Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest film One Battle After Another will arrive on HBO Max beginning December 19th. An American Sign Language (Asl) version of the film will also be available on the platform that same day.

The movie, which we named as one of the Best Films of 2025, stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro, Regina Hall, Teyana Taylor, and Chase Infiniti. The story follows DiCaprio as a washed-up revolutionary who must confront his evil nemesis (Penn) and battle the consequences of his past when his daughter goes missing after 16 years off the grid. Frequent PTA collaborator Jonny Greenwood helmed the score.

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Rabbits and foxes and snakes, oh my! “Zootopia 2” is officially the highest-grossing Hollywood release of the year. Disney’s animal-packed animated sequel has earned a staggering $1.13 billion globally after 20 days of release, overtaking the haul of Disney’s live-action “Lilo & Stitch” remake with $1.03 billion. A non-Motion Picture Association (MPA) film, China’s animated blockbuster “Ne Zha 2,” remains 2025’s biggest release with $1.9 billion.

Another Disney juggernaut, James Cameron’s epic “Avatar: Fire and Ash,” could contend for the 2025 crown — considering its predecessors were $2 billion-grossing sensations. However, the threequel opens on Dec. 19 and will likely earn the majority of its money in the following calendar year.

On Friday, “Zootopia 2” surpassed the $1 billion mark after 17 days in theaters, the quickest PG film to achieve the milestone. The sequel stands as the seventh-biggest animated film in history, outpacing the original 2016’s “Zootopia” ($1.025 billion globally) and last year’s “Moana 2” ($1.06 billion).

Over the weekend,...

The team behind the upcoming “Fast X: Part 2” wrote a role for soccer star Cristiano Renaldo, Vin Diesel shared on Instagram Saturday.

The actor posted a photo of himself and Renaldo posed together and captioned it, “Everyone asked, would he be in the ‘Fast’ mythology … I gotta tell you he is a real one. We wrote a role for him.”

Diesel did not elaborate on what the role might be.

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The actor previously announced in February 2024 that the upcoming movie, which is slated to premiere in April 2027, will be the last in the franchise.

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Lakeith Stanfield is set to play NBA legend Dennis Rodman in Lionsgate’s “48 Hours in Vegas,” taking over the role after Jonathan Majors was dropped from the film following his 2023 assault conviction.

The upcoming comedy is “inspired by the untold story of Dennis Rodman’s legendary trip to Las Vegas during the 1998 NBA Finals — just as the Rodman’s Chicago Bulls are on the verge of completing their second consecutive threepeat championship in eight years,” according to a release.

Rick Famuyiwa will direct “48 Hours in Vegas” and write the next draft of the screenplay, following an earlier draft by Jordan VanDina.

The film will be produced by Lord Miller’s Phil Lord, Chris Miller, and Aditya Sood. Executive producers include Ari Lubet, Rodman and Lucy Kitada, with Nikki Baida serving as co-producer. Meredith Wieck and Pavan Kalidindi will oversee the project for Lionsgate, while Robert Melnik negotiated the deals on behalf of the studio.

We are celebrating the life of the late, great Rob Reiner, who tragically passed away at 78.

Stephen King is not only a prolific author, but the source of dozens of great movies and TV shows that adapt his work. His name is a recognizable brand, one that studios have come to rely on for some of the most acclaimed and successful horror movies of all time. Hell, there's a reason why 2025 alone had so many Stephen King adaptations.

Still, as popular as King and his work are, adaptations aren't all guaranteed to get made. There is at least one Stephen King movie that every studio in Hollywood rejected, yet once...

James Woods, who has been vocally pro-Donald Trump, is speaking out against the “distasteful” comments made about Rob Reiner.

Woods, who starred in Reiner’s “Ghosts of Mississippi” in 1996, opened up about his late friend during an appearance on Fox News on Monday night, revealing that he was at a low point and landing that job turned it around.

“Rob literally saved my career and really put me back on track in a way that was so important and rewarding in my life. He really fought for me when a studio didn’t want me in a movie,” Woods said. “I went from really being basically out of a job to getting an Academy Award nomination and I give all the credit to Rob.”

