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Production has begun at last on the third and likely final season of Max’s Euphoria. Much has changed in regards to who will return in front of the camera in the three years since the second season premiered.

Find everything we know about Euphoria Season 3 below:

When will Euphoria Season 3 come out?

At the Wells Fargo Tmt Summit, Jb Perrette, CEO and President of Global Streaming for HBO/Max parent Warner Bros. Discovery, confirmed that the series starring Zendaya is targeting a 2026 return. An exact date has not yet been announced.

Has Euphoria Season 3 gone into production?

Yes, the third season has started production as of Feb. 10, 2025. Season 3 is currently shooting in Los Angeles.

Who is coming back for Euphoria Season 3?

Zendaya will return to reprise her role of Rue Bennett, as will Hunter Schafer in her role as Jules Vaughn.

L-r: Zendaya and Hunter Schafer in ‘Euphoria’

Eric Dane,...

“Euphoria” Season 3 announced its cast on Friday — and some new names are in the mix. Rosalía, Marshawn Lynch and Kadeem Hardison will all join series regulars Zendaya, Sydney Sweeney and Jacob Elordi on the HBO drama’s latest outing, with Dominic Fike also set to return. Notably absent from the new season’s casting news is Storm Reid.

“Euphoria” resumed production this week for its long-awaited third season. The show was marred by delays caused by the Covid pandemic as well as the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Its return comes almost three years after the second season premiered, and for awhile, particularly following the death of actor Angus Cloud, the matter of its return was a big question mark. HBO and Max boss Casey Bloys dispelled rumors concerning a potential cancellation for months.

Returning for Season 3 are original cast members and series regulars Zendaya, Hunter Schafer, Sydney Sweeney, Jacob Elordi,...

The cast for season three of Euphoria is shaping up, as the HBO series has added several new castmembers while also saying goodbye to some members of previous seasons’ ensemble.

The series, which has begun production after a nearly three-year hiatus, has added NFL star turned actor Marshawn Lynch (Love Hurts), Grammy winner Rosalia, Kadeem Hardison (The Chi, A Different World), Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (Lost, Suicide Squad), Toby Wallace (FX’s Pistol), Priscilla Delgado, James Landry Hébert, Darrell Britt-Gibson and Anna Van Patten. Akinnouye-Agbaje and Wallace will be regulars, and the others will have “notable” guest roles, per HBO.

The new cast joins returning regulars Zendaya, Hunter Schafer, Jacob Elordi, Sydney Sweeney, Eric Dane, Alexa Demie and Maude Apatow. Colman Domingo will also return, but as a guest star. Martha Kelly and Chloe Cherry, who recurred in season two, have been upped to regular status.

Not returning for season three are Storm Reid,...

“Euphoria” officially started production on Season 3 this week, with a few new fresh faces.

Grammy winning artist Rosalía, Super Bowl champ Marshawn Lynch and “A Different World” star Kadeem Hardison have joined the cast of the hit high school drama, HBO announced on X. Other new cast members include Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Toby Wallace, Darrell Britt-Gibson, Priscilla Delgado, James Landry Hébert and Anna Van Patten.

Most of the main cast is returning, including Zendaya, Sydney Sweeney, Hunter Schafer, Jacob Elordi, Eric Dane, Alexa Demie and Maude Apatow. Martha Kelly and Chloe Cherry have both been upped to series regulars. Colman Domingo is also returning as a guest star.

Nika King, Austin Abrams and Algee Smith are missing from HBO’s list of returning cast members as well as Storm Reid, who said in November that her character, Rue’s sister Gia, would not be featured in upcoming episodes. Barbie Ferreira, who played Kat,...

Exclusive: HBO’s Euphoria has been in production for a few days on the long-delayed third season and Deadline can reveal the addition of Grammy Award winner Rosalía, Super Bowl Champion Marshawn Lynch and NAACP Image Award winner Kadeem Hardison, as well as the return of series regulars Zendaya, Sydney Sweeney and Jacob Elordi, among others.

The eight-episode third season of Euphoria will feature a time jump that takes the characters out of high school. It is set to premiere in 2026, four years after the show’s Season 2 run.

Coming back for Season 3 are original cast members Zendaya (Dune film series); Hunter Schafer (the upcoming Blade Runner); Eric Dane; Jacob Elordi (Guillermo Del Toro’s upcoming Frankenstein); Sydney Sweeney (Anyone but You); Alexa Demie; and Maude Apatow as series regulars. Colman Domingo will return as a guest star.

Sources tell Deadline Algee Smith and Nika King will not be returning...

Thanks to breakout roles in the Scream revival, Netflix's Wednesday and last year's Beetlejuice sequel, Jenna Ortega is fast becoming one of the most sought-after young actors in Hollywood, so it probably won't come as much of a surprise to learn that she's being courted by Marvel Studios.

We have previously heard that Ortega was being eyed for a superhero part, but Daniel Richtman is now reporting that the actress is being considered for a big Marvel Cinematic Universe role.

It's always worth noting that Marvel meets with a lot of talent, but if Ortega has actually entered negotiations for an upcoming project, there's a good chance the trades will get hold of the story before too long.

Even if she is in talks, there's no guarantee that things will work out. Ortega has a busy schedule ahead, with a lead role in Taika Waititi's Klara and the Sun adaptation,...

Oscar frontrunners “Wicked” (Paul Tazewell), “Nosferatu” (Linda Muir), and “Conclave” (Lisy Christl) were all winners at the 27th Costume Designer Guild Awards (Cdga), held February 6 at The Ebell of Los Angeles. “Nobody Wants This” star Jackie Tohn served as host.

