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Buyers are finally wise to the fact that Cannes is driving the Oscar race and even the specialized box office. Everyone wants to find the next “Anora,” “The Substance,” “Emilia Perez,” or “Anatomy of a Fall.” And more buyers like Mubi, Metrograph, Sideshow, and other upstarts have emerged to take on the likes of Neon and A24, who come to Cannes armed with several titles already set to debut.

Below, we’ve identified 13 movies looking for homes that could be the next awards breakout, including new films from Lynne Ramsay and Richard Linklater and the debuts of Kristen Stewart and Harris Dickinson.

All titles presented alphabetically.

“The Chronology of Water” (Un Certain Regard)

Director: Kristen Stewart

Stars: Imogen Poots, Thora Birch, Jim Belushi, Tom Sturridge

Buzz: Even if it’s in a sidebar for a first-time director, Kristen Stewart’s debut should be a hot ticket with a lot of...

With the 2025 Cannes Film Festival kicking off on Tuesday, one key question is what movies not to miss on the Croisette.

From competition veterans like the Dardenne brothers, Kelly Reichardt and Joachim Trier to newly promoted auteurs like Ari Aster, Oliver Hermanus, Carla Simón and Oliver Laxe, THR’s chief film critic rounds up 10 essential premieres

Die, My Love

Lynne Ramsey first turned heads in Cannes with her stunning 1999 feature debut Ratcatcher, about a 12-year-old boy growing up in poverty in the Glasgow housing projects. The Scottish director returned to the Croisette three years later with Morvern Callar, graduating to the official competition with We Need to Talk About Kevin in 2011 and You Were Never Really Here in 2017. Admirers have had a long wait for Ramsey’s fifth feature, a thriller with a vein of comedy she describes as “dark and fucked-up,” starring Jennifer Lawrence as a new mother walloped by postpartum depression,...

Directed and co-written by Lynne Ramsay and based on Lionel Shriver’s 2003 novel of the same name, “We Need to Talk About Kevin” (2011) has remained one of the most talked-about movies of the last decade. The way it stages both the build-up to—and the aftermath of—a fictional school massacre, and how it unravels through the mother of the perpetrator, is so chillingly real and inwardly grounded that one might easily believe it’s based on a true incident.

The cinematic language Ramsay uses to examine familial blindness to sociopathy, societal blame-shifting, and the anatomy of trauma is so disarmingly simple and universal that it cuts deep. The film feels like a reel of a grieving woman’s life projected through a cracked mirror. And that’s not just aesthetic—it’s embedded deep within the storytelling. Eva’s non-linear character sketch holds nothing back that is crucial to...

Exclusive: Oscilloscope Laboratories has promoted Aaron Katz to SVP of Acquisitions and Development and Alexandra Fredricks as VP of Theatrical Sales with both reporting directly to Dan Berger, president of the New York-based distribution company.

Fredricks steps up after Andrew Carlin moved to Variance Films last month.

Katz, VP of Acquisitions since 2015, joined Oscilloscope in 2011. He recently brought in and executive produced Matthew Rankin’s Universal Language, Canada’s Academy Award submission this year that won the first-ever Directors’ Fortnight audience award at its Cannes premiere. He’s acquired and negotiated deals for Oscar-nominated Embrace Of The Serpent, Kedi and other staples of the catalog and served as EP on Vhyes by Jack Henry Robins and Relaxer by Joel Potrykus. The distrib is releasing Potrykus’ Vulcanizadora tomorrow, their fourth collaboration.

Fredricks has been with Oscilloscope since 2022 and steered festival runs for Joyland, Wildcat and Universal Language, among others. She has...

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

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

Patrick Wachsberger’s new sales venture 193 has bulked up its Cannes sales slate with international rights to Lynne Ramsay’s Competition selection Die, My Love starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson.

Lawrence plays a passionate woman in a rural outpost who struggles with psychosis. The cast includes Lakeith Stanfield, Sissey Spacek, and Nick Nolte.

Ramsay co-wrote the screenplay with Enda Walsh, adapted from the book by Argentinian novelist Ariana Harwicz, which takes place in rural France where a woman has an affair and is tormented by marriage, motherhood, and loneliness.

Lawrence and her business partner Justine Ciarrocchi produced through Excellent Cadaver,...

Exclusive: Patrick Wachsberger’s new international sales outfit 193 has boarded buzzy Cannes Competition title Die, My Love, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson.

Lynne Ramsay’s film (You Were Never Really Here), based on the 2017 novel by Ariana Harwicz, also stars Lakeith Stanfield, Sissy Spacek and Nick Nolte. Lbi’s Rick Yorn is handling domestic sales.

Set in rural America, Die, My Love is described as the portrait of a woman engulfed by love and madness. Pattinson plays her husband, and Stanfield her lover.

