Marvel’s “Thunderbolts” continued to lead the U.K. and Ireland box office into the second week of May, holding onto the top spot for Disney with a weekend gross of £2.3 million ($3.1 million). That brings its total to $15.6 million.

Warner Bros.’ “Sinners” continued its strong run in second place, adding $1.4 million in its fourth weekend and crossing $17.5 million overall. “A Minecraft Movie” took third with $834,597 in its sixth frame, boosting its cumulative total to $73.6 million.

A strong new entry in fourth place, “Ocean With David Attenborough” from Altitude Film Distribution earned $770,625 on debut. Warner Bros.’ “The Accountant 2” held fifth with $305,004, reaching $1.5 million overall, while Sony’s horror entry “Until Dawn” followed in sixth with $254,965, and is now at $2.1 million after three weeks.

Vertigo Releasing’s “The Surfer”, starring Nicolas Cage, opened in seventh with $177,432. In eighth, Lionsgate U.K.’s “The Penguin Lessons” added $136,680 to bring its total to $4 million.

Cannes is making it official: nudity and “excessively voluminous” clothing are not welcome on the red carpet of the Palais.

After a demonstrator appeared topless on the Cannes red carpet in 2022 and Bianca Censori stretched the limits with her appearance with a transparent dress at the Grammys earlier this year, the festival issued a statement in accordance with “the institutional framework” of the festival and French law.

“This year, the Cannes Film Festival has made explicit in its charter certain rules that have long been in effect. The aim is not to regulate attire per se, but to prohibit full nudity on the red carpet, in accordance with the institutional framework of the event and French law,” said the new instructions from the festival.

In addition, the festival said that it “reserves the right to deny access to individuals whose attire could obstruct the movement of other guests or complicate...

New Line Cinema has filed an arbitration claim against Kevin Costner’s company under which Horizon was produced over alleged breaches to a deal for the period Western, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

Horizon Series, Costner’s loan-out firm, is in a standoff with New Line over its cofinancing agreement, a source says. After City National Bank initiated arbitration proceedings against both companies, New Line responded by filing a crossclaim seeking repayment from Horizon Series as part of its defense.

Under the deal, New Line and Horizon Series were each required to repay a portion of the financing. By New Line’s thinking, it covered the portion its partner didn’t pay, but City National Bank took the position that it’s owed more.

When asked, New Line declined to comment. City National Bank and Territory Pictures, Costner’s production banner, didn’t respond to requests for comment.

Costner designed...

The Cannes Film Festival is nearly here and while it’s easy to get swept up in the glitz and glamor and very big yachts, there’s another, equally important side to the festival as a marketplace for films from all over the world seeking distribution.

And there are some very big movies at this year’s festival which don’t have distribution, either domestically or internationally, that are very much worth keeping an eye on. They could be some of the festival’s biggest splashes.

“Die My Love” (Courtesy Cannes Film Festival) Die, My Love (Lynne Ramsay)

Scottish director Lynne Ramsay is one of the most exciting filmmakers working today and the fact that she has only made five features total, beginning with her outstanding debut feature “Ratcatcher” (back in 1999), turning the release of each new film into a verifiable event. “Die, My Love,” her first since 2017’s “You Were Never Really Here,...

Larry Yang’s The Shadow’s Edge, starring Jackie Chan, has secured multiple deals across Asia, Latin America and Europe through Hong Kong’s Golden Network Asia.

In the Macau-set action heist film, Chan plays a retired surveillance expert who is rehired by the Macau Police Force to team with elite young detectives and capture a group of wanted criminals.

The film has been sold to Germany (Plaion Pictures), Eastern Europe (Spi International), Turkey (Atv) and Latin America (Great Movies).

In Asia, it has been picked up for Japan (Klockworx), South Korea (Nk Contents), Malaysia (Shanghai Pictures), Indonesia (Prima Cinema...

Samuel L. Jackson, Eva Green and Maria Pedraza are set to star in upcoming thriller “Just Play Dead.”

The film is being directed by Gary Fleder and written by Dan Gordon.

Highland Film Group are handling international sales rights and launching the film in Cannes.

In “Just Play Dead,” when wealthy criminal mastermind Jack Wolfe (Jackson) is cornered by the Feds, he plans to fake his own death and claim the $30 million life insurance payout with his “grieving” wife Nora (Green), while framing her surfer lover Chad for his murder. But Nora is cooking up a scheme of her own: kill Jack for real, frame Chad and keep the fortune for herself. As lies unravel, Nora and Jack scramble to outsmart one another, leaving one burning question: who will come out on top in this twisted game of life and death?

