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For the first time in 47 years, all five Best Actress Oscar nominees hail from Best Picture nominees.

The Best Actress lineup was the top five in the odds: Cynthia Erivo (Wicked), Karla Sofía Gascón (Emilia Pérez), Mikey Madison (Anora), Demi Moore (The Substance), and Fernanda Torres (I’m Still Here). Four of those films were widely predicted to score Best Picture nominations except for I’m Still Here, which was in 13th place in the odds; but in the biggest surprise of the day, the Brazilian feature made the cut on Thursday. The other Best Picture nominees are The Brutalist, A Complete Unknown, Conclave, Dune: Part Two, and Nickel Boys.

The last time the Best Actress and Best Picture lineups aligned was during the 1977-78 season when Diane Keaton (Annie Hall) won Best Actress over Jane Fonda (Julia), Marsha Mason (The Goodbye Girl), and The Turning Point stars Anne Bancroft and Shirley MacLaine.

Germany-based Beta Cinema has boarded international sales on Ina Weisse’s Cicadas ahead of its world premiere in Berlin Panorama next month.

Cicadas tells the story of a woman – played by Nina Hoss – whose life takes a turn when an enigmatic single mother and her young daughter weave themselves into her life.

Saskia Rosendahl and Vincent Macaigne are also on the cast.

The film is produced by Felix von Boehm and Katrin Jochimsen for Germany’s Lupa Film, in co-production with 10:15! Productions and Zdf, with support from arte. Backing came from Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Film Forderungsanstalt, the Cnc Mini Traité...

Exclusive: German Films, the agency that promotes German cinema globally, has revealed the seven participants for its annual Face to Face campaign, which include talents who have worked on projects such as Unorthodox, We Children From Bahnhof Zoo and Tides.

This year, which marks the 10th anniversary of the Face to Face initiative, will see German Films introduce seven burgeoning talents from the German film and TV industry to the international film community at the Berlin Film Festival next month. The initiative has long been considered a significant platform for showcasing German talents to the wider film and television spheres.

This year’s selection includes actors Aaron Altaras, Lea Drinda and Thea Ehre, writer-directors Leonie Krippendorff and Mariko Minoguchi, as well as director Mala Reinhardt and Director of Photography Tim Kuhn.

They are following in the footsteps of filmmakers and stars Sandra Hüller, Christian Friedel, Burhan Qurbani, Saskia Rosendahl, Alexander Fehling,...

Tull Stories has acquired two French features as part of a new ‘Joy Of Cinema’ international comedy strand at the UK distributor.

The company has picked up Laurent Tirard’s Oh My Goodness! and Louis-Julien Petit’s The Kitchen Brigade, both from French sales agent Charades. The titles join Natja Brunckhorst’s comedy Two To One starring Sandra Huller on the new Tull strand.

Tull will release Oh My Goodness! in cinemas on March 14, with Two To One and The Kitchen Brigade to follow in the summer.

Jonny Tull, founder of Tull Stories, says the ‘Joy Of Cinema’ strand will...

When the actor known as “Russia’s Timothée Chalamet” attended the Gotham Awards last month, he never expected to come face-to-face with the real Timothée Chalamet. “It was such a crazy thing,” says “Anora” star Mark Eydelshteyn of meeting the Gotham Awards’ Visionary Tribute honoree. “I know many amazing actors, but they’re very far from me. I could feel Tim’s vibe up close. I was so lucky to talk with him, just to see that he’s a real, warm and kind person.”

You can expect more moments like this in the near future. Ever since Italian star Ever since Italian star Sophia Loren became the first actor to win an Oscar for a non-English speaking role in 1961 for “Two Women,” few award seasons have boasted as many top acting contenders from outside the U.S. as this one — which is not to say that it’s been an easy road for them.

Ryan Gosling's new sci-fi movie Project Hail Mary gets an exciting tease as it wraps filming. Project Hail Mary is an alien sci-fi movie about an astronaut (Gosling) who is tasked with saving Earth while he is alone in outer space. The sci-fi film is directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller and based on a screenplay by Drew Goddard, which adapts a book by Andy Weir. In addition to Gosling, the project features a leading cast including Anatomy of a Fall's Sandra Hüller, Milana Vayntrub, Bastian Antonio Fuentes, Isla McRae, and James Wright.

Per Variety, Project Hail Mary has wrapped filming. As the project's shooting came to a close, screenwriter Goddard shares some intriguing thoughts on the movie. The writer says, "If you like The Martian, I suspect you’re really going to like what we’re cooking up with ‘Hail Mary.' " He also praises directors Lord and Miller,...

Warner Bros. stated on Friday that “The Batman” will have a sequel on October 1, 2027. The highly awaited film directed by Matt Reeves has experienced its second delay. The film was pushed back to 2026 earlier this year after being set to come out in October 2025.

