The iconic 'Scream' franchise returns with original star Neve Campbell as Sidney Prescott, who must face off against a new Ghostface targeting her teenage daughter (Isabel May) in the quiet town she now calls home. The new trailer for 'Scream 7' promises a return to the series' roots, featuring intense cat-and-mouse sequences and the return of beloved characters, including Courteney Cox's Gale Weathers and Mason Gooding and Jasmin Savoy Brown as Chad and Mindy Meeks-Martin, while teasing what appears to be the return of original cast member Matthew Lillard.

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This is the first film in the series directed by Kevin Williamson, who wrote the original 'Scream' (1996), directed by horror legend Wes Craven ('A Nightmare on Elm Street'). Williamson's only other directorial credit is the 1999 dark comedy thriller 'Teaching Mrs. Tingle.'

'Scream 7' sees Campbell returning to the role that launched her career, following her absence from 'Scream VI,' while introducing rising star Isabel May ("1883") as Sidney's daughter. The ensemble cast includes returning player David Arquette as Dewey Riley, alongside newcomers Anna Camp ('Pitch Perfect'), Joel McHale ("Community"), and Mckenna Grace ('Ghostbusters: Afterlife'). Not appearing in the sequel are Melissa Barrera and Jenna Ortega, who led the previous two films in the franchise.

'Scream 7' slashes its way exclusively into theaters on February 27, 2026.

Taylor Sheridan and Peter Berg will co-write the script for Paramount and Activision’s live-action feature film adaptation of “Call of Duty.” Berg, whose credits include “Friday Night Lights” and “Deepwater Horizon,” will also direct.

The deal comes the week that news broke that Sheridan, one of the company’s biggest hitmakers, will move his overall pact to NBCUniversal in 2029. It appears that Paramount Skydance will keep him busy until then and the subject matter sounds right up Sheridan’s alley given his penchant for action-heavy thrillers and procedurals.Sheridan, Berg and 101 Studios’ David Glasser will produce the project.

Sheridan is the creator of “Yellowstone,” which has spawned the successful spinoffs, “1883” and “1923.” He also created “Lioness,” “Landman,” “Tulsa King” and “Mayor of Kingstown.” On the film front, Sheridan earned an Oscar nomination for writing “Hell or High Water” and also penned “Wind River,” “Sicario” and its sequel, “Sicario: Day of the Soldado.

Universal‘s highly anticipated Wicked: For Good is tracking to open to a victorious $115 million-plus at the Thanksgiving box office, according to pre-release tracking. That would set yet another new record for a musical adaptation of a Broadway musical.

The second title in Jon M. Chu‘s ambitious big-screen adaptation of the iconic Broadway musical about the witches of Oz opens in North America Nov. 21, the weekend before the big feast. It’s also opening day-and-date around the globe.

Leading market research firm Nrg has the female-fueled film debuting to $115 million domestically, but also provides a range suggesting it could come in closer to $120 million, according to sources with access to the data. Those insiders say it could even crack $120 million, based on the level of interest and awareness.

Sources say presales for the second installment is pacing well ahead of the first film, though Universal and the filmmakers are...

Warner Bros. has added another franchise animation film to its slate with “Hello Kitty,” a New Line/Warner Bros. Pictures Animation co-production based on the hit Sanrio toy franchise.

The film will be released July 21, 2028.

Created by Japanese designer Yuko Shimizu in 1974, Hello Kitty has grown from a merchandise character who first appeared on vinyl coin purses to a multimedia icon who has become one of Japan’s biggest global cultural contributions.

The character has become the star of dozens of video games, animated series and comics featuring other Sanrio characters. Warner Bros.’ “Hello Kitty” film has been years in the making, with New Line first coming onboard as co-producers...

“Deadpool vs Wolverine” writer Zeb Wells has been tapped to write the latest draft of swashbuckling sci-fi hero “Buck Rogers” for Legendary, TheWrap has exclusively learned.

The project is based on the “Armageddon 2419 A.D.” novella by Philip Francis Nowlan that introduced the Buck Rogers character in 1928. The story centers on a coal mine inspector who awakens from suspended animation after 500 years to find himself in the middle of a planetary war.

“Buck Rogers” has been adapted into various comic strips, a movie serial, radio and television shows. Developed by Chicago newspaperman John F. Dille in the 1930s, it immediately became one of the world’s most popular comic strips,...

“Portlandia” co-creator Jonathan Krisel is making his feature debut with “Hey Bear,” a bold revenge comedy that will star Mia Goth (“Frankenstein”), Zach Galifianakis (“The Hangover trilogy”) and Dan Stevens (“I’m Your Man”).

