It was positioned as the first big blockbuster battle of summer. But this weekend’s showdown between “The Flash” and Pixar’s “Elemental” isn’t shaping up to be one for box office record books.

Both of the mega-budgeted tentpoles are tracking for lackluster starts, with “The Flash,” starring Ezra Miller as the title DC superhero, targeting $70 million and “Elemental,” an animated adventure about opposites who attract, aiming to collect just $35 million. Insiders and analysts are split on the final weekend number for “The Flash,” with some expecting an even softer $68 million and others projecting as much as $85 million.

“The Flash” is landing on the big screen without a traditional promotional push from Miller, who has been a controversial figure in the lead-up to the film’s release. The actor, who was arrested several times in the past few years, released a statement in August to apologize for their erratic...

Sony’s “Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse” led the U.K. and Ireland box office for the second consecutive weekend with £4 million ($5.1 million), according to numbers from Comscore. The web-slinging animation now has a total of £16.2 million.

Paramount’s “Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts” debuted in second place with a healthy £2.9 million. In its third weekend, in second position, Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” collected £2.1 million for a total of £19.9 million. In fourth place, another Disney title, “Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol 3” earned £511,837 in its sixth weekend for a total of £35.5 million.

Rounding off the top five in its fourth weekend was Universal’s “Fast X” with £475,640 and a total of £14.2 million.

There were three more debuts in the top 10. Bowing in eighth place was Disney’s “Chevalier” with £124,432. Rbe’s Punjabi-language “Maurh” debuted at ninth position with £31,975 and close behind was Picturehouse Entertainment’s “War Pony” in 10th with £31,792.

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DreamWorks Animation and Netflix will pair on “Orion and The Dark,” a CG family comedy written by Charlie Kaufman and based on a 2014 book by Emma Yarlett. Animator Sean Charmatz will mark his feature debut with this darkly whimsical tale about a young boy confronting his greatest terror.

That boy is Orion (voiced by Jacob Tremblay), an elementary schooler and full-time fraidy cat unnerved by heights, spooked by domestic animals, and rendered nearly catatonic by that worst plight of all – the dark. Only one night the Dark (voiced by Paul Walter Hauser) just about has enough, so he takes Orion on a nocturnal adventure to show the boy there’s nothing to fear but fear itself.

DreamWorks Animation is set to announced the title onstage at the Annecy Animation Festival on Tuesday at a studio focus. It will screen three excerpts of a project already well underway. Netflix will release...

Warner Bros. held the premiere for the long-awaited DC spinoff The Flash today in Hollywood with its star Ezra Miller, who has been the subject of several tabloid headlines from alleged assaults in Hawaii to unlawful trespassing at a neighbor’s house in Vermont, making their red carpet debut since such incidents.

Miller made an appearance on the red carpet at Ovation Hollywood sporting a bun and wearing a white jacket paired with black slacks.

Before the screening, Miller thanked multiple people like director Andy Muschietti, Zach Snyder and Warner Bros. Discovery boss David Zaslav. Miller also had some words for “the dynamic duo” Peter Safran and James Gunn saying he was grateful “for your grace and discernment and care in the context of my life and in bringing this moment to fruition.”

Ezra Miller thanks #TheFlash director Andy and Barbara’s Muschietti, the Warner Bros. brass and DC co-chairs...

Like previous entries in the metal-bashing franchise, ’Transformers’ is proving stronger in international territories.

World box office June 9-11 Rank Film (distributor) 3-day (world) Cume (world) 3-day (int’l)Cume (int’l) Territories 1. Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts (Paramount) $170.5m $170.5m $110m $110m 69 2. Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse (Sony) $102.4m $389.9m $47m $164.5m 60 3. The Little Mermaid (Disney) $52.6m $414.2m $29.9m $184.4m 53 4. Fast X (Universal) $25.7m $652.7m £20.5m $514.6m 85 5. Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3 (Disney) $13.7m $805.9m $6.7m $470.5m 53 6. The Roundup: No Way Out (various) $12.3m $59.5m $12.2m $59.1m 7 7. The Boogeyman (Disney) $11.1m $39.6m $4.2m $14.9m 51 8. The Super Mario Bros. Movie (Universal...

