In what will surely be one of the biggest standing ovations at this year’s Venice Film Festival, Martin McDonagh’s “Wild Horse Nine” received a thunderous 13 minutes of applause at its world premiere on Thursday night and stormed into the Oscar race.

John Malkovick, who stars in the movie with Sam Rockwell, got emotional and McDonagh looked touched as the cheering raged on, with Sam partner, “White Lotus” star Leslie Bibb, leading the charge with plenty of hoots and hollers. In fact, it was a “White Lotus” reunion as Bibb’s Season 3 co-star, Parker Posey — who also appears in the film — teared up while she fanned herself and mouthed about the sweltering temperature in the theater. As the applause continued, McDonagh and Rockwell went into the crowd, shaking hands and signing autographs.

Set in 1973, “Wild Horse Nine” follows two CIA officers (Malkovich and Rockwell) who are dispatched from Santiago...

The written word is a powerful thing, and not always as simple as it appears on the page. This is true in life, and this is true in “Chronovisor,” the film written, directed, and edited by Jack Auen and Kevin Walker. “In many ways the script is objectively bad,” Walker joked to IndieWire.

Unlike a lot of bad scripts, however, the film that Walker and Auen created is a spare, lean, captivating thriller — powered in large part by real archival materials that the directors gathered, and then made come alive on screen in the way the idea of time-travel comes alive in the mind of their protagonist.

As any project that tries to use text messages as plot points finds out, it is really hard to make text onscreen look cool or even interesting.

And yet, in “Chronovisor,” text is the engine of discovery inside the film, and slowly, almost hypnotically,...

Adam Wingard is back, baby. The director behind "The Guest" and "Godzilla vs. Kong" has returned to the realm of original cinema with "Onslaught." Though not quite as low budget as "You're Next" (which quietly made a killing at the box office and launched Wingard's career), it's certainly not a big-budget affair like a "Godzilla" movie. As such, compromises are necessary sometimes, and while the director seems quite happy with his latest effort, he does have one regret.

"Onslaught" follows a rogue squad of genetically engineered super soldiers as they break loose from a desert-based, government-funded secret facility. Hence, a former Army sniper named Celeste (Adria Arjona) living at a...

Angel is moving into international pre-sales after acquiring worldwide rights to the upcoming western thriller Rode To Ruin that will see Michael Keaton direct and star alongside Morgan Freeman.

The production from Freeman and Lori McCreary’s Revelations Entertainment and Keaton’s George & Leona Productions will be available to international buyers at next week’s TIFF: The Market running September 10-16.

The story follows a retired US Marshal whose 40-year search for his wife’s killer leads him to an aging outlaw losing his memory and a buried truth neither man may survive. Angel will disrtribute in the US in...

Another man, another room, another vile past deed in need of expiation. On the one hand you could accuse writer-director Paul Schrader of retreading old ground with his latest unadorned exploration of guilt, transgression and the intellectual work that a sinner must do in order to seek redemption for his sins. On the other hand, you cannot ever accuse Paul Schrader of taking the easy way out when there is available to him a difficult way to get deeper in.

If Schrader here is embracing familiar themes, there is nothing comfortable about this embrace, given that those themes, present in the majority of his recent output, can be reduced to the same question, reformulated each time to a different, and differently heinous, model. In “The Card Counter,” he wondered if it is possible to once have been, but no longer be, a torturer. In “Master Gardener,” he pondered whether one could once have been,...

Everything I try to write about Paul Schrader’s “The Basics of Philosophy” comes out all wrong.

Here is a movie where pedophilia and homosexuality are put in such intimate proximity that I can only anticipate another scandal coming the filmmaker’s way — if enough people see it. It’s a lurid study of a sexually abusive academic, played by Jack Huston, that edges on quietly explosive, but isn’t quite dangerous enough. It’s offensive, but also not. And to be offended at all would mean that you misunderstood the writer/director’s entire project, or that you understood it entirely. It’s Ragebait the Movie, but on the other side of the click, all you might end up finding is bait.

For probably the only time other than 2007’s “The Walker,” in which Woody Harrelson played a gay, male escort (not a gay male escort) on Capitol Hill,...

