The Gotham Film & Media Institute Announces Winners of Inaugural Gotham, Variety Honors

Girls Aloud have announced the release of a special, 7-inch 20th anniversary vinyl edition of their iconic 2002 Christmas Number 1 single Sound Of The Underground, in honour of the late Sarah Harding.

A beloved children’s novel is turned into a charming animation in My Father’s Dragon, which is world premiering at the BFI London Film Festival. Oscar-nominated director Nora Twomey (The Breadwinner) helms a story of childhood friendship based on the 1948 novel by Ruth Stiles Gannett, with animation from Cartoon Saloon (The Secret of Kells, Song of the Sea, Wolfwalkers) and a screenplay by Meg LeFauve (Inside Out). It’s a sweet adventure with appeal for young kids and a starry voice cast including Jacob Tremblay as hero Elmer, and – in one of the film’s more amusing moments – Whoopi Goldberg as a cat. 

Super Mario fans got yet another sneak peek of the highly-anticipated animated film starring Chris Pratt as the iconic plumber and Anya Taylor-Joy as Princess Peach on Thursday. The very first trailer for the upcoming film, Super Mario Bros., was released and kicked off with a bang with Bowser (Jack Black) obtaining a gold star after facing off against an army of penguins.Mario is then introduced landing in Mushroom Kingdom and meeting Toad (Keegan-Michael Key).  Mario time! Super Mario fans got yet another sneak peek of the highly-anticipated animated film starring Chris Pratt as the iconic plumber and Anya Taylor-Joy as Princess Peach on Thursday The trailer begins with Bowser and his army invading an icy kingdom where he is introduced as the 'King of the Koopas'.His followers cower in terror as he approaches the castle, where the penguins bravely await him and adorably pelt him with snowballs. 'That is but a taste of our fury!' the penguin king declares.

Super Mario fans got yet another sneak peek of the highly-anticipated animated film starring Chris Pratt as the iconic plumber and Anya Taylor-Joy as Princess Peach on Thursday. The very first trailer for the upcoming film, Super Mario Bros., was released and kicked off with a bang with Bowser (Jack Black) obtaining a gold star after facing off against an army of penguins.Mario is then introduced landing in Mushroom Kingdom and meeting Toad (Keegan-Michael Key).  Mario time! Super Mario fans got yet another sneak peek of the highly-anticipated animated film starring Chris Pratt as the iconic plumber and Anya Taylor-Joy as Princess Peach on Thursday The trailer begins with Bowser and his army invading an icy kingdom where he is introduced as the 'King of the Koopas'.His followers cower in terror as he approaches the castle, where the penguins bravely await him and adorably pelt him with snowballs. 'That is but a taste of our fury!' the penguin king declares.

mixed results. It wasn’t quite Mario or Italian, and it mostly sounded a lot like Pratt’s normal voice.

Nothing has quite the same screen allure as a secret world. Espionage is so secret, by definition, that we have to take even its existence as a matter of trust; all we know about what goes on behind the intelligence agencies’ closed doors is what is relayed to us through books, films and series like A Spy Among Friends, based on Ben Macintyre’s book about the British double agent Kim Philby. Presumably, a certain kind of person is drawn to that world where nothing can be let slip outside it. To work for both sides, one must constantly be aware of who said what to whom, who knows what, who saw you where, who remembers you there — that anyone should want that life is a mystery in itself.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor Samuel L. Jackson, Laurence Fishburne, Whoopi Goldberg and Zendaya are just some of the stars who appear in Elvis Mitchell’s “Is That Black Enough for You?” Netflix documentary. Mitchell’s doc bows this weekend at the New York Film Festival. Mitchell, a film critic who has written for LA Weekly and The New York Times takes on the role of writer, director and narrator as he traces the history of Black representation in cinema. The documentary examines Black cultural achievement in the 1960s and ’70s and debunks the notion that Black cinema in that period only meant Blaxploitation films.

P!nk is finally returning to the UK after three years away, announcing six huge outdoor UK shows taking place across Summer 2023.

A favorite at film festivals this summer and fall, the new horror movie, “Sissy,” is now playing on Shudder. Directed and written by Hannah Barlow and Kane Senes, it’s one of the most original motion pictures you’ll see this year.

Clayton Davis Jordan Peele is looking to push boundaries as a writer, director and producer every time he creates something new. “I’m going to keep trying to come up with original stories, and meet the expectations the audience has for me,” Peele says. “I hope to continue to lift original filmmakers up.” On this episode of the award-winning Variety Awards Circuit Podcast, we sit down with Academy Award winner Peele to discuss his two feature film projects in the awards conversation: the sci-fi horror film “Nope,” which he wrote and directed, and the animated feature “Wendell & Wild,” which he voiced, co-wrote and produced. Also on the episode, he talks about his long friendship and collaboration with Keegan-Michael Key, and whether fans might ever see the comedy duo reboot their beloved Comedy Central and Emmy-winning sketch series “Key & Peele.”

