“Devil Wears Prada 2,” the sequel to the hit 2006 film starring Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway, will officially hit theaters on May 1, 2026.

Early development for the sequel, which welcomes back producer Wendy Finerman and screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna, started up at 20th Century last year. As TheWrap previously reported, the story’s next chapter will see Miranda Priestly, Streep’s character in the original film, dealing with the decline of magazine publishing.

With her magazine Runway in dire need of money, Miranda must turn for advertising dollars to Emily Charlton (Emily Blunt), who was consumed by stress as Miranda’s beleaguered assistant in “Devil Wears Prada,” but has now risen to become a powerful executive at a luxury brand.

Right now, there are still no details about if Streep, Blunt or Hathaway will reprise their roles, but here’s to hoping.

Based on Lauren Weisberger’s 2003 novel that in turn was...

Alex Garland is set to write and direct a live-action film adaptation of FromSoftware Inc.’s world-renowned video game “Elden Ring” for A24 and Bandai Namco Entertainment, the companies announced on Thursday.

“Elden Ring” was created under the guidance of FromSoftware’s Hidetaka Miyazaki, based on a mythological story written by George R. R. Martin, author of the fantasy novel series, “A Song of Ice and Fire.”

“Elden Ring” is an action RPG set in an authentic dark fantasy world. The game allows players to explore vast environments and dungeons to discover the unknown and enjoy the sense of accomplishment that comes from overcoming obstacles and challenges. Combining the development capabilities of FromSoftware and the marketing power of Bandai Namco Entertainment’s overseas network, this title was released on Feb. 25, 2022, and has shipped more than 30 million units worldwide.

The film will be produced by Peter Rice alongside Andrew Macdonald and Allon Reich from DNA,...

Joey King is in talks to star in “Practical Magic 2” alongside Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman.

She’s reportedly playing the daughter of Bullock’s character. Bullock and Kidman are reprising their roles as Sally and Gillian Owens, two sisters who descend from a long line of witches. In the original 1998 movie, the duo finds themselves fighting off a curse that kills the men they fall in love with. Plot details for the second film haven’t been revealed, though sources say the story is based on a later installment in Alice Hoffman’s “Practical Magic” book series.

Susanne Bier is directing “Practical Magic 2” from a screenplay by Akiva Goldsman, who co-wrote the first film. It’s aiming to start production in London later this summer, according to the Hollywood Reporter, which broke the new of King’s casting. Warner Bros. will release the witchy sequel in theaters on Sept.

Norwegian filmmaker Joachim Trier returns to Cannes with Sentimental Value, which had its world premiere Wednesday night in the festival’s Competition section.

Trier and his cast, including Renate Reinsve, Stellan Skarsgard and Elle Fanning, strolled up the famous steps of Palais des Festivals.

The film marks Trier’s follow-up to The Worst Person in the World, which premiered in Competition at Cannes in 2023, launching the international career of star Reinsve, who won the festival’s best actress honor. Worst Person became a crossover art house hit and was nominated for two Oscars, including best international feature and best original screenplay for Trier and co-writer Eskil Vogt.

Sentimental Value is a family drama centered on the estranged relationship between Gustav (Skarsgard) and his two daughters, Nora (Reinsve) and Agnes (Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas). In an attempt to reconnect, Gustav, a film director, offers Nora, an actress, the role of playing a...

Cici Cooper might be dead, but Sarah Michelle Gellar‘s hopes of reprising her Scream 2 role for the upcoming installment are alive and well.

Despite shutting down hopes of a resurrection for her I Know You Did Last Summer character, the Golden Globe nominee expressed interest in returning to the Scream franchise for the upcoming Kevin Williamson-helmed seventh installment.

“I’m not in [Scream 7]. I tried to get in [Scream 7], nobody wanted me,” she told Et. “They were bringing everybody back. I kept thinking I would get a call, I didn’t get a call.”

Gellar noted, “There’s a lot of people that died in all the Scream movies that are back. Skeet [Ulrich], [Matthew] Lillard. I’m just saying, I’m waiting for my call.” Additionally, David Arquette and Scott Foley are reprising their roles in Scream 7.

In the 1997 slasher sequel Scream 2, Gellar played Omega Beta Zeta sober sister Cici,...

In Cannes to promote The History of Sound, the actor said ‘I don’t see the parallels at all, other than we spent a little time in a tent’

The actor Paul Mescal has hit out at critics who have drawn comparisons between The History of Sound, a gay romance in which he stars opposite Josh O’Connor, and Ang Lee’s landmark western Brokeback Mountain.

Speaking at a press conference in Cannes the day after the film’s premiere, Mescal – who followed a supporting performance in Andrew Haigh’s acclaimed gay ghost story All of Us Strangers with playing the lead in Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II – said he believes cinema is “moving away” from alpha male roles.

