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The Prince Charles Cinema is declared an Asset of Community Value by Westminster Council – which is a step forward.

Big update here, chums, and a happy one. The Prince Charles Cinema looks to be on steadier footing going forward, with the news that Westminster Council has given it some security.

As per the Pcc Bluesky account:

“We are excited to tell everyone that Westminster Council decided on May 1st that the Prince Charles Cinema would be included in the list of Assets of Community Value maintained by the Council under section 87 of the Localism Act 2011.”

The venue isn’t entirely out of the woods, and still needs to secure a long term lease. But it’s a very useful step in the right direction.

Of course, there are lower profile independent cinemas still struggling, and please alert us to any that need help/support in the comments.

Our original story from January is here…...

The new Apple TV+ series Government Cheese is making its way through Season 1, offering a surrealist and comedic experience led by a laugh-out-loud David Oyelowo. Yes, the English lad can do the funny stuff, let's not forget, with a flawless American accent and all.

Oyelowo's unique new show, co-created by Paul Hunter (director of the cult classic Bulletproof Monk), actually began as a short film of the same name roughly six years ago. And now, here we are with the San Fernando Valley-set saga, with events unfolding in the landmark year 1969. MovieWeb recently caught up with Hunter to learn more about Government Cheese, whose elements are pulled from Hunter's life, and how it evolved into the quirky series it is today.

"It started as a feature. I couldn't really sort of get traction on it as a feature, so I said, you know, this needs a visual element to it,...

Paul Haggis’s interconnected drama about racism in Los Angeles remains one of the most embarrassing Oscar decisions ever made

It doesn’t take long for Paul Haggis’s Crash to end up on the shortest of shortlists for the worst film ever to win best picture at the Oscars, maybe the single worst in the color era since 1954’s Around the World in 80 Days. At the time, it was a dark-horse favorite to upset the widely acclaimed Brokeback Mountain, premiering a full year earlier at the Toronto film festival before riding an unexpected cultural wave to awards-season glory. Now 20 years later, it feels like a “you had to be there” moment that’s hard to explain, because the movie itself is so obviously rancid that it suggests few answers on its own. The job is probably better suited to cultural anthropologists than film critics.

Nonetheless, Haggis’s ensemble piece...

Leonardo DiCaprio takes a dive for the environment!

The 50-year-old actor and climate activist was seen filming an upcoming nature documentary on April 26 in Formentera, Spain. There, he wore a wetsuit while helping clean plastic waste from the sea. He also led a group of children, who joined him in his efforts for the project that spotlights endangered seagrass Posidonia Oceanica.

During the outing, the Killers of the Flower Moon star was seen getting out the water and sitting on a yellow boat equipped with boom mics.

Keep reading to find out more…

Meanwhile, if you didn’t know, Leonardo is currently starring in an upcoming Paul Thomas Anderson movie titled One Battle After Another. He officially joined YouTube to debut the trailer, which you can check out here.

Browse through the gallery to see the photos of Leonardo DiCaprio diving in Spain…...

Plot: An awkward high school senior hires an exotic dancer to help seduce her longtime crush before graduation, leading to unexpected friendship and lessons in self-confidence, acceptance and adulthood.

Review: The sex comedy has long been the domain of male-centric stories. In the early 2000s, there was a shift to telling more female-led comedies that used nudity and graphic content to show that women could be just as nasty as men. While it has been a while since a solid R-rated comedy has done well on the big screen, several independent films have been snatched up by streaming platforms to pad their libraries. The latest addition to Hulu’s slate is one of the more substantive efforts and comes from actress Jillian Bell, making her feature directorial debut. Summer of 69 starts with a tone and approach that makes it seem in line with films like The Girl Next Door or...

Annual critics’ lists are important, sure. But when the world’s most successful filmmaker picks a favorite movie, people listen.

At the AFI’s annual 50th Life Achievement Award event held April 26 at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Steven Spielberg was among friends and collaborators who couldn’t refuse offering kudos to honoree Francis Ford Coppola. When Spielberg and fellow helmer George Lucas presented the AFI honor to Coppola, the Schindler’s List and E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial director said onstage that Coppola’s 1972 Oscar-winning classic The Godfather was, to him, “The greatest American film ever made.”

Certainly, a solid choice (who wants to get metaphorically whacked like Sonny Corleone at the toll booth for saying otherwise?). And Spielberg did clarify his statement as The Godfather being the best American film, setting it apart from world cinema. While great directors frequently change up their top films, many have stated the ones that hold prime spots.

The cinematic universes of Marvel and Star Wars have been struggling critically — and even in viewership — for awhile now, but “Thunderbolts*” and Disney+’s “Andor,” respectively, are restoring faith to desperately treaded I.P. On this week’s episode of IndieWire’s “Screen Talk” podcast, co-hosts Anne Thompson and Ryan Lattanzio dive into the merits and demerits of each.

