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Colin Farrell will receive the Golden Icon Award at the 2025 Zurich Film Festival, recognizing his performance in Ballad of a Small Player and his career achievements. The Oscar-nominated Irish actor will attend the festival Sept. 27 for the award presentation and gala premiere of the film, and will participate in a Zff Masters discussion the following day.

Directed by Edward Berger, Ballad of a Small Player is based on Lawrence Osborne’s 2014 novel and follows a gambler in Macau whose past catches up with him. The screening marks Berger’s third consecutive Zff selection, following All Quiet on the Western Front and Conclave.

Farrell, known for roles in In Bruges, The Banshees of Inisherin, The Lobster, The Batman and Minority Report, has collaborated with directors including Sofia Coppola, Yorgos Lanthimos, Steven Spielberg, and Tim Burton. His portrayal in The Banshees of Inisherin earned him a Golden Globe, Venice Best Actor award,...

Jesse Plemons is gearing up for a reunion with filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos and his Kinds of Kindness co-star Emma Stonein Bugonia, set to buzz into cinemas this fall. As part of Collider’s Exclusive Preview event, we’re excited to share a never-before-seen image from the production that puts the two leading actors in the same frame. This time around, they’ll be playing enemies — although Stone’s character has absolutely no idea that she’s made a dangerous nemesis in Plemons’ Teddy. The film, which also features supporting performances from Alicia Silverstone (Clueless), Stavros Halkias (Let’s Start a Cult) and newcomer Aidan Delbis, serves as an English-language remake of Jang Joon-hwan’s 2003 feature, Save the Green Planet! and already looks like it has all the makings of another hit from the director of The Favourite and Poor Things.

Teddy (Plemons) is taking a load off in our exclusive look at Bugonia,...

A school accident brings Shuo, an only child, to the attention of Wei, another only child. Avoidant of anything beyond the challenges found in video games, Wei sees in the introverted and somewhat affection-deprived Shuo a convenient distraction, or simply someone to keep his mother away from his console. While Wei remains spellbound by his screen, Shuo, studious and unusually articulate for his age, comes to embody the ideal son: polite, promising, and in need of care. He slips easily into the space left vacant by Wei’s inch-perfect parents, who manage everything except their teenage child. Shuo is entering the family.

“Brief History of a Family” moves with the rhythm of a psychological mystery, a thriller that never quite escalates. Drawing from the clean, sterile aesthetic of its genre, Lin Jianjie delivers a sculpted debut, primarily preoccupied with light, framing, and cinematic references. Beyond its visual control, the film...

Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite (2019) created history at the 92nd Academy Awards, becoming the first foreign-language film to win Best Picture, along with its other three wins- Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best International Film. It also became the first South Korean film to win the highest prize at the Cannes Film Festival- the coveted Palme d’Or. If you have seen Parasite, you know there isn’t quite a film like the genre-defying, thrilling saga of two families, distinguished by class structures, coming together under the same roof. For those who haven’t seen it, still get prepared to be floored.

A succinct review would be the words of fellow Academy Award-winning director of films like Babel, Birdman, and The Revenant, Alejandro G. Inarritu, who has said how” […] Instead of preaching to us, pointing fingers or predictably, mass shooting oligarchs and corporate monarchs, Bong Joon Ho, sometimes using metaphors...

Willem Dafoe is set to receive an Honorary Heart of Sarajevo award at the upcoming Sarajevo Film Festival for his contribution to film.

The Poor Things actor, who has been involved in more than 150 films in his career across studio and independent systems, is also set to hold a masterclass at Sarajevo, where he will share his experience and reflections on art today with a festival audience.

In 1979, Dafoe was given a role in Michael Cimino’s Heaven’s Gate, from which he was fired. Since then, he has collaborated with a long list of some of the most renowned directors in modern cinema including Wes Anderson, Kathryn Bigelow, Tim Burton, David Cronenberg, Spike Lee, Abel Ferrara, Werner Herzog, David Lynch, Hayao Miyazaki, Martin Scorsese, Guillermo del Toro, Lars von Trier and Yorgos Lanthimos among many others.

He’s been nominated for four Oscars for his roles in films such as At Eternity’s Gate,...

Willem Dafoe will receive the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo at the 31st Sarajevo Film Festival, awarded in recognition of his contribution to the art of film.

During the event, the actor will hold a Masterclass where he will share his experience and reflections on the art.

Jovan Marjanović, the festival director, said: “Every time he steps in front of the camera, he demonstrates that he is a true master of his craft. Whether starring in a Hollywood blockbuster or a low-budget independent film, his characters are always complex, emotional and unforgettable.”

In 1979, Dafoe was given a role in Michael Cimino’s “Heaven’s Gate,” from which he was fired. Since then, he has collaborated with directors who represent an encyclopedia of world cinema, including Wes Anderson, Kathryn Bigelow, Tim Burton, David Cronenberg, Mary Harron, Walter Hill, Spike Lee, David Lynch, Paul Schrader, Martin Scorsese, Zack Snyder, Guillermo del Toro, Yorgos Lanthimos and Zhang Yimou.

Willem Dafoe will receive the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo at the 31st Sarajevo Film Festival “in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the art of film.”

