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We are now well into 2025, and our latest column features several books that will likely rank among the year’s finest and most important releases. Plus, this column features a lengthy rundown of new and recent novels that should be on your radar, as well as lots of 4K and Blu-ray gems. Let’s start with an entertaining and insightful look at female filmmakers.

Cinema Her Way: Visionary Female Directors in Their Own Words by Marya E. Gates (Rizzoli)

Anyone who has read critic and writer Marya E. Gates’ “Female Filmmakers in Focus” column for RogerEbert.com will agree that there is no one better suited to write Cinema Her Way. This lovingly crafted, visually sublime text is packed with info and interviews. Gates acknowledges the titans of cinema whose contributions paved the way for today’s filmmakers. And while there are passing references to biggies like Coppola and Gerwig,...

“Severance” star John Turturro and Sony’s Tom Rothman will receive honors at the Museum of Moving Image’s annual benefit night, the Spring Moving Image Awards, on June 9.

The awards will be presented at the Sumner M. Redstone Theater, and a dinner will be held in the Hearst Lobby at the Queens, N.Y. museum.

Turturro returned to Season 2 of the Apple TV+ series “Severance” as Irving, an employee at the enigmatic Lumon company. He also appeared last year in the Pedro Almodóvar film “The Room Next Door” as Damian, a confidant to Julianne Moore’s character. Turturro won an Emmy in 2004 for his performance in the series, “Monk.”

Rothman is the chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment’s Motion Picture Group. In his position, he has overseen films such as “Little Women,” “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” and “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.” Rothman is also the...

Tenerife acoge el rodaje del nuevo filme de Marc Webbs. © Diamond Films

Ha comenzado el rodaje en Tenerife de la película Day Drinker, del director Marc Webbs, y ya tenemos la primera imagen oficial.

Day Drinker narra el encuentro entre una camarera de un lujoso yate privado (Cline) y un huésped enigmático (Depp), cuya conexión los lleva a un peligroso vínculo con una figura criminal (Cruz).

La película estará protagonizada por Johnny Depp, Penélope Cruz y Madelyn Cline. Acompañando a este trío protagonista, el reparto se completa con varios nombres españoles como Manu Ríos, Arón Piper y Juan Diego Botto.

Este filme marca la cuarta colaboración entre Depp y Cruz, tras Blow, Piratas del Caribe: En mareas misteriosas y Asesinato en el Orient Express.

El rodaje se desarrolla principalmente en el Auditorio de Tenerife, uno de los espacios más icónicos de Santa Cruz, que ha sido cuidadosamente transformado para recrear...

Johnny Depp is back at work on a Hollywood feature for the first time in years, with Lionsgate releasing a first-look at the actor in Day Drinker.

Additionally, the studio announced that Manu Rios, Aron Piper, Juan Diego Botto and Anika Boyle have joined Penélope Cruz in the thriller pic from director Marc Webb now shooting in Spain.

Madelyn Cline also stars in the film, which marks a potential Hollywood comeback for Depp after controversies surrounding his messy divorce from actress Amber Heard and a U.K. court ruling that resulted in Warner Bros. axing him from the Fantastic Beasts franchise in 2020.

In recent years, Depp has appeared in films such as French period drama Jeanne du Barry and directed Modi: Three Days on the Wing of Madness. But unlike Day Drinker, they were not commercial plays and were made with European backing.

Rios and Piper recently starred together in Netflix’s Elite series,...

Lionsgate has revealed the first photo of three-time Oscar nominee Johnny Depp in Day Drinker, his reteam feature with Penélope Cruz. Cameras are rolling in Spain on the Marc Webb-directed movie, which has added four news actors to the cast: Manu Ríos, Arón Piper, Juan Diego Botto and Anika Boyle.

Day Drinker tells the story of a private-yacht bartender (Madelyn Cline) who encounters a mysterious, onboard guest (Depp). They soon find themselves entangled with a criminal figure (Cruz) and connected in ways no one saw coming. The project reps the fourth time Depp and Cruz have starred together in a movie after Blow, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides and Murder on the Orient Express.

Day Drinker is produced by Thunder Road’s Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee, who produce the John Wick franchise for Lionsgate; Adam Kolbrenner, producer of The Tomorrow War, Free Guy and Prisoners; and Zach Dean,...

We are still four months away from pressing play on Jason Momoa's (A Minecraft Movie) passion project — the epic series Chief of War. However, as it teased all of its summer releases, Apple TV+ offered a brief glimpse of the show and its epic scale. The cast also features Luciane Buchanan (The Night Agent) and Tamuera Morrison (Star Wars), and the nine-episode series is set to debut on August 1.

Even though it's not much revealing, the teaser does hint at the scale of the show, and it looks like once again Apple TV+ has spared no expense to make a new title look as good as possible. The first bit shows Momoa among a huge slate of warriors who look like they are about to enter a massive battle. Then, we get a look at the show's impressive costume design and get the notion that Momoa's character Ka'iana is...

Exclusive: Following the conclusion of Severance‘s buzzy second season, John Turturro has come aboard to star in The Only Living Pickpocket in New York, a new crime thriller that Noah Segan wrote and is directing for MRC and T-Street, with the former financing and the latter producing.