Disney’s “Thunderbolts*” co-starring Florence Pugh and Sebastian Stan is about to dethrone “Sinners” at IMAX theaters, though Warner Bros. is prepping to re-release the latter hit film in premium venues. And on 70mm. For now, this weekend’s best box-office bet looks to be “Thunderbolts*,” which has garnered better-than-usual reviews for a Marvel movie and promises something different and more character-driven than simply movie chess pieces across a board, as so many MCU movies tend to be doing.

Anne praises the character work and Pugh’s performance especially, while Ryan...

Yorgos Lanthimos has had an interesting creative partnership with actor Emma Stone so far. Ever since the 2018 film The Favourite, which also starred Olivia Colman and Rachel Weisz, Lanthimos has featured Stone in a significant role in every movie he has made since. One of their more recent collaborations earned Stone an Oscar nomination for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performance in 2023's Poor Things, with the movie also receiving critical acclaim and numerous other award nominations. Now, the next intriguing collaboration from Lanthimos and Stone has finally set a release date.

In a press release from Focus Features, the production company announced that Bugonia, the next film from Yorgos Lanthimos, will have a special engagement in theaters on October 24, followed by a wide release on October 31. The announcement also came with the news that Bugonia was filmed in VistaVision, the same format used for Brady Corbet's 2024 film,...

David Mamet has been a celebrated playwright for half a century, and there are so many themes and obsessions and modes and rhythms and tics running through his work that it’s easy to survey it all and simply categorize it as “Mametesque.” The continuity is there.

Yet when I look at the chronology of Mamet’s career, I’m struck by a huge and overwhelming schism — one that’s tonal, philosophical, stylistic and defining of his identity. In the plays that put him on the map, like “American Buffalo” and “Sexual Perversity in Chicago,” he was trying to approximate the ways ordinary people talk, which is why the words came out in a jagged profane half-articulate sputter, the characters stepping on each other’s percussive thoughts. It all culminated in Mamet’s 1983 masterpiece, “Glengarry Glen Ross,” a timeless celebration/indictment of small-time con-artist salesmen that turned the deceptive language of hustlers into crookback poetry.

Exclusive: Here are your first look images of stars Josh O’Connor (Challengers) and Alana Haim (Licorice Pizza) in Kelly Reichardt’s Cannes Competition film The Mastermind.

Set in a sedate corner of Massachusetts circa 1970, the film follows Jb Mooney (Josh O’Connor), an unemployed carpenter turned amateur art thief, who plans his first big heist. When things go haywire, his life unravels.

Also starring are John Magaro, Hope Davis, Bill Camp, Gaby Hoffmann, Amanda Plummer, Eli Gelb, Cole Doman, Javion Allen, Matthew Maher and Rhenzy Feliz.

Mubi will distribute in select territories, retaining rights in North America, UK, Ireland, Latam, Germany, Austria, Benelux, Turkey, and India, with The Match Factory handling international sales.

Producers on the film are Neil Kopp, Anish Savjani, and Vincent Savino of filmscience.

Filmscience has produced all of Reichardt’s films since Old Joy and this will be the second time Mubi has worked with Reichardt,...

Josh Brolin And Julia Garner Starrer Weapons ( Photo Credit – Instagram )

Something chilling is creeping into theatres this summer—and it’s coming from the mind behind one of the most unnerving horror hits of recent years. Weapons, the upcoming film by Barbarian director Zach Cregger, has just dropped its trailer, and fans of eerie mysteries have plenty to be excited about. Josh Brolin teams up with Julia Garner for the upcoming unsettling horror film. Set in the quiet fictional town of Maybrook, the story kicks off with a disturbing event: at exactly 2:17 a.m. on what seemed like a normal Wednesday, 17 schoolchildren rise from their beds, leave their homes without a trace, and disappear into the night—never to be seen again.

Julia Garner plays the role of Justine Gandy, a Maybrook Elementary teacher who arrives at school one morning only to find her entire class missing. Meanwhile, Brolin...

The TCM Classic Film Festival isn’t just high on vintage films — occasionally, at least, the festival also finds a way to make room for long-gone methods of projection and exhibition. This is, after all, the festival that brought back Smell-o-vision for a screening back in the 2010s. “We bring back in every format, eventually,” said TCM Festival director Genevieve McGillicuddy during a speech wrapping up the annual gathering on Sunday night.

In this case, she was referring to a presentation that happened during the 2025 festival that might have been even rarer or longer in coming back than showing movies with scents. On Saturday night at the TLC Chinese Theatre, the 1950s process known as VistaVision was celebrated with the screening of two motion pictures filmed in that format, “We’re No Angels” and “Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.” There was a big wrinkle that makes the showing of those movies...