The film winners prevailed in the categories of sci-fi/fantasy, period, and contemporary, respectively. Costume designer Tazewell is currently the favorite to win the Oscar for “Wicked,” Jon M. Chu’s populist Oz musical. He created a connection to nature through mushroom motifs in the wardrobes for Elphaba (Oscar-nominated Cynthia Erivo), and a floating sensibility with effervescent pink bubble motifs in the wardrobes for Galinda (Oscar-nominated Ariana Grande).

In TV, the winners were “Dune: Prophecy” (Bojana Nikitovi) for sci-fi/fantasy, “Shōgun” (Carlos Rosario) for period, and “Hacks” (Kathleen Felix-Hager) for contemporary.

In addition, three-time Oscar winner Jenny Beavan won the Career Achievement Award, Oscar-nominated Zoe Saldaña (“Emilia Pérez”) was given the Spotlight Award,...

Conclave, Nosferatu and Wicked won the awards for contemporary, period and sci-fi/fantasy film, respectively, at the 2025 Costume Designers Guild Awards.

All three films are nominated for the costume design Oscar, alongside A Complete Unknown and Gladiator II.

Other winners at the 27th annual ceremony, which took place Thursday night at The Ebell of Los Angeles, included Hacks, Shogun and Dune: Prophecy, which won the contemporary, period and sci-fi/fantasy awards, respectively, for TV. The Masked Singer won the award for excellence in variety, reality-competition and live television. And Shogun won a second award for excellence in costume illustration, one of two awards it was nominated for in that category.

The CDGAs, hosted by Nobody Wants This star Jackie Tohn, honored Emilia Pérez‘s Zoe Saldaña with this year’s spotlight award, Janelle Monáe with the vanguard spotlight award, Jenny Beavan with the career achievement award, Salvador Perez with the...

Dressed to the nines and ready to shine, the 2025 Costume Designers Guild Awards (Cdga) rolled out their vibrant carpet on Thursday in Los Angeles. The ceremony celebrated outstanding achievements in costume design across film, television, short-form, and costume illustration. Among the glittering nominees were four of the five Oscar contenders for Best Costume Design: Conclave, Gladiator II, Nosferatu, and Wicked. Notably absent from the Cdga list was the Academy Award-nominated A Complete Unknown.

The four Oscar nominees were split between three categories, avoiding a direct clash prior to the 2025 Oscars on March 2. Conclave prevailed in Contemporary against co-nominees Challengers, Emilia Pérez, The Fall Guy, and The Substance. In Fantasy, winner Wicked was up against Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Borderlands, Dune: Part Two, and Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. The only two Oscar nominees to face off were Gladiator II and Nosferatu in Period, the latter of which prevailed, with the other contenders being The Book of Clarence,...

“Wicked” and “Conclave” were the big winners of the 27th Costume Designers Guild Awards on Thursday evening.

This was the guild’s second instance awarding “Wicked” designer Paul Tazewell. He won in 2021 for “Hamilton” in the excellence in variety, reality-competition or live television category. Tazewell has emerged as a frontrunner for the costuming Oscar. If he ends up winning, he will make history as the first Black man to win in the Academy category.

In the excellence in period film category, Linda Muir won for her work on “Nosferatu.”

The awards recognized excellence in film, TV and short-form costume design and were hosted by Jackie Tohn.

Tohn announced the guild is launching an auction of costumes from film and TV to support the IATSE Emergency Relief Fund. Among the props up for auction are costumes from “House of the Dragon,” Shiz University costumes from “Wicked,” and Bob Mackie Cher sketches.

Dune: Part Two, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice and Alien: Romulus were the big film winners at the 52nd annual Saturn Awards, held Sunday at the Hilton Universal City. Nicolas Cage and Demi Moore took the lead acting prizes for their respective turns in Dream Scenario and The Substance. See the full list below.

Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two took the Best Science Fiction Film prize, Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice Beetlejuice won for Fantasy Film, and Fede Álvarez’s Alien: Romulus seized Best Horror Film. Other movie winners on the night included Deadpool & Wolverine for Best Action/Adventure Film, The Wild Robot (Animated Film), Godzilla Minus One (International Film), Strange Darling (Thriller) and Late Night with the Devil (Independent Film).

The TV winners list includes Fallout, House of the Dragon, Agatha All Along, Cobra Kai, From, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, Star Wars: The Bad Batch and The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live.

In 1983 Argentina, under the harsh military dictatorship during the Dirty War, Kiss of the Spider Woman unfolds its story within a prison cell. The setting operates as a stark representation of societal control and human endurance. Luis Molina, a gay window dresser imprisoned for public indecency, shares his cell with Valentin Arregui Paz, a Marxist revolutionary tortured for opposing the regime. Their shared confinement becomes a space where different worldviews clash and eventually merge.

Molina’s imaginative narratives emerge as a survival strategy, deeply connected to Latin American interpretations of classic Hollywood cinema. His fixation on Ingrid Luna, a fictional screen actress representing cinematic archetypes, transcends simple distraction. These stories reveal how global cultural elements are transformed through local perspectives to create complex personal identities. Director Bill Condon weaves a narrative that shifts between harsh prison reality and vivid cinematic dreams, showing how storytelling becomes a form of psychological resistance.

