Author: Michael

Note: This story contains spoilers from “Crew Girl” Season 1. Netflix’s newest YA series “Crew Girl” introduced a situation prime for a love triangle, as rower Teagan Tao (Miku Martineau) joined the men’s rowing team of an elite private school. Her father’s white collar crimes had displaced Teagan and her mom, Ella (Jessica Paré), back to her mother’s hometown in Massachusetts, and that was the only option for her to pursue her rowing aspirations. After establishing herself as coxswain thanks to the good will of the school’s crew coach (Thomas Cadrot), Teagan found herself pulled between elitist and often arrogant…

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Over the course of his lengthy career, Tim Blake Nelson has seen it all. An actor, director, writer and producer whose latest film, “The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd,” is premiering at the 2026 Toronto International Film Festival, he’s seen the industry evolve dramatically over the decades. And although he’s continued to work through all of it, this hasn’t always been an easy undertaking — especially in independent film.  As part of the TIFF Market Summit on Saturday, TheWrap presented a Director Spotlight panel in which Nelson had a candid and wide-ranging conversation with TheWrap’s Executive Editor, Awards Steve…

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Rebecca Hall chats with ET’s Denny Directo about taking on the role of Lizzie Borden’s stepmother, Abby, in Ryan Murphy’s ‘Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story,’ ahead of its premiere, Sept. 17 on Netflix. Rebecca shares how Old Hollywood influenced her take on the ‘evil stepmother,’ and describes why Ella Beatty was the perfect choice to play this infamous killer. Rebecca also explains why some of the show’s most brutal moments were the funniest to film. More from Entertainment Tonight: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdtXPiqI2cLorKaPrfpKc4g?sub_confirmation=1 Exclusives from #EntertainmentTonight : https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQwITQ__CeH2Y_7g2xeiNDa0vQsROQQgv

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Both the cast and the writer/director of “River” were in awe of how they pulled off the difficult days shooting the horror film out on the water. While talking to Casey Loving at TheWrap’s studio at the 2026 Toronto International Film Festival, writer/direct Joshua Giuliano and stars Jane Levy, Jessica Roche, Dane DiLiegro, and Max Mattern recalled the experience of many night shoot days both on a real river and a man-made pond. “This shoot was not easy, and I kept saying to [Joshua], ‘When you do your next movie, you’re gonna be like, ‘Holy s–t, I can’t believe I…

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Chase Infiniti had a lot of nerves going into her role in “The Julia Set,” but it had more to do with the subject matter at hand than the acting challenge ahead of her. She’d been cast as a math prodigy while, by her admission, math was never her thing. “I would not call myself a genius in any sense of anything,” Infiniti told Steve Pond at TheWrap’s studio at the 2026 Toronto International Film Festival. “I was telling my agent how nervous I was, because I was not good at math at school. That made me very anxious, because…

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