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Although Eddie Murphy worked with Beyoncé and Jennifer Hudson in the aughts, he might have been his own favorite leading lady.

The Oscar nominee recently defended his 2007 comedy Norbit as a “funny” movie, following theories that the Brian Robbins-directed movie cost him the golden statuette for Dreamgirls (2006).

“I love Norbit. Norbit came out right after I got that Oscar nomination. There were articles like, ‘How can he get an Oscar, he did this?’ They’re two different movies,” he explained to Complex.

“I wrote Norbit with my brother, Charlie [Murphy], and we think Norbit is funny,” added Murphy. “Here’s the thing with Norbit; it came out and they gave me Razzie Awards for worst actress, worst actor and worst actor of the decade. And I was like, ‘Come on now, shit ain’t that bad.’ I like Norbit. To this day, I like Norbit. There’s stuff in Norbit that makes me laugh.

Switzerland’s Locarno Film Festival is one of the world’s longest-running film festivals, known for its adventurous programming, exciting retrospectives, and nightly open-air screenings in the Piazza Grande, which is capable of seating 8,000 spectators. The latter is by no means the only screening spot, but it’s the location most associated with the festival.

Hosting world premieres and special screenings of highlights from Cannes, Sundance, and other early-year festivals, this year’s Piazza Grande selection includes the launch of Mediterranean drama “The Birthday Party,” starring Willem Dafoe and Vic Carmen Sonne; Emma Thompson-led thriller “The Dead of Winter;” Joachim Trier’s Cannes prize-winner “Sentimental Value;” a 35mm screening of Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining;” Jafar Panahi’s Palme d’or winner “It Was Just an Accident;” and the European premiere of Bill Condon’s “Kiss of the Spider Woman.” Jackie Chan, Lucy Liu, Alexander Payne, Golshifteh Farahani, four-time Oscar-winning costume designer Milena Canonero,...

Bill Condon says Jennifer Lopez enabled Kiss of the Spider Woman to be made.The musical movie is set to be released in cinemas in October and the director felt that J.Lo was the ideal person to play the titular "diva".Bill told The Hollywood Reporter: "Jennifer Lopez is the reason this movie got made. There's only one person who could play this diva. We don't have that many divas. I can count them on one hand. And then how many of them are great dancers, singers and Latin? I think there's only one."She handed our producer the Golden Globe for Dreamgirls, and I met her that night. She was talking about how much she wanted to make musicals. So, I just had this faith that this would speak to her."The Gods and Monsters filmmaker was particularly impressed at how Lopez, 56, mastered a number that the...

For years, Bill Condon has been wanting to make a movie adapation of Kiss of the Spider Woman. "I finally decided to do something about it around 10 years ago," said the director in a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter. "I pitched [John Kander and Terrence McNally] on what I wanted to do in a movie, including being truer to the original novel than they had been able to be." After working through rights ("It was a very long detour"), the movie is finally hitting theater screens this October. Condon believes that the theatrical experience is the only way to watch a musical. "Jennifer has a few moments where you just start applauding, it is built in because it comes out of theatrical roots... I...

Oscar-winner Bill Condon has finished his long-nurtured film of the Kander-and-Ebb musical Kiss of the Spider Woman, with Jennifer Lopez playing both faded movie goddess Aurora and the lethal Spider Woman who haunts a political prisoner’s imagination. The picture re-interprets the 1993 Tony-winning stage show that itself sprang from Manuel Puig’s 1976 novel.

Filmed at Kearny, New Jersey’s Basin Studios on a reported $30 million budget, the project was financed independently by Lopez’s Nuyorican Productions alongside Artists Equity and Mohari Media. Producers Barry Josephson, Tom Kirdahy and Greg Yolen later struck a distribution pact with Lionsgate, Roadside Attractions and Ld Entertainment that places the U.S. theatrical bow on 10 October 2025, followed by an IMAX-supported rollout.

Condon told festival journalists he leaned into “heightened fantasy” to offset the film’s Argentine prison reality, praising Lopez for supplying “old-Hollywood flamboyance and raw feeling.” The movie premiered at Sundance on 26 January to a prolonged standing ovation.

Bill Condon is no stranger to the movie musical. He wrote 2002’s Chicago and went on to direct both Oscar-winner Dreamgirls and Disney hit Beauty and the Beast. This past winter Condon debuted his latest, The Kiss of the Spider Woman, in an unexpected locale: The Sundance Film Festival.

While it has debuted its fair share star power, Sundance is more known for quiet dramas than splashy musicals starring one of the world’s biggest popstars. (It should be noted that this wasn’t Condon’s first time at the fest — Gods and Monsters, for which he won an Oscar, debuted in Park City in 1998.) But the Eccles proved a warm venue for the film, which had audiences clapping for star Jennifer Lopez’s showstopping turn and the film earned overwhelmingly positive reviews.

Condon’s The Kiss of the Spider Woman — based on a 1976 novel by Argentinean author Manuel Puig,...