A touching dedication at the end of Kiss of the Spider Woman reads simply: “For Fred, Terrence and Chita.” That would be lyricist Fred Ebb, playwright Terrence McNally and original star Chita Rivera, key figures behind the 1993 Broadway musical, alongside composer John Kander and stage director Harold Prince. The show won seven Tony Awards and ran for just over two years, though critics and audiences were divided, and it’s mostly considered a second-tier musical by the standards of Kander and Ebb, the celebrated team behind Cabaret and Chicago.

Bill Condon sets himself a tough assignment trying to transform the tricky material into a great movie musical, but thanks in part to laudable work from his three leads, he occasionally comes close. The writer-director revisits an idea that worked well in his screenplay for 2002’s Chicago — paralleling squalor and splendor, with central characters stuck in grim reality seeking escape through Golden Age Hollywood musical fantasy.

Warning: This article discusses sensitive topics, including child abuse and sexual assault.

The Oscars have hosted a lavish ceremony celebrating the best of the best in cinema every year, but some people were banned and asked not to return. The first Academy Awards happened in 1929, and since then, hundreds of performers, directors, producers, art directors, and even musicians have been honored for their work in the film industry. The year's most anticipated event has boosted the popularity of many notable titles worldwide and made them some of the best movies of all time.

Throughout the year, audiences started to form theories about which movies would be big winners at the Academy Awards, and predictions for the 2025 Oscars began within weeks after the 2024 event ended. However, it has only been in recent years that the Academy has banned public figures from attending their events and casting their votes. The Academy of...

“Furiosa’s” Jenny Beavan has been named as the recipient of this year’s “Career Achievement Award” by the Costume Designers Guild.

Past recipients of the Career Achievement Award include Francine Jamison-Tanchuck, Deborah L. Scott, Michael Kaplan, Ruth E. Carter, Joanna Johnston, Jeffrey Kurland, Ellen Mirojnick, Aggie Rodgers, Sharen Davis, April Ferry, Judianna Makovsky, Eduardo Castro, Julie Weiss, Sandy Powell, Marlene Stewart, Ruth Myers, Ann Roth, Milena Canonero, Albert Wolsky, Colleen Atwood and Theoni V. Aldredge.

“I am very honored to be receiving this award! How wonderful to be recognized by such a fabulous group… costume designers. The best!” said Beavan.

Former guild president Salvador Perez will be bestowed with the Distinguished Service Award.

In the past, the Distinguished Service award has gone to Mary Ellen Fields, Betty Pecha Madden, Maggie Schpak, Sharon Day, Lois DeArmond, Edwina Pellikka and Mary Rose.

“Being a member of the Costume Designers Guild has...

The nominees for the 2025 Costume Designers Guild Awards have been revealed.

In the contemporary film category, the nominees are Challengers, Conclave, Emilia Pérez, The Fall Guy and The Substance.

In the period film category nominees are The Book of Clarence, Gladiator II, Maria, Nosferatu and Saturday Night.

And in the sci-fi/fantasy film categories, the nominees are Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Borderlands, Dune: Part Two, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga and Wicked.

In the TV categories — also divided among contemporary, period and sci-fi/fantasy — notable series nominated include Agatha All Along, Baby Reindeer, Emily in Paris, The Gentlemen, Hacks, Bridgerton, Feud, Palm Royale, Ripley, Shogun, Dune: Prophecy, Fallout, House of the Dragon, Lord of the Rings, The Masked Singer and Saturday Night Live.

Agatha All Along landed three nods, for excellence in contemporary television and sci-fi/fantasy television and costume illustration. The Masked Singer and Shogun received two nominations apiece, also getting...

Another day, another guild award nomination for “The Substance.”

On Friday, the Costume Designers Guild announced its 2025 CDG Awards nominees, and “The Substance” costume designer Emmanuelle Youchnovski was among the artisans highlighted for recognition.

Youchnovski is the latest department head from the Coralie Fargeat horror satire nominated for a guild award this week, following editors Fargeat, Jérôme Eltabet, and Valentin Féron at the Ace Eddie Awards, and hair and makeup team Frédérique Arguello and Stéphanie Guillon at the Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild Awards.

The film’s strong guild show corresponds to an outpouring of support from the journalists who make up the Golden Globes Foundation and Critics Choice Association. “The Substance” landed major nominations at both the Golden Globes and Critics Choice Awards this week, including best film nominations at each respective event and two Best Director bids for Fargeat.

“The Substance” wasn’t the only Best Picture...

The Costume Designers Guild unveiled the nominees for the 27th Cdga (Costume Designers Guild Awards) on December 13, showcasing a wide variety of work across film, TV, and short form.

Among the nominees for feature film are Oscar frontrunners “Nosferatu” (Linda Muir), “Wicked” (Paul Tazewell), “Conclave” (Lisy Christl), and “Emilia Pérez” (Virginie Montel). In TV, “Agatha All Along” (Daniel Selon), “Fallout” (Amy Westcott), and “Shōgun” (Carlos Rosario) scored noms.

“I am thrilled to congratulate all the nominees for this year’s Cdga. Your exceptional creativity and dedication continue to elevate the art of costume design. We look forward to celebrating your incredible achievements on this magical evening. Best wishes to each nominee,” Terry Gordon, President of the Costume Designers Guild, IATSE Local 892, said in a statement.

Winners in all nine categories will be announced at the Cdga ceremony Thursday, February 6, 2025, at The Ebell of Los Angeles. Western Costume returns as a...

The Costume Designers Guild has announced nominations for the 27th Costume Designers Guild Awards, with “Wicked,” “Gladiator 2,” “Maria,” “Nosferatu” and “Dune: Part Two” among the titles landing nominations.