The film is a European co-production spearheaded by Head...

Ashé Ventures, co-founded by Viola Davis, an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony winner, has joined forces with Brazil’s Maria Farinha Filmes to co-produce “The Girl Who Could Fly.”

The partnership marks the latest expansive move by the fast-growing Maria Farinha Filmes. In 2024, it launched the Los Angles-based Mff & Co, which in turn acquired a minority stake in London’s four-time Oscar-nominated Violet Films.

Projects set up at Mff & Co include “Pegasus,” created by Amit Cohen (“False Flag”) and Ron Leshem (“Euphoria”), “Fail-Safe,” directed by Joe Berlinger (“Paradise Lost”), and “Esperanza,” from Fernando Meirelles (“City of God”).

A fiction feature, “Girl” is inspired by the life and groundbreaking journey of Brazil’s Daiane dos Santos, the first Brazilian and first Black woman to win gold at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships.

The best tumbler of her generation, Dos Santos was the first female gymnast to perform either involving double...

Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa returns to the Cannes Film Festival with the gripping Soviet period drama “Two Prosecutors,” marking the first time in nearly a decade that the celebrated filmmaker will compete for the Palme d’Or. The film world premieres in Competition on May 14.

Set in a provincial Soviet town in 1937, at the height of Josef Stalin’s reign of terror, Loznitsa’s latest is a harrowing portrait of one man’s powerlessness when confronting the ruthless machinery of a brutal, capricious state.

It is a story, the director says, that finds chilling echoes in world events today, as Russian strongman Vladimir Putin clamps down on dissent amid his country’s ongoing war in Ukraine, and as U.S. President Donald Trump flaunts his own authoritarian impulses with reckless disregard for the rule of law. “Watching this story from the past, we also recognize the present,” Loznitsa tells Variety.

Film Factory has picked up worldwide sales rights to “Operation Cronos,” a high-stakes thriller centering on the 2017 terrorist Barcelona attacks.

Produced by Nostromo, the shingle behind Netflix hit “Through My Window,” and Beta Fiction, a producer on Spanish box office breakout “Undercover,” “Operation Cronos” will be directed by Fernando González Molina. Molina’s credits include big canvas movies such as “Palm Trees in the Snow” and “The Invisible Guardian,” both from Nostromo.

“Operation Cronos” aims to plunge audiences into one of Europe’s darkest modern tragedies with unprecedented realism and intensity.

Unspooling in the immediate aftermath of the Aug. 17, 2017, attacks in Las Ramblas, with a tense countdown format, it chronicles the relentless efforts and quiet heroism of elite Spanish security forces as they race to track down the terrorists responsible.

The film stars four-time Goya Award winner Eduard Fernández. Genre specialist Alberto Marini penned the screenplay. Principal photography begins on Sept.

Exclusive:New York-based producer-financier Closer Media, in Cannes with Oliver Hermanus’s Palme d’Or contender The History Of Sound and Raoul Peck’s Premiere selection Orwell: 2+2=5, is meeting potential partners on the Croisette to assemble a slate fuelled by global auteurs.

Targeting an annual output of three to five films, founder and Chinese real estate billionaire Zhang Xin and president Jonathan King aim to go into production later this year on projects from Tom McCarthy, with whom King made Spotlight while at Participant, and Joseph Cedar, the Israeli filmmaker behind Beaufort and Footnote.

“We want to make more films,...

Major spoilers ahead for the "Andor" season 2 finale.

"Andor" is a miracle of television -- an immaculately written, acted, designed, and shot series that is unlike anything we've ever seen before in the "Star Wars" universe, yet works precisely because it takes place in the nearly 50-year-old franchise. Showrunner Tony Gilroy and his team have done something special in pulling back the curtain on the fight against the Empire and showing the human cost of freedom, the individuals who made their minds a sunless space and burnt their lives to make a sunrise they knew they'd never see.

Throughout "Andor" season 2, we saw the birth of the Rebel Alliance as we know it from "Rogue One": a brittle union made out of groups with vastly different approaches and ideologies constantly clashing with one another. Every episode of "Andor" added nuance not only to "Rogue One," but to the entire "Star Wars" franchise at large,...

Exclusive:Motion Picture Exchange (Mpx) is on the Croisette talking up Grizzly Night, a survival thriller that filmed with actual bears and recreates one of the most harrowing nights in US National Park Service history. Screen has obtained the first look.

Burke Doeren directs the feature by Utah-based Four J Films, which chronicles events of August 12, 1967, at Glacier National Park, when two 19-year-old women were attacked by grizzlies in separate incidents and Ranger Joan Devereux was called to lead rescue efforts. The grim episode resulted in the first bear-related fatalities in park history.

