“Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie,” the upcoming third feature film in the blockbuster “Paw Patrol” franchise, has rounded out its cast with Jameela Jamil, Terry Crews, Paris Hilton, Snoop Dogg, Bill Nye, Meredith MacNeill and “Paw Patrol” veteran Ron Pardo.

Lucien Duncan-Reid and Nylan Parthipan will return as beloved “Paw Patrol” pups Rubble and Zuma, and will be joined by Carter Young as Marshall, Hayden Chemberlen as Rex, Rain Janjua as Chase, William Desrosiers as Rocky and Henry Bolan as Ryder.

The new additions join a star-studded voice cast that already includes Egot winner Jennifer Hudson, popular comedian Fortune Feimster and Emmy nominee Mckenna Grace, who reprises her role as Skye.

“Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie” follows the recent 10-year anniversary of the global smash hit franchise from leading global children’s entertainment company Spin Master Corp. Building on the success of its first two films, which together earned over...

To watch “Sharp Corner” feels akin to witnessing a car crash in slow motion. There’s a bleak inevitability to the proceedings and a cruel voyeuristic streak to how we’re called to not look away.

The comparison is apt, of course, considering how central car accidents are to the tale of an even-keeled suburbanite who becomes needlessly obsessed with stopping (or at the very least helping) the inordinate number of crashes that happen at the treacherous corner street right in front of his new home. Led by an against-type performance from Ben Foster, writer-director Jason Buxton’s languidly paced psychological thriller about domesticity and masculinity may be handsomely mounted but ultimately strikes an all too hollow tone to land its kicker of a final shot.

The promise of a new house is the chance to make a home. That’s what Josh and Rachel (Foster and Cobie Smulders) hope...

The US president’s plan for Hollywood is full of plot holes. But when it comes to the hidden propaganda baked into movies, he may have a point

As always with pronouncements by President Trump, once you had peeled away the xenophobia, removed the stew of resentment, ignored the sheer idiocy and asterisked the possible illegality, there was a small kernel of truth to his posting on Truth Social last Sunday. “The Movie Industry in America is Dying a very fast death,” he wrote, pointing to the nefarious tax breaks other countries gave film-makers as “a National Security threat” and proposing an 100% tariff on films made oversees. “It is, in addition to everything else, messaging and propaganda! We Want Movies Made In America Again!”

How would a 100% tariff on films made oversees work? Just movies shot overseas? What about movies set overseas? And who would pay? How do you impose...

JoongAng Group and retail behemoth Lotte Group have inked a blockbuster deal that promises to dramatically reshape South Korea’s theatrical landscape.

The media and retail giants signed a memorandum of understanding Thursday to merge their respective cinema chains — Megabox and Lotte Cinema — creating what would become the nation’s largest theatrical exhibition entity.

The joint venture, which will be co-managed by both corporate heavyweights, aims to fast-track new investment opportunities and Fair Trade Commission approval, according to JoongAng Group’s announcement.

“The agreement was reached following discussions aimed at strengthening competitiveness and ensuring long-term sustainability in their cinema and film businesses,” revealed JoongAng Holdings, the group’s holding company, in an official statement, per news agency Yonhap.

Contentree JoongAng, the entertainment division of JoongAng Group, currently holds 95.98% stake in Megabox JoongAng. Meanwhile, Lotte Shopping maintains an 86.37% ownership position in Lotte Cultureworks.

The theatrical exhibition sector in South Korea continues...

Award-winning Bollywood star Kangana Ranaut is crossing over to Hollywood, landing her first leading role in the horror drama “Blessed Be the Evil.”

The project, from Lions Movies, will see Ranaut star alongside Tyler Posey (“Teen Wolf”) and Scarlet Rose Stallone (“Tulsa King”).

Production is set to begin this summer in New York, with producers specifically noting they chose U.S. locations to “avoid running into any uncertainties stemming from the recently announced Trump industry tariffs.”

Director Anurag Rudra will helm from a screenplay he co-wrote with Gatha Tiwary, president and founder of Lions Movies. Both will serve as producers, with Wade Muller confirmed as director of photography.

According to the synopsis, the film follows a Christian couple who, after experiencing a devastating miscarriage, purchase an abandoned farm with a dark past. Their love and faith are soon tested by a malevolent presence.

“Being born and spending my childhood in rural India,...

Director Joe Carnahan’s limply made thriller about an estranged couple of elite operatives is a lazy grab bag of exhaustingly familiar cliches

Maybe the new action movie Shadow Force is just deserts for film fans who complain when seemingly surefire big-screen hits such as Another Simple Favor debut as streaming-only releases. Shadow Force has a premise almost comically adherent to the fixations of so many big-budget streaming movies: elite operatives Kyrah (Kerry Washington) and Isaac (Omar Sy) must fight for their lives and their family when they defy the rules of their, yes, shadowy employers by falling in love and having a child. It shares familiar components including charismatic stars, spy action, domestic strife and semi-slapstick violence with projects such as Back in Action (Netflix), Role Play (Prime Video) and Ghosted (Apple TV+), among others. With director Joe Carnahan, it even has a once edgy stylist who used to deal in gritty grain,...