The costume designers behind “The Book of Clarence,” “Gladiator II,” “Maria,” “Nosferatu” and

“Saturday Night” will vie for the top prize in excellence in period film, while the artisans behind “Challengers,” “Conclave,” “Emilia Pérez,” “The Fall Guy ” and “The Substance” will compete for excellence in contemporary costume.

“Wicked’s” Paul Tazewell is nominated in the excellence in sci-fi/fantasy film category. This is his fifth guild nomination. He won in 2021 for “Hamilton” in the excellence in variety, reality-competition or live television category. Tazewell has emerged as a frontrunner for the costuming Oscar. If he does so, he will make history as the first Black man to win that category.

For “Wicked,” Tazewell anchored Cynthia Erivo’s Elphaba and Ariana Grande’s Glinda in opposing looks.

The Costume Designers Guild on Friday unveiled nominations for the 27th CDGAs, with titles on the movie side ranging from blockbusters like Wicked, Gladiator II, Dune: Part Two and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice to indie hits like Conclave, Emilia Pérez and The Substance.

The CDG Awards nominates films in three categories — Contemporary, Period and Sci-Fi/Fantasy — along with four TV categories and one category apiece in Short Form Design and Costume Illustration.

Among the TV nominees with multiple mentions this morning are Shōgun and Agatha All Along, with others with eye-popping looks in the mix including Bridgerton, Dancing With the Stars and The Masked Singer, and Emily In Paris.

Winners will be revealed at the 27th annual CDG Awards hosted by Jackie Tohn on February 6 at The Ebell of Los Angeles.

Last year, the film winners included Barbie, Saltburn and eventual Costume Design Oscar winner Holly Waddingham for Poor Things.

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The Hollywood Creative Alliance has announced the winners for the 2024 Astra Film and Creative Arts Awards on Sunday, Dec. 8. The organization hosted two ceremonies – a luncheon and dinner – at the Taglyan Complex in Los Angeles. Actor, comedian and writer Peter Kim hosted the Astra Creative Arts Awards and two-time Emmy and NAACP-winning comedian Loni Love hosted the Astra Film Awards.

Universal Pictures’ “Wicked” came out on top with eight wins including Best Picture, Best Director for Jon M. Chu, Best Actress for Cynthia Erivo, and Best Supporting Actress for Ariana Grande (tie with Zoe Saldaña). Coming in second place was Warner Bros.’ “Dune: Part Two” and Netflix’s “Emilia Pérez” with four wins each. See the full list of winners below.

In addition, the Hollywood Creative Alliance honored costume designer Colleen Atwood with the Inaugural Artisan Icon Award, composer Kris Bowers received the Artisan Achievement Award, and cinematographer Giovanni Ribisi...

TIMOTHÉE Chalamet as Paul Atreides and Zendaya as Chani in Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures’ ‘Dune: Part Two’ (Photo by Niko Tavernise)

The San Diego Film Critics Society is known for marching to the beat of its own drum. Last year, the So. California group named Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret the Best Picture of 2024. And this year’s nominees break from other critics groups, with Dune: Part Two leading with 12 nominations. Conclave followed with nine, and Sing Sing and Wicked each earned eight.

Winners will be announced on Monday, December 9, 2024.

2024 San Diego Film Critics Society Awards Nominees

Best Picture

Anora

Challengers

Conclave

Dune: Part Two

Sing Sing

Best Director

Brady Corbet – The Brutalist

Coralie Fargeat, The Substance

Denis Villeneuve, Dune: Part Two

Edward Berger, Conclave

Greg Kwedar, Sing Sing

Best Actor

Adrien Brody, The Brutalist

Colman Domingo, Sing Sing

Daniel Craig, Queer

Ralph Fiennes,...

“Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” has revealed to Gold Derby its awards submissions strategy for the 2025 Oscars and other upcoming kudos. Directed by Tim Burton, this highly anticipated sequel to 1988’s “Beetlejuice” opened on Sept. 6, 2024, and was able to cross the $100 million mark in the U.S. within only three days. He truly is the ghost with the most!

The Warner Bros. movie takes place more than three decades after the first installment, with Michael Keaton‘s titular demon once again antagonizing the Deetz family, including Winona Ryder‘s Lydia and Catherine O’Hara‘s Delia. This time around, there are new characters in the form of Jenna Ortega‘s Astrid (the daughter of Lydia), Monica Bellucci‘s Delores Laferve (the ex-wife of Beetlejuice), Justin Theroux‘s Rory (the boyfriend of Lydia), Arthur Conti‘s Jeremy Frazier (Astrid’s new love interest), and Willem Dafoe‘s Wolf Jackson (an Afterlife detective).

Keaton and Ryder...

You may not recognize the name, but in the world of costume design, Paul Tazewell is a recognized talent with a capital “t.” So much so that he appears on his way to ascending into the pantheon of lauded living costume designers that include legends such as Colleen Atwood, Sandy Powell, Jenny Beavan, Mark Bridges, and Ruth Carter. He’s already a Tony Award winner with nine nominations overall, an Emmy Award winner, and an Oscar nominee for Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story.” With Jon M.

Continue reading Paul Tazewell Breaks Down Glinda’s Subtle Independent Style In ‘Wicked’ at The Playlist.

After a record-breaking weekend at the global box office, “Wicked” has now become the most nominated movie in the Astra Film Awards and Astra Creative Arts Awards eight-year history. The Universal Pictures film received 20 nominations including Best Picture, Best Actress for Cynthia Erivo, Best Supporting Actress for Ariana Grande, and Best Director for Jon M. Chu.

