“Moana 2” is still making a splash at the domestic box office.

The Disney animated sequel added $11.7 million on Friday, on its way to $50.8 million for its second weekend of release. After setting a new Thanksgiving box office record last week with $225 million over the five-day holiday frame, the film’s domestic total is expected to reach just south of $300 million through Sunday.

“Moana 2” was originally conceived as a Disney+ series, but the studio’s decision to rework the project into a theatrical sequel has proven worthwhile, despite mixed reviews. Dwayne Johnson and Auli’i Cravalho reprise their voice roles as the tattooed demigod Maui and the titular Polynesian heroine, respectively, in the film.

Other holdovers at the top of domestic charts include “Wicked,” “Gladiator II” and “Red One.” Universal’s “Wicked” nabbed second place after earning $9.5 million on Friday. The big-budget adaptation of the hit Broadway musical, starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande,...

Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Pérez” won best film, director, screenwriter and actress at the 37th European Film Awards, which were held Saturday in Lucerne, Switzerland.

The best film nominees included narrative features “The Room Next Door,” “The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” “The Substance” and “Vermiglio,” as well as documentaries “Bye Bye Tiberias,” “Dahomey,” “In Limbo,” “No Other Land” and “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat,” and animated films “Flow,” “Living Large,” “Savages,” “Sultana’s Dream” and “They Shot the Piano Player.”

The statuette for actress was won by Karla Sofía Gascón for “Emilia Pérez.” The other nominees were Renate Reinsve in “Armand,” Trine Dyrholm in “The Girl With the Needle,” Vic Carmen Sonne in “The Girl With the Needle” and Tilda Swinton in “The Room Next Door.”

The director award went to Audiard for “Emilia Pérez,” who beat Andrea Arnold for “Bird,” Pedro Almodóvar for “The Room Next Door,” Mohammad Rasoulof...

“Conclave” fans will soon be able to choose their own Pope from the comfort of their couches.

The buzzy Focus Features film will be available to stream on Peacock on Dec. 13.

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“Conclave” is based on the 2016 novel of the same name by Robert Harris and stars Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, with Sergio Castellito and Isabella Rossellini. It follows “one of the world’s most secretive and ancient events – selecting the new pope. Cardinal Lawrence (Fiennes) is tasked with running this covert process after the unexpected death of the beloved Pope. Once the Catholic Church’s most powerful leaders have gathered from around the world and are locked together in the Vatican halls, Lawrence uncovers a trail of deep secrets left in the dead Pope’s wake, secrets which could shake the foundations of the Church,” according to the logline.

The movie...

Anime streamer Crunchyroll has snatched up theatrical rights for North America and select international territories for the dark fantasy omnibus movie Attack on Titan: The Last Attack. Crunchyroll revealed the news Thursday at Ccxp (formerly known as Comic Con Experience) in São Paulo, Brazil. The company describes the release as a “cinematic experience that combines the final chapters of the highly acclaimed anime series in one colossal film.”

Crunchyroll is partnering with Sony Pictures Entertainment on the title. The two companies, both units of Sony Group, say they will release the film in early 2025.

The Last Attack is directed by Yûichirô Hayashi and based on the original story by manga artist Hajime Isayama.

The original anime series premiered in 2014 with four seasons, concluding in Fall 2023, and has won over fans and critics alike. Three of the seasons have garnered a 100 percent critic score and over 90 percent audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.

Adam Scott and Danielle Deadwyler will star in “The Saviors,” a darkly comedic thriller about a suburban couple whose life spirals out of control when they rent their garage to mysterious tenants. The film is currently in production in Los Angeles. Kevin Hamedani is directing from a script he co-wrote with Travis Betz, which was featured on the 2018 Blacklist.

Matt Smith and Dan Gedman of Highway 10 are financing and will produce. “The Saviors” marks the first film produced under their new shingle. In addition, Adam Scott and Naomi Scott will produce on behalf of Great Scott Productions, Nicholas Weinstock and Divya D’Souza will produce for Invention Studios, and Bradley Gallo and Michael Helfant will produce for Amasia Entertainment. Deadwyler, Alyssa Roehrenbeck and Josh Sathre will executive produce.

Scott will next be seen in the second season of Apple TV+’s “Severance,” which he executive produces. That performance earned Scott nominations for an Emmy Award,...

Director Luca Guadagnino and composers Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross are teaming up again, this time on the filmmaker’s upcoming Julia Roberts-led drama “After the Hunt.”

While discussing their excellent score for Guadagnino’s “Challengers”, Reznor said, “We have worked on his next film ‘After the Hunt’ and we’re talking about working on what’s past that.”

For the record, “what’s past that” is his new adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’ blood-splattered “American Psycho.” Of that possibility, Ross coyly added, “That sounds like that’d be fun.”

