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La próxima entrega galáctica verá la luz en 2027. © Disney

La galaxia de George Lucas vuelve a expandirse. En el marco de la Star Wars Celebration 2025 en Japón, Kathleen Kennedy, presidenta de Lucasfilm, y Dave Filoni, oráculo creativo de la saga, han anunciado la nueva película Star Wars: Starfighter, dirigida por Shawn Levy y protagonizada por Ryan Gosling.

Star Wars: Starfighter será una aventura independiente que transcurre aproximadamente cinco años después de los eventos de Star Wars: Episodio IX – El ascenso de Skywalker (2019). El filme contará una historia completamente nueva con personajes inéditos y ambientada en una época aún no explorada en pantalla.

Que Ryan Gosling se incorporaría al universo Star Wars era un rumor persistente desde hace tiempo, pero ahora se ha oficializado. Levy dijo en el escenario: «Hoy quería decirles aquí en esta sala que ese rumor es 100% cierto». Poco después apareció el actor, que no escatimó en elogios hacia el proyecto,...

Prince of Broadway, Spine #1258, will release in the Criterion Collection on April 29th, 2025.

Sean Baker is currently on top of the world. His most recent film — Anora (which also joins the collection this month) — won five of its six nominations at the Academy Awards, including Best Actress, Best Director and Best Picture. In an instant, Baker was transformed from a small independent filmmaker known only to film snobs and A24 aficionados, to a recognized artist at the top of his game. Prince of Broadway is undeniable proof that Baker has always had a talent for telling achingly human stories.

Prince of Broadway plot

Lucky (Prince Adu) survives by hustling counterfeit merchandise to unsuspecting tourists on the streets of New York. When an ex-girlfriend shows up unexpectedly and leaves him with a young boy that she claims is his son, Lucky’s life instantly changes. He’s unprepared for fatherhood and...

Ryan Gosling is entering that galaxy far, far away.

The Oscar-nominated actor was officially confirmed as the lead in Star Wars: Starfighter, a standalone installment taking place five years after the events of the last Star Wars feature, 2019's Rise of Skywalker.

Shawn Levy, fresh off his box-office-busting turn helming Deadpool & Wolverine, is directing, and producing the film, which has been rumored for months. As he told the crowd at Star Wars Celebration, "The rumors are true."

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The announcement kicked off the Star Wars Celebration fan festival in Japan and was delivered by Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy and Dave Filoni, the chief creative officer.

Production will begin this fall for a May 28, 2027 release. Star Wars: Starfighter will cover new...

From Star Wars Celebration in Japan, Lucasfilm officially announced Shawn Levy's new "Star Wars" movie, in development since 2022, by giving it an official title and a release date.

"Star Wars: Starfighter" is the name of the new movie, though it doesn't have anything to do with the video game of the same name, and it's been slated for release on May 28, 2027, just in time for the 50th anniversary of "Star Wars: A New Hope." Furthermore, Ryan Gosling has been confirmed as the lead, though there's no word on who will be joining him after Oscar-winning "Anora" star Mikey Madison was recently revealed to have passed on a supporting role in the film.

Gosling took the stage with Levy at Celebration, complete with an image of "Star Wars" bedsheets straight from his childhood home, courtesy of his mother (via The Hollywood Reporter). Gosling said, "As you can see from the picture,...

A new “Star Wars” film directed by Shawn Levy and starring Ryan Gosling has been given a title and will open in theaters on May 28, 2027, it was announced Thursday as part of “Star Wars” Celebration in Japan.

The film is called “Star Wars: Starfighter,” and it is a standalone adventure taking place approximately five years after the events of 2019’s “Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker,” according to the announcement from Lucasfilm Chief Creative Officer Dave Filoni and President Kathleen Kennedy. It will feature all new characters and explore a new period of time yet to be explored on screen. Still in the works is another film that will reportedly bring Daisy Ridley’s Rey back onto the screen and be a follow-up chapter to the Skywalker Saga.

Production on “Star Wars: Starfighter” is set to begin this fall.

As previously reported, Jonathan Tropper is writing the script for “Starfighter,...

Shawn Levy's Star Wars movie was announced in November 2022, and development is finally moving forward. The movie is reportedly starring Ryan Gosling.

Levy's untitled movie in the Star Wars franchise will be the next movie to start production, per a new report in late February. Following the update, casting continues. Alongside Gosling, Levy reportedly wanted to cast recent Oscar-winning actress Mikey Madison, per Variety.

Madison recently won the Oscar for Best Actress for Anora, and she has yet to pick her next project. However, it turns out that going to a Galaxy Far, Far Away in Star Wars won't be among them, as Madison passed on the part.

