Denis Villeneuve will direct the next James Bond film, Amazon MGM Studios has revealed. Villeneuve will also serve as executive producer, alongside Tanya Lapointe. As previously announced, Amy Pascal and David Heyman will serve as producers.

“Some of my earliest movie-going memories are connected to 007. I grew up watching James Bond films with my father, ever since ‘Dr. No’ with Sean Connery. I’m a die-hard Bond fan. To me, he’s sacred territory,” Villeneuve said. “I intend to honor the tradition and open the path for many new missions to come. This is a massive responsibility, but also, incredibly exciting for me and a huge honor. Amy, David, and I are absolutely thrilled to bring him back to the screen. Thank you to Amazon MGM Studios for their trust.”

Mike Hopkins, head of Prime Video and Amazon MGM Studios, added, “We are honored that Denis has agreed to...

Aaron Sorkin is not finished telling the Facebook story. The Academy Award winner is developing “The Social Network Part II” at Sony Pictures.

Sorkin has written a screenplay and is set to direct the follow-up to the 2010 film “The Social Network,” helmed by David Fincher, which chronicled the creation and early days of Facebook, which has grown to become the world’s largest social media platform. Sorkin’s sequel is based on the Wall Street Journal’s “The Facebook Files,” a series of articles authored by Jeff Horowitz and published in October 2021, which further exposed the inner workings of the company.

Jesse Eisenberg starred as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in “The Social Network,” but casting has yet to be announced for the sequel. Part 2 is in development with Todd Black, Peter Rice, Sorkin and Stuart Besser producing.

The original film was a critical and commercial hit, earning $226 million at the...

Kim Kardashian is being eyed to play the villain in Amazon MGM’s “Bratz” movie.

The tech giant won a bidding war for rights to the live-action film about the popular children’s toy in hopes of backing the next “Barbie.” Additional details about the plot and cast haven’t been revealed.

Charlie Polinger and Lucy McKendrick are writing the script, while Erik Feig and Julia Hammer for Picturestart, Kardashian, and Jason Larian and Jasmin Larian for Mga Entertainment are on board to produce. Mga’s Isaac Larian will executive produce.

Ever since “Barbie” took the world by storm and became 2023’s highest-grossing film with $1.44 billion, Hollywood has been mining all kinds of children’s toys for the big screen. Film versions of Hot Wheels, Barney, Polly Pocket and Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots are currently in the works across various studios and production companies.

Bratz has sold more than...

Jafar Panahi’s Cannes winner “It Was Just an Accident” will be released in theaters this fall. Neon has dated the movie for theatrical release on Oct. 15.

The film marks the Iranian auteur’s first feature since being released from prison in Iran and was directly inspired by his incarceration. “It Was Just An Accident” follows what begins as a minor accident, which sets in motion a series of escalating consequences. The story centers on five characters who think they’ve identified the prosecutor who tortured them during their own arrests — but as they were all blindfolded in jail, none can be entirely certain their captive is the same man.

“When you spend eight hours a day blindfolded, seated in front of a wall, being interrogated by someone standing behind your back every day, you can’t stop wondering what kind of conversation you can have with this man,” Panahi...

Stephen King’s “The Stand” is getting a new adaptation, with Paramount securing Doug Liman to direct the new adaptation of the author’s apocalyptic 1978 tome.

Liman will also produce along with Tyler Thompson of Cross Creek Pictures, with the two previously collaborating on “American Made,” the based-on-a-true-story drama starring Tom Cruise.

Largely thought to be one of King’s greatest accomplishments, “The Stand” takes place in the aftermath of a pandemic caused by a weaponized virus (dubbed Captain Trips), where the survivors are either swayed by the forces of good or those of evil, personified by Randall Flagg, who would go on to become a recurring figure in some of King’s other work, most notably the “Dark Tower” series of novels.

In 1990 King updated and expanded the novel, moving the events from 1980 to 1990 and including more than 400 pages that were cut from the initial printing. The resulting book,...

Daisy Edgar-Jones will star in a remake of “Sense and Sensibility,” which is in the works at Focus Features.

Georgia Oakley (“Blue Jean”) will direct the new take on Jane Austen’s classic with Diana Reid set to adapt the screenplay. Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner of Working Title Films will produce alongside India Flint of November Pictures and Jo Wallett.

Originally published in 1811 with the byline “By a Lady,” “Sense and Sensibility” was the first novel by Austen, who later wrote such literary classics as “Pride and Prejudice,” “Emma” and “Persuasion.” The story of “Sense and Sensibility” follows sisters Elinor (Edgar-Jones) and Marianne Dashwood, who navigate love, loss and financial uncertainty as they are forced to leave their family estate in Sussex. The role of Marianne Dashwood hasn’t been announced yet.