Warner Bros. Discovery is in the midst of forming the new DC Universe. James Gunn and Peter Safran have been the heads of DC Studios for a few years now, and though they've had some ups and downs, they're clearly trying to move on from what came before. Gal Gadot has confirmed she's done playing DC's Wonder Woman, which was already pretty darn clear. But just to make things needlessly complicated, she's now provided a single condition to return as the beloved superhero.

In a recent interview with JoBlo to promote her critically lambasted new Prime Video movie "The Runner," Gadot was asked what it would take for her to come back.

Warning: This article contains major spoilers for the Season 3 finale of "Silo," "Troy."

Crisis averted ... for now, at least. When "Silo" Season 3 first began, viewers were slightly put off by Juliette Nichols' (Rebecca Ferguson) memory issues and the idea of treading water for much of the early episodes. Those concerns ultimately ended up dissipating as things came to a climactic end — with a full-blown rebellion, the impending activation of the deadly Safeguard protocol, and an explanation of how the flashback storyline centered on Daniel Keene (Ashley Zukerman) factors into the ongoing plot set in Silo 18. Creator Graham Yost saved many of the biggest reveals for last, but fans will likely...

Sisters Maro (Rym Mroue) and Dalia (Maria Nakouzi) are two broke girls in a fucked-up country with no options, one of them says. It’s 2022, Spring in Beirut, and three years into a nationwide economic collapse in Lebanon, where banks have put an embargo on people withdrawing their own money. And so the sisters hatch a harebrained, implausible, but just-might-work plan to breach the bank’s walls, take back their money, and get the hell out of dodge.

Director Rami Kodeih, co-writing the script with Nora Mariana, directs the hell out of his third feature, “Furies,” a heist thriller with the electric intensity and sprawling international vibe of movies like Mexican director Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s “Amores Perros” or Brazilian filmmaker Fernando Meirelles’s “City of God.” But with a “Thelma and Louise” touch, as Dalia, a sex worker riddled with worsening cancer, and Maro, a hairdresser with a small...

Screen is tracking the key packages launched before and during the inaugural TIFF: The Market, which runs September 10-16, 2026.

Refresh the page for the latest updates. Most recently announced projects are at the top.

Otherwise Engaged

Halle Berry, Zoë Kravitz, Colin Firth and Jack Whitehall star in a romantic comedy directed by Suzanne Farwell. Susan Cartsonis and Suzanne Farwell produce for Resonate Entertainment, and Laura Rister for Esme Grace Pictures. A couple’s dream wedding is thrown into disarray after their parents strike up an unlikely romance. CAA Media Finance is handling US rights.

International sales: Mister Smith Entertainment

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We are smack dab in the middle of "Lanterns" Season 1 on HBO Max. Though not the cosmic space adventure that many "Green Lantern" fans imagined, it finally gives Hal Jordan and John Stewart some meaningful screen time in live-action in the DC Universe. "Lanterns" is more like "True Detective" meets "Watchmen." But that doesn't mean things aren't going to get a little cosmic. To that end, Sinestro, Green Lantern's most notorious foe, is finally entering the game.

The series follows new recruit John Stewart (Aaron Pierre) and Lantern legend Hal Jordan (Kyle Chandler), two intergalactic cops who are drawn into a dark, Earth-based mystery as they investigate a murder in the American heartland.

In Ridley Scott's 2015 film "The Martian," based on the novel by Andy Weir, Matt Damon plays an astronaut named Mark Watney who, due to an unexpected storm, is stranded on the surface of Mars during a study mission. Because Watney is so resourceful, he finds a way to survive on Mars, making the most of the shelter left behind. 

Given the time it takes for spacecraft to travel from Earth to Mars, a rescue mission is nigh impossible. Watney would have to survive for years before anyone could return to Mars and bring him home. There are many frantic scenes in "The Martian" of various administrators and mission command...

In the early 1990s, director Abel Ferrara was coming off of a major artistic, if not commercial, triumph, “King of New York,” when he got a surprising call from his agent. Warner Bros. had an offer: they wanted Ferrara to direct the third incarnation of Jack Finney’s “Invasion of the Body Snatchers.” The idea was intriguing; could one of cinema’s most idiosyncratic and provocative auteurs apply his skill set to a mainstream genre project without either Ferrara or Hollywood losing anything in the process?

The answer turned out to be both yes and no. The movie that emerged from Ferrara’s sole collaboration with the Hollywood industrial machine, 1993’s “The Body Snatchers,” is a Ferrara classic through-and-through, infused with the director’s moral preoccupations and elevated by his command of his craft. It’s completely uncompromising — at one point a child is tossed out of a helicopter, and...

Mellody Hobson delivered emotional remarks about her husband George Lucas as the two hosted a “friends and family” preview on Thursday night at the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles.

“I watched George up close,” Hobson said, explaining that she missed the earlier part of his career (the couple began dating in 2006 before marrying in 2013). “I wasn’t there for ‘Star Wars.’ I saw genius work, genuinely work, and it was awe inspiring. And he was fanatical at times, but the thing about a fanatical person is they’re a fan. He was a deep fan of these illustrators in this work, and he wanted them to be represented, and I became a deeper fan of his.”

Hobson teared up as she continued, “I was a fan already, but I saw something, the inspiration, the unwillingness to compromise, the determination, the lack of sleep, the lack of rest,...

Apple TV deserves more credit for releasing some genuinely great original shows that seem to be ignored by the masses. Netflix gets all the attention, but I promise you: Apple TV has the goods (especially when it comes to sci-fi shows). One of the best Apple TV originals is "Silo," which has run for three exciting seasons and will be wrapping up with Season 4. Even though Season 4 isn't due to premiere until next year, we have our first real look at the big finale courtesy of a very exciting trailer that also reveals the premiere date: July 9, 2027.

Apple TV is calling this a teaser, but it's really more of a...

Producers United is joining groups like the MPA and DGA to urge the nation’s lawmakers to back the proposed federal tax incentive for film and television production to “protect American workers and foster sustainable careers.” The coalition of film and television producers released its statement at the start of Labor Day weekend, which “recognizes the contributions of American workers to the country’s strength and prosperity.”

The push for a federal tax incentive to counter the increase in productions outside the U.S. in recent years gained steam Monday when President Trump renewed his endorsement of the idea and called for a bipartisan bill. The federal tax incentive is one of the rare initiatives that is supported by both Democratic and Republican politicians and in Hollywood. Trump dubbed the proposed legislation the Motion Picture, Television, and Entertainment Revitalization Act.

“Producers United offers its strong support of the White House...

A major misfire from Shinya Tsukamoto (of “Testuo: The Iron Man” fame), “Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People?” seeks to expose the horrors of the Vietnam War through the eyes of a Black American soldier. Based on the autobiographical writings of its subject, Allen Nelson, it has an unmistakable façade. This artificial texture works on rare occasion, but finds itself infecting the movie’s drama, which ends up awkward at best, and at worst, cacophonous and redundant.

It opens with Nelson as a young adult (played by Mark Merphy) sleeping in a ruin of trash and scavenging animals. This carefully-laid out excess screams Student Film 101, but if anyone has earned the benefit of doubt for their use of production design, it’s cyberpunk maestro Tsukamoto. However, this trust begins to fade once Nelson is approached by an old friend, now a grade school teacher, who invites him to speak to...

“Falling,” the London-set romantic drama starring Kj Apa (“Riverdale”), Isabel May, and Archie Renaux (“Alien: Romulus”), is set to hit cinemas, having been acquired by Brainstorm Media for North America.

The Gulfstream Pictures film — from writer/director brothers James and Colin Krisel — will launch theatrically on Oct. 9, following by a Nov. 10 VOD release. International sales are being handled by Voltage Pictures.

According to the description, “Falling” asks the question: What if the woman of your dreams was also dreamt by your best friend. “‘Falling introduces us to the anti-fairytale romance of an impossible love triangle between lovers and friends, set against the backdrop of endlessly inviting London locales,” it reads, adding that the trio of stars “confront the all-too relatable modern dating complication of preserving relationships while seeking self-fulfillment.”

“We are thrilled to be working with Gulfstream again on another fantastic romance,” said Brainstorm CEO Michelle Shwarzstein. “Kj Apa, Isabel May,...

George Clooney and Maggie Gyllenhaal were among a raft of creatives and execs flagging the risks posed by artificial intelligence at a Venice Film Festival symposium dedicated to the technology.

Organised by Finch & Partners and CAA, and opened by Venice artistic director Alberto Barbera, further panellists included director and screenwriter Giuseppe Tornatore, composer Alexandre Desplat, Anonymous Content CEO Darren Walker and Italian producer Lorenzo Mieli, as well as Cardinal Jose Tolentino de Mendonca, head of culture and education at the Vatican, artist Marc Quinn, Signal president Meredith Whittaker and Babyteeth director Shannon Murphy.

