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Some of Hollywood’s most recognizable stars stepped out to attend the Prada fashion show during Milan Fashion Week on Thursday (February 27).

The likes of Gal Gadot, Hunter Schafer, Simone Ashley, Danielle Deadwyler and Charli D’Amelio traveled to Milan, Italy for the runway show, and they delivered fashionable looks on the red carpet.

With more than 20 stars in attendance, we pulled together all of the photos so that you could easily see who was there and what they wore!

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Gal Gadot

Maya Hawke

Simone Ashley

Charli D’Amelio

Hunter Schafer

Danielle Deadwyler

Tina Leung

Nara Smith

Caro Daur

Leonie Hanne

Sarah Lysander

Heart Evangelista

Anna Dello Russo

Juliette Binoche

Matilda Lutz

Xenia Adonts

Benedetta Porcaroli

Fai Khadra

Karina

Bach Buquen

Jessie Andrews

Lily Chee

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When you think of Stranger Things, you probably think of its most popular main characters, like Eleven, Will, Steve, Hopper, and after season 4, maybe even Vecna. But you probably haven't thought about some of the Netflix original series' side characters in quite a while. Well, that might work to your advantage in the fifth and final season, as two likely forgotten characters have been recast.

We don't have to worry about any of the beloved main characters not returning for Stranger Things season 5. All of our favorites will be back for the last hurrah. However, a pair of younger family members of main characters will look a bit different when the show makes its long awaited comeback.

According to Cbr, both Holly Wheeler and Sara Hopper have been recast with new young actors for the final season. In case you aren't able to remember who these characters are, Holly is...

It feels like we have been waiting forever for Stranger Things season 5, and we kind of have been. The previous season was released way back in summer 2022, if you can remember that far back, and it's been an excruciating wait ever since due to setbacks caused by the strikes. But we're finally going to be heading back to Hawkins, Indiana and the Upside Down sometime this year.

Don't get your hopes up too, too high just yet, but we might have learned when the highly anticipated final season of Stranger Things will drop on Netflix. A recent leak from a document that was connected to season 5's merchandising reportedly revealed the intended release dates. Similar situations arise rather frequently, though their veracity tends to remain in question.

So, what are these supposed release dates for Stranger Things season 5? Well, if the rumors are to be believed, the first part will...

When Sean Baker (Anora) won best director at the Film Independent Spirit Awards on Saturday, he took the opportunity to reflect on the current state of independent film and said the industry needed to change to keep that genre of films alive.

“Indie film is struggling right now, more than ever,” Baker told the audience in a lengthy speech. “Gone are the days of DVD sales that allow for greater risk to be taken on challenging films. That revenue stream is gone, and the only way to see significant back-end is to have a box office hit with profits that far exceed what any of our films will ever see, unless you are Damien Leone and strike gold with a franchise like Terrifier. But as we all know, that’s an extreme rarity for me, and I think for many of my peers. If we’re lucky, the average number...

Warning: Spoilers for “Stranger Things” Season 4 below

Matthew Modine is addressing an Instagram video he posted back in November suggesting Dr. Martin Brenner may return in “Stranger Things” Season 5, telling TheWrap he “might be the biggest troll on the Internet.”

Audiences will remember that Brenner died in Season 4 of the Netflix series after being shot and killed by a government official while trying to help Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) escape a top secret research facility in the desert and return to Hawkins. While Brenner has previously escaped death before, the Duffer brothers told the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast in 2022 that Brenner is dead “for real this time,” adding, “He’s toast.”

But on Nov. 27, the actor posted a video to Instagram of him sitting in a makeup chair with facial prosthetics laughing maniacally. You can watch Modine’s video, below:

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Ethan Hawke finds it "crazy" that actors get cast based on their Instagram following.The 54-year-old actor is baffled by the idea that social media followers are considered by some casting directors to be more important than talent and experience.Speaking at the Berlin Film Festival, Ethan explained: "I really feel for these people. It’s really hard. Sometimes I’ll be setting a movie up and someone will say, ‘Oh, you should cast Suzie.’ I’m like, ‘Who is she?’ ‘She has ten million followers.’ I’m like, ‘Ok cool, has she acted before?’ ‘No, but…’ And you’re like, ‘Wow, so this is going to help me get the movie made? This is crazy.'"So if I don’t have this public-facing [platform], I don’t have a career? And if I get more followers I might get that part? What?"Ethan observed that so many young performers...

Maya Hawke, ‘Stranger Things’ star recently pointed out one issue that’s been on the rise in Hollywood – the issue of actors being cast based on social media followers. She explained that if she deleted her Instagram account, a director might be forced to cast someone else to make up for the lost followers.

She said she has wanted to delete her Instagram account, but she hasn’t been able to because, unfortunately, in this day and age, it could be the reason she doesn’t get cast in a film role.