Edgar-Jones shared the news on Instagram, where she posted a photograph of herself with the novel in hand.

Sony’s horror sequel “28 Years Later” opened atop the U.K. and Ireland box office, scaring up £4.7 million ($6.4 million) on debut, according to Comscore.

The Danny Boyle-directed follow-up has a cast led by Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Ralph Fiennes.

Universal’s “How To Train Your Dragon” held firm in second place, soaring to $3.8 million in its second weekend for a cumulative total of $17.1 million. Disney’s “Elio” debued in third place, collecting $1.3 million over its first weekend. Meanwhile, the studio’s “Lilo & Stitch” continued its solid run, taking $908,062 in its fifth weekend to push its total to $46.4 million.

Paramount’s “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning” followed in fifth position with $811,385, lifting its overall gross to $33.5 million after five weeks on release.

Black Bear’s “The Salt Path” took sixth with $362,939, reaching a cume of $9.2 million. Bollywood release “Sitaare Zameen Par” from AA Films U.K.

“F1” director Joseph Kosinski spoke to GQ Magazine UK and said his dream for a sequel to his Brad Pitt-racing drama is to actually bring in Tom Cruise for a “Days of Thunder” crossover. Kosinski previously directed Cruise in “Top Gun: Maverick,” which earned $1.4 billion at the box office, and the duo are currently developing a third “Top Gun” movie together.

“Well, right now, it’d be Cole Trickle, who was [Cruise’s] ‘Days of Thunder’ character, we find out that he and [Brad Pitt’s] Sonny Hayes have a past,” Kosinski said about his dream pitch. “They were rivals at some point, maybe crossed paths… I heard about this epic go-kart battle on ‘Interview with a Vampire’ that Brad and Tom had, and who wouldn’t pay to see those two go head-to-head on the track?”

Kosinski originally planned to bring Pitt and Cruise together on the big screen in his own version of “Ford v Ferrari.

This month Filmmaker is publishing diaries from writers and directors who attended the 2025 Sundance Institute Directors Lab. Today we’re sharing the diary of Leo Aguirre, who traveled to the Lab with Verano. Here’s the description: “An unruly teenager’s summer plans are upended when his parents decide to foster an adolescent from Central America who is seeking asylum in the United States. As the two teens realize they must share more than just a bedroom, they are forced to confront their differences amid their harsh realities.” A complete list of Sundance Labs participants can be found here. — Editor June 1: Couldn’t […]

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Love him or hate him, nobody can ever accuse Ari Aster of shying away from discomfort.

The writer/director first attracted industry attention for “The Strange Thing About the Johnsons,” a short film about father-son incest. Then came his feature debut “Hereditary,” with one of the most grotesquely shocking twists of the 21st century, and an eventual box-office phenomenon. For anyone who’s ever felt even a twinge of anxiety, the brilliant depravity of “Beau Is Afraid” requires no further elaboration.

To fall back on one of horror marketing’s favorite cliches, the man has a twisted mind. But when he fled his New York home to be closer to family in New Mexico during the first months of the Covid-19 pandemic, Aster began to see things that even he found disturbing. As the virus shoved everyone deeper into our own digital rabbit holes, with algorithms spoon-feeding us content designed...

Maria Martinez Bayona’s The End Of It and Jim O’Hanlon’s Rabbit Hayes are among 11 projects to receive funding through the UK Global Screen Fund, via the fund’s international co-production strand.

It is financed through the UK government’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport (Dcms). This round, the awards allocate over £1.65m to support UK producers to work as partners on international co-productions. To date the strand has now awarded nearly £9m to 57 co-productions.

In this round, funding supports partnerships with Canada, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Spain and Switzerland.

Bayona’s The End Of It stars Rebecca Hall,...

Gathered at the Costa Rica Media Market, Latin American industry leaders took the temperature of the independent film scene in the region, zooming into how to successfully enter major markets such as the U.S. and Europe, as well as how to foment and grow local burgeoning industries.

Producer Lynette Coll (“In The Summers”) spoke about starting label Luz Films in 2024 after years of working within the studio system in the U.S. and realizing that “the stories of Latinos, within both Latin America and the U.S., don’t tell the correct perspective.” “It’s always the stereotypes, and they give us much less money to make movies and don’t market them. We both quit our jobs to start a company to make movies from the perspective of the Latin American community and also to unite the U.S. and Latin America.”

“In this context, it’s a constant fight,...

