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In the summer of 2017, Oscar-winning actor Daniel Day-Lewis surprised Hollywood, London and the entire entertainment world when he revealed that he retired from acting and would make no more films. His final performance in Paul Thomas Anderson's "Phantom Thread" (2017) brought Day-Lewis his sixth Oscar nomination, his eighth Golden Globe nom and his seventh BAFTA bid (losing all three to Gary Oldman for "Darkest Hour").

One of the most respected actors of his generation, Day-Lewis is the only man who has won three Oscars for Best Actor. Those victories were for “My Left Foot” (1989), “There Will Be Blood” (2007), and “Lincoln” (2012). In fact he is one of only three men to win acting Oscars three times; the others are Walter Brennan and Jack Nicholson. In addition, he has won two Best Actor awards each from the Screen Actors Guild and the Golden Globes.

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Lionsgate isn't messing around when it comes to getting its latest "Hunger Games" prequel film, "Sunrise on the Reaping," ready for production. Even though the most recent book in Suzanne Collins' wildly popular series only recently hit shelves, the studio is well underway on an adaptation of said novel for the big screen. Now, we have word that one of the most important roles in the upcoming prequel has been filled, and it's a pitch-perfect bit of casting.

Thanks to a post on the official "Hunger Games" social media accounts, it's been revealed that Jesse Plemons has been cast as a young Plutarch Heavensbee. The character was originally played by the late, great Philip Seymour Hoffman (beginning in "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire"). The "Mockingjay" movies served as Hoffman's final credits before his passing.

Plemons actually played Hoffman's son previously in Paul Thomas Anderson's "The Master," and that worked out quite well.

Ruddy typical, you wait months and months for a casting update on the latest Hunger Games movie, and suddenly two come along at once. Yes, barely a day after we learned who will play the leading trio in Francis Lawrence's The Hunger Games: Sunrise On The Reaping, Lionsgate are back at it again, confirming another eye-catching name that has joined the hotly anticipated adaptation of Suzanne Collins' latest Games prequel. Taking to Instagram earlier this evening, The Hunger Games' official account has revealed that Oscar nominee Jesse Plemons has landed the role of future Head Gamemaker Plutarch Heavensbee in the upcoming movie — and you can see the announcement below;

Played brilliantly in the original Hunger Games movies by the late, great Philip Seymour Hoffman, Plutarch Heavensbee occupies spaces both as a close confidant and high ranking official for the tyrannical President Snow, and as a secret rebel insurgent with...

Jesse Plemons is headed to Panem. The acclaimed actor has joined the cast of “The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping” as a young version of Plutarch Heavensbee.

Plutarch was portrayed by Philip Seymour Hoffman in original films “Catching Fire” and “Mockingjay” Parts 1 and 2. Hoffman died in 2014 after filming the majority of his scenes for the “Mockingjay” films, with only a week of shooting remaining.

Director Francis Lawrence did not use any CGI technology to replicate the actor’s performance, instead choosing to rewrite scenes and give Hoffman’s dialogue to other actors. “He was one of the greatest actors, I think, of all time and I just think to try to fake a Philip Seymour Hoffman performance would have been catastrophic and I would never want to do that,” Lawrence said at the time. “I just think this was the best way to be able to get around such a horrible thing.

Talk about turnarounds: Hollywood is getting high marks this week for two timely hits that are being devoured by Gen Z audiences worldwide.

Filmgoers are lauding the game-based A Minecraft Movie and the original thriller Sinners — a veritable feast of video games and vampires.

And memories are short. Two years ago at this moment studio chiefs were running for cover, film releases were canceled, strikes were looming and Warner Bros. announced that all its product would be released as streaming movies. The studio even came up with the perfect counterprogramming for Oppenheimer: It was called Coyote vs Acme, basking in the afterglow of Looney Tunes.

Then came the show-stopper: Emerging from the mist was a concept called Barbenheimer. A few critics threw up their hands until Tom Cruise promised to see Oppenheimer and Barbie back to back. Even Scorsese lent his endorsement. The Coyote had vanished into the pink cloud of Barbiedom.

Haim have released another new single, titled “Down to be wrong.” The track is the third preview of their newly announced fourth studio album, I quit, out June 20th. Update: Watch the song’s music video, starring Logan Lerman.

Described in a press release as a “confident ode to self-preservation and prioritizing yourself,” “Down to be wrong” was produced by Danielle Haim and longtime collaborator Rostam Batmanglij. On the track’s lyrics, Haim look back at a failed relationship: “Boy, I crushed my whole heart/ Tryin’ to fit my soul into your arms/ And I crushed up these pills/ And I still couldn’t take ’em.”

