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There is a pecking order in Hollywood that determines which actors and directors get first crack at the hottest material in town. When agents and managers (relying on the perspicacity of their underpaid assistants and readers) come across a script that could be a launching pad for a billion-dollar franchise or an awards season thoroughbred, they fire that sucker off to their top client (even if they're not exactly right for the lead role). This is how you get Tom Cruise embarrassing himself in "Far and Away" with the worst Irish accent you'll ever hear outside of a community theater production of "The Plough and the Stars" (and even then).

But every A-list screenwriter's gotta start somewhere, and if you find yourself in a fertile creative environment that hasn't been completely overrun with apex industry predators, you might uncover a...

Charli xcx may not be in an ad campaign for Aperol, but the “Brat” hitmaker has become synonymous with the Italian apéritif. So much so that she’s hooked up with the beverage brand to promote her love of the Campari Group brand.

It’s the reason she jumped on the phone with me for a chat earlier today from overseas, where she was on her way to Oslo, Norway to perform at the Øya Festival. She not only talked about loving Aperol Spritzes, but we also got caught up on her acting career, “sad and dark” movie inspirations, “Overcompensating” and why she didn’t know she’s been nominated for five MTV VMAs.

“A couple of years ago, I spent six weeks in Italy during the summer. I rented a house and wrote some songs. I drank a lot of Aperol spritzes and they sort of became a part of my everyday life,...

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 become the latest recipient of Sarajevo Film Festival’s honorary Heart of Sarajevo award, at the festival’s 31st edition (August 15-22).

Dafoe will give a masterclass at the festival, discussing his career and reflections on contemporary filmmaking with the local audience.

“[Dafoe’s] body of work is something to which every actor aspires,” said festival director Jovan Marjanovic. “Every time he steps in front of the camera, he demonstrates that he is a true master of his craft.”

Dafoe has worked with a roll call of top US and international filmmakers across his career, including Wes Anderson, Kathryn Bigelow,...

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...

It may seem hot and summery, but it’s now less than 100 days until Halloween, and Arrow Video is ushering in the season with a formidable slate of genre releases. October’s drop features a high-concept comic book adaptation, a punk-fuelled zombie cult hit, two trailblazing Asian horror anthologies, an apocalyptic Carpenter classic and a ferocious revenge thriller from the heart of 1980s New York.

Leading the pack is Spawn, newly restored in 4K and arriving in Limited Edition Uhd and Blu-ray formats. The 1997 adaptation of Todd McFarlane’s comic book casts Michael Jai White as a betrayed Black Ops assassin reborn as a hell-bound antihero. Directed by Mark A.Z. Dippé and produced by the teams behind Blade and The Crow, Spawn returns with both its Theatrical and Director’s Cuts, alongside new interviews, featurettes and collector’s packaging.

Dan O’Bannon’s cult classic The Return of the Living Dead also receives the 4K treatment.

You’d have to be very bad at interviews, or really just conversations, to not get something from Abel Ferrara, who’s the perfect combination of endearing and pugnacious, amenable to ideas while unable to entertain even a hint of bullshit. He’s especially verbose discussing Turn in the Wound, his most recent documentary, which premiered at last year’s Berlinale and is now streaming on the Criterion Channel and parallels the effect of Russia’s war on the citizens of Ukraine with, in a slightly opaque but ultimately wise manner, concerts conducted by Patti Smith. Like many of Ferrara’s documentaries––Mulberry St., Chelsea on the Rocks, or Piazza Vittorio––it mines pathos from people and the places they live. I was only too happy to talk with him about this film and its endless concerns.

I also want to note that myself and Instagram sensation Rohmer Fits will...

Abel Ferrara’s King of New York (1990) doesn’t open with a bang but with a quiet, uneasy rumble — the kind of silence that feels stolen. The first thing we hear is the low grind of prison gates. Frank White (Christopher Walken), dressed like a shadow, steps out not like a man coming home, but like someone who slipped out of a grave nobody knew was there. He doesn’t blink. He barely seems to breathe. In this world, Frank doesn’t make an entrance — he rises. He climbs, literally and otherwise, through the film like a ghost convinced the living still owe him something. Walken’s Frank has seen things you wouldn’t want to imagine. His performance here is the stuff legends are made of.

Much has been written about “King of New York” as a gangster film, as an urban opera of violence and power set in New York City.

French distributor and exhibitor Sophie Dulac has announced the end of the Champs-Élysées Film Festival championing independent American and French cinema, following a tumultuous 14th edition in June in the wake of accusations of deteriorating staff conditions at her cinema group.

In a statement, Dulac said she had taken the “difficult decision” to stop the festival, thanking past cinema professionals, partners and members of the public who had supported the event.