Talk about superfine. This year’s Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Benefit — known colloquially as the Met Gala — saw explosive growth in viewership across platforms in 2025.

As of Wednesday evening, Variety can report that Met Gala videos native to Vogue’s website and YouTube channel have garnered 1.2 billion global views. Each year, the event draws big names in fashion, music and Hollywood to support the Costume Institute and gift social media platforms with days of style discourse.

The May 5 event’s night-of audience grew 109% compared to 2024. The total 1.2 billion figure accounts for replays of some of the Met’s best looks – rocked by Zendaya, Teyana Taylor, Colman Domingo and Zoe Saldana – and represents a 10% worldwide and 23% domestic boost for audience, year-over-year. 184 million minutes of the gala have been viewed on YouTube.

Vogue and its iconic editor Anna Wintour have long been guardians of the gala, this year centered around...

After praise from Disney CEO Bob Iger (on a company investor earnings call) for Jake Schreier‘s “Thunderbolts*” (“The New Avengers“) recent success, the director is now being eyed to helm Marvel Studios‘ reboot of the “X-Men” franchise.

Trades such as THR, Variety, and Deadline all report that Schreier is in the mix to direct “X-Men,” which already has a script from screenwriter Michael Lesslie.

Continue reading ‘X-Men’: Marvel Studios Eyes ‘The New Avengers’ Director Jake Schreier For Reboot at The Playlist.

David S. Goyer recently told ScreenRant that he is more than ready to answer the call should Kevin Feige’s Marvel Studios need him to write Mahershala Ali’s long-delayed “Blade” movie. Goyer is no stranger to the comic book vampire hunter, having written all three movies in Wesley Snipes’ original “Blade” trilogy. He even stepped in to direct 2004’s “Blade: Trinity.”

“I would. I’ve always loved the character and I love him,” Goyer said when asked if he would write Marvel’s “Blade” reboot for the MCU. “I’ve been sitting on the sidelines wondering, ‘What in the world is going on? Why is it taking so long?’ Because I’m a huge Marvel fan myself, and I’ve just been totally puzzled.”

Marvel originally announced its “Blade” movie with Ali in July 2019, but development has been rocky as several writers and directors have come and gone over the years.

The ingredients are simple, the cooking process unhurried and the history rich. The Italian dishes honored in director Stephen Chbosky’s sentimental dramedy “Nonnas” don’t come from professionally trained chefs, but from women of Italian heritage whose flavors have been perfected over generations. Each forkful packs a tasty homage to where they come from and to the people who loved them. And some of the film’s components are indeed authentic: Liz Maccie’s screenplay provides a fictionalized take on how Jody Scaravella opened Enoteca Maria, a real-life Italian restaurant where grandmothers cook.

Mta worker Joe (Vince Vaughn) has just lost his mother. The opening sequence shows him as a child observing as his mother and “nonna” (or grandmother) cook a feast for friends and family. Those halcyon days appear soaked in an ethereal lighting to convey nostalgia. In the present, when everyone has left the funeral, it’s...

Call it “Chainsaws on a Plane,” and you won’t be far off the mark.

Of course, to be totally accurate, there’s only one power-driven cutting tool put to lethal use in “Fight or Flight,” director James Madigan’s outrageously and often uproariously over-the-top action-comedy that concocts a cut-and-paste lift from “Bullet Train,” then dials it up to 11 during a Transpacific flight on a humongous passenger plane.

But there are scads of other sharp objects employed as armaments — including sprinkler spouts and shards of wineglasses — along with knives, swords, drug-laced darts and even seatbelt buckles, to say nothing of such traditional artillery as Glocks and assault weapons. If you find yourself occasionally wondering how so many aspiring assassins managed to get so much of this stuff past airport security, especially after you’ve been busted for trying to board a domestic flight with a bottle of shampoo in your carry-on luggage,...

It's never easy to be a child star. Even if you have a healthy, stable home life, it can be difficult to deal with the highs and lows of fame as a juvenile. That's not counting the work schedules, trying to keep up with schooling, and still trying to be a kid, so it's not always surprising when super successful child stars drop out of the limelight for at least a little while upon reaching adulthood. Young women have to try to reconcile growing up with their fandoms, which can be incredibly difficult, while also trying to pave a career and a way forward for themselves. For "Modern Family" star Ariel Winter, it was all just a little bit too much. 

The actor, who portrayed academic overachiever middle daughter Alex Dunphy on the long-running hit ABC sitcom, seemed to disappear from Hollywood entirely for a while after the end of...

