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Ahead of the summer, we were thrilled to host the first-ever Collider Exclusive Preview event, sharing early looks, trailers, insights, and more from some of the year's most exciting films. Nearly 30 movies were included as part of the week-long series, including massive blockbusters like James Gunn's Superman and Jurassic World Rebirth, alongside smaller, more underrated titles like the Bryce Dallas Howard-led Deep Cover. It was a massive success, and now, the site is prepared to go bigger and do it all over again. In preparation for a fall schedule packed with new movies, Collider is previewing over 40 movies this time around, from rom-coms to horror and action-packed projects. Reveals will happen regularly throughout the coming week, and you'll want to stay glued here for it all.

For this season's batch of films, we've managed to snag dozens more exclusive images offering insight into what the titles are all about,...

Last year marked the premiere of Brett Goldstein and Will Bridges's longtime passion project, All of You, a sci-fi romance that imagines a world where everyone can take a test to find their true soulmate and focuses on two friends with an unspoken love that they only start to realize once one of them is matched with someone else. It made its debut at the Toronto International Film Festival to strong reviews and an 83% Rotten Tomatoes score, marking the culmination of over a decade of work by the Ted Lasso star and the director to bring the idea to life. Now, with Apple TV+ set to release their work for audiences this September, we're excited to include the long-gestating title as part of Collider's Exclusive Preview event for fall movies. In a conversation with Maggie Lovitt for the event, Bridges, Goldstein, and co-lead Imogen Poots detailed how Bridges'...

Before Season 2 even hits our screens, Percy Jackson is already casting some of its more important heroes for Season 3. At their panel at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, the creators of the series adapting Rick Riordan’s hit young adult novels announced that they’ve found their Nico and Bianca di Angelo in the form of Levi Chrisopulos and Olive Abercrombie.

Nico and Bianca are key figures in The Titan’s Curse, twin children of Hades, one of the “big Three” gods forbidden from having any more demigod children. When combined with Percy (Walker Scobell) as the son of Poseidon and Thalia (Tamara Smart) as the daughter of Zeus, they’ve got all eyes on them — including the eyes of every monster known to man, as well as Kronos, the Titan bent on bringing down the gods once and for all.

Abercrombie is best known for her work in Outer Range,...

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Brick (not to be confused with the 2005 Rian Johnson film of the same name) is a German sci-fi mystery thriller film written and directed by Philip Koch. The Netflix film revolves around a couple still grieving over a recent tragedy as they find themselves trapped in their house after mystery and indestructible bricks surround their building. Brick stars Matthias Schweighofer, Ruby O. Fee, Frederick Lau, Josef Berousek, and Alexander Beyer. So, if you loved the mystifying concept, thrilling drama, and entertaining characters in Netflix’s Brick, here are some similar movies you should check out next.

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Cube is a sci-fi horror film directed by Vincenzo Natali, who also co-wrote the screenplay with André Bijelic and Graeme Manson. The 1997 film follows a group of people who wake up and find themselves trapped in deadly cube...

In the modern era of streaming services dominating the television landscape, it can be difficult to find something to watch. This is especially true if you're not one to keep up with great shows as they're airing, as many of the best binge-worthy TV shows to watch can become buried in endless libraries of content, both new and old. With Apple TV+ ruling the cultural moment with shows like "Severance" and "The Studio," you may have forgotten a time not too long ago when all the best shows were on Amazon Prime Video.

Amazon Prime Video might be a go-to streaming service when you're looking for the latest theatrical release that's hit digital, but there are also plenty of underrated TV shows on Prime Video you've probably never seen. Additionally, shows from Amazon Prime Video have also swept at the Emmys and racked up some of the highest budgets in modern-day TV.

Jannik Sinner is getting the support of several stars before he competes at Wimbledon this year!

The 23-year-old Italian tennis player was celebrated at a private dinner hosted by Gucci on Thursday (June 26) at Claridge’s Restaurant in London, England.