Doeren hired a bear handling team, and used helicopters during production,...

Exclusive: Buenos Aires-based FilmSharks has closed key territories on Sitges and Tallinn animation Dalia And The Red Book, dramedy The Bus Of Life, and Warner Bros’ local-language erotic drama and Spanish box office hit Ask Me What You Want.

Falcon has acquired all Middle East rights to David Bisbano’s stop-motion/ CGI animation while Moviestar+ has acquired Spanish pay-1 and SVoD rights after Alfa Pictures previously took Spanish theatrical rights.

The film about a girl who finishes the book started by her late author father opened on digital platforms in the US last week through Vision Films, and talks are ongoing in the UK,...

Exclusive: Sergei Loznitsa’s Two Prosecutors has secured sales to a slew of territories ahead of its world premiere in Cannes competition today (May 14).

Coproduction Office has sold the film to Lucky Red (Italy), Aerofilms (Czech Republic and Slovakia), Vertigo (Hungary), HBO Europe (Ptv Eastern Europe), Filmstop (Estonia), McF (Ex-Yugoslavia), Lev (Israel), and Falcon (Middle East). Pyramide will release the film in France and Progress is handling distribution in Germany.

Based on a novel by Georgy Demidov, the film focuses on a young prosecutor who sets out to challenge the system during Stalin’s Great Terror in 1937 after discovering a...

Exclusive: Brazilian filmmaker Cao Hamburger, whose credits include Berlinale 2007 title The Year My Parents Went On Vacation, has lined up the feature School Without Walls with Brazilian production powerhouse Gullane, Portugal’s Ukbar Filmes and France’s Playtime Group.

Leading Brazilian actor Julio Andrade, one of Brazil’s most celebrated actors, stars in the film about the inspirational headteacher at a public school in Heliopolis, one of the largest favelas in Brazil.

School Without Walls is being backed by Globo Filmes and Telecine and will start shooting this summer.

Separately, Gullane’s new distribution arm Gullane + has acquired international rights to Para Vigo Me Voy,...

Exclusive:OneTwoThree Media has boarded worldwide sales in Cannes on Melora Walters’ comedy dramaThat One Beautiful Day, starring Mira Sorvino,which has wrapped production in Los Angeles and Fresno.

Sorvinostars alongside her real-life spouse Christopher Backus in the story of a divorced couple who reunite years after the unresolved disappearance of their eight-year-old child. Their encounter stirs deeply buried emotions and unspoken truths.

Walters, whose acting credits include Magnolia and Boogie Nights, directs the feature from Charles Erven’s adaptation of his stage play Baggage Check. The supporting cast includes Mario Van Peebles.

That One Beautiful Day is produced by...

Exclusive: Chinese distributor Hishow is taking on a new curating role, heading into Cannes as a buyer of international films for China’s Golden Panda Awards.

A theatrical release for some of the films is also on the cards through the company’s recently launched We Love Cinema initiative.

“We will focus more on prestige international titles as this is an international award,” said Wang Haiyi, a co-founder and CEO from Hishow. “We’re aiming for new films from Cannes and Venice and a few studio titles too.”

The second edition of the Golden Panda Awards will be held from September 12-13 in Chengdu,...

Exclusive: Barunson E&a, the South Korean studio known for Parasite, is expanding its lineup of titles from Indonesia with upcoming horror The Book Of Sijjin And Illiyyin.

International sales will be launched at the Cannes market on the film directed by Hadrah Daeng Ratu (The Corpse Washer) and is scripted by Lele Laila, writer of Kkn Di Desa Penari, Indonesia’s highest-ever grossing film.

The story follows Yuli, a woman who witnessed her parents die at the hands of a mysterious force as a child after her mother became possessed. Branded a cursed child, she grew up under the roof...

Exclusive: South Korean superhero film Hi-Five has secured sales in the US and key territories across Asia ahead of its anticipated local release on May 30.

Seoul-based sales agent Contents Panda has closed deals for North America (Well Go USA), Japan (Klockworx), Taiwan (Movie Cloud), Hong Kong (Edko Films), Vietnam (Mockingbird Pictures), Indonesia (Pt Prima Cinema Multimedia), Southeast Asia (Purple Plan), Mongolia (The Filmbridge) and in-flight (Emphasis Video Entertainment).

Directed by Kang Hyoung-chul, the story follows five ordinary people who develop superpowers after receiving organ transplants and for a team called Hi-Five. But a cult leader who received a pancreas transplant...

