Filmmaker Sean Baker says fans of Anora and his other films can expect “more of the same” from his upcoming output — and puts to rest any worries he might show up with a bullhorn on the set of a future Avengers installment.

While appearing on The Hollywood Reporter‘s It Happened in Hollywood podcast, Baker confessed he was taking his time choosing a follow-up project to 2024’s Anora, which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes before going on to win five Academy Awards — including four for Baker himself, an Oscars record. Among them were best picture, best director, best actress for Mikey Madison and best original screenplay.

“I’m not sure yet,” he said in response to a question about his next film. “I’m still exploring some ideas.”

“Don’t expect a Marvel film,” he said. “It’s not going to happen. I’m intentionally going to stay...

Don’t expect to see Luke Skywalker in any of the upcoming films Lucasfilm has planned — even as a spectral Force Ghost.

The 73-year-old actor, who has appeared in five live-action Star Wars films and made de-aged cameos in The Mandalorian TV series, suggested that Skywalker’s run is over — and should be over.

“I am so grateful to [creator George Lucas] for letting me be a part of that back in the day, the humble days when George called Star Wars ‘the most expensive low-budget movie ever made,'” said Hamill during an interview with ComicBook.com to promote his new film, the Stephen King adaptation The Life of Chuck. “We never expected it to become a permanent franchise and a part of pop culture like that. But my deal is, I had my time. I’m appreciative of that. But I really think they should focus on the future and all the new characters.

Amazon MGM Studios is in talks to acquire the feature adaptation of Split Fiction starring Sydney Sweeney.

The package has Jon M. Chu attached to helm the movie based on the video game of the same name. Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick are writing the screenplay.

Producers include Chu, Mike Goldberg and Dmitri M. Johnson. Sweeney is set to executive produce.

The game Split Fiction hails from Hazelight Studios and Electronic Arts and debuted in March. Designed for split-screen play, it centers on authors Mio and Zoe, who get trapped in the world of their creations. Sweeney’s role has not yet been announced.

Last month, Hazelight Studios’ Instagram account celebrated the game having sold four million copies. “So many of you have picked up Split Fiction already, it’s amazing,” read the post. “Seeing the fun you have with our game and the love you show for Mio, Zoe...

“Karate Kid: Legends” slashed its way to $21 million at the domestic box office, a decent start, although one that’s slightly behind expectations.

Heading into the weekend, Sony’s PG-13 action sequel was aiming for $25 million from 3,809 North American venues. Though “Legends” has garnered positive reactions from audiences (the film earned an “A-” grade on CinemaScore exit polls compared to the 59% Rotten Tomatoes average from critics), attendance didn’t break out beyond “Karate Kid” fans. The movie carries a relatively modest $45 million production budget.

“Karate Kid: Legends” is the franchise’s first new theatrical installment in 15 years, since 2010’s reboot with Jackie Chan. That film opened to $55 million (not adjusted for inflation) and ultimately earned $359 million globally. This new version, directed by Jonathan Entwistle, unites Chan with Ralph Macchio, who learned the art of “wax on, wax off” in the 1984 original “Karate Kid.” The long-running martial arts series has enjoyed...

If you need your movies and TV shows to come with a hefty slice of existential dread, then "Carol & The End of the World" has you covered. The Netflix animated series, which was released in December 2023 and comprises 10 episodes, is an unsung gem that packs a hefty emotional punch. Created by Dan Guterman, the miniseries, at its very heart, has a simple but endearing message: What is wrong with embracing the mundane and monotony of life?

Starring comedian and actor Martha Kelly, "Carol & The End of The World" tackles an end-of-the-world storyline like few other projects do. The miniseries is not about a young wide-eyed protagonist working with a group of scientist do-gooders to save the planet. Nor is it about a character that tries to suddenly cross off their bucket list by doing everything and anything as Earth's clock begins ticking.

When the planet Keppler begins making...

Horror Hybrid

Prabhas‘ “The Raja Saab” has set its theatrical release for Dec. 5, with the teaser arriving June 16. The project marks the Indian star’s first horror entertainer, a departure from his typical action fare. Director Maruthi, known for blending humor with genre elements, helms the supernatural thriller.

People Media Factory backs the production, with T.G. Vishwa Prasad producing. Karthik Palani handles cinematography while Thaman S. composes the score.

The cast includes Malavika Mohanan, Nidhhi Agerwal, and Ridhi Kumar alongside Prabhas. The film will release across multiple languages including Telugu, Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, and Malayalam.

December has become a competitive window for Indian cinema releases, with “The Raja Saab” aiming to capitalize on the year-end theatrical market. The horror-comedy hybrid represents Prabhas’ continued genre experimentation following his pan-Indian success with the “Baahubali” franchise and recent actioners.

