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Good afternoon Insider team, Max Goldbart here. It has been a wild ride of a week with Berlin drawing to a close. Read below for a good ol’ recap. A Year At War Commemorating: A year is a long time in anyone’s calendar but, for the people of Ukraine, the 12 months that have followed

NATO will present Christopher Nolan and Emma Thomas with its Spirit of the Industry Award at CinemaCon in April for the event’s closing night Big Screen Achievement Awards. It comes as the Nolan written-directed Oppenheimer is set for theatrical release July 21 from Universal Pictures. Produced by Thomas, Atlas Entertainment’s Charles Roven and Nolan.  “I am

In a move that will help put the “meta” in the Metaverse, Disney today teased a one act play called Rogers: The Musical which will debut for a limited run this summer on the Hyperion Stage inside California Adventure Park at Disneyland resort. For those not in the know, Rogers: The Musical was first referenced

Play video content The Eli Manning Show Move over OBJ … Eli Manning has a new favorite acronym — MBJ, as in Michael B. Jordan!!! The New York legend welcomed the movie star to MetLife Stadium in a new episode of “The Eli Manning Show” this week … and Jordan — a die hard Big

Beyond the festival element of Series Mania, one major draw for international industry professionals is the event’s industry strand, Series Mania Forum, which runs from March 21-23. The popular event, which largely centers around its Co-Pro Pitching Sessions, panels and conferences, wraps up with its Lille Dialogues one-day summit on March 23.  This year, the

Here’s a movie Focus Features is excited about for next awards season, and it wouldn’t be shocking to see it world premiering at a big film festival some time this year: Alexander Payne’s New England prep school comedy The Holdovers. The Universal label just dated the pic for November 10 with a wider break on

British actor Phil Davis says he has resigned his membership from BAFTA in the wake of Sunday’s BAFTA Film Awards which he called “an embarrassing travesty.”  In a Twitter post, Davis, who was a Supporting Actor BAFTA nominee for his role in Mike Leigh’s 2004 Vera Drake, wrote, “The BAFTA awards were an embarrassing travesty.

It certainly looks like things are gettin’ serious between Pete Davidson and Chase Sui Wonders — ’cause the two had a sweet PDA moment on their date at the Daytona 500 … and TMZ Sports has the pics of it!!! The comedian and his “Bodies Bodies Bodies” costar enjoyed their Sunday at NASCAR’s Super Bowl

Warner Bros/DC’s The Batman leads all nominations for the third annual Critics Choice Super Awards, which revealed nominees Wednesday for the year’s best across the superhero, sci-fi/fantasy, horror and action genres in film and on TV. Matt Reeves’ refurbished Batman starring Robert Pattinson has six noms overall, including for Best Superhero movie and three Best

Imax chief executive Rich Gelfond said blockbuster titles will probably be back on Imax screens later this year, as per Top Gun: Maverick last year and, more recently, Titanic’s 25th anniversary re-release. “Yes, I think they do. Especially seeing what happens at the Academy Awards, and what wins,” said Gelfond when asked on a conference

The Good Mothers, Disney+’s hard-hitting mafia drama series, has won the first ever Berlinale Series Award. Revealed as winner at the Berlin Zoo Palast in the past few minutes, the drama from Baghdad Central scribe Stephen Butchard tells the true story of how three courageous women inside the notorious Calabrian ‘Ndrangheta mafia worked with female prosecutor, Alessandra

The production company behind “Rust” has found a new place to call home outside of New Mexico … with a church that looks incredibly similar to the one cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was shot in. A rep for Rust Movie Productions tells TMZ Yellowstone Film Ranch in Montana will serve as the new backdrop, adding the

Bethlyn Hand, the former Senior Vice President of Advertising and Administration for the Motion Picture Association, passed away on February 14. The cause was Alzheimer’s disease, her brother Lloyd Hand said. She was 85. A veteran of the MPA, Hand joined the org soon after Jack Valenti was made President, and remained for 37 years.

