Brady Corbet‘s The Brutalist has been lobbed no shortage of compliments like “majestic,” “monumental” and “masterpiece,” to name just a few. But none of those words are surprising to star Adrien Brody who knew straight away after reading it that it was something special. “I was so moved by it and saw such potential because
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Netflix has unveiled six filmmakers who will receive funding and professional support to make a short documentary as winners of the third year of the Netflix Documentary Talent Fund. “Following a rigorous application process and thousands of applications, a shortlist of 12 filmmaking teams from across the U.K. and Ireland were invited to Netflix’s U.K.
Gladiator II entered the box office arena Nov. 22, and theatergoers gave it a thumbs-up, with a global haul of $368.6 million to date. The sequel stars Paul Mescal as Lucius, son of the Roman general Maximus and heir to an emperor, who through a twist of fate is enslaved as a gladiator. Director Ridley Scott told THR
James Gunn is offering a sneak peek into what fans can expect from his upcoming Superman. The filmmaker and DC Studios co-chief spoke to the press on the set of the highly-anticipated superhero movie earlier this year (via Gizmodo), where he teased the beginning of the film, how Top Gun: Maverick influenced the movie and how
The International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) unveiled its 2025 Big Screen and Tiger Short competitive sections on Tuesday. Typical for Rotterdam, the selection is truly global, with films traversing from Montenegro to Malaysia, and from Congo to India. The Big Screen Competition, which features films that bridge arthouse and popular cinema, features highlights including The
The Adam Kinzinger-focused The Last Republican was one of the hottest documentaries at the Toronto International Film Festival. Directed by Steve Pink (Hot Tub Time Machine), the movie chronicles the then-Illinois Congressman as he breaks ranks with his Republican colleagues to criticize Donald Trump and join the Jan. 6 committee. The movie has seen its
Two decades before starring as an architect fleeing Europe following World War II in director Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist, Adrien Brody had critics singing his praises for The Pianist. Directed by Roman Polanski, The Pianist features Brody as real-life pianist and composer Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jewish survivor of the Holocaust. Based on Szpilman’s 1946
Zoe Saldaña feels actors who use CGI in films are often overlooked when it comes time for awards season. The actress, who has starred in a handful of sci-fi projects over the years that use plenty of visual effects, recently opened up in an interview with the Independent about the seemingly uphill battle actors face
Jim Carrey could potentially be seen in the iconic green mask once again. The actor recently revealed to Comicbook.com that he would be open to reprising his role in a sequel to his 1994 comedy The Mask. “Oh gosh, you know, it has to be the right idea,” Carrey confessed. “If somebody had the right
Nicholas Hoult had 5,000 new friends once he wrapped filming for Nosferatu… well, rodent friends. The actor, who stars alongside Lily-Rose Depp and Bill Skarsgard in Robert Eggers’ supernatural horror film, shared during a recent appearance on The Graham Norton Show that the movie clearly had a “big rat budget.” “I think we had like 5,000
Get ready for a busier CinemaCon 2025. After taking a year off, Sony Pictures Entertainment is returning to present its slate at the annual gathering of theater owners and Hollywood studios. And, in a first, Amazon MGM Studios will take to the stage at the mammoth Colosseum theater at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. The
Kathleen Kennedy is set to be honored by the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) with the 2025 ASC Board of Governors Award, the organization announced on Wednesday. The ceremony will take place on Feb. 23 at the 39th Annual ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards Gala at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills. The ceremony will be streamed
As major players in Hollywood walk back on earlier commitments to DEI, Eva Longoria says she hasn’t given up on her push for greater diversity, equity and inclusion across the entertainment industry. “This kind of pendulum swing of DEI programs being cut back means a lot of directors and writers from those programs will
On the eve of the Red Sea Film Festival opening Thursday, Imax has opened its first giant screen location in Jeddah with Muvi Cinemas, the country’s largest cinema chain. The latest Imax screen opening internationally comes as the cinema technologies company looks to show more local language movie titles on its global network of theaters.
Cinemark president-CEO Sean Gamble will be honored with the 2025 NATO Marquee Award at next year’s CinemaCon. The top industry honor is bestowed by the National Association of Theatre Owners, host of the annual show in Las Vegas where Hollywood studios parade their upcoming slate before thousands of exhibitors descending upon The Strip. The annual
Lin Manuel-Miranda opened up about writing seven songs for Mufasa: The Lion King, the upcoming prequel to the beloved Disney animated classic. The Grammy-winning artist stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, where he discussed his upcoming stint in Broadway’s All In: Comedy About Love, recent concept album Warriors and Mufasa, among other things.
