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Onwards and Sideways is going across the pond to world premiere at the 2026 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in a TIFF Gala Presentation, it was unveiled Monday morning. And The Hollywood Reporter can now exclusively unveil new images from the film from John Gore Studios and Hilltop Screen, starring Emmy and Golden Globe winner Laura Linney (Ozark, Love Actually, John Adams) and BAFTA winner Rhys Ifans (Inheritance, Venom: The Last Dance, House of the Dragon) as two people with lots in common – a great sense of humor, a love of dance, and, as just diagnosed, Parkinson’s.  ‘Onwards and Sideways’ Courtesy of BBC/Hilltop…

Winners of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts’ 22nd BAFTA Student Awards include young filmmakers from Spain, France, China and the United States, it was revealed at a ceremony in Los Angeles on Friday night that was hosted by TV host Elle Osili Wood and featured presenters such as actor/producer Asif Ali, actor/writer Wil Wheaton, immersive artist Gina Kim and film executives Kathryn Busby and Niels Swinkels. The BAFTA Student Awards celebrate emerging creative talent from around the world across film, games and immersive storytelling. This year’s winners were chosen from more than 600 submissions from universities worldwide…

On May 1, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced a major change to the eligibility rules for the best international feature film. No longer would a film have to be nominated by the country of origin; henceforth, it could land in the pool of nominees by winning an award from a list of high-profile international film festivals. Moreover, in recognition of the fact that a person not a nation actually directs the film, the director’s name and not the country’s will be engraved for posterity on the statuette plaque. The new protocols for the best international film category,…

Christopher Nolan‘s The Odyssey sets sail on its box office voyage as the star-studded retelling of the classical mythological tale aims to get moviegoers back in the saddle after a recent stretch of underperforming debuts. Universal Pictures‘ feature collected $17.6 million from Thursday previews on 3,900 North American screens as it targets a projected opening between the mid-$80 million range to upwards of $100 million. The film eyes a global start around $200 million and carries a hefty $250 million production budget. Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson and Lupita Nyong’o star in the story of Odysseus (Damon)…

Danny Boyle‘s Ink, a drama about Rupert Murdoch’s rise to media power in the world of the U.K. tabloids, will open this year’s Venice Film Festival. Ink will have its world premiere in competition in Venice, opening the 83rd festival on Sept. 2. Guy Pearce stars as Murdoch in the biographical drama, from playwright James Graham, who adapted his Tony-nominated play of the same name for the screen. Jack O’Connell (Sinners) plays Larry Lamb, hired by Murdoch to run his new British tabloid The Sun and transform it into a dark force in British media. Claire Foy plays Jules Davies.…

The new global mixed martial arts league led by CEO Scott Coker, the former Bellator boss and Strikeforce founder, has added Steve Bornstein, the former CEO of ESPN and the NFL Network, to its advisory board as the promotion continues to build toward its 2027 debut. Bornstein will “advise the promotion across key areas of growth, including media strategy, distribution, technology, fan engagement and commercial development,” the league said on Wednesday. The advisory group helping shape the league’s global launch also includes Wade Davis, former CEO of TelevisaUnivision and former CFO of Viacom, Steve Kaplan, co-founder of Oaktree Capital and owner of…

Boutique distributor 1-2 Special has acquired Emmanuel Marre’s French period drama A Man of His Time for North America, the company announced Tuesday. A rare look at the Vichy regime and French collaboration with the Nazis, Marre’s movie is inspired by the story of his own great-grandfather. Set in 1940, it follows Henri Marre (played by Anatomy of a Fall actor Swann Arlaud) as he tries to ingratiate himself with the new regime. A Man of His Time was well-received at its world premiere in Cannes, where it won the prize for best screenplay. In his review for The Hollywood…

Christopher Nolan reportedly “grimaces” when told Matt Damon‘s viral quote about making The Odyssey and what it meant for cinema’s future. The Oscar-winning director was being interviewed about his mythological epic, which is open this week, when The Telegraph asked about a recent comment by his film’s leading man. Damon had said he had a nostalgic feeling while making the epic feature “because it felt like the movies when I started working — and I know that that’s going away.” The actor added, “I knew that this was the last chance I was going to have to do something like…

Christopher Nolan says the online conversation surrounding The Odyssey is ultimately “irrelevant.” In a recent interview with The Telegraph, the Oscar-winning filmmaker responded to criticism surrounding his adaptation of Homer’s epic, which has sparked online debate over some of its casting choices and the use of American accents and modern dialogue in its trailers. “Comes with the territory,” Nolan told the publication. “But look, these conversations that happen before people see the film — they’re always irrelevant, because no one having them knows what the film actually is yet.” The director went on to compare the early reaction to The…

The Serbian drama 3 Weeks After (3 Nedelje Posle), directed by Miroslav Terzić, has won the Europa Cinemas Label as the best European film at the 60th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF). The jury of three Europa Cinemas Network exhibitors unveiled their pick on Saturday afternoon. 3 Weeks After, which explores peer violence and which The Hollywood Reporter recently discussed with Terzić, will now receive the support of the Europa Cinemas Network, with additional promotion and incentives for exhibitors to extend the film’s run on screen. The jury statement about the film, which had its world…