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The trio announced I quit during a promotional show at LA’s The Bellwether last night (April 23rd). Later this summer, the Haim sisters will play slots at New Orleans Jazz Festival, Primavera Sound, and BBC Radio One’s Big Weekend.

After a slew of summery singles and a cheeky, highly entertaining rollout featuring homages to early 2000s paparazzi photos, Haim have officially announced their new album. I Quit arrives June 20 via Columbia Records.

To accompany the album announcement, the L.A. sister trio dropped the new single “Down to Be Wrong.” It’s a slow-burning rocker of supreme self-preservation in the wake of heartbreak — one that quietly simmers in the verses, and builds to a cathartic release of reflections. “Red lights are up ahead,” Danielle Haim sings. “But I keep walking.

Haim recently kicked off a new album cycle with two singles, and now they’ve revealed the project’s title and release date.

During an intimate club show at LA’s The Bellwether on Wednesday night (April 23rd), the sisterly trio flashed the title I quit on the screen during the beginning of their intro video. They confirmed the news on Instagram, posting a clip culminating with the message, “I quit new haim album coming June 20th.”

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The intro video featured numerous variations of the “I Quit” theme, including:

“I quit what does not serve me, I quit overthinking, I quit shame, I quit nicotine, I quit fear, I quit dick, I quit judgement, I quit avoiding emotional intimacy, I quit my job, I quit caring about what you think, I quit waiting for an apology, I quit fucking around, I quit fucking everything, I quit fucking you,...

Mission: Impossible fans will want to use the bathroom before sitting down for The Final Reckoning. The runtime for the eighth Mission: Impossible movie has reportedly been revealed, and it's a record-breaker.

After trusted runtime scooper Cryptic HD Quality reported on X that Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning would clock in at a whopping 2 hours and 51 minutes (171 min), Paramount revealed to ComicBook.com that the official runtime would actually be two minutes less. Even so, The Final Reckoning's 169-minute runtime is still a massive leap from the first Mission: Impossible film, which came in at 110 minutes. The runtimes for the other six entries in the long-running action spy franchise are 124 min (M:I:2), 126 min (M:I:iii), 133 min (Ghost Protocol), 131 min (Rogue Nation), 147 min (Fallout), and 163 min (Dead Reckoning). With the exception of 2015's Rogue Nation, the Mission: Impossible movies have progressively gotten longer with each new installment.

Surprisingly, Mission: Impossible –...

Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is going to last a while. Paramount Pictures' Mission Impossible - The Final Reckoning, set to be the culmination of Tom Cruise'sMission: Impossible franchise, has a runtime of two hours and 49 minutes, making it the longest film in the Mission: Impossible series. The nearly three-hour runtime means audiences can expect some more heart-pounding action from Cruise's Ethan Hunt.

The 2:49 runtime makes the film six minutes longer than the franchise's prior record holder, Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning, with the 2023 film coming in at two hours and 43 minutes. While a six-minute difference may not seem like that much, it is a significant amount when it comes to action films. However, it is still not the longest movie of Cruise's career; that record goes to Magnolia, the 1999 Paul Thomas Anderson film, which has a runtime of 3:08.

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Sinners has been building hype ever since Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan had studios discreetly read their script in a supervised session. Then, studios began a bidding war for a film that no one knew details about, except that it was a “genre movie.” That genre turned out to be a period vampire film and audiences turned out for Sinners this past week with a huge positive response and rave reviews. In his review, our own Chris Bumbray says, “It’s good enough that I can’t help but hope Coogler eventually parts ways with the MCU (after his next Black Panther flick), as he seems better off playing in his own sandbox. Given the right resources and support, Sinners might be the beginning of a whole new chapter for one of our most exciting, emerging filmmakers.”

According to The Hollywood Reporter, writer and director Ryan Coogler wrote a...

How quickly the fortunes of a Hollywood studio head can change.

Just weeks after the word around town was that their jobs were in jeopardy, Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group studio heads Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy have passed a key test of their film strategy and will likely live to fight another day thanks to the critical and commercial success of Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners” and the birth of a new franchise with Jared Hess’ “A Minecraft Movie,” according to multiple insiders who spoke with TheWrap.

Coogler’s vampire horror film’s $48 million domestic opening weekend and extremely rare A CinemaScore — the first for a horror film in 39 years — has strengthened the pair’s position following earlier misfires like Todd Phillips’ “Joker: Folie à Deux” and Bong Joon-ho’s “Mickey 17.”

Even more impressive: Warner Bros. achieved what no studio has accomplished since 2009, with two films – “Sinners” and...