Exclusive: Break Out Pictures has acquired UK-Ireland rights for UK filmmaker Grant Gee’s Everybody Digs Bill Evans, about the legendary jazz pianist, with a release planned for 2026.

Mister Smith Entertainment has world sales, with CAA co-repping US rights.

Actors Barry Ward, Valene Kane and Katie McGrath have joined the cast, alongside previously announced Anders Danielsen Lie, Bill Pullman and Laurie Metcalf.

The Ireland-uk co-production scheduled to start principal photography in Ireland on May 26.

In June 1961, New York City, legendary jazz pianist Bill Evans has found his perfect musical trio, until tragedy hits, leaving Evans unable to bring himself to play.

Exclusive: Studio Zentral, the German production company behind Mascha Shilinski’s Cannes competition feature Sound Of Falling, is developing neo-Nazi tale The Aughts penned by Richard Kropf, the writer behind by hit series such as TNT’s 4Blocks and Netflix’s Kleo and Marc Rothemund’s feature Weekend Rebels.

It is one of a number of new projects being readied by the fast growing Berlin and Munich-based Studio Zentral, which is backed by German broadcaster Zdf’s Studios Group.

The Aughts is adapted from the book Nullerjahre by Hendrik Bolz. It is a memoir about a post-reunification adolescence among Neo-Nazis,...

Exclusive:London-based documentary sales and production outfit Dogwoof has secured a raft of deals for 2000 Meters To Andriivka, directed by Oscar-winning 20 Days In Mariupol filmmaker and journalist Mstyslav Chernov.

Dogwoof has sold to Ukraine (Arthouse Traffic), France (Originals Factory), Australia-New Zealand (Madman), Spain (Filmin), Benelux (Periscoop), Denmark (Dr), Sweden (Svt), Norway (Vgtv), Baltics (Kino Sõprus), former Yugoslavia (Discovery), Poland (Against Gravity and Canal+ Polska), Hong Kong (Pccw) and Israel (Channel 8).

The documentary will be distributed by PBS Distribution in North America, with Dogwoof set to release the film theatrically in the UK-Ireland this August.

The film had a special...

Exclusive: New UK and Ireland kids and family animated feature distributor Kazoo Films has picked up HitPig!, starring Jason Sudeikis, from Gfm Animation. Kazoo will release the film in the UK and Ireland.

Kazoo Films, launched by The Amazing Maurice producers Cantilever Media, has also appointed a new head of marketing, Michael Guerrero. The new hire has been made with the support of the UK Global Screen Fund’s Business Development Fund.

Guerrero was most recently SVP global creative marketing at Studiocanal, and previously worked as head of marketing at Pathe UK. He has also worked at Altitude and eOne.

Exclusive: A year after it won Cannes’ Critics’ Week Next Step top prize at project stage, Chinese filmmaker Zou Jing’s debut feature A Girl Unknownhas begun filming and Pyramide has scooped it up for French distribution and global sales.

The film is headlined by rising actress Li Gengxi who stars in Bi Gan’s 2025 Cannes competition entry Resurrection.

A Girl Unknown follows the tumultuous life of a young Chinese woman who lives with three different families and changes her name each time, as she navigates her identity over the years.

The China-France co-production is produced by Wang Yang of Memoria Films,...

Exclusive: UK actor Jason Isaacs is set to join Djimon Hounsou and Ariyon Bakare in Donovan Marsh’s action drama The Bleeding Ground, due to shoot in South Africa early next year.

The White Lotus star will play an oil executive caught in a stand-off against a militant leader who is driven by personal loss and a quest for justice.

The Bleeding Ground is being produced by Jean-Luc Van Damme of Belgium’s Happy Moon Productions, with UK producer David P Kelly. The script is by UK screenwriter Mathew Bayliss.

Production is scheduled to begin in early 2026 for nine-weeks in Cape Town and Durban.

Exclusive: Sven Bresser’s Cannes Critics’ Week title Reedland is among the films expected to screen at NLWave 25, the new Dutch screenings event launched today by the Netherlands Film Fund, See Nl and Eye Filmuseum, in association with Christian De Schutter’s marketing, PR and strategic agency Hype Park.

Nl Wave 25 will showcase early-stage projects, recently completed films, documentaries and animation to the international industry in Utrecht from September 24-26.

“There is a very good harvest of Dutch films coming up,” said Sandra den Hamer, chief executive office of the Netherlands Film Fund.

In addition to Reedland, this year’s...

Exclusive: Amsterdam-based Incredible Film has closed new deals on the first two films in its four- feature cycle of Tummy Tom family animation movies. They are the final projects on which legendary Dutch producer and author Burny Bos worked before his death in late 2023. Bos was behind such hits as Winky’s Horse and Minoes.