The Los Angeles Greek Film Festival, an annual showcase that brings films and filmmakers from Greece, Cyprus and other countries in the region to the United States, announced the winners of its 2023 Orpheus Awards at a ceremony on Sunday night at the Silver Screen Theatre in the Pacific Design Center.

Toplining the honors: “Listen,” directed by Maria Douza, which won for best fiction feature film. “Iman,” helmed Corina Avramidou and Kyriakos Tofarides, took home the special jury award for best film, and Panos Koutras won the best director award for “Dodo.”

Spiros Jacovides won an honorable mention for best director for “Black Stone,” and Efthalia Papacosta was awarded the best performance trophy for “Listen.” “Black Stone” also won the audience award for feature film, and an honorable mention for best performance went to Stephanie Atala for “Iman.”

“Listen” centers on a 16-year-old deaf girl forced to leave her progressive Athens...

Chinese moviegoers’ abiding love for the Transformers franchise was on full display over the weekend as Transformers: Rise of the Beasts opened to $40 million, the second-biggest start for a Hollywood film in the country this year.

The new Paramount film, the seventh in the Transformers series, has earned solid social scores — 9.1 on Douban, 9.1 on Maoyan and 6.3 from Douban — setting it up for a respectable career run. Current projections in China see the film finishing with around $85 million.

Sony’s Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse was pushed to second place and added $8.9 million in its second frame, according to data from Artisan Gateway. The film’s China total sits at $34.1, with Maoyan forecasting a finishing total of just over $45 million.

Universal’s Fast X, which holds the crown for Hollywood’s biggest opening in China in 2023 ($51.1 million), added $3.4 million. After four weeks in cinemas, the movie has brought in $131.8 million.

Both Rise...

“Joker: Folie à Deux” promises to be a bigger, crazier, and much more musical addition to the “Joker” universe — but Lady Gaga did her best to stay grounded while transforming into the unhinged psychiatrist Harley Quinn. Her co-star Zazie Beetz has nothing but good things to say about Gaga’s performance in Todd Phillips’ follow-up to his Oscar-winning 2019 film.

“She’s super warm and kind,” Beetz told Variety of Gaga, whose real name is Stefani Germanotta. “I felt very welcome with her on set. She was doing her own character work and stuff, but she’s a very grounded person. She’s just Stefani.”

Beetz teased that fans will be “surprised” at how the musical sequel unfolds.

“I don’t think it’s going to be what they expect, around it being musical,” the “Atlanta” actress said. “We all sort of express musically and dancing in our lives day-to-day. I...

Rachel Lambert’s film debuted at Sundance in January.

Sundance title Sometimes I Think About Dying has secured key territory sales including France, ahead of its international premiere at next week’s Champs-Elysees Film Festival in Paris.

The film has sold to Condor for France; Synapse for Latin America; and Front Row for Mena, through Jan Naszweski’s Warsaw-based sales outfit New Europe Film Sales.

Previously announced deals include Vertigo Releasing for UK-Ireland; while CAA sold US rights to Oscilloscope.

Sometimes I Think About Dying stars Daisy Ridley as an office worker in a seaside town who likes to think...

Netflix, the world’s preeminent animation producer by production volume, outlay and awards, has set out a roadmap at Annecy for how it is looking to invest in the future of animation.

Sketched by John Derderian and Karen Toliver, Netflix animation heads of series and film respectively, the game plan takes in building on Netflix’s strengths, in adult animation, and genre and anime in series; maintaining a vast diversity of shows and movies; and looking in every project for a creator’s vision which Netflix will seek to connect with the right audience, at the right price.

Derderian and Toliver talked to Variety at France’s Annecy Animation Festival whose Netflix’s panel this Wednesday June 14, From Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget to Blue Eye Samurai – See What’s Next @ Netflix, promises to be one of Annecy’s most talked-about highlights.

As for diversity, the panel looks set...