Shawn Levy thinking Mikey Madison was gonna star in his Star Wars movie https://t.co/So1ttPIqEBpic.twitter.com/3yHgIMHreK— Qyxdfgkâ‰ï¸| Free 🇵🇸 (@trinidaddylmao) April 16, 2025Looks like she isn't interested in just jumping into franchise films. Avoiding...

What’s Mikey Madison going to star in next after winning the Best Actress Oscar for “Anora“? Well, it won’t be Shawn Levy‘s upcoming “Star Wars” project with Ryan Gosling.

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Variety reports that the actress passed on a lead role in Levy’s Lucasfilm project, which Kathleen Kennedy & co.

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Mikey Madison is making waves in Hollywood these days. As one of the youngest actresses ever to bag the prestigious Best Actress Oscars, fans are waiting to see what she has in store for them next.

People are especially curious to find out if she will get involved with a big franchise project next, as the fame payout they might offer her would be career-defining after her Oscar win.

Interestingly, though, Madison seems to be of a different mind. In fact, to establish her decision firmly in the industry, she pulled a move straight from the success manual of legendary actors like Leonardo DiCaprio.

Mikey Madison pulled a move that only the Hollywood elite have dared to do

As stated above, many actors would kill for a chance to land a role in big IPs like Marvel, Disney, DC, or Star Wars. Especially because ever since their foundation, these franchises...

Mikey Madison will not be joining the cast of the upcoming Star Wars film being developed by director Shawn Levy. Sources familiar with the project confirmed that Madison was offered a role but has since passed on the opportunity.

The project, still untitled, is being written by Jonathan Tropper, whose credits include The Adam Project and This Is Where I Leave You. Levy is set to direct and produce through his 21 Laps banner, working in collaboration with Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy. Ryan Gosling remains attached to star.

Levy’s involvement with the film dates back to late 2022. The film is expected to operate outside the timeline of the Skywalker saga, with no direct connections to previous mainline entries. Further plot details have not been released.

If it moves ahead on its current production track, the Levy-directed film would follow The Mandalorian & Grogu, the only Star Wars theatrical title in active...

As everyone wonders how Mikey Madison will follow up her Oscar-winning performance in Anora, it seems she won't be heading to a galaxy far, far away as she has now reportedly passed on the upcoming Star Warsentry starring Ryan Gosling. After appearing in critically acclaimed titles like Better Things, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and 2022's Scream, Mikey Madison's role in Anora earned her critical acclaim and an Academy Award for Best Actress, beating out stars like Demi Moore in The Substance and Cynthia Erivo in Wicked. At just 26 years old, Madison is likely at the top of every studio's short list for their major films, and she now has the clout to decide what she does and doesn't want to do.

Variety reports that Madison was offered a lead role in the upcoming Star Wars film directed by Deadpool & Wolverine filmmaker Shawn Levy and starring Academy Award-nominee Ryan Gosling.

Demi Moore was a leading contender in this year’s Oscars after her brilliant award season run for The Substance. But Mikey Madison surprised many audiences after bagging the Oscar for Best Actress for her performance in Anora.

We always get to see massive debates over the Academy Award winners every year. The latest edition was also subjected to the same conditions, as there was tough competition. However, Demi Moore, in a recent interview, revealed that she did not feel disappointed at her Oscar loss. The actress was apparently sure about Mikey Madison’s win.

Demi Moore anticipated her Oscar defeat against Mikey Madison Demi Moore as Elisabeth Sparkle in The Substance | Credits: Working Title Films

Demi Moore‘s performance as Elisabeth Sparkle in the body-horror movie The Substance won her a Golden Globe Award, a Critics’ Choice Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She was one of the...

After winning the Academy Award for Best Actress for Anora, Mikey Madison has her pick of projects, and for a brief moment, one of those was Star Wars. According to The InSneider, Madison was rumoured to be in early talks to join the cast of Shawn Levy’s upcoming Star Wars movie, but Variety has now reported that the actress has passed on the role.

In addition to Star Wars, Sneider said that Madison was also considering an offer to star in Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil movie. Now that she’s passed on Star Wars, perhaps Resident Evil could be her next project.

Sneider added that Levy’s Star Wars movie is “currently casting the lead role, which is a 15-year-old boy, as well as the boy’s mother, plus two villains.” There’s another significant female character in the mix, which is the role Madison was being eyed for.

Mikey Madison has passed on joining Ryan Gosling in an untitled “Star Wars” movie, according to an insider with knowledge of the project. Madison was previously being eyed to star and an offer was made.

Madison recently won the Best Actress Oscar for her role in “Anora.”