Ramsay directed from her script written with Enda Walsh and Alice Burch. Producers include Justine Ciarrocchi and Lawrence on behalf of Excellent Cadaver, as well as Martin Scorsese, Andrea Calderwood, and Black Label Media’s Molly Smith, Trent Luckinbill and Thad Luckinbill. The latter served as financier.

Former Lionsgate and Summit exec Wachsberger launched production and sales banner 193 earlier this year as a Jv with Legendary Entertainment.

Blue Finch Films has closed a raft of international deals for its animated festival darling “Lesbian Space Princess,” which took home the Teddy Award following its world premiere at this year’s Berlinale.

Cineverse’s curated streaming service Fandor has nabbed U.S. rights to the LGBTQ+ animated feature with plans for a theatrical rollout later this year. The stateside pact was hammered out between Cineverse’s executive director of acquisitions Brandon Hill and Blue Finch’s Mike Chapman, who represented the filmmakers.

Additional territory sales include Canada (Renaissance Media), Germany (Salzgeber), Spain (SelectaVision), Singapore (Anticipate Pictures), and Ukraine (KyivMusicFilm), with Umbrella Entertainment handling rights for Australia and New Zealand. Blue Finch stated that more deals will be announced shortly.

The debut feature from Emma Hough Hobbs and Leela Varghese follows a sheltered space princess who embarks on a galactic mission to rescue her bounty hunter ex-girlfriend from the Straight White Maliens.

We need to talk. If you take my recommendation and check out the movie I’m about to suggest here, you’re going to have a really hard week. It’s going to haunt you. Stick with you in a way few films do. You’re liable to feel sick to your stomach. Honestly, you’re probably going to look at the world in an entirely different way, and it may not be a change that’s for the better. In my own words on the film’s anniversary, the film is “terrifying, thoroughly disturbing, and ten years later, unmatched in its austere psychological honesty.”

Horror means a lot of things, and while this film isn’t necessarily a horror movie, it is among the most upsetting, disturbing, distressing, and just exhausting cinematic experiences you’re ever going to experience. I was haunted and scared in a way few explicit horror films manage,...

Midnight Pulp has revealed the new films that are joining the cult streaming service in April.

Horror highlights include: Dario Argento‘s aria of terror in Opera; controversial video nasty I Spit on Your Grave; werewolf movie The Forest Hills featuring Shelley Duvall‘s final performance; and ’80s Italian cult classic Demons.

There’s also ’70s proto-slasher Alice, Sweet Alice starring Brooke Shields in her film debut; grim psychological thriller We Need to Talk About Kevin with Tilda Swinton and John C. Reilly; body-horror favorite American Mary; and exhaustive doc Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror.

Here’s the full line-up:

April 4: American Mary, Battle Legends: The Legend of Battle Master, Cocaine Werewolf, Goodbye & Amen, Louder Than You Think: A Lo-fi History of Gary Young and Pavement, The Night of the Walking Dead, The Forest Hills

April 11: Witch’s Night Out, We Need to Talk About Kevin,...

Exclusive: Cineverse has acquired North American rights to French Belgian body horror Else and set a July 8 streaming launch via its Fandor streaming service and all digital platforms.

The deal was negotiated by Cineverse Executive Director, Acquisitions Brandon Hill with Gregory Chambet of WTFilms, out of the Berlinale’s European Film Market.

The mesmerising body horror and debut film of French director Thibault Emin revolves around the blossoming romance between an introvert man and a confident woman, which is threatened when a strange epidemic causes the infected to merge with their surroundings.

Trapping in a shapeshifting nightmare, the couple face choices around whether they will merge for love.

Else joins a growing Fandor catalog which also features the breakout picture Hundreds of Beaver about a drunken applejack salesman who morphs into North America’s greatest fur trapper by defeating hundreds of beavers.

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True crime served as an inspiration for the Hong Kong born and based film critic-turned-filmmaker Philip Yung for his so far best known work, the thriller “Port of Call” (2015). Semi-true crime stories about the gangster “scene” of Hong Kong in the 60s fuelled his next film, the censored crime-drama “Where the Wind Blows” (2022). And the well-publicised 2010 Heong Wo Street Murder, in which the mentally deranged teenager Kan Ka-leung killed his mother and sister, while his father was at work in the cafe he owned, serves as the starting point of his newest flick “Papa” that premiered at the last year’s edition of Tokyo Film Festival and is currently nominated for three Asian and eleven Hong Kong Film Awards.

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Yung opens the film with the crime itself and comes back to it in the climactic moment at the ¾ mark of the 131-minute runtime, but the crime...

Robert Pattinson definitely did not want to freestyle-dance for Lynne Ramsay’s “Die, My Love.”

