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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has done lots of good for the movie industry, as both a business and an art form. Most notably, since the first ceremony in 1929, they annually honor a crop of the year's best films with the Academy Awards, colloquially known as the Oscars. These awards are often wonderful barometers of cinematic quality, drawing audiences toward films they might've otherwise never seen. But sometimes -- or, depending on your point of view, quite often -- the Academy gets it wrong. They ignore what's obviously the superior film of the year in favor of something milquetoast, suspect, or otherwise overrated.

Some of these notable films, whose wins almost immediately received cultural asterisks, include "Green Book," "Crash," and "Driving Miss Daisy." But others still need a touch of critical drubbing, and today is the day to humble these disproportionately honored flicks. With all this in mind,...

Jenna Ortega’s Salary Leaps From $5 Million In Scream VI To $20 Million In Wednesday Season 2 ( Photo Credit – Instagram )

Over the years, with massive hard work and dedication, Jenna Ortega has achieved a feat in her career. She is now one of the most acclaimed actresses in Hollywood and has garnered massive recognition after featuring in projects like Scream and Scream VI, Wednesday, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, and more. She has carved her niche and is known for her edgy performances. Although she started her career as a child actor, Ortega very quickly moulded herself into taking the lead in projects.

In Wednesday season 2, she not only played the titular character but also took the responsibility of an executive producer. Ortega is expanding her wings, and with this Netflix series, it seems her career has taken a flight that might not come down anytime soon. So, where does her financial status stand? Do...

Pokémon’s collaborations get more and more fascinating(Photo Credit –YouTube)

Sakamoto Days’ debut in 2025 was one of the most well-received anime debuts of the year. With a plot as eccentric as its characters, this anime quietly jumped up the rankings and became a fan favourite pick of the year. Its popularity did not stop there. Sakamoto Days has now collaborated with the long-running anime franchise Pokémon.

Sakamoto Days and Pokémon collaborate for a special illustration cover for Weekly Shonen Jump

In the special issue in Weekly Shonen Jump, we see that Taro Sakamoto teams up with Chikorita from the Johto region. The illustration presents a seamless blend of two worlds on the cover, showcasing the highly trained assassin in the mystical world of Pokemon. Other illustrations in the issues included artworks of Kagurabachi’s Takeru Hokazono and Ichi the Witch’s Osamu Nishi. This illustration cover is a part...

Wednesday Season 2 Part 1 Ending Explained(Photo Credit –Netflix)

After years of waiting, Wednesday Addams is finally back in her black couture, turning our dreams into nightmares. Jenna Ortega has returned to reprise her role as Wednesday in the Netflix series. Season 2, part 1, is comprised of 4 episodes, and even though it doesn’t make up for all the excitement, the new crime scenarios will definitely keep you hooked till the end.

For those who don’t know, the storyline of the second season, part 1, revolves around Wednesday returning to Nevermore after the summer break. But this time she is not alone, her brother gets enlisted, and their parents also decide to stay on for a bit. The school has changed, the principal has been replaced, but danger hasn’t subsided yet. A stalker is lurking somewhere, and a lot of bad things are about to happen. Will Wednesday be able to solve them?...

Wednesday Season 1: Why Christina Ricci Replaced Thora Birch Midway Through Filming ( Photo Credit – Instagram )

Jenna Ortega is back again as Wednesday Addams in season 2 of the Netflix series Wednesday. While the fans get immersed in the new plot twists and the chaos, let us take you back to the season 1 scenario where Christina Ricci, who can be recognized as Wednesday Addams for portraying the lead character in the 90s Addams Family, replaced Thora Birch in the rebooted version of Tim Burton’s series.

Thora Birch was supposed to play the only ‘Normie’ of Nevermore and Wednesday’s dorm mother, who also inclined to botany, Tamara Novak. However, after filming most of the initial part, she left the show when Ricci came in to take over the role. Although Birch’s character was scrapped, Ricci was given a new role as Marilyn Thornhill, who had similar characteristics.

Why Thora Birch...

Actor Doug Jones has been through a lot in a career that has frequently required him to contort his body, wear outlandish costumes, and get encased in monster prosthetics. However, it's possible that his strangest on-screen act came in one of his earliest roles, when he had to hold live moths in his mouth during the filming of the 1993 horror comedy classic Hocus Pocus. Jones discussed the unusual stunt at the FanX Atl Comics Convention this weekend at a panel moderated by Collider's Maggie Lovitt.

In the scene, Jones' character, a 400-year-old zombie named Billy Butcherson, cuts open the stitches holding his mouth together:

"That was before CG, when computer graphics were not nearly good enough. So we did it for real. So I had three moths in my mouth...they had to build a sheath for it, they call it a dental dam, so upper and lower pieces made of latex,...