Ryan Coogler has thanked cinema-goers for seeing his new movie 'Sinners' on the big screen in an emotional open letter.The director hand typed an emotional note which was posted to Instagram declaring his heart is "bursting" with "eternal gratitude" for everyone who went to see 'Sinners' at the cinema.He wrote: "Eternal gratitude. My heart is bursting with it,. I want to thank each and every one of you who bought a ticket to see 'Sinners'. "Who decided to drive to see the film in different formats. Who bought popcorn and a drink, booked a sitter and carpooled, and stood in the lobby afterward and talked and made a friend. Who changed their work schedules. Who saw the film in groups."I want to thank you all who watching more than once, who recommended the film to others, both in person and on social media...

Ryan Coogler is expressing his “eternal gratitude” following the successful box office debut of his latest movie, Sinners.

The filmmaker penned an emotional letter to those who went to the theater this past week to watch the film, starring Michael B. Jordan. The horror pic follows twin brothers who return to their hometown to start again, trying to leave their troubled lives behind, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.

“Eternal gratitude. My heart is bursting with it,” Coogler’s letter read. “I want to thank each and every one of you who bought a ticket to see Sinners. Who decided to drive to see the film in different formats. Who bought popcorn and a drink, booked a sitter and carpooled, and stood in the lobby afterward and talked and made a friend. Who changed their work schedules. Who saw the film in groups.

Ryan Coogler’s Sinners has not only glorified the director but also redeemed some big names in the industry. Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy, Warner Bros.’ movie chiefs, were facing a Hollywood firing squad—anonymous leaks, pundit countdowns, and whispers of replacements.

Just weeks ago, their jobs hung by a thread after flops like Joker 2. Yet, with Sinners grossing $48 million and A Minecraft Movie hitting $700 million globally, they have staged a comeback that’s the talk of Tinseltown. Greenlighting Coogler’s Sinners would have cost them their designations, but they are proud they made the right decision.

Warner Bros.’ movie chiefs on giving Sinners‘ rights to Ryan Coogler after 25 years Sinners director Ryan Coogler (image credits: Wikimedia Commons)

Michael De Luca, the ’90s wunderkind behind Boogie Nights and Seven, known for edgy bets, and Pam Abdy, the pragmatic producer who steadied New Line Cinemas. Together, they have spent...

“Sinners” director Ryan Coogler has penned an emotional open letter thanking fans for showing up in droves to see the film in theaters, writing that his heart is “bursting” with “eternal gratitude.”

Coogler’s movie, starring Michael B. Jordan as the Smokestack twins, won the weekend, grossing $48 million domestically and $63 million globally.

The only way they got to that figure, the filmmaker writes, was thanks to the fans who bought a ticket: those “who decided to drive to see the film in different formats. Who bought popcorn and a drink, booked a sitter and carpooled, and stood in the lobby afterwards and talked and made a friend. Who changed their work schedules. Who saw the film in groups. … who watched more than once, who recommended the film to others, both in person and on social media or on your text message chains.”

In the typed letter, Coogler writes about what...

For weeks, it wasn’t a matter of if Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy were getting fired — it was when. The Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group co-chairmen and co-CEOs had been put on executive death watch, the Hollywood equivalent of dead men walking. Anonymous quotes were flying. Pundits were counting down. Their replacements were being openly speculated about — reportedly even interviewed. And then came … a vampire.

The box office success of Sinners — Ryan Coogler’s genre-bending bloodsucker epic — didn’t just deliver a much-needed win for original filmmaking. It may have saved the jobs of the veteran execs who greenlit it. Coming on the heels of A Minecraft Movie’s record-breaking launch, Sinners pulled in $48 million domestically in its opening weekend and won over both critics and audiences, offering what looks a lot like a last-minute reprieve for the embattled duo.

Or is it?

Abdy and De Luca had...

The creepy first teaser for Barbarian Zack Cregger's next horror film, Weapons, has been released online.

Up until details from the full trailer were disclosed following a recent CinemaCon screening, the only information we had been given about the movie is that it was developed as “a multi and inter-related story horror epic that tonally is in the vein of Magnolia, the 1999 actor-crammed showcase from filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson.”

Warner Bros. has also released an official synopsis, but it doesn't really give us much more to go on: "When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance."

In the trailer, we see the children rushing out of their homes at 2:17 am, as a voiceover tells the father of one of the missing kids, Mr. Graff, that he understands his frustration,...

VistaVision is back. Brady Corbet’s “The Brutalist” not only earned Lol Crawley the Best Cinematography Oscar but has sparked a renewed interest in the format — one that is now being further fanned by unconfirmed reports of the 35mm horizontal format also being used in Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another,” Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Bugonia,” Alejandro González Iñárritu’s untitled 2026 film, and Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights.”

