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Chicago – In the pantheon of filmmaker breakthroughs from the 1980s, David Cronenberg is a “name above the title” … along with Spielberg, Scorsese, Cameron, Stone, Carpenter and Lynch … in his distinct style and influence. His latest film … currently in select theaters … is “The Shrouds.” Patrick McDonald got the privilege of talking to the master.

In “The Shrouds,” the angular Vincent Cassel is Karsh, a bereaved widower who is also a tech financier. In memoriam to his wife Becca, Karsh has built a new style of memorial called GraveTech, in which the bodies of the deceased are enmeshed in a digital shroud, which uses it’s camera chips to project an image of the decaying corpse on a screen embedded in the gravestone. This morbid technique gets some interest for other uses by the Chinese and the Russians, as well as Karsh’s tech expert Maury (Guy Pearce). It is a vandalism...

Exclusive: Fred Cavayé is gearing up for the shoot this summer of his adaptation of Les Misérables.

Vincent Lindon is set to star as Jean Valjean opposite Tahar Rahim as his nemesis Inspector Javert, with the ensemble cast also including Camille Cottin, Noémie Merlant and Benjamin Lavernhe.

The literary costume drama marks a departure for Cavayé who broke out as a director with 2008 thriller Anything for Her (Pour Elle), starring Lindon as a man on a mission to free his wife (Diane Kruger) from jail after she is arrested for murder, and he is convinced of her innocence.

The movie was remade in English in 2010 as The Next Three Days with Russell Crowe and Elizabeth Banks in the starring roles.

Since then, Cavayé has also made his name as a comedy director on films such as Dany Boon-starrer Penny Pincher! (Radin!) and Nothing to Hide, the French version of Italian hit Perfect Strangers,...

Academy Award winner Angelina Jolie will attend the 78th Cannes Film Festival to serve as the godmother of the 25th edition of the Trophée Chopard.

Jolie will present the trophy to rising stars Marie Colomb and Finn Bennett during a ceremony on Carlton Beach on May 16. The presentation will take place during a dinner co-hosted by Cannes Film Festival president Iris Knobloch, general delegate Thierry Frémaux and Chopard co-president and artistic director Caroline Scheufele.

“I am so happy to welcome Angelina Jolie as our Trophée Chopard Godmother,” stated Scheufele. “Her amazing film career and dedication to making a difference in the world make her an ideal role model. I know the rising talents we honor this year will be inspired by her journey and advice.”

Winner of the best supporting actress Oscar for “Girl, Interrupted,” Jolie was most recently seen in Pablo Larraín’s “Maria,” and stars in Alice Winocour’s upcoming bilingual drama “Couture,...

Transformation Of Brad Pitt As Achilles (Photo Credit – Netflix)

Wolfgang Petersen’s directorial, Troy, is one of the most popular historical dramas, starring Brad Pitt as the Greek hero Achilles. The actor bulked up significantly for the role, delivering what many considered a new standard for Hollywood’s golden physique. The epic saga of swords and scandals was filmed over the course of a year and proved to be the most physically demanding role of Pitt’s career.

The director, Wolfgang Petersen, had only one demand: Brad Pitt had to embody the look of a warrior—with long blonde hair and a sculpted physique. And the Once Upon a Time in Hollywood actor did just that, transforming into a buffed and burnished Greek hero who commanded the Bronze Age battlefields, complete with bulging biceps and a leather skirt. Wondering how he achieved the physique of Achilles? Keep reading.

The 2004 epic...

Nina Dobrev and Ariana DeBose enjoyed a glamorous night at the ballet together!

The actresses were both on the gala host committee for the New York City Ballet 2025 Spring Gala on Thursday (May 8) at Josie Robertson Plaza at Lincoln Center in New York City.

Also in attendance were Diane Kruger, Claire Danes and Hugh Dancy, and Nia Long, among others.

The Gala raised $2.7 million to support Nycb’s mission of preserving their extensive repertory, creating new and innovative works, and making ballet accessible to all through education programs and online activities.

The event was a masked ball featuring a performance of Vienna Waltzes by founding choreographer George Balanchine with costumes designed by frequent Balanchine collaborator Karinska.

Fyi: Ariana is wearing a Bibhu Mohapatra dress. Claire is wearing a custom GapStudio by Zac Posen dress.

The teaser for Fatih Akin’s “Amrum” has debuted ahead of the film’s world premiere in the Cannes Premiere section of the Cannes Film Festival. Beta Cinema is handling world sales, with Warner Bros. distributing the film in Germany and Dulac Distribution in France.

The film is set on Amrum Island, off the coast of Germany, in spring 1945. In the final days of the war, 12-year-old Nanning braves the treacherous sea to hunt seals, goes fishing at night, and works on the nearby farm to help his mother feed the family. Despite the hardship, life on the beautiful, windswept island almost feels like paradise. But when peace finally comes, it reveals a deeper threat: the enemy is far closer than he imagined.