She cited press reports and attacks, with “heavy consequences”, in the lead up to the festival as well as the progressive closure of cinemas on the Champs-Élysées, and a lack of financial support as the reasons.

Dulac’s decision follows a rocky edition for the festival in the wake of the firing in early June of Jean-Marc Zekri as the long-time director of the Reflet Médicis Cinema in Paris’ Latin Quarter, one of five theaters in the Dulac Cinémas network.

Pressman Film will soon be sending its first payout to investors for Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo, the debut film in a development slate the indie producer is partly financing through a fundraise on investment platform Republic.

The Neon film is currently in production in Japan.

The collaboration last fall helped jumpstart Republic’s film vertical that now includes Robert Rodriguez’s Austin-based Troublemaker Studios and horror maven Eli Roth.

Rodriguez is launching new Brass Knuckle Films with Republic, a network of retail-focused investment platforms known for providing access to new asset classes to its members, a community of nearly three million investors in over 150 countries.

Eli Roth is also raising funds on the platform for a new studio, The Horror Section. “As an investor, you’ll own shares of the company plus a piece of the profits from Eli Roth’s new films. This is your chance to build a horror empire,...

The Soho Horror Film Festival’s virtual sibling Sohome Horror Pride returns this weekend with a defiant and dazzling showcase of queer horror from around the globe. Running from 13 to 15 June, the 2025 edition marks the sixth outing of the award-winning LGBTQ+ genre event, and delivers a line-up of 10 feature films and 25 shorts – all available on a pay-what-you-can basis, making it one of the most accessible genre festivals of its kind.

The programme takes full advantage of the weekend’s Friday the 13th date, presenting a theme strand titled Queering the Slasher, a celebration and subversion of the tropes that have long shaped the horror genre. Among the headline titles is Black Theta, Tim Connolly’s self-aware homage to early-2000s slashers, making its European premiere. The festival also features the international debut of The Brooklyn Butcher, a sleazy, neon-lit portmanteau that Cinephobia Releasing described as “Abel Ferrara meets Paris, Je...

Italian auteur Paolo Sorrentino is this year’s recipient of the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo award to be bestowed upon him during the 31st edition of the Sarajevo Film Festival, which will also feature a retrospective of his films that will be screened as part of the fest’s “tribute to” program.

The honor and tribute will be “in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the art of cinema,” Sarajevo fest organizers said on Tuesday. Sorrentino will also hold a masterclass and “share his thoughts on contemporary art in a conversation with the audience,” they noted.

“I am deeply honored to receive this prestigious recognition and grateful for the attention given to my filmography,” said Sorrentino. “I look forward to being with you in Sarajevo. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.”

The fest highlighted the effect the Italian director and screenwriter’s oeuvre has had on audiences. “Paolo...

MCU icon Elizabeth Olsen, known for playing Wanda Maximoff in the superhero franchise, has joined Oscar Isaac and Kristen Stewart for the latest project by Panos Cosmatos titled Flesh of the Gods. The director, known for his revenge tale led by Nicolas Cage, Mandy, teams up with producers Adam McKay and Isaac, as they attempt to find a buyer for the project at this year's Cannes Film Festival.

Olsen is now attached to the vampire project written by Se7en's Andrew Kevin Walker and Cosmatos. Per Deadline's report, the film's logline goes as follows: "Isaac and Stewart will portray Raoul and Alex, a married couple in glittering '80s L.A. who descend each evening from their luxury skyscraper condo and head into an electric nighttime realm. When they cross paths with the mysterious and enigmatic Nameless (Olsen) and her hard-partying cabal, Raoul and Alex are seduced into a glamorous,...

Ever since Turn on the Bright Lights debuted in the summer of 2002, Interpol frontman Paul Banks has been the epicenter of cool. Trying his hand at a variety of musical projects––from solo albums to instrumental experimentations to, even, collaborations with RZA––he’s never not been trying new things. He now has one more item to add to his resume: film composer, making his Ost debut on the 2024 Cannes Directors’ Fortnight hit Sister Midnight. Karan Kandhari’s debut feature, opening in theaters this Friday, follows Radhika Apte as Uma, a wife who finds her own creative ways to rebel in the early days of an arranged marriage.

In Devan Suber’s review of the film, he said, “Sister Midnight unfolds with a particularly deadpan style in both humor and performance. Kandhari favors simple gags, like the aforementioned handshake or a bit where Uma flees from the beach after being...

The world’s biggest LGBTQ+ horror film festival returns to the airways this June! Get ready for the 6th annual Sohome Horror Pride, part of the Soho Horror Film Festival! This year’s edition brings attendees a massive 10 feature films and 25 short films from around the world, showcasing the best in LGBTQ+ filmmaking.

