Lights, Camera, Action (Plan): A Focus on the Filmmakers of Tomorrow at Berlinale
The 74th annual Berlin International Film Festival just drew to a close. Per tradition, the entertainment law firm Morrison & Foerster and the Motion Picture Association gathered some of the festival’s notable attendees for a topical annual panel discussion. This year, co-hosts Christiane Stuetzle, a partner at Morrison & Foerster, and Sabine Henssler, Vice President of Communications for the Motion Picture Association Europe, spoke to a diverse group of young actors and filmmakers for a discussion entitled Next Gen Rising Stars &
The Game Has Changed: Jared Leto Enters the Grid in First “Tron: Ares” Image
Jared Leto wants to know, are you ready?
This is how the star of the upcoming Tron: Ares shared the first image from the film on Instagram, revealing Leto’s Ares, a computer program that makes the leap from the digital realm to the real world in order to make a groundbreaking, game-changing introduction—humanity, meet artificial intelligence.
Tron: Ares comes from director Joachim Rønning and includes stars Greta Lee,
James Gunn Reveals New Title For “Superman: Legacy” on First Day of Filming
Superman: Legacy has a leaner, meaner title.
James Gunn revealed on day one of filming that his new movie about the Man of Steel will now simply be called Superman. “When I finished the first draft of the script, I called the film Superman: Legacy. By the time I locked the final draft, it was clear the title was SUPERMAN. Making our way to you July 2025,” Gunn wrote in the caption.
“I Have a Very Particular Set of Jokes”: Liam Neeson Set to Star in New “Naked Gun” for Paramount
Naked Gun is ready for a reboot at Paramount, and a venerable action star known for playing ruthlessly efficient types is ready to become a bumbling detective prone to hilarious catastrophes.
The studio confirmed that the goofball police comedy that starred Leslie Nielsen as the absurdly incompetent detective Frank Drebin is getting rebooted, with none other than Liam Neeson set to play Frank Drebin Jr., is headed to theaters in 2025.
Ryan Gosling’s “I’m Just Ken” one of Five Live Performances Set for Oscars
All five of the Oscar-nominated songs will be performed live at this year’s Academy Awards.
The Dolby Stage will not only be home to the 96th Oscars ceremony but will also serve as a major concert venue this Sunday, with Jon Batiste, Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell, Becky G, Scott George and the Osage Singers, and Ryan Gosling and Mark Ronson will all perform their Oscar-nominated numbers.
First Trailer for “I Saw The TV Glow” Reveals Sundance’s Most Arresting Movie
The first trailer for Jane Schoenbrun’s I Saw the TV Glow reveals the Sundance hit that defied easy categorization and yet mesmerized critics.
Schoenbrunn’s film follows two teenagers caught in that nightmarish unreality known colloquially as the suburbs. It’s the 1990s, and Owen (Justice Smith) is the type of kid who feels world-weary already, alienated by his shyness and sense that he’s not entirely himself.
Yet Owen’s life changes when he meets a cool older girl named Maddy (Bridgett Lundy-Paine),
“Dune: Part Two” Set for a Sandworm-Sized Opening Weekend
Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two is rumbling towards theaters this weekend with the thunderous power of a sandworm. The second part of Villeneuve’s possibly three-part epic (he’s currently working on the script for Part Three, which has yet to be confirmed, and would be based on “Dune Messiah,” Frank Herbert’s sequel to his original book) was delayed from releasing this past fall due to the actor’s strike. This has meant that with this weekend’s release,
“Drive-Away Dolls” Production Designer Yong Ok Lee on Transforming Pittsburgh Into the Whole East Coast
Ethan Coen’s solo directorial debut, Drive-Away Dolls, stars Margaret Qualley as Jamie, an unhindered Texan attached at the hip to her best friend and human hand-brake, Marian, played by Geraldine Viswanathan. The only trait these two twenty-somethings seemingly share is that they are both lesbians, but when an impromptu road trip to Tallahassee turns into a game of cat and mouse involving a couple of hired goons, Arliss (Joey Slotnick) and Flint (C.J.
Director Alex Stapleton Gets Personal in HBO’s “God Save Texas”
Throughout her career, Emmy-winning documentarian Alex Stapleton has spotlighted such colorful characters as baseball legend Reggie Jackson and movie maverick Roger Corman. She’s examined the role athletes play in the cultural and political conversation in Shut up and Dribble and investigated the struggle for LGBTQ rights in Pride. But the HBO series God Save Texas presented Stapleton an opportunity to document a subject unlike any she had captured before — herself.
“The Creator” Oscar-Nominated Sound Team on Blending Retro-Futurism, Robot Monks, & the Didgeridoo
The Creator‘s Oscar-nominated supervising sound editors, Erik Aadahl and Ethan Van der Ryn, had a dream experience creating the soundscape for director Gareth Edwards‘ vision of a nightmarish future. The timing of the film couldn’t have been better—The Creator is set at a point in human history where there’s an outright war between humanity and artificial intelligence, a classic sci-fi set-up that felt alarmingly less fictive given the rapid expansion of AI in our real world.
