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Elio star Yonas Kibreab is plotting his next move. The 13-year-old actor will voice star in Pinocchio & the Water of Life, an indie animated feature he will also executive produce. The film is a steampunk-inspired take on the classic story of the wooden puppet who dreams of becoming a real boy. Victor Lakisov directs from a script by Mark DeCarlo and Ryan Rowe, based on the characters created by Italian author Carlo Collodi, who introduced the world to Pinocchio in 1883’s The Adventures of Pinocchio. Per the logline, the film follows “Pinocchio and his sidekick Coot as they try to…

David Fincher’s Se7en played a part in reinvigorating Brad Pitt’s passion for acting during the early years of his career. During a Monday appearance on Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast, the F1: The Movie star reflected on what he described as “the most unhealthy time” in his life during the summer of 1994. He admitted that after having “not such great experiences coming off a couple of jobs,” he wasn’t sure where his career was heading. “I had not such great experiences coming off a couple of jobs and I just wasn’t really sure what I was doing. I had…

M3GAN 2.0 writer-director Gerard Johnstone believes his sassy killing machine has staying power.  When the New Zealander made his major studio debut in January 2023 with M3GAN, he channeled his own parental anxiety regarding the emotional dependence that today’s youngest generations have on their devices. In the franchise-launching film that grossed nearly $182 million against $12 million, Cady James (Violet McGraw) lost both her parents in a car accident, prompting her preoccupied roboticist aunt, Gemma Forrester (Allison Williams), to raise her with the help of a prototype android doll named M3GAN. That decision quickly backfires when Cady becomes too reliant…

Five film projects have been selected for this year’s Female Filmmakers Support Program, picked by the Uniqa See Future Foundation, in cooperation with the Sarajevo Film Festival and Slano Film Days. Launched in 2024, the initiative “supports and empowers women filmmakers from the six Southeast European countries where Uniqa Insurance Group operates, namely Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, Romania, and Bulgaria.” Its goal is to “strengthen the presence and visibility of women in the regional film industry, offering financial support, mentorship, and opportunities for professional development.” The projects were selected for their “strong artistic vision, originality, and commitment to…

Ouch. Universal’s live-action How to Train Your Dragon will have no trouble staying No. 1 in its second weekend with an estimated $35.7 million despite the entry of the zombie sequel 28 Years Later and the animated Elio — which is headed for the lowest opening in the history of Pixar amid a crowded marketplace for family fare. Danny Boyle’s zombie sequel, from Sony, topped Friday’s chart with $14 million, including $5.8 million in Thursday previews, but will be overtaken by How to Train Your Dragon, from the Universal-owned DreamWorks Animation, sometime on Saturday. A few weeks ago, 28 Years…

Booboo Stewart, Abigail Breslin and Aaron Kuban are set to star in a movie about an interview gone awry. The performers have been cast to lead director Robert Rippberger’s drama-comedy feature A Good Fight, The Hollywood Reporter has learned exclusively. The indie film has a script from Pierce Gardner (Dan in Real Life), and producers include Justin Shaner and Fernando H. Rojas for Sobe Brooke Studios. A Good Fight centers on a thriving small-town businessman whose interview with a college journalist ends up impacting both of their lives. The movie’s tone is compared to that of It’s a Wonderful Life…

Bruce Springsteen is revealing what it was like to watch Jeremy Allen White portray him in his forthcoming biopic Deliver Me From Nowhere. The film, hailing from writer-director Scott Cooper, stars White as the legendary artist, centering in on the time period when he made his 1982 record Nebraska. The album is deeply personal, and Springsteen told Rolling Stone that there was “some unusualness” to watching the project be filmed because it touches on “some of the most painful days of my life.”  “I mean, there’s some unusualness to it because the movie involves, in some ways, some of the…

On Danny Boyle’s 11th birthday, he and his twin sister were given a special treat, when their parents took them to the movies for the first time. Boyle and his father saw the Henry Fonda war epic Battle of the Bulge, while Boyle’s sister and mother watched The Sound of Music, which a year earlier won best picture at the Oscars. Boyle was hooked. But growing up in a working-class family near Manchester, England, no one could have guessed that five decades years later, he would boast his own best picture winning-movie, 2008’s Slumdog Millionaire, and a kinetic style he…

Harold and Kumar are going to get some burgers and buzz one more time. Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg and Josh Heald, the creators behind worldwide Netflix sensation Cobra Kai, have closed a deal to write a new installment of Harold & Kumar, the buddy stoner comedy movie series that was popular in the early 2000s. Hurwitz and Schlossberg will also direct the feature, which is being developed at Lionsgate-owned Mandate Pictures. It is a full circle moment for the gentlemen as their Hollywood career got high thanks to writing the original movie, 2004’s Harold & Kumar go to White Castle,…

With its fizzy trailers, set against “Material Girl” and a throwback voiceover, Celine Song‘s Materialists may seem like a classic romantic comedy, but the film, Song and the actors behind the project tease, features more drama than is typical of the upbeat genre. Indeed, as stars Dakota Johnson and Chris Evans said in the days leading up to the film’s release, Materialists is more of a “rom-com-dram.” “There is romance, there is comedy, but it’s sort of a rom-com with drama,” Evans told The Hollywood Reporter at the Materialists premiere in New York earlier this month. And Song did want…