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Robert Eggers’ next film has officially been announced.The director will follow his vampire remake Nosferatu with another creature-based movie – Werwulf, a werewolf horror that he has co-written and will direct.According to The Hollywood Reporter, the film will be set in 13th century England, featuring dialogue true to that time period, and translation and annotations to help the audience with understanding it. It was initially conceived as a black-and-white film (as his 2019 film The Lighthouse was), but that is reportedly no longer the case.Werwulf promises to be of a piece with Eggers’ existing filmography (including 17th Century horror The Witch and Iceland-set Viking tale The Northman), which often sees him exploring mythical creatures and folklore in a long-ago time period, presented as authentically as possible.Eggers reunites with The Northman co-writer Sjón for the new film, which is scheduled for release in the US on Christmas Day, 2026.His work was most recently on the big screen with Nosferatu, an adaptation of F.W.

Robert Eggers is reteaming with Focus Features after the phenomenal success of Nosferatu becoming the studio’s second highest grossing movie stateside with $90.5M behind Downton Abbey, and that is with the new genre movie Werwulf.

Refresh for latest…: As it’s early January, we are still largely in holdover mode. But that shouldn’t discount the performance of those movies that released at the end of last year and are still doing solid business. Among them are Disney’s Mufasa: The Lion King and Paramount’s Sonic the Hedgehog 3. Also, as previously noted, Moana 2 has surfed past $1B global.

It not a blockbuster MLK weekend but indies are out in force with The Brutalist continuing to surprise, The Substance adding theaters and Nosferatu, A Complete Unknown and Babygirl holding at nos. 7, 8 and 10 at the domestic box office.

Carolyn Giardina A competitive field has led to seven nominated DPs for this year’s American Society of Cinematographers Award in the feature film category. Feature nominees for the 39th ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards, which were announced on Thursday, are Lol Crawley for “The Brutalist,” Phedon Papamichael for “A Complete Unknown,” Stéphane Fontaine for “Conclave,” Greig Fraser for “Dune: Part 2,” Ed Lachman for “Maria,” Jarin Blaschke for “Nosferatu,” and Alice Brooks for “Wicked.” The number of nominees in the theatrical feature category can vary between five and ten, depending on the percentage of votes a film receives.

Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. As awards season kicks off, so too does viral, film-inspired merch. While nothing will beat the “Saltburn” bathtub water candle from last year, this year’s innovative cinephile product is a Nosferatu candle holder, whose design casts an eerie shadow of Count Orlok — a perfect piece of decor for Halloween, or a gift for the horror fanatic in your life.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor If watching “Nosferatu” makes you feel uneasy and uncomfortable, that’s exactly what filmmaker Robert Eggers had in mind. Eggers and cinematographer Jarin Blaschke played with the idea of confusion in this gothic horror retelling of F. W.

Rebecca Rubin Senior Film and Media Reporter “Nosferatu,” a gothic horror remake inspired by Bram Stoker’s “Dracula,” sunk its teeth into $100 million at the global box office. What’s impressive is the film, from Focus Features and director Robert Eggers, surpassed the milestone after 10 days of release. Very few arthouse movies have crossed that benchmark at all in post-pandemic times.

according to The Numbers.It is projected to earn $24.5 million in total this weekend, Deadline reported. “Sonic the Hedgehog 3” landed in second with sales of $6.9 million.

The movie Nosferatu has been a major success at the holiday box office and it stars Bill Skarsgard as the villain Count Orlok, though there were other actors considered for the role before him.

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts behind awards season’s most talked-about movies continues with Nosferatu, Focus Features‘ gothic horror from writer-director Robert Eggers. Set in 1830s Baltic Germany, Eggers reimagines the tale with Bill Skarsgård as Count Orlok, a fictional character who originally appeared in the 1922 silent film Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror directed by F.W. Murnau.

From killer clowns to ancient vampires and back again, Bill Skarsgård isn’t worried about being typecast.

William Earl SPOILER ALERT: This article contains mild spoilers about “Nosferatu,” now playing in theaters. Robert Eggers’ horror film “Nosferatu” has been getting high praise for its craft, from the costumes to the cityscapes, boats and carriages. Yet Bill Skarsgård‘s transformation into the horrific Count Orlok has been the biggest topic of conversation. David White, the prosthetic makeup effects designer on “Nosferatu,” spilled the secrets behind Skarsgård’s look, as well as the inspirations that haunted him and a breakdown of the film’s indelible final image.