Robert Pattinson will play the superhero again. As Reeves continues to polish the script, the production is expected to start in the third quarter of 2025.

James Gunn, co-head of DC Studios, talked to fans on Threads’ social media site about their worries about the long wait. He told us, “Matt is committed to making the best film he possibly can, and no one can accurately guess exactly how long a script will take to write.” He also said that once the script is done, pre-production, shooting, and post-production for big movies usually take two years.

According to Gunn, the five-year gap between Batman pictures is comparable...

Perhaps the Grinch ruined Christmas at Warner Bros., and now the studio is somewhat hellbent on wreaking havoc. Because right after Christmas, WB got busy making release date changes for next year and beyond. Funnily enough, the studio took the most audacious step of shifting Matt Reeves’ highly anticipated The Batman sequel to 2027, while offering Tom Cruise’s unnamed movie a 2026 release date.

Robert Pattinson in The Batman (2022) | image: DC Studios, Warner Bros.

Well, we understand that production for The Batman 2 isn’t scheduled to get started until late summer of 2025 and is set to be a VFX-heavy sequel, but despite all odds, a fall 2026 theatrical release seemed perfectly within reach. So why did Warner Bros. shift its release date, and instead offer Tom Cruise and Alejandro González Iñárritu’s untitled movie a 2026 deadline? Well, whatever the reason might be, right now, even Cruise’s movie doesn’t...

Gold Derby rounds up today’s top stories in entertainment for Dec. 27, 2024.

Update:

Nightbitch comes barking to Hulu

On Dec. 27, Amy Adams‘ latest awards contender became available to stream for free for Hulu subscribers. Based on the 2021 Nightbitch novel by Rachel Yoder, the big budget film version from writer/director Marielle Heller stars Adams as a stay-at-home mother who starts inexplicably transforming into a dog. Other cast members include Scoot McNairy as her husband, Arleigh Patrick Snowden & Emmett James Snowden as their son, and Zoë Chao as a family friend.

Searchlight Pictures’ horror-comedy has been racking up various awards nominations this season, including for Adams at the Golden Globes and Independent Spirit Awards. Oscars next? As Heller recently told Gold Derby, “[Adams] is so wonderful and she’s so vulnerable, and I feel like she really trusted me.” Watch the video interview below:

Tim Allen spills secrets about Toy Story 5...

La película llegará a los cines un año más tarde de lo previsto. © Warner Bros

Otro duro golpe para los fans de The Batman: su secuela se ha retrasado un año, del 2 de octubre de 2026 al 1 de octubre de 2027, de acuerdo con Variety. De este modo, la segunda parte de la película del director Matt Reeves con Robert Pattinson como Batman llegará a los cines cinco años más tarde que su predecesora.

Según los informes, la producción de The Batman: Part 2 –título que todavía no es oficial según apuntan algunos medios– comenzaría este verano y, dado que se trata de una película con abundantes efectos visuales, su fecha de estreno original no sería factible. Asimismo, el actual copresidente de DC Studios, James Gunn, director de la próxima Superman, que se estrena el 11 de julio y da el pistoletazo de salida al nuevo universo DC, había comentado recientemente en redes...

Alejandro González Iñárritu’s untitled Tom Cruise film has been set for an October 2, 2026 Imax release by Warner Bros Pictures, giving the project a prime awards season slot.

The date had previously been claimed by Warner for Matt Reeves’ sequel to The Batman, which now moves to a global release on October 1, 2027, also in Imax.

The Inarritu project, the Mexican filmmaker’s first English-language film as a director since The Revenant, is being produced by Warner Bros and Legendary Entertainment and will also star Sandra Hüller, John Goodman, Michael Stuhlbarg, Jesse Plemons, Sophie Wilde and Riz Ahmed.

Plot details have not been revealed,...

Warner Bros. confirms the release date for Tom Cruise's apocalyptic movie after Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning, which will arrive in theaters on May 23, 2025. The upcoming film, produced and directed by the four-time Oscar winner, Alejandro González Iñárritu, is currently untitled. The script was co-written by Inarritu and Birdman writers Nicolas Giacobone and Alexander Dinelaris along with Sabina Berman. Filming reportedly started in the U.K. in November.

Cruise's upcoming untitled apocalyptic movie now has an official release date. The film will arrive on October 2nd, 2026 in IMAX. Cruise and Mary Parent are also credited as producers. Aside from Cruise, the cast includes Sandra Huller (The Anatomy of a Fall), John Goodman, Michael Stuhlbarg (Men in Black 3), Jesse Plemons (Civil War), Sophie Wilde (Talk to Me), and Riz Ahmed (Venom). The logline follows "the most powerful man in the world" as he embarks on a "frantic...

Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s first English-language film since “The Revenant” has a release date — and fans of Tom Cruise’s return to auteur-driven fare have a reason to look forward to October 2, 2026. And even more cause to celebrate: Plot details are finally available. According to a Warner Bros. release, “The most powerful man in the world embarks on a frantic mission to prove he is humanity’s savior before the disaster he’s unleashed destroys everything.”

The untitled project marks the director’s latest collaboration with his “Birdman” co-writers Alexander Dinelaris and Nicolas Giacobone, with Sabina Berman also sharing a screenwriting credit. Cruise leads a cast that includes Sandra Hüller, John Goodman, Michael Stuhlbarg, Jesse Plemons, Sophie Wilde, and Riz Ahmed.

Of note: “The Batman II” was initially announced for an October 2, 2026, release. It moves to October 1, 2027.

Also shuffling around on the release calendar: Bong Joon-ho’s “Mickey 17” moves...

Riddle me this! What highly-anticipated superhero sequel is getting delayed? If you said Matt Reeves’s The Batman sequel, give yourself a gold star! The Dark Knight’s next theatrical outing is Bat-grappling from October 2, 2026 to October 1, 2027, a full year from its intended release date. Production for The Batman sequel begins in the late summer. If WB kept the film’s original date, the VFX team would have been working night and day to finish the movie on time. The new date gives Reeves and his fellow filmmakers ample time to fine-tune the project for a box office-breaking 2027 release. Plus, who doesn’t love seeing a Batman film in Autumn? Prime time Spooky Season, baby! Let’s go!

Sliding into The Batman sequel’s original slot is the untitled Tom Cruise movie directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu. Filmed for IMAX, the untitled film features Cruise alongside Sandra Hüller, John Goodman,...

Moviegoers will have to wait a little longer to return to Gotham City, as Matt Reeves’ follow-up to “The Batman” has been pushed back until 2027. The superhero sequel was originally supposed to open on October 2, 2026, but will now shift a year and open on October 1, 2027, in Imax, Warner Bros. announced on Friday.

That left an opening for Alejandro G. Iñárritu and Tom Cruise’s upcoming film to hit theaters in 2026, just as the awards season race kicks off. The film, which still lacks a title, will open in Imax on Oct. 2 in the date “The Batman 2” vacated.

Warner Bros. made some additional tweaks to its upcoming release slate, swapping the openings of Bong Joon Ho’s “Mickey 17” and Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners.” Now, “Mickey 17,” which stars Robert Pattinson (who plays the Dark Knight in Reeves’ comic book series), will open on March 7, 2025, while “Sinners,” which re-teams Coogler...

Warner Bros. Pictures is moving its schedule around. The studio’s upcoming and currently untitled movie from director Alejandro González Iñárritu and starring Tom Cruise has been given an October 2026 premiere date. It will be released on Imax on Oct. 2, 2026.

The upcoming movie from Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Entertainment follows “the most powerful man in the world,” according to a logline for the project, who takes on a mission to prove he’s the savior to humanity before it’s too late. In addition to directing the project, Iñárritu co-wrote the film alongside Sabina Berman, Alexander Dinelaris and Nicolas Giacobone. Its producers include Iñárritu, Cruise and Mary Parent.

Cruise will star in the movie alongside Sandra Hüller, John Goodman, Michael Stuhlbarg, Jesse Plemons, Sophie Wilde and Riz Ahmed.

Additionally, “The Batman” sequel has been moved to 2027. Previously, the movie was set to premiere in IMAX on Oct. 2, 2026. Now it will premiere on Oct.

Post Christmas Warner Bros is busy making release date changes for next year before it rings in and beyond. The most prolific move is that Matt Reeves’ The Batman sequel is heading from Oct. 2, 2026 to Oct. 1, 2027. Production isn’t scheduled to get started until late summer and with a VFX heavy sequel such as this one, a fall 2026 theatrical release is within reach. The Reeves’ movie will have Imax screens.

Funny enough, Warner Bros always had the first weekend of October 2027 staked out for a DC title.

Reeves’ The Batman was the first fire-breathing theatrical release for Warner Bros. post Covid after implementing a day-and-date release strategy on Max; the movie making $369.3M domestic, $772M WW. The feature spawned a Max series, The Penguin, the third-most-watched HBO or Max debut season around the world following The House of the Dragon and The Last of Us.

Taking over The Batman sequel’s place on Oct.

Screenreveals a snapshot of the latest high-end TV and film productions shooting in the UK for the big studios and streamers.

Pleasecontact us hereto add or update changes to the following or new productions taking place in the UK.

Films

& Sons

A famous novelist becomes convinced he is going to die imminently.

Dir:Pablo Trapero

Prod:Matanza Cine srl,Infinity Hill

Where:uk

When:December 2024-ongoing

Distributor:Tbc

Cast:Bill Nighy, George MacKay, Matt Smith

H Is For Hawk

A woman forms an unlikely friendship with a hawk after losing her father.