Currently in production in New York City, the film follows Harry (Turturro), a career pickpocket who is forced into a desperate, high-stakes race against time through the streets of his city. Producers for T-Street are Leopold Hughes, Katie McNeill, and Ben LeClair.

An Emmy winner and Golden Globe nominee, Turturro currently stars in Apple’s most-watched series, Severance, the pop culture phenomenon from Dan Erickson and Ben Stiller, which just wrapped its second season and was promptly renewed for a third. In addition to Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for his turn as Macrodata Refinement worker Irving, he recently landed an Emmy...

Toby Jones plays the spaniel-eyed schoolmaster setting Harry Lawtey’s needy young pupil on course for haughty international stardom

The career of Richard Burton seemed mythic at the time, and more so in retrospect. In Pedro Almodóvar’s latest movie The Room Next Door, Julianne Moore’s character is even shown reading Erotic Vagrancy, Roger Lewis’s account of Burton’s then-adulterous relationship with Elizabeth Taylor in the early 60s, the title taken from Pope John Xxiii’s extraordinary denunciation: “You will finish in an erotic vagrancy, without end or without a safe port.” In fact, the nearest thing Burton ever had to a safe port was his inspirational English teacher Philip Burton in Port Talbot, south Wales, whose own frustrated dreams of the theatre were poured into the bright young miner’s son Richard Jenkins, coaching him in acting and even making him his legal ward and getting him...

Pedro Almodóvar, who has had a decades-long relationship with the New York Film Festival, will receive a lifetime honor from its presenting organization next month.

The 50th annual Chaplin Award will be presented to the filmmaker April 28 at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall. Presenters who will pay tribute to him at the gala event include performer and artistic director Mikhail Baryshnikov; actress Rossy de Palma (the honoree’s longtime muse); pop star Dua Lipa; actor John Turturro; and filmmaker John Waters.

The Chaplin Award Gala is Film at Lincoln Center’s primary annual fundraising event. Proceeds benefit the nonprofit’s programs, including film series, educational initiatives, and marquee events like the New York Film Festival and New Directors/New Films.

The list of previous Chaplin recipients includes Jeff Bridges, Viola Davis, Robert De Niro, Barbara Streisand, Sidney Poitier, Michael Caine, Audrey Hepburn, Robert Altman, Billy Wilder and Elizabeth Taylor.

Pedro Almodóvar is ready to party with the best of ’em. The legendary auteur will be honored with the 50th Chaplin Award during a gala evening at Lincoln Center on April 28, as previously announced. Yet it’s the who’s who of eclectic presenters that has us abuzz today: IndieWire can confirm that Dua Lipa, John Waters, Almodóvar’s “The Room Next Door” star John Turturro, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and long-time Almodóvar muse Rossy de Palma will be on hand to toast to the internationally acclaimed Spanish filmmaker.

The Chaplin Award Tribute will feature excerpts from a selection of the beloved director’s work, appearances by actors, friends, and colleagues, and the presentation of the award itself. The 50th Chaplin Award Gala, presented in partnership with Rolex, will take place at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall. The annual gala is the premier fundraiser for Film at Lincoln Center, with proceeds...

Exclusive: Zach Braff and Esther McGregor are set to lead in the true story Clean Hands based on the life of hero drug cop turned recovery advocate Kevin Simmers and his daughter Brooke.

The project from director-writer Jake Allyn is an exploration of the American drug crisis and “the thin blue line” from the opposing eyes of cop and addict who were also father and daughter. Cameras will roll in April-May with Laray Mayfield currently casting.

In Hagerstown MD, a Baltimore suburb along the infamous “Heroin Highway”, Kevin Simmers led a drug taskforce built on incarceration. That is, until his 19-year-old daughter Brooke began struggling with addiction. Together, they faced a tragic, triumphant, and truly unbelievable two-year battle. Kevin used Brooke has his own confidential informant and faced betrayal by those he trusted most. Eventually, Kevin turned in his badge to create Brooke’s House,...

When Spanish multi-hyphenate Elena Martín Gimeno first got a call to say she would be this year’s recipient of the Málaga Talent Award at the prestigious Malaga Film Festival, she felt it was a “full circle moment.” Having premiered her feature debut “Júlia Ist” at the festival almost a decade ago, the director credits the launchpad as having “made her career possible,” catapulting her to premiere her sophomore effort “Creatura” to great acclaim at Directors’ Fortnight in 2023.

Gimeno directed, wrote and starred in “Creatura,” which went on to win Best European Film at Directors’ Fortnight, six Gaudí Awards, and three nominations for the Goya Awards.

As a director and screenwriter, on top of her two feature films, Gimeno has worked on fiction projects such as Canneseries double winner “Vida Perfecta” by Leticia Dolera and “Veneno” by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, their first big international breakout. The creative also...

There are probably a lot of people who go up to an NYU film professor’s lectern on the first day and tell them that they want to be a filmmaker. Inbal Weinberg is maybe one of the few who has gone up and said, “I want to be a production designer.”

