LOS ANGELES Last week Diane Warren scored her latest Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song as composer and lyricist of “Dear Me” for the documentary Diane Warren: Relentless (MasterClass/Greenwich Entertainment). This marks the ninth consecutive year that Warren has been a Best Original Song nominee. She now has a career total of 17 nominations. While Warren Read More 

PARK CITY, Utah (AP) The last Sundance Film Festival in Utah is drawing to a close this weekend. The Park City gathering was a wistful farewell to the place Robert Redford’s brainchild has called home for over 40 years and launched so many careers. Although the festival isn’t ending — it will start anew in Boulder, Colorado, in 2027 Read More 

PARK CITY, Utah (AP) Filmmakers and actors whose careers were shaped by Robert Redford and the Sundance Institute he founded reflected on his legacy as the godfather of independent cinema at a star-studded gala Friday night during the first Sundance Film Festival since his death. The 2026 festival — its last in Utah, before relocating to Boulder, Colorado — Read More 

MEXICO CITY (AP) “Sirāt,” Spain’s latest Oscar contender, follows Luis as he treks through the North African desert with his 12-year-old son and his dog to find his missing daughter. Blending the grit of “Mad Max” with the underground rave culture of the 1990s, the film is set against the backdrop of a hypothetical World War III. It Read More 

LOS ANGELES American Cinema Editors (ACE) has unveiled the nominations for the 76th Annual ACE Eddie Awards, recognizing outstanding editing in 14 categories of film, television, documentaries, and for the first time in ACE Eddies history, shorts and digital content. The winners will be announced during the ACE Eddie Awards on Friday, February 27, at UCLA’s Royce Read More 

LONDON Thomas Anderson’s politically charged action thriller “One Battle After Another” leads the race for the British Academy Film Awards, securing 14 nominations Tuesday including acting nods for five of its cast. Ryan Coogler’s blues-steeped vampire epic “Sinners” is close behind with 13 nominations for Britain’s equivalent of the Oscars, while Chloé Zhao’s Shakespearean family tragedy Read More 

LOS ANGELES & NEW YORK The Writers Guild Awards nominations are set across screenwriting, TV, streaming, news, radio/audio and promotional writing categories, honoring the best work during 2025. Up for best original feature screenplay are Black Bag, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, Marty Supreme, Sinners and Weapons. Nominated for best adapted screenplay are Bugonia, Frankenstein, Hamnet, One Battle Read More 

PARK CITY, Utah (AP) Antoine Fuqua always knew Nelson Mandela as an icon. But he had no idea he was such a rebel too, and a literal fighter. He remembered walking into a restaurant and seeing a picture of a man in a boxing stance and asked why they had a poster of Muhammad Ali on the wall. They Read More 

PARK CITY, Utah (AP) Jay Duplass had come to a turning point in his life and career. After years of mining personal stories, add those of his family, he’d decided that he was ready to tell other people’s stories. That’s when Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon approached him with a special project that fit the bill, Adam Cayton-Holland’s Read More 

PARK CITY, Utah (AP) Charli xcx plays herself in “The Moment,” a meta mockumentary about the end of Brat summer and grappling with otherworldly success. “I was just really interested in telling this story about expectation,” Charli xcx told The Associated Press the day after “The Moment” debuted at the Sundance Film Festival. The 33-year-old pop star from Essex Read More 

PARK CITY, Utah (AP) Sundance movies might have a reputation for leaning into serious dramas, but this year the independent film festival has a slew of comedies on the slate, from quirky documentaries to more raucous fare. One of the latter comes from filmmaker Macon Blair, a Sundance veteran and grand jury prize winner for “I Don’t Feel at Read More 

PARK CITY, Utah (AP) The comedy streak at the Sundance Film Festival continued Saturday with the world premieres of the art world satire “The Gallerist,” with Natalie Portman, and Oliva Wilde’s “The Invite,” a sharp look a crumbling marriage. “The Invite,” which debuted at the Eccles Theater, marks Wilde’s third time behind the camera and first since “Don’t Worry Read More 

LOS ANGELES & NEW YORK Darren Walker will join global premium content and management company Anonymous Content as president and CEO, effective February 17. He will be based in the company’s Los Angeles and New York offices, bringing decades of experience leading complex, culture-defining businesses and institutions at global scale. Walker will oversee all aspects of the company, working closely Read More 