The speakers raised the alarm about...

When Chloé Zhao was growing up, she dreamed not of directing movies but becoming a manga artist.

“But I wasn’t very good at drawing. I wasn’t up to standard,” she said with a laugh during a wide-ranging masterclass about her career on Friday afternoon at the Venice Film Festival. “I wanted to tell stories. I didn’t think cinema was an option for me.”

Of course, Zhao found her way into film and directed acclaimed movies such as 2020’s Oscar-winning “Nomadland” and 2025’s Shakespearean drama “Hamnet.” She was eventually able to meld her passions with 2021’s Marvel adaptation “Eternals,” which starred Gemma Chan, Richard Madden, Kumail Nanjiani, Brian Tyree Henry, Barry Keoghan, Salma Hayek and Angelina Jolie and revolved around an immortal alien race sent to protect Earth from evil beings.

“I loved doing it,” she said of directing the movie. “For any of you who love anime,...

Does a filmmaker have a responsibility towards marginalized communities? It’s an irreconcilable debate given the unbridgeable chasm between the two sides: Is the onus on the artist, or the audience? Edoardo Gabbriellini’s “The City of the Living” is a beautiful, heartrending film that sensitively builds a multifaceted character as real as any you’ll see, his flaws reinforcing rather than deflecting from the sympathy we feel for him, his girlfriend and his parents. Of course it’s impossible to imbue every role with the same three-dimensionality, yet there’s a problem when the most vile people imaginable become reduced to just two things: psychopathic behavior, and queerness.

Most Italians already know what’s coming. Luca Varani, 23, was a working-class regular Roman Joe forging his own way in life when he was sadistically murdered 10 years ago by a couple of drugged-up gay men whose brutality was so shocking that Gabbriellini thankfully condenses the horror,...

Apple TV may not be the biggest streaming service in the game, but it sure doesn't skimp on the star power when it comes to its original movies. Case in point: The streamer's new action comedy flick "Mayday" is fronted by none other than Deadpool himself, Ryan Reynolds, and Kenneth Branagh (whose many accomplishments include a recent trio of Hercule Poirot movies). The unlikely duo has proved to be appealing, it seems, as the film has become an instant hit for Apple.

As of this writing, "Mayday" is currently the number one movie on Apple TV, per FlixPatrol. The movie only just premiered and rocketed right to the top of the charts,...

There isn’t an iota of artificiality in Ashgan El-Hamus’ impressive debut “Al Baraneya,” not an easy accomplishment given that it’s fiction looking like a documentary, with a cast almost exclusively composed of relatives. The format translates to an energized intimacy, enhanced by months of workshopping the story together with the one professional actor, Reem Amer, seamlessly inserted in the family bosom. El-Hamus’ achievement however goes beyond method thanks to a story told through moods and textures, of a young pregnant woman in the Egyptian village of Al Baraneya beginning to question the life she’s had plotted out for her. This is the kind of film that seems small only at first glance, building in impact as it plays out, lingering long after the close with images and sounds of the laughter that comes from togetherness.

Al Baraneya is an agricultural town at the southern end of the Nile Delta,...

Spoilers for the "Silo" Season 3 finale and Hugh Howey's "Silo" books ahead.

And with that, another phenomenal season of "Silo" is over. Many of the show's previous mysteries have now been unraveled, only to be replaced by new ones and a cliffhanger that will make the wait for Season 4 unbearable.

The Season 3 finale, "Troy," pays off the horrifying ending of last week's episode, when nukes hit Atlanta in a terrifying scene recalling the "Fallout" TV show. That cataclysmic event forced thousands of people to enter the silos and never return to the surface, with Daniel Keene (Ashley Zukerman) losing his memory during his centuries in and out of cryosleep...

Accelerated by artificial intelligence and an indefatigable firehose of content, the uncanny valley between real blockbusters and fake ones is disappearing at an exponential pace. Ten years ago, or even five, a movie like “Mayday” would have arrived in theaters, impressed audiences and entered the canon of slight but engaging fare to watch on repeat whenever it gets broadcast on networks like TNT. Today, it debuts as the #1 film on Apple TV, but seems likely to be forgotten by the time its premiere weekend ends. And that’s a shame, because it’s actually pretty good.