The line between actor and celebrity has gotten extremely blurry. What I always wanted to be is an actor where the work is what the draw is, not the personhood. But the industry keeps changing, and you have to change with it and understand that all of these things are getting blurred.

Ethan Hawke recently spoke about his daughter Maya’s comments.

Ethan Hawke is reacting to his daughter Maya Hawke’s comments about certain producers wanting to cast actors based on the amount of Instagram followers they have.

The 54-year-old Dead Poets Society actor was in attendance at the 2025 Berlin Film Festival, where he addressed comments made by his 26-year-old daughter, whom he shares with ex Uma Thurman.

In an interview on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Maya revealed that she knows several “smart directors” who have been told by producers that they must cast actors with a certain amount of Instagram followers for their projects.

“I don’t care about Instagram. Instagram sucks,” she said.

“Right, well just so you know, if you have over this many followers you can get the movie funded. It’s a really confusing line to walk.”

Keep reading to find out more…

When asked by the press at the festival about her comments, Ethan...

Ethan Hawke is weighing in on his daughter Maya’s comments about certain producers wanting to cast actors based on the amount of Instagram followers they have.

In an interview on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast last week, Maya Hawke revealed that she knows several “smart directors” who have been told by producers that they must cast actors with a certain amount of Instagram followers in order for a project to move forward. “I don’t care about Instagram. Instagram sucks,” she said. “Right, well just so you know, if you have over this many followers you can get the movie funded. It’s a really confusing line to walk.”

When asked by press at Berlin Film Festival about his daughter’s remarks, Ethan Hawke said he’s encountered this phenomenon as well and it’s “crazy.”

“I really feel for these people. It’s really hard,” he said. “Sometimes...

Social media has had an unquestionable impact on Hollywood from heightened trailer exposure to global audiences and detrimental controversies that can go viral online in minutes or hours. Like with anything some of those advancements are good and some are bad, but a new development spotlighted by Maya Hawke sounds increasingly bleak for new acting talent trying to get their foot in the door.

The young actress recently had a chat with “Happy Sad Confused“ podcast host Josh Horowitz, where Hawke detailed a conversation she had where someone told her that “some producers” are casting actresses based on total social media follower counts and that deleting her Instagram account could be ill-advised for future work.

Continue reading Maya Hawke Told Deleting Instagram Ill-Advised As Some Producers Are Casting Based On Follower Counts: “Confusing Line To Walk” at The Playlist.

One does not simply walk into "The Lord of the Rings" movies. Wait, that's not the right quote -- or is it? The point is Peter Jackson's trilogy was a big deal around the turn of the millennium, and everyone wanted to be a part of Middle-earth. Well, almost everybody, since a number of actors turned down "The Lord of the Rings" franchise.

It's always a good time to look back at the casting process of major movies and consider the big what-ifs. More often than not, these films go through significant changes to reach their final form, and not every actor envisioned for a role lands up in the part. Look at the risky move replacing Stuart Townsend as Aragorn behind the scenes of "The Lord of the Rings," even though production had already commenced. It paid off in the end, since Viggo Mortensen's Aragorn is arguably...

Maya Hawke shed some light on some of the difficulty surrounding filmmaking, what she calls a “confusing” state in the industry nowadays in which some producers rely on social media follower counts to cast their movies.

The Stranger Things actress discussed the topic on Josh Horowitz’s Happy Sad Confused podcast recently, when she made the distinction between actor and celebrity, saying how she has always wanted to embody the former (judged on her work versus her personality).

“But the industry keeps changing, and you have to change with it, and understand that all of these things are getting blurred and there are wonderful, incredible actors I admire whose personalities we all know very well,” she began.

One of the rapid changes is the advent of online platforms like Instagram and TikTok that Hawke, whose parents are industry heavyweights Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman, has struggled with in the past.

Maya Hawke discussed the blurring lines between being an actor and how celebrity and social media plays a factor in the mix during a recent Happy Sad Confused podcast. Hawke has considered deleting her Instagram, but apparently it matters big to some producers, and can influence whether or not a film will be made.

“It’s like, I don’t care about Instagram. Instagram sucks. Right, well just so you know, if you have over this many followers you can get the movie funded,” Hawke said during a recent episode...

“Stranger Things” star Maya Hawke might have had an easier pathway into Hollywood than some, but that doesn’t mean that the actress has been immune to uncomfortable experiences with producers and directors on set. In an interview on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast published Thursday, Hawke said an unnamed producer had uncomfortable advice for her.

“A director told me — actually, I think it was a producer, but they were in cahoots — told me that I looked prettier with my mouth closed and that I should close my mouth after I speak more often,” she recalled.

Though Hawke said she is “kind of a mouth-breather,” she said the advice was especially frustrating because “I was playing a character that was distinctly unselfconscious.”