“Rogue One” director Gareth Edwards recently told Business Insider that he would never make another “Star Wars” movie again, adding: “I’m very happy to move on and do my thing.”

Starring Felicity Jones and Diego Luna, “Rogue One” was the first “Star Wars” spinoff movie and centered on a group of rebels on a mission to steal the plans for the Death Star. The ensemble cast included Ben Mendelsohn, Donnie Yen, Mads Mikkelsen, Alan Tudyk and Forest Whitaker. While “Rogue One” was acclaimed by critics and fans upon its release in 2016 (it grossed more than $1 billion worldwide), its reputation has only gone up amid the adoration for its Disney+ prequel series “Andor.”

“I don’t agree with it, but I appreciate it,” Edwards said when “Rogue One” was cited as the best “Star Wars” movie of the Disney era. “I’m very grateful that people say nice things.”

“What...

The director of the now Amazon-controlled 007 franchise can do action spectacle with art and integrity – the question now is who will he want to wear the tux …

At last. Something. Something has emerged from the vast opaque corporate entity that is Amazon MGM, which swallowed up the James Bond brand from Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli – the latter being reportedly discontented (though presumably very much richer).

White smoke has emerged from the funnel marked “director” – though still nothing from the funnel marked “star” – and it’s a really big hitter. Denis Villeneuve is the Canadian film-maker who gave us the excellent science-fiction movies Arrival, Blade Runner 2049 and Dune Parts One and Two, and has demonstrated a real flair for big-budget action thrillers in Sicario and Prisoners, with plenty of the ambient sexiness in hardware and spectacle.

On June 1, Ukraine carried out Operation Spiderweb, an 18-months-in-the-making covert operation in which 117 drones — secretly built inside Russia and concealed in and launched from trucks driven by unsuspecting local drivers — carried out coordinated attacks on five air bases across the country. According to Ukrainian security services, the strikes damaged one-third of Russia’s strategic cruise missile carriers causing billions of dollars of damage, and via drones worth around $400 each.

The audacious secret mission sounds like something straight out of a spy novel and the perfect story to be adapted for screen. In fact, it already has been and is now available to watch. We are, at the time of publication, still in the month of June.

“The Decisive Moment: Spiders in the Sky” — which has launched on YouTube less than four weeks after the event took place — is a five-minute short film telling its own version of the “most incredible drone operation ever.

Following the announcement of a sequel to Spaceballs, we assess the film-maker’s funniest movies, from the Hitchcock spoof High Anxiety to the impeccable Young Frankenstein

“It’s good to be the king.” Brooks mixes sight gags, dad jokes and Borscht Belt standup in historical vignettes from the stone age to the French Revolution. Results are hit and miss, and the ancient Rome segment goes on for ever, but the tasteless Torquemada musical number is a scream.

When Arnold Schwarzenegger moved from his native Austria to the United States, it seemed as if absolutely nothing could stop him from becoming the polymath he ultimately would be. The man had a preternatural drive to succeed, and not just as a bodybuilder. Claiming the Mr. Olympia title seven times wasn't enough for Arnie, who had nothing short of world domination on his mind.

After he made his feature film debut in one of the worst-rated movies of all time back in 1970, Schwarzenegger slowly built up his acting career, spending most of the 1980s competing with Sylvester Stallone to become the biggest action star in the world. He did a damn fine job, too. "Conan the Barbarian," "The Terminator," "Commando," "Raw Deal," "Predator" — these were some of the best and most successful action movies of all time, becoming emblematic of the uber-macho '80s style and turning Schwarzenegger into the archetypal action hero.

Chile’s Paulina Garcia, winner of the Berlinale Silver Bear for her performance in Sebastian Lelio’s “Gloria” and whose latest pic, Ana Endara’s “Beloved Tropic,” plays at the Costa Rica Film Festival, has boarded “Love is the Monster” by Neto Villalobos, best known for his comedies “Helmet Heads” and “All About the Feathers.”

For his third feature, Villalobos dives into the thriller genre for the first time with a story set against the backdrop of a tropical dystopia. “Love is the Monster” follows a seventy-year-old grandmother (Garcia) who is faced with the end of her life. Determined to make the most of the time she has left, she seeks to grow closer to her six-year-old granddaughter. But when an unforeseen threat puts everything she holds dear at risk, she must confront how far she’s truly willing to go.

“’Love is the Monster’ is born from a deeply...

Jack McBrayer's performance as Kenneth the Page on "30 Rock" is immortal because his indefatigable enthusiasm was the heart of a show that ruthlessly pursued each and every joke it could sink its teeth into.

