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The world premiere of A24’s The Legend of Ochi will still go on at the Sundance Film Festival on Sunday at the library, but the distributor has a set a new release date of April 25.

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.

Michaela Zee Robert Eggers is sinking his teeth into his next horror project. Eggers is reteaming with Focus Features for his next film “Werwulf,” a werewolf horror feature that he will direct from a script he co-wrote with Sjón, Variety has confirmed. The film is slated for a Christmas Day 2026 release in North America.

EXCLUSIVE: Edmund Donovan, an up-and-comer known for roles in Alex Garland’s Civil War and Sundance genre-bender Your Monster, has landed a key role opposite Willem Dafoe and Greta Lee in Late Fame, the new film from director Kent Jones (Diane), which is entering production this week.

EXCLUSIVE: The star of David Lynch‘s Palme d’Or winning 1990 road trip bender, Wild at Heart, Nicolas Cage tells us that the late filmmaker who died today, “was a singular genius in cinema, one of the greatest artists of this or any time.”

The fourth season of Louis Theroux‘s podcast launches today with a free-wheeling chat between the off-beat British documentary maker and Hollywood star Willem Dafoe. Famous names Armie Hammer, Jade Thirlwall, Sharon Horgan and Jamie Oliver also appear in this run of The Louis Theroux Podcast, but given Theroux’s propensity for choosing complicated, divisive interview subjects, Deadline wonders if he is still attempting to attract a certain Elon Musk.

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.

according to The Numbers.The action-adventure flick surpassed $100 million in sales in North America in its first eight days of release, according to Variety.Paramount Pictures is already making plans for a fourth installment of the series, based on the Sega video games, which is slated to be released in 2027.“Mufasa: The Lion King” remained in second place, with earnings of $12 million. The Walt Disney Pictures musical drama — which cost a whopping $200 million to make — is projected to earn $58 million over the five-day holiday weekend.Gothic horror “Nosferatu,” which was released on Wednesday, took third, with sales of $7.25 million.The remake of the 1922 silent film of the same name stars Bill Skarsgård, Nicholas Hoult, Willem Dafoe and Lily-Rose Depp, the daughter of Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis.The Post called the film a “skin-crawling remake” that “comes in at about 98% dread” and praised its casting as “a fang of beauty.”Landing in fourth was “Wicked,” moving down a notch from last week and taking in $6.83 million on its sixth Friday in theaters.“Moana 2” fell down one spot to fifth, with a $6.3 million-dollar take.The family adventure has made history, becoming one of the top 20 highest-grossing PG movies of all time, as per Collider.

William Earl SPOILER ALERT: This article contains mild spoilers about “Nosferatu,” now playing in theaters. Robert Eggers‘ fourth film — “Nosferatu,” in theaters today via Focus Features — is a bold, starry reimagining of F. W. Murnau’s 1922 masterful silent film of the same name.

Spider-Man, along with the main villain in 2005’s Mission Impossible 3.The Playlist reported on Wednesday (December 18) that its podcast Bingeworthy has a new episode with the veteran actor, released the next day. Thornton talked about getting offered roles as villains in the mid-aughts blockbuster films.

The Playlist’s “Bingeworthy” podcast, the “Bad Santa” star recalled turning down the Green Goblin role in the 2002 “Spider-Man” movie and arms dealer Owen Davian in 2006’s “Mission: Impossible III.”“I don’t have much interest in those kinds of roles,” Thornton said. He added, “With the Green Goblin, I didn’t feel like getting up at 4 a.m. for five or six hours of makeup.”The Green Goblin was ultimately played by Willem Dafoe, while Owen Davian was played by the late Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Billy Bob Thornton is opening up about some of the iconic movie roles that he has turned down in the past.

Although Billy Bob Thornton has served some memorable performances, he’s never quite embraced his villain era.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Billy Bob Thornton is more than happy to play a foul-mouthed Santa (“Bad Santa”) or a high school football coach (“Friday Night Lights”) or a NASA scientist (“Armageddon”), but one thing he won’t do on the big screen is kill Tom Cruise. During an interview on The Playlist’s “Bingeworthy” podcast, the actor remembered turning down two big Hollywood villain roles: Green Goblin in Sam Raimi’s “Spider-Man” and the arms dealer Owen Davian in “Mission: Impossible III.” “I don’t have much interest in those kinds of roles,” Thornton said. “With the Green Goblin, I didn’t feel like getting up at 4am for five or six hours of makeup.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor The Czech Republic, the location for Robert Eggers’ “Nosferatu,” starring Bill Skarsgård, Willem Dafoe and Lily-Rose Depp, has given a major boost to its production incentives. An amendment to the country’s Audiovisual Act has upped the incentive for live-action projects from 20% to 25%. Added to that an incentive of 35% for digital production and animation, excluding live-action sequences, has been introduced.

The stars of the new horror film Nosferatu stepped out together for the L.A. premiere!

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series that shines a spotlight on the scripts for this year’s buzziest films is now pointing the viewfinder on Saturday Night, the Jason Reitman-directed film that tells the origin story of NBC’s venerable late-night franchise by focusing on the 90 minutes leading up to its TV debut.

The stars are hitting the red carpet at the world premiere of Robert Eggers‘ new movie!

Pennywise the Clown in “It”: Count Orlok, the undead villain of F.W. Murnau’s seminal silent vampire masterpiece from 1922.Skarsgård, adopting a deep and unsettling Carpathian accent, is petrifyingly creepy and unexpectedly alluring as he becomes what is basically Dracula.Murnau’s ingenious black-and-white original was an unauthorized German version of Bram Stoker’s novel that changed names, places and minor plot points to resonate with Deutschland.

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Tim Burton’s long-awaited follow-up to his classic 1988 supernatural comedy Beetlejuice, will begin streaming exclusively on Max on December 6, debuting on HBO linear on Saturday, December 7 at 6:10 p.m. ET.

Emiliana Betancourt Tim Burton’s scary good sequel, “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,” will soon haunt your house from your home screen. The long awaited sequel is coming to Max on Dec.