Zach Cregger’s sophomore horror feature Weapons has unveiled a new trailer, and if the internet response is anything to go by, the director of Barbarian is on track to redefine what modern horror can achieve. Set to open in UK cinemas on 8 August, Weapons plunges viewers into a labyrinth of paranoia, grief and escalating terror after a classroom of children inexplicably vanishes in the middle of the night.

Led by Emmy-winner Julia Garner as primary school teacher Justine Gandy, Weapons weaves together a fractured web of personal torment, small-town suspicion and supernatural unease. When every child in Justine’s class disappears at precisely 2:17am, parents and officials are quick to turn on her, none more so than Archer Graff, played with quiet menace by Josh Brolin. As police and families scramble for answers, whispers begin to spread that this tragedy might be linked to something much older, and darker,...

Barbarian (watch it Here) writer/director Zach Cregger has assembled a strong cast for his mysterious horror project called Weapons, including Julia Garner (Ozark), Josh Brolin (No Country for Old Men), Alden Ehrenreich (Solo), Benedict Wong (Doctor Strange), Amy Madigan (Antlers), Austin Abrams (Euphoria), June Diane Raphael (Grace and Frankie), and Cary Christopher (Days of Our Lives)… and we’re going to have the chance to see that cast face the horrors Cregger has conjured up when Weapons reaches theatres on August 8th. Yesterday, some new images from the film made their way online, followed by two hours of security cam footage. Now, Warner Bros. has released a creepy full trailer for the film, and you can check it out in the embed above.

Most details about Weapons are shrouded in mystery. It has been said that it’s “an interrelated, multistory horror epic” that’s tonally in the vein...

When Zach Cregger's fiendishly twisty horror film "Barbarian" stunned Hollywood in 2022 by grossing $45.4 million against a $4.5 million budget, every studio in town was eager to make whatever movie next sprouted from the writer-director's imagination. This wasn't because studios were looking to duplicate the low-budget success of "Barbarian." No, this was all about getting into a hopefully long-term business with an exciting new voice in horror who's likely just barely scratched the surface of his potential.

Ultimately, New Line Cinema won a multi-studio bidding war for the rights to Cregger's "Weapons," the premise of which has been shrouded in secrecy for months. All we knew for a while was that the film centers on a bizarre incident in which 17 children in a small Pennsylvania town spontaneously flee their houses at 2:17 Am, sprinting off into the night and never returning.

And they never came back...

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After shifting from his comedy days in The Whitest Kids U’ Know to his horror debut Barbarian, Zach Cregger’s next project has been highly anticipated and highly secretive. Led by Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Alden Ehrenreich, Austin Abrams, Cary Christopher, with Benedict Wong, and Amy Madigan, Weapons took the summer slot previously occupied by Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another, and now WB has unveiled the first teaser.

Here’s the brief synopsis: “When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance.”

Cregger directs from his own screenplay, and also produces alongside Roy Lee, Miri Yoon, J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules, with Michelle Morrissey and Josh Brolin executive producing. The filmmaker’s creative team behind the camera includes director of photography Larkin Seiple, production designer Tom Hammock,...

Barbarian (watch it Here) writer/director Zach Cregger has assembled a strong cast for his mysterious horror project called Weapons, including Julia Garner (Ozark), Josh Brolin (No Country for Old Men), Alden Ehrenreich (Solo), Benedict Wong (Doctor Strange), Amy Madigan (Antlers), Austin Abrams (Euphoria), June Diane Raphael (Grace and Frankie), and Cary Christopher (Days of Our Lives)… and we’re going to have the chance to see that cast face the horrors Cregger has conjured up when Weapons reaches theatres on August 8th. With that date swiftly approaching, Warner Bros is getting creative with their marketing. Indeed, they’ve just posted over two hours of creepy security camera footage tied into the film’s central premise, being that in the middle of the night, a bunch of suburban kids walked out of their homes into the night and were never seen again. Cregger has shared a few new images with...

Haim’s first album in five years, I Quit, drops June 20, and the sister act just announced they’ll be taking it on the road this fall in the U.S., Canada, and U.K. The band played tracks from the album live for the first time last week at the L.A. club the Bellwether, with Addison Rae dancing onstage during the soulful “Blood on the Street,” which includes a bluesy guitar solo by Danielle Haim. The band also premiered “Down to Be Wrong,” which Rolling Stone recently described...

Zach Cregger is citing how Paul Thomas Anderson’s 1999 drama “Magnolia” inspired his “horror epic,” “Weapons.” Sure, it may seem like the iconic star-studded “Magnolia” doesn’t have much in common with Cregger’s (albeit secretive) sophomore film “Weapons,” but the writer/director is crediting how “Magnolia” gave him “permission” to think big.

