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Nicole Kidman is trading in the glass of milk for fields of multi-colored tulip and picturesque windmills. The Oscar-winning actress stars in the upcoming thriller film Holland from Fresh director Mimi Cave, streaming exclusively on Prime Video this March.

Fresh was a big hit for Hulu when it debuted in 2022. Starring Sebastian Stan and Daisy Edgar-Jones, Fresh starts out as a traditional romantic comedy and then slowly transforms into something far more sinister as it is revealed that the male lead is a cannibal. Cave received praise for her direction and many of us have been eager to see what she does next.

Holland is described as a "wildly unpredictable thriller" and the newly released trailer teases that nothing in this movie will be as expected. It centers on Kidman's character, a picture-perfect homemaker named Nancy Vandergroot. The Vandergroot family are beloved by their quaint and lovely town of Holland,...

Nicole Kidman just might be returning to the land of “Stepford Wives” for her latest feature, “Holland.”

The thriller, which is “Fresh” director Mimi Cave’s sophomore feature, stars Kidman as a teacher who uncovers a town secret along with her colleague after she suspects her husband of leading a double life. Could this shatter her perfect suburban world?

“Succession” Emmy winner Matthew Macfadyen and Jude Hill play Kidman’s onscreen family. “Holland” will premiere at the 2025 SXSW Film & TV Festival.

Errol Morris was originally announced as the director for the film in 2013; the film, which was originally titled “Holland, Michigan,” has been in the works for more than a decade, with Cave and Kidman both joining in 2022. Cave’s directorial debut was the 2022 cannibal horror film “Fresh” starring Sebastian Stan and Daisy Edgar-Jones.

Andrew Sodroski’s script for the black comedy “Holland” first appeared on The Black List in...

Bill Fay, the cult British singer-songwriter whose music was later championed by artists like Jeff Tweedy and Nick Cave, leading to a late-career resurgence, has died at the age of 81.

Dead Oceans — the record label that released Fay’s three most albums, which arrived decades after inactivity — confirmed the folk artist’s death on social media Saturday. No cause of death was provided.

“It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Bill Fay, who died peacefully this morning in London, aged 81. Bill was a gentle man and a gentleman,...

"The goal of the place is to give them their freedom back." Madman Films in Australia has revealed the trailer for a documentary film titled Ellis Park, telling the story of musician Warren Ellis. This is actually directed by the acclaimed Australian filmmaker Justin Kurzel, of Macbeth, Assassin's Creed, Nitram, The Order. It first premiered at the 2024 London & Melbourne Film Festivals last year. A key member of iconic bands The Dirty Three and Nick Cave's Bad Seeds, multi-instrumentalist Warren Ellis has cut a brilliant and unorthodox figure in music for over three decades. Far from the international concert halls in which he has plied his craft lies a very different passion project: a wildlife sanctuary in the forests of Sumatra. This place is co-founded by Ellis and spearheaded by the indomitable Femke den Haas, whose dedicated team of conservationists rescues trafficked and mistreated animals and then devotes years to nursing them back to health.

Kneecap is leading the charge at this year’s Irish Film and Television Academy (IFTA) awards, with 17 nominations across 12 categories.

Rich Peppiatt’s feature about the eponymous Irish-language Belfast hip hop act is on an awards season roll, having led the winners at the Bifas back in December with seven awards, as well as having been shortlisted at the Oscars in the international feature category, and being longlisted in seven categories at the Baftas (with nominations announced tomorrow).

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Tim Mielants’ Small Things Like These, an Ireland-Belgium co-production that opened the Berlin film festival last year,...

Clearly, it’s laundry day for Matt Smith on the set of Nick Cave‘s The Death of Bunny Munro. Written by BAFTA winner Pete Jackson (Somewhere Boy), with direction by Isabella Eklöf, the Doctor Who and House of the Dragon star goes shirtless in a first-look pic for the upcoming series adaptation of the Cave’s story. Baby Reindeer studio Clerkenwell Films is partnering with Sky Studios for the project, with Nick Cave producing the series based on his second novel.

What’s The Death of Bunny Munro about? Here’s a description of Cave’s novel courtesy of Amazon:

“Set adrift by his wife’s suicide and struggling to keep some sort of grasp on reality, Bunny Munro drives off in his yellow Fiat Punto, Bunny Jr. in tow. To his son waiting patiently in the car while he peddles beauty wares and quickies to lonely housewives in the south of England,...

Matt Smith is as you’ve never seen him before playing Bunny Munro in Sky’s adaptation of the cult Nick Cave novel.