Penned by Carrie Kemper, the Emmy-winning writer of “Beef,” “Hey Bear” is being pitched as a “coming of rage” story boasting offbeat comedy, about a woman who seeks revenge on the bear that ate her husband. Alix Madigan (“Winter’s Bone”) will produce.

“Hey Bear” will be introduced to buyers at AFM, with HanWay Films handling international sales and WME Independent & UTA Independent Film Group representing North America.

Goth stars as Claire, who “has always led a life solely based on other people’s expectations. Married to Gregory (Dan Stevens), she accommodates his desire to spend his life studying bears in Glacier National Park, even though it means months away from him at a time. During one of her visits,...

Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Caitriona Balfe have joined the cast of Andrew Haigh’s “A Long Winter,” which also stars Fred Hechinger, Kit Connor and D’Pharaoh Woon-a-Tai.

Further casting includes Manuel Garcia Rulfo (“Jurassic World: Rebirth”) and David Furr (“The Gilded Age”).

The film is produced by Tristan Goligher for The Bureau, Chad Oakes and Mike Frislev for Calgary-based Nomadic Pictures, and Michael Elliott.

The film was developed by Mubi and is co-financed by Mubi and Film4. Farhana Bhula, director of Film4, and Max Park, development and production executive, are overseeing the project for Film4.

Mubi retains rights in the U.S., U.K., Ireland, Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain, Benelux, Latin America, Australia, New Zealand, Turkey and India. The Match Factory is handling worldwide sales.

Principal photography is underway in Alberta, Canada on the film, which is based on Haigh’s adaptation of Colm Tóibín’s short story of the same name.

When "Tron: Ares" flopped at the box office, it was hardly a shock. Hollywood's approach to this movie appeared to be nothing more than, "Here's something based on an existing IP, but if you haven't heard of it, maybe we can tempt you with Jared Leto?" It gets more stupefying the more you think about it. But we needn't do anything of the sort, because "Ares" has come and gone like so many productions in the modern age. That hasn't stopped star Jeff Bridges from engaging in some brief reflection, however, and evidently he feels the movie may one day be regarded as a misunderstood triumph.

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Purbeck Film Festival, UK - October 17-November 2

Cambridge Film Festival, UK - October 23-November 2

Doc ‘n Roll Film Festival, UK-Ireland - October 23-November 9

Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, Czechia - October 24-November 2

Seminci, Valladolid Internacional Film Festival, Spain - October 24-November 1

Budapest International Film Festival, Hungary - October 25-November 2

Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival, Ukraine - October 25-November 2

Scad Savannah Film Festival,...

For Halloween, Guardian writers pick their most terrifying films ever – from The Shining and The Descent to The Strangers

“Sometimes one can’t help … imagining things.” Truman Capote helped to adapt Henry James’s ghost story The Turn of the Screw into 1961’s The Innocents, directed by Jack Clayton, which remains one of the most disturbing of all scary movies. To recall the rush of stomach-twisting fear provoked by this film, I just need one glimpse of the sweating face or shaking hands of Deborah Kerr. She plays a governess to two traumatised children in a remote house where life is so fragile that the petals fall from the roses,...

Indonesian auteur Kamila Andini’s latest project “Four Seasons in Java” won two prizes at the inaugural Tokyo Gap-Financing Market Awards on Friday.

The Tgfm is part of Tiffcom, the Tokyo International Film Festival’s market arm. “Four Seasons in Java” won Tgfm’s top prize, the Tokyo Projects Award, carrying a JPY2 million cash prize, and the Kongchak Award from Cambodia-based Kongchak Studio, offering sound post-production services valued at $25,000.

The film is a magical realist drama that confronts the dark underbelly of progress and power in contemporary Indonesia, is in post-production and was previously at the Venice Gap-Financing Market. It follows Pertiwi, a woman who returns to her village after more than a decade in prison for killing a young man while defending herself from attempted rape. Her homecoming coincides with the arrival of electricity to the remote community, setting up what Andini describes as a collision between modernity...

He launched a thousand memes as the beleaguered Tory MP in The Thick of It, and starred in the original production of Les Misérables. Now the actor is making not-so-sweet music in the Alan Bennett-scripted film The Choral. But there are plenty of things he draws the line at …

A key plot point of The Choral revolves around Roger Allam singing badly. This is the man who originated the role of Javert in Les Misérables back in 1985, who was Olivier-nominated for his performance in Cy Coleman’s musical City of Angels and who once contemplated a career as an opera singer.