The film is based on the childhood of German actor, writer and director Hark Bohm, who wrote the original screenplay, which was then re-written and directed by Akin.

Legendary writer/director David Cronenberg maintains his status as Canada’s coolest weirdo with his latest feature The Shrouds. Cronenberg’s conspiracy obsessed techo-mystery stars Vincent Cassel (Eastern Promises) as Karsh, a morose but visionary widower who has built an empire dedicated to his eternal grief for his late wife Becca (Diane Kruger, Inglorious Basterds). Through his company GraveTech, Karsh invents a shroud that the deceased are wrapped in at burial which allows the bereaved to view their loved ones in the grave. You know, like a baby monitor for watching your spouse decompose in real-time. Naturally this business is met with all manner of protest but after someone(s) vandalizes his customers’ (and his wife’s) burial plots, Karsh uncovers a bewildering conspiracy that threatens his life, his livelihood, and his link to the grave.

For anyone still on the fence about taking the trip to see The Shrouds during its theatrical run,...

Brad Pitt is so Hot, he could make people swing…both ways. No, seriously—if looking good were a superpower, Pitt would be running the MCU by now. He’s not just a pretty face; he’s The face that launched a thousand s*xual awakenings.

This man went full Greek god to play Achilles—ditched the ciggies, trained like a demigod for six straight months, and walked onto set looking like sculpted marble with a pulse. By 1995, Empire dubbed him one of the “25 Sexiest Stars in Film History.” That same year, People crowned him “Sexiest Man Alive”… and then did it again in 2000, because, duh.

But Pitt isn’t just abs and cheekbones—he’s got the golden hardware too. Two Oscars: one for producing 12 Years a Slave and another for playing a Hollywood stuntman in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Need more proof? We have someone else vouching for his…...

David Cronenberg, aficionado of the unnerving, won’t let his feelings about a creator get in the way of a creation. “I still love my Tesla,” says the filmmaker, seated in a dimly lit conference room at the Criterion Collection’s Manhattan office. “My relationship with my Tesla has nothing to do with Elon. We have a separate love.” He smiles wanly.

One of Musk’s machines plays a minor role in Cronenberg’s latest picture, The Shrouds (out now), when the story’s antagonist, Guy Pearce, programs coordinates into...

For cinephiles of a certain proclivity, a new David Cronenberg movie is a true event.

The director, who just turned 82, has a filmography so singular and distinct that the word “Cronenbergian” has become an adjective and if somebody uses it you know exactly what they mean – twisted, visionary and usually dealing with body horror or technological investigation (oftentimes both).

Cronenberg’s latest, “The Shrouds,” is one of the filmmaker’s very best, most personal movies and, since it premiered last summer at the Cannes Film Festival, the wait has been excruciating.

But now that it’s here, how can you watch it? Read on to find out.

What is the release date?

As of April 25, “The Shrouds” is now in theaters nationwide. It was in limited release last week but is now playing everywhere. As it should be.

Is it streaming?

It is not. You will have to go to...

Chicago – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com audio film review for the new release “The Shrouds,” a psychological thriller/horror film by the legendary auteur David Cronenberg, dealing with themes of loss, mourning and redemption. In select theaters on April 25th, see local listings.

The angular Vincent Cassel is Karsh, a bereaved widower who is also a tech financier. In memoriam to his wife Becca, Karsh has built a new style of memorial called GraveTech, in which the bodies of the deceased are enmeshed in a digital shroud, which uses it’s camera chips to project an image of the decaying corpse on a screen embedded in the gravestone. This morbid technique gets some interest for other uses by the Chinese and the Russians, as well as Karsh’s tech expert Maury (Guy Pearce). It is vandalism at his wife’s graveyard tips the scale of The Shrouds capabilities.

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Take a look at writer/director David Cronenberg’s latest horror feature “The Shrouds”, starring Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger, Guy Pearce and Sandrine Holt, releasing April 25, 2025 in theaters:

‘…‘Karsh’, an innovative businessman and grieving widower, builds a device to connect with the dead inside a burial shroud.

“Installed at his own controversial state-of-the-art cemetery, the device enables him and his clients to watch their departed loved ones decompose in real time.

“Karsh’s morbidly revolutionary business is on the verge of breaking into the international mainstream when several graves within his cemetery, including that of his wife, are vandalized and nearly destroyed.

“While he struggles to uncover a clear motive for the attack, the mystery of who wrought this havoc, and why, drives him to re-evaluate his business, marriage, and fidelity to his late wife’s memory, and pushes him to new beginnings…”

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David Cronenberg‘s The Shrouds soundtrack is available on vinyl from Mutant in partnership with Howe Records.

The score is composed by Academy Award winner Howard Shore (The Lord of the Rings), who has handled all but one of Cronenberg’s soundtracks since 1979.