Jannik, who is a Global Brand Ambassador for Gucci, is currently World No.1 in the Atp rankings ahead of competing for his fifth consecutive year at Wimbledon.

Also in attendance at the event were Paul Mescal, Joe Keery, George MacKay, Naomi Ackie, Imogen Poots, Erin Kellyman, Erin Doherty, Matthew Beard, and Tosin Cole, among others.

Jannik did something pretty unexpected last week. He teamed up with legendary singer Andrea Bocelli for a new song.

Fyi: All of the stars are wearing Gucci.

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New movies from directors Steven Soderbergh and Nia DaCosta have been added to this year’s Toronto Film Festival lineup.

TIFF organizers announced on Thursday the first five titles of its official selection, all of which are set to world premiere in Canada. They are Soderbergh’s “The Christophers,” DaCosta’s “Hedda,” Alejandro Amenábar’s “The Captive,” Sung-hyun Byun’s “Good News” and Chandler Levack’s “Mile End Kicks.”

Soderbergh, the prolific filmmaker of “Ocean’s 11,” “Contagion” and “Erin Brockovich,” was at the last edition of TIFF with his ghost thriller “Presence.” His newest film, “The Christophers,” is described as a black comedy set in the art world and stars Ian McKellen, Michaela Coel, Jessica Gunning, and James Corden.

DaCosta, known for “The Marvels,” “Candyman” and the upcoming “28 Years Later: Bone Temple,” is adapting Henrik Ibsen’s famous play with Tessa Thompson and Imogen Poots in the lead roles. “Hedda...

Steven Soderbergh’s “The Christophers,” Alejandro Amenábar’s “The Captive,” Byun Sung-hyun’s “Good News,” Nia DaCosta’s “Hedda” and Chandler Levack’s “Mile End Kicks” are among the films that will have their world premieres at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, TIFF organizers announced on Thursday.

The five films will be part of the festival’s Special Presentation section. They join the opening-night selection, Colin Hanks’ documentary “John Candy: I Like Me,” as the first films to be announced by TIFF CEO Cameron Bailey.

Soderbergh’s “The Christophers” is written by Ed Solomon and stars Ian McKellen, Michaela Coel, James Corden and Jessica Gunning; it focuses on the estranged children of a famous artist, who hire a forger to finish their father’s uncompleted paintings.

“The Captive” is a historical drama focusing on the time that “Don Quixote” author Miguel de Cervantes spent in an Algerian prison.

Steven Soderbergh’s dark comedy The Christophers and The Marvels director Nia DaCosta’s latest film, Hedda, are set for world premieres at the Toronto Film Festival in September, organizers said on Thursday.

Ian McKellen, Jessica Gunning, Michaela Coel and James Corden star in Soderbergh’s movie about the estranged children of a famous artist who hire a forger to finish their father’s unfinished paintings so they can be sold after his death.

Soderbergh directed The Christophers based on a script by Now You See Me scribe Ed Solomon. The creative duo collaborated on earlier projects like No Sudden Move, Full Circle and Mosaic.

Also getting a first look in Toronto is DaCosta’s Hedda, a reimagining of the Henrik Ibsen stage play Hedda Gabler that stars Tessa Thompson, Nina Hoss and Imogen Poots. Thompson will play Hedda Gabler, considered one of the greatest dramatic roles in theater history.

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28 Years Later has been released in theaters, and Netflix took this opportunity to stream its prequel, 28 Weeks Later. The strategy worked and is on Netflix’s global weekly top 10 list. The film has debuted on Netflix with strong views, and it seems people are digging it, and it might be because of the latest film’s hype. Keep scrolling for more.

For the uninitiated, it was released in 2007 and is the standalone sequel to 28 Days Later. Although it was not as successful as the first film, it still has its charms. The film features Robert Carlyle, Rose Byrne, Jeremy Renner, Harold Perrineau, Catherine McCormack, Mackintosh Muggleton, Imogen Poots, and Idris Elba in pivotal roles.