One of the breakout crowdpleasers of SXSW 2025 was “Clown in a Cornfield,” Eli Craig’s twisty slasher flick about a small Midwestern town that struggles to navigate life after the corn syrup factory that sustains its economy burns down. Just when you think the economic struggles are bad enough, local teens start being attacked by Friendo the Clown, the corn syrup brand’s sadistic mascot.

Adapted from Adam Cesare’s novel of the same name, the film brings the same blend of humor, gore, and clever subversions of genre tropes that Craig used in his breakout film “Tucker and Dale vs. Evil.” “Clown in a Cornfield” could soon become a cult classic in the same mold as that film — and Craig recently spoke to IndieWire over Zoom to explain why the timing seems to align so perfectly for his latest work.

“The themes that are integral to what America is going through,...

The Paramount Global merger with Skydance Media is still expected to close in the first half of the year, the company’s co-heads said as they reported Q1 earnings on Thursday.

Co-CEOs George Cheeks, Chris McCarthy and Brian Robbins have been in a holding pattern for some time regarding the fate of their company and could not offer more insights.

Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr is reviewing the transaction and reopened an investigation into Paramount Global’s CBS network concerning an interview it ran with then presidential hopeful Kamala Harris prior to the November election. That sparked a lawsuit...

Donald Trump said at a recent press conference that James Bond movies will not be impacted by his proposal to put tariffs on movies made overseas. The 007 franchise calls England its home and often films at the country’s famed Pinewood Studios, as well as in cities all over the globe. Trump confused Hollywood this month after saying he had authorized the U.S. Trade Representative and the Commerce Department to initiate steps to impose a 100% tariff on films made overseas.

“As you know, we’re putting tariffs on… film, the moviemakers,” Trump said when asked by The London Times at a press conference about the tariff plan. “And we’re going to be doing some tariffs to get them, because a lot of them have left this country. They all live here, the money comes from here, everything comes from here, but they make them in other countries.

Ever since the merger of The Walt Disney Company and 20th Century Fox, a Marvel Studios-produced "X-Men" movie was imminent. Despite Disney and Marvel gaining access to the mutant characters about seven years ago, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has taken its sweet time integrating the Merry Mutants into the MCU. This is partially due to the long history the "X-Men" and related characters had while at Fox. While most of the well-known mutant characters have been kicking around on screen since the year 2000, the prequel films begun by "X-Men: First Class" allowed fans to see a new set of actors take over the roles, and movies like 2016's "Deadpool" had basically just begun to dive into characters previously unexplored. The proof of the "old" X-Men's popularity can be seen in the boffo box office of last year's "Deadpool and Wolverine," a movie which ostensibly said goodbye to the 20th Century mutant-verse,...

An “X-Men” movie at Marvel Studios looks to finally be picking up steam, and Jake Schreier, the director of one of the best-reviewed MCU movies in years “Thunderbolts*,” is in early talks to direct the film, IndieWire has confirmed.

Michael Lesslie, who wrote “The Hunger Games: Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,” wrote the script for the still-untitled “X-Men” movie. Kevin Feige, per usual, is producing.

Marvel declined to comment.

Since acquiring Fox back in 2017, Marvel has been building slowly towards bringing the X-Men back into the fold of the MCU. They’ve teased mutants in “Ms. Marvel,” and they had a post-credits sequence that teased the “X-Men” at the end of “The Marvels.” After bringing Hugh Jackman back as Wolverine for “Deadpool & Wolverine” last year, Marvel recently announced that the new “Avengers: Doomsday” film would include many of the stars from the original series of “X-Men” films that began...

Members of the Writers Guild of America West are engaged in unusual vote this week on whether to banish two of their own — Roma Roth and Edward Drake — for allegedly performing “writing services” during the 2023 strike.

The membership is also being asked to uphold disciplinary moves against two others, Julie Bush and Tim Doyle, that fall short of expulsion. The vote will conclude at 2 p.m. on Friday.

In an email to members on Wednesday, WGA Board Member Rob Forman acknowledged that it’s an awkward situation.

“I know it’s deeply uncomfortable to vote on disciplining other writers, especially during this horrible contraction,” he wrote.

But, he urged the membership to “join me in holding these writers accountable” for breaking guild rules, “and reject the disciplined members’ excuses for hurting the Guild by turning their backs on their fellow writers during the strike.”

A vote of this kind is extremely rare.

Distributor Watermelon Pictures (which launched last year) is proud to unveil its latest venture, a new streaming platform called Watermelon+. Debuting today, Thursday, May 8, the streamer aims to highlight the work of Palestinian filmmakers and world cinema as a whole. This comes at a time when some streamers are facing criticism for removing Palestinian films from their platform entirely.