He joins Stellan Skarsgard and Ray Winstone, who will also receive the honor at the fest this year.

“Having made over 150 films in his career, Willem Dafoe is internationally respected for bringing versatility, boldness and dare to some of the most iconic films of our time,” Sarajevo organizers said. “His artistic curiosity in exploring the human condition leads him to projects all over the world, large and small, Hollywood films as well as independent cinema.”

At the Sarajevo festival, the star will also hold a master class where he will share “his experience and reflections on art today” with young talents, film professionals and the festival audience.

“Willem Dafoe returns to the Sarajevo Film Festival after 25 years, and it is a great honor and...

Seldom since the days when Monty Python and Pasolini were both making movies has the past looked quite so scatologically focused as it does in “Dog of God.” This religious — or rather irreligious — parable set in an indistinct Mittle-Yurrup time and place might be considered too outré for censors in some territories, were not its offending contents mitigated by being depicted in animation. Still, the cartooniness of this first feature for Ratis and Lauris Abele only does so much to diffuse the very adult nature of its scabrous attacks on church, class and sexual hypocrisy.

The grotesque yet undeniably impressive results occupy terrain entirely different from last year’s Oscar-winning Latvian toon “Flow,” an unanticipated global hit whose makers get thanked in the end credits here. This U.S. co-production will surely have more limited appeal — but it also seems destined for a long shelf life as a cult favorite amongst enthusiasts of dark fantasy,...

Julian Schnabel will receive the Cartier Glory to the Filmmaker Award at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival, which runs from Aug. 27–Sept. 6. The festival made the announcement on Wednesday.

The Cartier Glory to the Filmmaker Award is “dedicated to a personality who has made a particularly original contribution to the contemporary film industry,” according to a release from the festival. Schnabel, director of “Basquiat,” “Before Night Falls” and “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,” will be honored on Sept. 3, before the screening of his new film, “In the Hand of Dante,” starring Oscar Isaac, Gal Gadot, Gerard Butler, Al Pacino, John Malkovich, Martin Scorsese, Jason Momoa, Louis Cancelmi and Franco Nero. It is screening out of competition.

Oscar Isaac in “In the Hand of Dante” (courtesy of the Venice Film Festival)

Adapted from Nick Tosches’ novel of the same name by Louise Kugelberg and Schnabel, “In the Hand of Dante...

Following The Favourite, Bleat, Poor Things, Kinds of Kindness, and the forthcoming Bugonia, Yorgos Lanthimos has released his sixth collaboration with Emma Stone. This time, it’s their first music video. Jerskin Fendrix has set an October 10 release for his second album Once Upon A Time. . . In Shropshire and tapped Lanthimos and Stone for the music video for his single Beth’s Farm.

Lanthimos said, “It was lovely to team up again with Emma and a number of people that we have been working with for quite a while to contribute a bit of film narrative to what I think is a remarkable second personal album by our very important artistic collaborator and friend, Jerskin Fendrix.”

“I wrote this album during a period of sudden and unrelated deaths. A friend, family members, animals, and eventually my father,” says Fendrix. “My album about Shropshire is a twofold testament. looking back on...

Since the creation of the camera and the dawn of cinema, film has been one long experiment. Experimental film has often been defined through its rejection of traditional storytelling and structure, its defiance of logic or reason while creating mesmerizing scenes through dreamlike abstraction and subjective narrative.

A key figure in the early history of experimental film was the French filmmaker Georges Méliès. In the late 1890s and early 1900s, Méliès was one of the first filmmakers to use special effects and trick photography to create fantastical and surreal images on the screen. His films, such as A Trip to the Moon and The Impossible Voyage, were some of the first examples of what would later be called experimental film. Another important trailblazer during the silent era was female director Lois Weber who is credited in creating an estimated 200 to 400 films. She was credited with pioneering the use of the...

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At this stage in his career, when Adam Sandler goes out to a prospective star of one of his projects, he probably doesn’t hear “no” a lot; it’s probably a lot likelier that he has to give a polite pass to the prospective stars who come to him. So it’s no surprise that Happy Gilmore 2 is loaded with celebrities, to the point where secondary and tertiary roles are filled by faces you know. Bad Bunny may be one of the biggest musical acts in the world right now; that doesn’t mean he can’t show up to play Happy’s new golf caddy. Oscar nominee Haley Joel Osment shows up as a new golf rival to Happy (having presumably been cast before his recent public disgrace). Margaret Qualley has worked multiple times with acclaimed director Yorgos Lanthimos; doesn’t mean she’d...

Luca Guadagnino is going to be on the road a lot in the coming months. One day after the Italian filmmaker's latest feature, After the Hunt, joined the Venice Film Festival lineup as an out of competition selection, the New York Film Festival announced that the Amazon MGM-released film will play as the opening night selection of its 63rd edition.

"We are excited to open this year’s festival with Luca Guadagnino’s latest, which confirms his status as one of the most versatile risk-takers working today," NYFF artistic director Dennis Lim said in a statement. "Brilliantly acted and crafted, After the Hunt is something rare in contemporary cinema: a complex, grown-up movie with a lot on its mind that also happens to be a deeply satisfying piece of entertainment."

