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The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping to Hit Theaters in November 2026
Analysts forecast the film will take in $60–70 million in its opening weekend in the United States. That is more than the previous installment earned, but well short of the franchise record.
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Justin Timberlake to Release Documentary Series on Janet Jackson Super Bowl Incident
In December, Apple TV will premiere a four-part film in which the singer is reportedly set to speak about a "wardrobe malfunction" that damaged her career while barely touching Timberlake's.
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Filming Begins on Season Three of Big Little Lies
Merrin Dungey will return to her role as the detective. The storyline will be based on Liane Moriarty's new novel, set ten years later.
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Godzilla Minus Zero Wins High Praise From Critics and Is Tipped for an Oscar
Toho's Godzilla Minus Zero premiered at a film festival in New York. The picture has earned an almost perfect approval rating and sparked talk of an Academy Award nomination.
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A Special Episode of "It: Welcome to Derry" Arrives for Halloween
The new installment of the prequel "It: Welcome to Derry" traces the origins of evil hundreds of years before the arrival of the clown Pennywise.
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The Animator Who Challenged Disney: Trailer Released for Documentary "Don Bluth: Somewhere Out There"
The documentary "Somewhere Out There" traces the career of the creator of "The Land Before Time" and "Anastasia," who left Disney's studio in 1979 to found his own.
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Darren Aronofsky and Artificial Intelligence: Black Swan Cinematographer Talks About the Director's Experiment
Matthew Libatique, Aronofsky's longtime creative partner, says the two will run tests with neural networks for the shoot of their next film. In his view, the technology will replace visual effects in blockbusters before it replaces cinema as a whole.
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Martin Scorsese Says the Sony Hack Killed His Cleopatra with Angelina Jolie, Which Was Shelved Over a Kim Jong Un Comedy
Director Martin Scorsese was preparing a historical epic about Cleopatra starring Angelina Jolie, Leonardo DiCaprio and Daniel Day-Lewis. The project collapsed after hackers broke into Sony Pictures, allegedly over a satirical comedy about the leader of North Korea.
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Streaming Services Are Successfully Turning Classic Horror Films into Series: Carrie and Crystal Lake
New television adaptations of Carrie and Friday the 13th show that audiences are keen to watch sequels to familiar stories, even when creators change the canon.
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Eddie Murphy to Star in Series "The Chairman" After Its Creator Departs
Matthew Weiner, creator of "Mad Men," has left "The Chairman" over creative differences. Work in the writers' room has been suspended for two weeks.
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Christian Mungiu's Fjord Wins the Top Prize at Cannes
The film follows a Romanian-Norwegian family whose five children are taken away by Norway's social services. The director explores the clash between religious tradition and secular law.
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Minute-long thrillers for TikTok have drawn half a billion views. Will it help Hoorae Media?
The production company Hoorae Media has described how it is trying to create work for screenwriters and actors through a new format: vertical microseries.
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Critics Give Ali G Indahouse Lukewarm Reviews
Ali G Indahouse, the comedian's directorial debut, debuted on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes with a rating of 50 percent. That is markedly lower than his earlier films.
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Keanu Reeves to Star in Action Film Whose Script Sat Idle for 33 Years
Netflix has taken on Whirlpool, a story about a marshal who protects the fiancée of an arms dealer during a hurricane. Jaume Collet-Serra will direct.
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The New Stanford Experiment: How a Reality Show Reimagined a Psychology Classic
In 1971, the famous prison experiment was halted because of the participants' cruelty. Half a century later, it was repeated as a television series with new rules, and it ended very differently.
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Crystal Lake: How a Loving Mother Became the First Killer in Friday the 13th
The new series tells the story of Pamela Voorhees, mother of the famous hockey-masked maniac. Its creators and actors explain how they set out to show the transformation of an ordinary woman into a merciless avenger.
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Glee returns to the screen in a reboot
Eleven years after the musical drama ended, its creator Ryan Murphy is preparing a reboot for Disney+ and Hulu. He has already written the script and reached out to ten actors from the original cast.
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Netflix cuts staff to protect profits
The streaming service has laid off around a thousand employees, including content executives, after reporting the slowest revenue growth in three years. The company has also lowered its advertising revenue forecast and will publish viewing data less often.
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A New Documentary About Elizabeth Holmes Has Sparked a Surge of Interest in the Series The Dropout
A preview screening of A24's documentary has led viewers to binge the scripted 2022 series The Dropout in large numbers.
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The Series "Poluraspad" Tells the Story of Soviet Nuclear Exercises at the Totsk Range
At the center of the plot are the 1954 tests, during which thousands of Soviet citizens were exposed to radiation, and the investigation into their consequences during the perestroika years.
