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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…

In the publicity for their movie, the creators of the new Faces of Death make all sorts of claims about how their film explores such things as our growing desensitization to violence, whether or not watching violent imagery makes us complicit, and our seemingly ravenous appetite for real-life carnage. They say that they wanted to “hold a mirror up to the toxic media ecosystem we live inside of.” It all sounds very impressive and very thoughtful. But they give the game away when they describe the film this way: “It is an exploitation of an iconic exploitation film.” Faces of…

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is bringing a much-needed spring bloom to the box office, where the family pic is now on course to collect a record $370.7 million in its global debut from 80 markets, the biggest showing since when James Cameron’s Avatar: Fire and Ash opened over Christmas 2025. And it is by far the top opening of 2026 among Hollywood titles. Universal’s Saturday estimates shows the sequel on course to open to a mammoth $188.6 domestically, including a three-day weekend gross of $129.4 million, one of the best showings of all time for the Easter corridor, not adjusted…

A video has surfaced of Jonathan Majors falling through a window on set of the Daily Wire and Bonfire Legend’s untitled action movie. The video, published by Deadline, came to light after reports that crew were organizing a strike and claiming unsafe conditions. In the clip, Majors and his co-star, JC Kilcoyne, fall out of shot and out of the window, with the outlet noting that sources said Kilcoyne required stitches “all over his hands” after the fall, which was about six feet to the ground. When asked for comment about the video of Majors and Kilcoyne allegedly falling through a…

The full lineup for the 28th edition of the Far East Film Festival (FEFF) has been revealed and as ever the speciality event will showcase the best and brightest of Asian cinema. Taking place once again in the picaresque Italian city of Udine, FEFF 2026 will screen 76 films — 52 in competition and 24 out of competition — hailing from 12 countries. FEFF will open on April 24 with Anthony Chen’s Singaporean family drama We Are All Strangers and close on May 2 with Phan Gia Nhật Linh’s Blood Moon Rite 8, a Vietnamese remake of cult Japanese zombie…

John Travolta’s directorial debut, Propeller One-Way Night Coach, will world premiere at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival in the Cannes Premiere Selection, organizers unveiled on Thursday. The Apple Original Films movie is an adaptation of a 1997 book written and illustrated by Travolta, inspired by the star’s childhood memories and lifelong passion for aviation. The world’s largest film festival didn’t immediately detail the premiere date. “Young airplane enthusiast Jeff and his mother set off on a one-way cross-country odyssey to Hollywood, which transforms a simple flight into the trip of a lifetime,” according to a plot description shared by the…