Watermelon+ comes on the heels of successful theatrical runs for the documentary “The Encampments” and the feature debut for Oscar nominee Farah Nabulsi, “The Teacher.” Nabulsi’s Oscar-nominated short “The Present” will also be available upon launch, while “The Encampments” streams later this summer. Dozens of acclaimed films including “From Ground Zero” (Palestine’s Official 2025 Academy Awards entry) will be showcased on the platform, as well as Oscar nominees “Omar” (2014 Best International Film), “Five Broken Cameras” (2013 Best Documentary Feature), and “Theeb” (2016 Best International Film).

Co-founded by Ceos and brothers Badie and Hamza Ali,...

Back in 2023, two films from a franchise you'd probably never heard of hit the Netflix Top 10: "Sniper: Assassin's End" and "Sniper: Ultimate Kill." These movies constitute just a small part of a long-running saga that began with 1993's "Sniper," a Tom Berenger actioner that created a sprawling direct-to-video franchise that now comprises 11 films. Even though Berenger departed after the third instalment, Sony has been churning out "Sniper" movies with alarming consistency ever since 1993.

Berenger played Master Gunnery Sergeant Thomas Beckett, an elite sharpshooter who in "Sniper" loses his partner Doug Papich (Aden Young) on a mission in Panama. Papich is replaced by another sniper in the form of Richard Miller (Billy Zane), who is Beckett's superior but has nowhere near his subordinate's level of real-world experience. The pair is then forced to work together as they embark on a mission to kill Panamanian rebel Miguel Alvarez (Frederick Miragliotta). Ever since,...

The Producers Guild of America has unveiled the first round of speakers for the 2025 Produced By Conference, held May 31 at the Universal Studios Lot in Los Angeles. The Produced By Conference, which features sessions with top producers across film, TV, and emerging media, will also feature sessions dedicated to AI “from a producer’s perspective.”

“This year’s Produced By Conference will ignite meaningful dialogue around some of the most relevant and complex topics that affect our industry and the future of our profession,” said PGA presidents Stephanie Allain and Donald De Line. Confirmed speakers to date include: Blumhouse President Abhijay Prakash, “The Brutalist” producer Andrew Morrison, Asteria co-founder/CEO Bryn Mooser, Promise co-founder/CEO George Strompolos and industry advisor Barbara Ford Grant.

Other producers set to speak include Carolyn Strauss and Carter Swan (“The Last of Us”), Christine D’Souza Gelb (“Babygirl”), David W. Zucker (“Dope Thief”), Erik Oleson (“The Bondsman...

The golden rule to treat others as you would like to be treated doesn’t always hold true in life. But it was a necessity on “Adolescence.” The demands of shooting episode-length single takes require weeks of rehearsal and the kind of intuitive, balletic coordination we normally only see on sports fields – and unlike on a lot of sports teams and film sets, co-creator, executive producer, and star Stephen Graham was in a position to make sure there were no dicks on the team.

To its absolute credit, the Netflix miniseries is a meditation on the fallout after a 13-year-old boy (Owen Cooper) murders one of his female classmates (Emilia Holliday) rather than a whodunit or a breathlessly titillating true-crime rehash of the violent event. Speaking to IndieWire on an episode of the Filmmaker Toolkit Podcast, Graham said that the idea to interrogate how incel culture online leads to violence...

“Thunderbolts*” director Jake Schreier is being eyed to direct Marvel’s next “X-Men” adventure.

Sources stress the deal is in early talks and hasn’t been finalized, but Schrier catapulted to the top of Disney and Marvel’s wishlist after “Thunderbolts*” became one of the MCU’s best reviewed movie in years. Though “Thunderbolts*” started slower at the box office (with $76 million domestically) compared to most Marvel installments, the studio is hoping that support from critics and audience will help the film endure on the big screen.

Screenwriter Michael Lesslie, who recent credits include “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes,” penned the screenplay with Kevin Feige on board to produce the newest “X-Men” entry. No other details about the film, including the cast, plot description or release timeline, have been revealed.

Prior to Marvel, Schreier has directed 2012’s sci-fi drama “Robot & Frank,” 2015’s romantic comedy...

Kaja Sokola, a former model from Poland, testified Thursday at Harvey Weinstein’s retrial in Manhattan, alleging that the disgraced movie mogul sexually assaulted her in 2002 and 2006.

Sokola recounted the alleged 2006 assault, which occurred when she was 19 years old — just days before her 20th birthday. Prior to the alleged incident, Sokola and her older sister met Weinstein for lunch at a restaurant on the ground floor of a Tribeca hotel. Sokola said she wanted to prove to her sister that she knew a “real producer” who could help her acting career.

At one point, Weinstein mentioned he had scripts upstairs in a hotel room, so Sokola took the elevator up with him while her sister remained in the restaurant. When District Attorney Shannon Lucey asked if she had any intention of engaging in anything romantic or sexual with Weinstein in the hotel room, Sokola simply responded, “No.”