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"Barashek v yashchike" Hits Russian Cinemas
The new science-fiction drama from the Japanese director known for Shoplifters tells the story of a family that tries to replace their dead son with an android. The film competed at the Cannes Film Festival.
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Streaming service Hulu to Premiere Thriller "Phony" About a Teenager Who Suspects His Mother Has Been Replaced
The new series Phony tells the story of a teenager who, after a car accident, no longer recognizes his own mother. A critic at RogerEbert.com has named the show one of the best thrillers of the year.
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Instead of Elon Musk, His Digital Double Appears in the New Film Musk
Director Alex Gibney spent four years filming a documentary about Elon Musk. The entrepreneur declined to be interviewed, so the production team created a simulation of him from his public statements.
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Former Hollywood Studio Executive Wanted for $30 Million Fraud
The FBI has added 75-year-old Mary Carole McDonnell to its list of most wanted fraud suspects. The woman posed as an heir to an aircraft-manufacturing family and, according to investigators, is hiding in Dubai.
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Stephen Chow's New Film Kung Fu Football Heads to Cinemas in the US and UK
The comedy action film Kung Fu Football, already a hit in China, will be shown in English. The director provided the voice of his own character for the American and British versions.
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John Malkovich Is Back in the Oscar Race Thirty Years Later
The 72-year-old actor could earn a nomination for his role in Martin McDonagh's black comedy Dark Horse. He reflects on how the film industry has changed in the meantime.
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Quentin Tarantino to Stage London Debut Play Starring Sacha Baron Cohen
The director has written a swashbuckling comedy in the spirit of old Hollywood. Sacha Baron Cohen will star in the production.
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How Filmmakers Are Building Neural Networks into Film Production
At the Busan market in South Korea, special effects specialists and directors described how artificial intelligence is changing their work, from creating backgrounds to developing storyboards and concept art.
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Sam Mendes's Four Beatles Films to Hit Cinemas Within a Single Month
The producers have revealed an unusual release strategy for four biographical films, each devoted to one of the band's members. The films will open in cinemas a week apart in April 2028.
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"The Witch's Forest": Laika Shows the Film It Spent 16 Years Making
The new stop-motion feature from the American studio Laika premiered at the London Film Festival. Work on the picture began when Barack Obama was entering his first presidential term.
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Odyssey Returns to IMAX Screens After Tom Cruise's Box-Office Flop
Christopher Nolan's film has gained extra time in cinemas on the special 70mm film screens freed up after the disappointing opening of the Tom Cruise picture, and has drawn close to the top-grossing films of the 2020s.
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Paramount to Bring the Video Game World of Cyberpunk 2077 to the Screen
The studio has begun work on a film based on the science-fiction role-playing game. Lorenzo Di Bonaventura will produce, and the Polish developer CD Projekt Red will take part in the making of the picture.
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Park Hoon-jung’s Assassin Noir ‘Tristes Tropiques’ Sells to North America, France, Spain
“Tristes Tropiques,” the latest genre outing from “New World” and “The Witch” director Park Hoon-jung, has been picked up for North America by Well Go USA as Finecut, which is carrying the film in…
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BAFTA Unveils 2026 Breakthrough U.K. Cohort, Including ‘The Other Bennet Sister’ Star Ella Bruccoleri
BAFTA has unveiled its 2026 Breakthrough U.K. cohort, selecting 21 emerging creatives across film, television and games for its annual talent development program, supported by Netflix. Now in its…
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Doc Talk Podcast: Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival’s Ken Jacobson On State Of Nonfiction Filmmaking, Competitive Oscar Race And More
Hot Springs, Arkansas is known for many things – as the childhood home of Bill Clinton, as the former site of Major League Baseball’s spring training (in the era of Babe Ruth), for its beautiful…
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Jurassic Park's Lost Animated Series Pitch Has Finally Surfaced In Video Form
Jurassic Park almost received an animated TV show in the 1990s, and now footage has surfaced of a quick pitch video that reveals what it would have looked like.
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‘Dune 3’ Production Designer Patrice Vermette Created a 55-Ton Spaceship for Sci-Fi Epic: It’s a ‘Major Spectacle’
Production designer Patrice Vermette promises the third and final instalkment in the “Dune” franchise is going to be “a major spectacle.” “You know when you go see fireworks, and they put everything…
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DC Studios Officially Casts Mason Thames As Robin — Will He Play Him In Live-Action?
Mason Thames has been cast as an animated version of Robin for a new DC Comics movie, but will he play the Boy Wonder in live-action too?
