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Euphoria actor Austin Abrams has emerged as the choice to star in Sony Pictures’ and Zach Cregger’s reboot of horror action movie Resident Evil. Cregger, the filmmaker who became part of the horror genre’s new generation thanks for his breakout Barbarian, wrote the script and is directing the feature. He is readying for the release his follow-up to Barbarian, an ensemble horror piece titled Weapons. Abrams makes up part of the cast, which includes Josh Brolin and Julia Garner. Resident Evil would mark a reunion between the two, should any deal make. Sony is moving fast on Resident Evil and…

Four years ago, a high school English teacher posted a short story to Reddit, a tale with Gone Girl-worthy twists and turns. Now, Joe Cote is in the midst of his own real-life plot twist. The Massachusetts-based educator’s project is in development as a feature, with Sydney Sweeney attached to star and produce, and Oscar-winning Forrest Gump scribe Eric Roth penning the script. Warner Bros. has won the rights to the package in a competitive situation that now puts the teacher on Hollywood’s radar. He first landed representation after manager Aaron Folbe of Underground Entertainment stumbled upon the story and…

Armie Hammer has returned to public life of late after claims of cannibalism, sexual misconduct and rape upended his career. Although he has yet to land studio work following the controversy, one former collaborator is sharing support for the actor. Director Tarsem Singh, who cast Hammer as the prince opposite Lily Collins’ Snow White and Julia Roberts’ evil queen in the 2012 film Mirror Mirror, tells The Hollywood Reporter that he continues to be a fan of Hammer’s work and does not feel that the headlines around the star’s personal life should impact his career. “I love Armie Hammer,” Singh…

Amy Irving, star of 1976’s Carrie, 1983’s Yentl and 1988’s Crossing Delancey, is opening up about her romantic history — and admits she has a type: directors. “I grew up with a father for a director,” she tells The Hollywood Reporter‘s It Happened in Hollywood podcast, referring to her late dad Jules Irving, co-founder of San Francisco Actor’s Workshop. “I have done nothing but marry directors, so I have a thing for directors. I’m kind of in awe because I can’t do that. Actors don’t impress me as much — just because I can do that, too.” Her current husband is…

In Dan Farah’s The Age of Disclosure, one of the buzziest documentaries to premiere at SXSW this year, it takes interviews with 34 people from all levels of government and military to make the case that we’re not alone in the universe, and that we should all be paranoid about the vast conspiracy keeping civilians from finding out. In Robert Stone’s Starman, premiering at SXSW to generally less buzz, only one person is interviewed, but he makes his own case for why we’re not alone, using this conviction to reflect on several decades of human progress and the fact that,…

The Snow White backlash brigade isn’t going to like this. On Saturday, Disney held the Los Angeles premiere of its live-action re-imagining of Snow White and the first reactions from the screening are that the film, starring Rachel Zegler as the titular fairy tale character and Gal Gadot as the Evil Queen, is “actually mostly successful,” according to one viewer while several are praising Zegler, with one critic calling her “stunning” despite the raging online controversy over the title. Premiere reactions tend to come from fan bloggers and influencers and typically skew more positive than formal critic reviews — of…

The New Year That Never Came, a drama about the Romanian revolution of 1989, written and directed by Bogdan Muresanu, won the Grand Prix, the top prize, at the 15th edition of the Luxembourg City Film Festival (LuxFilmFest) on Saturday. “December 20, 1989. Romania is on the brink of revolution. The authorities are preparing New Year’s festivities as if nothing – or almost nothing – is happening, but the official façade begins to crack,” reads a synopsis for the film, which world premiered at Venice 2024. “Amid the fervor of the uprising, six lives will intersect over the course of an extraordinary…

A day after Anora swept several major categories at the Oscars, an anonymous social media post threatened to throw cold water on its uplifting narrative of the low-budget indie that could. On Crew Stories, a popular below-the-line social media hub, one unnamed critic alleged that the $6 million production — and its auteur director, Sean Baker — avoided the major crew union IATSE for part of its 2023 shoot, keeping costs low by “screwing over [Baker’s] crew” and depriving them of working hours they could use to be eligible for union co-administered health benefits. Once the labor group attempted to…

Opus filmmaker Mark Anthony Green took nothing for granted on the set of his feature directorial debut. The Kansas City-area native, who’s affectionately regarded as “MAG,” took a circuitous route to filmmaking, beginning his career as a journalist and (eventual) editor for GQ. There, he interviewed the likes of LeBron James, Donald Glover and Daniel Kaluuya. Halfway through his 13-year tenure at the men’s magazine, Green realized he could no longer suppress his longtime urge to become a filmmaker, so he put everything he had into a short film known as Trapeze, U.S.A. (2017). A couple years later, he started…

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…