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The Cannes Film Festival has unveiled the line-up for its 78th edition (May 13-24).

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Festival director Thierry Frémaux revealed the Official Selection at a press conference at the Ugc Montparnasse cinema in Paris alongside festival president Iris Knobloch.

A diverse range of features make up the 2025 Competition, mixing veteran auteurs with up-and-coming directors.

Acclaimed directors the Dardenne Brothers, Wes Anderson, Richard Linklater and Joachim Trier are among those selected for Cannes Competition 2025.

Newcomers to the Competition include genre specialist Ari Aster, Berlin Golden Bear winner Carla Simon as well as Germany’s Mascha Schilinski.

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South Korea’s Jeonju International Film Festival (April 30-May 9) has unveiled the international competition titles for its 26th edition, which will open with Radu Jude’s Berlinale award-winner Kontinental ’25 and close with local documentary In The Land Of Machines.

The festival will feature a total of 224 films from 57 countries and host 80 world premieres.

After winning a Silver Bear for best screenplay at the Berlinale, Romanian dark comedy Kontinental ’25 has been set as the opening film. Jiff programmer Moon Sun-kyung said the use of iPhone cinematography in Jude’s film “aligns with our festival’s spirit of alternatives and...

Giancarlo Esposito, known for his iconic portrayal of villains, is one of the standout characters in The Mandalorian. As Moff Gideon, he has played a key role as one of the main antagonists throughout all three seasons of the show.

We now know that the story of The Mandalorian and Grogu will continue but in the form of a live-action movie. After the SAG-AFTRA and writer strikes concluded, industry rumors began circulating that The Mandalorian Season 4 would be scrapped entirely and turned into a movie. These rumors gained even more traction when the movie was confirmed.

We know that Esposito’s character was seemingly killed in the last episode of ‘The Mandalorian’ season 3. Moff Gideon sets a trap for the Mandalorian and Grogu after their escape from Imperial captivity.

It’s revealed that Gideon’s motive was to create a Force-sensitive army using a secret cloning project with Dr. Pershing.

The last time Star Wars fans saw Moff Gideon, he was going up in flames. The Season 3 finale of The Mandalorian saw Giancarlo Esposito’s warlord finally unveil his plan – that he was attempting to create Force-sensitive clones of himself as part of a grab for power, having set up base in the ruins of Mandalore. Except, Din Djarin and friends saw to it that his plans were thwarted, his clones destroyed – and Gideon himself was engulfed in a massive explosion. But death is not always the end in Star Wars, and we don’t know for sure that Moff Gideon did die, encased as he was in his own bespoke Beskar get-up.

In a major new career-spanning interview, Empire spoke to Esposito about – among many other things – his Star Wars villain. And while he says he doesn’t know exactly when we’ll see him again, he suggested it...

Ever since Monkey D. Luffy, the protagonist of Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece has awakened his Devil Fruit and unlocked Gear 5, a bunch of fans have been disappointed in his character development. From the beginning, Luffy has been deemed as the most unique main character in anime history. His perspective of things is different from that of other main characters.

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He does not carry any of the stereotypical shonen protagonist’s tropes and his growth in the series has not changed his personality at all. This was one of the main reasons why One Piece is considered one of the greatest anime and manga series of all time, and Luffy became a fan-favorite protagonist.

Thus, when fans saw Gear 5 or the Nika transformation and the influence of the Child of Prophecy trope on his character, they felt disappointed. However, fans need to understand that...

‘General Hospital’ (Gh) spoilers suggest that Kristina Corinthos-Davis (Kate Mansi) and her baby will face a medical crisis the week of July 29th.

‘General Hospital’ Spoilers: Molly Went Ballistic On Kristina

Saying that the recent conversation between Kristina and Molly Lansing-Davis (Kristen Vaganos) didn’t go well is a staggering understatement.

Molly and T.J. Ashford (Tajh Bellow) freaked out over Kristina and Blaze’s interview with Perez Hilton. When asked about the baby, Kristina said it was a private matter, not wanting to expose her sister’s infertility issues.

Instead of Molly calmly asking Kristina why she didn’t specify that she was carrying her baby for her sister, Molly hurled insults at Kristina and accused her of not wanting to say that the baby wasn’t hers.

Kristina said she had concerns about Molly and T.J.’s relationship, and when Molly presented her with adoption papers, Kristina was caught off guard.

Beam me up, Scotty! We’re out of cash! Facing a financial black hole, Star Trek: The Next Generation cobbled together a bizarre solution: a clip show starring Commander Riker himself, Jonathan Frakes. To everyone’s surprise, the clip became a fan-derided montage of recycled footage, a desperate attempt to save on costs that resulted in a jarring, budget-conscious blooper reel masquerading as a space adventure.

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This infamous episode may be a punchline, but it’s a quirky reminder of the lengths a show will go to navigate the final frontier, even when the dilithium crystals are running low.

Tng’s Brush with Cancellation: The Clip Show that Almost Destroyed a Franchise A still from Star Trek: The Next Generation | Paramount Domestic Television

Even the Starship Enterprise runs out of dilithium crystals sometimes, and that’s exactly what happened on Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Counselor Deanna Troi's potential as a character was often overshadowed by poor storylines and objectification in Star Trek: The Next Generation. Troi's storylines frequently revolved around her love life and sexuality, with her intelligence and skills being undervalued. Marina Sirtis, the actress who portrayed Troi, expressed disappointment in the character's portrayal and hoped for more compelling storylines.

This article contains references to sexual assault.

Counselor Deanna Troi (Marina Sirtis) had the potential to be one of Star Trek: The Next Generation's most interesting characters, but she often got saddled with the worst storylines. Throughout all seven seasons of Tng, Troi served as the counselor on the USS Enterprise-d under the command of Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart). In addition to her skills as a counselor, Troi could also sense the emotions of those around her, thanks to her Betazoid abilities inherited from her mother, Lwaxana Troi (Majel Barrett Roddenberry...

Dave Filoni's update on The Mandalorian movie hints at a strong ending for the popular era of the Star Wars franchise. The show has been a hit with audiences due to Mando's relationship with Grogu, aka Baby Yoda. The Star Wars franchise is gearing up for more Mandalorian projects, including a movie from Jon Favreau.

Dave Filoni has shared an update on one of his next big projects in the Star Wars franchise. While The Acolyte is currently delivering a story set long before the events of The Mandalorian, the Chief Creative Officer of Lucasfilm is almost ready to start working on bringing his Mandalorian story to a close with a new movie. It seems that there is still some work to be done before the film makes it to cinemas, but Filoni has a clear idea now of where his story is heading.

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Inspired by The Mandalorian, Hot Toys' stunning "The Mandalorian and the Child" 1/6th scale figure is an unmissable collectible. Played by Pedro Pascal in live-action, Din Djarin and his delightful ward Grogu have taken the world by storm - so much so they're soon to hit the big screen in The Mandalorian & Grogu. Understandably, collectibles featuring the found-family pair are in great demand, and "The Mandalorian and the Child" from Sideshow is the ultimate example.

Hot Toys' figures aren't for playing with, of course. These are fantastically-detailed 1/6th scale figures for display purposes, and they look absolutely stunning. One beautiful example is "The Mandalorian and The Child," currently retailing at $555. Sideshow has kindly made a copy exclusively available to Screen Rant for review.

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“I’m Nevenka,” a Movistar Plus+ original film and the awaited next feature from Spain’s Iciar Bollaín, has closed its earliest pre-sales, struck by Film Factory Entertainment, including a bellwether deal in France.

The deals come as “I’m Nevenka” has wrapped production, shooting in the Basque city of Bilbao before transferring to rural Zamora, western Spain.

Daniel Chabannes’ Epicentre Films, a classic 30-year-old distributor and producer of non-English language art pics, especially from Europe and Latin America, whose recent acquisitions take in San Sebastian Gold Shell winner “The Rye Horn” and Amos Gitai’s “It’s Not Over,” has acquired French rights.

A distributor of both big Cannes winners – “Triangle of Sadness,” “Rosetta,” “The Child” – and slightly more out-there propositions, such as Pablo Berger’s silent movie “Blancanieves,” Xenix Film Distribution has clinched rights to Switzerland.

Iciar Bollaín: A Broader Audience Auteur

The early pre-sales are hardly surprising. Since her big breakout,...

Jennifer Tilly wants to continue playing Tiffany indefinitely. The possibility of a Chucky movie set in space opens up new avenues for the horror series. Future Child's Play movies will connect to the TV show.

Chucky and Child's Play actress Jennifer Tilly has given her views on her character Tiffany potentially returning to the popular horror series. Created by Don Mancini, the Child's Play franchise began with the 1988 film Child's Play, which focused on a young boy who comes into possession of a murderous doll possessed by the spirit of a serial killer. The franchise has become highly successful, and to date, there have been a total of eight Child's Play movies, including the 2019 reboot, as well as three seasons of the spin-off TV show Chucky, which debuted in 2021.

Tilly plays the character of Tiffany, Chucky's love interest, who debuted in 1998's Bride of Chucky, and has to date appeared...

Dr. Pulaski's debut in Tng season 2 was problematic, as she came across as rude and unlikeable, failing to capture the charm of Dr. McCoy from the original series. Pulaski's treatment of Lt. Commander Data as a mere piece of technology rather than a person was a stark contrast to the dynamic between McCoy and Spock, where their verbal sparring conveyed underlying care for each other. On the other hand, Guinan's mysterious character in her Tng debut brought intrigue and valuable advice to Ensign Wesley Crusher, setting the stage for her gradual revelation as one of Captain Picard's oldest friends.