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Netflix India’s action-drama series “Rana Naidu” returns June 13 with a...

A badass surfer on Australia’s Gold Coast takes on a villainous tour guide who is ferrying unwary sightseers to view the sharks

Sean Byrne’s gonzo horror thriller premiered in the Directors’ Fortnight section of this year’s Cannes film festival, in the sidebar where Cannes traditionally finds a place in its heart for genre or offbeat fare. Yet despite this stamp of authority – and a lead turn from Jai Courtney that could best be described as “gnarly” – I couldn’t get behind this movie, which has a bargain-basement straight-to-streaming feel to it.

The scene is the Australian Gold Coast where surfers come to catch gigantic waves. Hassie Harrison (from TV’s Yellowstone) plays a badass surfer named Zephyr, who travels around in her van as free as the wind sampling the most outrageous swells. She meets-cute with Moses (Josh Heuston), a nerdy guy who is very sweet and yet also kind of hot.

Emmy-winning actress Sheryl Lee Ralph received the Sidney Poitier Icon Tribute at the Gotham Television Awards June 2. The “Abbott Elementary” star has a special history with the tribute’s namesake.

“It’s a very full circle moment, because quite literally Mr. Poitier opened the door to Hollywood for me by casting me in my first film — ‘A Piece of the Action,’” Ralph told IndieWire on the red carpet ahead of the ceremony.

The 1977 crime comedy both starred and was directed by Poitier. Ralph played a supporting role in the movie, which also featured James Earl Jones. After this appearance, Ralph began scoring guest spots on popular TV show such as “Good Times” and “Wonder Woman,” before landing her Tony-nominated role in the 1981 Broadway musical “Dreamgirls.” Since then, Ralph has been a film, television and stage staple, but she professes that none of her success would have been possible without Poitier.

Netflix just dropped the trailer for Season 3 of “Squid Game,” premiering June 27, and now creator Hwang Dong-hyuk is teasing a potential spinoff for the South Korean international sensation.

“If I make [a] spin off, it will be a story happening between Season 1 and 2. There [was] a three years gap between Season 1 and 2,” Hwang told IndieWire on the Gotham Awards red carpet June 2. “So, I want to show what they did for those times.”

Hwang said that he dreamed up the third “Squid Game” season while he was planning the second.

“After I finished the whole season, the first season … I tried to come up with the idea of Season 2 and 3 at the same time,” he said.

Star Lee Jung-jae said fans will not want to miss the new episodes.

“There’s so much meaning and themes that are explored through each of the characters,” he told IndieWire. “Definitely the same for my own character as well.

Amazon Prime’s “Overcompensating” dropped on May 15 to loving reviews and enthusiastic fan support — and its creator/star Benito Skinner is ready for a second lap.

“There’s so much more to say,” Skinner told IndieWire on the red carpet of at the TV Gotham Awards. “And also, don’t you want to see Hailee on spring break? That’s all I’m gonna say.”

In the series, Skinner plays closeted jock, Benny Scanlon, who’s trying to navigate his freshman year of college. Hailee is his party-loving roommate, played by Holmes.

“[Holmes is] so brilliant and … she’s incredible at improv. So, I feel like I knew that with the person I chose. So, I wanted her to run with it. I feel like I had so much fun writing that character,” Skinner said. “When she was in, I was like, ‘Go to fucking town’ … Haley took over, and it was just so,...

It was a big night for television, as Emmy favorites descended upon Cipriani Wall Street in New York City for the second annual Gotham TV Awards. Launched in 2024, the TV branch of the beloved indie film award show continues to stake out an early position on the calendar that could eventually make it a barometer for the Emmy race in a way that mirrors the Gotham Awards’ traditional relationship with the Oscars.

The evening’s big winners included “Adolescence,” which completed a sweep of the limited series categories with wins for Breakthrough Limited Series and Outstanding Lead Performance in a Limited Series (for Stephen Graham), while Owen Cooper shared the Outstanding Supporting Performance in a Limited Series award with Jenny Slate (who was nominated for “Dying for Sex”). Emmy Frontrunners “The Studio” and “The Pitt” also won the Breakthrough Comedy Series and Breakthrough Drama Series categories, respectively.

“Building on the...

Blake Lively is attempting to withdraw her claims against Justin Baldoni of intentional infliction of emotional distress and negligent infliction of emotional distress. The move comes after Baldoni’s legal team sought discovery that included her medical records in their efforts to defend the “It Ends With Us” director against her claim that she suffered “severe emotional distress and pain, humiliation, embarrassment, belittlement, frustration and mental anguish.” Lively’s attempt to withdraw the two claims surfaced in a filing Monday by Baldoni’s attorneys, who are seeking to compel the actress to sign a Hipaa release for access to therapy notes and other relevant information.