“Deadpool & Wolverine” filmmaker Shawn Levy is set to direct. “The Adam Project” writer Jonathan Tropper wrote the script.

Levy has been attached to the project since 2022 and additional details about the film are being kept under wraps. Tropper and Levy have previously collaborated on the 2014 family drama “This Is Where I Leave You,” as well as on the script for the Mark Raso-directed Netflix film “Kodachrome,” which Levy produced.

Previously, “Anora” writer-director Sean Baker’s interest in Madison was piqued by a role in the fifth installment of “Scream,” a 2022 film in which she (spoiler!) ends up killing David Arquette’s sheriff character.

Mikey Madison won’t journey into a Galaxy Far Far Away for her first project after picking up the best actress Oscar.

Sources tell Variety that Madison was offered a role in the new and untitled “Star Wars” movie directed by “Deadpool & Wolverine” filmmaker Shawn Levy, but conversations have since ended with the “Anora” star passing on the part.

As previously reported, screenwriter Jonathan Tropper has been writing the screenplay for the film, which will star Ryan Gosling. Levy — who will join the rarefied club of directors who’ve worked with both Canadian movie stars named Ryan — has been developing the project since late 2022 and is also producing for his 21 Laps company, along with Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy.

The movie is said to be a standalone project that isn’t connected with the Skywalker Saga, which concluded with 2019’s “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.” All other plot details...

Demi Moore felt calm and content as she lost the Academy Award for best actress to Mikey Madison.The 62-year-old actress was hotly tipped to take home the gong at the 2025 ceremony for her role in beauty and ageing satire ‘The Substance’, but lost to Mikey, 25, who played a gold-digging stripper in ‘Anora’ at the event. Speaking to Time magazine, Demi revealed she had a strong intuition that the award would go to Mikey, even moments before the winner was announced, adding: “I didn’t feel gutted. I didn’t feel any of those kinds of things.”Demi added about the awards ceremony: “I leaned over and whispered to my manager, ‘I think it’s going to Mikey’.“I don’t know why I knew, but I did. I was so centered and calm. I just trusted, and am in trust of, whatever is going to unfold.”The 96th Academy Awards,...

Demi Moore can clearly remember the moment she realized she would lose the Best Actress Oscar to Mikey Madison. Moore, who led “The Substance,” lost to the “Anora” actress during the 2025 Oscars. In a new interview, Moore shared that she knew during the commercial break before the award was announced that she was not favored by the Academy.

“I leaned over and whispered to my manager, ‘I think it’s going to Mikey,’” Moore told Time. “I don’t know why I knew, but I did. I was so centered and calm. I didn’t feel gutted. I didn’t feel any of those kinds of things. I just trusted, and am in trust of, whatever is going to unfold.”

Moore had previously won the best lead actress prizes at the Golden Globes, Critics’ Choice Awards, and SAG Awards. However, “Anora” had already landed the Oscars for best editing, original screenplay,...

Demi Moore has been around for multiple decades, with a series of successful hits at the box office. However, 2024 gave her the critical acclaim she deserves with the horror hit The Substance, which led to her first Oscar nomination for Best Actress.

Moore was among the favorites to take home the gold statuette, especially after Emilia Pérez's Karla Sofía Gascón's controversy. However, once the award show came, the person who was crowned winner was Anora's Mikey Madison. Over a month after the Oscars, Moore reacted to her Oscar loss in an interview with Time magazine.

Moore was named one of 2025's Most 100 Influential Artists, and received a tribute from filmmaker Ryan Murphy. The actress reacted to her Oscar loss and revealed she had a premonition she wasn't going to win during the commercial break before the Best Actress category. "I leaned over and whispered to my manager,...

The Current Debate connects the dots around a topic of the critical conversation.Anora.Remember Cord Jefferson’s plea at last year’s Oscars? Picking up his Best Adapted Screenplay award for American Fiction (2023), the director chided the industry for being “risk-averse,” and suggested that, “instead of making one $200 million movie,” producers should spread those resources to make room for more diverse and bolder voices. “Try making twenty $10 million movies,” he said, “or fifty $4 million movies.” Jefferson was of course alluding to Oppenheimer (2023), Christopher Nolan’s thunderous portrait of “father of the atomic bomb” J. Robert Oppenheimer, a $100-million Best Picture winner that racked up seven statuettes and nearly a billion dollars at the box office. A year later, a cursory glance at the list of 2025 Oscar winners might make you think the industry did, in fact, heed the call. It’s not that there were no big-budget films among...

Demi Moore is reflecting on the 2025 Oscars.