The performance made Jack McBrayer the go-to man for wholesome, purehearted weirdos on TV, which is why Conan O'Brien thought it would be funny to send him into the meanest, cruelest place on the planet: Chicago's Wiener's Circle, a rough and tumble hole in the wall where employees and customers scream insults and expletives at one another. Poor Jack was no match for their negativity, but luckily he didn't come alone.

Enter: Triumph the Insult Comic Dog and his iconic cigar. Triumph, a rottweiler hand puppet performed by Robert Smigel with a seemingly never ending encyclopedia of insults, Triumph is one of Conan's most famous recurring characters and his journey into the depths of...

Paul Greengrass’ The Rage, starring Andrew Garfield and Thomasin McKenzie, will begin filming in Germany this autumn as a Germany-uk co-production between Munich-based Supernix and London outfit Electric Shadow Company.

The US’ Blumhouse Productions is executive producing, Focus Features has North American rights, while Leonine Studios will release in Germany and Austria. FilmNation is handling international sales.

The film has received the maximum €2m in production support from Bavaria’s international co-production fund Fff Bayern and will shoot entirely at locations in Bavaria with interiors at Munich’s Penzing Studios.

Written by Greengrass, The Rage is set in plague-ravaged 14th...

Screen International will host its second annual Screen Summit on September 30, 2025, at BFI Southbank in London.

Buy tickets here

‘Screen Summit 2025: Building On The UK’s Global Success’ will bring together leading executives and filmmakers for a day of talks and networking to help UK films perform to their highest potential around the world. Conversations will explore the impact of the launch of the Independent Film Tax Credit, how AI is being used (or not), the booming inward investment sector and the efforts being made to create an inclusive, representative, sustainable industry.

There will be panels on:

Attracting international...

Screen International will host its second annual Screen Summit on September 30, 2025, at BFI Southbank in London.

Buy tickets here

‘Screen Summit 2025: Building On The UK’s Global Success’ will bring together leading executives and filmmakers for a day of talks and networking to help UK films perform to their highest potential around the world. Conversations will explore the impact of the launch of the Independent Film Tax Credit, how AI is being used (or not), the booming inward investment sector and the efforts being made to create an inclusive, representative, sustainable industry.

There will be panels on:

Attracting international...

What self-respecting sci-fi or fantasy fan doesn't love a good map? They look cool, they help tie the story together, and they're often filled with little lore details that snuck into the margins. When it comes to something as massive as the "Star Wars" galaxy, however, things can get pretty overwhelming pretty quickly. "Star Wars" has had many maps over the decades, crossing various canons and eras and often shifting exact planet locations from one iteration to the next. It's a lot to keep up with, but fortunately, most of the stories set in a galaxy far, far away require very little (if any) geographical knowledge.

Now, though, learning the layout of the "Star Wars" galaxy is easier than ever thanks to a new (sort of) interactive map from Lucasfilm that you can explore at StarWars.com. The map may seem a bit daunting at first, and you'll have to...

Even by sitcom standards, "The Big Bang Theory" has plenty of colorful characters. However, the show tends to keeps a tight focus on the original core group of Sheldon (Jim Parsons), Leonard (Johnny Galecki), Penny (Kaley Cuoco), Howard (Simon Helberg), and Raj (Kunal Nayyar), which means that several supporting characters don't get the attention they deserve. Some rise above the fray: Mayim Bialik's Amy and Melissa Rauch's Bernadette were both promoted to main character status in season 4 and remained as such until the end of the show. Several other characters have also enjoyed briefer stints as part of the main cast before either exiting the show completely or quietly falling back out of focus. 

An abundance of these peripheral figures has left the show with an overwhelming surplus of fascinating characters who just don't get the sort of focus they could no doubt handle, either because they don't...

The Locarno Film Festival will celebrate multi-Oscar-winning Italian costume designer Milena Canonero, who is admired for her work with Stanley Kubrick, Wes Anderson, Francis Ford Coppola and Sofia Coppola, among other directors, with its lifetime achievement award dedicated to creative pioneers.

The prominent Swiss fest dedicated to international indie cinema will be feting Canonero with its Vision Award Ticinomoda and screening her most recent collaboration with Francis Ford Coppola “Megalopolis.”

“Since making her debut as a costume designer on Stanley Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange” (1971), Milena Canonero has produced some of the most visionary costumes in film history and has shaped our collective imagination through the clothes we see on screen, using colorful fabrics and innovative cuts to draw out the essential natures of some of the most recognizable cinematic creations,” the fest said in a statement.