The timing is perfect, therefore, for the TCM Classic Film Festival to screen two rare Paramount VistaVision prints of “We’re No Angels” (1955) and “Gunfight at the O.K. Corral” (1957) on April 26 at the Tcl Chinese Theater. What’s more, the movies will be projected with special horizontal projectors, which haven’t been used since the 1950s.

Crawley will introduce “Gunfight,” the Western from director John Sturges (“The Magnificent Seven”), which teams Burt Lancaster as Wyatt Earp and Kirk Douglas as Doc Holliday, and Charlotte Barker,...

Someone gives the Pied Piper a run for his money in today’s teaser trailer for Weapons. The latest film from the director of 2022’s Barbarian remains shrouded in mystery, though new footage from the upcoming horror film offers a few breadcrumbs. Zach Cregger shocked the horror community in 2022 with Barbarian, an experience that’s better if you go into it knowing as little as possible. Barbarian captured the hearts of horror fans with its dank atmosphere, powerful performances, and twisted premise. Can Cregger set cinemas ablaze with his sophomore effort? We’ll find out when the film comes to theaters on August 8.

In Zack Cregger’s Weapons teaser, an unknown interviewer speaks with a troubled father named Mr. Graff about a mysterious phenomenon involving kids disappearing in the middle of the night. With no explanation, kids ran from their homes at roughly 2:17 am. No one forced them or pulled them from safety.

After shifting from his comedy days in The Whitest Kids U’ Know to his horror debut Barbarian, Zach Cregger’s next project has been highly anticipated and highly secretive. Led by Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Alden Ehrenreich, Austin Abrams, Cary Christopher, with Benedict Wong, and Amy Madigan, Weapons took the summer slot previously occupied by Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another, and now WB has unveiled the first teaser.

Here’s the brief synopsis: “When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance.”

Cregger directs from his own screenplay, and also produces alongside Roy Lee, Miri Yoon, J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules, with Michelle Morrissey and Josh Brolin executive producing. The filmmaker’s creative team behind the camera includes director of photography Larkin Seiple, production designer Tom Hammock,...

After industry estimates had the third weekend of “A Minecraft Movie” topping the critically acclaimed “Sinners” at the Easter box office on Saturday morning, the two Warner Bros. films have swapped places atop the box office charts as Ryan Coogler’s horror film is now estimated for a $45.6 million opening weekend.

Should this result hold, “Sinners” will pass the $44.3 million opening of Jordan Peele’s 2022 film “Nope” for the highest opening of an original film since the pandemic. Not only is that highly likely, it wouldn’t be surprising if the final weekend total for “Sinners” is higher than this current estimate given that it is enjoying some of the most spectacular critical and audience buzz given to any film in recent memory.

It starts with a straight A from opening night audiences on CinemaScore, the first given to a horror film since James Cameron’s “Aliens” in 1986. It then...

Your mother wears combat boots in this high-grain poster for the forthcoming Paul Thomas Anderson film, One Battle After Another. Here it is less about the framing, credit-filling negative space, or the blocky stencil-ish typography, or anything else. The central image of a very pregnant woman in flannel and khaki fatigues firing a heavy calibre rifle, with the belt of shells resting on her swollen belly, just dominates everything. The washed earthy greens and ox-blood reds, along with the drab field and cloud cover (which almost obscures the muzzle fire) mutes things to a nearly singular focus on whether one image alone will get you into the nearest art-house theatre. I suppose the reputation of the filmmaker and star-studded cast helps seal the deal, but the...

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Once an occasional big-screen feat steered by the legendary likes of Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, and Paul Thomas Anderson, long takes — aka one-shots or “oners” — are now a staple of prestige episodic TV. From The Bear to True Detective and Mr. Robot, TV producers have been increasingly employing the cinematic technique in service of their small-screen stories, elevating their image and awards potential through dexterously choreographed shots that require a great deal of skill and set-wide coordination.

The Studio: 'There are no shortcuts'

This season, take Apple TV+’s The Studio from creators Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. With episodes shot by one camera in continuous takes, Rogen and Goldberg’s Hollywood satire navigates the all-too-real trials and tribulations of a fictional movie studio’s executives with breathtaking pace, maintained expertly by cinematographer Adam Newport-Berra. “It takes a really committed team of people. There are no shortcuts,” Newport-Berra (whose credits...