Dir:Philippa Lowthorpe

Prod:Plan B Entertainment

Where:Wales

When:November 2024-ongoing

Distributor:Lionsgate

Cast:Claire Foy,...

Screenreveals a snapshot of the latest high-end TV and film productions shooting in the UK for the big studios and streamers.

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Films

Next Life

A jazz singer finds herself across two alternative realities.

Dir:Drake Doremus

Prod:Mutressa,Fetisoff Illusion, 42

Where:London

When:December-ongoing

Distributor:Tbc

Cast:Emilia Clarke, Edgar Ramirez

& Sons

A famous novelist becomes convinced he is going to die imminently.

Dir:Pablo Trapero

Prod:Matanza Cine srl,Infinity Hill

Where:uk

When:December-ongoing

Distributor: Tbc

Cast: Bill Nighy, George MacKay, Matt Smith

H Is For...

Tom Cruise stars in the latest film from Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu, and filming has quietly got underway. More on the story here.

We’re not surprised if Tom Cruise sometimes looks a little tired in interviews. After now completing filming on Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning and wrapping production on a project which began filming all the way back in 2020, Cruise has reportedly already finished up shooting the first phase of his upcoming collaboration with Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu.

According to World Of Reel, the project is tentatively titled Judy and will see Cruise play ‘the most powerful man in the world, who embarks on a frantic mission to prove he is humanity’s saviour before the disaster he’s unleashed destroys everything.’

Sounds cheap.

While the events onscreen may be pretty frantic, they’re set to be matched by Cruise’s off-screen calendar for 2025.

As well as shooting the...

Days after the New York Film Critics Circle announced its annual winners, film critics in Los Angeles weighed in on the year’s best movies and performances.

“Anora” won a leading three awards: Best Picture and two acting trophies. Its filmmaker, Sean Baker, was also the runner-up for Best Director and Best Screenplay.

Acting winners included Marianne Jean-Baptiste (“Hard Truths”) and Mikey Madison (“Anora”) for best lead performances, while Yura Borisov (“Anora”) and Kieran Culkin (“A Real Pain”) won the best supporting performance category. The runners-up in each respective category were Demi Moore (“The Substance”) and Fernanda Torres (“I’m Still Here”), and Clarence Maclin (“Sing Sing”) and Adam Pearson (“A Different Man”). The Los Angeles Film Critics Association awards acting honors in genderless categories.

Read below for the full list of Los Angeles Film Critics Association winners.

Founded in 1975, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association “is comprised of Los Angeles-based,...

The Los Angeles Film Critics Association named Sean Baker’s “Anora” its Best Picture for 2024. The critics group also awarded stars Mikey Madison and Yura Borisov with the Best Leading Performance and Best Supporting Performance, respectively. This year, the Lafca decided to spread the wealth and awarded two performers in each category, which remain gender neutral.

The Lafca spread the wealth around, but Baker also received the runner-up prizes for both Best Director and Best Screenplay. Brady Corbet’s “The Brutalist” was named runner-up in the Best Picture category.

With New York kicking off awards season with the Gotham Awards and the NYFCC releasing their winners, the West coast finally jumped into the fray, with the Los Angeles Film Critics Association announcing their winners for 2024 on Sunday, December 8.

Lafca previously unveiled that John Carpenter will be receiving the Career Achievement Award during its ceremony on Saturday, January 11, 2025 at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles,...

Jacques Audiard’s latest Emilia Pérez dominated the European Film Awards this evening in Lucerne, Switzerland, taking Best Film and Best Director. Check out the full winners list below.

The Netflix crime drama won all four of it’s nominations. Audiard’s pic came into this evening’s tied with Pedro Almodovar’s The Room Next Door for the most noms. The film’s haul included Best Actress for Karla Sofia Gascón and Best Screenplay.

Other big winners this evening in Switzerland included filmmaker Gints Zilbalodis who won Best Animated feature for his buzzy pic Flow and the Palestinian-Israeli film No Other Land took the Best Documentary prize.

Tonight’s dominant display hands Audiard and his Emilia Pérez collaborators a significant vote of confidence as they head into the heat of awards seasons. The European Film Awards, which are voted on by the Berlin-based European Film Academy’s some 5,000 members based across Europe,...

Illustration by Stephanie Lane Gage.While working on this list and thinking about why my favorite posters stand out from the thousands of others made each year, I came up with one simple maxim: a great idea beautifully executed. There are plenty of good movie posters out there that do the job they need to do; they tell you what the movie is and make you want to see it. Does a new blockbuster like Wicked need an especially clever poster? No. It needs to tell you that it is Wicked, that Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo are in it, and it needs to look luxe. But the posters that I love best go above and beyond mere glossy functionality. They have a smart concept that is about more than just showing and telling, and they execute it perfectly, down to the placement of every piece of type and every...

