Leonard Kornberg, a longtime studio executive, story analyst and teacher who worked on Paddington, The Mummy, King Kong, Hacksaw Ridge and Psycho, among other projects, died on Jan. 3. He was 75. Kornberg began his career in Hollywood in the early 1980s as a story analyst at Carson Productions. He later held analyst roles at Fox and Universal before being...

Kristen Stewart is looking to potentially move out of the United States amid Donald Trumps second term in the White House. The Oscar-nominated actress and director, who currently lives in Los Angeles and New York, was asked during an interview with The Times of Londonif she thinks she will stay in America. Probably not, she responded. I cant work freely...

Paradiseis traveling up above in season two. Thetwisty postapocalyptichit dramafromDan Fogelmanended on a major cliffhangerand when season two returns, the series will be trekking ahead with the This Is Uscreators three-season master plan to expand the world of Paradise. When the mystery show returns Feb. 23 with three episodes, followed by new episodes weekly onHuluand Hulu on Disney+ Sterling K....

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Following a years-long decline in the number of TV shows submitted for consideration in the best scripted variety series and best talk series Emmys categories, the Television Academys board of governors has voted to merge the two categories into one, best variety series, effective immediately, the organization announced Wednesday. This is a return to the way things used to be...

Get ready, preschoolers, theres going to be a new Thomas the Tank Engine rolling into town. Mattel says that it planning a full franchise relaunch of Thomas Friends, the long-running childrens brand, including a bold new look for Thomas the Tank Engine (pictured above). Thomas the Tank Engine made his debut in a series of British childrens books in 1945,...

South Korean actor Bae Doona, Polish producer Ewa Puszczyska, and American director Reinaldo Marcus Green are among the high-profile industry figures named to the international jury for the 2026 Berlin International Film Festival. The group, which also includes Nepali filmmaker Min Bahadur Bham, Japanese director Hikari, and Indian archivist Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, joins jury president Wim Wenders to decide the...

The 76th Berlin International Film Festival, running Feb. 12-22, has set the jury lineups for its Perspectives, Documentary, Generation and Shorts sections. The Perspectives jury consists of Moroccan filmmaker Sofia Alaoui, German director Frdric Hambalek, and Polish-Canadian programmer Dorota Lech. They will select a winner from the debut fiction features premiering in Berlins new-ish Perspectives sidebar. The award comes with...

Richard Linklaters Nouvelle Vague has emerged as the frontrunner for the 2026 Csar awards, Frances equivalent to the Oscar, picking up 10 nominations. Linklaters French-language, black-and-white is a deep dive into the making of Jean-Luc Godards 1960 classic Breathless. The Acadmie des Csar released the official list of contenders on Wednesday. Following closely behind Nouvelle Vague are three French films...

The world premiere of documentary Mariinka, directed by Belgian filmmaker Pieter-Jan De Pue (The Land of the Enlightened), will open the 23rd edition of CPH:DOX, the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, which takes place March 1122 in the Danish capital. Shot on 16mm and nine years in the making, Mariinka will screen in the festivals main competition, DOX:AWARD. Mariinka beginslong...

After a good old-fashioned Sundance bidding war, Olivia Wildes latest movie The Invite has landed at A24. The sale is the biggest of the festival so far and seems unlikely to be eclipsed. It comes after at least one all-night bidding session and saw multiple distributors vying for the title, including Neon, A24, Focus and Netflix. Tuesday saw a late-in-the-game...

Sinners continues to break records this awards season. Ryan Coogler set a new BAFTA record, as The Hollywood Reporter received confirmation for on Wednesday, making the vampire horror movie the most-nominated film by a Black director in the British Academys history. The news comes hot on the heels of Sinners Academy record last week the Warner Bros. feature earned the...

When Tom Hiddleston returns as Jonathan Pine in the second season of The Night Manager on Prime Video, he says the character begins from a place he can no longer retreat from. I felt that the lights had been switched on inside him, he says, describing Pines psychological state after the events of the first season. Fully recruited into the...