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2025 Oscars: Best Adapted Screenplay Predictions

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Fresh off "American Fiction" winning the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay, a pair of films that played at TIFF the same year are ready for their awards season moment.

Tuesday, Jul 2

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‘Bridgerton’ Season 3 Boots ‘Baby Reindeer’ from Netflix’s Top 10 All-Time List

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The Shonda Rhimes period drama becomes the first series with three seasons on Netflix's Most Popular list.

‘Despicable Me 4’ Review: Want to Save This Struggling Film Franchise? Turn It Into a TV Series

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The sixth film in the animated franchise feels like an accidental pitch for the small screen, thanks to an oddly episodic outing that feels better suited to quicker consumption.

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2025 Oscars: Best Original Screenplay Predictions

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The Cannes Film Festival once again platforms some early frontrunners for the Best Original Screenplay Oscar.

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‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ to Open the 2024 Venice Film Festival

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Tim Burton's highly-anticipated sequel starring Michael Keaton will have its world premiere August 28.

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‘The Bear’ Season 3 Premiere Draws 5.4 Million Viewers — the Most Ever for an FX Show on Hulu

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Christopher Storer's show continues to roll out entire seasons at once — and the strategy keeps working.

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Francesca’s ‘Bridgerton’ Book Is Sexiest of All — and the TV Show’s Big Changes Provide a Massive Opportunity for More

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Spoilers: Francesca's "Bridgerton" book, "When He Was Wicked," is a steamy tearjerker. The show adaptation seems set for some fun twists on that.

Monday, Jul 1

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The One Thing ‘Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F’ Director Mark Molloy Didn’t Do Before Taking on Much-Anticipated Fourth Film

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Just how big a fan of the Eddie Murphy comedy franchise is this first-time feature director from Down Under? As he tells IndieWire, big enough to know which film to studiously avoid when it came time to make his own.

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Locarno Film Festival and FLC Announce Mexican Cinema Retrospective Celebrating Essential Early Features

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The Spectacle Every Day: Mexican Popular Cinema festival spans films from the '40s through the '60s, with features from directors Roberto Gavaldón, Emilio Fernández, Julio Bracho, Alejandro Galindo, and Chano Urueta.

‘The Blair Witch Project’ Turns 25: Robert Eggers, Jane Schoenbrun, and 7 More Horror Directors on Its Terrifying Legacy

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Nia DaCosta, "Blair Witch" sequel director Adam Wingard, and other genre filmmakers tell IndieWire about the lasting influence and anxiety of the viral 1999 sensation.

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‘The Bear’ Season 3 Finale: What Happened and What’s Next

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Chris Storer's Emmy winning series will return after the third season dove deeper into personal struggles of the kitchen staff.

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Taylour Paige ‘Recited Every Line’ of ‘The Nutty Professor’ to Eddie Murphy While Shooting ‘Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F’

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Paige had previously expressed her desire to make her co-star laugh on set and apparently this is one of the ways she did just that.

Sunday, Jun 30

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Maya Erskine Thought She Was ‘Gonna Get Killed in First Episode’ When Donald Glover Asked Her to Be in ‘Mr. & Mrs. Smith’

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Erskine has some history with getting cut from shows that may caused a lingering anxiety around being offered roles.

This Weekend Destroyed Box-Office Myths: ‘Quiet Place’ Prequel Opens to $53M, Indian Epic Smokes ‘Horizon’

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The third weekend of "Inside Out 2" narrowly beat "A Quiet Place: Day One."

Saturday, Jun 29

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Eddie Murphy Pitches ‘Soul, Soul, Soul,’ His Long-Gestating Mockumentary Film: ‘I Almost Made This Movie a Bunch of Times’

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The concept would see Murphy perform as a bitter rock n' roll/R&B figure of the 1960s who never got his due.

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Abby Elliot Does Think ‘The Bear’ Is a Comedy: ‘A Lot of People Find Comedy in The Darkness’

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Though many would prefer to see "The Bear" in the drama category during awards season, Elliot argues its rightful place as a comedy.

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‘Andaz Apna Apna’: The Best Bollywood (Midnight?) Movie the West Has Never Heard About

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Rajkumar Santoshi's 1994 comedy starring Aamir Khan and Salman Khan is a cult favorite among Hindi film fans, but the humor and hijinks are universal.

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Continuing to Expand Her Repertoire with Films Like ‘Janet Planet,’ Julianne Nicholson Says She Is ‘Up for a Challenge’

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The Emmy-winning actress shines as the co-lead of Annie Baker's directorial debut about an isolated pre-teen and the mother whose life she orbits.

Friday, Jun 28

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2025 Oscars: Best Supporting Actress Predictions

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While recent film festivals have offered some Best Supporting Actress options, we don't know of many upcoming films boasting more contenders.

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2025 Oscars: Best Supporting Actor Predictions

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One of the earliest Oscar predictions folks have been comfortable making is that "A Real Pain" star Kieran Culkin will be nominated for Best Supporting Actor.

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2025 Oscars: Best Actress Predictions

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There are plenty of independent films that already make a strong case for their stars to receive a Best Actress nomination at the 97th Academy Awards.

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2025 Oscars: Best Actor Predictions

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Recent Best Actor nominees like "Sing Sing" star Colman Domingo seem set to make a quick trip back to the Oscars.

Screw Your Backstory: Yorgos Lanthimos Wants His Actors and Audience Present

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The "Kinds of Kindness" director talks about forgoing character motivation and the silly theater games he uses to get bold performances from Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons in his study of human behavior.

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Gina Gershon Thought She Would Star as Trinity in ‘The Matrix’ After ‘Bound’: ‘I Still See Myself in That Part’

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Speaking with IndieWire for the Criterion Collection's re-release of "Bound," the iconic action actress said she still has "hard" feelings about the Wachowskis' sci-fi masterpiece.

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Gina Gershon Still Loves Being Corky from ‘Bound’: ‘I Bet I Wouldn’t Even Be Cast in It Now’

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Celebrating the Wachowskis' debut cult classic from 1996 for the Criterion Collection, Gershon reflected on her love for "Bound" co-star Jennifer Tilly and the queer community that made them both lesbian sex symbols.

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The Rising Producers Trusted by Andrea Arnold, Scarlett Johansson, and Gia Coppola to Make Their Films

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Pinky Promise Films' Jessamine Burgum and Kara Durrett want to make films with "heart, creativity, and magic." The result, as they tell IndieWire, is an enviable (and growing) slate of new features.

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Underappreciated Martin Scorsese/Paul Schrader Collaboration ‘Bringing Out the Dead’ Gets a 4K Blu-Ray Release

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Critics weren't quick to praise the film and audiences rejected it at the box office, but "Bringing Out the Dead" is worth a second look.

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‘A Family Affair’ Review: Zac Efron and Nicole Kidman Become Netflix Royalty in a Classic White Wine Rom-Com

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Efron plays a movie star who starts sleeping with his assistant's mom in the actor's best rom-com since "17 Again."

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‘My Lady Jane’ Has the Wildest TV Twist of the Year

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Spoilers: The new Prime Video series based on the bestselling book takes the cake for the most WTF TV moment of 2024. Sorry, "House of the Dragon."