Regarding their partnership with Guadagnino, Reznor told TheWrap, “It feels like family. He’s become a friend. Our feelings would be hurt if we didn’t get a call. You know, it’s that kind of thing.”

The pair’s score for “Challengers” has been nominated for a Grammy for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media and has also...

Egyptian producer Mohamed Hefzy and Algerian director Merzak Allouache will be honored this week by Variety at the Red Sea Film Festival in the port city of Jeddah in Saudi Arabia.

Hefzy will receive the Variety International Vanguard Producer Award, while Allouache is being bestowed with the Variety International Vanguard Director Award. Both honors are given in recognition of their achievements over the course of their careers.

Hefzy will receive his award on stage on Dec. 9 before the Red Sea screening of his film “Abdo & Saneya,” which starts 5 P.M. Allouache will receive his award before the premiere of his film “Front Row” on Dec. 8, starting at 5.15 P.M. Both screenings take place in the auditorium in Culture Square in Jeddah.

Hefzy and his Cairo-based production company Film Clinic have a reputation for promoting emerging Egyptian filmmaking talents such as Abu Bakr Shawky (“Yomeddine”), Omar El Zohairy (“Feathers”) and Mohamed Diab...

Jonathan Frakes' 2004 kid-friendly sci-fi flick "Thunderbirds" had everything going for it. It was based on the cult Supermarionation series "Thunderbirds," created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson in 1964, a puppet-based adventure show that had a notable cult following among Gen-x TV addicts. The movie also leaned really hard into the show's colorful vehicle fetish, spending a lot of time looking at the five giant Thunderbirds rescue craft, all but assuring little kids would want toy versions of each. "Thunderbirds" also sported a notable cast, with Bill Paxton as the patriarch of the Tracy family, Anthony Edwards as the bookish tech guru Brain, and Ben Kingsley as dark-eyed villain Hood. Then-teen-star Vanessa Hudgens had a bit part as the girl Alan Tracy (Brady Corbet) had a crush on. 

The premise of "Thunderbirds" is pure Saturday morning: on a remote Tropical island, the Tracy family operates a freelance rescue organization called International Rescue.

The 19th Jogja-Netpac Asian Film Festival has wrapped in Yogyakarta (Jogja), Indonesia, with local feature “Yohanna” dominating the Indonesian Screen Awards while Neo Sora’s “Happyend” secured the festival’s top Golden Hanoman Award.

“Yohanna,” directed by Razka Robby Ertanto, collected five honors including best film, director, storytelling, performance, and cinematography (Odyssey Flores). Truong Minh Quy’s “Viet and Nam” took home the Silver Hanoman Award.

In other awards, “Ma – Cry of Silence” by The Maw Naing won the Netpac Award and Geber Award, while Hung Chen’s “When the Wind Rises” secured both the Blencong Award and Jaff Student Award. Behzad Nalbandi’s “Anita, Lost in the News” received a Special Jury Mention.

The festival program featured a masterclass with Taiwan-based auteur Tsai Ming Liang, which attracted filmmakers like Riri Riza, Mira Lesmana, Kamila Andini, and Jaff director Ifa Isfansyah. Three of Tsai’s works were screened: “Vive L’Amour...

Updated: After being denied entry into Saudi Arabia to present her film “Sima’s Song,” which is playing in competition at the Red Sea Film Festival, and denouncing this, Afghan filmmaker Roya Sadat has been cleared to visit the kingdom.

“On Wednesday, the 4th, I was stopped at Dallas Airport and prevented from boarding my flight to Jeddah. The airline claimed that Saudi Arabia does not accept extended Afghan passports. Extended passports are issued by Afghan embassies abroad and are not recognized by the Taliban, as these embassies operate independently of their control. The Taliban have requested that countries reject these passports, but since countries do not recognize the Taliban as a legitimate authority, they do accept them,” Sadat said in a statement emailed to Variety.

“I was shocked when the airline representative stated that Saudi Arabia does not accept extended Afghan passports. Many Afghans travel to Mecca every year,...

Dr. Phlox, as played by John Billingsley on "Star Trek: Enterprise," may be one of the best characters in the franchise. Phlox was on board the Enterprise as part of a species exchange program, and he was eager to serve among humans, tickled by their optimism and amused by their prudishness. He was a Denobulan, a species with its own set of medical ethics (the will of the patient supersedes an Earth doctor's pledge to first do no harm), leading to some principled discussions of right and wrong. His species also married into vast, complex polycules where each man takes three wives and each woman takes three husbands. When asked if that made things complicated on his homeworld, Phlox smiled impishly and replied, "Yes."

