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Universal’s Jurassic World Rebirth leads the new releases in the UK and Ireland this weekend as Gareth Edwards’ science fiction blockbuster bellows into 688 cinemas.

The film grossed £2m from previews on Wednesday, July 2 alone.

Godzilla filmmaker Edwards directs Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey and Mahershala Ali as a team of skilled operatives who embark on a mission to secure life-saving DNA from dinosaurs in dangerous waters.

Rebirth is the seventh feature overall in the Jurassic Park franchise, and fourth since it was rebooted as Jurassic World in 2015.

That 2015 title is the highest-earning film in the franchise, with a huge £16.8m opening and amassing £64.5m overall.

The Eternal Daughter: Lenkiewicz Ladles the Milk of Sorrows

Screenwriter Rebecca Lenkiewicz makes her directorial debut with Hot Milk, an adaptation of Deborah Levy’s comically menacing 2016 novel about a daughter tethered to a mysteriously ailing mother. Or, rather, it’s narrative about the point of un-tethering, fashioned a bit like the reverse situation of the Joseph Conrad novella The End of Tether (1902), wherein an aging sea captain lives solely for the happiness of his child. Having penned a number of high profile femme centered scripts, such as Disobedience (2017) for Sebastian Lelio and She Said (2022) for Maria Schrader, Lenkiewicz returns to a distilled, sinister sense of uneasiness which she mined so eloquently in Pawel Pawlikowski’s Ida (2013), where a relationship between women remains weighted down by a past they’ve been unable to articulate.…...

After earning an Oscar nomination for penning the screenplay for 2022's #MeToo thriller She Said, it's almost time for Rebecca Lenkiewicz to take the reins for the first time. Her directorial debut, Hot Milk, an adaptation of Deborah Levy's 2016 novel of the same name, will arrive in theaters this summer on June 27 courtesy of IFC Films after making a run at the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival earlier this year. Boasting a strong cast headlined by the trio of Fiona Shaw, Emma Mackey, and Vicky Krieps, the film is billed as a deep and emotional exploration of maternal connections, the elusiveness of freedom, and the desires that exist around those concepts. Before it hits the big screen, Collider can exclusively preview the film with a new image and a conversation with the first-time director exploring the complex relationships between these women that will be tested in the...

Paramount+, the streaming service of Paramount Global, will launch two new subscription tiers in Germany, Switzerland and Austria, namely its basic (with ads) and premium plans. They will join the standard tier in the three countries.

Starting Wednesday, March 26, the premium plan will launch in the three markets, priced at 12.99 euro ($14.08) per month in Germany and Austria, and 17.90 Swiss francs ($20.31) monthly in Switzerland. Annual subscriptions will cost 115.99 euro ($125.73) and 161 Swiss francs ($182.73), respectively. The premium plan offers such video quality as 4K Uhd, HDR10, Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos on select titles, plus concurrent streams on up to four devices.

This summer, the basic (with ads) tier will debut in the three German-speaking markets, costing 5.99 euro ($6.49) per month in Germany and Austria, and 7.90 Swiss francs ($8.97) in Switzerland. The annual plan will cost 52.99 euro ($57.45) or 71 Swiss francs ($80.58).

“Paramount+ is seeing strong international subscriber growth as fans in markets around the world come...

Official awards of the 75th Berlinale International Film Festival have been announced and “Dreams” directed by Dag Johan Haugerud won the Golden Bear Award.

According to the report of Mansour Jahani, an independent and international cinema journalist, The closing ceremony of the Berlinale International Film Festival was held at 18:00 on February 22, 2025, at the Berlinale Palast in the city of Berlin, Germany, and the winners of various competition, including; the Main Competition, Perspectives (Gwff Best First Feature Award), the Berlinale Documentary Award as well as the Berlinale Shorts prizes were introduced and the prestigious Golden Bear award for the best film and other awards of this film event were awarded to the winners.

The Prizes of the International Jury

The members of the 2025 International Jury, The members of the jury of the Main Competition of this prestigious and first-class world cinema event are: The US-American director, screenwriter and producer Todd Haynes,...

The 75th Berlin International Film Festival announced the winners of the fest at the awards ceremony held at the Berlinale Palast on February 22.

19 films competed for the awards in this year’s competition with director Todd Haynes heading the International Jury alongside director Nabil Ayouch, costume designer Bina Daigeler, actor Fan Bingbing, director Rodrigo Moreno, film critic and author Amy Nicholson, and director, actor, and screenwriter Maria Schrader.

Related: Berlin Film Festival: Norwegian Film ‘Dreams (Sex Love)’ Wins Golden Bear, Andrew Scott & Rose Byrne Take Acting Honors — Full List

The Golden Bear for Best Film was awarded to Dreams (Sex Love) by Dag Johan Haugerud. Rose Byrne won The Silver Bear for Best Supporting Performance for her role in If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, while Andrew Scott received The Silver Bear for Best Leading Performance in Blue Moon. Huo Meng was honored with The Silver Bear for Best...

The Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival was awarded to Norway’s Dag Johan Haugerud for Dreams (Sex Love) tonight (February 22), the first time this honour has gone to the country.

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Dreams (Sex Love) sees Haugerud complete his Sex Love Dreams trilogy with the story of a young woman whose writings about a crush on her French teacher shock her mother and grandmother, causing them to re-examine their own fantasies. M-Appeal is handling sales.

Haugerud said on stage that it was “beyond [his] wildest dreams” to win the Golden Bear and, speaking...

The 2025 Berlin International Film Festival announced its award winners on Saturday, with Dreams (Sex Love) from filmmaker Dag Johan Haugerud winning the prestigious Golden Bear. Acting honors went to lead performer Rose Byrne for If I Had Legs I’d Kick You and supporting performer Andrew Scott for Blue Moon.

This year’s 2025 Berlinale competition jury was led by filmmaker Todd Haynes (his narrative feature debut Poison was awarded the Teddy Prize for queer filmmaking in Berlin in 1991). Other jurors included Nabil Ayouch (Morocco/France), costume designer Bina Daigeler (Germany), actor Fan Bingbing (China), director Rodrigo Moreno (Argentina), Los Angeles Times critic Amy Nicholson (U.S.), and filmmaker and actor Maria Schrader (Germany).

See the complete list of 2025 Berlin International Film Festival award winners below.

Golden Bear: Dreams (Sex Love) by Dag Johan Haugerud

Silver Bear Jury Prize: The Message by Iván Fund

Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize: The Blue Trail...

The 75th Berlin Film Festival has concluded after nine days of fearless cinema in Germany. IndieWire was on the ground this year and earlier this week took a closer look at the top contenders for the Berlinale Golden Bear, which will be announced today along with other prizes.

That Rose Byrne and director Mary Bronstein had returned to the Palast red carpet meant their film “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You” (which bowed early on at Berlin after world premiering at Sundance in January) was bound to win something. Byrne won the Silver Bear for Best Lead Performance for her turn as a stressed-out mother in crisis in the A24 psychodrama. Hopefully, this award gives Byrne momentum for the 2025 awards season ahead; it’s one of the great screen performances and certainly the crown of her career.

Today’s ceremony marked the first under new artistic director Tricia Tuttle,...

This year’s Berlin Film Festival, under new artistic director Tricia Tuttle, moves closer toward popular tastes than arguably under the stead of Carlo Chatrian. He departed the festival last year while leaving behind a legacy of programming a more arthouse-minded slate. Italian cineaste Chatrian came from Locarno as well as more niche festivals throughout Europe; Tuttle is an American with a history of film journalism and programming in the States and at the BFI London.

Bong Joon Ho’s “Mickey 17” and the Berlin premiere of “A Complete Unknown” (Searchlight Pictures) brought stars like Robert Pattinson and Timothée Chalamet (along with his girlfriend Kylie Jenner) to the festival for viral moments that have put an energizing, social-media-friendly spotlight on the European showcase here in the U.S. “Mickey 17” needs all the help it can get, as the sci-fi comedy has been re-dated several times and, in the David Zaslav...

There are numerous first time directors at this year’s Berlinale, but few come with the sort of indie film credits on Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s resume.

The British playwright and screenwriter had worked on the script for Pawel Pawlikowski’s Oscar-winning “Ida” alongside the director, on “Disobedience” with Sebastián Lelio and on “Colette” with Wash Westmoreland, before going it alone to turn Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey’s book about their industry-shaking Harvey Weinstein expose into the script that would become Maria Schrader’s “She Said” in 2022.

But with “Hot Milk,” which bowed at the Palaste on Friday, she moved closer to the camera and made it her directorial debut. Adapted (by Lenkiewicz) from Deborah Levy’s book and shot in Greece, the story is set under the hot Spanish summer and follows Sofia, a young woman (Emma Mackey) in a co-dependent relationship with her wheelchair-bound mother Rose (Fiona Shaw...

A likely unexpected group was on the receiving end of Tilda Swinton’s Golden Bear for Lifetime Achievement acceptance speech at Thursday night’s Berlin Film Festival opening ceremony, as the actress took to the stage to call out “war criminals, “state-perpetrated and internationally enabled mass murder,” and “greed-addicted governments.”

In her speech (via Variety), Swinton lauded the festival as “a borderless realm and with no policy of exclusion, persecution, or deportation.” She then acknowledged the rise of “entitled domination and the astonishing savagery of spite, state-perpetrated and internationally enabled mass murder… unacceptable to human society,” though she didn’t go into specifics or name current conflicts.

She continued, “These are facts. They need to be faced. So for the sake of clarity, let’s name it. The inhumane is being perpetrated on our watch. I’m here to name it without hesitation or doubt in my mind and to...

Berlin Film Festival Jury President Todd Haynes recently opened the annual celebration Thursday, February 13 with an ominous warning about the current Trump administration.

“We’re in a state of particular crisis right now in the United States, but also globally,” he said (as per Variety).

Considering the barrage of executive actions being handed down by Trump, Haynes believes the concern over how this “will affect filming is a real question hanging over all American filmmakers.”