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28 Weeks Later was added to Netflix around mid-June 2025, likely during the week starting June 16. Although Netflix didn’t specify the exact release date,...

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28 Years Later had an impressive opening weekend at the box office in North America. The movie has also surpassed the domestic haul of 28 Weeks Later. The film opened with $60 million at the worldwide box office. It has landed on the upper side of the projected range and is expected to do well in its box office run. Keep scrolling for more.

The movie received strong ratings from the critics on Rotten Tomatoes. They gave it 89% and stated, “The film taps into contemporary anxieties with the ferocious urgency of someone infected with Rage Virus, delivering a haunting and visceral thrill ride that defies expectations.” However, the audience rating is a bit lower than that. The viewers gave it 65%, and it will undoubtedly beat its predecessors at the box office as another sequel is also in development.

“28 Years Later” is finally here and a refresher on the first two films might be in order.

It has been 18 years since the last film in the franchise and 23 years since it all began in “28 Days Later.” The latest film proves that things are hardly better off despite all the time that has passed. The years have not been kind to the world, and survivors are still doing their best to fight against a plague of Rage Virus-fueled monsters.

Before you dive into the latest film, refresh yourself on the most important bits from “28 Days Later” and “28 Weeks Later” so you’re square on all the most important lore bits.

The Rage Virus Began in Monkeys

The virus that burned through the UK and then the world began in chimpanzees. The animals were experimented on by scientists while searching for a way to trigger enhanced aggression and anger in victims.

Sequels are a tricky business. For every Aliens, there’s a Speed 2. So when 28 Weeks Later arrived five years after Danny Boyle’s genre-redefining 28 Days Later, scepticism was understandable. Now, years later, and ahead of the release of the next film in the series, there seems to be more of an appreciation for the second part. One could argue that Juan Carlos Fresnadillo’s follow-up doesn’t just survive the comparison with the first film, it thrives on it, delivering a film that’s sharper, leaner, and in some ways even more brutal than its predecessor.

From the moment the opening sequence throws us into a rural farmhouse siege, it’s clear Fresnadillo understands what made the first film so potent: urgency. But where 28 Days Later built terror out of silence and isolation, 28 Weeks Later trades in chaos. Robert Carlyle’s Don, caught between a horde of infected and a split-second moral choice,...

It looks like Brett Goldstein has found his creative home with Apple TV+. After winning hearts and a lot of Emmys with Ted Lasso, and then again with Shrinking, Goldstein is back—this time again not just as a star, but also as a writer—with All of You, a romantic sci-fi drama that’s already turning a lot of heads.

The movie had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, where early reviews praised its unique premise and futuristic twist on love and destiny. While critics have already gotten a taste of it, audiences are still waiting for its official release on Apple TV+. With Goldstein joined by Imogen Poots and a cast full of familiar faces, All of You promises an interesting watch.

Here’s everything you need to know—from the release date and cast to its thought-provoking plot.

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The film has been called a ‘love story for grown-ups,’ and we’ll fill you in on all the details you’ll want to know before it’s released!

Apple TV+ loves itself some Brett Goldstein. The streaming service, which hosts the Goldstein-starring series “Ted Lasso,” will soon welcome his new movie “All of You.” The romance film will debut on the streamer before you know it, and if you want to know more about the film before it comes out, we’ve got all the details you want below.

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Before he became an Emmy-winning star playing the foul-mouthed soccer icon Roy Kent in “Ted Lasso,” Brett Goldstein had been a stand-up comedian for almost two decades. But if you’re looking for visual evidence, it might be hard to come by, because videos of his early days on stage are almost nonexistent.

“I’ve done 17 years of stand-up, but there’s no proof,” he said with a laugh. “I could be lying.”

