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Leonardo DiCaprio has provided a teaser of his upcoming “incredibly epic” thriller film from Paul Thomas Anderson.The Hollywood A-lister was at CinemaCon on Tuesday (April 1) to give fans a preview of One Battle After Another, the upcoming black comedy movie that he has made with the There Will Be Blood and the Phantom Thread director.The film, which also stars Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro, Regina Hall and Teyana Taylor, is loosely based on Thomas Pynchon’s 1990 novel Vineland and is scheduled to be released on September 26.A synopsis reads: “When their evil enemy resurfaces after 16 years, a group of ex-revolutionaries reunites to rescue one of their own’s daughter.”Watch the new trailer here:“I’ve been wanting to work with Paul for, gosh, 20 years now,” DiCaprio said at the convention, describing the film as having been made on an “incredibly epic scale”.“With this film he’s tapped into something politically and culturally that’s burning beneath our psyche,” he added.Like many previous Anderson films, One Battle After Another will feature an original score from Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood.

Cristin Milioti (The Penguin, How I Met Your Mother) has joined the FX drama pilot Seven Sisters, starring opposite the previously announced Elizabeth Olsen.

“Killers of the Flower Moon.”The actress, 39, starred in one of the most critically acclaimed films of 2023 alongside Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro.Since the Martin Scorsese-directed western/thriller was shot during the COVID-19 pandemic, there wasn’t much face to face action with the A-listers.“I wish I could have [picked their brains]. I tried to, but we were filming during COVID,” Myers told The Post at the red carpet premiere for her new Western “Day of Reckoning.”“If you weren’t in the scene filming, they were like, ‘Get out of here!'” she teased.

Seth Rogen‘s new Hollywood satire series The Studio has arrived on Apple TV+, and it’s absolutely teeming with A-list cameos. Here, we reveal all of the major stars who pop up in the show.READ MORE: ‘The Studio’ review: Seth Rogen and an all-star cast take on HollywoodThe series sees Rogen play an executive called Matt Remick, who is promoted to be the head of the fictional Continental Studios as the film industry undergoes huge changes.The Studio was created by Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Alex Gregory, and Peter Huyck, and features a long list of A-list stars in both recurring and guest roles.Alongside Rogen, The Studio stars Catherine O’Hara, Ike Barinholtz, Chase Sui Wonders and Kathryn Hahn, while the likes of Charlize Theron, Zoë Kravitz, Martin Scorsese, Olivia Wilde and Zac Efron are just a few of the names who make short cameos.

Leonardo DiCaprio‘s new movie One Battle After Another has received its first official trailer. You can watch it above.The upcoming film, which is directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, marks DiCaprio’s first starring role since 2023’s Killers of the Flower Moon, Martin Scorsese‘s historical drama which was nominated for 10 Oscars.The exact plot details for One Battle After Another are still currently unknown, but the story is expected to be somewhat inspired by Thomas Pynchon’s classic novel Vineland.From the trailer, we learn that DiCaprio plays Bob Ferguson, a scatty, disheveled revolutionary who’s trying to save his daughter.

Katcy Stephan Disney’s 20th Century Studios is saying “aloha” to Martin Scorsese‘s Hawaii-set crime thriller starring Dwayne Johnson, Leonardo DiCaprio and Emily Blunt (with whom the concept and film idea originated). Journalist and author Nick Bilton will pen the script for the film, which will be based on a forthcoming book he’s co-authored with Johnson.

Matt Minton mminton@variety.com “Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints” is officially returning for Part Two on Fox Nation beginning Friday, April 4 and will roll out throughout Easter, Variety can exclusively reveal, along with the first trailer. From host, narrator, executive producer and Oscar-winner Martin Scorsese, the docuseries tracks over 2,000 years of history, exploring religious figures like Francis of Assisi, Moses the Black and Mary Magdalene.

EXCLUSIVE: One of the biggest pic packages is about to land at Disney, Deadline hears. This is the pitch for a Martin Scorsese-directed drama that would star Dwayne Johnson, Leonardo DiCaprio and Emily Blunt. The thumbnail description: imagine Robert De Niro’s Goodfellas’ Jimmy the Gent character, but as a ruthless Hawaiian crime boss, also based on a real figure, who battled encroaching rivals for control of organized crime in Hawaii. Deadline broke the project in February. It is a pricey package given the local and above the line starpower and numerous distributors were bidding.

Ethan Shanfeld In the first few minutes of his Apple TV+ comedy “The Studio,” Seth Rogen’s character Matt Remick is promoted to the head of a major movie studio. His first order of business in the new role is to fast-track a “Kool-Aid” movie — the studio’s next billion-dollar bet — and Matt, a starry-eyed cinephile, thinks he can get an auteur director to helm it. He has a meeting with Martin Scorsese (played by none other than Martin Scorsese), who coincidentally pitches an original movie about Jonestown, the mass murder-suicide orchestrated by cult leader Jim Jones in which 900 people died by drinking laced… Kool-Aid.