This year’s Sohome Horror Pride event appropriately starts on Friday, June 13, 2025, and goes until June 15. With the festival starting on such an auspicious date, it only makes sense that this year’s themes in “Queering the Slasher”!

Festival director Mitch Harrod said, “Times may feel like the apocalypse with rights being revoked, sponsors jumping ship, books being banned and narratives being erased, but let the horror history books set the record straight: queer is here- always has and always will be. It is an honour always to get to stand with the forefront of the genre...

Exclusive: French director Vincent Maël Cardona makes his Cannes Official Selection debut with huis-clos thriller No One Will Know, which premieres as a Midnight Screening.

The drama revolves around the clients and staff of the fictitious Le Roi Soleil café in the Paris periphery who unwittingly assist in the killing of an elderly regular just after he discovers he has won €294 million ($320M) in the lottery.

With the life-changing sum in their sights if not their grasp, the disparate group battle with their consciences and one another as they figure out a way to explain the death, as well as whether and how to take possession of the prize.

“They have to agree on a scenario, a fiction and a way of recounting what happened, which is not what happened, in a convincing manner, that stands up to scrutiny,” says Cardona. “They’re doing the work of a screenwriter.”

“But...

Who would’ve thought “Bad Lieutenant” would become a quasi-franchise? We’re guessing not Abel Ferrara, but after Werner Herzog did his own version, the “franchise” is continuing with yet another unlikely auteur taking on the themes of the original neo-noir film: Japanese master Takashi Miike.

Miike’s next film is “Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo,” and shortly after the film was reported as a hot package due to hit the Cannes market, Neon announced on Wednesday evening that it was boarding the film with plans to both release it theatrically in North America as well as represent the sales rights at Cannes internationally.

“Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo” will star Shun Oguri (“Godzilla v. Kong”) and Lily James (“Pam and Tommy”), as well as WWE star Liv Morgan joining the cast. The film follows the Bad Lieutenant (Oguri), a corrupt gambler in the Metropolitan Police Force, who finds himself thrown into a tangled...

Takashi Miike, the Japanese director behind films such as Audition and Ichi the Killer, has lined up his next picture, Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo, which will offer an international twist on the series that first caused controversy back in 1992 via Abel Ferrara and Harvey Keitel.

For this installment — which begins filming this month — Takashi Miike has gathered the likes of Shun Oguri, Lily James and WWE Superstar Liv Morgan. As per Deadline, the movie “will follow the Bad Lieutenant (Oguri), a corrupt gambler in the Metropolitan Police Force, who finds himself thrown into a tangled case after an enigmatic FBI agent (James) arrives in Tokyo to investigate the disappearance of a politician’s daughter (Morgan). Meanwhile, a deviant killer operating in the yakuza underworld seems to be shadowing their moves.”

So what does Takashi Miike have in store for viewers? As he put it, “A team of incredibly talented actors and crew has gathered in Tokyo.

Audition director Takashi Miike is to make a new thriller about police corruption – Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo, starring Shun Oguri and Lily James.

Over 30 years after New York filmmaker Abel Ferrara finished making Bad Lieutenant, Japanese director Takashi Miike is about to make another entry in one of cinema’s more unusual film series.

Neon, the indie company behind such hits as Parasite, Longlegs, Anora and this year’s The Monkey is behind the latest production, called Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo. It’s another tale of police corruption and criminality, with Shun Oguri set to take the central role as a gambling-addicted cop on the trailer of a missing woman in the seedier parts of Japan’s capital.

Lily James and WWE wrestler turned actor Liv Morgan are to co-star, while the script will be written by Daisuke Tengan, who previously wrote the adapted screenplay for Audition – perhaps Miike’s best-known film in the west.

Two years after her guest appearance on the “Chucky” television series, Deadline reports tonight that WWE superstar Liv Morgan has landed a gig in Japanese master of horror Takashi Miike’s next movie, Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo.

Shun Oguri (Godzilla v. Kong, No Longer Human) and Lily James (Pam and Tommy, Yesterday) will also star in Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo, a U.S./Japan co-production from Neon.

If that title sounds familiar, Deadline notes that the upcoming film is indeed an extension of the IP that launched in 1992 with the film Bad Lieutenant starring Harvey Keitel and directed by Abel Ferrara. The late Edward R. Pressman subsequently produced Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans starring Nicolas Cage, which was directed by Werner Herzog.

Deadline details, “Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo will follow the Bad Lieutenant (Shun Oguri), a corrupt gambler in the Metropolitan Police Force, who finds himself thrown into a tangled case...