Watch The Naked Gun Films Online: Liam Neeson’s Reboot Sparks Nostalgia For Leslie Nielsen’s Cult (Photo Credit – Prime Video)

Oscar-nominated actor Liam Neeson has delivered several memorable performances in acclaimed films like Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List, Neil Jordan’s biographical drama, Bill Condon’s Kinsey, Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins, and Pierre Morel’s hit actioner Taken, among others. Now, he’s gearing up for a new and different kind of role in the action-comedy film The Naked Gun, which is set to hit theatres on August 1, 2025, including in India.

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In the upcoming Naked Gun follow-up, Liam Neeson stars as Lt. Frank Drebin Jr., the son of Leslie Nielsen’s iconic character, who now leads the Police Squad in a mission to save the world.

Following its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, Bill Condon’s upcoming movie musical version of Kiss of the Spider Woman is heading to theaters on Oct. 10. Starring Jennifer Lopez, Diego Luna, and Tonatiuh Elizarraraz, the film is anticipated to be a serious Oscar contender, spinning a tale of human connection between two unlikely prisoners — and the movie star that binds them together.

It’s the second feature film adaptation to spring from Manuel Puig’s 1976 novel of the same name. Released on July 26, 1985, Héctor Babenco’s Kiss of the Spider Woman also proved a huge hit with Oscar voters, scoring four nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director, at the 58th Academy Awards. It made history as one of the first films with overt LGBTQ+ themes to be nominated in both of those major categories.

Kiss of the Spider Woman is, at heart, a long conversation...

There's nothing like a good thriller that'll have you on the edge of your seat. The thriller genre has produced some of the highest-grossing films, especially when combined with other genres such as crime, action, and superhero. Thrillers also boasts some of the most intriguing plots, and the newest to appear is a film starring Andor's Diego Luna. According to Deadline, the actor will join forces with The Terminal List star Taylor Kitsch in an indie thriller titled Eleven Days. The movie, directed by Peter Landesman, who also helmed Parkland and Concussion, is expected to bring the heat in various ways.

Eleven Days will be set in 1974, during extremely hot summer days in Texas. A determined and ruthless prisoner, Federico Carrasco (Luna), plays a round of a deadly game against the head of the Texas Department of Corrections, Jim Estelle (Kitsch), following an escape plan gone wrong. Carrasco takes over...

Diego Luna and Taylor Kitsch are headed to Texas for one of the most gripping real-life thrillers in recent memory. The two actors will headline Eleven Days, a new indie drama from Concussion and Parkland director Peter Landesman, set against the scorching backdrop of a 1974 prison siege that shocked the nation. Based on William T. Harper’s nonfiction book Eleven Days In Hell: The 1974 Carrasco Prison Siege at Huntsville, Texas, the film takes place during the sweltering Texas summer of ’74 when a botched escape attempt at the Huntsville Penitentiary turned into an 11-day hostage standoff. Sounds pretty exciting. Deadline reported the news.

Luna will play convicted heroin kingpin Federico Carrasco, whose desperate bid for freedom traps dozens in a deadly standoff. Kitsch plays Jim Estelle, the head of the Texas Department of Corrections, who finds himself caught in a mental and moral chess match with a man who has nothing left to lose.

Exclusive: Diego Luna is set to star in the indie thriller Eleven Days opposite Taylor Kitsch from Concussion director Peter Landesman.

The film is set in the sweltering heat of a Texas summer in 1974, when ruthless prisoner Federico Carrasco (Luna) plays a deadly game against Jim Estelle (Kitsch), head of the Texas Department of Corrections, after taking over Huntsville Penitentiary and holding dozens hostage when his pre-planned escape goes awry. Lines between captor and captive, and justice and survival, begin to blur as the siege spirals for 11 endless, terrifying days.

The screenplay is written by Kevin Sheridan with revisions by Landesman, based on the book Eleven Days In Hell: The 1974 Carrasco Prison Siege at Huntsville, Texas by William T. Harper. The film, which will shoot in Texas in September, is produced by Vincent Newman and Vance Howard.

Luna has already him self quite a year following the second season of the Disney+ series Andor.

Exclusive: Amazon MGM Studios’ The Big Sick and The Idea of You filmmaker Michael Showalter is back with the theatrical streaming studio for an untitled pop movie inspired by Cyrano de Bergerac.

Showalter will direct the untitled Cyrano Pop movie, which Andrea Seigel will write based on a Cyrano de Bergerac-type story by her and Showalter about a behind-the-scenes songwriter in the world of pop stars.

Catherine Davis of Nine Lives Entertainment, John Davis of Davis Entertainment, and Showalter and Jordana Mollick of Semi-Formal Productions are producing. Emily Crook is overseeing the project for Semi-Formal.

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Showalter and Mollick’s Semi-Formal recently signed a multi-year first-look deal with Amazon MGM for narrative features. Showalter’s latest film, The Idea of You, starring Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine, became Amazon’s most successful romantic comedy debut. His upcoming projects include Amazon’s Oh. What. Fun., a holiday comedy starring Michelle Pfeiffer,...