That’s because Goldstein was not a fan of filmed stand-up — until this year, when his “Brett Goldstein: The Second Best Night of Your Life” came to HBO. “I’ve always resisted filming, and I never put stuff I did online,” he said. “It’s about the live experience, and I feel that quite strongly.”

“There’s a pact you make with the audience, which I love. The exchange happens in a room with an audience, and...

Brett Goldstein’s here, he’s there, he’s every-f–king-where on Apple TV+ — and come September, you’ll be able to catch the two-time Emmy winner in the streamer’s original movie, All of You.

Co-written by Goldstein (Shrinking, Ted Lasso) and director William Bridges (Black Mirror), the romantic drama centers on Simon (Goldstein) and Laura (Imogen Poots), best friends since college who “drift apart when she takes a test that finds her soulmate despite years of unspoken feelings between them,” according to the synopsis. “Over the years, as their paths cross and diverge, neither can deny the feeling...

There's no denying the impact 28 Days Later had on the horror genre. Although not technically the undead, the "infected" in the movie revitalized what was quickly becoming a tired zombie gimmick in film, breathing new life into the monsters whilst also holding a mirror up to society in a bleak and powerful way akin toDawn of the Dead. Danny Boyle's frenzied horror, led by Cillian Murphy’s breakout performance, is considered by many to be one of the genre's best.

However, fewer have indulged further into the franchise and tasted the flesh of the lesser-known sequel, 28 Weeks Later. Directed and co-written by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, the 2007 installment follows siblings Tammy (Imogen Poots) and Andy (Mackintosh Muggleton), a pair of beacons in a bleak landscape with their genes thought to hold the cure to the Rage Virus. Alongside Poots and Muggleton, the movie also stars the big-name trio of Robert Carlyle,...

Streaming charts aren't just packed with empty impressions of what movies should be like. Try as they might to devalue the currency of moviemaking with slickly hollow fare like "The Electric State," the Russo brothers and their streaming overlords are yet to completely eradicate wonder and imagination from the film industry (though Joe Russo's vision of an A.I.-driven garbage future often seems as though it's fast-approaching). For the time being at least, there's still plenty of good stuff out there, and sometimes it finds its way onto the streaming charts, right alongside the dross.

If you take a look at Hulu's charts over the first half of 2025, we've seen some great stuff popping up in the rankings, from Chloe Fineman's critically acclaimed comedy to 2025's Best Picture winner "Anora." It's not just new stuff hitting the streaming charts, either. Often we'll see forgotten, overlooked, or...

Celebrity and documentary intersected on the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival this year with the world premiere of Bono: Stories of Surrender, the film about the U2 frontman directed by Andrew Dominik. The Irish rock star, his wife and two of his kids turned out for the glamorous late-night event on the Croisette, along with Kristen Stewart, Sean Penn, Mariska Hargitay, Imogen Poots, Cannes chief Thierry Frémaux and even the mayor of Cannes.

Before the premiere, Deadline’s Doc Talk podcast got a chance to visit with Bono to discuss the film, which explores the singer-songwriter’s relationship with his father and losing his mother when he was a teenager. Today’s edition of the show features our conversation with Bono and makers of other major documentaries that premiered in Cannes, a lineup that includes:

Eugene Jarecki, director of The Six Billion Dollar Man, his documentary about Wikileaks founder Julian Assange,...

By the end of this year’s Cannes Film Festival — well, technically, up until this Memorial Day when Netflix announced the streamer snapped up Richard Linklater’s “Nouvelle Vague” — 13 of the 22 films in competition had walked away with a stateside home.

That’s impressive, but there are still many more gems waiting out throughout the Official Selection, including even Harris Dickinson’s IndieWire-adored directorial debut “Urchin”. Kristen Stewart’s acclaimed Imogen Poots vehicle “The Chronology of Water,” one of three actor-turned-director efforts in Un Certain Regard along with Dickinson and Scarlett Johansson, doesn’t have a home yet, either. She’ll get there.