The Hollywood Creative Alliance will host two ceremonies – a luncheon and dinner – on Sunday, Dec. 8, 2024 at the Taglyan Complex in Los Angeles. Both ceremonies will be recorded and streamed on Knekt.tv and YouTube. Actor, comedian, and writer Peter Kim will host the Astra Creative Arts Awards and Emmy-winning comedian and host, Loni Love, will host the Astra Film Awards.

“Dune: Part Two” came in second place with a total of 16 nominations. The Denis Villeneuve sequel from Warner Bros. snagged nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Cast Ensemble, amongst many others categories.

Warner Bros. Pictures’ Beetlejuice Beetlejuice will make its global streaming debut on Friday, December 6, exclusively on Max. The film will debut on HBO linear on Saturday, December 7, at 6:10 p.m. Et.

Oscar-nominated, singular creative visionary Tim Burton and Oscar nominee and star Michael Keaton reunite for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, the long-awaited sequel to Burton’s award–winning film Beetlejuice.

An American Sign Language (Asl) version of the hit film will also be available to stream on Max in the U.S. and Europe, along with a Língua Brasileira de Sinais (Libras) version in Brazil. Produced by the Max Accessibility Team in partnership with Deluxe (Asl) and Iguale (Libras), the Asl version of the film is performed by Sophia Morales, a Deaf individual who gained popularity through her engaging Asl interpretations of popular songs on social media.

The Libras version is performed by Andrey Baptista. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice in Asl and Libras...

In the opening sequence of “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,” audiences are introduced to Winona Ryder’s Lydia Deetz some 35 years after we last saw her.

Lydia is now hosting a reality show, “Ghost House,” and often sees visions of the foul-mouthed demon Beetlejuice in her audience. According to costume designer Colleen Atwood, the goth-glam host’s outfit was inspired by none other than the mistress of the dark herself, Elvira. Atwood said, “We wanted to channel that kind of character for Lydia’s TV show. I found that dress at a thrift store. It was this jersey dress, and I did some modifications to it; adding some cleavage and changed it up a bit.”

The four-time Oscar winner was the recipient of Variety’s Creative Impact award in costume design. Speaking with Variety at the Scad Savannah Film Festival, Atwood said she doesn’t take things for granted and never assumes she...

The 2024 Scad Savannah Film Festival announced in a press release they will honor Pamela Anderson with the Marquee Award this Saturday, November 2. The actress will be recognized for her starring role in Gia Coppola’s “The Last Showgirl.” Anderson will receive the award before the film’s Southeast premiere and she will join Coppola for a Q&a. The 2024 Scad Savannah Film Festival is scheduled taking place October 26–November 2.

“We are excited to have Pamela Anderson join us for the last day of the festival for a special screening of ‘The Last Showgirl,’” said Christina Routhier, executive director of the Scad Savannah Film Festival. “Pamela gives a captivating performance in ‘The Last Showgirl,’ and we are so honored to celebrate her remarkable achievements and career with the Marquee Award.”

Anderson, most recently nominated for Best Lead Performance by the Gotham Awards, stars as a seasoned showgirl who must plan for...

Building on what is already the largest film-related collection in the world, comprised of more than 52 million items, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences revealed some of their most recent acquisitions today, including the Studio Ghibli animation collection, which contains more than 80 pieces of original art by Hayao Miyazaki and Noboru Yoshida, as well as the studio’s Japanese movie posters and animator’s desk. Another hot ticket item, presented at the Academy Museum Gala on October 19 in Los Angeles, is Quentin Tarantino’s personal, handwritten script for “Pulp Fiction,” which won the Best Original Screenplay Oscar and celebrated its 30th anniversary this year.

Filmmakers Curtis Hanson, Nicole Holofcener, Barbara Kopple, Oliver Stone, and Paul Verhoeven also donated their personal collections to the Academy, which features production records, photographs, scripts, and more from films such as “L.A. Confidential,” “Harlan County, U.S.A,” “Platoon,” “Showgirls,” and “Enough Said.

Oscar-winning actor Catherine Zeta-Jones recalls meeting “Chicago” costume designer Colleen Atwood in her workshop before the musical began filming.

“It was this explosion of costume and dancing fishnet tights hanging from every hook,” says Zeta-Jones. “I remember meeting her for the first time and looking at her designs, giddy with anticipation, and looking at her vision and just going ‘Wow! This is amazing.’”

Zeta-Jones had an instant respect and admiration for Atwood and her craft. She’s not the only one. Directors Rob Marshall and Tim Burton have her on speed dial as one of their first go-to department heads and collaborators when starting their new films. I needed that same group from ‘Chicago’ because we speak the same language and shorthand at this point,” Marshall says. He used Atwood on Disney’s 2023 live action “The Little Mermaid.”

Atwood is set to be honored for her work at the Scad...

The world’s largest college-run film festival, the Scad Savannah film festival, returns to Georgia Oct. 26 with its consistently eclectic programming mix of documentaries, box office hits, indies, animated films, short films and more.

“Scad honors the screen’s brightest stars, from Annette Bening to Lupita Nyong’o to Richard Linklater,” says Scad President and founder Paula Wallace. “Come for the stars and stay for a tour of Scad’s recently expanded Savannah Film Studios backlot… glitz, glamour, and good films.”