Twilighttook a huge bite out of the box office when it was released in 2008, pulling in a bloodsucking $70.6 million opening haul in the United States and Canada, while also setting a new record at the time for the biggest opening weekend for a female-directed film. Catherine Hardwicke helmed the vampire romance, based on the 2005 novel of the same name by Stephenie Meyer, and its commercial success paved the way for the saga to become a multi-billion-dollar juggernaut — but the studio didn't part with too much money for her gift.

During an interview with The Guardian, the Twilight filmmaker recalled receiving an insultingly small gift from the film distributor, Summit Entertainment, which was perhaps made worse by the fact that she knew successful male directors in the same position as her might be gifted "a car, or a three-picture deal, or [getting] to do basically whatever you want" after a similar triumph.

Catherine Hardwicke is getting candid about the difference in how male and female directors are treated in Hollywood.

During a recent interview with The Guardian, the Twilight filmmaker recalled the gift she received from the film’s producers, Summit Entertainment, following the Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson-led movie’s surprise triumph at the box office. While Summit hoped it would gross at least $30 million during its run, Twilight went on to earn $408.4 million worldwide.

“I walked into a room with all these gifts, and everybody was congratulating the studio, and they gave me a box,” Hardwicke recalled. “I opened it up, and it was a mini cupcake.”

However, she said male directors might be gifted “a car, or a three-picture deal, or [getting] to do basically whatever you want” following a successful movie.

Hardwicke admitted that she realized the hard truths behind filmmaking quite quickly in her career. “No, people...

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

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

Switzerland’s Locarno Film Festival has announced its full lineup, which will see Radu Jude, Abdellatif Kechiche and Ben Rivers competing for its prestigious Golden Leopard.

Jude, who won the Special Jury Prize only two years ago – for “Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World” – will bring the much-anticipated “Dracula.” In a conversation with Variety, the Romanian director said: “If ‘Kontinental’ 25’ is my answer to Roberto Rossellini, let’s say that ‘Dracula’ is my love letter to Ed Wood.”

“There’s a lot of talk about A.I. these days, but after this film, you won’t talk about it in the same way. It’s a very radical film, a crazy political comedy,” said Artistic Director Giona A. Nazzaro.

Among all the 17 world premieres in Locarno’s main International Competition, Abdellatif Kechiche will continue his controversial saga with “Mektoub, My Love: Canto Due” – a...

Set to take place August 6-16, the 78th edition of the Locarno Film Festival has now unveiled its promising lineup. Among the highlights are the world premieres of Radu Jude’s second feature of 2025, Dracula; Alexandre Koberidze’s Dry Leaf; Sophy Romvari’s Blue Heron; Maureen Fazendeiro’s The Seasons; Le Lac from Jean-Luc Godard’s collaborator Fabrice Aragno; Ben Rivers’ Mare’s Nest; Abdellatif Kechiche’s long-awaited sequel Mektoub, My Love: Canto Due; Sho Miyake’s Two Seasons, Two Strangers; and many more.

“Building the program of the Locarno Film Festival means engaging with the living matter of contemporary cinema. A cinema that unfolds while the world is undergoing violent upheavals, while we witness – in real time – horrors that we had only read about in history books or studied in archival footage,” said Giona A. Nazzaro, Artistic Director.

He continues, “The question is simple, and brutal in its inevitability:...

Switzerland’s Locarno Film Festival will debut 17 features, including new works by Radu Jude and Abdellatif Kechiche, as part of its 2025 competition. This year’s event runs from August 6 to 16.

The festival announced its competition lineups this morning. The Radu Jude feature is his much-talked-about Dracula. The film was shot in Transylvania and is said to blend several takes on the Dracula story. Teasing the project as last year’s Locarno Film Festival, Jude said: “I am from Romania. My father is actually from Transylvania. It’s time that someone from Romania does a Dracula film. It’s only Hollywood that has done it 1,000 times. We shouldn’t let Hollywood dominate our Dracula.”

The Abdellatif Kechiche feature is Mektoub, My Love: Canto Due, the third edition in his controversial Mektoub series. Ben Rivers, a Locarno regular, will debut his latest feature, Mare’s Nest. Scroll down for the full Loarno lineup.

Eddie Murphy has made 42 feature films, not counting stand-up specials and documentary appearances. And while he's dabbled in dramas like many other comedians have, he remains best known for making people laugh. It's understandable, as he got his start on "Saturday Night Live" in 1980 before breaking out on the big screen with some of the decade's most memorable comedies. He went on to tweak his appeal and found even greater success with family comedies that still sit among his highest-grossing films (although he does regret turning down a movie in the 1980s that combined live-action with animation).

