Movies

EXCLUSIVE: Maddie Evans (House of the Dragon) is set to lead upcoming British horror feature Pendle 1612, alongside newcomer Ella Moss and Gemma Laurie (Shetland). Written and directed by Lancashire-born twin filmmakers Liam Bashford and Kyle Bashford, the film is a docu-horror inspired by the history surrounding the Pendle Witch Trials of 1612. Evans will […]

The 31st Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) has unveiled the lineup and schedule for three of its fan-facing programs: Open Talk, Outdoor Stage Greeting and Talk-to-Talk. Held at the Busan Cinema Center Roof Theater and the HANMAC Smooooth Lounge, the sessions give audiences a chance to meet directors and cast members from a wide range […]

“The Odyssey” continued its voyage at the summit of the South Korean box office during the weekend of Sept. 11–13. According to data from KOBIS, the tracking service operated by the Korean Film Council, the Christopher Nolan-directed tentpole generated $3.9 million from 449,474 admissions over the three-day frame across 1,648 screens, capturing 51.4% of the […]

After so many years in the DC universe, Zack Snyder comes back down to earth again with a violent but surprisingly human action thriller set in the jungles of an unidentified Latin American country. Its plotline — more of which later — could go either way, and since the director has been unfairly accused of […]

Barbie producer and Mattel Studios boss Robbie Brenner talked about a follow-up to the hit live-action movie in a session at the Toronto Film Festival. “We all want to see the Barbie sequel,” she told the TIFF crowd. “I want to see it too. I’m sure at some point, one day, there will be one.” […]

[embedded content] Pamela Voorhees is about to have some seriously bad days.  The full trailer for the “Friday the 13th” prequel series “Crystal Lake” dropped Sunday, and it seems that Pamela (Linda Cardellini) can already hear that unsettling “ki ki ki, ma ma ma” taunt ringing through the woods. Not only does the clip tease […]

Abinash Bikram Shah’s “Elephants in the Fog” has been sold to distributors across 10 territories, Best Friend Forever has revealed, as the Cannes Un Certain Regard Jury Prize winner plays at the Toronto Film Festival with Nepal‘s Oscars international feature submission also confirmed. New deals put the film with MetFilm Distribution in the U.K., Filmin […]

In “Masc,” director Bertil Nilsson pulls off a nifty trick: He observes an observer. Usually a film’s protagonist has the dominant POV, but here, Robin (Joshua Griffin) is trying to find his personality by observing other men in his orbit. He almost never initiates the action and is mostly reticent about his reactions, but he […]

In November 1943, a group of Belgian journalists and printers pulled off one of the great stunts of the occupation: they intercepted the Nazi-controlled newspaper Le Soir (The Evening) and replaced it with a satirical counterfeit, Le Faux Soir (The Fake Evening), mocking the occupiers. It was the world’s first media hack. In his film […]

It is no spoiler to say I am going to reveal the final moments of Peter Farrelly‘s fantastic crowd pleasing biopic chronicling the making of the 1976 classic, Rocky, that not only made Sylvester Stallone a major star, but also became one of the greatest behind the scenes stories in Hollywood history. Stay all the […]

After supporting roles in blockbusters like Wicked, Michelle Yeoh has her first all out starring role since winning the Best Actress Oscar for Everything Everywhere All At Once three years ago. Considering her expertise in martial arts and kick ass action (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon for starters), her latest effort in the genre is a […]

Mahershala Ali and filmmaker Bassam Tariq were all set to make Blade, a Marvel film centered on the titular anti-hero, when the project spectacularly fell apart before being removed from Disney’s line-up in 2024.  The project, which Ali officially walked away from in July, left him prepared and ready to perform action on-screen. Luckily, the […]

Ever since Denis Villeneuve’s forthcoming James Bond film was announced, the million-dollar question has been: Who will take on the role of the iconic spy? Now, former 007 Pierce Brosnan is offering his thoughts.  In a recent interview with The Times, the actor, who played the character in four films from 1995 to 2002, said […]

The truly legendary singer Darlene Love had her story already lightly sketched out in a 2013 film about backup singers of yore, 2013’s Oscar-winning “20 Feet From Stardom.” But what Love’s fans — and they are legion — really have hungered for is a movie in which she is less than 10 feet from the […]

On a box office voyage for less than two months, Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” has become the highest-grossing film in the history of Universal Pictures. The 114-year-old film company announced the milestone on Saturday, when the Matt Damon-led epic’s weekend haul will bring its domestic earnings to $601.2 million, with an international tally of $1.083 […]

By the end of this weekend, The Odyssey will have crushed the ultimate record, becoming Universal‘s highest grossing movie ever at the global box office with $1..684 billion. The pic will sail above Universal’s previous record-breaker, 2015’s Jurassic World which ended its run at $1.677 billion. By Sunday, The Odyssey will count $601.2M million domestic and […]

It didn’t make sense. For her spellbinding portrait of Marcia Clark in “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story,” Sarah Paulson had won every major award —the first actor in history to do so — but the film offers never came. To add insult to injury, she watched her scene partners, Courtney B. Vance […]

The Stone family is reuniting for another chaotic holiday season. The cast for the sequel to the 2005 holiday classic The Family Stone has been unveiled, with much of the original cast set to return. Titled The Families Stone, the follow-up will be set 20 years after the events of the original film. The returning […]

There are two major pieces of news to come out of “The Julia Set,” the nothing-short-of-terrific new movie that premiered tonight at the Toronto Film Festival. It’s the first movie to feature Chase Infiniti since her breakout role as the Leonardo DiCaprio character’s daughter in “One Battle After Another,” and the first piece of news […]

Nearly 15 years after first stealing audiences’ funny bones as Fat Amy, Rebel Wilson has provided a new generation with a musical comedy that will have fans laughing and singing along just the same. In Girl Group, co-written and directed by Wilson, the Australian multihyphenate stars as popstar Tassie Young, who found fame with her […]

“All we can hope for is that it sustains” That’s what Curry Barker was first told by his reps and those around him about the domestic box office prospects for his horror pic Obsession. He wasn’t expecting too much. Then the horror romance wound up making more than Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu, $512.6M […]