This year’s budget will provide support to launch a new Creative Clusters Programme for 2024, targeting emerging screen talent and communities across the country, with a pilot scheme proposed for County Cork
Here's an excerpt >Although it could not have been planned that way, the forty-eighth Polish Film Festival will stand as one of the last cultural monuments of the outgoing far-right government that has ruled over the country since 2015. Along with socially intolerant and ultra-Catholic anti-immigration and anti-abortion...
Warner Bros. Discovery, NBCUniversal and Sony Pictures join forces with StudioCanal, soccer's English Premier League and the MPA to oppose new legislation that would end geo-blocking of film and TV content across the European Union....
Last November we had the opportunity to attend an exclusive twenty-minute screening of ‘Dune: Part II’, the highly anticipated second installment of the monumental adaptation of Frank Herbert’s science fiction classic that Denis Villeneuve is carrying out. Of course, it is early to give an opinion, but we can assure that...
Surprise! Steven Soderbergh's got a secret new film ready for Sundance called 'Presence' starring Lucy Liu, Julia Fox and more.
'The Legend of Zelda' director Wes Ball says he wants adaptation to look like a 'live-action Miyazaki' movie.
This is an academic essay on contemporary spectatorship which I quite enjoyed. Excerpt:...
Jamie Foxx on his emotional comeback journey from a mysterious health scare to a triumphant return, as he accepts the Vanguard Award with a heartfelt speech at the Critics Choice Association Awards. Discover resilience, gratitude, and a renewed appreciation for life and art.
I watched this last night and thought I'd share my thoughts. Renfield, 2023 dir Chris McKay. Comedic action/horror based on a Robert Kirkman property and also an example of Universal trying to leverage its movie monster heritage. Premise: Renfield attends a support group to deal with his feelings about his boss, Dracula....
As a new film spotlights her 60-year career, record-breaking film extra Jill Goldston discusses turning down Warren Beatty’s indecent proposal and hanging out with David Bowie...
“The idea of a superhero team, which it so brilliantly subverts, wasn’t yet a thing in movies,” Nolan said about Snyder’s 2009 Alan Moore graphic novel adaptation....
Over the course of Native American Heritage Month, we have highlighted some of the Sundance Institute–supported Indigenous artists, including conversations with Jana Schmieding and Alex Lazarowich. For our final post in this year’s series, we wanted to highlight the legacy of Indigenous artists at Sundance, as well as...
On Thursday, ABC and the academy announced that the 2024 Oscars will start an hour earlier on Sunday, March 10, 2024. The ceremony will commence at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT instead of 8 p.m. ET/ 5 p.m. PT. As a result, the 96th annual Academy Awards are expected to end before 11 p.m. ET/8 p.m. PT, keeping the event’s culmination...
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Spain's 'Society of the Snow,' Bhutan's 'The Monk and the Gun,' and Iceland's 'Godland' all make their case for the Academy Awards shortlist. The 2023 contenders for the international film Oscar are filled with tales of real-life struggles from the Ukraine war (Ukraine’s “20 Days in Mariupol”), the Holocaust (United...
The mixed response to Emerald Fennell’s 00s-set thriller evinces a movie-going conundrum: how do we assess entertainment that is predominantly indexed on vibes? By now, the buzz around Saltburn, Emerald Fennell’s sweaty, lascivious sophomore feature about a middle-class interloper in a vacuously rich family, has begun to...
Focus Features has scheduled the movie for Dec. 25, 2024. On its current release date, “Nosferatu” will land on the big screen a few days after Disney’s “Lion King” prequel “Mufasa” and Paramount’s “Sonic the Hedgehog 3,” both of which open on Dec. 20....
Just when many audiences had written off the innovative Hong Kong auteur, John Woo returns to North America to orchestrate a high-concept comeback.
A judge believes Joe Watts is lucky to be alive after the "astonishing" failures by the filmmakers. The makers of a Fast & Furious film have been fined £800,000 after a stuntman suffered brain damage during a staged fight scene....
Director Francis Lawrence shares exciting progress on Constantine 2, with production set to resume after the Thanksgiving holiday....
The backlash against Taika Waititi has manifested stronger than ever with his newest Rotten Tomatoes score, raising the question of what changed.
Loading Docs is a unique initiative that produces short documentaries that move, inspire and challenge audiences locally and internationally, while developing and promoting New Zealand filmmaking talent at home. So far they have been watched by over 17.8 million people....
Yamazaki Takashi’s period blockbuster acts as a companion piece to the 1954 film where Godzilla made his debut, giving space to human stories and national politics while letting its seventy-year-old icon wreak impressive havoc on land and sea.
THE BBC has edited out multiple calls for a ceasefire in Gaza from the Scottish Bafta Awards ceremony – including the presentation of an…
Guillermo del Toro and other filmmakers are championing physical media over streaming.