“Take the Jazz Age tuxedos and gowns of Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Cotton Club...

While this review is as spoiler-free as possible, and the new season is already streaming, consider this a spoiler warning for "The Bear" season 4.

"The Bear" was great TV seemingly from the jump. Christopher Storer's stress-inducing series about the struggles of a Chicago sandwich shop turned fine dining establishment hooked me (and many others) almost immediately with its intense filmmaking, it's electric editing, and its excellent cast. Season 1 was good, season 2 was even better. But I suppose sooner or later, every great show stumbles. After the highs of the first two season, "The Bear" season 3 felt adrift, lost, unfocused. Perhaps that was intentional — a way to reflect the way the characters felt lost. Intentional or not, it didn't quite work — something was missing.

I ultimately gave season 3 a positive review, but it was the first time I found myself struggling with the show. While I appreciated some of the more daring formal choices,...

“Here’s one way to look at it: It’s really fun.”

So says a best-left-unnamed guest star in a best-left-unidentified episode of “The Bear” Season 4, by way of describing time spent with the Berzatto family. And really, our mystery speaker is right. For all the grief given to Christopher Storer and Joanna Calo’s FX restaurant drama after its down year — a succinct and undeniable description that would still spark at least two separate social media feuds — the third season was still just a bit disappointing, not an outright disaster. The second season remains a triumph, and the first season, well, without it, we wouldn’t be here, now would we?

To some sickos out there — the quoted speaker very much included — all of this, everything from fighting over how many awards “The Bear” should win to celebrating the highs and lows of each season, could be looked at as “fun.

There are two sides to writer-director Kevin Williamson, depending on what your tastes are. If you're a horror enthusiast, you'll certainly know him for co-creating the "Scream" franchise and writing several of its movies, in addition to penning 1997's "I Know What You Did Last Summer" and 2022's underrated Covid-19 slasher flick "Sick." If slashers are a little too scary for you, however, then you may recognize Williamson as the creator of the TV shows "Dawson's Creek" and "The Vampire Diaries," both of which were era-defining melodramas that captured the zeitgeist.

These two halves might sound like they're diametrically opposed to each other, but both genres are categorized by their soap opera-style ingredients. The crucial difference is whether you hope to see the characters fall in love or kill each other. Now, with Williamson's newest show "The Waterfront," you get both, which may be the reason why the series has...

Wow. Nearly four years after Daniel Craig's tenure as James Bond came to a definitive end in "No Time to Die," we finally have a director for the next 007 film, and somehow, the filmmaker on deck is one of Hollywood's boldest visionaries. Academy Award-nominated director Denis Villeneuve is officially at the helm of "James Bond 26," and to think he's already boasting a filmography that includes beloved intellectual properties such as "Blade Runner" and "Dune." To add Bond to his resume truly is the ultimate flex.

Amazon MGM Studios has confirmed the news to Variety, with Denis Villeneuve himself sharing his official statement, now that he is set to define the next generation of 007, which will likely be expanded upon beyond the big screen motion picture events and into the world of streaming:

"Some of my earliest movie-going memories are connected to 007. I grew up watching James Bond films with my father,...

“Die-hard Bond fan” Denis Villeneuve has been set to direct the next James Bond film, the first since Amazon MGM Studios took creative control of the franchise.

Villeneuve will also serve as an executive producer on the film, along with his regular collaborator Tanya Lapointe, who most recently produced the French-Canadian filmmaker’s Dune: Part Two.

As previously announced, Amy Pascal and David Heyman will produce the new film, the 28thto feature the 007 British spy character originated by author Ian Fleming.

Taking the Bond directing chair marks the latest step in Villeneuve’s rise as one of Hollywood’s most...

“Die-hard Bond fan” Denis Villeneuve has been set to direct the next James Bond film, the first since Amazon MGM Studios took creative control of the franchise.

Villeneuve will also serve as an executive producer on the film, along with his regular collaborator Tanya Lapointe, who most recently produced the French-Canadian filmmaker’s Dune: Part Two.

As previously announced, Amy Pascal and David Heyman will produce the new film, the 28thto feature the 007 British spy character originated by author Ian Fleming.

Taking the Bond directing chair marks the latest step in Villeneuve’s rise as one of Hollywood’s most...

The family foundation of longtime showbiz investor and film producer Len Blavatnik has donated $25 million to USC’s School of Cinematic Arts to establish the Blavatnik Center for Virtual Production.

The 15,000-square foot center will help expand the university’s virtual production curriculum that aims to give students a foundation in all aspects of using virtual production and the generative AI tools that it requires. Blavatnik, founder of investment firm Access Industries, with interests ranging from Warner Music Group to A24.