In a time before places like Interior and Films or One Perfect Shot spotlighted how design and composition affect film audiences — to say nothing of Google Search’s ability to find examples of production design in the space of a few seconds — Weinberg knew in her bones that the visual worldbuilding organized by the production designer was how she could help tell stories. Looking back now on her career of over 20 years and collaborations with everyone from Derek Cianfrance and Maggie Gyllenhaal to Pedro Almodóvar and Luca Guadagnino, she’s done exactly what she set out to do.

Turns out you don’t have to be Irish to be lucky come March. That’s right, repertory cinemas from coast to coast will be raining down four-leaf clovers in the form of cinematic gems like “Matewan,” “The Watermelon Woman,” “The Cable Guy,” and many more. And we know what you’re thinking…you just got through slamming back Oscar film after Oscar film, maybe it’s time to take a little break from the movies. After all, spring’s around the corner — it might be nice to step outside for a bit, breathe in the fresh air.

Well, you’re wrong.

Fresh air is for people who can’t appreciate a random assortment of food scents and possibly carbon dioxide from a leaking soda machine tank. You’re of a different breed and as such, we know there’s no better place for you than the comfy cozy darkness of your local cinema.

The Oscar race is a marathon, not a sprint. There are dozens of pit stops along the way and trophies to be given out before the 2025 Oscars on March 2. Keep track of precursor wins here with our scorecard. This includes honors from major film festivals, critics groups, guilds, and televised shows of the 2024-25 Oscar season. Wins are listed in order of announcement and in accordance with candidates' FYC campaigns.

Updated: Sunday, March 2, 2025, with Oscar winners.

The Oscar season began and ended with Anora. Sean Baker's film moved to the front of the Oscar race after winning the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in May, and while it didn't have the smoothest path, its Oscar journey ended with five trophies Sunday night, including Best Picture.

Anora also won Best Actress for Mikey Madison, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Film Editing — the last three of which went to Baker.

Without a doubt, this year's Best Actress race is a nail-biter. With frontrunners Demi Moore (The Substance) and Mikey Madison (Anora) having split the major precursor awards, prognosticators are divided between who will take home the top prize. Which leaves room for dark horse contender Fernanda Torres (I'm Still Here) to potentially pull off an upset.

Here are five reasons why the Brazilian actress could surprise everyone and take home the Oscar for Best Actress this Sunday.

See Video Interview: Fernanda Torres

1. She seized her momentum at a key time with the Golden Globe win

Torres solidified her status as a serious Oscar contender back in January when she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Drama Actress. The winner of (either) Best Actress awards at the Globes has gone on to win the Oscar for Best Actress four times in the last six years. While there's no substantive overlap...

One of our great character actors, John Turturro, is equally adept at at drama, comedy and tough-guy roles. A New York stage veteran, he made his way to Hollywood following a character actor’s path, but thanks to several influential mentors, his career soared as he appeared in film after film that would prove to become classics.

Although he continues to have a successful career in television — he is an Emmy winner from two nominations and has earned a Golden Globe nod and three Screen Actors Guild Award nominations for his TV work — I suspect that it will be for his work in film for which he will be most remembered, from small indelible roles in “Do the Right Thing” and “The Big Lebowski” to great leading parts, such as in the Coens’ “Barton Fink,” and “O Brother, Where Art Thou?”

So let’s raise a glass to Turturro by...

Sean Baker’s Anora, written by Baker, and Nickel Boys, written by RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes, took the top film prizes at the 77th annual Writers Guild Awards tonight, for Original Screenplay and Adapted Screenplay, respectively. The awards were handed out in concurrent ceremonies in Los Angeles and New York. See the full winners list below.

On the TV side, it was a big night for HBO/Max, which won the Comedy Series award (Hacks), Limited Series (The Penguin), Comedy/Variety Series and Specials and TV & Streaming Movie categories, as well as for Disney/FX’s Shōgun, which topped the Drama & New Series fields.

Anora is coming off a string of wins, including top honors from Directors Guild and Producers Guild, putting it in frontrunner status for the Academy Awards. It’s nominated for six Oscars including Best Picture as well as Directing and Original Screenplay for Baker.

Ross...

Tilda Swinton spoke out as she received her lifetime achievement Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival last night.

During the opening ceremony for the event's 75th edition, The Room Next Door star said: “The inhumane is being perpetrated on our watch.”

She also celebrated the “great independent state of cinema”, which she said is “innately inclusive - immune to efforts of occupation, colonisation, takeover, ownership or the development of riviera property”.

She added that “state-perpetrated and internationally-enabled mass murder is currently actively terrorising more than one part of our world”.

Although she didn't reference specific conflicts, her comments come the week after US President Donald Trump suggested a plan to move Palestinians out of Gaza and turning it into a “riviera of the Middle East”, and amid the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine.

She added: “The inhumane...

The discussion with the cast and crew of Hot Milk quickly got personal on Friday.

British director Rebecca Lenkiewicz debuts her first feature at the Berlin Film Festival this week with stars Fiona Shaw, Emma Mackey and Vicky Krieps on her arm.

The movie follows Rose (Shaw) and her daughter Sofia (Mackey) who travel to the Spanish seaside town of Almería to consult with the shamanic Dr. Gomez, a physician who could possibly hold the cure to Rose’s mystery illness.

But in the sultry atmosphere of this sun-bleached town, Sofia, after being trapped by her mother’s illness all her life, finally starts to shed her inhibitions, enticed by the persuasive charms of enigmatic traveler Ingrid (Krieps).