In his own statement, Guadagnino called NYFF "an arbiter of global cinema," and provided a quick preview of the movie's themes.

The Man in My Basement, the first feature from Nadia Latif, starring Corey Hawkins and Willem Dafoe, has been announced as part of the Discovery lineup at this year’s Toronto Film Festival.

TIFF released the Discovery lineup this morning. Other high-profile titles include Cato Kusters’ Julian, produced by Michiel and Lukas Dhont, Maddie’s Secret, the debut feature from cult comedian John Early, and Egghead Republic from Pella Kågerman and Hugo Lilja. Scroll down for the full lineup.

The 2025 Discovery selection was programmed by Dorota Lech, Jason Anderson, Kelly Boutsalis, Diana Cadavid, Robyn Citizen, June Kim, and Jason Ryle.

The programme will screen 23 World Premieres, with titles from over 30 countries, including Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, Serbia, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, and Turkey.

The Discovery programme has, over the years, debuted projects from filmmakers like Ildikó Enyedi, Alfonso Cuarón, Julie Dash, Jean-Marc Vallée, Christopher Nolan,...

“Maddie’s Secret,” the directorial debut of comedian John Early, will open the Discovery program at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival. This section of the annual festival (celebrating its 50th year in 2025) premieres the first and second feature films from new directors. Every film in the section will have its world premiere at TIFF this September.

On the opening night, Early’s film “Maddie’s Secret” will screen, a satire of the current “content culture” that dominates the internet. The comedian has appeared in a number of films and television shows, though “Maddie’s Secret” marks his first movie in the director’s chair. Fellow comics Vanessa Bayer, Kate Berlant and Connor O’Malley also appear in the film.

Another entry in the section, “The Man in My Basement” stars Corey Hawkins and Willem Dafoe. Directed by Nadia Latif, the thriller adapts Walter Mosley’s novel of the same name. Latif...

Muxart competirá en Orizzonti y Maryam Touzani presentará su película en la sección Spotlight.

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Un año después del histórico León de Oro a La habitación de al lado, de Pedro Almodóvar, el cine español regresa a la Biennale con una presencia más discreta, pero igualmente significativa. Esta vez no habrá representación en la Sección Oficial a competición, pero sí en las secciones paralelas. Jaume Claret Muxart, en su debut en el largometraje, competirá en la sección Orizzonti con su Estrany riu (Extraño río), y Calle Málaga, coproducción hispano-marroquí dirigida por Maryam Touzani, se verá en la nueva sección Spotlight. Más adelante, este segundo título también pasará por el Festival de Toronto.

Rodada en 16 mm, Estrany riu retrata un viaje familiar en bicicleta a lo largo del Danubio, en el que Dídac, un adolescente de dieciséis años, inicia su propia ruta de emancipación. Entre días calurosos y paisajes en transformación,...

Dos presencias españolas, ‘Extraño Río’ y ‘Calle Málaga’, en la programación de la Biennale.

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Ayer se desveló la impresionante programación de la 82 edición del Festival Internacional de Cine de Venecia, que se celebra del 27 de agosto al 6 de septiembre. Una selección potente, con claro protagonismo del cine en lengua inglesa, que busca posicionar a Venecia como la antesala decisiva de la temporada de premios. No es un gesto gratuito: Anora, ganadora en Cannes el año pasado, acabó llevándose el Óscar a la Mejor Película. Y ahora, todos miran a la Mostra como el próximo trampolín. Así, en la competición por el León de Oro hay nombres de peso como Guillermo del Toro, Yorgos Lanthimos, Jim Jarmusch, Noah Baumbach, Park Chan-wook, o Benny Safdie. La riqueza de la programación se extiende también a las secciones paralelas y fuera de competición. En ellas se presentarán, entre otros, los nuevos trabajos de...

After getting upstaged by Cannes at this year’s Oscars — when Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or winner Anora took best picture over Brady Corbet’s Lido champ The Brutalist — Venice has come roaring back.

Venice’s 2025 lineup, with its blend of prestige auteurs, big-name debuts and politically charged provocations, reaffirms the Lido as the premiere launchpad for award-season hopefuls. Highlights this year include Julia Roberts in Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt, Dwayne Johnson in Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine and a triple threat from Netflix: Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein starring Jacob Elordi, Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly with George Clooney and Kathryn Bigelow’s A House of Dynamite with Idris Elba and Rebecca Ferguson.

Add in new features from Yorgos Lanthimos, Jim Jarmusch, Park Chan-wook, François Ozon, Paolo Sorrentino, Mona Fastvold, Gus van Sant, Julian Schnabel, Mamoru Hosoda and Laszlo Nemes, and the political heft...

It's going to be a smashing time in Venice this year. The Venice Film Festival has unveiled the full lineup for its 82nd edition and the annual event will serve as the launching pad for Dwayne Johnson's Oscar campaign. The WWE star-turned-leading man plans to be front and center on the Lido with the competition entry The Smashing Machine from director Benny Safdie. Based on the life of Mma fighter Mark Kerr, the film reunites Johnson with his Jungle Cruise costar, Emily Blunt, and hopes to succeed in the awards race where A24's last sports picture — 2023's The Iron Claw — fell short.