A regular on the red carpet this time last year as she participated in the 2023-2024 awards season with Anatomy of a Fall, Justine Triet has been off the circuit since the spring as she writes two new projects.

The director – who shared the Academy Award and Golden Globe for best screenplay with Arthur Harari for her Cannes Palme d’Or winning courtroom drama – took a breather from her writing this weekend to attend the Marrakech Film Festival.

Triet would not divulge details on her new features projects but did do a deep dive into her earlier career in an onstage conversation, moderated by her long-time producer Marie-Ange Luciani at Paris-based Les Films de Pierre.

‘Anatomy of a Fall’ Oscar winner Justine Triet reflects on 2023-24 awards trail and reveals she has two projects on the boil: “I am so happy to get back to work. I’m in the writing process…...

Director Doug Liman says he’s making Deeper, a ‘scary’ undersea supernatural thriller, with Tom Cruise as its star.

Director Doug Liman and Tom Cruise have long planned to work together again after collaborating on Edge Of Tomorrow and American Made. And according to a new report, that is still set to happen – just not in the guise we expected. When thinking about a Liman/Cruise collaboration at Warner Bros, a sequel to 2014’s Edge Of Tomorrow might spring to mind – but no, it seems like the duo could be cooking up something different.

Showbiz411’s Roger Friedman (via World of Reel) quotes Doug Liman as saying that his next film will be Deeper, starring Tom Cruise. It’s a project that Warner Bros has reportedly been trying to get off the ground for a decade under the stewardship of several different filmmakers.

Liman tells Friedman that he and Cruise...

New films by Jasmila Zbanić and Radu Jude are among 38 projects sharing almost €15m of production support from the Austrian Film Institute’s (ÖFI) selective funding programme, the ÖFI+ automatic incentive and the Vienna Film Fund

Vienna-based Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion received €175,000 from ÖFI’s project committee and €120,000 from the Vienna Film Fund for its minority participation in Zbanić’s Quo Vadis, Aida? - The Missing Part which will be the sequel to her award-winning war drama from 2020.

Produced by Zbanic’s own company Deblokada with partners such as Germany’s Razor Film and Poland’s Madants, the new film is...

Anatomy Of A Fall star Sandra Hüller’s latest feature Two For One has been snapped up for the UK by the Newcastle-based exhibition and distribution outfit Tull Stories.

The UK deal comes in the wake of the film’s successful release in Germany, where it has grossed more than €4.5m since opening in July. The deal was announced at AFM by Munich-based sales agent The Playmaker.

Hüllerstars in the true story, set in 1990, about a group of East Germans who steal millions of soon-to-be-valueless East German marks locked in an underground vault. Things go awry when the money starts...

The European Film Academy has announced the nominees in key categories of the 37th European Film Awards ahead of the ceremony in the Swiss lakeside city of Lucerne on December 7.

French Oscar entry Emilia Pérez by Jacques Audiard and The Room Next Door by Pedro Almodovar lead the nominations making it into four categories each. Both films were nominated for best European film, director and screenplay as well as actress, for Karla Sofia Gascón in Emilia Pérez and Tilda Swinton in The Room Next Door.

Other frontrunners included Germany’s Oscar entry The Seed of the Sacred Fig by exiled Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof, which was nominated for best film, director and screenplay.

A slew of films clinched two nominations including Maura Delpero’s Italian Oscar entry Vermiglio, Halfdan Ullmann Tondel’s Norwegian Oscar entry Armand as well as Andrea Arnold’s Bird and Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance.

For the first time this year,...

Greta Lee is taking over Sandra Huller‘s role!

The Past Lives actress joined the cast of Kent Jones‘ forthcoming Late Fame, and will be starring alongside Willem Dafoe in the project, via Variety.

The Anatomy of a Fall actress was originally set to star in the project, but left due to a scheduling conflict, according to MK2 Films which represent worldwide sales outside of North America.

Keep reading to find out more…

Greta will play Gloria, a “mercurial theater actress whose magnetic personality and unpredictable allure upend the life of Dafoe’s Ed Saxberger, a former poet rediscovered by a group of young artists.”

The film explores the “illusory effect of praise on the soul, and the lingering ghostly presence of the past, whether it’s imagined or vividly remembered,” according to the synopsis.

Greta Lee was among the best dressed at the 2024 Academy Museum Gala.

Six years after transitioning from film criticism, programming and docu features to narrative with Diane (2018), Kent Jones is gearing up for his sophomore project. Titled Late Fame, it was announced just prior to Cannes with Sandra Hüller onboard, however, Past Lives Greta Lee has replaced her and will now joining Willem Dafoe. This should be another fascinating character study – as the drama was penned by Samy Burch (Haynes’ May December – read review). Filming was planned for the fall – so this will be packaged and complete for the fall festival season in 2025. Killer Films’ Pamela Koffler and Christine Vachon are producing.…...