This episode explores the urgent need to establish venues in Latin America that showcase and nurture local cinema.Diana Bustamante Escobar is a Colombian producer, curator, and director who is responsible for some of the most acclaimed Colombian and Latin American films from the past two decades. From 2014 to 2018, she worked as the Artistic Director of the Cartagena International Film Festival (Ficci), where she championed bold auteurs who have revitalized Latin American cinema. Over the past fifteen years, she has produced such notable films as Óscar Ruiz Navia’s Crab Trap (El vuelco del cangrejo), winner of the Fipresci Prize at the Berlinale; César Augusto Acevedo’s Land and Shade (La tierra y la sombra), which won the Caméra d’Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival; and Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria, which received the Jury Prize at Cannes in 2021. In 2022, Bustamante made her directorial debut with Our Movie (Nuestra película...

Oscar-nominated movie star Timothée Chalamet may have graduated from high school 12 years ago, but he came back recently to pay a visit during his alma mater’s career day. The A Complete Unknown star, who graduated in 2013, returned to New York City’s Fiorello H. Laguardia High School to speak with students in a Career Management class there. This follows his recent Oscar nomination for A Complete Unknown, which was his secont Best Actor nomination after he was up for Call Me by Your Name in 2018.

The school posted several pictures from the event on its official Instagram page, thanking the Dune actor for speaking there. The school captioned the picture: When you have a guest speaker for your Career Management class……. and Timothée Chalamet walks in the room…. you know it’s going to be a great day! Thank you [Chalamet] for visiting Lag today and providing important advice for our aspiring actors.

The Locarno Film Festival has re-upped Italian film critic Giona A. Nazzaro as its artistic director for the next three years.

Nazzaro, a former head of the Venice Film Festival’s Critics’ Week, has been leading the prominent Swiss event dedicated to indie cinema since 2021, under a five-year mandate that expires this year.

During his watch, Nazzaro — who was born and raised in Switzerland — has bolstered Locarno’s role as a driver for arthouse titles, helping them reach the widest audiences possible. One case in point, cited by Nazzaro in a statement, is the global success of last year’s Golden Leopard winner “Toxic,” an examination of young female friendship that marked the debut feature of Lithuanian director Saulė Bliuvaitė. After Locarno, the film went on to play at 70 festivals.

“I would like to thank President Maja Hoffmann and the entire board of directors of the Locarno Film Festival for...

We’ve always loved setting trends at The Film Stage and are accordingly chuffed that, nine months after we screened a 35mm print at the Roxy, Roman Polanski’s late-career triumph The Ghost Writer comes to the Criterion Channel in next month’s Coastal Thrillers, a series that does what it says on the tin: The Lady from Shanghai, Key Largo, The Long Goodbye, The Fog, and the other best film of 2010, Scorsese’s Shutter Island. It pairs well with Noir and the Blacklist featuring films by Joseph Losey, Fritz Lang, Jules Dassin, and so on. Retrospectives are held for Terry Southern, Kathryn Bigelow, Jem Cohen, and (just in time for Caught By the Tides) Jia Zhangke, while Spike Lee gets his own Adventures In Moviegoing.

For recent restorations, Antonioni’s Il Grido and Anthony Harvey’s Dutchman appear. Criterion Editions include The Runner, Touchez pas au grisbi, Godzilla vs.

Batman famously has one of the best rogues' galleries in American superhero comics. But even among that stunning ensemble, writers do play favorites. You can definitely tell, watching the superlative "Batman: The Animated Series," that plant-controlling femme fatale eco-terrorist Poison Ivy (Diane Pershing) was one of the show's preferred villains.

Poison Ivy was one of the first villains to appear in "The Animated Series," debuting in episode 5, "Pretty Poison." The show gave Ivy a partner-in-crime with Harley Quinn (Arleen Sorkin), establishing a friendship (and ultimately romance) that's lasted 30 years. Ivy also got major supporting parts in villain team-up episodes, "Almost Got 'Im" (where Gotham's worst play poker and swap stories about fighting Batman) and "Trial" (where Arkham inmates start running the asylum). In the series' final run of episodes, Ivy even got a dedicated farewell episode: "House & Garden" (written by Paul Dini). As the title suggests, Ivy seemingly reforms...

Lucky McKee’s directorial debut May is a psychological horror/thriller film released in 2002 starring Angela Bettis, Jeremy Sisto, Anna Faris, and James Duval. Combining the elements and conventions of horror and slasher, it is an oddly moving, distinctive, and discomforting film about the desperate need and desire for human touch and belonging. It follows a socially awkward and lonely veterinary assistant with a lazy eye, and her increasingly desperate attempts to connect with the people around her. When the simpering woman-child is rejected by her crush with perfect hands and everyone around, she descends into depravity and decides to build a friend for herself, using the body parts of her former acquaintances.