Surveying the Main Competition, either films like “Eddington” (A24) or “The Phoenician Scheme” (Focus Features) or “Sentimental Value” (Neon) came to the festival with deals in place, or a handful for stateside berth were brokered on the ground. Mubi took the buzziest buy of the festival...

I love some feel-bad horror. The kind of movies that maybe a little too acutely reflect the present moment, extending my sociopolitical anxieties outward in extreme, terrifying ways. Parasite is my favorite Best Picture winner of the last few years for a reason, and for as nasty as it is, I thought The Platform was horrifying in its prescience. Even the soon-to-be-released The Rule of Jenny Pen’s geriatric terror cuts a little too close to the bone (and I loved it for that).

Those are certainly among the more extreme examples, though plenty of other socially charged horror movies have managed to strike a chord with me. Last year’s festival hit The Tenants was deeply depressing in its claustrophobic terror, and pretty much every major 2024 release—The First Omen, Alien: Romulus, and so many more than that—was pretty much a sobering reminder of where we’re at.

Book adaptations yield two kinds of films: those that transliterate and those that translate. While the former insist on keeping the source material’s spirit at the cost of a rendition so faithful it comes to stage things rigidly, like a direct transplant from page to screen, the latter trust both mediums so completely, allowing for some poetic gap between book and film as if translating an idiom from one language to another. Adaptation can be a risky venture for seasoned filmmakers, let alone a newcomer. Even more so if you’re an A-list actress, whose directorial debut likely faces a great deal of scrutiny. In light of this, Kristen Stewart’s decision to adapt the 2011 memoir The Chronology of Water by American novelist Lidia Yuknavitch––who is probably better-known for her second book (and first published with a major press) The Small Backs of Children––suggests that the match...

At IndieWire’s annual “Screen Talk” live podcast at the American Pavilion in Cannes, Neon CEO Tom Quinn returned to share his Oscar whisperer secrets after his victory lap on “Anora,” which won the Palme d’Or last year followed by five Oscars including Best Picture, Director, Actress, Editing, and Original Screenplay. Quinn is the talk of Cannes because, as anticipated, the movie he acquired at last year’s festival, Joachim Trier’s “Sentimental Value,” starring Stellan Skarsgård and Renate Reinsve, is the frontrunner for the Palme.

While Quinn talked about the four films he brought to the festival (listen below), after our podcast, he acquired three Competition titles: Jafar Panahi’s family drama “It Was Just an Accident,” Brazil’s popular entry “The Secret Agent,” from Kleber Mendonça Filho, and Oliver Laxe’s tragic French-Spanish production “Sirât,” which polarized many Cannes watchers. Even if these four Neon titles don...

The 2025 Cannes Film Festival has wrapped following days of star-studded premieres, red carpets and dealmaking on the French Riviera.

This year’s lineup included major Hollywood premieres including Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme starring Benicio del Toro and Michael Cera, Richard Linklater’s Paris-shot Breathless homage Nouvelle Vague, Jochim Trier’s Sentimental Value and Titane Palme d’Or winner Julia Ducournau’s Alpha to name a few.

They were joined by new films from stalwart auteurs including horrormeister Ari Aster’s buzzy A24 feature Eddington, Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident and Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind. Hollywood star Scarlett Johansson debuted in Un Certain Regard with her first directorial effort, Eleanor the Great.

Related: Standing Ovations At Cannes: How We Clock Those Claps, Which Movie Holds The Record and Why The Industry Loves To Hate The Ritual

Croisette regulars Kirill Serebrennikov, Raoul Peck and...

On questionnaires for movie research screenings they always ask “Choose words that best describe the film.” Okay, here are the words I would write down to best encapsulate the new film The History of Sound which had its world premiere tonight in competition at the Cannes Film Festival: Meditative. Beautiful. Musical. Reflective. Heartbreaking. Love. Quiet. Soothing. Life Affirming. Haunting. Tasteful. Adult. Unforgettable.