“Instead of complying with the Medical RFPs, Ms. Lively’s counsel recently advised us, in writing, that Ms. Lively is withdrawing her [infliction of emotional distress] Claims,” today’s filing states. “However, Ms. Lively has refused the Wayfarer Parties’ reasonable request that the withdrawal of such claims be with prejudice.

Disney has reportedly implemented a latest round of lay-offs, sending pink slips to hundreds of employees around the world, with film and television marketing and television publicity under the Disney Entertainment division said to be most heavily impacted.

The round includes television casting and development as well as corporate finance operations, however it is understood no teams have been eliminated. This the fourth wave to affect television staffers in the last year, after the departure of a couple of hundred fromnetworks in March.

The redundancies stem from CEO Bob Iger’s stated mandate in 2023 to save around $7.5bn under a drastic strategic realignment.

If there's one lesson we've learned over the course of the last 40-odd years of cinema, it's to never bet against James Cameron. There were bets against him when the maverick filmmaker took on the "Titanic," and again when he insisted on building the imaginative and lush alien world of "Avatar" a decade later. In both instances, Cameron's ventures not only succeeded, but made him a king of Hollywood cinema.

"Avatar" is currently two movies deep into a planned five-movie saga, but now it looks like Cameron will be taking a detour after "Avatar: Fire and Ash." As the filmmaker himself announced in a press release via his Facebook page today, Cameron's company, Lightstorm Entertainment, has acquired the rights to author Joe Abercrombie's latest novel, "The Devils." That novel was literally just published on May 13, but it's already built up quite a bit of buzz, even leaving Cameron's interest aside.

One of the best horror movies in recent memory is continuing to be a streaming hit nearly three years after its original release. The movie in question is director Zach Cregger's breakout feature directorial debut "Barbarian." For those who have seen it, they undoubtedly need little convincing that it is worth one's time. Those who haven't are discovering it en masse, thanks to its recent release on Netflix.

As of this writing, "Barbarian" is the fourth biggest movie on Netflix, per FlixPatrol. It's just behind "The Heart Knows" and just ahead of the Vince Vaughn comedy "Nonnas." It's easily one of the smallest movies in Netflix's top 10 at the moment, considering the movie was made for a mere $4.5 million. All the same, it was a hit when it arrived in theaters in 2022, both critically and commercially, and it's a hit now in the world of streaming.

The film centers...

Michael B. Jordan once again proved his star power with the release of Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners” earlier this year. The vampire thriller has earned $350 million and counting at the worldwide box office. Jordan said in a New York Magazine cover story that he actively does not post much on social media or talk to the press about his personal life in order to “create a demand” for himself as a movie star. Given the money coming in for “Sinners,” it’s a strategy that appears to be working.

Jordan, who counts Denzel Washington as one of his biggest inspirations, shared with the magazine that Washington actually gave him career advice encouraging him to stay offline as to not risk being overexposed. Washington put things bluntly by asking Jordan: “Why would they pay to see you on a weekend if they see you all week for free?”

Movie stardom has...

"Renaissance man" is used a lot in the entertainment industry, mostly referring to a writer/director, actor/musician, or even all of the above. Properly defined, a "renaissance man" is someone who thrives in multiple fields in the arts and sciences. So when I think of one, I think of the late, great Michael Crichton. 

Crichton was a polymath before it was popular -- and before he hit it big.  He dreamed of being a writer and published his first piece before he could drive. He graduated from Harvard (where he also played basketball), taught Anthropology at Cambridge, UK and came back to Cambridge, Mass to earn his MD while writing pulp page-turners under pseudonyms on the side. Crichton finally became famous writing under his own name with 1969's "The Andromeda Strain." He never looked back until his death from cancer in 2008.

A "Michael Crichton" list can be many things -- and super long.

Apparently Jackie Chan couldn’t care less about Michael Cera’s career. Cera told NME that Chan had no idea who he was when they both wound up together on BBC Radio 2. Chan was promoting his latest film “Karate Kid: Legends” while Cera was there to do press for Wes Anderson’s “The Phoenician Scheme.”

“When I met him [Chan] though, he was like, ‘Who is this person, what’s going on?,’” Cera recalled. “We took a picture but I think he thought I was a competition winner.”

Cera continued, “He was like, ‘Ok, let’s do a picture real quick. Come on.’ Not rudely. But I felt like I was invading his little personal time with his team before he goes on the radio. So I was like, ‘What am I doing here?’ But everyone was very sweet and I got to meet Jackie.”

Chan is back for “Karate Kid: Legends...

Although "Severance" fans have plenty of praise about the show, they'll also be happy to admit it could test their patience. Not only did season 2 totally tease us with the reintegration storyline, but the wait between seasons 1 and 2 was absurdly long. On April 18th, 2022, the season 1 finale left fans on a massive cliffhanger, one they had to wait until January 17, 2025 to see resolved.