“I just like that kind of unapologetic, ‘This is an epic,'” Cregger told Entertainment Weekly of the “Magnolia” effect. “I love that movie. I love that kind of bold scale. It gave me permission when I was writing this to shoot for the stars and make it an epic. I wanted a horror epic, and so I tried to do that.”

Even the aesthetic choices in “Weapons” have nods to PTA’s masterpiece: Cregger said that “Weapons” star Alden Ehrenreich has a mustache for the role as a reference to John C. Reilly’s “Magnolia” look.

Zach Cregger’s (Barbarian) next movie Weapons has been described as a “horror epic” for a while now, and it’s an ambitious branding that the filmmaker is fully embracing in a new chat with Entertainment Weekly this week. Inspired by Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia, of all things, Weapons is said to be “more ambitious in every way” than Cregger’s feature debut.

The plot of the mysterious Weapons, which will be released in theaters on August 8, 2025? Entertainment Weekly details, “The moment the clocks turned 2:17 a.m. on a seemingly random Wednesday morning, 17 children in the fictional Pennsylvania town of Maybrook woke from their beds, exited their homes, and ran into the night. They never came back.”

“That mystery is going to propel you through at least half of the movie, but that is not the movie,” Cregger teases. “The movie will fork and change and reinvent and go in new places.

The actor has seen the best and worst of Hollywood, from directors like Paul Thomas Anderson to the notorious Harvey Weinstein. She talks about her #MeToo moment, her difficult childhood and her new movie, Chosen Family

For almost all her life, Heather Graham says, she was a “people pleaser”. It was encouraged in childhood, she says, this obligation to put others’ needs above her own, and it endured even after the 1997 film Boogie Nights had made her a star and she had severed all contact with her “judgmental, authoritarian” parents.

Now 55, Graham was in her 40s before she recognised her self-sabotaging tendencies, and tried to correct course. “I realised, no, actually I can just ask myself, ‘What do I want?’ and make myself happy,” she says over Zoom from her home in Los Angeles. “I wish I could have had this when I was 20 or 15. If I wasn’t trying to please other people,...

One of Hollywood's biggest names is fully on board the Sinners hype train.

Tom Cruise offered full praise to director Ryan Coogler's acclaimed horror-drama via Instagram, sharing a photo of him holding his ticket against a backdrop of the movie's poster. "Congratulations Ryan, Michael, and to the entire cast and crew," he wrote, declaring the film a "Must see in a cinema and stay through the end credits!" Cruise's comment, in turn, received praise from lead actor Michael B. Jordan in the comment section, who replied, "Thanks for the love and support!!!"

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As Coogler's first original movie following Fruitvale Station, Creed, and the Black Panther films, Sinners stars Jordan as twin gangsters Smoke and Stack who open up a juke joint for the residents of their old Mississippi hometown. Its opening night, however, is upended by the...

John Krasinski–Emily Blunt To Mike Flanagan–Kate Siegel ( Photo Credit – Instagram )

When directors cast their spouses in films, it’s usually a gamble. You’d think mixing business with pleasure might lead to some on-screen awkwardness, but sometimes, it sparks magic. From the cozy comfort of their personal relationships to the undeniable chemistry they already share, these director-spouse duos have proven that love and filmmaking can go hand in hand. John Krasinski to Mike Flanagan, these directors cast their real-life spouses & the results were pure cinematic gold.

Whether it’s a daring action sequence, a tear-jerking drama, or a quirky rom-com, these couples have shown that they’re not just partners in life but also in creating unforgettable cinema. So, grab your popcorn as we look at the directors who cast their spouses. Somehow, it actually worked out, turning their on-screen collaborations into true cinematic gems!

John Krasinski & Emily Blunt...

In the summer of 2017, Oscar-winning actor Daniel Day-Lewis surprised Hollywood, London and the entire entertainment world when he revealed that he retired from acting and would make no more films. His final performance in Paul Thomas Anderson's "Phantom Thread" (2017) brought Day-Lewis his sixth Oscar nomination, his eighth Golden Globe nom and his seventh BAFTA bid (losing all three to Gary Oldman for "Darkest Hour").

One of the most respected actors of his generation, Day-Lewis is the only man who has won three Oscars for Best Actor. Those victories were for “My Left Foot” (1989), “There Will Be Blood” (2007), and “Lincoln” (2012). In fact he is one of only three men to win acting Oscars three times; the others are Walter Brennan and Jack Nicholson. In addition, he has won two Best Actor awards each from the Screen Actors Guild and the Golden Globes.

Most importantly (if retirement actually happens), he will...

Lionsgate isn't messing around when it comes to getting its latest "Hunger Games" prequel film, "Sunrise on the Reaping," ready for production. Even though the most recent book in Suzanne Collins' wildly popular series only recently hit shelves, the studio is well underway on an adaptation of said novel for the big screen. Now, we have word that one of the most important roles in the upcoming prequel has been filled, and it's a pitch-perfect bit of casting.

