The 2024 New York Film Festival will open with RaMell Ross’ Nickel Boys, it was announced today. The movie, an adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s 2019 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, stars Ethan Herisse, Brandon Wilson, Hamish Linklater, Fred Hechinger, Daveed Diggs and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor. Nickel Boys, which Ross directed from a script he wrote with Joslyn Barnes
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The 2024 movie schedule wasn’t exactly slouching throughout its first six months, with Abigail’s blood-soaked chaos and I Saw the TV Glow’s lo-fi hypnosis (among others) keeping vibes interesting, but the pre-Halloween months are generally when the genre hits hardest on the big screen. Following Oz Perkins’ Longlegs giving audiences Nic Cage-fronted nightmares, a new
The 81st Venice International Film Festival has announced the opening night films for its Horizons and Horizons Extra competition sections. Nonostante, the second feature from Italian director Valerio Mastandrea (2018’s Ride) will open the Horizons competition section on August 28. The Horizons Extra competition section will kick off on August 29 with September 5, Tim
The wait is over, as the opening weekend for Hollywood’s latest legacy sequel, Twisters, has arrived. Fans have seemingly been waiting to see what the film has to offer (which, based on its its tornado-filled Super Bowl trailer is a lot of spectacle). It’s been looking very likely that the disaster flick will have a
Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman knew it wasn’t going to be easy to get Madonna‘s permission to use her 1989 hit “Like a Prayer” in Deadpool & Wolverine. The two actors, along with director Shawn Levy, shared in a recent interview with Andy Cohen on SiriusXM, via People, that they actually had to visit the iconic singer to ask her
Well, it looks like we have not seen the last of our favorite sentient child’s playthings, who are set to return to the big screen once again in Toy Story 5. The upcoming Pixar movie will be the latest installment of the beloved animation studio’s oldest franchise, as the original, revolutionary Toy Story — which
While Hollywood spent the first half of the summer fretting over its soft box office, the Tollywood-made blockbuster Kalki 2898 AD quietly entered the fray, earning a surprisingly healthy $5.4 million in its late June debut in North American. While in the grand scheme of things that’s a modest number compared to Hollywood blockbusters, it
Following the MCU’s Spider-Man wrapping up (for now) in 2021 with No Way Home, we’ve been getting some Tom Holland and Zendaya withdrawals. The real-life couple are absolutely adorable, but now that this Spidey film series is on hiatus, quite a bit of time has passed since we’ve seen them together. Even so, a new
Brandy Norwood is having quite a year, which includes returning as Cinderella more than two decades after first playing the role for Disney. Norwood starred as the storybook heroine for ABC’s 1997 television movie Cinderella, opposite Paolo Montalban as Prince Charming. The pair is back to reprise their characters in Descendants: The Rise of the
Ready for Shrek summer? After years of rumors and discussion about whether the beloved ogre, his donkey, a similarly green princess and a boots-wearing cat would ever return to the big screen, DreamWorks recently gave fans an official release date for Shrek 5. They also confirmed that Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy and Cameron Diaz will
One of the finest Japanese independent films of the past few years is finally landing in U.S. cinemas this weekend. Second-time director Kei Chika-ura’s Great Absence, which debuted to strong reviews at the 2023 Toronto Film Festival and later won the best actor prize in San Sebastian for its star, Japanese screen icon Tatsuya Fuji (In the
For as long as the genre has existed, romantic comedies have centered around how to get and keep a significant other. But when How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days hit theaters in 2003, fans were convinced that was about to change. Despite what the title suggests, the movie ends with Matthew McConaughey and
Tim Blake Nelson, the actor, writer, director, producer and regular Coen Brothers collaborator, Indian filmmaker Payal Kapadia (All We Imagine as Light), Italian actor Luca Marinelli (Old Guard), and Belgian producer Diana Elbaum (Elle, Green Border) will join Austrian director Jessica Hausner on the jury of the main competition section of the Locarno Film Festival.