Talk me through that, I say: the bad singing.

A trio of films have reset Taiwan’s box office with Hung Tzu-Hsuan’s 96 Minutes topping the local film chart in 2025 to date, while Shieh Meng-Ju’s local horror Mudborn now ranks third and Japanese anime Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle continues to smash records.

96 Minutes, billed as Taiwan’s first high-speed rail disaster thriller, knocked out gangster film Gatao: Big Brothers last Thursday (October 23) to take the local box office crown for this year to date. Its cumulative box office reached $6.41m (Nt$197.21m) as of Wednesday (October 29).

By this weekend, it is expected to become...

Key figures from Japanese and South Korean film bodies targeted urgent challenges and underlined the growing need for co-production in a tough period for the industry.

Representatives from the Korea Film Council (Kofic), Japan Film Commission and Japan’s Visual Industry Promotion Organisation (Vipo) spoke on a panel at Tiffcom, the market associated with Tokyo International Film Festival, this week.

Vipo deputy secretary general Toshifumi Makita acknowledged that the Japan location incentive (J-lox+), which runs four application windows per year, is challenging to use year-round. Japan’s hot summers make filming broadly difficult from June to August, and the winter...

“The Captive” offers the intriguing concept of “Don Quixote’s” author viewed through a lens more redolent of “Arabian Nights,” spinning tales to keep himself alive while a hostage of Moors in Algiers. But the known facts about this murky biographical chapter are vague, permitting writer-director Alejandro Amenabar much imaginative license, though he makes less of the storytelling-within-storytelling aspect than you initially expect. What emerges is a curious if entertaining bio-fiction with Miguel de Cervantes as protagonist in a convoluted costume intrigue, like a homoerotic spin on ye olde Western exoticizing of the Arab world– well-toned male bodies in the hammam substituting here for the traditional, scantily-clad Hollywood harem girls.

Those not expecting a more straightforward portrait of the man or his myths — Don Q. is little more than slyly referenced — should find enjoyment in this handsome, leisurely Spain-Italy coproduction. In the end, though, its offbeat approach doesn’t quite...

For its painstaking physicality alone, stop-motion is inherently impressive as an animation technique, no matter the scale or budgetary specifics of the project. But when artists, like those behind the ambitiously crafted phantasmagorical musical “I Am Frankelda,” throw caution to wind to build an imposing universe to animate frame by frame, one can’t help but feel in utter awe — warts and all.

Gothic sets with baroque architecture — that not only catch the eye but prompt one to wonder how they were conceived — serve as the backdrop to the similarly ornate puppets in the first stop-motion feature fully produced in Mexico (Guillermo del Toro’s Oscar-winning “Pinocchio” was only partially made in the director’s home country). Through their studio Cinema Fantasma, brothers Roy and Arturo Ambriz first introduced their morbid heroine in the series “Frankelda’s Book of Spooks” for HBO Max back in 2021. This feature-length film serves as a prequel to that show,...

The Japanese animation industry generated $25.3bn (¥3.84tn) in 2024, marking a 14.8% rise year-on-year and setting a new record, according to a report by the Association of Japanese Animations (Aja).

The figure represents a sizable boost on 2023, when the industry brought in $21.7bn (¥3.35tn). A decade ago, in 2014, the industry reported $10.6bn (¥1.64tn).

The Aja revealed its initial findings Tiffcom, the market affiliated with Tokyo International Film Festival, on Thursday (October 30) ahead of the publication of its full annual report in December.

For the second consecutive year, anime made more money outside Japan than locally: $14bn (¥2.17tn) versus $10.8bn (¥1.67tn) respectively. That...

The Tokyo International Film Festival’s TIFF Lounge series of talks and masterclasses featured a conversation between Yamada Yoji, director of the festival Centerpiece “Tokyo Taxi”, and Lee Sang-il, recipient of this year’s Kurosawa Akira Award for his film “Kokuho.”

The 94-year-old Yamada, whose, lengthy filmography includes the iconic 48-episode “Tora-san” series that ran from 1969 to 1995, and the 51-year-old Lee, whose “Kokuho” has become a record-setting hit since its release in June of this year, earning more than $100 million, expressed admiration for each other’s work. Lee called Yamada a “national treasure” (the English translation of “Kokuho”) while Yamada said that putting his modestly budgeted “Tokyo Taxi” next to Lee’s lavishly staged Kabuki drama “makes me feel embarrassed” and that he was there to “watch and learn.”