We know for sure that Danny and Michael Philippou, the sibling directing duo behind the Australian horror film Talk to Me are going to be making a sequel to that movie. The film not only racked up over $90 million at the global box office, it also earned praise from the likes of Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson, Jordan Peele, George Miller, and Ari Aster… so it was no surprise when A24 announced they had given a greenlight to the a follow-up, titled Talk 2 Me. But two years have passed and there’s no sign of the sequel going into production any time soon, as the Philippous have been busy with a different horror project, Bring Her Back (which reaches theatres on May 30th). Now, the directors have revealed that they actually have two different...

Mubi has acquired writer/director Mascha Schilinski’s acclaimed drama “Sound of Falling” after the film’s Cannes debut, marking the distributor’s second major pickup of the festival thus far. It comes on the heels of Mubi nabbing Lynne Ramsay’s “Die, My Love,” a domestic drama starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson.

“Sound of Falling” follows four girls in Germany, each who spend their youth on the same farm. As the home evolves over a century, echoes of the past linger in its walls. Though separated by time, their lives begin to mirror each other.

“Mubi is an oasis for everyone who loves cinema,” Schilinski said in a statement.

“Here arthouse classics stand shoulder to shoulder with new exciting cinema as well as little movie gems that we would otherwise not get to see. We are very happy that ‘Sound of Falling’ is now part of Mubi’s movie family.

Oscar and Emmy winner Kieran Culkin has joined “The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping” as magnanimous host Caesar Flickerman. Stanley Tucci played the role in the original quartet of films.

Culkin joins previously announced cast members Joseph Zada as Haymitch Abernathy, Whitney Peak as Lenore Dove Baird, Mckenna Grace as Maysilee Donner, Jesse Plemons as Plutarch Heavensbee, Maya Hawke as Wiress, Kelvin Harrison Jr. as Beetee, Lili Taylor as Mags, Ben Wang as Wyatt, Elle Fanning as Effie Trinket and Ralph Fiennes as President Snow. MollyMcCann will also appear as Louella, while Iona Bell will portray her Capitol-assigned lookalike Lou Lou.

The new film, based on Suzanne Collins’ novel of the same name, revisits the world of Panem nearly a quarter of a century before the events of those films, where Woody Harrelson’s Haymitch Abernathy served as a mentor to Jennifer Lawrence’s Katniss Everdeen and Josh Hutcherson’s Peeta Mellark.

More often than not, when you hear some movie fans of a certain age complain “They sure don’t make them like they used to,” they’re referring to, and likely wishing for, something on the order of “The Last Rodeo.” Smoothly directed by Jon Avnet from a script he co-wrote with lead actor Neal McDonough and Derek Presley, this thoroughly predictable but undeniably engaging faith-based drama is an inoffensively old-fashioned entertainment that, with only minor tweaking, could pass for a Walt Disney Studios release of yore.

McDonough, a veteran actor frequently seen as a black-hearted tough customer in such TV series as “Justified,” “The Flash” and “Yellowstone,” and most recently showcased as a worthy foil for Sylvester Stallone in “Tulsa King,” is every bit as effective here as a character who remains staunchly on the side of the angels. McDonough plays Joe Wainwright, a former champion bull rider who...

Can an even meaner “Carrie” actually end well for the prom queen? In Netflix’s new “Fear Street” adaptation, Matt Palmer argues yes and no with a whip-smart teen horror movie co-written by the director and Donald McLeary. An even gorier “Heathers” crowned in the pitch-black comedy era of “Bottoms,” “Fear Street: Prom Queen” is anchored in the same vicious and girly roots as the original film trilogy from 2021 — albeit missing some of the scope and style inherent to Leigh Janiak’s three-part slasher epic. Still, Palmer and McLeary’s take is giddy and gruesome, a clever next chapter with a fresh killer whose bloody raincoat isn’t the only detail to scream “I Know What You Did Last Summer.”

References don’t make a good movie any more than they make a good movie review, but “Fear Street: Prom Queen” successfully uses genre homage to carbonate R.L. Stine’s...

Austria’s Viennale film festival has named German filmmaker Christian Petzold as its new president. The role was vacant for four years, following the death in 2019 of Eric Pleskow, who had been president from 1998.

As president of the Viennale, Petzold holds its highest position.

Petzold has been “closely connected to the festival for many years as a director and friend,” the festival said. Many of his films had their Austrian premieres there.

Eva Sangiorgi, Viennale’s director, said: “The Viennale has had a long-standing relationship with Christian Petzold and his filmmaking, and I personally feel a profound connection to his cinema. For this reason, it’s a great honor that he is taking over the presidency of the festival. He is such a coherent and consistent director that I’m convinced that he will bring inspiring energy and perspective with him during a time in which conversation about cinema and culture is so complex.

