Mufasa: The Lion King continues to roar at the box office, where it’s in a close race with One of Them Days — the first female-led Black comedy since 2017’s Girls Trip — for the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday crown as Wolf Man gets gouged. The bad news overall: it looks to be one
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The 40th Santa Barbara International Film Festival, which is set to take place Feb. 4-15, one day longer than previous editions, in recognition of its milestone anniversary, has released its full program. The lineup — listed in full at the bottom of this post — is comprised of films from 60 countries. Thirty-three will be world
Netflix has partnered with Imax for a global release of Greta Gerwig’s Narnia two weeks ahead of the film’s streaming debut. Narnia, based on the Chronicles of Narnia book series by C.S. Lewis, is currently set for an Imax release on Thanksgiving Day 2026, before a debut on Netflix during the Christmas period that year. The landmark deal
Half a century ago, a defining question of the Watergate scandal was, “What did the President know and when did he know it?” Today, a surprising question has emerged in the Blake Lively-Justin Baldoni legal saga: “What did Nicepool say, and when did he say it?” On Tuesday, a letter from Baldoni attorney Bryan Freedman
Ridley Scott knew Harrison Ford would be someone special in Hollywood, despite others questioning him decades ago. During a retrospective video interview for GQ magazine, the filmmaker recently looked back at the casting for 1982’s Blade Runner. At the time, Ford, who ultimately landed the lead role in the film, wasn’t the household name he
The board of directors of the Cannes Film Festival has unanimously re-elected Iris Knobloch to serve a second term as festival president. Knobloch, a former executive at Warner Bros. France, took over from Pierre Lescure as the first-ever female president of the Cannes festival in 2023. Her new mandate will run for three years, through
Alamo Drafthouse has become the latest media company to endure a round of layoffs. The popular theater chain had company-wide downsizing on Tuesday. The move comes seven months after Alamo was acquired by Sony Pictures Entertainment. The Austin-based company operates 35 cinemas across 25 metro areas. Sources say the layoffs were in two areas. On
The 2025 ACE Eddie Awards are the latest Hollywood event to be postponed amid the ongoing Los Angeles wildfires. The 75th annual ceremony celebrating the best editing of the year in film, television and documentaries was originally set for Saturday. A new date announcement is coming soon, said the American Cinema Editors (ACE) on Monday night.
Claude Jarman Jr., who received a Juvenile Academy Award for his heart-tugging performance as the boy who adopts an orphaned fawn in the 1946 MGM classic The Yearling, died Sunday. He was 90. Jarman died in his sleep of natural causes at his Marin County home in Kentfield, California, his wife of 38 years, Katie,
Phyllis Dalton, the revered British costume designer who created Peter O’Toole‘s iconic white desert robe for David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia and won Oscars 24 years apart for her work on Lean’s Doctor Zhivago and Kenneth Branagh‘s Henry V, has died. She was 99. Dalton died Thursday, The Telegraph reported. No other details were immediately
Pamela Anderson isn’t holding back about how good it feels to receive high praise for her new film The Last Showgirl — especially after the Hulu series Pam & Tommy, which was released nearly three years ago, was made without her knowledge, she says. Anderson recently went on Sirius XM’s Andy Cohen Live to discuss
Edward Norton, the guest on this episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, has been one of our finest screen actors for 30 years. He’s a three-time Oscar nominee, twice nominated before the age of 30, and it’s looking increasingly likely that he’ll pick up a fourth nom later this month in recognition of his
Bob Laemmle, who headed the family-owned chain of Los Angeles art house theaters that bears the name of the founder of Universal Pictures, died Thursday. He was 89. Laemmle died at a healthcare center in Santa Monica, where he was receiving attention after falling Dec. 23 at his nearby home, his son Greg Laemmle, current
The fourth installment in China’s wildly popular Detective Chinatown action comedy franchise has locked down day-and-date theatrical release plans in North America, Europe and Southeast Asia. The highly anticipated feature will open around the world on Jan. 29, the same date it unfurls at home in China on the first day of the lucrative Lunar
The Directors Guild of America has announced its nominations in the theatrical feature film and first-time feature film director categories for the 2025 DGA Awards. The guild yesterday announced its nominations in its TV, documentary and commercial categories. The DGA also previously announced that Ang Lee would receive a lifetime achievement honor at the 77th