This year’s programming includes of Steve McQueen’s “Blitz” and Pablo Larrain’s “Maria” as well as a centerpiece screening of Robbie Williams’ unconventional biopic “Better Man.” The festival will also screen “Emilia Peréz,” Jacques Audiard’s musical drama which won the Jury Prize at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, and a 35mm print of Brady Corbet’s “The Brutalist,” which netted the filmmaker the Silver Lion for directing in Venice earlier this year.

Thanks to breakout roles in the Scream revival, Netflix's Wednesday and this year's Beetlejuice sequel, Jenna Ortega is fast becoming one of the most sought-after young actors in Hollywood, so it probably won't come as much of a surprise to learn that she's being courted by Marvel Studios.

According to scooper Mttsh, Ortega is now in talks for an undisclosed Marvel Cinematic Universe role.

It's always worth noting that Marvel meets with a lot of talent, but if Ortega has actually entered negotiations for an upcoming project, there's a good chance the trades will get hold of the story before too long.

Even if she is in talks, there's no guarantee that things will work out. Ortega has a busy schedule ahead, with a lead role in Taika Waititi's Klara and the Sun adaptation, and an untitled Trey Edward Shults film that will co-star The Weeknd and Barry Keoghan.

If you want to win an Oscar for Best Costume Design, it’s best to pick a project for which you can create frilly dresses from a bygone era. Since its introduction at the 1948 Academy Awards, this category has favored period pictures, including the 2024 winner “Poor Things.” (Scroll down for the most up-to-date 2025 Oscar predictions for Best Costume Design.)

Voters love to reward the creative forces behind such films, especially those that are about the aristocracy including recent champs “Marie Antoinette” (2007), “Elizabeth: The Golden Age” (2008), “The Duchess” (2009), “The Young Victoria” (2010), and “Anna Karenina” (2013). By the way, none of those films even competed for Best Picture. Indeed, only 20 Best Picture champs also won this award; the last to do so was “The Artist” in 2012.

Among the other double dippers was “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” (2004). Fantasy films such as this often boast Oscar-winning costumes, including 2022 champ “Cruella,...

The Art of Elysium, a nonprofit organization that focuses on healing and inspiring through art, will honor filmmaker Lee Daniels with the Visionary Award at its Heaven Gala, which will take place on March 22, 2025.

The Los Angeles event is a one-night-only art installation conceived and curated by the chosen Visionary, who creates his or her idea of “heaven on Earth” as it relates to The Art of Elysium’s four main disciplines: fashion and design, music and movement, theatre and film, and visual arts. Daniels will envision his “heaven” as eternal peace.

“Being asked to envision heaven could not have come up at more inopportune time, yet the perfect timing in every way,” Daniels said in a statement. “I was in the midst of releasing a film and being pulled in every direction imaginable. Even making the time to talk through details seemed impossible. Yet, when the time was made,...

Top awards contenders “The Brutalist,” “Emilia Perez,” and “September 5” are among the top titles set to screen at this year’s Scad Savannah Film Festival.

The Savannah College of Art and Design’s 27th annual Scad Savannah Film Festival announced its full lineup on Friday. Netflix’s “Maria” with Angelina Jolie is set as the closing night film. The wild Robbie Williams biopic “Better Man,” featuring Williams portrayed as a CGI monkey, is the centerpiece screening. Netflix’s “The Piano Lesson” is the Scad Savannah Film Festival opening night pick.

Other gala screenings include “Blitz,” “The Brutalist,” “Emilia Perez,” “The Fire Inside,” “Juror No. 2,” “The Last Showgirl,” “Nickel Boys,” “Nightbitch,” “The Piano Lesson,” “A Real Pain,” “September 5,” “Sweethearts,” and “Unstoppable.”

Called “a key stop on the Academy Awards festival circuit” by festival organizers, this year’s Scad Savannah Film Festival runs from October 26 to November 2. It will feature 162 films, including 123 narrative features,...

Zoe Saldaña, the star of numerous blockbuster franchises — among them Avatar, The Avengers, Guardians of the Galaxy and Star Trek — who is currently the subject of best supporting actress awards buzz for her performance in Jacques Audiard’s highly-unconventional musical Emilia Pérez, has been tapped to receive the Scad Savannah Film Festival’s Vanguard Award, the fest announced Tuesday.

Saldaña, 46, who is the only performer in history to have starred in four films that have grossed more than $2 billion, and who shared the best actress prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival with her Emilia Pérez costars Karla Sofía Gascón, Selena Gomez and Adriana Paz, will be presented with her award following a screening of the film on the evening of Friday, Nov. 1, at the Scad Trustees Theatre.

Earlier that evening, at 5:15pm Et, the actress will sit down with yours truly at the Scad Museum of Art,...

Ewan McGregor, the veteran Scottish actor who recently earned some of the best reviews of his 30-year career for his performance at the center of the Paramount+ limited series A Gentleman in Moscow, on which he also served as an executive producer, has been tapped for the Newport Beach Film Festival’s (Nbff) TV Performance of the Year Award.

McGregor, 53, will be celebrated at an event that will kick off on Tuesday, Oct. 22, at 5:30 p.m. Pt, at the Pelican Hill Resort in Newport Beach. To begin with, he will sit down with yours truly for a career-retrospective conversation that will be recorded for subsequent posting as an episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast. Then, the fest will present him with his award.

“The Newport Beach Film Festival could not be more honored to bestow this award to Ewan McGregor for his legendary career,” Gregg Schwenk,...