It's been two years since Disney confirmed a third trip to Salem was in the works following the success of Hocus Pocus 2, yet the Sanderson Sisters' brooms remain grounded, according to Sarah Jessica Parker. During her appearance on Andy Cohen's Watch What Happens Live on Sunday, the star provided a rare update on the witchy threequel when answering a viewer question from two London-based fans. The good news is that the film is still happening, with Bette Midler and Kathy Najimy likely to reprise their roles alongside her. However, there's been little movement since the initial announcement, meaning viewers won't be seeing the Sandersons again anytime soon.

"No more developments, other than we would like to do it," Parker said during the show. As far as where the film was in the development process, she reiterated that, "We would like to do it, and we've been having some conversations.

If you’re hoping for a quick follow-up to Hocus Pocus 2, you might want to sit down and take a deep breath. Sarah Jessica Parker, one of the stars of the franchise, gave a surprising update about Hocus Pocus 3 that suggests the movie isn’t moving forward very fast.

More than two years after Disney announced that a third Hocus Pocus movie was in the works—following the big streaming success of Hocus Pocus 2 in 2022—Parker spoke about the sequel during a recent appearance on Andy Cohen’s Watch What Happens Live.

When asked by fans from London if the next film was going to be made soon, Parker joked, “Um, well, for the expats in London… no more developments, other than we would like to do it.” She added again, “We would like to do it,” and said that there have been some early talks about the project,...

It looks like fans waiting for Hocus Pocus 3 will have to stay patient, because the movie isn’t moving forward anytime soon. Sarah Jessica Parker recently gave an update that might disappoint some people hoping for a quick return of the Sanderson Sisters.

During an appearance on Andy Cohen’s Watch What Happens Live, Parker was asked by two fans in London if there was any news about the next Hocus Pocus movie. Rumors had been floating around that filming could start soon, possibly in London itself. But Parker’s answer was simple and clear.

She said, “Um, well, for the expats in London… no more developments, other than we would like to do it.” She then repeated, “We would like to do it.” She also mentioned that some conversations were happening behind the scenes but didn’t give any real details about what those talks involved or who was involved,...

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A fun piece of trivia about actor David Corenswet: his maternal grandfather is Edward Packard, the creator of the popular "Choose Your Own Adventure" books.

Corenswet was recently thrust into the public eye when he was cast as Clark Kent in James Gunn's new superhero flick "Superman." The 32-year-old actor, however, has been acting since he was a child, having appeared in various stage productions as early as age nine. He acted throughout his teen years and eventually attended Juilliard, where he graduated with a Bfa. Corenswet also dabbled in writing and directing, having helmed and starred in a short film called "Following Chase" in 2011, and co-wrote and produced the online comedy show "Moe & Jerryweather" in 2014. Two years later, he starred in an unpurchased pilot for a TV series called "The Tap," directed by Rob Reiner. He...

Joshua Jackson and Busy Philipps had a Dawson’s Creek reunion!

The pair were seen on the red carpet together at Motion Picture & Television Fund’s NextGen Annual Summer Party held at The Aster on Sunday (June 22) in Los Angeles.

If you don’t know, they co-starred in the hit TV series Dawson’s Creek together, which ran for six seasons in the late 1990s/early 2000s.

Also in attendance were Tyler Posey with wife Phem, DWTS‘ Derek Hough with wife Hayley Erbert, Riverdale‘s Madelaine Petsch, Grey’s Anatomy‘s Camilla Luddington, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.‘s Chloe Bennet, Bel Air‘s Jabari Banks, comedian Whitney Cummings, Fargo‘s Allison Tolman, Ginny & Georgia‘s Scott Porter, Moana‘s Auli’i Cravalho, Scandal‘s Katie Lowes with Adam Shapiro, Wicked‘s Marissa Bode, Agatha All Along‘s Sasheer Zamata, The Mandalorian‘s Katy O’Brian, Dark Knight‘s David Dastmalchian, actresses Thora Birch and Camilla Belle,...

James Gunn’s Superman is about to hit the theaters, and fans are excited to see David Corenswet’s iteration of the character. The actor will follow in the footsteps of Christopher Reeve, Brandon Routh, and Henry Cavill to play the titular role in the Dcu. While the odds were stacked against him earlier, Corenswet has proved himself to be amazing in the role from the promotional materials.

Before he put on the Superman suit, Corenswet appeared in a bunch of movies like Pearl and Look Both Ways and TV shows like Lady in the Lake. He played lead roles in Ryan Murphy’s Netflix shows, Hollywood and The Politician. He also starred in the HBO limited series, We Own This City, from the writers and executive producers of The Wire.

5 movies David Corenswet appeared in before taking on the Superman role David Corenswet as Clark Kent in a still...

The new film Thirsty is a dogged, provocative, and ambitious take on upstart political ambition and the double standards regarding women in politics. The movie is never afraid to show contradictions, with racial, gender, and political divides that are subtle and sneak up on you.

While the film would have benefited greatly by leaning into the natural dark comedic sensibilities that were trying to come to the surface, what you have instead is an idealistic view of the political process and the collision of sobering reality that comes with such ambitions.

Thirsty is a film that rests on the shoulders of one of the year’s best performances. Jamie Neumann is so good here that it will likely go unrecognized, precisely because she is honest and unsparing. Her performance is utterly devoid of sentimentality, focused solely on presenting something politicians rarely do: the truth.

Thirsty Review and Synopsis Jamie Neumann,...

Deadline photo studio hosted talent at the 78th annual Cannes Film Festival, as cast members of Cannes premiering films stopped by, including Spike Lee from Highest 2 Lowest; Paul Mescal and Oliver Hermanus from The History of Sound; Michael Angelo, Dakota Johnson, Adria Arjona, Kyle Marvin for Splitsville; Richard Linklater, Zoey Deutch, Guillaume Marbeck for New Wave; Frank Dillane from Urchin; Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson for Die My Love; Imogen Poots, Thora Birch, Kristen Stewart from Chronology of Water, and many more.

Related: Cannes Film Festival 2025 In Photos: Awards Ceremony, Movie Premieres, Parties & More

The Deadline Studio at Cannes will run from May 14-21, where the cast and creatives behind the best and buzziest titles in this year’s lineup sit down with Deadline’s festival team to discuss their movies and the paths they took to get to Cannes, France.

The Deadline Studio at Cannes is sponsored by Scad,...

Politics continues to trump business at this year’s Cannes film festival, with little in the way of deals out of the Marché, but lots of activist agitation on the red carpet and beyond.

Cannes’ first weekend, traditionally the period when the bidding wars begin and the first big buys are announced, has been almost frighteningly quiet. There was a single big deal — Mubi’s $24 million multi-territory deal, including North America, the U.K., Latin America and other countries — for the Lynne Ramsay’s Jennifer Lawrence Robert Pattinson starrer Die, My Love. It was a major deal for a finished film but also threw into sharp relief the lack of major pre-sales at Cannes so far, despite a market featuring jam-packed with hot packages.

The cautious, wait-and-see approach from buyers — already in evidence in Sundance and Berlin — continues amid growing uncertainty over financing and distribution models and, let’s face it,...

There’s a beguiling dichotomy in Kristen Stewart’s accomplished first feature as writer-director — between the dreamlike haze and fragmentation of memory and the raw wound of trauma so vivid it will always be with you. Adapted from the influential 2011 memoir by Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water is challenging material, an unflinching account of childhood sexual abuse followed by years of vanishing — into addiction, sexual experimentation and self-destruction before the author found her voice by channeling her pain into writing.

Stewart also appears to have found her voice, announcing the seriousness of her intentions not with auteurist self-importance but with unimpeachable commitment to honoring her subject’s story.

That subject, Lidia, played by Imogen Poots in a daring high-wire act, represents not just herself and her fellow-survivor sister Claudia (Thora Birch) but countless women shamed into silence or damaged beyond repair by violations of their bodies. It’s a visceral,...

Kristen Stewart’s The Chronology of Water translates Lidia Yuknavitch’s fragmented memoir into a cinematic tapestry that pulses with raw intensity. The film traces Yuknavitch’s journey from a competitive swimmer grappling with familial violence to a writer seeking to reclaim her own story. Stewart abandons linear exposition: present-day crises collide with Super-8 childhood recollections, each segment anchored by Lidia’s murmured voiceover.

Imogen Poots embodies Lidia with striking authenticity, her athletic grace in water scenes contrasting sharply with her haunted eyes on land. When Poots slices through rippling waves, the camera tightens to capture every muscle’s tension—an unspoken language of escape. In quieter moments, close-ups of trembling hands or furrowed brows reveal layers of defiance and vulnerability that prose alone could never convey.

Stewart’s impressionistic editing—hard cuts interspersed with fluid montages—mirrors the way trauma shatters and reassembles memory. The narrative unfolds like a braided essay,...

Politics continues to trump business at this year’s Cannes film festival, with little in the way of deals out of the Marché, but lots of activist agitation on the red carpet and beyond. Cannes’ first weekend, traditionally the period when the bidding wars begin and the first big buys are announced, has been

almost frighteningly quiet.

The cautious, wait-and-see approach from buyers — already in evidence in Sundance and Berlin — continues amid growing uncertainty over financing and distribution models and, let’s face it, over the future of the movie business itself.

Donald Trump’s plan to impose tariffs on “foreign-made” films, launched just ahead of Cannes, went off like a bomb under the already shaky foundations of the indie industry. Just how much damage has been done will only be possible to assess post-market when the dust has settled.

“The idea of tariffs is spooking people, especially financiers,” said one veteran indie producer.