Starring Ryan Reynolds as a U.S. Navy pilot rescued by an ex-Kgb agent (Kenneth Branagh) after his spy plane gets shot down over Russia in the waning days of the Cold War, “Mayday” marks the fourth film directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, and it’s a smart, inventive, well-directed action comedy.

Although director Michael Dinner often originates and develops his own projects (as he did recently on the FX series “Justified: City Primeval“), when showrunner Graham Yost asked him to step in as a producer/director on Season 2 of Apple TV’s “Silo,” it didn’t take long for him to say yes. Aside from the appeal of reuniting with Yost, with whom Dinner had worked on the original “Justified,” there was the chance to delve into a sophisticated sci-fi world courtesy of novelist Hugh Howey’s source material.

“I’ve been fortunate to have a career where I keep reinventing myself, and I never want to feel like I’m being redundant,” Dinner told IndieWire on the latest episode of the Filmmaker Toolkit podcast. “Television has given me the ability to do a new project every year.” That said, Dinner ended up staying on “Silo” for three seasons, watching what...

Hollywood heavyweights and top players in content and exhibition from around the world will gather in Saint-Paul-de-Vence on Sept. 7 for the landmark Lumiere Summit that aims to explore the future of film at a time of profound change that is transforming media and entertainment.

The daylong event, to be held at the renowned art foundation complex Fondation Maeght, has been organized by France’s Cnc, the state unit that oversees policy for film, TV, video games and digital content. The Lumiere Summit is co-chaired by French President Emmanuel Macron Lee Jae Myung, president of South Korea. It’s designed to generate dialogue to address the many vexing issues that have upended the business models of film and other forms as content, as well as the wide swings in consumer tastes and media consumption habits that are challenging the traditional industry in the U.S. and beyond.

Gaëtan Bruel, president of Cnc,...

Three new roles have officially been announced for Season 2 of HBO's Harry Potter series — which we can safely assume will be titled "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" — before Season 1 premieres at the end of 2026.

As reported by Variety, house-elf Dobby, Ginny Weasley, and Tom Riddle will be played by Lenny Rush, Bonnie Hill, and Billy Barratt. Considering that HBO's main guy Kit Harington is officially set to play that season's Defense Against the Dark Arts professor Gilderoy Lockhart, it's nice to see some lesser-knowns getting involved in this project (although Barratt admittedly just starred in Danny and Michael Philippou's acclaimed 2025 horror flick "Bring Her Back"). In the Harry Potter film franchise,...

Venice film festival

Director Cédric Kahn combines compassion with coolly detailed forensic scrutiny in this genre-challenging film which puts a troubled love triangle at the centre of the story

Veteran French director Cédric Kahn brings us a movie in a classic French vein: a docu-realist study of an institution, in this case a state psychiatric facility for teenagers between 15 and 18; with scenes in treatment suites, recreation areas, dorms and interview rooms. It’s something to compare perhaps with Laurent Cantet’s The Class, or Nicolas Philibert’s On the Adamant, or Canadian film-maker Denis Côte’s That Kind of Summer.

Kahn’s film is powerful and committed, although sometimes the...

“A Place to Heal” is an unduly sentimental English-language title title for French writer-director Cédric Kahn’s new feature, which goes internationally by the more prosaic (if outwardly cryptic) “15/18” — referring, simply, to the age bracket of the teenage residents in the psychiatric ward where most of the drama is confined. It’s a place to be treated, certainly, but for many of these nervy, damaged adolescents, healing is hard to come by, and the film does little to soften or idealize their plight. Following the 2023 double-shot of his taut legal drama “The Goldman Case” and playful industry satire “Making Of,” Kahn’s latest finds him working in the unfussily humane mode of 2017’s “The Prayer,” keeping the filmmaking simple while counting on the vibrant spontaneity of his mostly inexperienced young ensemble for fireworks.

The result recalls Laurent Cantet’s comparably documentary-styled, youth-focused “The Class,” or the more rigorous work of...

So-called “troubled” teens – and the brutal question of what to do with them – is a thorny subject being tackled by a growing number of filmmakers. Though set in the 1990s, last year’s “Steve” chillingly showed nothing has really changed in terms of understaffed and underfunded public services for youngsters in need of support. Cédric Kahn’s “15/18 (A Place to Heal)” is the latest addition to this bleak sub-genre, but one that mercifully lives up to its title — expertly tempering murkier topics with a much-needed sense of hope.

