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Sony Pictures Animation’s “Goat,” opening in theaters Feb. 13, is an original action-comedy set in an all-animal world and centered on the high-stakes sport of roarball — a version of basketball that’s co-ed, full-contact and dominated by the biggest, fastest and fiercest animals on the planet. At the center of the story is Will Harris […]

Stephen Amell has landed a lead role in Fox’s upcoming “Baywatch” reboot, Variety has learned. This is the first confirmed casting for the series, which was picked up for the 2026-2027 broadcast season by Fox back in September 2025 with a 12-episode order. Fox is set to host an open casting call for the show […]

SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers for Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights,” in theaters now. Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” has just been released in theaters, but there have already been weeks of discourse surrounding her adaptation (or “reinterpretation”) of Emily Brontë’s groundbreaking novel. Actually, make that years — social media has been buzzing ever since the […]

The lore of why Emerald Fennell decided to adapt “Wuthering Heights” for the big screen is almost as well-worn as the copy of Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel that the Oscar-winning filmmaker has read a hundred times. Fennell discovered the classic tome when she was a teenager — 14 years old to be exact — and […]

In the riveting family drama “Yellow Letters,” German-born Turkish director İlker Çatak employs a culturally tilt-shifted backdrop for his tale of authoritarian crackdowns. The film announces, upfront via enormous on-screen text, that its setting is “Berlin as Ankara,” with the German capital standing in (sans disguise) for its Turkish equivalent, as though the film itself […]

As David Ellison’s Paramount Skydance continues to pursue its hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, the company has hired a new leader for its public policy and regulatory teams: Rene Augustine, a former attorney in President Trump’s White House and one-time deputy in the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division. Augustine will join Paramount Skydance on […]

The common layman’s shorthand for the BAFTA Awards is that they’re the “British Oscars,” in the way that the César Awards are the French Oscars or the Goya Awards are the Spanish Oscars. Yet the comparison isn’t quite correct: Where the Césars and Goyas exclusively recognize their own national cinemas, the BAFTAs, like the Academy […]

“Love Story” showrunner Connor Hines is defending the decision not to consult the Kennedy family for the latest installment of Ryan Murphy’s anthology series, which explores the marriage of John F. Kennedy Jr. and fashion publicist Carolyn Bessette. “As a writer, it’s more healthy and effective to have some distance from the subject matter,” he […]

Matt Johnson knows his way around the law protecting fair use and parody. Johnson’s “Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie” opens in theaters Friday via Neon, and it’s a true labor of love. The lore of the film goes back to 2007, where Johnson and his real-life best friend Jay McCarrol debuted the web […]

Jane Schoenbrun is back with their third feature, the amazingly-titled “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma.” Schoenbrun, who previously wrote and directed 2021’s “We’re All Going to the World’s Fair” and 2024’s “I Saw the TV Glow,” wrote and directed “Camp Miasma” as well. Starring Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson, the film is set […]