Star Trek: The Next Generation introduced two very different characters in its season 2 premiere. Following the adventures of Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and the USS Enterprise-d, Tng got off to a rocky start in its first season. As the second season began, the 1988 WGA Strike caused more problems for the already strained writer's room.

Tng season 2 establishes the main characters' roles and sets up the new status quo for the rest of the series. "The Child" episode borrows ideas from old Star Trek scripts, including a story about an alien pregnancy. While the main storyline of the premiere may not be the best, it foreshadows the tone and direction of the show moving forward.

Star Trek: The Next Generation season 2 is when the show began to find its footing, as the characters and their positions aboard the USS Enterprise-d are solidified. Tng season 1 is considered the show's worst, but it had its moments and did a solid job of introducing audiences to Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and the crew of the USS Enterprise-d. Going into season 2, Tng's writers remained in flux and the 1988 WGA Strike certainly didn't help matters. Still, Tng season 2, episode 1, "The Child," goes a long way to set up the future of the show.

Whoopi Goldberg begged to be on Star Trek: The Next Generation and eventually appeared in 29 episodes as Guinan. Goldberg's love for the original series and the portrayal of black people in the future drew her to the show and Gene Roddenberry's vision. Goldberg reprised her role as Guinan in Star Trek: Picard season 2, and there's a possibility she could appear in other current or future Star Trek shows.

Whoopi Goldberg really wanted to be on Star Trek: The Next Generation, but the show's producers initially didn't believe the then-Academy Award-nominee when she asked to appear on the show. Beginning with Tng season 2, episode 1, "The Child," Whoopi Goldberg appeared as Guinan in 29 episodes of Tng and two of the feature films. A close friend of Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart), Guinan was a member of the El-Aurian species, who lived for an incredibly long time. She served as the bartender...

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The chapter titles in "The Creator" - "The Child," "The Mother," and "The Friend" - represent specific characters and their roles in the story. "The Child" refers to Alphie, a sim made in the likeness of a child who challenges Joshua's perception of A.I. and represents humanity's curiosity and questions about mortality. "The Mother" refers to Maya, Joshua's deceased wife who is the creator of Alphie and seeks to bridge the gap between humans and sims, embodying the mother of both factions in the war.

Gareth Evans's new sci-fi war movie The Creator includes three chapter titles, with each referring to the larger themes and philosophical ideas of the film. Set in the late 21st century, The Creator takes place in a world in which A.I. has become a fixture of modern life, but also sparked a war between humanity and the...

Despite being the definitive version of Star Trek for a generation, Star Trek: The Next Generation was never supposed to work. Conventional wisdom suggested that no reboot ever compared to the original TV series -- either in quality or ratings. However, Gene Roddenberry had been through it all with Paramount before. In fact, The Next Generation was largely assembled from leftover pieces of a cancelled show called Star Trek: Phase II.

In fairness, Star Trek: Phase II was canceled in favor of the superlative Star Trek: The Motion Picture. However, The Next Generation represented a new, unique business opportunity, as documented by the Los Angeles Times. Yet the chaotic production of the first two seasons meant the writers and producers had to dig into the past in order to shape the future. From characters to concepts, Star Trek: Phase II lived on in the early adventures of the USS Enterprise-d.

Gates McFadden played Dr. Beverly Crusher on Star Trek: The Next Generation and the Tng movies but backstage issues led to McFadden's character being replaced in Tng season 2. Dr. Crusher was introduced in Tng's pilot episode, "Encounter at Farpoint," along with her teenage son, Wesley Crusher (Wil Wheaton), and Beverly is remembered for being a consistent part of Tng's main cast. However, at the start of Tng season 2, it's revealed that Dr. Crusher transferred off the Enterprise to head up Starfleet Medical, leaving Wesley behind.

Dr. Katherine Pulaski (Diana Muldaur) took over the job of Chief Medical Officer on the USS Enterprise-d at the start of Tng season 2, episode 1, “The Child.” However, Dr. Pulaski was an unpopular replacement for Dr. Crusher and another switch occurred in-between seasons with Gates McFadden returning to Tng at the start of season 3, where she remained throughout the popular series' run. While Dr. Crusher’s...

