Warning: spoilers for "It: Welcome to Derry follow.

"It: Welcome to Derry" hasn't yet revealed how the military discovered Dick Hallorann's psychic abilities. According to actor Chris Chalk, while the origin of his character's unofficial conscription goes unaddressed in the show, there were discussions about how Hallorann got caught up in the Derry saga, and the prevailing theory is that it all began with a harmless game of cards.

"Stranger Things" might be back for its fifth and final season, but there's room for two horror series that involve a small town beset by supernatural occurrences that have attracted the attention of the U.S. military. "Welcome to Derry" continues...

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One of the biggest challenges for "Avengers: Age of Ultron" was making the villainous Ultron (voiced by James Spader) feel threatening. This was the Marvel Cinematic Universe's first official robot villain, and while robots can certainly be threatening (see: "The Terminator") it's also easy for them to look silly instead. As explained in the 2021 behind-the-scenes book "The Story of Marvel Studios: The Making of the Marvel Cinematic Universe," the visual development team struggled to make Ultron threatening while still being capable of "convey[ing] human emotions." As director Joss Whedon put it:

"In the comics, Ultron always has his mean face on.

During a recent appearance on the “So True with Caleb Hearon” podcast, co-director Lilly Wachowski was asked about certain right-wing groups attaching their ideologies to her 1999 sci-fi masterpiece “The Matrix.” Wachowski said she’s unbothered by conservative misinterpretations and knows how to separate herself from her films once they’re released to the public.

“You have to let go of your work. People are gonna interpret it however they interpret it,” Wachowski said. “I look at all of the crazy, mutant theories around ‘The Matrix’ films and the crazy ideologies that those films helped create and I just go, ‘What are you doing? No! That’s wrong!’ But I have to let it go to some extent … You’re never gonna be able to make absolutely every person believe what you initially intended.”

“The Matrix,” specifically the iconic “blue pill or red pill” scene, is the most famous example of...

This post contains spoilers for "Paycheck" and its source material.

Sci-fi legend Philip K. Dick has left behind a striking legacy. Over the course of 40 novels and 120 short stories, Dick blurred the lines between reality and what could've been, etching memorable characters plagued by doubt or delusion. In 1953, when Dick's career had just started taking off, he wrote a chunk of his oeuvre in a burst of inspiration — or just perhaps in an attempt to make a living.

"Paycheck" is one such entry. This 1953 novelette takes place in a dystopian society where workers get their memories wiped after fulfilling their contractual obligations. Jennings, our electronic engineer protagonist, realizes that his...

The modern Chud Grifter Industrial Complex is an economic engine unto itself — a boundless, unwashed sea of reactionary YouTube channels, TikTok accounts, and Reddit threads, all with the express purpose of tearing down any "nerd culture" media deemed too disgustingly woke. Back in the early 2000s, the digital infrastructure that has allowed this tumor on cultural discourse to thrive wasn't nearly as fully formed, but the reactionary rage content persisted nonetheless.

Take "Battlestar Galactica," for example — specifically, the 2003 Syfy reboot. Today, the series is heralded as a genre classic years ahead of its time, having broken new ground with both its genre and overarching narrative structure. Indeed, years before "The Walking Dead...

Kanya Iwana, an Indonesian multidisciplinary artist making her feature directorial debut, has “Ibu” selected for the Jaff Future Project, about three generations of women wrestling with inherited identity in 2011 Yogyakarta.

The Indonesia-u.S. co-production, directed by Iwana and produced by Zack Rice through production company Feed You Films, is among 10 titles selected for the Jaff Future Project at this year’s Jaff Market in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

“Ibu” follows Maya, a formidable Javanese woman who once dreamed of becoming a writer but subsumed her ambitions under obligation and tradition. Now a widow, she parents through manipulation disguised as protection, resenting her daughters for chasing freedoms she was taught she could never claim.

Her eldest daughter Tash fled to Los Angeles years ago, juggling single motherhood with an uncertain creative career. When Maya’s husband Arief dies, Tash returns home to face not only her domineering mother but her commanding grandmother Dewi and half-sister Inez,...

Park Ki-yong, who stepped down as chair of the Korean Film Council (Kofic) last year and directed “Motel Cactus,” which won the New Currents Award at the 1998 Busan International Film Festival, has a new project selected for the Jaff Future Project with “Ghost Island,” a supernatural thriller about parallel Cold War massacres in Korea and Indonesia.