Getting choked up multiple times during the interview with Jesse Watters, Woods explained that friends would often ask him how he could be friends with the director,...

Eva Victor's feature debut, "Sorry, Baby," has come a long way since becoming a Sundance darling earlier this year. The film was critically lauded on release, and currently boasts a stellar 97% on Rotten Tomatoes. This outpouring of love is thoroughly earned — the film is a sharp, refreshing black comedy that sways between genuine hilarity and the most heartbreaking examination of trauma and its aftermath. You would expect Victor to lean into this heavy emotion, but they acknowledge it sincerely with the aim of marching forward and eventually outgrowing it. But there are moments where this pain and discomfort linger, forcing Agnes (Victor) to question everything about her evolving identity.

Misha Collins originally auditioned to play a demon on "Supernatural," so he can be forgiven for needing some time to get acquainted with Castiel, the angelic character he ended up playing in Eric Kripke's horror drama. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Collins and his co-stars, Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki, looked back at his "Supernatural" debut, with Collins sharing an interesting detail about having to reshoot his first scene.

Castiel first appears in season 4's "Lazarus Rising" episode, which is often regarded as one of the best installments of "Supernatural." The character's grand entrance sees him storm into a building where Dean and Bobby Singer (Jim Beaver) are holding up,...

There's no doubt "Slow Horses" is the best spy show on TV, combining outstanding performances and top-notch action with a sardonic wit to create a wholly unmissable experience. When the series debuted in 2022, it seemed that Olivia Cooke's Sidonie Baker was going to be a major part of that experience, but the character was dispatched fairly quickly after suffering a gunshot to the head. While Sid has yet to return to the series, however, those who've read them will know that she does eventually reappear in the books on which the show is based, which means we may yet see her back on-screen very soon.

There's one thing "Slow Horses...

Kevin Bacon was on the verge of tears as he posted an emotional video tribute on Instagram to Rob Reiner, who directed him in the 1992 legal drama “A Few Good Men.” It was nominated for four Oscars.

Reiner and his wife Michele were found dead in their Los Angeles home Sunday, and their son Nick is being held on suspicion of murder.

Bacon co-starred as a young Marine captain in the film, which starred Jack Nicholson and Tom Cruise. “I’m not sure how to do this,” Bacon starts out in the video, sounding emotional. “But Rob Reiner gave me a job in ‘A Few Good Men.’ Sometime in the ’90s, I guess it was. I was over the moon to get that job — people may or may not know but ‘This Is Spinal Tap’ is my all-time favorite movie and when he called me, I was just so thrilled.

Taylor Momsen revealed in Vulture’s oral history on “How the Grinch Saved Christmas” that Jim Carrey once stopped production in the middle of filming when a stunt involving his child co-star nearly harmed her. Momsen was 7 years old when she filmed “Grinch,” which marked her feature film debut in a major Hollywood studio movie.

“I remember when we were shooting the scene coming down the mountain on the sled. It was this real sled that was up on a giant spring that was being controlled and moving from side to side, very aggressively,” Momsen told Vulture. “Jim is leaning over and being extravagant Jim. There was a moment where I almost fell out of the sled, and he freaked out. He called cut and started checking in on me. I was having a great time. I was laughing; I wasn’t thinking about the fact that I just almost...

It seems like every new "Star Trek" series these days comes loaded with non-negotiables that simply must live up to fan expectations. Will it be action-heavy or focus more on the philosophical musings of the classic shows? Does the writing team know their lore inside and out, or are we in for some controversial, canon-breaking elements that will keep the editors over at Memory Alpha busy for the foreseeable future? And, perhaps most importantly of all, are the antagonists up to snuff and capable of standing side by side with some of the greats in decades past ... or must our villain rankings forever remain unchanged?

The jury is still out on "Starfleet Academy,...

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It’s Dec. 15, 2025, and this edition is dedicated to the magnificent Rob Reiner.

The news out of Los Angeles is devastating. Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer, are no longer with us, and the shock of that loss still hasn’t settled in. In moments like this, language feels inadequate. I won’t focus on the tragedy. Instead, all we can do is look back — at the work, at the moments, at the stories — and say thank you.