As all good Trekkies know, "Star Trek: The Next Generation" got off to a rocky start. As detailed in William Shatner's 2014 documentary "Chaos on the Bridge," "Next Generation" was hotly contested, with various producers and showrunners all vying for control over the project. There was a lot of animosity, as a result, and a lot of arguments as to what kind of scripts would be used. Show creator Gene Roddenberry, according to the film, was insistent that he had control over every facet of the production as he had been barred from working on the second, third, and fourth "Star Trek" movies, and wanted to make sure "his baby" was safe. There were, however, reports that Gene Roddenberry's personal lawyer, Leonard Maizlish, was taking completed scripts and re-writing them in secret. Executive Producer Rick Berman suspected that the written notes he received from Roddenberry were actually Maizlish's doing.

Maislish...

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Days after her grandmother’s death, a young professional woman returns to her family home to sort through what was left behind. Wrapped in a blanket to warm herself from the storm raging outside, the woman senses a ghostly presence, one that visited her in a dream the night before. The presence begins to speak, bidding the woman closer, promising that he loves her as much as he once loved her grandmother. Terror grips the woman’s face, but with it, desire.

I’m not describing a beloved rom-com or a scene from a Harlequin novel. This is a scene from Star Trek: The Next Generation; specifically the season seven episode “Sub Rosa.” If you haven’t seen “Sub Rosa,” you may still be very aware of it. Known as the one in which Dr. Beverly Crusher has sex with a candle ghost, “Sub Rosa” regularly ends up on lists...

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Projects from Spain, Ukraine and Belgium shared the top prizes at this year’s When East Meets West (Wemw) co-production forum, which was held in Trieste from January 22-25.

Spanish filmmaker Enrique Buleo’s Still Life With Ghosts won the €5,000 Center Serbia Award. Produced by Spain’s Quatre Films and France’s Ikki Films, the film tells the story of ghosts and humans who seek to resolve their everyday problems in a small village in rural Spain. Buleo’s short Hell and Such received a Special Jury Mention at the 2019 Clermont-Ferrand festival.

Sony and Neill Blomkamp’s Gran Turismo is off to the races as far as casting is concerned. The adaptation of Sony’s best-selling racing video game franchise stars David Harbour, Orlando Bloom, and Archie Madekwe. Now, The Hollywood Reporter says Darren Barnet (Never Have I Ever) is along for the ride.

Produced by PlayStation Production’s Asad Qizilbash, Carter Swan, Doug Belgrad, and Dana Brunetti, Gran Turismo boasts a screenplay by Jason Hall and Zach Baylan. Kazunori Yamauchi, who created the game, executive produces alongside Hall. Word around the water cooler is Gran Turismo is based on a true story. The project is “the ultimate wish-fulfillment tale of a teenage Gran Turismo player whose gaming skills won a series of Nissan competitions to become an actual professional race car driver.”

After a few weeks of not knowing who people will play in the film, we can shine headlights on the project’s casting.

Tori and Lokita, the latest from the eerily consistent Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, pulls you in opposite directions when assessing it. It is as consummately made and passionately intended as anything they’ve done, but the filmmakers, as is apparent in less-successful films, can really undermine themselves with choices in plotting. I’ll never forget viewing my first, The Son, as a student in undergrad, both marveling and being almost perturbed at what a simple, elemental conflict—a man forgiving the murderer of his child—drove the entire film and generated all its tension. As in Lorna’s Silence and The Unknown Girl, this story can’t move without plot streaming out of every corner, contrivances piling upon contrivances, the way the tape could peel out of an old analog cassette or VHS.

Comparing the Dardennes to Ken Loach, one of their most profound influences, is significant too. Film critics can...

Director Rick Famuyiwa has been with "The Mandalorian" since the very beginning, and now he'll be taking on the role of an executive producer in the show's upcoming third season.

When "The Mandalorian" premiered with the launch of the Disney+ streaming service in November 2019, Famuyiwa was on the frontlines with creator Jon Favreau and executive producer Dave Filoni, who respectively wrote and directed the show's first episode. It was Famuyiwa who helmed the second episode, "The Child," and was therefore instrumental in guiding Grogu, colloquially known as Baby Yoda, into the "Star Wars" universe.

Famuyiwa came back later in the first season to direct and co-write...

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Pedro Pascal shared only three words to describe the upcoming third season of Disney+’s The Mandalorian.

“Action. Spectacle. Surprises,” the star said Saturday during the second day of the Star Wars Celebration event held at the Anaheim Convention Center.

Pascal joined The Mandalorian bosses Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni and co-stars Brendan Wayne, Lateef Crowder, Giancarlo Esposito, Temuera Morrison and more for a panel centered on Disney+ series. The conversation, titled “Mando+: A Conversation with Jon Favreau & Dave Filoni,” saw Pascal and fellow members of The Mandalorian team tease what’s to come in the junior season, which will debut in 2023.

Whether it’s cameos, easter eggs or new characters, The Mandalorian has continued to delight Star Wars fans with a range of surprises throughout its run so far. Season 3 seems to be no exception as Pascal doubles down on the idea that “there are surprises coming” when...

