Graham Greene, the Oscar-nominated actor from Dances With Wolves, died Monday in Stratford, Ontario, after a lengthy illness, his rep told The Hollywood Reporter. He was 73.

“He was a great man of morals, ethics and character and will be eternally missed,” Greene’s agent Michael Greene said in a statement to THR. “You are finally free. Susan Smith is meeting you at the gates of heaven,” referring to the actor’s longtime agent, who died in 2013.

Born on June 22, 1952, in Ohsweken on the Six Nations Reserve and a graduate of the Centre for Indigenous Theatre Program in 1974, the Canadian actor made his small-screen debut on the 1979 Canadian drama series The Great Detective and film debut in Running Brave (1983).

However, it was his role as Kicking Bird in the 1990 film Dances With Wolves that earned him a best supporting actor Oscar nomination. Out of its 12 nominations, Dances With Wolves won seven Academy Awards,...

Hollywood didn’t have a lot to celebrate during a muted Labor Day holiday weekend, as “Weapons,” now in its fourth weekend of release, took the top spot, and “Jaws,” a 50-year-old blockbuster, beat out two new films, “Caught Stealing” and “The Roses,” that failed to generate much heat.

“Weapons,” which lost its No. 1 position last weekend to Netflix’s “Kpop Demon Hunters,” reclaimed its crown, earning an estimated $12.8 million over the four-day holiday. So far, the horror hit has earned $135 million domestically and $235.2 million globally. That’s an impressive result considering it only cost $38 million to produce. It extends a winning streak for Warner Bros., which has recently fielded successes like “A Minecraft Movie,” “Sinners,” “Final Destination Bloodlines,” “F1: The Movie” (which the studio distributed for Apple) and “Superman.” It’s a remarkable comeback for the studio’s chiefs Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy, who were on the...

Netflix’s “KPop Demon Hunters” has exploded into a global cultural phenomenon and shows no sign of slowing down.

To borrow from the title of the chart-topping song, the film is “Golden,’ and smashing records in its path. It’s the biggest movie ever to stream on Netflix. Four songs from the film’s soundtrack sit on Billboard’s top 10, and the film landed the top spot at the domestic box office – a first for the streamer.

The film follows Huntr/X, a KPop girl group whose members double as demon hunters. Arden Cho, May Hong and Ji-young Yoo provide the speaking voices for Rumi, Mira and Zoey, respectively. Ejae, Rei Ami and Audrey Nuna provide the respective singing voices.

Escaping the fictional bands Huntr/x and Saja Boys is nearly impossible. While Ejae, a K-pop singer, is used to hearing her voice on demo tracks, hearing the songs played...

Zoey Deutch was 19 when Richard Linklater, idly sketching ideas on a lunch container, told her she would be Jean Seberg.

It was a moment between shots on Linklater’s 2016 “Everybody Wants Some!!,” when Deutch first caught Hollywood’s attention as part of the film’s stacked ensemble cast. “And in passing, casually, [he said], ‘I have a movie about ‘Breathless,’ I think I want you to play Jean,'” she told IndieWire at the Telluride Film Festival.

It was nearly a decade before Deutch would adopt Seberg’s game pixie cut to star in “Nouvelle Vague,” Linklater’s black-and-white homage to the French New Wave that recreates the 1959 filming of “Breathless” on the streets of Paris. The film, which premiered at Cannes and is now heading out on a busy fall festival tour, was written by Holly Gent and Vince Palmo, Jr. (“Me and Orson Welles”) with French screenwriter Laetitia Masson.

It...

Jordan Peele’s fourth film as a director appears to be taking longer than expected.

Universal Pictures has unset the Oscar winner’s next project from its release calendar, which was last dated for October 2026. Peele is currently at work on the film, which has yet to roll cameras, an individual familiar with the project told Variety.

Originally, the follow-up to his 2022 hit movie “Nope” was scheduled to open over Christmas 2024; following the guild strikes, the film was then pushed to next Halloween. Universal had no comment. Reps for Peele did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

As per usual with Peele’s directorial efforts, nothing is known about the movie’s plot, though its been categorized as a horror thriller. But speaking on the “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend” podcast in 2024, Peele said, “I do feel like my next project is clear to me, and I’m...

Flat is not the new up when it comes to the summer box office.

This year’s tally for the crucial May to September moviegoing frame came in at $3.67 million, as Brent Lang, Variety executive editor and longtime chronicler of the B.O., details on the latest episode of “Daily Variety” podcast. That’s about on par with summer 2024, and that’s not a good thing because this year’s slate of summer films was much more robust.