A trucker being blackmailed by a criminal gang has to flee with the 12-year-old girl she was trafficking when the drop-off goes wrong. Cue Morgan Freeman

Juliette Binoche is incapable of giving a bad performance, but here she is, probably as close as she’ll ever get to a stinker, playing a long-distance lorry driver on the wrong side of the law in Mississippi. For about five minutes there’s novelty watching La Binoche in trucker mode, wearing a bandana and filthy jeans, stomping around yelling “motherfucker” at anyone who messes with her. But, her acting, like everything else in this sluggish crime drama written and directed by Norwegian film-maker Anna Gutto, feels implausible; more like tourism than anything in the real world.

Binoche plays Sally, a French Canadian we meet on the highway, shooting the breeze over the radio with her friends on the female trucker scene. A film...

From Argentina to New Zealand, support for the Writers Guild of America is officially going global.

Wednesday marks an International Day of Solidarity for the writers strike that is being branded “Screenwriters Everywhere,” with events planned in major cities including Paris and London.

The Writers Guild of America has enlisted members from the International Affiliation of Writers Guilds, Federation of Screenwriters in Europe and Uni Global Union to demonstrate global support for the union’s strike against Hollywood’s largest producers. The unprecedented rallying behind the WGA is especially relevant during this strike given the globalization of content, and the fast-growing international outposts of many “struck” companies, such as Netflix and Prime Video.

The WGA’s strike against the major studios and streaming platforms, which are represented by the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), began on May 2. The guild’s demands include higher wages for TV and film writers,...

I love toys, they were a formative part of my childhood and even as an adult, there's something about them that just fascinates me. It seems that, at the moment, Hollywood feels the same way because there are a lot of recent and upcoming movies this year that are based on some kind of nostalgic toy. Transformers: Rise of the Beasts is the most expected of the bunch. Based on the Hasbro toy line, transformers have had consistent film and television releases for decades now. We also recently got an animated series, Transformers: Earthspark, at the end of 2022. Barbie is being hyped to the moon for its July release, though it's not the first Barbie movie to be made. But the toy movies don't end there. Earlier this year, Apple TV+ gave us Tetris, a biological thriller following the origin story of the legendary videogame. Popular RPG Dungeons & Dragons...

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The world premiere of Scottish writer-director Johnny Barrington‘s debut feature “Silent Roar” will open the 2023 Edinburgh International Film Festival on Aug. 18. Billed as a “teenage tale of surfing, sex and hellfire” set in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, the film stars emerging actor Louis McCartney as Dondo, a young surfer struggling to accept his father’s recent disappearance at sea. Caught up in grief, he is brought to his senses by rebellious crush Sas (Ella Lily Hyland), a high achiever who dreams of escaping the island. When an oddly-behaved new minister arrives on the island, Dondo begins to have cosmic visions.

The film is produced by Scottish producer Chris Young (“The Inbetweeners Movie”) and was made with the participation of Screen Scotland, BBC Films and BFI. MK2 Films is handling sales.

The festival is returning for its 76th edition following financial difficulties. Last October it was revealed the Centre...

From the exemplary adaptation of No Country for Old Men to the offbeat screenplay for The Counselor, McCarthy’s sparse style lent itself to cinema

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The late and great Cormac McCarthy’s most famous novel is probably The Road, a hauntingly well-written and shattering story of a father and son trekking across a lawless America, wiped out by an unspecified cataclysmic event. Much has been made of the author’s sparse style, which combines poetic and surreal descriptions with lithe plotting and bleakly surreal settings: an appealing combination for a motion picture adaptation.

The Australian director John Hillcoat brought it to the screen in 2009 with a film that impressively translates the book’s heaving sense of sadness, using an anemic palette to evoke the look of a dying, inconsolable world, memorably navigated by Viggo Mortensen (billed as “the Man”) and Kodi Smit-McPhee (“the Boy...

As well as footage of destructive blazes tearing through California, this documentary offers careful analysis of how to prevent them

As the intense Canadian wildfires continue to make headlines, engulfing New York City in toxic orange smog, this timely and informative documentary seeks to change the way we think about these increasingly hazardous ecological events. Featuring footage from recent natural disasters, including the historic 2018 Camp fire in northern California, the opening places viewers in the heart of the inferno. Bright red flames lick through every inch of the ground, leaving behind a trail of burning wreckage, and waves of smoke turn the morning sky pitch-black.