While Americans’ attention is consumed with the issue of abortion, halfway across the world, director Kore-eda Hirokazu (“Shoplifters”) focuses on the alternative for mothers who carry their pregnancies to term, but can’t raise the children on their own. A warm and unexpectedly nonjudgmental look at the Korean gray market for adoption, “Broker” was inspired by the idea of “baby hatches” — essentially, a donation station for unwanted infants — and follows the director’s natural curiosity through to its most humanistic conclusion, as audiences unexpectedly come to empathize with practically everyone involved in the buying and selling of a little bundle of joy.

What is Kore-eda, who is Japanese, doing making a film in South Korea, you might ask? It’s not his first time working abroad. Fortunately, “Broker” is less of a stretch than the Oscar- and Palme d’Or-winning director’s previous feature — the starry but stilted meta-movie “The Truth,...

A bout of hysteria took over the Cannes Film Festival in 1999 when the competition jury, led by David Cronenberg, awarded a little film called “Rosetta” the Palme d’Or over Pedro Almodóvar’s emotional epic “All About My Mother.” The story — now recently resurfaced in the press — goes that Cronenberg and his peers, including André Téchiné, George Miller, Holly Hunter, and Jeff Goldblum, went out of their way to award another film over Almodóvar’s eventual Oscar winner.

But the truth is, “Rosetta” was the last film to play the festival that year, and so many journalists tipping their Palme predictions in the direction of Almodóvar didn’t actually see the Dardennes’ slice-of-life drama, throwing prognosticators’ Cannes crystal balls out of orbit.

Cronenberg himself previously debunked the made-up feud in a 2014 Vulture interview, noting that the final decision was unanimous. But during a Cannes 2022 conversation promoting Cronenberg’s new competition entry “Crimes of the Future,...

For their ninth feature film in competition, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne once again turn to non-actors to give their text fresh new faces for a drama of dire consequences. Tori et Lokita comes three years since their last trip to the Croisette with Best Director winning Young Ahmed, the Dardennes will likely leave the Croisette with some awards recognition – from Critics’ groups to a possible third Palme. Winners for Rosetta (1999) and L’Enfant (2005), they came close to winning for 2011’s Kid With A Bike. They won Best Screenplay in 2008 for Lorna’s Silence. Let us not forget that they also premiered 2011’s Two Days, One Night and 2016’s The Unknown Girl.…...

‘Tori And Lokita’ arrives fifth on Screen’s Cannes jury grid and divides the critics.

Mario Martone’s Nostalgia lands third on the jury grid while Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne’s Tori And Lokita splits our jurors.

The Palme d’Or winners secure a 2.5 average for Tori And Lokita which follows the friendship between a young boy and a girl as they make the perilous journey from Africa to Belgium. It gathered four threes (good) and three twos (average) from our jurors.

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Meduza’s Anton Dolin awarded the film a four (excellent), but a one...

Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, the Belgian brothers who have directed a series of films notable for quiet naturalism, are a prime example of how at the Cannes Film Festival, familiarity breeds not contempt but contentment.

Year after year, Cannes puts the Dardennes’ films in the Main Competition; they’ve made nine features since “Rosetta” in 1999, and every one of them has vied for Cannes’ top honor, the Palme d’Or, with “Rosetta” and 2005’s “L’Enfant” winning and four others taking additional awards. The Dardennes now have a chance to make significant Cannes history by becoming the first directors to ever win the Palme for a third time.

If they win for “Tori and Lokita,” which premiered in Cannes on Tuesday, they’ll also set a new record for the longest time elapsed between Cannes wins, with the 17-year gap since “L’Enfant” breaking the record of 14 years between Shohei Imamura’s...

The new film from double Palme d’Or winners focusses on a pair of young immigrants to Belgium who find themselves working in dangerous situations

The Dardenne brothers, Jean-Pierre and Luc, have returned to the Cannes competition where they have won golden opinions over the decades: two Palmes d’Or (for Rosetta in 1999 and The Child in 2005) and other prizes including best screenplay for Lorna’s Silence in 2008, the Grand Prix for The Kid With The Bike in 2011, and best direction for Young Ahmed in 2019. But for me the dynamism of their work has fallen off in recent years, and there are sometimes issues with basic plot naivety and plausibility, for all the obvious research that has gone into their screenplays. In this film, for example – and not for the first time – the Dardennes include a bizarrely perfunctory “cosh” scene in which someone has to be rendered briefly unconscious, and this...