Phlox was always upbeat, however, and was eager to explain cultural differences to curious human seekers. Phlox also practiced weird, but scientifically proven, medical techniques, often...

A pair of ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in the 1939 classic “The Wizard of Oz” sold at auction Saturday for $28 million.

In an email sent to CBS News, Robert Wilonsky, vice president of communications at Dallas-based auction house Heritage Auctions, revealed that, including the buyer’s premium, the price tag for the iconic slippers rounded out to $32.5 million.

Estimations by Heritage were initially set at a modest $3 million. It only took a couple of days for the bid to shoot to $1.55 million, with over 800 potential buyers tracking the item.

In 2005, the slippers were stolen from the Judy Garland Museum by ex-mobster Terry Martin. Because the slippers had been insured for $1 million, he had falsely assumed they were made from real rubies. Martin was indicted by the Minnesota U.S. District Court and charged with theft of a major artwork in October 2023. The slippers were recovered by the FBI in...

Season 3 of "The Wheel of Time" is officially right around the corner, and Prime Video has unleashed the darkness through a whirlwind of announcements. The official kickoff of the promotional campaign for the third season of the Robert Jordan adaptation came on Saturday, December 7 at CCXP24 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The studio revealed that season 3 (which was announced over two years ago) will premiere on March 13, 2025. The season 2 finale aired on October 6, 2023, putting 17 months between the two. Like the previous two seasons of "The Wheel of Time," season 3 is slated to be eight episodes long.

Prime Video also revealed a brand new trailer for the upcoming season that clocks in at just over a minute. The footage is jam-packed with exciting shots from the upcoming season, with one theme standing out above everything else: for a show that explores both good and evil, this thing is about to get a whole lot darker.

Timothée Chalamet stopped by College GameDay to share his predictions for a slew of today’s college football matchups, impressing the panel of Desmond Howard, Pat McAfee, Kirk Herbstreit, Rece Davis and Nick Saban.

Social media was buzzing amid Chalamet’s picks, with former NFL coach Blake Williams sharing on X, “Lisan Al Gaib...

The last remaining Arrowverse-adjacent DC show, "Superman & Lois," wrapped up last week with a poignant series finale that sped through decades of Clark Kent and Lois Lane's life together. The show's final season wrapped up plenty of loose ends: revealing the fate of Lex Luthor, showing us what happened to Jonathan and Jordan when they grew up, and introducing famous good boy Krypto at the eleventh hour.

The final season didn't exactly tie up all of its storylines in a neat bow, though, in part because of reported budget cuts that reduced the episode count and led to the axing of several cast members. Fortunately, Wolé Parks' engineer and soldier John Henry Irons wasn't one of the characters who had to exit early, and his antagonist-turned-hero was shown teaming up with the Super-family in the finale's future-set epilogue. Still, Irons was apparently impacted by budget cuts as well,...

While many are suffering from superhero fatigue, Prime Video has found a way into the genre that seems to be working for many with the series “The Boys” and its animated adaptation of “Invincible” from Robert Kirkman. Celebrating the approaching Season 3 of “Invincible,” Kirkman, as well as voice cast members Sandra Oh and Gillian Jacobs, appeared today at Ccxp, a comic convention held in São Paolo, Brazil, to unveil the official trailer.

Featuring the voice talent of Steven Yeun, J.K. Simmons, Walton Goggins, and many more, “Invincible” follows the trials and tribulations of Mark Grayson, a normal teen with the world’s strongest superhero for a dad whose life is turned upside down upon his own powers being developed. After facing his own father in Season 1 and a multiverse traveler with a mutated brain in Season 2, it seems the foe Mark must encounter in Season 3 is himself. With the threat...

While everyone loves to talk about “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” as the premier fantasy series on Prime Video, we tend to forget about “The Wheel of Time.” But with Season 2 of ‘Rings of Power’ in the rearview, it’s time we talk about Season 3 of “The Wheel of Time.”

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Based on the incredibly popular and influential Robert Jordan-penned novels, “The Wheel of Time” follows the story of a farm boy who finds out he’s the Dragon Reborn.

Continue reading ‘The Wheel Of Time’ Season 3 Teaser: Prime Video’s Other Fantasy Series Returns In 2025 at The Playlist.

When it came time for "The Simpsons" to do a "Treehouse of Horror" segment about "It," the clown-heavy Stephen King book that was recently made into a two-part movie adaptation, they decided to switch things up a bit. They made the segment episode-length, which gave them just enough time to do the story justice. The seven-person friend group from the source material was turned into the five-person friend group of Homer, Marge, Moe, Lenny, and Comic Book Guy. The love triangle between Bill, Beverly, and Ben was turned into the story's main focus, this time with Homer and Comic Book Guy fighting over Marge.