“Always with filmmaking in particular, the financing question is complicated,” Haynes said. “So it’s also about the kind of financiers who are willing to take risks and willing to support strong voices. And I think that exists, but again, it takes examples and positive outcomes to fortify those kinds of risks that people may want to take.”

He added later, “Every film that is not part of a franchise, piece of content, or a Marvel film,...

The Berlin Film Festival kicked off its 75th edition Thursday with a lively conversation featuring filmmaker Todd Haynes and other members of the jury examining Donald Trump’s return to power and the impact that rising nationalist currents around the world will have on cinema.

Tricia Tuttle, the festival’s new director, outlined her vision for the enduring event, which is an important showcase of European film and has become a key sales and marketing launch pad for distributors in the U.S. and other territories. She addressed the challenges festivals face in dealing with intense political divisions that flare up around artistic expression and gatherings such as the Berlinale.

Variety will be on the ground in Berlin through the duration of the festival, which runs through Feb. 23. Follow our coverage and film reviews via Variety.com — all of our news coverage can be found here and reviews found here...

Todd Haynes, his Berlinale international jury and festival director Tricia Tuttle tackled US president Donald Trump and the rise of far right politics around the world, in the opening press conference of the festival’s 75th edition.

Haynes acknowledged that “we’re in a state of particular crisis right now, in the US but also globally. Everyone I know in the US and friends abroad are witnessing this barrage of actions in the first three weeks of the Trump administration with tremendous concern, shock. I think that’s been part of the strategy.”

Despite this, Haynes said he has “an...

Todd Haynes described the U.S. as being in a state of crisis at the Berlinale jury press conference on Thursday when asked on his thoughts on President Donald Trump’s first weeks in office.

“We’re in a state of particular crisis right now in the United States, but also globally… everyone I know in the United States… are witnessing this barrage of actions in the first three weeks of the Trump administration with tremendous concern and shock,” he said.

“I think that’s been part of the strategy to create a sense of destabilization and shock to people so that how we proceed toward coalescing different forms of resistance are still in the works and are still being figured out among Democrats,” he continued.

“I have no doubt that there will be many people who got in that vote for this president, who will be quickly disillusioned by...

Todd Haynes, who is serving as Berlin Film Festival jury president, spoke out against Donald Trump’s administration as the fest kicked off on Thursday.

When asked his thoughts on Trump’s second term at the jury press conference, the “May December” director said bluntly: “We’re in a state of particular crisis right now in the United States, but also globally.”

He continued, “Everyone I know in the United States and friends abroad are witnessing this barrage of actions in the first three weeks of the Trump administration with tremendous concern, shock. I think that’s been part of the strategy, to create a sense of destabilization and shock among the people. So how we proceed toward coalescing different forms of resistance are still in the works and are still being figured out among Democrats. I have no doubt that there will be many people who did in fact...

Berlin Film Festival’s International jury president Todd Haynes was asked about Donald Trump within a matter of minutes at the Berlinale’s first press conference on Thursday.

Haynes was joined by fellow jury members Bina Daigeler (Germany), actor Fan Bingbing (People’s Republic of China), director Rodrigo Moreno (Argentina), film critic and author Amy Nicholson (U.S.) and director, actor and screenwriter Maria Schrader (Germany).

“We’re in a state of particular crisis right now in the U.S. but also globally,” Haynes, director of May December, Carol and Dark Waters, said from the Grand Hyatt Berlin in the German capital Thursday.

“I think everyone I know in the U.S. and friends abroad are witnessing this barrage of actions in the first three weeks of the Trump administration with tremendous concern, shock.”

“I think that’s been part of the strategy, is to create a sense of destabilization...

The Berlin Film Festival celebrates its 75th year with new leadership and fresh new cinema from around the world. New artistic director and former BFI London Film Festival leader Tricia Tuttle joins co-directors of programming Jacqueline Lyanga and Michael Stütz to help reposition the Berlinale’s profile among the great global film festivals and lure bigger-name filmmakers in the process.

That’s begun to pay off already this year, with new films from Germany’s own Tom Tykwer (supernatural opening night family drama epic “The Light”), Ira Sachs (“Peter Hujar’s Day”), Michel Gondry, Michel Franco (“Dreams”), Radu Jude (“Kontinental ’25”), Richard Linklater (“Blue Moon”), Hong Sangsoo (“What Does That Nature Say to You”), Lucile Hadžihalilović (“The Ice Tower”), and of course Bong Joon Ho (“Mickey 17”) sprinkled throughout the sections.

Meanwhile, Todd Haynes heads up the jury, which also includes filmmaker Nabil Ayouch, costume designer Bina Daigeler, actor Fan Bingbing,...

In September 5, the story of a 1972 news team combines the legacy of earlier journalism films. In 2025, it could hardly be more relevant.

I bloody love a good journalism movie. I’m probably biased, but I’m not sure there’s always a correlation between a person’s job and their film taste; do all bus drivers obsessively watch Paterson and Speed? For our sake, I hope they’re not obsessively watching Speed.

