Fresh off the 30th anniversary of his all-time great actioner, Speed, filmmaker Jan de Bont is now turning his attention to his highly successful sophomore effort, Twister. On July 9, the Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt-led disaster film will…
What’s the secret to Bound‘s steamy, same-sex love scenes? Tequila and truffles, it turns out. Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly joined The Hollywood Reporter‘s It Happened in Hollywood podcast for an episode about the making of the 1996…
Every year, a number of films come out of the woodwork to challenge for industry awards and year-end recognition, and in 2021, Michael Sarnoski’s Pig was perhaps the ultimate example of this trajectory. The Neon-released pic about Nicolas…
If you have spent the opening weekend of the 58th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) in the Czech spa town, chances are that you have seen, or even taken photos of, rising British actor Solly McLeod. He has been on stages, at…
This story was created in partnership with A24. “Welcome, everyone, to Maxine Minx’s Hollywood Bus Tour!” chirped Lisa, our blonde and bubbly tour guide as she welcomed us onboard. I settled into my window seat, enjoying the breeze and…
As she gets set to release her second movie, A Sacrifice, in theaters this weekend, Jordan Scott (IFC’s Cracks) recalls the best advice she received from her father, Sir Ridley Scott, from one director to another. “I’m very lucky that I…
While fans of The Hunger Games await the new new Hunger Games film from Lionsgate and Suzanne Collins’ forthcoming fifth novel in the saga (titled The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping), there are a myriad of movies and TV shows that…
It’s a practical joke to ask a screenwriter to write about anxiety. The very nature of the occupation is to walk around constantly asking yourself: What’s the worst thing that could possibly happen in this moment? To this character? To…
Slicing Paris in half, the river Seine flows through the heart of French identity, past the Musée d’Orsay, the Louvre, Notre Dame Cathedral, and the Académie Française, the centuries-old institution of letters that guards against the…
The Savannah College of Art and Design is again bringing a generous helping of Southern hospitality to France’s Luberon Valley for the SCAD Lacoste Film Festival, which runs June 27 to 29. Now in its third year, the fest was conceived as a…
In the early moments of the 2007 movie Into the Wild, Emile Hirsch, in the role of 24-year-old adventurer Christopher McCandless, is walking alone in knee-deep snow when he stumbles upon an astounding sight, what McCandless would come to…
One prevailing word comes to mind when beholding the eponymous forces of nature in Twisters: fear. The term, in the biblical sense, connotes an awe and respect of a greater, not entirely knowable power that puts humanity in its proper…
Two llamas are bounding up a small hill in Ojai, drawn to the sounds of filmmaker Rebecca Tickell yelling in a high-pitched voice, “Rama! Yoda!” Tickell has in her hand a bucket full of feed, and the two shaggy, snow-colored mammals are…
Mike Faist was planning to take a prolonged breather after an exhausting shoot on Challengers, but then those intentions fell by the wayside once Jeff Nichols called about The Bikeriders. The Take Shelter and Mud filmmaker made Faist an…
It’s been over seven-and-a-half years since acclaimed filmmaker Jeff Nichols last had a film in movie theaters, and with tonight’s release of The Bikeriders, the interminable wait for his sixth feature is now over. In the aftermath of his…
Five years ago, Austin Butler’s memorable supporting role in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood turned out to be his audition for leading man status, and he’s since become not only a leader on set but a leader on Hollywood’s…
When Holidate and About Fate writer Tiffany Paulsen first started making the film that would become her feature directorial debut, Winter Spring Summer or Fall stars Jenna Ortega and Percy Hynes White hadn’t even appeared in the Netflix…
Jeff Nichols’ The Bikeriders is throwback filmmaking at its finest, so much so that Jodie Comer’s signature accent work essentially serves as one of the film’s primary special effects. The crime drama, which is a mostly fictionalized take…
Latency star Alexis Ren knows full well the perception that comes with a social media star making the jump to acting. It provokes the same skeptics that countless athletes, musicians and professional wrestlers had to endure when they first…
A decade ago, I was asked to do a TedX Talk about being the father of an autistic son, and another who is neurodivergent. That talk helped me decide to write a film that would focus on a father and a son who is autistic. Ezra, in theaters…
Adria Arjona’s new movie Hit Man is a rousing success, but she’s trying not to think about it. The Richard Linklater feature, starring Glen Powell as an undercover fake-killer-for-hire and Arjona as a woman who tries to solicit his…
Filmmaker Michael Zaiko Hall knew he was courting controversy when he cast Kevin Spacey as the lead in his thriller Peter Five Eight. Now, as the film is becoming available via various streaming services, the director is vehemently…
As footage from DreamWorks Animation’s fall feature The Wild Robot screened at the Annecy Animation Festival in France this week, big laughs — and later, audible sniffling — could be heard throughout the packed auditorium. With a…
Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock hurtled onto the A-list 30 years ago with the action hit Speed. Jan de Bont (Twister) made his feature directorial debut with the film about LAPD officer Jack Traven (Reeves) trying to prevent the detonation…
When author Casey McQuiston handed the reins to her queer romance novel Red White & Royal Blue to director Matthew López for its big-screen adaptation, she had a couple of requests — like keeping the character of Alex’s (played by Taylor…
On a brisk April afternoon in the East Village, Griffin Dunne steps through a portal to his past. He has hustled up the stairs of an East Village tenement too old for elevators despite its gentrified gleam. The hallways are narrow but…
Kim Wexler continues to pay dividends for Rhea Seehorn. When Bad Boys: Ride or Die directors Adil and Bilall endured an “emotional rollercoaster” in 2022, they found an escape through their binge-watch of Seehorn’s acclaimed series, Better…
John Krasinski recruited an A-list cast to voice the imaginary friends in his new family-friendly fantasy film, IF. Director and co-writer Krasinski stars as the father of 12-year-old Bea (Cailey Fleming), who gains the ability to see…
It’s been 22 years since Disney’s Lilo & Stitch first hit theaters and, to this day, it remains a beloved classic for children and adults alike. The Hollywood Reporter broke the news that the company would be remaking the Hawaii-centric…
A movie begins, and Jennifer Lopez opens a suitcase to reveal a robotic head, which she proceeds to interrogate. How’d that head get in the suitcase? Why is Jennifer Lopez talking to it? The audience doesn’t yet know, but hopefully they…