The animated hand-drawn films follow the adventures of a mischievous cat first who first appeared in Sesame Street in the late 1970s. Producers are Phanta Film and BosBros.

The first two films, Tummy Tom And The Lost Teddy Bear, and A New Friend For Tummy Tom,...

Exclusive: Kaleidoscope Film Distribution has acquired international sales rights to Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror, a documentary chronicling the legacy of Richard O’Brien’s classic musical The Rocky Horror Show.

The film debuted at SXSW in March; Kaleidoscope will release it in the UK in Q4 this year.

Strange Journey is directed by O’Brien’s son Linus O’Brien, written by Avner Shiloah, and produced by Shiloah, Linus O’Brien, and Margot Station’s Adam Gibbs and Garret Price.

The film explores the groundbreaking and transgressive themes, iconic performances and epic songs of the 1973 musical, and its 1975 film adaptation.

Exclusive: Cineart has taken Benelux rights to Critics’ Week title Reedland, the feature debut of Dutch director Sven Bresser, that is being sold by France’s The Party Film Sales.

Reedland is a dark drama featuring non-professionals and about a farmer who discovers a girl’s body in the reed land where he works. Marleen Slot’s Viking Film has produced the film which was presented as a work in progress in Les Arcs 2024.

Cineart has also pre-bought Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache’s coming-of-age drama, Just An Illusion, starring Camille Cottin and Louis Garrel from Gaumont.

Now part of the Mubi empire,...

Dubai-based sales agency Cercamon has launched Vorteks, a new genre label running the gamut from horror to sci-fi, thriller, fantasy, dark comedy and action movies. Handling 8-10 features a year, Vorteks will be run by David Kwok, the Tribeca Film Festival director of programming for its first 10 editions. A partner at Vorteks, Kwok will spearhead acquisitions and sales.

“With a special focus on emerging talent, the label’s evolving slate will reflect the incredible new voices coming out of the genre community,” Kwok said, noting that Vorteks expands Cercamon’s mission of “searching for the best films and to work with bold filmmakers.”

In one case in point, Vorteks’ first official acquisition is “Ancestral Beasts,” the second feature from Canadian writer-director-producer Riedel (“Jackstones”) and a tale of an Indigenous woman’s battle with trauma which weighs in as one of the buzzy projects at Cannes Frontières Platform’s Proof of...

This post contains spoilers for all of "Andor" season 2.

I wonder sometimes how we would view the first decade of Disney's ownership of Star Wars as a whole if it weren't for "Andor." The sequel trilogy, which started strong, ended with the most universally disliked film in franchise history. A new streaming era on Disney+ kicked off with a fantastic spin-off in "The Mandalorian," then slowly devolved with less stellar entries like "Obi-Wan Kenobi" and "The Book of Boba Fett." I like "The Bad Batch" and "Tales of the Jedi" as much as the next guy, but the flagship Star Wars stories just started to seem like bad bets. And then "Andor" arrived in 2022, and as far as I'm concerned, none of that other stuff really matters.

It may seem like I'm being hyperbolic, but bear with me. "Andor" is over now, with the final three episodes of season 2 hitting Disney+ this week,...

Sony Pictures Entertainment saw its operating profit spike 70% in the quarter ended March 31, according to financial results released Tuesday evening Pacific time by Sony Corp.

Sony Pictures delivered operating income of $354 million, a gain of $146 million from the year-ago quarter. Revenue came in at $2.7 billion, which was essentially flat year-over-year.

Sony Music saw a gain in operating profit but a dip in revenue, based on figures in Yen released by Sony. Sony’s gaming unit, home to the PlayStation franchise, took a small hit in operating profit and revenue in the period that counts as the company’s fiscal fourth quarter.

The music segment – which includes Sony Music Entertainment, Sony Music Publishing, and Sony Music Entertainment Japan – reported a 14% year-on-year revenue increase, reaching $12.95 billion.

Operating income surged 18% to $2.51 billion, a new high for the segment. Adjusted Oibda (Operating Income Before Depreciation and Amortization) grew 20.5% to $3.16 billion, driven by gains across streaming,...

The iconic San Francisco-based LGBTQ+ festival Frameline is ready to celebrate a half-century… almost. IndieWire can unveil the highly-anticipated lineup for the 49th annual Frameline festival, which is the largest and longest-running queer film festival in the world.