Check out this first-look image (above) of the former Doctor Who star as the titular character. Smith can be seen complete with cigarette in a laundrette alongside newcomer Rafael Mathé, who plays Bunny Junior.

The Death of Bunny Munro follows the protagonist after the death of his wife by suicide. The self-professed lothario finds himself saddled with a young son and only a loose concept of parenting. Together with nine-year-old Bunny Junior he embarks on an epic and increasingly out-of-control road trip across Southern England as the two struggle to contain their grief in very different ways. As Bunny bounces from one sales pitch to the next, trying to seduce any woman he meets, Bunny Junior kills time talking to the ghost of his mother and distracting...

Sky has unveiled a first-look image of Matt Smith in the upcoming six-part limited series, The Death of Bunny Munro.

Written by BAFTA winner Pete Jackson (Somewhere Boy) and directed by BAFTA-nominated Isabella Eklöf (Industry, Holiday), the show is based on Nick Cave’s sophomore novel and produced by Clerkenwell Films in association with Sky Studios. The musician also serves as executive producer.

Doctor Who and House of the Dragon actor Smith, shirtless and with a cigarette in the first-look image revealed Monday, stars in the titular role. Pictured alongside him is newcomer Rafael Mathé, playing Bunny Junior.

“Following his wife Libby’s death by suicide, sex addicted, door-to-door beauty product salesman and self-professed lothario Bunny Munro finds himself saddled with a young son and only a loose concept of parenting,” a plot synopsis reads.

“Together with nine-year-old Bunny Junior he embarks on an epic and increasingly out-of-control road trip...

“The Brutalist” cinematographer Lol Crawley will be honored with the Robby Müller Award at the 54th edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam, which runs Jan. 30 – Feb. 9.

The award acknowledges the “artistry of an exceptional image maker,” and is given in collaboration with the Netherlands Society of Cinematographers and Andrea Müller-Schirmer, the wife of the late Dutch cinematographer Robby Müller.

The award will be accompanied by a talk from Crawley during the festival, as well as a screening of “The Brutalist,” which marks the Dutch premiere of the film.

The jury for this year’s Robby Müller Award noted: “Lol Crawley’s camera is dedicated to the story and characters in a way that is both humble and ardent. It forms a close, dynamic relationship with them. His sensual cinematography embraces the environment as unpredictable and fluid and aims to align with its flow rather than confine it to a predefined frame.

Russell Crowe wanted to keep spectators entertained.

While the Oscar-winning star of 2000’s Gladiator is not in the film’s follow-up, he did valiantly try to be. According to helmer Ridley Scott, Crowe wanted to reincarnate his character of Maximus, the brave Colosseum fighter who expires at the end of the original epic.

“Russell and I had a go at it around 18 years ago,” Scott told People in a recent interview. “I had Nick Cave writing the script and I kept saying [to Russell], ‘But you’re dead.’ And he said, ‘I know I’m dead. And I want to come back from the dead.'”

Indeed, according to a 2018 BBC article, musician Nick Cave was commissioned by Crowe to pen a sequel, purportedly telling the scribe to “sort [his death] out” in the new film. In the never-made-sequel, Maximus wakes in a purgatory of sorts filled with Roman gods who conscript his services...

Earlier this week, Bob Dylan shared on Twitter/X that he had recently attended Nick Cave’s concert in Paris. “I was really struck by that song ‘Joy’ where he sings ‘We’ve all had too much sorrow, now it the time for joy,’ I was thinking to myself, yeah that’s about right,” Dylan wrote.

Now, via his website The Red Hand Files, Cave has responded to Dylan’s post. As Cave explained, “I hadn’t known Bob was at the concert and his tweet was a lovely pulse of joy that penetrated my exhausted, zombied state.”

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“I was happy to see Bob on X, just as many on the Left had performed a Twitterectomy and headed for Bluesky,” Cave continued. “It felt admirably perverse, in a Bob Dylan kind of way. I did indeed feel it was a time for joy rather than sorrow.

Gladiator 2 has finally arrived, but many fans are left wondering if the original star of Gladiator, Russell Crowe, appears in the sequel. Over two decades after the original movie's release, audiences return to the Roman Empire and gladiator rings for another historical epic. The first Gladiator helped turn Russell Crowe into a box office star, but his incredible performance as Maximus also led to an Oscar win for Best Actor. It remains one of his most iconic roles as a result, and there have been various attempts to get him back for a sequel over the years.

After a long delay, Gladiator 2 has arrived with Paul Mescal in the lead role as an adult Lucius. While director Ridley Scott returns to helm the movie, his leading man Crowe is not part of the movie. This might not come as a surprise to many fans considering Gladiator's ending saw Maximus die.

