Nearly a decade before he was winning an Oscar or stepping into the world of Harry Potter, Eddie Redmayne was a struggling actor whose big film break included incest, murder, and Julianne Moore. Ahead of the Nov. 18 release of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Redmayne sat down with PEOPLE and EW editorial director Jess Cagle, where the topics discussed included Savage Grace, one of the actor’s earliest film roles.
The Edge of Seventeen is like your classic John Hughes tale — if Samantha Baker had accidentally sent an explicit text asking Jake Ryan to take her virginity in the back of a pet store. Writer-director Kelly Fremon Craig makes her directorial debut with the story of Nadine (Hailee Steinfeld), an angsty teenage misfit who spends most of her time hanging out with her best (and only) friend or lusting after her unattainable crush (who, in classic Hughes fashion, doesn’t know she exists).
The Edge of Seventeen, a coming-of-age comedy starring Hailee Stenfield, is getting plenty of comparisons to the John Hughes catalog, but its mostly modern soundtrack helps set it apart from those ’80s classics: Santigold’s rollicking “Who I Thought You Were,” a standout off this year’s 99¢, opens the movie, and a pivotal party scene is filled with tracks by festival favorites like Two Door Cinema Club and Anderson .Paak. “I really was looking for timeless, anthemic, emotional raw tracks — just music that made me feel,” director Kelly Fremon Craig tells EW.
Back in 2012, Alex Ebert was visiting his favorite city, New Orleans, when he learned that a recording studio, where artists like John Fogerty and Tom Waits had recorded, was on the market. For years, Ebert had lived and worked in Los Angeles, as a member of the midaughts dance-rock band Ima Robot and, later, frontman of the hippie-rock collective Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros. But after that trip, the 37-year-old singersongwriter decided to resettle in the Big Easy and bought the place.
Musician El DeBarge was arrested in Burbank early Sunday morning, police have confirmed to EW. The singer-songwriter, best known for his family's 1985 hit "Rhythm of the Night," was charged with four separate drug and weapons charges after officers found an expandable metal baton, pepper spray, and suspected narcotics in his truck, the Burbank Police Department said. Officers first approached DeBarge (real name: Eldra DeBarge) at a gas station around 3:40 a.
Warning: This article contains spoilers about Cobra Kai season 3. "Ali, is it really you?" On Jan. 1, Karate Kid fans around the world found themselves asking that same question when "Ali with an i"—a.k.a. Oscar nominee Elisabeth Shue—finally returned to the Valley with a two-episode arc in Cobra Kai season 3 on Netflix. The top-secret appearance, which fans have been clamoring for since Ali Mills Schwarber sent Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka) a Facebook friend request in the season 2 finale, delivered a heavy dose of nostalgia while also driving the season 3 narrative forward: Thanks to Ali, Johnny, and Daniel (Ralph Macchio) are no longer fighting!
Warning: This article contains spoilers for The Beanie Bubble. Sorry, Ty Warner, but Elizabeth Banks believes that her character was the real winner at the end of The Beanie Bubble. The actress stars as Robbie, a talented businesswoman who co-founded the Beanie Baby-toting toy company alongside Warner (Zach Galifianakis), in the Kristin Gore- and Damian Kulash-directed comedy, which is now streaming on Apple TV+. Based on real events and Zac Bissonnette's 2015 book The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute, the film follows Robbie and Ty's tumultuous relationship as his greed and lust for power leads him to slowly and systematically oust her from the company amid the great Beanie Baby boom.
Elizabeth Hubbard, the Daytime Emmy-winning soap opera star known for her roles on As the World Turns and The Doctors, has died at the age of 89. Her son Jeremy Bennett confirmed that she passed away over the weekend. "Thank you for being an unmovable rock that guided me through life," Bennett wrote in a remembrance on Facebook. "I will try to honor your memory for as long as I live.
Everybody loves long takes — those shots in movies that last, or appear to last, for a very long time. Who can forget the urban-uprising shot from Children of Men, or the hospital gunfight from Hard Boiled, or the traffic scene from Week End? But there is a rare subgenre that pushes this style to the brink: Films that claim to be filmed entirely in real-time, in one take. Hitchcock did that (kind of) with the dark comedy Rope; Alexander Sokurov did it with Russian Ark; and now, the upcoming Silent House will use the style in the service of an old-fashioned scary-house horror film.
When it came to his Oscar-winning ballad for The Lion King, Elton John was not feeling the love with the song's original recording. Nathan Lane reveals to Entertainment Weekly that in early versions of the 1994 animated classic, Timon and Pumbaa were meant to sing all of "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?" — not just the opening and closing verses. "Originally, we sang the whole thing," he recalls. "Elton John was mortified that the warthog and the meerkat were singing it.