But Johnson is stepping into the ring with some heavy-hitters in the Best Actor race, including George Clooney and Oscar Isaac. Both stars will be in Venice for their respective Netflix productions, Jay Kelly and Frankenstein, which hail from directors with proven awards track records. Clooney...

The lineup for this year’s Venice Film Festival has been unveiled, with the likes of Giullermo del Toro, Noah Baumbach, Kathryn Bigelow, Jim Jarmusch, Park Chan-wook, and Yorgos Lanthimos all competing for the coveted Golden Lion.

Here is the full lineup of 20 films in competition at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival:

Ballad of a Small Player, Edward Berger

Below the Clouds, Gianfranco Rosi

Bugonia, Yorgos Lanthimos

Duse, Pietro Marcello

Elisa Leonardo Di Costanzo

Father Mother Sister Brother, Jim Jarmusch

Frankenstein, Guillermo del Toro

The Grace, Paolo Sorrentino

A House of Dynamite, Kathryn Bigelow

Jay Kelly, Noah Baumbach

Mother Bhum, Chong Keat Aun

No Other Choice, Park Chan-wook

A Pied D’Oeuvre, Valerie Donzelli

Silent Friend, Ildiko Enyedi

The Smashing Machine, Benny Safdie

The Stranger, François Ozon

The Sin Rises on Us All, Cai Shangjun

The Testament of Ann Lee, Mona Fastvoid

The Voice of Hind Rajab, Kaouther Ben...

The Venice Film Festival is back on the Lido for its 82nd edition, kicking off August 27-September 6. The packed lineup of auteur premieres heading to Italy include new films from Olivier Assayas, Guillermo del Toro, Mona Fastvold, Kathryn Bigelow, Noah Baumbach, Yorgos Lanthimos, Benny Safdie, Jim Jarmusch, Park Chan-wook, László Nemes, François Ozon, Pietro Marcello, and many more in competition.

Out of competition, we’ll see new films from Luca Guadagnino (“After the Hunt”), Werner Herzog (“Ghost Elephants”), Sofia Coppola (Marc Jacobs documentary “Marc by Sofia”), Charlie Kaufman (the short “How to Shoot a Ghost”), Julian Schnabel (“In the Hand of Dante”), Gus Van Sant (“Dead Man’s Wire”), Laura Poitras (“Cover-Up”), Lucrecia Martel (“Nuestra Tierra”), and Tsai Ming-liang (“Back Home”)

Artistic director Alberto Barbera’s programmers had already unveiled a wave of announcements before Tuesday’s lineup: Alexander Payne heads up the jury, Paolo Sorrentino’s “La Grazia” opens the festival Italian-style,...

Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Bugonia,” Noah Baumbach’s “Jay Kelly,” Kathryn Bigelow’s “A House of Dynamite,” and Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein” are heading to the Lido for their world premieres at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival.

At a press conference in Venice on Tuesday morning, the announcement of those and other titles was made by Alberto Barbera, Director of the Cinema Department and Pietrangelo Buttafuoco, president of La Biennale di Venezia.

Other films in the Venice main competition include new work from Paolo Sorrentino (“La Grazia”), Jim Jarmusch (“Father Mother Sister Brother”), Laszlo Nemes (“Orphan”), Park Chan-wook

“Sermon to the Void,” Hilal Baydarov

“L’Isola di Andrea,” Antonio Capuano

“Il Maestro,” Andrea Di Stefano

“After the Hunt,” Luca Guadagnino

“Hateshinaki Scarlet,” Mamoru Hosoda

“The Last Viking,” Anders Thomas Jensen

“In the Hand of Dante,” Julian Schnabel

“Dead Man’s Wire,” Gus Van Sant

“Orfeo,” Virgilio Villoresi

Out of Competition – Non Fiction

“Kabul,...

Celebrating its 82nd edition this year, Venice Film Festival will take place August 27 through September 6. Ahead of the event, President Pietrangelo Buttafuoco and Director Alberto Barbera have now unveiled the lineup.

Highlights include new films from Jim Jarmusch, Park Chan-wook, Lucrecia Martel, Laura Poitras, Benny Safdie, Werner Herzog, Kathryn Bigelow, Luca Guadagnino, Olivier Assayas, Sofia Coppola, Kent Jones, Yorgos Lanthimos, Mark Jenkin, Tsai Ming-liang, Mamoru Hosoda, Gus Van Sant, Noah Baumbach, Mona Fastvold, Pietro Marcello, Guillermo del Toro, László Nemes, and more.

See the lineup below.

Opening Film

La Grazia (Paolo Sorrentino) (in competition)

Closing Film

Chien 51 (Cédric Jimenez) (out of competition)

In Competition

The Wizard of the Kremlin (Olivier Assayas)

Jay Kelly (Noah Baumbach)

The Voice of Hind Rajab (Kaouther Ben Hania)

A House of Dynamite (Kathryn Bigelow)

The Sun Rises on Us All (Cai Shangjun)

Frankenstein (Guillermo del Toro)

Elisa (Leonardo Di Costanzo)

À pied d’œuvre...

Oscar season starts here.

With its 2025 line-up, announced Tuesday, the Venice Film Festival has (again) taken the award season pole position, with a program packed with a frankly absurd number of must-see movies.

