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Her Story, Yihui Shao’s feature dramedy that became something of a feminist phenomenon in China, scored another big win by securing the top prize at the 27th Far East Film Festival (FEFF), which concluded Friday night in the northern Italian city of Udine. The film, which grossed almost $100 million at China’s box office and inspired a thousand think pieces about its radical and refreshing themes, received FEFF’s Golden Mulberry Audience Award. Her Story stars Song Jia and Zhong Chuxi, and tells the story of two single women who become neighbors, and despite their contrasting personalities and circumstances, become fast…

Amazon MGM Studios is continuing to lock up its cast for the forthcoming comedy feature Judgment Day from director Nicholas Stoller. Heidi Gardner and golfer Bobby Ray have joined the cast for the movie that is set to star Will Ferrell and Zac Efron. Other previously announced castmembers include Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Jimmy Tatro, Michael Peña, Fortune Feimster, Bill Camp, Billy Eichner, Tyler Lofton, Rachel Hilson, Rory Scovel, Bobby Cannavale and Regina Hall.  Judgment Day focuses on a young convict (Efron) who gets out of prison and takes an unscripted TV courtroom hostage, as he blames the egomaniacal judge (Ferrell)…

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, The Hollywood Reporter may receive an affiliate commission. Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick reunite as frenemies Emily Nelson and Stephanie Smothers — this time in Capri, Italy — in Another Simple Favor, the sequel to director Paul Feig’s hit 2018 film, A Simple Favor. After premiering at SXSW in March, Another Simple Favor is now streaming online exclusively on Prime Video. The comedy-mystery takes place in the lead up to Emily’s lavish wedding to a wealthy businessman in Italy. Henry Golding returns as Stephanie’s now-ex-husband…

Guy Ritchie has signed on to direct Road House 2, the sequel to Amazon MGM Studios’ hit action movie starring Jake Gyllenhaal. Will Beall, whose credits range from comic book movies such as Aquaman to action flicks such as Bad Boys: Ride or Die, is writing the script. Gyllenhaal will reprise his role as Dalton, the ex-UFC fighter who takes a job as a bouncer at a Florida Keys bar. Gyllenhaal will also produce with Josh McLaughlin via the duo’s Nine Stories Productions banner along with Charles Roven and Alex Gartner of Altas Entertainment. Plot details, as well as setting,…

Lightning has struck many times for Marvel Studios at the box office before Kevin Feige‘s superhero studio went through some turbulent times in recent years. Now comes another chance. Later this week, Thunderbolts* kicks off the summer box office in a pivotal moment for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Directed by Jake Schreier, the film brings together a band of dysfunctional outsiders — and lesser-known comic book characters — who discover their potential to be heroes when working together. Tracking suggests the movie will open in the $70 million to $73 million range domestically, and $160 million to $175 million globally,…

Fifty years after first hitting theaters, Monty Python and the Holy Grail is still standing, as it holds a lofty position among comedy-movie royalty. Released by EMI Films in the U.S. on April 28, 1975, the project marked the first original feature for the legendary British comedy troupe that was known at the time for the BBC sketch series Monty Python’s Flying Circus and comprised of John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones and Michael Palin. Co-directed by Gilliam and Jones, Holy Grail follows Chapman as King Arthur in his quest for the titular vessel. It is…

Lux Pascal is gushing over her older brother and his Hollywood domination. Pascal, whose acting credits include Chilean dramas Veinteañero a los 40 and Juana Brava, is the younger sister of Pedro Pascal and caught up with The Hollywood Reporter on the red carpet of Madrid’s Platino Awards Sunday night, Ibero-America’s annual film and television awards ceremony. It turns out, the younger Pascal sibling tells THR, that the Fantastic Four and The Last of Us star is truly just as brilliant as fans think he is. “I’m incredibly proud,” Lux said. “But the thing is that I’ve always known that…

With director Mary Harron‘s American Psycho recently celebrating its 25th anniversary, the team behind the cult-favorite film tells The Hollywood Reporter their initial impressions of Luca Guadagnino‘s plan to take a stab at a new feature. Hitting theaters from Lionsgate on April 14, 2000, American Psycho stars Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman, a banker with murderous fantasies, in the adaptation of author Bret Easton Ellis’ best-selling novel satirizing 1980s yuppie culture. Lionsgate has recently announced that Guadagnino is attached to helm a new take on the book with a script from Scott Z. Burns, and the director himself appeared via…

After Shazam! Fury of the Gods, David F. Sandberg wanted to stop directing “IP-based movies.”  Sanberg helmed the original Shazam! film in 2019 and its corresponding sequel in 2023. However, after a disappointing box office run and much criticism from the second DC installment, Sandberg said in a Tuesday interview with GamesRadar+ that he was ready to write off the subgenre of film for good.  “I mean, to be honest, fans can get very, very crazy and very angry with you,” he said. “You can get death threats and everything so after Shazam! 2, I was like, ‘I never wanna…

Every so often, the work of a filmmaker is given a major critical and public reassessment, allowing them to enter the pantheon of great directors. It happened in the 1950s, when French critics declared that Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock and Samuel Fuller were not only skillful helmers of genre flicks, but auteurs with distinct personal visions. Later, John Ford was revisited by Peter Bogdanovich and Lindsay Anderson, in books claiming he was more than just a maker of great Westerns. In the 1990s, the Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski and the Iranian Abbas Kiarostami, both of whom had been working steadily…