“Maestro” Oscar-Nominated Re-Recording Mixers on Building Emotion With & Without Music
In Bradley Cooper’s Maestro, the music is flipped. Tracking the arc of Leonard Bernstein’s career in tandem with his loving but complicated marriage to Chilean actress Felicia Monteleagre (Carey Mulligan), the film’s music is Bernstein’s music, playing as it did over the course of the composer’s life, whether that’s performed on stage or worked out in the studio at the family’s Fairfield country house. When we revisit emotionally charged, private moments from Bernstein’s life,
First “Horizon” Trailer Reveals Kevin Costner’s Hugely Ambitious Western Epic
Kevin Costner’s Horizon isn’t just an old-school Western epic—it’s a four-part film saga he co-wrote, directed, produced, and stars in.
Costner has revealed the first trailer for Horizon: An American Saga, his hugely ambitious post-Civil War epic that pulled him away from another Western you may have heard of, a little show called Yellowstone. The trailer finds Costner marshaling an old-school, sweeping movie that promises all the hallmarks of the genre,
“To Kill a Tiger” Director Nisha Pahuja on her Eight-Year Journey to Make her Oscar-Nominated Doc
One of the year’s Oscar Cinderella stories is the best documentary nomination for director Nisha Pahuja’s To Kill a Tiger. It took Pahuja and her small crew eight years to complete their independent film about a father’s fight for justice after three men abducted his 13-year-old daughter and sexually assaulted her in a poor rural village in India.
“It has not quite hit me yet,” says Pahuja of what will be her first-ever trip to the Oscar ceremony on March 10.
Co-Director Moses Bwayo on the Harrowing Journey to Capture the Oscar-Nominated Doc “Bobi Wine: The People’s President”
Imagine for a moment if a music icon like Beyoncé or Dolly Parton ran for United States President. Cool, right? But imagine, during their campaign, they were arrested, brutally beaten, and thrown in jail by the incumbent government while their supporters were detained, shot at, and killed. As Americans, would we simply look the other way? In Uganda, similar events actually took place leading up to the 2021 presidential election as Bobi Wine, a superstar musician,
How Pixar Director Peter Sohn Got Personal in His Oscar-nominated “Elemental”
How do you make fire feel endearing rather than scary? And how do you turn water into a gusher of emotions? Those were key questions faced by director Peter Sohn when he set forth to make Elemental. The Bronx-born animator previously helped anthropomorphize rats, robots, dolphins, and dinosaurs in Ratatouille, Finding Nemo, WALL•E, and The Little Dinosaur. But never before had he tried to put a human face on earth,
James Gunn Reveals First “Superman: Legacy” Cast Photo With Filming Beginning Next Week
James Gunn’s Superman: Legacy is flying into production. This has been evident in recent posts and updates, but none more so than the first cast photo that Gunn has shared. It was also made crystal clear during an earning’s call with Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav, who revealed that Superman: Legacy begins filming next week.
Gunn revealed this shot of his full cast on Instagram on Thursday, revealing his Legacy team gathered around for a table read.
“The Holdovers” Oscar-Nominated Editor Kevin Tent on Creating a 70s Vibe With Timeless Performances
Kevin Tent, nominated for this year’s best editing Oscar for The Holdovers, considers himself “the luckiest editor ever” thanks to his 28-year collaboration with director Alexander Payne. Tent has edited all nine of Payne’s films dating back to his feature directing debut Citizen Ruth (1996). It’s an impressive list that includes Election (1999), About Schmidt (2002), Sideways (2004), Paris, Je T’aime (2006),
“Snoopy Presents: Welcome Home, Franklin” Namesake & Co-Writer Robb Armstrong on His Peanuts Immortality
Robb Armstrong’s JumpStart is the most widely syndicated daily comic strip by an African American in the world. He was inspired to his career as a cartoonist, in part, by reading the Peanuts comics by Charles Schulz and started drawing images from the famed strip as a child. Of course, one major influence was Franklin, the first Black character in Peanuts, who was introduced in 1968. Early in his career,
James Gunn Teases “Superman: Legacy” Set in Photo With “Peacemaker” Cast
James Gunn gave two of his Peacemaker stars, Freddie Stroma and Jennifer Holland, a little tour of the lots where he’s set to start shooting a small indie film he’s working on that you might have heard about—Superman: Legacy.
Okay, while not technically an indie (not even remotely close), Legacy is the first big feature film slated to kickstart the new-look DC Studios, being led by Gunn and his co-chief,
“Dune: Part Two” Review Round-Up: A Breathtaking, Cosmically Scaled Sci-Fi Masterpiece
The review embargo for Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two has been lifted as if by a fleet of ornithopters (the jet-powered, flapping-winged aircraft introduced in the original film), and the overwhelming critical response can be summed up by a single word: wow. The continuation of Villeneuve’s epic (“continuation” is his preferred description rather than calling it a sequel) possesses all the things you want in a sci-fi epic—astonishing visuals,
