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Greta Gerwig, whose latest movie “Barbie” grossed $1.4 billion at the global box office this year and just picked up nine Golden Globe nominations, will preside over the jury of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. Gerwig has attended Cannes alongside her partner Noah Baumbach before, notably in 2017 when his “The Meyerowitz Stories” premiered, but she’s

Adam Driver revealed on “The Rich Eisen Show” that his arc as Kylo Ren in “Star Wars” completed changed from its original plan over the course of his three films: “The Force Awakens” (2015), “The Last Jedi” (2017) and “The Rise of Skywalker” (2019). According to the actor, Kylo Ren was never supposed to soften

“Barbie’s” billion-dollar box office haul has opened the door for more feature film adaptations of iconic plastic ladies. American Girls, the 18-inch dolls that had an absolute chokehold over millennial youths, are finally getting their day on the big screen. That’s right: Samantha, Kirsten, Molly, Felicity, Addy (and maybe even a few more — fingers

Jonathan Majors will not testify in the ongoing trial for his alleged assault against his ex-girlfriend, Grace Jabbari. The defense rested Wednesday afternoon and no further witnesses will be called. Priya Chaudhry and Seth Zuckerman, Majors’ attorneys, only called three witnesses to the stand on Wednesday and rested their case in the late afternoon. Closing

Psychological thriller “Miller’s Girl,” which stars Jenna Ortega and Martin Freeman, has released a trailer. Written and directed by Jade Halley Bartlett, the film follows a precocious female student, Cairo Sweet (Ortega), who develops a dark, complex relationship with her teacher, Jonathan Miller (Freeman), after he assigns her to write a short story inspired by

James Gunn has assembled quite the cast for “Superman: Legacy.” In addition to the film’s main trio – Superman (David Corenswet), Lois Lane (Rachel Brosnahan) and Lex Luthor (Nicholas Hoult) – the movie is also reportedly set to feature Jimmy Olsen (Skyler Gisondo), Metamorpho (Anthony Carrigan), Mister Terrific (Edi Gathegi), Guy Gardner (Nathan Fillon), Hawkgirl

New Regency Chairman and CEO Yariv Milchan announced Wednesday that Natalie Lehmann has been promoted to president of motion pictures and television. “Over the last seven years with New Regency, Natalie has proven time and time again she is one of the best in the business,” Milchan said in a statement announcing Lehmann’s elevation from

Century City was abuzz Wednesday with the presence of former First Lady Michelle Obama, who was on hand in Los Angeles for meetings at CAA. The power agency, which closed a deal for new majority ownership in September, represents Michelle and Barack Obama’s production company Higher Ground. Michelle Obama and her team sat for generals

Chelsey Summey has been named the Sr. VP of communications for Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group, Warner Bros. Discovery announced. She will support the group’s internal communications and external media relations, including for Warner Bros. Pictures, New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. Pictures Animation. Summey will report to Katie Martin Kelley, executive VP of communications

The past 24 hours have been awash in headlines about Netflix’s What We Watched report: an information dump that many analysts considered the most transparent accounting of user data that the streamer has ever released. The report tracked user engagement using an “hours watched” metric – meaning how many hours a piece of content was

Christopher Abbott is the new “Wolf Man,” taking over the starring role in the upcoming monster movie from Blumhouse and Universal Pictures from Ryan Gosling. Details on the project are being kept under wraps, but Abbott (“Poor Things,” “It Comes at Night” and a Golden Globe nominee for “Catch-22”) plays a man whose family is

Letterboxd, the movie-reviews social network that has attracted millions of cinephiles — including one Martin Scorsese — is adding movie listings to its service. Starting Wednesday (Dec. 13), Letterboxd Patron members in the U.S., Canada, U.K., Ireland, New Zealand and Australia will have access to showtime listings for films currently playing in cinemas near them

For much of their conversation, Ben Affleck and Michael B. Jordan seem mutually star-struck, even though they’ve known each other for 10 years. They first connected after “Argo,” Affleck’s third directorial effort, won best picture and Jordan’s career skyrocketed following his searing leading performance in Ryan Coogler’s “Fruitvale Station.” Today, Affleck inundates Jordan with praise

Ava DuVernay’s “Origin” is a masterpiece, but so far, the sprawling look at the roots of hate has failed to land some of the major film prizes. After watching the movie at this year’s Toronto Film Festival, I thought I’d seen a prime Oscar best picture contender, and that DuVernay might get her first directing

George Clooney may be returning to the “Ocean’s” franchise. In a new interview with Uproxx while promoting his movie “The Boys in the Boat,” the actor revealed that a script for another “Ocean’s” movie exists that would seemingly reunite the original trilogy’s cast for a movie set after the events of 2007’s “Ocean’s 13.” Clooney