Glen Powell may have spent his time filming Twisters chasing down big screen tornadoes in Oklahoma, but how much does he actually know about real weather? The movie star was put to the test when he was recently asked to give a real weather forecast. His Twisters research was put on true display, and Powell
Julia Garner is a young dancer on the brink of fame when disturbing circumstances begin to happen around her in the first-look images at Paramount+‘s Apartment 7A. The upcoming film, which is a prequel to the 1968 horror classic Rosemary’s Baby, is set in 1965 New York City and explores what happened in the infamous
The rom-com Anyone But You feels like it’s been a 2024 movie release, but it’s actually one of 2023’s box office success stories, and for good reason. Stars Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney were great in the film, and it really marked a comeback for the studio rom-com as a whole. The press tour was
Viggo Mortensen is revealing why he hasn’t starred in another major Hollywood franchise following the Oscar-winning Lord of the Rings trilogy. The actor, who played Aragorn in Peter Jackson’s films from 2001 to 2003, shared in a recent interview with Vanity Fair what he looks for in the movie roles he accepts, noting they need
Rebel Wilson has been making headlines as of late due to a dispute involving the producers of her new movie. The Deb is set to be the star’s directorial debut, and she took to social media last week to chastise collaborators Amanda Ghost, Gregor Cameron and Vince Holden. Wilson specifically claimed that the trio were
Alfonso Cuarón, the Oscar-winning Mexican filmmaker known for the likes of Gravity, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and Roma, will receive a lifetime achievement award at the 77th edition of the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland. He will receive the honor, a tribute to “film personalities with extraordinary careers,” on Sunday, Aug. 11
It looks like what I think will be best Timothée Chalamet movie is still on the way, and it’s thanks to A24. Chalamet is going into the world of sports biopics, and surprise, someone from the Uncut Gems family is along for the ride as well. In what sounds like a home run for movie
It looks like what I think will be best Timothée Chalamet movie is still on the way, and it’s thanks to A24. Chalamet is going into the world of sports biopics, and surprise, someone from the Uncut Gems family is along for the ride as well. In what sounds like a home run for movie
Lionsgate has picked up the North American, UK and Ireland rights to John Carney’s musical comedy Power Ballad, which stars Nick Jonas and Paul Rudd. The project, which was recently shot in Dublin, follows Rudd as a wedding singer and Jonas as a flagging pop star who come together to write a song to comedic
Doing an impression of Robert De Niro is almost ritual at this point in pop culture, with Matthew McConoughey a close second favorite. But according to Zac Efron, who has worked with the Taxi Driver himself, no one does a better De Niro impression than Dave Franco. Efron was able to see Franco’s impression first
Tim Robbins is strongly condemning conspiracy theorists attempting to link his 1992 political drama Bob Roberts to the assassination attempt of Donald Trump. Robbins wrote, directed and starred in the film, which chronicles the rise of a populist conservative politician running for a U.S. Senate seat in Pennsylvania. In the film, the fictional Roberts stages
By this point, it’s been well established that Zendaya is something of a fashion icon. The actress, singer and producer certainly knows how to make her mark on the red carpet or turn heads with a fit at any public event, for that matter. Well, this weekend, the A-lister is going viral yet again for
Following a one-day strike on July 11, the Syndicat des employé-es de l’événementiel-CSN, representing around 60 Fantasia Film Festival workers, reached a tentative deal late Friday night to avert additional labor disruption. The union revealed no details on the agreement in principle before union workers vote on the deal early next week. A formal ratification
We’ve seen Zendaya and Margot Robbie method dress time and time again, and now it’s Blake Lively’s turn. It Ends With Us is set to release on the 2024 movie schedule on August 9, and you better believe that as the press tour for it begins, she’s already bringing her A-game to her outfits. To
Animation continues to the be hero of the summer office thanks to Despicable Me 4 and Inside Out 2, but others should take a bow as well. From Illumination and Universal, DM4 is on course to top the domestic chart in its second weekend with $44 million for a global cume of $441 million through
Alec Baldwin has been in and out of the spotlight over the past few years for tragic reasons, following the shooting on the set of his film Rust that resulted in the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins in New Mexico in 2021. After some back and forth over involuntary manslaughter charges going back to early
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences‘ website for submissions to be considered for the 2025 Oscars is now open, the Academy announced Friday. The Academy is currently accepting general entries (best picture and other categories), animated features, animated shorts, documentary features, documentary shorts, international features, live action shorts, original scores and original songs.
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