The title makes it sound rather academic, but it certainly isn’t that. Perhaps more pointedly it should have been called The Sound of Music, but I think somebody already had that. Okay, how about The Sounds of Music? Actually the title they have fits perfectly once you get to the end, but will it sell tickets? That is the problem for the distributor (Mubi in North America; Universal/Focus Features international), but the film itself, directed by Oliver Hermanus and written by Ben Shattock from his own short story,...

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

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

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

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

28 Days Later’s terrifying first sequel is getting a new streaming home just weeks before the long-awaited third movie hits theaters. Danny Boyle’s visceral take on the zombie apocalypse wowed audiences when it hit cinema screens way back in 2002. The clock then spun forward to 2007’s 28 Weeks Later, revealing the world to still be in a precarious state thanks to the ongoing Rage Virus threat. Now, over two decades after the first film, the calendar is sweeping forward even more in 28 Years Later, which is set for release on June 20, 2025.

With just weeks to go before 28 Years Later makes its long-awaited debut, 28 Weeks Later is getting a new streaming home, coming to Hulu on June 1.

Did You Know: A third 28 Days Later film was being developed even as the second hit theaters, but rights issues held up production, and the film ultimately fell into development hell.

It’s hard these days to create an original film from scratch, tougher still to launch a first film in the Cannes Selection. Three actors have achieved that feat this year, all playing in Un Certain Regard, where the spotlight tends to be less harsh: Scarlett Johansson’s “Eleanor the Great,” starring American veteran June Squibb; Kristen Stewart’s “The Chronology of Water,” starring British actress Imogen Poots; and from the U.K., Harris Dickinson’s “Urchin,” which will propel Frank Dillane (son of British actor Stephen Dillane) into Best Actor Oscar contention if a distributor does right by it. All the key North American distributors attended the debut on Saturday after good word leaked out of early New York screenings. Yes, it played well.

“The applause was lovely,” said Dickinson, sitting with Dillane on the roof of the J.W. Marriott Hotel with stunning views of the Gulf of Napoule.

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

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

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

Kristen Stewart hopes 'The Chronology of Water' can trigger a change within the movie business.The 35-year-old star has made her directorial debut with the new biographical drama film, and Kristen hopes that it will encourage more movie studios to explore female narratives.The Hollywood star said during a panel at Deadline's Cannes Film Festival studio: "We broke the seal. Hopefully we can start flooding, gushing into view."Kristen observed that, for too long, audiences have been presented with "prescribed stories".The actress-turned-director said: "We get prescribed stories just shoved into our faces, down our throats."Kristen is often frustrated with how women are portrayed on the big screen.She explained: "The imagery that we consume, the conversations that are not allowed, the fact that we can’t tell people when we’re bleeding, like it’s gross or something."'The Chronology of Water' is based...

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

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

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

The Cannes Film Festival is nearing the end of its first week and with it, we got a buzzy new Jennifer Lawrence/Robert Pattinson drama and a Richard Linklater-directed ode to French cinema.

Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattison Hit the Red Carpet

“Die, My Love,” the long-awaited new film from Lynne Ramsay, premiered Saturday and stars Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattison were on hand to welcome it to the world.

The stars, who had each anchored their own beloved YA franchise long ago, attended the premiere alongside their director (this is the Scottish director’s first feature since 2017’s brilliant “You Were Never Really Here”) with Sissy Spacek, Mariska Hargitay and someone dressed as a turkey – or maybe it was a condor? It’s a little unclear.

Cannes, France – May 17: A condor attends the “Die My Love” red carpet at the 78th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais...

Kristen Stewart never questioned her ability to direct when it came to making her filmmaking debut “The Chronology of Water,” but when she got to post-production, she thought she had “ruined the movie.”