Bankrupt Regal parent Cineworld said it had multiple bids for all or some of its assets in initial expressions of interest due last week. Its business includes Regal in the U.S.; Cineworld and Picturehouse in the UK and Ireland; and “rest of world” cinemas in Central and Eastern Europe, and Israel. Cineworld attorney Joshua Sussberg

Play video content The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling J.K. Rowling isn’t going to her grave anxiously thinking about how the world will remember her after being labeled transphobic — on the contrary, she says she doesn’t give a hoot. The famed ‘Harry Potter’ author — who’s been mired in controversy these past 3 years

Danish actor Nikolaj Lie Kaas is best known for his work on-screen with filmmakers such as Lars von Trier and Anders Thomas Jensen, but he’s in Berlin this week with Agent, his first project as a writer-director. The eight-part series is a biting show-business satire centered around Joe, an ambitious 35-year-old agent for some of

Focus Features has set a September 8 global release date for My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3. That will give some breadth to the post-Labor Day box office and an option for older female moviegoers, that weekend already having New Line’s The Nun 2 on the schedule. Part 3 was written and directed by the

EXCLUSIVE: The BBC has taken down from its website a story about Will Ferrell after being fooled by a Twitter account that did not belong to the Anchorman actor. Ferrell has been in the UK this month on something of a soccer tour, attending a variety of games and mingling with fans. He was present

Hollywood’s biggest names took a trip across the pond for this year’s BAFTA Awards … and some of the stars aligned at Netflix’s after-party for one exciting night. It was a who’s who of celebs at the Sunday night shindig — Jamie Foxx, Florence Pugh, Ana de Armas, Winnie Harlow, Lisa Rinna and Eddie Redmayne

This just in: Disney/Marvel Studios’ sequel The Marvels will no longer be opening on July 28, rather Nov. 10, which is where Black Panther: Wakanda Forever opened last year over the Veterans Day long holiday weekend to a November record of $181.3M. November has also been a prime place for other MCU titles like Thor:

War is coming in Guy Nattiv’s Golda, onscreen and off. But despite the media’s best efforts to turn the casting of British, non-Jewish actor Helen Mirren as Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir into an explosive example of cultural appropriation, both Nattiv’s direction and Mirren’s performance are low-key and careful enough to rise above the controversy.

Hayden Panettiere‘s brother Jansen Panettiere has died … TMZ has learned. A family source tells us Jansen died over the weekend in New York. His cause of death is currently unclear. Law enforcement sources tell us they got a call to a residence Sunday night around 5:30PM. We’re told there’s no foul play suspected in

Ana de Armas is being candid and talking about how social media has affected the “concept of a movie” for new generations. In an interview with Vanity Fair, the Knives Out star blamed social media for diluting what a movie star used to mean to past generations. “I feel like the new generations don’t have

Despite Disney/Marvel Studios’ Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania soaking up the global box office with $225M start, the studio’s sister 20th Century Studios/Lightstorm James Cameron sequel Avatar: The Way of Water refuses to stop, despite the fact that the former title has all the premium tickets. Avatar: The Way of Water‘s running worldwide total now

James Gunn just dropped another truth bomb about how the ‘Superman’ fiasco came about — and it sounds like Henry Cavill was kinda being used as a pawn … or so it seems. Here’s the deal … the new co-chief of DC Studios responded to fans Sunday who inquired about an IG Story he threw

UPDATE, Refresh for latest…: Netflix’s All Quiet on the Western Front, the leading nominee coming into this evening, is currently pulling ahead of the pack with five wins including Adapted Screenplay, Original Score and Film Not In The English Language. Searchlight’s The Banshees of Inisherin, meanwhile, is close behind, with wins for Martin McDonagh’s Original

EO, the Sideshow/Janus films release told from the point of view of a donkey, is set to pass the $1 million mark in week 14. The Cannes-premiering film by Jerzy Skolimowski, Academy Award nominated for Best International Feature, will gross an estimated $27.6k for the four-day weekend on 37 screens for a cume of just over

At tonight’s DGA Awards, directors Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert landed Best Theatrical Feature with their A24 smash Everything Everywhere All At Once — besting competition that included Todd Field (Tár), Joseph Kosinski (Top Gun: Maverick), Martin McDonagh (The Banshees of Inisherin) and Steven Spielberg (The Fabelmans) in their first time out at the ceremony.

Richard Gere is recovering in Mexico this weekend after he caught a case of pneumonia — this while vacationing with his family — but the good news is … he’s gonna be alright. Sources familiar with the situation tell TMZ … the actor is down near Nuevo Vallarta this week — where he’s celebrating the

Former Marvel star Rhenzy Feliz is jumping to DC. Feliz, who headlined Marvel’s Runaways on Hulu, has been cast as a lead opposite Colin Farrell and Cristin Milioti in the HBO Max original series The Penguin (working title) from Warner Bros Television and DC Studios. The eight-episode drama continues the Batman crime saga Matt Reeves