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Sundance Film Festival’s 2025 line-up comprises 87 features, nearly half of which are directed by women, and is crammed with new work by returning stars and indie stalwarts including Olivia Colman, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jennifer Lopez, Isabelle Huppert, Mark Ruffalo, and Dev Patel. Among anticipated highlights are the feature directorial debut of UK playwright and incoming Young Vic artistic director Nadia Fall with her Bankside Films sales title Brides in World Cinema Dramatic Competition, about teenage friends who plan to travel to Syria.  Scroll down for the full line-up Peter Hujar’s Day, a drama in Premieres about the New York portrait photographer starring…

Musical Wicked is hoping to bewitch audiences this weekend, coming out in 698 sites for Universal. The first of a two-part adaptation of the stage musical stars Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Jonathan Bailey, Michelle Yeoh and Jeff Goldblum, with Jon M Chu directing. Elphaba (Erivo), a misunderstood young woman because of her green skin, and Glinda (Grande), a more conventional and popular girl, become friends at Shiz University in the Land of Oz. Their friendship is taken in a new direction after they cross paths with the Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Wicked is the third in a trio of blockbuster…

Emilia Perez earned the most film nominations for the 2025 Golden Globes, with 10 nods, followed by The Brutalist on seven and Conclave on six. Emilia Perez is up for best drama, director and screenplay for Jacques Audiard, with Karla Sofía Gascón nominated for actress – musical or comedy, and Selena Gomez and Zoe Saldana both up for supporting actress. The Brutalist is competing for best drama, director and screenplay for Brady Corbet, plus acting nods for Adrien Brody, Guy Pearce and Felicity Jones. Next up on the film side are Sean Baker’s Anora and Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance with…

The British Independent Film Awards (Bifas) winners are being unveiled from a ceremony at London’s Roundhouse.  Scroll down for winners Screen is updating this page live from the ceremony as the winners are announced – refresh this page for the latest winners. Scroll down for the full nominations and craft winners. Sophie Okonedo is receiving the Richard Harris award. The actor is best known for her Oscar-nominated performance in 2004’s Hotel Rwanda  while her other film credits include The Secret Lie Of Bees, Christopher Robin, Wild Rose, Death On The Nile  and Catherine Called Birdy. Bifa winners 2024  Winners in bold, latest award top Breakthrough performance Nykiya Adams…

The European Film Awards is taking place in the Swiss city of Lucerne tonight (December 7) and Screen is revealing the winners live from the ceremony, which kicked off at 20.00 CET. Scroll down for winners To read the winners as they are announced, you can refresh the page and scroll down to the full list below.  The ceremony is also being live-streamed below. Emilia Pérez and The Room Next Door are the front-runners for this year’s awards with four nominations apiece. Fifteen features compete for the best European film prize, up from five last year. This follows a recent…

With major titles still dominating the UK and Ireland box office, it is a quiet weekend for new releases as event cinema leads the way while Nightbitch and Rumours also launch. Andre Rieu’s 2024 Christmas Concert: Gold And Silver lands in 642 cinemas for A Piece Of Magic. The Dutch conductor’s last release opened with £700,000 while his 2023 Christmas concert scored £1.2m.  Indian action Pushpa 2 is screening in 230 venues via AA Films. The Telugu-language sequel follows Pushpa as his sandalwood smuggling business faces strong opposition from the police.  CinemaLive is playing music documentary RM: Right People, Wrong Place in…

Bafta has made strides in attracting more members who are women or from underrepresented ethnic groups since 2020, according to statistics released by the organisation today (December 5).  In the past four years, the gender split for new members is 52/48 female/male (based on respondents who identify as such), compared with 42/58 female/male overall. The data also shows that 28% of new members since 2020 are from underrepresented ethnic groups, versus 17% in total. The organisation has also made progress in other areas; 22% of new members since 2020 identify as LGBTQIA+ and 13% have a disability, compared to 14%…

Sean Baker’s Anora and Jane Schoenbrun’s I Saw The TV Glow lead the 2025 Independent Spirit Award nominations with six each. Both films were nominated in best feature, best director, best lead performance, best supporting performance and the producers award with I Saw The TV Glow also picking up best screenplay. While Anora has been considered a strong awards contender across the branches since picking up the Palme d’Or at Cannes Film Festival earlier this year, I Saw The TV Glow has had more success in the independent sphere. The film premiered at Sundance and has since played Berlinale Panorama, San Sebastian, and SXSW. The…

New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC) has awarded best film to Brady Corbet’s American Dream epic The Brutalist and ensured that for the second time in two days, No Other Land and All We Imagine As Light have been recognised in non-fiction and international categories. The Brutalist star Adrien Brody earned best actor for his portrayal of a fictitious Hungarian Holocaust survivor who arrives in the States and is commissioned by a wealthy businessman to build a massive monument to his mother. A24 acquired US rights prior to the film’s world premiere in Venice, where Corbet earned the Silver Lion for…

Disney’s Moana 2 surged to the top of the Korean box office on its opening weekend, commanding 58% of ticket sales on one of the busiest weekends of the year. The animated sequel earned an impressive $7.1m from Friday through Sunday (November 29 – December 1), according to data provided by Kobis, the Korean Film Council’s box office tracking service. The strong performance appears to have revitalised a sluggish Korean box office that had seen weekend earnings dip below $10m for 10 consecutive weeks. Within its first five days in theatres, the film has racked up a cume of $8.9m,…