In an interview with Time magazine, published on Wednesday, Moore opened up about losing the best actress Oscar to Mikey Madison earlier this year, and how she “knew” it wasn’t hers during the commercial break before the category was called.

“I leaned over and whispered to my manager, ‘I think it’s going to Mikey,'” Moore recalled. “I don’t know why I knew, but I did.”

And when Emma Stone read that Madison won best actress, Moore said she was “centered and calm.” She continued, “I didn’t feel gutted. I didn’t feel any of those kinds of things. I just trusted, and am in trust of, whatever is going to unfold.”

Madison was nominated for playing a sex worker in Anora (which dominated the Oscars with five wins), and she won BAFTA and Spirit awards for her role.

Demi Moore found herself experiencing her first taste of awards season glory following the release of The Substance, a film that garnered her some of the best reviews of her career. The actress was nominated for and won some of the major precursors leading up to the Academy Awards, including a Golden Globe and SAG Award, but the performance of emerging young talent, Mikey Madison in Anora, was also gaining steam. When it came down to Oscar night, Madison won the big prize, but Moore now admits that she believed that was going to be the case before the category was announced.

During an interview with Time Magazine, Moore revealed that she was not "gutted" by losing the Best Actress Oscar to Madison because she had a strong feeling that the Anora star was going to win. She was so confident in that belief that she leaned over to her...

Demi Moore is revealing her real reaction to Mikey Madison winning the 2025 Best Actress Oscar statue over her.

Both were nominated this year, with Mikey winning for Anora over Demi for The Substance, though some believed Demi to be the frontrunner this year.

However, Demi says she knew it was going to be Mikey in the moments before!

Keep reading to find out more…

Demi said in her Time100 interview, “I leaned over and whispered to my manager, ‘I think it’s going to Mikey. I don’t know why I knew, but I did. I was so centered and calm. I didn’t feel gutted. I didn’t feel any of those kinds of things. I just trusted, and am in trust of, whatever is going to unfold.”

About how her life has changed, Demi shared, “To go from the beginning of this last year feeling like I was...

Demi Moore said in a new interview with Time magazine that she was not devastated when she lost the Oscar for best actress to “Anora’s” Mikey Madison. In fact, Moore had such a strong gut feeling that Madison would prevail, she told her manager as much when the Oscars cut to commercial right before the best actress category was announced.

“I leaned over and whispered to my manager, ‘I think it’s going to Mikey,’” Moore said. “I don’t know why I knew, but I did. I was so centered and calm. I didn’t feel gutted. I didn’t feel any of those kinds of things. I just trusted, and am in trust of, whatever is going to unfold.”

Perhaps Moore knew Madison would win because “Anora” was already on a hot Oscars streak by the time the best actress category was presented. “Anora” director Sean Baker...

Mike Flanagan’s upcoming take on the Stephen King novel The Life Of Chuck has a new trailer – and an August UK release date.

Off the back of last year’s Toronto International Film Festival, there was a feeling that Mike Flanagan’s upcoming adaptation of the Stephen King novel The Life Of Chuck could be something really rather good. The film won TIFF’s coveted People’s Choice Award, leading to buzz that the film would go on to earn a Best Picture nomination at the Academy Awards, given that 12 of the last 14 winners have gone on to do so.

That ultimately wouldn’t happen because the film’s US distributor Neon – presumably busy running a campaign to get Sean Baker’s Anora a Best Picture Oscar – elected to give the film a May 2025 release slot. While that date doesn’t suggest that Neon thinks The Life Of Chuck...

Today, fans are finally able to give Chuck Krantz the beefy thank you that he’s long deserved, as the official trailer for Mike Flanagan’s The Life of Chuck has finally been released. Following a first look at CinemaCon in Las Vegas just two weeks ago, the rest of the world can now feast their eyes on the latest offering to come from famed filmmaker Flanagan and legendary genre author Stephen King. The best part about The Life of Chuck is that it diverges from the typical fare that audiences have seen in the past from both Flannigan and King, largely breaking out of the horror mold and taking audiences on an existential journey to rediscover the wonders of life alongside a cast led by Tom Hiddleston (Loki), Chiwetel Ejiofor (Doctor Strange) and Karen Gillan (Oculus).

As his 40th birthday nears, Hiddleston’s Chuck Krantz enters the final days...

“The Life of Chuck” is almost ready to be unveiled.

The movie, based on a Stephen King short story of the same name, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last year, where it won the coveted People’s Choice Award, which has historically foretold the Best Picture Oscar winner. But, after Neon picked up the movie, they slotted it for a summer 2025 release.

Now, “The Life of Chuck’s” release date is nearing and Neon has a new, heart-tugging trailer. Watch it below.