“It’s a big question, and there’s a lot of talk about assisted dying in Britain at the moment,” said Lenkiewicz when asked about the film’s themes of dying with...

Borja Cobeaga firma y dirige la película. © BTeamPictures

BTeamPictures ha compartido el primer tráiler de Los Aitas, una película escrita y dirigida por Borja Cobeaga.

Los Aitas está ambientada en los suburbios obreros de Bilbao a finales de los años ochenta. Un equipo infantil de gimnasia rítmica se prepara para participar en un campeonato que se celebrará en Berlín. Ante la imposibilidad de que las madres acompañen a sus hijas, la tarea recaerá en los padres, que no parecen muy interesados en el viaje, ni en ese deporte, ni incluso en sus propias hijas. Será un largo viaje donde descubrirán, mientras cae el muro de Berlín, una nueva manera de ser padres.

La road movie está protagonizada por Quim Gutiérrez (Al otro barrio), Juan Diego Botto (La habitación de al lado), Ramón Barea (Todos lo saben), Mikel Losada (El guardián invisible), Iñaki Ardanaz (Paraíso) y Laura Weissmahr (Salve María).

Los...

Berlinale honorary Golden Bear winner Tilda Swinton addressed her presence at the festival in the wake of calls by some in the film community for a boycott in relation to the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.

Swinton was asked by an Israeli journalist during a pressconference today (February 14) on her position on the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (Bds) movement, which works to end international support for Israel’s oppression of Palestinians, and is one of the organisations that has publicly called for a boycott of this year’s Berlinale.

She answered: “I’m a great admirer of and have a great deal of respect for Bds.

Could there be a better queen of the Berlinale than Tilda Swinton? The answer, obviously, is nein.

On a snow-blanketed Thursday night in the German capital, the Oscar-winning Scottish actress wowed the crowd at the Berlin International Film Festival with a powerful statement decrying the rise of authoritarianism around the world as she accepted the event’s Golden Bear for lifetime achievement.

A more deserving recipient of the festival’s top honor was hard to recall. Swinton has been a Berlinale regular since her screen debut, Derek Jarman’s Caravaggio, won the Silver Bear at the 1986 edition of the event. In the ensuing years, 26 of her films have screened across the Berlin festival’s various sections, including Wes Anderson’s Grand Budapest Hotel and the Coen Brothers’ Hail, Cesar!, along with scores of artistically accomplished indie titles.

But when Swinton sat down with the press to discuss her 40-year career in the movies Friday morning,...

The inimitable Tilda Swinton used her platform in Berlin Thursday night, where she received a Golden Bear for lifetime achievement, to call out political extremism, environmental degradation and the rise of authoritarianism around the world.

Without ever uttering the words Gaza or Palestinian, the Oscar-winning Scottish star also gave an impassioned speech in support of “the great independent state of cinema,” what she called “an unlimited realm, innately inclusive, immune to efforts of occupation, colonization, takeover, ownership or the development of Riviera property.” (The latter a clear reference to U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposed plans for Gaza).

Swinton called out what she termed the “entitled domination and the astonishing savagery of spite, state-perpetrated and internationally enabled mass murder… unacceptable to human society. These are facts. They need to be faced. So for the sake of clarity, let’s name it. The inhumane is being perpetrated on our watch.

Tilda Swinton got political as she accepted Berlin Film Festival’s Golden Bear for Lifetime Achievement at its opening ceremony on Thursday night, saying “the inhumane is being perpetrated on our watch.”

In a poetic speech, the Oscar winner lauded the festival as “a borderless realm with no policy of exclusion, persecution or deportation.” The “great independent state of cinema,” she added, is “innately inclusive — immune to efforts of occupation, colonization, takeover, ownership or the development of riviera property.”

She then acknowledged that “state-perpetrated and internationally-enabled mass murder is currently actively terrorizing more than one part of our world,” though she didn’t go into specifics.

“These are facts. They need to be faced,” Swinton continued. “So for the sake of clarity, let’s name it. The inhumane is being perpetrated on our watch. I’m here to name it without hesitation or doubt in my mind and to lend...

Isabel Peña y Sorogoyen firman el guion de esta original de Movistar Plus+. © Movistar Plus+

Ya está en marcha el rodaje de El ser querido, una película dirigida por Rodrigo Sorogoyen con guion del propio Sorogoyen e Isabel Peña. Esta producción original de Movistar Plus+ se rodará a lo largo de diez semanas en localizaciones de Fuerteventura y Madrid, para luego estrenarse en cines de la mano de A Contracorriente Films, antes de aterrizar en la plataforma.

En El ser querido un prestigioso director de cine y su hija, una actriz sin éxito, ruedan juntos una película tras años de distanciamiento y un pasado difícil del que ninguno de los dos ha querido hablar.

La película está encabezada por Javier Bardem (Dune: Parte dos) y Victoria Luengo (Reina roja). Completan el reparto Raúl Arévalo (El caso asunta), Marina Foïs (As Bestas), Mourad Ouani (Nos vemos en otra vida), Raúl Prieto...