The album is pressed on 140-gram Gravestone colored vinyl, limited to 500, and packaged in a jacket designed by Mutant co-founder Mo Shafeek. Priced at $35, it’s due out on June 27.

Mutant writes, “The Shrouds continues in the mold of Crimes of the Future, with a delicate but deceptive score. In a film about burial, decay, and the search for meaning—marred by conspiracy theories and an overreliance on technology—the film and score find a space that balances the ethereal and the dreadful. The sacred and profane.”

The Shrouds opens in New York and Los Angeles today and will expand nationwide on April 25 from Sideshow and Janus Films.

This week’s new releases include a Blumhouse horror movie that’s fresh out of theaters and now available at home, a vampire epic from Ryan Coogler in theaters, the latest from returning master David Cronenberg, and, quite fittingly, a Cronenberg-inspired body horror take on Cinderella that made headlines after someone vomited while watching it on the festival circuit.

Here’s all the new horror that released April 14– April 18, 2025!

For daily reminders about new horror releases, be sure to follow @HorrorCalendar.

After being released in theaters less than a month ago, Blumhouse and Universal’s latest horror movie The Woman in the Yard is now available on Premium VOD at home.

You can rent the film for $19.99 or purchase it for $24.99.

Jaume Collet-Serra (House of Wax, Orphan, The Shallows, Carry-On) directed The Woman in the Yard from a script by first-time feature screenwriter Sam Stefanak.

Danielle Deadwyler stars as Ramona,...

David Cronenberg is back with his latest Cannes Film Festival premiere The Shrouds, a blend of body horror, grief, comedy, sex, high-tech graveyards and international intrigue starring Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger (in three roles), Guy Pearce and Sandrine Holt. Sideshow/Janus Films is opening the film – the first English-language foray by the distributor of Drive My Car and Flow — at three theaters: NYC’s Angelika Film Center and Film at Lincoln Center, and Los Angeles’ AMC Grove.

Cronenberg will be in-person with screenings hosted by Brady Corbet and Richard Kelly, with the iconic director traveling to San Francisco and Chicago later in the week ahead of a move to 250-plus screens, Sideshow’s widest expansion this early in a film’s run.

The director of The Fly, Dead Ringers and Videodrome has “long been one of my favorite filmmakers. It’s his most personal film. I loved it when I...

The Shrouds — the newest vision from renowned filmmaker David Cronenberg — is an exercise in obsession, grief, loss, and death, all wrapped in a morbid shroud of mystery. Death — as with most Cronenberg — is at the center of this twisted tale of blended genres. Part conspiracy thriller, part character study and a dash of erotic drama, that’s the recipe here. It’s a mixture that — on paper — makes for a spectacular cinematic cocktail, but the finished product tastes just a bit… off.

The Shrouds plot

Karsh (Vincent Cassel) owns a high-tech cemetery. His wife, Becca (Diane Kruger), is buried there. Here, the graves are equipped with top-of-the-line technology that allows visitors to see the body of their buried loved one in real-time. When the cemetery is vandalized, Karsh and his ex-brother-in-law Maury (Guy Pearce) work desperately to find meaning behind the attack and identify the culprits.

The review

The film...

Plot: A prominent businessman (Vincent Cassel), grieving over the death of his wife, invents a company called GraveTech, where corpses are wrapped in technologically enhanced burial shrouds that allow family members to monitor the decaying bodies of their loved ones in real-time.

Review: So, if you read the plot outline posted about, you likely muttered a little “wtf” to yourself once you got to the “monitor the decaying bodies of their loved ones” bit. But hey, The Shrouds is a David Cronenberg movie. Would you want to see one without any Wtf moments? I think not. Indeed, The Shrouds has enough ultra-weird imagery and kinky twists to make this Cronenberg’s edgiest movie since Crash and perhaps his most personal work to date.

Tragically, Cronenberg lost his wife several years ago, and The Shrouds seems autobiographical in the way it deals with grief. In it, Vincent Cassel plays Karsh, a...

Audiences hungry for David Cronenberg’s infamous brand of body horror may have hoped that 2022’s Crimes of the Future marked his return to the genre. That film, which formed an unofficial trilogy that began with 1983’s Videodrome and continued in 1999’s eXistenZ, featured several callbacks to the Canadian director’s recurring visual and thematic interests.

The Shrouds, Cronenberg’s latest, is even less of a genre film than Crimes of the Future, though it does share its predecessor’s same dark sense of humour, as well as the director’s tendency to revisit or reconsider his previous work.

The film is ostensibly set in 2023, four years after the death of Karsh (Vincent Cassel)’s wife, Becca (Diane Kruger). Becca died of bone cancer and Karsh has yet to recover, as the opening scene of him crying during a visit to the dentist proves.

The introductory scenes also establish the...

