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Netflix Adds Cesc Gay-Directed Drama ’53 Domingos’ to Spanish Film Slate

The 'Truman' helmer will direct this adaptation of his own award-winning theater play.

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Leonardo DiCaprio Had “a Lot of Great Ideas” for Lex Luthor in ‘Batman v Superman’

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice‘s Lex Luthor could have looked very different. Director Zack Snyder stopped by the Happy Sad Confused podcast to promote the upcoming second part of his Rebel Moon films for Netflix. Over the course of the conversation, host Josh Horowitz asked him if there was any truth to the fact […]

Critic’s Notebook: The Compellingly Packaged Cowardice of ‘Civil War’

Despite its sheen of boldness, Alex Garland’s film cowers in fear from the divisions that surely inspired the movie in the first place, missing an opportunity to say something important.

Disney Publicist Marshall Weinbaum Departs for Netflix’s Awards Team (Exclusive)

Marshall Weinbaum, an admired publicist who has been a principal intermediary between The Walt Disney Studios and the press for the past 17 years, including on virtually every Disney Animation and Pixar project, is leaving the Mouse House to join Netflix’s awards team, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. He will be a manager of awards […]

Quentin Tarantino’s 10-Movie Retirement Plan Has Some Flaws

For several years now, Quentin Tarantino has been adamant that he plans to make a single 10th and final movie — which will no longer be The Movie Critic. Some of his fans were relieved when this news broke yesterday. The Movie Critic originally sounded like a nostalgic character study (“more epilogue-y,” as Tarantino once […]

Barbara O. Jones, ‘Daughters of the Dust’ Actress, Dies at 82

Barbara O. Jones, the admired actress who emerged from the L.A. Rebellion movement of Black filmmakers at UCLA in the 1970s to star in Haile Gerima’s Bush Mama and Julie Dash’s Daughters of the Dust, has died. She was 82. Jones died Tuesday at her home in Dayton, Ohio, her brother, Raymond Minor, told The […]

‘Abigail’ Review: Dan Stevens and Melissa Barrera in an Exuberantly Over-the-Top Vampire Horror-Comedy

Criminals get more than they bargained for when they kidnap the daughter of an underworld figure in the new Radio Silence film featuring Alisha Weir in the title role.

‘Transformers One’: Paramount Reveals New Release Date as Official Trailer Launches From Space

Paramount and Hasbro’s animated Transformers One is pushing back its release in theaters by one week in order to take advantage of Imax screens and to provide some breathing room from the competition. The film will now open Sept. 20, 2024, instead of Sept. 13. That gives it two weeks of distance from Sony’s Beetlejuice. […]

Roger Dicken, VFX Artist on ‘Alien’ and ‘When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth,’ Dies at 84

Roger Dicken, the Oscar-nominated British special effects artist, sculptor and model maker known for his work on Alien and When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth, has died. He was 84. Dicken died Feb. 18 at his home in North Wales, Mick Cooper, a friend of more than five decades, told The Hollywood Reporter. On his first […]

New Rom-Com Wave Is Big on Imagining Real-Life Offline

I’m not embarrassed to admit that I consume all kinds of rom-coms: the good, the not-so-good, the somewhere-in-between. (I draw the line at anything that stars Ashton Kutcher. Hollywood: Please put Pedro Pascal on your rom-com leading-man shortlists. Many thanks in advance.) Anyway, I’ve sensed a shift of late. A change in the vibe. A […]

How the Beijing Film Fest Played a Crucial Role in the Career of Acclaimed Director Gu Xiaogang

Gu Xiaogang knows firsthand the impact that international film festivals can have. Gu turned to the Beijing International Film Festival back in 2018 in an effort to get his breakthrough feature, Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains, made. He took his film to BJIFF’s project market and he walked away with the funds he needed after […]

Gwyneth Paltrow Says Fans Would Be “Shocked” to Learn Which Movies She Passed on to Raise Kids

Gwyneth Paltrow is opening up about the sacrifices she’s made as a mother of two children. During an interview for Today With Hoda & Jenna, Zanna Roberts Rassi mentioned that Paltrow’s mother, actress Blythe Danner, “gave up some incredible roles” to raise her family, and was wondering if the actress-turned-wellness guru has done the same. […]

Director John Ford Is Focus of Next TCM ‘Plot Thickens’ Podcast

John Ford, the iconic director known for such films as Stagecoach, The Grapes of Wrath, My Darling Clementine, The Searchers and much more, will be the subject of the next edition of the TCM podcast The Plot Thickens, it was announced Wednesday. “Decoding John Ford,” hosted by Ben Mankiewicz, premieres June 6. The fifth season […]