May captures the way extreme isolation and stress can stir up disturbances in a woman’s conscience. Mckee draws inspiration and influence from several horror predecessors and amalgamates together to bring about a neo-feminist camp horror. Primarily,...

Fresh off the success of his Oscar-nominated role of Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown, Timothée Chalamet is set to appear as table tennis legend Marty Reisman in Josh Safdie’s Marty Supreme. The film's cinematographer, Darius Khondji, recently revealed that audiences won't recognize Chalamet "at all" in the film and also provided some insight into how hard the rising star actor worked to bring Reisman to the big screen.

Speaking with Variety, Khondji revealed that Chalamet, who famously spent years preparing to play the iconic folk singer Bob Dylan in James Mangold's A Complete Unknown, used the same work ethic for his role of real-life table tennis legend Marty Reisman in A24'sMarty Supreme. "He wanted to be like a real [professional] ping pong player when he started shooting," Knondji said. Marty Supreme won't be a conventional biopic, instead, it will be loosely based on the life of Marty Resiman,...

Timothée Chalamet trained “for months and months” for his title role in Josh Safdie’s upcoming “Marty Supreme” about professional ping pong player Marty Reisman, reports Darius Khondji, the hotly anticipated film’s ace cinematographer. He added that he expects the A24 film’s Christmas 2025 release “to be box office dynamite.”

Khondji, who spoke to Variety on the sidelines of the Doha Film Institute’s Qumra workshop where he is a mentor, hasn’t yet seen “Marty Supreme,” which is now being edited in New York. But he underlined that “everything I hear is spectacular,” adding that “the shooting was so hard and crazy.”

Chalamet, who prepared for five years to play Bob Dylan in “A Complete Unknown,” also trained intensely for his role as Reisman – who started his career as a hustler in Manhattan and went on to win 22 major ping pong titles from 1946 to 2002 – “because you can do anything,...

Whatever you think about Shia Labeouf, his intensity and commitment is unquestionable, and he's not afraid to be outspoken. Labeouf's interesting career path was diverted among a variety of scandals and allegations, and you could hardly call it a comeback when he returned in 2023 with the film Padre Pio. Which is a shame, because he gives a great performance, and Abel Ferrara always creates fascinating films. It was perhaps just too niche a movie to give the former Transformers star the spotlight again. That likely won't change with his next movie, Salvable, which recently released its first trailer. You can watch the trailer for the film, also starring Toby Kebbell, below:

The synopsis for Salvable reads as follows:

"Shia Labeouf and Toby Kebbell star in an emotional, action-packed film about a prize fighter’s battles both inside and outside the ring. When a battered boxer past his prime finds his...

Gwyneth Paltrow didn’t know about intimacy coordinators while filming A24’s Marty Supreme alongside Timothée Chalamet and told them to “step a little bit back.”

In a new interview, the Goop founder opened up about her sex scenes with Chalamet in the film directed by Josh Safdie.

Paltrow told Vanity Fair she was approached by an intimacy coordinator to go over a physical scene and said, “I was like, ‘Girl, I’m from the era where you get naked, you get in bed, the camera’s on.'”

Intimacy coordinators are people hired to facilitate communication between actors and directors during intimate scenes. This position emerged following the #MeToo movement.

Paltrow and Chalamet were seemingly comfortable with the scenes they had to perform and recalled telling them, “We said, ‘I think we’re good. You can step a little bit back.”

Related: Michael Douglas Feels Intimacy Coordinators Are A...

Gwyneth Paltrow has shared her thoughts about working with an intimacy coordinator on the set of Marty Supreme, her new film with Timothée Chalamet. According to Paltrow, she and Chalamet have "a lot of sex" in the movie.

In an interview with Vanity Fair, Paltrow talked about what it was like filming with Chalamet as well as how filming sex scenes has changed over the course of her career. "There’s now something called an intimacy coordinator, which I did not know existed," Paltrow said. The actor also recalled a time when Marty Supreme's intimacy coordinator checked in to make sure Paltrow was okay with a particular scene, saying: "I was like, ‘Girl, I’m from the era where you get naked, you get in bed, the camera's on.’"

Marty Supreme will be released by A24 this Christmas, with Chalamet co-producing and starring as Marty Mauser, a role quite different...

New York icon Martin Scorsese is revealing his go-to films set in the Big Apple.

The auteur curated the screening series “Living, Breathing New York” for the Roxy Cinema, which features screenings of four of his favorite NYC movies out of a full list of Scorsese’s 32 favorite New York movies he’s created and which IndieWire is proud to share below.