The Room Next Door wasn’t the only Sigrid Nunez adaptation to premiere at fall festivals last year. David Siegel and Scott McGehee’s Montana Story follow-up The Friend finds Naomi Watts as a woman in NYC who looks after the dog of her friend (Bill Murray) after he passes away. The Telluride, TIFF, and NYFF selection was picked up by Bleecker Street who have now released the trailer ahead of a March 28 release in NYC and a wide release on April 4.

Here’s the synopsis: “In The Friend, adapted from the bestselling novel, Iris (Naomi Watts) finds her comfortable New York life upended when her friend and mentor Walter (Bill Murray) bequeaths her his Great Dane, Apollo. The regal yet intractable beast is a constant reminder of Walter and causes various problems—yet as Iris bonds with Apollo, she begins to cope with her past, her lost friend, and her own creative inner life.

Javier Bardem’s upcoming Spanish-language drama “El Ser Querido” from multiple Goya Award-winning writer-director Rodrigo Sorogoyen is heading to the EFM with the English title “The Beloved,” with Goodfellas launching the project to buyers.

The film — also starring Victoria Luengo (“The Room Next Door”) — is a drama about an acclaimed film director and his daughter, a struggling actress. After years of estrangement, they make a movie together, and are forced to confront a troubled past neither of them has wanted to face. Sorogoyen wrote the screenplay.

The film is being produced by Sorogoyen’s Madrid production label Caballo Films, with Movistar Plus+ and Le Pacte co-producing. The latter will release the movie in France.

Bardem earned a Golden Globe nomination this year for his turn in Netflix’s limited series “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez.” He was last seen in “Dune: Part Two” and Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” live-action remake,...

Super Bowl weekend is notoriously tough for cinemagoing but fans turned out and tuned in for music documentary concert film Becoming Led Zeppelin from Sony Pictures Classics, which rocked the top ten. A Complete Unknown and The Brutalist are holding. Neon saw a bump for its Parasite re-release. Documentary No Other Land had a nice expansion.

Long-gestating Becoming Led Zeppelin, an early version of which premiered at Venice in 2021, charged to more than $2.6 million on 369 Imax screens and the no. 7 spot, the only indie in the top 10 this weekend.

That’s the biggest ever opening weekend domestically for an Imax-exclusive music release. Crowds are showing love across North America with strong results from both coasts as well as markets like Toronto, Cleveland, St. Louis and Dallas.

Also from SPC, Walter Salles I’m Still Here topping $1 million in week 4 on 704 screens, a big expansion from 93 last week, and Pedro Almodovar’s...

Ya puedes ver ‘El 47’, ‘Segundo Premio’ y más.

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Anoche se celebró la gala de los Premios Goya 2025, y vaya noche. Y es que por un momento pensamos que íbamos a vivir un Moonlight-La La Land a la española. Pero no fue así: por primera vez en la historia de los Goya, el premio a la Mejor Película se entregó ex aequo a El 47 y La infiltrada. Y si aún no las has visto, o te falta por ver alguna de las que se llevaron uno o varios “cabezones”, aquí te decimos dónde puedes encontrarlas: en streaming, en salas de cine o próximamente. ¡Toma nota!

¿Dónde ver ‘El 47‘? En Movistar Plus+.

Premios: Mejor Película, Mejor Actor de Reparto para Salva Reina, Mejor Actriz de Reparto para Clara Segura, Mejor Dirección de Producción y Mejores Efectos Especiales.

Sinopsis: La historia...

‘Segundo Premio’ también triunfó en la gran noche del cine español.

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Anoche se celebró la gala de los Premios Goya 2025, la que es la gran noche del cine español y una de las ediciones más abiertas de los últimos años donde todo podía pasar. Y es que, por un momento, parecía que íbamos a tener nuestro momento Moonlight–La La Land español, pero no, por primera vez en la historia de los Goya el premio a la Mejor Película se repartió ex aequo a El 47 y La infiltrada. Otra de las grandes triunfadoras de la noche fue Segundo premio, que logró tres galardones, incluido el de Mejor Dirección. Aquí os dejamos con la lista completa de nominados y ganadores de los Goya 2025:

Mejor PELÍCULA (Ex Aequo) Casa en flames

El 47

La estrella azul

La infiltrada

Segundo premio © A Contracorriente Films © Beta Films Mejor DIRECCIÓN Pedro Almodóvar...

Two films – local hits The 47 and Undercover – shared the best film prize at Spain’s Goya awards on Saturday night (February 8).

The 47 began the ceremony with 14 nominations and won five awards including best film, supporting actress and actor (Clara Segura and Salva Reina), production design, and special effects.

Arantxa Echevarría’s Undercover received 13 nominations and won best film and best actress for Carolina Yuste.

Produced and distributed by The Mediapro Studio, Marcel Barrena’s The 47 is a social drama about a bus driver fighting for rights in a marginalised area of Barcelona, mainly populated by immigrants from Andalusia during Spain...

Biographical drama El 47 and thriller La Infiltrada tied for the top prize at the 39th Goya Awards held in Spain. Meanwhile, Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door, with Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore, which was shut out of the Best Film contest, took home three prizes.

