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Here we go. The first two movies under the newly combined Paramount Warner Bros merger — Legendary’s Street Fighter via the Melrose lot and Clockwork’s limited 4K re-release of Ken Russell’s 1971 The Devils — hit theaters this weekend in what is a future of titles dated on top of each other, appealing to myriad

A Few Good Men and Other Desert Cities, starry new revivals on the Broadway stage, sold out their performances last week, with the latter production (starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Ed Harris, Allison Janney, Joe Keery and Lily Rabe) hitting the upper reaches of the box office chart with a gross in excess of $2 million. As

The U.K. has selected Pegah Ahangarani’s Rehearsals for a Revolution, which won the L’Oeil d’Or for best documentary at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, as its entry in the best international feature film category at the 2027 Oscars. The film traces more than 40 years of Iran’s history through Ahangarani’s personal experiences of exile and

SUNDAY UPDATE: The Social Reckoning from Sony opened considerably below forecasts with a $5.5 million launch as audiences shrugged at Aaron Sorkin’s Facebook takedown pic. Universal horror Other Mommy starring Jessica Chastain easily held its no. 1 spot at the box office through the weekend with a strong $27.5 million debut despite dismal reviews. Some

Neon’s Cannes Palme d’Or-winning drama Fjord starring Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve had a terrific $124k opening on four screens in New York and Los Angeles, as documentary Naza marks a strong week two expansion. Cristian Mungiu’s Fjord is the director’s second Palme d’Or for Mungiu and the seventh consecutive win for Neon. The film

Other Mommy was in command at the box office in its opening weekend, while The Social Reckoning received a painful status check as Aaron Sorkin‘s follow-up to The Social Network went quiet. Universal Pictures released Other Mommy in 3,200 North American theaters, and the horror title grossed around $27.5 million for the weekend despite overwhelmingly

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The China release of Sony/Constantin’s Resident Evil propelled the move not only to the top of the global weekend box office in its fourth frame with an overall $62.7M WW, but the pic also became Zach Cregger’s highest grossing movie ever (as we first told) with $320.2M. That beats the previous high of his Oscar

Naomi Ackie (I Wanna Dance With Somebody, Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker, Small Axe, Mickey 17, The Thursday Murder Club) stars in Boots Riley’s anti-capitalist satire I Love Boosters, part of the 70th edition of the BFI London Film Festival (LFF), which runs through Oct. 18. But on Saturday, she discussed

Ava DuVernay brought the world premiere of 14th, her Netflix documentary about the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, to the closing night of the 2026 New York Film Festival. While the film’s topic may seem like the subject of a dry history lecture, DuVernay viscerally explores how the post-Civil War Constitutional provisions in the

Chris Rock delivers something unexpected with his fourth feature as writer-director, Misty Green, a slice-of-life movie that doubles as a bitter kiss-off to Los Angeles and a ride through the hellscape of working in Hollywood, seen through the titular actress as her once-promising career flickers out. But the surprise isn’t the harshness of Rock’s look

BlumFest revealed Craig Zobel as the director for the adaptation of James Tynion IV and Werther Dell’Edera’s Something is Killing the Children, while also debuting the trailer for The Exorcist: Martyrs, and teasing upcoming projects including Seasons, RoboCop, Molepeople, and more. The two-hour Friday night panel featured an A-List lineup, including Mike Flanagan, James Wan,

Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who was appointed the United Nations’ first global advocate for human-centric digital governance in March, is arguing that instead of being afraid of AI, “we should be concerned about the people building AI.” In a new video interview with The New York Times, the actor was asked his current biggest fear about the

Thirty years ago, Baz Luhrmann gave Shakespeare guns, Hawaiian shirts and a killer soundtrack — and turned Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes into movie stars. Coming off his 1992 debut, Strictly Ballroom, Luhrmann delivered a modern Romeo + Juliet, with the Bard’s dialogue transplanted to present-day Verona Beach, where the Montagues and Capulets were rival,

Ray Gunn (Sam Rockwell), private eye, is special. He’s “the only honest player in a crooked game,” the only dick who prioritizes things like truth and justice over cold hard cash. In a retrofuturistic society where aliens are disdained as second-class citizens, he’s the rare human who stands up for extraterrestrials. Some scorn him for

Indie drama Bedford Park might just prove to be Korean actress Moon Choi’s big break in the U.S. film industry — but she’s nonetheless a little apprehensive about how it will play for the fans who know her work best. “Thinking about the Korean audience, I do get a bit nervous because I don’t know

Festival favorites Musk, Misty Green and Fjord debut in limited release in a crowded indie market with awards season rolling along. Bleecker Street’s documentary by Oscar-winner Alex Gibney opens in four theaters in New York (Angelika and Lincoln Square, and LA (AMC Century City and Burbank). The buzzy portrait of Tesla, X and SpaceX chief

Heavy hang the heads who wear the crowns, and that goes for Skydance Pictures Co-Chairs Dana Goldberg and Josh Greenstein, who’ll be tasked with getting under the hood and tuning up the incoming 2027-2029 Warner Bros theatrical slates. The first fire to put out: ensuring that Barbie 2 becomes a reality with its original franchise

EXCLUSIVE: Former New Line, Lionsgate, and Paramount Vantage exec Guy Stodel will be the point acquisitions consultant at AMC Theatres’ new film label, Leawood Films. Stodel joins Kyles Davies, who is leading distribution for Leawood in addition to advisors, former Warner Bros Group chairman and I Play Rocky producer, Toby Emmerich; and former Walt Disney