Ladies and gentlemen: He was just kidding. Vin Diesel has cleared the air after his strange aside while presenting a Golden Globe award on Sunday night. The Fast & Furious franchise star caused a stir when, while onstage to present the award for cinematic and box office achievement, he paused to peer at Dwayne “The
Anora star Mikey Madison, David Jonsson and Marisa Abela are among BAFTA‘s 2025 Rising Star nominees. The full list this year includes Jharrel Jerome (Unstoppable) and Nabhaan Rizwan (In Camera) alongside Abela (Back To Black), Madison and Jonsson (Alien: Romulus). The five named were unveiled on Tuesday during a London press conference at The Savoy
Joey King (We Were the Lucky Ones) and Cooper Koch (Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story) will reveal the nominees for the 31st annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on Wednesday, it was announced on Monday. The nominations announcement will take place on Netflix’s YouTube channel at 10:30 a.m. ET/7:30 a.m. PT. The first category
Kieran Culkin was feeling loose as he accepted his 2025 Golden Globe award on Sunday night — for a good reason. “My wife and I did a shot of tequila with Mario Lopez. Definitely feeling that. The whole speech is gone,” Culkin, who shares two children with wife Jazz Charton, said to laughs. “Terrific Kieran,
An emotional scene unfolded inside the ballroom of Santa Monica’s Hotel Casa del Mar on Saturday afternoon as Film Independent hosted its annual Spirit Awards nominee brunch. The event is typically a casual and cozy beachside affair filled with actors, auteurs, producers, press, executives and other industry insiders in attendance to toast the annual awards show
The National Society of Film Critics took to its Bluesky account on Saturday to begin voting for the best in film over the last year. In 2024, Past Lives received the top prize, with May December and The Zone of Interest each receiving two awards. The organization was founded in 1966 and is made up
Ariana Grande is no stranger to shedding tears, but there’s one Adam Sandler movie that truly makes her weep. The singer-actress, who sparked a social media frenzy for her emotional responses during the press tour for Wicked, revealed that Sandler’s 1998 comedy film The Waterboy is the movie that makes her shed tears. “The Waterboy,
French multi-hyphenate Julie Delpy will be honored with the Honorary Dragon Award at the 2025 Göteborg Film Festival, organizers announced Thursday. The veteran filmmaker and actor will attend the Swedish festival to present her latest directorial effort, the satire Meet the Barbarians, and participate in an on-stage conversation about her four-decade career spanning both sides
George Folsey Jr., the film editor and producer who collaborated with director John Landis on such films as Animal House, The Blues Brothers, Coming to America and An American Werewolf in London, has died. He was 85. Folsey died Sunday in Los Angeles of complications from pneumonia, his son, fellow film editor Ryan Folsey (Cabin
Little progress has been made for women and people of color as directors in Hollywood, according to a new study by USC‘s Annenberg Inclusion Initiative. In a year that was hoping to signal recovery following the 2023 writers and actors strikes, 2024 saw no major changes for women directors of top-grossing movies, according to the
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, The Hollywood Reporter may receive an affiliate commission. Between the months-long marketing campaign (including the impressive list of brand collabs), Wicked part one’s record-breaking box office numbers and Part Two‘s November 2025 premiere (now officially titled Wicked: For Good), the
After a pandemic boom and a post-pandemic bust, the comic book and graphic novel industry came roaring back in 2024. Many of the biggest and best books from the Big Two (aka Marvel and DC) were re-imaginings and mash-ups of their best known heroes. Spider-Man, but married with kids? Batman, but with his mom still
Kieran Turner, a documentary filmmaker best known for producing and directing 2012’s Jobriath A.D., has died after a battle with cancer. He was 56. Turner died Dec. 23 in West Hollywood. Throughout his career, Turner put a spotlight on gay artists who passed before their time. In Jobriath, he focused on the pioneering ‘70s glam-rock
James Gunn, the co-chief of DC Studios, is defending the delay of The Batman sequel to 2027. Warner Bros. announced on Friday that the release date for Matt Reeves‘ follow-up to 2022’s The Batman would be pushed to Oct. 1, 2027, which led some fans to share their disappointment on social media. But Gunn attempted
Talk about a nail-biter. Disney’s Mufasa: The Lion King and Paramount’s Sonic the Hedgehog 3 are in a close battle for the Christmas box office crown as a topsy-turvy year at the box office comes to a close. Mufasa is tipped to win the long five-day holiday weekend (Wednesday through Sunday) with an estimated $61
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