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Tom Hanks is happy to leave Forrest Gump just how it is. The Oscar winner, who reteamed with his Forrest Gump co-star Robin Wright and director Robert Zemeckis for their new movie Here, recently told The New York Times that he’s thankful a sequel to the 1994 film was never made. “It is this extraordinary amalgam that stands completely on its own and never has to be repeated,” he said of the movie. “And thank God we never bothered trying to make another one. Why put a hat on a hat?” Forrest Gump, which saw Hanks play the titular character, was based on late author Winston Groom‘s…

TIFFCOM, the content market affiliated with the Tokyo International Film Festival, closed its doors on Friday, but not before it unveiled the winners of the 2024 pitching contest winners. Now in its seventh year, the MPA/DHU/TIFFCOM Masterclass Seminar and Pitching Contest is co-hosted by the Motion Picture Association, the Digital Hollywood University and TIFFCOM to support young filmmakers looking to take their first steps into the international film industry. After Friday’s first session, the master class seminar, the pitching contest saw five young filmmakers selected from a public call for entries as well as two entrants from the 2024 KAFA-TUA…

“All art is propaganda, but not all propaganda is art.” The saying from 1984 and Animal Farm author George Orwell features in The Story of British Propaganda Film, a new book in the British Film Institute (BFI)’s British Screen Stories series at Bloomsbury Publishing written by Scott Anthony, the deputy head of research at the U.K. Science Museum Group, which consists of five British museums. An archival project based on the BFI National Archive, the book shows how central propaganda is to the development of British film and how it has filtered people’s understanding of modern British history. While the…

The release date for the upcoming documentary RM: Right People, Wrong Place has officially been set, The Hollywood Reporter has exclusively learned. Hitting theaters globally on Dec. 5, the film offers a behind-the-scenes look at RM, the leader of K-Pop supergroup BTS, as he makes his second album Right Place, Wrong Person. RM: Right People, Wrong Place made its debut at the Busan International Film Festival last month in the Open Cinema section of the festival. According to a synopsis of the documentary, in addition to following the release of the rapper’s album it also “explores his reflections on how…

The team behind Moana 2 is ready to welcome viewers back into the powerful world of the title characters and her fellow islanders. During a press event at Walt Disney Animation Studios in Burbank, California, the filmmakers debuted the first 30 minutes from the sequel to the 2016 animated feature. After screening the footage, co-directors David Derrick Jr., Jason Hand and Dana Ledoux Miller and co-writer Jared Bush — who is Disney Animation’s new chief creative officer — took the stage to tease the new adventures for Moana that take place three years after the first movie. Hitting theaters Nov.…

Venom: The Last Dance had a hard time hitting a home run at the domestic box office, but more than made up for the deficit overseas to boast a worldwide opening on par with the last installment. Nevertheless, it still had no trouble coming in No. 1 domestically and globally. The final title in Sony’s franchise — based on the popular comic book antihero — opened to $51 million from 4,131 theaters, well behind an expected $65 million, or the $96 million domestic launch of Venom: Let There Be Carnage. The opposite was true overseas, where Last Dance debuted in…

There’s something quintessentially American and straight out of Norman Rockwell about centering a survey of multiple generations around the living room, with idealized themes of home and family reinforced by scenes around the Christmas tree or the dining table, fully extended to accommodate the ever-expanding clan at Thanksgiving. But relatable doesn’t always mean interesting, even if the moments of joy don’t hide the vein of sadness and disappointment that runs through Here. The same goes for the idea of shooting everything — reaching back to prehistory and right on up through contemporary times — from the same fixed point and…

Venom: The Last Dance slithered its way to $8.5 million in Thursday night previews at the domestic box office. The movie is looking to score the lowest opening of the three film in the franchise, at least domestically. Globally is a different matter. Based on early returns, Last Dance is headed for a worldwide launch of $180 million, which is five percent higher than the worldwide debut of Venom: Let There Be Carnage ($171.6 million) in 2021. The film has earned $35.8 million worldwide through Thursday, including $8.5 million from Thursday’s U.S./Canada early shows, which started at 2 p.m. at 3,452…

Warner Bros. Motion Pictures Group has won the feature film adaptation package of Saltburn filmmaker’s Emerald Fennell take on Wuthering Heights. Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi are attached to star in the feature project, which hails from MRC and generated intense interest from streamers and studios and a bidding war. Warners won out partially due to its commitment to launching Heights theatrically worldwide. “We are thrilled to partner with MRC, Emerald Fennell, and LuckyChap for this feature film adaptation of Wuthering Heights,” said Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group’s Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy in a statement. “From the moment…

Amazon MGM Studios is doubling down on its original film business. The studio arrives at MIPCOM Cannes with nearly all its eggs in Earth Abide‘s basket, an original series starring Alexander Ludwig (Vikings) and Jessica Frances Dukes (Ozark). The show is a post-apocalyptic tale, based on George R. Stewart’s 1949 novel, about the fall of civilization from deadly disease — which Chris Ottinger, president of worldwide distribution and acquisitions at MGM, says represents “a lot of the feeling of now, when it’s a very strange time to be on this earth.” The executive sat down with The Hollywood Reporter in…