Among the hot awards titles heading to the Lido are Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine, from A24, featuring Dwayne Johnson as two‑time UFC heavyweight champion Mark Kerr and Emily Blunt as his wife Dawn; Luca Guadagnino’s #MeToo–inspired thriller After the Hunt, for Amazon MGM Studios, starring Julia Roberts, Andrew Garfield and Ayo Edebiri, will premiere out of competition; and Guillermo del Toro’s dark reimagining of Frankenstein, featuring Jacob Elordi, Oscar Isaac and Mia Goth, a Netflix production.

This will mark the Venice festival debut for both Roberts and Johnson.

Netflix, which sat out Vence last year, is back in force for 2025. Alongside Frankenstein, the streamer has Noah Baumbach’s comedy‑drama Jay Kelly,...

Venice Film Festival artistic director Alberto Barbera has unveiled a rich mix of buzzy movies with big stars — as well as smaller titles with awards potential — that will be vying for the Golden Lion during the event’s upcoming 82nd edition.

Hotly anticipated new works from Kathryn Bigelow, Guillermo Del Toro, Noah Baumbach, Mona Fastvold, Luca Guadagnino, Yorgos Lanthimos, Olivier Assayas, Park Chan-wook, Benny Safdie and more are set for Lido launches, making for a cornucopia of cinematic offerings.

As anticipated by Variety, big-name films premiering at Venice include Safdie’s “The Smashing Machine” from A24, featuring Dwayne Johnson as two-time UFC heavyweight champ Mark Kerr and Emily Blunt as his wife Dawn; Focus Features’ “Bugonia,” the latest collaboration between Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone, who were last at the fest in 2023 with the Oscar-winning “Poor Things”; and Luca Guadagnino’s psychological drama “After the Hunt” starring Julia Roberts, Andrew Garfield and Ayo Edebiri.

Kathryn Bigelow’s A House Of Dynamite, Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine, and Luca Guadagnino’s After The Hunt are among the films selected for the 82nd Venice Film Festival (August 27 - September 6).

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The first two are among 21 Competition titles, with further Competition entries including Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly starring George Clooney, Olivier Assayas’ The Wizard Of The Kremlin starring Jude Law as Vladimir Putin, Mona Fastvold’s The Testament Of Ann Lee, and Guillermo del Toro’sFrankenstein starring Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi.

The selection was announced by artistic director Alberto Barbera,...

Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Harvest, a Mubi release, is now in theaters in the United Kingdom and Ireland.Harvest.The films of Athina Rachel Tsangari have always showcased her sharp, almost anthropological eye for human behavior—ritual, gesture, group dynamics—with a mischievous knack for toying with genre. Attenberg (2010) twists grief into the spine of its coming-of-age-story, centering on characters who resist the primacy of language in favor of dry, awkward dance—stylized gestures that helped define the burgeoning Greek Weird Wave. In Chevalier (2015), she uses a ship-sequestered setting to darkly satirize the fragility of the male ego, bound up with capitalism’s relentless drive for dominance and self-optimization. All of these preoccupations resurface in Harvest, Tsangari’s most ambitious and porous work to date—a timely anti-western that finds small pastoral society cracking under the weight of impending modernity.Adapted from Jim Crace’s 2013 novel, the film hovers around...

Exclusive: Element Pictures’ Rachel Dargavel, producer of Akinola Davies’s My Father’s Shadow, Nigeria’s first Cannes entry, tells Deadline that she and the filmmaker are in early development for his sophomore feature, Delta Force Six, which will be filmed on locations in the vast southern region of the West African nation.

The producer is eager to get the film rolling within two years. “You know how hard it is to get a second feature up and away and to make it great. And many people fall on the second feature. And I want for us to not be those people,” she insists.

Delta Force Six, a step up in terms of vision and budget, is being written by Davies and Wale, his Lagos-based sibling (together they penned the screenplay for their freshman hit), and is set in the oil-rich Niger Delta badlands where rebels kidnap foreign workers and sabotage pipelines.

Un thriller psicológico de Luca Guadagnino. © Sony Pictures

Sony Pictures ha compartido el primer tráiler de After the Hunt o, como reza su título en español, Caza de brujas, la nueva película del aclamado director Luca Guadagnino.

En After the Hunt, una profesora universitaria (Julia Roberts) se halla en una situación crítica a nivel personal y laboral cuando una estudiante estrella (Ayo Edebiri) acusa a uno de sus compañeros de trabajo (Andrew Garfield) y un oscuro secreto de su pasado amenaza con salir a la luz.

Este thriller psicológico está protagonizado por Ayo Edebiri (The Bear), Andrew Garfield (Vivir el momento), Julia Roberts (Dejar el mundo atrás), Chloë Sevigny (Monstruos) y Michael Stuhlbarg (Los instigadores).

Te Puede Interesar El primer tráiler de la película ‘Bugonia’ es tan Yorgos Lanthimos como cabría esperar.

Dado su calendario de estreno, no resultaría sorprendente que el director italiano lleve su nuevo largometraje al Festival Internacional de Cine de Venecia.

Some of the industry’s top cinematographers are getting involved in the current Oasis craze.

