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Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar, the filmmakers behind features like Sing Sing and Train Dreams, have named Giulia Caruso as the head of production and development at their Ethos production banner. Ethos, which has a pact with Netflix, is building a slate from emerging filmmakers that come out of top film festivals, film schools and labs. Ethos will use a financing and production model that Bentley and Kwedar used on their films Jockey and the Oscar nominated Sing Sing, where above and below-the-line talent are paid the same wage and shares in equity in the film. Netflix will fund the…

More intel on Sony‘s distribution plan for Sam Mendes‘ hotly anticipated Beatles films has arrived. Paul Mescal, Harris Dickinson, Joseph Quinn and Barry Keoghan will play Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, respectively, with the four features currently slated to release a week apart in the same month in 2028. Internet-savvy fans will have noticed a swathe of social media videos of the actors in costume filming around London over the last few months. For example, in August, they were spotted re-creating the group’s iconic Abbey Road album cover. The original photo, taken on Aug. 8, 1969,…

Tubi’s next Final Girl is here. The streamer is set to release a live action adaptation of The Babysitter, based on the popular series of R.L. Stine novels first published in 1989, in 2027. The film’s announcement comes just two days after the Oct. 9 release of Pumpkinhead 2, and ahead of the streamer’s New York Comic Con panel, where Stine appeared alongside Tubi’s Chief Content Officer Adam Lewinson, Pumpkinhead writer-director Jem Garrard, and RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars’ contestant and Afraid of Clowns star Jimbo. The film follows a 16-year-old babysitter, Jenny, who is so desperate to earn enough…

Other Mommy is the head of the household at the box office in its opening weekend, while The Social Reckoning faces a tough status report. Universal Pictures released Other Mommy in 3,200 North American theaters, and the horror title grossed $12.6 million Friday, including Thursday previews, as it heads to around $28 million for the weekend. Director Rob Savage’s film looks to end up above the studio’s projected $20 million opening for the $19 million-budgeted film, which stars Jessica Chastain as a sinister entity that appears in a young girl’s closet. Word of mouth is unlikely to be in the…

How much would you pay for Darth Vader’s lightsaber that defeated Luke Skywalker in the best Star Wars movie ever made? A lightsaber used in 1980’s The Empire Strikes Back is going up for auction, according to the Associated Press. The saber — which was also used in Return of the Jedi — is part of the Ultimate Star Wars Auction being held by Heritage Auctions on Nov. 12. The prop is expected to fetch at least $1 million, but a higher bid seems likely. In July, a Luke Skywalker lightsaber from Empire sold for $3.75 million (though that one…

Angie Harmon is returning to the director’s chair for Lifetime movie The Girl Who Disappeared, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The 2027 “Ripped from the Headlines” film marks Harmon’s second time directing: Harmon directed the 100th episode of her cable drama Rizzoli & Isles. The Girl Who Disappeared, which is a working title, stars Jaime Pressly (My Name Is Earl), Casey Deidrick (In the Dark) and Alexa Blair (Terrifier 3, Hunting Wives). Based on a true story, the film follows a young woman whose romance with a married man sets off a dangerous chain of obsession, jealousy and betrayal. When…

The Saudi Film Commission has selected Anas Ba Tahaf‘s A Matter of Life and Death as Saudi Arabia’s official submission for the best international feature film Oscar category at the 99th Academy Awards.Written by and starring Sarah Taibah alongside Yaqoub Al Farhan, the film is produced by Film Clinic, Front Row Filmed Entertainment and Arabia Pictures, with Front Row handling international sales. The film is set in contemporary Jeddah and blends romance, fantasy and black comedy in a highly stylized visual world. “At heart, it is a love story, just not the safe kind,” a description of the movie notes.…

Michael Douglas does not hold back in his new memoir — and if he did, one can only imagine the details he left out. In his aptly titled new book, One Helluva Ride, the Basic Instinct and Fatal Attraction star details secret affairs with co-stars, drug binges and surprising backstage awards show encounters. “Your 80s may be a good time to share,” the 82-year-old actor explained to The Los Angeles Times. “People interested in movies, we give them a certain insight into the process, and maybe they could learn something. For others, it’s just gossip.” Douglas added to the Associated…

Some stories refuse to stay on the page. The Hollywood Reporter’s Beyond the Book column explores what happens when books make the leap to screen and beyond — unpacking what stayed, changed, how it was done and why it matters with the creatives who made it. *** [Warning: This story contains spoilers for the Verity film.] Colleen Hoover didn’t know how her novel Verity would end when she started writing it. “I think it wasn’t until like two weeks before I turned it in that I realized, like, oh, it doesn’t need a resolution,” Hoover tells The Hollywood Reporter. “I…

In his 1979 book The Question of Palestine, Edward Said, the Palestinian writer and academic, frames the relationship between Palestinians and Zionists as a “contest between an affirmation and a denial.” Making sense of it requires us to “understand what the instruments of this contest were, and how they shaped subsequent history so that this history now appears to confirm the validity of the Zionist claims to Palestine, thereby denigrating the Palestinian claim. In other words, we must understand the struggle between Palestinians and Zionism as a struggle between a presence and an interpretation, the former constantly appearing to be…