Pattinson told GQ in a video (below) alongside “Mickey 17” writer/director Bong Joon Ho that he almost had a “mental breakdown” amid filming a dance sequence with his co-star Jennifer Lawrence. Pattinson pleaded with Ramsay to have the scene be removed from the script, or be choreographed instead.

“I did this movie with Lynne Ramsay, and she’s a really good dancer. And Jennifer Lawrence is a really good dancer. They just find it so easy. They’re like, ‘Just dance, it’s just music playing, just dance,'” Pattinson said. “I was like, ‘I’m going to have a mental breakdown when this happens. We need to either choreograph it or cut it.’ And they’re like, ‘No, just dance, stop being all freak.’ It came to the day, and I was sweating so much,...

Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired North American rights to “Vulcanizadora,” a dark comedy from Joel Potrykus, the indie director behind “Ape” and “Buzzard.” The movie stars Potrykus along with the guerrilla filmmaker’s longtime collaborator Joshua Burge. Financial terms of the sale were not immediately available.

According to the official description: “The film follows two friends as they trudge through a Michigan forest with the intention of following through on a disturbing pact. Once their plan goes shockingly awry, the haunting consequences of their failure can’t stay hidden for long.”

“Vulcanizadora” premiered at the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival, scoring strong reviews with Variety praising the film as “surprisingly moving in its depiction of mid-life crisis.” Oscilloscope first collaborated with Potrykus on the breakout cult favorite, “Buzzard.” “Vulcanizadora” marks the fourth collaboration for Potrykus and Oscilloscope Laboratories.

“Vulcanizadora” was shot in 16mm and written and edited by Potrykus. The movie was produced by Ashley Potrykus,...

Berlinale honorary Golden Bear winner Tilda Swinton addressed her presence at the festival in the wake of calls by some in the film community for a boycott in relation to the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.

Swinton was asked by an Israeli journalist during a pressconference today (February 14) on her position on the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (Bds) movement, which works to end international support for Israel’s oppression of Palestinians, and is one of the organisations that has publicly called for a boycott of this year’s Berlinale.

She answered: “I’m a great admirer of and have a great deal of respect for Bds.

While there was a noticeable drought for pick-ups at the Sundance Film Festival this year, movie sales continue to trickle out from Park City a few weeks later.

In fact, Oscilloscope Laboratories acquired the North American rights to Albert Birney’s black-and-white fantasy odyssey “Obex” on Thursday, TheWrap has learned.

Birney starred in, produced, directed and co-wrote the surreal film with Pete Ohs. It marks the filmmaker’s solo, live-action directorial debut. Producers include Birney, Ohs, Emma Hannaway and James Belfer.

“The film follows Conor Marsh (Birney), a man living a secluded life with his dog, Sandy, until one day he begins playing Obex, a new, state-of-the-art computer game. When Sandy goes missing, the line between reality and game blurs and Conor must venture into the strange world of Obex to bring her home,” per the logline.

“I’ve long been captivated by the unique and thought-provoking films released by Oscilloscope Laboratories,...

Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired North American rights to “Obex” following its debut at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The surreal, black-and-white fantasy film was directed by Albert Birney (“Strawberry Mansion”) who wrote the script with Pete Ohs (“Jethica”). Birney also stars in the film.

The film was widely praised for its imagination and style, with Variety calling it “entrancing and singular” and comparing it favorably to “I Saw the TV Glow.” It follows Conor Marsh (Birney), a man living a secluded life with his dog, Sandy, until one day he begins playing Obex, a new, state-of-the-art computer game. When Sandy goes missing, the line between reality and game blurs, and Conor must venture into the strange world of Obex to bring her home.

The producing team includes Birney, Ohs, Emma Hannaway and James Belfer, the founder and CEO of production company Cartuna. “Obex” marks the company’s third collaboration with Birney,...

Tilda Swinton is an Oscar-winning actress who has been a favorite of both the art house crowd and the multiplexes, consistently taking on challenging roles in both indie fare and box office hits. Let’s take a look back at 19 of her greatest films, ranked worst to best.

Born in 1960 in London, England, Swinton got her start working with experimental filmmaker Derek Jarman, making her movie debut in the director’s “Caravaggio” (1986). She won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress in his film “Edward II” (1991), kicking off a decades-long romance between the actress and awards groups. She also showed her willingness to push herself in offbeat projects with daring auteurs, an edict that would lead to collaborations with Luca Guadanigno, Jim Jarmusch, Bong Joon Ho, Sally Potter, Wes Anderson and the Coen Brothers.

She took home the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for “Michael Clayton” (2007), for which she also won the BAFTA and reaped Golden Globe,...

There are many factors that contribute to how strong of an impact a movie has on the audience. The originality of the idea; how profound, or occasionally disturbing, the themes touched upon are; the intensity of the actors' performances. Sometimes, however, some movies strike chords so deep, hit too close, or are so authentic that, regardless of their excellent execution, they should be enjoyed only once. The impact is too significant to ever recover from — and this is not limited to the most disturbing horror movies.

