The creativity is endless. The brand tie-ins are exquisite. The technology is surprisingly advanced. (Some of them even light up!) The promotional popcorn receptacles on this list aren't your typical plastic buckets with the movie poster stretched awkwardly around the outside. These are hilariously and cleverly-shaped collectible items that will have you saying, "Huh, I could see myself spending $44.99 for one of those." Yes, they're that powerful.
Driver goes on to say during the interview that he was baffled as to why anyone wouldn't want to see a Soderbergh Star Wars movie. We wanted to be economical with it, and do it for less than most but in the same spirit of what those movies are, which is handmade and character-driven, he says. Empire Strikes Back being, in my opinion, the standard of what those movies were. But he is, to me, one of my favourite directors of all time.
He cites the example of "Communion: A True Story" (1987), the bestseller in which horror author Whitley Strieber describes his alleged alien encounters the book was later was later made into a film starring Christopher Walken. "The book's cover featured the now-iconic grey face the kind seen by people who've claimed to have had abduction experiences or first contact events [with aliens]," he tells DW.
Attendees were required to arrive bald or be willing to shave their heads before entering the theater. And honestly, I can't blame them for taking the deal. A free movie and a free haircut? In this economy!? You have to take advantage. Guests with hair still on their heads were ushered to the red carpet, wrapped in a Bugonia-branded cape, and had their hair shaved off on camera. Some proudly held signs reading "BALD FOR BUGONIA." You love to see the bald solidarity!
"I'm told this is it. They're really serious this time," said Kent Sanderson, CEO of Bleecker Street, in a statement. "While this is ostensibly the end, how fitting is it that this actual-probable-send-off is shot, historically, at Stonehenge, the mysterious landmark that we now know must have been erected thousands of years ago purely to serve as the setting for the last act of Spinal Tap."
I mean, Texas Chainsaw, the shining yeah, it's boring, but yeah. No, it works every time. Oh a third. Well, I'm going to do mine. I'm going to think of my third. You can think of a third. Demon lover diary. Oh, Wow. From 1980, 1981. Like, truly one of the scariest movies I've ever seen. Because we and the audience are led to believe this is a found footage horror movie.
"When we talk of this as a place of destruction, we turn these people into the other." This was how Jay Weissberg, the artistic director of the Pordenone Silent Film Festival, held annually in Northern Italy, introduced one of the more emotional film experiences I've had this year. The occasion was a screening of Palestine: A Revised Narrative, built entirely around silent films from Palestine shot by the British army during World War I.
From our first meeting with Theo, we were instantly impressed with his overall marketing experience in both exhibition and advocacy. His creative acumen and strategic insight, not to mention his passion and love of the movies, were obvious and we are thrilled to see him apply those skills to advance this amazing industry forward,
Jane Rosenthal has been named co-chair of the board of Tribeca Enterprises as the company behind one of the world's leading film festivals undergoes a leadership shift. As part of the change, Rebecca Glashow, a veteran tech and media executive, will step into Rosenthal's former role as the new CEO of the media and entertainment company that owns and operates the Tribeca Festival.
Netflix seems to agree, because ahead of its next big movie franchise launching next year, the streamer has sourced a practical effects icon to help create the many creatures involved. According to , Greta Gerwig's upcoming Chronicles of Narniamovie has recruited creature effects artist Neal Scanlan to help with "animatronics, puppetry, and prosthetics." Scalan is a longtime SFX industry veteran, but he's perhaps best known for his work within the Star Wars franchise.
This is a damaged Weyland-Yutani synth, further strengthening the world-building link between the Alien and Predator franchises. (And by damaged, we mean missing her entire lower body.) Both Fanning and Schuster-Koloamatangi actually have dual roles. Fanning also portrays Tessa, another synth who is an antagonist toward our two protagonists. In addition to the outcast runt Predator, Dek, Schuster-Koloamatangi also plays his own father, Njohur-it's not like anyone would recognize him under all those prosthetics.
Thrill-O-Ween is here! Kickoff the fall season with a spooktacular experience designed for you to enjoy an afternoon of safe Halloween fun. Thrive City will be filled with themed activities for all ages including a special screening of The Nightmare Before Christmas. Stay alert because you never know who or what may pop out! Don't forget, best dressed wins the costume contest!
I have absolutely ZERO judgment toward anyone using Ozempic or other similar medications. Zero. Just like with plastic surgery or any other personal decision about your body, I believe it's yours to make. If a shot helps you feel healthier and more comfortable in your body, I fully support that. These drugs can be life-changing, and for many people, they are truly transformative.
In Kathryn Bigelow's new movie, A House of Dynamite, the clock is ticking. The film's fictional president of the United States has less than 20 minutes and very little information to decide whether or not to retaliate against a nuclear missile, launched at the United States, from an unknown source. The story is, of course, fiction, but as with Bigelow's other war movies, it feels disturbingly plausible.
If you wish to become a cinephile worthy of the title, you must first pledge never to refuse to watch a film for any of the following reasons. First, that it is in a different language and subtitled; second, that it is too old; third, that it is too slow; fourth, that it is too long; and fifth, that it has no "story." These categories of refusal are what Lewis Bond, co-creator of the YouTube channel The House of Tabula, calls
The director's voice breaks the fourth wall with as much subtlety as a character waking up to say that everything was merely a dream. The moment is jarring, and implies that everything that happened on-screen until then shouldn't be taken too seriously. Some critics have interpreted the ending as a glib last-minute twist that threatens to neutralize the story's potency and dismisses the seriousness of the movie's premise.
The concert film will be divided into two DVDs or Blu-Rays and two CDs: The first disc will feature the entirety of the Depeche Mode: M film, complete with archival clips and non-concert footage of the band and Mexican culture at large, with the second disc being the just footage of their Mexico City concerts in setlist order, Memento Mori: Mexico City.
In 2024, Deadline reported that Universal Pictures won the rights to adapt Spears's memoir2023's The Woman in Meinto a feature film. Who would helm the story? None other than filmmaker Jon M. Chu, who is no stranger to the music world. He directed the concert documentary Justin Bieber: Never Say Never in his early days, the mega-hit Wicked adaptation last year, and its follow-up Wicked: For Good, debuting November 21.
It was one of the three or four most highly anticipated horror films going into 2025. Yet, it also turned out to be the most disappointing one we saw this year. It's pretty much rubbish from start to finish, yet the last half is such an uninspired convoluted mess of Apocalypse Now and Walking Dead (with Ralph Fiennes coming in somewhere between Daryl Dixon and Marlon Brando) that you'll be sorry for watching it.
The director is not only releasing Wicked: For Good later this year, but he's also attached to projects ranging from Hot Wheels to a Britney Spears biopic, Split Fiction with Sydney Sweeney, Dr. Seuss's Oh, the Places You'll Go!, and an adaptation of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Amidst all the madness, Chu is also still working on one of his other highly-anticipated projects: the sequel to Crazy Rich Asians.
If you're programming your own little horror film festival in the run-up to Halloween, and Tobe Hooper's stone-cold classic The Texas Chain Saw Massacre from 1974 is part of the lineup, then this would make a handy follow-up for a night's viewing. It's not a making-of movie, although there are snippets of insight into the production's process; nor is it a meta-commentary at the rather sprawling level of Room 237, the delirious doc about The Shining.