Regardless, there’s little more reassuring in a climate of evaporating media outlets than a movie telling you your profession (albeit the slightly more important-sounding investigative side of it) is worth having around. The Post and (improbably) Spotlight have become go-to comfort movies in my house.

It seems I’m not alone, either – since the golden age of film noir, the intrepid journalist has become a helpful narrative replacement for the kind of chain-smoking private investigator’s we...

German actor and filmmaker Maria Schrader, Franco-Moroccan director Nabil Ayouch and Chinese actor Fan Bingbing have joined the Berlin film festival’s international competition jury, presided over by Todd Haynes.

Schrader won the festival’s Silver Bear for best actress in 1999 for Aimee & Jaguar and as a directorcompeted at Berlin in 2021 withI’m Your Man,while her further credits includeShe Saidand Netflix seriesUnorthodox.

Fan Bingbingwas last at Berlin in 2023, playing the lead role inGreen Night.

Ayouch is a director, writer and producer whose most recent film Everybody Loves Toudapremiered at Cannes last year.

They are joined on the jury by...

Chinese star Fan Bingbing (I Am Not Madame Bovary, The 355) and German actor/director Maria Schrader (I’m Your Man, She Said) will join jury president Todd Haynes to judge the competition films at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival, the Berlinale announced Thursday.

Berlin unveiled its international jury for the 2025 event, which runs Feb. 13-23, which will see the Far from Heaven and Carol director heading up the four-woman, three-man jury that will pick this year’s Gold and Silver Bear winners.

Alongside Fan and Schrader, the 2025 Berlinale jury includes Moroccan-French director Nabil Ayouch (Much Loved, Horses of God), German costume designer Bina Daigeler (TÁR, Mulan), Argentine director Rodrigo Moreno (The Delinquents), and American critic and podcast host Amy Nicholson.

Haynes has a long history with the Berlinale. His debut feature Poison won the Teddy Award, for LGBTQ+ cinema, at Berlin in 1991.

The 75th Berlinale kicks off with...

The Berlinale has unveiled the jury for its main Competition as well as those for the sidebars of its 75th edition running February 13 to 23.

Director Nabil Ayouch (Morocco/France), costume designer Bina Daigeler (Germany), actor Fan Bingbing (China), director Rodrigo Moreno (Argentina), film critic and author Amy Nicholson (U.S.) and director, actor and screenwriter Maria Schrader (Germany) join previously announced president Todd Haynes in the main competition jury.

They will decide the Golden Bear for Best Film (awarded to the film’s producers) as well as the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize, Silver Bear Jury Prize and Silver Bears for Best Director, Best Leading Performance, Best Supporting Performance, Best Screenplay and Best Outstanding Artistic Contribution.

The three-member jury of the inaugural Perspective Competition, showcasing 14 first features by emerging directors, has been named as director Meryam Joobeur (Tunisia/Canada), actor-director Aïssa Maïga (France/Mali) and producer María Zamora (Spain).

They...

The Berlin Film Festival has unveiled the competition jury of its 75th edition, including Chinese superstar Fan Bingbing, Moroccan filmmaker Nabil Ayouch (“Everybody Loves Touda”), German costume designer Bina Daigeler (Tár), Argentinian director Rodrigo Moreno (“The Delinquents”), film critic Amy Nicholson and actress-director Maria Schrader (“She Said”).

As previously announced, the jury will be presided over by “May December” filmmaker Todd Haynes.

Earlier this month, the festival announced an exciting lineup, including Richard Linklater’s “Blue Moon,” starring Ethan Hawke and Margaret Qualley, and Michel Franco’s “Dreams” with Jessica Chastain. Other notable titles on the competition roster include “Hot Milk,” the feature debut of acclaimed screenwriter Rebecca Lenkiewicz (“She Said”) starring Emma Mackey, Fiona Shaw and Vicky Krieps; and “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You,” Mary Bronstein’s film starring Rose Byrne, A$AP Rocky and Conan O’Brien.

A pair of Chinese movies, “Girls on Wire” (“Xiang fei...

For 22 nail-biting, torturous hours in a crammed studio in Munich during the 1972 Olympics, an ABC Sports broadcast crew suddenly found itself in the middle of the action when violence broke out in the Olympic Village and Israeli athletes were taken hostage. In writer-director Tim Fehlbaum’s gripping take on that historical day, September 5 follows young and ambitious producer Geoff Mason (Robert Altman recipient John Magaro) and legendary TV executive Roone Arledge (Spirit Award nominee Peter Sarsgaard), who led a valiant effort to report the deadly event to the world, inadvertently broadcasting a terrorist attack live on the air for the first time in history.

We recently spoke to veteran picture editor Hansjörg Weißbrich, who is singularly qualified for this project thanks to a combination of his German language skills and his familiarity with analog editing equipment prevalent in the film.

Before we start, I just want to say that you...

Exclusive: Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland), Maria Schrader (She Said), and Ramin Bahrani (White Tiger) are among the filmmakers set to attend this year’s Floodlight Summit in Cartagena, Colombia.