The Shrouds.In defense of The Shrouds (2024), the new film by David Cronenberg, I propose a moratorium on our fixation with “the body” when considering one of the great filmmakers of the mind. My intention is neither to be perverse nor provocative, qualities The Shrouds offers in abundance; nor to minimize that its plot centers on a technology that allows the bereaved to observe in real time the rotting corpses of buried loved ones. Bodies⎯alive and dead, material and imagined, actual and virtual, whole and dismembered⎯are indeed a central problem in The Shrouds, as they were in Crimes of the Future (2022). But just as that film’s tale of an ecological dystopia where the human body sprouts organs of unknown purpose was fundamentally concerned with how we assign meaning to the body, The Shrouds is an extended meditation on images of the body, including the body of the film we’re watching.

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Cannes coverage. The Shrouds opens in theaters on April 18.

David Cronenberg’s films have often imagined a future where technology would find a way into our collective id. 55 years into the director’s incomparable career, might that future have finally caught up with him? In Cronenberg’s new film––the slick, scrambled The Shrouds––there are two barely speculative conceits: that an AI chatbot could be designed to look like a recently deceased loved one; and primarily, that a company might have the bright idea to wrap a blanket of HD cameras around our nearest and dearest before they’re sent six-feet-under, allowing us to check in on their decaying corpse, all with the click of an app.

If that sounds a little unambitious by the Canadian’s standards, Cronenberg––whose wife of 43 years, Carolyn, died in 2017 after a battle with cancer––has his reasons.

If any single thing distinguishes directors from auteurs, the capacity to put oneself into the film might be a strong dividing line. Few living directors have defined themselves so strongly as David Cronenberg, and while this sets expectations that can very well engender confused responses, it’s all the more opportunity to surprise––such as a sold-out New York Film Festival crowd being hushed into stunned silence when they realized his new film, The Shrouds, was less of the Videodrome or Scanners variety than an unsparing film about grief and loss, albeit a study spring-loaded with doppelgängers, vaguely futuristic tech, and dense conspiracy plotting.

When all is said and done, The Shrouds might very well emerge one of Cronenberg’s best films. I sat down with him some 12 hours after its U.S. premiere, the film still swimming in my mind, attempting (then failing) to ask questions that weren’t laced with admiration and observation.

David Cronenberg would like to have a few words with you about death.

There have, of course, been an abundance of folks who’ve shuffled off this mortal coil within the Canadian filmmaker’s nearly six decades’ worth of movies, often in the most baroque, grotesque manner possible. (Who could ever forget this? Or this? Or even this?) No one dies in a Grand Guignol-style manner in The Shrouds, Cronenberg’s chilly, chic mix of conspiracy thriller, corporate-espionage drama, and cryptic-in-more-ways-than-one meditation on mourning routines; apologies if that constitutes a spoiler.

“I’ve been coming to New York since the 1940s,” David Cronenberg reminisced when introducing The Shrouds at the New York Film Festival last fall. “Yes,” he quipped, “that means I’m the exact same age as Joe Biden.” Unlike the 46th president, however, the pioneer of body horror is showing no signs of losing a step.

Following the longest hiatus of his half-century career, Cronenberg has emerged with a mournful and masterful one-two punch in the 2020s. Deeply influenced by the passing of his wife, both Crimes of the Future and The Shrouds find the octogenarian mulling over mortality and corporeality in fascinating new lights. These late-period films are as stomach-churning as the early genre works that earned him the nickname “Baron of Blood” while also maintaining a firm footing in the human drama that defined his later work, like A Dangerous Method.

It’s not hard to see Cronenberg himself in The Shrouds,...

Among the lineup for the Cannes Film Festival’s 78th edition are some big names from Hollywood and global cinema. We already knew that Tom Cruise will light the fuse on Paramount/Skydance’s Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning on May 14 out of competition, while there was plenty of speculation that Scarlett Johansson would have a pair of movies on the Croisette. The latter has now been confirmed with Johansson’s directorial debut Eleanor the Great set for Un Certain Regard, and her acting reteam with Wes Anderson in his latest, The Phoenician Scheme, in Competition. Also confirmed is Ari Aster’s Eddington with Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal and Emma Stone.

Many more stars are potentially in store now that the bulk of the official selection has been revealed. Not everyone is confirmed to attend the Riviera shindig, but here’s a look at some of the possibilities.

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New films from Wes Anderson, Richard Linklater and the Dardenne brothers will premiere at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Cannes organizers announced at a press conference in Paris on Thursday.

Anderson will be back in Cannes with “The Phoenician Scheme,” which premiered a baffling trailer at CinemaCon last week. Linklater is heading to France with a bold movie, “Nouvelle Vague,” which tackles the sacred ground of Jean-Luc Godard and the filming of “Breathless” in the 1960s. The Dardenne brothers have “Young Mothers,” which gives them a chance to become the first filmmakers to win the Palme d’Or three times.

Actors in the festival making their directorial debuts include Scarlett Johansson, who is in Un Certain Regard with “Eleanor the Great,” starring Joan Squibb; and Harris Dickinson, the star of the Palme d’Or winner “The Triangle of Sadness,” with “Urchin.”