New Year’s Day 2025 rang in an estimated $42.9M for all movies, the best result for the holiday post-Covid. New Year’s Day 2022 grossed $40.2M, led by Spider-Man: No Way Home ($23.1M).

Johnny Depp and French model-actress-singer Vanessa Paradis, has recently been put in the spotlight after starring in Robert Eggers‘ horror flick Nosferatu.Despite the added attention, she opened up to The Daily Telegraph about the importance of preserving her anonymity in the industry.She said: “Every job comes with a set of circumstances and this [fame] is kind of one of them. The importance to me has been to maintain a sense of, like, privacy and grounded-ness and to protect [what] really belongs to you.”Depp continued: “People are interested in things that they shouldn’t necessarily be interested in and…the job of an actor is to go into a character and, like, melt into it – and make the audience believe you are this character.“In order to do that, it’s important to protect a sense of anonymity – they’re not supposed to get to know ‘you’ that well, ‘cause you want them to believe you as other characters.”Her latest comments come after she recently spoke about trying to find her own identity in Hollywood and how people want to see her fail.“I feel like people have been ready to see me fail, in a way, since I was a kid.

Naman Ramachandran Paramount’s “Sonic the Hedgehog 3” raced to the top of the U.K. and Ireland box office with a £11.7 million ($14.7 million) opening weekend, according to numbers from Comscore. In its second weekend, Disney’s “Mufasa: The Lion King” continued to draw audiences, adding £4.2 million for a cumulative total of £12.6 million.

Rebecca Rubin Senior Film and Media Reporter Disney’s “Mufasa: The Lion King” and Paramount’s “Sonic the Hedgehog 3” are duking it out for first place at the North American box office with each of the family friendly films bringing in roughly $60 million over the five days since Christmas. Based on estimates, “Sonic 3” was ever-so-slightly ahead during the traditional weekend ($38 million between Friday and Sunday; $59.8 million from 3,769 venues since Christmas Day on Wednesday) while “Mufasa” claimed No. 1 over the five-day stretch ($37.1 million between Friday and Sunday; $63.9 million from 4,100 theaters since Wednesday).

Nosferatu director Robert Eggers is being lined up to direct a reboot of the fantasy classic Labyrinth.The 1986 cult film, directed by Muppets creator Jim Henson, produced by George Lucas, written by Monty Python star Terry Jones and starring David Bowie as Jareth the Goblin King, has never had a sequel or a remake, but speculation has been rife for many years.As far back as 2016, reports have been doing the rounds that a second instalment in the Labyrinth universe was in development, with Guardians Of The Galaxy co-writer Nicole Perlman said to be on board.Then in 2017, it was announced that Don’t Breathe director Fede Alvarez had signed on to helm a spinoff film, with Henson’s daughter Lisa producing, but Alvarez dropped out in 2020.Later that year, it emerged that Doctor Strange director Scott Derrickson had been enlisted to direct, with original star Jennifer Connelly in conversation to return in her role as Sarah, the girl searching through the labyrinth to find her baby brother Toby.But now, it appears that the film might have taken a different path, with Eggers, also known for The Witch and The Lighthouse, being linked to the project by noted Hollywood insider Jeff Sneider (via The Insneider).The report suggests that Eggers has signed on for the project with Sony Pictures, which he would also co-write with the Icelandic screenwriter and frequent Björk collaborator Sjón, who also worked on The Northman with Eggers.Lisa Henson, according to the report, remains as a producer, alongside Home Alone and Harry Potter director Chris Columbus, and Alexander Skarsgård, who also starred in The Northman, and is known for Big Little Lies and Succession, is being tipped to take on the role of Jareth.None of the reports have

Nearly 20 years later, James Mangold is still finding inspiration in the musical biopic genre, despite previous jabs at his work.

J. Kim Murphy The face-off between furry mammals rages on at the holiday box office, with Paramount’s “Sonic the Hedgehog 3” continuing to lead domestic charts. The video game inspired threequel earned another $12.6 million on Friday to boost its North American tally to $112 million.

Rats galore! There are so many rats featured in the new movie Nosferatu and yes, they are real!