This wait time between seasons is only beaten out by "Stranger Things," which can blame its visual effects-heavy premise for the delays, and "Euphoria," where everything that could go wrong has gone wrong with the season 3 production. So, what's the "Severance" producers' excuse? Some fans have speculated that there's been behind-the-scenes drama. The rumors have been fueled by reports of fighting between showrunners Ben Stiller and Dan Erickson, and a "toxic environment" overall. In a recent interview with Variety, however, Ben Stiller shut those rumors down:

"Everybody on the show gets along.

James Cameron announced that his company Lightstorm Entertainment has acquired the rights to “The Devils,” a new book by author and screenwriter Joe Abercrombie, for which Cameron will co-write an adaptation for the screen.

The book is a dark fantasy novel that draws from classic horror tropes. It follows a priest on a holy assignment who discovers the mission he serves is filled with murderers, dark magicians, and monsters, meaning that if any of them are to reach God, it will require bloody means. The book just released last month and hit #1 in the UK and #5 on the New York Times Best Sellers List.

“How do I describe ‘The Devils?’ A sharply witty horror adventure? An epic battle between good and evil except most of the time you can’t tell which is which? A twisted, stylish, alt-universe middle-ages romp, where your best hope of survival is the monsters themselves?...

By certain metrics, "Game of Thrones" was and is the biggest TV show of all time. At no other moment in history -- and by moment, in this case, I mean a span of several years -- has a single series sat so definitively on the (pardon the pun) throne of television. It was a cultural phenomenon unlike any other, and so it was the least surprising thing in the world when HBO announced plans to massively expand the franchise with various spin-offs after the original show ended.

Those plans started on somewhat rocky footing due to the largely negative response to "Game of Thrones" season 8, which will go down as bag-fumbling of gargantuan proportions. But more than half a decade on, that ire has faded, and the first big spin-off, "House of the Dragon," has returned the world of Westeros to critical acclaim. The third live-action series, "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms,...

Ryan Coogler has no interest in turning “Sinners” into a franchise and is standing by it.

The “Black Panther” and “Creed” director told Ebony Magazine that despite his original film being a box office hit, it’s a one and done story. Coogler reunited with his frequent collaborator Michael B. Jordan for the film, which puts Jordan in dual roles as twin gangsters Smoke and Stack. The film follows the brothers as they escape dueling factions in Chicago and return home to Mississippi to open a music hall, only to discover more blood-sucking foes left to battle.

“I wanted the movie to feel like a full meal: your appetizers, starters, entrees and desserts, I wanted all of it there. I wanted it to be a holistic and finished thing,” Coogler said. “That was how I was asked all about it. That was always my intention.”

He continued, “I’ve been...

Go ahead and make our day, Clint Eastwood. The now 95-year-old actor and director said a viral interview that ran of him in an Austrian publication calling out sequels and franchises is completely fake, as are any quotes attributed to him.

The interview was picked up widely, including by IndieWire, despite the Austrian newspaper’s circulation reaching only 100,000 people. Eastwood purportedly said that he misses the days when screenwriters would pen original ideas like “Casablanca” and that we live in an era of franchises and remakes. He even added that he has no plans to retire and that he was prepping a new movie at the age of 95. While we don’t doubt that he wants to keep working forever and always appears to be prepping some kind of film, that quote appears to be fabricated as well.

But he now claims the interview simply never happened.

“A couple of...

A power broker is generally known as a person who can unofficially, often from the shadows, decide the way power flows within a large group of people. The term is most famously used to describe Robert Moses, an urban planner who was never officially elected to office yet nevertheless wielded enormous amounts of power throughout New York City. On paper, he was less powerful than the New York mayors and governors that came and went throughout his career, but in practice, they were terrified of him.

Shortly after "The Power Broker" was published in 1974, Marvel Comics came up with a character with the same title. Indeed, a 1978 issue of the comic "Machine Man" introduced a mysterious individual known as The Power Broker. Then, in 2008, another person took up the title in the comic "Avengers: The Initiative."

13 years later, the 2021 Disney+ mini-series "The Falcon and the Winter Soldier" introduced the idea...

Sometimes, even the most hardcore fanboys need to be reminded that certain facets of their own beloved sci-fi franchise actually exist. "Star Wars" fans, for instance, often need to be reminded that there are 16 movies in the series, and not just the nine that have Roman numerals in them. 

(To quickly provide a list, the 16 movies include "Star Wars," "The Star Wars Holiday Special," "The Empire Strikes Back," "Return of the Jedi," "Caravan of Courage," "The Battle for Endor," "The Great Heep," "The Phantom Menace," "Attack of the Clones," "Revenge of the Sith," "The Clone Wars," "The Force Awakens," "Rogue One," "The Last Jedi," "Solo," and "The Rise of Skywalker." 16. I will hear no further arguments.)