The main competition will include a number of...

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 Cannes Film Festival will reveal its 2025 lineup on Thursday morning European time and expectations are high for a typically bountiful lineup of starry fare and arthouse treats. Cannes remains the Super Bowl for indie film lovers.

It’s always a nervous waiting game for those connected to Cannes hopefuls. Multiple festival regulars have told us that selectors are later than ever in giving them notice. The festival has often announced a major movie or two by now, but not this year. The identity of Juliette Binoche‘s fellow jury members are still also under wraps.

In terms of films in the running, much of the reporting we did in February in our Cannes and Venice prediction piece has either come to pass or is shaping up as we forecast. You can read that story here.

Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning remains the most likely big Hollywood studio splash.

Get ready for a thrilling month ahead! April is packed with exciting new sci-fi films that will take you to other worlds, spark your imagination, and leave you on the edge of your seat. Whether you’re into space adventures, futuristic tech, or mind-bending mysteries, there’s something for every sci-fi fan to look forward to this month. Here’s a list of every sci-fi movie coming out in April!

1. Good Earth (April 1)

The movie starts with Dr. Anastasia Lopez, a psychiatrist, trying to convince Olivia, a young woman with Vrop disease, not to commit suicide. Olivia is introduced to a search engine called “Good Earth,” which acts like a god and is meant to help her heal. The film, directed and written by Sameera Wackwella, stars Kalhara Wackwella, Gayathri Rasingolla, and Saasha Karunarathne.

2. Kaiju No. 8: Mission Recon (April 13)

In a Japan filled with giant monsters, Kafka Hibino works in monster disposal.

Jared Leto’s sci-fi drama movie Mr. Nobody has finally received a streaming update, after more than a decade since its theatrical release. In the film, Leto plays Nemo Nobody, a 118-year-old man who becomes the last mortal on Earth.

Beginning on April 1, Mr. Nobody will officially start streaming on Max, along with its extended director’s cut. The film takes place in 2092, where humanity has attained immortality. The world watches as the last mortal human on Earth nears his death. With the help of a psychiatrist, he was able to remember parts of his life, while recalling three major points. As he continues to reflect, he also narrates alternate versions of the past.

During its theatrical run, the film garnered positive reviews from critics, who praised the performances of its cast, as well as its visual style. The movie currently holds a Tomatometer rating of 66% on Rotten Tomatoes. Mr. Nobody...

Exclusive: Gerardo Celasco and Marta Milans join Peacock’s upcoming South Florida-set crime thriller M.I.A. from Ozark co-creator Bill Dubuque.

They join the series regular cast led by Shannon Gisela, who plays ‘Etta Tiger Jonze,’ Brittany Adebumola, as ‘Lovely,’ and Dylan Jackson as ‘Stanley.’ Maurice Compte, Danay Garcia and Cary Elwes are also series regulars, though their characters’ names, like Celasco and Milans’, have yet to be revealed.

Running drugs is a family affair for Etta Tiger Jonze (Gisela) in M.I.A. But when the family business is threatened, she is thrust into a life she never expected, forcing her to use her wits to survive as she navigates Miami’s criminal underground.

Mia is the airport code for Miami. The SoFla area consists of Miami-Dade, Broward and Monroe counties.

The series comes from studio MRC (Poker Face), with Karen Campbell serving as executive producer and showrunner. Alethea Jones will direct and executive produce. Dubuque will write Episode 101 and executive produce alongside Campbell and Jones, who will also direct.

M.I.A. is the latest series to explore SoFla’s seedy underbelly including Chris Brancato’s Hotel Cocaine—based on Compte’s father’s life— for MGM+ and two Netflix series: the Sofia Vergara-led Griselda and the early seasons of Narcos focused on Pablo Escobar, both with executive producers including Eric Newman, Doug Miro and Carlo Bernard. Narcos was co-created by Brancato. Showtime’s original Dexter series was also famously set in Miami, and its Paramount+ with Showtime prequel spinoff series Dexter: Original Sin.

Celasco is a Salvadoran actor, born in Miami and raised in El Salvador, who has called Los Angeles home since 2005. He made his TV debut with a lead role on the NBC Daytime show Passions, which he followed with various film and TV roles, including Moneyball, Battleship, the Fox series Bones and Person of Interest for CBS.

Celasco was the male lead on the Netflix limited series National Parks for ABC, with guest arcs in Good Sam for CBS and ABC’s How To Get Away With Murder. He also played the male lead of Roku’s Swimming With Sharks opposite Diane Kruger and Kiernan Shipka. He will next be seen in Netflix’s The Waterfront and Carlton Cuse’s Pulse for Peacock. He is repped by Entertainment 360, The Gersh Agency and Goodman Genow Schenkman.