You can pretty much bet that whenever the Dardenne brothers show up with a new film in Cannes, it will walk away with some sort of prize. That has been the case since 1999 when their first competition film, Rosetta, swooped in at the last minute and won the Palme d’Or and Best Actress. They won a second Palme in 2005 for The Child, the Grand Jury Prize in 2011 for Kid with a Bike, Screenplay in 2008 for Lorna’s Silence and Director in 2019 for Young Ahmed. No matter what the jury, the Dardennes continue to impress, yet none of their films has brought them an Oscar nomination. Their 2011 pic Two Days, One Night did get a surprise Best Actress nomination for Marion Cotillard, but that has been it.

The Belgian brothers are a good bet to be in the Cannes winners circle again this year with Tori and Lokita, an irresistible and...

Picturehouse Entertainment has acquired UK and Ireland rights.

Picturehouse Entertainment has acquired UK and Ireland rights to Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s Competition title Tori And Lokita from Wild Bunch International.

The film follows the friendship between a young boy and a girl as they as they make the perilous journey from Africa to Belgium. The film is co-produced by the pair’s Les Films du Fleuve, France’s Archipel 35 and Belgium’s Savage Film.

The directors won the Palme d’Or in 1999 for Rosetta and again in 2005 for The Child. They won the best director prize for Young Ahmed in 2019.

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The composer who helped shape the sound of the 1980s as much as any other, Vangelis, is dead from Covid-19 at 79. The Greek musician used electronic instruments to play classical-inspired melodies that became instant earworms in “Chariots of Fire” and “Blade Runner.” For his work on the 1981 sports drama, he won the Oscar for Best Original Score.

Born in Agria, Greece, in 1943, Evángelos Odysséas Papathanassíou worked with pop bands in the 1960s as a producer, arranger, and writer, before forming the influential prog-rock band Aphrodite’s Child. Shortening his name to Vangelis, he got work the following decade as a composer for a series of nature documentaries, culminating in “Opera Sauvage,” his 1979 opus, which introduced some of his best-known themes. One piano-led track, “L’Enfant,” popped up many places over the next decade: as the official theme of the 1980 Winter Olympics, in a marching band rendition in “Chariots of Fire,” and...

The galaxy far, far away is sitting in your living room.

In a lengthy cover story at Vanity Fair, a slew of actors and producers from across the “Star Wars” galaxy all have the same message: the future of the franchise lives on television.

Whereas George Lucas’s 1977 space fantasy turned theatrical filmgoing on its ear, the current plan, post-“Rise of Skywalker,” is to dominate streaming. And like the Rebellion with stolen plans that took down the Death Star, fans now have access to a blueprint.

While the return of Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen in May’s “Obi-Wan Kenobi,” set a decade after “Revenge of the Sith,” has been known, the cover story digs into details of “The Mandalorian” (Season 3 is back potentially this year), “Andor” (a “Rogue One” prequel from Tony Gilroy), “Ashoka,” (a spin-off of “The Mandalorian” with connective tissue to the “Clone Wars” cartoon and...

After being cancelled in 2020 and then delayed in 2021, the Cannes Film Festival is finally back on track for May 2022 on the French Riviera. The 75th installment of the international cinema showcase will take place from May 17 to May 28, and there will be 18 films competing for the coveted Palme d’Or, the festival’s top prize. Last year that honor went to the French thriller “Titane,” directed by Julia Ducournau. As of this writing several details are still to be announced including who will be on this year’s jury and who will be serving as jury president after Spike Lee presided over last year’s program.

A filmmaker’s previous track record at Cannes can sometimes give us an idea of who’s in a good position to claim the Palme. For instance, seven of this year’s entries in the official competition come from directors who have previously won...

Answering the SunInternational Film Festival Rotterdam have announced the full lineup for their "scaled-down" 51st edition, which will take place online between January 26 — February 6. As part of a full, nationwide lockdown, cinemas will remain closed in the Netherlands until at least 14 January. Tiger COMPETITIONAchrome (Maria Ignatenko)The Cloud Messenger (Rahat Mahajan)The Child (Marguerite de Hillerin/Félix Dutilloy-Liégeois)Eami (Paz Encina)Excess Will Save Us (Morgane Dziurla-Petit)Kafka for Kids (Roee Rosen)Malintzin 17 (Mara Polgovsky/Eugenio Polgovsky)Met mes (Sam de Jong)The Plains (David Easteal)Proyecto Fantasma (Roberto Doveris)Le rêve et la radio (Renaud Després-Larose/Ana Tapia Rousiouk)Silver Bird and Rainbow Fish (Lei Lei)To Love Again (Gao Linyang)Yamabuki (Juichiro Yamasaki)Big Screen COMPETITIONAssault (Adilkhan Yerzhanov)Broadway (Christos Massalas)Third Grade (Jacques Doillon)Daryn’s Gym (Brett Michael Innes)Drifting Petals (Clara Law)The Harbour (Rajeev Ravi)The Island (Anca Damian)Kung Fu Zohra (Mabrouk El Mechri...