Of course, Murphy's also seen some down years as several of his movies failed to find receptive audiences or critical acclaim, resulting in some notably rough Rotten Tomatoes streaks. Films like "The Adventures of Pluto Nash," "Holy Man," and "Meet Dave" probably have their defenders, but don't go expecting to find them in the list below.

Don't hide or seek if you haven't watched through episode 5, season 3 of "Squid Game" — spoilers lie ahead! You've been warned!

We all knew this was coming. After finding out that Kim Jun-hee (Jo Yu-ri), also known as Player 222 in the titular games, was pregnant back in season 2, audiences likely knew this would be a huge plot point in season 3. True to form, the series gave audiences a huge shock when, in the season's third episode, Jun-hee gives birth in the middle of a dangerous game, during which players are split into two teams to play the children's game of hide and seek. The twist? Players in red vests are the "seekers," and they're carrying knives; if they don't kill at least one fellow player, they'll be eliminated from the game entirely. The ones in blue vests have to "hide" by escaping through different doors in the massive set, and the...

Artists Equity, the independent studio founded by Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and Gerry Cardinale, has signed an overall theatrical feature film agreement with Sony Pictures. Under the three-year agreement, Sony will distribute the theatrical films globally, which will be developed and produced by Artists Equity. Sony will finance the films and handle all ancillaries, with Artists Equity having the option to co-finance individual projects.

“Artists Equity, in the short span of its existence, has proven remarkably adept at developing and producing high quality commercial films,” said Sony Pictures’ Motion Picture Group chairman and CEO Tom Rothman. “This is not a surprise to me as I have known the two creative ‘Pros from Dover’ for many years and always admired their smarts, talent and moxie. Now that Ben and Matt and their team have set their sights firmly on the high bar of the theatrical market, Sony is lucky as hell to be partnering with them.

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s Artists Equity has signed an overall three-year theatrical film deal with Sony Pictures.

Under the agreement the studio will finance and handle global distribution on films developed by Artists Equity and will handle all ancillaries. Artists Equity, whose credits include Air, The Accountant 2 and Small Things Like These, will retain the option to co-finance individual projects.

The Artists Equitypipeline includes Joe Carnahan action film Rip starring Damon, Affleck, Teyana Taylor, and Scott Adkins (Netflix acquired worldwide rights); thriller Animals directed by Affleck, who stars with Gillian Anderson, Steven Yeun, and Kerry Washington (Netflix...

Artists Equity – the independent artist-led studio founded by Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, and Gerry Cardinale – has signed an overall theatrical feature film agreement with Sony Pictures, the studio announced on Thursday.

Under the three-year agreement, Sony will distribute the theatrical films globally, which will be developed and produced by Artists Equity. Sony will finance the films and handle all ancillaries, with Artists Equity having the option to co-finance individual projects.

“Artists Equity, in the short span of its existence, has proven remarkably adept at developing and producing high quality commercial films,” Tom Rothman, Chairman & CEO of Sony Pictures’ Motion Picture Group, said in a statement to TheWrap. “This is not a surprise to me as I have known the two creative ‘Pros from Dover’ for many years and always admired their smarts, talent and moxie. Now that Ben and Matt and their team have set their sights firmly on the...

Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and RedBird Capital Gerry Cardinale’s independent artist-led studio, Artists Equity, has signed an overall three-year theatrical feature film agreement with Sony Pictures.

The deal calls for Sony handling the global release of Artists Equity productions. The Culver City lot will also finance the films and handle all ancillaries, with Artists Equity having the option to co-finance individual projects.

Artists Equity has had a long-running non-exclusive relationship with Amazon MGM Studios on such movies as Gavin O’Connor’s The Accountant 2 ($102M global box office), Affleck’s Air Jordan Nike movie Air ($90M global) and the William Goldenberg-directed, Jennifer Lopez-starring Prime Video movie Unstoppable. Those specific features were select deals with that studio, in addition to the Doug Liman directed, Casey Affleck and Damon starring The Instigators with Apple, as well as the Cillian Murphy drama Small Things Like These with Lionsgate.

“Artists Equity,...

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s Artists Equity has only been around for three years, but in that span the company has created a number of starry projects designed to create more equity for the artists that actually create them (hence the name). But after bouncing around between distributors and taking time to find a home for some of their more ambitious projects, they’ve now settled down and tied the knot with a studio.

Artists Equity has entered into an overall theatrical feature film deal with Sony Pictures, a three-year deal that will see Sony finance and theatrically distribute globally anything that Affleck and Damon’s company develops and produces. Artists Equity will also have the option to co-finance individual projects.

The company was founded in response to giving artists a larger share of streaming profits, but they’ve now landed with a studio in Sony that will commit...

Sony is now the theatrical home for Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s Artists Equity.

Sony has signed a three-year agreement that will see the studio distribute Artists Equity’s theatrical films globally. Sony will finance the films and handle all ancillaries, with Artists Equity having the option to co-finance individual projects.