This year’s event — the second annual Floodlight Summit gathering — will run December 6-8 in Cartagena. The summit gathers investigative journalists from across the globe who present their work to filmmakers and producers for potential screen adaptations.

Other headline guests set to attend include William Horberg (The Queen’s Gambit), Ziad Doueiri (West Beirut), Sarah Timberman (Justified), Alexander Rodnyansky (Leviathan), and Rodrigo García (News of a Kidnapping). Ryan Murphy Productions Senior Executive and Attorney Craig Emanuel will also be in attendance to offer legal guidance.

The 2024 cohort of Floodlight journalists includes reporters from more than 25 countries across five continents, including a Pulitzer Prize winner, independent journalists, and war reporters. Speakers from the profession set for Colombia include Jodi Kantor...

There’s a scene in Shiori Ito’s searing documentary Black Box Diaries, in which the director, who is also the film’s subject, tells a swarm of reporters about trying to press criminal charges against her rapist. Like many sexual violence survivors forced into this ritual of public re-litigation, she is a model of what society has come to expect of courageous women. Her face betrays no emotion and she is dressed in the chaste uniform of the aggrieved: delicate earrings (Ito opts for pearls), a conservatively tailored blouse (a black button down here), and wearing little to no makeup (faint signs of blush and a single stroke of eyeliner).

Ito’s voice remains calm as she recounts the police’s initial refusal to accept her victim’s report and their arsenal of excuses: Sex crimes were difficult to investigate, they said; her rapist, Noriyuki Yamaguchi, the former Washington Bureau...

Wondering what to watch now that another season of “Slow Horses” has wrapped up? Never fear, there are plenty of other spy and spy-adjacent series similar to the acclaimed Apple TV+ series.

We’ve assembled this handy list of shows, some British, some American, and one German, that should satisfy your appetite for espionage, intrigue, danger, action and full-on bluffing your enemy that you can stream right now. All while waiting for “Slow Horses” Season 5, which is coming next year.

Keeley Hawes, Matthew Macfadyen and David Oyelowo in “MI5” (Credit: BBC) MI5 (2002 – 2011)

Long before Matthew Macfadyen was jockeying for power and glory on “Succession,” he was MI5 agent Tom Quinn, who tackled terrorists of all stripes with his colleagues Zoe Reynolds (Keeley Hawes) and Danny Hunter (played by future “Lawmen: Bass Reeves” star David Oyelowo). The stellar cast includes Richard Armitage, Nicolas Walker, Peter Firth and Jenny Agutter. The series...

Spanish director and actress Icíar Bollaín’s I Am Nevenka (Soy Nevenka), which premiered at the San Sebastian Film Festival that runs through Saturday, tells the story of Nevenka Fernández (portrayed by Mireia Oriol), the first Spanish woman to obtain a sexual harassment conviction of a politician.

The case that made Spanish headlines in 2001, long before #MeToo, focused on Ismael Álvarez (played in the movie by Urko Olazabal), the popular and powerful mayor of Ponferrada who brought the young Fernández into his team as councilor of finance.

Soon, she ends up being “relentlessly hounded by the mayor, a man used to getting his way both politically and personally,” notes a synopsis on the San Sebastian festival’s website. “Nevenka decides to report him, knowing that it will cost her dearly. A story based on true events turning its lead character into a forerunner of the #metoo movement due to being...

Seven years after coming up short on their respective first and second Best TV Movie/Limited Series Directing Emmy bids against Jean-Marc Vallée (“Big Little Lies”), Steven Zaillian and Noah Hawley are involved in a rematch as helmers of the non-continuing programs “Ripley” and “Fargo.” Despite the quality of their new work and their strong Emmys resumes, they are widely expected to once again be bested by a complete first-timer: Weronika Tofilska (“Baby Reindeer”).

Tofilska is joined in this directing lineup’s category newcomer majority by Issa López (“True Detective”), Millicent Shelton (“Lessons in Chemistry”), and Gus Van Sant (“Feud”). Counting Zaillian and Hawley, Shelton is the only one in the bunch who has ever earned TV academy recognition for directing a non-limited series, as her very first bid came for “30 Rock” in 2009.

In order to determine whether this is truly Tofilska’s race to lose, let’s take...

Matthias Glasner’s Dying was the winner of the top prize at this year’s German Film Awards, clinching the Golden Lola in the best film category along with a cash prize of €500,000 for the producers to invest in a future project.

The production by Port au Prince Film & Kultur Produktion, Schwarzweiß Filmproduktion and Senator Film Produktion, which had its world premiere in competition at this year’s Berlinale where it won the best screenplay Silver Bear, also garnered another three statuettes: Corinna Harfouch (best lead actress), Hans-Uwe Bauer (best supporting actor), and Lorenz Dangel (best film score).

Glasner’s family drama,...

Oppenheimer director Christopher Nolan won the Academy Award for best director, his first Oscar ever, on Sunday night.