“That was a trait of the character, that they didn’t care about looking pretty and they were unselfconscious, and so it was clearly just a desire of the aesthetic of the thing,...

Maya Hawke says in some cases, the cast’s social media following plays a huge role in whether or not a film will be made.

“I don’t care about Instagram. Instagram sucks. Right, well just so you know, if you have over this many followers you can get the movie funded,” Hawke said on a recent episode of the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast. “It’s a really confusing line to walk.”

Hawke said she knows several “smart directors” who’ve encountered producers that demand a benchmark number of Instagram followers from their cast before moving forward with a project.

“I’m talking about deleting my Instagram and [some directors are] like, ‘Just so you know when I’m casting a movie with some producers, they hand me a sheet with the amount of collective followers I have to get from the cast,'” Hawke recalled. “‘So if you delete your Instagram and I lose those followers,...

Maya Hawke has delivered some memorable performances in recent years, despite some questionable unsolicited advice along the way.

The Stranger Things actress recently revealed the insulting behind-the-scenes suggestion a producer once gave her about how she could “look prettier” on camera, which “really upset” her.

“A director told me — actually, I think it was a producer, but they were in cahoots — told me that I looked prettier with my mouth closed and that I should close my mouth after I speak more often,” Hawke recalled on the Happy Sad Confused podcast.

Admitting that she is “kind of a mouth-breather,” she explained, “I do often let my mouth hang open but depending on what character I’m playing, because I feel like jaw tension and mouth tension is so important to express what kind of person you are.”

Hawke added, “Where you leave that, I think, is really important. And I...

Leonardo DiCaprio, Scarlett Johansson, and a few other A-listers stay iconic by overlooking Hollywood’s obsession with Instagram. Most people love getting a few updates about their favorite celebs on Instagram from time to time.

Leonardo DiCaprio in Inception | Credits: Warner Bros. Pictures

However, it has recently come to light that the industry has seemingly exchanged talent for Instagram followers in the past few years. This has obviously concerned many people as this would mean that soon anybody with an appropriate amount of followers would be starring in the movies.

While others, no matter how hardworking or talented they are, would be shunned for the lack of it. However, there are a few stars who still let their work do the talking for them, instead of buying into the frenzy. If anything, fans seem grateful for it.

Leonardo DiCaprio, Scarlett Johansson, and a few others refuse to follow Hollywood’s...

It turns out Game of Thrones fans should’ve seen the Season 8 disaster coming from miles away, because one of the showrunners basically foreshadowed it years ago. David Benioff once shared his very strong (and kinda controversial) take on The Sopranos ending, admitting he’d gotten into plenty of arguments about it.

Daniel Weiss, David Benioff and Emilia Clarke on the set of Game of Thrones | Credits: HBO

Now, looking back, his thoughts on the HBO classic feel like an early red flag for what was about to happen in Westeros.

Game of Thrones showrunner’s take on The Sopranos finale warned us about season 8’s disaster A still from The Sopranos | Credits: HBO

When Game of Thrones crashed and burned in its final season, many fans felt blindsided. But maybe the warning signs were always there? especially in showrunner David Benioff’s past take on The Sopranos finale.

Benioff...

Maya Hawke is giving insight into a possible stipulation for actors when auditioning for roles and looking back on the harsh criticism she once received from a producer.

While sitting down for the Happy Sad Confused podcast, the Stranger Things star reflected on how “the line between actor and celebrity has gotten extremely blurry” in the age of social media and that some producers may cast someone based on their follower count.

“What I always wanted to be is an actor where the work is what the draw is, not the personhood. But the industry keeps changing, and you have to change with it and understand that all of these things are getting blurred,” she explained.

Though she noted that there are “wonderful, incredible actors” she admires and “whose personalities we all know very well,” many are left to just figure “out the footing in these changing times of social...

Social media isn’t just a way for actors to connect with fans as it’s now influencing their careers in ways many wouldn’t expect. Actress Maya Hawke, known for her role in Stranger Things shared that she considered quitting Instagram but was advised against it by directors who explained how much it mattered in Hollywood.

Maya Hawke in Stranger Things | Credits: Netflix

Hawke isn’t the only one who has faced this reality. One social media user, named Joe Russo, claimed that in 2020, a Game of Thrones actor was not cast in a movie because he didn’t have enough Instagram followers.

Why was Maya Hawke told not to quit Instagram?

For many actors, social media can feel exhausting, but deleting it isn’t always an option. Actress Maya Hawke recently shared that, despite wanting to leave Instagram, she has been convinced to stay by several well-known directors.

After Maya Hawke’s recent interview, it seems like Jennifer Aniston’s warning about Hollywood is becoming a dystopian reality day by day. The movie industry not only needs to match the rhythm of time but also needs to be ahead of it sometimes as the ultimate trendsetter.