Said Tom Rothman, chairman-ceo of Sony Pictures’ Motion Picture Group, “Now that Ben and Matt and their team have set their sights firmly on the high bar of the theatrical market, Sony is lucky as hell to be partnering with them. We look forward to making a bunch of hit films together.”

Added Affleck, “It’s an honor to make films for the magical dark room where we come together with strangers to project our innermost secrets onto a screen, surrendering to a story together, agreeing to share the same flickering dream. I’m grateful for the opportunity...

Harry Potter Stars Who Shined In Billion-Dollar Movies (Photo Credit – Instagram)

The Harry Potter saga may have ended on screen, but its stars continue to shine brightly across Hollywood. While the Wizarding World gave birth to a generation of globally recognized British actors, it also served as a launching pad for several careers that flourished in entirely different franchises.

What’s especially fascinating is how a few key members of the Harry Potter ensemble didn’t just move on, they joined projects that went on to earn over a billion dollars at the global box office. Their performances, often in very different roles from their magical counterparts, proved their versatility and star power across genres like spy thrillers, musicals, and comic-book spectacles. Whether they were voicing strange creatures, leading musical romances, or fighting crime in Gotham City, these actors made a successful leap beyond Hogwarts.

1. Emma Watson – Beauty and the Beast...

A Still Of Liam Neeson In Absolution (Photo Credit – Prime Video)

Throughout his acting career, Oscar-nominated actor Liam Neeson has delivered many memorable performances in acclaimed films like Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List, Neil Jordan’s biographical drama, Bill Condon’s Kinsey, Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins, and Pierre Morel’s hit actioner Taken, among others. Recently, one of his action films has bagged the top spot on Hulu’s top ten movies list (as per FlixPatrol). Read on to find that movie’s name, what it’s about, and where to stream it in India.

No.1 Movie On Hulu Top 10 Starring Liam Neeson

The Liam Neeson film currently holding the top spot on Hulu’s top ten movies list is Absolution, which was released in theaters on November 1, 2024. Interestingly, it has even outranked the critically acclaimed animated sci-fi anthology Predator: Killer of Killers, which holds Rank 2 on the list.

Universal’s posse of freaks had it all: great costume design, scary moments, and performances cranked all the way to eleven. That’s why love for the Universal Monsters still endures. That classic era, running from the 1920s to the 1950s, really covered the full spectrum of tone and genre – from genuine tragedy, like The Wolf Man or The Phantom Of The Opera, to the flat-out bizarre, with Abbott And Costello Meet Frankenstein or Invisible Agent (a piece of wartime propaganda where the son of the Invisible Man becomes – you guessed it! – a secret agent). These characters even shared the screen, paving the way for crossover films. While time has inevitably revealed cracks in some of these old horror pictures, they remain flat-out iconic. Frankly, they deserve a proper comeback.

Fast forward over 50 years, and there’s still an outpouring of love for them. The monsters have been revived on the big screen multiple times,...

Hugh Jackman has a long list of acclaimed characters, from playing Wolverine in X-Men movies and the MCU, Robert Angier in The Prestige, the titular character in Van Helsing, and many more. But one of his movies that combines his love of doing musical and acting, The Greatest Showman, has been a controversial move, and now it's available to stream on Prime Video for fans to see.

The Greatest Showman chronicles the life of real-life figure Pt Barnum and elaborates on his journey to become a worldwide sensation in the show business. As his imagination and innovative ideas take him to the top of his game. The movie is full of foot-tapping songs, a talented ensemble cast, and thematically shines a light on the fact that where there’s will, there’s a way. Directed by Michael Gracey from a screenplay by Jenny Bicks and Bill Condon, the period drama was a huge success,...

With another Pride Month underway, LGBTQ rights and representation in media have never been more important.

Following the Trump administration’s attacks on Dei and recent attempt to cancel Pride Month, GLAAD is preparing to release its 13th annual Studio Responsibility Index on June 11, showing the lowest percentage of LGBTQ-inclusive films in the past three editions of the report. The study tracks scripted films released in 2024 from ten top film distributors.

Although those numbers are bleak, LGBTQ stories continue finding a way to the big screen and streamers alike, with titles from Andrew Ahn, Bill Condon and Ethan Coen, navigating topics of same-sex marriage, police profiling, sex work and anti-trans legislation.

From groundbreaking documentaries to kink-driven romance and intergenerational stories of family and community, these are some of the buzziest new and upcoming LGBTQ releases of 2025.

Roadside Attractions and Jennifer Lopez has debuted the teaser trailer for Bill Condon’s upcoming film adaptation of the 1993 Broadway musical ‘Kiss of the Spider Woman.’

The movie unfolds in an unnamed Latin American country’s prison in 1981, where Luis Molina (Tonatiuh), an effeminate gay window dresser, is serving an eight-year sentence for public indecency.

To escape the horrors of his imprisonment, Molina imagines movies starring a fantasy woman named Aurora (Jennifer Lopez) – a classic silver screen diva. One of her fictional roles is that of the spider woman, who kills her prey with a kiss.