In the summer of 2021, Netflix unleashed the ambitious "Fear Street" trilogy with charming results. Based (loosely) on the YA horror series by "Goosebumps" maestro R.L. Stine, the three films were slasher pastiches that appealed to those of us who grew up haunting the video store horror section for "Friday the 13th" sequels and the original "Scream." Under the guidance of director Leigh Janiak, who also co-wrote the films, the three "Fear Street" films — "Fear Street: 1994," "Fear Street: 1978," and "Fear Street: 1666" spun a sprawling, detailed mythology set in the fictional, cursed town of Shadyside, where bad things happen on a regular basis.

The three films were clever, fun, and gave us a winning cast of likable characters. More than that, they left room for more. The groundwork was laid for Netflix to return to Shadyside for additional tales of YA terror. And yet, it took the streaming service...

Insanely prolific “Goosebumps” author R.L. Stine’s other major publishing franchise, the young adult “Fear Street” series, made a decent splash on Netflix four years ago with the premiere of three interlocking features, each set in the same fictitious “cursed” town during a different era. All directed by Leigh Janiak, the trio was uneven in some respects, but lively, stylistically diverse and reasonably ambitious — overall, a definite cut above the usual formulaic run of horror entries.

That sense of occasion is missing from the new “Fear Street: Prom Queen,” a belated stand-alone chapter that feels considerably more mundane. Reprising high-school slasher cliches dating back at least to 1980’s “Prom Night,” minus any particular invention or irony, this new entry is a slick-enough but disappointingly unimaginative effort that can’t even be bothered to reference the mythology established in the prior films.

The story is back in perpetually ill-starred burg Shadyside,...

Disney has pushed the releases of the fifth and sixth entries in Marvel Studios’ Avengers series from May to December next year and in 2027.

Avengers: Doomsday moves from May 1 next year to December 18, 2026 and Avengers: Secret Wars from May 7, 2027 to December 18 of that year.

Joe and Anthony Russo are directing both films, having previously steered Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, which between them grossed nearly $5bn.

The Russo brothers announced their involvement in the sequels at last year’s Comic-Con, where it was also revealed that Robert Downey Jr would play villain Dr Doom.

Avengers: Doomsday recently started production...

“Brat” summer is dead — long live “Joachim Trier Summer,” as proclaimed by Elle Fanning, and her playful T-shirt, at Cannes.

“After three years of hard work, I’d love to have a three-year-long summer,” laughs the Danish-born Norwegian director after the premiere of “Sentimental Value.”

Starring Renate Reinsve — reuniting with Trier after the hit “The Worst Person in the World” — Stellan Skarsgård, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas and Fanning, it premiered to rave reviews. But unlike some other Palme d’Or contenders, it touched the audience as well.

“I’m grateful and a bit exhausted, but most of all relieved. I had a feeling yesterday that people received it well, and I was in a room with a lot of love. It’s an emotional, personal piece of cinema,” he tells Variety.

In the film, sisters Nora (Reinsve) and Agnes (Lilleaas) have to say goodbye to their late mother — and hello to their absentee father Gustav,...

Alex Garland has been set to write and direct a live-action film based on video game Elden Ring for A24 and Bandai Namco Entertainment.

Elden Ring is a fantasy role-playing game based on a story by George R R Martin, the author whose books were the basis for Game Of Thrones. The game, created under the guidance of FromSoftware’s Hidetaka Miyazaki, was released in 2022 and has shipped more than 30m units worldwide. A spin-off game, Elden Ring Nightreign, is being launched worldwide this month.

The film version of Elden Ring will be produced by Peter Rice with Andrew Macdonald and Allon Reich from DNA,...

Although cinematic video game adaptations have been a thing for over 30 years now, it feels like we've entered a new era of such films. What's certainly true is that their popularity has only grown, and as more and more of these games get brought to the big screen, the opportunity for variety within the films themselves and the possibilities of who's behind them increases. As evidence comes the news today (via Deadline) that Alex Garland is partnering with A24 and Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc. to bring a live-action "Elden Ring" to cinemas in the near future. While Garland has lent his talents to numerous films in various capacities — a big example being the upcoming "28 Years Later," which he scripted for director Danny Boyle — it seems that he won't just be writing the "Elden Ring" adaptation, but that it will be his next film as a director, too.

Unlike a...

In Morad Mostafa’s austere and captivating feature debut “Aisha Can’t Fly Away,” the title says it all. An absorbing and at times, puzzling blend of genres ranging from drama to body horror tells the story of an African immigrant who both craves something more and deserves a lot better than the hand she’s been dealt. But like a caged bird, she can’t escape her cruel and imprisoning circumstances.

Played by a terrific Buliana Simon in a precise performance of stoic poise, Aisha is a 26-year-old Sudanese caregiver, tending to the needs of the elderly, helping with their medication and keeping up their apartments. Residing as an immigrant in the bustling city of Cairo, in the tough neighborhood of Ain Shams, she is often observing and narrowly surviving the disorder and violence that erupt in the streets. Her only chance for safety is to cut a dirty deal...

Marvel fans will have to wait a bit longer to see the Avengers re-assemble.

Disney has pushed “Avengers: Doomsday” to December 18, 2026 from its original release date of May 1, 2026. That slot will now be filled by “The Devil Wears Prada 2.” “Avengers: Secret Wars” also received a similar shift, moving from May 7, 2027 to December 17, 2027.

Other calendar moves include scheduling an IMAX 3D re-release of “Avatar: The Way of Water” for October 3, 2025, two months before “Avatar: Fire & Ash” hits theaters. Ridley Scott’s post-apocalyptic epic “The Dog Stars” also received a release date of March 27, 2026.

Few movies on Disney’s upcoming slate are more anticipated than “Avengers: Doomsday,” which sees Joe and Anthony Russo stepping back into the director’s chair(s) and Robert Downey Jr. returning to the Marvel Cinematic Universe as beloved villain Dr. Doom. The film was retooled from the ashes of the planned “Avengers: The Kang Dynasty,...

One of the most fun byproducts of the success of the “Mission: Impossible” series is that the labyrinthine logic of the films works equally well as meticulously orchestrated world-building and complete happenstance. There’s plenty of evidence if you want to see in the overall franchise an interconnected sequence of events, and yet it’s just as easy to drop into individual chapters (and out of others) without losing your mooring as a viewer.

That said, co-writer and director Christopher McQuarrie may have slightly overextended himself with what is meant to be the epic finale for the saga of the man called Ethan Hunt: not long after the release of the 2023 installment “Dead Reckoning — Part One,” he and distributor Paramount Pictures effectively dropped the “Part One” and dubbed its follow-up “The Final Reckoning.” As potential viewers can imagine, there’s still plenty of connective tissue between the two films, and...

It is brutally unfair that Thierry Frémaux programmed “Resurrection” on day ten of the Cannes Film Festival when we, the remaining press foot soldiers on the ground, are holding onto our critical faculties by a hair. To say that this film is impenetrable is an understatement. It feels for long stretches like the fourth film by Chinese experimentalist Bi Gan has been designed to lock us out of our own brains, forcing us to wade through the treacly sludge of bored incomprehension amidst the nagging suspicion that we are not so cineliterate after all.

The film opens in a playful and straightforward manner, before launching into a digressive metatextual sprawl that I cannot in good faith claim to have grasped. In the absence of being able to confidently frame this film, all I can do is describe it and hope for the best.

Gan lulls us into a false sense...

Do you remember when we used to watch movies with the undivided attention we give to our dreams? Bi Gan, the Chinese director behind 2018’s “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” sure does. And so, seven years later, his return — or his “Resurrection” — arrives: a marvelously maximalist movie of opulent ambition that is actually five or six movies, each at once playful and peculiar and part of an overarchingly melancholy elegy for the dream of 20th-century cinema and the lives we lived within it.

It is, of course, a paradox to make a film that requires of the viewer the exact spirit of guileless abandon whose disappearance it is built to mourn. But then every moment of “Resurrection” exists on the pivot of a paradox, all of which have their origin in a fundamentally paradoxical premise: a near-future (which is maybe just a curt appraisal of our post-pandemic present) in which...

The release of Lionsgate’s much anticipated Michael will “likely” be pushed from October to sometime after March next year, company executives have confirmed. And whether the Michael Jackson biopic will be released as one or two films is still under discussion, the company said.

On a call with analysts to discuss Lionsgate’s fourth quarter 2025 financial results, CEO Jon Feltheimer said it is “likely that we will move Michael” out of the company’s fiscal 2026, which runs until March 31, 2026, and into the fiscal 2027 year beginning April 1, 2026.

He added that Lionsgate will be “announcing a definitive release strategy and timing...

Alex Garland will direct a live-action film adaptation of the hit video game “Elden Ring” film, produced by A24 and Bandai Namco.

Garland, who recently wrote and directed “Warfare” for A24, will also write the coming feature, based on the mythological story by George R. R. Martin. Garland had been previously rumored to be attached to the project. “Elden Ring” will be produced by Peter Rice alongside Andrew Macdonald and Allon Reich from DNA, Martin and Vince Gerardis.

The original 2022 role-playing action video game was directed by Hidetaka Miyazaki, with Yui Tanimura co-directing. Set in an authentic dark fantasy world, “Elden Ring” is a fantasy epic with swathing environments and grim dungeons. Developed by FromSoftware and released by Bandai Namco Entertainment, this game has shipped more than 30 million units worldwide since its launch.

After its release, “Elden Ring” became a sweeping success at the 2022 Game Awards, taking home prizes for game of the year,...

“Civil War” and “Ex Machina” director Alex Garland is again teaming with A24 on what could be one of the most ambitious and expensive projects either the director or studio has taken on. Garland will direct for A24 a live-action feature film based on the acclaimed video game “Elden Ring,” and we only hope it’s less punishingly difficult for Garland to make as the game is difficult to play.

Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc. and A24 announced the news on Thursday that the “Elden Ring” movie based on the FromSoftware game from Hidetaka Miyazaki was in the works. Garland is both directing and writing based on the mythological story as written by “Game of Thrones” author George R. R. Martin. Martin is also producing the film alongside Peter Rice, Andrew Macdonald and Allon Reich from DNA, and Vince Gerardis.

“Elden Ring” is an action RPG set in an authentic dark fantasy world.

In Bi Gan’s ambitious alternate reality, where humans can live indefinitely, a reincarnating dissident dreamer travels through history in different guises

Bi Gan’s new movie in Cannes is bold and ambitious, visually amazing, trippy and woozy in its embrace of hallucination and the heightened meaning of the unreal and the dreamlike. His last film Long Day’s Journey Into Night from 2018 was an extraordinary and almost extraterrestrial experience in the cinema which challenged the audience to examine what they thought about time and memory; this doesn’t have quite that power, being effectively a portmanteau movie, some of whose sections are better than others – though it climaxes with some gasp-inducing images and tracking shots and all the constituent parts contribute to the film’s aggregate effect.

Resurrection is, perhaps, a long night’s journey to the enlightenment of daybreak; it finishes at a club called the Sunrise. It is...

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The marketing campaign for "Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning" has not shied away from emphasizing the longevity of the eight-film franchise, along with a potential sense of ... well, finality. (You can read our review here.) The subtitle aside, the advertising has reminded us of some of the most notable setpieces in the life and times of Imf Agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise), all while heavily implying that his mission to take down the villainous AI known as the Entity may just be his last mission. On one hand, it may be hard to envision Cruise not playing Ethan Hunt, considering that it's his most long-lasting character and emblematic of the type of stunt-based risks he's been taking for decades. If Tom Cruise is not Ethan Hunt anymore, then who is he, really? But the flip side is that, hard as it may to be believe, Cruise is...

“The Party’s Over” is a mostly entertaining satire that follows the escalating conflict between an entitled rich couple, the Trousselards, and the Azizis, the husband and wife they employ (off the books and at less than market rates) to look after their luxurious holiday home. Both families have young adult daughters, near in age, albeit not in circumstance. Compared to a similarly-themed film such as “Parasite,” it lacks the sharpness of plot and empathetic characters that would make it truly memorable. Nonetheless, the piece has a number of things going for it: top actors obviously relishing their roles, some amusing dialogue, a lovely villa location in the south of France and an attractive musical score by Clémence Ducreux that sounds both serious and mocking. Festivals and screening platforms rep the most likely venues outside of French-speaking countries to host the “Party.”

Snobbish, self-important Philippe, a lawyer given to throwing obscure...

“Michael,” the biopic on the life of the King of Pop Michael Jackson that is being directed by Antoine Fuqua, is expected to be pushed back well into 2026.

During the company’s earnings call on Thursday, Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer said that the film will “likely” be moved out of the company’s fiscal year 2026 financial results and into fiscal 2027. Lionsgate on Thursday was recapping its fiscal 2025 Q4 results, so Lionsgate’s fiscal ’27 won’t begin until calendar year 2026.

Feltheimer said “we’re excited about the three and a half hours of amazing footage from producer Graham King and director Antoine Fuqua, and we will be announcing a definitive release strategy and timing in the next few weeks.”

“Michael” was already delayed from a planned release in April 2025 to instead open October 3, 2025, but it appears unlikely to make that date either. Lionsgate had excitedly teased footage from “Michael” during its...

Michael Jackson fans will have to wait a bit longer for Antoine Fuqua’s biopic “Michael.”

During Lionsgate’s Q4 2025 earnings call, CEO Jon Feltheimer shared an update on the film starring Jackson’s nephew Jaafar Jackson, who makes his screen debut in the project.

“In regard to our Michael Jackson biopic, we’re excited about the 3½ hours of amazing footage from producer Graham King and director Antoine Fuqua, and we will be announcing a definitive release strategy & timing in the next few weeks,” he said. “I would note that it is likely we will move ‘Michael’ out of the fiscal year which will impact fiscal ’26 financial results but will bolster an already strong fiscal ’27 slate.”

The fiscal calendar ends on March 31, 2026, so Feltheimer’s statement indicates that the film (or films) will likely debut after April 1, 2026. Last month, Variety reported that the film would likely be split into two...

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to avoid spoilers by reading this article after watching "Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning."