The sight is terrifying, almost surreal, yet Elemental also aims to debunk outdated myths about wildfires, regularly regurgitated by mainstream media and even forest management departments. An eclectic cohort of experts, who include academics, fire deputies and environmental volunteers, break down long-held misconceptions in a systematic and easy-to-understand fashion.

“The Blackening” is a slasher movie that’s also a slapdash enjoyable social satire. That the satire turns out to be sharper than the scares isn’t a problem — it’s all part of the film’s slovenly demonic party atmosphere. The set-up, which feels like a “Friday the 13th” sequel by way of “Bodies Bodies Bodies,” reunites nine old college chums to celebrate Juneteenth weekend in a big roomy house they’ve rented near the woods.

As Tina Turner’s cover of “I Can’t Stand the Rain” spins on the turntable, the first two to arrive, Morgan (Yvonne Orji) and Shawn (Jay Pharaoh), find their way to the basement game room, which has shelves of old board games, an ancient TV set, a Ouija board, and a prominently displayed game called The Blackening. Taking the box cover off, they discover, to their horror, that there’s a plastic...

Few films have proven as unequivocally divisive and debate-worthy as Man of Steel. Just take a look at Letterboxd if you don't believe me where you'll find just as many four-and-a-half-star ratings as one-star ratings, quoting the lack of similarities to the Superman we all know and love, the brooding tone, and the Transformers-level of destruction inflicted on Metropolis as either a fresh take or an abomination. This ain't your daddy's Superman and was never meant to be. Zack Snyder's bombastic take on the Man of Tomorrow's reputation has chilled in our memories, and after Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice it looked pretty good by comparison. However, the current state of comic book movies, not just of DC movies, has been altered ever since. Man of Steel's impact continues to reverberate over the past ten years as powerfully as the World Engine that Zod used to wreak havoc on Metropolis.

John Romita Sr., one of the key artists in Marvel Comics’ history who co-created characters such as Wolverine, the Punisher and Mary Jane Watson, died on Tuesday. He was 93.

Romita Sr.’s death was confirmed by his son, fellow comics artist John Romita Jr., in a post on Twitter Tuesday evening.

“I say this with a heavy heart,” Romita Jr. wrote. “My father passed away peacefully in his sleep. He is a legend in the art world and it would be my honor to follow in his footsteps. Please keep your thoughts and condolences here out of respect for my family. He was the greatest man I ever met.”

I say this with a heavy heart, My father passed away peacefully in his sleep. He is a legend in the art world and it would be my honor to follow in his footsteps. Please keep your thoughts and condolences here...

At Tuesday’s New York’s premiere of Wes Anderson’s “Asteroid City,” the star-studded cast had plenty to say about Hollywood’s writers strike.

Scarlett Johansson, Adrien Brody, Bryan Cranston and Rupert Friend revealed how they really feel about the face off between the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Pictures and Television Producers while walking the beige carpet at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall.

“Whatever happens moving forward will forever change how revenue is determined,” Johansson told Variety. “It’s a thing that has needed to happen for a long time, that we’ve been talking about for a long time, and it’s finally reached this breaking point. It’s important for all of us creatives to unite and support this massive shift so we can get over to the other side, which we will.”

The WGA called for the strike May 1 after...

Disney has shuffled plans for its biggest franchises, with new Star Wars and Avengers films also delayed

It may have taken Avatar: The Way of Water more than a decade to finally arrive in theatres in 2022, but the long parade of Avatar delays isn’t over yet.

On Tuesday, the Walt Disney Co. announced it has pushed the release of Avatar 3 back a year, bumping it from December 2024 to December 2025. The timeline is stretched even further for the next planned instalments. Avatar 4 is now slated to hit theatres in December 2029; Avatar 5 is set to arrive in December 2031.

Federation of Screenwriters, International Affiliation of Writers Guilds among those planning actions in more than 30 countries on June 14.

The Writers Guild Of America (WGA) will join members of the Federation of Screenwriters (Fse) in Europe and other groups for an international day of solidarity on Wednesday (June 14).

International Affiliation of Writers Guilds and Uni Global Union are among groups preparing to participate in the Screenwriters Everywhere event in support of the 11,500 WGA members who have been on strike since May 2.