Usually, these movies are not the happiest stories you can find on screens, and not just because of a tragic ending. They are intense, challenging, and sometimes even shocking. In their daily life, people seek refuge in movies, but these sorts of titles provide everything but that. They offer something different: uncomfortable questions, doubts, and occasionally, unnerving truths. Although they are not common, there...

The versatile John C. Reilly has been announced as the first honoree at the 19th annual Oscar Wilde Awards.

The event, organized by the US-Ireland Alliance, is set for Feb. 27 — in its traditional evening spot three days before the Oscars — at the historic Ebell theater in Los Angeles, its original home.

The casual bash celebrates the work of those from Ireland — and some who are not — who contribute to film, television and music. It also fosters artistic collaborations, from giving young actors and singers a profile in the U.S. to encouraging the shooting of films in Ireland.

The Chicago-born Reilly, 59, speaks often of his family’s strong ties to Ireland. A frequent visitor to the country, he served as the International Guest of Honor at Dublin’s St. Patrick’s Day festivities in 2022.

“It might just seem like a goof to just appear at a parade, but to me,...

Once upon a time, Ezra Miller was the charming, up-and-coming star everyone loved. But oh, how fast things spiraled. In what might go down as one of the worst interviews ever, the actor went from a Hollywood darling to a scene-stealing creep in just a matter of years.

Ezra Miller in a still from The Flash | Credits: Warner Bros. Pictures

Journalists once welcomed Miller with open arms, but their behavior eventually left many disappointed. The transformation was unsettling, the charm evaporated, and a once-beloved actor became… well, the less said, the better.

Kjersti Flaa’s Nightmare Encounter with Ezra Miller Ezra Miller in We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011) | Credits: BBC Films

Kjersti Flaa, an entertainment reporter known for her fearless coverage, had one of her worst experiences ever with Ezra Miller. Once known as the new “It” guy, Miller first impressed reporters during Fantastic Beasts, coming off as surprisingly normal and likable.

Universal Pictures’ blockbuster musical “Wicked” has been named best picture by the National Board of Review, the organization announced on Wednesday, in addition to taking home the directing prize for Jon M. Chu and a special award for the collaboration of stars Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande.

Over the last 40 years, most of the winners of NBR’s best film has gone on to receive an Oscar nomination for best picture, with the exception of films like 1998’s “Gods and Monsters,” 2000’s “Quills” and 2014’s “A Most Violent Year.” In the 1980s, there were technically two misses with 1987’s “Empire of the Sun” and 1983’s “Betrayal,” the latter of which won in a tie with “Terms of Endearment.” So far this decade, Spike Lee’s war drama “Da 5 Bloods” (2020) is the only film to fail to achieve Oscar recognition. Notably, since the Academy expanded the best picture lineup from...

We Need To Talk About Kevin director Lynne Ramsay is reportedly about to embark on another film: revenge thriller Stone Mattress.

With films like We Need To Talk About Kevin and You Were Never Really Here on her impressive resume, there’s no doubt that Lynne Ramsay is a celebrated film director. Given her penchant for making short films too, Ramsay has never been what you’d call a prolific director of features: her last film was 2017’s You Were Never Really Here, and before that, 2011’s We Need To Talk About Kevin. According to a new report, though, Ramsay’s next project may be her second to go before cameras in a single calendar year.

Ramsay has already finished up production on Die, My Love, a film ‘about a woman driven to the brink of insanity by marriage and motherhood.’ Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson, Nick Nolte and Sissy Spacek all star.

Lynne Ramsay, an award-winning director, is making a strong return to feature filmmaking with “Die, My Love. ” It is a psychological thriller that examines the tough sides of marriage, motherhood, and mental health.

Jennifer Lawrence plays a new mother who is dealing with bipolar disorder and postpartum depression, and she’s the star of the show. The movie, based on Ariana Harwicz’s 2017 book of the same name, moves the story from a French village to the vast Montana farmland, giving it a very American feel.

The movie has an impressive ensemble cast and is produced by the famous director Martin Scorsese. Lakeith Stanfield plays Lawrence’s boyfriend, and Robert Pattinson plays her husband. Nick Nolte and Sissy Spacek, both of whom won Oscars, round out the supporting group.

Ramsay, known for telling honest stories in movies like “We Need to Talk About Kevin,” brings her usual passion to the job.

Up next from director Lynne Ramsay is the psychological thriller Die, My Love, and Deadline has shared the first look at star Jennifer Lawrence in the film.

Die, My Love adapts the 2017 novel by Ariana Harwicz; Ramsay co-wrote the script with Enda Walsh.