Maya Hawke as Robin Buckley in Stranger Things | Credits: Netflix

As such, evolving at a breakneck speed is not only unsurprising but also expected. However, in its race to be one with the time, the old Hollywood glamor is slowly getting eroded. Or, that is what many actors have to say about the industry they have been a part of for so long.

Jennifer Aniston spoke about this years ago, but a recent interview with Maya Hawke is driving this point home that Hollywood’s current situation does not bode well for either actors or filmmakers of the future.

Maya Hawke’s...

Directed by Mark Waters, La Dolce Villa, the 2025 Netflix rom-com, is the story of a father who turns up in Italy in pursuit of his young daughter, who wants to buy a house. With a close-knit cast, La Dolce Villa moves like a Tuscany romance, replete with vintage villas, charming medieval streets, wine and gelato, and a grand fresco. A new addition to the array of Valentine’s Day rom-coms, La Dolce Villa is surely going to make your heats a lot more merry.

Scott Foley as Eric

As the well-meaning but anxious father in La Dolce Villa, we get to see American actor and director Scott Foley. Foley has been a part of the slasher franchise Scream as Roman Bridger. He has also starred in multiple TV shows like Felicity, Scandal, and Scrubs. The 2014 American black comedy, Let’s Kill Ward’s Wife, is the sole directorial venture of Foley. As a misfit,...

[Editor’s note: This guide was published in fall 2021 and has been updated multiple times since.]

As Netflix’s library of films ebbs and flows, finding the right movie to watch can feel like bailing out an ocean with a spoon. And if you’re looking for a quality horror movie in particular, the search only gets harder. With the reality that Horror is one of the cheapest genres to produce, streamers like Netflix are cluttered with a veritable tsunami of bloody titles that sometimes seem indistinguishable from one another. Curating the 25 scariest movies on Netflix is then quite a process of selection and reduction.

If you’re looking for a good horror movie to watch on Netflix that will truly scare you, picking a final selection can prove a more daunting task than sitting through yet another “Haunting of Hill House” rewatch; with or without its beloved “Bly Manor” chaser. But while the streamer’s priorities seem to shift as quickly as its content selection grows,...

Hollywood is not just about talent anymore—it’s also about social media numbers. Actress Maya Hawke recently revealed that some directors have told her that film producers set follower count targets when casting roles. This means actors with more social media followers have a better chance of being hired.

Hawke, best known for her role as Robin Buckley in ‘Stranger Things,’ shared an example of how this affects her. She explained that if she deleted her Instagram account, a director might be forced to cast someone else to make up for the lost followers.

She said she has wanted to delete her Instagram account, but she hasn’t been able to because, unfortunately, in this day and age, it could be the reason she doesn’t get cast in a film role.

The line between actor and celebrity has gotten extremely blurry. What I always wanted to be is...

While a sub-section of movie fans bark about nepotism in the entertainment industry, another aspect of the business could set your sensitivities aflame. According to Maya Hawke, the multi-talented actor, musician, and daughter of Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman, some producers prioritize actors based on their social media followings. Like it or not, social media is the fastest way to hock your wares to droves of fans and passersby roped in by the almighty algorithm. Platforms like Instagram, TikTok, BlueSky, and, to a lesser extent, Twitter bring millions of eyeballs to celebrities, influencers, up-and-coming bands, and lesser-known individuals with extraordinary talents. Sure, you could chase trends, perform the latest dance craze, or prank unsuspecting victims of your obnoxious clout chasing. Still, social media is a powerful entertainment tool and measuring stick for a person’s ability to command attention.

According to Maya Hawke, “so many smart directors” have talked her...

Don’t delete that Instagram just yet, actors.

“Stranger Things” and “Inside Out 2” star Maya Hawke says she has been talked out of leaving Instagram by “so many smart directors.” Because yes, social media is toxic, but a certain threshold of followers is what “can get [a] movie funded,” she said on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast.

She recalled thinking, “‘Well, I wanna make the movie…'”

Hawke says she has been told, “‘Just so you know, when I’m casting a movie with some producers, they hand me a sheet with the amount of collective followers I have to get [from] the cast that I cast. So if you delete your Instagram and I lose those followers, understand that these are the kinds of people that I have to cast around you.'”

“It’s a really confusing line to walk,” she acknowledged.

Hawke probably hits that “amount of collective followers” singlehandedly.

Maya Hawke appeared on the latest episode of “Happy Sad Confused” and says a famous Hollywood talent once called her out for leaving her mouth open too much during takes. The “Stranger Things” favorite was advised that she would look prettier with our mouth shut.