The first Rob Reiner film I ever saw was “A Few Good Men.” I was too young to understand the mechanics of military law or the intricacies of courtroom procedure, but I understood the electricity of conviction. The thrill of watching ideas collide. The power of words when they felt sharp as a blade.

“You can’t handle the truth!

Sound is imperative to the story of “Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere.”

The Scott Cooper film, based on Warren Zanes’ book about the making of Bruce Springsteen’s “Nebraska” and “Born in the USA,” revolves around the sound of those records, and if he can break through to his family, to himself, to be heard.

We see Jeremy Allen White, as Springsteen, writing and recording “Nebraska” on a four-track cassette recorder in the bedroom of a rented New Jersey lake house in 1981-82. Authenticity to the period was key for the sound team.

“Jeremy did a ton of work with vocals and guitar,” says Jason Ruder, supervising music editor and a “huge fan of ‘Nebraska.’” He notes that Springsteen, who was on set almost every day, opened his recording vault to the production. “We had all the vocals Jeremy had done. We had all the tracks I was given by...

Spoilers for all three "Knives Out" movies follow.

Rian Johnson has proven himself to be a master of the whodunnit with his Benoit Blanc murder mysteries "Knives Out," "Glass Onion" and "Wake Up Dead Man," all three of which keep audiences guessing right up until their stunning climaxes, where Daniel Craig's brilliant sleuth, with valuable assistance from one of the suspects, reveals all. They're basically star-studded "Columbo" episodes where the how is typically more fascinating than the who, which is a good thing because, three films into the series, Johnson might be tipping his hand just a tad.

Hopefully, you're reading this article after watching all three movies because...

[Editor’s note: The following interview contains spoilers for “Silent Night, Deadly Night.”]

Few horror franchises have worked harder to earn their villain’s sympathy than “Silent Night, Deadly Night,” and Cineverse’s audacious new remake from filmmaker Mike P. Nelson is no exception.

Since the original movies’ infamously brief theatrical run in 1984, this seasonal slasher — sometimes about a Santa-obsessed serial killer with hallucinatory Ptsd, sometimes not — has stayed relevant through its flexible holidays IP and various directors’ willingness to manipulate the backlash its core concept still gets. That loose framework “relaxed” Nelson when making his movie, and gave imaginative genre fans one of the best “Silent Night, Deadly Night” installments yet.

“When I think of ‘Silent Night, Deadly Night,’ Billy Chapman is the anchor,” Nelson said of the series’ strangely lovable protagonist, played here by Rohan Campbell. “I know the sequels exist — three, four, five — and they’re not necessarily my go-tos, but what they did was open...

With "It: Welcome to Derry" season 1 having come to an end, you might be looking for more shows about creepy towns from the mind of Stephen King. Heck, you might also be looking for another one that stars Pennywise actor Bill Skarsgård as a problem for some townsfolk. If this sounds like something you'd be interested in, then you will be pleased to know that "Castle Rock" is currently available to stream on Netflix.

Created by Sam Shaw and Dustin Thomason, the short-lived "Castle Rock" brings together several of King's characters, locations, and concepts while turning them loose in the titular town. Season 1 focuses on Henry Deaver (André Holland), a...

When Guillermo del Toro called on production designer Tamara Deverell to work on “Frankenstein,” one thing was clear: there would be no green screen. Everything would be handmade from scratch. “We had 20 sculptors at any given moment working,” Deverell says.

Del Toro’s “Frankenstein” traces young Victor Frankenstein (Oscar Isaac) as he comes to terms with his mother’s death. In doing so, he decides he’s going to find the answer to eternal life and spends his years building what becomes the Creature (Jacob Elordi).

Frankenstein. Production Designer Tamara Deverell with crew members on the set of Frankenstein. Cr. Ken Woroner/Netflix © 2025. Ken Woroner/Netflix

Deverell’s sets included building a ship — the Horisont — as well as Victor’s lab, where he creates the Creature.

Location scouting took Deverell around the world, including to Canada, Croatia and the Czech Republic, but she ultimately found Scotland to be the perfect home for the sets.

