VENICE, Italy (AP) Kathryn Bigelow is exceedingly calm when she talks about nuclear annihilation. That’s not to say she’s nonchalant about the topic— much the opposite. The Oscar-winning filmmaker discusses it with grave, matter-of-fact seriousness. But she also doesn’t need to dress up the threat in hyperbole, whether in conversation or in her new film “A House of Read More 

NEW YORK Frankenstein (Netflix), written and directed by Oscar®-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro and starring Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi, will receive The Gotham Vanguard Tribute at the 35th Annual Gotham Film Awards Ceremony, taking place on Monday, December 1, 2025 at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City. With this tribute, The Gotham will honor the Read More 

TORONTO (AP) The lengths writer-director Derek Cianfrance goes to create immersive environments for his actors has grown into a kind of legend. After making the much-improvised doomed romance of “Blue Valentine” (2010), Michelle Williams said she would have to remind herself that she was never, actually, married to Ryan Gosling. Cianfrance’s last feature, 2016’s “The Light Between Read More 

VENICE, Italy (AP) Andrew Garfield would like everyone to know about his gesticulating. Not in his performance as a Yale philosophy professor accused of sexual misconduct in “After the Hunt,” but while discussing an actor’s responsibility to comment on the work they’re putting out in the world. It’s a blue-sky day outside the luxurious Hotel Cipriani and Garfield Read More 

LONDON (AP) Gary Oldman is back on screens as the caustic Jackson Lamb for the fifth season of misfit spy thriller “Slow Horses,” as the critically acclaimed adaptation reaches Mick Herron’s book “London Rules.” This week, the morning after he was invested with a knighthood by the Prince of Wales for services to drama on stage and Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) Bari Weiss has made a name for herself as an unflinching critic of mainstream news outlets. Now, she’s set to run one. The announcement this week of Weiss as the new editor-in-chief of CBS News has been met with a response the 41-year-old has grown accustomed to in her years as a polarizing voice in Read More 

BERLIN At its awards ceremony on Thursday (10/9) in Berlin, the CICLOPE Festival–wrapping three days of inspiring conversations and networking–honored six Grand Prix winners, and presented 47 Gold, 56 Silver and 76 Bronze trophies. This year’s winners were selected by an expert panel of top industry talent, comprised of 200 jurors from around the world. They Read More 

LAS VEGAS The London International Awards (LIA) competition has released the full list of winners and finalists after nine days of rigorous on-site judging by leading industry players. Barbara Levy, LIA’s president and founder, stated, “It has been more than a week of intense debates and discussions among the most creative people in the world. From these Read More 

LOS ANGELES The Visual Effects Society (VES) has announced the honorees for its upcoming VES Honors Celebration, taking place November 7th at Sony Pictures Imageworks’ new facility in Los Angeles. Selected by the VES Board of Directors from member-submitted candidates, these distinguished honorees have profoundly impacted visual effects, shaped its legacy, and continue to inspire future generations Read More 

NEW YORK The DOC NYC festival–celebrating its 16th edition in-person November 12-20 at IFC Center, SVA Theatre, and Village East by Angelika and continuing online through November 30–has unveiled its Main Slate lineup. The 2025 festival presents more than 115 feature-length documentaries (with Short List, Winner’s Circle, and Selects Encore sections still to be announced), including 30 Read More 

LOS ANGELES Casting Society (CSA) has unveiled the television, theater, commercials, short film and short form series nominees for the 41st Artios Awards, which honor the contribution of casting professionals in these categories. This year, a new category, casting for London Theatre, has been added. The winners will be announced at galas at The Beverly Hilton in Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) The part of Luis Molina, the gay prisoner with a penchant for Hollywood’s Golden Age at the heart of “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” has been good to actors over the years. It’s what got William Hurt his first best actor Oscar, for Héctor Babenco’s 1985 film adaptation. Several years later, Brent Carver would win Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) “Tron: Ares” may have the tagline “No Going Back” but Disney doesn’t like to leave money on the table. So here we are, going back with a third entry in a cult franchise that’s somewhat trapped between the human and digital worlds. Ride-or-die Tron-iacs are going to need a few things to be happy — Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) How DO you juggle it all? Mothers tend to get asked that question — often in a chipper tone, expecting a chipper response. Rarely do those asking stick around to hear that perhaps those juggling balls are hovering precariously, about to crash to the ground. One senses that Linda, the overburdened mom embodied by a Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) In Kathryn Bigelow’s “A House of Dynamite,” when a mysterious missile launches from the Pacific and begins bearing down on the Midwest, the biggest threat initially at the White House is a pile of paper work. The ho-hum response that kicks off Bigelow’s firecracker of a film is quickly shattered. But that transition from routine Read More 

