Yo Adrian, Rocky did it … again! Only this time, the famed character is at TIFF in biopic form, thanks to director Peter Farrelly, screenwriter Peter Gamble and a star-making turn from Anthony Ippolito, who portrays actor Sylvester Stallone in the story of his relentless determination to bring “Rocky” to the big screen. This has
Fashion designer Todd Snyder remembers the first time he learned a celebrity was a fan of his work. It was 2013, just two years after he launched his eponymous menswear brand following career-making turns at Ralph Lauren, Gap Inc. and J. Crew. “We were all sitting there together because it was maybe only five of
Four Robert Pattinsons are better than one, and that makes his upcoming Oscar run a bit more complicated. In “Primetime,” Pattinson sits alone in a dim Florida room, reading a stranger’s chat logs aloud: “I will undress you as you undress me.” He’s playing Chris Hansen, host of the hidden-camera series “To Catch a Predator,”
Steve Carell and writer Greg Daniels got so close while making “The Office,” they became like family. So much so that Daniels once wanted Carell to play his dad Aaron in a biopic he wrote about him almost 20 years ago. “He’s a very colorful person and he actually was in the Olympics in 1968,
On my last morning in Telluride, halfway through breakfast at Butcher & Baker, Kenneth Branagh stopped at the table on his way to a Q&A for “Into the Breach,” the National Theatre documentary he produced. He had a story. A night earlier, he’d ridden the gondola up in pitch darkness with Willem Dafoe, Tom Hiddleston
Netflix wants the “ink” to dry on its Oscar prospects. Danny Boyle made his first trip to Venice with “Ink,” his adaptation of James Graham’s stage sensation, which opened the 83rd edition in competition before moving through Telluride and Toronto, with the streamer giving it a December theatrical release and a January streaming date. The