Likewise, many Trekkies have to be reminded about the sheer volume of TV shows that the franchise has produced since its inception in 1966. As of this writing, there have been 13 "Star Trek" TV shows,...

The gang just might be going back in time: Danny DeVito couldn’t help but compare his beloved sitcom “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” to another iconic TV series, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz’s ’50s comedy “I Love Lucy.”

DeVito told Variety while in discussion with Colin Farrell for “Actors on Actors” that after 17 seasons of “It’s Always Sunny,” he still finds the show to be as fresh as ever. “I always looked at it as ‘I Love Lucy’ on acid,” he said. “You could do anything you wanted.”

DeVito cited just how different “It’s Always Sunny” is to filming the 1992 feature “Batman Returns” in which he played villain Oswald Cobblepot Aka the Penguin. Farrell gives his own take on the character, now named Oz Cobb, in Max series “The Penguin,” which was a spinoff of Matt Reeves’ 2022 film “The Batman.”

“You can go anywhere you want. I love it,...

When it comes to the big screen history of the Batman, there have been only two instances where actors have had a one-and-done run in the Dark Knight's costume. In 1997, George Clooney took on the role of the Caped Crusader alongside Chris O'Donnell's Boy Wonder in "Batman & Robin," which was deemed by Kevin Feige as one of the most important comic book movies ever made, all because of how bad it was. However, Clooney only got the gig due to some last-minute reshuffling when it was confirmed that the late Val Kilmer wasn't returning to the Batcave after his own short stint in "Batman Forever."

After picking up the keys to the Batmobile following Michael Keaton's departure from the role, Val Kilmer stepped in as Gotham's protector and is considered by some to still be the best live-action Batman to date. Bringing a brooding, reclusive Bruce Wayne under the cowl,...

Lee Jung-jae may feel satisfied by the upcoming “Squid Game” series finale, but he’s still worried about how fans will react to the end of the hit Netflix show.

Lee told The Hollywood Reporter while at the Tudum 2025 event that the third and final season of “Squid Game” will have a few twists. “We are going to be releasing quite soon, I am very nervous. I know that a lot of you out there are curious about what’s going to happen in Season 3, but all of us are more curious about how much you’re going to enjoy it,” Lee said. “So I can’t wait, I’m very nervous.”

“Squid Game” Season 3 premieres June 27 on Netflix. Lee previously won an Emmy in 2022 for his lead performance in the series created by Hwang Dong-hyuk. “Squid Game 2” premiered in December 2024 and debuted to 68 million views in its first week,...

True crime dramatizations have always been popular because the salacious stories at their center are guaranteed to draw an audience. The bigger the case, the more likely people are to tune in. Unfortunately, true crime also has to try and walk a tightrope between entertainment and depicting the truth, and more often than not, the people behind the shows and movies lean toward entertainment. Sometimes that just means minor inaccuracies, but other times it can paint the case in a totally different (and harmful) light, like Ryan Murphy's framing of the Menendez brothers in his "Monsters" series. That's a problem that's been around for as long as there have been true crime dramatizations, and one of the more egregious high-profile examples starred Al Pacino and Helen Mirren. 

In 2003, actor Lana Clarkson was found dead from a gunshot in her mouth in the home of prolific music producer Phil Spector,...

Entertainment Partners, which provides various services to the film and TV industry, announced Monday that it is acquiring CASHét, a leading payment processor for productions.

CASHét provides p-cards and handles accounts payable functions through an online portal.

“CASHét has built an innovative digital payment platform that is trusted across the industry,” Markham Goldstein, president and CEO of Entertainment Partners, said in a release. “Bringing CASHét into our ecosystem will allow us to provide productions with an unmatched, fully integrated, end-to-end financial solution.”

Entertainment Partners handles payroll services, budgeting and support in obtaining government production incentives around the world. It also owns Central Casting, the clearing house for acting, along with other services. The company has previously partnered with CASHét to offer its CASHétPay platform to clients.

CASHét will continue to offering the same services, and will still work with other payroll providers, after the acquisition, the company said in the release.

Netflix and Chilean auteurPabloLarraín are reteaming on the horror miniseries My Sad Dead (Mis Muertos Tristes) and will begin production towards the end of June.

The four-parter is based on the stories of Argentine writer Mariana Enríquez and centres on Ema, a 60-year-old doctor who has a gift for seeing and hearing the dead, although she has never allowed herself to connect with the suffering of others.

However all that changes with the arrival of her niece Julie forfamily reunion. Thedisturbed young woman can also communicate with the dead, albeit in a far more intense and sexual manner, forcing Ema to confront her past,...

