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Simon Kinberg To Write New ‘Star Wars’ Trilogy for Lucasfilm

© Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All Rights Reserved. Simon Kinberg has reportedly been tapped to write a new trilogy of Star Wars films, which he will also co-produce with its Lucasfilm’s head Kathleen Kennedy. News of the deal was first reported in Deadline by Mike Fleming, jr., who says that neither Lucasfilm nor Disney has commented…

Oh, Canada – Official Trailer : Starring Jacob Elordi & Richard Gere

Paul Schrader’s Oh, Canada is expected to arrive in the US soon. The film, which debuted at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival and then played at TIFF, features Jacob Elordi and Richard Gere portraying a documentarian in two different times of his life, with Elordi playing Gere’s younger self. The film is an adaptation of…

‘Heretic’ Filmmakers Scott Beck and Bryan Woods on Their Religious Thriller (Video Interview)

Filmmakers Scott Beck and Bryan Woods first became known from their script for 2018’s A Quiet Place, which director John Krasinski took on and turned into a hugely successful blockbuster franchise for Paramount Pictures. Since then, they’ve directed the Halloween-set horror film Haunt and last year’s 65, starring Adam Driver, but their new film, the…

Philadelphia Film Festival: Small Things Like These Anchored by Cillian Murphy’s Poignant Performance

Well-meaning protagonists contemplating their morality as they struggle with their complicity in sin is a powerful driving force in character-driven films. That’s certainly the case with recent Oscar-winning actor Cillian Murphy‘s latest drama, Small Things Like These. While set nearly 40 years ago, the movie thrives on its evocative, impressionistic heartbreaks that still find their…

Blitz Featurette : Starring Saoirse Ronan, Directed by Steve McQueen

©Courtesy of Apple TV+ Steve McQueen’s Blitz follows the epic journey of George (Elliott Heffernan), a 9-year-old boy in World War II London whose mother Rita (Saoirse Ronan) sends him to safety in the English countryside. George, defiant and determined to return home to his mom and his grandfather Gerald (Paul Weller) in East London,…

NYCC / Hannibal : Q&A with Actors Hugh Dancy & Mads Mikkelsen

Hannibal : Gifted criminal profiler Will Graham has a unique way of thinking that allows him to empathize with anyone, including psychopaths. But while helping the FBI pursue a particularly complicated serial killer, he decides he could use some help and enlists the brilliant psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter. The two form a partnership and it seems…

“Emilia Pérez” : Press Conference With Actors Zoe Saldana, Selena Gomez, Karla Sofía Gascón and Director Jacques Audiard

@Courtesy of Netflix Emilia Perez : From renegade auteur Jacques Audiard comes Emilia Pérez, an audacious fever dream that defies genres and expectations. Through liberating song and dance and bold visuals, this odyssey follows the journey of four remarkable women in Mexico, each pursuing their own happiness. The fearsome cartel leader Emilia (Karla Sofía Gascón)…

Michael Jackson Biopic Release Date Delayed Several Months

©Michael Jackson: Video Greatest Hits – HIStory Lionsgate is postponing the release of its Michael Jackson biopic, Michael, by almost six months,Deadline is reporting. The musical drama is vacating next year’s Easter weekend of April 18-20. The distributor will instead release the film over the weekend of Oct. 3-5, 2025. Universal, meanwhile, is handling the…

Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey | Official Trailer | Netflix

© Courtesy of Netflix Netflix has dropped a new trailer for three-part documentary, Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey which is examining the whodunit murder investigation. The series traces the pageant princess’s murder along with how law enforcement and the media are alleged to have mishandled the case. Joe Berlinger, who worked on Paradise Lost: The…

‘Meanwhile on Earth’ Filmmaker Jérémy Clapin on His Move into Live Action (Video Interview)

In 2019, French animator and filmmaker Jérémy Clapin received an Oscar nomination for his animated feature, I Lost My Body, a 2D animation film that was very different from the usual output from Disney, Pixar, and other Western animation houses.  Now, Clapin has returned with Meanwhile on Earth, his first live action feature film, which…

A Greyhound of a Girl : Enzo D’Alo Portrays a Family Facing Impending Mortality

@Courtesy of GFM Animation  How can a little girl not love dogs? Even in Ireland, Mary O’Hara must surely have grown up with Snoopy and Clifford. Nonetheless, she inherited a fear of canines [perhaps unfairly] from her grandmother, Emer, along with her love of “cookery.” Both those inheritances skipped her mother Scarlett, who took on…