Kristen Stewart is hitting the red carpet at the premiere of her directorial debut!

The 35-year-old Oscar-nominated actress attended the premiere of her movie The Chronology of Water on Friday evening (May 16) held during the 2025 Cannes Film Festival at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes, France.

For the event, Kristen rocked a bright white satin short suit paired with a coordinating satin white hat.

Cast members in attendance included Imogen Poots, Thora Birch, Kim Gordon, Michael Epp, Esmé Creed-Miles.

Earlier in the day, Kristen wore a semi-sheer outfit while out promoting the movie during the film festival.

Here’s the synopsis from the Cannes website: “Brought up in an environment torn apart by violence and alcohol, Lidia Yuknavitch seemed destined for self-destruction and failure until words offered her unexpected freedom in the form of literature. The Chronology of Water, adapted from Yuknavitch’s autobiographical bestseller, follows Lidia’s journey to...

Okay, now Kristen Stewart is just showing off.

The Oscar nominated “Spencer” star steps behind the camera, writing and directing “The Chronology of Water,” which premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. A portrait of pain, rebirth and reclamation, the film’s heartbeat comes from Stewart’s skillful and natural filmmaking. It is bolstered by two veteran actors we haven’t seen do something like this in years, Jim Belushi and Thora Birch.

Adapted from Lidia Yuknavitch’s memoir, it recounts her story of going from a champion swimmer, to an addict, and later a writer. Stewart’s directorial debut has an avant-garde sensibility that’s part “The Basketball Diaries,” part Terrence Malick reverie, with a dash of Jim Jarmusch’s cool restraint and an undercurrent of rebellion that flows through it. The film benefits by being made from a female perspective that never shies...

“I bled, I peed, I cried, and vomited.” This sentence comes at the end of the second paragraph of The Chronology of Water, Lidia Yuknavitch’s extraordinary, extraordinarily raw 2011 memoir about growing up, nearly giving up, and straining to getting a grip on a traumatic past. It follows one of the most striking openings of any autobiography — an extended description of her holding her daughter moments after the stillborn baby has been delivered. Kristen Stewart has been talking about bringing Yuknavitch’s book to the screen for years. But she...

Kristen Stewart’s long-awaited directorial debut The Chronology of Water received a warm reception at its world premiere in Cannes Friday night, with the crowd inside the Palais des Festivals greeting the film with a four-and-a-half-minute standing ovation.

An emotional Stewart embraced her actors with hugs and high-fives as the ovation carried on. She later bounded across the auditorium to give Cannes head Thierry Frémaux a long hug.

“I don’t have anything else to say; I left it all on the screen,” Stewart said in part. “Just thank you all for being here. Seriously, we finished the movie five minutes ago — it’s not even done. We got so lucky, and I’m so grateful to be here.”

She then gestured to her star, Imogen Poots, to take the mic, saying, “Truly, your body is the movie, I’m giving it to you.”

An emotional Poots obliged, saying only,...

Kristen Stewart’s directorial debut “The Chronology of Water” premiered at Cannes Film Festival to a just over four-minute standing ovation on Friday night — and left many in the crowd wiping their eyes.

Imogen Poots’ knockout performance was certainly a highlight of Stewart’s adaptation of Lidia Yuknavitch’s 2011 memoir of the same name, but just as notable was her directing style — raw, artsy and unflinching. Poots stars as Yuknavitch in Stewart’s non-linear take on the bestselling writer’s life, which includes shocking scenes of sexual abuse by her father and her spiral into drug use juxtaposed with the poetic salvation she found from being in water.

As the house lights went up, Stewart — dressed in a chic white short suit and matching baseball cap — hugged everyone in her cast and crew and directed the attention toward them. After kissing her wife Dylan Meyer, she allowed the spotlight to shine on her,...

Kristen Stewart’s feature directorial debut The Chronology of Water unspooled at the Cannes Film Festival on Friday night and was greeted by a 6½-minute ovation by an enthusiastic audience.

Stewart’s long-gestating project, adapted from Lidia Yuknavitch’s bestselling 2011 memoir, went down well in the room, and Stewart was mobbed by her fans in the Grand Lumiere Theater, making it tough to get out of the venue.

Kristen Stewart embraces her ‘Chronology of Water’ crew after this evening’s debut screening #Cannes2025 pic.twitter.com/a9UIVK5yVt

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Stewart took screenplay co-writing credits with Andy Mingo on the pic, which stars Imogen Poots in the tale of turning trauma into art that’s playing in the Un Certain Regard strand. The story follows protagonist Lidia from her earliest childhood memories in the Pacific Northwest, through explosive misfires and mistakes, children that almost-were, toxic relationships, art heroes,...