James Cameron is officially a billionaire, Forbes reports just a few days ahead of the theatrical release of “Avatar: Fire and Ash.” The sequel is the third film in Cameron’s blockbuster “Avatar” film franchise, which includes 2009’s “Avatar” (the highest-grossing movie of all time with $2.9 billion) and 2022’s “Avatar: The Way of Water” (the third highest-grossing movie of all time with $2.3 billion).

As reported by Forbes: “Beginning in the 1980s with ‘The Terminator’ and ‘Aliens’ and extending through ‘Titanic’ and the first two ‘Avatar’ movies,. Cameron’s movies have collectively earned nearly $9 billion at the global box office, and his share of those earnings form the bulk of a personal net worth Forbes now estimates to be $1.1 billion. That puts Cameron on the extremely short list of filmmakers who have reached billionaire status, including George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson and Tyler Perry.”

The publication adds: “Forbes estimates that...

We all remember the ending of Rob Reiner and Nora Ephron's genre-defining romantic comedy "When Harry Met Sally..." After a disastrous romantic encounter, longtime friends Harry Burns (Billy Crystal) and Sally Albright (Meg Ryan) are at odds, with Sally alone at a New Year's Eve party feeling dejected and Harry similarly alone on the streets of New York City. They finally reunite — at which point Harry delivers one of the most romantic speeches in cinematic history. Apparently, Reiner — who died at his Brentwood, California home on December 14, 2025 along with his wife Michele Singer, both of them victims of an apparent homicide — was originally so disillusioned with love that he...

On today’s episode of “Daily Variety” podcast, Variety’s Marc Malkin helps put Rob Reiner’s legacy and impact in Hollywood into perspective. And Rebecca Rubin breaks down a ho-hum weekend at box office as “Zootopia 2” reclaims the No. 1 spot, “Hamnet” impresses and “Ella McKay” stumbles.

Malkin reflected on covering Reiner for years as a director and actor and because he and Singer Reiner were active in philanthropy and social issues. The tragedy of the couple’s death is “beyond comprehension,” he observes.

“When you think about Rob Reiner in Hollywood, in the cultural zeitgeist, this is a man who was so beloved. You never heard anyone say anything negative about Rob Reiner,” Malkin says. “This was a guy who always had a smile on his face on red carpets. He shook your hand. He looked you in the eyes. This was someone who was so down to...

Following the shocking news of Rob and Michelle Reiner’s death on Sunday evening, tributes to the Hollywood legend and his wife began pouring in from those who knew the couple through the entertainment industry or politics, and fans eager to express their love of films like “When Harry Met Sally,” “Stand by Me,” “The Princess Bride,” and “A Few Good Men.” Celebrities who worked with Reiner during his prolific career as an actor, director, and producer took to social media to acknowledge the loss, with many describing how their lives were changed by working with him.

Jerry O’Connell and Corey Feldman, who were just kids when they starred in Reiner’s 1986 coming-of-age classic “Stand by Me,” both posted messages on X hours after the news broke. Feldman expressed shock in an all-caps post, while O’Connell delivered a simple, heartfelt tribute in the form of a photo of himself as...

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Nick Reiner has been arrested on suspicion of murder after the deaths of his parents, the renowned actor-director Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, according to the Los Angeles police chief Jim McDonnell.

Nick Reiner, 32, was taken into custody on Sunday night. Jail records initially showed that his bail had been set at $4m, but Nick Reiner was later ordered held without bail, the police said.

For a long time, Val Kilmer had a reputation as a "difficult" actor. Stories of clashes between him and Joel Schumacher on the set of "Batman Forever" and of Kilmer going violently off-script during his film auditions didn't help in that regard. But anyone who's seen the Prime Video documentary "Val" should immediately recognize that things were much more complex than "Val Kilmer was a difficult actor."

The moving doc painted a portrait of the late star as a true artist who searched for meaning in everything he did and turned in some unforgettable performances in the process. For many, those performances likely include Doc Holliday in George P. Cosmatos'...

Disney+ is one of the biggest names in the streaming market, and the primary reason for that is an all-timer IP roster. Disney, Pixar, "Star Wars," Marvel Studios — and, as of 2017, the films from 20th Century Fox's deep library. That Fox pickup also led to Disney's acquisition of its competitor Hulu. As of now, the latter is available in packages with Disney+, but the plan in the near future is for Disney's app to fully assimilate Hulu.