“It’s pretty disappointing because going into the summer, there was an expectation that the slate was very strong, that there were a lot of returning franchises. You had two Marvel movies, you had ‘Superman,’ you had a ‘Jurassic World’ film, and there was a lot of hope that [summer B.O.] would actually be able to hit or even eclipse $4 billion,” Lang explains. “The last time we did that was 2023, where you had Barbenheimer.

Canadian actor Graham Greene, who died Monday, is being remembered by a wide range of his acting and filmmaking colleagues. Kevin Costner, who directed him to a supporting actor Oscar nomination and co-starred with him in “Dances With Wolves,” paid tribute on Instagram Tuesday.

“A few things come to mind when I think of Graham Greene and our time together on ‘Dances With Wolves,'” he wrote.

“I think of how willing he was to learn the Lakota language. I think of my joy when I heard that his work on the film was recognized with an @theacademy Awards nomination. And I think of this scene in particular, when he was able to establish so much about the relationship between Dunbar and the natives with so few words. He was a master at work and a wonderful human being.”

Costner is describing the scene where his character sees a herd...

Colman Domingo got misty-eyed as Gus Van Sant’s new film, the thriller “Dead Man’s Wire,” electrified Venice with an 11-minute ovation on Tuesday. Domingo, who features in the ‘70s-set film as a smooth radio DJ who becomes a key component in a hostage negotiation, also energized the crowd with chants of “Gus! Gus! Gus!” as Van Sant looked on with pride.

“Dead Man’s Wire” is led by Bill Skarsgård in a powerhouse turn as an aspiring small-town entrepreneur-turned-outlaw folk hero. As was revealed during the film’s press conference earlier on Tuesday, Skarsgård was unable to make it to the premiere because he is in production on a new film.

Directed by Van Sant and written by Austin Kolodney, the film depicts the real-life 1977 hostage situation carried out by Tony Kiritsis (Skarsgård), who kidnapped his bank mortgager (Dacre Montgomery) and then demanded $5 million, no charges or prosecution and a personal apology for wronging him.

Another era of pre-taped "Saturday Night Live" sketches is coming to a close with news that Please Don't Destroy, the heir apparent to The Lonely Island, is ... destroyed.

Okay, "destroyed" is dramatic, but I had to — and to be blunt, two of the comedians are still involved with "SNL." Amidst news of exits — like those of Emil Wakim and Michael Longfellow — and new cast additions like chaotic "Dropout" standout Jeremy Culhane, we learned that Ben Marshall, one of the three members of "Please Don't Destroy," is becoming a featured player as a part of the "SNL" cast for season 51. According to a report in Vulture, which also learned the group...

Reese Witherspoon is welcoming the AI revolution in Hollywood and calling on the industry to make sure women are involved in the change. Speaking to Glamour magazine to promote the upcoming fourth season of her Apple TV+ series “The Morning Show,” the Oscar winner said she has made it a priority in her career as a producer to always be “looking forward to how media is evolving and how I can help be part of bringing women along in those emerging industries. And now we’re doing it with AI.”

“It’s so, so important that women are involved in AI because it will be the future of filmmaking,” Witherspoon said. “And you can be sad and lament it all you want, but the change is here. It will never be a lack of creativity and ingenuity and actual physical manual building of things. It might diminish, but it’s...

It’s not every day the public gets to see memorabilia from Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Godfather.”

Los Angeles historian Alison Martino has a rare original script from the film that belonged to her father, Al Martino, better known to the world as singer Johnny Fontane in the classic film.

Martino was joined by “Waltzing With Brando” cinematographer Garret O’Brien at the Variety 120 Screening Series presented by Barco, a summer-long program hosted by Jazz Tangcay that celebrates Variety‘s 120th anniversary by showing iconic films such as “All About Eve” and “It’s a Wonderful Life.”

Martino explained how “The Godfather” was the first film she ever saw: “I wanted to see it again and again.” She also shared how she was able to ask her father about the making of the film and being involved in the production. “They had no idea it would be anything like this,” she said.

Bad news for fans of Amazon Prime Video's "Motorheads" as the streamer has decided not to move forward with a second season of the show. The YA series premiered on Prime Video back in May and has remained in the streamer's top 10 most-watched shows ever since. Even so, the brass decided it wasn't worth the squeeze, so the series is joining the likes of "Paper Girls" as Amazon shows that were canceled after one season. But why, exactly, was it canceled? And is there any hope for the future?

