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For many years after the 1955 film Marty won the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or and then went on to win the best picture Oscar, there was little additional evidence of a Cannes/Oscars connection. But in the last five years, both Parasite and — just months ago — Anora followed in Marty’s footsteps.

Indeed, within the last year, specifically, the relevance of one event to the other became harder than ever to dispute, as an unprecedented 31 Oscar noms were allocated to films that had played in Cannes — spread between Anora, The Apprentice, Emilia Pérez, Flow, The Girl with the Needle, The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent, The Seed of the Sacred Fig and The Substance — and 40 percent of the eventual Oscar winners traced back to the fest, including Anora (best picture, director, actress, original screenplay and film editing), Emilia Pérez (original song), Flow (animated feature) and The Substance...

The 2025 Cannes Film Festival main competition jury was revealed Monday morning, all of whom will look at 21 films vying for the Palme d’Or.

The jury’s mix of talent from above and below the line includes: American actress and filmmaker Halle Berry, Indian director and screenwriter Payal Kapadia, Italian actress Alba Rohrwacher, French/Moroccan writer Leïla Slimani, plus Congolese director and producer Dieudo Hamadi, Korean director and screenwriter Hong Sangsoo, Mexican director/screenwriter/producer Carlos Reygadas, and American actor Jeremy Strong.

As previously announced, the main competition jury president will be Juliette Binoche. The jury will oversee the selection of the Palme d’Or and other competition prizes. Neon has released the past six consecutive Palme d’Or winners, with Sean Baker’s 2024 film “Anora” going on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.

The 2025 Cannes Film Festival will take place from May 13 to 24. Amélie Bonnin’s directorial...

Exclusive: Turkish distributor Başka Sinema is gearing up for a pioneering theatrical release across Türkiye this summer of AI-generated feature-length documentary Post Truth.

The independent film curator and distributor, which also backed the film, describes the English-language work as the first fully AI-generated feature-length film to hit theaters in the country.

The company, which has recently released features such as Flow, Hard Truths and My Favourite Cake, plans to launch Post Truth in the second half of June in at least 20 Turkish cities.

“We see Post Truth as part of an ongoing dialogue about new modes of artistic expression. Artificial intelligence is poised to disrupt every medium of art, and filmmaking is no exception,” commented Başka Sinema Director Armağan Lale.

Created by pioneering generative AI artist Alkan Avcıoğlu, the documentary has been created in its entirety by AI, including all visuals, sound, music, and voice.

Described as “a fake film about the real world,...

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Warner Bros £906,660 £906,660 1 5 Until Dawn (US) Sony £566,028 £566,028 1

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A Minecraft Movie held off the excellent second weekend of Sinners for another Warner Bros one-two at the UK-Ireland box office.

Minecraft added £2.5m on its fourth weekend – a 53% drop that brought it to £51.7m. Extending its lead as the highest-grossing release of 2025, it has now entered the top 50 highest-grossing films of all time in the UK & Ireland,...

As the format continues to gain traction, here’s our regularly-updated list of upcoming 4K Ultra HD disc releases in the UK.

Sitting alongside our list of upcoming DVD and Blu-ray releases (that you can find here), we’re also keeping a calendar for those who support the 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray disc format. As we learn of new UK releases, we’ll add them to this list.

We have started adding shopping links too. We’d be obliged if you clicked on them, as it really helps us in our quest to make the Film Stories project of magazines, website and podcast profitable. We’re a 100% independent publisher, and we quite like drinking coffee. It’d be lovely to afford some more.

Without further ado, here are the titles we know about…

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¡Buenas noticias para nuestro cine! La película de stop-motion Olivia y el terremoto invisible, de la cineasta española Irene Iborra, celebrará su première mundial en el Festival de Annecy 2025, que tiene lugar del 8 al 14 de junio y se considera como la gran cita mundial de la animación (el año pasado se proyectaron dos películas que fueron a los Óscar: Flow y Memoir of a Snail).

Adaptación de la novela La película de la vida, de la escritora Maite Carranza, con más de 24.000 ejemplares vendidos en España y traducida a ocho idiomas, Olivia y el terremoto invisible sigue a Olivia, su hermano pequeño Tim y su madre Ingrid cuando son expulsados de casa y tienen que empezar de cero en otro barrio. Mientras Ingrid hace malabarismos para resolver la situación, Olivia inventa una fantasía protectora para...

Pearl Jam launched their 2025 US tour on Thursday night (April 24th) at Hard Rock Live in Hollywood, Florida. The 25-song set featured a mix of early favorites, songs from their most recent album, Dark Matter, and covers.

To open the show, the band played “Oceans” from their debut album, 10, and followed up with “Present Tense” from No Code. Other early cuts sprinkled throughout the setlist included “Even Flow,” “Corduroy,” and “Porch.” Songs played from Dark Matter included the title track, “Wreckage,” and “Running.”

