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Doug Liman has been set to direct Miles Teller and Eddie Redmayne in Star One, which Black Bear and CAA Media Finance are launching for the Cannes market. Based on a true story, the film will follow “two mismatched CIA agents, one charismatic (Teller), the other strait-laced (Redmayne), who must work together to execute a

Damian Lewis has joined Ella Purnell (Fallout) and Nicholas Galitzine (The Idea of You) in The Return of Stanley Atwell. Check out a first look at the film above.  Also joining the cast are Jess Alexander (The Beauty), Adrian Rawlins (Rose of Nevada), and Will Keen (His Dark Materials).  Written and directed by Brian Welsh

The survival thriller Apex starring Charlize Theron and Taron Egerton remained the number one film in the Netflix Top Ten for the second straight week with 40.2 million views. This marked an increase from the films first week in release where it took in 38.2 million views and was number one in 82 countries. Directed

It’s Star Wars Day today, but it is also starting to feel a lot like Barack Obama Week. One day before a much hyped sit-down with Stephen Colbert, the 44th POTUS teamed with Luke Skywalker himself Monday to celebrate May The 4th, as well as the upcoming opening of the Obama Presidential Center. In a

Actors Demi Moore, Stellan Skarsgård, Ruth Negga and Isaach De Bankolé along with Oscar-winning writer-director Chloé Zhao, Chilean writer-director Diego Céspedes, Belgian writer-director Laura Wandel and Ken Loach’s go-to screenwriter Paul Laverty have been selected for the main competition jury at the upcoming 79th Cannes Film Festival. The group, revealed Monday, join writer-director Park Chan-Wook

EXCLUSIVE: Now You See Me and Together star Dave Franco is joining Talk To Me and Babygirl actress Sophie Wilde in alien invasion thriller, Soon You Will Be Gone And Possibly Eaten. As we told you earlier this year, Egor Abramenko, the filmmaker behind A24’s upcoming horror film Altar and Russian sci-fi Sputnik, will direct from a script by Luke Piotrowski

The Celebrity Traitors, the highest-rated show on British TV last year, is back for a second season. Hosted by Claudia Winkleman, the BBC reality series has assembled another impressive cast as filming gets underway at Ardross Castle in the Scottish Highlands over the summer. The Last of Us star Bella Ramsey, Good Omens actor Michael

In Ioana Mischie’s film Catane, twin girls weave their long red hair together into a single braid and squeeze themselves into one sweater to make it appear they are conjoined. Why would they do such a thing? Well, it’s all part of a larger “conspiracy.” It seems the Romanian mountain village where they live has

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s some fun casting. Three-time Oscar nominee Ralph Fiennes (Conclave), Oscar nominee Colin Farrell (The Banshees of Inisherin) and recent Oscar nominee Wagner Moura (The Secret Agent) are teaming up on comedy movie Art. This is an English-language adaptation of the popular play of the same name by French playwright Yasmina Reza and it

Hot Docs, the major nonfiction film festival in Toronto, has announced award winners for the event’s 33rd edition. Earning Best International Feature Documentary was House of Hope, directed by Marjolein Busstra, a film set in the occupied West Bank that focuses on an elementary school run by a couple who teach their young Palestinian students

EXCLUSIVE: Dylan O’Brien (Send Help) is set to star in James Morosini’s erotic thriller Bulls, alongside Lewis Pullman (Thunderbolts*) and Kaia Gerber (Bottoms), we can reveal. Yvette Zhuang and Zach Glueck, co-CEOs of Manifest Pictures, are launching the project ahead of the Cannes market. Written and directed by Morosini, a SXSW winner for I Love

Charles Collier, Rebel Wilson‘s UK agent, has offered a frank assessment of the legal mess that has engulfed The Deb during evidence to a trial in Australia. Appearing in front of a Sydney court via video link from the UK, Collier described the proceedings as a “car crash” that had resulted from a clash of

Evangeline Lilly is blasting The Walt Disney Company over the layoffs at Marvel, which saw their workforce reduced by about 8%. The company-wide cuts at Disney affected most departments, including film and TV production, comics, franchise, finance, legal, and visual development. Marvel’s visual department was severely affected by the cuts, even after a small round

EXCLUSIVE: British videogame Atomfall is coming to TV, courtesy of Rebellion and Two Brothers Pictures, the producer of The Assassin and Fleabag. The game hails from indie studio Rebellion, which has teamed up with the Two Brothers label for the TV adaptation. A series is now being worked up. The game is a critical and

While Meryl Streep is reprising one of her most iconic characters in The Devil Wears Prada 2, her rate has increased quite a bit in the 20 years since the original. The 3x Oscar winner recently revealed that she originally turned down the sequel to the 2006 adaptation of Lauren Weisberger’s book, noting that “it