"Motorheads" is set in a once-thriving rust-belt town that's now searching for a glimmer of hope, with the larger story focusing...

"Saturday Night Live" is really shaking things up for season 51. Following the star-studded 50th anniversary season that just wrapped up in spring 2025, several cast members will not be returning to the show, ranging from the more recent addition Michael Longfellow to longtime performer Heidi Gardner. However, that's not stopping showrunner Lorne Michaels from bringing in some new talent to the late night sketch show.

NBC just announced the newest members of the "SNL" cast for the upcoming 51st season. Five new comedians are being added to the roster, including one who "SNL" fans will already be quite familiar with.

Ben Marshall has joined the cast of "SNL" as a featured player,...

Ciao! The 82nd annual Venice Film Festival is underway and the stars have hit the canals, with this year’s world premieres including Yorgos Lanthimos kidnap thriller “Bugonia,” Noah Baumbach’s showbiz dramedy “Jay Kelly,” Guillermo del Toro’s lavish adaptation “Frankenstein,” Luca Guadagnino’s college campus thriller “After the Hunt” and Benny Safdie’s UFC biopic “The Smashing Machine.”

New films from Mona Fastvold, Kathryn Bigelow, Paolo Sorrentino, Jim Jarmusch, Park Chan-wook, Gus Van Sant, Lucrezia Martel, László Nemes and Kaouther Ben Hania are also in the lineup. This year’s jury is headed by Alexander Payne, the director of films like “The Holdovers,” “Election” and “Sideways.”

Venice often serves as the launch of awards season, coming ahead of an onslaught of other fall festivals including Telluride, Toronto and New York that distributors use to lay the foundation for campaigning in the coming months.

See all of Variety’s...

It was “Dog Day Afternoon” in miniature, though with more loony-tunes firepower. On Feb. 8, 1977, Tony Kiritsis, a disgruntled resident of Indianapolis, walked into the offices of the Meridian Mortgage Company and took one of its executives, Dick Hall, hostage. He wired the sawed-off muzzle of a 12-gauge Winchester shotgun to the back of Hall’s head. One end of the wire was connected to the trigger; the other end was wrapped around Hall’s neck. This meant that if a police officer tried to shoot Kiritsis, or if Hall tried to escape, the gun would go off and kill him.

With that gun poised, at any moment, to blow Hall to smithereens, Kiritsis then walked him out of the building and into a car (trailed by random onlookers and a news camera), and they drove to Kiritsis’s home in the Crestwood Apartments complex, where they holed up for 63 hours.

There has to be a truly exceptional reason to get anyone, including anyone on the IndieWire staff, to walk into the Times Square Planet Hollywood at 10 a.m. on a Tuesday. In fairness, Planet Hollywoods do tend to have fun movie memorabilia or replica props as part of their decor; the restaurant’s themed focus on filmmaking from the ‘90s onwards has, in its own way, raised an awareness of production design and costumes as items of value and not just souvenirs for cast and crew.

But on this particular Tuesday at 10 a.m., the third floor of New York’s Planet Hollywood had millions of dollars worth of film rarities displayed under museum-grade glass, with glossy catalogues authenticating the provenance of an original stormtrooper helmet, a belt and bullwhip used in “The Last Crusade,” Picard’s Ressikan Flute from “Star Trek: The Next Generation” episode “The Inner Light,” and...

The 1990s were notorious for Hollywood studios releasing movies about the same thing around the same time: "Tombstone" and "Wyatt Earp," "Volcano" and "Dante's Peak," and "Armageddon" and "Deep Impact" are among the most high-profile examples. Before all that, the decade kicked off with one of the strangest double-ups based on the memoirs of Henry Hill, the real-life New York gangster who ended up in the Witness Protection Program after testifying against his old Mafia buddies. One movie was Martin Scorsese's "Goodfellas," and the other was a sequel of sorts, though it hit theaters first: Herbert Ross' fish-out-of-water comedy "My Blue Heaven."

Remarkably, both films stemmed from the same source.

Entertainment and media companies are increasingly exploring generative AI, and the animation industry is grappling with divisive questions of how to integrate AI-powered tools into the creative process and production workflow.

That’s among the key conclusions in a new report, “Animation and AI,” from entertainment data provider Luminate. Animation is a proven genre for studios and streamers to invest in as a means to attract and retain both adult and kid viewers on their platforms. To wit, Netflix’s “KPop Demon Hunters” recently became the most-streamed original movie in Netflix history.

