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Japanese anime feature Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc is off to an impressive start at the U.S. box office, where it’s on course to top Friday’s chart with $8 million to $9 million from 3,003 theaters for a better-than-expected opening of $14 million to $15 million, if not more. The acclaimed manga pic presently boasts a perfect 100 percent critics score and a 99 percent audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, a rarely seen combo, in addition to five out of five stars on exit polling service PostTrak. Produced by MAPPA, the R-rated pic is based on the hit anime…

Jennifer Coolidge (The White Lotus) and singer and actress Nicole Scherzinger have joined the cast of Rebel Wilson’s Girl Group, a comedy now in production that Wilson is writing, directing, producing, and starring in for Live Nation Studios and Future Artists Entertainment.  Scherzinger, fresh off her run on the West End and Broadway of Sunset Boulevard, and two-time Emmy winner Coolidge will play roles that weren’t immediately detailed. In the movie, Wilson plays a pop diva who’s been kicked out of her own girl group’s reunion tour and slapped with a sentence of court-ordered community service. She seizes this to stage a comeback by coaching a group…

Two-time Oscar-winning Australian actress Cate Blanchett will be honored with this year’s Icon Award at the Camerimage film festival, which highlights the art of cinematography. Blanchett will attend Camerimage in Toruń, Poland, to receive the honor at the festival’s closing gala. Camerimage 2025 runs Nov. 15–22. Blanchett’s astounding 30+ year career on screen has been accompanied by some of cinema’s most stunning cinematography. Her breakthrough film, Elizabeth (1998), her first Academy Award nomination, earned cameraman Remi Adefarasin an Oscar nom (and a Golden Frog win at Camerimage). Ed Lachman’s lensing of Todd Haynes’ I’m Not There (2008) won the Bronze…

The Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event portion of the 29th edition of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) has unveiled 18 works in progress that will be in the spotlight this year. Works in Progress presents films currently in production or post-production and seeking sales agents or festival premieres. This year’s 18 projects cover three categories: Baltic Event Works in Progress, International Works in Progress, and Just Film Works in Progress. The lineup features both debut filmmakers and acclaimed directors presenting their latest works. “We’re thrilled with the diversity of the selected projects. It was important for us to include films from Ukraine, both…

HollyShorts London, the U.K. edition of the HollyShorts Film Festival, will honor BAFTA-winning actress and filmmaker Letitia Wright and Academy Award-winning director Aneil Karia with its Trailblazer Award during the festival’s second annual edition for “their outstanding contributions to cinema.” “Letitia Wright, globally known for her role as Shuri in Marvel’s Black Panther franchise, has emerged as a powerful creative force behind the camera,” organizers said. “Her directorial debut, Highway to the Moon, premiered at HollyShorts Los Angeles to critical acclaim and will screen again at HollyShorts London. The film marks a significant new chapter in Wright’s career, showcasing her emotional…

Director and producer Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot, The Hours, The Reader) and Sonia Friedman, the theater producer behind such West End hits as Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and Stranger Things: The First Shadow, have boarded A Friend of Dorothy, a short film starring Miriam Margolyes (Harry Potter, The Age of Innocence) and Stephen Fry (Gosford Park, Wilde) as executive producers. Supported by Age U.K., the movie marks the filmmaking debut of writer-director Lee Knight, who also serves as an executive producer on the short.  A Friend of Dorothy follows “Dorothy (Margolyes), an elderly woman living alone, whose unexpected…

Bette Midler is offering a brief update on Hocus Pocus 3.  The original movie set around the witchy Sanderson sisters debuted in 1993, with the long-awaited sequel arriving to Disney+ in 2022. Following the success of Hocus Pocus 2, Sean Bailey, president of Walt Disney Studios Motion Picture Production, confirmed a third film was in the works in June 2023.  Fast forward over two years since Bailey’s announcement, Bette Midler, who plays one of the three Sanderson sisters, told Andy Cohen on Watch What Happens Live that she has seen a script for Hocus Pocus 3.  “Well, you know, they…

A small circus coming to rural England turns out to open up new opportunities and perspectives for a young woman in Calif Chong’s feature film High Wire, which world premiered at the 69th edition of the BFI London Film Festival (LFF), which wraps on Sunday. “Go-Wing’s future feels predetermined,” reads a synopsis for the movie, which Chong co-wrote with Jackie Lam. “Days are filled with working at her father’s Chinese takeaway and studying. Beneath her sense of duty is a crushing loneliness and the prospect of a life unfulfilled. So, when an acrobatic circus comes to town, with a little accidental blackmail, Go-Wing is…

A girl moves around a Chinese restaurant, talking to her working mother in Under the Wave off Little Dragon, a short film from Luo Jian, which is featured at the 69th edition of the BFI London Film Festival (LFF). The Mandarin-, English- and Welsh-language movie is 14 minutes long and part of an LFF collection of shorts screening under the title “Discovering Home.” “A Chinese girl growing up in a Welsh fishing village rejects her mother’s folklore, until she experiences one magical encounter,” reads a synopsis for the film starring Kexin Wang as the young and curious FeiFei. It also features Ah Mui Lau, Jessica…

Sian Clifford (Fleabag) as a narcissistic and lonely aristocrat in outrageous outfits and a camera crew chasing her through an English mansion are the stars of mockumentary Lady, the feature directorial debut of Samuel Abrahams, which he co-wrote with his partner Miranda Campbell Bowling. The film world premieres Thursday evening at the 69th edition of the BFI London Film Festival (LFF). Laurie Kynaston (Fool Me Once), who worked with Clifford in BBC drama Life After Life, and Juliet Cowan also star in the movie, which mixes offbeat satire, ridiculous comedy, a healthy dose of surrealism and a warm-hearted exploration of how even the most privileged…