Noting that “Kokuho” is the “story of two men” who become performers of female roles or onnagata in Kabuki, Yamada said...

Director Pengfei’s “Take Off,” which world premiered in competition at the Tokyo International Film Festival, represents both a continuation and evolution of the filmmaker’s artistic preoccupations.

Adapted from Shuang Xuetao’s novella “The Aeronaut,” the film follows Li Mingqi (Jiang Qiming), an ordinary worker in Northeast China who inherits his late father’s obsession with flight – a dream that will span decades and test the limits of his persistence.

The story unfolds against the backdrop of China’s dramatic economic transformation from the 1970s to the present. After a homemade flying machine crashes and leaves his brother-in-law disabled, Li Mingqi and his wife (Li Xueqin) attempt to rebuild their lives by opening a dance hall in an abandoned factory museum, using a hot air balloon as a tourist attraction. But when his nephew falls critically ill, Li faces an impossible choice: accept the limitations of his earthbound existence...

Acclaimed Thai director Pen-ek Ratanaruang is back at the Tokyo International Film Festival presenting his latest film “Morte Cucina.” But it was his storied collaboration with Japanese actors that took centerstage at a masterclass with “Lost Land” director Fujimoto Akio.

The counterpoint focus of their work, Ratanaruang’s frequent use of Japanese talent and Fujimoto’s focus on Southeast Asian subjects was a central theme of the discussion.

Ratanaruang reminisced about working with legendary Japanese filmmaker Miike Takashi on his 2003 film “Last Life in the Universe,” the latter making a cameo as a yakuza boss. Miike took the reins for his own character’s look and support cast.

“He said he knew who to cast as his henchmen. One was his screenwriter, and the other was an actor that he used all the time. He said he’s going to design all the costumes for all three of them, because...

Sony is accelerating its pursuit of anime and manga properties for live-action adaptation, with executive VP, creative production and head of Sony Pictures International Productions Shebnem Askin revealing ambitious plans to expand beyond the studio’s hit “Kingdom” franchise during a presentation at Tiffcom, the market arm of the Tokyo International Film Festival.

“Since I came here, I’m taking so many great meetings with a lot of companies that are producing incredible stories with anime,” Askin told attendees at the Tokyo content market. “We are starting to look at different anime movies where we can hopefully adapt as live action movies around the world. This is one of our missions by attending Tiffcom.”

Spip operates as one of nine labels under Sony Pictures Entertainment and produces local-language content across 10 countries including Japan, Korea, China, India, Thailand, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Brazil and Mexico.

Askin emphasized that Spip’s anime-to-live-action...

Let's face it: going out to the movies may never fully recover from the onslaught of the Covid-19 pandemic and everything that horrific event changed. This is why distributors and theaters are steadily turning more and more to premium screen experiences like a large format like IMAX, pristine picture and sound like Dolby Cinema, and the wraparound effect of ScreenX. Even a movie simply being projected on film, something that was standard in moviegoing for the first 90-odd years of cinema's existence, is now becoming a draw for audiences. Amongst all these new screen options vying for ticket dollars is 4Dx, a format that hasn't quite yet formed an identity of its own.

Aranya Sahay’s “Humans in the Loop” has locked in dual distribution, with Netflix streaming the film stateside from Nov. 10 and boutique shingle One Rising orchestrating a limited theatrical run and impact campaign launching Nov. 7 in L.A.

The drama shadows an Indigenous woman laboring at a data-annotation facility in rural India, where she trains AI systems — exposing the unseen human toll that undergirds the global tech industry. Storiculture and Sauv Films produced the feature, with Mathivanan Rajendran, Sarabhi Ravichandran and Shilpa Kumar serving as producers. Sahay developed the project via a Museum of Imagined Futures fellowship.

Indigenous filmmaker Bijjo Toppo executive produced and mentored Sahay, with Kiran Rao boarding as EP. Rao’s “Laapataa Ladies” represented India at last year’s Oscars race.

The film netted Fipresci India’s Grand Prix award. A U.S. release trailer has been unveiled.

Misaq Kazimi has come aboard as EP to steer the U.

Look, we don't want to be too bleak about our last trip to Hawkins, Indiana, but pretending like no one is going to die in the fifth season of "Stranger Things" is like pretending these "kids" still look young enough to be in high school. As with any show that has a world-threatening danger in it, the series will likely come to an end with a body count. After looking at the recently released trailer for the first batch of season 5 episodes, we have a bad feeling some of our favorites are on the chopping block.

In the lead-up to the first four episodes of season 5, the cast and crew...