The rural American tale is “set in a remote, forgotten rural area; the story follows a mother who struggles to maintain her sanity as she battles with psychosis.” It’s said to be “a portrait of a woman (Lawrence) engulfed by love and madness.“

Robert Pattinson plays her husband, and Lakeith Stanfield portrays her lover. Sissy Spacek and Nick Nolte also star in the psychological thriller.

The book’s synopsis also gives a clearer picture of the emotional intensity. In the novel, “In a forgotten patch of French countryside, a woman is battling her demons embracing exclusion yet wanting to belong, craving freedom whilst feeling trapped, yearning...

Jennifer Lawrence returns to her darker roots for “Die, My Love,” Lynne Ramsay’s first film in seven years. Check out a first-look image above.

The thriller is based on Ariana Harwicz’s 2017 novel, which centers on a woman (Lawrence) ravaged at the crossroads between love and madness.

Robert Pattinson plays Lawrence’s onscreen husband, with Lakeith Stanfield cast as her lover. Sissy Spacek and Nick Nolte also co-star.

Ramsay returns to directing for her first feature since 2017’s “You Were Never Really Here.” Ramsay previously teased “Die, My Love” during the 2023 Sarajevo Film Festival, emphasizing the movie’s divergences from the novel. In contrast, the book was about a woman in a secluded French village who grapples with extreme mental health problems after giving birth. Ramsay has taken liberties with source material before, with “You Were Never Really Here” adapted from a Jonathan Ames novella and “We Need to Talk About Kevin...

Exclusive: Deadline has the first still from Die, My Love, starring Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson and Lakeith Stanfield, the new thriller from renowned Scottish filmmaker Lynne Ramsay (You Were Never Really Here), which adapts the 2017 novel by Ariana Harwicz.

Set in rural America, Die, My Love is a portrait of a woman (Lawrence) engulfed by love and madness. Pattinson plays her husband, and Stanfield, her lover. Also in the cast are Sissy Spacek and Nick Nolte.

Ramsay directed from her script written with Enda Walsh. Producers included Justine Ciarrocchi and Lawrence on behalf of Excellent Cadaver, as well as Martin Scorsese, Andrea Calderwood, and Black Label Media, which also served as the project’s financier.

In a statement accompanying the photo reveal, Excellent Cadaver told Deadline, “It’s impossible to convey what it’s like to witness Lynne Ramsay make art. She’s one of one.”

Known for her Cannes-debuting drama Ratcatcher,...

While the evil child is a staple of the horror and thriller genres, there's usually an outside force swaying their behavior. They're possessed by a demon, from outer space, or actually a grown woman who only looks like a child. The danger comes from something that either puts the child in as much trouble or portends the idea that they're not really children at all. Having a villain be a child who is just bad on their own is an uncommon idea, but it's not a new one. In fact, the earliest example of the trope is the 1956 film The Bad Seed, where the seed in question, Rhoda, is a little monster seemingly for no reason. Other films that tackle the same subject, such as The Lodge and We Need To Talk About Kevin, are dreary and deeply confronting pieces, offering no real answers as to the origin or solution...

One Shot invites close readings of the basic unit of film grammar.Morvern Callar.Flowers are for life and for death; in Lynne Ramsay’s Morvern Callar (2002), the titular protagonist roams a mausoleum in her new floral party dress, flanked on either side by memorial bouquets. Behind her trail two bewildered literati, who have just offered her £100,000 for the novel they think she wrote. The manuscript’s real author, Morvern’s boyfriend, has been in the ground for a time. After he killed himself, Morvern dismembered and buried his body, emptied his bank account, and went on holiday to Spain. When the publishers ask Morvern what her next project might be, she answers, “I work in a supermarket.”Across her filmography, Ramsay’s main characters are common people who find themselves disoriented and blinking through encounters with death and darkness. Their actual circumstances are ordinary, sordid, tragic, predictable: a child...

Almost three years have gone by since Joshua Oppenheimer, the director behind the documentaries The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence, announced that he was teaming up with Neon to make his narrative feature debut with The End, “a golden-age musical about the last human family.” That film went into production last year, with a cast that includes Tilda Swinton (We Need to Talk About Kevin), Michael Shannon (The Shape of Water), George MacKay (1917), Moses Ingram (The Tragedy of Macbeth), Bronagh Gallagher (Pulp Fiction), Tim McInnerny (Notting Hill), Lennie James (The Walking Dead), and Danielle Ryan (The Silencing). Now it’s making the festival rounds, building up to a December theatrical release. The film is scheduled to start playing in New York and Los Angeles on December 6th, with the limited release expanding on December 13th. As those dates are swiftly approaching, a trailer for The End has...

