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The Berlin Film Festival kicked off its 74th edition February 15 with the opening-night world premiere screening of Small Things Like These, the Irish drama starring Oscar-nominated Oppenheimer star Cillian Murphy. It started 10 days of debuts including for movies starring Rooney Mara, Isabelle Huppert, Gael García Bernal, Kristen Stewart and more. This year’s Competition

Emily Blunt revealed on Thursday night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! that Oppenheimer co-star Cillian Murphy smashed his head open in a most unlikely way. The actor was injured while fluffing a pillow she gave him to help him sleep while shooting the film. Blunt, Murphy, and Robert Downey Jr. were all on the show. The Murphy accident

Warner Bros. Discovery share price, already in the dumps, has tumbled another 11% this morning after the company’s latest quarterly numbers showed weak linear advertising and a struggling studio. But the clincher for investors may be what it didn’t show — a full-year 2024 forecast. The stock is scraping $8.50 late morning as the lack

Tyler Perry has seen demonstrations of what AI can do. While he is astonished, he’s also sounding an alarm. Perry is already voting with his wallet on the subject. His plans for an $800 million expansion of his Atlanta studio are on hold after seeing a demonstration of OpenAI’s text-to-video model Sora, which has created

EXCLUSIVE: TV and film writers will want to circle this one in their calendars: Poor Things and The Favourite producer Element Pictures is launching Storyhouse, a new Dublin-based screenwriting festival that will celebrate storytellers and storytelling. Speakers at the first edition include Poor Things writer and Oscar nominee Tony McNamara, Arthur Harari, who won a

Zendaya is about to take her image and shake it up, judging from the steamy first trailer for her new film. Challengers stars Zendaya as Tashi Duncan, a former tennis prodigy turned coach and a force of nature who makes no apologies for her game on and off the court. Married to a champion on

EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of its world premiere today at the Berlin Film Festival, Cohen Media Group has secured all North American distribution rights to Made In England: The Films Of Powell And Pressburger. Martin Scorsese narrates the film, which is directed by Emmy winner David Hinton. CMG negotiated exclusive theatrical and ancillary rights in North America

The Producers Guild got a jump on its 2024 PGA Awards tonight in Manhattan, revealing winners in its Sports and Children’s categories. Season 1 of Netflix’s docuseries Beckham took the Outstanding Sports Program prize, and Season 53 of Max’s Sesame Street won for Outstanding Children’s Program. The PGA will announce the winners for Outstanding Short

EXCLUSIVE: In a move that ought to make fans of The Beatles twist and shout, Sony Pictures Entertainment and Oscar-winning filmmaker Sam Mendes and his Neal Street Productions have set plans to make four separate theatrical films, one on each of the members of music’s most famous and enduring band. Mendes will direct all four

The ending of When Harry Met Sally was not how it was initially conceived, and director Rob Reiner is opening up about what changed his mind. In a new interview for Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace, Reiner revealed that the 1989 romantic comedy had a “tearjerking ending.” “The original ending of the film that we

BAFTA has said it is taking “very seriously” a security breach in which a prankster gatecrashed the Oppenheimer best film speech. A YouTuber joined Christopher Nolan and the Oppenheimer team up on stage at the Royal Festival Hall as they accepted one of the night’s biggest prizes. He stood at the back wearing a hat.

With a fresh Leading Actress Oscar nomination for the role of Mollie Kyle in Martin Scorsese‘s Killers of the Flower Moon, Lily Gladstone is next set to enter sci-fi territory with upcoming movie The Memory Police—a move that will also reunite her with Scorsese, set to executive produce. “It’s on an unnamed island at an

EXCLUSIVE: After we broke news of the studio acquiring Margot Robbie starrer Big Bold Beautiful Journey, we can reveal that Sony Pictures has boarded another of the European Film Market’s most in-demand projects: Past Lives director Celine Song‘s next movie, Materialists, which A24 is selling. In what we understand to be an eight-figure deal, Sony

Russell Crowe is opening up about an accident on the set of 201’s Robin Hood that left his legs fractured. In an interview promoting Land of Bad, Crowe recalled the incident, telling People, “I jumped off a castle portcullis onto rock-hard uneven ground. We should have prepped the ground and buried a pad, but we

EXCLUSIVE: Zosia Mamet is set to co-star alongside Ann Dowd in upcoming horror thriller The Undertaker’s Children, producer and seller The Exchange has announced as it rolls out sales at the EFM. Mamet, whose credits include the HBO TV series Girls and The Flight Attendant, has been seen most recently in Columbia Pictures action-sci fi

EXCLUSIVE: The EFM packages aren’t done just yet. A good one has come together late in the day as we can reveal that Pirates Of The Caribbean director and Oscar winner Gore Verbinski has pulled together a strong cast for his fun-sounding next movie, titled Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die. Leading the cast are

EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of its world premiere at SXSW, the Nicolas Cage thriller Arcadian has been acquired by RLJE Films, in a deal for North America, UK, Australia and Ireland rights. Also starring Jaeden Martell (It), Maxwell Jenkins (Lost in Space), and Sadie Soverall (Saltburn), the film will be released in theaters on April 12, with

Turner Classic Movies (TCM) will open the 15th annual TCM Classic Film Festival on Thursday, April 18 with a 35mm screening of the classic neo-noir Pulp Fiction (1994). Two-time Academy Award nominee John Travolta will attend to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the film.  Pulp Fiction kicks off a weekend of programming set within the theme “Most Wanted: Crime and Justice in Film,” as well as the 30th anniversary of

Cillian Murphy-starring Berlinale opener Small Things Like These “is asking the audience to care about cinema,” Matt Damon, one of the pic’s financiers, has said. Addressing the movie’s press conference in Berlin today, Damon, who starred in Oppenheimer opposite Murphy, said “there is enough audience in the world that still does [care about cinema]” amidst

In the anticipated sequel Joker: Folie à Deux, Joaquin Phoenix reprises the titular role as Arther Fleck (aka Joker) for which he received critical acclaim in the 2019 original. His perfromance won him an Academy Award for Best Actor, with the film garnering 11 Oscar nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director for Todd Phillips.