“I have so many people to thank,” Nolan said during his acceptance speech. “The most incredible cast, Matt Damon, Robert, Emily, Florence, just so many others, all at the top of their game, led by the incredible Cillian Murphy… a crew, some of whom have been awarded tonight. I can’t say enough about the incredible crew that we got together on this film. Thank you to Chuck Roven for putting the book in my hands… The incredible Emma Thomas, producer of all our films and all of our children. I love you. To the academy, just to say movies are just a little bit over 100 years old. I mean, imagine being there 100 years into painting or theater. We don’t know where this incredible journey is going from here. But to...

Acclaimed British actor, writer and director Samantha Morton who was awarded a Fellowship at the Ee BAFTA Awards on Sunday has called for more investment in British cinema.

The award is the highest recognition given by BAFTA to an individual for their exceptional contribution to the film, games or television industry.

Addressing a press conference after accepting her award, Morton said: “We need more investment in British cinema. I’ve been saying this for years because we can’t just be a service industry for the wonderful Americans. They are amazing and thank God they come here and make movies and put us in as well, thank you. Like in France, we need our own quotas and we need to be making those investments.” Inward investment in the U.K. film and high-end TV industry was $4.22 billion in 2023, with the bulk of it coming from the U.S.

The U.K....

With “Cuckoo,” German director Tilman Singer expands on the scope of his impressive 2018 debut (the demonic-possession-meets-therapeutic-improv exercise “Luz”) while retaining that film’s bird-flipping attitude toward unnecessary niceties like coherent plotting or narrative logic. Singer makes what ought to be his breakthrough with “Cuckoo,” an energetically outlandish fusion of stylish atmospherics, old-school reproductive horror and pro-switchblade advertorial. The profile of this highly enjoyable, unashamedly convoluted creepfest will be further raised by “Euphoria” star Hunter Schafer’s terrific Final Girl performance and by Dan Stevens’ hilariously eccentric villain, the second recent showcase for Stevens’ excellent spoken German after Maria Schrader’s “I’m Your Man.” Few are the films and fewer are the actors who can get such sinister mileage out of a character’s insistently Teutonic, semi-sibilant mispronunciation of the name “Gretchen.”

Gretchen (Schafer), appears, initially, to be the cuckoo. She is sent to live with her estranged father Luis (Marton Csokas...

British actor, writer, and director Samantha Morton will be awarded the BAFTA Fellowship at next week’s Ee BAFTA Film Awards.

Born in Nottingham in 1977, Morton garnered international attention in 1997 with her performance in Carine Adler’s Under the Skin, earning her a BIFA nomination and the Boston Film Critics Award for Best Actress. She has been nominated for an Academy Award first for Best Supporting Actress for Woody Allen’s Sweet and Lowdown (1999), and later for Best Actress for Jim Sheridan’s In America (2003).

Other notable film credits include work with directors such as Lynne Ramsay on Morvern Callar (2002), for which she won Best Performance, Toronto Film Critics Award and a BIFA for Best Actress; Steven Spielberg on Minority Report (2002); Michael Winterbottom on Code 46 (2003); Shekhar Kapur on The Golden Age (2007); Harmony Korine on Mister Lonely (2007); Anton Corbijn on Control, (2007), earning her a Best Supporting Actress BAFTA Film Award nomination; Charlie Kaufman Synecdoche,...

Acclaimed British actor, writer and director Samantha Morton will be awarded a Fellowship at the upcoming Ee BAFTA Film Awards.

The award is the highest recognition given by BAFTA to an individual for their exceptional contribution to the film, games or television industry.

After earning plaudits in theater and television, Morton’s breakthrough film role was Carine Adler’s “Under the Skin (1997) that earned her a BIFA nomination and the Boston Film Critics Award for best actress. She has been Oscar nominated twice – for best supporting actress for Woody Allen’s “Sweet and Lowdown” (1999), and for best actress for Jim Sheridan’s “In America” (2003).

For her portrayal of child-murderer Myra Hindley in “Longford” (2006) Morton scored best actress nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award and BAFTA Television Award, and won a Golden Globe. In 2009, she made her directorial debut with television film “The Unloved,” a semi-autobiographical film based in the British children’s care system,...

Actor, writer and director Samantha Morton will receive the Bafta Fellowship at next week’s Bafta Film Awards, on Sunday, February 18.

The British performer and filmmaker will receive the award during the ceremony as part of a special commemoration of her work to date.

Morton, who hails from Nottingham, broke through with her role in Carine Adler’s 1997 Under The Skin, for which she received a Bifa nomination.

Her subsequent credits include Lynne Ramsay’s Morvern Callar, for which she won the Bifa for best actress; Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report; Anton Corbijn’s Control, for which she was nominated...

Barbie director Greta Gerwig was notably snubbed in the best director category during the Oscar nominations on Tuesday. But following last year’s omission of any female filmmaker in the category, Anatomy of a Fall’s Justine Triet received a nomination.

Triet, Yorgos Lanthimos (Poor Things), Christopher Nolan (Oppenheimer), Jonathan Glazer (The Zone of Interest) and Martin Scorsese (Killers of the Flower Moon) were nominated in the coveted category Tuesday morning.

