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Imax shares nosed higher in after-market trading, up over 3% on solid numbers, new installations, and a roaring good outlook by CEO Rich Gelfond. Content revenues of $30 million fell 32% year-over-year, up against Christopher Nolan’s phenomenon Oppenheimer — the company’s fifth highest grossing title of all time — in the year prior. Despite the decline, the […]

EXCLUSIVE: After seeing his first narrative feature The Inspection garner rave reviews in 2022, director Elegance Bratton is getting back behind the camera for By Any Means, a true-life crime thriller starring Oscar nominees Mark Wahlberg (The Fighter) and Sterling K. Brown (American Fiction) for Hammerstone Studios, Thunder Road, Freedom Principle, and North.Five.Six. Based on […]

SPOILER ALERT: This post contains details from Your Monster. Your Monster takes audiences on a fun, romantic and spooky ride just in time for Halloween, but some viewers might want clarification on the ending. Writer and director Caroline Lindy, who makes her feature debut with the film that is now playing in theaters, told Deadline […]

When I set out to see R.J. Cutler’s new documentary, Martha, quite frankly I wasn’t focusing on it other than just another screening I had, and that it would be all about Martha Stewart. So I expected it would be mostly gardening, cooking and setting the perfect dinner-party table. Boy was I ever wrong, happily […]

After making her directorial debut Woman of the Hour, Anna Kendrick is donating her earnings to survivors of sexual abuse. While opening up about the Netflix true-crime thriller, the Oscar nominee explained why she felt “gross” being paid for a film about ‘The Dating Game Killer’ Rodney Alcala‘s victims and survivors. “Believe me, this was […]

EXCLUSIVE: Makeready, the production company led by producer Brad Weston and Netflix alum Collin Creighton, has extended by three years its overall deal with Fifth Season. Joining the party is Topic Studios; the Makeready deal is the first in a new multiyear joint venture between Topic and Fifth Season in which they’ll back production companies […]

Robert Downey Jr. is firmly anti the usage of generative artificial intelligence to recreate his likeness, issuing a warning to potential future executives who may want to bring Tony Stark back from the dead. The Oscar-winning Oppenheimer actor recently appeared opposite Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Ayad Akhtar and Tony-winning director Bartlett Sher on the podcast On […]

Nothing can pull Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo down. The stars of Jon M. Chu’s sweeping musical Wicked Part 1 showcased their signature powerhouse vocals in a new behind-the-scenes clip shared on social media of the climactic song “Defying Gravity.” While just 11 seconds long, the snippet of the duo’s pitch-perfect voices are sure to […]

Instead of entering the world of videogame Tron, characters from the videogame will visit planet Earth in the next installment of the film franchise, Tron: Ares. The latest updates on the film arrived at Disney’s D23 convention in 2024, and there’s still about a year to go before viewers can expect to see it in […]

Anna Kendrick recalls an experience with a director that “felt like a specific power move” to embarrass her. The Woman of the Hour star and director recently remembered a moment with a filmmaker she deemed “icky.” “I remember a director once in a room full of 100 extras or something being like, ‘Hey, on this […]

Is Juror #2 Clint Eastwood”’s swan song? “Who knows? He’s been saying that for a long time” exclaimed Eastwood’s longtime producer Tim Moore last night at the world premiere of the Warner Bros movie. Juror #2 was played the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood as AFI Fest’s closing night film. Moore continued, “At 94 years […]

Joaquin Phoenix had his turn at playing the Joker in the Todd Phillips Joker films, but the actor could have played the DC Comics villain in The Dark Knight. In a new interview, Phoenix revealed he had talked to director Christopher Nolan about giving life to Gotham’s Clown Prince of Crime. “I remember I talked […]

Paul Morrissey, the avant-garde filmmaker who worked on Andy Warhol movies including Chelsea Girls, Flesh, Trash and others who also managed The Velvet Underground in the mid-1960s, died Monday. He was 86. His archivist Michael Chaiken told The New York Times that Morrissey died of pneumonia in a Manhattan hospital. Morrissey collaborated with Warhol on […]

China’s submission for the Oscars Best International Feature Film race this year, the World War II documentary The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru, has been ruled ineligible by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. We’re hearing that the film, the first documentary ever submitted by China for International Feature, did not meet the Academy’s […]

Johnny Depp and Penélope Cruz are set to reunite on the big screen in Lionsgate’s Day Drinker from director Marc Webb (The Amazing Spider-Man), the studio announced this afternoon. The project will be the pair’s fourth together, on the heels of Blow, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, and Murder on the Orient Express. […]

EXCLUSIVE: Zurawski v Texas, the new documentary executive produced by Jennifer Lawrence, Hillary Clinton and Chelsea Clinton, earned two awards as the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival wrapped its 33rd edition. The film, centering on women who filed suit against the state of Texas after its extremely restrictive abortion laws almost cost them their lives, […]

Wicked director Jon M. Chu will receive the ACE Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year Award at the 75th annual ACE Eddie Awards, which recognize the year’s best editing achievements in film and TV. The American Society of Editors made the announcement Monday, along with revealing that longtime Robert Altman and Tyler Perry collaborator Maysie […]

Nicholas Hoult is teasing his Superman role as Lex Luthor in the upcoming DC Studios film. During the AFI Fest, Hoult talked to Deadline about working on the superhero movie where he will play the villain. “I’m a fan of Superman and Lex Luthor as a character, so hopefully we’ve done something special with it […]

The Penguin star Colin Farrell completed the Irish Life Dublin Marathon earlier today in support of charity Debra Ireland, crossing the finish line in just over four hours with longtime friend Emma Fogarty, who has a rare genetic condition called epidermolysis bullosa that affects the skin. Joining ranks with over 22,000 runners, the Oscar nominee […]

EXCLUSIVE: The trailer for Mike Wiluan’s historical monster film, Orang Ikan, has been unveiled, ahead of its world premiere in the Tokyo International Film Festival’s Gala section. Set in 1942 in the Pacific, the film follows a Japanese soldier named Saito and a British prisoner-of-war named Bronson, who are stranded on a deserted island, hunted […]

It has been 19 long years between the first Wallace & Gromit feature in 2005 and now the second in 2024, but it is an understatement to say it was well worth the wait. Nick Park’s and Aardman’s delightful buddy movie, Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl is an animated film noir merged with the […]

David Harris, the actor known for playing Cochise in the Walter Hill-helmed 1979 cult classic The Warriors, has died. He was 75. The actor died Friday at his New York City home after he was diagnosed with cancer, his daughter Davina Harris disclosed to The New York Times. David is also survived by his mother, […]

Timothée Chalamet was in good company during a visit with fans this weekend, where he was more than likely asked to call them by his name. On Sunday, the Oscar nominee made a surprise appearance at New York City’s Madison Square Park, where hundreds of fans gathered to compete in a Timothée Chalamet lookalike contest. […]

Four top films this weekend are indies – five including The Substance at no. 11, as the specialty market roars back to life. No. 3 at the domestic box office is a great story, Conclave from Focus Features, the studio behind the Downtown Abbey films. excels at drawing still elusive but key older demos to […]