While Gladiator II has finally arrived, the sequel was nearly 25 years in the making and went through some ideas over the years. The original Gladiator, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Russell Crowe, premiered in 2000 to strong critical and commercial success. The movie went on to win several Oscars, including Best Actor for Crowe and Best Picture. Decades after its release, the movie continues to be a beloved historical epic which is evidenced by the excitement about the long-awaited sequel.

However, given the success of the first movie, it is not surprising that there have been many attempts over the years to deliver a follow-up. The death of Crowe's Maximus at the end of Gladiator made it hard to figure out what direction the story could take. However, before landing on the legacy sequel that eventually hit theaters, there were some unexpected ideas for a Gladiator sequel that almost came to fruition,...

Ridley Scott explains how Steven Spielberg contributed to the original Gladiator II script being scrapped. After Gladiator became a critical and commercial hit following its theatrical release in 2000, it took more than two decades for a sequel to come to fruition. The Gladiator II story releasing in 2024, directed by Scott and with a cast led by Paul Mescal and Denzel Washington, is entirely different from the original script written years earlier by musician Nick Cave.

While speaking with The New York Times, Scott explains that Spielberg encouraged him to not move forward with Cave's script. Spielberg was not the only one skeptical about it, as Scott already had his own misgivings about Cave's story that featured Maximus Decimus Meridius (Russell Crowe) being resurrected. Scott discusses other elements of Cave's script and why he believes they would not have worked well. Check out Scott's comments below:

There was even a...

Long before Gladiator 2's release in 2024, a script was written that provided a wildly different direction for the sequel. Even though the original Gladiator ending concludes with the death of the protagonist, Maximus Decimus Meridius (Russell Crowe), who gets his revenge and restores Rome as Marcus Aurelius (Richard Harris) intended, there was still interest in a sequel. Part of this interest came from the project's financial success, as it proved to be a box office hit and was the second highest-grossing movie at the worldwide box office in 2000 (via Box Office Mojo).

Interest in the sequel went beyond the financial incentives, though, as director Ridley Scott and Crowe had ideas about seeing the story continue with Gladiator 2. Of course, one of the most significant challenges for a sequel was how it could incorporate Maximus at the center of its story, considering his fate in the first movie. This...

Seven years ago, a young filmmaker named Malcolm Washington made the regional festival rounds with his debut short film, “Benny Got Shot,” and won the filmmaker-to-watch award at the Atlanta Film Festival among other honors. This year, Washington has made his feature film debut with “The Piano Lesson,” an August Wilson adaptation with an all-star cast and an awards-friendly release date from Netflix. Malcolm Washington has screened “The Piano Lesson” at several top film festivals this fall – including the Telluride Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival – and will be honored with the Breakthrough Director award at this year’s Montclair Film Festival.

For young directors just starting – even those without Oscar-winning dads like Denzel Washington – that path is the dream scenario, one made possible by events like the one happening now in Montclair, New Jersey. Just ask Hannah Sperling, the 20-year-old director of the short film “Meek,” which...

And now for something completely different… The Extraordinary Miss Flower, a new biographical filmic experience from British artists Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, known for their Nick Cave film 20,000 Days on Earth, is set for its world premiere at the BFI London Film Festival (Lff) on Saturday. The event’s 68th edition, which opened with Steve McQueen’s Saoirse Ronan-starring Blitz, wraps on Sunday.

Miss Flower is very different from many of the other offerings of the Lff. “When Geraldine Flower passed away, her family uncovered a secret cache of letters containing declarations of love from suitors around the globe, hinting at the possibility of a life of espionage,” reads its synopsis. “Taking inspiration, Icelandic singer-songwriter Emilíana Torrini recorded an album that forms the spine of this filmic fever dream. The songs and images bring these amorous words and the beguiling Miss Flower thrillingly back to life.”

On their website,...

Back in 2000, director Ridley Scott took us back to 180 Ad for Gladiator, which told the story of Roman general Maximus Decimus Meridius (played by Russell Crowe), who is favored by Emperor Marcus Aurelius to be his successor because his own son, Commodus, is unfit to rule. Commodus disagrees, so he murders his father, has Maximus arrested, and has Maximus’s wife and son killed. While Commodus establishes himself as the new emperor, Maximus escapes from captivity – only to be captured again, this time by slavers who sell him off to become a gladiator. Soon he’s fighting in front of Commodus in Rome’s Colosseum… and it all builds up to Commodus challenging Maximus to a duel. Gladiator was a major box office success and racked up multiple Academy Award wins, including Best Picture. So there was already talk of a sequel in 2001, but it ended up taking more than...