“A director told me — actually, I think it was a producer, but they were in cahoots — told me I looked prettier with my mouth closed and that I should close my mouth after I speak more often,” Hawke revealed. “I do often let my mouth hang open depending on what character I’m playing, because I feel like jaw tension and mouth tension is so important to express what kind of person you are.”

“Where you leave that, I think, is really important,” she continued. “And I was really upset about being told that I should close my mouth more to look prettier, because I...

Stars: Edward Norton, Jason Schwartzman, Jake Ryan, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, Jeffrey Wright, Grace Edwards, Maya Hawke, Ruper Friend, Hope Davis, Steve Park, Liev Schreiber | Written by Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola | Directed by Wes Anderson

Wes Anderson has always managed to conjure up so much joy and wonder in his films, from his early days to his most recent work. There’s always an element of childish imagination and wonder to his films that always helps you fall in love with the characters and the worlds. Beneath that style, however, has always been a maturity to his storytelling, a sense of heartache and subtle sadness that lingers through the colourful worlds. Asteroid City is like so much of Anderson’s previous work, it has the joy and wonder, it has the wonderful colour pallet and style we’ve come to expect and perhaps has deeper meanings and messages than in any of his previous work.

IndieWire invited the directors of the five Oscar-nominated Best Animated Features to pick and analyze a pivotal scene that best represents their films: Chris Sanders (“The Wild Robot”), Gints Zilbalodis (“Flow”), Kelsey Mann (“Inside Out 2”), Nick Park and Merlin Crossingham (“Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl”), and Adam Elliot (“Memoir of a Snail”).

“The Wild Robot,” the Best Feature Annie winner, is the crowning achievement for writer-director Sanders. The dramatically compelling and visually arresting sci-fi adventure (adapted from Peter Brown’s illustrated book) finds robot Roz (Lupita Nyong’o) washed ashore on an uninhabited island, where she must adapt and survive among the animals. DreamWorks’ innovative handmade stylization takes Sanders back to his 2D roots with its tactile nature and watercolor backgrounds. The more time Roz spends in the wild, the more her surface changes with dents, scratches, mildew, and mold. She quickly becomes a hand-painted surface, blending in with the animals and the wilderness.

Exclusive: Ken Burns’ latest American history series is headed for the London TV Screenings.

PBS Distribution has taken global distribution rights and is bringing The American Revolution to the event, which is held in the UK capital at the end of the month.

Veteran filmmaker Burns directed and produced the epic factual series about the formation of the U.S. along with Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt and written by long-term collaborator Geoffrey C. Ward (The Vietnam War).

Show is billed as “an expansive look at the virtues and contradictions of the war and the birth of the United States of America,” following “dozens of figures from a wide variety of backgrounds,” including rank-and-file Continental soldiers and American militiamen, Patriot political and military leaders, British Army officers, American Loyalists, Native soldiers and civilians, enslaved and free African Americans, German soldiers in the British service, French and Spanish allies, and civilians living in North America.

In Videoheaven, Blockbuster––to take after Thom Andersen––plays itself. Now deep in a pop-cultural-scholarship phase inaugurated by his last feature Pavements, Alex Ross Perry has made a generous, absorbing three-hour essay film-cum-documentary on nothing else but video-rental stores, those fabled and most benign of places. That is the loveably niche subject, but like the best examples of those brick-and-mortar venues, it contains multitudes: closely inspired by academic Daniel Herbert’s acclaimed media studies text Videoland: Movie Culture at the American Video Store, Videoheaven is the ne plus ultra consideration of this topic to date, dispensing large portions of information and close analysis entirely through a combination of film and TV excerpts, occasional pieces of archive, and voiceover from Maya Hawke. Born in 1984 and coming of age in the early millennial period, Perry is declaiming that this was his generation and this was what mattered. It was magnetic tape and clumpy boxes,...

Let's assume you hate Valentine's Day. Whether you are in love or not, the "holiday" is made up and forces one to show even more appreciation to the person they are in a relationship with. It is a good way for businesses to sell chocolate and greeting cards. It is also a good night for restaurants.

No matter if you are happily in a relationship or not, there are reasons to dislike Valentine's Day. The four movies below will be somewhat cathartic for you, too. They will positively reinforce your feelings.

Of course, if you are in a relationship and your partner agrees with your view of February 14, you might have found the perfect mate. Give them a hug and tell them they are great. And then sit down together and binge-watch the following.

Four films to binge-watch if you hate Valentine's DayGirlfriend's Day

A movie that stars Bob Odenkirk and Natasha Lyonne?...

US director Alex Ross Perry, whose credits include 2014’s Listen Up Philip and 2018’s Her Smell, arrives at International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) this week with two new features.

Videoheaven world premieres in the festival’s focus on VHS culture, ‘Hold Video In Your Hands.’ Loosely inspired by the 2014 book Videoland: Movie Culture At The America Video Store by Daniel Herbert, it’s a film essay constructed around clips from films and TV shows featuring neighbourhood video stores: everything from Friends to I Am Legend.