“Living, Breathing New York” is curated by Scorsese in celebration of the new release of Olmo Schnabel’s NYC-set thriller, “Pet Shop Days,” which Scorsese executive produced. The film premieres March 15 at the Roxy Cinema in New York, and stars Dario Yazbek Bernal and Jack Irv as two lovers whose whirlwind romance sends them down a rabbit hole of drugs and depravity in Manhattan’s underworld. Willem Dafoe (who starred in Olmo Schnabel‘s father Julian Schnabel’s Vincent Van Gogh biopic “At Eternity’s Gate”), Emmanuelle Seigner, Peter Sarsgaard,...

Physical media culture is alive and thriving thanks to the home video tastemakers hailing everywhere from The Criterion Collection to Kino Lorber and the Warner Archive Collection. Each month, IndieWire highlights the best recent and upcoming Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K releases for cinephiles to own now — and to bring ballast and permanence to your moviegoing at a time when streaming windows on classic movies close just as soon as they open.

We lost one of our great, most respected actors in the last days of February: Gene Hackman, the New Hollywood maverick who could bring both “intimidating brusqueness” and “convincing tenderness” to any role, as IndieWire wrote in our obituary on February 27. It’s a death whose suspicious details continue to unravel. But Hackman’s many great roles, from a morally complicated New York police detective in “The French Connection” to an absent patriarch dying of cancer in “The Royal Tenenbaums,...

Italy’s Minerva Pictures has unveiled a slew of sales on its EFM slate including for Taavi Vartia’s Finnish survival thriller Ice Skater and Stefano Sardo’s erotic thriller Close To Me.

Ice Skater was acquired by Spain’s Inopia, Cis’s Magic Films, Latin America’s Clube Filmes, and by Foxx Vision for the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Now in post, Ice Skater stars Norwegian actress Thea Sofie Loch Næss as a woman who finds herself stranded on an ice floe in the Arctic Sea.

Close To Me, which is co-distributed with Tvco, was acquired for German-speaking countries by Splendid,...

February is a time for lovers. Romance, as well as the hope to find it are abound and what better place to seek it out than at your local repertory cinema. Sure, a dark theater full of strangers may seem like an odd space for finding a potential suitor, but who knows what can happen at the concession stand or under the marquee? One thing’s for sure: There’s nothing quite like the allure of the big screen.

This month’s offerings across New York and Los Angeles feature a whole host of fare designed to fill audience’s hearts, not just in the sense of discovering love, but also reaching to the soul. Starting January 31 and running through March 5, Film at Lincoln Center will be hosting a career retrospective titled “Frederick Wiseman: An American Institution” that is sure to envelop newcomers to the documentarian’s hypnotic work, as well as longtime fans.

Zora Grey has a story to tell. It’s a dark tale, full of spine-chilling frights and taboo thrills, unfolding from the moment you hit play on the Minneapolis singer, rapper, and producer’s second album, BELLAdonna, out Jan. 17 on Get Better Records. The buzzing synths and bass boom you’re hearing all come straight from the mind of Zora, the triple threat whose 2022 debut, Z1, brought her fans and press coverage (including in Rolling Stone). But this time, there’s a twist: Her vocals come in character.

“If she existed,...

2025 is here! Which means, it’s time for yet another 365 days of exciting movies and watching your favorite actors pop up on the silver screen. And undoubtedly, this year is even more stacked than usual, thanks to studios delaying and rescheduling a few of the titles to 2025.

Therefore, browsing through a bunch of long-awaited sequels to iconic originals, we at FandomWire have come up with the 25 most anticipated movies of 2025. Whether you prefer superhero films or animation, our skilfully crafted list has a fair share of everything. So, buckle up for a thrilling ride.

1. 28 Years Later Cillian Murphy in a still from 28 Years Later | image: Sony Pictures

Director: Danny Boyle

Cast: Cillian Murphy, Jodie Comer, Ralph Fiennes, Erin Kellyman

Release date: 20th June 2025

Revisiting Danny Boyle and Alex Garland’s 28 Days Later franchise, the new installment is set to be the beginning of a planned trilogy. I mean, while...

While Shakespeare and Abel Ferrara may seem an unlikely match, it is exactly their apparent incongruence that makes 1987's China Girl such a strange yet delightful cinematic experiment. The film reimagines Romeo and Juliet in contemporary New York City with the backdrop of a gang war, with the two leads coming from either side of said war. Although the source material has been adapted many times over, Ferrara and screenwriter Nicholas St. John bring their signature blend of hyper-violence and street-smart characters to what is perhaps the most classic love story of all time.