If life is a symphony, then young musical talents like Nell Smith are the incredible notes that lend depth and emotion to the melody. At just 17, this Canadian prodigy showed us that age is just a number when you’re brimming with talent and passion.

Nell Smith in Girl in Amber | Credit: YouTube

Best known for her exceptional collaborations with the Grammy Award-winning juggernauts, The Flaming Lips, Smith was already making waves with her mature artistry before tragedy struck. Her untimely departure on October 5, 2024, left a void not just in her family’s hearts but across the entire music community.

That being said, stick around, and let’s strike a chord with Nell Smith’s extraordinary, albeit brief, musical legacy.

Early Beginnings: A Natural Talent Nell Smith in Girl in Amber | Credit: YouTube

Nell Smith was born in Leeds, England, on July 18, 2007, but soon packed her bags for Canada (via...

On a solo tour last year, Nick Cave suddenly became self-aware. He built his career performing with bands — the Birthday Party, Grinderman, the Bad Seeds — but here he was with only a piano and Radiohead bassist Colin Greenwood supporting him. As they worked their way through nearly two dozen songs every night, Cave started thinking deeply about his songwriting.

“When I was singing these songs alone at the piano with just the bass — old songs, new songs, over 45 years of songwriting — they spoke their original intent,” he says, thoughtfully choosing his words on a call.

No joke: That’s Nick Cave singing a cheery rendition of Burt Bacharach’s cheery “What the World Needs Now Is Love” on the newly released soundtrack to Joker: Folie à Deux. The performance comes at the end of a medley that includes “Slap That Bass” and “Get Happy,” though his voice isn’t obvious on those songs.

Although Cave is best known for writing soul-searching songs that tackle the themes of loss and redemption, it’s not a stretch to assume he’s a fan of Bacharach’s songcraft and,...

The official soundtrack for Todd Phillips’ Joker: Folie à Deux has been released to coincide with its premiere in theaters. Besides musical numbers from stars Joaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck/Joker and Lady Gaga as Harley Quinn, the album opens with a new song from Nick Cave. Stream it in full below.

Cave’s contribution is a medley of the pop standards “Slap That Bass,” “Get Happy,” and “What the World Needs Now Is Love,” which were penned by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin, Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler, and Burt Bacharach and Hal David, respectively.

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As such, the track transitions from a straight-up Broadway tune to a song more up Cave’s alley. He sounds right at home singing, “What the world needs now is love, sweet love/ No, not just for some but for everyone.” Stream it below.

The soundtrack...

Apple is making a notable change to its popular Podcasts app, putting a spotlight on narrative-driven series.

The focus on series will include a new “Series” category in the app, as well as a Top Series chart that will include the top 100 serialized podcasts on the platform. In addition, Apple will launch Series Essentials, which will see Apple Podcasts editors select one podcast each month to highlight within the app.

“[Series] are, we think some of the most impactful shows in podcasting. They’re the ones that we can’t stop thinking about. They’re the ones that everyone’s talking about as well, sometimes years after they’ve been released, and they’re the ones that we recommend the most to our friends and family,” Ben Cave, Apple’s global head of Podcasts, tells The Hollywood Reporter in an interview. “I think they’re also critically, a place for innovation as well.

Nearly three years after the death of Mark Lanegan, the beloved grunge singer’s closest friends and collaborators will bound together this December for a London tribute concert.

Marking what would have been his 60th birthday, Mark Lanegan – A Celebration will feature guests like his Queens of the Stone Age cohorts Josh Homme and Troy Van Leeuwen, fellow Soulsavers vocalist Dave Gahan of Depeche Mode, his Gutter Twins partner Greg Dulli, and more.

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In just two months, Gladiator II will be hitting theaters. However, Ridley Scott first began considering a Gladiator sequel two decades ago… and it would have been absolutely bizarre, bringing Maximus (Russell Crowe) back from the dead in a supernatural tale full of Roman gods and mythology.

After first considering a prequel about Maximus’s early days in the military and a sequel which focused on corruption and politics in Rome, Scott shifted gears when he tapped Nick Cave to pen the script. The result was unlike anything you would have expected.

The script for the proposed Gladiator sequel would have opened with Maximus awakening in the afterlife, but not the one he imagined in the first movie. Instead, it’s a rain-soaked purgatory filled with miserable souls. He meets a guide named Mordecai, who takes him to meet Jupiter, Apollo, Mars, Pluto, Neptune, Mercury, and Bacchus. The deities aren...

