Month: February 2025

Ahead of her highly-anticipated visit to “The White Lotus,” Parker Posey has signed on to star in Martin McDonagh‘s next film, “Wild Horse Nine.” Posey joins previously announced star Sam Rockwell, who won the Oscar for best supporting actor for his most recent collaboration with McDonagh, 2017’s “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.” John Malkovich and

The owner of a crisis mitigation firm who was accused of launching a “digital army” against Blake Lively has sued the actor for defamation. Jed Wallace, owner of Street Relations, filed a multi-million dollar suit against Lively on Tuesday in federal court in Texas. Wallace was accused in Lively’s lawsuit and civil rights complaint of

International rights to Antonia Campbell-Hughes’ thriller “Diamond Shitter,” which stars Raffey Cassidy, Eva Green, Ben Whishaw and Alessandro Nivola, have been picked up by Beta Cinema. The sales company will launch pre-sales at the European Film Market, with UTA Independent Film Group repping North American rights. The film’s story unfolds against the backdrop of the

Last year’s Oscar winners Emma Stone, Cillian Murphy, Da’Vine Joy Randolph and Robert Downey Jr. are set to return to the 2025 ceremony as presenters. Stone won best actress for playing Bella Baxter in “Poor Things” by Yorgos Lanthimos; Murphy was best actor for his role as J. Robert Oppenheimer in Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer”; Randolph

Oscar nominee Rinko Kikuchi is set to star in “Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!,” the third feature film from writer-director Josef Kubota Wladyka. Alberto Guerra, Alejandro Edda, You and Yo Yoshida round out the international cast of the project, which is filming in Japan. Plot details are currently being kept under wraps, but the film is

The SAG-AFTRA Foundation kicked off Black History Month by launching the fourth season of its Legacy Collection, a series of more than 200 never-before-seen career retrospective interviews. This season focuses on trailblazing Black film and TV actors — beginning with the late Bill Walker, whose career spanned nearly 50 years and more than 100 films

“Erratics,” featuring Denis Lavant, was awarded at IFFR’s co-production market CineMart. Directed by Thomas Woodroffe it tells the story of a ghost of a filmmaker, Lucien Castelnau, who, after a long time trapped in the glaciers of Patagonia, finally breaks free. The film – produced by Bloques Erráticos and co-produced by La Belle Affaire Productions

The board of ASIFA-Hollywood, the organization behind the 52nd annual Annie Awards, pondered, like many other organizers behind events on the awards season calendar, whether the show should be postponed or scaled back because of the devastating fires that ravaged Los Angeles in early January. Many members of the animation community are among those who’ve

A24 has signed a deal with Nordic studio and distributor Nordisk Film to release its films across Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland. The first titles covered by the non-exclusive agreement are Josh Safdie’s comedy “Marty Supreme” with Timothée Chalamet, Benny Safdie’s sports drama “The Smashing Machine” with Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt, Mark Anthony Gordon’s

“Dog Man” is expected to lead the box office pack as two newcomers, Universal’s action comedy “Love Hurts” and Sony’s gory slasher “Heart Eyes,” join the fray. In what’s expected to be another chilly winter weekend for cinemas, “Love Hurts” and Heart Eyes” are each targeting single-digit debuts of $7 million to $8 million. That

Thirteen years after “Mummy Is Coming,” American filmmaker Cheryl Dunye (“The Watermelon Woman”) is gearing up to produce a new feature film with “Black Is Blue” through her production company Jingletown Films. The film, loosely based on her eponymous 2014 short, is one of the projects selected at this year’s CineMart, the co-production market of

A drama featuring Sylvester Stallone and France’s minister for gender equality, Aurore Bergé, is becoming a catalyst for a battle pitting Europe’s thriving dubbing industry against the existential threat of AI. For 50 years, Bergé’s father, Alain Dorval, was known as the “Voix de Stallone.” From the 1970’s onwards French audiences identified Dorval’s baritone with

Universal has unveiled the trailer for “Jurassic World Rebirth.” This feature will mark the seventh film in the 31-year-old cinematic franchise. The official synopsis for “Jurassic World Rebirth” reads: “Five years post-‘Jurassic World Dominion,’ an expedition braves isolated equatorial regions to extract DNA from three massive prehistoric creatures for a groundbreaking medical breakthrough.” Scarlett Johansson plays

Animated blockbuster “Moana 2” put wind into Disney‘s sales for the last three months of 2024. The sequel’s strong showing at the box office, along with another profitable quarter for Disney+ and Hulu, helped the Mouse House beat Wall Street forecasts for revenue and earnings. Disney’s entertainment streaming business, comprising Disney+ and Hulu, delivered its