Additional notable winners included Emilia Pérez, since embattled with controversy due to its star Karla Sofía Gascón‘s resurfaced tweets and other remarks made by auteur Jacques Audiard, which he addressed in a Q&a with Deadline, took home Best European Film. Meanwhile, I’m Still Here, with Fernanda Torres, won Best Ibero-American Film.

The Spanish equivalent of the Oscars, the Academia de Cine unveiled its list of nominations back in December: Marcel Barrena’s El 47 led the pack with 14 mentions, followed by La Infiltrada at 13 nods.

Below, see the full list of winners:

Best Picture

El 47 and La Infiltrada (tie)

Best...

The 39th Goya Awards, Spain’s equivalent to the Oscars, came down to a photo finish, with two films: Marcel Barrena’s true-life drama El 47, and the thriller Undercover from Arantxa Echevarría sharing the top prize for best film.

El 47, the story of the bus driver who helped create modern Barcelona, led the Goyas going into the event, which was held Saturday night in Granada, with 16 nominations. It ended up with five trophies, including both supporting acting honors for Salva Reina and Clara Segura. Carolina Yuste took the best actress for Undercover, where she plays a police officer who infiltrates the Eta terrorist group.

Eduard Fernández won best actor for his leading role in Aitor Arregi and Jon Garaño’s Marco, the true-life tale of Enric Marco, a Spanish trade unionist who falsely claimed to be a concentration camp survivor.

Isaki Lacuesta and Pol Rodríguez won the best director for Saturn Return,...

In a historic first, Marcel Barrera’s heroic bus driver heart warmer “The 47” and Arantxa Echeverría terrorist org infiltrator thriller “Undercover” became the first films ever to share the best picture Spanish Academy Goya on Saturday night at a ceremony where Richard Gere lashed out at Donald Trump.

“We are in a very dark place in America where we have a bully and a thug who is the president of the United States,” Gere said, accepting this year’s International Goya.

A surprise, Pedro Almodóvar won best-adapted screenplay and best cinematography (Eduard Grau), despite not being nominated for best picture.

“In ‘The Room Next Door,’ John Turturro’s character warns Julianne Moore at a meal that there is nothing that can accelerate the end of the planet more than the survival of the level of neoliberalism and the rise of the extreme right. And here we have both of them walking side by side,...

After delaying its awards ceremony for several weeks following the wildfires in Los Angeles, AARP the Magazine announced the winners of its annual Movies for Grownups Awards on Saturday, with A Complete Unknown going home as the big winner.

The show, hosted by Alan Cumming at the Beverly Wilshire, celebrates TV and film for older audiences, and this year also presented a career achievement award to Glenn Close. Though Conclave came into the ceremony with the most nominations, the film left empty handed. A Complete Unknown took best picture as Demi Moore and Adrien Brody won the top acting prizes, and Shogun was recognized as best TV series.

Check out a full list of winners below:

Best Picture/Best Movie for Grownups

A Complete Unknown (Winner)

Conclave

Emilia Pérez

Gladiator II

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Best Actress

Pamela Anderson (The Last Showgirl)

Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Hard Truths)

Nicole Kidman (Babygirl)

Demi Moore (The Substance...

If New York philanthropy could be likened to a game of Monopoly, Rolex’s pieces would be neatly arranged in and around the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.

The status timepiece brand has partnered with The Metropolitan Opera, which presents its productions in the iconic Lincoln Center Theater on New York’s Upper West Side, since 2011, while one of Rolex’s newest “Testimonees,” the brand’s moniker for its brand ambassadors, is Yannick Nézet-Séguin, music director of The Metropolitan Opera since 2018.

Now Rolex is expanding its reach in the performing-arts campus, signing a three-year partnership with Film at Lincoln Center in late January. With its focus on celebrating cinema and nurturing the next generation of film artists, the non-profit Film at Lincoln Center dovetails with the timepiece brand’s ongoing “Rolex and Cinema” initiatives.

“Rolex is genuinely committed to the art and craft of great cinema, and we’re...

AARP is urging Hollywood to age up.

A new study released Friday by the organization finds that most adults age 50 and older are more likely to support movies and TV programs that included characters similar to them in age and life experiences.

Results of the study, “Breaking Stereotypes: The Push for Real Representation of Older Adults in Movies and Television,” were released ahead of AARP’s Movie for Grownups Awards gala, which takes place Saturday in Beverly Hills.

“The results of this survey demonstrate what we have suspected since we started the Movies for Grownups Awards program – that older adults care deeply about seeing their experiences accurately reflected on screen,” Heather Nawrocki, vice president of AARP Movies for Grownups, said in a statement. “Likewise, the studios and storytellers who are able to capture the experiences and perspectives of older adults benefit from the significant buying power and loyalty of this age group.

Exclusive: Goodfellas has unveiled one of its biggest European Film Market slates ever featuring upcoming films by Cristian Mungiu, Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Saeed Roustaee, Claire Denis, Mario Martone and Raoul Peck.

The company is also handling a trio of Berlin Film Festival titles: Lucile Hadžihalilović’s Golden Bear contender The Ice Tower with Marion Cotillard; Burhan Qurbani’s No Beast. So Fierce. in Berlinale Special; and a fresh acquisition, Bálint Dániel Sós’ Growing Down.