When they entered the hotel room,...

President Trump’s initial proposal to impose a 100% tariff on foreign-produced films was met with bafflement and horror in Hollywood. But for lawmakers who represent film industry workers, it looked like an opportunity.

“I would like to refocus the conversation around a national film tax credit,” said Rep. Laura Friedman, a Democrat from Burbank. “We know this works.”

For months, Sen. Adam Schiff has been working with unions and industry stakeholders on a proposed federal subsidy for film and TV production, which would counter those offered by the United Kingdom, Canada, and other countries.

Schiff and Friedman, who is working on the House version, are in search of Republicans to form a bipartisan coalition behind the bill.

Trump has not endorsed a federal film subsidy. But in calling for a tariff, he has conceded that a problem exists that requires some sort of federal action.

“The Movie Industry in America...

Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival unveiled the first wave of its upcoming 29th edition on Thursday, a boisterous roster that brings new work from Hwang Wook,the Adams Family, Steve Pink, Julie Pacino, and Brock Bodell.

One year after debuting Mash Ville at Fantasia, South Korea’s Hwang returns with The Woman, a psychological thriller starring Han Hye-ji in which a girl pursues a mysterious stranger after an innocent act results in her friend’s suspicious suicide.

The first wave includesMother Of Fliesfrom John and Zelda Adams and Toby Poser, about a woman who seeks dark magic from a...

Let’s first get this out of the way. Episode 8 of “The Studio,” aptly named “The Golden Globes,” was not filmed during the real Golden Globes, nor did the Apple TV+ series strike a deal with the yearly awards ceremony to shoot the entire 31-minute episode on its set. Instead, they rented out the Beverly Hilton ballroom, where the Globes are hosted, and built their own awards ceremony from scratch.

“We were adamant that it had to be shot at the Beverly Hilton in the actual room where the Golden Globes were,” said series co-creator, co-director, and star Seth Rogen, when he was on an upcoming episode of the Filmmaker Toolkit podcast. “I’d say rightfully, a lot of our producers and partners, and the studio, were like, ‘Why? Who will know the difference?’ And we were like, ’It just has to.’ I thought a cool part of the show is to really give people,...

The film-maker, whose credits also included many Madonna music videos, died of brain cancer

Director James Foley, whose credits included Glengarry Glen Ross and the Fifty Shades sequels, has died aged 71.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, his death was confirmed by his representative who said he died “peacefully in his sleep earlier this week following a years-long struggle with brain cancer”.

Exclusive: Upgrade will commence talks with international buyers in Cannes next week on the revenge thriller Violent Ends starring Billy Magnussen, James Badge Dale, Alexandra Shipp, and Nick Stahl.

John-Michael Powell will direct the story about Lucas Frost (Magnussen), a man raised in a notorious crime family who desperately wants to build a peaceful life with his fiancée, Emma (Shipp).

When a robbery involving Lucas’s cousin spirals out of control with tragic consequences, Lucas is forced back into the violent underworld he fought to leave behind.

Production took place in Arkansas and Upgrade will present footage to buyers on the Croisette.

When "John Wick" blasted into theaters on October 24, 2014, moviegoers lost their minds over the film's inventive amalgam of hand-to-hand combat and gunplay. It was doubly impressive due to Keanu Reeves' seemingly effortless facility for performing many of his own stunts. Obviously, no one was surprised that the star of "The Matrix" franchise could brawl and shoot convincingly, but the degree of difficulty appeared to be off the charts. Just when you think you've seen every possible iteration of martial arts combat on screen, along comes stuntman-turned-director Chad Stahelski to show action junkies that there's still plenty of room for throwdown innovation.

If you're a hardcore fan of the genre, you know that filmmakers have blended these gunplay and hand-to-hand combat before. The Wachowskis first introduced the idea in "The Matrix," which inspired Kurt Wimmer to go utterly gonzo by inventing "gun kata" in his ludicrously entertaining "Equilibrium." Wimmer was so...

When Richard Attenborough first read Louis Fischer’s biography of Indian activist and attorney Mahatma Gandhi in the early 1960s, he was around 20 years into an acting career that included work with David Lean (“In Which We Serve”), Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (“A Matter of Life and Death”), and John Sturges (“The Great Escape”). Attenborough hadn’t directed anything himself at that point, but discovering Gandhi’s story gave him the desire to mount a biopic on the epic scale of his mentors.

It would take Attenborough another couple of decades to find the necessary funding, but when he finally made “Gandhi” in 1982, it was worth the wait, both for him and for audiences worldwide. A literate three-hour drama for adults that was, amazingly, a box-office blockbuster as well as an awards behemoth, “Gandhi” was one of those rare films that seemed to please just about everybody.