In the pilot of Apple TV+’s The Studio, the half-hour comedy points the lens back at Hollywood, taking aim at its foibles and follies with as much frequency as Seth Rogen’s Matt Remick — the bumbling yet passionate newly appointed head of the fictional Continental Studios — shoots himself in the foot.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor It’s the end of the line for Endeavor, at least as the company’s public-facing name. On Monday, Endeavor announced the closing of the deal to go private with private-equity firm Silver Lake. With the move, Endeavor is changing its name to WME Group, reflecting its refocusing on the representation business.

Seth Rogen‘s new Hollywood satire series The Studio was inspired by The Office, it has been revealed.The show, which premieres this week on Apple TV+, sees the actor play an executive called Matt Remick, who is promoted to be the head of the fictional Continental Studios as the film industry undergoes huge changes.Speaking to The Guardian, Rogen explained that they used The Office as a touchstone for the show, notably the boss dynamic.“We talked a lot about The Office, which I love, and how the boss is the most tragic figure on the show,” he said.

The Alto Knights hit cinemas on Friday (March 21), but is Robert De Niro playing both lead roles? Read on for all the info.The film is written by Nicholas Pileggi, who also co-wrote the screenplay for Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas, an adaptation of his own book Wiseguy, and it is directed by Barry Levinson, known for Sleepers, Rain Man and Good Morning, Vietnam.The film depicts a power struggle between two real-life high ranking Mafia bosses, Vito Genovese and Frank Costello. Their rivalry erupts into open conflict when Vito orders a hit on Frank, who strives to protect his family while planning his retirement.See the trailer for the film here:In real-life, Genovese was a close associate of Lucky Luciano, a major force in US organised crime, in the ‘40s and ‘50s, before becoming head of his own crime family.

SXSW Film & TV Festival, which concludes on Saturday, featured a time-traveling RV, a disemboweling unicorn, a transracial surgery and credible testimony that extra-terrestrials exist. Here’s what rose to the top, and what failed to take flight.

Martin Scorsese has revealed the 30 best New York movies for a season of films he is curating for the city’s Roxy Cinema.Titled Living, Breathing New York, the season is in celebration of the release of thriller Pet Shop Days, which Scorsese executive produced and which is set in New York. The director is uniquely associated with the city, which provided the setting for many of his most celebrated works.“There are so many ‘New York filmmakers’ – everyone has his or her own individual vision,” Scorsese said in a press release. “I collaborated with the city when I made (my own films like) Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The King of Comedy, GoodFellas, Bringing Out the Dead, and The Wolf of Wall Street”.As part of the list, first reported by IndieWire, Scorsese added notes about certain films, saying John Cassavettes’ Shadows was “The picture that inspired a generation of aspiring filmmakers, including me”; and saying of Marlon Brando drama On The Waterfront “Yes, I know it’s Hoboken but to me it’s a New York picture”.As well as classics from the past, he also includes modern hits like Good Time and Uncut Gems, both made by The Safdie Brothers.His top 30 can be read below:1. Daybreak Express (D.A. Pennebaker)2. The Naked City (Jules Dassin)3. Kiss of Death (Henry Hathaway)4. Fourteen Hours (Henry Hathaway)5. Cry of the City (Robert Siodmak)6. A Double Life (George Cukor)7. The Marrying Kind (George Cukor)8. It Should Happen to You (George Cukor)9. Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger)10. The Wrong Man (Alfred Hitchcock)11. Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick)12. Shadows (John Cassavetes) 13. Marathon Man (John Schlesinger)14. The French Connection (William Friedkin)15. Bye Bye Braverman (Sidney Lumet)16. Prin

Filmmaker Edgar Wright and the cast of his upcoming Paramount Pictures’ action-thriller The Running Man — Glen Powell, Josh Brolin and Colman Domingo — will headline CinemaCon’s Creative Community Luncheon in Las Vegas in April.

British postwar cinema will serve as the focus of the retrospective programme at this year’s Locarno Film Festival. 

Amid a trailer highlighting the indie powerhouses behind Marvel‘s forthcoming Thunderbolts*, star Florence Pugh — herself a born and bred indie darling of Midsommar fame — described the action flick as more akin to an “A24-feeling” picture.

Catherine O’Hara and Kathryn Hahn joined Seth Rogen at the premiere of their new Apple TV+ series The Studio during the 2025 SXSW Conference and Festival at The Paramount Theatre on Saturday (March 8) in Austin, Texas.

Adam B. Vary Senior Entertainment Writer It’s fitting that creative partners Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg chose to premiere their Apple TV+ series “The Studio” — a scathingly accurate satire of the modern film industry — at South by Southwest, a festival at once adoring of film culture and deeply irreverent about Hollywood.

Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos is following in a storied American showbiz tradition of top TV executives making cameos on shows set by predecessors like Brandon Tartikoff. Surprisingly, the series that marks his acting debut is not on Netflix but on rival Apple TV+.