Author: Hollyood rep

Director Antoine Fuqua and screenwriter John Logan don’t exactly break the mold with Michael, nor do they stuff it with major revelations. But they tap into a vein of melancholy underlaying the stratospheric success that’s surprisingly affecting. The online mob will be sharpening their pitchforks given the movie’s failure to address the accusations of child sexual abuse that tarnished Michael Jackson’s legacy. But the filmmakers get around that by focusing on his early career, ending with the 1988 Bad World Tour concert in London, years before allegations first surfaced. The epilogue card reading “His story continues” does some heavy lifting.  Whether it will…

A24’s adaptation of Bandai Namco Entertainment’s video game Elden Ring, its most ambitious feature movie project to date, has rounded out its cast as it begins production. Tom Burke, Havana Rose Liu, Sonoya Mizuno, Jonathan Pryce, Ruby Cruz, John Hodgkinson, Jefferson Hall, Emma Laird and Peter Serafinowicz have been added to the call sheet, which already includes Kit Connor, Ben Whishaw and Cailee Spaeny. Nick Offerman is also in the cast. Alex Garland, who wrote and directed Civil War, which held the title as A24’s most expensive production for a spell before being supplanted by Marty Supreme, wrote the script…

Nadia Farès, the French actress who starred in The Crimson Rivers, has died Sunday. She was 57. Farès was found unconscious in a swimming pool in Paris last week and had been in a coma since, suffering a cardiac arrest, her daughters told Agence France-Presse. “It is with immense sadness that we announce the death this Friday of Nadia Farès,” Cylia and Shana Chasman shared in a statement with the outlet. “France has lost a great artist, but for us, it is above all a mother that we have just lost.” Cylia shared a tribute to her mother on Instagram,…

The Los Angeles Rams drafted the sons of Ice Cube and Chris Tucker to recreate their famous father’s classic comedy Friday. O’Shea Jackson Jr. and Destin Tucker headline the reimagined take, titled Thursday, starring alongside Terry Crews, YG, Kevin Dotson, Jared Verse, Byron Young and Big Boy as part of the team’s newest installment of its draft campaign. It dropped today ahead of the NFL Draft next week on all Rams digital and social platforms. Friday, directed by F. Gary Gray from a script by Cube and DJ Pooh, came out in 1995 from New Line Cinema. It starred Cube…

Countless places across the U.S. bear the name of Alexander von Humboldt. In fact, the German naturalist and polymath has been described as the person with more species – from penguins and monkeys to an orchid – and places named after him than any other human. And at the beginning of the 19th century, he proposed a radical idea that has also been popular in the context of climate change: to consider nature as a “network of interconnected lives.” Humboldt USA, the feature film debut from G. Anthony Svatek, follows in his footsteps, traveling across the U.S., from ancient redwood…

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…