The French director is no stranger to darker terrain: he’s turned his lens to drug abuse (“La prière”), child kidnapping (“Vie sauvage”) and, most recently, antisemitism (courtroom drama “The Goldman Case”). But with his latest feature, Kahn makes a significant change of tack. His unflinching gaze and penchant for stark realism — which, in the likes of “The Goldman Case,” effectively exposed...

The Pingyao International Film Festival has named Hong Kong director Ann Hui and Italian critic and programmer Carlo Chatrian as jury presidents of the Fei Mu Awards and the Roberto Rossellini Awards, respectively, ahead of the festival’s 10th edition, running Sept. 24–30, in Pingyao, China.

The Fei Mu Awards, recognized by Fei Mu’s family, aim to carry on Fei Mu’s aesthetic legacy, support up-and-coming filmmakers from Chinese-speaking regions and encourage the development of Chinese-language films. Recipients are selected from among the Chinese-language feature films in the Hidden Dragons section.

The Roberto Rossellini Awards were established at the festival by Fondazione Roberto Rossellini and honor the director’s humanist legacy, celebrating outstanding films and the young directors who make them while championing cinema as an art form. Winners are selected from films by emerging international directors in the Crouching Tigers section.

Hui, a film director born in Anshan, China,...

Sadie Sink had to dodge questions for months over whether or not she was playing Jean Grey in the lead-up to “Spider-Man: Brand New Day,” and now it seems like DC star Adria Arjona may have to do the same for the “Superman” sequel, “Man of Tomorrow.”

Details about her role have remained shrouded in mystery, but DC fans are speculating that Arjona will debut as Wonder Woman in the rebooted superhero universe. While promoting her new action movie “Onslaught,” Arjona explained her workout regime in a video with Women’s Health, and it sounds like the sort of rigorous training an Amazonian superhero would undergo.

“I’ve been boxing for years now. I think it’s something that allows me to get out of my head. You have to be so present at boxing because you can get punched. Boxing has made me so confident. Nothing makes you more confident than punching something,...

In 1989, the Chariots of Fire actor took on the incredible task of playing Shakespeare’s prince while terminally ill from Aids. This weekend sees the world premiere of Elsinore, a new film about the episode, itself heavily-tipped for awards

Ian Charleson was one of the finest actors of his generation and an important figure in the fight for gay rights. Yet the extraordinary circumstances of his final performance as Hamlet, just months before his death, are less familiar.

Now, a new film is bringing that haunting production back to life. Elsinore, directed by Simon Stone and starring Andrew Scott as the Scottish actor, will premiere at Telluride this weekend before...

The following post containsspoilersfor "Silo" Season 3, Episode 10, "Troy."

Last week's episode of "Silo" felt like the climax for Season 3, at least when it comes to the flashback scenes. We got an explanation for how the silos first came to be populated (with a terrifying scene straight out of "Fallout"), along with firm confirmation that the memory-altering drugs developed by Doctor Crnkovich (Matt Craven) have long been used to make everyone in the silos forget about the outside world. Now, the past and present have truly collided in the Season 3 finale, titled "Troy."

In this episode, "Silo" fully bridges the gap between Season 3's different timelines by revealing what in the...

Veteran Italian auteur Nanni Moretti’s “It Will Happen Tonight,” featuring French star Louis Garrel and Italian A-lister Jasmine Trinca has been pre-sold widely by Paris-based international sales company Playtime ahead of its Venice world premiere in competition on Saturday.

Though the plot is being kept under wraps, “It Will Happen Tonight”. is loosely based on the short story collection “Hungry Heart” (Lev Raev) by Israeli writer Eshkol Nevo. “Happen Tonight” will mark the first time in more than two decades that Moretti — who has had nine movies in competition at Cannes — will launch a movie from the Lido.

“It Will Happen Tonight” has been sold by Playtime to Germany (Neue Visionen), Austria (Panda), Switzerland (Xenix), Benelux (Cineart), Portugal (Midas), Greece (Danaos Films), Finland (Future Film), Sweden (TriArt), Denmark (Another World Entertainment), Bulgaria (CineLibri), Romania (Independenta), Ex-Yugoslavia (McF), Ukraine (Kyivmusicfilm), Russia (A-One), Turkey (Bir Film), Israel (New Cinema), Taiwan (Andrews Film...