It's all led to this and, well, it couldn't have ended any other way. The fate of the world once again rested in the hands of Tom Cruise's Ethan Hunt, the Impossible Mission Force's most invaluable agent, and he once again pulled off the impossible to save the day in the most over-the-top fashion imaginable. "Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning" really has been decades in the making, turning the otherwise standalone franchise into a closed circle full of callbacks, homages, and key retcons to plot points established several installments ago. It's no exaggeration to say that director Christopher McQuarrie, Cruise, and their creative team have transformed this story into one in which every action over the years, knowingly or not, brought our hero closer...

Many film fans are starved for romantic stories right now, so when a sophisticated romantic comedy comes along, it’s a welcome balm in tough times. French writer Laura Piani had been churning out dark cop procedurals when she realized she wanted to spend her time writing comedies.

What became the charming “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life” took some years to grow into its final form, and even Piani didn’t know she was going to direct it at the start. The film has already opened in France, where it performed well for a small-budget movie starring theater actors. Sony Pictures Classics picked it up for domestic release at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival, and is rolling it out against blockbuster counter-programming like “Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning.” Audiences should delight in it.

The mystery of Jane Austen’s enduring power is at the heart of this comedy,...

The Hollywood Commission, the organization chaired by Anita Hill that has the mission of addressing harassment and abuse in Hollywood, has expanded its reporting platform MyConnext to now be accessible to all film and TV workers industry-wide.

Last year, the Hollywood Commission launched its MyConnext platform, which is an independent reporting tool and online resource for entertainment workers to address harassment, discrimination, and bullying. The platform also gave access to the Ombuds Office, which acts like your own personal human resources department, a person who can provide free, independent, informal, unbiased, and confidential information about how someone can report and what their next steps are.

When the platform launched in 2024, it was only available via partner organizations, specifically DGA, IATSE, WGA West, Amazon MGM Studios, and Netflix. But it’s now accessible widely for people who work at any studio and whether or not they belong to a union or guild.

Lionsgate’s revenue for the first three months of 2025 rose 22% and its movie division profitability soared to its highest level in a decade helped by the box office performance of “Den of Thieves 2: Pantera” and “Flight Risk” in the period.

Lionsgate on May 7 officially completed the long-gestating split with Starz premium cable and streaming business, which is now a separately traded company. The quarterly earnings for the period ended March 31, which are the company’s fourth quarter of fiscal 2025, excludes the results of the divested Starz operations.

For the most recent quarter, Lionsgate reported revenue of $1.1 billion (up 22%) and operating income of $94.2 million (up from $19.4 million in the year-earlier period). Net income attributable to shareholders was $21.9 million (or 10 cents per diluted earnings per share), compared with a loss of $54.2 million in the year-ago period.

“We are pleased to report a strong quarter despite a difficult operating environment,” Lionsgate CEO...

Update: Writer Matt Goldberg has published the following post on Bluesky: "Just spoke with a rep at Brigade, a PR firm working with Lionsgate, who acknowledged that 'enthusiasm' was the wrong word to use for the social embargo and that they meant to stress more the 'spoiler-free' aspect. Do with that what you will." Our original article continues below.

"Ballerina," the fifth official film in the "John Wick" saga, is two weeks out from release, which means the gun-fu faithful are itching to find out how Ana de Armas measures up to Keanu Reeves as a high-caliber badass assassin. De Armas solidified her action bona fides as the deadly Cuban secret agent Paloma in "No Time to Die," and did nothing to suggest her sleek lethality was a fluke in the Russo Brothers' distracted-viewing product "The Gray Man," so it won't qualify as a revelation if she aces this assignment.

The selection of a film from India at Cannes the year after Payal Kapadia’s “All We Imagine As Light” beat the odds and some rigorous competition to win the Grand Jury Prize was bound to cause excitement. When it turned out to be Neeraj Ghaywan’s “Homebound,” starring rising Hindi cinema actors Ishaan Khatter, Janhvi Kapoor, and Vishal Jethwa, produced by Karan Johar’s Dharma Productions, one of the most iconic Bollywood studios, and as a later announcement revealed, executive produced a certain Martin Scorsese, folks were a bit gobsmacked. A heady cocktail of talents was Cannes bound.

Ghaywan returns to Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section exactly a decade after his widely loved feature debut “Masaan” premiered there. Just as Kapadia’s film showcased friendship and solidarity between two migrant nurses in Mumbai, Ghaywan’s “Homebound” charts the vicissitudes in the friendship between two young men from North India aspiring to become police constables.

Kylo Ren is a pretty unique villain in the landscape of the "Star Wars" galaxy. As the son of Han Solo and Leia Organa, he was in touch with the Force but also felt a pull to the dark side, given his familial connection to Darth Vader. The dark side won, which then led to him becoming a crucial member of the First Order before ultimately seizing the position of Supreme Leader in "The Last Jedi." He is a petulant man, and that petulance led to him claiming a wild title for himself along the way.