That must...

Acclaimed director James Foley has died at age 71. A representative for the Foley family confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter that the filmmaker passed “peacefully in his sleep earlier this week following a years-long struggle with brain cancer.” It is unclear when Foley was diagnosed and for how long his illness was.

Foley most famously helmed the 1992 film adaptation of David Mamet’s “Glengarry Glen Ross,” starring Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Alec Baldwin, Ed Harris, Alan Arkin, and Kevin Spacey. Foley would later reunite with Spacey for 12 episodes of Netflix’s first-ever series, “House of Cards.”

Foley made his feature directorial debut in 1984 with “Reckless” starring Daryl Hannah and Aidan Quinn. He was best known for working in the domestic thriller genre, despite defying filmmaker labels. His features include directing Mark Wahlberg and Reese Witherspoon in “Fear,” Halle Berry and Bruce Willis in “Perfect Stranger,” and “Fifty Shades Darker” and “Fifty Shades Freed...

James Foley, director of films including “Glengarry Glen Ross,” “At Close Range” and “Fear,” died at his home in Los Angeles earlier this week.

He died after a year-long struggle with brain cancer, according to a rep.

Foley worked with stars including Sean Penn, Madonna, Al Pacino and Halle Berry, and specialized in atmosphere-soaked, noir-adjacent stories.

His first feature was 1984’s musical romance drama “Reckless,” starring Daryl Hannah and Aidan Quinn. Foley followed that with “At Close Range,” starring Penn and Christopher Walken in a neo-noir that included the Madonna song “Live to Tell.” Madonna was married to Penn at the time, and Foley went on to work with Madonna several times, directing music videos and her feature “Who’s That Girl.” The screwball comedy bombed, and Foley told FilmInk, “It was a major life experience. That first failure is so shocking.”

“Glengarry Glen Ross” was one of his most high-profile films,...

The newest “Silent Hill” adaptation is headed to the big screen.

Cineverse announced the acquisition of U.S. rights for “Return to Silent Hill,” the newest chapter in the film franchise based on Konami’s horror video game series. The film will have a wide theatrical release in America at a date to be announced.

“Return to Silent Hill” is directed by Christophe Gans, who also helmed the first “Silent Hill” movie in 2006. This installment stars Jeremy Irvine and Hannah Emily Anderson, and is promised to be “a faithful adaptation of the video game ‘Silent Hill 2,'” the company said in a statement.

Per the press release, the film follows “James, a man broken after his relationship with the love of his life, Mary, ends. When a mysterious letter from her calls him back to Silent Hill, he finds a once-recognizable town transformed by an unknown evil. While James...

Welcome to It’s a Hit! In this series, IndieWire speaks to creators and showrunners behind a few of our favorite television programs about the moment they realized their show was breaking big.

Writer/producer/showrunner John Wells is a busy man. He’s produced and/or created countless hit series over the decades, many at his home at Warner Bros. since 1986, collecting six Emmy wins along the way.

More are in the cards.

His latest, Max’s new dramatic series “The Pitt,” set in a overflowing Pittsburgh emergency room, has ranked among 2024’s most popular hits (over 10 million views per episode). Easy explanations for the appeal of “The Pitt” range from its immersive, music-free “you are here now” structure — each episode of the procedural unwinds one hour of a 15-hour ER stint — to its dead-on accurate portrayal of contemporary medicine.

But mainly it’s a zeitgeist thing: the right show at the right time.

When Pope Francis was elected in 2013, the go-to fictional work for Vatican intrigue was "The Godfather Part III." The final film in Francis Ford Coppola's crime saga drew inspiration from the sudden (some say suspicious) death of the newly elected Pope John Paul I in 1978, as well as the Banco Ambrosiano scandal of the early 1980s. There was nothing suspicious about Pope Francis' selection as the head of the Catholic Church, but the funny-hatted fellas can serve for decades (Pope John Paul II held this holiest of holy positions for 27 years). So, when there's a new election, it's fun to dive into dark papal intrigue.

For whatever reason, though, there has been a surge in Pope fiction over the last 12 years. When Pope Francis fell ill earlier in 2025, there was likewise a renewed interest in Edward Berger's critically acclaimed film adaptation of Robert Harris' novel "Conclave." Suddenly, a...

Justin Kurzel has officially lined up his next film based on a deadly real-life incident and cast two of the hottest stars of the moment to lead the project.

Sebastian Stan and Leo Woodall are set to star in Kurzel’s “Burning Rainbow Farm,” about a deadly Waco-like police siege that took place in 2001. Rocket Science will be launching the film in Cannes. CAA Media Finance is handling North American distribution rights.

