All hail Ghostface. Paramount’s slasher sequel “Scream 7” is officially the highest-grossing installment in the long-running franchise with $176.9 million, overtaking the lifetime hauls of the original 1996 “Scream” ($173 million) and 1997 sequel “Scream 2” ($172 million), not
With the Oscars Sunday night, it’s time to get your viewing plans in order. The 98th Academy Awards will take place on Sunday, March 15, at 4 p.m. PT/7 p.m. ET at the Dolby Theater at Ovation Hollywood in Los Angeles. Conan O’Brien returns for a second year to host the awards
One suspects the dinner table conversation about making “Family Movie” had to go a bit better for Kevin Bacon than for Jack Smith, the B-movie director he plays in this horror movie send-up. But the fear that Bacon has gathered everyone for something indulgent is quickly
Now it can be revealed: “Firefly” is indeed coming back, sorta. Star Nathan Fillion, who had been teasing some sort of revival of the cult hit series — which lasted less than one season, and then returned as a movie — will be an animated show. According to Deadline, which broke
Colleen Hoover is once again proving her box office prowess. Universal’s romantic drama “Reminders of Him,” the author’s latest best-seller to land on the big screen, impressed with $18.2 million from 3,402 North American theaters in its debut. Those ticket sales are notably
Matt Smith and Dan Gedman went to the same high school in Kansas City, but they became best friends when they joined the same fraternity at the University of Kansas. “We both loved movies,” Gedman says. “We went to see ‘Hoop Dreams’ together and there was a great art theater in
“I’ve made many wishes, but none have ever come true.” That line, written by a teenage girl in China’s remote Liangshan region, became the starting point for “Whispers in May,” the hybrid documentary by Emmy-nominated Chinese director Dongnan Chen (“14 Paintings,” “Singing in
Years after the actor and rocker collaborated on a Tenacious D song, "Jack Gray" will come together again on the show's April 4 episode
When Oscar-nominated director Richard Rowley (“Dirty Wars”) first set out to make a documentary about the Russian state-funded private mercenary faction The Wagner Group, he believed he was chronicling a specific phenomenon. As his research progressed, he realized the film was
In the CPH:DOX-debuting doc, Gabriela Pena and Picho García, partners in film work and life, return to the womb, figuratively speaking, to explore Pena’s relationship with her mother and a family history affected by exile, dictatorship and silence.
Rachel Taparjan discusses her debut feature, premiering at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen, trauma-informed filmmaking and why Western media's portrayal of Romanian orphans is a hidden "antagonist" of the doc.
Ask most celebrities what they do to get ready for the Oscars and they’ll tell you something about a visit to the gym, maybe getting a massage or having a healthy breakfast. But not Nicole Kidman. “This is crazy but I will go to church in the morning,” she told me Saturday
Vince Vaughn stars opposite himself in the action comedy “Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice,” an R-rated gangster movie that had SXSW in stitches during its Saturday night world premiere. Out March 27 on Hulu, the film, directed by BenDavid Grabinski, follows mobster Nick (Vaughn),
The former Fox News host tries to get to the bottom of the "American culture collapse" ahead of Sunday's awards show
SNL spoofs medical drama The Pitt , with Styles running a hospital according to the Trump administration official's pseudo-science
In “Hokum,” a new supernatural horror outing from Irish filmmaker Damian McCarthy, an American writer, Ohm Bauman (Adam Scott), finds himself on the verge of finishing his popular book series about a conquistador with a bleak ending. McCarthy opens the film in the desert with
Ahead of Hollywood’s Big Night, “SNL’s” “Weekend Update” featured “conservative commentator” Tucker Carlson, played by Jeremy Culhane, to talk about the “liberal politics influencing the awards too much.” “Why don’t we talk about ‘Sinners?’ That’s right, ‘Sinners,'” Culhane’s
Donald Trump summons the Defense secretary to explain why the U.S. has "won" the war against Iran and why the media should stop worrying about it
“Saturday Night Live” has announced its latest host and musical guest, and it will be the rockin’ duo of Jack Black as host and Jack White as musical guest on April 4. “SNL” kicked off its 51st season in October 2025, with hosts and musical guests including Bad Bunny and Doja
Donald Trump stormed the cold open of “Saturday Night Live” this week as a family attempted to manage rising gas prices on a road trip. The segment in the March 14 episode began with Mikey Day, Ashley Padilla, Marcello Hernández and Sarah Sherman as a family on a road trip
Harry Styles finally clapped back at the extensive criticism aimed at him for queerbaiting during his opening monologue on “Saturday Night Live.” He began the segment reminiscing about his last time hosting the show in 2019 and finishing his most recent tour in 2023. “Back
It’s a bloody cat-and-mouse game of the most extreme kind — a spectacle of sadistic survivalism gone mad, all staged with a logistically brutal joy.
The catchy premise motoring “Sender,” a story about a harried woman who moves into a rental home and quickly becomes inundated with packages she didn’t order, transforms beyond its simple, straightforward hook. Writer-director Russell Goldman re-fashions the puzzle box
Tom Quinn's indie outfit — home of last year's surprise best picture winner 'Anora' - is back at the Oscars this year with a fleet of non-English-language films six years after Neon and Bong Joon Ho's 'Parasite' victory.
Between exploring new interests, engaging with new styles and making new friends, our young years are a searching pursuit of identity, and thus one of cinema’s enduring topics. That quest is very much at the heart of director Katie Aselton’s lovely coming-of-age drama “Their
THR exclusively reported that the screenwriter, who was accused of sexual misconduct from 2017 to 2019, was tapped by the studio to work on a treatment for a feature adaptation of the Hasbro toy brand in February.
In 2005, a San Jose woman found a human finger in her Wendy’s chili. Well, she claimed to. When it was discovered that she planted the finger in the bowl herself for financial gain, she was sentenced to nine years in prison for the scam that cost the fast-food chain millions.
Paul Rudd and Nick Jonas rocked SXSW with “Power Ballad,” the latest music-themed comedy film from “Once” and “Sing Street” director John Carney. The movie follows Rick Power (Rudd), a wedding band singer who stumbles into a late-night jam session with former boy band star
A documentary about citizen journalism in the digital age, Jennifer Holness and Sidney Fussell’s “#WhileBlack” uses, as its foundation, stories of police violence from the last decade — namely, the murders of Black civilians Philando Castle and George Floyd — but turns them
What if an American ballerina quintet was dropped into a mob flick in Central Europe? Director Vicky Jewson answers this question in “Pretty Lethal,” at first with aplomb, but eventually with all the follies this setting implies, and few of the imaginative strengths. The film
Paramount Pictures and Hasbro are not moving forward with a take on a new G.I. Joe movie from screenwriter Max Landis, multiple sources told Variety. Landis, son of “Trading Places” director John Landis, was engaged by the studio and the toymaker earlier this year for a script
While society’s unrealistic expectations for women and the impossible physical standards we are held up against are often discussed and critiqued, the similar pressures men face aren’t as widely talked about in culture. That’s understandable, since the misogynistic toxicity
Jamie Lee Curtis didn’t know she was about to take on three more “Halloween” movies when she said yes to David Gordon Green’s 2018 film, the sequel to her 1978 film. During a SXSW panel titled, “If Not Now, When, if Not Me, Who? Pivoting and Manifesting,” Curtis opened up about
FCC chairman Brendan Carr wrote on X Saturday that broadcasters need to “correct course” or risk losing their broadcasting licenses, citing Donald Trump’s recent displeasure with the mainstream media’s coverage of the Iran War. “Broadcasters that are running hoaxes and news