The South Korea-Malaysia-Indonesia co-production, directed and produced by Park alongside Malaysian producer Ho Yuhang through production company Paperheart Sdn Bhd, is among 10 Asia-Pacific titles selected for the Jaff Future Project at this year’s Jaff Market in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

“Ghost Island” follows Ayu, an Indonesian woman who arrives on snow-covered Jeju Island to search for her missing husband Herman, who vanished during their honeymoon. She partners with Inho, a Korean ex-marine turned investigator, as their search leads them through motels, ferry terminals and labor agencies. Herman appears in CCTV footage, yet remains blurred and indistinct,...

Josh Brolin remembers Donald Trump before he was elected president of the United States.

During a recent interview with The Independent, Brolin said he understands Trump in a different light, having “been a friend” of his before he was president. This understanding makes Brolin confident that Trump won’t try to serve a third term, a possibility that circulates in some political spheres and is occasionally elevated by Trump himself.

“I’m not scared of Trump, because even though he says he’s staying forever, it’s just not going to happen,” Brolin said. “And if it does, then I’ll deal with that moment. But having been a friend of Trump before he was president, I know a different guy.”

The “No Country for Old Men” star met Trump around the production of “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps,” Oliver Stone’s 2010 financial drama. Trump was set to appear in...

Before he became a star Sylvester Stallone fronted a thriller that went largely overlooked, despite the fact it was re-released several times in the post-"Rocky" world. Originally called "No Place to Hide," the film saw a 25-year-old Stallone portray a political activist who plans several bombings — and he was almost joined by a similarly up-and-coming Richard Pryor, who a decade later had become a big enough star to play a villain in 1983's "Superman III."

In 1969 a young Stallone moved to New York City to pursue his acting dream. Seven years later, he propelled himself to stardom by writing "Rocky" (in an incredible three short days) and somehow convincing...

Indonesian filmmaker Adriyanto Dewo has a new psychological horror project selected for the Jaff Future Project with “Evil Underground,” about estranged sisters trapped in a mall basement.

The Indonesia production, directed by Dewo and produced by Perlita Desiani and Tina Arwin through production company Relate Films, is among 10 Asia-Pacific titles selected for the Jaff Future Project at this year’s Jaff Market in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

“Evil Underground” follows a group of teenagers who gather for a midnight horror screening at an old, decaying trade center. Among them are sisters Dian and Mirna, still estranged after their father’s death sent Dian into a mental-health retreat. After the film, a friend dares them to try a viral ritual in the mall’s lowest basement: five circles at midnight, headlights off, a simple mantra.

Nothing happens until the final loop ends with a violent jolt, and when they step out to check,...

Jakarta Vice Governor and veteran actor Rano Karno used a Jaff Market panel in Yogyakarta to outline a plan to position the capital as a global filmmaking hub ahead of its 500th anniversary in 2027, declaring, “It’s time,” as he called for a coordinated push to make Jakarta a film-friendly city.

“Jakarta will be turning 500 years old in 2027. So what can we create in celebration of this?” Karno asked. Along with Andi Boediman, producer and CEO, Ideosource Entertainment, Indonesian producers’ association Aprofi chair Edwin Nazir, and director Ernest Prakasa, the panel discussed the future of Indonesia’s film industry and filmmaking ecosystem – specifically in Jakarta.

Karno proposed a thesis about ways in which Jakarta as a city can serve further purpose in filmmaking and expand its cultural experiences in its efforts of becoming a global city. “The celebration of Amsterdam’s 750th anniversary took three years to prepare, and yet...

The holiday season is once again upon us, and that means it's time for Kevin McCallister, The Grinch, and Buddy the Elf to dominate screens for the next month. Sometimes, though, you just want some alternative Christmas movies to mix things up, and if that's you, "Jingle Bell Heist" is a solid choice. In a year full of romantic comedies, Netflix is finishing 2025 strong with this festive film that, like so much of the romance fare that's hit streamers recently, sees an American woman fall in love with a dashing stranger. But there's enough here to make "Jingle Bell Heist" distinct from other recent hit romantic comedies, as evidenced by the reviews,...

This post contains spoilers for "Mad Men" season 7.