Videoheaven was produced by Perry himself alongside Andrew Adair and Jake Perlin through non-profit organisation Cinema Conservancy,...

Exclusive: One of 20th Century Studios’ classic Gregory Peck titles is getting a new retelling with one of the films biggest fans on board to help develop. Sources tell Deadline Oscar-nominee Ethan Hawke is on board to pen a new reimagining of the classic Peck western The Gunfighter for 20th Century Studios. Hawke will co-write the script with his writing partner Shelby Gaines. On the directing front, while the hope is he may direct the film once a script is finished, insiders add as of now he only has a deal to write and produce. Insiders also had the film is in early development.

The original film follows the notorious gunfighter Jimmy Ringo (Peck) who rides into town to find his true love, who doesn’t want to see him. He hasn’t come looking for trouble, but trouble finds him around every corner.

Hawke has talked about how the...

“The Haunting of Hill House” star Victoria Pedretti hyped fellow actor – and co-creator of Netflix’s “Anne+” – Hanna van Vliet at International Film Festival Rotterdam Sunday evening.

“You are a leader,” she told her.

“True. I’m a leader,” responded van Vliet, admitting the change in the industry starts with “diversifying the teams.”

“We made ‘Anne+’ without any money, so we had all this freedom and could cast and hire whoever we wanted. People get better at their jobs and later, they will be the ones in power. We have to start small and grow everyone into ‘the big guy.’ Girl. Person.”

While the system is “corrupt,” you have to “know it in order to infiltrate it,” added Pedretti.

“The Non-Actor”

“I remember the first dinner with the cast of ‘The Haunting of Hill House’ and everyone was talking about Harvey Weinstein. I was like: ‘Is this what I’m getting myself into?...

After being delayed several months by the writers strike and the actors strike, season 5 of the hit Netflix series Stranger Things (which is also the last season of the show) finally went into production at the start of 2024 with a twelve month shooting schedule, wrapping at the end of December. Speaking with Variety, series creators the Duffer Brothers confirmed that they’re working hard to get the season ready for release by the end of the year – and while talking to Entertainment Weekly, they also confirmed that spin-offs are in development.

Stranger Things has the following synopsis: A love letter to the ‘80s classic genre films that captivated a generation, Stranger Things is a thrilling drama set in the seemingly normal Midwestern town of Hawkins, Indiana. After a boy vanishes into thin air, his close-knit group of friends and family search for answers and are pulled into a high-stakes and deadly series of events.

What Did Matt & Ross Duffer Say About Stranger Things Season 5? (Photo Credit – Netflix)

Netflix’s hit sci-fi thriller show Stranger Things will return for its fifth and final season this year. The show’s creators, Matt and Ross Duffer, participated in Netflix’s preview held in Los Angeles for the Ott giant’s upcoming TV and film releases slated for 2025.

The fifth season of the show is slated to premiere sometime in 2025. An update on the show’s final season wasn’t available until January 8, 2025. At the recent Netflix preview event, Matt and Ross Duffer delved into the show’s behind-the-scenes and dished some juicy details, raising anticipation for the upcoming season.

The Duffer brothers revealed they have “over 650 hours” of footage for Stranger Things Season 5. They also said, “This is our biggest and most ambitious season yet.” The duo likened the content to being “like eight blockbuster movies.” This show,...

The fifth and final season of “Stranger Things” is headed our way here in 2025, and series creators the Duffer Brothers have offered up some fresh “Stranger Things 5” teasers.

As reported by Entertainment Weekly, Matt and Ross Duffer are hyping the final hours of the hit Netflix series less as episodes and more as a series of “eight blockbuster movies.”

“We spent a full year filming this season. By the end, we had captured over 650 hours of footage,” Ross Duffer said at a Netflix event today. “So, needless to say, this is our biggest and most ambitious season yet. It’s like eight blockbuster movies. It’s pretty, pretty insane.”

“Season 5 will be big and epic,” Matt Duffer added, echoing Ross’s promise for the final season. “There’s no time for a ramp-up. It’s going to be intense from beginning to end.”

The scale of “Stranger Things 5″ is bigger than the previous four seasons,...

The cast and crew of Stranger Things finished filming the fifth and final season in December 2024. While there's been speculation about the season 5 release date since season 4 hit Netflix in the summer of 2022, the rumor mill is finally heating up anew here in the new year.

Earlier this month, fans reportedly found a possible release date for Stranger Things season 5. Now, the Netflix blog What's on Netflix is reporting a new rumor that season 5 will be split into two parts. The release for part 1 would be sometime in October followed by part 2 in November. What's on Netflix did not report any specific release dates.