EXCLUSIVE: Filming has recently wrapped in northern Portugal on feature drama The Odd Enchantment Of Madam P, starring Maria de Medeiros (Pulp Fiction), Trine Dyrholm (Queen Of Hearts), Emily Beecham (Little Joe), Tom Austen (Django series), Mathieu Amalric (The French Dispatch) and Alex Descas (Irma Vep). Also starring are French actress, dancer, and circus performer

Colleen Hoover’s thriller Verity will hit theaters following the feature adaptation of Regretting You. Both films have big shoes to fill after the feature adaptation of It Ends With Us starring Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, who directed the film. Verity is another one of Hoover’s popular novels, and it has a thriller bent. The

James Gunn in a social media conversation Monday revealed that development on the The Authority is taking a break. The feature film about a DC rogue squad was initially announced as one of his hot projects when he first took the reins of DC Studios in January 2023. “I never had an intention of writing

Maialen Beloki has been appointed as the next director of the San Sebastián Film Festival to replace longtime head José Luis Rebordinos when he steps down at the end of this year. Beloki, who has been one of the deputy directors of the festival in Spain’s Basque Country since 2016, will take up the post

Antoine Fuqua notched the best opening of his career at the box office this weekend as his Michael Jackson biopic Michael, from Lionsgate and Universal, debuted to $97 million in the U.S. and $217.4M worldwide. The sweat truly paid off for the director, who cut his teeth doing music videos for Toni Braxton, Stevie Wonder,

UPDATED, SUNDAY AM: Some may have danced on the ceiling for Lionel Richie, but when it comes to Michael, whether it’s at Century City AMC or in Brazil, the UK, France, Spain, Mexico, etc., they’re boogieing down in the theaters. Already, Universal is seeing repeat business for the Lionsgate pic on which they took foreign,

The director of The Devil Wears Prada 2 admits that he did want to sprinkle a little Nate into the much-anticipated sequel. David Frankel told Entertainment Weekly that he considered “sneaking” Adrian Grenier in for a surprise cameo. Unfortunately for Nate fans, “it was just too late in our production schedule to make it happen.”

Spies are back, at least according to rising star Agnes O’Casey, who is playing four agent roles this year and who unsurprisingly has some thoughts about the most famous spook of all. “I was playing a game of ‘Would you rather be?’ with friends recently and the question was ‘Bond or Indiana’, and after that

EXCLUSIVE: In 2024, almost 80,000 people died of drug overdoses in the U.S., according to the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics. North of the border, the situation is just as alarming. In Canada in the past decade, more than 50,000 people have died of overdoses – a striking number given the much smaller size

EXCLUSIVE: He may be at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival to preside over the jury, but Park Chan-Wook will also be heating up the market with a movie package that has serious firepower behind it. Park is assembling an A-list cast for his passion project Western The Brigands of Rattlecreek, with Oscar winner Matthew McConaughey (Interstellar),

EXCLUSIVE: Animated feature Return of the Jungle will launch in theaters across India on May 29. Here’s a teaser trailer revealing the news. The music-drivem family pic, which comes from Vaibhav Studios, the Emmy-nominated Indian animation studio, was showcased at the Cannes Film Market two years before its debut on Indian theatres. Set in contemporary

The Annecy International Film Festival is teaming with stop-motion studio Laika on an exhibition entitled “Wildwood: A First Glimpse into a Handmade World”  to mark the launch of its new Cité internationale du cinéma d’animation. The show, delving into world of Laika’s upcoming feature Wildwood, will run from June 21 to September 27 as one

The life of Bernard Loiseau, the late French culinary giant who inspired the character of Chef Auguste Gusteau in Pixar’s Ratatouille, is set to be explored in a biopic.   Chi-Fou-Mi Productions, which is part of the Mediawan Group, and 31 Juin Films announced on Thursday that they are joining forces in partnership with Loiseau’s family,

Ryan Reynolds is teasing what the future looks like for Deadpool, and he seemingly already has some ideas. After starring in 2024’s Deadpool & Wolverine, Marvel fans have been wondering where the character would go next, and in a new interview, Reynolds shared some hints. While making an appearance on Today’s Sunday Sitdown Live, Reynolds was

EXCLUSIVE: Three-time Oscar nominees Ralph Fiennes (Conclave) and Viggo Mortensen (Eastern Promises) are leading cast in Oscar winner István Szabó’s (Mephisto) under-the-radar period drama Embers, which has begun filming in Budapest, Hungary. Also joining the cast in the prestige pic are Oscar nominee Charlotte Rampling (45 Years), Katherine Langford (13 Reasons Why), Louis Hofmann (All