Molina’s life is soon upended when a hardened political prisoner, Valentin Arregui Paz (Diego Luna), is brought into his cell, and the two form an unlikely bond.

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The film hits U.S. cinemas on October 10th.

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Jennifer Lopez is all set to make her big-screen comeback after last year’s Unstoppable and Atlas with the upcoming musical drama Kiss of the Spider Woman. While it may sound like a Spider-Man-related film focused on Gwen Stacy, it is not. The film is an adaptation of the Broadway musical and novel of the same name.

Kiss of the Spider Woman has received rave reviews since its Sundance premiere, where it reportedly received a standing ovation. The film will mark Bill Condon’s comeback as a director after 2019. So, what is this movie about? Who stars in it? And, will the movie get a similar treatment like Emilia Pérez, last year’s controversial musical drama?

What is Kiss of the Spider Woman about? Diego Luna in Kiss of the Spider Woman | Credits: Lionsgate

Bill Condon’s Kiss of the Spider Woman is an upcoming musical drama that did wonders...

Photo Credit: Roadside Attractions Prepare yourself for a movie experience unlike any other! Celebrated director Bill Condon, famous for Dreamgirls and Beauty and the Beast, is making a comeback to the movie musical with an absolutely amazing and emotionally charged version of Kiss of the Spider Woman. Inspired by Manuel Puig’s 1976 novel and the celebrated Broadway version by Terrence McNally, John Kander, and Fred Ebb, this new film brings the story to life with striking visuals and real emotional weight. The film stars Emmy Award nominee Diego Luna as Valentín, a political prisoner who finds an unlikely connection with his cellmate Molina, played by Tonatiuh. Imprisoned for public obscenity, Molina, a window dresser, escapes the brutal truths of their confinement by telling the magical story of a Hollywood musical starring his favorite silver screen star Ingrid Luna, played by the one and only Jennifer Lopez. We can’t wait...

Roadside Attractions has dropped a trailer for Kiss of the Spider Woman, Bill Condon’s adaptation of the Broadway musical that stars Jennifer Lopez, Diego Luna and Tonatiuh. The pic, which had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, was picked up soon after by Roadside, Lionsgate and Ld Entertainment and is set for a theatrical release October 10 in the awards-season corridor.

The stage musical, which was based on Manuel Puig’s 1976 novel that was turned into the 1985 movie starring Raul Julia and William Hurt, is set in military-run 1983 Argentina and centers on a pair of prison cellmates. Molina (Tonatiuh), a gay window dresser jailed for indecency, keeps up the spirts of political prisoner Valentin (Luna) by telling tales about his favorite musical actress, Ingrid Luna. The trailer shows off the stark difference between the prison and Luna’s Old Hollywood fantasy world as the two men begin to fall in love.

The first trailer for the critically acclaimed new movie musical Kiss of the Spider Womanpromises lights, cameras, and plenty of action, as Jennifer Lopez, Diego Luna, and Tonatiuh take center stage in a visionary story that spins an intriguing web of seduction, politics, and escapism through Technicolor-hued fantasy. The film adapts the acclaimed 1976 novel and Tony Award-winning Broadway musical of the same name, with Dreamgirls and Beauty and the Beast director Bill Condon at the helm of the show-stopping spectacle.

The trailer opens with a shot of Lopez in a glamorous role reminiscent of old Hollywood, playing Ingrid Luna, a silver-screen diva who is a fan-favorite of imprisoned window dresser Molina, portrayed by Tonatiuh. The reel of clips that follow show the contrast between the bright and vibrant utopia of a movie star and the dark and desaturated world of a prisoner. In this case, Molina, who resides in...

Jennifer Lopez is taking center stage as a silver screen diva in the first teaser for Kiss of the Spider Woman.

The film, written for the screen and directed by Bill Condon, is based on the acclaimed 1976 novel by Argentinian writer Manuel Puig and the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical of the same name by the multiple-Tony-winning playwright Terrence McNally and the composer and lyricist team of John Kander and Fred Ebb.

The story centers on political prisoner Valentín (Diego Luna) who shares a cell with Molina (Tonatiuh), a window dresser convicted of public indecency. “The two form an unlikely bond as Molina recounts the plot of a Hollywood musical starring his favorite silver screen diva, Ingrid Luna (Lopez).”

“I couldn’t live without movies. One of them I’ll never forget,” Tonatiuh’s Molina says in the teaser as he looks at a movie poster for Kiss of the Spider Woman.

Jennifer Lopez shows off her impressive vocals in the first look at her role in Kiss of the Spider Woman. The trailer for the film, released on Thursday, introduces Lopez as Aurora and gives a sneak peek at the dance-filled spectacle, out Oct. 10, co-starring Diego Luna and Tonatiuh.

The trailer opens with a montage of Aurora living in luxury — taking a bath and looking at clothing designs, trying on an elegant dress, and dancing onstage — as Lopez’s vocals play in the background. The trailer then flashes to a jail cell scene,...

