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Addie Morfoot Contributor In “Take No Prisoners,” director Adam Ciralsky and Subrata De were given unprecedented access to America’s former top hostage negotiator, Roger Carstens, as he battles to free L.A. public defender Eyvin Hernandez from a Venezuelan prison. The opening sequence of the documentary could be mistaken for a Jason Bourne film.

Adam B. Vary Senior Entertainment Writer Michael Bay had a big problem. During the height of COVID in 2020, he got a text from Drew Taylor, one of the members of Storror, the seven-person group of U.K.

J. Kim Murphy Bong Joon Ho‘s “Mickey 17,” the first of Warner Bros.‘ eclectic, pricey 2025 slate of original films from name-brand directors like Ryan Coogler and Paul Thomas Anderson, isn’t getting the warmest arrival at the box office. The sci-fi comedy, starring Robert Pattinson as a pair of interstellar doppelgangers, earned $7.7 million across Friday and preview screenings from 3,807 locations.

Like Alexandre O. Philippe, Rodney Ascher is a director who pushes the interpretive limits of what a documentary can do, something he made abundantly clear with his 2012 film Room 237. Named after the mysterious hotel suite in The Shining, this festival favorite gave a platform to some of the most bizarre readings of Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 horror imaginable. The theories raised ranged from the esoteric to the ridiculous, but Ascher’s straightforward, non-judgmental approach proved surprisingly effective; though it has long been debunked, the fanciful thought that Kubrick made the film to exorcize his guilt about faking the moon landing footage in 1969 is enticing and still hard to shake off.

The template for a Jack Quaid character is clear: balance him on the precipice between violence and passivity before splattering him with blood. Between Scream, Companion, The Boys and even his voice work on Star Trek: Lower Decks, Quaid has asserted himself as a quippy punching bag, a Buster Keaton for white guys who may or may not be an incel in waiting.

Kate Mara is hitting the red carpet at 2025 SXSW film festival.

Zendaya is spending another day on set of Euphoria!

Anna Kendrick was spotted giving a brief response to a rather cryptic question about her co-star Blake Lively on the red carpet at the 2025 SXSW Film and TV Festival. Hollywood stars Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively dazzled fans in Austin, Texas on March 7 as they attended the premiere of their latest movie, 'Another Simple Favour', at the 2025 SXSW Film and TV Festival.The movie is a sequel to 2018's A Simple Favour, again directed by Paul Feig with Kendrick and Lively starring as the leads.The movie is Lively's first release since It Ends With Us, which was released the summer of 2024, which saw the actress get into a lawsuit with the movie's director, Justin Baldoni.

Box office record-breaker Ne Zha 2 is getting a UK/Ire release via Trinity CineAsia.

Guy Lodge Film Critic Two familiar premises for a personal crisis drama — the unraveling of a marriage, and recovery from a medical calamity — combine to raw and even surprising effect in Jeanette Nordahl‘s accomplished sophomore feature “Beginnings.” Arriving five years after her debut “Wildland,” a somber criminal drama quickened by an electric Sidse Babett Knudsen performance, the Danish writer-director’s follow-up once more uses confidently reserved craft and straightforward storytelling to place the spotlight on a gutsy big-name star turn, or two: this time from Trine Dyrholm and David Dencik, both without vanity and emotionally on edge as a long-married couple unsure how or when to end their relationship for good. It’s a fraught state of limbo even before sudden disaster strikes, as Dyrholm’s high-flying working mom suffers a debilitating stroke, and an already protracted divorce process is further placed on hold.

Steven Knight has hinted that there may be a theatrical outing for his Peaky Blinders film ahead of its arrival on Netflix’s streaming platform.

was found dead with Arakawa and their dog in their New Mexico home on February 26, after neighbourhood security conducted a welfare check.Though no foul play was initially suspected, their deaths were “suspicious enough in nature to require a thorough search and investigation”, according to a search warrant affidavit.There had been some speculation that the couple had died due to carbon monoxide poisoning from a gas leak, but authorities were quick to rule that out as a potential cause, with the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office issuing an update based on the New Mexico Gas Company’s “extensive investigation for gas leaks and carbon monoxide at Gene Hackman’s home,” conducted on the evening of February 26.Now, investigators have confirmed the cause of death for both Hackman and Arakawa, finding that they both died of natural causes, but a week apart.Arakawa died from hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS), a serious respiratory illness caused by exposure to infected rodents.She was last seen on 11 February, when she went to a farmers’ market, a pharmacy, and a pet store before returning home in the early evening.A New Mexico medical investigator said Hackman died from coronary artery disease, and his advanced Alzheimer’s meant it is possible that he was not aware his wife had died in their home several days earlier. Data from Hackman’s pacemaker suggests he died on 18 February.The couple’s German Shepherd dog was found dead in a bathroom closet near Arakawa.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic Like a cocktail made of ingredients that aren’t meant to go together, but that stimulate your taste buds in a just sweet-and-tart, gin-and-blood-orange enough way that you keep sipping it, “A Simple Favor” was a movie powered by its singular flavor. It started off as a bad-moms soap opera, with Anna Kendrick’s polite, perky, less-innocent-than-she-seemed Stephanie, a widowed mother who ran her own homemaking vlog, getting drawn into the web of Emily, a fellow grade-school parent who was about as maternal as Cruella de Vil, and who was played by Blake Lively in a performance of supremely entertaining nastiness. As these two bonded over martinis and shared secrets (including the revelation that one of them was a “brother fucker” — an example of how blithe the film was about its own perversity), “A Simple Favor” morphed into a murderous mock noir.

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.

Marvel has released a new teaser for their next movie, Thunderbolts*!

SPOILER ALERT: This post contains mild spoilers for Prime Video‘s Picture This.

Think Close Encounters of the Third Kind meets Arrival meets E.T. The Extra Terrestrial meets The Martian meets Gravity and you pretty much have the cinematic inspirations for the latest outer-space entry known simply as The Astronaut, although you have to hand it to debuting writer-director Jess Varley for adding a twist none of the above remotely thought of. Whether audiences will buy it is a larger question for this film, which is premiering at SXSW in the Narrative Spotlight section.

Blake Lively‘s longtime publicist Leslie Sloane wants out of her client’s legal battle with Justin Baldoni. However, the It Ends With Us director says no way.

Exhibition has taken its knocks since Covid, with chains big and small adding food, alcohol (often full bars) and tiered loyalty programs. Others are going further, and seeing results.

The 2025 SXSW Film & TV Festival kicked off Friday, March 7 in Austin with world and North American premieres of movies in 11 sections, TV shows in three sections and several short film and virtual reality programs.

In 1999, Tom O’Neill was commissioned by Hollywood-centric film magazine Premiere to investigate exactly what had — by then — happened a mere 30 years earlier, when a small-time criminal, Charles Manson, was unveiled as the mastermind behind one of the most brutal and defining crimes of the 20th century. It must have seemed like an easy job back then, but by the time the title ceased trading in 2007 O’Neill still didn’t have a piece for them — as he explains with great honesty in his self-deprecating and far-ranging 2019 book CHAOS: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties.