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Sunny, the Apple TV+ mystery thriller starring Rashida Jones, has been cancelled after one season, Screen has learned. Sources close to the production confirmed that series, produced by A24, will not return following the 10-episode run that began in July and concluded with a cliffhanger on September 4. Screen has contacted Apple TV+ and A24 for comment. The story starred Jones as Suzie Sakamoto, a US woman living in a futuristic Kyoto, Japan, whose life is upended when her husband and son disappear in a mysterious plane crash. As “consolation” she’s given Sunny, one of a new class of domestic…

Rank Film (distributor) Three-day gross (Oct 26-28) Total gross to date Week  1. Venom: The Last Dance  (Sony) £4.3m £4.3m 1  2. The Wild Robot  (Universal) £1.9m £6.4m 2  3. Smile 2  (Paramount) £1m £4m 2  4. Transformers One  (Paramount) £377,581 £3.4m 3  5. The Apprentice  (Studiocanal) £372,604 £1.6m 2 GBP to USD conversion rate: 1.30 Sony’s Venom: The Last Dance started with a £4.3m weekend – enough to top the UK-Ireland box office, although down on the starts of the first two films in…

The nominations for the 34th Gotham Awards were unveiled on Tuesday, with Anora, Hard Truths, and The Last Showgirl among 39 features and 25 performances in the running for nine awards. Nominees were announced via X and sees Anora, which leads the way on four nods, Babygirl, Challengers, A Different Man, and Nickel Boys up for the best feature prize, while Pamela Anderson, Adrien Brody, Saoirse Ronan, Mikey Madison, and Demi Moore are in the running for best lead performance. Nickel Boys and I Saw The TV Glow each earned three nominations, while Hard Truths garnered two. The Substance was ineligible for best…

November  5: British Independent Film Awards (Bifa) nominations announced 5: European Film Awards nominations announced  26: British Independent Film Awards (Bifa) craft winners announced 26: Golden Globes nomination voting opens  December  2: Gotham Awards ceremony 4: Golden Globes nomination voting closes 5: Independent Spirit Awards nominations announced  5: Critics Choice Awards nominations announced  6: Bafta round one voting opens 7: European Film Awards ceremony  8: British Independent Film Awards (Bifa) ceremony  9: Oscars voting for shortlist categories opens  9: Golden Globes nominations announced 13: Oscars voting for shortlist categories closes 13: Golden Globes final round voting opens 16: SAG nomination voting opens  16: DGA…

Universal animation The Wild Robot leads the new releases at the UK and Ireland box office this weekend as Paramount’s Smile 2 and Studiocanal’s The Apprentice also open. Chris Sanders’ The Wild Robot is opening in 675 locations. Produced by Dreamworks, the film follows a service robot shipwrecked on an uninhabited island who forms relationships with the local wildlife. A starry ensemble comprises the voice cast including Lupita Nyong’o, Pedro Pascal, Kit Connor, Bill Nighy, Stephanie Hsu, Mark Hamill and Catherine O’Hara. It has already proven a box office hit abroad, topping the global charts last week to bring its total…

Worldwide box office October 4-6 Rank Film (distributor) 3-day (world) Cume (world) 3-day (int’l)  Cume (int’l) Territories  1.  Joker: Folie À Deux (Warner Bros)  $121.m  $121.1m  $81.1m  $81.1m  77  2.  The Volunteers: To The War 2 (various)  $45.1m  $111.3m  $45.1m  $111.3m  2  3.   The Wild Robot (Universal)  $31.7m  $100.4m  $13m  $36.5m  37  4.   Tiger Wolf Rabbit (various)  $18.7m  $47.2m  $18.7m  $47.2m  1  5.   Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Warner Bros)  $18.5m  $402.6m  $8.2m  $137.1m  78  6.   Panda Plan (various)  $13.8m  $27.1m  $13.8m  $27.1m  1  7.  Transformers One (Paramount)  $13.3m  $97m  $7.9m  $49.8m  62 …

The British Film Institute (BFI) says the organisation “remains committed” to the African Odysseys programme, as an online petition voicing concerns over the programme’s future reached 12,078 signatures, as of October 25. African Odysseys is a 17-year-old programme that was set up in 2007 by grassroots Black community activists who were already showing films at various London venues, with a view to give a singular home to those films, advise and help the BFI show African diaspora content and bring an underserved Black audience into the BFI Southbank, as well as offering training to young Black filmmakers. It includes a…

Warner Bros has acquired global rights to Emerald Fennell’s upcoming Wuthering Heights, after what the studio describes as a “fierce bidding war”. The film, starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi, will play in cinemas worldwide through Warner Bros. Fennell has written and will direct and produce the feature adaptation of Emily Bronte’s novel. MRC is financing the film, which Robbie’s LuckyChap is producing. Production dates are not yet confirmed. Run by Robbie, Tom Ackerley and Josey McNamara, LuckyChap has a multi-year first look feature film deal with Warner Bros. The companies collaborated on last year’s mega-hit Barbie. “From the moment…

Harvey Weinstein was back in a Manhattan court on Wednesday when a judge ruled that he will face consolidated sex crimes charges in a 2025 trial. No date has been set for the case, which combines a retrial of his overturned 2020 rape conviction and new charges brought last month. Prosecutors have pushed for an April trial and a date will be set at the next court hearing on January 29, 2025. Weinstein, 72, who earlier this week was revealed to have chronic myeloid leukemia, has consistently denied all charges. In April, New York Court of Appeals overturned Weinstein’s 2020…

FilmSharks has announced a handful of deals with blue-chip distributors led by the US and UK on a remastered 4K version of Nine Queens, the Argentinian crime thriller that launched the career of Ricardo Darin. Sony Pictures Classics has renewed its agreement for North America and is believed to be re-releasing the film soon, 22 years after it initially distributed it, while Curzon has acquired rights for the UK. In other deals, Warner Bros Discovery has acquired rights for Eastern Europe and A Contracorriente will distribute in Spain. The late Fabián Bielinsky’s Nine Queens (Nueve Reinas, 2000) stars Darin and…