Thanks to a post on the official "Hunger Games" social media accounts, it's been revealed that Jesse Plemons has been cast as a young Plutarch Heavensbee. The character was originally played by the late, great Philip Seymour Hoffman (beginning in "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire"). The "Mockingjay" movies served as Hoffman's final credits before his passing.

Plemons actually played Hoffman's son previously in Paul Thomas Anderson's "The Master," and that worked out quite well.

Ruddy typical, you wait months and months for a casting update on the latest Hunger Games movie, and suddenly two come along at once. Yes, barely a day after we learned who will play the leading trio in Francis Lawrence's The Hunger Games: Sunrise On The Reaping, Lionsgate are back at it again, confirming another eye-catching name that has joined the hotly anticipated adaptation of Suzanne Collins' latest Games prequel. Taking to Instagram earlier this evening, The Hunger Games' official account has revealed that Oscar nominee Jesse Plemons has landed the role of future Head Gamemaker Plutarch Heavensbee in the upcoming movie — and you can see the announcement below;

Played brilliantly in the original Hunger Games movies by the late, great Philip Seymour Hoffman, Plutarch Heavensbee occupies spaces both as a close confidant and high ranking official for the tyrannical President Snow, and as a secret rebel insurgent with...

The cast for the next installment in Lionsgate's The Hunger Games franchise continues to grow. Another well-known actor has boarded the prequel Sunrise on the Reaping, which will be based on the bestselling book of the same name by Suzanne Collins.

Per Deadline, Oscar nominee Jesse Plemons has been cast as a young Plutarch Heavensbee in The Hunger Games prequel. He will succeed the late Philip Seymour Hoffman in the role, who played the Head Gamemaker and rebellion leader in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay—Parts 1 and 2, the latter two of which served as his final film roles. Most moviegoers will likely agree that Plemons is the perfect choice to portray a young Plutarch, since many have noted online how there is a strong physical resemblance between the actor and Hoffman.

Plutarch Heavensbee.The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping – in theaters November 20, 2026. pic.

Jesse Plemons is headed to Panem. The acclaimed actor has joined the cast of “The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping” as a young version of Plutarch Heavensbee.

Plutarch was portrayed by Philip Seymour Hoffman in original films “Catching Fire” and “Mockingjay” Parts 1 and 2. Hoffman died in 2014 after filming the majority of his scenes for the “Mockingjay” films, with only a week of shooting remaining.

Director Francis Lawrence did not use any CGI technology to replicate the actor’s performance, instead choosing to rewrite scenes and give Hoffman’s dialogue to other actors. “He was one of the greatest actors, I think, of all time and I just think to try to fake a Philip Seymour Hoffman performance would have been catastrophic and I would never want to do that,” Lawrence said at the time. “I just think this was the best way to be able to get around such a horrible thing.

Superman is widely expected to become one of the biggest movies of the year when it flies into theaters this summer. However, a recent lawsuit put the film's release in select countries, including the United Kingdom and Canada, into question. Those are major markets where having a theatrcial run is vital to the Dcu project's box office prospects. Fortunately for Warner Bros., a judge has ruled in their favor and sealed the fate of James Gunn's DC superhero film.

As reported by Bloomberg, a federal judge has dismissed the case between Warner Bros. and Warren Peary, the nephew of Superman co-creator Joseph Shuster. The estate of the late Schuster alleged that the studio did not have the rights to release the film in select territories due to an apparent lack of foreign copyrights to the original comic book storyline. With the ruling, Superman will be able to be released...

Talk about turnarounds: Hollywood is getting high marks this week for two timely hits that are being devoured by Gen Z audiences worldwide.

Filmgoers are lauding the game-based A Minecraft Movie and the original thriller Sinners — a veritable feast of video games and vampires.

And memories are short. Two years ago at this moment studio chiefs were running for cover, film releases were canceled, strikes were looming and Warner Bros. announced that all its product would be released as streaming movies. The studio even came up with the perfect counterprogramming for Oppenheimer: It was called Coyote vs Acme, basking in the afterglow of Looney Tunes.

Then came the show-stopper: Emerging from the mist was a concept called Barbenheimer. A few critics threw up their hands until Tom Cruise promised to see Oppenheimer and Barbie back to back. Even Scorsese lent his endorsement. The Coyote had vanished into the pink cloud of Barbiedom.

Haim have released another new single, titled “Down to be wrong.” The track is the third preview of their newly announced fourth studio album, I quit, out June 20th. Update: Watch the song’s music video, starring Logan Lerman.