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Tami Roman To Star In & EP ‘Double Double Trouble’ Sequel At Lifetime; Roger Cross To Co-Lead
EXCLUSIVE: Tami Roman (The Ms. Pat Show, The Family Business) is expanding her relationship with Lifetime with the announcement of Double Double Trouble 2, a sequel to Double Double Trouble, the…
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Kurosawa Award Winner O Mipo Is ‘Making Up for Lost Time’ After Career Break to Raise Her Sons
Co-recipient of the 2026 Kurosawa Akira Award together with Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof, Korean-Japanese director O Mipo was in an understandably upbeat mood when she met with Variety just…
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Project Hail Mary Author Andy Weir's Sci-Fi Recommendations For Capturing His 'Vibe' [Exclusive]
Unsurprisingly, Project Hail Mary author Andy Weir has several hard sci-fi works that he would recommend based on their similarities to his own writing.
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‘Cher Adores Michael Douglas,’ Icon’s Rep Says After Douglas Disses Her Oscar Win for ‘Moonstruck’
Cher is responding with grace to Michael Douglas’ viral diss over her 1988 Oscar win for “Moonstruck.” A representative for the music and acting icon told Entertainment Weekly point blank: “Cher…
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Oscar Predictions: Animated Feature — A New and Competitive Era for the Medium That Isn’t Just for Kids
Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and…
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Matthew Perry Doc Premieres Atop Netflix’s Weekly English TV Rankings; ‘Lupin’ Part 4 Leads All Series As Non-English Fare Commands Attention
Friends fans showed up on Netflix last week to watch the streamer’s new three-part documentary series on Matthew Perry. The One About Matthew Perry was the top English-language television series on…
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Skydance Inherited Massive Flops From Warner Bros. Deal - And Things Could Get Worse
A lot of Warner Bros. movies have bombed in 2026, which is now the newly-formed Skydance's problem. Unfortunately, things may not get better in 2027.
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Jimmy Akingbola Signs With Paradigm
EXCLUSIVE: Jimmy Akingbola, known best for the fan-favorite role of Geoffrey on Bel-Air, has signed with Paradigm for representation. Akingbola played the Banks family house manager Geoffrey Thompson…
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Jake Gyllenhaal's 124-Minute Sci-Fi Disaster Movie Is Officially Netflix's Biggest Streaming Hit
A blockbuster sci-fi disaster movie released in 2004 and starring a young Jake Gyllenhaal is currently a big hit over on Netflix.
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I'm Not A Star Trek Fan – Here's What I Learned After Watching Patrick Stewart's Best TNG Episodes
How does a Star Trek newbie respond to Patrick Stewart's Captain Picard? Our writer went where so many have gone before and to find out.
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Blumhouse & Atomic Monster Unveil New Name For Combined Studio
Two years after merging, Jason Blum’s Blumhouse and James Wan’s Atomic Monster will now call their combined entity Blumhouse Atomic. The producers of Obsession, Backrooms and the Conjuring franchise…
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James Wan and Jason Blum Unveil New Company Name: Blumhouse Atomic
James Wan and Jason Blum have unveiled a new umbrella title for their merged horror production companies, Blumhouse and Atomic Monster: Blumhouse Atomic. Blumhouse and Atomic Monster will continue to…
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Milo Hutton, Booboo Stewart & KaDee Strickland Board Horror Thriller ‘The Thing In The Hall’
EXCLUSIVE: Milo Hutton (The Night Agent), Booboo Stewart (Twilight franchise) and KaDee Strickland (Private Practice) have boarded The Thing in the Hall, a psychological horror thriller now shooting…
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TV Legend Ed Asner Appeared In This Classic '60s John Wayne Western
Before the Mary Tyler Moore Show made him famous, Ed Asner made his Western movie debut in this '60s film alongside John Wayne.
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‘Hinotama: Ball of Fire’ Review: Gentle, Handsomely Shot Domestic Drama Is a Promising Debut for Yaza Takenoshin
The early moments of “Hinotama: Ball of Fire,” the debut feature from young Japanese director Yaza Takenoshin (who graduated from Harvard this past summer), almost move like clockwork, finding a…
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Moroccan-Belgian Superhero Picture ‘Atoman’ Secures North American Release – AFM
EXCLUSIVE: Disrupt Entertainment has acquired all North American distribution rights to North African superhero picture Atoman ahead of an international sales push for the film at the AFM. The…
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La Bola Negra review – a whirlwind of poetry and passion
The directorial twosome known as Los Javis deliver a head-spinning, era-spanning ode to political liberty inspired by the writings of Federico García Lorca.
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Once Upon a Time in the Midlands: Weekend at 15
Andrew Haigh's queer romance is made all the more special for taking place outside of the capital.
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Pete Postlethwaite's Leaps of Faith
On the occasion of Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet and Mark Herman’s Brassed Off turning 30, we reflect on the late actor's gritty integrity and steadfast dedication to what's right.
