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Bill Marsh can teach your kid to swim. In fact, he may be better at it than anyone else. If you think that’s no big deal, consider this: “In the United States, drowning is the leading cause of preventable death for children ages 1-4.” That statistic is cited in A Swim Lesson, the Oscar-shortlisted short […]

Following the busiest few years of her career, Renée Zellweger enjoyed a much-needed six-year hiatus. The 2x Oscar winner recently opened up to Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy co-star Hugh Grant about why she took a break from acting in 2010, before returning for 2016’s Bridget Jones’s Baby. “Because I needed to,” Zellweger said […]

Society of Camera Operators announced today the film and television nominees for its 2025 SOC Awards, which honor the craft of camera operation and celebrate the vital role camera operators and crews play in storytelling. Vying for the movie prize are the camera pros behind Challengers, Civil War, A Complete Unknown, Wicked and Wolfs. Nominees […]

Whether the Sundance Film Festival remains in Utah or moves to Boulder or Cincinnati in 2027, this year’s gathering will see some big changes. And we don’t mean on the screen. Just more than a week before Sundance 2025 kicks off, the resort town has made the long-desired decision to make Park City’s often-congested Main […]

At every stage of release, the Oscar-shortlisted documentary The Bibi Files has faced tremendous challenges – obstacles that might have derailed filmmakers without the fortitude of director Alexis Bloom and producer Alex Gibney. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu, whose reputation takes a beating in the film, tried to block its unofficial world premiere at […]

UPDATED with more details: Anora, Challengers, A Complete Unknown, Nickel Boys and Wicked are among the feature film screenplay nominees for the 77th annual Writers Guild Awards, which revealed its nominees Wednesday to honor the year’s best in film, TV, new media, news, radio and promotional writing. Winners will be announced February 15 during concurrent […]

During the 1980s and 1990s, Ghanaian artists created vibrant hand-painted movie posters to promote Hollywood blockbuster films. These posters served as promotional material for mobile cinemas that flourished in Ghana between the 1980s and 2000.  These wildly imaginative posters were a testament to a once-thriving industry: the “Ghanaian Mobile Cinema.” This industry emerged in the […]

EXCLUSIVE: Greenwich Entertainment has acquired North American rights to UnBroken, the award-winning documentary that tells an extraordinary story of survival from Nazi Germany. The distributor plans a February 21 theatrical release of the film from first-time director Beth Lane (watch the film’s trailer below). UnBroken bowed at the Heartland Film Festival in 2023 where it […]

At the end of the day, it wasn’t as bad as expected. That’s the overriding sentiment among international distribution executives and other industry watchers regarding how 2024’s overseas and global box office panned out. Yes, we continue to need more consistency to foster the cinema-going habit, as well as more good movies that hit their […]

After the low-key success of 2020’s reboot of The Invisible Man, hampered by theater closures during the pandemic but critically acclaimed, Universal and Blumhouse decided to take another whack at a proud member of the studio’s storied classic monsters franchise that also includes Frankenstein and Dracula. In this case, it’s 1941’s chilling The Wolf Man, […]

Last week, as the town was grappling with the Palisades and Eaton wildfires the Warner Bros Motion Picture Group saw the double exit of lynchpin executives, Worldwide Marketing president Josh Goldstine and International Theatrical Distribution president Andrew Cripps, a corporate maneuver that continues to jar many. To say that it’s a time of change at […]

Tyler Perry is calling out insurance company cancellations amid the ongoing Los Angeles wildfires, saying the policies are “appalling” and indicative of “pure greed.” As a number of blazes ravaged communities in sprawling Southern California — the largest of them being the Palisades Fire and Eaton Fire — some of those who had lost their […]

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner F. Murray Abraham (Amadeus, The White Lotus), Caroline Aaron (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, 21 Jump Street), Noam Ash (The Other Two), and Charlie Barnett (Russian Doll, The Acolyte) are set for 5x Media’s Bookends from filmmaker Mike Doyle. The movie, off a screenplay by Ash, follows Nate (Ash), an excitable millennial novelist, who […]

Travis Kelce is not only making another Super Bowl run with the Kansas City Chiefs in hopes of a three-peat but is also racking up his acting credits. The NFL star is set to make an appearance opposite Adam Sandler in Happy Gilmore 2 and recently opened up about what it was like to work […]

Lucy Liu explains why she decided to confront Bill Murray on the Charlie’s Angels set in 1999 following an altercation while filming the action movie. In 2021, Liu revealed she stood up to Murray after he allegedly hurled “inexcusable and unacceptable” insults at her. Four years after recalling the incident, Liu was asked what motivated […]

Lisa Kudrow is sharing an update on the Romy & Michele’s High School Reunion sequel that is in the works. The No Good Deed star is set to reprise her role as Michele Weinberger opposite Mira Sorvino in a sequel to the 1997 comedy. “We’re as close as we’ve ever been,” Kudrow said on The […]

In the last 10 years, more than 25,000 migrants and refugees have died trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe, according to UN High Commissioner for Refugees. The Missing Migrants Project estimates more than 12,000 people have been lost at sea in the Central Mediterranean alone in that timeframe, their bodies never recovered. Despite those […]

EXCLUSIVE: Larry Clark, the filmmaker behind the Harmony Korine-scripted Kids and Brad Renfro starrer Bully, has come aboard the music documentary It Was Them, from filmmakers Edgar Morais (Heatstroke) and Luke Eberl (Choose Connor), as an executive producer. Currently in production, It Was Them is a portrait of the highs and lows of Jonathan Velasquez, Eddie […]

EXCLUSIVE: We have the answer to one of the biggest questions in television, what will Jesse Armstrong do as a followup to his acclaimed HBO drama Succession — and it may come as a surprise. The Emmy-winning Succession creator’s next project is not a series, it is a film. Armstrong is writing the untitled movie […]

EXCLUSIVE: The directors of Union are releasing what might be called a mini-sequel to their Oscar-shortlisted documentary feature. The companion short, titled Local One, can be watched below or on the Field of Vision website. In their 10-minute short, directors Stephen Maing and Brett Story document in verité style the largest strike in the history […]

Two-time Oscar nominee Djimon Hounsou revealed he still struggles to “make a living” in Hollywood despite receiving critical acclaim and awards attention for films big and small. In a recent interview on CNN’s African Voices Changemakers, the Beninese-born actor — whose most-known performances include Ridley Scott’s Gladiator, Steven Spielberg’s Amistad, Blood Diamond opposite Jennifer Connelly […]

Following the critical acclaim and awards buzz around her self-described life-changing role in The Last Showgirl, Pamela Anderson has called the Gia Coppola vehicle “the best payback” following Hulu’s 2022 Pam & Tommy limited series. Having previously discussed her lack of involvement on the Lily James- and Sebastian Stan-starring show in the aftermath of its […]

SAG-AFTRA is the latest Hollywood organization to pledge monetary funds to assist industry members experiencing hardship from the Los Angeles wildfires. In an announcement today, the organization said it is pledging $1 million to its SAG-AFTRA Foundation. Since the fires broke out Jan. 7, the union has temporarily closed its office in Los Angeles, additionally […]

Buddy the Elf has seen better days. After going viral for reincarnating the title character from 2003’s Elf — as a beer-drinking and cigarette-smoking brooder, no less — Will Ferrell explained the thought and preparation process behind the stunt. “Buddy the Elf got laid off, I think, from the North Pole,” the multi-hyphenate joked to […]