Take a look at more footage from the thriller “One Battle After Another”, written, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson (“There Will Be Blood”), starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Regina Hall, Sean Penn, Alana Haim, Teyana Taylor, Wood Harris and Benicio del Toro, releasing September 26, 2025 in theaters:

“…when their evil nemesis resurfaces after 16 years, a band of ex-revolutionaries reunite again…

“…to rescue the daughter of one of their own…”

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Rami Malek decided to "learn from other actors" so he could improvise on the set of 'The Amateur'.The 43-year-old actor stars as CIA cryptographer in the new adaptation of the 1981 novel of the same name by Robert Littell and explained that he was able to find those moments in which he could deviate from the script by analysing the talent that had gone on screen before him. He told ScreenRant: "I found myself just wanting to hold onto that person through the tactile nature of their belongings, and that's what I thought."It separated this character from a lot of other action heroes.""I go back to learning from other actors. I remember being on Paul Thomas Anderson's film 'The Master', and I would watch the great Philip Seymour Hoffman and Joaquin Phoenix and Amy Adams do these things in the moment. I'd never seen...

Leonardo DiCaprio and Teyana Taylor are breaking out the big guns for their new character posters for Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another. The comedic crime thriller doesn’t infiltrate theaters until September 26, but Warner Bros. Pictures wants PTA fans to ride the hype train for as long as possible.

According to The Film Stage, One Battle After Another is a retelling of Thomas Pynchon’s 1990 novel “Vineland,” set in California during the fallout of President Ronald Reagan’s re-election and the political unrest that followed.

In November, industry insider Daniel Richtman posted details about the plot for One Battle After Another. According to Richtman, Regina Hall plays Dl Chastain, a character from the Vineland novel who is a martial arts expert and ninja. “She is the daughter of a military family that moves around the world,” reads the description. “While in Japan, she is approached by a...

Barbarian (watch it Here) writer/director Zach Cregger has assembled a strong cast for his mysterious horror project called Weapons, including Julia Garner (Ozark), Josh Brolin (No Country for Old Men), Alden Ehrenreich (Solo), Benedict Wong (Doctor Strange), Amy Madigan (Antlers), Austin Abrams (Euphoria), June Diane Raphael (Grace and Frankie), and Cary Christopher (Days of Our Lives)… and we’re going to have the chance to see that cast face the horrors Cregger has conjured up when Weapons reaches theatres on August 8th. Four months out from that date, Warner Bros. / New Line Cinema has quietly launched a viral marketing campaign for the film, setting up the website MaybrookMissing.net.

Most details about Weapons are shrouded in mystery. It has been said that it’s “an interrelated, multistory horror epic” that’s tonally in the vein of Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia, and The Hollywood Reporter adds that the story...

Warner Bros has created a website to promote director Zach Cregger’s new horror, Weapons, and hints at a connection to his debut, Barbarian.

Having had its release date moved forward, director Zach Cregger’s next film, Weapons, is now due for release this August. With a date set, it looks as though Warner Bros is quietly beginning the marketing campaign for what sounds like a quite eerie horror thriller. As spotted by World Of Reel, the studio has recently set up a website, titled Maybrook News, which is clearly designed to tease Weapons' premise.

Given the raw look of a pre-Web 2.0 site, Maybrook News currently amounts to two sparse pages, each containing a mock news story. The first describes the case of 17 local children who all spontaneously woke up in their sleepy American town early one morning and vanished.

The second page, found by clicking a link titled, “Underground Prison Discovered in Rental Home,...

Graham denounces her toxic family and begins a new relationship, before discovering her beau’s preteen daughter to be a tiny psychopath in a tutu

For younger readers not well versed in last-century cinema, Heather Graham was one of the hottest ingenues in Hollywood throughout the 1990s; her greatest performance was arguably as Rollergirl in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Boogie Nights. Recently, she’s taken up writer-director duties (she made her debut in 2018 with a comedy called Half Magic) while continuing to star as well, and this sophomore effort impresses with its mildly acidic observations of contemporary mores. There aren’t exactly belly laughs in this tale of single yoga instructor Ann (Graham), but quite a few of zingers and bits that stick the landing nicely thanks to fluent direction and good comic timing from Graham and her excellent supporting cast, which is filled out by cracking actors who might...

“Old habits die hard…” and if there’s one man in Hollywood proving that line truer than ever, it’s Tom Cruise. The actor is 62, but he’s still hanging off airplanes like he’s chasing youth on a deadline. Yes, the trailer for Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning just dropped, teasing Cruise’s latest death-defying feats.

But let’s call a spade a spade—final in Hollywood usually just means show me the money. Cruise has earlier hinted that the emotional weight, the cinematic punch, and maybe even the finality (or not-so-finality) of The Final Reckoning can’t be explained or summed up in a tidy soundbite. But let’s not miss the subtext: Cruise isn’t confirming anything.

Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible – Fallout | Credits: Paramount Pictures

And while he may be flirting with retirement, experts are calling his bluff.