Adilkhan Yerzhanov’s “Assault” and “Kung Fu Zohra” from Mabrouk El Mechri are among the lineup at International Film Festival Rotterdam’s (IFFR) 51st edition.

The films were among 10 features selected for the Big Screen competition, which aims to bridge the gap between popular, classic and arthouse cinema.

IFFR also boasts the Tiger Competition for emerging talent and Ammodo Tiger Short competition for shorts.

Among the 14 titles selected for the Tiger Competition, Roberto Doveris will present “Proyecto Fantasma,” Morgane Dziurla-Petit will deliver “Excess Will Save Us” and David Easteal will show “The Plains.”

The festival, whose full lineup was announced on Friday, will run as a virtual festival on IFFR.com from Jan 26-Feb. 6 for the second year in a row due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Festival director Vanja Kaludjercic revealed that the lockdown in the Netherlands had enforced some changes in previously announced elements of the program. For example,...

“In Their World, Adults Are Not Allowed… To Live.” So runs the chilling tagline for the 1984 cult classic horror Children of the Corn, based on the short story by horror maestro Stephen King. Set in an agricultural town in Nebraska, the film tells the story of 12-year-old Isaac, a real little charmer who indoctrinates the local children into a religious cult that slaughters anyone over 18! The film, which cost under $1million to make, was a smash hit and spawned a horror franchise. To celebrate the release of a lavish Arrow Limited Edition box set of the trilogy, including the original film in Ultra High Definition, here’s a round-up of some other horror films featuring problematic pint-sizers which you won’t want to turn your back on for a moment…

Village of the Damned (1960)

Based on the famous sci-fi novel by John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos, this is the mother of all killer kids films,...

This Star Trek article contains minor spoilers for The Next Generation Season 2 and Lower Decks.

If you’ve been watching Star Trek: Lower Decks, then you’ve probably noticed that Dr. T’Ana is clearly based on the notorious Dr. Pulaski from Star Trek: The Next Generation. It’s not that Gillian Vigman is trying to channel the performance of Diana Muldaur—because she’s clearly doing her own thing—so much as the entire vibe of Dr. T’Ana is as though our collective opinions about Dr. Pulaski were channeled into a cranky, sentient cat-alien. Pulaski was human, but if you were going to reboot the character as an alien species in Star Trek, everyone would choose to make her a Caitian, or perhaps, the other cat aliens, the Kzinti. (There are a lot of cat aliens in Trek!)

The larger point is simple: Dr. T’Ana is, in some ways,...

Talk about information overload.

In Roswell, New Mexico Season 3 Episode 2, we learned more about the alien's origins and history than the rest of the series combined. But all this information came from the ever mysterious Jones, whose intentions are still not entirely known.

Is he telling the truth? Michael and Isobel are trying to figure that out, and we're just trying to keep up!

The Oasis is beautiful.

The alien's home planet is a glorious configuration of colors, and the little glimpses we get outside of the caves lend themselves to a beautiful world. But it's a world that the dictator took over, forcing many people to flee.

A few of those people were Nora and Louise, who, as Jones tells it, weren't nearly the innocent mothers we were led to believe they were in Roswell, New Mexico Season 2.

Nora and Louise were set up from the start to be martyrs of some kind,...

Slate also includes new films from Michel Hazanavicius and Pierre Salvadori.

Wild Bunch International (Wbi) has unveiled one of its biggest Cannes slates to date as it gears up for its first trip to the Croisette in two years.

As well as 10 Cannes selections (as of June 15), it also features upcoming projects from Palme d’Or winners Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne and fellow Cannes laureate Arnaud Desplechin, and the portmanteau work Shining Sex, combining the talents of Lucile Hadzihalilovic, Sion Sono, directorial duo Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani, Bertrand Mandico and Kleber Mendonça Filho.

Now in pre-production, the Dardenne’sTori...

Slate also includes new films from Michel Hazanavicius and Pierre Salvadori.

Wild Bunch International (Wbi) has unveiled one of its biggest Cannes slates to date as it gears up for its first trip to the Croisette in two years.

As well as 10 Cannes selections (as of June 15), it also features upcoming projects from Palme d’Or winners Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne and fellow Cannes laureate Arnaud Desplechin, and the portmanteau work Shining Sex, combining the talents of Lucile Hadzihalilovic, Sion Sono, directorial duo Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani, Bertrand Mandico and Kleber Mendonça Filho.

Now in pre-production, the Dardenne’sTori...

Updated with full list of winners: Tonight at the 57th annual Cinema Audio Society Awards, Amazon Studios drama Sound of Metal and Disney/Pixar’s Soul won out in top categories.