Milans starred in Warner Brother’s “Shazam!” franchise and Netflix’s hit original series White Lines from the Emmy award winner producer Álex Pina. Additionally, she starred in Pina’s Spanish television series The Pier and the Netflix Spain series The Minions of Midas, directed by Academy Award winner Mateo Gil. She is repped by Jwm Entertainment Group, The Kohner Agency, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.

Wolfgang Petersen's "Troy" is a relic of a time when the Hollywood epic was still a healthy, consolidated institution -- before the superhero boom largely replaced it with "grounded," smaller-scale, mostly-contemporary set blockbusters. Starring Brad Pitt as Achilles, Diane Kruger as Helen, Eric Bana as Hector, Orlando Bloom as Paris, Brian Cox as Agamemnon, Sean Bean as Odysseus, and a host of legends including Peter O'Toole and Julie Christie in smaller roles, Petersen's 2004 film offers a loose, condensed reimagining of Homer's "Iliad," chronicling the most legendary of all ancient conflicts: the Trojan War.

While full of historical and literary liberties, "Troy" is a muscular, stirring movie that, seen today, feels like a throwback to a time when American tentpole movies were still driven by a chief concern to be fun. In that spirit, here are 15 other cinematic epics and historical blockbusters that will also show you a great,...

Take a look at writer/director David Cronenberg’s latest horror feature “The Shrouds”, starring Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger, Guy Pearce and Sandrine Holt, releasing April 25, 2025 in theaters

‘…‘Karsh’, an innovative businessman and grieving widower, builds a device to connect with the dead inside a burial shroud.

“Installed at his own controversial state-of-the-art cemetery, the device enables him and his clients to watch their departed loved ones decompose in real time.

“Karsh’s morbidly revolutionary business is on the verge of breaking into the international mainstream when several graves within his cemetery, including that of his wife, are vandalized and nearly destroyed.

“While he struggles to uncover a clear motive for the attack, the mystery of who wrought this havoc, and why, drives him to re-evaluate his business, marriage, and fidelity to his late wife’s memory, and pushes him to new beginnings…”

Click the images to enlarge…...

David Cronenberg is not one to suffer fools and he definitely knows a scam when he sees one. Amongst this year’s many Oscar-related scandals, perhaps one of the more futile narratives was around the use of AI in Brady Corbet’s “The Brutalist.” Considering the project prided itself on being a throwback to classic movie-making, even shooting on film and utilizing the old format of VistaVision for certain scenes, many fans were disappointed Corbet would use such a divisive technology in his work. Speaking at London’s Royal Festival Hall during an appearance with composer Howard Shore at Soundtrack Festival, Cronenberg shared how he believed the uproar to be unnecessary and perhaps even orchestrated.

“I must confess, there was a scandal [with] ‘The Brutalist,'” he said (as per The Hollywood Reporter). “There was a discussion about Adrien Brody… but apparently they used artificial intelligence to improve his accent. I...

Sideshow and Janus Films have released a new poster for David Cronenberg‘s The Shrouds.

The body-horror film opens in New York and Los Angeles on April 18 before expanding nationwide on April 25.

Cronenberg will appear in-person for Q&As at four NYC screenings to celebrate the release:

April 16 at 7:00pm – Angelika Film Center April 17 at 6:30pm – Film at Lincoln Center April 18 at 6:15pm – Film at Lincoln Center April 18 at 7:45pm – Angelika Film Center

Vincent Cassel (Black Swan), Diane Kruger (Inglourious Basterds), Guy Pearce (The Brutalist), and Sandrine Holt (Resident Evil: Apocalypse) star in the film.

In an eerie, deceptively placid near-future, a techno-entrepreneur named Karsh (Cassel) has developed a new software that will allow the bereaved to bear witness to the gradual decay of loved ones dead and buried in the earth.

While Karsh is still reeling from the loss of his wife (Kruger) from cancer...

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Lilo and Stitch trailer nearly breaks Disney record

Disney unveiled the Lilo and Stitch trailer on March 12, and in just 24 hours it amassed 158 million views, which was the second most for a live-action Disney film, behind only 2019's photorealistic The Lion King. It ranked as the No. 1 trend on Twitter and YouTube. Does that bode well for the film's box office when it's released on May 23? Well, The Lion King remake ended up grossing $1.66 billion worldwide.

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Take a look at writer/director David Cronenberg’s latest horror feature “The Shrouds”, starring Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger, Guy Pearce and Sandrine Holt, releasing April 25, 2025 in theaters

‘…‘Karsh’, an innovative businessman and grieving widower, builds a device to connect with the dead inside a burial shroud.

“Installed at his own controversial state-of-the-art cemetery, the device enables him and his clients to watch their departed loved ones decompose in real time.

“Karsh’s morbidly revolutionary business is on the verge of breaking into the international mainstream when several graves within his cemetery, including that of his wife, are vandalized and nearly destroyed.