"Happy Gilmore 2" is coming to Netflix this summer, and thanks to a long history of underwhelming comedy sequels, it already has an uphill battle. Combine that with the fact that Adam Sandler's comedies for the past 20 years have been largely disappointing and, in many cases, downright awful, and our excitement probably isn't quite as high as we'd like it to be.

Even so, Netflix debuted a new trailer for the golf comedy sequel during its big Tudum presentation over the weekend, and it gave us a pretty good idea of Happy Gilmore's story this time around. He's getting back into golf after being out of the sport for a long time. There are also a bunch of callbacks to the original movie, maybe a little too many, making us worry that these are the best bits in the film. But there's one detail that was rather surprising, not to mention a little disappointing,...

Former Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein will not take the stand in his New York sex crimes retrial, his spokesperson said.

According to the Associated Press on Sunday the disgraced former executive was willing to testify, however his legal team deemed it a safer strategic bet to keep him off the stand.

The New York court was not in session on Monday and the defence is expected to begin closing arguments on Tuesday, nearly six weeks after the hearing began.

Weinstein, 73, is charged with two counts of first degree criminal sexual act and one count of third degree rape, all involving different accusers.

Renée Zellweger admitted she had “a hard time” when she first met her costar Hugh Grant in “Bridget Jones’ Diary” because she was “such a fan.”

“I was so nervous, I just didn’t want to make a jerk out of myself,” she revealed. “I didn’t succeed.” She noted that in college, she lived above an independent movie theater and would see all the British film that came through, including “Maurice” and “Impromptu.”

“I just thought, ‘Gosh he’s so handsome!’ And now I’m going to do a movie with him?” Zellweger said.

Zellweger was speaking on Saturday to an audience following an FYC screening of “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy,” the fourth and final installment in the rom-com series adapted from Helen Fielding’s novels, now streaming on Peacock. The two-time Oscar winner reflected on 25 years of playing the beloved character and her chemistry with her fellow actors.

June is busting out all over.

For one thing, it’s Tribeca season, so keep an eye on IndieWire for handpicked list as well as reviews and interviews out of the New York festival. In the theater world, it’s Tonys season — and the month to stream George Clooney’s “Good Night and Good Luck” performance straight from Broadway to Max, if that’s your thing (it is very much our thing).

And while shows like “The Last of Us,” “Hacks,” and “Saturday Night Live” head back into hibernation, there are plenty of new titles debuting on streaming as we head into the summer. Owen Wilson teams up with Apple for the golf comedy “Stick,” where a former professional golfer gets back on the course — but not how anyone expected. On the horror/thriller front, Netflix Australia has “The Survivors,” which is as much a murder mystery as it is...

Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) claimed he needed an "army" in the season finale of "Daredevil: Born Again," and it would appear he's getting one. Marvel Studios' first full-fledged effort to combine the old Netflix universe of superheroes with their ongoing cinematic universe was more or less a success (as you can read in my mixed review for /Film here), setting the stage for even more street-level action. The debut season ended with the villainous Mayor Wilson Fisk/Kingpin (Vincent D'Onofrio) fully in control of New York City, enacting martial law, and declaring war on vigilantes everywhere. Our scrappy heroes found themselves on the defensive, barely scrounging together enough holdouts to pose a threat to his Anti-Vigilante Task Force. Luckily, all signs are pointing to a familiar face joining their ranks.

Season 2 of "Born Again" may be bringing (some of) the Defenders back into the thick of things, but don't sleep...

Wes Anderson is on the Mount Rushmore (pun intended) of indie filmmakers who can consistently open their movies to a small but loyal group of core fans.

All 12 of his films have opened in a limited, platform release on just a handful of screens before expanding to over a 1,000, or in the case of “Fantastic Mr. Fox,” as many as 2,000+ screens. And you’d be hard-pressed to find many other filmmakers (perhaps contemporaries like Paul Thomas Anderson or Quentin Tarantino) who film after film have as impressive of per-theater averages from those humble beginnings.

With an estimated $570,000 from just six screens in New York and Los Angeles, Anderson’s twelfth feature “The Phoenician Scheme” has a per-theater average of $95,000 which, per data via Comscore, would be the fourth-highest PTA of his career, behind “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” “Asteroid City,” and “Moonrise Kingdom.” “The Grand Budapest Hotel” had the best PTA of all,...

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In the 17th episode of the debut season of "The Big Bang Theory," something huge happens: Leonard Hofstadter (Johnny Galecki), the nerdy roommate and best friend of Sheldon Cooper (Jim Parsons), is brave enough to ask out their neighbor Penny (Kaley Cuoco), arguably the girl of Leonard's dreams. According to Jessica Radloff's 2022 book "The Big Bang Theory: The Definitive, Inside Story of the Epic Hit Series," this moment was a long time coming, even though it was relatively early in the show ... and audiences responded very, very well.

