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In many ways, writer-director Jing Yi’s graceful and ephemeral drama, The Botanist (Zhi Wu Xue Jia), plays out like your typical coming-of-age movie. It’s about a lonely kid, raised by his grandmother in a small town, who falls in love with a neighboring girl. But as folks begin to move away to the big city, the kid may find himself left behind. What sets Jing’s feature debut apart from many other examples of the genre is its unique location, as well as an obsession with nature that’s underscored by its title. Set in a stunning faraway valley in northern China…

John Magaro is the kind of actor you discover, like a personal secret. Maybe he first caught your eye in The Big Short, as the geeky stand out among a pack of slick, self-interested traders; grabbed you as Yael Stone’s dreamy prison pen pal in Orange Is the New Black love story, or won you over as Arthur, in Celine Song’s Past Lives, as the husband on the outside looking in as his wife Nora (Greta Lee) reunites and rekindles with her childhood friend from Korea. I first spotted him playing a New Jersey drummer desperate to make it big in David Chase’s Not Fade Away (2012),…

“For me, it never gets old.” Elton John may have armfuls of awards and accolades — he even secured EGOT status by winning an Emmy in January 2024 — but he insists that he’s never jaded when it comes to the Academy Awards. The living legend, who already owns two best original song Oscars, snagged another nomination in the category for his work with Brandi Carlile, Bernie Taupin and Andrew Watt on “Never Too Late.” “It’s always an extreme honor to be nominated in the final five songs,” John told The Hollywood Reporter during a THR Presents Q&A, powered by Vision Media,…

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, The Hollywood Reporter may receive an affiliate commission. Up for two Academy Award nominations for best picture and best adapted screenplay, Nickel Boys is based on Colson Whitehead‘s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about a joyous, but tragic, friendship. Director RaMell Ross‘ Oscar-nominated film is now streaming at home through premium video-on-demand platforms. You can buy the movie on digital video in 4K Ultra HD for $19.99 at Prime Video, Apple TV and elsewhere. At a Glance: How to Watch Nickel Boys Online Below, watch the official trailer…

Kristen Wiig and Bill Murray are set to star in a new comedy, Epiphany, from Max Barbakow (Palm Springs, Brothers). Rocket Science confirmed on Tuesday that Wiig and Murray will also serve as executive producers alongside Jillian Apfelbaum and Margot Hand, with a script by Mitch Glazer (The Recruit, Scrooged). CAA Media Finance and Range Media Partners represent domestic rights, while Rocket Science will handle international and is introducing the hot project at the European Film Market in Berlin this week. A plot synopsis reads: “When her massive fortune evaporates overnight, heiress and fashionista Favorite Ives (Wiig) has two weeks…

Paris-based Haut et Court and London-based Good Chaos, two of the founding members of the Fremantle-backed indie production collective The Creatives, have secured the film rights to Paris-Hollywood, the debut novel by French film critic Cécile Mury. The novel, set for publication by Flammarion in April 2025, follows a romance between a French journalist and an English-speaking movie star. The novel was presented at last year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, where translation rights were sold in six territories. Haut et Court and Good Chaos outmaneuvered several French and European producers to secure the film adaptation rights. The companies say the feature…

The playboy star co-wrote and produced the layered satire about a Beverly Hills hairstylist in the midst of an existential crisis, which earned Lee Grant a best supporting actress Oscar.

The Oscar-nominated doc Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat is layered and unconventional, as sprawling in its critique as it is unusual in its delivery. The same, it turns out, can be said of its director. Johan Grimonprez’s essayistic film focuses on the colonial powers’ suppression of Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo — while also telling a story of jazz, Nikita Khrushchev, Black Power and the fractious United Nations. Grimonprez is his own eclectic mix. A cultural theorist preoccupied with mass media and fear; a fast-talking professorial Belgian who never met a historical…

SAG Award: Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Frontrunner: The odds-on favorite Wicked – Jonathan Bailey, Marissa Bode, Peter Dinklage, Cynthia Erivo, Jeff Goldblum, Ariana Grande, Ethan Slater, Bowen Yang & Michelle Yeoh A big box office hit nominated in this category often wins (Oppenheimer, Black Panther, Hidden Figures). Possible spoiler: The tempting alternative Emilia Pérez – Karla Sofía Gascón, Selena Gomez, Adriana Paz & Zoe Saldaña The guild has a long history of embracing diversity in this category. But it’s certainly possible that the cast’s prospects have been damaged by the Gascón X (Twitter) scandal, as…

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…