Legendary Hollywood icons Annette Bening, Richard Linklater, and Jerry Bruckheimer will be celebrated at the 2024 Scad Savannah Film Festival.

The Savannah College of Art and Design (Scad) has announced its first list of honorees for the 2024 festival, which will take place from October 26 to November 2. This year, “Nyad” star Bening’s legacy will be honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award. The ceremony will take place after a screening of Bening’s 1990 film “The Grifters.”

Similarly, “Hit Man” writer/director Linklater will receive the Lifetime Achievement in Screenwriting Award, with the Netflix film screening at the festival.

Mega-producer Bruckheimer will reflect on his career during an In Conversation event before receiving the Legend of Entertainment Award at the festival.

The Scad Savannah Film Festival is the largest university-run film festival in the nation. The festival will begin with opening night gala film “Blitz” on Saturday, October 26. Director Steve McQueen will be...

Oscar winner Nicolas Cage and Oscar nominees June Squibb, Colman Domingo and Marianne Jean-Baptiste are among the honorees at this year’s Newport Beach Film Festival Honors on Oct. 20 at the Balboa Bay Resort in Newport Beach. The honorees will be feted at a special brunch also celebrating Variety’s 10 Actors to Watch.

Cage, currently appearing in the horror hit “Longlegs,” will receive the Icon Award for his long career. Joan Chen, recently seen in “Didi,” will receive the Career Achievement Award. Two Oscar nominees will also receive honors: Colman Domingo (“Sing Sing”) is being presented the Maverick Award and June Squibb (“Thelma”) the Lifetime Achievement Award. Emmy and Grammy winner and 15-time Oscar nominee Diane Warren (“The Six Triple Eight”) will receive the Lifetime Achievement in Music Award. Oscar nominee Marianne Jean-Baptiste (“Hard Truths”) and Emmy winner Sheryl Lee Ralph (“Abbott Elementary”) are receiving the Artist of Distinction Award.

Transformers One has come in below expectations, allowing Beetlejuice Beetlejuice to hold on to the top spot at the domestic box office for the third week in a row.

Analysts predicted $30 million to $40 million debut for Paramount's animated prequel, which only ended up taking in $25 million from 3,978 venues. The movie - which had a reported budget of $75 million - also made $14 million internationally, for a global total of $39 million.

Tim Burton's long-awaited sequel added $26 million from 4,172 theaters, bringing its domestic total to $225 million, and $329.7 million worldwide.

Transformers One received positive reviews (89% on Rotten Tomatoes) and strong audience scores, so the belief is that ticket sales could rebound over the next few weeks.

“This is a lukewarm opening for an animation adaptation in a live-action series,” says David A. Gross of movie consulting firm Franchise Entertainment Research. “Industry expectations are high for a big series like this, but an...

Peter Sarsgaard, the veteran character actor who has received some of the best notices of his career this year for his performance on the Apple TV+ drama series Presumed Innocent and in the Paramount film September 5, will receive the Newport Beach Film Festival’s Film Performance of the Year Award and record an episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast live in front of a festival audience, Nbff announced on Tuesday.

Sarsgaard’s award presentation and podcast recording will take place on Wednesday, Oct. 23, during the 25th edition of Nbff, which will run Oct. 17-24.

The fest also announced its film lineup, which includes 112 films from 19 countries, including 16 world premieres, 10 U.S. premieres, 16 North American premieres, 13 West Coast premieres and 10 Southern California Premieres

This year’s Nbff will open on Oct. 17 with the world premiere of Simon West’s Old Guy, with West and star Chrostoph Waltz in attendance,...

As a fan of “Beetlejuice” (1988), Tim Burton’s go-to costume designer Colleen Atwood initially found it daunting to jump into the “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” sequel and its kitschy world of crazies (originally designed by Aggie Guerard Rodgers). But having the sartorial freedom to add new characters (Jenna Ortega’s grungy Astrid) and expand the underworld (Monica Bellucci’s Victorian corpse bride Delores) made it a lot more enticing.

However, Atwood had the most fun working with Michael Keaton as the “ghost with the most” in his iconic black-and-white suit, burgundy tux, and a few other surprises. “On my first fitting with Michael, I went to his house, and he had painful knee surgery, so he was really brave to do a fitting,” the four-time Oscar winner (including Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland”) told IndieWire.

“We were trying on his clothes, and it was funny because he was kind of like an old guy,...

The Juice has well and truly been set loose at the box office, as Tim Burton's long-awaited Beetlejuice sequel claims the No. 1 spot from Deadpool and Wolverine with a record-breaking domestic debut.

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice scared up an estimated $110 million in North America ($145M worldwide) to give it the 3rd biggest opening of 2024; 2nd biggest opening ever for Tim Burton; 2nd best September opening, and 2nd biggest opening ever for a horror film, surpassing Warner Bros.' It: Chapter 2.

This also means that the sequel has already surpassed the original movie's entire global gross ($74 million) after a single weekend in theaters.

Getting back to Marvel Studios' massively successful first foray into R-rated territory, and it looks like the movie is set to premiere on Digital platforms early next month (we're still waiting on an official announcement).

Box Office: The Juice Is Loose!

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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is now in theaters, and we're breaking down the long-awaited sequel's batsh*t crazy final act to see if the door to the Afterlife might be left open for a third movie.

Major spoilers follow.