Imogen Poots takes the lead in Stewart’s choppy but compelling adaptation of Lidia Yuknavitch’s memoir of abuse and sexual uncertainty

Kristen Stewart’s directorial debut, adapted by her from the 2011 abuse memoir by Lidia Yuknavitch, is running a very high temperature, though never exactly collapsing into outright feverishness or torpor. It’s a poetry-slam of pain and autobiographical outrage, recounting a writer’s journey towards recovering the raw material of experience to be sifted and recycled into literary success.

The present day catastrophes of failed relationships, drink and drugs are counterpointed with Super-8 memories and epiphanies of childhood with extreme closeups on remembered details and wry, murmuring voiceovers. It borders on cliche a little, but there is compassion and storytelling ambition here.

Lidia herself, well played by Imogen Poots, is a young woman who was abused in her teenage years by her clenched and furious architect father (Michael Epp...

As an actor, Kristen Stewart brings a restlessly kinetic energy to every role she plays; even when still, she still seems to be vibrating with her own intensity. As a director, she infuses The Chronology of Water – an adaptation of an impressionistic memoir by cult writer Lidia Yuknavitch, screening in the Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard section – with that same personal electricity, blasting what could be a conventionally sequential biopic into splinters, shards and ripples that can be pieced together as we go. Or not, of course: those bits of memory can simply be embraced in all their vivid, meticulously planned disarray. If it is a biopic, it’s not like any you’ve seen before.

Imogen Poots plays Lidia from her first scenes as a schoolgirl swimming champion to her eventual emergence as a writer with a settled life: home, partner, child and a desk with a view over water.

When famous actors decide to try their hand at filmmaking, the results can be — and often are — unremarkable by design. Timid and safe with a network TV aesthetic that screams “I’m a lot more afraid behind the camera than I am in front of it.” Not so of Kristen Stewart’s “The Chronology of Water.” Not in the slightest. Some movies are shot. This one was directed.

Which isn’t to suggest this aggressively fragmented adaptation of Lidia Yuknavitch’s memoir should be graded on a curve because its famous auteur dared to film on 16mm, or even because she had the skill required to adapt her source material with the same febrile porousness that made it such a striking piece of literature in the first place (a process that required the “Clouds of Sils Maria” star to invent her own language of elliptical thoughts and extreme close-ups). On the contrary,...

The 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival continues on Day 4 with the world premieres of Eddington, directed by Ari Aster; Bono: Stories of Surrender, and Kristen Stewart’s directorial debut, The Chronology of Water.

Aster’s Eddington premiered today, featuring Joaquin Phoenix as a small-town Sheriff in a New Mexico conflict with Pedro Pascal’s Mayor. The film’s ensemble cast includes Joaquin Phoenix, Austin Butler, Emma Stone, Pedro Pascal, Luke Grimes, Clifton Collins Jr., Micheal Ward, Amelie Hoeferle, Matt Gomez Hidaka, and Cameron Mann, who all walked the red carpet at the Grand Théâtre Lumière on Friday, May 16th

Related: ‘Eddington’ Cannes Film Festival Premiere Photos: Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone, Austin Butler & More

The Palais des Festivals played host this evening to the debut of Kristen Stewart’s The Chronology of Water, starring Imogen Poots, Thora Birch, Michael Epp, Esmé Creed-Miles, Kim Gordon, and Jim Belushi.

Kristen Stewart is stepping out to promote her directorial debut at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival!

The 35-year-old actress attended the photocall for her movie The Chronology Of Water on Friday (May 16) held at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes, France.

For the event, Kristen wore a loosely buttoned lavender top with a matching sheer skirt.

Joining Kristen at the photocall was the movie’s stars Imogen Poots, Thora Birch, and Kim Gordon.

Here’s the synopsis from the Cannes website: “Brought up in an environment torn apart by violence and alcohol, Lidia Yuknavitch seemed destined for self-destruction and failure until words offered her unexpected freedom in the form of literature. The Chronology of Water, adapted from Yuknavitch’s autobiographical bestseller, follows Lidia’s journey to find her own voice in an exploration of how trauma can be transformed into art through re-possessing our own bloody histories, particularly those uniquely experienced...

Jamie Neumann is on the campaign trail in the new Collider-exclusive trailer for the political drama Thirsty. Kyra Sedgwick, Sung Kang, and Thora Birch also star in the film, which follows a long-shot candidate as she runs for mayor of Oakland, California. The movie will be released by Gravitas Ventures digitally and on demand on June 6. In the trailer, Neumann stars as Audrey Allen, an upstart attorney waging a campaign to unseat the incumbent mayor of Oakland (Brandee Evans).

She attracts the attention of Anne (Sedgwick), a powerful political operative, who assigns her a campaign manager who can't stand her (Briana Venskus-Vazquez) and a field manager (Tyler Lepley) with whom Audrey has some unresolved history, unbeknownst to anyone else. Audrey is running for admirable reasons, but as the campaign goes on, it begins to drive a wedge into their marriage. And complicating matters further is Audrey's troubled sister (Birch...