Film-maker acclaimed for his celebrations of Roma culture had been working on a ‘historical film project’ in Provence

Tony Gatlif, the French director of more than 20 films that mostly concentrated on celebrating Roma culture across the world, has died aged 77.

His family said in a statement to Afp that Gatlif died on Wednesday of “a health issue” while working on a “historical film project” in Arles in Provence, France. “The beauty of his films, his generosity, his joy, his poetry, and his love of music will remain with us forever.”...

Derek Jarman (1942-1994) was one of a kind. His name conjures both an ingenious canon within British art house cinema and a trailblazing position within gay activist history. His eleven feature films — which, among other things, gave us Tilda Swinton — have been endlessly ripe for rediscovery during the decades since his death.

These films are inextricably bound up in his casually brilliant sociopolitical voice and none more so than swan song “Blue.” Made while he was dying from AIDS, it is a chronicle of his own deterioration as well as a furious poetic elegy for loved ones taken too soon.

“Queer Edward II,” the debut feature by Theo Rollason, captures what made Jarman special; an extraordinary achievement, considering the extent of his legacy. What’s more, the documentary is a feat of storytelling in its own right, calling to mind the refined journalistic sculptures of Laura Poitras (and not just...

"Onslaught" is a big deal for Adria Arjona. After spending the last decade making her mark in supporting roles in films like Greg McLean's nasty office-set thriller "The Belko Experiment," J.C. Chandor's underrated Netflix film "Triple Frontier," and Richard Linklater's off-kilter rom-dramedy "Hit Man," she's finally being billed above the title in Adam Wingard's bloody, John Carpenter-inspired action movie. But Arjona has also spent some time on the small screen, and one special series served as a crash course for some crucial career information.

"'Andor' feels like the ultimate school for me," the actress told me in a recent interview. "I learned so much on that show.

Iranian director Mohsen Gharaei, who is at the Venice Film Festival with well-received drama “Falling House,” is set to shoot a new film titled “Centrifugal Force” that will capture “the impossible choices facing a generation of Iranians today,” as the synopsis puts it.

“Falling House,” which world-premiered on Wed. in Venice’s Orizzonti sidebar, follows a modest family on the outskirts of Tehran who faces the imminent destruction of their home as part of a vast redevelopment project. Rashid, the patriarchal father and a prison guard, attempts to contain family rebellion while being accused of corruption.

“Centrifugal Force,” which will be shot in an undisclosed location outside Iran in Farsi and English with still unspecified Iranian and international actors, will be “a deeply human story about what happens when the home you love is no longer a place you can return to,” Gharaei said in his directors’ statement.

“After finishing my latest film,...

Theo Rollason’s documentary Queer Edward II aims to depict a filmmaking ethos that is not present today, according to the team behind the film.

Set in spring 1991, Queer Edward II shows Derek Jarman’s work of adapting Christopher Marlowe’s play Edward II into a radical protest film, at a time when queer life in Britain was under attack. A feature directorial debut for UK filmmaker Rollason, it is composed of previously unseen behind-the-scenes footage and rushes shot by Edward II cinematographer Seamus McGarvey, and has its world premiere out of competition at Venice film festival today.

“When I...

Venice film festival: Filmed during the making of his queer royal feature, while the director was living with HIV, the candid footage includes uproarious scenes at a Cliff Richard rehearsal

There could hardly be a more vivid time-capsule film about the publicly funded British arts scene in the early 1990s than this engrossing fly-on-the-wall documentary about Derek Jarman and his movie Edward II. Based on the play by Christopher Marlowe, it is about the 14th-century English king and his love affair with his court favourite, Piers Gaveston, with Steven Waddington and Andrew Tiernan as the leads and Tilda Swinton as Queen Isabella.

This film uses the tremendously funny and candid...

You might have come across the concept of modern teenagers searching YouTube for old camcorder footage of high school students from the 1990s and 2000s, trying to get a glimpse of what it was like to live in the era before smartphones changed everything forever. If you have any such people in your life, or if you're just in the mood to watch something excellent, buckle up: A new documentary has landed on Netflix that will scratch that particular itch for youngsters, while also providing a compelling mystery at its center.