Roadside Attractions, Lionsgate, and Ld Entertainment have revealed the official trailer for Kiss of the Spider Woman, which is set to open in theaters on October 10, 2025.

Dreamgirls and Beauty and the Beast director Bill Condon returns to the movie musical in this dazzling Technicolor-hued fantasy. In the film, Valentín (Diego Luna), a political prisoner, shares a cell with Molina (Tonatiuh), a window dresser convicted of public indecency.

The two form an unlikely bond as Molina recounts the plot of a Hollywood musical starring his favorite silver screen diva, Ingrid Luna (Jennifer Lopez). Kiss of the Spider Woman is based on the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical hit.

Bill Condon’s visionary new adaptation is based on the acclaimed 1976 novel Kiss of the Spider Woman by Argentinian writer Manuel Puig and the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical of the same name by the multiple Tony Award-winning playwright Terrence McNally and composer/lyricist team John Kander and Fred Ebb.

The first teaser trailer for the highly anticipated film adaptation of Broadway's Kiss of the Spider Woman, starring Jennifer Lopez, has just been released. The movie will arrive in theaters on October 10, 2025. Dreamgirls and Beauty and the Beast director Bill Condon returns to the movie musical in this dazzling Technicolor-hued fantasy. Valentín (Luna/">Diego Luna), a political prisoner, shares a cell with Molina (Tonatiuh), a window dresser convicted of public indecency. The two form an unlikely bond as Molina recounts the plot of a Hollywood musical starring his favorite silver screen diva, Ingrid Luna (Jennifer Lopez). The movie premiered earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival. Find out what critics thought of it here. Bill Condon’s visionary new adaptation is based...

The trailer for Kiss of the Spider Woman is here, and Jennifer Lopez is bringing the Broadway musical to the big screen!

Bill Condon’s visionary new adaptation is based on the acclaimed 1976 novel “Kiss of the Spider Woman” by Argentinian writer Manuel Puig. It later became a Tony Award-winning musical by composer/lyricist team John Kander and Fred Ebb and playwright Terrence McNally.

Head inside to watch the teaser trailer…

Here’s the film’s synopsis: Valentín (Diego Luna), a political prisoner, shares a cell with Molina (Tonatiuh), a window dresser convicted of public indecency. The two form an unlikely bond as Molina recounts the plot of a Hollywood musical starring his favorite silver screen diva, Ingrid Luna (Lopez).

The film will hit theaters on October 10. Be sure to find out who produced the film (they have a connection to JLo).

Watch the teaser trailer for the movie above!

Get ready to be caught in the web of the spider woman.

The first teaser trailer for Bill Condon's Kiss of the Spider Woman, starring Jennifer Lopez and Diego Luna, has arrived.

Written and directed by Condon, the film is an adaptation of John Kander and Fred Ebb's Tony Award-winning musical based on the Manuel Puig 1976 novel. Set in Argentina in 1981, Kiss of the Spider Woman focuses on Luis Molina (Tonatiuh), a gay hairdresser who is imprisoned because of his sexuality. While in captivity, Molina shares a cell with Valentin (Luna), an ardent Marxist. Lopez plays Ingrid Luna, a classic screen diva of musicals whom Molina sees in his fantasies as he tries to escape his current reality.

The trailer shows off Lopez's vocal chops and legendary dance moves.

Kiss of the Spider Woman premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January before being picked up by Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions.

She’s something a little strange. That’s what you notice, that she’s not a woman like all the others…Ahead of the film’s October 10th release, the latest version of Kiss of the Spider Woman has arrived, with Diego Luna, Jennifer Lopez and Tonatiuh leading the Bill Condon-directed film.

Here is the official plot of Kiss of the Spider Woman, as per Artists Equity: “Valentín (Diego Luna), a political prisoner, shares a cell with Molina (Tonatiuh), a window dresser convicted of public indecency. The two form an unlikely bond as Molina recounts the plot of a Hollywood musical starring his favorite silver screen diva, Ingrid Luna (Jennifer Lopez).” The film is based on the Tony-winning stage musical, which itself was based on the novel of the same name by Manuel Puig.

Kiss of the Spider Woman had its first screen adaptation in 1985, with the film starring William Hurt as Molina,...

Jennifer Lopez shines as an iconic actress in the first footage of Bill Condon’s latest movie musical “Kiss of the Spider Woman.”

In the film — which is based on the stage musical by Terrence McNally, John Kander and Fred Ebb — Lopez plays Ingrid Luna, a fabulous on-screen diva whose most famous role is that of a spider woman, capable of killing her lovers with a kiss. In 1981 during Argentina’s Dirty War, a gay hairdresser named Luis (Tonatiuh) who is serving a prison sentence imagines her films to escape the horrors of his present day. When a Marxist, Valentin (Diego Luna) is brought into his cell, the two form an unlikely bond over the magic of music and cinema.

