanoes....

After more than 50 years in the business, Chopra is reclaiming that eye-rolling moniker for her first memoir, “Lady Director, Adventures in Hollywood, Television and Beyond,” an insightful, emotional, and often quite dishy rollercoaster ride through her life and career. At 86, Chopra is as curious, clever, and damn fun to talk to as ever, all of which is reflected in her eye-opening memoir. Out November 22 from City Lights Publishers, “Lady Director” follows Chopra through her early, revelatory documentary career, the making of her Sundance winner “Smooth Talk,” the incredible disappointments that followed (like nearly being kicked off “The Lemon Sisters,” starring Diane Keaton), and her eventual move into television, where she directed films about everything from an American Girl doll to Marilyn Monroe (long before Joyce Carol Oates’ “Blonde” was adapted at Netflix)....

Garlin was at the center of a three-year HR investigation over claims of perpetuating a toxic work environment involving accusations of demeaning workplace behavior, especially toward women. Garlin’s absence during Season 9 of “The Goldbergs” sparked controversy after a stand-in was used for Garlin’s character Murray. “The Goldbergs” showrunners Alex Barnow and Chris Bishop later confirmed Garlin would not be appearing in the upcoming Season 10, which premiered September 21....

The Oscar winner previously clarified that she was “extremely fortunate and happy” with her salary deal for the Adam McKay film, which gave Lawrence top billing but a $5 million-less paycheck compared to co-star Leonardo DiCaprio. Still, Lawrence said in a new Vogue cover story that such pay gaps remain frustrating overall, citing that she was paid less than her male co-stars on “American Hustle” in 2013 for a role which Lawrence earned an Oscar nod for....

During the August 7 episode of “Last Week Tonight With John Oliver,” the host likened the rollout of the monkeypox vaccine to how WBD CEO David Zaslav shelved DC superhero film “Batgirl.” “We let the vaccine sit unused on a shelf in our reserves, like an expired Chobani or a $90 million movie on HBO Max,” Oliver joked. “Hi there, new business daddy seems like you’re doing a really great job....

The NBCUniversal streaming platform, launched in 2020, and the core Paramount Global streaming service, rebranded from CBS All Access in 2021, are the only two major streaming platforms that have not yet fully matured in the U.S., according to a MoffettNathanson report using data from market research firm HarrisX. Why those two? Even though only one of them is named after a bird, Peacock and Paramount+ are birds of a feather....

On Thursday, the streaming giant officially released its “Basic with Ads” tier in the United States. The cheap(er) subscription plan includes four to five minutes of ads per hour, with each ad being about 15-30 seconds long. These spots play both before titles and in the middle of films and TV episodes. There’s certain exceptions; when new Netflix original films coming to the streamer, like “Knives Out 2,” all ads play before the movie starts....

Tarantino penned in his new book “Cinema Speculation” that the decline of unlikeable leads marked “the curse of eighties cinema,” with feel-good films swooping in because they were easier to market to mass audiences after a dark ’70s. “It was that complex and complicated lead characters of the seventies were the characters that eighties cinema avoided completely,” Tarantino wrote. “Complex characters aren’t necessarily sympathetic. Interesting people aren’t always likable. But in the Hollywood of the eighties, likability was everything....

When she took the stage, her first words were: “Hello. My name is Sacheen Littlefeather. I’m Apache.” But a new report alleges that might not have been true. In a bombshell story by Native American journalist Jacqueline Keeler for the San Francisco Chronicle, Littlefeather’s sisters Rosalind Cruz and Trudy Orlandi claim that the activist wasn’t actually Native American. “It’s a lie,” Orlandi said of Littlefeather’s claimed heritage. “My father was who he was....

LaBeouf elaborated about his interest in Latin Mass in a new appearance on the Catholic web series “Bishop Barron Presents,” which is hosted by Bishop Robert Barron, the current bishop of the Diocese of Winona-Rochester. He explained that he was introduced to Latin Mass by his friend Mel Gibson, whose passion for historically accurate Christianity led him to film “The Passion of the Christ” in Latin. “I’m quite close with Mel Gibson....

The “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” star put his tongue to the test when tasked with bringing a maggot back to life in National Geographic’s “Running Wild With Bear Grylls” reality survival series. Why do we need more maggots in this world? Well, Grylls required one as bait to catch a fish with his bare hands. Such is life in the wilderness. Liu joined Grylls in a trek through the snow-covered Canadian Rockies in the upcoming episode of the viral series, airing Monday, August 8 at 9 p....

Less good news: Most of the grosses run far below past comparable films. James Gray’s “Armageddon Time,” the week’s biggest new platform release, could manage only $72,000 in six theaters. Given decent reviews, its director, and a cast that includes Anne Hathaway and Anthony Hopkins, that’s disappointing. The 1980s coming-of-age story had six top New York/Los Angeles theaters. “Holy Spider” (Utopia), a Danish-produced film about an Iranian serial killer, had an impressive $17,000 opening at New York’s IFC Center....

The Academy Award winner slammed the day-and-date HBO Max releases in 2021, with acclaimed films like “In the Heights,” “Judas and the Black Messiah,” “Dune,” “King Richard,” and “The Matrix Resurrections” debuting on the streamer the same day as in theaters. “The pandemic created an opportunity for streaming platforms to raise their subscriptions to record-breaking levels and also throw some of my best filmmaker friends under the bus as their movies were unceremoniously not given theatrical releases,” Spielberg told The New York Times....

The biggest night for television will be broadcast tonight on NBC, plus available to live-stream on Peacock, starting at 8 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. PT from Los Angeles. “Saturday Night Live” mainstay Kenan Thompson is hosting the 74th annual awards show, which marks a huge year for returning Emmy award winners like “Succession,” “Barry,” “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” and “Ted Lasso.” If you have a cable subscription or cord-cutting service like YouTube TV, you can watch the Emmys on NBC directly....

The Slap Joke That Never Was As always, the telecast had its highs and lows and many moments didn’t make it to air. Here are a handful of Emmy moments from inside the room where it happened. All That Cursing In his acceptance speech for that award, Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series, winner Michael Keaton concluded with the night’s first censored cursing: “I fucking love you man,” he said to his supporters....

The “Batman” actress revealed in a GQ TikTok video that the Emmy-winning HBO series would most likely not return without late director Jean-Marc Vallée, who died in 2021. “I don’t think it is. We talked about doing a Season 3 a lot, but unfortunately, Jean-Marc Vallée, our incredible director, passed away this last year,” Kravitz said. “I just can’t imagine going on without him. He really was the visionary for that show....