All of that is to say that when we talk about movies on Disney+, we're including films available through Hulu.

We looked through all of the Disney+ (with Hulu) feature film offerings,...

Each “Knives Out” film has a distinct — if distinctly arch — feel to it. There’s the woodsy New England setting for the first film and the bloated Billionaire Island for the second mystery from director Rian Johnson. But for the third entry, composer Nathan Johnson did not want to lean on traditional tropes of church music for “Wake Up Dead Man” — even though much of it takes place inside the bleakest parish church put to screen in some time.

So Nathan Johnson, not so unlike Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig), while investigating the seemingly impossible murder of Monsignor Jefferson Wicks (Josh Brolin), zagged instead of zigged. “Wake Up Dead Man” does feature a smattering of organ and a little bit of harp, which wouldn’t be out of place under the Gothic arches of Our Lady of Fortitude. But the bulk of the score is sneakier and subtler, leaning on tonal...

“Sore: Wife from the Future” asks much of its audience. From believing in time travel to imagining outlandish fantasy scenarios, Indonesia’s Oscar entry relies on the suspension of disbelief. Many films have managed to convert their audience to a unique story construct. Here, unfortunately, that ask proves to be too much. Almost every line of dialogue comes off heavy-handed, the visuals are standard and have none of the fantastical elements of the story, and the screenplay takes so many leaps that it dulls the sense of surprise. Instead of a light dramedy about love, the film becomes a chore to sit through.

“Sore: Wife from the Future” strives to be a bolder take on the manic pixie dream girl stereotype. The film follows Jonathan (Dion Wiyoko), an Indonesian photographer adrift in Croatia. His career has stalled, his girlfriend is fed up with him and he leads an unhealthy lifestyle.

Amazon Prime's "Fallout" adaptation is back for a second season, which means we'll see much more of Kyle MacLachlan's antagonist, Hank MacLean. So how does MacLachlan, a veteran actor who's starred in everything from "Twin Peaks" to "Sex and the City," balance the show's intense darkness with its funnier moments?

MacLachlan spoke exclusively to /Film's Bj Colangelo about the hit show's sophomore season, and unsurprisingly, the actor said that he learned how to juggle this sort of thing while working on "Twin Peaks," an incredibly disturbing show that was, simultaneously, extraordinarily funny. "I'm following the tone of the show, really, which is serious issues, topics, but dealt with in really an offbeat,...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will announce its highly anticipated shortlists on Tuesday, narrowing hundreds of eligible films across a dozen categories ahead of the 98th Academy Awards in March, and becoming the first firm indication of where voters’ mindsets currently align at this midway point of the phase one period.

Several of these categories have used shortlists for years, but the mechanics behind how films advance have evolved significantly, reshaping what surprises — or lack thereof — we should expect when the lists are unveiled.

Voting concluded Dec. 12 for shortlists in documentary short, documentary feature, international feature film, makeup and hairstyling, original score, original song, sound, visual effects, animated short and live-action short. In addition, the cinematography race will reveal a shortlist, using a two-step nominating process for the first time, as well as best casting, a brand-new category making its long-awaited Oscar debut.

The most consequential change came quietly.

The "Game of Thrones" franchise, based on the "A Song of Ice and Fire" novels by George R. R. Martin, has been a huge hit for HBO, but fans are currently stuck in a lull while they wait for the third season of "House of the Dragon" and the first season of "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms." Both of those are set to release in 2026, and fans have been waiting for a while, so what should they do in the meantime? Thankfully, there's a great Starz series streaming on Netflix that should scratch at least some of that fantasy TV itch. "Outlander" is based on the series of books...

The late Rob Reiner treated us to a bunch of movies that are now considered classics — "Stand by Me," "When Harry Met Sally," "This Is Spinal Tap," "A Few Good Men," etc. That said, his filmography also boasts some overlooked gems that haven't made the same impact as his most successful flicks. This brings us to "The American President," a delightful 1995 romantic comedy starring Michael Douglas and Annette Bening that, despite being underrated by fans, received top plaudits from Roger Ebert.