Described in a press release as a “confident ode to self-preservation and prioritizing yourself,” “Down to be wrong” was produced by Danielle Haim and longtime collaborator Rostam Batmanglij. On the track’s lyrics, Haim look back at a failed relationship: “Boy, I crushed my whole heart/ Tryin’ to fit my soul into your arms/ And I crushed up these pills/ And I still couldn’t take ’em.”

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The trio announced I quit during a promotional show at LA’s The Bellwether last night (April 23rd). Later this summer, the Haim sisters will play slots at New Orleans Jazz Festival, Primavera Sound, and BBC Radio One’s Big Weekend.

After a slew of summery singles and a cheeky, highly entertaining rollout featuring homages to early 2000s paparazzi photos, Haim have officially announced their new album. I Quit arrives June 20 via Columbia Records.

To accompany the album announcement, the L.A. sister trio dropped the new single “Down to Be Wrong.” It’s a slow-burning rocker of supreme self-preservation in the wake of heartbreak — one that quietly simmers in the verses, and builds to a cathartic release of reflections. “Red lights are up ahead,” Danielle Haim sings. “But I keep walking.

Haim recently kicked off a new album cycle with two singles, and now they’ve revealed the project’s title and release date.

During an intimate club show at LA’s The Bellwether on Wednesday night (April 23rd), the sisterly trio flashed the title I quit on the screen during the beginning of their intro video. They confirmed the news on Instagram, posting a clip culminating with the message, “I quit new haim album coming June 20th.”

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The intro video featured numerous variations of the “I Quit” theme, including:

“I quit what does not serve me, I quit overthinking, I quit shame, I quit nicotine, I quit fear, I quit dick, I quit judgement, I quit avoiding emotional intimacy, I quit my job, I quit caring about what you think, I quit waiting for an apology, I quit fucking around, I quit fucking everything, I quit fucking you,...

Mission: Impossible fans will want to use the bathroom before sitting down for The Final Reckoning. The runtime for the eighth Mission: Impossible movie has reportedly been revealed, and it's a record-breaker.

After trusted runtime scooper Cryptic HD Quality reported on X that Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning would clock in at a whopping 2 hours and 51 minutes (171 min), Paramount revealed to ComicBook.com that the official runtime would actually be two minutes less. Even so, The Final Reckoning's 169-minute runtime is still a massive leap from the first Mission: Impossible film, which came in at 110 minutes. The runtimes for the other six entries in the long-running action spy franchise are 124 min (M:I:2), 126 min (M:I:iii), 133 min (Ghost Protocol), 131 min (Rogue Nation), 147 min (Fallout), and 163 min (Dead Reckoning). With the exception of 2015's Rogue Nation, the Mission: Impossible movies have progressively gotten longer with each new installment.

Surprisingly, Mission: Impossible –...

Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is going to last a while. Paramount Pictures' Mission Impossible - The Final Reckoning, set to be the culmination of Tom Cruise'sMission: Impossible franchise, has a runtime of two hours and 49 minutes, making it the longest film in the Mission: Impossible series. The nearly three-hour runtime means audiences can expect some more heart-pounding action from Cruise's Ethan Hunt.

The 2:49 runtime makes the film six minutes longer than the franchise's prior record holder, Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning, with the 2023 film coming in at two hours and 43 minutes. While a six-minute difference may not seem like that much, it is a significant amount when it comes to action films. However, it is still not the longest movie of Cruise's career; that record goes to Magnolia, the 1999 Paul Thomas Anderson film, which has a runtime of 3:08.

Specific plot lines about The Final...

Sinners has been building hype ever since Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan had studios discreetly read their script in a supervised session. Then, studios began a bidding war for a film that no one knew details about, except that it was a “genre movie.” That genre turned out to be a period vampire film and audiences turned out for Sinners this past week with a huge positive response and rave reviews. In his review, our own Chris Bumbray says, “It’s good enough that I can’t help but hope Coogler eventually parts ways with the MCU (after his next Black Panther flick), as he seems better off playing in his own sandbox. Given the right resources and support, Sinners might be the beginning of a whole new chapter for one of our most exciting, emerging filmmakers.”

According to The Hollywood Reporter, writer and director Ryan Coogler wrote a...

How quickly the fortunes of a Hollywood studio head can change.

Just weeks after the word around town was that their jobs were in jeopardy, Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group studio heads Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy have passed a key test of their film strategy and will likely live to fight another day thanks to the critical and commercial success of Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners” and the birth of a new franchise with Jared Hess’ “A Minecraft Movie,” according to multiple insiders who spoke with TheWrap.

Coogler’s vampire horror film’s $48 million domestic opening weekend and extremely rare A CinemaScore — the first for a horror film in 39 years — has strengthened the pair’s position following earlier misfires like Todd Phillips’ “Joker: Folie à Deux” and Bong Joon-ho’s “Mickey 17.”

