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The Roots of Madness. The title of the new documentary from Swiss filmmaker Edgar Hagen (Who Are We?, Journey to the Safest Place on Earth) is provocative. Its goal is ambitious. After all, amid the heated political debate about migration and rise of xenophobia across Europe and other parts of the world over the past decade-plus, the film looks to answer the question: Why do so many people become refugees? For his cinematic exploration, Hagen tries to understand “the long-term consequences of Western intervention in the Middle East,” as a synopsis highlights. In his investigation, the filmmaker accompanies veteran German journalist Ulrich…

Sorda (Deaf), Eva Libertad’s Spanish drama about a deaf woman expecting a child with her hearing partner, has won the LUX Audience Award from the European Parliament, beating out Joachim Trier’s Oscar champion Sentimental Value and Jafar Panahi’s Cannes winner It Was Just an Accident. Also nominated for the LUX Audience Award were Brendan Canty’s Irish drama Christy, and the French feature Love Me Tender from director Anna Cazenave Cambet. The LUX award, voted on by the European public and sitting members of the European Parliament, was awarded Tuesday night in Brussels. “Director Eva Libertad gives us an unforgettable window…

The official Cannes Film Festival feels a bit low-wattage in terms of star power this year, but the bold-faced names are turning out in force for the 58th edition of festival sidebar Directors’ Fortnight, which unveiled its 2026 lineup Tuesday. Across its 19-feature selection, the Fortnight leans heavily into marquee names, including Barry Keoghan, Riley Keough and Harry Melling, stars of opening night feature Butterfly Jam, the English-language debut of acclaimed Russian director Kantemir Balagov (Beanpole). The long-awaited feature, which some had tipped as a possible Cannes Competition entry, is a coming-of-age tale set inside New Jersey’s Circassian community. Ayo…

Joseph Zada as Haymitch Abernathy must battle to save his life at the Second Quarter Quell in a new trailer for Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping franchise instalment from Lionsgate, which dropped on Monday. “I’m sick of living in fear. Just surviving. We’re not animals to be killed for their entertainment,” Abernathy declares at one point in the teaser (below). The book Sunrise on the Reaping takes place in Panem on the morning of the reaping for the 50th Hunger Games, 24 years before the events in The Hunger Games, the first novel that published in 2008.  But Ralph Fiennes as President…

[This story contains light spoilers for Outcome.] Jonah Hill has lived many lives since audiences first got to know him in comedies like Knocked Up and The Forty Year Old Virgin. Just consider his cameo on last week’s Saturday Night Live, in which he appeared during the opening monologue to welcome Jack Black into the Five Timer’s Club along side Tina Fey, Candice Bergen and others. Hill’s own five hosting gigs on SNL are a study in the many swerves his career has taken. When he first hosted in 2008, he was fresh off co-starring in the raunchy teen comedy…

James Cameron, one of the industry’s leading champions of the theatrical experience, leads CinemaCon’s roster of honorees for the Big Screen Achievement Awards. The ceremony — a starry gathering that closes the four day gathering of exhibition insiders presented by Cinema United — is set to take place inside the Dolby Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas on April 16. It will see trophies going to James Cameron (Cinema United Spirit of the Industry), Queen Latifah (Cultural Impact in Film), LaKeith Stanfield (Star of the Year), Zoey Deutch (Vanguard Award) Adam Scott (Award of Excellence in Acting), Noah Centineo…

One of the country’s leading arts academies wants AI to be a key part of its offerings.NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts is cutting a deal with Runway AI that would make AI credits and training available for free to students across a number of programs, including the Hyper Cinema Lab, a university-wide initiative run out of the film school. The tech-minded arts programs ITP and ITM will also be part of the arrangement.“Our film programs have never been about teaching students to become cookie cutter,” Rubén Polendo, dean of Tisch School of the Arts, said in an interview. “Our film programs teach many…

This is likely to be the time of Green Day fans’ lives, as a comedy movie inspired by the legendary rock band lands a release. Inaugural Entertainment has acquired writer-director Lee Kirk‘s feature that now has the new title Nimrods, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Mason Thames, Mckenna Grace, Jenna Fischer, Angela Kinsey, Sean Gunn, Bobby Lee and Fred Armisen star in the movie that hails from Live Nation Studios and was previously known as New Years Rev when it premiered at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival. Nimrods is a coming-of-age film centering on three high school friends who…

Adam Fogelson is seizing his moment. The chair of Lionsgate’s Motion Picture Group is coming off a string of major hits, including the threequel Now You See Me: Now You Don’t ($243.7 million worldwide on a $90 million budget) and the franchise starter The Housemaid ($398 million on a $35 million budget). The success feels affirming, with his slate still in its nascent stages; it only officially launched in September with the critical darling The Long Walk, from Hunger Games franchise director Francis Lawrence (returning for the upcoming new installment Sunrise on the Reaping). It’s good timing, too, since Fogelson stepped…

Seth Rogen and Olivia Wilde have a memorable night with two neighbors in the trailer for A24‘s The Invite. Wilde helmed the movie that hits theaters in limited release on June 26 after premiering at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. Penélope Cruz and Edward Norton round out the cast for the feature that A24 landed in a bidding war. The Invite centers on Joe (Rogen) and Angela (Wilde), whose marriage has hit a rough patch. The pair invite their upstairs neighbors (Cruz and Norton) over for a dinner party, but the night does not go as planned. “We feel a…