When her daughter Astrid (Jenna Ortega) is tricked into trading her soul to restore the ghost of murderous neighbour/love-interest Jeremy (Arthur Conti) to life, Lydia Deetz (Winona Ryder) reluctantly summons Betelgeuse (Michael Keaton) for help. The Ghost with the Most agrees to bring Lydia to the Afterlife to rescue Astrid... if she'll sign a contract promising to be his bride.

Lydia manages to bring Astrid home, but has already agreed to marry Rory (Justin Theroux), who Betelgeuse exposes as a gold-digging cad. Still, the prospect of tying the knot with a lecherous demon isn't exactly appealing to Lydia, and Astrid manages to find a loophole which allows her mother out of the bargain.

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, the loooong-awaited sequel to Tim Burton’s beloved 1988 classic, is a bold attempt to recapture the magic of its predecessor. With original stars Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, and Catherine O’Hara reprising their roles, Burton reunites with his eccentric creation, hoping to evoke the whimsical macabre style that defined his early career. Yet, despite a healthy dose of nostalgia, quirky visual effects, and Danny Elfman’s unmistakable score, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice falls short of its potential, delivering an uneven, overstuffed Halloween romp that’s more style than substance.

The film picks up 36 years after the original, with Lydia Deetz (Winona Ryder) now a famous TV ghost-hunter and mother to rebellious teenager Astrid (Jenna Ortega). Lydia, still haunted by her past encounter with Betelgeuse (Michael Keaton), finds herself drawn back into the Neitherworld when Astrid unwittingly becomes trapped in the afterlife. Astrid, duped by a local boy named Jeremy (Arthur Conti...

Tommy Harper is used to getting phone calls featuring unusual requests. His phone might ring and it’s Tom Cruise and Joseph Kosinski asking him to figure out how to film Top Gun: Maverick in real jets. Or J.J. Abrams is on the line, asking how to bring the massive crew of a Star Wars movie to a remote island in Ireland. Maybe it’s Tim Burton, wanting help choreographing an off-kilter musical number for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.

“You’re like, ‘Ok, that’s a puzzle I have to figure out,’’ says Harper. “I love receiving those phone calls.”

Just like characters in movies he’s worked on, Harper is used to journeying to strange new worlds, and he prides himself on the end goal of “having the audience sit in a cinema, turn off the lights and be transported for two hours.”

The Arroyo Grande, Calif. native cut his teeth...

Tim Burton's long-awaited sequel, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, is now in theaters, and, as fans hoped it would, the movie does explain what happened to the original film's protagonists.

Though Michael Keaton's titular Ghost with the Most was obviously the main attraction in Tim Burton's horror comedy classic, the main characters were actually Adam and Barbara Maitland (played by Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis).

The recently married couple are killed in a car accident in the first few minutes of the movie, and their displaced spirits wind up summoning Betelgeuse in an effort to drive the new owners of their house (Winona Ryder's Lydia Deetz and her family) away. Things don't exactly go according to plan, however.

Ultimately, Betelgeuse is banished, and the Deetzs and Maitlands agree to share the house.

Keaton, Ryder and Catherine O'Hara (who plays Lydia's mother) reprise their roles for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, but Baldwin and Davis don't appear.

Winona Ryder, Catherine O’Hara, and Michael Keaton reunite with director Tim Burton to venture back into the whimsically macabre realm that made the 1988 classic Beetlejuice an enduring fan favorite. The long-gestating sequel, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, appropriately takes place 30-something years after the Ghost with the Most tried to con his way back to life with designs of marriage on then-teen Lydia Deetz (Ryder).

While Lydia has grown to build a life of her own, not much has changed in the Neitherworld, a good or bad thing depending on what you want out of a legacy sequel. And this is a legacy sequel, packed with fan service and callbacks. That makes for an overstuffed narrative without much heft, but Burton’s lively, infectious return to the strange and unusual delivers a delightful enough Halloween romp all the same.

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, written by Alfred Gough & Miles Millar (“Wednesday”) from the story by Gough...

Tim Burton's long-awaited sequel to his cult classic, Beetlejuice, opens this weekend, and the movie is expected to have a ghoulishly good debut at the box office.

According to the latest estimates (via Deadline), Beetlejuice Beetlejuice should take in around $145 million worldwide (Warner Bros. is anticipating an $80M domestic bow). If this proves to be accurate, the sequel will debut with more than the lifetime gross of the original 1988 movie, which finished its run at $74.6M, unadjusted for inflation.

The chaotic horror comedy should also claim the spot from Marvel Studios' Deadpool and Wolverine, which - despite briefly being dethroned by Alien: Romulus - has remained at #1 for six weekends it's been in theaters.

Do you plan on seeing Beetlejuice Beetlejuice this weekend? You can check out our reaction to the movie below.

#BeetlejuiceBeetlejuice is fun but forgettable. Keaton and O'Hara provide a few chuckles but a lot of the jokes miss the mark,...

Two-time Oscar nominee Tim Burton was honored with the 2,788th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Tuesday, September 3, just days before the director’s film “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” hits theaters. His star is located at 6600 Hollywood Boulevard, appropriately in front of Hollywood Toys & Costumes. Burton received his star in the category of Motion Pictures. Joining emcee Tony Potts were actors Winona Ryder and Michael Keaton. Guests in attendance included actors Danny DeVito, Monica Bellucci and Deep Roy, as well as costume designer Colleen Atwood. Watch Burton’s star ceremony below (beginning at 15:35 mark).

The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce administers the legendary Hollywood Walk of Fame for the City of Los Angeles and has hosted the globally iconic star ceremonies for decades. Millions of people from around the world have visited this cultural landmark since the 1960s.

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