Wondering what “The Life of Chuck” is about? Here’s the official synopsis: “From the hearts and minds of Stephen King and Mike Flanagan comes ‘The Life of Chuck,’ the extraordinary story of an ordinary man. This unforgettable, genre-bending tale celebrates the life of Charles ‘Chuck’ Krantz as he experiences the wonder of love, the heartbreak of loss, and the multitudes contained in all of us.

The 2025 Academy Awards will live on as an exciting night for first-time nominees. The ceremony saw a handful of veteran actors getting nominated for the first time in their careers, including Demi Moore ("The Substance"), Guy Pearce ("The Brutalist"), and Isabella Rossellini ("Conclave"), and one actor got a big, shocking boost when first-time nominee Mikey Madison won Best Actress for "Anora." But for every new Oscar nominee that comes along each year, there's still a surprising number of talented performers who have yet to be honored by the Academy with even a single nomination. 

Despite being recognized by the Golden Globes, BAFTAs (basically the British Oscars), Screen Actors Guild (SAG), and other distinguished institutions, certain artists just can't seem to get on the Academy's radar. A few famous names received honorary Oscars, despite never getting nominated, while the Academy has completely iced out others with some pretty controversial Oscar snubs.

FilmNation Entertainment has boarded “La Ola (The Wave),” a musical about the 2018 student feminist protests in Chile directed by Sebastián Lelio. The company is launching worldwide sales outside of Latin America at Cannes, where the film will premiere in the Cannes Premieres section.

Lelio won the Oscar for best international feature for “A Fantastic Woman.” His other credits include both the Chilean film “Gloria” and its English-language remake “Gloria Bell,” as well as “Disobedience” and “The Wonder.”

“La Ola” stars newcomers Daniela López, Avril Aurora, Lola Bravo and Paulina Cortés. It is produced by Juan de Dios Larraín, Pablo Larraín, Rocío Jadue and Lelio. Fabula also produced the movie, which is co-financed by Participant and Fremantle. The screenplay was written by Lelio, Manuela Infante, Josefina Fernández and Paloma Salas. “La Ola” was shot on location in Chile over nine weeks.

The film follows Julia, a music student drawn into the...

Left-Handed Girl, directed by Shih-Ching Tsou and co-written by filmmaker Sean Baker, has been selected to compete in the 2025 Critics’ Week at the Cannes Film Festival. The Taipei-set family drama is one of seven features included in this year’s lineup for the parallel section, which focuses on first and second works from emerging directors.

Tsou, who previously collaborated with Baker on Take Out, Tangerine, Starlet, The Florida Project, and Red Rocket, directs the film solo. Baker also co-edited the project while overseeing the awards run for his film Anora, which won Best Picture, Best Director, and three other Oscars earlier this year.

Left-Handed Girl follows a single mother and her two daughters as they navigate the complexities of life in the Taiwanese capital. Janel Tsai, an actress and model based in Taiwan, leads the cast. The film blends social realism with a focus on working-class life, continuing themes explored...

The first trailer for Eddington offers a chaotic first look at Ari Aster's upcoming A24 Western feature ahead of its premiere next month. The movie centers on the conflict between small-town sheriff Joe Cross (Joaquin Phoenix) and local mayor Ted Garcia (Pedro Pascal) in the fictional town of Eddington, New Mexico, but the first footage reveals that pressures from external factors will only intensify their personal and political standoff, including real-world issues such as the Covid-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement.

The tagline that accompanied the trailer on social media read "Hindsight is 2020," referencing the tumultuous year that saw the onset of the global outbreak of the coronavirus disease and the widespread demonstrations protesting racial injustice and police brutality. "Of course, they keep looking at that lab in China. If you look at that lab in Wuhan," a voice narrates over the clips at the beginning of the trailer.

The Cannes Critics’ Week 2025 selection boasts Best Picture winner Sean Baker’s latest project.

Baker collaborates once more with his “Take Out” co-director and co-writer Shih-Ching Tsou, who makes her directorial debut with “Left-Handed Girl.” Tsou also produced Baker’s “Tangerine” (which she starred in) and “The Florida Project,” and executive-produced “Starlet.” Now, “Left-Handed Girl” incorporates Baker’s social-realist approach with the Taipei-set tragicomedy “Left-Handed Girl,” which follows a single mother and her two daughters building a new life in the Taiwanese capital. Baker cowrites, edits, and produces the film.

“The film was edited by Sean. It’s true that there’s a connection, I’m not going to hide it, and I don’t think Shih-Ching Tsou will either,” Cannes Critics’ Week artistic director Ava Cahen told Deadline. “It’s a bit reminiscent of ‘Tangerine’ and ‘The Florida Project,’ for the way it captures reality, with a form of wonder,...