With the reunited band’s sellout gigs continuing across the U.K. — currently in the Gallagher brothers’ hometown of Manchester ahead of concerts in London later this month — Variety has learned that several A-list directors of photography have been behind the camera for an upcoming film about the tour.

Announced this year, the as-yet-unnamed feature is being produced by “Peaky Blinders” creator Steven Knight and directed by Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace, the duo behind the LCD Soundsystem doc/concert film “Shut Up and Play the Hits.” It’s being produced by Magna Studios, recently launched by former Pulse execs Marissa Clifford and Davud Karbassioun.

Very little else is known about the film, which is being kept under a veil of secrecy, but Variety hears that both Robbie Ryan and Haris Zambarloukos have been shooting segments of the tour.

‘After the Hunt’ Luca Guadagnino’s follow up to ‘Queer’ and ‘Challengers’ dives into the life of a college professor dealing with “cancel culture”, her secretive past, and a serious accusation against her colleague. With a cast led by Julia Roberts (in just her third film of the decade), Andrew Garfield, Ayo Edebiri, and Michael Stuhlbarg, ‘After the Hunt’ is one of the most anticipated films expected to premiere at Venice. If this exceeds (or even meets) expectations, award season can’t come soon enough, especially when you have Roberts and Garfield at the front and center of the campaign. Things to do: Subscribe to The Hollywood Insider’s YouTube Channel, by clicking here. Limited Time Offer – Free Subscription to The Hollywood Insider Click here to read more on The Hollywood Insider’s vision, values and mission statement here – Media has the responsibility to better our world – The Hollywood Insider...

It's been said that there are no new stories under the sun. That's not an accurate statement; there's always someone cooking up something new. To be fair, looking at the average Hollywood slate can make you cynical. Yet amongst the reboots and remakes and rip-offs are inspired retellings of a much subtler kind. Everything old can be made new again, and one method is using ancient mythology to inspire modern drama.

It's not a leap. Greek myths helped set the tone for today's storytellers, with Joseph Campbell's breakdown of the monomyth -- the Hero's Journey -- providing those writers with their first One Weird Trick to create a successful story. But it's not just the rhythm of the story — the call to adventure, the return, etc. — that's still used today. It's the myths themselves, dressed up in ways both familiar and not. The former is a fun place to play,...

Is the worst behind AMC Theatres and its beleaguered stock price? One Wall Street analyst thinks so.

With Hollywood at last giving the mega-exhibitor the certainty in its supply of tentpole releases needed to get film lovers back in the habit of going to the multiplex, Wedbush analyst Alicia Reese on Friday upgraded stock in AMC from neutral to outperform and set a $4.00 price target, from $3.00.

Reese argued in a July 11 investor note AMC “is poised to benefit from a more consistent release slate over the next several quarters,” and gain market share through to 2026 in North America and Europe. That good news for a company attempting to get out of a financial hole brought on by the pandemic lifted parent AMC Entertainment Holdings shares by 30 cents, or 10 percent, to $3.30 on Friday morning.

The Wedbush analysis is also more sanguine about AMC’s debt woes after the company repaid or...

We are launching our Gold Derby predictions center event for Oscars 2026 nominations today! Even though Academy Awards nominees will not be announced for another six months, on Jan. 22, 2026, see how well you see into the future. Click here to jump in right away, helping us set the extremely early odds and rankings for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Screenplay, Best Actress, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Supporting Actor.

As we begin this new event, there are almost 50 contenders for Best Picture. Please keep in mind that we will update the predictions center weekly by adding, deleting, and changing movies, performers, and more. These updates will be made based on new information from the studios/campaigners provided to us. A movie and its contenders can only be added once it has a U.S. distributor and an approximate or firm release date in 2025. In a few months,...

Japanese chirashi for La chimera. Designer unknown.Totting up the most-liked posters on my Movie Poster of the Day Instagram over the first six months of 2025, the surprise winner, with over 4,000 likes on one day, was a Japanese chirashi for Alice Rohrwacher's La chimera (2023). I put its popularity down to the Josh O’Connor fan base, or for the film itself, though it is a lovely, colorful design. The second and third places, with over a couple thousand likes each, went to two designs that I posted in tribute to David Lynch upon his passing in January: the original poster for Eraserhead (1977) and a beautiful Japanese poster for The Straight Story (1999). There are actually three Japanese posters in the top four, number three being a zippy design for Charade (1963), which I posted in April in celebration of what would have been its director Stanley Donen’s 101st birthday. And the one-sheet...

Paolo Sorrentino’s “La Grazia,” a love story that re-teams the Oscar-winning director with “The Great Beauty” actor Toni Servillo, has been set as opening film of the upcoming Venice Film Festival.

“La Grazia” – the title can be translated in English as “Grace” – will be launching from the Lido in competition.

Servillo stars in “La Grazia” opposite Italian actor Anna Ferzetti, who recently appeared in Ferzan Ozpetek’s smash hit “Diamonds.” Plot details of Sorrentino’s new film are being kept under wraps besides the fact that it is a love story set somewhere in Italy.

“La Grazia” will mark Servillo’s seventh collaboration with Sorrentino who has shot 10 feature films to date. They first teamed up in Sorrentino’s dazzling 2001 debut, “One Man Up” in which Servillo played an ageing cocaine-addicted crooner. Servillo is best known to international audiences for his memorable turn as Roman writer and socialite Jep...