The episode, "Not It," was a big success, reeling in a lot of viewers who'd otherwise tuned out from the show's post-golden era seasons. It was also a hit among Stephen King fans, especially since the "Treehouse of Horror" series has always been surprisingly light on parodies of King-based movies.

In a significant boost to its awards season campaign in North America, Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Perez” dominated the 2024 European Film Awards. A Netflix acquisition for the United States and Oscar contention, the unconventional musical took five awards, including European Film, European Director (Audiard), European Screenwriter (Audiard), European Actress (Karla Sofía Gascón), and Editing (Juliette Welfling). Notably, “No Other Land” and “Flow” won European Documentary and European Animated Film respectively.

Continue reading ‘Emilia Perez’ Wins Five European Film Awards Including Best Film at The Playlist.

By the end of "Yellowjackets" season 2, it seemed we'd met all the survivors of Flight 2525's fateful crash into the wilderness. But the Ccxp teaser trailer for "Yellowjackets" season 3 has just introduced a new wild card: a mystery character played by Hilary Swank ("Million Dollar Baby"), who is around the same age as the rest of the present day cast, and is seen standing in the road with a bloodied face and makeshift bandage on her arm. 

"The past will come back to hunt you," the trailer warns, before teasing fresh mysteries and more reveals from the past. Though some character deaths have been revealed as the 1996 storyline has progressed, many characters' fates are still technically ambiguous, and fans are holding out hope that there might be more crash survivors out there. Liv (Lauren Ambrose) seems to think that everyone else who was on the plane is dead, but it...

Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Pérez” won Best Film at the 37th European Film Awards on Saturday, December 7, claiming the most overall awards as well with five wins.

Going into the evening, Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance” led with nominations, having received recognition in multiple categories, including European Film and European Screenwriter, as well as will multiple technical awards including European Cinematography and European Visual Effects.

Held in Lucerne, Switzerland, the European Film Awards kicked off with a celebration of the vibrant diversity present throughout the room, with host Fernando Tiberini commencing the ceremony in all the languages spoken in Switzerland and encouraging all winners to say a few words in their native tongue upon accepting.

The first winner of the night was French filmmaker Audiard, who was presented the award for European Director by “The Apprentice” star Maria Bakalova in honor of his work for “Emilia Pérez.” The film is...

Scandar Copti’s “Happy Holidays” won top honors at the Marrakech Film Festival on Saturday, capping an emotional and politically resonant ceremony, while adding Marrakech’s Étoile d’Or to a list of accolades for the film that also includes best screenplay from Venice’s Orizzonti and best in show from the Thessaloniki Film Festival.

The acclaimed title also claimed a shared best actress prize for leads Manar Shehab and Wafaa Aoun.

Split into four chapters, the Palestinian film follows an ensemble of characters – Arab and Jewish alike – living in contemporary Haifa. Family secrets and domestic tensions underscore scenes from everyday life as the film traces out an expansive social circle with a novelistic attention to cultural and interpersonal dynamics.

This year’s jury – led by Luca Guadagnino alongside Andrew Garfield, Jacob Elordi, Virginie Efira, Patricia Arquette, Zoya Akhtar, Ali Abbasi, Nadia Kounda and Santiago Mitre – together awarded the winning title with a unanimous vote.

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Few things caught on in Hollywood during the 2010s quite like the YA movie adaptation. Much of that had to do with the phenomenon of the "Harry Potter" films and the wildly unexpected success of "Twilight" in 2008. But it was in the aftermath of that success that Lionsgate truly hit the jackpot with "The Hunger Games" in 2012. Based on Suzanne Collins' popular book series of the same name, the films take place in a dystopian future where the haves make the have-nots face off in a deadly competition annually from one of 12 Districts of Panem.

While the books themselves were certainly successful, director Gary Ross' "The Hunger Games" was a breakout box office success story that paved the way not only for this franchise to flourish in the years that followed, but for a slew of other YA series to...

As each episode of “The Sticky” declares, Prime Video’s twisted comedy series about a maple syrup heist in Canada, is definitely not accurately depicting the Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist. But can you blame creators Brian Donovan and Ed Herro for hearing an event title like that and wanting to let their imaginations run wild?

Across six episodes (and it deserved eight!), “The Sticky” presents an excellent case for television taking completely wild liberties with true events. With that episodic disclaimer explicitly absolving the showrunners of misinforming viewers, they’re essentially creating an original story based on a fun idea. So what if that idea happened in real life, but differently? What if it went this way instead?

The final episode, written by Donovan and Herro and directed by Michael Dowse, sees Ruth (Margo Martindale), Mike (Chris Diamantopoulos), and Remy (Guillaume Cyr) finally follow through on their big plans,...