Seven films will compete in the 2025 International Critics Week section at the Cannes Film Festival, Critics Week organizers announced on Monday morning.

The films, all from first- and second-time directors, include “Left-Handed Girl” a family film set in Taipei, directed by Shih-Ching and produced and co-edited by reigning Palme d’Or and Oscar Best Picture winner Sean Baker. Baker was working on the film during the awards campaign for his film “Anora.”

The competing features come from Spain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Taiwan, Thailand, Singapore, Germany, the United States and the United Kingdom.

Critics Week, or La Semaine de la Critique, also announced four special screenings, including “L’intérêt d’Adam” (“Adam’s Sake”) from director Laura Wandel, which will serve as the sidebar’s opening-night film.

Critics Week, which celebrated its 60th anniversary in 2021, is an independent sidebar section in Cannes. It was the section that brought the Cannes debuts of Guillermo del Toro,...

The Cannes Critics’ Week, the festival sidebar focusing on directors’ first and second features, unveiled its 2025 lineup Monday.

Competition highlights include Left-Handed Girl, the solo directorial debut of Taiwanese filmmaker Shih-Ching Tsou, known for her long-standing collaboration with Anora director Sean Baker (Tsou co-directed 2004’s Take Out and was a producer on Baker’s Tangerine, The Florida Project and Red Rocket). Baker co-wrote and edited the Taipei-set urban melodrama, which centers on a single mother and her two daughters navigating life on the margins of the Taiwanese capital.

Also debuting in Critics’ Week is Thai director Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke with A Useful Ghost, a surrealist take on motherhood in which a woman reincarnates as a vacuum cleaner. Thai actress Mai Davika Hoorne leads the cast.

European features in competition include Pauline Loquès’ Nino, starring fast-rising Quebecois actor Théodore Pellerin (Lurker) as a young man adrift in the city after losing his...

As the format continues to gain traction, here’s our regularly-updated list of upcoming 4K Ultra HD disc releases in the UK.

Sitting alongside our list of upcoming DVD and Blu-ray releases (that you can find here), we’re also keeping a calendar for those who support the 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray disc format. As we learn of new UK releases, we’ll add them to this list.

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Without further ado, here are the titles we know about…

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A glimpse at upcoming UK DVD and Blu-ray release dates well into 2025: here’s what’s coming to disc and when.

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Listen up students, Professor Coogler is present for class and ready to lay down some knowledge. In promotion of his upcoming horror film, “Sinners,” writer/director Ryan Coogler has released a video with Kodak that lays out not only all the formats audiences can view it in in theaters, but also what each experience offers. Fans of traditional film stock will also rejoice, as Coogler goes into detail about what makes its use so special. Watch the video below.

“I’m really excited to announce that ‘Sinners’ was captured on film,” said Coogler. “That’s a format that I fell in love with when I was in film school, so I brought a few film strips along here.”

Coogler proceeded to showcase the four sizes of film stock, starting with Super 8mm, which he described as more for “home videos,” though it still provides a “really beautiful aesthetic.” From there,...

The lineup for the 78th Cannes Film Festival has officially been announced. As of today, 19 films will be competing for the prestigious top prize, the Palme d’Or, which last year was won by Sean Baker's Anora. This year’s festival runs between May 13 and May 24, and the jury is headed by actress Juliette Binoche. Binoche won the Best Actress award at Cannes in 2010 for Certified Copy and an Oscar in 1996 for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in The English Patient.

Two of this year’s entries come from directors who have won the Palme in the past. Another three are from helmers who have won prizes in official competition other than the Palme. Seven selections are from directors who are having their first films screened in competition.

Cannes can also be a place to see the first glimpses of major Oscar contenders. Last year, three of the...

For the second time in six years — and only the fourth in its 78-year history — the movie that cinched the Palme d’Or at Cannes went on to win best picture at the Oscars.

When it happened to “Parasite,” it was easy to look on that as a fluke. Not since “No Country for Old Men” (another film launched at Cannes) had a genre film earned the Academy’s top prize. And of course, no South Korean movie had ever won (or even so much as been nominated) for best picture before.

But the triumph of “Anora” this year suggests a possible pattern … or perhaps, the inevitable result of a concerted effort by the Academy to diversify and globalize its membership (a move that inevitably benefits international and non-English-language cinema at the Oscars). Either way, the celebrated film festival — which takes place every May along France’s Côte d’Azur...

