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Wild Horse Nine is preparing to run free, as the feature is set to open the 49th Mill Valley Film Festival. Writer-director Martin McDonagh‘s film, starring John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell, will screen as the opening night title on Oct. 1, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. McDonagh, Rockwell and co-star Mariana Di Girolamo are expected to attend the screening. Wild Horse Nine premieres in competition at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival next month. Rockwell’s career of acclaimed work will be the focus of a Mill Valley tribute on Oct. 2. The actor’s memorable performances include his Academy Award-winning role…

A soccer penalty shootout, an (impressive) Elvis Presley impersonation and a bottle of Bushmills Irish whiskey were all on the agenda at Woody Harrelson‘s Sarajevo masterclass on Tuesday afternoon. The three-time Oscar nominee graced the stage at the Bosnian film festival for a conversation with film critic Neil Young, hours before Harrelson’s Honorary Heart of Sarajevo ceremony, set to celebrate his decades-spanning contributions to cinema. At the top of the conversation, Young asked the Natural Born Killers (1994), No Country for Old Men (2007) and The Hunger Games (2012) star about playing 36th U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson in Rob…

James Marcus Haney made his name as a filmmaker sneaking into Coachella, Glastonbury and other top music festivals by posing as press to get exclusive footage of pop stars and their performances. That need to gate crash marquee festivals with his camera was captured in his 2014 feature documentary No Cameras Allowed. Now Haney is headed to the Toronto Film Festival with Black Sunflowers, a feature documentary about Ukrainian youth coming of age amid martial law as they move between underground raves and car racing on the home front and the brutal front lines of war against Russia. Black Sunflowers.…

Jack Rowan and director Kieron J. Walsh are hoping for “some buzz” at the Edinburgh premiere of Skintown. It’s the catchphrase employed by Rowan’s character Vinny and his best friend Jonty (Chris Walley) as they’re just starting to believe there’s life beyond provincial Enniskillen, the Northern Irish town colloquially captured by the film‘s title. Ciarán McMenamin adapts his 2018 novel of the same name, with the movie premiering in competition at the Scottish film festival on Sunday. Backdropped by the Troubles during the 1994 IRA ceasefire, Skintown follows Vinny and Jonty as the young men party with friends, cut deals,…

Spider-Man: Brand New Day continues to fly high in its third weekend at the box office as it fends off newcomers The End of Oak Street and PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie. Sony Pictures‘ Brand New Day pulled in $19 million on Friday as it heads to $67 million, which will top the domestic box office for its third consecutive frame. This would bring the Tom Holland-led feature’s North American total to $782.8 million for its first 17 days to stand at No. 5 on the all-time domestic chart, just behind Avatar at $785.2 million and topping the No. 6…

Take Off, a Chinese drama about a factory worker who spends his life chasing the dream of building a flying machine, will open in U.S. theaters on Sept. 17, courtesy of specialty distributor Orchid Tree Media. The fourth feature from Chinese director Pengfei, the film recently made its North American premiere at the New York Asian Film Festival in July. It stars rising actor Jiang Qiming — currently seen in the Chinese blockbuster Once Upon a Time in the Middle East, which is poised to become the country’s biggest hit of the summer — and is based on a novella…

Switzerland has selected Nicolas Wadimoff’s Who is Still Alive, a documentary about nine Palestinian refugees who escaped the violence in Gaza, as its official pick for the 2027 Oscar race in the best international feature category. In his experimental doc, Wadimoff has the Palestinian refugees recreate the experiences of their escape from Gaza on a barren stage marked out by chalk outlines, in the style of Lars von Trier’s Dogville. Who is Still Alive premiered in the Venice Days selection of the Venice Film Festival last year, and was picked up by Watermelon Pictures for U.S. release, with a domestic…

Ben Affleck and Kerry Washington star as parents trying to rescue their kidnapped son in the first trailer for Netflix‘s Animals, which Affleck also directed and co-wrote. With no dialogue, the emotional teaser has Affleck in the role of L.A. mayoral candidate Mark Kimball, who leads a carefully constructed life with his wife, Abigail, until they decide to get their hands dirty to rescue their son and end every parent’s worst nightmare. And the Kimballs do so while surrounded by plenty of enemies, political and otherwise, they cannot trust. As the Kimballs attempt to raise a ransom to get back their…

Rosario Dawson says she actually shot a scene for Spider-Man: Brand New Day, but it was removed from the final cut. Dawson — who played the nurse Claire Temple in Marvel’s Netflix shows — discussed what happened during a recent Daredevil panel at GalaxyCon in North Carolina last month. Dawson was asked by a fan which superhero in the MCU she would most want Claire to work with. “Well … I’m going to have to say: I could have said Spider-Man,” Dawson replied. “I even shot a scene in the new Spider-Man movie. But I got cut out.” When the…

No matter which way you look at it, The Rivals of Amziah King will hit select theaters this Friday feeling very long-awaited. The star, Oscar winner Matthew McConaughey, chose the indie as the one to bring him back to acting after a five-year hiatus from live-action productions. The director, Andrew Patterson, spent years developing the project as the follow-up to his celebrated 2019 debut, The Vast of Night. And then there’s the movie itself — which shot back in 2023, finally premiered at South by Southwest in the spring of 2025, and a year and a half later, is at…