Buyers are finally wise to the fact that Cannes is driving the Oscar race and even the specialized box office. Everyone wants to find the next “Anora,” “The Substance,” “Emilia Perez,” or “Anatomy of a Fall.” And more buyers like Mubi, Metrograph, Sideshow, and other upstarts have emerged to take on the likes of Neon and A24, who come to Cannes armed with several titles already set to debut.

Below, we’ve identified 13 movies looking for homes that could be the next awards breakout, including new films from Lynne Ramsay and Richard Linklater and the debuts of Kristen Stewart and Harris Dickinson.

All titles presented alphabetically.

“The Chronology of Water” (Un Certain Regard)

Director: Kristen Stewart

Stars: Imogen Poots, Thora Birch, Jim Belushi, Tom Sturridge

Buzz: Even if it’s in a sidebar for a first-time director, Kristen Stewart’s debut should be a hot ticket with a lot of...

“The Chronology of Water” director Kristen Stewart and one of the film’s stars, indie rock icon Kim Gordon, will headline Breaking Through the Lens’ annual gala at the Cannes Film Festival on Friday, May 16.

Breaking Through the Lens is a global nonprofit dedicated to creating pathways to financing for women, Lgbtqia+ and other marginalized filmmakers working in front of and behind the camera.

As the organization returns to Cannes for an eighth consecutive year, Stewart and Gordon will sit for a fireside chat moderated by Variety, at Hyde Beach by Campari just before the world premiere of “The Chronology of Water” in the Un Certain Regard section. Stewart and Gordon will reflect on their experience working on the buzzy new film, dive into their creative process across mediums and discuss the importance of backing underrepresented filmmakers with proper funding.

Adapted from the bestselling 2011 memoir by Lidia Yuknavitch, Stewart’s...

Kristen Stewart is getting for her big moment at Cannes!

The 35-year-old Oscar-nominated actress stopped by a hair salon for an appointment on Friday afternoon (May 9) in Los Angeles.

For her outing, Kristen sported a white sportsbra paired with white sweatpants.

Next week, Kristen is expected to be in the South of France for the 2025 Cannes Film Festival where she will be premiering her directorial debut The Chronology of Water!

Here’s the synopsis from the Cannes website: “Brought up in an environment torn apart by violence and alcohol, Lidia Yuknavitch seemed destined for self-destruction and failure until words offered her unexpected freedom in the form of literature. The Chronology of Water, adapted from Yuknavitch’s autobiographical bestseller, follows Lidia’s journey to find her own voice in an exploration of how trauma can be transformed into art through re-possessing our own bloody histories, particularly those uniquely experienced by the bodies of women and girls.

Which American Beauty Scene Changed Thora Birch’s Career? (Photo Credit –Facebook)

Thora Birch faded away from the Hollywood scene after she stepped away from the silver screen, leaving behind a legacy that echoed long after her exit. From the get go, she was one of those rare child actors who seemed carved for something big and early on, she held her own alongside the mighty Harrison Ford in 1994 film, Clear and Present Danger.

However, it was American Beauty in 1999 that truly cemented her status. It was a film of cinematic acclaim, which went on to snag five Oscars and eight nominations. Birch’s portrayal of Jane Burnham, the withdrawn teenager with a bruised soul and a sharp gaze, left a mark few could shake off.

Thora Birch’s Parents On Set & In The Way

Birch’s ascent though, was never the straightforward Hollywood fairy tale as behind the scenes,...

Is life a comedy or a tragedy? Artists from all over the world try to find the right answers to this age-old question. Kafka sees life as endless suffering, whereas Charlie Chaplin sees life as harsh and tries to create a good laugh about it. The question perhaps starts from the ‘fall of man,’ where Adam and Eve were banished from the Garden of Eden and exiled to Earth. Due to this, human life is perhaps inherently a tragic one—a life filled with suffering and sorrow. In season 1 of “True Detective,” the character Rust Cohle identifies it as the ‘tragic misstep in evolution.’ According to him, “We are creatures that should not exist, by natural law.”

But there may be something beautiful about this existence—an existence where we are able to be happy, but in absurd terms, just like Sisyphus in Greek mythology, who was eternally damned to...

The Cannes Film Festival has updated its 2025 Official Selection with 16 new films, including two new Competition titles.

Lynne Ramsay’s Die, My Love and Saeed Roustaee’s WomanAnd Child join the Competition line-up, bringing it to 21 films.

Scroll down for the full list of new titles

The Un Certain Regard line-up adds a further four films, including Kristen Stewart’s directorial debut The Chronology Of Water, and is now at 20 films.

The festival has also added Ethan Coen’s Focus Features title Honey Don’t!starring Margaret Qualley as a Midnight Screening; and Hlynur Palmason’s The Love That Remains and...