Some films capture the "before" events that may have paved the way to a certain killer's horrific deed say, a mass shooting. Others put us right smack in the middle of the terror, with the mass killings playing out in immersive real time for the film's duration. And then, there are movies that opt to eloquently dissect the traumatic aftermath of any sort of violence. All these cinematic reference points have been captured effectively in movies in relation to high school shootings specifically. A "before" example might be We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lynne Ramsay. A captivating "during" film might be the Palme d'Or-winning Elephant by Gus Van Sant. And here, we're discussing an example of the "after" with The Graduates.

And if you've already seen The Fallout (2021) starring Jenna Ortega, this new debut feature by writer-director Hannah Peterson is certainly a good follow-up and also a thought-provoking standalone effort,...

Throughout the 2010s, Brian Duffield more than did his part to keep the art of the original genre movie alive and thriving. Between his screenplays for the babysitter slasher-comedy "The Babysitter," the post-apocalyptic monster adventure "Love and Monsters," and the underwater survival thriller "Underwater", Duffield emerged as one of the hottest talents in Hollywood before fully coming into his own as the writer-director behind the well-received high school horror rom-com "Spontaneous" and essentially dialogue-free alien invasion thriller "No One Will Save You" in the 2020s. But before any of that happened, the first produced film based on one of Duffield's unique scrips became something of a disaster.

The movie in question, "Jane Got a Gun," has the makings of an inventive spin on a familiar tune, much like Duffield's other work. Directed by Gavin O'Connor, the Western casts Natalie Portman as the eponymous firearm-wielding cowlady, a woman whose husband is...

Exclusive: Following their 2018 critically acclaimed hit Stan & Ollie, Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly are reuniting for The Players, a comedy based on the rivalry between 1800s thespians Edwin Forrest and William MacCready. Two-time Academy Award nominee Peter Cattaneo (The Full Monty) is directing the project from a script penned by Stan & Ollie and Philomena writer Jeff Pope.

The Players, which is set to begin production early next year in Europe, is set in 1847 New York, where Edwin Forrest (Reilly) holds the undisputed title as the country’s top Shakespearian actor. Playing magnificently to a sold out, raucous crowd every night, Edwin is “The Star”. But when critically celebrated English thespian William MacCready (Coogan) arrives from London to perform his sophisticated Hamlet, Edwin’s title is thrown into jeopardy. Each man wants what the other has, and the rivalry between them starts a hilarious and unforgettable battle of egos.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is keeping it all in the family as it has just named Jennifer Fox as producer of the 15th Governors Awards ceremony that will take place November 17, 2024 in the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Ovation Hollywood.

Fox was elected to the AMPAS Board of Governors for the the first time in June but is no stranger to the Governors Awards. She is embarking on her sixth consecutive time producing the event. The Governors Awards, unlike the Oscars, are not televised but instead briefly highlighted in a clips package on the ABC broadcast of the Academy Awards.

The 2025 Oscars are set for March 2, 2025.

At the 15th Governors Awards, Honorary Oscars will be presented to Quincy Jones and Juliet Taylor, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award will go to Richard Curtis, and the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award will be bestowed upon producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli.

Jennifer Fox, the Oscar-nominated film producer, will produce the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 2024 Governors Awards, Academy president Janet Yang announced Wednesday. It will be Fox’s sixth time overseeing the event, following the 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th and 14th editions.

At the 15th Governors Awards, which will take place in the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, Nov. 17, Quincy Jones and Juliet Taylor will receive honorary Oscars; Richard Curtis will receive the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award; and Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson will receive the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award.

“Jennifer is an exemplary producer, and we are delighted to welcome her back to the Governors Awards for a sixth time,” Yang said in a statement. “Her expertise is unmatched, and we’re looking forward to a joyous event.”

Added Fox, “I’m thrilled to produce this special event for the Academy for another year.

Jennifer Fox, an Oscar nominee in 2008 for “Michael Clayton,” will return to produce the 15th Governors Awards, in which Honorary Oscars are presented, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced on Wednesday.

The 2024 event, scheduled for Nov. 17, marks Fox’s sixth consecutive time producing the show.

As previously announced, the Academy Honorary Awards will be presented to musician-producer Quincy Jones and casting director Juliet Taylor; the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award will go to filmmaker and Comic Relief co-founder Richard Curtis; and the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award will be given to producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli.

“Jennifer is an exemplary producer, and we are delighted to welcome her back to the Governors Awards for a sixth time,” Academy president Janet Yang said in a statement. “Her expertise is unmatched, and we’re looking forward to a joyous event paying tribute to the achievements of Richard Curtis,...

It’s always fascinating to know the reasons why actors decide to go behind the camera for the first time. After all, the subject must have hit a very personal part of their being so as to take up the extraneous effort of mounting an entire story to the screen in a language that is mostly foreign to them. So, when Maggie Gyllenhall was asked why she decided to make The Lost Daughter (now streaming on Netflix), her answer assured me more than anything else.

