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Spain is widely seen as having one of the strongest and most competitive fields to choose from when it comes to determining its best international feature film submission for the 2027 Oscars. On Thursday, the country unveiled a shortlist of three movies remaining in contention before a final pick is unveiled on Sept. 16. And the candidates are… The Beloved by Rodrigo Sorogoyen, La bola negra (The Black Ball) by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, aka Los Javis, or the two Javiers, and Sundays by Alauda Ruiz de Azúa. The first two films were Cannes breakouts earlier this year. However, the third Spanish movie in the Cannes 2026 competition program,…

The Venice Film Festival has become synonymous with the Oscar launch. If you have a movie with awards season pretensions — think La La Land, The Shape of Water, Poor Things or The Brutalist — you take it to the Lido. This year feels different. Politics, not awards campaigns, has taken center stage. Venice’s 83rd edition is packed with films focused on right-wing media moguls and the crackdown on immigration, on the conflicts in Israel, Iran and Russia, on the abuses of capitalism and the rise of authoritarian power. The lineup, according to artistic director Alberto Barbera, is Venice’s “most…

Some stories refuse to stay on the page. The Hollywood Reporter’s Beyond the Book column explores what happens when books make the leap to screen and beyond — unpacking what changed, how it was done and why it matters with the creatives who made it.  ***  There’s a reason producer Jennifer Gibgot and manager-producer Lena Roklin keep finding each other at the center of the romance-adaptation arena.  Gibgot has spent three decades contributing to the romance genre’s onscreen catalog — from She’s All That and 17 Again to Nicholas Sparks’ The Last Song, the After films and the Step Up…

Soleil Moon Frye‘s documentary Werewolf in the Waves, an intimate look at her relationship with late Crazy Town rocker Shifty Shellshock, has a new team riding the surf with her. Leonardo DiCaprio‘s Appian Way and Emmy winner Dax Dasilva have boarded as executive producers. Frye, who previously directed the nostalgia-laced doc Kid 90 about her experience in Hollywood as a child star turned young adult in the 1990s, directed the majority of Werewolf in the Waves on her iPhone. The footage she captured centers on a reunion with Seth Binzer, aka Shifty, an old friend from childhood. Frye originally set…

It might not have been quite the show of emphatic box office support that Looney Tunes fans hoped to see after Coyote vs. Acme avoided becoming a Warner Bros. tax write-off, but the film managed to get rolling over the weekend to score a second-place finish behind the unstoppable Spider-Man: Brand New Day. Meanwhile, Ridley Scott‘s The Dog Stars was sent to the doghouse. Ketchup Entertainment released Coyote vs. Acme on 3,575 North American screens, with the film grossing $15.4 million for the weekend after collecting $5.3 million on Friday. Earning an A CinemaScore from audiences, the hybrid of animation…

The time has finally come: Coyote vs. Acme is now playing in theaters. To celebrate the film’s official release day, director Dave Green shared a thank-you letter on social media, writing in part, “COYOTE VS. ACME IS FINALLY, GLORIOUSLY, IN THEATERS NOW. Which means one thing. WE WON. You can go see this movie. In a theater. In your favorite seat. With your favorite snacks. With your favorite people. You can head into a dark room and laugh with strangers. Together. Congratulations to everyone who made this happen.” Coyote vs. Acme, a hybrid live-action and animated movie set in the…

Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters, Nobel-winning writer Annie Ernaux, actor Guy Pearce and a host of Italian and international artists have signed an open letter to the Venice Biennale and the Venice Film Festival calling on the event to take “concrete action” against what they describe as a genocide against the Palestinian people. The appeal under the Venice4Palestine banner follows a similar open letter to the Venice film festival a year ago that has apparently yielded no tangible results for Gaza. “A new normality… has emerged—thanks in part to a false ceasefire. Israel has not only not stopped, but has continued its…

Samuel Monroe Jr., the veteran character actor and star of Menace II Society, has died. He was 52. “I want to thank all of my Facebook family and friends new and old for praying for Samuel Monroe Jr., my son. But today God called him home. Please honor my final request to pray for the family, especially his 3 children,” Joyce Patton, his mother, wrote in a post on Thursday. In a GoFundMe page that is seeking donations to help offset his steep medical care costs, Tayonna Stewart, daughter of Shawna Stewart, Monroe’s partner, noted that the actor had been…

The Match Factory, the world sales company owned by arthouse streamer Mubi, has boarded four newly restored feature films by Palme d’Or-winning Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, adding a batch of the filmmaker’s earlier work to its catalog ahead of the Venice Film Festival. Match Factory has secured international rights, excluding North America, the UK, Ireland, Japan, Switzerland and Thailand, to Blissfully Yours (2002), which won the Un Certain Regard prize at Cannes; Tropical Malady (2004), winner of the Cannes Jury Prize; Syndromes and a Century (2006), which premiered in competition in Venice; and his Palme d’Or winning Uncle Boonmee Who…

Virginie Efira and Tao Okamoto, who shared the best actress prize at May’s Cannes Film Festival for their performances in Japanese auteur Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s French-language debut All of a Sudden, will not be pitted against one another this awards season, The Hollywood Reporter has exclusively learned. Neon, which will release All of a Sudden in the U.S. on Nov. 25, will push Efira, who plays the director of a Paris nursing home in the film, for best actress, and Okamoto, who plays a terminally-ill Japanese playwright, for best supporting actress. The distributor, which has guided a considerable number of non-English-language…