The latter film, which premieres in the new competitive Perspectives section aimed at first films, revolves around a widowed father of two who is tested by fate when he becomes the only witness of a serious accident involving his stepdaughter caused by his youngest son.

Goodfellas will begin pre-sales on Romanian director Mungiu’s first English-language picture Fjord, with Oscar nominee Sebastian Stan (The Apprentice) and Cannes Best Actress winner Renate Reinsve (The Worst Person in the World...

International rights to Antonia Campbell-Hughes’ thriller “Diamond Shitter,” which stars Raffey Cassidy, Eva Green, Ben Whishaw and Alessandro Nivola, have been picked up by Beta Cinema. The sales company will launch pre-sales at the European Film Market, with UTA Independent Film Group repping North American rights.

The film’s story unfolds against the backdrop of the affluent ex-pat community in Geneva. Young intern Nollaig ignites a darkly visceral shift within the privileged home of her host family when she steals their precious diamonds – absorbing them into her body – in the process unmasking the deeper truths beneath their glittering privilege.

Campbell-Hughes, who made her directorial debut with “It Is in Us All,” said, “In a time of emotional fatigue, we crave the beauty of justice. This film is a primal howl, a white-knuckle ride that explores the devastating fragility of the human condition. I wish to reinstate hope, to reassess what...

Exclusive: Eva Green, Ben Whishaw and Alessandro Nivola are set to join Raffey Cassidy in the cast of Antonia Campbell-Hughes upcoming thriller Diamond Shitter.

Beta Cinema unveiled the casting additions as it boarded the feature, for a pre-sales launch at the EFM.

Produced by London and Dublin-based Sleeper Films, Diamond Shitter is filmmaker and actor Campbell-Hughes’ second feature after her directorial debut It Is In Us All, which premiered to critical acclaim at SXSW in 2022. Campbell-Hughes will also take a supporting role.

Diamond Shitter unfolds against the backdrop of the affluent expat community in Geneva. Cassidy will star as young intern Nollaig who ignites a darkly visceral shift within the privileged home of her host family when she steals their precious diamonds, absorbing them into her body. In the process, she unmasks the deeper truths beneath their glittering privilege.

“In a time of emotional fatigue, we crave the beauty of justice.

Aquí están las predicciones del equipo de mundoCine de los ganadores de los Premios Goya 2025. La gala se celebra el sábado 8 de febrero en Granada. Mientras esperamos a conocer los los ganadores, os dejamos nuestras predicciones, que se han calculado combinando las predicciones de los miembros participantes de mundoCine.

Mejor Película

PREDICCIÓN: Segundo premio

Mejor Dirección

PREDICCIÓN: Arantxa Echevarría, La infiltrada

Mejor Actor Protagonista

PREDICCIÓN: Eduard Fernández, Marco

Mejor Actriz Protagonista

PREDICCIÓN: Carolina Yuste, La infiltrada

Mejor Actor de Reparto

PREDICCIÓN: Antonio de la Torre, Los destellos

Mejor Actriz de Reparto

PREDICCIÓN: Clara Segura, El 47

Mejor Actor Revelación

PREDICCIÓN: Pepe Lorente, La estrella azul

Mejor Actriz Revelación

PREDICCIÓN: Laura Weissmahr, Salve María

Mejor Guion Original

PREDICCIÓN: Eduard Sola, Casa en flames

Mejor Guion Adaptado

PREDICCIÓN: Pedro Almodóvar, La habitación de al lado

Mejor Película de Animación

PREDICCIÓN: Mariposas negras

Mejor Película Documental

PREDICCIÓN: La guitarra flamenca de Yerai Cortés...

Thomas Vinterberg is ready for “The Brothers Lionheart,” based on Astrid Lindgren’s fantasy novel.

“I’m writing it myself with the brilliant British writer Simon Stephens, so it’s a mix of things. The book is there, it’s not mine, but it’s a great journey we’re on. I really love it,” he tells Variety about his upcoming project.

Considered a children’s classic, Lindgren’s story focuses on two brothers and a mysterious land Nangijala where life conquers death.

“It’s about faith and doubt, which goes straight as an arrow right into my own life. This book has the courage to step into what every child is asking when they’re about 8 or 10 and about to go to bed. ‘What happens when we die?’ There’s so much courage in these characters and Lindgren’s story, and I hope it can be encouraging for viewers,...

Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance took the award for Best Feature at the annual Girls On Film Awards while Emilia Pérez and Hard Truths star Marianne Jean-Baptiste took awards for Best Ensemble and Best Actress respectively.

The fourth edition of the awards, which were held at London’s Curzon Bloomsbury on Sunday, celebrated exceptional achievements by women and people of marginalized genders in the film space. Hosted by Girls On Film co-founders Anna Smith and Hedda Lornie Archbold, the awards put a spotlight on women-led filmmaking with a particular focus on diversity, inclusion and representation.

Fargeat, who is nominated for Best Director at the Academy Awards this year, was in attendance to collect her award and she told the audience that The Substance “was meant for me to mirror what women have to face in their everyday life by society and it’s not nice, it’s not subtle and it’s not delicate.

‘Salve María’ da la sorpresa.

