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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…

1. “They Got the Wrong Envelope!” (2017) Standing in the wings, Los Angeles Times photographer Al Seib captured the astonished expressions of the front rows of Oscar attendees — among them Meryl Streep, Dwayne Johnson and Matt Damon — as well as Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs and a slew of other luminaries when it became apparent that La La Land had not, in fact, won best picture (it was Moonlight!), despite Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway’s announcement. It later was dicovered that the mistake was not the presenters’ but that of a distracted and starstruck PwC accountant, Brian Cullinan.…

Eighty years before Isabella Rossellini landed her first Academy Award nomination, her mother won her first Oscar. Ingrid Bergman was named best actress for her turn in Gaslight, George Cukor’s 1944 feature centering on a woman whose husband suggests that she is losing her sanity after they move into the London home where her aunt was murdered a decade earlier. The film also starred Angela Lansbury in her Oscar-nominated feature debut. THR noted in June 1943 that Bergman, who had appeared in Casablanca the year prior, had been cast in Gaslight, Cukor’s first project since his World War II stint…

Black Box Diaries In her debut documentary feature, which premiered at Sundance, the journalist Shiori Ito chronicles her journey for legal recourse in a case against the high-profile reporter she accused of rape. Read THR‘s full review here. Oscar nominations: Best documentary feature film (Shiori Ito, Eric Nyari and Hanna Aqvilin) Watch Black Box Diaries online: Stream on Paramount+, Hulu plus Paramount+ with Showtime; buy or rent on Apple TV, Prime Video No Other Land A collective of Israeli and Palestinian filmmakers helm a project about the Israeli government’s attempts to expel Palestinians in Masafer Yatta. Read THR‘s full review…

The richest independent film financier in the world is a man you’ve probably never heard of. He prefers to keep it that way. Steven Rales, net worth $11 billion, has two Oscar-nominated movies this year. Conclave, released via his Indian Paintbrush banner, received eight nods, including best picture, and Flow, from his recently acquired Janus imprint, is up for animated and international honors. Steven Rales JC Olivera/Getty Images For the past two decades, the 73-year-old Rales also has been the Medici-like backer of Wes Anderson, beginning with The Darjeeling Limited and then The Fantastic Mr. Fox, for which he even…