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Director Robert dos Santos makes first straight-to-VHS film

Director Robert dos Santos makes first straight-to-VHS film

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter One director is pushing back against the increasing digitisation of the film world by creating the first movie to be released straight to VHS in 20 years. Born in South Africa, Portuguese director Robert dos Santos is best known as a creator of short films and music videos. His first narrative short, the 90-second-long A Moment, won best film at the Los Angeles Film Awards in 2021. With his new straight-to-video indie film This Is How the World Ends, dos Santos continues to break with convention. VHS stopped being the dominant method of home film viewing decades ago, yet one director is returning to it (olegkruglyak3 – stock.adobe.com) VHS players went out of production in 2016 more than a decade after videos were effectively replaced by DVDs, making dos Santos’s film unplayable to anyone who hasn’t hung onto their old VCR. …

How Jane Rosenthal and Robert De Niro Built the Tribeca Festival

How Jane Rosenthal and Robert De Niro Built the Tribeca Festival

Published by Sam Flores

The Tribeca Festival was born out of a need to revitalize downtown New York City following the September 11 attacks. Spearheaded by Robert De Niro, producer Jane Rosenthal, and investor Craig Hatkoff, the festival pulled New York’s creative community together, drawing big names like Martin Scorsese, Al Pacino, and Whoopi Goldberg. Twenty-five years later, the festival has expanded its scope to include talks, a podcasting track, a gaming section, and television premieres. At this year’s Tribeca, you can attend talks between Madonna and Jimmy Fallon, Sean Penn and CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, and Teyana Taylor and filmmaker Janicza Bravo. You can visit New York’s Pier 57 to play demos of exclusive upcoming games or attend a live podcast taping with The New Yorker’s David Remnick with Jon Lovett. Or you can watch the premiere of a fully AI-generated docudrama called Dreams of Violet, about the Iranian civilian resistance to the authoritarian regime. Rosenthal has been at the center of these changes, from launching the festival to adapting itputting on the festival during COVID-19. Below, she talks …

Inside the Making of ‘The Odyssey’—With Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, and Christopher Nolan

Inside the Making of ‘The Odyssey’—With Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, and Christopher Nolan

Published by Jenni Sidey

He also knew, early on, precisely how he wanted to shoot the film. For The Odyssey, Nolan asked IMAX to design a camera that could capture not just big sweeping shots but intimate scenes of dialogue, something that was previously thought to be impossible, due to how loud IMAX cameras are. At Nolan’s behest, IMAX devised a kind of blimp covering to get the effect he wanted while still allowing the actors to hear themselves over the sound of the camera. And then, because the covering often blocked the actor’s eyeline, Nolan himself improvised a workaround, a system of mirrors that would allow a second actor’s face to be projected just left of his lens. “Chris doesn’t fake anything,” Holland told me. “Everything’s real. Everything you’re reacting to is what he wants your visceral human response to.” Pattinson once had to shoot a scene in The Odyssey responding to a far-off sound. “I can’t see anything, apart from the camera,” he recounted, “and I was just asking Chris, because I’m supposed to react to this …

Chris Hansen has cryptic response to Robert Pattinson playing him in To Catch A Predator movie

Chris Hansen has cryptic response to Robert Pattinson playing him in To Catch A Predator movie

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Chris Hansen, the former host of NBC Dateline’s true-crime series To Catch a Predator, has reacted to Robert Pattinson’s portrayal of him in A24’s new eerie drama Primetime. Set to arrive in theaters this September, the forthcoming movie tracks the origins of the hit investigative news program, which ran from 2004 to 2007 and followed Hansen’s operations to catch adult men arriving at a sting house to have sex with minors. Primetime also features Merritt Wever, Skyler Gisondo, Matthew Maher and Bokeem Woodbine, and marks director Lance Oppenheim’s narrative feature film debut. The film’s first trailer was released earlier this week, and teases Pattinson’s strikingly transformed voice as Hansen. “At the end of the day, man must be held accountable for the decisions that he makes. Do you agree?” he says in a voice-over. “Do you watch television? Well, there’s something …

Hart to Hart star Robert Wagner, 96, and former Bond Girl wife, 85, mark relationship milestone with rare loved-up photo

Hart to Hart star Robert Wagner, 96, and former Bond Girl wife, 85, mark relationship milestone with rare loved-up photo

Published by Daniella Wilson

Robert Wagner proved that romance has no age limit.  The Hart to Hart star posted a touching picture of himself giving his wife, and former Bond Girl Jill St. John, a loving kiss on the cheek, in celebration of their 36th anniversary. Jill was seen closing her eyes as she took in the sweet moment with her husband. The duo wore matching outfits, both rocking black blazers. Robert captioned the sweet picture: “36 years of love and laughter with my beautiful Jill. Happy Anniversary, my love.” Fans loved the thoughtful gesture and they flocked to the comments to cheer on the happy couple. One person wrote: “What a stunning photo! Happy anniversary to you both!” A second fan added: “Happy anniversary, such an amazing beautiful couple!”  A third follower continued: “Love you both!!!” One fan wrote: “Met them…nicest human beings. Happy anniversary.” © Getty ImagesThe pair have been together 36 years This wasn’t the first time that Robert shared a sweet note on social media to pay tribute to their decades-long relationship or Jill herself.. Last year …

Robert De Niro on Building the Tribeca Festival With Jane Rosenthal, Wrangling a Cut of ‘Gangs of New York’ From Harvey Weinstein, and Making ‘at Least Another One’ With Martin Scorsese

