Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine banner is set to produce feature documentary Fanmade: Enhypen about K-pop group Enhypen and their fandom, Engene. The new production shingle from Trainwreck: Woodstock ’99 filmmakers William Swann and…
Entertainment Squad has acquired worldwide rights to Midas and will release the film, the feature debut of writer/director TJ Noel-Sullivan described as “a fresh and socially relevant take on the classic heist genre,” in theaters in the U…
Tilda Swinton‘s feature directorial debut is up for an award at Sheffield DocFest where it will get its world premiere as part of a lineup of 48 world premieres from 56 different countries. The U.K. documentary festival, taking place June…
German filmmaker Tom Tykwer is taking over as managing director of X Filme Creative Pool, the company he co-founded 30 years ago, replacing partner Stefan Arndt, who is stepping down from the post on his own accord. Tykwer will head up X…
French actress Isabelle Huppert (Michael Haneke’s Elle, The Piano Teacher, La Cérémonie) will serve as the president of the international jury of the competition at the 81st Venice International Film Festival, which takes place Aug. 28…
The Locarno Film Festival is partnering with movie-fan social media site Letterboxd on a new award for this year’s edition. The Letterboxd Piazza Grande Award will honor a film screening at the legendary Piazza Grande, the Swiss festival’s…
Oscar winner Kate Winslet will be honored at this year’s Munich international film festival with the festival’s CineMerit Award for extraordinary achievement. Winslet will attend the German festival to present the European premiere of her…
Michael Douglas is sharing his thoughts on how the approach to filming sex scenes has changed throughout the years. The veteran actor, who has starred in dozens of projects, including 1987’s Fatal Attraction and 1992’s Basic Instinct, was…
Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock might be down for Speed 3. The Speed stars stopped by the 50 MPH podcast to discuss the 1994 action-thriller, alongside their fellow co-stars Jeff Daniels and Alan Ruck. When asked about a possible threequel…
Susan Buckner, the actress and dancer best known for her turn as the bubbly and often-teased Rydell High cheerleader Patty Simcox in the 1978 blockbuster musical Grease, has died. She was 72. She died Thursday in Miami, family spokesperson…
The Cannes film festival has responded to calls for a proposed strike by festival workers over pay and labor regulations. On Tuesday, the festival issued its first official statement, saying it hoped “solutions will be found” to prevent…
Last year, the Cannes Film Festival shrugged off protests by women’s rights groups to open with Maïwenn’s Jeanne du Barry, a period movie starring alleged abuser Johnny Depp as the King of France. A year and a mini-#MeToo revolution later,…
A group of high-profile film and television creatives is calling on Hollywood to support more social impact storytelling following the demise of Spotlight, Roma and An Inconvenient Truth backer Participant Media. In an open letter to the…
Chris Pine is sharing his thoughts on DC axing a third installment of Wonder Woman. The actor, who starred in 2017’s Wonder Woman and 2020’s Wonder Woman 1984, recently told Business Insider that he was “stunned” after learning a third…
The first reactions are here for George Miller’s latest venture into the post-apocalyptic wasteland. The embargo broke for social media reactions to Furiosa, the eagerly anticipated prequel to the 2015 stunner Mad Max: Fury Road. This new…
At the Met Gala on Monday night, Baz Luhrmann teased that he may not be quite done with Elvis Presley-related projects, following his 2022 Austin Butler-starring film. The director told The Hollywood Reporter, “The fans really want to know…
Ruth Landers, who created the 1990s PBS kids show The Huggabug Club with her daughters, actresses Audrey Landers and Judy Landers, has died. She was 85. A longtime resident of Sarasota, Florida, Landers died April 18 of natural causes, her…
The Transgender Film Center has unveiled the first-ever Career Development Lab cohort. Eight creatives working in film and TV were selected by the nonprofit, which focuses on advancing the work of transgender film creators, to participate…
Over the past couple of decades, John Hughes’ Sixteen Candles has been seen in a new light, with many calling out its portrayal of foreign exchange student Long Duk Dong, played by Gedde Watanabe, as racist. For the 40th anniversary of the…
For Kristen Stewart’s adaptation of Lidia Yuknavitch’s memoir The Chronology of Water, which marks her feature film directorial debut, the actress is stepping away from Hollywood. Instead of filming the Imogen Poots-starring biographical…
Vin Diesel is officially returning to the world of Pitch Black and galactic antihero Riddick, the sci-fi action franchise that gave the actor his first major leading role. Riddick: Furya, which was announced in February 2023, is now moving…
MadRiver Pictures, together with CAA Media Finance, has closed a multi-year equity financing and distribution deal with some of the world’s biggest indie distributors to allow them to fully finance a slate of mid-budget ($25 million – $75…
David Corenswet gets dressed as Superman one boot at a time in the first look at the actor in costume. Superman writer-director James Gunn revealed the image on social media Monday. The unveiling of an actor in costume as Superman movie is…
Tyler Perry and DeVon Franklin (Miracles From Heaven) are getting into business with Netflix to make faith-based movies together. The first film under their new partnership will be R&B, written by Mike Elliott (Brown Sugar) and Cory Tynan,…
Samuel L. Jackson and Henry Golding have signed on to star in Head Games, a psychological thriller with a sci-fi edge that is looking to be one of the hot projects at this year’s Cannes film market. Music video and film director Anthony…
Bernard Hill’s castmates from The Lord of the Rings gave several touching tributes to the actor, who passed away Sunday at the age of 79. Elijah Wood, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan and Sean Astin — who played the hobbits in Peter Jackson’s…
“Mr. Scott, set the de-ager for 40 years!” William Shatner says he’s down to play Captain James T. Kirk in a movie again, and has an idea for how it might work. The 93-year-old sci-fi legend told the Canadian Press that he’d be willing to…
Jeannie Epper, the peerless, fearless stunt performer who doubled for Lynda Carter on Wonder Woman and swung on a vine across a 350-foot gorge and propelled down an epic mudslide as Kathleen Turner in Romancing the Stone, has died. She was…
A French collective representing the interests of French film festival workers has called for a general strike “of all employees of the Cannes Film Festival and of its sidebars.” The Sous les écrans la dèche (Broke Behind the Screens)…
Will Ferrell appeared at the Tom Brady roast Sunday night in character as his Anchorman persona, Ron Burgundy. He was introduced as “a living legend, a world-class lover and the No. 1 news anchor in all of Sunday.” “My name is Ron Burgundy…