LOS ANGELES (AP) Down on his luck divorced dad who resorts to crime is becoming familiar territory for Channing Tatum as an actor. In “Logan Lucky” his mark was the Charlotte Motor Speedway. In “Roofman,”in theaters Friday, it’s McDonald’s. In both films, there’s a young daughter he wants to impress. The big, heartbreaking difference is that “Roofman” isn’t Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) It’s not so often that the font of a movie’s opening credits is, itself, a provocation. But in Luca Guadagnino ‘s muddled but darkly absorbing “After the Hunt,” the white Windsor Light Condensed lettering against a black background, with cast in alphabetical order and soft jazz playing, is immediately recognizable as the style of a Read More 

LOS ANGELES Academy Award®–winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro will receive the Cinema Audio Society Filmmaker Award at the 62nd Annual CAS Awards, Saturday, March 7, 2026. “The CAS Filmmaker Award recognizes directors who understand the critical role that sound plays in film and television, and Guillermo embodies that appreciation at the highest level,” said CAS president Peter Read More 

VENICE, Calif. Creative film company and certified B Corporation Farm League has brought director Nick Sokoloff aboard its roster for North American representation spanning commercials and branded content. Sokoloff often blends documentary elements with stylized cinematography to create emotionally driven, visually distinct pieces. His recent projects focus on applying his humanistic lens to narrative stories set in Read More 

LOS ANGELES Director E.J. McLeavey-Fisher has joined the talent roster at Good Times for U.S. commercial representation. McLeavey-Fisher’s commercial work includes campaigns for brands like AT&T, The Farmer’s Dog, Coca-Cola, and Samsung, in collaboration with agencies such as BBDO, Ogilvy, and TBWAChiatDay. His films, including his short titled The Guy: The Brian Donahue Story, have garnered multiple Read More 

LONDON Leo UK has strengthened its creative department with an infusion of talent that brings fresh skillsets to the agency. Matt Jones and Abi Stephenson join from BETC Paris, bringing with them a portfolio of culturally ambitious, internationally awarded campaigns. Their recent work includes Deezer’s “Dance Fight,” a cinematic film rooted in Gen Z dance culture, Read More 

NEW YORK Grammy, Tony, and Emmy Award-winning Barry Manilow and four-time Emmy, Golden Globe winning actress/author and activist Marlo Thomas, who was also awarded the Medal of Freedom by President Obama, will be presented with the American Advertising Federation’s 2026 President’s Award. The announcement was made by AAF this morning to help kickoff Advertising Week New York Read More 

LONDON Catherine Peacock and Christopher Keatinge have launched 05:37 Brand Studio. Peacock and Keatinge previously worked together for almost seven years at Uncommon Creative Studio, joining in its earliest days, and leaving as global chief marketing officer and executive creative director respectively. Named after the moment its founding idea struck, 05:37 will catalog all of its Read More 

WASHINGTON (AP) The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to protect Google from a year-old order requiring a major makeover of its Android app store that’s designed to unleash more competition against a system that a jury declared an illegal monopoly. The rebuff delivered in a one-sentence decision by the Supreme Court means Google will soon have Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) A Biblical series reaching No. 1 on a major streaming service may seem as unlikely as a shepherd boy killing a 9-foot giant with a single stone from his slingshot. But Michael Iskander demonstrates that believing in something can turn the seemingly impossible into reality. “The story of David is pretty wild, and I think Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) To make bread, you need flour, water, salt and, usually, a rising agent, like yeast. To break bread, CNN has enlisted someone special — Tony Shalhoub. The Broadway and “Monk” star enters the crowded field of celebrity travel hosts this fall with “Breaking Bread,” which follows the actor across the globe as he explores cultures Read More 

NEW YORK (AP) This weekend’s box office belonged to two undeniable draws: Taylor Swift and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. It might have looked like a heavyweight matchup, but Swift’s devoted fanbase once again proved unstoppable with her film “The Official Release Party of a Show Girl,” which debuted at No. 1 with $33 million in North America, according Read More 

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