Even more impressive: Warner Bros. achieved what no studio has accomplished since 2009, with two films – “Sinners” and...

Ryan Coogler has thanked cinema-goers for seeing his new movie 'Sinners' on the big screen in an emotional open letter.The director hand typed an emotional note which was posted to Instagram declaring his heart is "bursting" with "eternal gratitude" for everyone who went to see 'Sinners' at the cinema.He wrote: "Eternal gratitude. My heart is bursting with it,. I want to thank each and every one of you who bought a ticket to see 'Sinners'. "Who decided to drive to see the film in different formats. Who bought popcorn and a drink, booked a sitter and carpooled, and stood in the lobby afterward and talked and made a friend. Who changed their work schedules. Who saw the film in groups."I want to thank you all who watching more than once, who recommended the film to others, both in person and on social media...

Ryan Coogler is expressing his “eternal gratitude” following the successful box office debut of his latest movie, Sinners.

The filmmaker penned an emotional letter to those who went to the theater this past week to watch the film, starring Michael B. Jordan. The horror pic follows twin brothers who return to their hometown to start again, trying to leave their troubled lives behind, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.

“Eternal gratitude. My heart is bursting with it,” Coogler’s letter read. “I want to thank each and every one of you who bought a ticket to see Sinners. Who decided to drive to see the film in different formats. Who bought popcorn and a drink, booked a sitter and carpooled, and stood in the lobby afterward and talked and made a friend. Who changed their work schedules. Who saw the film in groups.

Ryan Coogler’s Sinners has not only glorified the director but also redeemed some big names in the industry. Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy, Warner Bros.’ movie chiefs, were facing a Hollywood firing squad—anonymous leaks, pundit countdowns, and whispers of replacements.

Just weeks ago, their jobs hung by a thread after flops like Joker 2. Yet, with Sinners grossing $48 million and A Minecraft Movie hitting $700 million globally, they have staged a comeback that’s the talk of Tinseltown. Greenlighting Coogler’s Sinners would have cost them their designations, but they are proud they made the right decision.

Warner Bros.’ movie chiefs on giving Sinners‘ rights to Ryan Coogler after 25 years Sinners director Ryan Coogler (image credits: Wikimedia Commons)

Michael De Luca, the ’90s wunderkind behind Boogie Nights and Seven, known for edgy bets, and Pam Abdy, the pragmatic producer who steadied New Line Cinemas. Together, they have spent...

“Sinners” director Ryan Coogler has penned an emotional open letter thanking fans for showing up in droves to see the film in theaters, writing that his heart is “bursting” with “eternal gratitude.”

Coogler’s movie, starring Michael B. Jordan as the Smokestack twins, won the weekend, grossing $48 million domestically and $63 million globally.

The only way they got to that figure, the filmmaker writes, was thanks to the fans who bought a ticket: those “who decided to drive to see the film in different formats. Who bought popcorn and a drink, booked a sitter and carpooled, and stood in the lobby afterwards and talked and made a friend. Who changed their work schedules. Who saw the film in groups. … who watched more than once, who recommended the film to others, both in person and on social media or on your text message chains.”

In the typed letter, Coogler writes about what...

For weeks, it wasn’t a matter of if Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy were getting fired — it was when. The Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group co-chairmen and co-CEOs had been put on executive death watch, the Hollywood equivalent of dead men walking. Anonymous quotes were flying. Pundits were counting down. Their replacements were being openly speculated about — reportedly even interviewed. And then came … a vampire.

The box office success of Sinners — Ryan Coogler’s genre-bending bloodsucker epic — didn’t just deliver a much-needed win for original filmmaking. It may have saved the jobs of the veteran execs who greenlit it. Coming on the heels of A Minecraft Movie’s record-breaking launch, Sinners pulled in $48 million domestically in its opening weekend and won over both critics and audiences, offering what looks a lot like a last-minute reprieve for the embattled duo.

Or is it?

Abdy and De Luca had...

The creepy first teaser for Barbarian Zack Cregger's next horror film, Weapons, has been released online.

Up until details from the full trailer were disclosed following a recent CinemaCon screening, the only information we had been given about the movie is that it was developed as “a multi and inter-related story horror epic that tonally is in the vein of Magnolia, the 1999 actor-crammed showcase from filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson.”

Warner Bros. has also released an official synopsis, but it doesn't really give us much more to go on: "When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance."

In the trailer, we see the children rushing out of their homes at 2:17 am, as a voiceover tells the father of one of the missing kids, Mr. Graff, that he understands his frustration,...

VistaVision is back. Brady Corbet’s “The Brutalist” not only earned Lol Crawley the Best Cinematography Oscar but has sparked a renewed interest in the format — one that is now being further fanned by unconfirmed reports of the 35mm horizontal format also being used in Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another,” Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Bugonia,” Alejandro González Iñárritu’s untitled 2026 film, and Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights.”