Gerwig is a notable snub, as the Barbie director, throughout the awards season, received various best director nominations (the Directors Guild of America, the Golden Globes, Critics Choice) and wins (Palm Springs International Film Fest). She was also on various pundits’ prediction lists for best director, including from The Hollywood Reporter. Frontrunner Alexander Payne (The Holdovers) was also omitted.

Last year, no woman was nominated for best director. The nominees were Martin McDonagh (The Banshees of Inisherin), Todd Field...

llker Çatak, the director of Germany’s Oscar shortlisted The Teachers’ Lounge with Anne-Katrin Titze on Wim Wenders, the director of Japan’s Oscar shortlisted Perfect Days: “Wim is such a nice guy! He’s not my competitor, he’s one of my teachers.”

Luc Dardenne and Jean-Pierre Dardenne’s Young Ahmed (Le Jeune Ahmed), Laurent Cantet’s The Class (Entre Les Murs), Stéphane Brizé’s The Measure Of A Man, starring the unforgettable Vincent Lindon, and Gus Van Sant’s Elephant are four of the films that inspired llker Çatak’s outstanding The Teachers’ Lounge. Shot by Judith Kaufmann, edited by Gesa Jäger (Jakob Lass’s Love Steaks with Lana Cooper and Franz Rogowski; Anna Winger's Transatlantic and Maria Schrader's Unorthodox series with Shira Haas), stars a terrific Leonie Benesch (Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon).

Ms Nowak (Leonie Benesch) in the classroom with her students...

Andre Braugher passed away this week at the age of 61, and his loss has been deeply, acutely felt by pretty much anyone who had ever seen even a moment of his work. Braugher was a powerful actor, capable of humor and grace and humanity relayed through just a line or a look. His entire filmography is well worth revisiting, but his final film role, in 2022's "She Said," stood out to the actor himself.

In the film, Braugher played Dean Baquet, the real-life former executive editor of The New York Times who oversaw the bombshell article exposing disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein's long history of sexual misconduct involving women written by Megan Twohey (Carey Mulligan) and Jodi Kantor (Zoe Kazan). In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter around the time of the film's release, Braugher admitted that director Maria Schrader did something he'd never seen before: allowing the actors to perform without rehearsing.

‘How To Have Sex’, ‘Smoke Sauna Sisterhood’ and ‘The Promised Land’ were also decorated.

It was a strong night for Anatomy Of A Fall at this year’s European Film Awards, taking home five awards at this evening’s (December 9) ceremony in Berlin.

French filmmaker Justine Triet’s Palme d’Or winner continued its triumphant streak, having recently scored the Bifa for best international independent film and best international feature and screenplay at the Gothams. The mystery thriller, which Triet co-wrote with her partner Arthur Harari, and stars Sandra Hüller, clinched the prizes in the European film, director, screenwriter and actress categories,...

Gwyneth Paltrow won an Oscar for her performance in Shakespeare in Love, which marked a significant turning point in her career. Paltrow humorously claims that she uses her Oscar as a doorstop, but it was later clarified that she keeps it at her home in Amagansett. In addition to her Oscar, Paltrow has also won other prestigious awards, including a Golden Globe and a Primetime Emmy for her acting accomplishments.

Academy Award-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow shares the surprising but practical use she found for her Oscar trophy, which she won in 1999 for her performance in Shakespeare in Love.

Although Paltrow began acting long before landing the role of Viola de Lesseps in the film directed by John Madden, there is no doubt that that part marked a before and after in her career. And the fact that she won the Oscar for Best Actress for it is a clear example of that.

Belgian director Joachim Lafosse is done being silent.

Just like the family in his latest film “A Silence,” inspired by the real-life case of Victor Hissel: a former lawyer for two victims of killer Marc Dutroux, ultimately charged with possession of child pornography.

“To me, it’s not a dark story, because they do start to talk,” he says about the characters played by Emmanuelle Devos and newcomer Matthieu Galoux, slowly digging up the long-buried sins of their husband and father (Daniel Auteuil).

“Astrid and her children decide to step out of that criminal environment. With this film, I want to show how people can be violated by something like that, how difficult it is to shake off that shame and guilt. It’s difficult, but I think it’s possible.”

He also had to learn how to speak up, he says.

“In 2008, I made ‘Private Lessons.’ I didn’t say that at the time,...

Samantha Morton takes on a haunting role as reverend Jack Brooks in Paramount+'s new horror thriller, The Burning Girls. The series follows a reverend and her daughter as they move to Chapel Croft in search of a fresh start, only to uncover dark secrets that turn their lives into a nightmare. Morton's extensive career in film and television includes acclaimed films and memorable roles, establishing her as a British actress with a powerful legacy.

Samantha Morton plays reverend Jack Brooks in the first look trailer for The Burning Girls, the new horror thriller from Paramount+, which premieres on October 19.