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A couple of weeks back, attendees at CinemaCon got their first insane look at Zach Cregger's star-studded new film Weapons, which is officially scheduled to hit theaters on August 8. Now, the marketing push is beginning in an ominous fashion with the first official teaser image. The dark shot is lit up only by the red lights of an alarm clock reading 2:17, marked with a caption from New Line Cinema saying, "And they never came back." As shown in the footage at the convention, that exact time is of great significance in the world of Cregger's multi-story horror epic, as it marks the moment when all the children in a small town woke up, got out of bed, and made their way outside, never to return to their homes.

Weapons is the director's much-anticipated follow-up to his smash-hit horror debut Barbarian in 2022 and looks to be as twisty as its predecessor.

A couple weeks after making its mark at CinemaCon with footage that was described as being “batshit insane,” Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema have officially kicked off the marketing campaign for director Zach Cregger’s (Barbarian) Weapons with a mysterious image.

This first look teaser image for the upcoming “horror epic” – which has been compared to Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia – is a simple photo of an alarm clock set to 2:17am, which is an important time in the world of Cregger’s Weapons. That’s precisely when every kid in town wakes up, gets out of bed, walks outside in the dark and never comes back home.

And that’s really all we know about Weapons at this time, which will be released by New Line in theaters on August 8. Check out the teaser image below and expect more very soon.

The cast for Cregger’s new...

To sit among the likes of Steven Spielberg, Quentin Tarantino, Paul Thomas Anderson, and Christopher Nolan is a huge honor for any filmmaker. That it’s all for the cause of promoting the use of film is all the better. And that’s just what Ryan Coogler is doing, having most recently gone big on his upcoming movie Sinners, which was shot with both the IMAX Msm 9802 and Udm LensesPanavision Panaflex System 65 Studio. Hopefully that’s not too technical because Ryan Coogler is about to give us the most comprehensive lesson on film stock and aspect ratios that you can get in just 10 minutes. Seriously, you’ll never hear the word “perforations” so much again in your life!

Ryan Coogler recently paired with Kodak to offer a tutorial on the differences between all of the film stocks available as well as the usage of various aspect ratios. After a rundown...

Warner Bros. will always love you and is in the works to remake a romantic, box office ’90s hit. Warner Bros. Pictures will remake the 1992 film “The Bodyguard” starring Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner, the studio’s film chiefs announced in an interview Friday.

“The Bodyguard” starred Costner as a former Secret Service agent as a man who takes a job protecting an R&b singer with a lifestyle far different than what he’s accustomed to and whom is being pursued by a stalker. The film was released at the height of Whitney Houston’s pop stardom and includes some of her classic hits including “I Will Always Love You,” and it also was nominated for two Oscars for Best Original Song. The film made $411 million worldwide, and Warner Bros. has even tried to remake the property before, including most recently in 2011.

Warner Bros. has already attached a director and writer to the project.

Exclusive: If you focus on snarky and largely unsubstantiated reports, you might figure Warner Bros Pictures co-chairman/CEOs Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy would spend this weekend boxing up their belongings. Using a couple flops and risky upcoming films as fodder, several reports with scant backup say their Warner Bros Discovery boss David Zaslav is scouring for replacement candidates (which he denies in a tepid manner). Despite the rough press, De Luca and Abdy will actually spend this weekend same as their counterparts at other studios do: trying to keep an eye on kids while they read scripts, watch dailies and dream up slates for 2026 and beyond.

The overheated reports quieted after A Minecraft Movie did way better than anyone imagined, and quickly joined another surprise blockbuster, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, as top-priority sequels to go with other IP revivals from The Matrix to Practical Magic, Gremlins and Goonies.

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Mark Wahlberg has worked under some of the greatest directors throughout his career. Despite starting with big-budget action movies, he collaborated with filmmakers like Martin Scorsese, David O. Russell, and Paul Thomas Anderson.

Recently, the Boogie Nights actor worked in an action thriller titled Flight Risk, made by the critically acclaimed yet controversial Mel Gibson.

Mark Wahlberg and Mel Gibson in Father Stu | Credit: Columbia Pictures

The latter’s personal life has been marred by many controversies that have even led to his absence from the industry. However, regardless of all that, Wahlberg praised Gibson as one of the greatest directors ever.

Mark Wahlberg spoke highly about Mel Gibson’s filmmaking skills

Mark Wahlberg has previously worked alongside Mel Gibson as a co-star in Daddy’s Home 2 and Father Stu. As The Departed actor worked under Gibson’s direction for the first time, he had nothing but praise for the Lethal Weapon star.

More than two decades ago, Tom Cruise portrayed a role that will immediately make you think of Andrew Tate—yes, the misogynist influencer who recently got into another controversy after allegedly pointing a gun at a woman’s face.