In other words, the rumor suggests the release dates for Stranger Things season 5 will coincide with the fall holidays, Halloween and Thanksgiving. Netflix hasn't commented on the latest rumors yet.

Based on how Netflix has rolled out new seasons of its biggest shows over the last few years,...

Stranger Things star Finn Wolfhard is reflecting on the way he’s been personally affected by seeing his 10-year run with the show come to a close, with the conclusion of production on the series’ fifth and final season.

“A lot of people grew up on that show. It was a very emotional thing to leave behind,” Wolfhard told Deadline today in an appearance at our Sundance Studio, where he was promoting his forthcoming A24 film The Legend of Ochi. “But I’m incredibly excited just to see the show because you work for something for so [long]… It was sort of like this movie where it’s like, we worked on this so long ago, in 2021, and you move on and live your life, and then all of a sudden it’s like, oh, it’s happening. The thing we did is finally coming out, and you get to re-experience these awesome things.

Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Pérez” leads the 7th annual Latino Entertainment Film Awards with an impressive 17 nominations, including best picture, director, and four acting nods for Karla Sofía Gascón, Selena Gomez, Adriana Paz and Zoe Saldaña. Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi sequel “Dune: Part 2” follows with 10.

The Latino Entertainment Journalists Association (Leja), which celebrates the year’s best in film and Latino talent, was also fans of Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance” and Jon M. Chu’s “Wicked,” which earned nine nominations each. These films join other best picture nominees, including “Anora,” “The Brutalist,” “Conclave,” “I’m Still Here,” “Nickel Boys,” and “Sing Sing.”

“I’m Still Here” from Sony Pictures Classics surprised many with its robust Oscar showing, including a best picture nomination. In addition to recognition for Fernanda Torres in best actress, the Brazilian drama also earned nods for director (Walter Salles), adapted screenplay, cinematography and editing.

Leja also announced...

After being delayed several months by the writers strike and the actors strike, season 5 of the hit Netflix series Stranger Things (which is also the last season of the show) finally went into production at the start of 2024 with a twelve month shooting schedule, wrapping at the end of December. A month removed from the filming of the finale, series star Finn Wolfhard took a moment to discuss what it was like to finish working on the show while talking to Variety. Meanwhile, fans are speculating that Stranger Things season 5 might premiere sometime in the final months of 2025 – with some sources saying that it’s likely to have a split release, like Netflix did with season 4.

Stranger Things has the following synopsis: A love letter to the ‘80s classic genre films that captivated a generation, Stranger Things is a thrilling drama set in the seemingly normal Midwestern town of Hawkins,...

Final voting is February 11-18. The 97th Oscars telecast will be broadcast on Sunday, March 2 and air live on ABC at 7 p.m. Et/ 4 p.m. Pt. We update our picks through awards season, so keep checking IndieWire for all our 2025 Oscar predictions.

The State of the Race

The Best Animated Feature nominees are “Flow,” “Inside Out 2,” “Memoir of a Snail,” “Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl,” and “The Wild Robot.”

“The Wild Robot” is the slight favorite after grabbing two additional Oscar nominations for score (Kris Bowers) and sound. This is a first for DreamWorks Animation. However, the sci-fi adventure from director Chris Sanders (who is very well liked and due for a win) is in a tight race with indie sensation “Flow,” which also secured a Best International Feature nomination for Latvia. The low-budget underdog is on a roll of its own, capturing prizes from the Golden Globes,...

As the highest-grossing animated film of all time, it’s not a surprise that Inside Out 2 was nominated for an Oscar in the Best Animated Feature category this morning. Though that fact didn’t temper the anxiety director Kelsey Mann felt when he set his alarm last night.

“I’m normally used to having Anxiety drive me at night when something is coming the next morning, but I found that not only was she at the controls, but Joy was there too,” says Mann. “I was really excited to get up and hear what possibly could happen.”

Not only is this special because it’s Mann’s first Oscar nomination, but the recognition for a sequel of a beloved Pixar film is the best part of his morning. “There’s always high expectations for any film that we do at Pixar, but to do one that’s a follow...

Netflix’s hit series Stranger Things is gearing up for its final chapter, with Season 5 officially set to premiere on November 27, 2025. This date was discovered through Netflix’s website code, as shared by @UpsideDownScoop on X, who often provides updates about the show.

The user noted that the release is currently planned as a single volume, though there’s always a chance Netflix might adjust its plans before then.

| Did we just uncover the possible release date for Stranger Things 5?

By examining Netflix’s website code, we discovered that the internal release date for #StrangerThings5 is listed as:

Thursday, November 27, 2025

What are your thoughts on this potential date?… pic.twitter.com/Uy4jyANoxr

— Stranger Things News (@UpsideDownScoop) January 22, 2025

Here’s a bit more context: The Title ID confirms this is for Stranger Things:

> https://t.co/CXjR2Gcfyr (The numbers match)

As of now, #StrangerThings5 is listed to release in one volume!