Per Luminate’s U.S. Entertainment 365 survey, anime film fans are the most likely to be frequent moviegoers, as the survey showed that 29% of audiences have seen three or more anime movies in theaters in the last three months.

Courtesy of Luminate

When compared to other film genres, anime topped all other movie categories. Fans of animation genres...

Venice film festival

Al Pacino, Colman Domingo and Myha’la excel in this gripping take on the events of 1977 when an Indianapolis businessman held his mortgage broker hostage

With terrific chutzpah, black-comic flair and cool, cruel unsentimentality, screenwriter Austin Kolodney and director Gus Van Sant have made a true-crime suspense thriller set in the 1970s, tapping into the spirit of both Sidney Lumet’s Dog Day Afternoon and Network. Apart from anything else, it is a reminder that in that post-Kennedy, post-Watergate age, plenty of lawless and febrile things happened that would now be considered phenomena purely attributable to social media.

In 1977, an Indianapolis businessman named Tony Kiritsis, with many acquaintances in the police department,...

“Dead Man’s Wire” was already in production when Luigi Mangione fatally shot UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in December 2024. But you’d be forgiven for interpreting it as a reaction to those events. The film — director Gus Van Sant’s first since “Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot” in 2018 — takes place in the 1970s, another decade when dissent fueled by economic stagnation exploded into politically charged violence. But its sympathy for its aggrieved antihero feels very current.

“Exploded” can be taken literally here, as Tony Kiritsis (Bill Skarsgård) rigged his Indianapolis apartment with homemade munitions when he took his mortgage broker, Richard Hall (Dacre Montgomery), hostage there for 63 frozen hours in February 1977. This was in addition to the device that gives Van Sant’s movie its name, a wire that was attached to the trigger of a shotgun on one end, and looped around Hall’s head on the other.

Marc Jacobs wears terrific pajamas, as you might expect: comfortably loose but crisply shaped, in a sort of metallic jacquard more typically seen on expensive upholstery, with creases that suggest they’re either box-fresh or newly ironed, but not heavily slept in. We see quite a lot of them on camera in “Marc by Sofia,” Sofia Coppola’s laidback documentary portrait of the New York fashion designer, and whether or not they’re typical of his daytime attire, they seem a telling tonal marker for the project as a whole: Relaxed comfort is the order of the day, as befits a doc that mostly amounts to filmed conversation between two longtime friends. “Marc by Sofia” isn’t particularly penetrating or eye-opening on Jacobs as an artist, businessman or human being, but it is a pleasant and casually glamorous hang.

Premiering out of competition at Venice, this A24-backed title arguably...

Canal+ group has entered into exclusive negotiations to buy 34-percent stake in Ugc, the Paris-headquartered film studio that was founded in 1971 and operates one of France’s leading cinema chains.

Following the acquisition of the minority stake, Canal+ would have the option to take full control of Ugc starting in 2028.

Ugc, which also comprises a vast library and a talent pool, boasts a cinema chain of 55 multiplexes, including 48 in France and 7 venues in Belgium. In France only, Ugc is believed to have 521 screens. One of their theaters in Paris, called Ugc Ciné Cité Les Halles, is considered the most visited cinema in the world, according to Canal+.

Ugc’s library of films include mostly mainstream comedies, such as “Serial Bad Weddings” (pictured), as well as movies such as Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s “Amelie,” and “Hpi,” the hit series that’s been remade into “High Potential” by ABC.

Canal+ Group, which has...

Kathryn Bigelow‘s gripping political thriller “A House of Dynamite,” which stars Idris Elba as the President of the United States, triggered an 11-minute ovation at the Venice Film Festival, where it premiered in competition on Tuesday night.

As the end credits rolled, Elba helped Bigelow to her feet and they politely applauded along with the audience. Meanwhile, Elba’s co-star Rebecca Ferguson blew kisses around the room in the Sala Grande Theater.

In the orchestra, a small-but-mighty group of fans were shouting, “Rebecca, we love you! Only you!” Bigelow, too, had her share of admirers in the audience. As the ovation approached the 10-minute mark, the crowd started chanting “Bigelow! Bigelow!” The “House of Dynamite” cast and crew basked in the reception — until they didn’t. By the time the cheering and hollering began to settle down, Bigelow, Elba, Ferguson and company were already heading up the stairs for the exit.