“Burning Rainbow Farm” is set to tell the story of Tom Crosslin and Rollie Rohm, two gay cannabis activists who met in the early 1990s and set up the peaceful, pot-friendly utopia Rainbow Farm in Michigan, a site that was once listed by High Times magazine as “fourteenth on the list of twenty-five Top Stoner Travel Spots in the world.” But the pair ran afoul of local authorities and, when their young son was taken from them, a...

Sebastian Stan and Leo Woodall will star for Justin Kurzel in Burning Rainbow Farm, which Rocket Science will introduce to buyers in Cannes next week.

Tommy Murphy adapted the screenplay from the novel by Dean Kuipers. The true story follows Tom Crosslin and Rollie Rohm, a couple in rural Michigan who build a peaceful, pot-friendly utopia called Rainbow Farm. When the two fall foul of local authorities and their son is taken from them, a major stand-off ensues.

Burning Rainbow Farm is being produced by Nicole O’Donohue, Kurzel, and Alexandra Taussig for Thirdborn, with Adam Shulman of Anonymous Content, Alix Madigan of Mad Dog Films,...

An adaptation of the 2020 YA horror sees an evil clown pick off local youths and while there are a handful of interesting ideas, this is pretty standard late night fodder

One would be forgiven for assuming there was a lot more to early summer slasher Clown in a Cornfield other than, well, a clown in a cornfield. Because ever since an inevitable premiere at SXSW in March, an impressively maintained buzz has followed – special drive-in screenings, an ambitiously wide release, the bullish positioning of a New Horror Icon – giving us enough naive hope that in an overcrowded genre (there’s estimated to be double the amount of wide release horrors this year compared to 2024), this one might be worthy of the hype.

But the film, which was picked up by ever-growing horror streamer Shudder at the end of last year, would have been a wiser choice for a small screen premiere,...

This article contains spoilers for "Andor."

As "Andor" season 2 barrels towards its inevitable conclusion and sets a new high water mark for "Star Wars" in the process, it'd be understandable for viewers to assume that creator Tony Gilroy and his writing team managed to pull off a heist of their own. After all, this is a season that has gotten away with depicting the Ghorman massacre in all its harrowing brutality, along with a dozen sequences and concepts that we've simply never seen from this franchise before. If any movie or series represented the idea of unfettered creative freedom within this beloved story about a galaxy far, far away ... it'd be this one, right?

Well, we now know that's only mostly true. Even the best and most acclaimed series in all of "Star Wars" had to make a few concessions along the way. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Gilroy...

Jonathan Lipnicki said in a recent interview with People magazine that he is trying to turn his acting career around after it more or less sputtered following his iconic run as a child actor in the late 1990s and early 2000s. With roles in “Jerry Maguire” (1996), the “Stuart Little” movies (1999-2002), “The Little Vampire” (2000) and “Like Mike” (2002), Lipnicki was one of Hollywood’s most recognizable young performers. He cut back on acting to attend high school and says that he’s since struggled to match the professional highs of his youth.

“I had some really good things that happened when I was younger. It’s totally fine to say I’m not where I want to be career-wise,” Lipnicki said, adding that he’s “all right” with that for now. “Everything we’re doing in this life is nearly impossible.”

“This is the thing I want to do for the rest of my life,...

Exclusive: Blue Fox Entertainment heads to Cannes with worldwide sales rights excluding Australia and New Zealand to the New Zealand feature Big Girls Don’t Cry from feature directorial debutante Paloma Schneideman Aka musician PollyHill.

Production recently began in Mangatāwhiri Omaha and Tāmaki Makaurau in the region of Auckland in New Zealand.

The coming-of-age story takes place in the summer of 2006 as 14-year-old Sid experiences a sexual awakening and the desire to be accepted by an older group of girls as she explores her rebellious side, leaving a trail of destruction in her wake. Rain Spencer and Noah Taylor star alongside...

Warner Bros Discovery’s (Wbd) global subscribers increased by 5.3m to 122.3m as CEO David Zaslav said the ongoing international rollout maintained course to cross 150m members by the end of 2026.

Streaming was a highlight in an otherwise mixed first quarter that brought expected drops at the studios and television businesses.

Overall streaming revenues climbed 8% to $2.7bn and adjusted Ebitda was $339m. Distribution revenues increased 7% to $2.3bn, driven by a 23% increase in subscribers following the ongoing global rollout of Max and new US distribution deals. The service launched in Australia on March 31 and will debut in the UK in 2026.

Streaming advertising increased 35% to $237m,...

“Twinless” starring Dylan O’Brien, Slick Rick’s visual album “Victory” produced by Idris Elba and the audiovisual project “Turnstile: Never Enough” have been added to the Tribeca Film Festival’s 2025 lineup.

Following its Sundance premiere earlier this year, “Twinless” will now have its New York premiere at Tribeca. Directed by James Sweeney, the acclaimed dramedy follows two young men who meet at a twin support group. The visual album “Victory” is set in London and features Elba with a new twist on Rick’s visual storytelling, while “Turnstile: Never Enough” is directed by frontman Brendan Yates and guitarist Pat McCrory, telling a 50-minute audiovisual journey.