Despite its reputation online as a place where original ideas and visionary talents go to get swallowed up by the machine, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has oftentimes been described as a boon for creative freedom by those in the know. "Avengers: Doomsday" and "Secret Wars" directors Joe and Anthony Russo are the primary examples, having gotten along fabulously with head honcho Kevin Feige over the last decade and change. But for every horror story about studio interference run amok, many more have gone on record to describe this franchise as a place where "no" is a word that's rarely spoken ... for the most part, at least.

Michael Waldron can safely...

Michael Greene Artists Agency has opened offices in Malibu, Calif. and New York City. The agency, which opened two flagship offices on Oct. 10 will shape an environment where “integrity, inclusion, and storytelling with purpose take precedence over profit and popularity.” As of now, the agency has 50 clients that Greene has repped for over 40 years.

As the founder of Michael Greene Management in New York, Greene formed Greene & Associates Talent Agency in Hollywood in the early 90s and established a boutique firm in Los Angeles. In addition to Greene, agents joining the agency include Pietra Ingenito, Marisa Patella, Elizabeth “Q” Quintanilla, and Jackie Lewis.

Greene previously began his company with repping talents such as Chadwick Boseman, Olivia Rodrigo, Tessa Thompson, Rosanna Arquette, Jenna Fischer and Ken Howard. As Greene started his management company in 1996 and onward, he oversaw actors such as Frances Fisher, Alicia Boe, Sally Kirkland, Ed Asner and more.

For years, it’s been Netflix and Chill, but it’s increasingly becoming Netflix and Party.

On Halloween on Friday, Netflix is again releasing a Sing-a-Long version of its mega-hit “KPop Demon Hunters” into theaters, encouraging costumes and trying to get even more fans out of the house by expanding to more territories and theaters. It’s a repeat of an event Netflix staged in August that managed to bring in a box office-topping $19.2 million. And following a trailer on Thursday, Netflix will screen its finale of “Stranger Things” in theaters on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day.

It’s attracted a ton of speculation that maybe, just maybe, Netflix is finally softening its stance on putting movies into theaters. Even though Netflix keeps telling you, no and please, for the love of God, stop asking.

“There’s no change in the strategy. Our strategy is to...

For much of the world, he had us at “Jerry Maguire,” or his “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” script, or “…Say Anything.” But for a select portion of his fandom, filmmaker Cameron Crowe really had us at the hello that was his early journalism career. Crowe first came to a kind of fame as a leading rock journo for Rolling Stone who just happened to be an emotionally intellectual teenager at the time — the time being one of rock ‘n’ roll’s golden ages in the 1970s, when he was tagging along on tour or in the studio with Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, Lynyrd Skynyrd and just about every other major rocker of the period. It’s an era he mined for semi-fiction in the movie and stage musical “Almost Famous”; now he’s telling the even truer stories, and plenty he never got to before, about in his splendid new memoir,...

2025 has been an up-and-down year at the box office, and unfortunately, October is going to go down as a major low point in this rollercoaster of a year — so much so that we're looking at the worst October in terms of domestic ticket sales in nearly three decades, not counting 2020 when theaters were shut down for most of the year due to the pandemic. This month was about as bad as could be, and worse than anyone could have predicted.

The October 2025 box office will go down as the worst in 27 years sans 2020, with total ticket revenue for the month totaling around $425 million. For context, the last time non-Covid year...

Exclusive: Juno Films has acquired all North American rights to Galway Film Fleadh award winner Horseshoe directed by Edwin Mullane and Adam O’Keeffe.

‘Horseshoe’ review

The distributor plans a spring 2026 theatrical release on the comedic family drama about four estranged siblings who return to their crumbling family home in the West of Ireland and navigate inheritance, grief and long-buried grudges and secrets.

Horseshoe won the Best Irish First Feature award at Galway Film Fleadh and stars Carolyn Bracken, Lalor Roddy, John Connors, Mary Murray, Jed Murray, Neill Fleming, Eric O’Brien and Caroline Harvey

Mullane, O’Keeffe and Mo O’Connell produced...

With cruel ease, human error can transform normal life into a living purgatory. A sudden car collision or a bad fall can drastically upend one’s existence with swift force. Inspired by real events, Slovakia’s hard-to-watch yet remarkably affecting Oscar entry, “Father,” chronicles the aftermath of a tragedy caused by unintended negligence. A devastating study in consuming guilt and evolving grief, the latest film from writer-director Tereza Nvotová grapples potently with the complicated nature of forgiveness, not only that which others grant us, but the one we harshly deny ourselves.