With a new album, Wild God, out now, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds will tour North America next year. Although Cave has toured with his red-right-hand-man Warren Ellis and made solo appearances, the full band has not visited the U.S. since 2018.

The dates, which includes appearances at arenas and theaters, kick off in Boston in April with St. Vincent serving as support for that show and the next date at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. The tour, without St. Vincent, will then wend around the country over the next...

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds have extended their upcoming tour in support of their new album, Wild God, with their first North American dates since 2018.

Kicking off on April 15th, 2025 in Boston, the Bad Seeds’ North American leg will take them to Brooklyn, Toronto, Chicago, Kansas City, Seattle, and more cities before wrapping on May 14th in San Francisco. For the first two nights of the run in Boston and Brooklyn, they’ll be joined by St. Vincent, who will play an opening set.

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Tickets for the Bad Seeds’ North American dates will first become available via a Ticketmaster pre-sale opening on Tuesday, September 10th at 10:00 a.m. local time (use code Setlist), with the general on-sale opening the following Friday, September 13th. Once tickets are on sale, fans can also look for deals or get sold-out tickets via StubHub,...

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds will be without bassist Martyn Casey on their upcoming UK and European tour.

According to a statement from the band, Casey is suffering from an unspecified illness.

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Fortunately, the Bad Seeds have found a worthy replacement in Radiohead’s Colin Greenwood, who will stand in on bass for these upcoming shows. Greenwood previously backed Cave on his recent solo tours, and also contributed to the band’s new album, Wild God.

The tour officially kicks off in Germany on September 24th and runs through mid-November. Last-minute tickets are available for purchase here.

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds 2024 Tour Dates:

09/24 – Oberhausen, Germany @ Rudolf Weber-arena

09/26 – Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Ziggo Dome

09/27 – Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Ziggo Dome

09/29 – Berlin, Germany @ Uber Arena

09/30 – Berlin, Germany @ Uber Arena

10/02 – Oslo, Norway @ Oslo Spektrum

10/03 – Stockholm, Sweden @ Hovet

10/05 – Copenhagen, Denmark @ Royal Arena

10/06 – Copenhagen, Denmark @ Royal Arena

10/08 – Hamburg,...

Russell Crowe has repeatedly stated that neither Ridley Scott nor anyone involved with “Gladiator 2” reached out to him to consult on the upcoming sequel considering the follow-up’s storyline has little to do with the character he played in the 2000 original. Crowe won an Oscar for “Gladiator,” but his character, Maximus, died at the end of the movie. Scott recently told Empire magazine (via ScreenRant) that he hopes his relationship with Crowe is still in good shape after not reaching out about “Gladiator 2.”

“The plot, frankly, was right under our noses,” Scott said about the sequel. “I think it was so close under our noses that we thought it was too simple. I think [Russell Crowe] is still one of the best actors in the world, and I think we have a good relationship. I hope we do. As long as he doesn’t start bitching about how he wasn’t consulted.

At the end of Ridley Scott's 2000 peplum film "Gladiator," the general-turned-gladiator Maximus (Russell Crowe) is forced to fight the corrupt emperor Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix) in the arena. Commodus is wickd and terrible and stabs Maximus before the fight even begins. Despite the injury, Maximus overwhelms Commodus and stabs him in the neck. With his dying breaths, Commodus calls out for political reforms and urges that all imprisoned gladiators be released. Maximus then passes into the afterlife where he is reunited with his dead wife and son. It's a corny ending to a sluggish, muddy movie, but it was effective enough to net "Gladiator" $451.7 million at the worldwide box office. I heard it also won some awards.

Scott's "Gladiator II" is due in theaters this fall. This new film is set 20 years after the events of the first movie, and is all about the character named Lucius Verus (Paul Mescal...

Since the ongoing crisis in the Middle East escalated to a new level last October, many artists have mobilized to use their platforms in a variety of ways, including participating in the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (Bds) movement and cultural boycotts of Israel. Some, though, have doubts about the effectiveness of such moves, like Nick Cave, who has pushed back against calls for such boycotts in a new interview.

Speaking with Nick Gillespie for an episode of The Reason Interview, Cave explained that while he considers himself “no friend of the government of Israel,” he finds it difficult to accept the idea of “using my music to punish ordinary people because of the acts of their government.”

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Continuing, he denied taking any shame from boycott-supporting artists like Roger Waters and Brian Eno too personally, but he highlighted Waters — a particularly outspoken...