“There is always more in store at Tribeca,” Tribeca Festival director and SVP of programming Cara Cusumano said in a statement. “We added these premieres because they’re electric — they push boundaries, stir conversation and reflect the kind of fearless creativity Tribeca was made for.

Here’s another buzzy package for the Cannes market, which sees Tom Hooper return to direct something for the first time since the 2019 debacle “Cats.”

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Deadline reports that Hooper will direct Natalie Portman in “Photograph 51,” a biopic about the brilliant British DNA scientist Rosalind Franklin.

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All is well right now in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. "Thunderbolts*" (which got some of the best reviews for a Marvel picture in a while) ends with the titular team overcoming the Void, the dark half of Bob Reynolds/The Sentry (Lewis Pullman). As they've prevented a shadow from falling over New York City, the crew goes from Thunderbolts to New Avengers.

The Marvel Comics Universe is a different story. This year's crossover event is "One World Under Doom" by Ryan North and R.B. Silva. Doctor Doom, now the Sorcerer Supreme and rocking Doctor Strange's red cape, declares that the world is his. The nations of the world go along, folding themselves into New Latveria. Not because of mind control or magic, but because Doom is offering the strong leadership people crave. The Fantastic Four, Avengers, etc., are struggling...

Christopher Nolan may make cinema history yet again with his Universal adaptation of “The Odyssey.”

One of the film’s stunt performers, James Newman, said during the “Action for Everyone” podcast, as reported by Screenrant, that the feature is going to be “an epic of all epics” and is auteur Nolan “at his best.”

“The Odyssey” is Nolan’s reimagining of the iconic Greek epic about hero Odysseus who spends a decade trying to return home after fighting in the Trojan War. Matt Damon stars in the lead role. The film was announced in December 2024 as Nolan’s 13th feature. The ensemble cast includes a slew of reunions for Nolan in addition to working again with Damon, including Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson, Elliot Page, and Benny Safdie. Tom Holland, Zendaya, Lupita Nyong’o, Charlize Theron, Mia Goth, Jon Bernthal, and John Leguizamo also star.

“They’re never going to make a movie like this again,...

Czech actor and president of the Karlovy Vary Film Festival Jiří Bartoška died on Thursday at the age of 78.

After graduating from the Janáček Academy of Performing Arts in Brno, he first worked at the Husa na Provázku Theatre and the Činoherní studio in Ústí nad Labem, before becoming a mainstay of the ensemble at Theatre Na zábradlí in the early 1980s. After leaving Na zábradlí in the early 1990s, he continued performing intermittently at Bez zábradlí Theatre and other theaters in the Czech Republic.

He made his film debut in 1975 with “The Playground” (Hřiště). He appeared in nearly 70 Czech films and starred in popular television series. He received the 1999 Czech Lion Award for best supporting actor for the film “All My Loved Ones” (Všichni moji blízcí), which he also produced. In 2016, he was awarded the Czech Lion for outstanding contribution to Czech cinema.

Bartoška played a key role...

Good news, you "Yellowstone" loving loons. After all the secrets and rumors that have come stumbling out of the bunkhouse, it's now been confirmed that troubled but stupidly heroic Dutton son, Kayce Dutton (Luke Grimes), is finally getting his own spin-off series following the events of the original show that ended earlier this year. It marks yet another corner of the map to Taylor Sheridan's ever-expanding universe after prequel shows "1883" and "1923" (the latter of which ended on a second season in April), as well as the four other spin-off shows that are in development.

The new show, entitled "Y: Marshals," is set to air on CBS and will follow the next chapter of the youngest Dutton son after he gave up the family home and all the land that came with it. As was foretold back in "1883", Kayce sold the ranch by the acre for $1.25 to...

The ongoing drama involving “Coyote vs. Acme” is taking another turn.

The live-action animated film — which was initially shelved by Warner Bros. as a tax write-off in late 2023 — is now set to hit the Cannes market.

Ketchup Entertainment, which acquired the rights in March for a reported $50 million, has tapped Kinology to serve as the international sales agent, with Grégoire Melin’s Paris-based company introducing to the film to buyers.

Starring Will Forte, John Cena and Lana Condor, Coyote vs. Acme is directed by Dave Green and produced by Chris DeFaria (“The Lego Movie”) and James Gunn (“Guardians of the Galaxy”).

“We’re not just bringing a family film to Cannes — we’re bringing a global event,” commented Gareth West, CEO of Ketchup Entertainment. “Coyote vs. Acme is a true four-quadrant crowd pleaser. The performances are sublime, the world-building is extraordinary, and Dave Green has delivered something visually inventive and...