Long uninterrupted takes provide a look into the life of a well-to-do family that will soon crumble. The camera of virtuoso cinematographer Adam Suzin behaves inconspicuously by design as it nimbly moves through the spaces, eventually pirouetting around the characters making us aware of its presence. The first of these set pieces drops us into an average morning as...

While many viewers are getting their spooky season fix with some of the best horror movies on Netflix, others might be looking for a different kind of hair-raising thrill. Fans of the Safdie Brothers' frenetic 2019 crime thriller "Uncut Gems," for example, might be tempted by "Ballad of a Small Player, the star-studded crime-thriller that just hit Netflix and is already proving popular on the streamer.

"Ballad of a Small Player" stars Colin Farrell as a gambling addict trying to escape his past in Macau, where he continues to rack up debt while attempting to evade an investigator from his native United Kingdom. The film hit Netflix on October 29, 2025, and, according to streaming viewership tracker FlixPatrol,...

For years, Kahlil Joseph has been the most innovative and important filmmaker not working in feature films — a title that will officially be retired when his highly lauded “Blknws: Terms & Conditions” gets a 12-city theatrical release on November 28, 2025. That’s right, the film’s distributor, Rich Spirit, is announcing today — in a move that would make the film’s former distributor A24 blush — it will open the film, remixing Black history and culture, on Black Friday.

Rich Spirit’s press release makes clear that, like “Blknws” itself, releasing the film on the biggest shopping day of the year is both playful and deadly serious.

“The date ties the film’s release to global conversations about media, capitalism, and the Black archive amid renewed conversations about erasure, representation, and the rollback of civil rights,” per the official Rich Spirit press release. “Blknws on Blkfrdy arrives in theaters as both a...

Amazon reported its third-quarter 2025 earnings Thursday, revealing revenue rose 13% for the June-September period.

The financial update comes amid mass layoffs at Amazon: The company is undergoing a workforce reduction of 14,000 employees this week.

During a call with investors following the earnings release, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy fielded a question about the layoffs at Amazon this week and backtracked on AI innovations being the primary driver for the cuts.

“The announcement that we made a few days ago was not really financially-driven, and it’s not even really AI-driven. Not right now at least. It really, it’s culture,” Jassy said. “And if you grow as fast as we did for several years — the size of businesses, the number of people, the number of locations, the types of businesses you’re in — you end up with a lot more people than what you had before, and you end up with a lot more layers.

Three cheers for the Crawley family. “Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale,” the third and final cinematic chapter about the fictional aristocratic clan, has crossed the $100 million milestone at the global box office.

The film, backed by Focus Features and designed to bid farewell to the franchise that began with the beloved British television show, has grossed $104 million to date — including $45 million domestically and $55 million internationally. A slow and steady box office win for “The Grand Finale,” which opened in September, signals that long-time fans of the property haven’t tired of the onscreen palace intrigue and class-system drama. It’s also significant because, post-covid, many films aimed at older crowds have struggled to sell tickets at all.

Revenues for the third film managed to improve upon the prior entry in the series about the grand houses and the servants and elite who populate them. The second film, 2022’s “Downton Abbey: A New Era,...

Vince Gilligan has returned with "Pluribus," a sci-fi series that represents his first major project since "Better Call Saul" wrapped up in 2022. Coming as it does from the man who also created "Breaking Bad," this latest series is, as you might expect, highly anticipated. Adding to the hype is the fact that, like Gilligan's other series, the new Apple TV show is set in Albuquerque, New Mexico. What's more, "Pluribus" stars former "Better Call Saul" actor Rhea Seahorn, who played Kim Wexler on the AMC series. But fans should probably temper their excitement for a possible crossover between Gilligan's previous shows and this one, as the creator has now shut down any such possibility.

This post contains major spoilers for Netflix's "The Witcher," its source material, and "The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt."

It shouldn't be controversial to state that the latest season of "The Witcher" suffers from inconsistent storytelling. Even so, some chunks of the narrative are crafted well enough, like Ciri's (Freya Allan) moral decline during her time with the Rats or Vilgefortz's (Mahesh Jadu) drastic fall from grace after the battle at Montecalvo. While the major beats of the story remain faithful to Andrzej Sapkowski's "The Witcher" novels, the execution remains muddled enough to cast doubts over the future of the franchise. But the most egregious example of the problems...