There is no shortage of tragedy on "Mad Men," a show that's fundamentally about unhappy people trying to fulfill social roles that don't quite fit them. But perhaps most tragic of all is the eleventh hour reveal that Betty (January Jones) has terminal lung cancer.

The reveal makes sense, given the sheer amount of cigarettes Betty smokes over the course of the show, but it still stings. Not only is Betty still in her 30s when she's diagnosed, but she'd recently started to find herself. Indeed, she receives her fatal cancer diagnosis in the midst of returning to school to pursue a career in psychology.

Indonesia and Malaysia are set for closer and stronger collaboration through a string of genre projects announced at Jaff Market on Saturday (November 29). These include Indonesian remakes of Malaysian box office hits Munafik and Khurafat.

The Indonesian version of horror film Munafik is directed by Guntur Soeharjanto and stars Arya Saloka and Acha Septriasa. It is produced by Indonesia’s Oswin Bonifanz of Unlimited Productions, along with Malaysia’s Skop Productions and Komet Productions, and Indonesia’s A&z Films and Legacy Pictures.

The Indonesian remake of Khurafat will be directed by Malaysia’s Zahir Omar and feature an Indonesian cast.

This article contains partial spoilers for "Match."

Horror nerds have long become accustomed to Tubi as the place to get an easy fix. The ad-supported streaming service is a spectacular treasure trove of genre movies. You could spend so much time scrolling through their collection of mainstream hits, cult classics, and obscure oddities — as I so often have — and be consistently amazed by the depths of their library. Tubi differentiates itself from services you actually have to pay for, like including movies and television shows from before 1980. Where else will you find "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" next to a bunch of early 2000s Dark Castle Entertainment movies? In the past four years,...

Dean Koontz is a bestselling author with book sales on par (if not exceeding) Stephen King's, and the two were often spoken of in the same breath in the late 1980s and 1990s. It was always a meaningless comparison since their themes, styles, and stories bear little resemblance to each other, but regardless, King came out on top in pop culture thanks in large part to the caliber of films adapted from his work. Koontz wasn't nearly as lucky, but fifteen movies/mini-series were still made between 1977 and 2013 — and we're ranking them all below.

While a few of them managed theatrical releases, most of these went either straight to video or to television,...

Vince Gilligan's "Pluribus" is one of the most fascinating shows of 2025. It's a peculiar sci-fi series featuring a superb Rhea Seehorn performance that takes the same kind of slow-burn approach to character drama as Gilligan's "Breaking Bad" and "Better Call Saul," all the while including enough worldbuilding and intrigue to keep you guessing as to what, exactly, the endgame is.

This has so far allowed "Pluribus" to avoid the problem that plagues most mystery box series, in which the mystery overshadows everything else, and the show's lack of answers becomes disappointing. Here, we know pretty much everything there is to know. Thus, the question becomes what the series'...

The arid plains might soon give way to something far more verdant for “Sirat” director Oliver Laxe, who is looking to the rainforest for inspiration.

“I’m very drawn to the Amazon,” he tells Variety, pointing to “the ceremonies, the soul of the place, its rituals and its medicines” as elements he hopes to explore next. But before he starts writing, Laxe will need to pack his bags. “I need to experience it,” he explains. “I don’t turn reality into film from a distance; it has to be lived. It has to be felt.”

For now, he’ll have to wait, as he’s currently deep into an awards campaign that has taken him all the way to the Marrakech Film Festival. Still, Laxe’s brief stay in Marrakech feels like something of a homecoming for a filmmaker who lived in Morocco for more than a decade, who launched his career out of Tangier,...

John Carpenter's "Escape from New York" is the undisputed king of futuristic movies about soldiers fighting bad guys on a prison island, but it isn't the only great one of the bunch. In 1994, the late Hollywood legend Ray Liotta starred in the Martin Campbell-directed "No Escape," an unsung action treat that is currently available to stream on Amazon Prime Video.

Based on Richard Herley's "The Penal Colony," Campbell's film takes place in the year 2022, where corporations rule over the justice and penal systems. This leads to the creation of an off-the-grid island called Absolom, where criminals are sent to fend for themselves. Enter Liotta's John Robbins,...

If you thought Quentin Tarantino didn’t have even more to add to “Kill Bill” and make the film any longer, think again.