Bruce Glover might just be the most prolific non-famous actor of the 20th century. With roles spread over the better half of the century, he has appeared in some of the most celebrated Hollywood features of all time while also managing to stay under the radar of the majority of movie industry fans.

Bruce Glover as Mr. Wint in Diamonds Are Forever (1971) [Credit: United Artists]

However, to keen-eyed followers like Sir Roger Moore, Bruce Glover existed as one of the funniest people in the business. Despite starring in relatively smaller parts, Glover managed to leave a strong impression on those who knew what to look for in a movie. Among his numerous forgettable films was one where he starred alongside Scarlett Johansson and Steve Buscemi in 2001.

Bruce Glover’s role in pre-mcu era ScarJo movie Scarlett Johansson and Thora Birch in Ghost World (2001) [Credit: United Artists]

Scarlett Johansson has been a prolific part of...

With just three weeks until the line-up for the Cannes Film Festival 2025 is announced on April 10,Screentakes a look at the films from around the world looking increasingly likely to debut on the Croisette.

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English-language auteurs Wes Anderson, Lynne Ramsay, Spike Lee, Jim Jarmusch and Kelly Reichardt could all unveil their anticipated next films at the Cannes – and if they do, it will drum up the kind of red-carpet glamour Thierry Fremaux loves.

Two years after The French Dispatch played in Competition, Anderson looks a safe bet to return with The Phoenician Scheme, a spy comedy thriller featuring...

Michelle Trachtenberg, the veteran actress who started as a child performer with high profile roles like the title character in Harriet the Spy before finding success on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Gossip Girl, has died. She was 39.

“It is with great sadness to confirm that Michelle Trachtenberg has passed away,” her rep confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter on Wednesday morning. “The family requests privacy for their loss. There are no further details at this time.” The New York Post was first to report the news of her death.

Trachtenberg was born in New York as the daughter of Jewish immigrants. In a radio interview in 2005, she confirmed that she was fluent in Russian as her mother was born in Russia and it was the only way for her to communicate with her grandparents.

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Taylor Sheridan’s wildly popular series Yellowstone has seemingly become an American phenomenon and spawned an entire universe of spinoff series, including 1883 and 1923, along with the future spinoffs The Madison, 6666, 1944, and an untitled project set to follow Beth Dutton (Kelly Reilly) and Rip Wheeler (Cole Hauser). Each series chronicles the Dutton family at some point in time as they work to build their empire. The original series that started it all first premiered on the Paramount Network in June 2018 before it finally came to an end in December 2024. During that time, viewers watched John Dutton III (Kevin Costner) and his children, Kayce (Luke Grimes), Beth, and Jamie (Wes Bentley), confront all the ups and downs that befell the Yellowstone Dutton Ranch in Montana.

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Yellowstone’sJamie Duttonis arguably Wes Benton’s most popular and notable role to date. However, before he became the misunderstood adopted son of the Dutton family, Bentley made his name in one of the most controversial Oscar-winning films in history. In 1999, Bentley starred in American Beauty, a psychological dark comedy that made his name in Hollywood.

Playing Ricky Fitts, a role that would influence his later works and characters, the film’s success, which included sweeping the 72nd Academy Awards and becoming a defining film of the late 90s, launched Bentley into a range of roles in both film and television. From playing a manipulative Head Gamemaker in The Hunger Games to several characters in American Horror Story, Bentley's career expanded across genres.

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The AMC Networks March 2025 schedule has been announced and includes the return of lauded noir thriller Dark Winds, starring Zahn McLarnon, and the season finale of AMC’s Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches, starring Alexandra Daddario.

The lineup also includes the premiere of The Last Anniversary, the new Liane Moriarty adaptation starring Teresa Palmer (A Discovery of Witches) and Miranda Richardson on AMC+ and Sundance Now, and the return of Acorn TV’s Recipes for Love and Murder, starring Maria Doyle Kennedy and Kylie Fisher.

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There’s also the new murder mystery Blackshore, starring Lisa Dwan (Bloodlands), the new season of We TV’s popular Love After Lockup franchise, and the Shudder Original film The Rule of Jenny Pen, starring Geoffrey Rush and John Lithgow.

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A lot of Dungeons & Dragons fans may not know that the first movie adaptation of the popular role-playing board game was released in 2000. Now, the feature film is now available to stream entirely for free.

Per Variety,Dungeons & Dragons is just one of over thirty feature films that have been made available for streaming completely free on the official Warner Bros. Entertainment YouTube channel. Other available titles include beloved genre classics such as Return of the Living Dead Part II, box office bombs like the Eddie Murphy-led The Adventures of Pluto Nash, and genuinely intriguing pieces of cinema like Oh, God! starring George Burns.