“Virtual production has become an integral part of filmmaking, led by the next generation,” said Blavatnik, founder of the Blavatnik Family Foundation. “I’m proud to support the School and provide young filmmakers with the tools and resources needed to master these emerging technologies and lead the industry’s future.”

The Blavatnik Center will house two stages with wraparound LED panel walls, as well as performance capture, camera tracking and lighting systems.

While upbeat at a distance, self-reflexive heist caper “Stealing Pulp Fiction” seldom translates its good nature through story or style. Danny Turkiewicz’s feature debut follows a pair of best friends in over their heads as they try to steal Quentin Tarantino’s personal 35mm film print of his 1994 indie landmark “Pulp Fiction.” However, malformed comedy and character beats keep the movie feeling like a rough first draft.

With a score that harkens back to the “Pulp Fiction” soundtrack — and to Keith Mansfield’s “Funky Fanfare,” the groovy tune played over tie-dye “Our Feature Presentation” pre-movie title cards in the ’60s and revived for repertory screenings — the film has no dearth of musical in-jokes. However, that’s the extent of its meta-textual prowess, in spite of its ceaseless references to Tarantino.

Paying homage to Hollywood’s own remix maestro is an easy trick for a young director, but “Stealing Pulp Fiction...

The Dune, Arrival and Blade Runner 2049 director – and ‘die-hard Bond fan’ – will helm next movie in the spy franchise with Amazon MGM Studios

Denis Villeneuve will direct the next James Bond film, Amazon MGM Studios has announced.

The Oscar-nominated Canadian film-maker most recently directed the hugely successful blockbusters Dune and Dune: Part Two, as well as Arrival, Sicario, Blade Runner 2049 and Prisoners.

The next James Bond chapter has begun. Denis Villeneuve, the visionary behind “Dune,” “Blade Runner 2049,” and “Arrival,” has been tapped to direct the next James Bond film for Amazon MGM Studios, the company announced on Wednesday.

Villeneuve will also executive produce alongside Tanya Lapointe.

A new 007 still has not been selected.

“Some of my earliest movie-going memories are connected to 007. I grew up watching James Bond films with my father, ever since Dr. No with Sean Connery. I’m a die-hard Bond fan,” Villeneuve said in a statement. “To me, he’s sacred territory. I intend to honor the tradition and open the path for many new missions to come. This is a massive responsibility, but also, incredibly exciting for me and a huge honor. Amy, David, and I are absolutely thrilled to bring him back to the screen. Thank you to Amazon MGM Studios for their trust.

Aaron Sorkin and Sony Pictures are developing a sequel to Facebook origin drama The Social Network which Oscar-winner Sorkin will write and direct.

Sorkin’s original screenplay for The Social Network Part II will explore the story behind The Facebook Files, a series of Wall Street Journal reports published in October 2021 that exposed the inner workings of, and multiple harms caused by, the world’s largest social network.

The sequel is in development with Todd Black, Peter Rice, Sorkin and Stuart Besser producing, but no cast is in place yet.

Directed by David Fincher and starring Jesse Eisenberg as Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg,...

When “Squid Game” exploded into pop culture in 2021, who ever thought we’d end up here? Certainly not director Hwang Dong-hyuk, who ended Season 1 on a cliffhanger but didn’t expect to make more until Netflix offered. But the story of Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) and the perilous capitalist competition that takes hold of him will conclude on June 27 with its third and final season.

A lot of characters come and go on “Squid Game” due to the fatal nature of the narrative, but Seasons 2 and 3 are essentially two halves of a whole. Instead of a brand new game and cast, it picks up immediately after “Squid Game 2” with the surviving players, guards and mercenaries searching for the island. Gi-hun is fresh off a failed rebellion and the death of his last remaining friend, which will inevitably shape his actions as the games reach their conclusion. Jun-ho (Wi Ha-jun) continues...

“Brokeback Mountain” losing Best Picture to “Crash” at the 78th Academy Awards in 2006 is often cited as one of the most egregious Oscar snubs of all time. Two decades later, “Brokeback Mountain” co-writer and producer Diana Ossana still remembers the sting of losing and the moment she realized the prize would evade her.

Speaking to the New York Times for the film’s 20th anniversary, Ossana, who co-wrote the script with Larry McMurtry, said she saw entrenched homophobia towards Ang Lee’s film from some of Hollywood’s elite. She recalled attending a party at “Crash” director Paul Haggis’ house and being excited to meet Clint Eastwood, who had enjoyed his own Oscars sweep the previous year for “Million Dollar Baby,” only to be told that the Western icon hadn’t watched her cowboy movie.