Universal Pictures has debuted the teaser trailer for Yorgos Lanthimos’ feature ‘Bugonia.’

Two conspiracy-obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.

Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, the cast includes Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Aidan Delbis, Stavros Halkias, and Alicia Silverstone.

Also in trailers – Channing Tatum and Kirsten Dunst star in trailer for ‘Roofman’

The movie hits cinemas in October.

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Jesse Plemons stars as Teddy Gatz in director Yorgos Lanthimos’ Bugonia, a Focus Features release. Credit: Courtesy of Focus Features © 2025 All Rights Reserved.

Focus Features has dropped this interesting first trailer for the upcoming movie Bugonia.

Starring Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Aidan Delbis, Stavros Halkias, and Alicia Silverstone, two conspiracy obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.

Emma Stone has collaborated with director Yorgos Lanthimos on several films. The Favourite (2018): This period black comedy earned Stone an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress; Bleat (2022): A short film that marked their second collaboration; Poor Things (2023): Stone starred as Bella Baxter and also served as a producer on this film, winning the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance and Kinds of Kindness (2024): An anthology film that is their third feature collaboration.

Emma Stone says she’s glad she got to rehearse with Joaquin Phoenix before making “Eddington.”

But she’s not always keen on rehearsal.

“We rehearsed. We went through everything,” Stone told me Thursday at the “Eddington” premiere at the DGA in West Hollywood. “Rehearsal is a little bit of mixed bag for me sometimes. Sometimes I really really enjoy it and sometimes I’m like, ‘Oh God we’re just doing it and it’s going to ruin everything,’ but this was one of the good ones.”

Ari Aster’s “Eddington” stars Phoenix as the sheriff of a small New Mexico town during the Covid pandemic who surprises everyone when he announces – including his wife, played by Stone – that he’s going to run for mayor against the incumbent (Pedro Pascal).

Rounding out the cast are Luke Grimes, Austin Butler, Deidre O’Connell, Michael Ward, Clifton Collins Jr., Amélie Hoeferle,...

Having teamed up to Oscar-winning effect on The Favourite and Poor Things, and continued their creative partnership in style with Kinds Of Kindness last summer, director-star duo Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone are gearing up to take us on another wild cinematic ride with sci-fi comedy Bugonia, an English-language reimagining of Korean cult classic Save The Green Planet. In the film, Stone plays a high-powered CEO who gets kidnapped by two conspiracists (Jesse Plemons and Aidan Delbis) who believe she's *checks notes* an evil alien bent on destroying Earth. Naturally. And you can check out the wackadoodle teaser trailer below;

Now there's a teaser trailer. Fish eye lenses, 'Basket Case' needle drop, Jesse Plemons keeping bees and rugby tackling Stone, and even a spot of off-kilter jump-dancing drop us right into the latest bizarro world from Yorgos Lanthimos, who's showing no signs of suddenly turning normal on us now. And honestly,...

Focus Features has released the first trailer for Bugonia, offering a first look at the latest collaboration between Poor Things director Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone, whose previous joint efforts include The Favourite, the short film Bleat, Kinds of Kindness, and Poor Things. This time, the creative duo team up with Jesse Plemons, who plays a conspiracist beekeeper that goes full creep mode when he suspects a high-powered CEO of being an alien intent on destroying Earth, leading to an ill-conceived plot to take the Queen bee out.

The trailer for Bugonia offers glimpses of the central characters played by the two lead stars: Stone in her corporate role that has put her on the covers of Time and Forbes as "Leader of the Year," and Plemons scheming with his conspiracy-obsessed pal to kidnap the revered business executive. The story might have an extra sting in its tail, as a...

Expect more Yorgos Lanthimos strangeness in Bugonia: a tale of conspiracy and kidnapping. Here’s the first trailer:

Following The Favourite and Poor Things, director Yorgos Lanthimos and star Emma Stone’s creative partnership continues in their latest film, Bugonia. Also re-joining the fray will be Jesse Plemons who also starred in Lanthimos’ last film, the often dark and often brilliant Kinds Of Kindness.

Here’s what we know about Bugonia so far: it’s based on the 2003 Korean sci-fi comedy, Save The Green Planet, directed by Jang Joon-hwan, and also features appearances from Alicia Silverstone and comedian Stavros Halkias.

The script is by Will Tracy, writer of 2022’s excellent satire, The Menu. The story follows ‘two conspiracy-obsessed men who kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.’

Lanthimos has left Searchlight Pictures for this project, the studio...

Filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos is well known for his unusual cinematic output. His films are often bizarre, surreal, and darkly comedic. Many consider him an auteur whose work is instantly recognizable based on his distinctive style. A brand new teaser just dropped for his latest effort, Bugonia, and if the preview is any indication, this upcoming picture will likely resonate with fans of his work.

The director’s latest film sees him reteaming with previous collaborator Emma Stone. As fans surely remember, the pair worked together on the Oscar-winning effort Poor Things. That feature ended especially well for Stone, who took home the statuette for Best Actress. The flick won four Academy Awards and received a grand total of 11 nominations.