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In a bold and time-relevant move that is sure to delight movie fans, Warner Bros. Entertainment has made 31 of its full-length movies available for free on its YouTube channels, including 2000's Dungeons & Dragons, and the Jackie Chan movie Mr. Nice Guy. The refreshing approach to content distribution, however, is a strategy that aims to boost visibility and generate digital ad revenue, with the additional benefit of making a diverse range of cinematic gems accessible to a wider audience.

According to Variety, ever since 2025 began, the entertainment giant has quietly been dropping movies on its Warner Bros.-owned YouTube channels, all available to stream for free. Of course, the movies still include ads for those who do not own a YouTube Premium subscription. These movies include a mix of genres and eras, with titles like the 1935 adventure Mutiny on the Bounty, the 2002 sci-fi comedy starring Eddie Murphy, The Adventures of Pluto Nash,...

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This February, Prime Video is bringing you a lot of entertainment, from the return of beloved shows like Invincible and Reacher to the much-anticipated teen romantic drama film My Fault: London. However, for the purposes of this article, we are only including the films that are coming to Prime Video this month and have a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score. So, check out the 10 best films that are coming to Prime Video in February 2025 with a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score.

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A Fish Called Wanda is a heist comedy film directed by Charles Crichton from a screenplay by John Cleese. The 1988 film revolves around a group of thieves and con artists who team up to pull off the perfect heist, but things go horribly wrong because they all try to double-cross each other.

The 2003 indie drama "Thirteen" was widely acclaimed upon release while elevating the careers of filmmaker Catherine Hardwicke (who was paid just $13 for the job) and actors Evan Rachel Wood and Nikki Reed. "Thirteen" was lauded for its searing, contemporary depiction of the lives of impressionable American teenagers. For those looking for movies tackling similar subject matter and themes, there is no shortage of teen coming-of-age dramas. From triumphs to tragedies, plenty of movies have explored the everyday life of American teenagers, both preceding "Thirteen" and released in the 2003 film's wake.

From dramedies to tonally uncompromising dramas, those pivotal teenage years are ripe for cinematic exploration. Even the comedies on this coming-of-age list don't shy away from the heavier parts of the teenage experience, including illegal drug use, mental health concerns, and teen pregnancy. Simply put, growing up can be a grueling ordeal, and these movies find the heartbreak and humor...

Anne Rice was a popular supernatural writer whose novels have been adapted into two series, with another on the way. The shared universe has just made its first crossover that could lead to a bigger intertwined story.

Interview with the Vampire was the first adaptation in the Immortal Universe, which premiered in 2022 to critical acclaim. The series will return with Season 3, which will cover the second book in The Vampire Chronicles series, The Vampire Lestat. The second series is Mayfair Witches, which premiered in 2023 and is currently in its second season, which has also introduced the first mini crossover in Season 2, Episode 3, "Cover of Mirrors." In a behind-the-scenes video for the episode on AMC+, showrunner Esta Spalding explained that this could lead to a "real amazing monster universe."

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The AMC Networks February 2025 schedule has been announced and includes new episodes of AMC’s Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches; Sundance Now’s supernatural romance Fallen, based on the best-selling book series; and Acorn TV murder mystery, A Remarkable Place to Die, and moving limited series, Best Interests, starring Sharon Horgan and Michael Sheen.

The lineup also includes We TV’s new original series, Love After Lockup: Crime Story, and BBC America’s natural history landmark, Planet Earth: Asia.

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Film debuts deliver edge-of-your-seat thrills including futuristic mind-bender Levels, Shudder’s erotic horror The Dead Thing and flesh-eating gorefest Little Bites, starring scream queens Barbara Crampton (Re-Animator) and Heather Langenkamp (Nightmare on Elm Street).

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Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches returned for its sophomore season back on January 5. The second season has been highly anticipated since the trailer dropped at San Diego Comic Con last year. Now, Collider can unveil an exclusive clip for the season’s third episode “Cover the Mirrors.” In the sneak peek, Rowan Fielding (Alexandra Daddario) admonishes Cortland Mayfair (Harry Hamlin) for promising the family they'll meet Lasher (Jack Huston), a spirit tied to the Mayfair family. The problem being Lasher is also hunting down Mayfair witches/family members, the most recent being Thora Birch's Gifford Mayfair. The sneak peek concludes with Rowan explaining to Cortland that he just needs to "stick to the script," to which he replies, "you're the boss."...

Lasher (Jack Huston) is on the hunt for Mayfair women in Season 2 of the supernatural thriller, and unfortunately, so far, no one has been able to stop him. In “Ten of Swords,” the most recent episode of Mayfair Witches, Lasher's latest victim was Gifford Mayfair, portrayed by Thora Birch, who had already been doomed in Lasher (1993), the second book of Anne Rice’s The Lives of the Mayfair Witches trilogy. Despite not having any magical powers, Gifford is quite the personality, according to Birch, who described her character to TV Insider as “prominent” and one of the wealthy members of the family.