After the show took a hiatus following just a handful of episode due to the 2007-08 writers' strike (but returned as an even bigger sensation than before), creator Chuck Lorre said that the audience showed their love for the series in a big way while they filmed the aforementioned episode,...

In a world where technology, and especially AI, is rapidly taking over these days, it's always a pleasure to see when some grand visual achievement in a film or TV show is done by people (and practical effects) rather than CGI. And who would've thought the series that's primarily about sci-fi and future technology could pull off a stunt like that in its seventh season with aplomb? The "Black Mirror" episode 'Eulogy' is likely the most heartfelt, endearing, and human story in the latest batch of six episodes. It's practically a one-man show that leans heavily on Paul Giamatti's captivating charisma and emotional range to tell a ballad of love, grief, and regret.

Giamatti plays Phillip, a middle-aged American man who's notified by a tech company called Eulogy that a long-lost love of his, Carol (Hazel Monaghan), has recently passed away. Though their relationship ended decades ago,...

Update: In a statement to Deadline on Monday, June 2, Clint Eastwood disputed ever giving the interview with the Austrian newspaper Kurier and called the comments in it “entirely phony.”

“A couple of items about me have recently shown up in the news,” Eastwood told Deadline. “I thought I would set the record straight. I can confirm I’ve turned 95. I can also confirm that I never gave an interview to an Austrian publication called Kurier, or any other writer in recent weeks, and that the interview is entirely phony.”

Original Story: Clint Eastwood wants Hollywood to only greenlight original films instead of relying on sequels and franchise installments. The auteur, who yes, did have his own franchise with five “Dirty Harry” films, clarified that after directing features for decades, he now sees the value in standalone works instead.

The “Juror #2” director told Austrian newspaper Kurier, as translated by Reuters, that...

Movie Den, a teen-centric matinee repertory series held in the Mubi microcinema, will run June 16 through August 27 at Vidiots. With programming focused on “Engaging, delighting, and inspiring the next generation of film lovers,” screenings offered as part of the series include “Rear Window,” “Good Burger,” “The Half of It” and “Hairspray” (1988).

“As a Mom to teens, and a member of a community that has been through so much this year, it was important to me and our team, that we try to make what we know will be a hard Summer for so many a little easier by expanding programming with an intention to get us out of the house, off devices, and reconnected,” said Vidiots programming director Amanda Salazar. “When I was a teenager, the movies were my sanctuary, and our kids (and their grown-ups) need that now more than ever. We can’t wait to welcome you all to Movie Den.

Everyone loves a good whodunnit. After all, these types of murder mysteries have been all the rage since the mainstream popularity of the detective mystery genre in the 1900s, where the term was first used in a 1930 novel review. Genre authors like Agatha Christie, G.K. Chesterton, and Nicholas Blake (among many others) helped establish the conventional traits of a whodunnit, such as the clever placement of red herrings and the use of specific settings (like an island or mansion) to heighten the stakes.

Christie's oeuvre is a special one, and her whodunnit mysteries hold value and appeal to this day; one only has to look at the string of Kenneth Branagh-helmed adaptations, including the fairly recent "A Haunting in Venice," to see that adaptations are still being made. An astute fictional detective like Hercule Poirot makes for an intriguing addition to a case that's tough to crack, as he...

Before Iron Man, before the Hulk, before Spider-Man, there was the Fantastic Four. The quartet of astronauts transformed into superheroes were Stan Lee and Jack Kirby’s first creation for Marvel Comics, launching the sprawling storytelling universe of interconnected characters that has endured for 64 years. Until Disney acquired 20th Century Fox in 2019, however, Reed Richards (a.k.a. Mr. Fantastic), Sue Storm (a.k.a. the Invisible Woman), Johnny Storm (a.k.a. the Human Torch) and Ben Grimm (a.k.a. the Thing), as were unable to join the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

That will finally change in July with the premiere of Marvel Studios’ “The Fantastic Four: First Steps,” starring Pedro Pascal as Reed, Vanessa Kirby as Sue, Joseph Quinn as Johnny and Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Ben. To marshal Marvel’s First Family into the MCU, studio chief Kevin Feige tapped veteran director Matt Shakman, who helmed every episode...

When my friend Brian Newman asked me to join him on a panel at Web Summit Vancouver on Hollywood in 2030, my first thought was: Oh, they want us to project into the future.

Then I did the math. 2030 is basically tomorrow.

So last Friday, we dug into AI’s creative disruption, why brands could become the new studios, the need to build audience from the ground up, and the growing expectation that filmmakers understand the full lifecycle of their work.

You can watch the full panel here.

On stage, I had a flicker of doubt: These talking points feel so familiar. Have they become tropes?

