Jay Kelly star Adam Sandler will be honored with the Chairmans Award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival, it was announced on Friday. The Film Awards will take place on Jan. 3 at the Palm Springs Convention Center, with the festival running from Jan. 2 to Jan. 11. Netflixs Jay Kelly follows movie star Jay Kelly (played by George...

The end of Peacemakers second season brought the shows first ever appearance on the Nielsen streaming charts. The DC series, starring John Cena as the title character, squeezed onto the original series rankings for Oct. 6-12 in 10th place. Peacemaker had 398 million minutes of viewing for the week; the season finale, which debuted Oct. 8, accounted for 42 percent...

The thematically linked needle drops come fast and furious in In Your Dreams. One of the main characters in Alex Woos feature animation directorial debut is the mythical Sandman, so naturally you hear the Chordettes pop hit Mr. Sandman. Then theres Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) and even Metallicas Enter Sandman. Should this film spawn any sequels, those in...

Beware! When you enter the animated, dystopian world of Spanish comics and animation creator Alberto Vzquezs Decorado, you may shed some tears tears of laughter, sadness, frustration, or all of the above. The new feature from the director, who has won best animated feature film Goya Awards for his Birdboy: The Forgotten Children and Unicorn Wars, world premiered at AustinsFantastic...

New Zealand-born directorLee Tamahori, whose debut featureOnce Were Warriors led to a major Hollywood career, has died. He was 75. Tamahoris family on Friday said the director died at home after a battle with Parkinsons disease. His legacy endures with his whnau, his mokopuna, every filmmaker he inspired, every boundary he broke and every story he told with his genius...

Sometimes the hunt for a deal is easier than others. In the case of the sequel to the cultural sensation KPop Demon Hunters, Netflix decided to take the easier route and awarded Sony which made the acclaimed animated film a $15 million bonus for the astonishing success of the pic, according to a source close to the streamer. From Sony...

The 29th editionof theTallinn Black Nights Film Festival(PFF) kicks off Friday with Catalan director Carlos Marques-Marcets They Will Be Dust (Polvo Sern) and a performance by Catalan musician Maria Arnal, whose music is featured in the movie. The lineup for the opening night fits the Estonian fests 2025 program, curated by fest head Tiina Lokk and her team, and includes...

Michael, the upcoming Michael Jackson biopic, looks likely to be expanded across two features, judging by the latest comments from Lionsgate execs. While were not yet ready to confirm plans for a second film, I can tell you that the creative team is hard at work making sure that were in a position to deliver moreMichaelsoon after we release the...

Final Destination: Bloodlines filmmakers Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein are one of the breakout success stories of 2025 after that film earned strong reviews and became the top grossing installment in the once dormant franchise. Nearly six months after its release, the duo have zeroed in on a new project to direct, and are in talks to helm Long...

Miles Teller, Elizabeth Olsen and Callum Turner get their rom-com on for new A24 film Eternity, which follows a woman who, in the afterlife, must choose to spend forever with her longtime husband or her first love, who died young and waited decades for her. It might start a few fights, like, You would choose me in eternity, right? Oh...

Writer-director Guillermo del Toro helms the latest adaptation of Mary Shelleys novel, Frankenstein, and it may well be the best. This beautiful film tells the iconic tale of scientist Victor Frankenstein (Oscar Isaac) bringing life to a Creature (Jacob Elordi) formed from dead body parts, who ultimately brings destruction after being rejected by his creator. Directed by James Whale, Universal...

Pauline Collins, the exuberant British actress who inspired women and men, too to do something to change their unhappy lives with her Oscar-nominated and Olivier- and Tony-winning performances in Shirley Valentine, has died. She was 85. Collins death in her home in London she had dealt with Parkinsons disease for several years was announced Thursday by her family. Collins also...

Eleven years ago, Richard Linklater told Zoey Deutch that he had a dream of one day casting her as Jean Seberg. At the time, the actress was only 19, shooting her first film role a supporting part in Linklaters laid-back coming-of-age comedy Everybody Wants Some and nervous enough about just keeping that part. I was so sure the entire time...