German actor-writer-director Til Schweiger and Splitsville star Charlie Gillespie have jumped on board Contra, an underground chess thriller.

Paramount isn’t planning to join fellow media giants Comcast and Warner Bros. Discovery in spinning off its cable assets.

Lithuania regained its independence from the Soviet Union in March 1990, becoming the first former Soviet republic to do so. Its film industry has in recent years made waves on the film festival circuit with social dramas, gangster thrillers, and eccentric slice-of-life films. But its submission for the best international feature Oscar 2026 is taking us back to the early days of independence.

Dan Perrault and Tony Yacenda, who created the award-winning mockumentary American Vandal, are going into the DC Universe.

Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo are officially saying goodbye to Glinda and Elphaba for good.

Oliver Laxe’s pre-apocalyptic rave and road trip odyssey Sirāt rolled through the 48th Denver Film Festival and emerged as the best feature.

If there was a Mount Rushmore of Dancing With the Stars greats, Tom Bergeron’s face would have already been carved into stone.

Tatsuya Nakadai, a legendary Japanese actor best known for his roles in Ran, Harakiri and The Human Condition trilogy, has died. He was 92.

In a packed theater at Nitehawk Prospect Park, MG Evangelista — one of four recipients of Netflix and NewFest’s 2025 New Voices Filmmakers Grants — took a moment to share a message from the co-writer of their film, Anino: “Long live the outsiders, the misfits and the beautiful monsters.”

Celine Song was waiting for it. The Oscar-nominated filmmaker was in London, a few months after her sophomore feature Materialists had bowed to critical and commercial success in the U.S. — and spurred dozens of thinkpieces about its depictions of modern dating, capitalism, and gender roles (okay, and leg-lengthening surgery). She’d noticed a pattern in reactions to her New York-set rom-dramedy’s love triangle that surprised her: Viewers were sympathizing more with Harry (Pedro Pascal), a wealthy financier courting matchmaker Lucy (Dakota Johnson), than John (Chris Evans), Lucy’s old flame still living with roommates while struggling to make it as an actor.

In Second Nature: Gender and Sexuality in the Animal World, director Drew Denny poses a playful question to audiences: Since clownfish can change sex from male to female, after Nemo’s mom died in Finding Nemo, could his dad simply have become another mom?

The Glasgow Film Festival has unveiled the first films for its 2026 edition, taking place Feb. 25-March 8, including a retrospective program under the theme “Truth to Power” and a country focus on Sweden.The “Truth to Power” retrospective will feature 10 classics from the 1930s to the present day “that stand as cinematic statements of resistance, or feature characters that rise against the machines of power,” organizers said. Highlights from the program include the Stanley Kubrick-directed satire Dr Strangelove (1964), starring Peter Sellers, Oscar-nominated civil rights epic Selma (2014) from director Ava DuVernay, and the 50th anniversary of political thriller All the President’s Men (1976), following the journalists who broke the Watergate scandal and starring and produced by Robert Redford.The lineup will also include In the Name of the Father (1993), starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Erin Brockovich (2000), and The Battle of Algiers (1966), a recreation of Algeria’s 1950s battle for independence from France. GFF26 will be the 22nd edition of the festival and will also put a spotlight on films from Sweden under the country focus theme “Take a Chance on Me: Swedish Cinema.”

The ultimate holiday tradition has commenced for 2025: Oprah’s Favorite Things.

Norwegian triple threat Mona Fastvold, with buzz growing around her latest film The Testament of Ann Lee, has signed with the London-based Magna Studios.

Hayley Williams is going on tour, and she’s got a message for ticket scalpers: Stay away.

Danny Lin has been elected president of The Animation Guild after running unopposed to lead the more than 5,000-person union.

At a Netflix For Your Consideration event on Sunday, Monster: The Ed Gein Story star Charlie Hunnam, co-creator Ian Brennan and the show’s creative team took a deep dive into their recently released season, which followed the notorious 1950s serial killer.

For many international executives landing at LAX this week, attending the American Film Market isn’t just about closing presales or packaging their next feature — it’s about getting into the country in the first place.

LL Cool J, Mario and rapper O.T. Genasis were among the surprise guests at night two of Brandy and Monica‘s “The Boy Is Mine” tour in Los Angeles Sunday, as the artists helped to close out Brandy’s hometown shows in style.

If there was a Mount Rushmore of Dancing With the Stars greats, Tom Bergeron’s face would have already been carved into stone.

One feature of modern AI systems is that the model does not actually reason. Unlike the older “symbolic” approach, in which humans hard-program a machine to run through a series of options, the current Large Language Models simply synthesize lots of information and predict based on likelihoods. So the model (by definition) cannot conjure up anything of literal substance; it can just regurgitate, sometimes coherently and sometimes nonsensically, based on material it doesn’t understand.