Tarantino is set to release possibly his greatest movie, “Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair,” which is a four-plus-hour cut of “Kill Bill” combined as one film, in theaters next month. It includes an un-seen anime sequence that wasn’t even in the original Cannes cut of “Kill Bill,” but that wasn’t the only thing he had previously left on the cutting room floor.

There was yet another chapter of the film that Tarantino wrote for the very first draft of his film, but he trimmed it and the sequence was never filmed. Now, more than 20 years after the release of both “Kill Bill” movies, Tarantino has turned to an unusual means to bring his vision of this lost “Kill Bill” scene to life: the massively popular video game “Fortnite.

Cineastes know this piece of trivia well: John Schlesinger's 1969 sex worker drama "Midnight Cowboy" remains, to date, the only Oscar-winning film to have been given an MPAA-designated "X" rating. Recall that the X rating was given back when the MPAA's rating system was still new and only incorporated four letters. There was G (for General audiences), M (for Mature audiences), R (for Restricted audiences), and X (no one under 16 can see it). The phrase "X-Rated," however, was eventually co-opted by the porn industry, as were the unofficial expansions "Xx-rated" and "XXX-rated." To this day, XXX is still used to designate porn.

As such, a curious young cinematic adventurer may...

Guy Pearce issued an apology on Thursday for sharing “misinformation and falsehoods” about Israel on social media while supporting Palestine online.

“It has been brought to my attention that, in my support of Palestine, I have inadvertently re-posted articles, and/or statements, that have contained misinformation and falsehoods,” Pearce told Jewish News. “I am aware how sharing inaccurate content can cause confusion and distress; for this I am deeply sorry. I will certainly endeavour to be more diligent in future to verify anything I share online.”

According to Jewish News, “The Brutalist” star shared material online featuring the highly controversial far-right political commentator and white nationalist Nick Fuentes. He also reportedly shared material that blamed Israel for the 9/11 terrorist attacks, accused Israeli officials of facilitating the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk and claimed the “top three pornography companies are owned by Jewish people.”

Jewish News also reports that Pearce...

Tom Stoppard, the brilliant, beloved playwright who won Tonys for writing “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,” “The Real Thing,” “Travesties,” “The Coast of Utopia,” and “Leopoldstadt,” has died. He was 88 years old.

Stoppard’s agency, United Agents, announced the news on its website.

“We are deeply saddened to announce that our beloved client and friend, Tom Stoppard, has died peacefully at home in Dorset, surrounded by his family,” the post stated. “He will be remembered for his works, for their brilliance and humanity, and for his wit, his irreverence, his generosity of spirit, and his profound love of the English language. It was an honour to work with Tom and to know him.”

Stoppard was a cherished and acclaimed fixture of theater on both sides of the Atlantic who wrote more than 30 plays across an iconic career, earning three Laurence Olivier Awards for “Arcadia” (1994), “Heroes” (2006), and “Leopoldstadt” (2020). Celebrated for his cerebral writing and savvy,...

You know you're in for a ride when an elephant poops on the camera lens within the first 10 minutes of a three-hour prestige piece. That's not even the most outrageous thing that occurs in the opening moments of "Babylon," writer/director Damien Chazelle's baroque (make that go for broke) ode to the debauchery and excess that characterized Hollywood as it transitioned from silent cinema to "talkies" in the late 1920s. Indeed, anyone with so much as a passing interest in filmmaking history would do well to check out (or rewatch) Chazelle's costly 2022 flop when it heads to Netflix on December 7, 2025. As for everyone else? Well, keep reading.

While "Babylon...

Seven-time Oscar nominee and Oscar-winner Kate Winslet (“The Reader”) takes over the Screen Talk podcast this week to talk about her directorial debut “Goodbye June,” starring Helen Mirren, Andrea Riseborough, Johnny Flynn, Timothy Spall, Toni Collette, and herself as a fractious family who come together ahead of Christmas to sit vigil for the family matriarch (Mirren).

She also talks about some of her favorite films that got less attention than her big hits, like “Titanic,” where she forged her lifelong friendship with Leonardo DiCaprio, who is like an uncle to her children. She is also proud of beating Tom Cruise twice on underwater breath holds. She returned to work with James Cameron in “Avatar: The Way of Water” and returns in his upcoming holiday movie, “Avatar: Fire and Ash.” After producing five projects — including TV series “Mare of Easttown” and “The Regime,” and the movie “Lee” — Winslet gained the courage to direct.