In the latest issue of the comic "Star Wars: Legacy of Vader," which is filling in the gaps between "The Last Jedi" and "The Rise of Skywalker," Kylo Ren journeys to Naboo as he further explores Darth Vader's past. Naturally, this eventually leads him to both the birthplace of Anakin Skywalker and the planet Naboo.

When Martin Short Zoomed in for our interview, he was backstage at the Javits Center in New York City getting ready for Hulu’s Upfront presentation. He volunteered this information willingly, likely to explain the colossal gray curtains hanging all around him, or the director’s chair he was perched in, or the beauty station just over his shoulder.

That should’ve been that, but my Midwestern manners got the best of me, and my first question to the two-time Emmy winner, one-time Tony winner, and all-time comic great became nothing more than polite, near-rhetorical, small talk. “How are you feeling about the Upfronts?,” I said. “Are you excited?”

“Oh, I’m very excited,” Short said. “I’m very excited.”

Reading his statement in print, Short’s answer may seem neutral. But the context implied otherwise. His unflinching smile, flat tone, and pointed repetition of the word “excited” — plus the...

Zachary Levi is aware that his religious and political beliefs have impacted his acting career. The “Shazam! Fury of the Gods” star has made his views on Christianity, vaccine skepticism, and his support of Trump more prominent in 2025, thanks in part to his very active X page. Levi, who is now building his own studio, told Variety that voicing his views will benefit his work in the long run, despite knowing that certain filmmakers now will refuse to collaborate with him.

“I know that there are people that would prefer not to work with me now because of my opinions,” Levi said. “My team has let me know. They haven’t given me any specific names, but there are people who prefer not to work with me at this time. And it’s unfortunate. I knew that was probably going to happen. I didn’t make this decision blindly or casually.

When the Academy museum first approached production designer Sarah Greenwood and set decorator Katie Spencer about curating an exhibition of their work, the duo thought it was a joke.

But two and a half years later, “Barbie to Anna Karenina: The Cinematic Worlds of Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer” is set to open on May 23, providing an immersive and experiential look at their collaborative work. That same evening, the Academy Museum will screen Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie,” followed by a Q&a with Spencer and Greenwood.

The collection features set pieces, concept art, miniature models, sketches and an area called “Blank Space,” which shows the evolution of their production office and how ideas come to life. Theirs is a collaboration dating back over 25 years. Their work has landed them Oscar nominations for “Pride & Prejudice,” “Atonement,” “Sherlock Holmes,” “Anna Karenina,” “Beauty and the Beast,” “Darkest Hour” and “Barbie.” And there...

Hailed by Variety as a “warm and heart-tugging tale,” Hasan Hadi’s “The President’s Cake,” Iraq’s first film selected for Cannes, has won the Directors’ Fortnight People’s Choice prize, the first audience award at Cannes and a Directors’ Fortnight plaudit which take into consideration any film from any part of the world.

The prestigious award builds on auspicious early major territory sales for the film, sold by Films Boutique, which bid fair for a broad international roll out.

News of the Director’s Fortnight People’s Choice prize comes as Belgian Valéry Carnoy has won a second partner prize in the Directors’ Fortnight, scooping the Sacd Coup de Cœur des Auteurs prize for “Wild Foxes,” adding to its Europa Cinemas Cannes Label for best European film at Directors’ Fortnight, announced just an hour ago. The double whammy establishes the Belgian director as a director to track.

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There are nature documentaries that show you things you’ve never seen before. Then there’s “The Americas,” which shows its viewers something literally no human had ever seen before.

Marine scientists had long speculated that sperm whales dive all the way to the ocean floor to hunt for food. But they had never actually observed the whales doing so. How could anyone? As the executive producer of “The Americas” and creative director of the BBC Studios Natural History Unit Mike Gunton said to IndieWire as part of our Usg University virtual panel series, “Sperm whales kind of break all the rules of biology because it’s so challenging for any living creature to go from the surface of the sea all the way down there — the pressure change is huge. And then the camera had to do the same thing.”

The distance from the surface to the seafloor off...

Justin Baldoni’s lawyers have withdrawn a subpoena sent to Taylor Swift and her legal team, after the firm objected that it amounted to an “unwarranted fishing expedition.”

Attorneys for Swift and Blake Lively — who are friends — had filed motions to quash the subpoena, which sought communications between their respective legal teams.

Baldoni is suing Lively, his “It Ends With Us” co-star, and her husband Ryan Reynolds, alleging that they tried destroy his career with false allegations of sexual harassment. Lively has sued Baldoni and a cast of publicists on the grounds that they launched an online whisper campaign against her in retaliation for her harassment complaints.

In a statement on Thursday, Lively’s spokesperson said that Baldoni had sought to exploit Swift’s celebrity to distract from the real issues in the case.

“We are pleased that Justin Baldoni and the Wayfarer Parties have withdrawn their harassing subpoenas to...