The encore was heavy on covers, kicked off with frontman Eddie Vedder’s solo acoustic rendition of Tom Petty’s “I Won’t Back Down.” The band then mixed in live favorite “Do the Evolution” and the classic “Alive” with covers including The Who’s “Baba O’Riley,” The Byrds’ “So You Want to Be a Rock ‘n’ Roll Star,” and Victoria Williams’ “Crazy Mary.”

See fan-shot videos from the concert,...

French sales banner Charades has boarded “The Keeper of the Camphor Tree,” an upcoming animated feature from Japanese entertainment company Aniplex and director Tomohiko Ito.

The film is an adaptation of Keigo Higashino’s novel “Kususoki no Bannin” that sold more than 1 million copies. Higashino’s other works have been adapted for film and TV several times, but this marks the first time one is getting an animated retelling.

Set in Tokyo, “The Keeper of the Camphor Tree” follows a young man named Reito who, having been left on his own after the loss of his mother and following a series of bad decisions and misfortune, lands in prison. Left with nothing, he has lost all hope for the future. But everything changes when a lawyer representing a powerful family empire offers him a way out — on one condition: he must take on a mysterious role as the Keeper of the Camphor Tree.

Flow Ott Release Date Update(Photo Credit –Facebook)

A relatively lesser-known and low-profile animated survival adventure drama movie came out last year, and the film won the prestigious Academy Award in the Best Animated Feature category. We are talking about the movie Flow. In case you still haven’t watched it, we have a fantastic update. You can now watch the film on a popular streaming platform. Check out the details below.

Flow – When & Where to Watch On Ott

The Oscar-winning animated feature film is streaming on the Amazon Prime Video Ott platform from April 25, 2025. So, you can watch it right now on Prime Video, and that too rent-free.

Flow – Plot & Runtime

With a runtime of 85 minutes, the animated movie Flow narrates the story of a courageous cat whose home is destroyed by a massive flood. She teams up with other animals, such as a bird, a dog, and a lemur,...

Sinners Box Office Collection Day 6 Update! ( Photo Credit – Instagram )

American period horror drama Sinners is shining bright at the worldwide box office. Ryan Coogler’s directorial, starring Michael B Jordan in leading roles, is minting decent moolah in India. Check out the box office collections on day 6.

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Sinners was released in India on April 18, 2025. It made a decent opening in India, minting 60 lakhs net. Michael B Jordan’s film enjoyed a 33% jump in box office collections during the first weekend. The word-of-mouth is visibly improving as it added 53 lakhs more to the kitty on day 6, as per Sacnilk.

The 6-day total concludes at 3.85 crore net, which is around 4.54 crores in gross earnings.

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The Annecy International Animation Film Festival (June 8-14), the world’s oldest and most prestigious animation festival, announced this year’s lineup, both in and out of competition, American studio presentations, special celebrations (including a tribute to Hungarian animation), and honorary awards.

This year’s highlights include Sylvain Chomet’s highly-anticipated 2D Marcel Pagnol biopic, “A Magnificent Life,” which will be a part of the official competition and released domestically this year through Sony Pictures Classics; sneaks of Andy Serkis’ “Animal Farm” and Genndy Tartakovsky’s R-rated, 2D “Fixed” (streaming on Netflix); and special previews of Disney’s “Zootopia 2,” Pixar’s “Elio,” DreamWorks’ “The Bad Guys 2,” Sony Picture Animation’s “Goat,” Paramount Animation’s “The SpongeBob Movie: Search for Squarepants,” and Netflix’s “In Your Dreams.”

Meanwhile, Annecy 2025 introduces a new short film program, Midnight Shorts, and launches the Annecy Dome, a new 32-seat venue for immersive works.

Each year, the Annecy International Animation Film Festival gives a preview of what will undoubtedly become the most acclaimed and popular animated titles in the year to come. Last year, the festival premiered Flow, which would go on to win the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature FIlm, along with another future Oscar nominee, Memoir of a Snail. They also featured a variety of what would become big Netflix titles, such as The Imaginary, Blue Eye Samurai, Pokémon Concierge, and Twilight of the Gods. This year, Netflix is returning to Annecy with a bold, genre-spanning line-up of films, series, and special events, including what may be the crown jewel of them all, an animated series from the Stranger Things universe, created by the Duffer brothers themselves.

The animated series was announced two years ago but now has the official title of Stranger Things: Tales From '85, and a release date of,...

Annecy, the world’s leading animation film festival, unveiled its official program on Wednesday, with a line-up that includes features from some 20 countries across Europe, Asia and the Americas and a range of styles, from the big-budget 3D computer animated feature Into the Mortal World from Chinese director Zhong Ding; to the hand-drawn title Balentes by Italian filmmaker Giovanni Columbu, and the digital cut out animation of Mexican filmmaker Aria Covamonas: The Great History of Western Philosophy.