Each week, Consequence celebrates New Music Friday by highlighting newly released albums to stream. This week has it all, from legends returning to future stars making major statements. We’re spinning new albums from Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Duster, Noah Kahan, Tycho, Wunderhorse, and lots more; here are 10 new albums to stream today.

Duster — In Dreams

Fresh off a significant boost on TikTok, California slowcore legends Duster have surprise released a new album called In Dreams. The LP serves as a welcome return to their signature moving, atmospheric sound, showing that the group has plenty of gas left in the tank.

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Laurie Anderson — Amelia

The incomparable Laurie Anderson has had the concept for Amelia for nearly two decades: a record fusing oratorio and old-time radio dramas to chart the course of Amelia Earhart’s doomed transatlantic final flight. With Czech orchestra...

Nick Cave has spent the last six years in conversation. Through his Red Hand Files Website and his touring Q&a series, the 66-year-old punk-rock icon has waxed poetic with his fans about grief, aging, and forgiveness. And after dropping the Bad Seeds’ last record, the devastating Ghosteen, in 2019, it seems he’s ready to talk about something that’s sadly rare in these times: joy.

On the band’s latest, Wild God Cave plays preacher, congregation, and god over the course of a suite of songs that are in equal measure elegiac and ecstatic.

Barry Keoghan, Nick Cave, and the voices of Sarah Snook and Eric Bana will feature in the competition lineup of the 68th BFI London Film Festival (Lff), held this fall in partnership with American Express. The Extraordinary Miss Flower, the new film from Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, known for their Cave movie 20,000 Days on Earth, and the Luca Guadagnino-produced April from Georgia’s Dea Kulumbegashvili, whose feminist debut feature Beginning drew rave reviews, will be among the 11 movies competing for the best film award in London.

So will a drama about Islamic inheritance laws and gender dynamics, as well as a film about a Ukrainian family that most cope with the Russian invasion of their home country while away on a beach holiday.

Organizers on Thursday also unveiled such competition titles as Chris Andrews’ Bring Them Down, starring Keoghan and Christopher Abbott, Rungano Nyoni’s On Becoming a Guinea Fowl,...

Mad Cave's new Defenders of the Earth #1 wonderfully subverts the Saturday morning cartoon formula with a dark twist. The original characters from King Features Syndicate, such as Flash Gordon, are back in an engaging new series. Defenders of the Earth #1 combines nostalgia with subversion, making it a must-read for old and new fans alike.

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Mad Caves new Defenders of the Earth, series, starring Flash Gordon, wonderfully subverts the Saturday morning cartoon formula. Mad Cave recently acquired the rights to characters from the legendary King Features Syndicate, including Flash Gordon. Mad Cave released Flash Gordon #1 to great acclaim, and they continue the expansion of the line with Defenders of the Earth #1. Based on the classic Saturday morning cartoon, the new series takes bold risks with the formula.

Defenders of the Earth writer Dan Didio is the former executive editor at DC Comics.

Defenders of the Earth...

In an interview with Stephen Colbert on Tuesday, Nick Cave recalled how Johnny Cash pushed himself and called on a higher power for the opportunity to record a duet cover of Hank Williams’ “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” for Cash’s 2002 American IV album.

Cash was around 70 at the time and had been suffering from the flu and laryngitis. “When I saw him, he was sort of a terrifying apparition of a man, so different than the man I thought him to be,” Cave said. “He was essentially...

Nick Cave appeared as a guest on Late Show on Tuesday Night, where he and host Stephen Colbert sat down for a profound and insightful 20-plus minute interview.

Over the course of their conversation, Cave spoke about his view of music and how it’s changed over the years, meeting his hero and collaborating with Johnny Cash, processing grief, the Bad Seeds’ new album Wild God, and his advice column the Red Hand Files. The segment served as both a showcase of Cave’s seemingly infinite wisdom and Colbert’s skill as a master interview. Watch the full extended interview below.

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Wild God is the first studio album from Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds since 2019’s Ghosteen, and will arrive on August 30th via Pias. Earlier this year, Cave himself described the album as a “complicated record,” which ultimately is “deeply and joyously infectious.

On Tuesday August 13 2024, CBS broadcasts The Late Show With Stephen Colbert!

Bowen Yang; Nick Cave Season 9 Episode 124 Episode Summary

The upcoming episode of “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” promises an exciting mix of entertainment with actor Bowen Yang and musician Nick Cave. Scheduled to air on CBS, this episode is sure to draw in fans of both guests.