Directed from a script by Aaron Sorkin, "The American President" tells the story of Douglas' eponymous Commander-in-Chief as he unexpectedly falls in love with an environmental lobbyist (Bening) while...

Disney is developing a live-action spinoff film about Gaston, the boastful, brawny antagonist in “Beauty and the Beast.”

The film will be written by David Callaham, whose co-writing credits include “Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire” and “Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.” Plot details haven’t been confirmed, and a director hasn’t been hired.

Based on the French fairy tale, the story follows a bookish girl named Belle who falls in love with a tortured Beast and lifts a curse that’s left his kingdom populated by talking household objects. “Beauty and the Beast” was released in 1991 and became Disney’s highest grossing animated title at the time. A live-action take on the musical, starring Emma Watson as Belle, debuted in 2017 and was another huge financial triumph for the studio.

Gaston, who was introduced in the animated classic, is an arrogant hunter who doesn’t...

By now, Kyle MacLachlan knows a thing or two about intense fans. After all, he originated the role of FBI agent Dale Cooper in David Lynch's surrealist classic "Twin Peaks" when it premiered in 1990 and returned for the aptly named revival series "Twin Peaks: The Return" in 2017. Playing Hank MacLean on Prime Video's "Fallout" adaptation, he's now in a franchise that has existing fans from the video games — so how does he handle that pressure?

"I think all of us from top to bottom felt coming into this world that we wanted to honor the existing world and to recreate as best we could, the vibe and the energy and the sensibility of Fallout,...

Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” (2023), the epic chronicle of greed and murder in the Osage Nation, is getting a physical media release from the Criterion Collection. The film is among five titles in the March slate, which also includes Lynne Littman’s “Testament” (1983), Claude Lelouch’s “A Man and a Woman” (1966), Tsui Hark’s “The Blade” (1995) and Luis Buñuel’s “Viridiana” (1961).

Hitting shelves on March 24, Scorsese’s adaptation of David Grann’s true-crime bestseller unfolds in 1920s Oklahoma, where the discovery of oil brings extraordinary wealth to the Osage people. Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Ernest Burkhart, an Army veteran who joins his duplicitous uncle, played by Robert De Niro, in a scheme to rob the Osage of their money and land. Lily Gladstone, the first Native American nominated for best actress at the Oscars, plays Mollie Kyle, Burkhart’s wife, who gradually awakens to the evil surrounding her.

Oscar nominee Josh Brolin (“Milk”) has signed on to narrate “Horse Power,” a new project from Plimsoll Productions and Eos Films. The film, set to be distributed globally by Sk Films, is described as “an epic journey across continents that celebrates the extraordinary abilities of horses and their enduring bond with humanity.”

Brolin became attached to the project thanks to his history as a lifelong horseman. “Horse Power” centers on eight-year-old Julaa as she trains with her Mongolian horse. The film focuses on “wild herds navigating untamed landscapes, legendary desert stallions known for their speed and stamina, steadfast service horses performing under pressure and miniature therapy horses offering comfort where it’s needed most.”

“Seeing horses on an 80-foot screen in 3D offers a visceral experience like no other,” said Mark Brownlow, head of natural history at Plimsoll Productions, which is an ITV company. “There’s something uniquely cinematic about...

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Period dramas on the big screen can deliver a variety of compelling stories, but to fully immerse yourself in the world of the past, sometimes a miniseries is exactly what you need, giving the story plenty of time to breathe. At the same time, they're not going to overstay their welcome either — they're like the Goldilocks of narrative fiction, not too lengthy, not too short.

Long considered a mainstay of prestige television, the advent of streaming services have made historical miniseries more accessible than ever. Whether they're immersive World War II dramas, stories of medieval England, or explorations of more modern periods,...

Critical acclaim and name recognition only gets you so far. That's what Cineverse and Bloody Disgusting had to come to terms with over the weekend as their new remake of the '80s cult horror classic, "Silent Night, Deadly Night," flopped at the box office in its debut. Most unfortunate of all, director Mike P. Nelson's take on the franchise was met with a great deal of acclaim, but it still couldn't cut through the noise.