The timing is perfect, therefore, for the TCM Classic Film Festival to screen two rare Paramount VistaVision prints of “We’re No Angels” (1955) and “Gunfight at the O.K. Corral” (1957) on April 26 at the Tcl Chinese Theater. What’s more, the movies will be projected with special horizontal projectors, which haven’t been used since the 1950s.

Crawley will introduce “Gunfight,” the Western from director John Sturges (“The Magnificent Seven”), which teams Burt Lancaster as Wyatt Earp and Kirk Douglas as Doc Holliday, and Charlotte Barker,...

Someone gives the Pied Piper a run for his money in today’s teaser trailer for Weapons. The latest film from the director of 2022’s Barbarian remains shrouded in mystery, though new footage from the upcoming horror film offers a few breadcrumbs. Zach Cregger shocked the horror community in 2022 with Barbarian, an experience that’s better if you go into it knowing as little as possible. Barbarian captured the hearts of horror fans with its dank atmosphere, powerful performances, and twisted premise. Can Cregger set cinemas ablaze with his sophomore effort? We’ll find out when the film comes to theaters on August 8.

In Zack Cregger’s Weapons teaser, an unknown interviewer speaks with a troubled father named Mr. Graff about a mysterious phenomenon involving kids disappearing in the middle of the night. With no explanation, kids ran from their homes at roughly 2:17 am. No one forced them or pulled them from safety.

After industry estimates had the third weekend of “A Minecraft Movie” topping the critically acclaimed “Sinners” at the Easter box office on Saturday morning, the two Warner Bros. films have swapped places atop the box office charts as Ryan Coogler’s horror film is now estimated for a $45.6 million opening weekend.

Should this result hold, “Sinners” will pass the $44.3 million opening of Jordan Peele’s 2022 film “Nope” for the highest opening of an original film since the pandemic. Not only is that highly likely, it wouldn’t be surprising if the final weekend total for “Sinners” is higher than this current estimate given that it is enjoying some of the most spectacular critical and audience buzz given to any film in recent memory.

It starts with a straight A from opening night audiences on CinemaScore, the first given to a horror film since James Cameron’s “Aliens” in 1986. It then...

Your mother wears combat boots in this high-grain poster for the forthcoming Paul Thomas Anderson film, One Battle After Another. Here it is less about the framing, credit-filling negative space, or the blocky stencil-ish typography, or anything else. The central image of a very pregnant woman in flannel and khaki fatigues firing a heavy calibre rifle, with the belt of shells resting on her swollen belly, just dominates everything. The washed earthy greens and ox-blood reds, along with the drab field and cloud cover (which almost obscures the muzzle fire) mutes things to a nearly singular focus on whether one image alone will get you into the nearest art-house theatre. I suppose the reputation of the filmmaker and star-studded cast helps seal the deal, but the...

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Once an occasional big-screen feat steered by the legendary likes of Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, and Paul Thomas Anderson, long takes — aka one-shots or “oners” — are now a staple of prestige episodic TV. From The Bear to True Detective and Mr. Robot, TV producers have been increasingly employing the cinematic technique in service of their small-screen stories, elevating their image and awards potential through dexterously choreographed shots that require a great deal of skill and set-wide coordination.

The Studio: 'There are no shortcuts'

This season, take Apple TV+’s The Studio from creators Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. With episodes shot by one camera in continuous takes, Rogen and Goldberg’s Hollywood satire navigates the all-too-real trials and tribulations of a fictional movie studio’s executives with breathtaking pace, maintained expertly by cinematographer Adam Newport-Berra. “It takes a really committed team of people. There are no shortcuts,” Newport-Berra (whose credits...

Take a look at more footage from the thriller “One Battle After Another”, written, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson (“There Will Be Blood”), starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Regina Hall, Sean Penn, Alana Haim, Teyana Taylor, Wood Harris and Benicio del Toro, releasing September 26, 2025 in theaters:

“…when their evil nemesis resurfaces after 16 years, a band of ex-revolutionaries reunite again…

“…to rescue the daughter of one of their own…”

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Rami Malek decided to "learn from other actors" so he could improvise on the set of 'The Amateur'.The 43-year-old actor stars as CIA cryptographer in the new adaptation of the 1981 novel of the same name by Robert Littell and explained that he was able to find those moments in which he could deviate from the script by analysing the talent that had gone on screen before him. He told ScreenRant: "I found myself just wanting to hold onto that person through the tactile nature of their belongings, and that's what I thought."It separated this character from a lot of other action heroes.""I go back to learning from other actors. I remember being on Paul Thomas Anderson's film 'The Master', and I would watch the great Philip Seymour Hoffman and Joaquin Phoenix and Amy Adams do these things in the moment. I'd never seen...