As she prepares to return as Catherine de' Medici in the second season of The Serpent Queen, Morton puts royalty aside to become a haunted vicar in the new series from Hans Rosenfeldt and Camilla Ahlgren. Based on the novel by C.J. Tudor, the story follows a reverend and her daughter,...

At some point in our culture, we began to see male comedians as philosophers. Invoking the legacies of George Carlin, Richard Pryor and Bill Hicks, comedy fans have labeled funny men as paternalistic truth tellers that we all must revere. Never mind the fact that these men are no longer alive and thus have no opportunity to challenge the way their work has been framed and which living comics they are compared to.

Louis C.K. is one such comedian who has often been spoken of in the same breath as these men, despite lacking the often political edge of their work. C.K. and comics like Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle are the confirmed gold standard of comedy, standing at the top of the mountain looking down at the rest of us. There’s no denying their talent and insight, but they are very much still human, despite the prevailing...

Lila Aviles received best director in the international competition.

Marie Amachoukeli’s Ama Gloria and Juraj Lerotic’s Safe Place lead the winners of the 40th Jerusalem Film Festival, which handed out 1m Ils in prizes this evening (July 20).

Ama Gloria, which premiered in Critics’ Week at Cannes this year, won the best international film award. The film depicts the last summer between a six-year-old girl and her nanny Gloria, before the latter returns to Cape Verde to care for her own children.

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A jury led by Claire Denis and consisting of Whit Stillman,...

Marie Amachoukeli’s Ama Gloria has won the Best International Film Prize at the 40th edition of the Jerusalem Film Festival, running from July 13 to July 26.

The feature, which world premiered as the opening film of Cannes Critics’ Week in May, revolves around a motherless six-year-old girl who travels to Cape Verde to reunite with her longtime nanny.

The jury presided over by Claire Denis, and also figuring Whit Stillman, Florian Zeller, Joana Vicente, and Maria Schrader praised the film’s “extraordinary poignancy, beauty and insight”.

Ama Gloria is produced by Bénédicte Couvreur, the long-time producer of Céline Sciamma and her films Petite Maman and Portrait Of A Lady On Fire.

Other winners in the International Competition include Best Director for Mexico’s Lila Avilés for Berlinale-selected family drama Totem and a Special Mention for the ensemble cast of Argentinian director Rodrigo Moreno’s The Delinquents, which debuted in Un Certain Regard this year.

Jurors include Whit Stillman, Florian Zeller, Maria Schrader, Joana Vicente.

French filmmaker Claire Denis will lead the international competition jury for the 40th Jerusalem Film Festival, which runs from July 13-23.

Denis will be joined by directors Whit Stillman, Florian Zeller and Maria Schrader on the jury, plus Sundance Institute CEO Joana Vicente.

Hungarian director Kornel Mundruczo will preside over the Israeli competition jury. Directors make up the majority of the jurors across the competitive sections, including Jasmila Zbanic, Ali Abbasi, Sebastian Meise, Julian Rosefeldt, Joseph Cedar, Sebastien Lifshitz, Barbara Albert, Alexandru Belc and Manuela Martelli, plus Mathilde Henrot from Locarno Film Festival.

Florian Zeller, the Oscar-winning director and playwright of “The Father” and “The Son,” received the Medal of Honor, France’s highest decoration, at an intimate ceremony in Paris on Wednesday.

The event, hosted in the gardens of the French authors and composers guild (Sacd), gathered a flurry of talent and luminaries from the worlds of film, TV, theater and literature — reflecting the breadth of Zeller’s body of work. Zeller was appointed Knight of the Legion of Honor by France President Emmanuel Macron.

Guests included Isabelle Huppert, Pierre Arditi, Catherine Frot and Elodie Navarre who have starred in Zeller’s plays; Christopher Hampton, with whom he shares a best adapted screenplay Oscar for “The Father;” “Simone” actor Elsa Zylberstein; Mediawan boss Pierre-Antoine Capton, with whom he launched the L.A.-based company Blue Morning Pictures; Victoria Bedos (“La famille Belier”); Orange Studio’s Kristina Zimmermann and Sebastien Cauchon, who distributed...

Greenbird Flies To New Owner

Scotland’s Stv Studios has acquired the 15 companies operated by “Lego Masters” company Greenbird Media for £21.4 million ($27.3 million). Israel’s Keshet International acquired 60% of Greenbird five years ago. Stv Studios has now acquired 100% of Greenbird, including Keshet’s stake.

Greenbird founders, Jamie Munro and Stuart Mullin, will join the Stv Studios board in the roles of chief commercial officer and finance and integration director respectively, working alongside COO, Paul Sheehan, and under the leadership of MD, David Mortimer.

The deal boosts the number of labels within Stv Studios from nine to 24. As a result of the acquisition, Stv Studios now has expanded bases in Glasgow and London, as well as offices in Cardiff, Belfast, Brighton and Manchester.

Hit shows made by the producers in Greenbird’s cluster include: “Lego Masters” (Tuesday’s Child for Channel 4/Fox) and “The Hit List” (Tuesday’s Child for BBC One...