It's called "Teenage Wasteland," and it hails from filmmakers Amanda McBain and Jesse Moss, who made a great documentary...

The writer-director once called Israel’s ‘one-man New Wave’ is in Venice with The Road to Jericho, a new and poetic attempt to highlight the plight of those in the occupied West Bank

The Palestinian village of Khan al-Ahmar sits off dust-blown Highway-1, between Jerusalem and Jericho in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. At the village centre is the “school of tires”, a fragile construction of rubber, wood and adobe which is attended by around 300 Bedouin boys and girls. The Israeli authorities denied the villagers an official building permit and ruled that the entire settlement is illegal. For the past eight years the school has been operating under threat of imminent demolition,...

Upcoming works by acclaimed filmmakers Chong Keat-aun, Philip Yung and Hung Tzu-hsuan are among 48 projects selected for this year’s Taiwan’s Golden Horse Film Project Promotion (Fpp).

The financing and co-production platform for Chinese-language projects is set to take place in Taipei from November 17-19 during the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival.

The diverse lineup includes 38 in-development projects. Female-focussed narratives take centre stage with renowned Taiwanese host Janet Hsieh’s directing debut Menopause: The Ultimate Guide To Giving Zero F#&*s!, which tackles the trials of menopause with American-style humour; Drifting producer Mani Man Pui-hing’s directorial debut Between Seasons,...

Upcoming works by acclaimed filmmakers Chong Keat-aun, Philip Yung and Hung Tzu-hsuan are among 49 projects selected for this year’s Taiwan’s Golden Horse Film Project Promotion (Fpp).

The financing and co-production platform for Chinese-language projects is set to take place in Taipei from November 17-19 during the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival.

The diverse lineup includes 38 in-development projects. Female-focussed narratives take centre stage with renowned Taiwanese host Janet Hsieh’s directing debut Menopause: The Ultimate Guide To Giving Zero F#&*s!, which tackles the trials of menopause with American-style humour; Drifting producer Mani Man Pui-hing’s directorial debut Between Seasons,...

The U.K. may have just had the hottest August since records began but, in more positive news, it also had the hottest August at the box office in almost a decade.

Thanks to the incredible performances of both “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” and “The Odyssey” a total of $161.3 million was earned at the box office that month, according to new figures from Rentrak, the highest since 2018’s record-breaking August with $201.7 million.

Of course, three recent years were hit by the pandemic and its impact on production, with 2020’s August sitting at a paltry $22 million, 2021’s at $87.9 million and 2022’s at $85.4 million. But as the world burned outside, this year’s bumper summer was clearly a major relief for cinemas and the industry at large as it still looks to recover following recent seismic shifts.

(Comscore’s official numbers do state that 2024’s August reached $163.1 million and 2019’s $167.9, those were...

David Austin, the chief executive of the British Board of Classification (BBFC), is to step down as of next year, after 10 years in the role.

Austin will end his executive responsibilities in July 2027 but will continue to support the BBFC as a member of its board. As part of his board role, he will continue to be one of the BBFC’s four statutory classifiers.

He joined the BBFC in 2003 as an examiner, now known as a compliance officer, following a career in the diplomatic service. He became assistant director, policy and public affairs at the BBFC in 2011, before taking...

There are few animation studios as beloved and iconic as Aardman Animation. For over 50 years, the English studio has introduced some of the best known stop-motion films and the most popular plasticine characters, including Shaun the Sheep and Wallace and Gromit. Its artists are responsible for the highest-grossing stop-motion film of all time thanks to "Chicken Run." Though the studio mostly deals in original characters and stories, it's also responsible for a phenomenal "Star Wars" short, and is working on a new "Pokémon" series in stop-motion.

After the success of "Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl," a movie that saw the triumphant return of international diamond thief Feathers McGraw, Aardman...

France’s box office heated up alongside the temperatures in August, with admissions surging to a record 19.94 million, according to Cnc figures – equivalent to an estimated €147.6m in box office revenue based on an average ticket price of €7.40.

The result capped a bumper summer for French cinemas, with July and August combining for 37.5 million admissions – matching 2011 for the best summer total on record and representing an estimated €277.5m in box office revenue.

It came amid an exceptionally hot summer that drove audiences into air-conditioned cinemas. Sony’s Spider-Man: Brand New Day and Universal’s The Odyssey dominated the month, accounting...