Sound of Metal was named Best Motion Picture – Live Action, besting Mank (Netflix), Greyhound (Apple TV+), News of the World (Universal Pictures) and The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Netflix), while Soul won out on the Animated Motion Picture category,

Tonight’s wins give each of these films added momentum in the Oscars’ new category of Best Sound, which combines sound mixing and sound editing for the first time. At the same time, though, victories here aren’t necessarily predictive. Last year, Ford v Ferrari won the Cas Live Action award but lost out at the Oscars in the Sound Mixing category to 1917; Ford v Ferrari...

“Sound of Metal” has won the award for sound mixing in a live-action motion picture at the 57th annual Cas Awards, which were presented by the Cinema Audio Society in a virtual ceremony on Saturday.

The film beat three other Oscar nominees in the Best Sound category, “Greyhound,” “Mank” and “News of the World,” along with “The Trial of the Chicago 7.”

The Cas Awards winner has gone on to win the Oscar in the Best Sound Mixing category for the last three years in a row, and five times in the last decade. But this year the Oscars combined Best Sound Mixing and Best Sound Editing into a single Best Sound category, so the Cas’ effectiveness at predicting the Oscars has yet to be determined.

On Friday, “Greyhound” won the Motion Picture Sound Editors’ Golden Reel Award in the category that in the past most closely corresponded to the Oscars sound-editing award.

George Clooney’s existential sci-fi drama, “The Midnight” Sky,” moved a step closer in the VFX Oscar race Tuesday, taking top honors at the 19th annual Ves Awards. The Netflix film (with VFX by Framestore) also earned the model award for the Aether spacecraft. Strangely, though, the unforgettable Ballet of Blood scene, containing simulated zero-g and remarkable liquid simulation, wasn’t even nominated, yet this highlight could prove decisive if “The Midnight Sky” wins the Oscar.

But that’s a big if in this wide open race that also includes Christopher Nolan’s time-inverted “Tenet” (which is finally available on the Academy’s online voting portal) and dark horse “Love and Monsters,” with its terrific array of Ray Harryhausen-like creatures. In the last four years, the Ves has only aligned with the Academy once (for “The Jungle Book”). Then again, the Ves nod could be enough to put “The Midnight Sky...

Updated with full list of winners: George Clooney’s Netflix sci-fi thriller The Midnight Sky, Disney/Pixar’s animated Soul and the Disney+ Star Wars spinoff series The Mandalorian were the marquee winners Tuesday at the 19th annual Ves Awards.

The Visual Effects Society’s annual celebration, which honors the year’s best in film, animation, TV, commercials and video games, was hosted as per usual by Patton Oswalt (and his green monster alter ego) and was presented virtually because of the pandemic.

The well-constructed and engaging show (leave it to the VFX crews to pull that off during the Year of the Zoom Ceremony) included honorary awards presented to Peter Jackson, who received the Ves Lifetime Achievement Award presented by his Lotr star Cate Blanchett and featuring a tribute with Andy Serkis, Naomi Watts, Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, James Cameron and Gollum himself in one of several bits of...

Pixar’s “Soul,” George Clooney’s “The Midnight Sky” and “The Mandalorian” led the winners at the 19th annual Visual Effects Society (Ves) Awards.

Comedian Patton Oswalt served as host for the 10th time for the virtual ceremony which celebrated the art of visual effects across 25 categories.

“Soul” was named top animated film, winning five awards. “The Mandalorian” was named best photoreal episode and garnered three awards, and “The Midnight Sky” was named the photoreal feature winner, garnering two awards.

Sacha Baron Cohen presented the Ves Award for Creative Excellence to acclaimed visual effects supervisor, second unit director and director of photography Robert Legato, ASC. Cate Blanchett presented the Ves Lifetime Achievement Award to Peter Jackson. The “Lord of the Rings” filmmaker was lauded in a virtual tribute that featured Andy Serkis, Naomi Watts, Elijah Wood, Sir Ian McKellen, James Cameron and Gollum.

Full List of Winners:

Outstanding Visual Effects...

“Greyhound,” “Mank,” “News of the World,” “Sound of Metal” and “The Trial of the Chicago 7” have been nominated by the Cinema Audio Society for the 57th annual Cas Awards for Outstanding Sound Mixing, the Cas announced on Tuesday.

Nominees in the animated-feature category were “A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon,” “Onward,” “Soul,” “The Croods: A New Age” and “Trolls World Tour,” while documentary nominations went to “David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet,” “My Octopus Teacher,” “The Social Dilemma” and two music docs, “The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart” and “Zappa.”

While Cas nominations have traditionally been a good barometer of which films will be nominated for Oscars in the Best Sound Mixing category, the Academy last year combined its two sound categories, mixing and editing, into a single Best Sound category.

“Greyhound,” “News of the World” and “Sound of Metal” were the three films...