It could have been an email, but the Cannes Film Festival revealed its 2025 lineup on Thursday with an hour-long press conference that unofficially kicked off the 2026 Oscar race. Multiple presumed future awards contenders will premiere at Cannes this year, including new films from Wes Anderson, Ari Aster, Julia Ducournau, Oliver Hermanus, Scarlett Johansson, Spike Lee (probably; more on that below), Richard Linklater, Kelly Reichardt, and Joachim Trier. Ahead are the three burning questions about this year’s lineup that could impact next year’s Oscars.

Will Neon win its sixth straight Palme d’Or?

Since 2019, Neon has won the Palme d’Or five consecutive times: Parasite, Titane, Triangle of Sadness, Anatomy of a Fall, and Anora. (Cannes was canceled in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic.) It’s an unprecedented run, and it has a good shot to continue this year, as the studio has two buzzy titles in the competition lineup: Alpha,...

The Cannes Film Festival has released the official selection for its 78th edition, featuring a mix of returning auteurs and first-time filmmakers. Scheduled to run from May 13 to 24, this year’s lineup includes world premieres from directors such as Wes Anderson, Julia Ducournau, Ari Aster, and Richard Linklater.

Announced by festival delegate general Thierry Frémaux and president Iris Knobloch during a press conference in Paris, the lineup spans the main competition, Un Certain Regard, and various sidebars. French actor and Academy Award winner Juliette Binoche will serve as jury president. The rest of the jury remains unannounced.

Among the films selected for competition is Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme, debuting shortly before its theatrical release. Ari Aster returns with Eddington, a Western-inflected film distributed by A24. Linklater brings Nouvelle Vague, focused on the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless. Ducournau’s Alpha is set in the 1980s and centers on...

The guessing game around which films could make the lineup for the 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival, which runs from May 13—24, came to an end this morning at a press conference in Paris by Cannes delegate general Thierry Frémaux and president Iris Knobloch. If you tapped the latest works by Ari Aster (Eddington), Kelly Reichardt (The Mastermind), Richard Linklater (Nouvelle Vague), Wes anderson (The Phoenician Scheme), and the Dardenne brothers (Young Mothers) to make the cut, then you were correct.

Neon, which is on a five-year winning streak of Palme d’Or winners, two of which went on to win best picture at the Oscars (Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite and Sean Baker’s Anora), will try to make it a sixth with, for now, either of the two films it already has in its stable: Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value and Julie Ducournau’s Alpha.

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It’s been nearly a year since “Anora” began its rise to Oscar history by winning the Palme D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. But as the 2025 edition of France’s cinematic gathering draws near, the third film ever to pull off the Palme/Best Picture double is just now creeping into profitability.

With a 70-day theatrical exclusive window, “Anora” grossed just $20.4 million from its domestic theatrical run, putting the $6 million FilmNation production that was acquired by Neon six months ahead of its Cannes premiere in a position where it has relied on post-theatrical revenue, particularly a boost in premium video on-demand sales following its Oscar triumph, to get in the black.

While its status alongside Bong Joon-ho’s “Parasite” in the Palme+Oscar club makes “Anora” a high profile example, it is indicative of a larger trend throughout Hollywood, but particularly in the specialty area, where PVOD has...

Updated 10:40 a.m. Et: Cannes has now confirmed that Spike Lee’s “Highest 2 Lowest” will play out of competition at Cannes. The film was omitted from Thursday morning’s announcement, though Lee shared on Instagram afterward that “Highest 2 Lowest” would be heading to Cannes. We’ve now included the film below.

Earlier: The 2025 Cannes Film Festival lineup was revealed bright and early, starting at 5 a.m. Et on Thursday, April 10 for those following in the States. For those in France, festival director Thierry Frémaux and president Iris Knobloch unveiled this year’s crop of films from the main competition to Un Certain Regard and beyond at the more reasonable hour of 11 a.m. local time. IndieWire previously named 33 films we hope to see among the 78th edition’s sections; we got some right, but with a number of expected films left out.

As previously announced, this year...

New films from Wes Anderson, Richard Linklater and the Dardenne brothers will premiere at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Cannes organizers announced at a press conference in Paris on Thursday.

Anderson will be back in Cannes with “The Phoenician Scheme,” which premiered a baffling trailer at CinemaCon last week. Linklater is heading to France with a bold movie, “Nouvelle Vague,” which tackles the sacred ground of Jean-Luc Godard and the filming of “Breathless” in the 1960s. The Dardenne brothers have “Young Mothers,” which gives them a chance to become the first filmmakers to win the Palme d’Or three times.