One of the coolest ways a band can luck out is by having a TV show use one of their songs in their opening credits, and for that TV show to become an unexpected decade-long hit. Not only does it often make the band a ton of extra cash in royalties, but it introduces the band to millions of viewers who might not have ever heard of them. How many "Mad Men" fans were familiar with RJD2 before hearing them in its theme song? How many "Scrubs" fans knew about Lazlo Bane before they heard "I'm No Superman" in the opening credits?

For "Barenaked Ladies," getting a song featured in the theme for "The Big Bang Theory" wasn't as big of a deal because they were already pretty famous beforehand. Still, with the sitcom lasting 12 whole seasons and being one of the biggest ratings hits of the decade, it was...

Barry Keoghan took to X on Saturday to announce that he deactivated his Instagram account following heavy speculation surrounding his relationship with his infant son and his breakup with pop superstar Sabrina Carpenter.

After Keoghan had a son with his now ex-partner Alyson Sandro in August 2022, the pair broke up the following summer. Shortly after, Keoghan started dating Carpenter, a quick pivot that led to social media backlash for the 32-year-old actor. Carpenter and Keoghan have now broken up, and their split has been plagued by rumors that Keoghan had cheated. The compounded controversies seemingly led Keoghan to leave Instagram.

“I can only sit and take so much. My name has been dragged across the internet in ways I usually don’t respond to,” Keoghan said. “I have to respond now because it’s getting to a place where there are too many lines being crossed. I deactivated my account...

Feeling naughty? Nicole Kidman sure is and she wants you to know it. In her upcoming film, “Babygirl,” from writer/director Halina Reijn, the Aussie actress bares all as a relentless CEO caught in a spicy tryst with her much younger intern (Harris Dickinson). Her performance earned her the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival and is garnering her major awards buzz, but for Kidman, playing this role was about earning a different kind of recognition.

“A lot of times women are discarded at a certain period of their career as a sexual being. So it was really beautiful to be seen in this way,” Kidman said in a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter. “From the minute I read it, I was like, ‘Yeah, this is a voice I haven’t seen, this is a place that I haven’t been, I don’t think audiences have been.

Montevideo, Uruguay — “As a meeting place, Ventana Sur was fantastic, the sales agent presence was good, focused on companies which really do buy, and the organization was impecable, run by highly dedicated and nice people,” said Antonio Saura, at Madrid-based sales agency Latido Films.

Most other attendees would buy into that.

Transferred for the first time since its launch in 2009 from its traditional Buenos Aires base to the heart of Uruguay’s Montevideo, this week’s Ventana Sur proved an upbeat affair, highlighting a clutch of titles likely to make A-List festival selection, plus some of the Latin America’s movers and shakers in the region and beyond, and the latest trends in an ever evolving regional industry.

Following, some first takeaways from Ventana Sur, Latin America’s weightiest film-tv market, co-hosted by the Cannes Festival’s Marché du Film, Uruguay’s Acau agency and Argentina’s Incaa.

Ventana Sur...

Ahead of the season 8 premiere of "The Big Bang Theory," Chuck Lorre's hit CBS sitcom made headlines all over the world ... but it had nothing to do with the content of the show. Instead, the entertainment industry was buzzing about the fact that the main cast of "The Big Bang Theory" — Jim Parsons, Johnny Galecki, Simon Helberg, Kunal Nayyar, Kaley Cuoco, Melissa Rauch, and Mayim Bialik — wanted to renegotiate their salarys in a big, big way. During this process, and particularly when their salaries were made completely public, Nayyar, a newcomer to this kind of fame, reached out to another actor whose sitcom salary made waves: "Friends" star Matt LeBlanc, who played Joey Tribbiani on the NBC hit.

As Jessica Radloff notes in her book "The Big Bang Theory: The Definitive, Inside Story of the Epic Hit Series," Nayyar told Glamour that he spoke to LeBlanc and asked for...

Jessica Chastain highlighted the importance of female voices while being honored at the 38th Annual American Cinematheque Awards on Friday evening at the Beverly Hilton.

In her acceptance speech, Chastain detailed the struggles of her childhood. She was the first woman in her family without a teenage pregnancy as well as the first to graduate high school and attend college. Chastain studied at Julliard thanks to a scholarship funded by Robin Williams, who received the American Cinematheque Award in 1988.

“We existed on the margins of society, but theater became my lifeline,” Chastain said. “It was a way to feel seen, to use my voice and to break free from the expectations that have bound my family for generations. I became determined to escape the cycle.”

Chastain said when she entered the industry, most films centered around male-dominated perspectives and regulated female actors to reductive archetypes. The “Molly’s Game” star wanted to change this,...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has held almost 100 ceremonies, which means people have been screaming that they got it all wrong in various categories since the Calvin Coolidge administration. It's a bit like in sports where people root for their favorites, only that people are arguing over intangible accomplishments rather than touchdowns and what have you.

