Lee Daniels, Nadine Labaki, Marina Abramovic Liberatum Pioneer Awards
Empire creator Lee Daniels, Capernaum director Nadine Labaki, and avant-garde artist Marina Abramovic will be honored at this year’s Venice Film Festival with the 2026 Liberatum Pioneer Awards. The awards, presented by Pablo Ganguli’s Liberatum cultural diplomacy organization, recognize artists whose work “has challenged convention, broken down systemic barriers, expanded artistic boundaries, redefined the possibilities […]
Rick Baker Recalls Jim Carrey Grinch Makeup, ‘Thriller’ Video: Locarno
The 79th edition of the Locarno Film Festival will have Oscar royalty in the house on Wednesday evening – well, on its big 8,000-seat square, the Piazza Grande, to be precise. It will bestow its Vision Award, presented by Ticinomoda, upon Rick Baker, a seven-time Oscar winner, a record in the makeup and hairstyling field, and the creator behind some of cinema’s […]
Crunchyroll Acquire Makoto Shinkai’s Next Film for Global Release
Sony’s Crunchyroll has snapped up global distribution rights to anime hitmaker Makoto Shinkai‘s much-anticipated next feature. The anime streamer will co-distribute the untitled project with Sony Pictures Entertainment across the world excluding Asia — with the exception of India, which is grouped with the Western territories. Crunchyroll said Tuesday that the film’s title, plot details […]
Jonas Brothers, Demi Lovato on Camp Rock 3, New Gen Disney Stars
The Jonas Brothers are going back to their Disney roots, both executive producing and reprising their Camp Rock roles in the franchise’s third film. Camp Rock 3 sees the brothers’ band Connect 3 returning to the camp to look for a new opening act for their tour. This means a whole new cast of campers […]
Inside Dreams in Nightmares, a Reinvention of the American Road Movie
Shatara Michelle Ford’s Dreams in Nightmares made its world premiere nearly two years ago, at the BlackStar Film Festival in Philadelphia. Reviews coming out of the screening were strong; Ford had clearly built on the success of their celebrated debut, Test Pattern, which was nominated for the Gotham Award for Best Feature and three Indie […]
Stanley Kubrick Subject of TCM ‘Plot Thickens’ Podcast
The next season of the TCM podcast The Plot Thickens will train a spotlight on the famously reclusive, notoriously obsessive Stanley Kubrick. Hosted by Ben Mankiewicz and made in partnership with the Criterion Collection, the 11-episode “Stanley” premieres Sept. 24 and features excerpts from a never-before-heard 1972 audio interview with the filmmaker conducted by Newsday […]
‘The Brink of War’ Review: Jeff Daniels Plays Ronald Reagan
You have to acknowledge the good intentions behind Michael Russell Gunn’s feature directorial debut depicting the 1986 meeting between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev in Reykjavik that helped advance the cause of a nuclear reduction treaty. In the film’s press notes, the writer-director emphasizes that his intention was not to make his movie overly political, […]
Samuel Bottomley, Callum Scott Howells in ‘The State of Us’ Film
The Hollywood Reporter can unveil an exclusive clip from Ollie Gardner and Jake Harvey’s The State of Us, ahead of its premiere in competition at Edinburgh International Film Festival on Friday. Led by California Schemin‘s Samuel Bottomley and It’s a Sin breakout star Callum Scott Howells, the British indie follows a boisterous tearaway called Frankie […]
The End of Oak Street First Reaction From Press Screenings
Warner Bros. held a series of press screenings for its high concept sci-fi survival feature The End of Oak Street in the last few days, and the early reaction on social media suggests the studio may, finally, have a film to get it out of its box office rut in 2026. The logline for The […]
‘Congo Boy’ Film Interview on 2026 Autobiographical Musical Drama
Robert is a 17-year-old Congolese refugee in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic (CAR). After his parents are imprisoned, he must care for his four younger siblings while striving to become a musician. That is the story of Congo Boy from director Rafiki Fariala. But it is also his, or at least inspired […]