Labubu, the plush toy line of scruffy cute-ugly monsters, could be headed to the big screen. Sony Pictures, home of the Jumanji movies and, via its animation division, KPop Demon Hunters, has picked up the screen rights to the Chinese doll brand with the aim of making a movie and, in success, launching a franchise. No producer or filmmaker is...

Ted Hartley, an actor, two-time Tony-nominated producer and chairman and CEO of RKO Pictures, has died. He was 100. Alongtime resident of the Hamptons, Hartley died Oct. 10 in New York City, The East Hampton Star reported. In 1991, he and his late wife, actress Dina Merrill, took control of what was left of the famed RKO when their company,...

For Shih-Ching Tsou and Sean Baker, the road to making Left-Handed Girl lasted about as long as theyve known each other which is to say, about 25 years. They met in 1999 at the New School in New York, where Tsou was a graduate student in media studies and Baker was taking editing courses after graduating from New York University....

Everyone involved inSentimental Valueknew it would all come down to the final shot. Joachim Triers follow-up to his Oscar-nominatedThe Worst Person in the World(2021) was always going to be a delicate balancing act: An attempt to make aTerms of Endearmentstyle melodrama without treacle or schmaltz. Sentimental ValuestarsWorst Personbreakout Renate Reinsve as Nora, a celebrated but troubled theater actress, and Stellan...

The man who made global headlines by rushing and grabbing Ariana Grande on the Wicked: For Good red carpet Thursday has been arrested and charged in Singapore. Johnson Wen, a 26-year-old Australian, was charged with being a public nuisance, according to the BBC. He posted on Instagram that he was already free after being arrested in an incident that reportedly...

Film begins with the human face, Ingmar Bergman famously said. But that may be changing in the age of generative AI. One of the hot-button questions these days is what technological change means for storytelling. And will AI characters, whether you call them Tilly Norwood or something else, ever manage to come across like humans? British filmmaker Marc Isaacs (The...

Human mortality, the need for connection, and the yearning for transcendence take center stage in LifeLike (Bir Arada Yalnz), the third feature film from Turkishwriter-director Ali Vatansever(Saf, El Yazisi). But by shooting some scenes inside the online virtual reality platform VRChat, the movie also tells a very timely story and explores a new cinematic language. LifeLikeworld premieresin themain competitionprogram of...

Oscar-winning actress Michelle Yeoh will be honored with the Berlin Film Festivals Golden Bear in recognition of her outstanding achievements in film and cinema, the festival announced Friday. The Everything Everywhere All At Once star will receive the award at the opening ceremony of the 76th Berlinale on February 12, 2026. Michelle Yeoh is a visionary artist and performer whose...

After the 1988 success of Cannon Films Hong Kong-set Bloodsport, starring the then up-and-coming Jean-Claude Van Damme, Cannons Menahem Golan, a regular and colorful presence at the American Film Market, was looking for a new vehicle for the Belgian-born martial arts star when writer-director Sheldon Lettich pitched a screenplay hed written based on Alexandre Dumas The Corsican Brothers, about two...

Migration is one of the hot-button issues of our time, dividing people on TV and mobile screens and at dinner tables and bars in many countries around the world. In the heat of some of the more heated debates, the human stories sometimes may get sidelined, or maybe even forgotten. Director Marta Bergmans new feature, migrant drama The Silent Run...

Irish cinematographer Robbie Ryan will be honored by The Hollywood Reporter at this years EnergaCamerimage film festival with the inaugural THR Visionary in Cinematography Award. Ryan is one of the most versatile and acclaimed cinematographers working today. A two-time Oscar nominee for his lensing of Yorgos Lanthimos The Favourite (2018) and Poor Things (2023) their latest collaboration is the awards-season...

To be, or not to be? That is the question echoing through a derelict Soviet-eraretirement home in Armenia, where a group of residents rehearse for an original play that may even dazzle William Shakespeare. The play, Shakespeares Sins, sees the characters of the famous playwright, who is often simply called The Bard, confront him over theirtragic fates. And a documentary...

Leonardo DiCaprio plays Bob Ferguson, a washed up former revolutionary, in One Battle After Another, the movie from writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson. Called a furious film, a richly engaging and persuasive polemic by film critic Richard Lawson, the action thriller is now available to watch online. Before it streams on demand on HBO Max, One Battle After Another is available...