Once you get used to the way the Oscars work (e.g. they really hate comedy), you realize there is a certain type of film that's likely to be honored, and those certain types of films attract a certain type of actor -- ergo, to a large extent, it's futile to pull for favorites. Arnold Schwarzenegger was long one of the most popular actors on the planet, but he was portrayed by the media as a walking caricature of himself; only now, in his 70s, could he earn a Best Actor...

“Star Trek” may have been totally relegated to TV in recent years—even much more than “Star Wars,” the last movie on screen was in 2016, nine years ago—but it’s striving on TV and specifically on Paramount+ where brains trust Alex Kurtzman oversees most shows. However, in the spirit of the ever-evolving expansion, Paramount+ will debut its first movie in ages, “Star Trek: Section 31,” starring Academy Award winner Michelle Yeoh.

Continue reading ‘Star Trek: Section 31’ Trailer: Michelle Yeoh Stars In The First Trekkie Movie In 9 Years at The Playlist.

Nick Frost is all too familiar with the feeling of being an unwanted tourist. The comedian’s latest film “Get Away,” which he wrote and stars in, tells the story of a bumbling British nuclear family who takes a summer vacation to the fictional Swedish island of Svälta. The insular island is best known for staging an annual pageant that depicts the cannibalistic murder of four English soldiers — and believe it or not, the locals who stage this play aren’t thrilled to see four English guests in their town.

In a recent conversation with IndieWire, Frost explained that the genesis of the project emerged from his own family vacations to a similar Swedish island that never seemed particularly happy to see him.

“I spent a lot of time on a really small, very beautiful Swedish island over the last kind of 25 years. We have family who have a house on a tiny island,...

The Stanislavsky Method, also known simply as method acting, refers to a school of thought that actors should try to inhabit their characters as fully as possible. Rather than simply acting out the words and emotions they are portraying, actors should actually feel those things, getting themselves as fully into the mind of their role as they can. Over the years, this has come to mean that method actors try to stay in character as much as possible, even when the cameras aren't rolling.

Modern method acting is, understandably, controversial. It can make sets a difficult place to work, selfishly wrapping co-stars and even crew members into an actor's preparation process. Natalie Portman made a great point too, when she told The Wall Street Journal that method isn't a technique available to everybody. "I've gotten very into roles, but I think it's honestly a luxury that women can't afford. I...

Can the former Whs Yellowjackets ever escape the past? Season three of Paramount+ with Showtime’s acclaimed series “Yellowjackets” follows yet another chapter in their story, still revealing details of that fateful time away from civilization. Viewers last saw the remaining members try to perform a new ritual but the results turned tragic. Their fates are hanging in the balance and nothing is truly as it seems. The upcoming season promises to be even more interesting thanks to the addition of two-time Academy Award-winning actress Hilary Swank and “Community” star Joel McHale.

Continue reading ‘Yellowjackets’ Season 3 Trailer: Melanie Lynskey, Christina Ricci, Juliet Lewis & The Gang Return On Feb 14 at The Playlist.

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Jack Nicholson is singular for many reasons, but one of his most fascinating attributes is that he was commercially bulletproof. Don't get me wrong, Nicholson made a flop here and there, but there was never a sense with the star that he needed a hit. Even when he was slumping, everyone figured Nicholson would get it straightened out one way or another. He was just too damn appealing to not score a hit once every few years.

If Nicholson was ever kinda-sorta in trouble, it was probably in 1977. Yes, he was only two years removed from winning Best Actor Oscar for "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (which was an incredibly competitive year), but he was more immediately on the hook for two box office bombs in Arthur Penn's "The Missouri Breaks" (a pricey Western that paired him with...

The official trailer for “Star Trek: Section 31” is here, and it’s clear once again that Paramount+ is boldly going into uncharted territory for the franchise: The first ever direct-to-streaming “Star Trek” movie could very well, as Jonathan Frakes noted to IndieWire earlier this year, open up a whole new format for “Star Trek” storytelling — a format that could simply allow for a whole new array of “Star Trek” stories to be told.

Michelle Yeoh is back as sassy, psychopathic Philippa Georgiou, who was the Emperor of the Terran Empire in the mirror universe, where she ate conquered subjects and threw nemeses in her “agony booth” at a whim. She’s joined by Omari Hardwick, Sam Richardson, Robert Kazinsky, Kacey Rohl, Sven Ruygrok, James Hiroyuki Liao, Humberly Gonzalez, and Joe Pingue. Miku Martineau will play young Philippa Georgiou.

Directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi, with a screenplay by Craig Sweeny and...

"Friends" made six talented sitcom actors very, very rich. For 10 whole seasons, Courteney Cox, Jennifer Aniston, Lisa Kudrow, David Schwimmer, Matt LeBlanc, and Matthew Perry -- who died at age 54 in 2023 -- were the tight-knit group of the NBC sitcom, and earned a pretty penny for the gig. At the late-game heights of the show's powers, the cast of "Friends" got paid as much as $1 million per episode each. 

Here's the thing, though: the money didn't stop coming after the show ended in 2004. In fact, as of 2015, the syndicated sitcom continued to rake in an estimated $1 billion annually, which in turn may have continued to earn each of the six stars as much as $20 million per year in residual payments. Though unconfirmed by either Warner Bros. or the actors, this figure most recently turned up in the wake of Perry's passing, and since "Friends" has remained a popular and surprisingly relevant show,...

For its starriest edition to date, the Marrakech Film Festival did more than rolling out the red carpet: it opened the doors to Palace Badi, a 16th-century iconic landmark, for an epic dinner offered by Hm Mohammed VI and hosted by Hrh Prince Moulay Rachid, accompanied by his wife, Princess Lalla Oum Keltoum.

The gala evening kicked off with salutations as Marrakech Festival jury president Luca Guadagnino and fellow jurors, Jacob Elordi, Andrew Garfield and Virginie Efira, as well as honorary guests such as Tim Burton, Monica Bellucci, Sean Penn, David Cronenberg, Justine Triet, Justin Kurzel, Francois Ozon, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu and Marie-Ange Luciani were introduced to Hrh Moulay Rachid and Princess Lalla OumKeltoum one by one.

The festival’s ambassador, Melita Toscan du Plantier, was standing by the Prince and introduced each person to him, although he seemed to know them all. Though Mohammed VI created the festival 21 years ago,...

Watching “Nawi,” two things become quickly evident. First, a wonderful lead performance carries the film. Michelle Lemuya Ikeny plays the eponymous character, a 13-year-old who yearns to go to high school but instead must face the patriarchal traditions of her community. She’s set to be married off for a substantial dowry in livestock. Second, the creative team of Toby Schmutzler, Kevin Schmutzler, Vallentine Chelluget and Apuu Mourine is so determined to make a salient point about child marriage that they deprive the film of its cinematic and entertainment value. In shifting focus to their political statement, the four co-directors fail to give their lead actor the showcase her strong performance demands.

Selected to represent Kenya at the Oscars, “Nawi” takes place in the rural region of Turkana in the northern part of the East African nation. It’s based on true events and begins with its steadfast and studious...

As one of cinema’s most legendary artisans, Francis Ford Coppola has helped shape the world of entertainment for over half a century, even when he wasn’t really trying to.

In a recent interview with The Washington Post ahead of him receiving a Kennedy Center Honor this weekend, Coppola reflected on his career, including the surprise success that came from “The Godfather” and how the studios forced him into the position of making a sequel despite not initially having an interest in doing so.

As a ploy to cause issues for Paramount, Coppola pitched titling the film “The Godfather: Part II” even though most sequels up until that point in Hollywood used unique titles like “The Bride of Frankenstein” or “After the Thin Man.” When “Part II” became another hit in its own right, it spurned a tradition that lasts to this day and one that Coppola himself resents.

Up to this point, filmmaker Scott Derrickson has been primarily known for his horror output. Movies like “Sinister,” “The Black Phone,” and “The Exorcism of Emily Rose” make clear that the writer/director has a knack for the genre. While on the surface, his newest feature, “The Gorge,” sounds like just another scary flick to add to his resume, there’s actually more to the upcoming feature than scares and suspense, as he stressed in a recent article for IGN.

Continue reading ‘The Gorge’ Trailer: Upcoming Survival Thriller Starring Anya Taylor-Joy & Miles Teller Arrives February 14 at The Playlist.

It's been almost three years since Dan Erickson's mind-splitting sci-fi series "Severance" blew audiences away and left them begging for more with a cliffhanger ending. Season 2 is finally almost here, and Apple TV+ has dropped a trailer that reveals some unexpected consequences of the rebellion.

"Severance" centers on a biotech company called Lumon Industries that has found an innovative new approach to work-life balance. Employees voluntarily have their minds divided into an "Outie," who experiences and remembers everything outside the office, and an "Innie," who only experiences and remembers life at work. For the Outies, it's a great deal: all their waking hours are leisure hours. But for the Innies, work is an inescapable prison.

Well, almost inescapable. At the end of "Severance" season 1, Mark S. (Adam Scott), Helly R. (Britt Lower), and Irving B. (John Turturro) were able to temporarily wake up on the outside, thanks to the diligent efforts of their coworker,...