Blueberry pie-scented candles (Heretic). Emotion-themed Sugarfina candy boxes (Inside Out 2). Shiz University sweatshirts (Wicked).

That’s just a (literal) taste of some of the swag (aka promotional items) that have been sent out to voters this season by savvy awards campaigners. Lavishly bound screenplays, one-of-a-kind posters, T-shirts and the like are de rigueur for any self-respecting FYC team, and this season did not disappoint.

Disney-Pixar’s Inside Out 2 teamed up with luxury candy shop Sugarfina in an effort to remind voters to “consider every emotion” this Oscar season. All of your favorite characters from the box-office behemoth were represented in edible form, including Maya Hawke‘s Anxiety (peach bellini gummies), Phyllis Smith‘s Sadness (robin’s egg caramels), Ayo Edebiri‘s Envy (sour rainbows), Adèle Exarchopoulos‘ Ennui (birthday cake cookie bites), Amy Poehler‘s Joy (lemon shortbread cookie bites), Paul Walter Hauser‘s Embarrassment (rosé frosé wine gems...

Since 2016, the young cast members of Netflix's Stranger Things have impressed audiences with their heartfelt performances, which means there is no excuse for overlooking the actors' other amazing projects. Over the course of nearly ten years, the Duffer Brothers have crafted four (going on five) seasons of their sci-fi TV series, Stranger Things. Along with the 1980s nostalgia and thrillingly dark plot, the show is a success because of Stranger Things' talented ensemble cast. From icons like Winona Ryder to newcomers like Millie Bobby Brown, the show offers something for everyone.

Generally, the cast of Stranger Things is split up into two parts: the adult cast and the young cast. Stranger Things' young cast includes Finn Wolfhard as Mike, Millie Bobby Brown as Eleven, Noah Schnapp as Will, Gaten Matarazzo as Dustin, Caleb McLaughlin as Lucas, and Sadie Sink as Max. There is also Joe Keery as Steve, Natalia Dyer as Nancy,...

Director Kelsey Mann, producer Mark Nielsen, writers Meg LeFauve and Dave Holstein and composer Andrea Datzman sat down with Clayton Davis, Variety’s Senior Awards Editor, at the Variety FYC Screening presented by Disney & Pixar, to chat about their work on “Inside Out 2.”

The billion-dollar animated hit “Inside Out 2” introduces an older Riley, now age 13, as she enters high school and discovers a new set of emotions including Anxiety (Maya Hawke), Envy (Ayo Edebiri), Ennui (Adèle Exarchopoulos) and Embarrassment (Paul Walter Hauser). As a director, Mann was drawn in to how universal the experience of being a teenager is: “It’s always this thing that everybody kind of knows about.”

For “Inside Out 2,” Mann assembled an advisory group of teenage girls ages 13 to 16 to give their thoughts on every version of the film. While Mann imagined having to really sell Pixar on it, he recalls how open they were to the idea.

No animated movie dominated 2024 quite like Pixar’s “Inside Out 2.” The sequel, which saw lead character Riley, now a teenager, dealing with brand-new emotions like Anxiety (Maya Hawke), Ennui (Adèle Exarchopoulos), Envy (Ayo Edebiri) and Embarrassment (Paul Walter Hauser), was an instant sensation. The follow-up to 2015’s “Inside Out” (which won the Best Animated Feature Oscar) is now the top-grossing animated movie of all time and the eighth highest-grossing film ever and has appeared on a number of year-end best-of lists. For director Kelsey Mann, the only emotion he’s feeling is joy.

“To have the response be what it was for this film was beyond what I had hoped for,” Mann said. “I hoped that people would go to the theaters and see it. And man, did they show up. It was apparent from that first weekend that people were excited to see the next chapter in Riley’s life.

The movies of 2024 have delivered some truly impressive star-studded casts. Challengers starred Zendaya, Mike Faist, and Josh O’Connor. Inside Out 2 featured the voice talents of Amy Poehler, Maya Hawke, and Ayo Edebiri. Conclave had an all-star line-up of Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, and a scene-stealing Isabella Rossellini.

Dune: Part Two added Florence Pugh, Austin Butler, and Christopher Walken to an already stacked cast. Gladiator II brought in Paul Mescal, Pedro Pascal, Joseph Quinn, and a hilarious Denzel Washington. 2024 has seen some of the world’s biggest movie stars share the screen.

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Tim Burton returned to the world of the macabre this year for the long-awaited sequel to Beetlejuice. The cast of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice brought back most of the screen legends from the first movie, including Winona Ryder as Lydia Deetz, Catherine O’Hara as Delia Deetz, and, of course, Michael Keaton as Betelgeuse. But it also...