Covamonas’ debut premiered at the Rotterdam festival, and Annecy’s 2025 lineup features a best-of selection of recent fests, including Berlinale highlights Lesbian Space Princess and Tales from the Magic Garden, and several features premiering in Cannes next month, including The Magnificent Life of Marcel Pagnol from The Triplets of Belleville director Sylvain Chomet; Dandelion’s Odyssey from Japanese director Momoko Seto; and Death Does Not Exist from Canadian filmmaker Felix Dufour-Laperrière.

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The Annecy International Animation Film Festival is nearly here. The annual film festival and market takes place from June 8 to June 14, in a gorgeous town that served as the inspiration for Belle’s village in Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast”. This year’s slate is overflowing with must-see screenings and panels.

Among the special screenings this year are Andy Serkis’ long-awaited take on George Orwell’s “Animal Farm,” Michel Gondry’s “Maya, Give Me Another Title” (he’ll also be receiving an Honorary Cristal Award this year “in recognition of his exceptional contribution to the vitality of animation”), Genndy Tartakovsky’s R-rated “Fixed” and “The SpongeBob Movie: Search for Squarepants,” the new feature from Paramount Animation. Additionally, Pixar will screen their new feature “Elio.”

There will be exciting presentations from Disney, who will reveal a first-look at footage from “Zootopia 2,” courtesy of director (and Walt Disney Animation Studios Cco) Jared Bush,...

South Korean crime thriller Yadang: The Snitch took the top spot at the South Korea box office on its opening weekend (April 18-20), ending The Match’s short reign and accounting for nearly 70% of all tickets sold.

Released on April 16, Yadang: The Snitch took $4.11m from 608,149 admissions across 1,832 screens, according to Kobis, the Korean Film Council’s box office tracking service. Its cumulative gross stands at $5.26m from 786,077 total admissions.

Directed by Hwang Byung-gook, the story revolves around the intertwined ambitions of a drug broker played Kang Ha-neul of Netflix hit Squid Game, a prosecutor played by Yoo Hae-jin from box office hit Exhuma,...

The South Korean box office welcomed a new leader as crime thriller “Yadang: the Snitch” opened in first place with $4.1 million, commanding 69.8% of weekend revenues.

Directed by Hwang Byeng-Gug and starring “Squid Game 2″ actor Kang Ha-neul, “Yadang: the Snitch,” is from the producers behind record-breaking hit “12:12 The Day” and “Inside Men.” It follows a professional informant called “yadang” who provides covert information about the drug world to prosecutors and police. When a drug bust at a party attended by high-profile second-generation VIPs leads to a dangerous conspiracy, the yadang must fight to survive. The film pairs Kang with “Exhuma” star Yoo Hai-jin and “The World of the Married” actor Park Hae-joon.

The April 16 release drew 608,104 admissions from April 18 to 20 across 1,832 screens, according to Kobis, the tracking service operated by the Korean Film Council. The film’s cumulative total already stands at $5.2 million with 786,032 total admissions, marking one of the...

Tonight, we’ve got the latest on everything – the bonus puzzle, all answers and contestants – that you need to know about tonight’s episode of Wheel of Fortune!

The post is updated as soon as it airs, so stay on TV Regular for all the latest on Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy! and all the latest TV news and previews.

Wheel of Fortune Contestants & Winner – Friday, 18 April 2025 WinnerOther Contestants Sheila SaboDiana Cabot, Mohamed El-Shiekh Wheel of Fortune Prize Puzzle & All Solutions – Friday, 18 April 2025 $1,000 Toss Up: Chilling On A Catamaran (Fun & Games)

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The Film Development Council of the Philippines ( Fdcp) will hold I Animate: Animation Film Festival starting April 24 to May 7 in its regional Cinematheque Centres and select Sm cinemas

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Revealed last April 15, 2025, the lineup is top billed by renowned world cinema titles led by Cinemalaya 2023 Best Film “Iti Mapukpukaw (The Missing)”, the Oscar 2025 Best Animated Feature Film “Flow,”and BFI London Film Festival Best Film “Memoir of a Snail.”

Other acclaimed full-length films to be screened are “Cleaners”by Glenn Barit, “Saving Sally” by Avid Liongoren, “Wolf Children” by Mamoru Hosoda, “Ghost Cat Anzu” by Yôko Kuno and Nobuhiro Yamashita, “Loving Vincent” by Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman, “Le Petit Nicolas” by Amandine Fredon and Benjamin Massoubre,”Robot Dreams” by Pablo Berger, and “Weathering With You” by Makoto Shinkai.