The 2025 festival will open with Sophie Hyde’s “Jimpa” starring Olivia Colman, and close with James Sweeney’s “Twinless.” The festival will take place June 18 to 28, and feature nearly 150 films from 40 countries. Highlights include a special screening at Kqed of Daniel Junge and Sam Pollard’s “I Was Born This Way” documentary about activist Archbishop Carl Bean, who sang the titular gay anthem and founded both the Minority AIDS Project and the world’s first LGBTQ+ church for people of color. Lady Gaga, Questlove, Dionne Warwick, and Billy Porter appear in the film. “Heightened Scrutiny,” which was part of the Frameline Completion Fund, will also screen; the documentary feature centers on ACLU...

Rosamund Pike says her audition for “Die Another Day” almost went too far.

In a recent sit-down with Harper’s Bazaar UK, Pike, who played Miranda Frost in the 2002 Bond flick, says she was asked to strip down to her underwear when auditioning for the film.

“In the Bond audition, I was asked to unzip and drop the dress I was wearing, to just stand there in underwear,” Pike said. “And I thought, ‘Well, no, I’ll be doing that if I get the part. I won’t be doing that now.’ I don’t know what possessed me.”

Despite the disagreement, Pike went on to star alongside Pierce Brosnan in “Die Another Day.” In the film, Pike’s Miranda Frost, a Harvard grad and Olympic fencer, disguises herself as a fellow member of MI6, only to later be revealed as a double agent. In the movie’s climax, she is...

Dana Walden, co-chairman of Disney Entertainment, took a moment out of Disney’s upfront frenzy in New York on Tuesday to talk up the growth potential of the company’s streaming operations and the resilience of its linear business with CNBC’s James Cramer.

“This is a growth business for our company,” Walden said of Disney+ and the bundle of Disney+, Hulu and ESPN+ that has in recent quarters moved steadily into profitability. “We are moving toward those double-digit margins” of black ink that Wall Street covets from Disney+ after five years and many billions of dollars in investment.

Cramer raved about Disney’s performance in the first three months of the year and noted that its stock price has climbed for the past eight trading sessions. He praised Disney CEO Bob Iger and Walden for being effective stewards of a unit that had been posting huge lossees.

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Ever dreamed of puffers and khakis that still fit even after crawling through tunnels and standing in quicksand? Yeah, we haven’t quite either, but after watching Tim Robinson’s viral A24 comedy “Friendship,” we are trading our Dan Flashes looks for the soft earth tones of Ocean View Dining — they fit just right.

After the success of “Friendship” (which will open in theaters nationwide May 23 after having a limited release in LA and NYC), distributor A24 announced that the fictional clothing company Ocean View Dining (Ovd) is now a real brand…or at least people can buy the Ocean View Dining Classic Pants, which Robinson’s character Craig Waterman dons for most of the film.

“The only clothes that fit just right,” Robinson repeatedly says as he promotes the beige/brown menswear essentials brand onscreen. The actual Ovd pants and Craig’s puffer coat from the film will also...

Harvey Weinstein’s legal team resumed their questioning of Kaja Sokola, one of the convicted movie mogul’s accusers, on Tuesday during his retrial in Manhattan.

The defense questioned the former Polish model about a private journal in which she documented people who had sexually assaulted her — but notably did not include Harvey Weinstein. Instead, the former Hollywood producer was mentioned in other contexts, including an entry referring to “Harvey W,” where Sokola wrote that he was “promising help,” but “nothing came of it,” the Associated Press reported.

“The trauma that Harvey Weinstein inflicted on you was that he made promises that he didn’t keep, even as you accused two other men of sexually assaulting you,” Michael Cibella, one of Weinstein’s attorneys, said to Sokola.

“That’s your interpretation and I’ll leave that with you,” Sokola replied. “Harvey made promises he didn’t keep — and he sexually assaulted me.

Yellow Veil Pictures has boarded worldwide sales rights on “Mother of Flies.” The indie feature is the latest supernatural horror from the family directing trio of John Adams, Toby Poser and their daughter, Zelda Adams.

The official logline for the film reads, “When a young woman faces a deadly diagnosis, she seeks dark magic from a witch in the woods. But every cure has its cost.”

Poser, John Adams and Zelda Adams direct as well as star alongside Lulu Adams. Poser serves as producer. Yellow Veil Pictures will present the first footage to buyers at the Cannes Film Festival in the coming days.

Previous credits for Poser, John Adams and Zelda Adams, serving as directors and stars, include “The Deeper You Dig,” “Where the Devil Roams,” and “Hellbender.” The trio’s breakout hit “Hellbender” was acquired by horror streamer Shudder in 2021 ahead of its world premiere at the Fantasia International Film Festival.