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Ayer se celebró la gala de los Premios Feroz. Una gala cuyo protagonismo recayó indudablemente en el cine catalán, que se hizo con la mayor parte de los galardones en la categoría de cine. Aquí la lista completa de los premiados:

Mejor PELÍCULA DRAMÁTICA

Salve María

© Elástica Films Mejor PELÍCULA De Comedia

Casa en flames

© Vercine Mejor DIRECCIÓN

Pedro Almodóvar por La habitación de al lado

© El Deseo Mejor actriz protagonista de una película

Emma Vilarasau por Casa en flames

© Vercine Mejor actor protagonista de una película

Eduard Fernández por Marco

© BTeamPictures Mejor actriz de reparto de una película

Clara Segura por El 47

© A Contracorriente Films Mejor actor de reparto de una película

Óscar de la Fuente por La casa

© A Contracorriente Films Mejor Guion

Eduard Sola por Casa en flames

© Vercine Mejor MÚSICA Original

Alberto Iglesias por La habitación de al lado

© El...

The Room Next Door (2024) Pedro Almodóvar’s English-language debut comes with its strengths and limitations. It is a visceral melodrama with surreal undertones. The bright reds and greens along with its orchestral music highlight these dramatic shades in his usual style. However, the dialogues feel odd, stilted, and unnatural in many situations. Of course, they are filled with subtext and exude the emotions that he hopes to convey, but they keep viewers a step away from fully immersing in his fictional reality.

Despite those apparent shortcomings, the film is thoroughly stimulating, and filled with insightful discussions about life and death. It examines the themes of choice and autonomy on a microscopic and grander scale without resorting to any simpler one-shoe-fits-all-styled conclusions. It does so through a rekindled friendship between estranged friends, who offer each other company in trying times. Find the film’s ending explained here.

Spoilers Ahead

The Room Next Door...

It not a blockbuster MLK weekend but indies are out in force with The Brutalist continuing to surprise, The Substance adding theaters and Nosferatu, A Complete Unknown and Babygirl holding at nos. 7, 8 and 10 at the domestic box office.

Robert Eggers’ vampire fest from Focus Features had a $4.3 million weekend with a cume of $89.4 million for Nosferatu; Searchlight Pictures Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown starring Timothee Chalamet is at $57.6 million after a $3.8 million weekend; and A24’s psycho-sexual Nicole Kidman-starrer Babygirl is estimating $2 million and a $25.4 million cume. All cumes are for the three-day weekend. Monday is the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday.

Meanwhile, Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist, also from A24, grossed $1.98 million for the three-day weekend and $2.4 million for the four-day MLK holiday frame in a big expansion to 338 screens – up from $1.39 million on 68 screens last weekend. It’s seeing strong exits and sold-out shows, especially 70mm and Imax,...

This is discouraging. Despite a better than expected showing by “One of Them Days” (Sony), with $11.6 million in three days for the $14 million, Issa Rae-produced R-rated comedy, this was a pathetic box office for a weekend ahead of MLK Day.

The mid-January holiday usually kickstarts the new year, with grosses pre-Covid usually $150 million total or higher at lower ticket prices. This year? Around $77 million. That’s lower than any year unadjusted for inflation this century, with attendance totals about half of the standard before 2021.

It wouldn’t have helped a lot, but “Wolf Man,” meant to build on the Universal Monsters reboot started by “The Invisible Man” five years ago, with $10.5 million came in substantially below its expected opening of up to $20 million.

‘I’m Still Here’©Sony Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection

Also hurting was the delay in Oscar nominations, originally scheduled for last Friday, now delayed a week.

Walter Salles-directed I’m Still Here caps weeks of packed screenings after a Best Actress Golden Globe win by star Fernanda Torres with a theatrical release from Sony Pictures Classics on five screens in New York and LA. The distributor’s The Room Next Door jumps from 44 screens to over 850, the widest release of a Pedro Almodovar film.

Mubi is out with documentary Grand Theft Hamlet, A24’s Colman Domingo-starring Sing Sing is back at 500+ theaters, Bleecker Street’s Hard Truths by Mike Leigh, starring Marianne Jean-Baptiste, expands to 120 screens.

Torres of I’m Still Here is the daughter of Brazilian icon Fernanda Montenegro who was nominated for a Golden Globe and an Oscar for Salles’ breakout film Central Station. Earlier this month, Torres dedicated her Golden Globe to her mother, saying, “She was here 25 years ago and this is like proof that art can endure through life.” Her speech was a hit,...

Sony Pictures Classics has announced that it will release its dramedy The Penguin Lessons, starring Academy Award nominees Steve Coogan (Philomena) and Jonathan Pryce (The Two Popes), in theaters nationwide on March 28.

The film is set to open against Focus Features’ Sundance entry The Ballad of Wallis Island, starring Carey Mulligan; Universal’s horror thriller The Woman in the Yard, A24’s Death of a Unicorn, starring Jenna Ortega and Paul Rudd; and Amazon MGM’s Jason Statham action thriller A Working Man, among other titles.

Based on Tom Michell’s 2016 memoir of the same name, The Penguin Lessons is inspired by the true story of a disillusioned Englishman who went to work in a school in Argentina in 1976. Expecting an easy ride, Tom (Coogan) discovers a divided nation and a class of unteachable students. However, after he rescues a penguin from an oil-slicked beach, his life is turned upside-down.