Actions are planned in more than 30 countries including the UK, Australia, South Korea, Canada, Ukraine, Argentina, Colombia, France, Germany, Ireland,...

Ah, The Walking Dead. We just can’t seem to quit you. What began more than a decade ago in reserved yet riveting fashion has expanded into an entire universe of television now spanning many years of its own. While there is something almost impressive about how the franchise has managed to carry on for so long, the narrative baggage it accumulated on the way has often dragged down the zombie epic. Characters fell into stagnant patterns far too often, rendering the story empty no matter how many people it tried to introduce or communities it stumbled upon. Forget the increasingly blunt hints it'd been dropping about the walkers themselves evolving (which didn’t amount to much anyway), the show's biggest problem was that it often felt like a corpse going through the motions. Even when there was a lot happening in a plot sense, there was little that felt...

HBO’s “The Last of Us” took home the program of the year award at the 44th Banff World Media Festival. The series was awarded at the 2023 Rockie Award Gala on Tuesday evening alongside other individuals, programs, films and media outlets. The event is held annually in Banff, Alberta in the Canadian Rockies.

Craig Robinson, actor and producer with credits on programs like “The Office,” “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” and “Killing It,” was awarded with the Sir Peter Ustinov Comedy Award. Robinson was also the host of the festival’s flagship awards program.

The Grand Jury Prize was awarded to “Eternal Spring” and the Buffalo Rock Award went to “Star Trek” for its legacy in TV programming.

As previously announced, Garcell Beauvais of “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” was presented with the Inclusion Award presented by A+E. The award recognizes individuals whose work promote diversity and inclusivity in media. Alanis Obomsawin...

What does it take to translate a graphic novel like American Born Chinese into a full television series? The 2009 Eisner Award-winning graphic novel by Gene Luen Yang underwent quite a transformation before its debut on Disney+. The television series American Born Chinese follows the story of Jin Wang (Ben Wang), a Chinese-American teenager who is struggling with his own identity. When he is introduced to Wei-Chen (Jimmy Liu), an exchange student, his life is turned upside down at the reveal that Wei-Chen is more than he appears.

Gargoyles has, over the years, developed a cult following, one that has only grown with all episodes from the 1994-1997 series available to stream on Disney+. Rumors of a new animated series featuring the heroes have come up consistently since the series ended, and the seeds of a live-action take goes as far back as 1995, going so far as to have a screenplay drawn up. The initial success of the series had even spawned the idea of a Disney action universe, a more mature set of fare along the lines of what DC and Marvel had. Only Disney kept the series at arm's length, distributing the syndicated series through its Buena Vista Television arm. They really wouldn't attach the Disney name to it until changes were made for its third season. The series was popular, and toys and other related merchandise was flying off the shelves, so why wasn't it embraced wholeheartedly from the beginning?...

The fifth and final season of the FX series Mayans M.C. feels like a powder keg that’s ready to explode, taking everyone with it in its wake. With Club President Ez Reyes (Jd Pardo) leading his brother Angel (Clayton Cardenas) and the Santo Padre M.C. on the path to a very bloody war against their rival Sons of Anarchy, loyalties shift and priorities change, which could permanently shatter the bonds of the Reyes family.

When it comes to the Netflix Big Mouth spinoff Human Resources, the series has done a bit to step up its storytelling game in Season 2, especially with Alice Wong’s cameo appearance as a recurring character. For people who don’t know, Wong is a prominent disability rights activist as well as the author of Year of The Tiger: An Activist's Life, a memoir about her life experiences as a disabled person and an advocate for people with disabilities. In Season 2 of Human Resources, the activist makes an appearance as a fictionalized version of herself, navigating sex and romance with the aid (and dysfunction) of her love bug, Rochelle Hillhurst.

In the world of Transformers, the gigantic alien robots take center stage, but not without the human characters. These characters acts like as the audience surrogate in this intergalactic battle between the warring Autobots and Decepticons. When it comes to the actors, the franchise is not playing around. These characters are played by Oscar-winning actors such as Anthony Hopkins, Frances McDormand, and Stanley Tucci as well as hilarious comedians Ken Jeong and Jerrod Carmichael. All of them brought their own unique contributions to the plot.