“Paul started walking me over and he goes, ‘Diana, I have to tell you, he hasn’t seen your movie.

The intimacy coordinator on “Horizon 2” wrote a two-page report documenting lapses in protocols during filming of an unscripted rape scene.

Devyn Labella, a stunt performer, sued Kevin Costner — the director, writer, star, financier and producer of the film — last month, alleging that she was shaken and humiliated after being forced to perform in the scene without warning.

The report, written by Celeste Chaney, cited “numerous problems” with the scene, including that no intimacy coordinator was present, Labella was not given “modesty garments,” and she did not consent to Costner’s impromptu direction.

“She was put ‘on the spot,’ placed in a vulnerable, compromising situation and then asked if she was ‘okay to continue’ with everyone standing by,” Chaney wrote in the report.

Labella sued Costner and the production for sexual harassment, discrimination and infliction of emotional distress. Labella was the stunt performer for Ella Hunt, the actor who portrayed “Juliette” in the film.

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One could argue that if someone was to make a Mount Rushmore of beloved science fiction movies, director James Cameron's 1984 classic smash hit "The Terminator" should be on it. Heck, there are quite a few people who would argue that "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" should be on it as well. The films helped define Arnold Schwarzenegger's career, cementing him as an all-time great action star. It's a franchise that includes some of the greatest cinematic sci-fi works ever produced, but it also includes some not-so-great entries. But which one does Schwarzenegger like the least?

On a recent episode of "Watch What Happens Live" with host Andy Cohen, an audience member asked Schwarzenegger at one point which of the "Terminator" movies he felt was the worst. The former governor of California didn't sit on the fence or pretend like he enjoyed them all.

It’s the year 2025 and we are blessed with not one, and dare we say not even two, but three new Jane Austen adaptations. Ms. Austen herself turns 250 years old this year, and it’s not a moment too soon to celebrate the life and works of the iconic author.

Now, exactly two decades after Joe Wright’s “Pride & Prejudice” made cinematic history with the Darcy (Mathew Macfadyen) hand flex seen ’round the world, there are a number of modern adaptations in the works, not to mention other recent works inspired by her life and most beloved novels, from the film “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life” to the series “Miss Austen.”

And “Pride & Prejudice” is hardly the only Austen book getting new life in two (!!) formats, as Austen seems to suddenly be everywhere, all over again. Ahead, we break down the upcoming adaptations, and provide some guidance on...

Don’t expect Sofia Coppola to jump on the horror movie bandwagon anytime soon. While speaking at a masterclass at the Biarritz’ Nouvelles Vagues Festival, Coppola said she “[doesn’t] really like violent films.”

“There’s so much gun violence in my country,” she said. “It’s really hard to see [those] movies. Old cowboys are cool, but just the way [violence] is overdone now is upsetting.”

Coppola, who flew from New York to be the guest of honor at the third edition of Nouvelles Vagues Festival in the picturesque south-western town of Biarritz, cited Martin Scorsese as a filmmaker whose movies have violence that serves a narrative purpose. “I love Scorsese, so there are moments for it,” she said, adding that “violent themes can be interesting or insinuating. But really, gory, not so much for me.”

The effortlessly chic Coppola also reminisced about her childhood, her early passion for fashion and photography, and...

Amazon’s Prime Video platform is pay TV’s most highly trafficked mall.

That was the message sent Wednesday morning by Prime Video brass at a presentation for channel partners on why aligning with the ecommerce behemoth is good for business.

Albert Cheng, VP head of Prime Video U.S., and other top brass, delivered a series of pitches to content partners and prospective partners on the benefits of making their services available for sale via Prime Video’s Subscriptions portal. Cheng and others walked through data points designed to underline that Amazon’s gigantic funnel brings demonstrable results to programmers big and niche (Crunchyroll).

The Prime Video Engage event was held in Culver City at the Culver Theater that is adjacent to the Los Angeles-area headquarters of Amazon MGM Studios, Amazon Music, Wondery and other Amazon units.

The Prime Video executives emphasized the amount of energy and investment that...

The utopian vision of streaming is that one day there will just be one streamer to rule them all, a unified platform that lets you search, browse, and watch everything across all different services in one place. That means no more switching apps, no more remembering separate passwords for individual services, and no guessing which movie or show is on which platform.

Honestly, it’s what cable or satellite with a DVR was like once upon a time, or at least the good parts of cable.

The trouble is, some of the streamers don’t want to cooperate, and no single platform has universally emerged to unify everyone. Amazon Prime Video, however, is making the case that, hey, maybe it should be us.

