BAFTA has confirmed the date for next year’s film awards ceremony, which will be held Sunday, February 16, 2025. The date means the BAFTAs will come exactly two weeks before the 2025 Oscars, set for March 2. Once again, the British awards will take place smack in the middle of the Berlin Film Festival, which
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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice‘s Lex Luthor could have looked very different. Director Zack Snyder stopped by the Happy Sad Confused podcast to promote the upcoming second part of his Rebel Moon films for Netflix. Over the course of the conversation, host Josh Horowitz asked him if there was any truth to the fact
Gwyneth Paltrow is opening up about the sacrifices she’s made as a mother of two children. During an interview for Today With Hoda & Jenna, Zanna Roberts Rassi mentioned that Paltrow’s mother, actress Blythe Danner, “gave up some incredible roles” to raise her family, and was wondering if the actress-turned-wellness guru has done the same.
French actor Guillaume Canet is starring, writing, and producing the new Netflix thriller Ad Vitam Rodolphe Lauga (It’s Complicated) is directing the action film, which has begun shooting in Paris. Netflix will release the movie worldwide next year. Canet plays Franck Lazareff who, after surviving an attempt on his life, finds his wife has been
Alex Garland’s dystopian Civil War, about America torn asunder by a president run amok and brutal acts of war committed on ordinary citizens, sparked plenty of speculation — and assumptions — heading into its debut in theaters over the April 12-14 weekend. Would it be a win in blue states but a losing battle in
Ron Thompson, the unheralded actor who starred on Broadway for Charles Gordone in the Pulitzer Prize-winning No Place to Be Somebody and played father and son musicians for Ralph Bakshi in the animated cult classic American Pop, has died. He was 83. Filmmaker Joe Black told The Hollywood Reporter that he found Thompson in his
The Cannes Critics’ Week, the parallel film festival sidebar organized by the French film critics’ union, has unveiled its 2024 selection. The psychological thriller Ghost Trail, the first feature from acclaimed French shorts director Jonathan Millet, will open the 2024 sidebar. Adam Bessa (star of 2022’s Un Certain Regard winner Harka) plays the lead in
Alex Garland‘s dystopian action movie Civil War conquered the domestic box office this weekend with $25.7 million, ahead of expectations and scoring A24’s biggest opening ever. The $50 million movie about a divided America is a big swing for A24 as it tries to produce bigger movies, marking its most expensive production to date. There
While taking a trip down memory lane, Lori Loughlin recalled the positive experience of working with Keanu Reeves on their 1988 film The Night Before. The Full House actress recently opened up about the teen comedy on her former co-stars Jodie Sweetin and Andrea Barber’s How Rude, Tanneritos! podcast. The Thom Eberhardt-directed film follows Reeves’ character, Winston, who takes
Michael J. Fox is sharing his thoughts on how Hollywood has changed over the decades. In a recent interview with People magazine, the Emmy-winning actor, who rose to fame in the 1980s following his roles in Palmerstown U.S.A., Night Court, Family Ties and Back to the Future, compared the entertainment industry now to when he got
Emma Stone and husband Dave McCary are in talks to work together on an untitled Universal project, with Stone as the star and McCary as the director. Young Rock supervising producers Patrick Kang and Michael Levin wrote the original spec screenplay for the film. However, details about the project are being kept under wraps for
Two months after Disney CEO Bob Iger‘s surprise announcement that Moana 2 was in the works at the studio and scheduled to hit theaters on Nov. 27, the animated sequel took center stage at CinemaCon. Disney debuted an exclusive sneak peek of footage of the David Derrick Jr.-directed film in front of theater owners with
It’s official: Donald Trump — or at least a fictionalized version of him — is heading to Cannes. The prestigious French film festival unveiled its 2024 official film selection Thursday in Paris, and Iranian-Danish filmmaker Ali Abassi’s The Apprentice was among the titles revealed for the event’s main competition. The biographical drama stars Sebastian Stan as
Aziz Ansari cast Keanu Reeves as an angel named Gabriel in his new Lionsgate film Good Fortune, but God apparently wasn’t looking out when Reeves tripped on a rug in his trailer. “About 15 days into shooting with me, I said, ‘Go chill in your trailer,’” Ansari recalled during an appearance at CinemaCon on Wednesday.