A Different Man won best feature at the 2024 Gotham Awards, while Nickel Boys and Sing Sing each won two awards at the star-studded ceremony at New York’s Cipriani Wall Street on Monday night. A Different Man director Aaron Schimberg, accepting the top prize, said he was “totally stunned” by the win and admitted he
Sophie Okonedo will receive the Richard Harris Award at the 2024 British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs), organizers unveiled Monday. The Richard Harris Award recognizes the outstanding contribution of an actor to British film. Previous recipients of the honor include the likes of Samantha Morton, Riz Ahmed, Kristin Scott Thomas, Judi Dench, Vanessa Redgrave, Daniel Day-Lewis,
Moana 2 is enjoying a historic adventure at the box office, where it has shattered record after record since its launch on Thanksgiving eve. Heading into the holiday, Walt Disney Animation’s sequel was tracking to open to an already huge $125 million to $135 million for the long five-day weekend (Wednesday-Sunday). Instead, the music-infused family
Demi Moore is sharing one of the main things she looks for before taking on any role or project. The actress made a recent appearance on Hot Ones, where host Sean Evans asked her to expand on her previous comments about The Substance script potentially being “something extraordinary or could be an absolute disaster.” “It really
Ariana Grande and Jonathan Bailey successfully danced through life on the Wicked set thanks to a shared Broadway background, the pair shared Sunday. “I feel like we were both very theater children in the room,” Grande told People. The pop star plays Glinda, the future Good Witch, who falls for Bailey’s Fiyero in Wicked. Bailey
Drew Starkey has had his own real-life High School Musical moment. The actor, who rose to fame on the hit Netflix series Outer Banks, recently told Dazed Magazine that he’s “got a little bit of Troy Bolton in me,” having had a love for basketball and acting growing up. The main character (played by Zac
Silvia Pinal, the revered film and television actress who left an indelible mark on Mexico’s Golden Age of Cinema, has died. She was 93. Mexico’s culture secretary, Claudia Curiel de Icaza, as well as the Asociación Nacional de Intérpretes announced Pinal’s passing on social media. The Associated Press reported that Pinal had been hospitalized for
The Locarno Film Festival‘s Open Doors program, which supports filmmakers from underrepresented regions of the world, has unveiled a new team for its next four-year mission: To focus on supporting and elevating African cinema. The co-production and talent develpment initiative, previously focused on Latin America and the Caribbean, will turn its attention to the African
Samuel L. Jackson feels its time to drop the facade when it comes to awards season. “We’ve been in the business long enough to know that when folks go, ‘It’s just an honor to be nominated.’ No it ain’t,” Jackson said in a video from the Associated Press. “It’s an honor to win.” J Jackson
Mindy Kaling has boarded the live-action short Anuja as a producer off the back of its wins at the Oscar-qualifying HollyShorts Film Festival, the Montclair Film Festival, and the New York International Short Film Festival, The Hollywood Reporter can reveal. Anuja, from Adam J. Graves and Suchitra Mattai, is the story of a gifted nine-year-old
For fans of The Holiday movie hoping to someday Airbnb the cottage from the film, Jude Law has some disappointing news. In an interview with BBC Radio on Sunday, the actor, who starred in the 2006 film alongside Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet and Jack Black, made a big reveal about the film’s Rosehill cottage after
Universal has been vindicated, thanks to the witches of Oz and the tenacity of studio chief and top NBCUniversal executive Donna Langley. Over the Nov. 22-24 weekend, director Jon M. Chu’s Wicked opened to an estimated $114 million domestically, the biggest box office launch of all time for a Broadway adaptation in a landslide victory,
Wicked movie director Jon M. Chu is encouraging audience members to make an unusual request when they see the film in theaters. Chu, who helmed Universal Pictures‘ feature adaptation of the smash Broadway musical, took to X (formerly Twitter) on the opening evening to post that viewers should ask their theater to increase the volume
Josh Brolin is looking back on a tense moment he had with Denzel Washington on the set of American Gangster. In an interview on the In Depth with Graham Bensinger, the Dune: Part Two actor recalled a moment when he said he felt he and Washington were going to get into an altercation. “Denzel and I,
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