“While he struggles to uncover a clear motive for the attack, the mystery of who wrought this havoc, and why, drives him to re-evaluate his business, marriage, and fidelity to his late wife’s memory, and pushes him to new beginnings…”

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What’s going to be this year’s “Anora”? As the Cannes Film Festival rapidly approaches, that’s the question for artistic director Thierry Fremaux and movie buffs around the world.

A month before Cannes Film Festival’s press conference, the official selection is still very much a work in progress, with little reliable information filtering through about which movies have already been invited. In fact, as of Friday — despite the volume of splashy prediction stories — it appears that only three films have so far been given a golden ticket to compete in Cannes. Variety can reveal that one of them is Jim Jarmusch’s anticipated “Father Mother Sister Brother“ starring Cate Blanchett, Adam Driver and Tom Waits.

The last edition of the festival, which Fremaux had warned would be slightly weaker due to the impact of the double Hollywood strikes, proved to be anything but. Headlined by Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or-winning “Anora,...

The year 2024 was a significant one for horror movies, highlighted by a successful awards season and dominance by the genre at the box office. Notably, the Oscars recognized four films within the genre, signaling a growing appreciation for horror’s artistic merit.

The Academy Awards have historically marginalized horror films, with The Silence of the Lambs in 1991 a notable exception. Its “Big Five” sweep — Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, and Adapted Screenplay — remains a unique achievement. However, the recent nominations of films like The Substance and Nosferatu indicate a growing willingness to acknowledge the genre, signaling a potential change in the awards landscape.

The ‘Silence of the Lambs’ cast and production winners hold their Oscars at the 64th Academy Awards in 1992. The film won five Oscars.

Horror at the Academy Awards was first recognized in 1974, when William Friedkin’s groundbreaking The Exorcist received a remarkable 10 nominations including Best Picture. While it won just two awards,...

"I'm paranoid now... things are getting weird." Janus Films + Sideshow have revealed the full official US trailer for The Shrouds, the latest feature film made by genre mastermind David Cronenberg. This already premiered and opened in most other countries last year, finally getting a US debut this spring. The Shrouds centers on Karsh, a Toronto businessman. Inconsolable since the death of his wife, he invents GraveTech – a revolutionary and controversial technology that enables the living to monitor their dear departed in their shrouds. One night, multiple graves, including that of Karsh's wife, are desecrated. Karsh sets out to track down the perpetrators. It's inspired by the idea of having a permanent connection with the dead, but goes beyond that as Cronenberg explains his own "shrouds" are "cinematic devices" and calls this as "cemetery cinema." Starring Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger, Guy Pearce, and Sandrine Holt. The mysterious, macabre thriller about the...

The Shrouds: "In an eerie, deceptively placid near-future, a techno-entrepreneur named Karsh (Cassel) has developed a new software that will allow the bereaved to bear witness to the gradual decay of loved ones dead and buried in the earth. While Karsh is still reeling from the loss of his wife (Kruger) from cancer—and falling into a peculiar sexual relationship with his wife’s sister (also Kruger)—a spate of vandalized graves utilizing his “shroud” technology begins to put his enterprise at risk, leading him to uncover a potentially vast conspiracy. Written following the death of the director’s wife, the new film from David Cronenberg is both a profoundly personal reckoning with grief and a descent into noir-tinged dystopia, set in an ominous world of self-driving cars, data theft, and A.I. personal assistants. Offering Cronenberg’s customary balance of malevolence and wit, The Shrouds is a sly...

David Cronenberg has said that his new film The Shrouds – which has been making the festival rounds lately (you can read what JoBlo’s own Chris Bumbray thought of it Here) – was originally intended to be a Netflix TV series, but the streamer dropped it after paying him to write the pilot episode. So a feature film it is, and Sideshow and Janus Films have acquired all U.S. distribution rights to the film, with their plan being to give it a theatrical release next month. The Shrouds will be reaching theatres in New York and Los Angeles on April 18th, then will expand nationwide on April 25th. With those dates right around the corner, a trailer has dropped online and can be seen in the embed above.

In The Shrouds, Vincent Cassel, who previously worked with Cronenberg on Eastern Promises and A Dangerous Method, takes on the role of Karsh,...

The legendary filmmaker David Cronenberg takes us into the near future with his new movie The Shrouds, which will open in theaters this April from Sideshow and Janus Films.

Cronenberg’s The Shrouds will open on April 18 in New York and Los Angeles, before expanding nationwide on April 25, 2025. Watch the official trailer for The Shrouds below.

Here’s the official synopsis:

“In an eerie, deceptively placid near-future, a techno-entrepreneur named Karsh (Vincent Cassel) has developed a new software that will allow the bereaved to bear witness to the gradual decay of loved ones dead and buried in the earth. While Karsh is still reeling from the loss of his wife (Diane Kruger) from cancer—and falling into a peculiar sexual relationship with his wife’s sister (also Kruger)—a spate of vandalized graves utilizing his “shroud” technology begins to put his enterprise at risk, leading him to uncover a potentially vast conspiracy.