The first trailer for Joker: Folie à Deux brings together unites Oscar winners Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga for one of the more intriguing entries of the 2024 theatrical calendar. Warner Bros. unveiled the look at CinemaCon, where Joker 2 is among the top titles theater owners were curious for a glimpse at — and
Netflix‘s film division is getting a re-org under new head Dan Lin. Several sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that the features division at the streaming service will now be split up by genre — such as sci-fi, rom-com and faith-based. While Lin officially started his Netflix tenure on April 1, sources note that the re-org
Japanese anime master Hayao Miyazaki is revered in China as much as he is anywhere. The 83-year-old filmmaker’s Oscar-winning swan song The Boy and the Heron opened last Wednesday in China to take advantage of the country’s Qingming public holiday and by Sunday it had earned $73 million — more than its totals in both
Woody Allen isn’t exactly sure what he wants to do next in the movie industry, as he feels “all the romance of filmmaking is gone.” In an interview with AirMail, published online Saturday, the director was asked about his latest film Coup de Chance, his 50th feature, and the delay it faced for release in
David Barrington Holt, who established and ran the first Creature Shop on the West Coast for The Jim Henson Company during his two-plus decades with the firm, has died. He was 78. Holt died March 13 of complications from cancer at his home in Los Angeles, his son, Chris Holt, announced. Holt started out with
One year after Universal Pictures debuted the first look at footage from his upcoming two-part musical Wicked at CinemaCon, Jon M. Chu is heading back to Las Vegas for the National Association of Theater Owners’ official convention. Chu will be the guest of honor at an annual filmmaker luncheon during which he will receive a
Japanese anime master Hayao Miyazaki’s Oscar-winning swan song The Boy and the Heron has taken flight at China’s box office in a major way. The enigmatic Studio Ghibli hit opened in China on Wednesday and soared to $13.7 million (RMB 99.1 million), nudging aside Warner Bros and Legendary Entertainment’s prior box-office champ Godzilla x Kong:
Oh dear. The Poohniverse is expanding. Umbrella Entertainment has released the first teaser for the next installment of their B-movie horror franchise centered on horrifying versions of beloved children’s characters. In the teaser for Bambi: The Reckoning, two hunters are seen practicing shooting in the woods with a dead bird tied to a tree. “You
CBS and the Golden Globes have set Jan. 5 as the date for the 82nd annual ceremony. The show will air live coast to coast from 8-11 p.m. ET/5-8 p.m. PT on CBS and stream on Paramount+ in the U.S. (live and on-demand for Paramount+ with Showtime subscribers, or on-demand for Paramount+ Essential subscribers the
Zoe Saldaña doesn’t think Marvel‘s Guardians of the Galaxy franchise is gone for good. The actress said this week it would be a “huge loss” for the MCU to say goodbye to its ragtag group of intergalactic heroes. “I would think it would be a huge loss for Marvel if they didn’t find a way
Tim McGovern, a visual effects veteran who earned an Oscar for his work on 1990’s Total Recall, died Saturday. He was 68. His wife, Reena NeGandhi, posted the news on Facebook. “Today is the saddest day of my life,” she wrote. “My Husband Tim McGovern, an Oscar winner for the VFX in 1990’s for Total Recall
Enemies-turned-frenemies proved just what the Easter weekend box office needed. Warner Bros. and Legendary’s Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire opened a monstrous $80 million at the domestic box office, well ahead of an expected $45 million to $55 million. The tentpole scored the second-best opening in the MonsterVerse Universe, no small feat for a
Amazon originals like Música, Fallout and THEM: The Scare are just some of the titles hitting Prime Video in April. Features like Pet Sematary: Bloodlines, The Exorcist: Believer, The Holdovers, Age of Adaline, Chaplin, Neighbors, Saturday Night Fever, Rosemary’s Baby, The Big Short, The House Bunny, The Notebook and more will also be coming to
Screenwriter Tony Spiridakis wasn’t familiar with the Museum of the Moving Image’s Marvels of Media Festival — which celebrates the work of mediamakers with autism — before penning his star-studded film Ezra, about parenting a child on the spectrum. But he quickly became a supporter after MoM founder and former AMC Networks CEO Josh Sapan
Recently, Christopher Nolan made an interesting admission: The most famous line from his fan-favorite Batman film, 2008’s The Dark Knight, wasn’t his creation and was a line that he initially didn’t quite get. Nolan said his brother, frequent collaborator and co-writer Jonathan came up with the prophetic line, “You either die a hero, or you
South Korean animation house Mofac Animation is working on a new feature inspired by both Charles Dickens and the life of Jesus Christ. Director Seong-ho “Jay” Jang’s faith-based feature The King of Kings is currently in the final stages of production and seeking distribution and is inspired by a posthumously published Dickens story. The film’s