Charlie Sheen recently appeared on “In Depth With Graham Bensinger” and reflected on being dropped from 1989’s “Born on the Fourth of July” so that it could become a Tom Cruise star vehicle. Sheen said he had been in talks with his “Platoon” director Oliver Stone about reuniting on the movie, which tells the true story of Vietnam War veteran Ron Kovic and how he became an anti-war advocate after being paralyzed in battle. Sheen had no idea Stone was changing course until Sheen’s brother, Emilio Estevez, cold-called him one night.

“Emilio, he calls me. He says, ‘Hey, man. You sitting down?’ And I think somebody died, right?” Sheen said (via EW). “I’m like, ‘No, what’s going on?” He says, ‘Cruise is doing “Born on the Fourth.”‘ I love that Emilio thought that I needed to be seated to get news he thought was going to make me faint.

Four years after the fatal shooting on the set of “Rust,” the man who supplied prop guns and blanks to the production has sued Alec Baldwin in a bid to clear his name.

Seth Kenney, the owner of Pdq Arm & Prop, filed the 35-page complaint last week, alleging that his reputation has been destroyed in the wake of the accidental death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.

In an interview with Variety, Kenney said he has been unable to find work in the film industry since then.

“It’s been devastating,” he said. “It’s not a matter of saving face. There’s nothing left to lose. This whole thing has been shit and I have been the scapegoat.”

Kenney supplied the Colt .45 revolver that Baldwin was holding when the fatal shot was fired on Oct. 21, 2021. The film’s armorer, Hannah Gutierrez Reed, served 14 months for involuntary manslaughter for loading a live bullet into the gun.

Amy Pascal will be honored with the David O. Selznick Achievement Award on behalf of the Producers Guild of America. Pascal will accept the award at the 37th Annual Producers Guild Awards on Feb. 28 at the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles.

Since founding Pascal Pictures in 2015, Pascal has produced major box office hits such as the trilogy of “Spider-Man” movies, “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” and its sequel “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,” Greta Gerwig’s “Little Women,” Steven Spielberg’s “The Post,” and more.

Most recently, Pascal has had producer credits on Noah Baumbach’s “Jay Kelly” and Luca Guadagnino’s “Challengers” starring Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist. Pascal next will serve as producer on Greta Gerwig’s “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew”; “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” starring Tom Holland; Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s “Project Hail Mary” and the upcoming “James Bond” film by Denis Villeneuve.

The hymns are alive with the sound of music.

Mona Fastvold’s “The Testament of Ann Lee,” a historical drama starring Amanda Seyfried as the 18th-century religious leader who founded the Shakers, will compete in the musical or comedy categories at the upcoming Golden Globe Awards, Variety has learned exclusively.

“The Testament of Ann Lee” has been hailed by critics and festivalgoers as Fastvold’s most ambitious work to date — a sweeping, musically infused portrait of faith, isolation and female empowerment. In addition to Seyfried, the ensemble cast includes Lewis Pullman, Thomasin McKenzie, Stacy Martin, Christopher Abbott and Tim Blake Nelson. The film’s tonal fusion of music, spirituality and emotional irony led the filmmakers, in collaboration with awards strategists, to position it in the Globes’ musical or comedy field — a thoughtful choice intended to highlight its unconventional musical sequences and themes.

Fastvold and her co-writer and co-producer Brady Corbet...

The ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland’s Dorothy in “The Wizard of Oz” might be the most recognizable shoes in cinematic history. But with the release of “Wicked: For Good” around the corner on Nov. 21, fans expecting to see the iconic slippers shouldn’t get their hopes up.

The famous footwear didn’t appear in the first “Wicked” movie and won’t show up in “Wicked: For Good” either. Instead, director Jon M. Chu remains faithful to the original book, “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,” by L. Frank Baum, and the Broadway musical that “Wicked” adapts, by keeping the slippers silver.

Baum’s 1900 novel appeared at the tail end of the Gilded Age, a tumultuous time in American history that was marked by political tension and rapid industrialization. Consequently, many literary scholars believe that the book is heavily allegorical. They argue that the yellow brick road represents the gold...

There's something special about die-hard movie fans throwing a themed wedding. The event becomes even more memorable when an original cast member drops in to wish the happy couple well on their future life. That fan wish became an unexpected reality for two love birds getting married in a wedding ceremony staged on the Hobbiton set of Peter Jackson's "The Lord of the Rings" films in Waikato, New Zealand, when none other than Elijah Wood arrived to say hello. A viral clip (via X Tolkien community thread @TolkienWorldG) shows the nuptials taking place in front of Bag End as the Frodo actor walked right into sight, delighting the about-to-be-newlyweds...