Jodie Foster was honored with a tribute award at the Marrakech Film Festival on Saturday, where she gave a touching speech in which she reminisced on her six decades in cinema.

After a reel played showing some of her most famous roles, including “The Silence of the Lambs” and “Panic Room,” Foster graciously accepted her trophy on stage.

“Watching all these clips, I thought to myself: I’ve been doing this job for quite a while now,” Foster said, after picking up the award from the hands of Bong Joon Ho and joking that she was going to ask him for an autograph. “I started in the 1960s, then I was lucky enough to experience the golden age of cinema in the 1970s. Then came the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, and now we’re back in the 1970s again.”

Foster added, “It’s been a very long time indeed. And yet,...

"The Hunger Games" tells an uncomfortably relevant story of a group of young people who are randomly chosen to fight to the death in an outdoor arena. Society has become a dystopian nightmare. Totalitarian government-approved death sports are used to maintain order over the people. The only survivors are a boy and girl who develop a close bond. Fun premise, right? Well, it isn't the only story of its kind, as the 2000 Japanese movie "Battle Royale" explored the concept years before Suzanne Collins' novels, and the "Hunger Games" movie series that followed, came to be.

The similarities certainly haven't been lost on Quentin Tarantino, a filmmaker who's cited the Kinji Fukasaku...

[Editor’s note: The following article contains spoilers for “Zootopia 2.”]

The climactic moment of “Zootopia 2” is one that wouldn’t be out of place in a Nora Ephron script. Bunny cop Judy Hopps (voiced by Ginnifer Goodwin) and her fox partner Nick Wilde (voiced by Jason Bateman), having struggled to communicate and express their gratitude over the course of an entire film, take a break from the action to really say how they feel about each other.

Their emotions are high: they mutually call each other the best part of their life, someone they can’t imagine being without, their pack or their fluffle (a group of bunnies). Hearing them spill their guts like they can’t bear to keep their feelings in any longer, it’s easy to expect this to climax in a big, bold, cinematically satisfying kiss.

Except, it doesn’t happen — and not just because it’d be a challenge for the animation team...

Steve McQueen was one of the coolest movie stars ever. He exuded steely confidence as Old West bounty hunter Josh Randall on the CBS series "Wanted Dead or Alive" and was so at home in that milieu that director John Sturges cast him as the second lead in his epic Western "The Magnificent Seven." It was a rapid ascent to the upper echelon of Hollywood's A-list after that, with McQueen captivating audiences with his tough, taciturn demeanor in classics like "The Great Escape," "The Cincinnati Kid," and "The Sand Pebbles" (for which he earned his first and only Oscar nomination for Best Actor).

1968 was the year McQueen became a full-fledged screen icon.

Director David Freyne has spent a long time thinking about afterlives. He did his film thesis in college on the sterling Powell and Pressburger comedy “A Matter of Life and Death,” which has a playful post-war twist on the world to come, as well as the brilliant manipulation of color that The Archers are known for. So it’s unsurprising there is a lot of Powell and Pressburger in Freyne’s new A24 film, “Eternity” — especially in the design of the film’s own cosmic train junction/hotel/infinite convention center wherein souls may elect where they wish to spend the rest of time.

Working with production designer Zazu Myers, Freyne didn’t want to replicate the concept behind “A Matter of Life and Death,” which paints the living world in gorgeous color and the afterlife in a majestic but frozen black and white. What he did want was to...

In Sam Raimi's 1981 splatter flick "The Evil Dead," a group of five Detroit college kids trek out to a remote cabin in the woods of Tennessee for a quiet vacation. In the basement of the cabin, they find a mysterious reel-to-reel tape recorder left behind by the previous tenant. When they play it, they hear a professor reciting a dark spell from an evil grimoire, summoning demons from the nether-realms. The tape recorder causes the demons to return, and the bulk of the film is the college kids fighting off — unsuccessfully — the wicked Deadites from beyond. The final survivor of "The Evil Dead" attack is the feckless Ash (Bruce Campbell...

Playwright and screenwriter Tom Stoppard, a four-time Tony winner for his plays “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,” “Travesties,” “The Real Thing” and “The Coast of Utopia” and an Oscar winner for his script to “Shakespeare in Love,” has died, according to The BBC. He was 88.

