Twisters star Daisy Edgar-Jones and CODA star Emilia Jones will topline a period revenge thriller currently titled Bad Bridgets, which is serving as the follow-up feature for Rich Peppiatt, the rising director behind British hit Kneecap. FilmNation will be handling international sales, and WME Independent is on for domestic sales for the title, which will be officially introduced at Novembers...

Dont see a movie by Mexican auteur Michel Franco expecting to feel joy, nostalgia or solace in troubled times. Im not interested in comfort cinema, in making the audience feel better. I like challenging the audience, Franco told the Tribeca Festival Lisboa during a press conference on Friday. His most recent films include Memory, which starred Jessica Chastain and Peter...

Is this the best new opening credits sequence of the year? HBOs horror-thriller It: Welcome to Derry just revealed a stunner of a credits sequence (watch it below) that debuted on the shows second episode, which was released on HBO Max a few days early for Halloween. The phantasmagorical animated sequence peels apart the seemingly idyllic Maine town during the...

Lithuanian screen and theater legend JuozasBudraitis, who has been dubbed the James Dean of the Baltics, will receive the Lifetime Achievement Awardat the 29th edition of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PFF), organizers unveiled Friday. Active since 1966, the 85-year-old Budraitis has appeared in more than 120 film and television roles from revolutionaries to kings, including notable performances in...

Disney is going dark on YouTube TV. Channels owned by The Walt Disney Co., including ABC, ESPN, Disney Channel, Freeform and others will be pulled from the Google-owned pay TV service at midnight ET after the two sides failed to come to terms on a new carriage agreement ahead of a midnight deadline. With ESPN and ABC pulled, YouTube TV...

Sky News new breakfast show, hosted by Sophy Ridge and Wilfred Frost, debuts Monday. Mornings With Ridge and Frost will air Monday to Thursday from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. London time. Plus, the pair will launch Cheat Sheet With Ridge and Frost, a 10-minute podcast providing a news rundown of the days big headlines and stories, which will drop...

A 13th season of American Horror Story is in the offing and it will have a bit of a Wicked touch. Ariana Grande will join a host of AHS veterans in the series, which, according to a social media post from Ryan Murphy Productions on Friday, is set for Halloween 2026 on FX. Grande, wholl next be seen in Wicked:...

Sam Mendes has cast more of the women who made history alongside The Beatles for his upcoming biopics on the Fab Four. Mia McKenna-Bruce will star as Maureen Cox, the wife of Ringo Starr; Anna Sawai will be Yoko Ono, John Lennons wife; and Aimee Lou Wood will be Pattie Boyd, who married George Harrison. They join Saoirse Ronan who...

An era at MTV is ending: The cable network is canceling its long-running, ubiquitous clip show Ridiculousness. The show, hosted by Rob Dyrdek and featuring a series of viral videos and commentary from Dyrdek and his co-hosts, will end in 2026 after 15 years, 46 seasons and some 1,700 episodes. MTV has stopped making the show, though previously produced new...

With Blonde, premiering this week in the Tokyo International Film Festivals main competition, rising 38-year-old director Yuichiro Sakashita delivers a sharp, quietly damning satire of conformity in Japans education system. The film centers on a meek junior-high teacher (popular singer-turned-actor Takanori Iwata) whose life unravels when his students stage a blonde-hair protest against the schools highly restrictive and outdated rules...

Jesse Eisenberg is leaving his turn as Mark Zuckerberg in the past. Eisenberg, who played the Facebook CEO in the David Fincher-directed film The Social Network, surprised fans when it was reported in June that a sequel was in the works, but Eisenberg wasnt coming back to play its lead. During a Thursday appearance on the Today show, the Now...

Expect more Chinese epic costume dramas and Shanghai-set modern urban romance dramas in the coming years. And with both genres still at the zenith of their popularity in Asia, why change a winning formula? That seemed to be the message from a slate presentation from Chinas leading film and television production companies during the second day of TIFFCOM, Asias leading...

Edie Falco would embrace superpowers, but given she tends not to plan her next acting gigs far into the future, she doesnt expect to die trying. Id like to be a female superhero. Its so out of my realm of experience, certainly in real life and in movies. That would be a lot of fun, Falco told a Tribeca Festival...