Exclusive: Concourse Media has acquired worldwide sales rights to the completed horror thriller He’s Watching You from writer-director Jordon Foss who produced the Mark Wahlberg feature Father Stu.

Jan Luis Castellanos from Uglies, Gianni Decenzo from Cobra Kai, Tiana Le from Insecure, and Elizabeth Yu from May December star.

Inspired by actual events, the film follows a reclusive teenager who stumbles upon VHS footage of a mysterious figure in red known as The Pill who is believed to be behind numerous disappearances. When people around him begin to die in gruesome fashion, the youngster believes he could be the suspect.

It might look like there's no end in sight through the eyes of Mike Wheeler (Finn Wolfhard), but the brand new trailer for "Stranger Things" screams "grand finale," albeit with a bit of help from Queen's "Who Wants To Live Forever." The latest preview sees Hawkins' heroes, still broken from their previous bout with Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower), going one more round with the telepathic terror, who might have done the unthinkable and turned one of Eleven's own friends against her.

But while the '80s sounds have our eyebrows raised, it's the sights of the pulse-pounding preview that will be blowing fans' minds, giving us an even bigger,...

Six years ago, Polish filmmaker Jan Komasa had an idea for a film. It was multi-layered, rife with compelling themes, packed with juicy roles for a sprawling family unit, and just plain scary. It was also, by his own telling, not just dystopian, it was also so made-up that it felt like “sci-fi.” Well, about all that…

The film is called “Anniversary,” and what felt like a reach six years ago now feels all too real. The film, as its title indicates, is set over the course of five years, picking up at different key intervals in the life of the Taylor family. Ellen and Paul have four kids, who are all quite different, from Zoey Deutch’s strait-laced lawyer Cynthia to her more flighty sisters Anna (Madeline Brewer) and Birdie (Mckenna Grace).

And then there’s lone brother Josh (Dylan O’Brien). When the film, written by Lori Rosene-Gambino from...

Sometimes, Hollywood actually gets it right — and we're not just saying that because we here at SlashFilm dot com saw this coming. Ever since the news broke that Paramount Pictures was interested in bringing the acclaimed and ever-popular video game series "Call of Duty" to the big screen, it was immediately obvious who should be the major creative voice involved. Major names such as Steven Spielberg have tried and failed to pull this off, proving that even this golden era for video game adaptations isn't a guaranteed safe harbor for what might be one of the biggest no-brainer movies in recent memory. But, with so much (potential) box office profit...

Sony Pictures International Productions (Spip) is exploring the potential for live-action remakes of Japanese anime IP and is also seeking action comedies.

Shebnem Askin, executive vice president of creative production and head of Spip, discussed the ambitious local production strategy for the division at Tiffcom in Tokyo on Thursday (October 30).

Asked if Spip would consider adapting animated IP as live-action features, she said: “Our one adaptation from manga to live action is [Japanese film series] Kingdom. Here [in Tokyo], I’m taking many great meetings with a lot of companies that are producing incredible stories with anime. So we are starting to look at different...

Buenos Aires-based FilmSharks has picked up worldwide sales rights to horror film The Convent (El Convento) ahead of its world premiere at Morbido Film festival in Mexico on Saturday (November 1).

Meteor has acquired German-speaking rights to the story that takes place in an 18th century convent in northern Spain where a sect of unholy nuns form a coven to find the ideal womb for the son of the Devil.

Ángel Manuel Chivite and Luis Galindo directed the feature from a screenplay they co-wrote with Jesús Córdoba Acarreta. The cast includes Ana Álvarez, María Mercado, and Nahia Bergasa.

FilmSharks will continue...

Looks like Taylor Sheridan isn’t done with Paramount just yet. Despite news breaking over the weekend that Sheridan would soon be moving on and relocating his TV and Film deal to NBCUniversal, he’s first going to tackle what is meant to be a major tentpole blockbuster for the studio.

Sheridan will write the adaptation of the live-action feature film based on the “Call of Duty” war video game franchise, Paramount announced Thursday. Peter Berg, the director of films like “Lone Survivor,” “Patriot’s Day,” and “Deepwater Horizon” and the creator of “Friday Night Lights,” will direct the film and co-write the script with Sheridan. Berg also produced both of Sheridan’s “Hell or High Water,” which Sheridan wrote, and “Wind River,” which Sheridan both wrote and directed.

Sheridan, Berg, and Sheridan’s frequent collaborator David Glasser will all produce the film. Paramount announced the “Call of Duty” movie...