Greta Lee (“Past Lives”) has joined the cast of Kent Jones’ “Late Fame,” and will star opposite Willem Dafoe (“Poor Things”), taking over from Sandra Huller. The project “May December” co-screenwriter Samy Burch and producer Killer Films.

Hüller has exited the project due to a scheduling conflict, according to MK2 Films which represent worldwide sales outside of North America. WME Independent, UTA Independent Film Group and Cinetic Media co-represent North American rights.

Lee will play Gloria, a mercurial theater actress whose magnetic personality and unpredictable allure upend the life of Dafoe’s Ed Saxberger, a former poet rediscovered by a group of young artists. The film explores the “illusory effect of praise on the soul, and the lingering ghostly presence of the past, whether it’s imagined or vividly remembered,” reads the synopsis.

Produced by Pamela Koffler and Christine Vachon of Killer Films, “Late Fame” had a buzzy launch at...

Tom Cruise’s highest-grossing film happened only because the director was able to convey the emotional core of the film to the actor in 20 minutes. When Joe Kosinski approached Cruise for Top Gun: Maverick, he knew that a sequel wouldn’t be at the top of the mind for the Mission: Impossible actor. However, Kosinski’s pitch impressed Cruise, who immediately greenlit the film.

Tom Cruise in a still from Top Gun: Maverick | Credits: Paramount Pictures

Top Gun: Maverick, a sequel to the 1986 film Top Gun, was in development hell for years. Cruise dismissed the idea of a sequel in the ’90s itself. Tony Scott, the original director, was attached to the project in 2010, as development began at Paramount Pictures. However, Scott’s death in 2012 put the sequel in uncertainty for a long time before Kosinski took it up in 2017.

Tom Cruise Was Convinced For The Top Gun Sequel In...

Tom Cruise's mystery Warner Bros. movie is set to begin production imminently.According to Variety, the untitled flick – which stars the 62-year-old actor and is being directed by Mexican filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu – is due to enter production in the UK shortly and could even begin shooting as early as next month.While the picture's story is currently unknown, Warner Bros. previously revealed Cruise would be leading a star-studded cast which includes 'Anatomy of a Fall' actress Sandra Hüller, 'Breaking Bad' star Jesse Plemons, Emmy Award-winner John Goodman and 'Your Honor' actor Michael Stuhlbarg.Riz Ahmed and Sophie Wilde have also been tapped to appear in the movie.In February, Warner Bros. and Legendary Entertainment confirmed they were working on the film while revealing Iñárritu would be directing and producing in what would be his first English-language picture since his Leonardo DiCaprio-starring...

Huge news for fans of crazy filmmaking techniques and even crazier live-action stunts. The fabled Tom Cruise and Alejandro G. Iñárritu teamup, which Warner Bros. announced back in February, is really moving forward. Variety reports that the still-untitled film is set to start shooting in the U.K. soon. No...

Warner Bros. and Legendary Entertainment’s Tom Cruise film, to be directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, is due to start shooting in the U.K.

While the start date is yet to be confirmed, it could be as early as next month, Variety understands.

The untitled project would be Iñárritu’s first English-language film since “The Revenant.” The film will be produced and directed by Iñárritu, with a script he co-wrote in 2023 with “Birdman” co-writers Nicolas Giacobone and Alexander Dinelaris, along with Sabina Berman. Plot details are still under wraps.

The cast also includes Sandra Hüller, John Goodman, Michael Stuhlbarg, Jesse Plemons and Sophie Wilde.

This will be Cruise’s first film since signing a deal to develop and produce theatrical films with Warner Bros. Discovery in January. His last project with the studio was “Edge of Tomorrow” a decade ago.

Most recently, Cruise appeared in “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning” and “Top Gun: Maverick.

Dozens of celebs, including Zendaya and Alicia Vikander, stepped out for Louis Vuitton‘s show during Paris Fashion Week!

Creative director Nicolas Ghesquière presented his Women’s Spring-Summer 2025 collection during the show on Tuesday afternoon (October 1) in Paris, France.

Cate Blanchett, Ana de Armas, Jennifer Connelly, Cynthia Erivo, and Lisa were among the other celebs who attended the fashion show. We have photos from the red carpet and inside the event to share!

Head inside to see all of the celebs who stepped out for the fashion show…

Keep scrolling to see all of the celebs who attended the fashion show…

Cate Blanchett

Zendaya

Lisa

Ana de Armas

Hoyeon

Jennifer Connelly

Alicia Vikander

Cynthia Erivo

Chloe Moretz

Shay Mitchell

Jaden Smith

Jurnee Smollett

Haim

Stacy Martin

Justine Triet

Da’Vine Joy Randolph

Ava DuVernay

Sandra Huller

Urassaya Sperbund

Doona Bae

John Glacier

Ryan Destiny

Jasmine Jobson

Koki

Elaine Zhong

Liu Yifei...