The festival also includes short films under the following three sections: Animated Short Focus, From the Archives, and Student Shorts Showcase.

The Film Development Council of the Philippines ( Fdcp) will hold “I Animate: Animation Film Festival” starting April 24 to May 7 in its regional Cinematheque Centres and select Sm cinemas

Revealed last April 15, 2025, the lineup is led by Cinemalaya 2023 Best Film “Iti Mapukpukaw” (The Missing), the Oscar 2025 Best Animated Feature Film “Flow”, and BFI London Film Festival Best Film “Memoir of a Snail.”

Acclaimed Asian full-length features to be screened are “Cleaners” by Glenn Barit, “Saving Sally” by Avid Liongoren, “Wolf Children” by Mamoru Hosoda, “Ghost Cat Anzu” by Yôko Kuno and Nobuhiro Yamashita, and “Weathering With You” by Makoto Shinkai. “Loving Vincent” by Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman, “Le Petit Nicolas” by Amandine Fredon and Benjamin Massoubre, and “Robot Dreams” by Pablo Berger are the other world cinema titles in the festival.

I Animate also includes Philippine short films under the following three sections: Animated Short Focus, From the Archives, and Student Shorts Showcase.

The Current Debate connects the dots around a topic of the critical conversation.Anora.Remember Cord Jefferson’s plea at last year’s Oscars? Picking up his Best Adapted Screenplay award for American Fiction (2023), the director chided the industry for being “risk-averse,” and suggested that, “instead of making one $200 million movie,” producers should spread those resources to make room for more diverse and bolder voices. “Try making twenty $10 million movies,” he said, “or fifty $4 million movies.” Jefferson was of course alluding to Oppenheimer (2023), Christopher Nolan’s thunderous portrait of “father of the atomic bomb” J. Robert Oppenheimer, a $100-million Best Picture winner that racked up seven statuettes and nearly a billion dollars at the box office. A year later, a cursory glance at the list of 2025 Oscar winners might make you think the industry did, in fact, heed the call. It’s not that there were no big-budget films among...

Newport Jazz Festival has announced the lineup for its 2025 edition, taking place August 1st through 3rd in Newport, Rhode Island. Janelle Monáe, The Roots, and Jacob Collier top the bill, with Raye, Jorja Smith, Esperanza Spalding, De La Soul, and Willow also set to perform.

Other major artists heading to Rhode Island this summer include Thee Sacred Souls, Dianne Reeves, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Louis Cato, The Yussef Dayes Experience, Rachael & Vilray, Terence Blanchard playing his 2005 album Flow, and LA Lom. Check out the full lineup at the bottom of this article.

Tickets go on sale Thursday, April 17th at 1:00 p.m. Est via Dice. Check out Newport Jazz Festival’s website for more information. Specially priced three day passes are available for the next 48 hours on a first come first serve basis. Students can also purchase single day and three-day passes at a reduced price while supplies last.

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Piece Of Magic £595,168 £595,168 1 5 Snow White (US) Disney £411,079 £9.1m 4

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A Minecraft Movie has built a sturdy £31m total at the UK-Ireland box office, after adding £7.2m on its second weekend for Warner Bros.

The film fell 52% from its stellar opening session; but still put in a strong performance to become the second-highest-grossing release of the year after fewer than 10 days in cinemas.

Cannes Critics’ Week, the festival sidebar spotlighting first and second features, has revealed the 11 competition and special screenings titles for its 64th edition running May 14-22.

Scroll down for full list of titles

Seven films will vie for four top prizes in competition, awarded by a jury helmed by Spanish filmmaker Rodrigo Sorogoyen. Five of those are first films that will compete for the Camera d’Or. Six films in the line-up are directed by women.

Ava Cahen, now in her fourth year as artistic director, told Screen this year’s selection is “a daring combination of films with panache that celebrates new voices.

The South Korean box office remained firmly under local control for the third consecutive weekend as “The Match” retained the top spot with $2 million, accounting for 52.79% of total weekend revenue.

The sports drama, based on the legendary Go rivalry between Cho Hun-hyun and Lee Chang-ho, added 306,028 admissions, bringing its cumulative gross to $11.8 million and total admissions to 1.81 million, according to Kobis, the tracking service operated by the Korean Film Council.

Opening in second was the U.S. espionage thriller “The Amateur,” which debuted with $325,352 from 47,963 admissions. The film, starring Rami Malek as a CIA cryptographer who goes rogue, has now grossed $492,149 since its April 9 release.

South Korean comedy-drama “Lobby” slipped to third place with $290,668 and 41,512 additional viewers. The film has now grossed $1.6 million with over 243,000 total admissions.

In fourth, “Attack on Titan The Movie: The Last Attack” continued to draw anime fans, earning $283,162. The Japanese franchise finale has amassed nearly...