A movie doesn’t have to be gay to be, well, gay. So what makes a movie gay if it isn’t explicitly? Cast a few top-shelf gay icons in there — your Bette Middlers, your Joan Crawfords, your Faye Dunaways playing Joan Crawford — and especially have them reparteeing bitchy lines tearing each other to pieces, and have an aesthetic that’s outre and unironically camp, and you’ve got the winning-formula starter-pack for something deliciously fabulous and queer, even if not by intentional design.

Some films have gotten swept up into the queer canon by virtue of their unintentional awfulness or arguable quality while others actually push forward the cinematic medium to create something that stands the tests of time and the weathers of queer folks and their mercurial tastes. Robert Zemeckis’ Oscar-winning “Death Becomes Her” boasts the double whammy of Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn ripping each other apart...

By the time House of Wax went into production in the mid-2000s, it was already an old story that had been told on screen twice. Originated by Charles S. Belden’s unpublished short story The Wax Works, it was first made into a movie in 1933 titled The Mystery of the Wax Museum. It is best remembered, if at all, for its 1953 remake House of Wax starring horror legend Vincent Price. The three movies only have a basic thread of commonality, in which a waxwork museum’s exhibits are made up of human bodies. It’s a darkly amusing concept that filmmakers have had a lot of fun with. The uncanny valley way that waxworks unsettle the human mind is a brilliant starting point for horror and has been taken in a number of directions over the years, such as the Waxwork films. The original movie and the Vincent Price...

If you came of age in the 1990s, couples like Ross and Rachel, Buffy and Angel, and Mulder and Scully likely evoke intense nostalgia for you. Yet, amidst these iconic onscreen couples, one pair reigns supreme: Cory Matthews (Ben Savage) and Topanga Lawrence (Danielle Fishel) from a show that arguably shaped that generation, Boy Meets World. A fixture in ABC's legendary "Tgif" lineup from 1993 to 2000, this series left a permanent mark on the hearts of its viewers. However, what often goes unnoticed is the remarkable influence wielded by fans in shaping the destiny of this TV-power couple.

Whether you’re the cool kid or an outsider, high school is an unforgettable time that undeniably leaves scars for better or for worse. A time for self-discovery, first love, and debauchery, teen drama television series have become a staple within the medium for the better part of the past 25 years and created some unforgettable characters in the process. Looking back on some of the best high school set dramas from the 2000s and beyond is a nostalgic time capsule for simpler times, and HBO Max is host to some of the greatest of all time. Whether you’re in the mood for backstabbing Upper East Siders or angst-filled superheroes, here’s your guide to the best teen dramas streaming on HBO Max right now.

Winning Best Picture at the Oscars in 2000, enduring as a classic over 20 years later, and having a sequel set to come out in 2024, it's safe to say that Gladiator is a much-loved film. It's proven to be one of the most popular films within Ridley Scott's vast body of work and tells a gripping revenge story that's well-paced, emotionally resonant, filled with exciting action, and complemented by strong visuals performances and music.

Editor's Note: The following contains spoilers for The Idol Episode 2.There's a lot of discourse taking place when it comes to the newest Sunday night show on HBO, The Idol. The new series, which is creatively driven by Sam Levinson and Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye, has faced quite a few controversies since its inception, many of which deal with the show’s direction which is not one to hold back on its sexualization. Behind all of that, The Idol has since given us two episodes to take in where there's been plenty of sensual scenes from voyeurism to asphyxiation. Yet, when the camera isn't fixating on all of this, The Idol has quietly woven in an interesting story. While Jocelyn (Lily-Rose Depp) and her tethering pop stardom remain at the forefront, the second episode introduced us to a twist that sets up a far more interesting narrative than originally thought.

Editor's note: The below contains spoilers for the series finale of Never Have I Ever.Let’s face it: we all knew Lang Fisher and Mindy Kaling’s Never Have I Ever was going to have a happy ending. No fan of the Netflix hit teen series was expecting it to wrap up its final season on a depressing note. It was clear from the get-go that things were going to work out for young Devi Vishwakumar (Maitreyi Ramakrishnan), no matter how many coyote attacks stood in her way. However, upon reaching the final episode of Never Have I Ever, we can’t help but feel that there is something wrong with how the story ended, even though everything went perfectly right. As a matter of fact, it is precisely because everything went perfectly right that “...said goodbye” leaves us with an odd taste in our mouths. Sure, we all...