Robert De Niro on Building the Tribeca Festival With Jane Rosenthal, Wrangling a Cut of ‘Gangs of New York’ From Harvey Weinstein, and Making ‘at Least Another One’ With Martin Scorsese

Published by Jenni Sidey

As partnerships go, Robert De Niro has been pretty lucky. For starters, there’s his legendary 50-year run with Martin Scorsese, a collaboration that began in the ‘70s with classics like Mean Streets and Taxi Driver and has continued on all the way to 2023’s Killers of the Flower Moon. Then there are co-stars like Joe Pesci and Harvey Keitel—both Scorsese company men who’ve shared the screen with him several times—and of course, Al Pacino, arguably De Niro’s only true peer, who burned through the screen with De Niro in Michael Mann’s Heat and Scorsese’s The Irishman. But sometimes lost in all that testosterone is one of De Niro’s longest-running collaborations—his 37-year partnership with the powerhouse producer Jane Rosenthal, who he founded Tribeca Productions with in 1989. With Rosenthal, De Niro entered a fruitful, often financially lucrative next chapter in his career in the ‘90s, starring in films like Wag the Dog, Analyze This, and the Meet the Parents movies. (Focker-in-Law, the hotly-anticipated fourth installment of the Meet the Parents franchise, co-starring Ben Stiller and Ariana …

Robert Pattinson’s Massive Year Continues With ‘Primetime’ Trailer

Robert Pattinson’s Massive Year Continues With ‘Primetime’ Trailer

Published by Daniella Wilson

It will take you a minute to recognize Robert Pattinson’s voice in the new teaser trailer for Primetime (watch below), A24’s upcoming film in which he stars as broadcast journalist Chris Hansen, the face of the former Dateline NBC series To Catch a Predator. This has become something of a signature for the guy who’s brought wild vocal flair to everything from The Devil All the Time to Mickey 17 to Good Time. Here, the British actor appears to take on Hansen’s vocal patterns and tics with an eerie, off-kilter precision, as those familiar with the infamous true-crime host can attest. While a very small glimpse into what the characterization will look like — with an even shorter visual introduction — the trailer indicates that more chameleonic work from Pattinson is on the way.  Primetime is directed by the acclaimed documentarian Lance Oppenheim (Some Kind of Heaven, Ren Faire) in his narrative feature debut, and marks Pattinson’s first full feature-producing credit. It’s set in 2006, the year in which the bulk of the series’ episodes …

Robert De Niro admits to doubting that one of his most iconic movies would be a success

Robert De Niro admits to doubting that one of his most iconic movies would be a success

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Robert De Niro has admitted he never expected one of his Oscar-nominated films to become the lasting success it did. After cementing his star status with his Oscar-winning performance in The Godfather Part II (1974), the legendary actor, 82, continued his rise with Martin Scorsese’s 1976 drama Taxi Driver. The critically acclaimed crime noir — which follows De Niro’s Travis Bickle, a disturbed insomniac, as he takes a job as a New York City cab driver and embarks on an obsessive attempt to rescue 12-year-old prostitute Iris (Jodie Foster) — earned him his second acting Oscar nomination. However, De Niro recently revealed that he originally doubted its enduring quality. “You never can think that you’re doing something that’s going to have an impact,” he told Page Six during an interview ahead of the 25th edition of New York City’s Tribeca Film Festival, …

Robert Jenrick Bizarrely Takes Credit After Net Migration Falls Under Labour

Robert Jenrick Bizarrely Takes Credit After Net Migration Falls Under Labour

Published by Sam Flores

Robert Jenrick on Sky News Robert Jenrick has somehow tried to take credit for the recent decline in net migration despite not being in government for three years. The MP for Newark used to be the Conservative immigration minister under Rishi Sunak but quit in 2023 when he claimed the government was not taking enough action to cut migration numbers. He defected to Reform in January and is now the the right-wing party’s Treasury spokesperson. Labour’s home secretary Shabana Mahmood has overseen net migration fall to its lowest level since early 2021, as official figures revealed this week. Data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed net migration fell to 171,000 in 2025, which is a 82% fall since its peak in early 2023 of 944,000. But Jenrick told Sky News’ Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips: “I secured the very changes that are making this, announced them and then resigned because they weren’t enough. “I want the numbers to come down much more.” He continued: “Reform… We don’t want hundreds of thousands of people …

David Mitchell and Robert Webb confirm format change for new sketches

David Mitchell and Robert Webb confirm format change for new sketches

Published by Daniella Wilson

David Mitchell and Robert Webb have announced the launch of a YouTube channel intended to expand the reach of their current Channel 4 sketch comedy. Mitchell and Webb Are Not Helping launched on Channel 4 last year, seeing the comedy duo return to the format that propelled them to stardom on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Two in the 2000s. They partnered up with Ghosts alum Kiell Smith-Bynoe and rising stars Stevie Martin, Krystal Evans and Lara Ricote, with the mission to reinvigorate sketch comedy after a long period of stagnation. Their efforts were certainly appreciated, with Channel 4 revealing that Mitchell and Webb Are Not Helping was its most-watched new scripted comedy for six years. A second season is on the way with a revised release strategy — an expanded presence on YouTube will accompany the Channel 4 broadcast, in a bid to attract new viewers from all over the world (via Deadline). Want to see this content? This page contains content provided by Google reCAPTCHA. We ask for your permission before anything is …