So, the veteran Hollywood star played the supporting role of Frank T.J. Mackey in 1999’s Magnolia, a classic movie helmed by none other than Paul Thomas Anderson. His speech, which reeked of toxic masculinity and misogyny, was a scene that earned him a Best Supporting Actor nomination at the Academy Awards.

Tom Cruise in Magnolia / Credits: New Line Cinema Tom Cruise delivered the most outstanding performance of his career in Magnolia

Tom Cruise has had several roles through the years that defined his career: there’s Dr. Bill Hartford from Eyes Wide Shut, and Vincent from Collateral; there’s Pete Mitchell from Top Gun, and of course, let’s not...

In Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master, the fans were robbed of one Rami Malek monologue that never made it out of the editing room, leaving the actor devastated in the process. But this experience ignited his desire to branch off to other filming sectors, especially in the shoes of a producer, ultimately having the final say in his movie.

The Amateur | Credit: 20th Century Fox

Although a few years back, the Oscar winner felt this jump was a bit far-fetched, one piece of advice from Guillermo del Toro reignited his desire to branch off to the producing gig.

Rami Malek took Guillermo del Toro’s words to heart Guillermo del Toro | Credit: CBS News

In addition to playing its lead, Rami Malek also serves as an executive producer on The Amateur, marking his venture into the realm of producing, a prospect that he had been entertaining since the early 2010s.

Oscar winner Rami Malek is now a full-fledged producer of The Amateur, something he attributes to the cutting room floor of Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master.

Malek had toiled away on a significant monologue only to be greeted with its absence upon finally seeing PTA’s 2012 drama. However, the disappointment incepted the idea of becoming a producer someday so that he could have a voice in the making of such decisions. Since then, he’s accumulated an Emmy via Mr. Robot, an Oscar by way of Bohemian Rhapsody, a notable role in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer and the honor of serving as the villain in the Broccoli family’s final James Bond film, No Time to Die.

The aforementioned accomplishments meant that Malek had attained enough cachet to pursue his dream of producing a film, and that became James Hawes’ The Amateur. The Ken Nolan- and Gary Spinelli...

The stars and director of the upcoming movie “The Amateur” join Faction Talk host Ron Bennington in the SiriusXM studios for a Town Hall special.

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During the Town Hall, Rami Malek, Laurence Fishburne, Caitriona Balfe, Rachel Brosnahan, and filmmaker James Hawes discuss the spy thriller, Rami reveals why he wanted to produce the movie, Rachel recalls the moment she questioned whether she was cut out for acting, and much more.

“I remember doing a scene on ‘The Master’ with Paul Thomas Anderson, and it was a long monologue and I labored over it for so long,” Rami says. “After we were done, I thought about it and thought about it. And of course, I went to see the film and it wasn’t even in the picture. I got a sense at that point...

Thomas Pynchon has revealed his upcoming novel, Shadow Ticket. It marks the critically acclaimed and notoriously camera-shy author’s first book in 12 years.

Penguin Random House announced the novel, its Oct. 7 release date, and its synopsis on Wednesday.

Like Pynchon classics, including Gravity’s Rainbow, Against the Day, and Vineland — which serves as the inspiration for director Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film One Battle After Another — Shadow Ticket is an immersive quasi-historical novel, a postmodern mystery set in the Great Depression era 1930s that jumps continents and will likely...

While Warner Bros. has yet to officially confirm themselves, thanks to a since-deleted WGA filing, reports from test screenings, and clues that can be deduced from the official trailer, Paul Thomas Anderson will be delivering his second Thomas Pynchon adaptation this fall with One Battle After Another. Along with Vineland updated for the modern era, following the director’s Inherent Vice a decade ago, Pynchon fans now have another major reason to celebrate this fall.

Pynchon, the genius whose reclusivity might only be matched by Terrence Malick, will release his first novel since 2013’s Bleeding Edge this October. About 12 days after One Battle After Another hits theaters on September 26, Pynchon’s Shadow Ticket arrives on October 7, Penguin Random House announced early this morning. See below a synopsis for the novel (clocking in at 384 pages) which one can pre-order here.

Milwaukee 1932, the Great Depression going full blast, repeal of Prohibition just around the corner,...

Although it sounds like something that Matt Remick from The Studio might hastily put together to meet quarterly targets, A Minecraft Movie proves why Hollywood chases IP. Not only did the Warner Bros. movie deliver the biggest opening weekend haul since last year's Deadpool & Wolverine, it vastly exceeded expectations to beat another W.B. blockbuster, Barbie. A Minecraft Movie was initially projected to gross around $60 million in its domestic debut, but it ended up making $157 million. This number was subsequently revised to $163 million, putting it ahead of Greta Gerwig's landmark hit.

