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Bong Joon Ho, the Korean master filmmaker and three-time Oscar winner, is the guest on this episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, the first part of which was recorded in front of an audience at the 2020 Santa Barbara International Film Festival, just days before Bong’s Parasite became the first non-English-language film to ever win the best picture Oscar; and the second part of which was recorded via Zoom last month, just days before Bong’s Mickey 17 was released in U.S. theaters. Bong, 55, has been on the radar of cineastes since his big screen directorial debut, 2000’s…

Netflix has given a green light to a movie reboot of the Stephen King novel Cujo, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. Roy Lee will produce the remake of the horror story about a mother and son who fight off a rabid dog while trapped in their car. Cujo was first adapted from King’s 1981 psychological horror novel of the same name where Cujo is at first a lovable St. Bernard, but after being bitten by a bat becomes everyone’s worst enemy. In the 1983 film Cujo, a mother, Donna (Dee Wallace), and her son, Tad (Danny Pintauro) come into contact with Cujo and must…

Katie Aselton‘s fourth film as director is begging for a spoiler. That would explain a lot but also give away too much. Luckily, the big reveal comes 20 minutes into this sensitively played yet too-obvious drama about a couple who go to the desert to regroup and look ahead to an altered future. Aselton plays Erin, whose mood at first veers with annoying abruptness between mournful and happy. Daveed Diggs is Charlie, full of smiling, even-tempered charm. If Charlie seems too good to be true, he is. Aselton’s films include The Freebie (2010), arguably her best and a very different…

At the center of The Secret of Me is Jim Ambrose, who grew up as Kristi. Looking into the camera as he begins to tell his story, he says, to be clear, that he is not transgender. He is intersex and was in the dark about that fact until he was 19 and discovered the truth: that he was born with male chromosomes and ambiguous genitalia but underwent surgery as an infant and was raised as a girl. Grace Hughes-Hallett, directing her first feature, has created a lucid, absorbing film that uses Jim’s first-person account to reveal a much larger…

Less than a week after the 2025 Oscars, Emilia Pérez star and best actress nominee Karla Sofía Gascón is reflecting on her experience as part of Netflix’s awards campaign for the genre-bending musical. Though Emilia Pérez scored a leading 13 Oscar nominations, it won only two awards (for best song, “El Mal,” and best supporting actress, Zoe Saldaña) after past, controversial tweets by Gascón were resurfaced online in the days after nominations were announced. The discovery led to Gascón deactivating her X (formerly Twitter) account and repeatedly apologizing before she was phased out of Netflix’s Oscars campaign for the film,…

Resident Evil is back in Sony’s hands. The studio has won a hotly contested bidding war to nab not only the rights to the horror action movie franchise based on the popular video games, but also for the opportunity to work with hot filmmaker Zach Cregger. The studio has set a release date of Sept. 18, 2026 for the project. Cregger, the writer-director behind acclaimed horror movie Barbarian and the upcoming ensemble piece Weapons, is attached to write and direct. The franchise, which had called Sony label Screen Gems home since releasing the first movie in 2002, found itself in…

Amy Landecker has a soft spot for SXSW. The veteran actress had small parts in not one but two of the festival’s grand jury award-winning films — Cooper Raiff’s Shithouse in 2020 and James Morosini’s I Love My Dad in 2022 — and she long dreamed of landing a lead role in a film that played in the leading Texas fest. Her wish comes true this year, as SXSW is hosting a hard launch for Landecker’s feature debut as writer, director, producer and star in the romantic comedy For Worse. Her big creative leap has delivered a sweet full-circle moment…

Matthew Modine is the latest actor to join the Monsterverse. The actor, who had a resurgence thanks to his work on Netflix’s Stranger Things, has closed a deal to join the cast of Legendary’s latest installment of its Godzilla-King Kong movie franchise. Grant Sputore (I Am Mother) is directing the creature feature, which one again showcases gigantic monsters and the tiny humans caught in between. Plot details from the David Callaham-written script are being kept under the Earth’s crust, but Legendary has said the story will feature “several new human characters alongside the beloved and iconic Titans Godzilla and Kong…

Less than 24 hours after standing in front of the world to accept the best actress Oscar for her performance in Anora, Mikey Madison is getting glammed up at a friend’s guest house in Beverly Hills to shoot her morning-after cover for The Hollywood Reporter, when she receives a congratulatory text from an unknown number. “Who is this?!” she asks no one in particular, speculating aloud that it might be a producer of a past project … or perhaps a stranger who had tracked her down? As her two little dogs rest on the laps of friends, her proud twin…

Demi Moore may have lost the best actress Oscar many pundits expected her to win, but she’s still a winner to her daughters: Tallulah, Scout and Rumer Willis. Tallulah posted a post-2025 Oscars photo of her mom looking happy in a bathrobe, cradling her dog Pilaf, in front of two large plates of french fries. She captioned it, “MY winner.” Scout reposted the image with the caption “Queen of my heart” And she added of her mom on her Instagram Story, “So beyond proud, this woman is nothing but integrity, bright beaming light and love! What grace. I’ve never been…