Exclusive: Italian black-and-white drama There’s Still Tomorrow, the first title from Jia Zhangke and Tian Qi’s new distribution outfit Unknown Pleasures Pictures (Upp), has grossed a healthy $6M (RMB43.5M) in China after four weeks on release.

Released on March 8, the film has pulled in 1.09 million admissions and is still playing in theatres. China is now the second highest box office market for the film internationally, behind only its native Italy where it grossed $35M following its October 2023 release.

Directed by Paola Cortellesi, the film is set in postwar Rome and follows a working-class wife and mother who dreams of a better future. Italy’s Vision Distribution is handling international sales on the film.

Jia told Deadline: “There’s Still Tomorrow resonates with the increasingly strong women’s consciousness among Chinese female audiences. Unlike other female-themed stories, it tells us that women don’t necessarily have to escape, they can...

Updated April 23: The original April 10 Cannes announcement has been updated to reflect new additions to the lineup.

Updated 10:40 a.m. Et: Cannes has now confirmed that Spike Lee’s “Highest 2 Lowest” will play out of competition at Cannes. The film was omitted from Thursday morning’s announcement, though Lee shared on Instagram afterward that “Highest 2 Lowest” would be heading to Cannes. We’ve now included the film below.

Earlier: The 2025 Cannes Film Festival lineup was revealed bright and early, starting at 5 a.m. Et on Thursday, April 10 for those following in the States. For those in France, festival director Thierry Frémaux and president Iris Knobloch unveiled this year’s crop of films from the main competition to Un Certain Regard and beyond at the more reasonable hour of 11 a.m. local time. IndieWire previously named 33 films we hope to see among the 78th edition’s sections; we got some right,...

Every year, cinephiles wake up early for the announcement from France of the films playing at the Cannes Film Festival. For the 78th Cannes Film Festival taking place this May, they have revealed an intriguing selection of exciting films, featuring new works from well-established filmmakers (they love them), as well as some first-timers including a young French woman for Opening Night. Cannes is continuing in its usual spot in late May, running from May 13th to 24th, kicking things off with the highly anticipated Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning sequel with Tom Cruise returning (he was also at the festival in 2022 for Top Gun: Maverick). Just over a month to go until the fest begins on the Mediterranean coast. The selection last year included many exceptional films that went on to dominate the Academy Awards - including Anora, Flow, and Emilia Perez. This year I'm looking forward to watching Eddington,...

The 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival is looking to be another knockout, with some of this year’s hottest features, including Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme, Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague and Ari Aster’s Eddington set to premiere on the Croisette.

Cannes delegate general Thierry Frémaux and president Iris Knobloch announced this year’s lineup at a press conference in Paris on Thursday morning.

The 2025 competition lineup is packed with auteur heavyweights, including Kelly Reichardt, who returns to Cannes competition with The Mastermind, an art-heist drama starring Josh O’Connor and John Magaro, set against the backdrop of the Vietnam War; Norwegian filmmaker Joachim Trier, who returns to the Croisette after his 2021 triumph (with The Worst Person of the World) with Sentimental Value, also featuring Renate Reinsve; and dissident Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who will be back in Cannes competition with his latest drama, A Simple Accident.

The Locarno Film Festival’s industry program Locarno Pro is launching the Locarno Investment Community, a new initiative designed to connect independent film financiers with the European film industry. Developed in collaboration with Oxbelly, a European nonprofit based in Greece that promotes collaboration between the U.S. and EU through its Ambassadors initiative, the new program aims to “foster meaningful engagement between investors, filmmakers, and industry professionals,

reinforcing Locarno Pro’s role as a hub for independent cinema.”

Providing a dedicated professional track within Locarno Pro, the inaugural edition of the

initiative will take place Aug. 7-10. It will integrate film financiers into key industry events and networking opportunities to give them access to the festival’s program and creatives.

“The Locarno Investment Community will welcome both seasoned funders looking to expand their reach within the European film landscape and newcomers eager to support independent cinema,” Locarno Pro organizers said.

Warner Bros. and Legendary mined box office gold this weekend with the spectacular debut of “A Minecraft Movie,” which towered over the competition with £15 million ($19.1 million), according to Comscore.

The film, based on the beloved video game franchise, delivered the highest opening of 2025 so far in the U.K. and Ireland.

Landing in second place was Universal Pictures’ “Six The Musical” – the stage-to-screen adaptation of the West End hit that reimagines the six wives of Henry VIII as pop queens – which also posted a robust debut with $2.7 million.

Disney’s “Snow White” dropped to third place in its third weekend, earning $853,612 and bringing its cumulative total to $10.1 million. A new entry at No. 4, dark comedy “Death of a Unicorn,” distributed by Entertainment Film Distributors, opened with $621,275.

