Author: Hollyood rep

If your one true wish after seeing Curry Barker’s Obsession was to get your hands on a One Wish Willow, you might need to resort to some magic — or come up with wads of cash. Focus Features’ surprise horror smash has created such a fan frenzy for the novelty item featured in the film that inventory sold out in 12 hours when batches hit the distributor’s dedicated online store. Buyers were limited to purchasing three at a time at $6.99 each, and Focus stocked the site on two separate occasions, first on April 15 and again on May 12. Though…

The 2026 Locarno Film Festival will honor a trailblazing Iceland-born, U.S.-based film, music video and TV producer who has been behind some of the most popular and renowned movies and series of the past decades: Sigurjón “Joni” Sighvatsson. He will be celebrated with the Raimondo Rezzonico Award in the Swiss town’s Piazza Grande on the evening of Aug. 6, with the official program screening two key films from his career: David Lynch’s Wild at Heart (1990) and Philippe Parreno and Douglas Gordon’s soccer icon documentary Zidane, A 21st Century Portrait (2006). “Whether as co-founder of Propaganda Films in 1986 –…

Lilly Wachowski shared the words she would tell herself 30 years ago, before her gender transition, when she was co-writing and directing the 1996 neo-noir classic Bound, which helped launch The Matrix filmmaker’s career. “Well, start taking that estrogen. What are you doing? Come out of the closet!” Wachowski told moderator Julie Klausner and a captivated crowd at the Tribeca Festival. Wachowski was on stage at the Tribeca Festival in Manhattan with the cast of her and sister Lana Wachowski’s sapphic, career-kickstarting feature film debut, including Jennifer Tilly, Gina Gershon, Joe Pantoliano and Christopher Meloni. The festival screened the film…

Oscar-nominated director Jafar Panahi (It Was Just An Accident) is facing another prison sentence and a travel ban after an Iranian court upheld its verdict finding him guilty of “propaganda against the regime.” The court upheld an earlier ruling, made in-absentia when Panahi was traveling outside Iran to support the awards campaign of It Was Just an Accident, sentencing the director to a year in prison and a two-year travel ban. Panahi is also prohibted from joining political and social groups and associations. Panahi’s lawyer, Mostafa Nili, announced on Sunday that the Tehran Revolutionary Court has rejected his objections to…

Ivy Bettencourt (Emilia Clarke), the heroine of writer-director Drake Doremus‘ latest romantic navel-gazer, is a little bit of a mess. We know this because the first time we see her, she’s oversleeping her alarm by so much that she barely makes her train — at which point she promptly spills coffee all over a handsome stranger, Edgar Ramírez’s Diego. We also know this because one of the next times we see her, she’s getting smashed at her goddaughter’s christening, having just reconnected with Noah (Jack Farthing), the ex-boyfriend and ex-boss who’d so recently broken her heart. Next Life The Bottom…

Tribeca Festival has extended its partnership with Impresa Group to stage Tribeca Festival Lisboa in Lisbon, Portugal for another three years to 2028. Tribeca’s Portuguese indie film showcase, in its third edition set to run Dec. 9 to 13, 2026, will also see a move from Lisbon’s Beato Innovation District to the Avenida da Liberdade, the city’s tree-lined Champs-Elysees. That gets the Tribeca collaboration with Portugal’s media players and filmmakers into the heart of Lisbon and filling movies theaters and cultural venues like Cinema São Jorge, Teatro Tivoli and Capitólio. The deal extension with Impresa also expands Tribeca’s efforts to bridge…

It was around the third or fourth franchise chapters that both Scary Movie and Scream, the horror satire it started out parodying, veered so far into meta humor that they became narratively broken, too self-reflexive to be of interest to anyone but teenagers busy congratulating themselves on every reference they got. Both series peaked early and both sputtered on to diminishing returns before giving up the ghost (sorry) — at least until the IP was dusted off again, to arguable gain in the case of Scream. Thirteen years have passed since the last Scary Movie, which means there’s been a decade-plus of horror ripe for…

Ari Millen is the devilish titular character offering kids sweet delights with horrifying results in the trailer for Eli Roth’s Ice Cream Man, which dropped on Wednesday. Axes, hacksaws, baseball bats are the weapons of choice for children having a meltdown in an idyllic town plunged into madness when the ice cream man from his truck doles out treats on a summer’s day. “That ice cream’s demonic. They’re not trying to kill us. They’re trying to turn us. We have to run!” one kid is heard saying in a voice over in the trailer as bloody mayhem ensues. The film…

That Alice (Nicola Walker) would react badly to learning that Steve (Jemaine Clement), her ex-boyfriend turned best friend of 30 years, is dating her 26-year-old daughter (Yali Topol Margalith) was a given. For one thing, it’s hard to imagine who wouldn’t be weirded out by such a situation. For another, Alice is the kind of brash, impulsive, self-centered personality unlikely to take anything in stride, much less a piece of news as explosive as this one. So even as she throws herself into petty vengeance, going to further and further extremes in her feud against Steve, it’s hard to say…

Open Doors, the Locarno Film Festival‘s co-production platform and talent development program for filmmakers from equity-seeking communities and regions where artistic expression is at risk, is gearing up for its second edition with a focus on African cinema, unveiling on Monday its selection of projects and producers for 2026. Organizers promise “a bold and diverse slate of voices from across the African continent” in an edition that brings together filmmakers whose work spans fiction, documentary and animation across more than 10 countries. Running Aug. 5-10, the Open Doors program offers hands-on training, mentoring and networking, alongside public screenings and events…