Barbie debuted in 2023, in a now-infamous clash with Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer. It grossed $162 million in its first three days of release, and over $600 million when all was said and done. Globally, the movie made $1.4 billion, establishing a new franchise for W.B. The studio has had a rough time at the box office in recent months, with...

Brick by brick, Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy are taking a win for this weekend’s monster hit “A Minecraft Movie.”

The co-heads of the Warner Bros. Pictures Group, recently bedeviled by a string of flops and whispers about their futures at the company, addressed the whole of their corporate parent Warner Bros. Discovery in a memo on Monday. The pair claimed victory on behalf of the studio for the record-smashing video game adaptation – which earned nearly $315 million at the worldwide box office in its first outing – a movie co-produced with Legendary Entertainment.

De Luca and Abdy noted that “A Minecraft Movie” represented “the largest domestic opening weekend of 2025, the biggest since July, and Warner Bros.’ largest opening weekend since 2023. This is truly a world-class achievement!”

The execs concluded the memo saying, “This is what happens when we believe in the power of our creativity, each other, and the strength of great storytelling.

Rami Malek is detailing how working with Paul Thomas Anderson on “The Master” inspired him to expand his filmmaking career outside the realm of acting.

Malek, who appeared in the 2012 ensemble film alongside Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jesse Plemons, and Laura Dern, said during SiriusXM’s “Faction Talk” channel town hall that his dismay at a long monologue being cut led him to start producing his own films.

Malek executive produces “The Amateur,” a remake of the 1981 film, and stars as a CIA decoder who is on a mission to avenge the murder of his wife. Malek was accompanied by his co-stars Laurence Fishburne, Rachel Brosnahan, and Caitriona Balfe, plus director James Hawes, during the “Faction Talk” appearance, below.

“I remember doing a scene on ‘The Master’ with Paul Thomas Anderson, and it was a long monologue and I labored over it for so long,” Malek said.

Warner Bros confirmed on Monday morning that A Minecraft Movie opened over the weekend on $163m in North America, a huge result and considerably higher than weekend estimates of $150m that cements its status as the top debut of 2025, the studio’s best since 2023, and the highest-grossing debut by a video game adaptation over the Friday to Sunday period.

Jared Hess’s family feature starring Jack Black, Jason Momoa, Denielle Brooks, and Jennifer Coolidge launched in 4,263 sites and earned $57.2m on Friday, $59.5m on Saturday, and $46.3m on Sunday. Legendary Pictures co-financed 25% of the budget and the film is well...

Warner Bros confirmed on Monday morning that A Minecraft Movie opened over the weekend on $163m in North America, a huge result that cements its status as the top debut of 2025, the studio’s best since 2023, and the highest-grossing debut by a video game adaptation over the Friday to Sunday period.

Jared Hess’s family feature starring Jack Black, Jason Momoa, Denielle Brooks, and Jennifer Coolidge launched in 4,263 sites and earned $57.2m on Friday, $59.5m on Saturday, and $46.3m on Sunday. Legendary Pictures co-financed 25% of the budget and the film is well on its way to profitability after initial estimates...

With a domestic box office year now lagging behind last year’s by 6% (it was -11% as of last Sunday), the motion picture industry needed CinemaCon this week like a pop of Viagra. Here are the takeaways from Las Vegas:

There’s Still A Belief That Theatrical Can Work

We are in a massive funk no doubt at the domestic box office, with the big question is whether we’ll ever get back to 2018 levels, when it grossed $11.9 billion. However, what was clear coming away from the studio-exhibitor love-in at Caesars Palace was that the studios aren’t bailing on theatrical: they delivered the stars, they delivered stunts (we’ll get into that) with a robust lineup of product including Avatar: Fire & Ash, Superman, Jurassic World Rebirth, Ballerina, Lilo & Stich, Mission: Impossible – Final Reckoning to indicate that better days are ahead. In fact, after this weekend’s $135 million+ opening...

Bong Joon Ho, Safdie brothers and Alejandro G. Iñárritu collaborator Darius Khondji may be regarded as one of the most innovative cinematographers of his generation, but he still has a soft spot for celluloid.

Speaking in a masterclass at the Doha Film Institute’s Qumra event over the weekend, Khondji made an appeal to camera makers to revive film models which have not been manufactured since the early 2000s at the latest.

Clarifying his comments to Deadline after the masterclass, Khondji explained: “This is so important. Film cameras are from the 80s. They have not been updated. The camera bodies, the system, the viewing systems… they [directors] are all using old cameras, which is fine, but they’re almost disappearing little by little.”

“People like Panavision or Arri should start investing and putting money into making new film cameras,” he continued. “So many young filmmakers all around the world, everywhere in every country,...