Bowen Yang, known for his work on “Saturday Night Live,” brings his unique humor and charm to the show. His comedic style often resonates with audiences, and he is expected to share funny stories and insights from his career. Fans of Yang will likely enjoy his lively interaction with Stephen Colbert, as the two engage in light-hearted banter.

Nick Cave, a legendary musician, will also grace the stage. With a career spanning decades, Cave is known for his deep, poetic lyrics and captivating performances. His presence on the show will likely...

Dark secrets lay deep below the icy surface in HBO’s detective anthology drama True Detective: Night Country. Set in the frigid fictional town of Ennis, Alaska, the show follows officers Liz Danvers (Jodie Foster) and Evangeline Navarro (Kali Reis), who team up after a group of scientists vanish in the middle of the night and are then found dead with their frozen bodies entangled in the snow. The investigation of their death leads the pair to unearth a conspiracy in a network of ice tunnels. Here, production designer Daniel Taylor talks to Deadline about how he conceptualized the dark secrets and chilly caverns in Iceland to portray a small town in Alaska.

Deadline: You met Issa López on a British production some time ago, right? And then she referred you to True Detective?

Daniel Taylor: Exactly. I work with her on a Sky Atlantic show, and she came...

Harry Potter’s Jessie Cave knows what it’s like to work as an actor for a massive franchise, and that’s why she would not recommend to her children to enter Hogwarts. Portraying Lavender Brown in the fantasy movie series – the clingy girlfriend of Ron Weasley – Cave found fame in the acting industry.

Jessie Cave in Harry Potter / Warner Bros.

After her stint in Harry Potter, she pursued comedy, a niche she discovered suited her talent best. Now, with four children, she balances work and motherhood.

Jessie Cave Won’t Let Her Children Join Harry Potter

While speaking with Metro UK, actress Jessie Cave talked about her time working on the set of Harry Potter. Unlike many cast members, she wasn’t a child star when she joined the franchise. She was 20 and had quite a bit of acting experience. When asked if she would let her kids enter the same profession,...

Anthony Perkins' role as Norman Bates in Psycho set the standard for the slasher genre, with a shocking split personality twist. Anthony Hopkins' unmatched performance as Dr. Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs won him an Academy Award in just 24 minutes on screen. Mads Mikkelsen's portrayal of Dr. Hannibal Lecter in the TV series Hannibal leaned more towards seductive, charming, and manipulative aspects.

Despite their deranged morality and insatiable need for murder, audiences cant get enough of their favorite fictional serial killers. As a glimpse into a horrifying world where tormented souls continually gave into their darkest impulses, following the stories of deranged killers allowed viewers to experience these chilling, consistent murderers from the safe distance of a fictional narrative. While they have not been real criminals, the effective performances of these killers meant their names were forever entrenched in popular culture.

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The latest patch for The First Descendant addresses exploit glitches and introduces a new outfit for Valby called the "Sea of Emerald." Nexon has increased the Module storage limit and made tweaks to the Valby Run farming method to balance the game's economy. A new playable character named Luna, a support champion with a Synthesizer Gun, is set to debut in the next major update.

The First Descendant's first major patch is making some adjustments to the game while also setting up a major addition that many players will undoubtedly be pleased to see. Much like the looter shooters that came before it, the First Descendant's community was quick to find ways to exploit certain glitches in the game and rack up an immense amount of resources, similar to the notorious "Loot Cave" in Destiny. Nexon confirmed that the latest patch is making some adjustments to this while...

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds are back with “Long Dark Night,” the latest song from their upcoming new album Wild God.

“Long Dark Night” follows previous Wild God singles “Wild God” and “Frogs.” Rooted in stirring piano and finger-plucked acoustic guitar, “Long Dark Night” is a country ballad from Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, complete with evocative harmonies in the chorus and a sense of lonesome ennui. Cave’s booming baritone mutters around the verses, landing in poignant clarity when he wonders, “Maybe a long dark night is coming down.” Stream “Long Dark Night” below.

Nick Cave was inspired by the poem “Dark Night of the Soul” by the Spanish 16th-century poet St. John of the Cross when writing “Long Dark Night.” “‘Long Dark Night’ is inspired by one of the greatest and most powerful poems of conversion ever written,” Cave said in a statement about the song.

Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 is now available on VOD. There’s no way around it – the film’s theatrical release was a huge disappointment, as it earned back only a fraction of its reported budget and has put the release of the second film in major jeopardy. However, now that it’s streaming, the hope is that people will be able to discover it at home, perhaps paving the way for this saga to continue. If you’ve watched Horizon and are jonesing for more modern westerns to check out, here are some we really like here at JoBlo.

