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Fresh off his first-ever Oscar nomination for The Brutalist, Guy Pearce has already wrapped his next feature: Blurred, an erotic thriller set in New York’s fashion world. Pearce and Alex Pettyfer (Magic Mike, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare) co-star in the feature, written and directed by Ben Cookson (Waiting for Anya) alongside Maria Pedraza (Netflix’s Money Heist), and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (Suicide Squad, HBO’s His Dark Materials). Produced by Pettyfer and James Ireland for Dark Dreams Entertainment and Yariv Lerner (Hellboy, Rambo: Last Blood) for Film Forage, Blurred wrapped production last summer in the U.K. Cloud9 Studios is handling international sales…

Robert Downey Jr., Emma Stone, Cillian Murphy and Da’Vine Joy Randolph were named as the first group of presenters for the 2025 Oscars. All four presenters announced on Wednesday went home with an Academy Award at last year’s ceremony. Downey Jr. won the best supporting actor Oscar last year for his role as Lewis Strauss in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer. Similarly, his costar Murphy, who played the titular character Robert Oppenheimer, won best actor. Randolph won best supporting actress for her performance in The Holdovers, while Stone took home the gold for her role in Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things. Stone, of…

Barry Keoghan has good luck with donkeys. He last shared the screen with one in 2022’s The Banshees of Inisherin, in which Jenny the Donkey stole hearts as Colin Farrell’s beloved pet. Banshees earned Keoghan his first Oscar nomination. Now he returns to rural Ireland with a new mule named Don Mosley for a Super Bowl ad touting the website service Squarespace. The pair teased their collaboration in a pre-Super Bowl ad called Barry and Mosley. And now the actual spot has dropped, embedded below. Keoghan checked in with The Hollywood Reporter via Zoom from London to talk about the…

Zac Efron will star opposite Will Ferrell in an untitled comedy Nicholas Stoller is directing for Amazon MGM. Stoller also wrote the script, which at one point was titled Judgement Day. The story follows a young convict fresh out of prison who takes a reality TV courtroom hostage, blaming the megalomaniac TV judge, played by Ferrell, for a past ruling that the convict feels ruined his life. Efron will star as the convict. Related Stories Stoller is producing via his Stoller Global Solutions banner, while Ferrell is producing under his Gloria Sanchez Productions outfit.  Gloria Sanchez’s Jessica Elbaum and Alex…

The Democratic Republic of Congo has been in the headlines as of late with reports about conflict and the advances of the so-called March 23 Movement rebels. But the colonial history and ecological significance of the country in Central Africa is getting the spotlight in a new essayistic film from photographer and visual artist Sammy Baloji called The Tree of Authenticity (L’arbre de l’authenticité) that world premiered in the Tiger Competition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) on Sunday. “Drawing on research from the 1930s, the film highlights the Congo Basin’s vital role in consuming carbon dioxide and shaping…

What can I say about Sundance this year that hasn’t already been said? Yes, the line-up lacked commercial offerings, and was filled with small films from first time directors. Yes, the festival felt subdued with less star power than years past. Yes, there was still inexplicably an hour-and-a-half wait for the most subpar avocado toast you have ever had in your life. And, yes, it still cost you $40, even though your boss warned you to keep expenses down. As compared to years past, this year’s Sundance felt like a turning point, with a collective acceptance that the festival’s time…

All five of this year’s best director Oscar nominees — Emilia Pérez’s Jacques Audiard, Anora’s Sean Baker, The Brutalist’s Brady Corbet, The Substance’s Coralie Fargeat and A Complete Unknown’s James Mangold — will attend and be feted at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival’s Directors of the Year ceremony, The Hollywood Reporter can report. The gathering, which will take place at Santa Barbara’s historic Arlington Theatre at 8 p.m. PT on Monday, Feb. 10 — and will be the only time the quintet will congregate together prior to the 97th Academy Awards on March 2 — will feature interviews with the directors individually,…

Will Smith is getting to play Neo nearly three decades after he famously rejected the lead role in the 1999 blockbuster The Matrix. In the music video “Beautiful Scars” (below), Smith teams with rapper Big Sean and Obanga for a Matrix-themed video which has Smith doing his own version of several iconic scenes from the movie – including taking the red pill, the “bullet time” stunt and fighting in the kung fu simulator. While it might “only” be a music video, it does give fans the chance to see what Smith might have looked like in the film. Five years…

Amid the devastating wildfires ravaging through Los Angeles, many on social media called for the cancelation of the upcoming Oscars ceremony. A U.K.-based tabloid newspaper even went so far as to erroneously report that Academy Award committee members were seriously considering canceling the show (The Hollywood Reporter then reported that no such plan is being contemplated and no such advisory committee exists). But speaking to various nominees following the Oscar nominations last week, it’s clear that the show must go on — with some adjustments to honor the victims of the devastation. The Academy agrees. Last week, the Academy of…

Karla Sofía Gascón Best Actress (Emilia Pérez) Karla Sofía Gascón Amy Sussman/Getty Images “I was in a room at the airport in Brazil waiting for the nominations. It was completely crazy, I didn’t sleep all night. What an illusion, what an honor, what love. I feel fulfilled. It is the culmination of nine months of promotion and two years of work on a historic work in acting and cinematography. I am immensely happy. It is an honor for me that the Film Academy and its members have nominated me as best actress. “It is something cinematographically historic because playing two…