She said that when she first read Elena Ferrante’s book that goes by the same name, her first line of thought was “Oh my god! This woman is so fucked up and I totally related to her. So am I so fucked up?” As funny as that sounds, the reason feels palpable. I mean, I have always wanted to see a mother on screen...

Nominated for both a BAFTA and an Independent Spirit Award, Robert Salerno produces prestige films. Salerno has helped bring critical smash after smash to the silver screen. He is one of the colossal creative forces behind Tom Fords spectacular outing, A Single Man, as well as his sophomore effort, Nocturnal Animals. Hes also fostered Lynne Ramseys gut-dropping We Need To Talk About Kevin, Charlie Kaufmans poignant adaptation, Im Thinking of Ending Things, as well as fan-favorite horror franchise, Smile. Now, Salerno has swapped out his producing cap for his directorial debut, Here After.

Will there be room for two Oscar winners from the same movie this awards season?

Pedro Almodóvar’s exciting melodrama “The Room Next Door” is riding high after winning the prestigious Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, and Sony Pictures Classics is preparing for an aggressive awards campaign for the film. Variety has learned exclusively that the movie’s two Oscar-winning stars, Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton, will be positioned for lead actress consideration in the upcoming awards season. In addition, co-star John Turturro is set to campaign for his first Oscar bid in the best supporting actor category.

The film is adapted from Sigrid Nunez’s novel “What Are You Going Through” and tells the story of two women — war correspondent Martha, played by Swinton, and author Ingrid, portrayed by Moore — who reunite after many years under emotionally charged circumstances. The nuanced performances and intimate narrative have garnered critical acclaim.

Smile was an interesting film for Robert Salerno, a legendary producer whose work encompasses some of the most distinct and bold cinema of this century so far. Unlike the acclaimed directors behind those films, Parker Finn's Smile was his feature directorial debut. And yet it all worked out winningly, with Smile becoming one of the biggest horror hits of the year, both with critics and audiences.

Now, a sequel (a Salerno first) simply titled Smile 2 is coming out in less than a month. When we spoke with Salerno, we asked when he, Finn, and the whole team first knew that a Smile sequel was definitely in the cards. "Pretty early on," said Salerno, adding:

"As soon as the first one came out, it felt like it was just this lightning in a bottle. So that really was very exciting to all of us to see. I mean, we...

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Robert Salerno has spent his life producing some of the best films of the 21st century, but now steps into the director's chair with Here After, a film as supernatural as it is emotional. He discusses the Italian production (and the sequel to Smile) in this MovieWeb interview. Here After is in theaters Sep. 13, 2024 from Mubi and Paramount.

The main character of Here After, Claire, is overjoyed when her daughter, Robin, is miraculously revived after a fatal accident. However, her relief soon turns to dread as she starts to suspect that something dark has followed Robin back from the brink of death.

The Oscars will surely knock on Pedro Almodóvar’s door this awards season.

Pedro Almodóvar’s expansive filmography has shaped international cinema for over four decades. With his English-language directorial debut, “The Room Next Door,” fresh off winning the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, the Spanish auteur and distributor Sony Pictures Classics are setting their sights on landing Almodóvar’s first best picture nomination.

Adapted from Sigrid Nunez’s novel “What Are You Going Through,” the film follows two women — war correspondent Martha (Tilda Swinton) and author Ingrid (Julianne Moore) — who reunite after years apart under challenging circumstances.

Read: You can see all Academy Award predictions in all 23 categories on one page on the Variety Awards Circuit: Oscars

Almodóvar’s body of work has garnered widespread acclaim within the Academy. “All About My Mother” (1999) won the Oscar for international feature, while “Talk to Her” (2002) earned him two noms for directing and original screenplay,...

For our next screening event, were thrilled to be kicking off the spooky season with a brand-new supernatural thriller from the producer of Smile, Im Thinking of Ending Things, and We Need to Talk About Kevin. You are invited to join us for Robert Salernos directorial debut, Here After, starring Connie Britton. Were extending this offer to anyone in the Los Angeles area for a chance to see this on a big screen before its official release in select theaters and digital. After the movie, we'll have an exclusive Q&a with Salerno. Read on for full details.

Almost three years have gone by since Joshua Oppenheimer, the director behind the documentaries The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence, announced that he was teaming up with Neon to make his narrative feature debut with The End, “a golden-age musical about the last human family.” That film went into production last year, with a cast that includes Tilda Swinton (We Need to Talk About Kevin), Michael Shannon (The Shape of Water), George MacKay (1917), Moses Ingram (The Tragedy of Macbeth), Bronagh Gallagher (Pulp Fiction), Tim McInnerny (Notting Hill), Lennie James (The Walking Dead), and Danielle Ryan (The Silencing). Now it’s making the festival rounds, with the Telluride Film Festival unveiling the image that can be seen above, and a teaser poster arriving online just ahead of the film’s screenings at both Telluride and the Toronto International Film Festival. The poster can be seen at the bottom of this article.