Timothee Chalamet’s Last 5 Films At the Worldwide Box Office ( Photo Credit – Instagram )

Timothee Chalamet is one of the promising actors in the present generation. He has been forming his career beautifully and is considered the next A-list star in the industry. Chalamet delivered the first big blockbuster of this year, Dune 2, and now he is back in the theatres with the Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown. The film has been generating positive word of mouth, and amid its winning debut, let’s check out the last five movies of the young and rising star at the worldwide box office.

Timothee Chalamet has appeared in twelve movies as a leading actor, with a $744.56 million worldwide aggregate box office. He started out with the drama series Homeland and debuted with the film Men, Women & Children. He gained attention with Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me by Your Name, which...

Willem Dafoe is one of the world’s biggest actors — but over five decades on screen, he’s been consistently drawn to oddballs. With his unhinged vampire hunter in Nosferatu about to be unleashed, we speak to him about challenging the norm.

“Chaos reigns,” said the fox.

Lars von Trier’s 2009 drama Antichrist was unforgiving cinema and, as the psychotherapist navigating his wife’s (Charlotte Gainsbourg) overwhelming grief after the death of their young son, Dafoe may have been the only actor capable of taking on its myriad challenges. It made perfect sense that Von Trier would ask him to voice the fox too, uttering those words while eating itself alive.

On screen, Dafoe has never been far from chaos. His first film appearance, in 1980, was in Michael Cimino’s notoriously catastrophic Heaven’s Gate; Dafoe was fired for laughing at a joke on set. He was Oscar-nominated for playing Sgt Elias in 1986’s Platoon,...

Stars: Robert Lasardo, Lorelei Linklater, Rich R. Rendon, Gigi Gustin, Costas Mandylor, Tom Sizemore, Elissa Dowling | Written by Robert Lasardo, Adrian Milnes | Directed by Robert Lasardo

Robert Lasardo’s American Trash marks both the directorial debut and a major change of pace for the prolific actor, whose first role was almost forty years ago in Abel Ferrara’s China Girl. Over the years he’s become known for roles in films like In Hell, Bridge of the Doomed and Amber Road, but he’s chosen to make a drama that trades physical brutality for an unflinchingly brutal look at pain, loss and the toll modern society can take on people.

Milles (Robert Lasardo) is a combat veteran who now works as a tattoo artist while trying to get a grip on his Ptsd issues. One of the few things that seems to bring him a sense of peace is listening...

Move over Barbenheimer, it’s time for Chalaweeney thanks to A24, as all eyes will be on Timothée Chalamet and Sydney Sweeney next Christmas because the beloved indie distributor has set Chalamet’s ping-pong biopic, Marty Supreme, for release on Dec. 25, 2025. Word broke yesterday that Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried's new thriller, The Housemaid, will also release on Christmas day next year, meaning two of Hollywood’s biggest stars right now will go head-to-head at the box office, unless one of them flinches first.

Per Deadline, Chalamet’s Marty Supreme will open on the cherished holiday next year, with a stacked cast of superstars that includes Gwyneth Paltrow, Tyler the Creator, Fran Drescher, Penn Jillette, Odessa A’zion, Kevin O’Leary, Abel Ferrara and Sandra Bernard. Directed by Josh Safdie, the film is set in the 1950s and examines the epic rise of ping-pong champion Marty Reisman. A24 also had a hand in producing the film,...

Just as Will Smith staked out the Fourth of July as his self-dominated holiday at the box office, so too may Timothée Chalamet become our Christmas king. After last year’s “Wonka” hit big over the holidays and the Bob Dylan biopic “A Complete Unknown” opens on Christmas Day this year, A24 will release Chalamet’s next film “Marty Supreme” on Christmas 2025, the studio announced on Friday.

Directed by Josh Safdie from an original screenplay written by Safdie and Ronald Bronstein, “Marty Supreme” is described as a globetrotting adventure comedy in the vein of “Catch Me If You Can” and “Wolf of Wall Street.” While early reports pegged it as a biopic of ping pong player Marty Reisman, the film is an original story.

Production is ongoing but took a pause so Chalamet could hit the press circuit in support of his Dylan biopic “A Complete Unknown,” which is why...

Stars: Jasper Jones, Jay Dunn, John R. Howley, Tori Wong, Andrew Bell | Written and Directed by Andrew Bell

Vampires and vampirism have been used as metaphors for many things over the years, one of which is drug addiction. Films as diverse as Ganja and Hess, Abel Ferrara’s The Addiction, Daybreakers, and Bliss have made that connection for various purposes. Now writer/director Andrew Bell gives us his addition to the genre, Bleeding, which made its North American Premiere at Dances With Films.

A title card bearing a warning from 2008 tells us we’re in an alternate timeline where Blood and Dust, two highly addictive opioids derived from the blood of what are refered to as “the infected” are ravaging the country. Overdoses, the message tells us, leads to death and reanimation.