“We got home and I was like, ‘I think I killed everything. I think everything’s dead,’” Stewart told TheWrap founder and CEO Sharon Waxman during TheWrap’s Cannes Conversations in partnership with Brand Innovators, adding that when she started to see what her actors brought to the screen, the film evolved. “Then I opened up all these stunning, beautiful gifts and I was like, ‘No, no, we just did something different.’ Ingratiating yourself to newness is difficult. It’s like you have to mourn the loss of a thing.”

The Oscar-nominated actress said that while she felt frustrated and impatient over the eight-year process of finally getting “Chronology of Water” made, she never questioned her own...

Kristen Stewart has been “wanting to make movies since I was nine or 10 years old,” she told me on her fourth trip to Cannes in 2017, for the short “Come Swim.” She’s been a fixture at the festival ever since her maiden voyage in 2012 with Walter Salles’ “On the Road,” followed by Woody Allen’s “Cafe Society,” Olivier Assayas’ “Clouds of Sils Maria” and “Personal Shopper,” and David Cronenberg’s “Crimes of the Future.” She also served on Cate Blanchett’s Competition jury in 2018.

Stewart’s audacious debut, the Un Certain Regard entry “The Chronology of Water,” was well-received. After eight years of development, Scott Free financed the mood poem about swimming and writing for survival amid personal trauma. Stewart is ebullient after having talked about making her first feature for so long. Back in 2022, she announced that she was adapting (with Andy Mingo) Lidia Yuknavitch’s frank 2011 memoir. Stewart...

In 2018 at the Cannes Film Festival, Kristen Stewart joined Ava DuVernay, Agnes Varda, Jane Fonda and over 80 other women in a protest on the steps of the Palais to draw attention to the lack of female directors programmed in the line-up. That year, only three out of the 21 competition films were directed by women.

Seven years later, Stewart is back at the festival with her directorial debut The Chronology of Water, but the journey was not an easy one. “We had to leave the United States to make this possible,” said Stewart of trying to get the film financed.

Stewart was on hand for a May 16 conversation with Chronolgy actor and musician Kim Gordon at Hyde Beach by Campari held by Breaking Through Lens. The non-profit group is focused on helping any filmmakers who experience marginalization due to their gender get their projects financed. At the event, Simbelle Productions founder...

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

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

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

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

almost frighteningly quiet.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Okay, now Kristen Stewart is just showing off.

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

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

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

I’m always up for a movie directed by an actor I love. Often, that actor will turn out be good at directing other actors, and building a serviceable movie around that, and that’s about it. Yet there’s still an adventure involved when you feel like you really know an actor. I went into “The Chronology of Water,” the first movie directed by Kristen Stewart, with a heightened curiosity and a heightened hope. I’ve long felt that she’s a great actor and a great star. What would she reveal as a filmmaker?

The hope paid off. “The Chronology of Water” isn’t some pretty good, prosaic, actor-directs-actors-how-to-read-the-script thing. It’s far more artful and captivating than that. It’s based on the 2011 memoir by Lidia Yuknavitch, who told the story of how she grew up in a sexually abusive household, and how she attempted to squirm...

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

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

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

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

An emotional Poots obliged, saying only,...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Actors turning to directing is nothing new, but it’s unlikely you’ve seen a performer’s directorial debut as boldly confident and emotionally precise as Kristen Stewart’s “The Chronology of Water.”

Where other performers have stuck to what they were familiar with from past roles or even cast themselves in key parts for their first film behind the camera, Stewart does neither. This is no safe vanity project, but one of immense passion that she has been trying to get made for the better part of a decade. We can now be glad she did; this is a formally ambitious and raw vision that not only does justice to the acclaimed memoir of the same name by Lidia Yuknavitch, but becomes a distinct work all its own. Visually haunting, with disquieting snapshots of pain, abuse and addiction giving way to something approaching tentative tranquility, it’s a film...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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