"Silent Night, Deadly Night" opened to just $1.1 million on over 1,600 screens, making for an unfortunately lousy $682 per-screen average. It actually did worse than Disney's newcomer "Ella McCay," which opened to just $2.1 million, itself...

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With 2025's "Frankenstein" Guillermo del Toro made some major changes to Mary Shelley's original story, most of which were for the better. The gloriously gothic monster movie was a triumph for the celebrated filmmaker, reinvigorating a well-known story and proving that Shelley's original tale remains as versatile and flexible today as it ever was. Long before del Toro achieved such a feat, however, DC comics had a go. With the 1994 one-shot "Batman: Castle of the Bat," writer Jack C. Harris and illustrator Bo Hampton ostensibly reworked the "Frankenstein" story as a Batman comic, but what ended up happening was...

Sundance has revealed its short film selections for the 2026 film festival. This year’s selections include 54 titles that will be screened across eight distinct programs.

Coming from 22 countries and territories around the world, the shorts represent various genres and styles in fiction, documentary and animated storytelling. This year’s festival will also have a special Park City Legacy short film program, playing shorts from past editions of the festival with the filmmakers in attendance to honor its final year in the Utah city.

Sundance’s Director of Programming Kim Yutani states, “We are looking forward to presenting these short films as part of our 2026 selection this coming January. Each one is a testament to the creative talent working in the short film space, proving that powerful storytelling is impactful across formats. This year’s program is rich with explorations of belonging, resilience, and the unexpected ways people navigate both the everyday and the extraordinary.

On November 28, 2015, "Doctor Who" delivered a masterpiece it's been unable to surpass since. The penultimate episode of the show's season 9, "Heaven Sent," puts the Twelfth Doctor (Peter Capaldi) in a predicament that's unique even by the show's standards. Waking up in a mysterious glass chamber inside a huge, abandoned castle, the Time Lord has to navigate the vast compound in search of clues that might reveal the nature of his predicament. However, he's not alone: A large, cloaked figure (Jami Reid-Quarrell) is chasing him, and he can only temporarily halt it by offering secret truths about himself. Oh, and if all of this wasn't bad enough, it increasingly starts to...

The USC Libraries have announced the finalists for the 38th annual Scripter Awards, which recognize excellence in adapting literature for film and television from the year 2025.

Among the film finalists are several Oscar hopefuls, each based on acclaimed literary works:

“Frankenstein” (Netflix) — Guillermo del Toro — based on the novel “Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus” by Mary Shelley; Penguin (publisher) “Hamnet” (Focus Features) — Chloé Zhao and Maggie O’Farrell — based on O’Farrell’s novel of the same name; Vintage Books (publisher) “One Battle After Another” (Warner Bros.) — Paul Thomas Anderson — based on the novel “Vineland” by Thomas Pynchon; Penguin (publisher) “Peter Hujar’s Day” (Janus Films) — Ira Sachs — based on the book of the same name by Linda Rosenkrantz; Magic Hour Press (publisher) “Train Dreams” (Netflix) — Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar — based on the novella of the same name by Denis Johnson; Picador (publisher)

Ira Sachs’ period drama “Peter Hujar’s Day,” which...

The USC Libraries have named the 2026 finalists for their 38th annual Scripter Awards, which honor the year’s most accomplished adaptations of the written word for the screen. The awards, which go to one film and one television series, recognize both the authors of the original works and the screenwriters who adapted them.

Additionally, author Michael Connelly, responsible for the novels that became hit television series like “Bosch” and “The Lincoln Lawyer,” will accept the USC Libraries Literary Achievement Award at the Scripter ceremony for his contributions to the art of mystery storytelling, both on the page and on the screen.

On the film side, the Scripter Award has been a serious bellwether for the Oscars, having predicted four out of five of the last few Best Adapted Screenplay award winners. Screenwriter Peter Straughan, who won the film award in 2025 for “Conclave” alongside novelist Robert Harris, is nominated again this...

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This article contains spoilers for the season 1 finale of "It: Welcome to Derry."