"Peacemaker" season 2, episode 2 seems like James Gunn's apology for his many sins against birds in 2021's "The Suicide Squad." It features a big Eagly fight that's simultaneously silly and genius, allowing the DC Universe's favorite avian to wreck a group of human antagonists and even do a cool superhero walk afterwards. However, amidst memorable set piece moments like this, the episode -- aptly titled "A Man Is Only as Good as His Bird" -- hides some of Gunn's customary Easter eggs and character teases.

Season 2, episode 1, titled "The Ties That Grind," saw Gunn introduce the major Superman villain Ultra-Humanite to the Dcu. "A Man Is Only as...

GKids has acquired all North American rights to Kokuho, Sang-Il Lee’s Japanese Oscar submission that stormed the local box office over the summer and gets its North American premiere at TIFF.

Ryo Yoshizawa, Ryusei Yokohama, and Ken Watanabe star in the story set in Nagasaki in 1964 as a 14-year-old boy is taken under the wing of a renowned Kabuki actor after his Yakuza gangster father dies.

The youngster trains and grows alongside the actor’s son for decades, performing on the biggest stages and weathering brotherhood, scandals and betrayal, until only one will become the greatest Kabuki master.

Kokuho...

He's arguably Stephen King's greatest character and has appeared in eight novels, but The Gunslinger, Roland Deschain, is a hero that the renowned author revealed in his own book to be inspired by one of the most beloved movie stars in history.

Making his debut in 1982, Roland appeared in the first book of "The Dark Tower" series, "The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger." Kicking off what would become a massive battle between good and evil, the story marked the first encounter between Roland and his longtime foe and favorite in the Kingverse, Randall Flagg. Known for wearing a long black duster and guns that always find their target, Roland became...

After having gone nearly a decade without releasing a feature, the consensus on the ground at Venice: director Kathryn Bigelow’s latest film “A House of Dynamite” was well worth the wait.

After her last film, “Detroit,” failed to receive the same awards attention her previous two Oscar-winning films, “The Hurt Locker” and “Zero Dark Thirty,” enjoyed the Best Director winner needed a break to find her next subject. At the “A House of Dynamite” festival press conference on Tuesday, she said, “I have to be passionate about a subject matter. For me, I don’t know if I’m really a director or not, but I’m absolutely committed to a subject and a story. And then I feel like I can do anything, but I have to really believe in whatever the material is.”

“A House of Dynamite,” a Netflix release, takes the audience through various perspectives on...

Pack your suitcases, we’re going on a summer trip. The first look at the film adaptation of Emily Henry’s “People We Meet on Vacation” has been unveiled. The film will premiere on Netflix on Jan. 6.

“People We Meet on Vacation” follows Poppy (Emily Bader) and Alex (Tom Blyth), who have been unlikely best friends for a decade. While the two live in different cities, they spend every summer vacation together. The balance of their friendship is put to the test when they begin to question what has been obvious to everyone else, and if their tight-knit friendship could be something more.

Additional cast members for “People We Meet on Vacation” include Sarah Catherine Hook (“The White Lotus”), Jameela Jamil (“The Good Place”), Lucien Laviscount (“Emily in Paris”), Lukas Gage (“You”), Miles Heizer (“13 Reasons Why”), Tommy Do (“Hacks”), Alice Lee (“The Union”), Alan Ruck (“Succession”) and Molly Shannon...

Global media powerhouse Canal+ said on Tuesday (September 2) it has entered exclusive negotiations to acquire a 34% stake in French cinema group Ugc.

The deal would further expand the Paris-based media and telecommunications group’s reach with a major move into theatrical exhibition.

If the minority acquisition is completed, Canal+ would hold the option for full control of Ugc from 2028.

Ugc is a leading French cinema and audiovisual production group with one of France’s most robust cinema chains that includes 55 cinemas (48 in France and seven in Belgium) and millions of admissions each year.

It owns several multiplexes in major cities,...

Sara Ishaq’s “The Station” won La Biennale di Venezia Prize (€5.000), given to the best film in post-production.

Jurors Fatih Abay, Nathalie Jeung and Claudio Rapino were taken by the story of Layal, who runs a women-only fuel station in a segregated war-torn Yemeni town. She’s faced with her 12-year-old brother’s growing desire to break free – when her estranged sister shows up with a proposition for the boy, the siblings’ relationship is put to the test.

The film is produced by Screen Project and Georges Films. One Two Films, KeplerFilm, BarentsFilm, The Imaginarium Films, Setara Films and Ta Films co-produce.

Ishaq, also behind docs “The Mulberry House,” “Stranded” and Oscar-nominated “Karama Has No Walls,” came across an actual women-only petrol station during the war in Yemen back in 2015.