Cinetic Media has signed directors Julie Cohen, Oren Jacoby and Betsy West. The management company will represent the Oscar-nominated filmmakers and their documentary company, Storyville Films, across all types of media. Storyville Films was founded by Jacoby to produce documentaries and series driven by “strong personal narratives of conscience, courage and innovation.” Jacoby, Cohen and West

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Why did Netflix just drop a huge dump of viewing stats? In a nutshell: Because it can. The streaming giant this week released its first “Netflix Engagement Report,” inclusive of more than 18,000 titles and nearly 100 billion hours viewed between January-June 2023 — representing 99% of all viewing during that period. And notably, for

The Dragon Warrior has returned. DreamWorks has released the trailer for “Kung Fu Panda 4,” set for release on March 8. The franchise follows a panda named Po (Jack Black), who, in the first film, is fated to become the prophesied Dragon Warrior, the only kung fu master capable of defeating the evil Tai Lung.

Production in Western Australia has wrapped on psychological thriller “The Surfer,” starring Nicolas Cage. Producers have released a first-look image of a tousled and confused-looking Cage inside a car that his character may have slept in. When a man returns to Australia to buy back his family home after many years in the U.S., he

The Library of Congress announced the 25 features joining the National Film Registry for 2023, with titles including “12 Years a Slave,” “Home Alone,” “The Nightmare Before Christmas” and “Terminator 2: Judgment Day.” Selected films must be more than 10 years old and are selected each year for their cultural, historic or aesthetic significance to

Elliot Page, and Matt Jordan Smith and Tuck Dowrey of Page’s production company Pageboy Productions, have joined writer-director Ary Zara’s short “An Avocado Pit” as executive producers. The film follows the meeting of Larissa, a trans woman and Claudio, a cis man. The two polar opposites come together to enjoy an evening side by side,

U.S. outfit Parmar Entertainment’s Daljit DJ Parmar along with Samir Gupta from India’s Impact Films and filmmaker Mohit Ramchandani (“Dreamer”) have acquired film adaptation rights to upcoming novel “The Muziris Empire” by U.K. author Hamish Morjaria. The first in a trilogy, the book is set to be released by Pan Macmillan in summer 2024. It

Magnify, which was formally known as Magnolia Pictures International, has acquired global and U.S. sales rights to “Veni Vedi Vici,” an Australian social satire from directors’ Daniel Hoesl and Julia Niemann. Written by Hoesl, the film will debut in the World Dramatic Competition section of the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. It marks the first title acquired for sales

Prominent local producer Jeremy Chua has been appointed as general manager of the Singapore International Film Festival. He takes up the post from Jan. 1, 2024. Emily J. Hoe, who led the festival for the past four years as its executive director, is stepping down and is understood to be relocating to Australia. Thong Kay

“Bobi Wine: The People’s President” took the top prize for best feature at the International Documentary Assn. Awards on Tuesday. Directed by Christopher Sharp and Moses Bwayo, and produced by Sharp and Oscar-winner John Battsek, the docu follows the attempt by musician Bobi Wine to topple the repressive regime of Ugandan president Yoweri Museven. The

Former film executive Michael Nathanson, who previously served as head of MGM, is joining the nonprofit Rewilding America Now (RAN) as CEO and managing director. The organization is dedicated to preserving the wild horses of the U.S. and advocating for innovative environmental conservation practices. Nathanson will lead RAN’s rebranding and new initiatives. In addition to

James Cameron recently told People magazine that “Avatar 3″ is “right on track” for its December 2025 release date. The film has been worked on since before the second “Avatar” movie, “Avatar: The Way of Water,” opened in theaters in December 2022 and became the third-highest grossing film in history with $2.3 billion worldwide. Cameron

On Tuesday, two NYPD police officers who were present for Jonathan Majors‘ arrest for alleged assault testified in court in his ongoing trial. Officer Erik Lucero and Sergeant Bryan Hanson responded to Majors’ 911 call on March 26 after the actor found his ex-girlfriend, Grace Jabbari, unconscious on the floor of a walk-in closet in

Anne Hathaway was all signed up and ready to play Felicia Hardy a.k.a. Black Cat opposite Tobey Maguire in Sam Raimi’s “Spider-Man 4,” but the movie fell apart when Sony Pictures decided not to continue the Raimi-Maguire storyline. The studio opted to reboot the Marvel hero instead (Andrew Garfield’s “The Amazing Spider-Man”), but Hathaway is