With the writers strike into its second month and a potential actors strike looming, someone is going to have to find a middle ground. And on Tuesday, the head of CBS George Cheeks outlined one way in which the writers and the studios could still find a compromise.

It has something to do with windowing and the licensing content. Streaming residuals has been one of the WGA’s key sticking points in negotiations with the AMPTP, namely because there aren’t enough of them. But if streamers started rethinking hoarding all their content exclusively and instead were open to windowing or licensing their shows and movies to other outlets, whether that’s putting them back on cable or broadcast, on other streamers, or on Fast (free ad-supported streaming television) services, suddenly there’s new opportunities to pay out residuals.

Cheeks said on Tuesday at the Banff World Media Festival in Alberta,...

From Ari Aster and A24 - the collaborative team behind modern horror favorites such as Hereditary and Midsommar - comes the surrealist black comedy horror Beau Is Afraid. The movie centers on the title character, Beau Wassermann: an anxiety-riddled, mild-mannered man who finds himself embarking upon a reality-bending odyssey to his hometown to attend his mother's funeral. Described as having a "fraught relationship with his [now deceased] mother" and never knowing his father, it's clear that Beau's past is far from uncomplicated. As he makes the journey to his hometown, Beau is met with supernatural threats and must confront his darkest fears.

The man who directed a scene so bloody it was filmed in black and white to avoid an Nc-17 rating has some qualms with violence in film.

In an hourlong conversation at the Cannes Film Festival, Quentin Tarantino addressed some parts of his book “Cinema Speculation” and he teased his 10th and final film, “The Movie Critic.” As a serious grind-house fanatic, Tarantino discussed the place of violence in his own films and in classics like John Flynn’s “Rolling Thunder” and Martin Scorsese’s “Taxi Driver.”

On John Flynn’s “Rolling Thunder”

“It was the movie that made me start taking myself seriously as a film critic,” Tarantino said of “Rolling Thunder.”

Not that he was writing and publishing reviews on movies, but as he watched the film, he was able to note its nuances and form opinions on them. The moderators asked Tarantino about why he believed “Rolling Thunder...

Film is the debut feature of Screen’s Rising Star Scotland Johnny Barrington.

Edinburgh International Film Festival will open with the world premiere of Scotland-shot drama Silent Roar, the debut feature from Screen Rising Star Scotland Johnny Barrington.

Set on Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, the film follows a young surfer grieving the loss of his father and stars Louis McCartney with fellow Screen Rising Star Ella Lily Hyland.

The Eiff is returning for a one-off edition hosted by the Edinburgh International Festival, after the festival’s parent charity, the Centre for the Moving Image (Cmi), went into administration in October.

Having produced 27 feature films over nearly three decades, Pixar has firmly established itself as a beloved purveyor of high-quality entertainment. Kicking off as a subdivision of Lucasfilm in the 1970s, the cinematic powerhouse is synonymous with animation, perhaps making it difficult to imagine the company trying its hand at live-action filmmaking. But that's what happened in the mid-aughts when Pixar announced plans to partner with Disney and Warner Bros. in adapting James Dalessandro's historical novel, 1906.

The long-delayed and hugely anticipated The Flash may not be a Marvel movie, but since it is a significant entry into the DC superhero universe, you better believe there is a scene at the end of the credits. Yes, there is indeed a scene at the end of the credits, and we've actually known that for quite a while. When the film first premiered at Cinemacon 2023, the version of director Andy Muschietti's film that screened reportedly cut both the film's ending and the end-credits scene. This was likely done to avoid any major spoiler leaks following the early premiere.

If curating the Best Action Movies of All Time felt borderline impossible, then ranking just the top entries from this century is Mission Barely Manageable.

Most franchise IP blockbusters released to big box office hauls in recent years could qualify as “action movies” in one way or another. That’s particularly true when it comes to the omnipresent cultural phenomenon we call superhero films. It can be tempting to write off the entire action genre when all you see is the over-pixelated epics about super-somethings stopping intergalactic injustice that make up an increasingly large chunk of modern Hollywood. However, the action movies that depend less on fetishized source material have yielded some of the most personal higher-budget work around. When done well, action movies can tell great character-driven stories through movement. Action — acted or animated — is simply drama made dynamic.

