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Many great actors have filmed provocative scenes that they’d rather their families didn’t watch, but Ewan McGregor was thrilled to show his children the grossest scene of his career. Addressing press at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival (via Variety), the “Obi-Wan Kenobi” star opened up about the...

“Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” (Disney), with a reported production budget close to $300 million, opened to $130 million worldwide. That includes the studio’s generous estimate of $60 million for the U.S./Canada (that includes a 10 percent Sunday drop, but other distributors calculate a...

Kohn’s Corner is a weekly column about the challenges and opportunities of sustaining American film culture. Suspense hovers around whether SAG-AFTRA could reach a deal with studios this week, as the union has flown past the June 30 expiration of its contract and extended negotiations to July...

Russell Crowe wants to make something extremely clear: He is not in “Gladiator 2.” Ridley Scott’s upcoming sequel, which picks up two decades after the events of the Oscar-winning classic, is set to star Paul Mescal as a rising member of the Roman ruling class. Crowe will not be reprising his...

Editor’s Note: The following interview took place before HBO confirmed “The Other Two” would end with Season 3 and The Hollywood Reporter revealed that showrunners Chris Kelly and Sarah Schneider were the subject of an HR investigation. “The Other Two” may have definitively ended at HBO Max...

The recent slew of high profile layoffs at Turner Classic Movies sent shockwaves through the film community. Many saw the ousting of longtime executives who shaped TCM into a beloved resource for movie buffs as a sign that Warner Bros. Discovery was planning to neglect or even eliminate the...

[Editor’s note: The following interview contains spoilers for “Nimona.”] Netflix’s “Nimona” (now streaming) represents the latest post “Spider-Verse” animated breakthrough in handmade-looking 2D stylization. The twist here was creating a futuristic medieval fantasy that mixes “Sleeping Beauty”...

A potential actors strike is being put on hold. SAG-AFTRA and the AMPTP have yet to reach a tentative deal on a new minimum bargaining agreement ahead of their current contract expiring on June 30, but the two sides have agreed to extend the current contract and continue negotiations past the...

Before he started building the show’s recycled radios and scrap-metal computers, prop master Jonathan Norman went to “Silo” class. That level of training was necessary for the Apple TV+ sci-fi series about a post-apocalyptic future where the remnants of humanity are living inside the massive...

Judd Apatow didn’t want his freaks to disappear from Hollywood. The multi-hyphenate writer/director/producer behind short-lived cult classic NBC series “Freaks and Geeks” was determined not to let the rising stars of the series fall to the wayside after the show’s untimely cancellation...

If only “After Yang” were made after Donald Trump’s presidency. The Kogonada film, which was critically ranked as one of the best movies of 2022, debuted at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival before playing in the Spotlight section at Sundance. The film centers on family’s android Yang (Justin H...

John Landis is looking for a Hollywood savior. The legendary comedy director told Deadline during the Taormina Film Festival that the film industry is “in chaos” amid the WGA strike and lasting effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on theaters. “Do you know it’s the first time in Hollywood history...

All hail the possible “Idol” Season 2. Despite a Page Six report that HBO already canceled “The Idol” amid production issues and poor ratings, actress Da’Vine Joy Randolph told Variety that a second season has always been the “intention” for the series. “I think that everyone’s intention is to...

The Gotham Film and Media Institute laid off two key staffers this week after canceling the Project Market, where seminal indie breakouts from “Clerks” to “Moonlight” have gathered early financial resources, for the first time in its 45-year history. The Project Market, formerly known as the...

Sundance Institute has laid off 11 employees — about six percent of its 180-person staff — on Wednesday, with the non-profit organization citing a drop in earned revenue, rising inflation, and a “more challenging fundraising climate.” Sundance Institute CEO Joana Vicente informed the team on...

There are a new crop of contenders for “Squid Game” Season 2. The official cast list for the much-anticipated second season has been announced by Netflix. Jo Yu-ri, a member of South Korean-Japanese girl group Iz*One, is among the new cast members, including Netflix stars Park Gyu-young (“Sweet...

Tom Cruise is continuing to save movie theaters. Earlier this year, the “Top Gun: Maverick” star was praised by Steven Spielberg for having “saved Hollywood’s ass” at the box office. Now, Cruise has taken to Twitter to encourage audiences to see this year’s summer blockbusters on the big...

It’s almost impossible for Brian Cox to be in a bad movie because, well, he’s giving a Brian Cox performance every time. Simply put, Cox is the saving grace of his latest feature, “Prisoner’s Daughter,” a predictable family drama that has heart thanks to grounding performances by Cox, Ernie...

“Twilight” director Catherine Hardwicke hopes the upcoming TV series adaptation sinks its teeth deeper into the forbidden romance at the center of the teen vampire saga. Hardwicke helmed the first film that was released in 2008 and starred Kristen Stewart as high schooler Bella and Robert...

“That’s not art. A striptease isn’t art. It’s too direct. It’s more direct than art.” That line from Akira Kurosawa’s “Ikiru” sums up a lot of feelings people seem to have about nudity in film. The history of painting and sculpture is full of nude portraiture, which is regularly and comfortably...