Hollywood Reporter
Paolo Strippoli’s Venice competitor traces the escalating horror of a wife and mother whose fear of having a less-than-perfect family takes her to dark places.
Hollywood Reporter
After spending a decade in franchises, Wingard returns with his first final cut movie: "for better or worse, the purity of my vision is on screen."
Variety
Amid a political climate that has seen Latino communities targeted by deportations and ICE raids and the polarizing effects of gentrification and poverty in Puerto Rico, Latin music artists such as Rauw Alejandro and Bad Bunny have responded with a renewed sense of cultural pride and advocacy. Both artists released their most personal albums within […]
Hollywood Reporter
Shyamalan directs from his own screenplay, with the story a collaboration between Shyamalan and Sparks.
Variety
Atresmedia Cine heads to San Sebastián with four films across key festival sections: “El mal padre” in the main competition, “La Bola Negra” in Perlak (Atresmedia Cine has acquired free-to-air rights to the buzzy drama), “Karateka” at the Velodrome and “Blind Ants” (“Inurri Itsuak”), which opens Zinemira. Atresmedia Group will also present the series “Sira” […]
Variety
Mo’Nique has signed with Innovative Artists Entertainment for representation in all areas, Variety has learned. She continues to be repped by attorney Ricky Anderson and manager Sidney Hicks. Mo’Nique first broke out as a stand up comic, including being one of the stars of the stand up film “The Queens of Comedy.” She earned a […]
Hollywood Reporter
Competitions and live tournaments can still draw huge audiences — and pay out millions in prizes — but the crazy valuations and non-stop media hype now seem more like COVID-induced delusion.
Variety
For most of the past decade, television’s defining battle was broadcasters versus streamers. Now that divide is breaking down fast, as traditional TV groups – who’ve seen linear advertising and viewing fall – are now keen to collaborate with global streamers to continue financing ambitious content and gain some scale. Few deals illustrate the shift […]
Variety
This Valentine’s Day, be prepared to trust the unknown.  M. Night Shyamalan’s romantic drama “Remain” released its first trailer, showing Jake Gyllenhaal and Phoebe Dynevor in an unsettling relationship. The trailer opens with a montage of the happiest moments shared by young couple Wren (Dynevor) and Tate (Gyllenhaal), portraying the film as a seemingly lighthearted […]
Variety
Universal’s Snoop Dogg biopic is amping up its supporting cast with SwayvoTwain (“Family Legacy,” “Love & Neo-Soul: Honoring the Legacy of D’Angelo”) set to portray Biggie, Bentley Green (“The Land,” “Undercard”) to play RBX and G Perico (“Kings of L.A.,” “She Ball”) as Big Reecie Cup. Jonathan Daviss stars in “Snoop,” which is described as […]
Hollywood Reporter
Stephen Graham and Patrick Schwarzenegger also star in Florian Zeller’s latest, about the ethical and emotional questions raised when an architect considers a lucrative commission from a tech billionaire.
Variety
Consider, for a moment, the cupboard — maybe in the spirit of irreverence we should term it a closet — in which, for 30-odd years, lay undisturbed the footage that future star cinematographer Seamus McGarvey (“Atonement,” “Die, My Love”) shot behind the scenes of Derek Jarman’s 1991 movie “Edward II”. Consider then, the opening of […]
Variety
“South Park” is no more. Long live “South America.” Ahead of the premiere of the show’s 29th Season, creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone have announced they are changing the name of the series. “Inspired by the bravery and patriotism of Apple and Google, we are changing the name of ‘South Park’ to ‘South America,'” […]
The Guardian Culture
Venice film festival: An architect (Javier Bardem) alienates his book editor wife (Penélope Cruz) when he agrees to build a luxurious bunker for a tech billionaireEven the formidable pairing of Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem can’t save this new movie from writer-director Florian Zeller – his first created directly for the screen, and not adapted from his own stage original. It’s shallow and unsatisfying, a drama without the intimate, authentic passion of his previous movies like The Father (202
Variety
A galaxy far, far away has never looked this good. The original “Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope” is getting the coveted Imax 70mm treatment when it re-releases in early 2027 for its 50th anniversary, along with next year’s Ryan Gosling-starring “Star Wars: Starfighter.” The Feb. 19 re-release marks the first time the […]
Variety
The American Film Institute (AFI) has announced the recipients of the 2026-27 Canva Fellowship at the AFI Conservatory.  The six recipients are: Divli Bhat for producing, Elizaveta Kurilova for screenwriting, Lauren Moreno for directing, Zoey Punteney for production design, Colin Pham for cinematography and Auberin Strickland for editing. The fellows began their Master of Fine Arts filmmaking […]
Variety
A London realtor would likely describe the handsome East End home of Miguel and Sofia Moreno as a Tardis. Its quaint, aged Victorian exterior belies the vast modernist construction within: all tall, clean planes of concrete, timber and glass over multiple split levels, leading out to a compact but exquisitely landscaped walled garden that the […]
Variety
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung used his opening address at the Lumière Summit on Monday to announce a €500 million ($581 million) film industry investment commitment by the Republic of Korea – matching an equal pledge from France – and to make the case for AI that serves human creativity rather than supplanting it. […]
Variety
“Madi Makambu” by Machérie Ekwa Bahango won five Final Cut awards at the Venice Film Festival, including the coveted La Biennale di Venezia Prize. Now in its 14th edition, Final Cut supports films in post-production from all African countries and six countries in Middle East: Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria and Yemen.  The story focuses on two […]
Variety
No one would say Pete Townshend has led an unexamined life up to this point, be it on film or in memoirs or anyone else. Yet he remains an endless enough source of fascination that fans of the Who leaped to attention when word got out that a preeminent music-documentary filmmaking team was at work […]