Warner Bros.’ Jason Statham vehicle “A Working Man” landed in fifth place with $422,325 in its second weekend, bringing its total to $1.7 million.

Rounding out...

This week on the Film Stories Podcast Network: big-screen Bean, TV devils, brand new non-Hollywood animation and much more…

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Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences president Janet Yang said the media and entertainment community needs to preserve “human authorship” as AI use evolves in Hollywood, Monday during a session at the Nab Show. “We need the human behind the AI,” she said. “I feel cautiously optimistic that we will find a path for what will be a big part of our lives.”

In attendance at the National Association of Broadcasters Show in Las Vegas for the first time, Yang participated in a panel during which she provided an overview of the Academy and thoughts on AI to the engineering-heavy audience.

Noting that the Academy has 19 branches, representing those in front of and behind the camera, as well as one of the newest, aimed at those who work in production technology, she said, “as one can imagine there are a lot of different points of view [on AI]. One thing we...

The South Korean box office remained under local control this past weekend as “The Match” continued its commanding run, earning $2.7 million and accounting for 54.7% of the market share.

The Go-themed sports drama added 427,007 admissions from April 4 to 6, bringing its cumulative gross to $8.6 million with 1.3 million tickets sold, according to Kobis, the tracking service operated by the Korean Film Council.

Debuting in second place was Ha Jung-woo’s “Lobby,” a comedy-drama centered on a day of golf during which intense lobbying for a government contract worth billions takes place. The film earned $672,033 over the weekend from 101,520 admissions across 978 screens. Its total gross since its April 2 debut stands at $1.07 million.

Japanese animation “Attack on Titan The Movie: The Last Attack” held third with $428,886 and 60,751 admissions. Now in its fourth week, the climactic installment in the anime series has pulled in $4.3 million from 642,113 viewers.

In a tight race for fourth and fifth, animation...

Walter Salles has described the “explosion of joy” in Brazil at his Oscar win for I’m Still Here as “the most beautiful gift”.

Speaking after his masterclass at the Doha Film Institute’s Qumra lab, Salles said the film “allowed younger generations to have a better understanding of what had happened in their own country. It was the contact with a hidden part of history that surfaced, and that is what made the film theirs.”

“There’s always a moment where the film ceases to be made by the family that allowed it to exist, and becomes something that belongs...

‘A Minecraft Movie’ stars Jack Black and Jason Momoa, and debuts in theaters on Friday, April 4.

Here’s hoping that nobody blocks your path to the movie theater this weekend, Minecraft players! “A Minecraft Movie” makes its official theatrical debut on Friday, April 4, but when will you be able to watch the adaptation of this beloved video game from the comfort of your couch with a streaming subscription? We’ll give our best guess here!

Key Details: “A Minecraft Movie” stars Jason Momoa and Jack Black. The movie is being distributed by Warner Bros. Discovery, and will thus land on Max first. A wait of 75 days or more for the movie to stream seems likely. Sign Up $9.99+ / month max via prime video Watch a trailer for ‘A Minecraft Movie’

“A Minecraft Movie” welcomes viewers — and a crew of four misfits — to the Overworld. In this strange, cubic wonderland, people can...

Days ahead of the anticipated press conference unveiling the lineup, Cannes Film Festival’s chief Thierry Fremaux has managed to keep a certain mystery around this year’s Official Selection, despite the numerous predictions flourishing on social media.

Even “Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning” hasn’t been officially confirmed by neither Cannes nor Paramount, but Fremaux tells Variety in an exclusive interview that he’s hoping to get a final go from the studio soon.

Rolling off back-to-back milestone editions that saw Cannes-bowing films go on to win Oscars, such as “Anatomy of a Fall” and “The Zone of Interest” in 2023 and “Anora,” “The Substance,” “Emilia Perez” and “Flow” in 2024, Fremaux suggests he’s received a record number of movies, especially from the U.S.

While some have suggested that the 2025 edition feels like the first post-strike Cannes, Fremaux says it “seems that Hollywood is in a period of transition.

We travel every day, don’t we? Most of the time, it is to familiar and known places—our offices, schools, or universities—by choice. Other times, circumstances force us toward destinations unknown. Yet, much like growth, journeys are inevitable. Gints Zibalodis’s dialogue-free film, “Flow” (2024), opens with a lone cat wandering among statues of its own kind—wooden carvings and paper drawings. Maybe once revered, now abandoned? Its solitude symbolises the passage of time and the fading significance once placed on a particular group or identity. Before this melancholic image settles in, catastrophe strikes. Survival already becomes a challenge for our meow-protagonist, and the movie’s flow begins.

“Flow” is a journey that reflects the immigrant experience—leaving behind familiarity, often not by choice but by necessity, navigating uncharted territories, and struggling for acceptance in communities that may not speak the same language or embrace differences. Even within our own cultures,...