“While waiting in long queues with my sisters, I observed a unique atmosphere around us. This vibrant, women-only microcosm became...

Channing Tatum became an unexpected scene-stealer when he appeared as Gambit in last year's "Deadpool & Wolverine." The actor made a surprise appearance as the fan-favorite Cajun mutant and didn't disappoint. He's now set to reprise the role in next year's "Avengers: Doomsday," which is filming (and being written) as we speak. But getting Tatum to agree to sign onto the movie came with a big condition: It had to be okay with his daughter.

In a deep dive interview with Variety largely focused on his new movie "Roofman," Tatum was naturally asked about playing Gambit in "Doomsday," which is being helmed by "Avengers: Infinity War" and "Avengers: Endgame" directors Joe and Anthony Russo.

Oscar-winning prosthetic makeup artist Kazu Hiro has been in the industry for over 30 years, and he’s about ready to retire.

Except he keeps meeting great creators and filmmakers like Bradley Cooper, Gary Oldman and Charlize Theron, who keep him from hanging up the prosthetics. This time, it’s Benny Safdie’s creativity that’s giving Hiro energy and motivation to continue doing what he loves.

A24’s “The Smashing Machine” stars Dwayne Johnson as real-life Mma fighter Mark Kerr. The film also stars Emily Blunt as Kerr’s wife, Dawn Staples, Bas Rutten, Lyndsey Gavin and Oleksandr Usyk. It marks Safdie’s solo directorial debut — he previously has worked alongside his brother Josh Safdie.

In “The Smashing Machine,” Johnson is completely unrecognizable.

Hiro, who is set to receive the TIFF Variety Artisan Award, laughs. He has seen the “completely unrecognizable” comment describe almost every transformation he has worked on...

It's been 44 years since "Raiders of the Lost Ark" premiered in theaters. Many of the coolest moments from the "Indiana Jones" franchise (so far) have since become staples of pop culture and have been parodied over and over again. To some, the concept of a globe-trotting archaeologist may even be pastiche at this point.

And yet, in the years that the "Indiana Jones" franchise has grown since the release of "Raiders of the Lost Ark," the timeline of the movies and associated materials have gotten a little confusing to casual fans. Not only are the feature films in the franchise not in chronological order, but there's also an entire television series,...

The animated "What If...?" spin-off series "Marvel Zombies" has been gestating since 2021. Based on an alternate-universe Marvel Comics series by the perfect guy for the superhero zombie mash-up task (Robert Kirkman of "The Walking Dead" and "Invincible" fame), the show's premise is simple: The majority of the characters in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, heroes included, has either been killed by or transformed into zombies, and the few survivors have to deal with the situation. 

The new trailer for "Marvel Zombies" (see above) reveals new details about the series, which seems to follow similar (if more intense) beats as the "What If...?" season 1 episode that introduces the viewers to this particular timeline,...

This story contains minor spoilers for “Ne Zha 2.”

In contrast to the likes of Pixar movies or English dubs of Studio Ghibli films, the A24 re-release of “Ne Zha 2” has a decided lack of A-listers turning to voice acting — with one huge exception. For the new English-language version of the Chinese film, which broke box office records when it released this past winter, A24 opted for a cast largely of professional voice actors whose work you can hear in video games like “Marvel Rivals” or anime like “Dan Da Dan,” but who the average moviegoer probably would be unfamiliar with. But that huge exception is in the form of Michelle Yeoh, who supplies a healthy dose of star power to play the role of the titular devil child’s loving mother, Lady Yin.

Yeoh came into the process already a fan of the film, having caught it in...

There are several reasons why "Solo: A Star Wars Story" crashed and burned upon arrival in 2018 -- oversaturating the market with too many franchise installments, the behind-the-scenes turmoil lending a pervasive atmosphere of bad press surrounding the project, the fact that it was titled "Solo: A Star Wars Story," etc. -- but none of them had to do with Alden Ehrenreich's performance as a young Han Solo. The actor had to fight an uphill battle from the start, tasked with the unenviable challenge of filling the shoes of no less a star than Harrison freakin' Ford. And once original directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller were shown the door,...

Netflix has confirmed that Rian Johnson’s imminent TIFF world premiere Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery will get a two-week US theatrical run in select cinemas starting on November 26.

It remained unclear how many sites the whodunnit ensemble led by Daniel Craig as the redoubtable Benoit Blanc will play in, or theatrical plans for other territories. The film will debut on the service on December 12, as previously announced.