These days, for better or worse, it's hard to imagine the movie and TV industries without Rotten Tomatoes. The review aggregator has become the go-to vibe-check for the majority of audiences, as well as a huge gauge for studios of how their latest projects are faring. Some would argue that the site's binary fresh/rotten review scale is simple to the point of harming discourse, and many users still don't fully understand how Rotten Tomatoes' scores and badges actually work. That said, it's impossible to deny the site's impact, and we might not have it at all if not for the Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker-led 1998 action-comedy "Rush Hour."

As explained in a 2021 Rotten Tomatoes editorial, founder Senh Duong was a huge Jackie Chan fan. "Rush Hour" marked the actor's first major North American release, which gave Duong a thought -- it was difficult to find different critical thoughts...

Inspired by Saudi writer-director-producer Ahd Kamel’s childhood, the nostalgic coming-of-age story “My Driver & I” unfolds against the backdrop of Jeddah in the 1980s and ’90s and traces the relationship of a rebellious girl and the Sudanese chauffeur her affluent family hires as a driver. A more conventional-looking and less compelling watch than “Wadjda” (2012), the Saudi picture to which it is sure to be compared and in which Kamel played a key acting role, “Driver” lacks the convincing struggle against limitations depicted by director Haifaa Al Mansour’s earlier movie.

Indeed, where “Wadjda” was tart, “Driver” is over-sweet to the point of sentimentality. Despite some sad circumstances, just how easy and nice everything seems to be for the central family and their staff somewhat beggars belief. Nevertheless, further festival play is likely and the drama will disseminate widely in Arabic-speaking territories through Dubai-based pay TV and streaming service Osn+.

A bright,...

It’s been three years since the release of Apple TV+’s breakout series, “Severance.” Now, thankfully, we have a look at what’s to come with Season 2, which is arriving at the beginning of 2025.

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As seen in the trailer for Season 2 of “Severance,” the series tells the story of a company, Lumon Industries, whose employees have been surgically altered so that their memories from work leave them when they exit the building.

Continue reading ‘Severance’ Season 2 Trailer: Apple TV+’s Award-Winning Series Returns In January at The Playlist.

Apple TV+ has finally released the trailer for “Severance” Season 2, and we are so in(nie).

In “Severance,” Adam Scott’s Mark Scout (“Mark S.” at work) leads a team at Lumon Industries, where employees have undergone an elective — but controversial — surgery that divides their memories between their work and personal lives. Basically, the Work You (your “Innie”) never exists outside of the office, and your home half (“Outtie”) never knows work. It’s kind of cool for the latter but an absolute torturous existence for the former. The series itself is top notch.

Toward the end of Season 1, Mark and his three close colleagues make some monumental discoveries about what may really being going on inside Lumon HQ. In Season 2, the coworkers “learn the dire consequences of trifling with the severance barrier, leading them further down a path of woe,” per Apple TV+.

Per the Apple SVOD service’s trailer,...

Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Perez triumphed at this year’s European Film Awards, taking home five prizes including best film at tonight’s (December 7) ceremony in Lucerne.

The Mexico-set musical drama, about a feared drug lord who undergoes gender-affirming surgery, clinched the best film, director, screenwriter and actress prizes, in addition to its previously announced editing prize.

Receiving the first prize of the evening, for European director, Audiard said he had prepared no fewer than three speeches. “I was being very optimistic,” he joked. Accepting the best director award he quoted British paediatrician and psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott’s famous phrase:...

The European Film Awards is taking place in the Swiss city of Lucerne tonight (December 7) and Screen is revealing the winners live from the ceremony, which kicked off at 20.00 Cet.

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Emilia Pérez and The Room Next Door are the front-runners for this year’s awards with four nominations apiece.

Fifteen features compete for the best European film prize, up from five last year. This follows a recent rule...

Two differing views of Gaza — a dreamy, nostalgic one and a harsher, lived one — come together in a not completely satisfying way in “Yalla Parkour,” winner of Doc NYC’s international prize. The film marks the feature debut of Areeb Zuaiter, a Nablus-born, Washington, D.C.-based filmmaker. Ten years in the making, the documentary wrapped before the events of Oct. 7, 2023, although the helmer briefly notes the death and destruction of 2024 in her prologue and closing credits.

Zuaiter chooses an editing structure that embeds the tale of Gaza parkour athlete Ahmed Matar within the framework of a story about her mother, her memories and her identity. It is an approach that may connect with some viewers, although for this reviewer, it undermines the more dynamic and compelling struggles of the young Gazan.

In 2013, Zuaiter fixates on striking internet footage of a band of fearless Khan Yunis boys performing parkour flips...