The Tribeca Festival has named jury members for the 15 competitive categories in its 2025 edition, running June 4-15 in New York City.

The winning films and filmmakers in each category will be announced at the festival’s awards ceremony on June 12.

The jury for the event’s US Narrative Feature competition comprises filmmaker Nia DaCosta, veteran producer Art Linson, filmmaker Joshua Marston, Bleecker Street head Kent Sanderson and author Colson Whitehead.

The International Narrative Feature competition jury consists of Polish-born actress Dagmara Dominczyk, Italian actress Valeria Golino, UK talent Toby Jones, Metrograph Pictures executive David Laub and actor Kyle MacLachlan.

Judging...

This article contains light spoilers for both "The Last of Us" and "The Last of Us Part II." If you're unfamiliar with the larger arc of the video games, turn around and come back later! Spoilers ahead!

Even if you've never played the Naughty Dog games "The Last of Us" and "The Last of Us Part II," released in 2013 and 2020, you're probably familiar with them — especially considering that they're the source material for one of HBO's biggest and most popular shows at the moment. So will Neil Druckmann, who created and directed the game alongside Bruce Straley, ever make the game into a trilogy?

During an appearance on the Sacred Symbols podcast, Druckmann addressed the possibility of a third video game, despite the fact that he's currently fully committed to the HBO series "The Last of Us." (Druckmann serves as a co-showrunner alongside Craig Mazin, who previously worked with the premium network on "Chernobyl,...

Every step of the development and production process has its own unique hurdles to overcome. Whether it’s adjusting the tone of the script for an actor who’s just been cast or scaling back on locations due to budget constraints. In this sense, the project you envisioned when you began this process may be very different from the one that ends up on screen. Making sure that the best version of whatever you set out to make is the one that ends up being the final product is a huge part of what being a producer is all about and what keeps Pinky Promise founder Jessamine Burgum focused as she shepherds work from Scarlett Johansson, Andrea Arnold, Gia Coppola, and more.

The producer behind Johansson’s directorial debut “Eleanor the Great,” which recently had its world premiere in the Un Certain Regard section of Cannes, Burgum understands how to collaborate with top talent.

Courtney Martin, Isaac Finn, Alex Jankovich and Madeline Petrovich have all been promoted to agents at Innovative Artists Entertainment.

Martin has been promoted in the endorsements department while Finn, Jankovich and Petrovich will work in the talent department. The news comes following Innovative’s recently announced strategic partnership with Coral Tree Partners in March, which has a minority stake in the company.

“Courtney, Isaac, Alex and Madeline each represent the fundamental principles we’ve long valued at Innovative: they each have the tenacity, foresight and zeal to best serve clients in our ever-evolving business. We’re excited to see how they continue to grow here,” Innovative CEO and founder Scott Harris said in a statement.

Martin and Jankovich will be based in New York, while Petrovich and Finn will be in Los Angeles. Martin was recently the communications coordinator and assistant to endorsements department head Maury Dimauro and graduated from Ball State University,...

Jimmy Kimmel is the latest star to lend his voice to Paramount’s “Smurfs.”

The live-action animated hybrid film features Rihanna as Smurfette, John Goodman as Papa Smurf, as well as James Corden, Nick Offerman, Jp Karliak, Daniel Levy, Amy Sedaris, Natasha Lyonne, Sandra Oh, Octavia Spencer, Nick Kroll, Hannah Waddingham, Alex Winter, Maya Erskine, Billie Lourd, Xolo Maridueña, Kurt Russell and DJ Marshmello. It’s unclear who Kimmel will be voicing in the sprawling ensemble.

“Smurfs” follows Smurfette as she leads her tiny, blue-skinned kin into the real world to save Papa Smurf after he’s mysteriously captured by evil wizards. The reboot is directed by Chris Miller, whose credits include “Shrek the Third” and “Puss in Boots.” Pam Brady wrote the script, based on the comics created by the Belgian artist known as Peyo. The film opens in theaters on July 18.

The Smurfs have been the subject of...

Horrified by the country of his birth and heavy with the weight of its sins, Nadav Lapid has created modern cinema’s most splenetic filmography by fighting his Israeliness as if it were an incurable virus infecting his body of work. 2019’s eruptive “Synonyms” was a semi-autobiographical identity crisis about a man who flees to Paris because he’s convinced that he was born in the Middle East by mistake, while 2021’s “Ahed’s Knee” was a similarly personal scream into the wind — this one rooted in the blue-balled impotence of artistic resistance amid an exultantly genocidal ethnostate.

Spasming with anger where Lapid’s previous features (“Policeman” and “The Kindergarten Teacher”) searched for hope, both of these movies were fringed with a sense of resignation that they fought tooth-and-nail to shake off. As a result, I naturally assumed that his follow-up feature — written in Europe before the events of October...