After his long-awaited return with Crimes of the Future, David Cronenberg quickly followed it up with The Shrouds, a darkly funny conspiracy thriller led by Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger, and newly minted Oscar nominee Guy Pearce. Sideshow and Janus Films have unveiled the new trailer for the Cannes, TIFF, and NYFF selection ahead of an NY and LA opening on April 18 followed by a nationwide release on April 25.

Here’s the synopsis: “In an eerie, deceptively placid near-future, a techno-entrepreneur named Karsh (Vincent Cassel) has developed a new software that will allow the bereaved to bear witness to the gradual decay of loved ones dead and buried in the earth. While Karsh is still reeling from the loss of his wife (Diane Kruger) from cancer—and falling into a peculiar sexual relationship with his wife’s sister (also Kruger)—a spate of vandalized graves utilizing his ‘shroud’ technology begins to put his enterprise at risk,...

Vincent Cassel is exploring grief the David Cronenberg way in the highly-anticipated drama “The Shrouds.”

Cassel stars as widower Karsh who creates a program called GraveTech to allow for mourners to monitor their late loved ones’ decay via shrouds. Yet when multiple graves, including that of Karsh’s wife (Diane Kruger), are desecrated, he has to find the perpetrators. “The Brutalist” star Guy Pearce and Sandrine Holt also are among the cast.

Cronenberg previously told Variety that he wrote the film while “experiencing the grief of the loss of my wife, who died seven years ago. It was an exploration for me because it was not just a technical exercise, it was an emotional exercise.”

Cassel’s Karsh is a stand-in of sorts for writer/director Cronenberg, who cited how the character has a “perverse, morbid, grotesque” way of grieving by watching his late wife’s body decompose in her grave.

Now 81, David Cronenberg remains the master of body horror. And his latest film, “The Shrouds,” expands on that cinematic legacy, albeit in a way that may be unexpected for the director’s fans.

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Written in the aftermath of his wife’s death, Cronenberg’s latest stars Vincent Cassell and Diane Kruger is an unflinching reckoning with grief and loss, told in the director’s inimitable clinical, techno-noir style.

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Exclusive: Franka Potente has joined the cast of AMC’s Dark Winds in a key guest role for Season 4. Details regarding her character are under wraps.

The series was renewed for a fourth season ahead of the show’s third season premiere. New episodes are currently airing Sunday nights at 9 p.m.

Set in 1971 on a remote outpost of the Navajo Nation near Monument Valley, Dark Winds follows Lt. Joe Leaphorn of the Tribal Police (Zahn McClarnon) as he is besieged by a series of seemingly unrelated crimes. The closer he digs to the truth, the more he exposes the wounds of his past. He is joined on this journey by his new deputy, Jim Chee (Kiowa Gordon). Chee also has old scores to settle from his youth on the reservation. Together, the two men battle the forces of evil, each other and their own...

Rooney Mara, Vanessa Kirby, Diane Kruger, and more, celebrate Sarah Burton’s debut at Givenchy with an unforgettable evening in Paris Xmag UK Hernan Ripiert

Sarah Burton presented her first collection for Givenchy in Paris, celebrating her debut with an exclusive dinner surrounded…

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Kate Hudson doesn’t just play a rockstar—she lives like one. ‘I like when life is sort of spontaneous. I like the unexpected. I’m comfortable in that!’ she once said, and that same free-spirited energy radiated from her shimmering, fringed ensemble at the 9th Annual Love Rocks concert. Blending boho-chic with stage-ready glamour, her head-turning look was the perfect fusion of fashion and attitude.

Alex Edelman, Amy Schumer, Susie, Essman, and Tracy Morgan hosted the concert at the Beacon Theatre to benefit God’s Love We Deliver, a non-profit that provides medically tailored meals to sick people who cannot cook or shop for themselves.

The night kicked off with a performance by Alicia Keys, and later, Kate Hudson, who released her debut studio album Glorious last year, graced the stage to deliver a breathtaking set.

Kate Hudson steals the show at the 9th Annual Love Rocks benefit concert...

Film and literary history are rich with examples of the wild things people would do for love.Romeo and Julietsees cursed young lovers choose death instead of being separated. Troy has nations go to war over Helen (Diane Kruger). The John Wick franchise follows Keanu Reeves's assassin as he massacres essentially everyone for the love of a woman and a dog. Chris (Robin Williams) broke into Hell for Annie (Annabella Sciorra) in What Dreams May Come. In Novocaine, an action comedy from Significant Other directors Dan Berk and Robert Olsen, love causes a man to risk his whole life for love, with one catch: thanks to a useful but dangerous medical condition, he can’t feel pain. It’s a gory, bonkers action-comedy premise anchored by a set of strong performances and a surprisingly poignant meet-cute, making for a wildly memorable action outing.