Conan O’Brien can be forgiven for quipping “Over to you, Estonia” after Flow won Latvia its first Oscar last month. The concept of a shared Baltic Cinema is still a relatively obscure one: “We have this complicated identity, culturally,” Laurynas Bareiša explained to me recently at the Riga International Film Festival in a cozy corner of one of city’s oldest cafes, “because we’re not part of the Slavic world and we’re not geographically Scandinavian, but I think there’s a sense developing of this Baltic region.” If a wave is forming in that part of the world, Lithuanian filmmakers have been at its forefront––at least since Bareiša’s debut, Pilgrims, won Venice’s Orizzonti section in 2021.

That success has since been bolstered by films like Marija Kavtaradzė’s Slow (a winner at Sundance in 2023) and the remarkable sweep of awards in Locarno last year, where Best...

Disney’s “Snow White” retained the top spot at the U.K. and Ireland box office for a second week, bringing in £2 million ($2.6 million) and pushing its total to £6.7 million ($8.7 million), according to Comscore.

Leading the newcomers was “L2: Empuraan,” the Malayalam-language action film distributed by Rft Films Ltd. The film, a sequel to 2019’s “Lucifer,” opened with $1.5 million, securing second place and marking one of the strongest regional Indian film debuts in the U.K. in recent years. Starring Mohanlal and from actor-director Prithviraj Sukumaran, the film is the second part in a planned trilogy.

Warner Bros.’ “A Working Man,” starring Jason Statham, debuted at No. 3 with $850,180.

Universal’s “Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy” slipped to fourth but continued its phenomenal run, adding $726,295 in its seventh weekend. The film has now grossed $58.9 million, making it the highest-grossing U.K. release of the year.

In fifth, Paramount’s dark comedy “Novocaine,...

The European Film Academy (Efa) is touting as a success its “month of European film” program, a pan-national screening event celebrating European cinema, as it outlines plans for an U.S.-style awards season for the old continent.

Nearly half a million viewers caught last year’s month of European film program, which ran in some 108 theaters across 42 European countries, a huge jump from 2022, the first year of the event, which recorded 61,000 admissions across 35 partners in 35 countries.

The month of European film was set up as a means to attract more attention to European films which suffer from a gap between their critical acclaim — see this year’s European Oscar nominees and winners, including Emilia Pérez, Flow, Conclave, September 5 and The Girl With the Needle — and box office performance. While Europe continues to deliver local-language hits — Spanish comedy Padre no hay más que uno 4, or French period drama The Count of Monte Cristo...

The South Korean box office saw a decisive new leader emerge over the weekend of March 28–30, as local film “The Match” dominated the charts with a commanding debut.

The sports drama, inspired by the real-life rivalry between Go masters Cho Hun-hyun and Lee Chang-ho, earned $3.5 million from 544,259 admissions, securing 61.74% of the weekend market share, according to Kobis, the tracking service operated by the Korean Film Council.

Directed by Kim Hyeong-ju, “The Match” benefitted from a strong star cast, including Lee Byung-hun and Yoo Ah-in, and wide distribution on 1,773 screens. Its cumulative gross since its March 26 release stands at $4.4 million with 700,845 admissions.

In second place, “Attack on Titan The Movie: The Last Attack” held on with $611,520 and 88,971 admissions. The Japanese franchise finale, now in its third weekend, has grossed $3.6 million with 539,927 total admissions.

Last week’s chart-topper, “Mickey 17,” slipped to third with $402,623 from 60,892 viewers. The Bong Joon Ho-directed sci-fi...

UK-Ireland top five Mar 28-30, 2025 RankFilm (origin)DistributorMar 28-30 grossTotalWeek 1 Snow White (US) Disney £2m £6.8m 2 2 A Working Man (US-uk)

Warner Bros £658,134 £658,134 1 3 Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy (UK-Fr-us)

Universal £561,120 £45.5m 7 4 Novocaine (US)

Paramount £442,000 £544,000 1 5 Black Bag (US)

Universal £421,458 £3.1m 3

Disney’s Snow White live-action remake topped the UK-Ireland box office for a second weekend, with A Working Man starring Jason Statham as the top new title.

Directed by Marc Webb and starring Rachel Zegler, Snow White added just over £2m on its second session – a 48% drop that brought it to £6.8m. It is down on the £16.2m of 2023’s The Little Mermaid,...

The Palm Springs International Film Society has set the 37th edition of its annual film festival for Jan. 2 through Jan. 12.

The Film Awards will take place on Jan. 3 at the Palm Springs Convention Center. Variety‘s Creative Impact Awards and Directors to Watch brunch will be held on Jan. 4.

Film screenings are set to begin on Friday Jan. 2 with an opening night presentation, and conclude with best of the fest programming Jan. 12 and Jan. 13.