In the trailer, Lopez can be heard singing one of the musical’s most famous tracks, “Where You Are.” All in all, the movie musical has 13 numbers, sang by Lopez,...

When “Kiss of the Spider Woman” opens in theaters this October, theater fans will get a chance to see another work by one of Broadway’s most iconic composing duos on the big screen.

John Kander and Fred Ebb’s classic adaptation of Manuel Puig’s 1976 novel about a prisoner who spends his time fantasizing about a fictional movie star and his cellmate who can’t stand the hallucinations, was a massive Broadway hit when it debuted in 1992 and won six Tony Awards including Best Musical, Best Original Score, and Best Book of a Musical. Bill Condon’s new film adaptation, which stars Jennifer Lopez, was one of the buzziest titles to debut at Sundance this year and could become a player in the upcoming Oscar race.

An official synopsis for ‘Kiss of the Spider Woman’ reads: Valentín (Diego Luna), a political prisoner, shares a cell with Molina (Tonatiuh), a...

It’s time to step back into the spotlight. The first teaser trailer for Kiss of the Spider Woman — the dazzling, Technicolor-hued musical from director Bill Condon — is here, and it’s as bold and breathtaking as fans could’ve hoped. Starring Diego Luna, Tonatiuh, and Jennifer Lopez, the adaptation of the Tony-winning Broadway hit is set to hit theatres on October 10, 2025 — and yes, Lopez sings.

Luna (Andor) stars as Valentín, a political prisoner wasting away behind bars in a crumbling Latin American jail. But life behind bars shifts when he’s forced to share a cell with Molina (Tonatiuh), a flamboyant window dresser arrested for public indecency. As the days drag on, Molina finds escape in the only way he knows how: by recounting the glamorous plots of old Hollywood musicals starring his favourite silver screen icon, Ingrid Luna — played with intoxicating charm and vintage grandeur by none other than Lopez,...

Netflix is celebrating its Tudum event with a bevy of announcements, including the release of the trailers for Happy Gilmore 2, Stranger Things season 5 and a sneak peek at the new season of Wednesday. The event additionally presented the trailer for the upcoming Ben Affleck and Matt Damon crime film The Rip, which has not yet made its way online. Additionally, Sesame Street was recently announced to be premiering new episodes on the streaming platform in conjunction with PBS.

As part of the festivities, Netflix released a short, humorous video with both Affleck and Damon first occupying their Miami police characters from The Rip, as they attempt to bust Sesame Street‘s Cookie Monster, who then breaks the illusion by complimenting the actors (Damon is even seen sporting his Odyssey beard). The video commemorates both the upcoming film from the duo and the streamer’s new deal with the Sesame Street series,...

Netflix’s annual Tudum event is underway, and we have many trailers and sneak peeks at some of the streamer’s most anticipated movies and shows. Near the top would be the upcoming pairing of Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, The Rip, the first trailer revealed this weekend. Presenting the trailer were both Affleck and Damon (along with some other surprise co-stars), with Affleck saying that The Rip channels movies like Heat and Training Day. While the trailer has not been made available online, this exclusive look allowed the cast to challenge fans not to “rip” it to leak online. That’s some meta marketing right there!

Previously marketed as Rip (as in “rest in peace”), The Rip (as in something you pull from a crime scene) is directed by Joe Carnahan, making it a Smokin’ Aces reunion for the director and Affleck. It’s probably more notable for most...

On May 22, 2017, Universal unveiled its Dark Universe, a new, interconnected series of movies based on the studio’s beloved stable of classic movie monsters. They even released a photo, which looked real enough until you started to see the seams, with Johnny Depp (set to play the Invisible Man); Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde (Russell Crowe); Frankenstein’s Monster (Javier Bardem); along with Tom Cruise and Sofia Boutella, both mummies and both stars of “The Mummy,” which was set to open later that same summer and kick off the shared, monster-filled universe.

The sky – with an ominous, full moon perched right in the middle of it – was seemingly the limit. Then it all came crashing down, only to be resurrected in sunny Orlando, Florida.

Best laid plans

In addition to the previously announced actors that were set to undergo a monstrous transformation, Angelina Jolie was rumored for a “Bride of Frankenstein...

It can be officially said that Eddie Murphy's acting hiatus is truly over. After taking a break from acting for most of the 2010s and early 2020s, Murphy is back with a new action comedy movie titled The Pickup.

Prime Video has announced an Aug. 6 premiere date for The Pickup, which "sees a routine cash pickup take a wild turn when two mismatched armored truck drivers, Russell (Murphy) and Travis (SNL fan favorite Pete Davidson), are ambushed by ruthless criminals led by a savvy mastermind, Zoe (Nope star Keke Palmer), with plans that go way beyond the cash cargo. As chaos unfolds around them, the unlikely duo must navigate high-risk danger, clashing personalities, and one very bad day that keeps getting worse," per the official synopsis. A bunch of first-look images of the action comedy movie, as well as a poster, have been released and can be viewed below.