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Witches, Vampires and Aliens: How Genre Films Like ‘Sinners’ and ‘Weapons’ Factor Into the Oscar Race
Hailee Steinfeld and her “Sinners” co-star Michael B. Jordan shared the kind of on-set conversations you can only have while making a…
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In Two Films About Palestinian Struggle, Time Is of the Essence
Dabis’s diagrammatically structured screenplay is built on clear historical parallels and tidy intergenerational contrasts. A young boy…
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Elijah Wood Says ‘I’m Not Allowed to Confirm’ Frodo’s Return in ‘The Hunt for Gollum’ and ‘Their Intention Is to Make Other Films’ in ‘Lord of the Rings’ Universe
Is Elijah Wood returning as Frodo in the new “Lord of the Rings” movie “The Hunt for Gollum”? Don’t ask Elijah Wood, even though his…
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‘Flow,’ ‘Emilia Perez’ Push Global Box Office for French Films to $318 Million for 2025
Co-production muscle and Oscar glory burnished French cinema’s global cachet in 2025, as both majority and minority French productions…
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‘The Gymnast,’ Starring Ethan Embry and Britney Wheeler, Acquired by Visit Films Ahead of Rotterdam World Premiere (EXCLUSIVE)
Visit Films has acquired worldwide sales rights to U.S film “The Gymnast,” which will have its world premiere in the Tiger Competition at…
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Sydney Sweeney: I want to make films on domestic violence that 'save lives'
Annabel RackhamCulture reporter Sydney Sweeney wants to make films that will "impact and hopefully save people's lives", she has told the…
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“Father Mother Sister Brother” Explores the Mysteries of Family Life
This is what happens when “The Dead Don’t Die” dies. That scintillating Jim Jarmusch movie, from 2019, a mashup of comedy, science…
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The Organists Improvising Soundtracks to Silent Films
A hundred and three years on, F. W. Murnau’s “Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror” still haunts the moviegoing unconscious. Newcomers feel…
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K-Horror ‘Perfect Girl,’ Featuring ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Stars, Boarded by Benetone Films, Fearfolks (EXCLUSIVE)
Bangkok-based Benetone Films and Fearfolks are ramping up their 2026 slate with K-horror title “Perfect Girl,” serving as executive…
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Kate Hudson and Jeremy Allen White Go Deep on Springsteen, Making Films ‘About Music Saving People’ and Why Rom-Coms Are a ‘Game-Changer’
There are no betteractors for making beautiful music together than Kate Hudson and Jeremy Allen White. Hudson stormed Hollywood at 20 as…
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“Wake Up Dead Man”: A Murder Mystery with God in the Details
They’re a pretty wretched lot. There’s a local doctor, Nat Sharp (Jeremy Renner), who has slipped into alcoholic despair since his wife…
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What the Warner Bros. Sale Means for the Art of Movies
The business outlook remained bleak, of course. Throughout the nineteen-sixties, amid vast social and generational changes, the studios,…
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‘Jay Kelly’ Composer Nicholas Britell on Using a Felt Piano and Analog Tape to Record the Film’s Score
Noah Baumbach knew he wanted the score to “Jay Kelly” to be a character in his latest movie. He wanted a fullness of emotion, and for it…
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Paramount Vows to Release More Than 30 Films Theatrically as It Launches Hostile Takeover Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery
Paramount promised to release more than 30 films theatrically as the company launched its hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery.…
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Two New Movies Revivify the Portrait-Film Genre
Documentaries about individuals are ubiquitous, but “Suburban Fury” and “Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk” explore the…
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The Best Films of 2025
This year’s best movies feel plugged in, inextricably connected to forces bigger than the ordinary faces of local and private…
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Building a State of Fear in “Extremist”
On November 16, 2023, Sasha Skochilenko, a thirty-three-year-old artist, poet, and musician, stood in court to give what is known in the…
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Hainan Jury Touts Festival as a Launchpad for Next Year’s Breakthrough Films
At the 7th Hainan Island International Film Festival in China, jury president Marco Müller urged audiences and industry to rethink the…
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“Train Dreams” Is Too Tidy to Go Off the Rails
In Clint Bentley’s adaptation of a Denis Johnson novella, Joel Edgerton plays a builder of bridges who finds himself increasingly cut off…
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Inside Indonesia’s Next Wave: The 2026 Films Poised to Break Out Regionally and Beyond
Indonesia’s film pipeline is surging into 2026 with a slate that spans prestige literary adaptations, bold auteur dramas, family…
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Korean Indie ‘The World of Love’ Lands French Distribution Deal With The Jokers Films (EXCLUSIVE)
The Jokers Films has acquired French distribution rights to Barunson E&A’s “The World of Love,” the top-grossing independent Korean film…
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Vincent Lindon Bets on Socially Conscious Films That ‘Prevent Him From Behaving Badly’: ‘I’m Weak. They Force Me to Be Stronger’
French actor Vincent Lindon often plays well-meaning characters. But he can’t take credit for their selfless choices, he stressed. “When I…
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Kamila Andini’s ‘Four Seasons in Java’ Lands International Production Alliance for Forka Films
Indonesian production company Forka Films has unveiled a production consortium for auteur Kamila Andini’s upcoming feature “Four Seasons…
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Oscars 2026: How to watch this year's awards-tipped films from Hamnet to Marty Supreme.
Steven McIntoshEntertainment reporter Hollywood stars are preparing to attend one ceremony after another, as the film awards season gets…