Mubi is exactly the service for people who see Mysteries of Lisbon is streaming and ask “yes but what version?” Accordingly I’m excited that September brings the extended, miniseries cut of Raúl Ruiz’s late-career triumph, which arrives alongside the notable new release that is Zia Anger’s My First Film––here programmed in a “Millennial Meltdown” series alongside Sebastián Silva’s Rotting in the Sun and Martine Syms’s The African Desperate. Take special note of Marie-Claude Trielhou’s Simone Barbés, or Virtue, which has captured cinephile attention since its restoration, probably because it’s a great film that encapsulates so much of what you’d even want in a movie.

Meanwhile, Tarsem’s 4K restoration (and slightly adjusted cut) of 2006’s The Fall makes its streaming premiere; there’s opportunity to catch up with Coralie Fargeat ahead of The Substance; recent releases Riddle of Fire and Geoff...

We Need To Talk About Kevin director Lynne Ramsay is finally making her latest film, with filming now underway in Calgary, Canada.

Update 20th August 2024: Filming has now begun on Die, My Love, the fifth film from British director Lynne Ramsay. Kftv reports that production got underway in Calgary, Canada on the 19th August and will run until the 8th October. Starring Jennifer Lawrence (who also produces with Martin Scorsese), it’s said to be about “a woman driven tot he brink of insanity by marriage and motherhood.” Robert Pattinson and Lakeith Stansfield also have major roles.

There’s no word on a release date yet, but 2025 seems likely; perhaps Ramsay will even have the film ready for the Canne Film Festival next May. We’ll bring you more as we get it.

Our original story from the 18th June follows…

The only bad thing about Lynne Ramsay’s...

It’s a match made in heaven for a lot of Oscar watchers who are obsessed with actresses (that Venn diagram is a circle). Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton star together in director Pedro Almodóvar‘s upcoming English-language feature film debut, “The Room Next Door.” Both women are Oscar winners — Almodóvar too — but it’s been a while since any of them have competed for the academy’s top honors. We’ll learn more about the film after it premieres at the Venice Film Festival on September 2, but until then, where does it stand in the Oscar race?

Exploring the friendship between Martha (Swinton) and Ingrid (Moore) and Martha’s rift with her daughter, “The Room Next Door’s” highest hopes as of this writing are for its actresses. Moore ranks seventh for Best Actress with 20/1 odds based on the combined predictions of Gold Derby users. She has been nominated...

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De acuerdo con Deadline, Lakeith Stanfield y Jennifer Lawrence en el thriller Die, My Love, de Lynne Ramsay producido por Martin Scorsese.

Die, My Love adapta la novela homónima de la escritora argentina Ariana Harwicz y está ambienta en una remota y olvidada zona rural. Sigue a una madre que lucha desesperadamente por mantener su cordura en medio de una creciente psicosis.

Lawrence está vinculada para interpretar el papel de la madre, mientras que los papeles de Pattinson y Stanfield todavía se desconocen.

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The Marvel Cinematic Universe has amassed a great collection of actors to portray an assembly of characters from the comics and bring an interconnected universe to life. Various A-list performers and amazing character actors like Robert Downey Jr, Robert Redford, Christian Bale, etc have been a part of the franchise and contributed to the enormous success it has become.

Tilda Swinton won an Oscar for her performance in Michael Clayton | Warner Bros

One of the fascinating additions to the franchise was Tilda Swinton as the Ancient One in the first Doctor Strange film. The actress has had an interesting past where she crossed paths with Princess Diana, helped improve lives in Africa as well as graduated from one of the top universities in the world. The actress’ chameleon-like on-screen ability also led her to win an Oscar in 2008.

Tilda Swinton’s Interesting And Colorful Past Will Certainly Surprise Fans of...

Pattinson and Lawrence may star together in thriller "Die, My Love" for first time, a departure from lighter roles. Lawrence auditioned for Bella in Twilight but was rejected, potentially changing franchise dynamics. "Die, My Love" promises a mature, chilling narrative for the experienced actors, showcasing their dramatic range.

Robert Pattinson and Jennifer Lawrence are in talks to star in a new thriller titled Die, My Love. If both celebrated actors sign on for the project, it would mark the first time in either of their acting careers that they would share a screen together in a feature film. Die, My Love will be directed by Lynne Ramsay, known for her previous directorial work on Joaquin Phoenix's chilling 2017 thriller You Were Never Really Here and the equally unnerving 2011 psychological thriller We Need to Talk About Kevin starring Tilda Swinton as the concerned mother of a strange teen named Kevin, played by Ezra Miller.