Movies

The end of the writers’ strike isn’t the only inflection point Ted Sarandos is marking this week. “Today, after 25 years, we ship our last DVD,” the Netflix co-CEO posted this morning on social media. “Those iconic red envelopes were so loved that we shipped more than 5 billion of them to cities and towns,

The power of Taylor Swift compels you. And it’s also worked its ways on producer Jason Blum, who cast out his The Exorcist: Believer to an earlier October release date to avoid a clash with Swift’s concert film. Blum explained his reasoning in an interview with EW. “The one thing that scares me to death

The first trailer has dropped for Argylle, the Matthew Vaughn-directed spy thriller with a loaded cast led by Henry Cavill, Dua Lipa, Sam Rockwell, Bryce Dallas Howard, John Cena, Bryan Cranston, Catherine O’Hara, Adriana DeBose and Samuel L. Jackson. The Apple Original Films pic has a February 2 theatrical release date set in partnership with

During an interview with GQ, director Martin iScorsese revealed that Warner Bros. asked him to alter the ending of his film The Departed so that a sequel could be birthed. WB allegedly wanted one of the two leads alive at the end. “What they wanted was a franchise,” Scorsese said. “It wasn’t about a moral

EXCLUSIVE: Kino Lorber has acquired North American distribution rights to Fantastic Fest and Sitges 2023 movie The Invisible Fight from LevelK. Above is a new international teaser for the movie. The Estonian heavy metal kung fu comedy is written and directed by Rainer Sarnet (November) and got its world premiere at the Locarno Film Festival.

Netflix has dropped an official trailer for Fair Play. Starring Phoebe Dynevor (Bridgerton) and Alden Ehrenreich (Oppenheimer, Cocaine Bear, Solo: A Star Wars Story) and written and directed by first-time filmmaker Chloe Domont, the film was the breakout hit of the Sundance film festival this year. The film also stars Eddie Marsan, Rich Sommer, and Sebastian De Souza. When a coveted promotion at

EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker Ilker Çatak, whose terrific film The Teachers’ Lounge is Germany’s submission for Best International Feature at the 96th Academy Awards, wants to see and make films that provoke. But what exactly does that mean? Well, according to Çatak, most filmmakers, including himself, can feel a bit ‘same,’ despite best intentions. “We’re all kind of left-wing

With an excitement in the air of the WGA and AMPTP’s tentative deal and scribes poised to return to daytime and late-night TV talk shows, the new agreement’s impact on the motion picture side may not be as immediate given how those unfinished feature productions hinge on studios settling with SAG-AFTRA. With the possibility of

While a fairly quiet frame overall, there were some significant milestones this international box office session. To wit: New Line/Warner Bros’ The Nun II topped the $200M mark worldwide and Shah Rukh Khan’s Jawan became the highest-grossing Bollywood movie ever in India, overtaking the star’s earlier 2023 movie, Pathaan. The Nun II scared up another

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a first clip for Studiocanal slasher pic Wake Up, which debuts today at Austin’s Fantastic Fest. Heralding from the French-Canadian directing trio RKSS, comprising Anouk Whissell, Yoann-Karl Whissell and François Simard, the film follows a group of hot-headed Gen Z activists who find themselves brutally hunted after they become trapped in a furniture superstore during an act

EXCLUSIVE: The roller coaster ride of the Writers Guild and the Hollywood studios trying to seal a deal to end the writers’ nearly 5-month-long strike isn’t over yet. After a day many thought would see an agreement between the WGA and the AMPTP finalized, it looks like things are on pause — at least until

Superpower director Sean Penn isn’t mincing words in his denunciation of Russian President Vladimir Putin. The two-time Oscar-winning actor, whose new documentary about the war in Ukraine is now streaming on Paramount+, calls the Kremlin leader “a gangster with nuclear weapons,” in an interview with Deadline. His comments came during a taping at Deadline studios

Screenwriter David S. Goyer dropped some insider information on a new episode of the Happy Sad Confused podcast. Goyer revealed that he vouched for Jake Gyllenhaal as the actor to play Batman in Christopher Nolan’s 2005 film, Batman Begins. The role ultimately went to Christian Bale, who kept the role for three films. “We would

This is Day 144 of the WGA strike and Day 71 of the SAG-AFTRA strike. As contract talks between striking writers and their studio counterparts entered a third straight day, picketing in New York City continued Friday at the home of ABC’s The View amid reports and rumors of progress in a stalemate that has lasted 144 days.  On a day when

The WGA is heading back to the bargaining table with the CEOs of Netflix, Disney, Universal, and Warner Bros Discovery on Friday. “The WGA and AMPTP met for bargaining today and will meet again tomorrow,” said the guild in a message to members after a long session Thursday night. Executives Ted Sarandos, Bob Iger, Donna

Warner Bros Discovery has confirmed it plans a major expansion of its Leavesden studio lot, with the UK location set to become the epicenter of DC Studios production. The media company has spent the past year-plus in cost-cutting mode, delivering $4 billion in cost savings related to the 2022 merger of WarnerMedia and Discovery while

You wouldn’t expect a memoir with “F*king” in the title to be all unicorns and rainbows. Thus, it’s no surprise that comedian Leslie Jones’s new memoir, Leslie F*cking Jones, pulls no punches, particularly when it comes to the Ghostbusters reboot she starred in alongside Kate McKinnon, Kristen Wiig, and Melissa McCarthy. Paul Feig directed the

HBO has set an October premiere for Aka Mr. Chow, the original documentary film directed by Nick Hooker (HBO’s AgnelIi). The film debuts Sunday, October 22 at 9 PM on HBO and will be streaming on Max. Produced by Oscar-nominated Diane Quon (Minding The Gap), executive produced, written, and edited by Emmy-winning editor Jean Tsien

“This could easily have been set in Hollywood,” Emerald Fennell said of her new film Saltburn, during a post-screening Q&A at the Academy Museum in Los Angeles on Tuesday night. The actual setting is, in fact, a long way from Hollywood. Fennell’s sophomore follow-up to her Oscar Best Picture-nominated, Best Screenplay-winner Promising Young Woman, Saltburn