Wake Up Dead Man premieres in TIFF in Special Presentations on September 6, and will open BFI London Film Festival on October 8. Knives Out and Glass Onionplayed each festival in 2019 and 2022, respectively.

Anne Hathaway was spotted in a video shared by People magazine confronting paparazzi on the set of “The Devil Wears Prada 2.” The long-awaited sequel has been filming at various locations in New York City since July to much frenzy from fans. Paparazzi have swarmed the set on shooting days to capture glimpses of returning characters and their new fashion choices. Hathaway appeared protective on a recent filming day that included child actors.

“You guys have got to relax,” Hathaway told paparazzi. “There are children on set today. Does everyone know that there are children on set? So everyone is going to relax, and we’re going to have a very nice day because we have children here. Thank you.”

Hathaway returns in “The Devil Wears Prada 2” as Andy Sachs, who in the original movie was an aspiring journalist and the personal assistant to the ruthless fashion magazine editor-in-chief...

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson has been one of the biggest movie stars in the world for over a decade now. Once earning the unofficial nickname of "franchise Viagra" for his ability to invigorate a movie series, he has starred in the biggest of big films, from "Fast & Furious" to "Moana." He became so popular that there was even talk of Johnson running for President at one point. But chasing big bucks at the box office didn't always result in the most rewarding on-screen roles or challenges. That's all about to change, though.

Speaking at the Venice Film Festival (via BBC), Johnson was on hand for the premiere of his new movie "The Smashing Machine,...

South Korea has submitted Park Chan-wook’s black comedy thrillerNo Other Choice as its entry for best international feature at the 2026 Oscars.

The decision was announced by the Korean Film Council and selected by a jury, chaired by Parasite producer Kwak Sin-ae, who said: “It stands out for its outstanding quality and the actors’ performances, and it has a high level of completeness, along with a globally recognised director and a distributor with Academy Award experience.”

It marks the second time director Park has represented South Korea, following 2022’sDecision To Leave,which made the shortlist.

Neon represents North America on the title,...

Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson and Tracy Letts star in this immaculately constructed nightmare procedural that ticks down the minutes from an atomic bomb’s launch to its detonation

Kathryn Bigelow has reopened the subject that we all tacitly agree not to discuss or imagine, in the movies or anywhere else: the subject of an actual nuclear strike. It’s the subject which tests narrative forms and thinkability levels.

Maybe this is why we prefer to see it as something for absurdism and satire – a way of not staring into the sun – to remember Kubrick’s (brilliant) black comedy Dr Strangelove, with no fighting in the war room etc, rather than...

Variety returns to the Toronto International Film Festival to host its annual Interview Studio, Variety Cover Party, presented by Rbc celebrating cover stars Channing Tatum and Derek Cianfrance, and annual Chanel Women in Film Dinner.

Variety today unveiled its lineup for this year’s annual interview studio at TIFF. The studio will take place from September 5-7 and will host discussions with the cast and filmmakers of standout projects featured at this year’s festival.

Studio participants include Colin Hanks, Ryan Reynolds, Chris Candy, and Jennifer Candy (“John Candy: I Like Me”); Potsy Ponciroli, Ben Foster, and Shailene Woodley (“Motor City”); David Michôd, Sydney Sweeney, Chad Coleman, Katy O’Brian, and Ben Foster (“Christy”); Daniel Craig, Mila Kunis, Jeremy Renner, Andrew Scott, Thomas Haden Church, and Cailee Spaeny, Rian Johnson, Josh O’Connor, Glenn Close, Kerry Washington, Daryl McCormack, and Josh Brolin (“Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery”); Cillian Murphy,...

Regardless of what you may think about it -- and given its critical and commercial performance, the odds are your opinion isn't exactly high -- there's no denying that Francis Ford Coppola's "Megalopolis" is one of the most fascinating films of the last several years. That has little to do with the actual content of the film, which blends Golden Age Hollywood aesthetics, Roman history, absurdist comedy, and the stylings of the "epic" into a confounding $120 million smoothie. Rather, the interest comes from the project itself, entirely financed from Coppola's own coffers after decades of the famous director trying and failing to get it made.

That process is being...

If the distinction between a “film” and a “movie” still means anything, then the first six days of the Venice Film Festival have most definitely given us films. “A House of Dynamite,” on the other hand, is a movie — or, more to the point, a Netflix movie, though even Netflix sometimes makes films. But “A House of Dynamite,” a countdown-to-nuclear-disaster thriller directed by Kathryn Bigelow, is jacked up with so many familiar Mor tropes that even though it’s trying to be realistic about what it shows you (spoiler alert: It doesn’t really succeed), it still has the feel of a self-consciously jittery high-end cautionary potboiler. Don’t try this at home! Or in the White House Situation Room!