After "The Pitt," a medical drama that takes place in "real time" across a 15-hour shift at a fictional Pittsburgh hospital (albeit with filming locations that include the exterior of a real Pittsburgh hospital), premiered on Max in January 2025, the series became an immediate hit ... and you might be surprised that, compared to other HBO juggernauts, it's relatively cheap to produce.

In a feature about the series' success by IndieWire, executive producer and director John Wells — who came up with the idea for the series with his fellow "ER" veterans and friends R. Scott Gemmill (who serves as showrunner) and Noah Wyle (who stars as Dr. Michael "Robby" Robinavitch) — revealed that the series costs about $4 or $5 million per episode. For context, the first season of "The Last of Us" worked with a total budget of around $100 million, which came out to around $10 million per episode.

Wells explained to the outlet...

The Disney+ Marvel Cinematic Universe show "Daredevil: Born Again" sees Charlie Cox returning as the titular Daredevil, known by day as blind lawyer Matt Murdock. An improvement on the "Daredevil" Netflix series that started it all, the series' return showed streaming audiences that comic book stories for adults could be really compelling. In the darkest, most violent end of the MCU, "Daredevil: Born Again" brought back not only Cox's Man Without Fear but also his fellow vigilante, The Punisher, played once more by Jon Bernthal, who was basically born to play the vengeance-obsessed costumed antihero. The end of the first season seems to set up one of the best teams in Marvel comics, but ahead of season 2, we now know for sure that we're going to see another hero from the Netflix Marvel shows: Jessica Jones, played once again by Krysten Ritter. 

According to Variety, Ritter took the stage...

Series creator Erin Foster has just wrapped the second season of her Netflix smash hit, “Nobody Wants This.” No, really, just: the team behind the Adam Brody- and Kristen Bell-starring romantic comedy, based on Foster’s own life and marriage, called cut Monday night at midnight, LA time. Eleven hours later, Foster was on Zoom with IndieWire to talk about the success of the first season of the show and to tease as much as humanly possible about what’s going to unspool in the upcoming, and much-anticipated sophomore season.

Right away, Foster has a promise and a vow: it’s going to be more of what people love. And why shouldn’t it be? The show, which hit the streamer last fall, was an instant hit (hitting the number one slot on Netflix’s own lists within its first full week in release and earning glowing critical...

In Rick Yancey's "The 5th Wave" — the first entry in the eponymous YA novel series — an alien invasion nearly decimates the Earth's population. Scattered survivors struggle to get through another day, including Cassie Sullivan, a 16-year-old who embarks on a dangerous solitary mission to search for her brother. After a very close brush with death, Cassie crosses paths with Evan Walker, her self-proclaimed savior who may or may not be harboring dubious motivations.

Yancey's "The 5th Wave" presents itself as a "The Hunger Games"-esque political thriller, but lacks its sharp, scathing edge. That said, Yancey spins a compelling yarn of sci-fi and post-apocalyptic tropes, which manage to intrigue despite being a tad predictable. The first book alone does not reflect the series' merit, of course; the trilogy draws a parallel between the alien invasion and oppressive colonial forces, repackaging themes cherry-picked from classic sci-fi entries like H.

Charlie Cox confirmed on a red carpet press line this afternoon that “Daredevil” season two would include some fun cameos, and just two hours later, Krysten Ritter has been revealed to be officially back as Jessica Jones for the Marvel Disney+ show.

The announcement was made during Disney’s upfront presentation to advertisers in New York on Tuesday. Ritter joined Cox on the stage to reveal she would be returning as the hard-drinking detective hero in “Daredevil: Born Again” season two.

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Far be it for us to start our look inside the lead-up to the 2025 Emmys on a depressing note, but much like how the Los Angeles wildfires were the elephant in the room during Oscar season, if a series was shot in LA has become a major talking point at for your consideration events.

Even before the fires, the organization FilmLA reported that filming in the city was at the lowest it had been in three decades (not counting the time the world was in lockdown due to Covid-19). And the number of productions has continued to plummet, even with the natural disasters only having a minimal impact on regional filming.

Keep in mind, even more so than the increasingly global Academy Awards, the Primetime Emmys are awards voted on by industry peers, with these FYC events happening mostly in Los Angeles and almost daily from March through June. So...

One of the coolest things about the "Final Destination" franchise is that if you were to ask someone which one was their favorite, it would be completely understandable to hear any four of them come up. I cannot envision a world where anyone claims 2009's "The Final Destination" as the best this horror franchise has to offer. With that installment in mind, it almost feels like a minor miracle that the series would not only survive such a franchise-killing sequel but would also lead to an installment that brings "Final Destination" back to its roots in ways no one could have anticipated.