Nearly all of the honorees from the 2025 Film Awards went on to receive Academy Award nominations, including winners Adrien Brody (Desert Palm achievement award), Kieran Culkin, Mikey Madison and Zoe Saldana (Vanguard Award).

2025 Oscar-winning films “I’m Still Here” (best international feature), “Flow” (best animated feature film), and “No Other Land” (best documentary feature) were among the titles that screened at this year’s festival, in addition to best live action short winner “I’m Not a Robot.

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Disney’s “Snow White” took the crown at the U.K. and Ireland box office over the weekend, debuting with a strong £3.8 million ($5 million), according to Comscore. The reimagining of the classic fairy tale led a competitive field of new releases and set the tone for the upcoming Easter holiday period.

In second place, Trinity Filmed Entertainment’s animated fantasy sequel “Ne Zha 2” earned $1.6 million. The Chinese blockbuster, which continues the mythological story of its 2019 predecessor, became one of the highest openings for a Chinese film in the territory. It has earned more than $2 billion worldwide and is the highest-grossing animated film of all time and the fifth highest grosser ever.

Universal’s “Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy” continued its remarkable run in third place, earning $1 million in its sixth weekend. The romcom sequel has now grossed $57.6 million, solidifying its position as the highest-grossing U.K. release of the year so far.

Last year, the Un Certain Regard section had several gems. Caméra d’Or jury prized Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel’s Armand and the Ucr jury of Xavier Dolan bestowed the top prize to Black Dog. Other solid film items included Souleymane’s Story, September Says, On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, Holy Cow and the Oscar-winning Flow. Christian Jeune will be looking to steal some high value directorial debuts from the Critic’s Week and Directors’ Fortnight sections (such as the buzz titles from actor-turn-directors Kristen Stewart and Harris Dickinson) and we are anticipatinga handful of return guests who’ve previously premiered their works at the Debussy.…...

When people talk about animated movies, many think of Disney. Disney has released some iconic and popular animated films, from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to the recently released Moana 2. Through their partnership with Pixar Animations Studios, Disney released more memorable films like Toy Story, Monsters Inc., and Inside Out. Yet, while Disney animated films remain some of the best animated movies, there are many others released by other studios that are just as good as Disney animated movies or better.

With the success of the animated adventure film Flow, which won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature, many are looking at animated movies outside the ones produced by Disney. Over the years, there have been many animated movies from studios like DreamWorks Animation and 20th Century Studios that managed to win over viewers. And while Walt Disney Animation Studios remains the leading studio for animated movies, there...

After “Flow” became the first Latvian film to win an Academy Award, the crew received much more than a warm welcome back home. Producer Matiss Kaza told IndieWire that when the Latvian filmmakers returned from Los Angeles, they were treated like they had won not just Oscar but Olympic gold.

“There was a special event at the monument of freedom in the center of Riga to welcome [us],” Kaza said. “Thousands gathered despite the late hour. A couple of days later, the entire team visited the president of Latvia. The three major trophies received by Flow were on display at the National Museum of Art, where they were seen by more than 28,000 people. Now, the trophies are touring the smaller Latvian cities, such as Liepāja, Cēsis, and Rēzekne so that fans in [those] regions can also see them in person. The nation is extremely proud of the achievement, and it is a...

In Gints Zilbalodis’ Flow, a cat travels through a flooded, hazardous, post-human landscape, putting those feline survival skills to good use. Here, the Latvian director recounts to Empire's Ian Freer the nine stages of his own unique filmmaking journey.

1) Embarking

I think my personality is like a cat.

I want to be independent and do things my own way. After making my first feature, Away [2019, about a boy being chased by a monster], I had an opportunity to work on a bigger scale and so thought I should make a story about me figuring out how to collaborate. It wasn’t something I had past experience with; it was something I was going through in that moment.

When I was 15 I made a simple, seven-minute, hand-drawn short, Aqua, about a cat’s fear of water. When I decided to revisit this premise for a feature version, I wanted to focus more on the cat’s fear of others,...

UK-Ireland top five Mar 21-23 Rank Film (origin) Distributor Mar 21-23 gross Total Week 1 Snow White (US) Disney £3.9m £3.9m 1 2 Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy(UK-Fr-us)

Universal £772,874 £44.6m 6 3 Black Bag(US) Universal £734,932 £2.2m 2 4 Mickey 17 (US-s Kor) Warner Bros £724,113 £5.9m 3 5 The Alto Knights (US) Warner Bros £386,698 £386,698 1

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Disney’s latest foray into live-action remakes, Snow White, has started off with a modest £3.9m at the UK-Ireland box office.

Marc Webb directs the live-action musical re-imagining of Disney’s 1937 Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs animation, which stars Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot, and was released at 651 sites,...