It’s tough to say with certainty how this latest outing will be received, but we’ll surely know more in the coming months. The flick will open in limited release...

Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone are collaborating again, this time on Bugonia, an eerie, dark-comedy remake of the 2003 South Korean sci-fi film Save the Green Planet!, written and directed by Jang Joon-Hwan.

The film’s synopsis from Will Tracy’s screenplay is as follows: “Two conspiracy obsessed young men (Jesse Plemons and Aidan Delbis) kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company (Emma Stone), convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.”

In addition to Stone, Plemons and Delbis, Stavros Halkias and Alicia Silverstone round out the cast.

The trailer is equal parts unsettling, outlandish and zany. Although its veneer is sheer absurdity, the film’s essence seems to be a dark commentary on economic disparity. While it’s unclear is Stone’s character is actually an alien, she appears like an unbothered Queen Bee, unfazed by the struggling working class.

The English-language version of the Korean...

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Bugonia trailer

The latest from Yorgos Lanthimos reteams the director with his Kinds of Kindness stars Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons for a satire with a (maybe) sci-fi twist. A remake of the 2003 Korean film Save the Green Planet!, Bugonia hits theaters this October.

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Actor and director who worked on Kinds of Kindness and Poor Things reunite for a dark comedy about a kidnapping

The first trailer for Bugonia has arrived, offering a first look at the latest collaboration between Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone.

The acclaimed Greek film-maker and the American actor have previously worked on The Favourite, Poor Things and, most recently, Kinds of Kindness. The relationship has netted Stone an Oscar nomination and a win.

Well, actually just this one is one of the few times that I read a script that I hadn’t generated or I hadn’t been developing for a long time, and I was immediately drawn to it. And then I did a little bit of work with the writer Will Tracy in order to make it a little bit more my own. It’s just one of these things that something clicks in the story,...

El cineasta griego vuelve a aliarse con el tándem formado por Emma Stone y Jesse Plemons. © Universal Pictures

Universal Pictures ha desvelado el primer tráiler de la película Bugonia, dirigida por Yorgos Lanthimos y escrita por Will Tracy (El menú).

Basada en la película de culto coreana de 2003 Save the Green Planet!, Bugonia gira en torno a dos conspiracionistas que secuestran a una influyente ejecutiva convencidos de que es una alienígena que planea la destrucción de la Tierra.

Protagonizan esta bizarrada marca de la casa Jesse Plemons (Civil War) y Emma Stone (Pobres criaturas). Completan el reparto Aidan Delbis, Stavros Halkias (Let’s Start a Cult) y Alicia Silverstone (Clueless).

Se trata de la cuarta colaboración entre Emma Stone y Yorgos Lanthimos, y la segunda con Jesse Plemons. Además, en este nuevo proyecto, el director vuelve a rodearse de su séquito técnico de confianza: regresa su montador habitual, Yorgos Mavropsaridis, junto...

“It all starts with something magnificent” is a hell of a way to start a movie trailer, but we’d expect nothing less from Yorgos Lanthimos. The upcoming Bugonia marks the Oscar-winning director’s fourth feature collaboration with Emma Stone, and like with Poor Things, The Favourite, and Kinds of Kindness, the only thing that’s clear is something strange is afoot.

According to the official description, Bugonia is about what happens when “two conspiracy obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.” Stone would be the aforementioned CEO/suspected alien, with Academy Award nominee/Friday Night Lights alumni Jesse Plemons starring as one of her kidnappers. The cast also includes Aidan Delbis, Stavros Halkias, and Alicia Silverstone.

Bugonia is set to premiere in theaters as a special limited engagement on October 24th, followed by a wide release on October 31st.

The dream team pairing of Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos continues. The director of The Favourite, Poor Things and Kinds of Kindness has returned with Bugonia, which will hit theaters a little earlier than expected, as Focus Features has announced a new release date for the film. The movie, which was previously slated for a November 7th release, will now premiere for a special limited engagement on October 24th before opening wide on October 31st. Focus Features has now released the trailer.

Bugonia stars Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Aidan Delbis, Stavros Halkias, and Alicia Silverstone. Lanthimos directed the film from a screenplay by Will Tracy. It follows two conspiracy-obsessed young men who kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced she is an alien intent on destroying Planet Earth. The film is produced by Element Pictures’ Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe; Yorgos Lanthimos via Pith; Emma Stone via Fruit Tree...

Focus Features has unveiled the teaser trailer for the sci-fi comedy Bugonia, which is set to open in limited theaters on October 24 and expand wide on October 31. Yorgos Lanthimos directed the film.

The week-long cinematic event, starting on October 24, will feature screenings of the film, which was shot in VistaVision, at select locations in New York and Los Angeles.

Lanthimos is an internationally renowned, five-time Academy Award-nominated director, producer, and screenwriter known for such films as My Best Friend (2001), Dogtooth (2009), The Lobster (2015), The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017), The Favourite (2018), Poor Things (2023), and Kinds of Kindness (2024).

In Bugonia, two conspiracy-obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth. The movie is an English-language remake of the 2003 South Korean film Save the Green Planet! by Jang Joon-hwan.

The film stars Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Aidan Delbis, Stavros Halkias,...