The cinematic landscape is not just for the sake of ‘entertainment’ and ‘merriment’ alone, for oftentimes it leaves the audiences with traces of unanswered questions, tickling their brain chemistry in the right way. While in 2023, movies like Barbie posed some very vital yet harsh questions about society and women, movies like Oppenheimer made viewers question the drawbacks of progress in the scientific world and the integrity of human morality.

On the other hand, in the same year, we had a French legal drama directed by Justine Triet which sparked the most curiosity among viewers. Called The Anatomy of a Fall, the film captivated audiences at the 76th Cannes Film Festival, drawing viewers into a complex web of emotional tension, courtroom intrigue, and personal revelations.

Anatomy of a Fall | Credit: Le Pacte

A tale that follows the gripping story of a writer trying to prove her innocence in the suspicious death of her husband,...

Palme d’Or winning director Ruben Östlund’s next film The Entertainment System Is Down has been awarded €500,000 in production support from Berlin-Brandenburg’s regional film fund.

It is one of 30 feature films and series projects, from directors such as David Wnendt and Ulrike Ottinger, to share more than €7.2m in Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg (Mbb)’s latest funding round.

Phlippe Bober’s Berlin-based Essential Filmproduktion received the €500,000 for Östlund’s second English-language production The Entertainment System Is Down, starring Daniel Brühl, Kirsten Dunst and Keanu Reeves. The long gestating project is set on a long-haul flight whose inflight entertainment system breaks down.

France has selected Jacques Audiard’s Spanish-language musical Emilia Pérez to represent it in the Best International Feature Film category at the 97th Academy Awards.

The drama stars Karla Sofía Gascón as cartel leader Emilia who enlists the help of unappreciated lawyer Rita (Saldana) to help her fake her death so she can live authentically as her true self.

It premiered at Cannes, where it earned its four actresses – Gascón, Saldaña, Selena Gomez, and Adriana Paz – a collective Best Actress award, and also clinched the jury prize.

The film was selected from a short list of four films which also included swashbuckler The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre de La Patellière and Matthieu Delaporte; French-produced Indian drama All We Imagine as Light by Payal Kapadia and Misericordia by Alain Guiraudie.

This year’s revamped selection committee featured sales agent Carole Baraton, producer Nadim Cheikhroua (Four Daughters), Venice Golden Lion...

France has unveiled the four titles in the running to represent it in the Best International Feature Film category at the 97th Academy Awards.

They are:

All We Imagine as Light by Payal Kapadia The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre de La Patellière, Matthieu Delaporte Emilia Pérez by Jacques Audiard Misericordia by Alain Guiraudie

This year’s candidate is being decided by a restructured selection committee – featuring Venice Golden Lion winner Audrey Diwan and Oscar winners, writer, director and producer Florian Zeller and producer Patrick Wachsberger – as...

It was a time of change in Halberstadt. As the summer of 1990 drew people together, it also thrust them into an uncertain future. The German Democratic Republic was dissolving, its official currency replaced by the West German mark. For many families like Maren, Robert, and their friend Volker, this meant adjusting to new rules almost overnight.

Though changes loomed large, their village stayed as tight-knit as ever. Neighbors still found ways to look out for each other, even amid upheaval. When Volker returned after time away, old bonds proved resilient. Through sweltering days and restless nights, the friends’ curiosity grew about mysterious trucks near their homes. Following a curious trail, they made an unexpected discovery that would give their community one last moment to come together.

Buried in an underground bunker lay a towering hoard of forgotten banknotes. Issued by the now-defunct state, these papers labeled in Marx and Engels...

Filmfest Hamburg has unveiled the full programme for its 32nd edition, which is set to open with Louise Courvoisier’s Cannes prize-winner Holy Cow and close with Pedro Almodovar’s Golden Lion-winner The Room Next Door.

French filmmaker Courvoisier will be accompanied by lead actors Clément Faveau and Malwéne Barthelemy at the opening gala on September 26 for the German premiere of her debut feature, which premiered in Un Certain Regard at Cannes where it won the Youth Prize. The coming-of-age film will be released by Pandora Film in German cinemas on January 2.

The Filmfest’s new director Malika Rabahallah and...

In an illustrious four-decade-long career, Tom Cruise has scaled unimaginable heights (both literally and figuratively). The Mission :Impossible star has left an indelible mark on Hollywood with the sleuth of blockbusters to his name. As he looks forward to leave his mark in the profession well into the 60s, the roles are still coming in thick for him. And it seems like he is determined to walk with a laurel that will bring him on at the same pedestal as Leonardo DiCaprio.

Tom Cruise wants everyone to know that he isn’t over yet Tom Cruise wants to focus on bagging more awards at this juncture of his career || Image by Frankie Fouganthin, licensed under Cc By-sa 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Many people believed that Tom Cruise is heading towards the twilight of his career. But, he has proved his detractors wrong time and again, with movies like Top Gun: Maverick...