One of those addicted is Sean who uses it to cope with a shitty home life that includes a drunken,...

Like Abel Ferrara’s other collaborations with screenwriter Nicholas St. John, among them Ms. 45, Dangerous Game, and The Funeral, The Addiction is rife with intense and undigested contradictions. The 1995 film loosely mixes addiction and assault metaphors, capturing the self-loathing of addicts while almost inadvertently suggesting that victims of sexual abuse have it coming.

When a vampire, Casanova (Annabella Sciorra), corners a psychology scholar, Kathleen (Lili Taylor), into a dark stairwell, she asks her victim to forcefully will her away. Kathleen pleads with Casanova and is bitten in the neck in retaliation, which is staged as a tenderly erotic suckling of the flesh. Now a vampire herself, Kathleen gains Casanova’s confidence and attacks a variety of New Yorkers, offering them a similar deal: If they ask her to go, convincingly, they will be spared. Only one person, tellingly a man and even more tellingly a demon, can rise to the occasion of these terms.

No one makes movies quite like Abel Ferrara, though his brazenness and unwillingness to conform to much by way of mainstream style can make him comparable to attitudes held by other prolific directors with careers spanning decades, like David Lynch and Paul Verhoeven. Ferrara provokes, asks difficult moral questions, and probably doesn’t care what most people think of the films he makes, and has been doing so since the late 1970s.

In 2024, a film’s TV debut is hardly ever an event to remember. Not so this Christmas, when the cinema event of the year might just premiere on the small screen…

Remember network premieres? Christmastime, and Christmas Day in particular, used to be full of them. With much of the Northern hemisphere forced to take some time off and the sun setting before we’ve finished lunch, channels knew they had something of a captive audience – one that couldn’t always be satisfied by the same six episodes of Dad’s Army.

Instead, the festive period often turned into a lifeline for the cash-strapped cinephile. With some of recent years’ biggest blockbusters making their way to the likes of the BBC, ITV and Channel 4, there was always the slightest tingle of excitement that came with the knowledge we’d finally – finally – be able to watch Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World’s End...

Abel Ferrara’s sci-fi horror Body Snatchers was largely overlooked in 1993, but it’s aged remarkably well in the decades since.

Movie-goers and film scholars have argued for decades over which side of the political divide director Don Siegel and his collaborators fell on when they made Invasion Of The Body Snatchers at the height of the Cold War in 1956. Did it tap into contemporary fears of an insidious communist takeover, or was it a Crucible-like jab at McCarthyist witch hunts?

Siegel always maintained that he didn’t have politics in mind when he made the film, adapted from author Jack Finney’s novel, The Body Snatchers; he simply intended it to be an entertaining, disturbing thrill ride. And what a thrill-ride it is: starring Kevin McCarthy as a small-town doctor who’s slow to realise his patients – and gradually the entire town – is being replaced by soulless pod people – it’s a tense,...

Bob Dylan finally broke his silence regarding the upcoming biopic, A Complete Unknown, which sees Timothée Chalamet star as the iconic musician and Dylan has some thoughts regarding the casting.

Dylan, one of the most celebrated musical artists of the 20th century, recently heaped praise upon the actor set to play him in the film A Complete Unknown, which lands in theaters on Christmas Day. Via his X account, Dylan expressed his excitement to see Chalamet's portrayal, while also imploring fans to go out and read the book upon which the film is based. "There’s a movie about me opening soon called A Complete Unknown (what a title!)," Dylan wrote. "Timothee Chalamet is starring in the lead role. Timmy’s a brilliant actor so I’m sure he’s going to be completely believable as me. Or a younger me. Or some other me. The film’s taken from...

Exclusive: Spenser Granese (Dope Thief) is the newest addition to the cast of Marty Supreme, director Josh Safdie’s new film for A24, starring Timothée Chalamet, sources tell Deadline.

Character details are under wraps, as with the film’s plot, though the project supposedly takes loose inspiration from the story of professional ping pong player Marty Reisman. Sources close to the production have stressed, at the same time, that it’s a fictionalized original, rather than a biopic.

Pic’s eclectic ensemble also includes Gwyneth Paltrow, musician Tyler, The Creator, Odessa A’zion, magician Penn Jillette, Shark Tank panelist and entrepreneur Kevin O’Leary (aka Mr. Wonderful), Fran Drescher, Sandra Bernhard, and filmmaker Abel Ferrara.

Production is currently underway, with Safdie working from his script written with Ronald Bronstein. The duo produces alongside Eli Bush, Anthony Katagas, Chalamet and A24.

Currently, Granesa can be seen starring alongside Rooney Mara in the drama La Cocina,...