At an industry event Amazon hosted on Wednesday, June 25 in Culver City, CA called Engage 2025, the research firm Antenna presented data from a study commissioned by Amazon...

“Brokeback Mountain’s” Oscar-winning co-writer Diana Ossana recently marked the film’s 20th anniversary with an interview in The New York Times, in which she revealed the exact moment she realized Ang Lee’s acclaimed romance film would not win the Oscar for best picture despite being the far-and-away frontrunner of the 2005-2006 awards season.

As recounted by The Times: “Weeks before the ceremony, after Oscar voting was closed, she attended a party for the nominees at the home of Paul Haggis, the director of ‘Crash.’ Clint Eastwood was in attendance and Ossana, a fan of ‘Unforgiven,’ was eager to meet him.”

“Paul started walking me over and he goes, ‘Diana, I have to tell you, he hasn’t seen your movie.’ And it was like somebody kicked me in the stomach,” Ossanna recalled. “That’s when I knew we would not win best picture.”

“Brokeback Mountain” infamously lost...

Oscar-winning writer returns to subject of his 2010 hit for follow-up based on Wall Street Journal series on Facebook

Aaron Sorkin is officially working on a sequel to The Social Network.

Last year, the Oscar-winning writer revealed he was working on a film that would revisit the subject of Facebook, and Deadline has now reported that The Social Network Part II is in development at Sony Pictures yet isn’t a “straight sequel”.

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A sequel to David Fincher's critically acclaimed 2010 film "The Social Network" is coming, but I regret to inform you that there's one huge problem already.

According to an exclusive report in Deadline, Aaron Sorkin, who won an Academy Award for the first film's script, is set to direct a movie that — as of this writing — is simply called "The Social Network II." Journalist Justin Kroll noted that the movie isn't a direct sequel but "rather a follow-up to the original movie that explored the origins of what would become the world's biggest social media platform."

Sure, the fracas surrounding Facebook and its parent company Meta — all helmed by Mark Zuckerberg, who was played smugly and perfectly by Jesse Eisenberg in the original film — is pretty interesting, but because Sorkin is set to direct, Fincher won't be in the director's...

“You’re in the tornado, man.”

That is Paul Freeman, the principal audio artist at Sphere Studios, talking, offering a plainspoken assurance to cinematic thrill-seekers about the enhanced version of 1939’s “The Wizard of Oz” that is coming to Las Vegas beginning Aug. 28. The immersive elements are designed to tickle all the senses, but Sphere’s sound maestro is focused on his department and has some promises to make about how being off to see —and hear— the Wizard in 2025 will not be akin to just putting an upgraded speaker system in the old jalopy.

There are so many questions to address, when it comes to this severe a reinvention of a classic. Even limiting them just to the aural, for now: How much of the orchestral score was re-recorded? Will Dorothy still sound like Dorothy, amid all the updates, or will Judy Garland now be lip-synching to Addison Rae?...

Longtime Warner Bros. executives Dana Nussbaum, Christian Davin and John Stanford have officially been installed to lead the motion picture group’s marketing and creative strategy teams.

Warner Bros. co-chiefs Michael DeLuca and Pam Abdy announced internally on Wednesday that Nussbaum and Davin have been named co-heads of global motion picture marketing, and Stanford will serve as head of global creative strategy. The trio have performed these roles in an interim capacity since January, when the studio experienced a major shakeup of its executive ranks as marketing chief Josh Goldstine (who’d shepherded the box office behemoth “Barbie”) stepped down and the studio’s head of international distribution Andrew Cripps also departed his role.

In a memo to staff, DeLuca and Abdy congratulated Nussbaum, Davin and Stanford on their “great success” during their interim appointment.

“They and their teams showcased innovation across every marketing discipline with the most recent campaigns for ‘Minecraft,...

Aaron Sorkin is going back into the world of Facebook. Sorkin and Sony Pictures are in development on “The Social Network Part II,” a follow-up film to the 2010 gem “The Social Network” about the founding of Facebook, an individual with knowledge of the project told IndieWire.

For now, the film is only in development, but Sorkin has already written the screenplay for the follow-up, and Sony has also tapped him to direct after David Fincher directed the first film.

Crucially, no cast is set on the project, and the film is being described as a follow-up rather than a sequel, so it’s unclear if Sorkin would look to again tap stars Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg, Andrew Garfield, or others.

This time, Sorkin is working from the Wall Street Journal’s series of articles called “The Facebook Files” from 2021, which exposed the inner workings of the social media giant...