With her latest big screen role, Lily-Rose Depp had the chance to flip the script on a classic film with a feminist skew. At Thursday’s Los Angeles premiere of writer/director Robert Eggers‘ Nosferatu, the actress explained to Deadline what makes her character Ellen Hutter “so incredibly empowering&#8221…

When George A. Romero first started work on 1968's Night of the Living Dead he very nearly ended up making an apocalyptic vampire movie. Something wasn't quite right, however: vampire movies were a little bit … obvious? Indeed, Hammer's Dracula cycle was…

There's a moment early in Robert Eggers' Nosferatu, when Lily-Rose Depp, last seen as the twisty pop star in The Idol, telegraphs to the audience: This will be unlike anything you've ever seen before. In Eggers' reimagining of F.W. Murnau's 1922 German Expressionist horror fantasy Nosferatu: A Symphon…

Focus Features revealed Robert Eggers’ much-anticipated gothic vampire horror Nosferatu on Thursday night in a special screening for select guild members and press. During a post-screening Q&A with Oscar-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro at the Directors’ Guild of America Theater in Los Angeles, No…

UPDATE, Sept. 30: In an extended second trailer, Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu teases an entranced Lily Rose-Depp, enamored and enticed by death itself. “I’d never been so happy,” she utters with zealous tears running down her face, as viewers glimpse shadowy outlines of the eponymous vampire lurking by…

The Idol is one and done at HBO. The controversial series from Euphoria creator Sam Levinson and Abel Tesfaye, better known as The Weeknd, will not be returning for a second season. It’s not a huge surprise given the critical and commercial reception of the show, which starred Tesfaye and…

SPOILER ALERT! This post contains details from the finale of HBO’s The Idol. HBO’s controversial series The Idol came to an end on Sunday, and it certainly threw a wrench in the story that the show appeared to be telling across the first four episodes. Episode 5, titled “Jocelyn Forever,&#8221…

For months now, critics on Twitter and elsewhere have challenged The Idol’s more explicit scenes, describing some of them as examples of toxic masculinity, rape culture and torture porn and questioning their value. Now, the show’s star, Lily-Rose Depp, has responded to those sentiments in an interview with…

Not so fast. HBO has responded to a report in New York Post’s Page Six, citing sources, that the music drama series would likely not return for a second season. “It is being misreported that a decision on a second season of The Idol has been determined,” HBO wrote in a tweet. “It has not, and we…

The buzz surrounding HBO’s controversial new series The Idol might just be working to its benefit. Episode 2 aired on Sunday night, drawing about 800,000 total viewers across Max and linear HBO telecasts. That’s a slight dip from last week’s premiere audience of 913,000. According to HBO, viewing…

SPOILER ALERT! This post contains details from Episode 2 of The Idol on HBO. Jocelyn (Lily-Rose Depp) is supposed to be preparing for her big comeback, but Episode 2 of HBO’s The Idol calls into question whether she’s ready to step back into the spotlight. Episode 2, titled “Double Fantasy,&#8221…

Will Sam Levinson have another HBO success on his hands with The Idol? The series premiered Sunday night to 913,000 total viewers across Max and linear HBO telecasts, according to HBO. This is a fairly promising debut for The Idol, and viewership for the premiere is likely to grow in the next week as…