“We’re deeply saddened to announce that our beloved client and friend, Tom Stoppard, has died peacefully at home in Dorset, surrounded by his family,” United Agents told Sky News. “He’ll be remembered for his works, for their brilliance and humanity, and for his wit, his irreverence, his generous spirit and his profound love of the English language.”

Stoppard, who fled Czechoslovakia as a child during Nazi rule and eventually settled in England, was a master stylist of language, perhaps best known for his clever wordplay. Writing for the stage, screen and radio, he explored themes such as betrayal, politics and identity, the last...

"Stranger Things" has given us an array of terrifying monsters across four seasons. For the fifth and final season, however, show creators Matt and Ross Duffer packed the episodes with so much material that they felt focusing on new creatures would have been a step too far. Rather than trying to top themselves by cramming the fifth and final season with entirely new demonic abominations, they decided instead to focus on the creatures that have already been established in the world of the show. 

The kids of "Stranger Things" have got to be some of the most formidable heroes in modern pop culture. These youngsters have faced off against some of the most terrifying,...

On December 4, the IndieWire Honors Winter 2025 ceremony will celebrate the creators and stars responsible for crafting some of the year’s best films. Curated and selected by IndieWire’s editorial team, IndieWire Honors is a celebration of the filmmakers, artisans, and performers behind films well worth toasting. In the days leading up to the Los Angeles event, IndieWire is showcasing their work with new interviews and tributes from their peers.

Honoring Ryan White, our Magnify Award winner and her fellow producer, multi-hyphenate Tig Notaro reflects on the process of creating the loving and lovely documentary “Come See Me in the Good Light” and why she knew White was the right filmmaker for such a delicate gig.

As told to Kate Erbland.

I met Jessica Hargrave, Ryan’s producing partner, first. Years ago, she was the tour manager for Sarah Silverman’s bus tour, and I was opening for Sarah. After the tour,...

The holiday season is upon us once again, and as is tradition, there is a plethora of media fighting for our eyeballs. In addition to big cinematic releases like "Wicked: For Good" as well as the Oscar contender films stuffing the multiplexes and arthouse cinemas right now, there are event shows like the final season of "Stranger Things" that are cropping up for you to gobble your turkey, too. That's not to mention the deluge of holiday-themed programming that's headed our way over the next few weeks, with everything from Disney holiday celebrations to tree lighting ceremonies to pop stars putting on a show. Basically, there will be no lack...

On December 4, the IndieWire Honors Winter 2025 ceremony will celebrate the creators and stars responsible for crafting some of the year’s best films. Curated and selected by IndieWire’s editorial team, IndieWire Honors is a celebration of the filmmakers, artisans, and performers behind films well worth toasting. In the days leading up to the Los Angeles event, IndieWire is showcasing their work with new interviews and tributes from their peers.

Documentarian Ryan White doesn’t play favorites with his work. But the recipient of this year’s IndieWire Honors Magnify Award will tell you now that his most recent documentary, “Come See Me in the Good Light” — about the life of the extraordinary genderqueer poet laureate Andrea Gibson and their writer wife, Megan Falley — is something special. It was something to treasure even before Gibson passed away in July, nearly five months after the film premiered at Sundance, capturing audiences in its grip.

Theater owners are surely giving thanks to “Zootopia 2” and “Wicked: For Good,” which delivered a much-needed one-two punch to the Black Friday box office.

Disney’s “Zootopia 2” led the pack with a stellar $38.5 million from 4,000 domestic theaters on Friday. That brings the North American count to $97.7 million since its debut on Wednesday. Box office prophets predict the animated sequel will gross upwards of $155 million over the first five days of release. While unable to dethrone “Moana 2” as the highest Thanksgiving week earner of all time ($225 million over five days), anything above $150 million would slot “Zootopia 2” well over Turkey Day power grossers like “Frozen II” ($125 million over five days) and “Hunger Games: Catching Fire” ($109 million in the same time frame).

Directed by Jared Bush and Byron Howard, “Zootopia 2” sees the return of unlikely police duo Judy Hopps (Ginnifer Goodwin) and Nick Wilde (Jason Bateman) as they...