The "It: Welcome to Derry" season 1 finale opens with Pennywise the Clown (Bill Skarsgård) singing a catchy tune to some school children — a classic jingle about wanting to eat their faces. Afterward, Pennywise uses his powers to lure the kids out of the school and into his cart for the real nightmare to begin. It's a strange, horrifying, and downright creepy sequence — and it might make viewers think of a certain villain from one of the best musicals of all time.

In Ken Hughes' "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang," children are tormented by the evil Child Catcher (Sir...

Theatre comedy Comedie Francaise willopen the 2026 edition of Unifrance’s Paris Rendez-Vous in January.

The filmis the debut feature of Bertrand Usclat and Martin Darondeau and focuses onthree crazy hours leading up to a performance ofMacbeth, as the stage production is beset by delays, technical problems and ego clashes.

It is produced by Thomas Verhaeghe and Mathieu Verhaeghe for Atelier de Production, in co-production with La Comedie Francaise and France 2. Charades is handling international sales.

Rendez-Vous’s28thedition runs January 13-20 and will present French films poised to hit screens and festivals in the year ahead to local and international buyers.

When Rob Reiner died at the age of 78, American movies lost not only an actor, producer, and director who was universally beloved by almost everyone in the industry and everyone who watched him (around 30-40 million people during the heyday of his hit series “All in the Family”), but one of the last practitioners of a certain kind of Hollywood filmmaking.

An unassuming craftsman who sublimated his ego to the demands of the subject matter and genre at hand, Reiner was nevertheless a deeply personal filmmaker. Like Howard Hawks, John Ford, and other masters of the classical studio era, his style was often invisible, but his modesty cloaked the intense engagement of a true artist.

Reiner was one of those filmmakers who was weirdly both widely celebrated and a bit underrated — he made what he did look too easy to be ranked with the greats when people who do such things were doing the ranking.

Disney is having a very good year at the box office thanks to massive hits like the $1 billion smash "Lilo & Stitch" and under-the-radar successes like "Freakier Friday." But they can't all be winners. Unfortunately, director James L. Brooks' ("As Good as It Gets") long-awaited return to the director's chair was decidedly not a winner, as "Ella McCay" flopped badly in its debut. How bad was it? Well, it now ranks as one of the worst opening weekends ever for a Disney movie.

Starring Emma Mackey ("Barbie"), "Ella McCay" opened to just $2.1 million on 2,500 screens for a terrible $840 per-screen average. That's in the same territory as the John Cena and Allison Brie vehicle "Freelance,...

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American martial arts cinema was in transition in the mid-1980s. Chuck Norris had segued out of hand-to-hand combat to gun-toting heroics in films like "Invasion U.S.A." and the "Missing in Action" trilogy, while Jackie Chan had, after a brief Hollywood dalliance with "The Big Brawl" and two "Cannonball Run" flicks, returned to Hong Kong to show the entire world how it's done with classics like "Police Story," "Project A," and "Wheels on Meals." There was still an appetite for martial arts action stateside, but studios were struggling to find an actor who had the right mixture of skills and...

The Sundance Film Festival is rolling out the lineup for its landmark 41st edition, where organizers and attendees will bid farewell to the festival’s founder, the late Robert Redford, and its longtime home of Park City, Utah.

After announcing the feature and episodic program last week, on Monday, the Sundance Institute revealed this year’s substantial lineup of short film selections. The 54 films in the short program, which include fiction, nonfiction, and animation titles, hail from 22 countries and territories across eight categories. And as usual, the selections represent both established and emerging filmmakers, many of whom will be in attendance for the world or North American premiere of their films.

In the nonfiction category, shorts transport viewers to an outsider community on the edge of the Mississippi River in New Orleans (“Some Kind of Refuge”), the days following Luigi Mangione’s arrest (“Luigi”), and a therapy collective in 1970s...

Nick Reiner, the son of filmmaker Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Singer Reiner, has been arrested and is in custody after the couple were found dead at their home in Los Angeles.

According to local police, 32-year-old Nick Reiner has been “booked for murder” and was arrested on Sunday night (December 15).

His bail has been set at $4m and he was charged today.

A source told NBC that the couple died of stab wounds.

Nick Reiner wrote the screenplay to 2016 drama Being Charlie, directed by his father, about a teenager with addiction issues that was loosely based on his life.