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This is perhaps an ironic one to put on a list that pays tribute to Costner’s Horizon, as the star’s own big-budget western epic, Wyatt Earp, was badly overshadowed by this competing story about the same historical events. The fact is, George Pan Cosmatos and Kurt Russell...

Nick Cave has written many, many songs. But lately, he’s been at odds with the process, calling songwriting “a fucking nightmare” in a new interview.

Speaking to Mojo, the musician expressed discomfort with the act of sitting down and writing a song. “I don’t like writing songs. To write a song is this deeply mysterious, abstract, anxiety-ridden process that’s just not fun,” Cave said. “Playing around with the kid is fine but to get the kid out is a fucking nightmare. So I put it off until I can’t put it off any further.”

Against all those obstacles, Cave still managed to bust out 10 songs for his forthcoming album with his band the Bad Seeds, Wild God, which arrives on August 30th. While the air of Wild God is one that is both “complicated” and “joyous and infectious,” Cave also opened up about his heartbreaking 2019 album Ghosteen,...

Ridley Scott had an entirely different idea for Gladiator 2. When the first film became a huge success, even winning Oscars, Scott and team planned a sequel film by retconning Crowe’s death in the film. Scott will never reveal the story that Nick Cave had written for the earlier sequel plans. However, he explained the first shot of the film that could’ve potentially brought back Crowe.

Paul Mescal as Lucius in a still from Gladiator II | Paramount Pictures

Scott’s Gladiator II is coming to theaters this Christmas without the involvement of Russell Crowe. Paul Mescal will play the lead, a grown-up Lucius, in a story that is written by David Scarpa.

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Before Ridley Scott picked Paul Mescal and Pedro Pascal to...

Spoiler alert: The following article contains spoilers from Pretty Little Liars: Summer School episodes 1 through 8.

"Pretty Little Liars: Summer School" offers a bright summer slasher vibe with familiar characters and a new villain. Returning characters face new challenges as they navigate summer school and encounter the mysterious "Bloody Rose." The Max show's soundtrack includes popular songs like "School's Out" by Alice Cooper and "Cruel Summer" by Bananarama.

Pretty Little Liars: Summer School is a stark contrast to Original Sin, with brighter tones, sunny vibes, and, of course, several pop hits that are perfect for summer break. The slasher and horror elements are still present (proven by the haunting instrumental additions to the show's score) as the five teenagers recover from their experience with "A," aka Archie Waters, and try to move on. However, a new villain named "Bloody Rose" throws a wrench into the characters' plans in Pretty Little Liars: Summer School.

Exclusive: Activist Artists Management has signed Jojo T. Gibbs, the actress, writer, producer and stand-up comedian best known for her starring role in Lena Waithe’s semi-autobiographical BET series Twenties, for representation. Bernie Cahill and Grant Pennel will run point for the client.

Airing for two seasons from 2020-2021, Twenties was a comedy-drama following the lives of three young women in their twenties as they navigated the challenges of adulthood in Los Angeles. Starring opposite Christina Elmore, Gabrielle Graham, Sophina Brown and Big Sean, Gibbs portrayed Hattie, a queer Black woman based on Waithe, who aspires to be a screenwriter.

Most recently seen in Alex Garland’s buzzy A24 pic Civil War, Gibbs’ other recent credits on the film side include Luc Besson’s Dogman opposite Caleb Landry Jones, Celine Song’s A24 Best Picture nominee Past Lives, Hulu’s Mimi Cave thriller Fresh, Amazon’s Something from Tiffany’s, and Cora Bora,...

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds have returned with “Frogs,” the second single from their upcoming album Wild God.

With rich, psychedelic instrumentation and Nick Cave’s signature booming tenor, “Frogs” is a passionate, climactic turn from the group. Helping raise the stakes is an extensive orchestra, which echo Cave’s consuming messages with fanfare and melodrama. Cave begins with a biblical reference to Cain and Abel, and later escalates to a freeing, revelatory high. “The frogs are jumping in the gutters/ Leaping to God, amazed of love,” he sings before crying “Amazed to be back in the water again.”

Of the song, Cave said in a statement, “The sheer exuberance of a song like ‘Frogs,’ it just puts a big fucking smile on my face.” Produced by Cave and Warren Ellis, “Frogs” follows Wild God’s title track, which we named as Song of the Week upon its release in early March.

There may come a time when the Stablers hold a family dinner that’s free of drama, but Season 4 wasn’t it.

So when Elliot decides to have Randall and the rest of his brood over for a meal in Law & Order: Organized Crime‘s Season 4 finale, we brace for impact. Remember what happened last time?!

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