A lone nuclear missile has been launched, by a mysterious and anonymous national aggressor, from somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. The nuke is rapidly heading toward the United States. How rapidly?...

Eighteen minutes is all we have to save the country (or not) upon news of an impending nuclear missile in Kathryn Bigelow‘s horrifically gripping and cautionary “A House of Dynamite.” If we don’t do something about the lunatics in power globally, and specifically at the helm of nine countries with a nuclear stockpile (including the United States), well then, we’re fucked. Bigelow’s explosively entertaining real-time thriller, told from multiple perspectives at various levels of government from situation room deputies to Potus (Idris Elba) himself, does not mince on hopelessness.

Here is a movie that will ruin your day. You’re welcome.

Noah Oppenheim’s rigorously researched and vividly jargonistic script (he comes from a background in broadcast news at NBC) doesn’t mince, either, on the mundanity of incompetence. The filmmaking team visited the White House Situation Room and the headquarters of U.S. Strategic Command...

After Venice premiere “Silent River,” Catalan director Jaume Claret Muxart will keep on talking about love – also in his upcoming project.

“It might end up feeling like a sequel to ‘Strange River,’ because I want to keep on exploring this feeling. I’m not done with love,” he says.

“I would like to take a look at what it means to be romantic – today. I don’t think it’s that fashionable, but I cannot stand cynical cinema. Some could say that what I show in this film is some kind of utopia, that this family is too kind to each other. But that’s what we should strive for!”

In his feature debut, 16-year-old Dídac (Jan Monter) goes on a cycling trip with his brother and parents. Summer days go by unnoticed, until he falls for a boy.

“We used to go on these trips along different rivers all...

Fresh from its Venice world premiere and Telluride screening, Paolo Sorrentino’s La Grazia will open via Mubi in the US and Canada on December 5.

Mubi said it will announce theatrical dates for remaining territories “at a later time”.

Sorrentino regular Toni Servillo stars as Mariano De Santis, the fictitious president of the Italian Republic wrestling with two delicate petitions for presidential pardon as his term nears the end. Anna Ferzetti also stars.

La Grazia: review

La Grazia is produced by Fremantle’s The Apartment in association with Numero 10 and PiperFilm. Producers are Annamaria Morelli and Sorrentino, alongside Andrea Scrosati for Fremantle,...

David Keighley, Imax’s first chief quality officer, died after a battle with cancer on Aug. 28. He was 77.

“We honor the life and legacy of David Keighley, a true pioneer of film presentation and one of Imax’s most iconic voices,” said the company in a statement. “For decades, he served as our first Chief Quality Officer and oversaw post-production on more than 500 Imax films.”

Keighley worked in the role for over 15 years. He worked and collaborated with various filmmakers in the industry, such as Christopher Nolan, Francis Ford Coppola, James Cameron and more. Keighley’s last project at Imax was overseeing Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” set to release in theaters on July 17, 2026.

“No filmmaker today would be able to shoot or screen film of any format today if not for David Keighley, our entire industry owes him a massive debt,” said Nolan in a statement. “While it breaks my...

This post contains spoilers for "Stargate Atlantis."

"Stargate Atlantis" could be a lot of fun throughout its five-season run, but even the best shows have episodes that don't add anything meaningful to their lore. "Atlantis," however, had perfected a formula that made most filler episodes effective, where a lot of care and consideration went into fleshing out the interpersonal dynamics among the Atlantis crew. Still, a dip in quality is to be expected from time to time in the form of one-off episodes that don't quite manage to hit the mark or fail to entertain, despite promising galactic hijinks. Season 4's "Trio" comes to mind, as this entry revolves around...

Shudder has taken US, Australia and New Zealand rights to the psychological gothic thriller Honey Bunch by Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli ahead of its North American premiere in TIFF’s Centrepiece section.

The film received its world premiere in Berlin and stars Grace Glowicki and Ben Petrie as a married couple who venture to a remote experimental treatment facility after Diana awakens from a coma. Soon she suspects her husband may have sinister motives.

The cast includes Jason Isaacs, Kate Dickie, India Brown, and Julian Richings. Honey Bunch will launch on Shudder in 2026.

Becky Yeboah, and Sims-Fewer and Mancinelli produced for Cat People,...