Super Mario fans got yet another sneak peek of the highly-anticipated animated film starring Chris Pratt as the iconic plumber and Anya Taylor-Joy as Princess Peach on Thursday. The very first trailer for the upcoming film, Super Mario Bros., was released and kicked off with a bang with Bowser (Jack Black) obtaining a gold star after facing off against an army of penguins.Mario is then introduced landing in Mushroom Kingdom and meeting Toad (Keegan-Michael Key).  Mario time! Super Mario fans got yet another sneak peek of the highly-anticipated animated film starring Chris Pratt as the iconic plumber and Anya Taylor-Joy as Princess Peach on Thursday The trailer begins with Bowser and his army invading an icy kingdom where he is introduced as the 'King of the Koopas'.His followers cower in terror as he approaches the castle, where the penguins bravely await him and adorably pelt him with snowballs. 'That is but a taste of our fury!' the penguin king declares.

Chris Pratt could be the hero of the mushroom kingdom.

Letitia Wright said she felt a responsibility to be a vessel for the voice of an asylum seeker while filming her upcoming project Aisha. The Black Panther: Wakanda Forever actress, 28, stars as a Nigerian girl caught in Ireland’s immigration system alongside co-star Josh O’Connor in director Frank Berry’s latest drama. Arriving at the film’s UK premiere at the BFI London Film Festival, Wright told the PA news agency: “When I read the script from Frank I just thought this is a beautiful piece of art, well crafted and well put together and this is why I wanted to be a part of it.

The first trailer for the upcoming film The Super Mario Bros. Movie has been released!

Grief is a wild animal: nobody knows what it will do next. In Christophe Honoré’s Winter Boy (Le Lycéen), high-school student Lucas (Paul Kircher) is asleep in his dorm when his older brother Quentin (Vincent Lacoste) and a family friend burst in. His father has had an accident. By the time they reach their small town in the foothills of the French Alps, Lucas has realized his father is dead.

Jennifer Tilly was all smiles while celebrating the second season premiere of her hit Syfy series Chucky.The 64-year-old actress reprises her voice role as the iconic Tiffany Valentine in the show, which returns for its second season on Wednesday.Tilly brought her Tiffany Valentine doll with her on the red carpet for the premiere, held at the Hard Rock Hotel New York City. Red carpet ready: Jennifer Tilly was all smiles while celebrating the second season premiere of her hit Syfy series ChuckyTilly stepped out with a strapless black dress that fell below her knees and featured lemon prints.She accessorized with gold hoop earrings with a black shawl covering her shoulders and arms.

“Big Mouth” pushes the envelope in the most absurdly wonderful ways but not every idea makes it to Netflix screens. Just ask Joel Kim Booster.

Brent Lang Executive Editor In one corner, a star-studded murder mystery from one of the most acclaimed directors in Hollywood. In the other, a family fable that features a CGI crocodile who sounds a lot like Shawn Mendes. As Hollywood heads into another quiet fall weekend at the box office, David O. Russell’s “Amsterdam” is squaring off against “Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile,” and both new releases are facing strong competition from reigning champ “Smile.” Of the two new entrants, “Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile” seems to be in the stronger position. There haven’t been many movies geared toward kids — the last one was “DC League of Super-Pets” way back in July. The $50 million production will open in more than 4,300 locations, where it should make $15 million or more. Sony Pictures, the studio behind the film, is being more conservative and projecting an opening in the $11 million to $12 million range. That could be enough for a first-place finish, depending on how steeply “Smile,” which opened to $22.6 million, drops in its second weekend of release.

Andrew Barker Senior Features Writer “A Chinese Canadian tween undergoes magical puberty and turns into a giant red panda.” As far as elevator pitches go, it’s not exactly “‘Jaws’ in space” or “snakes on a plane.” But that highly specific logline is the one that Domee Shi used to persuade Pixar to greenlight her feature directorial debut, some half a decade ago when the then-20-something was a budding storyboard artist on the studio’s Emeryville campus. Shi’s film, “Turning Red,” delivers on every bit of that premise, focusing on a confidently nerdy Toronto girl named Mei and her loving yet strict mother, Ming, whose perfectly ordered lives are thrust into chaos by Mei’s sudden transformation. The film was released last spring, and immediately notched a number of milestones for the studio: the first Pixar feature solely directed by a woman, the first Pixar feature with all-female creative leads, and only the second Pixar feature directed by a person of Asian descent. But the particulars of Shi’s identity aside, it also represented the emergence of a singular new voice within the celebrated studio, and everything from its cultural specificity, to its animation style — impressionistic, frantically paced, anime-influenced — to its openness in addressing the messiness of early adolescence (from menstruation and mother issues to the suggestion that a tween girl’s love of a particular boy band might have some extra-musical motivations) felt both of a piece with the Pixar tradition and something invigoratingly new.