That principle is what separates so many of the movies...

Dog movies are usually the best and even better when animated. When thinking about pet-related movies we often think of the likes of Scooby Doo, Mr Peabody and Sherman – warm, comedic, and family-oriented features that tickle us on every watch. However, Genndy Tartakovsky, the genius behind Hotel Transylvania and Star Wars: Clone Wars, is set to flip the genre on its head with his latest R-rated feature Fixed, Variety has reported.

Paramount + has a thing for making Nickelodeon fans nostalgic. After the iCarly revival took off, the streaming service is ready to reunite the Pacific Coast Academy (Pca) kids from Zoey 101 more than 15 years after the series wrapped its fourth season for a movie sequel called Zoey 102. Jamie Lynn Spears and more cast members from the original teen show (which ran from 2005-2008) are on board for the film, as well as some new characters who will be joining them for a wedding party. From the release date to the plot, here is everything we know so far about the highly-anticipated Nickelodeon get-together.

Bill Hader's been making us laugh since his early days on Saturday Night Live, which cemented him as one of the strongest and most unique comedic voices of his generation. Last month, Hader wrapped his work on HBO's Barry, the dark comedy crime thriller series that showed audiences what he was capable of demonstrating as an actor on top of securing laughs: grit, pain, regret, and reflection. Hader's titular role of ex-Marine-turned-hitman who finds an unexpected passion for theater was twisted up in so much trauma and tragedy, all while desperately trying not to conceal it. Barry, however, wasn't the first time Hader blended his acting abilities so beautifully.

There are few movie franchises with as much sustained longevity as the James Bond series, spanning over 25 separate films released fairly frequently since 1962 (not counting two non-canon outings), with seven different actors donning the 007 title over the years. Any series that’s been going that long will receive some major changes to fit with the times, hence how the gadget-toting, womanizing, martini-sipping super spy has taken a far more “realistic” bend following Pierce Brosnan’s tenure. Much darker and more serious storylines have defined the movies helmed by Daniel Craig’s depiction of the character, think maniacal oil barons rather than men who want to flood the entire world and create an underwater utopia. Now that Daniel Craig’s run as James Bond has definitively ended, let's reappraise the character, as along the way, we lost some essential components that made the series truly iconic — mainly its camp.

Don't worry folks - you definitely can still see him, even if you'll need to wait a bit longer for it. John Cena is returning to the role of Peacemaker and the head of DC Films, James Gunn will be back too. Gunn confirmed the news when appearing on a recent podcast episode of Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum.

Ncuti Gatwa is gearing up for a busy back half of 2023 thanks to his supporting role in “Barbie” (opening in theaters July 21), his fourth and final season of Netflix’s “Sex Education” (coming in the fall) and his introduction as the title character of “Doctor Who” (coming this Christmas). Gatwa touched upon all of these roles in a new British Vogue interview, revealing that a producer on the first season of “Sex Education” once approached him with a warning about ad-libbing lines of dialogue in character.

“There were producers coming up to me like, ‘This ad-lib, I don’t feel like white people will understand it,’” Gatwa said. “And I was like, ‘It’s not for white people to understand. There are many white people in this show for white people to understand, but I want this other group of people to understand Eric. And that’s what you want too.

Tom Cruise wanted to make sure “The Flash” team knew they had completed an (almost) impossible mission with a standout superhero film.

“The Flash” director Andy Muschietti confirmed that the “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning” icon reached out after viewing an early cut of the completed film to “praise” the Dcu tentpole feature starring Ezra Miller.

“[We got] more confidence in the thing that we did, because the movie was finished by the time that [Cruise] saw it, so it was a confidence boost if anything,” Muschietti told Games Radar.

Producer Barbara Muschietti added, “It’s a very cynical industry, and to hear people that really have no skin in the game, because they have nothing to gain, just say something that lovely. In the case of Tom Cruise, he called us, talked for 15 minutes, praising Andy, praising the film, and it just feels very good because we really work very hard to make these movies.