WASHINGTON(AP) As if they’d leave “Clueless” off the list. Cher Horowitz fans, rejoice: Amy Heckerling’s 1995 teen comedy is one of 25 classic movies chosen this year by the Library of Congress for its National Film Registry. And if “Clueless” wasn’t your jam — whatever! — maybe this will send you deep into your dreams: Christopher Read More 

LOS ANGELES The authors and screenwriters behind the film “One Battle After Another” and the series “Death by Lightning” are the recipients of the 38th-annual USC Libraries Scripter Awards. The annual award honors the year’s most accomplished adaptation of the written word for the screen, including both film and television. This year’s winners were announced at the Read More 

DETROIT Stagwell (NASDAQ: STGW) agencies Doner and Colle McVoy have joined forces to form DonerColle Partners. Unifying operations across more than 500 employees in Detroit, Minneapolis and Chicago, Doner and Colle McVoy will maintain their unique identities and client relationships under DonerColle Partners. Structured as a strategic alliance rather than a merger, the arrangement preserves the Read More 

LOS ANGELES RSA Films has added director Rachel McDonald to its roster for commercial representation in the U.S. and U.K. Acclaimed for performances which elicit empathy across both narrative and documentary film, McDonald has directed commercial campaigns for BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Ikea, Peloton, Gatorade, Volkswagen, Microsoft, HP, Cadillac, Facebook and many others. She is currently directing her first Read More 

LOS ANGELES & LONDON Media, management and production company Anonymous Content has signed Senegal-born director, writer, cinematographer, and photographer Samba for U.S. and U.K. representation of commercials and music videos. This marks his first representation in the American and U.K. markets. Inspired by the traditions of Senegalese storytelling and shaped by contemporary cinema and digital culture, Samba explores the Read More 

LOS ANGELES Arts & Sciences has signed director Alex Russell to its roster of talent. Recognized for his work across film and television, Russell now brings his cinematic sensibilities to the world of advertising.  His debut feature, Lurker, premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival to critical acclaim and was later acquired by MUBI. The psychological thriller Read More 

LOS ANGELES Commercial production company A Fresh Face in Hell has signed Zia Mohajerjasbi, a veteran spot and feature film director and cinematographer. Coming from a family of Iranian immigrants, Mohajerjasbi strives to tell the stories of other immigrant communities. Among his directorial credits is the feature titled Know Your Place, which was set within the Eritrean-American Read More 

LOS ANGELES GREATERGOOD has brought AI production director ctrl_cd, aka Melita Radocaj, aboard its roster for her first U.S. commercial representation. The move marks a new chapter for the company’s evolving creative offering as ctrl_cd (pronounced “control CD”) will lead GREATER INTELLIGENCE, a dedicated banner inside GREATERGOOD built for design-led, AI-enabled production. Equal parts filmmaker, technologist, and Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) In all the dystopian visions of the future that the movies have trotted out over the last few decades, the one that sticks the most, surprisingly, is “WALL-E.” That’s not just because of the chastening sight of an over-polluted Earth or those sedentary humans glued to their screens. It’s because those quite plausible possibilities mean Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) Jason Statham lives in a Scottish lighthouse when we meet him in “Shelter” and that’s a pretty good analogy for Statham’s usual movie role these days: Tall, cold, alone, tough, quiet and only intermittently illuminating. Statham may appear to be just a grim-faced lighthouse keeper, but he’s really a hero laying low, like he was Read More 

LOS ANGELES The Visual Effects Society (VES), has announced its new Board of Directors officers for 2026. Together, these five officers comprise the VES Board Executive Committee: Chair: Kim Davidson (Toronto, Canada) 1st Vice Chair: David H. Tanaka, VES (San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.) 2nd Vice Chair: Brooke Lyndon-Stanford (London, England) Secretary: Frederick Lissau (Los Angeles, U.S.) Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) With a winter storm blanketing a large swath of the country, Hollywood had its quietest weekend of the year at the box office. The Amazon MGM sci-fi thriller “Mercy” dethroned “Avatar: Fire and Ash” from the No. 1 spot with $11.2 million in North America, according to studio estimates Sunday. Some 250 theaters were forced Read More 

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