French sales agent mk2 Films has hired London-based former Protagonist Pictures and Upgrade Productions executive Vanessa Saal to help expand the company’s UK footprint, under the title executive consultant and UK lead.

Saal most recently served as executive vice president, production and distribution, for Jonathan Kier and Matt Brodlie’s Los Angeles-based Upgrade Productions, working out of London.

She was previously managing director, sales and distribution for the UK’s Protagonist Pictures.

While a formal UK office is not being launched, with Saal’s position understood to be on a consultancy basis, she will utilise her on-the-ground network and...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.

Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research

My screening series Amnesiascope partners again with Rohmer Fits for an encore presentation of Éric Rohmer shorts on Sunday.

Paris Theater

“Big & Loud!” returns with 70mm prints of Vertigo, Phantom Thread, and Boogie Nights, along with The Abyss, Close Encounters, and films by Don Hertzfeldt.

Bam

The controversial, remarkable The Spook Who Sat By the Door continues in a new restoration.

Roxy Cinema

Amalia Ulman has programmed prints of If… and The Holy Girl; “Explosive Cinema” offers First Reformed and The Battle of Algiers.

Film at Lincoln Center

As an essential restoration of Shinji Somai’s Moving continues, The Stranger and the Fog begins a run.

Museum of the Moving Image

Speed Racer and A Silent Voice have screenings.

Anthology Film Archives

Films by Buñuel, Chaplin, and Cocteau screen in “Essential Cinema“; Funeral Parade of Roses shows this Friday.

Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: third time might just be the charm for the proposed merger of Skydance Media and Paramount Global. What does that mean? We’re glad you asked…

Huh? What’s happening? Who’s Edgar Bronfman? Help!

Don’t worry, we’ve gotten ourselves in a right muddle over this Paramount business, too. If you’ve been living under, on or around a rock more than a few feet from the media enterprise’s boardroom, stay tuned for a quick look back at a particularly narratively unsatisfying corporate staring contest. We’ll make it fun, we promise.

If you’re already exceptionally clued-in then here’s the latest: Edgar Bronfman Jr. – the head of an investment group who offered a last-minute bid for the embattled Paramount Global last week – announced on Monday that he was ending his bid for the company.

This caused...

The cast for Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s next film is taking shape with some of Hollywood’s finest joining Tom Cruise in the cast.

Last we heard about Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s next film was in February when Tom Cruise was attached to star.

Now, Deadline reports that the film’s cast has gotten significantly bigger. Sandra Hüller, John Goodman, Michael Stuhlbarg, Jesse Plemons and Sophie Wilde are all on board The Revenant director’s new film. Riz Ahmed is also in the final stages of negotiations to join the cast. That’s a lot of star power and it has certainly caught our attention.

Hüller’s career has really taken off since her Oscar nomination for the tremendous Anatomy Of A Fall and it’s great to see a young star such as Wilde in the cast. Wilde was seen in Talk To Me, one of last year’s finest horror films.

El proyecto marca el esperado regreso de Iñárritu al cine en inglés desde ‘El Renacido’.

De acuerdo con Deadline, un elenco estelar se ha unido a la próxima película sin título de Alejandro G. Iñárritu, el aclamado cineasta ganador de cuatro premios Oscar por Birdman o (La inesperada virtud de la ignorancia) y El renacido. Entre los actores que se han sumado al proyecto se encuentran Sandra Hüller, Riz Ahmed, John Goodman, Michael Stuhlbarg, Jesse Plemons y Sophie Wilde, que se unen a Tom Cruise, que protagonizará la película.

Coescrita por Iñárritu con los coguionistas de Birdman, Nicolas Giacobone y Alexander Dinelaris, junto con Sabina Berman, la película se centra en el hombre más poderoso del mundo (Tom Cruise), que se embarca en una frenética misión para demostrar que es el salvador de la humanidad antes de que el desastre que ha desencadenado lo destruya todo.

Por ahora, se desconocen...

Hollywood superstar Tom Cruise is teaming up with acclaimed director Alejandro G. Iñárritu for an untitled drama film. Iñárritu, known for award-winning movies like Birdman and The Revenant, will direct the movie. The film has assembled a talented cast that includes Tom Cruise as well as several Oscar-winning and nominated actors.

Little is known about the film’s plot, but it is described as a “high-stakes drama.” Sources say the storyline follows “the most powerful man in the world” as he desperately tries to prove he can save humanity from a disaster he caused. This premise suggests audiences will see Cruise take on a serious dramatic role outside the action movies he’s known for.

Joining Cruise in the film are actors with proven dramatic abilities like Sandra Hüller, John Goodman, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Jesse Plemons. Rising star Sophie Wilde and Oscar winner Riz Ahmed are also expected to star.