But the next night, back in L.A., I caught up with an indie producer who’d just secured the first bit of funding for a new feature.

“The director is thinking more the classical path,” they said. “Festival premiere, maybe Netflix.”

That’s when...

Hollywood is evidently resigned to the sad reality that comedies are no longer viable as theatrical releases. There seemed to be hope for the genre when the 2023 Glen Powell-Sydney Sweeney rom-com "Anyone But You" grossed a healthy $219 million at the worldwide box office against a $25 million budget.Unfortunately, the year that followed was a wash, with the Best Picture-winner "Anora" leading the way for the genre with a $59.8 million global take (which is terrific for a $6 million movie but not the kind of performance that had the industry cheering for a return of the big screen comedy).

I think it's silly to write off comedies altogether, though, and would cite the $51.9 million gross of this year's hilarious Keke Palmer-Sza buddy flick "One of Them Days" as evidence that people will show up, provided the film is properly marketed, but it's hard to test this hypothesis when...

The "Star Trek: The Original Series" episode "Obsession" may be one of the most underrated episodes of the show. It's actually one of the stronger Captain Kirk episodes, allowing the character to confront some of his acknowledged personal weaknesses, and, in overcoming them, grow as a character.

Kirk (William Shatner) had flaws, of course, but he was often depicted on "Star Trek" as being in complete control of his faculties (most of the time), using his leadership instincts and willingness to take calculated risks to avail himself of any crisis. He could have a temper, but usually caught himself before doing anything rash. In pop culture, Kirk has a reputation for being something of a reckless cowboy who broke the Prime Directive on the regular (and he often did play a little fast-and-loose with Starfleet regulations), but revisiting old "Star Trek" episodes reveals that he was actually pretty stern and judicious.

It’s no mystery that Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson have become frequent collaborators after starring in and executive producing “True Detective” together. Now, original series creator Nic Pizzolatto is teasing that the acting duo might return to the hit HBO series more than 10 years since first starring together in it.

Pizzolatto, who served as an executive producer on “True Detective” Season 4 but has not written for the show since his HBO deal expired after Season 3, said during the “Nothing Left Unsaid” podcast that he is toying with another “story” involving McConaughey and Harrelson’s respective characters, Rust Cohle and Martin Hart. Pizzolatto, McConaughey, and Harrelson recently reunited for a January 2025 ad for True to Texas, with McConaughey and Harrelson back as their “True Detective” characters.

“I actually have another story for [characters] Cohle and Hart that, who knows, maybe we’ll do it one day,” Pizzolatto said, adding that they...

Harvey Weinstein doesn’t plan to testify at his sex crimes retrial in New York City.

Weinstein’s lawyer Arthur Aidala shared the news on Sunday, the Associated Press reported. The trial is set to proceed with closing arguments on Tuesday, as the court does not hear the case on Mondays.

Weinstein is charged with two counts of committing a criminal sexual act in the first degree and one count of third-degree rape. The charges stem from accusations by former model Kaja Sokola, former TV production assistant Miriam Haley — the first accuser to testify in Weinstein’s retrial — and former aspiring actor Jessica Mann. He has pleaded not guilty to all counts.

Weinstein’s defense began calling witnesses last week, and according to AP, the former movie mogul had been weighing whether to take the stand.

“He wanted to testify, and we respect that instinct. But at this stage, doing...

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It may sound like banging on a well-beaten drum at this point, but that doesn't make it any less true: Director Ryan Coogler's "Sinners" is one of the biggest box office hits of the year. It's also the first original movie of any kind to make more than $200 million domestically in nearly a decade and has been met with near-universal praise, meaning it's likely to enjoy eternal life well beyond the box office, securing its place in the annals of cinema history. Really, it's hard to find a downside to the whole thing. That said, Warner Bros. did drop the ball in one big, glaring way.

On its seventh weekend of release, "Sinners" crossed the $350 million mark globally, adding another $5.2 million to its ever-growing domestic box office total as it continues to firmly hang around in the top 10. As of this writing,...

Sean “Diddy” Combs auditioned to play James Brown in the 2014 Universal biopic “Get on Up,” it was revealed in the hip-hop mogul’s sex trafficking trial. The part ultimately went to Chadwick Boseman.

Combs’ interest in the role was revealed during the cross-examination of “Mia,” one of his former assistants who has accused him of rape and sexual assault. She is testifying under a pseudonym. Various text messages between Mia and Combs were shown to the court as evidence. In one August 2020 message, Mia wrote, “Thinking of you with Chadwick Boseman,” in reference to the actor’s death. She then said that Combs was “auditioning for the role” of James Brown.

In her message, Mia said she had Combs’ audition tape and would send it to him. It sounded like a high-budget bid for the role, as Mia described the audition tape as a “production” that they put on for a week.