Bravo, bravissimo! Torino Film Festival has announced the winner of its Best Film award, which went to Morgan Knibbe’s “The Garden of Earthly Delights” as Best Film. The film was also awarded €20,000. It tells the story of teenage Ginto, who lives in the slums of Manila and dreams of becoming a gangster one day.

The jury, consisting of Ippolita di Majo, Lolita Chammah, Wannes Destoop, Sergei Loznitsa and Giona Nazzaro also recognized “Ida Who Sang So Badly Even the Dead Rose Up and Joined Her in Song,” awarding it the Special Jury Award. It’s directed by Ester Ivakič.

Marianne Métivier’s “Ailleurs La Nuit” was awarded for Best Screenplay, while Sadie Scott and Maria Wróbel triumphed in the acting categories, for “Fucktoys” and “Her Will Be Done” respectively.

Brittany Shyne’s “Seeds” won Best Documentary for its ability to “convey through powerful images the daily life of a...

Unless you've been living under a particularly soundproof rock, it's been hard to miss superhero movies having somewhat fallen out of favor with audiences and critics alike. Despite mounting a comeback of sorts with the one-two punch of "Thunderbolts*" and "The Fantastic Four: First Steps" this past year, it's not exactly a state secret that Marvel Studios has fallen on hard times lately. Heck, should the last major blockbusters perform as expected in the next few weeks, there's a chance that not a single film centered on a cape-wearing character will crack the top 10 highest-grossing movies of 2025 — for the first time in almost 15 years.

Everyone from Martin Scorsese to Steven Spielberg...

Burt Reynolds was voted the number one box office star from 1978 through 1982, and he was consistently in the top ten from 1973 to 1984. The poll of theater owners ran for roughly a century, but shrinking theatrical windows and the advent of streaming (where there's no box office and we don't really know how many people are watching) have left such things to history.

But we're here to celebrate Reynolds, not decry the state of the movie business, so let's get into what made the man so darn appealing for so long. Far from an overnight sensation, Reynolds kicked off his screen career in the late 1950s with numerous appearances on television shows and in small films,...

Matt and Ross Duffer seem to have a unique insight into how to make a hit show, having produced the Netflix series in "Stranger Things," which continues to be nothing short of a phenomenon in 2025. But that doesn't mean they always know what they're doing. Not only were they caught off guard by how fans reacted to Shannon Purser's Barb in season 1, for example, they were also surprised by the audience support for Alec Utgoff's Dr. Alexei in season 3.

The "Stranger Things" creators have previously spoken about the audience's obsession with Barb, the bespectacled best friend of Nancy Wheeler (Natalia Dyer) who didn't make it out of the first season alive.

On December 4, the IndieWire Honors Winter 2025 ceremony will celebrate the creators and stars responsible for crafting some of the year’s best films. Curated and selected by IndieWire’s editorial team, IndieWire Honors is a celebration of the filmmakers, artisans, and performers behind films well worth toasting. In the days leading up to the Los Angeles event, IndieWire is showcasing their work with new interviews and tributes from their peers.

Ahead, Ruth Negga recalls the unique mix of qualities that convinced her that her “Presumed Innocent” co-star Chase Infiniti, who is this year’s Breakthrough Award recipient, was destined for great things.

“A tough mind and a tender heart”

It’s as great a design for life as you can get, I think. A noble aspiration, but a challenge to navigate, especially in high seas. It also touches on the conundrum of the artist. How do we remain savvy and...

If there's one thing that's going to get everyone interested in "Home Alone" movies again, it's the return of Macaulay Culkin as Kevin McCallister. Thus far, such a thing has seemed like a distant fantasy for everybody who grew up with the first two movies, and while it still seems unlikely, Culkin himself has a surprisingly good pitch for how his most beloved character might come back. Essentially, the actor's vision of a proper "Home Alone 3" would follow Kevin McCallister as a single dad who ends up locked out of his own house by his kid and has to fight his way through a series of traps to get...

On December 4, the IndieWire Honors Winter 2025 ceremony will celebrate the creators and stars responsible for crafting some of the year’s best films. Curated and selected by IndieWire’s editorial team, IndieWire Honors is a celebration of the filmmakers, artisans, and performers behind films well worth toasting. In the days leading up to the Los Angeles event, IndieWire is showcasing their work with new interviews and tributes from their peers.

