Author: Hollyood rep

Things are starting to get complicated between Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi in the teaser trailer for filmmaker Emerald Fennell‘s Wuthering Heights. Based on author Emily Brontë’s classic novel of the same name, the film is set for theatrical release from Warner Bros. on Feb. 13, 2026. Hong Chau, Shazad Latif, Alison Oliver, Martin Clunes and Ewan Mitchell round out the cast. “Do you want me to stop?” Elordi asks in the trailer, to which Robbie replies, “No.” Fennell helmed the movie from her own script that is based on Brontë’s book. Fennell, Robbie and Josey McNamara produce the project…

David Jonsson is beaming with pride as he sits down to talk to The Hollywood Reporter. It’s late August and the in-demand British actor has come to a local school in rural England to counsel the next generation of film creatives. He’s teamed up with BAFTA and EE for a new initiative, Set the Stage, where 16 teens have been selected to form a crew and produce a short film under the mentorship of Daisy Edgar-Jones and Jonsson, 2025’s recipient of BAFTA’s EE Rising Star Award. “I’m relatively quite shy,” the Rye Lane and Alien: Romulus star says to THR.…

Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine, starring Dwayne Johnson as legendary mixed martial arts and UFC fighter Mark Kerr, delivered a knockout punch Monday at the Venice Film Festival. The A24 film had its world premiere Monday night inside Sala Grande and the audience went wild, responding with a 15-minute standing ovation. It proved to be a special night for Johnson as Kerr also made the trek to Venice for the showing where they were joined by co-star Emily Blunt. Amid cheers of “DJ,” “Benny” and “Emily,” the audience went wild as all four — Johnson, Blunt, Safdie and Kerr — were…

Chris Columbus, who directed the first two Harry Potter movies, said a reunion with the original cast is “never going to happen” due to author J.K. Rowling‘s anti-trans stances. The filmmaker has previously expressed interest in a film adaptation of the Broadway play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child with the cast of the beloved franchise, but has since scrapped his plans because it’s gotten too “complicated.” “It’s never going to happen,” Columbus recently told The Times U.K. “It’s gotten so complicated with all the political stuff. Everyone in the cast has their own opinion, which is different from her opinion, which makes it impossible.”…

Ballad of a Small Player, the latest film by Conclave director Edward Berger, has two main things going for it. One is an arresting lead performance by Colin Farrell. He plays Lord Doyle, a con man and gambling addict hiding out in the casinos of Macau; given that he spends much of the film looking on the verge of psychological or physical annihilation, one wonders what he could possibly be running from that might be worse than this. Ballad of a Small Player The Bottom Line All flash, no substance. Venue: Telluride Film FestivalRelease date: Wednesday, Oct. 15 Cast: Colin…

Mortal Kombat II was not yet finished with selecting its ideal release date. Warner Bros. is now set to release director Simon McQuoid’s sequel movie in theaters May 15, 2026, after it was previously slated for release in two months on Oct. 24. The film will now be part of the launch of next year’s summer season and avoids the crowded landscape of this October. Earlier this year, Sony’s Final Destination: Bloodlines found success in a similar May slot. Hailing from New Line and based on the popular video game franchise that dates back to the 1990s, the film stars Karl Urban as Johnny Cage,…

Ridley Scott has revealed that he turned down a $20 million offer to direct Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. The Oscar-nominated filmmaker recently told The Guardian, “I’m proud about this. I turned down a $20M fee. See, I can’t be bought, dude.” While the 2003 Arnold Schwarzenegger-led pic was ultimately helmed by director Jonathan Mostow, Scott admitted he did inquire about the lead star’s pay for the third installment before officially declining the offer. “Someone said: ‘Ask what Arnie gets.’ I thought: ‘I’ll try it out.’ I said: ‘I want what Arnie gets.’ When they said yes, I thought:…

One of the world’s biggest movie stars is feeling under the weather on the eve of his Venice Film Festival world premiere. The Hollywood Reporter has learned that George Clooney unexpectedly had to scale back his festival itinerary Wednesday by cutting short a press junket for his competition film Jay Kelly from Noah Baumbach and skipping a dinner with the film’s talent. According to multiple sources close to the film and its press schedule, Clooney started to feel unwell Wednesday and was advised to head straight home and rest up ahead of a packed Thursday, which will deliver the official…

The Venice Film Festival has no official market — no Marche du Film, no European Film Market — meaning the deals on the Lido tend to happen quietly, in hotel suites at the Excelsior and over spritzes along the Lungomare. But sellers still see the festival as a prime launchpad, using it to float prestige projects to the right buyers, banking on critical heat to position art house titles that could otherwise vanish in a crowded marketplace. “It’s a different kind of hustle,” says one veteran European sales agent. “You’re not going to Venice to presell a title and close…

Frank Price, the writer-producer who emerged from the world of TV Westerns to preside over the television and movie divisions at Universal and serve two terms as the head of Columbia Pictures, died Monday. He was 95. Price died in his sleep of natural causes at his home in Santa Monica, his son Roy Price, the former president of Amazon Studios, told The Hollywood Reporter. As a movie boss, Frank Price had a hand in such critical successes as the Oscar best picture winners Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), Gandhi (1982) and Out of Africa (1985) and huge money-makers including Tootsie…