I've seen these movies many, many times, and I will always go to bat for "Final Destination 5" as the series benchmark. The triple threat of its harrowing disaster sequences, gruesome deaths, and one of the greatest rug pulls in horror history puts it above the rest. The...

Simon Pegg is shutting down any hope for a “Shaun of the Dead” sequel amid its 20th anniversary. Pegg, who collaborated with writer/director Edgar Wright for the “Cornetto Trilogy,” which included “Shaun of the Dead,” “Hot Fuzz,” and “The World’s End,” told Variety that he will reunite with Wright for another comedy soon — just not within the “Shaun of the Dead” world.

“It’s lovely to be asked, and the following that film has is the best you can hope for as a filmmaker, but ‘Shaun’ is a story with a beginning, middle and end, and it’s a story that to add to it — like ‘Alien 3′ did to Aliens’ — might end up detracting from the original,” Pegg said. “So certainly when Edgar and I make our next film, we’re going to really disappoint everybody.”

“Shaun of the Dead” starred Pegg as one of the sole survivors of a zombie apocalypse.

20th Century Fox (now 20th Century Studios) had just become home to the hottest sci-fi franchise in Hollywood in the late 1970s with "Star Wars" when it unexpectedly found itself the proud parent of a second, scarier, much more adult series in "Alien." The brainchild of legendary genre screenwriter Dan O'Bannon (and directed to stylish perfection by Ridley Scott), "Alien" jolted audiences with its chest-burster scare and kept them utterly terrified until Sigourney Weaver's Ripley expelled the big, acid-blooded Xenomorph into deep space.

When "Alien" became a box office smash, Fox knew there was more money to be mined from these sleek black buggers. Indeed, that was at the heart of James Cameron's famous pitch for "Aliens," where, legend has it, he scribbled the word "Alien" down on a cocktail napkin before adding a dollar sign as the "s." While Cameron delivered the goods and then some with his sequel,...

Every fictional detective written in the last 100 years has a little bit of Sherlock Holmes in them. But procedural dramedy series "Monk" is patterned very explicitly after "Sherlock Holmes," down to its ensemble cast. The lynchpin of that cast is Adrian Monk, a San Francisco detective with obsessive-compulsive disorder (Ocd) and extreme germaphobia.

Though Monk shares Holmes' power of observation, it's not a perfect comparison. Monk has a tragic backstory that Holmes didn't. Similarly, Holmes is arrogant while Monk is awkward. And whereas Holmes only has Dr. John Watson by his side, Monk had two different sidekicks.

In the first two-and-a-half seasons, Monk's personal assistant/nurse/Watson is Sharona Fleming (Bitty Schram), a no-bs Jersey gal. Then, after "Monk" season 3, episode 9, "Mr. Monk Takes His Medicine," Sharona abruptly departs, moving back to New Jersey and remarrying her ex-husband. In the following episode, "Mr. Monk and the Red Herring," Monk meets...

If the defining tone of the most successful “Final Destination” films can be boiled down to “unsettling, but silly,” Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein’s “Final Destination Bloodlines” maintains that balance as well as any installment before it.

Fourteen years after “Final Destination 5” supposedly brought the horror franchise full circle, Lipovsky and Stein skillfully expand its scope to accommodate an interconnected universe where Death steadily attempts to reclaim victims across multiple generations. While a canonically satisfying sendoff to the late Tony Todd’s William Bludworth bolsters the series’ morbid gravitas, a cast of playful, mostly likable 20-somethings keep proceedings light in juxtaposition to the filmmakers’ fiendishly inventive kills.

After awaking from recurrent visions in which her grandmother Iris dies during the opening of a 1960s Space Needle-type landmark, Stefani Reyes (Kaitlyn Santa Juana) leaves college to address the relentless insomnia that’s wrecking her stellar academic career. Stefani’s...

Kryštof Mucha has been appointed as the chairman of the board of the Karlovy Vary Intl. Film Festival Group. Mucha joined the festival team in 1997 and has been its executive director since 2004.

Rockaway Arts, majority owner of the festival, has decided not to fill the position of festival president left vacant following the death of Jiří Bartoška on Thursday.

In a statement, Rockaway Arts said: “As the festival prepares for its 59th edition, it will preserve the values and level of quality that its president built up over the years. The festival will continue to be guided by a strong and stable team headed by executive director Kryštof Mucha. The position of president will not be filled and will remain dedicated to Jiří Bartoška in memoriam.”

Jan Jírovec, head of the Rockaway Arts, said: “Despite the very sad fact that the world of culture has lost one of its most important personalities,...