Has anybody had a better 2025 than Chase Infiniti? This time last year, the Indianapolis native was a rising TV star with a single credit to her name: “Presumed Innocent.” She had yet to appear in a film, but obsessive cinephiles were learning her name after news broke that she’d be appearing in a still-untitled film with a mysterious plot from Paul Thomas Anderson.

To say that a lot has changed since then would be an understatement. “One Battle After Another,...

Kleber Mendonça Filho, whose latest film “The Secret Agent” represents Brazil in the international feature film race at the Oscars, sounded the alarm on the disruptive impact of “streaming culture” on moviegoing, especially in countries like the U.S. where theatrical windows are shorter.

While speaking at the Marrakech Film Festival, where he took part in an on-stage conversation, the celebrated Brazilian filmmaker said, “We’re going through a crisis in terms of going to the cinema, but I think with streaming culture and also with the pandemic, the rules were changed.”

“It’d always been very clear that to see a film, you would see it in the cinema (…). Well, this is not so clear anymore. I think this is taking many people away from the cinema-going experience,” he said, before adding that “the industry, particularly in Hollywood, really has to draw a line if they want to keep filmgoing alive.

Between 1949 and 1970, there wasn't a squarer crime drama than "Dragnet." The creation of actor-writer-director-producer Jack Webb, "Dragnet" started as a NBC radio show, but proved so popular that the broadcaster insisted on a televised version as well. Webb was at the helm of both series, which sought to give viewers/listeners insight into the day-to-day drudgery of police work. Webb, who portrayed main character Sgt. Joe Friday, raised the stakes as needed to keep his audience engaged, but the major takeaway from each episode was that cops steadfastly operate by the book to serve and protect their communities. Needless to say, "Dragnet" was a crock.

After two seasons of low ratings,...

With a show as popular and with as devoted a fanbase as "Stranger Things," there are always going to be fan theories about how the story might develop. Since the series' 2016 debut, its inherent mystery has prompted all manner of speculation as to what's really going on in Hawkins, Indiana. But there have also been several fan theories about specific characters, including how Joseph Quinn's Eddie Munson might return from the grave as a literal vampire. And while creators Matt and Ross Duffer get a kick out of reading such theories, they have unambiguously shut down the whole vampire idea, claiming that it would essentially equate to the show's "jumping the shark" moment.

Few film projects were hotter in 2019 than "Infinite." Based on the novel "The Reincarnationist Letters" by D. Erik Maikranz, this ambitious sci-fi/action concoction was drawing comparisons to such hits as "The Matrix," "Wanted," "Inception," and the Jason Bourne franchise. The screenplay adaptation from Ian Shorr and Todd Stein made The Black List (an industry survey of the best unproduced screenplays) and was set up at Paramount Pictures with Antoine Fuqua attached to direct. When Chris Evans entered talks to star in the film, the franchise-lacking Paramount had reason to believe it'd found a blockbuster series to complement "Mission: Impossible" and "Transformers." Then Evans dropped out of the film (due...

Last year’s inaugural Jaff Market served as an experiment – Indonesia’s first-ever film market testing whether the local industry was ready for such a platform. The answer, according to organizers, was an overwhelming yes.

“We were humbled and grateful for the overwhelming response and engagement by so many different stakeholders in the film industry and realized that Jaff Market is indeed a much-needed platform for the industry to come together, share information and gain new insights, conduct business and expand the dialogue on the future of film in Indonesia and beyond,” says Linda Gozali, Jaff Market director.

For year two, organizers brought on Amar Bank as a sponsor. “We worked to streamline some of the shortcomings from year one, worked to get a sponsor from the finance sector, Amar Bank, to join us in the journey to enable the market to provide better infrastructure and maintained the elements of...

Indonesian director Kamila Andini’s latest film Four Seasons In Java revealed its local and international production consortium and a first-look teaser on the first day of Jaff Market on Saturday (November 29).

Production company Forka Films has assembled a league of major Indonesian industry players to back the highly anticipated film, which is set for release in 2026. It marks the first feature since Kamila’s 2022 Berlinale competitor Before, Now & Then, winner of a Silver Bear for best supporting performance.

The local partners - comprising Miles Films, Imajinari, Jagartha, Trinity, Team Up, Julie Estelle, and Navvaros - offer expertise from development through release,...