Actors in the festival making their directorial debuts include Scarlett Johansson, who is in Un Certain Regard with “Eleanor the Great,” starring Joan Squibb; and Harris Dickinson, the star of the Palme d’Or winner “The Triangle of Sadness,” with “Urchin.”

The main competition will include a number of...

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The Truman Show is a psychological comedy-drama film directed by Peter Weir from a screenplay by Andrew Niccol. The 1998 film follows the life of Truman Burbank, who doesn’t know that his whole life has been filmed and broadcasted to the whole world on reality television, but now he has begun to see some cracks in his life.

The 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival is looking to be another knockout, with some of this year’s hottest features, including Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme, Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague and Ari Aster’s Eddington set to premiere on the Croisette.

Cannes delegate general Thierry Frémaux and president Iris Knobloch announced this year’s lineup at a press conference in Paris on Thursday morning.

The 2025 competition lineup is packed with auteur heavyweights, including Kelly Reichardt, who returns to Cannes competition with The Mastermind, an art-heist drama starring Josh O’Connor and John Magaro, set against the backdrop of the Vietnam War; Norwegian filmmaker Joachim Trier, who returns to the Croisette after his 2021 triumph (with The Worst Person of the World) with Sentimental Value, also featuring Renate Reinsve; and dissident Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who will be back in Cannes competition with his latest drama, A Simple Accident.

Fresh off the announcement that a Magic: The Gathering film and television universe was in the works, Hasbro Entertainment and Legendary may have potentially found their director to jumpstart the franchise.

According to Deadline, Hasbro Entertainment and Legendary Entertainment are reportedly eyeing Canadian director and actor Matt Johnson to helm the first film in the Magic: The Gathering franchise. However, the outlet notes that discussions are still in the early stages, and Johnson hasn't been offered the film yet. Johnson is a Canadian actor-director best known for starring in, writing and directing films such as BlackBerry and Operation Avalanche. The feature film set in the Magic: The Gathering universe is still in the very early stages of development, so there aren't any plot details regarding the film yet.

Hasbro Entertainment and Legendary announced the Magic: The Gathering universe back in February and revealed that their initial plan is to release...

It’s table stakes at this point to recognize that a significant portion of the eventual Best Picture field will launch at the Cannes Film Festival. Six of the 20 Best Picture nominees premiered on the French Riviera in the last two years. Last year’s Palme d’Or winner Anora became only the third Cannes champion to take the top award — but the second in five years after Parasite pulled off the gambit in 2020. (The only previous Palme d’Or champion to win Best Picture was 1955’s Marty.) That has made Cannes a significant step in awards season, despite its spring calendar placement — and with the Academy increasing its international membership annually, the importance of Cannes will only continue to grow.

So, which of this year’s potential premieres will carry through to next year’s Oscars ceremony? Ahead are the nine movies we hope make the cut when the...

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences president Janet Yang said the media and entertainment community needs to preserve “human authorship” as AI use evolves in Hollywood, Monday during a session at the Nab Show. “We need the human behind the AI,” she said. “I feel cautiously optimistic that we will find a path for what will be a big part of our lives.”

In attendance at the National Association of Broadcasters Show in Las Vegas for the first time, Yang participated in a panel during which she provided an overview of the Academy and thoughts on AI to the engineering-heavy audience.

Noting that the Academy has 19 branches, representing those in front of and behind the camera, as well as one of the newest, aimed at those who work in production technology, she said, “as one can imagine there are a lot of different points of view [on AI]. One thing we...

Late last year, IndieWire hosted college students from Uc Berkeley at our Los Angeles offices for a presentation on the journalistic and educational content that their generation of film and TV professionals want to see. Afterwards, I chatted with a group of these informed and confident industry hopefuls and wanted to know what they found worth watching. “The Bear”? Maybe Sean Baker‘s soon-to-be Oscar-sweeper “Anora”? To my surprise, the only thing they’d all seen recently was the Max original film “Sweethearts.”

Surprising? At first, but then it was self evident: A film about teens returning home from college for the first time and recognizing the shifts that have taken place — how could it not appeal to exactly to this group of students?

That lesson repeated itself as social media blew up this weekend over the surprise $157 million domestic box-office opening for “A Minecraft Movie.” The trailers, marketing materials,...

Walter Salles has described the “explosion of joy” in Brazil at his Oscar win for I’m Still Here as “the most beautiful gift”.

Speaking after his masterclass at the Doha Film Institute’s Qumra lab, Salles said the film “allowed younger generations to have a better understanding of what had happened in their own country. It was the contact with a hidden part of history that surfaced, and that is what made the film theirs.”

“There’s always a moment where the film ceases to be made by the family that allowed it to exist, and becomes something that belongs...