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This morning saw the announcements of the 40th edition of the Film Independent Spirit Awards. The big picture nominees include titles like the film festival darling The Substance, as well as Anora, which is getting high accolades for Mikey Madison‘s performance and Sean Baker’s writing and direction. A24 would naturally snag a ton of nominations that total a whopping 19. This beats last year’s 11-nomination count.

The Independent Spirit Awards will be taking place on Saturday, February 22, 2025, and is set to be held at Santa Monica beach. Former Saturday Night Live cast member Aidy Bryant will return as the host. The in-person ceremony will be available to stream live on IMDb and Film Independent YouTube channels, and across other social platforms. You can find the full list of nominations, courtesy of Deadline, below.

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Producers: Sean Baker, Alex Coco, Samantha Quan...

Am 22. Februar werden zum 40. Mal die Indenpendent Spirit Awards vergeben. Wie Jane Schoenbruns „I Saw the TV Glow“ ist auch Sean Bakers Palmengewiner „Anora” fünfmal nominiert worden.

Fünfmal für den Independent Spirit Award nominiert: Sean Bakers „Anora“ (Credit: Upi)

Bei den heute bekannt gegebenen Nominierungen für die 40. Independent Spirit Awards am 22. Februar 2025 haben sich Sean Bakers Palmengewinner „Anora” und Jane Schoenbruns „I Saw the TV Glow“ mit jeweils fünf Nennungen als die Favoriten herauskristallisiert.

Zum direkten Duell kommt es in der Kategorie Bester Film, wo außer dem Duo noch RaMell Ross „Nickel Boys“, Greg Kwedars „Sing Sing“ und Coralie Fargeats „The Substance“ nominiert sind sowie in der Kategorie Beste Regie, wo sich außerdem noch Ali Abbasi („The Apprentice – The Trump Story“), Brady Corbet („The Brutalist“) und Alonso Ruizpalacios („La Cocina“) Hoffnungen auf eine Auszeichnungen machen können.

Für die beste Hauptrolle, die geschlechterübergreifend vergeben wird, sind Mikey Madison („Anora“) und Justice Smith...

Nominations have been revealed for the 2025 Film Independent Spirit Awards, which will take place in Los Angeles on February 22. The film nominations were led by “Anora” and “I Saw the TV Glow” with six each. In the television categories, “Shōgun” garnered the most nominations with five, followed closely by “Baby Reindeer” and “English Teacher” with four apiece. Watch the announcement here and see the full list below.

Julio Torres did well here with four nominations across his feature directorial debut “Problemista” and Max series “Fantasmas.” Indies like “Dídi,” “Janet Planet,” “Sing Sing,” “Ghostlight,” “The People’s Joker,” “In the Summers,” “The Substance,” and “Nickel Boys” also had a good day, racking up multiple nominations across the board. Netflix enjoys multiple nods, for “The Piano Lesson” and “His Three Daughters,” two movies poised to enter into the Oscar race.

The 2024 Spirit Award winners were led by “Past Lives,” “The Holdovers,” and “American Fiction,...

The 40th Annual Independent Spirit Awards nominations were announced live on Wednesday, Dec. 4, at 7:00am Pacific/10:00am Eastern on Film Independent’s YouTube channel. Scroll down for the full list of contenders, and find out who wins during a ceremony hosted by comedian Aidy Bryant on Feb. 22, 2025.

The Spirit Awards honor the best achievements in low-budget American filmmaking and and now breakthrough TV programs as well, as decided by the members of Film Independent. The nominating committees comprised writers, directors, producers, cinematographers, editors, actors, critics, casting directors, film festival programmers and other working film professionals. Winners are chosen by film industry insiders as well as everyday film lovers who pay their yearly dues to be part of Film Independent. Members have access to Film Independent’s exclusive nominee screening room online, as well as a number of awards season experiences including special screenings and Q&As.

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Heretic Box Office (North America): Achieves A Remarkable Feat ( Photo Credit – YouTube )

Heretic is focused on its box office goals as it sets a new record with its domestic gross this weekend. The film is headlined by Hugh Grant, who is best known for his romantic movies. However, he has been taking adverse roles in the last few years, and the actor also enjoys playing such roles. Scroll below for more.

It is noteworthy as the cinemas are filled with major tentpole movies. Amidst that, Hugh’s film achieved a remarkable feat, which boosts the confidence of filmmakers who create small-budget movies. Horror movies have been performing well this year, and some of them include Smile 2, Terrifier 3, Alien: Romulus, and more. Grant’s film is an American psychological horror film by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods. The film’s cast includes Sophie Thatcher, Chloe East, and Topher Grace.

Disney’s “Moana 2” dominated the U.K. and Ireland box office with a £12 million ($15.2 million) debut, according to numbers from Comscore, marking a strong start for the animated sequel.

The film led a robust weekend that saw Universal’s “Wicked” holding strong in its second frame with £8.3 million, bringing its cumulative total to £28.5 million.

Paramount’s “Gladiator II” continued to perform in its third week, adding £2.5 million for a total of £23.5 million. Studiocanal’s “Paddington In Peru” demonstrated staying power in its fourth week, collecting £1.8 million and pushing its total to £27.3 million.

Black Bear’s new entry “Conclave” opened with £1.1 million, while Warner Bros.’ “Red One” rounded out its fourth week with £425,853, bringing its cume to £6.6 million.

BFI Distribution’s “All We Imagine As Light” debuted with £111,033, while Entertainment Film Distributors’ “Heretic” added £96,583 in its fifth week for a £5.7 million total. Park Circus’s 20th Anniversary 4K restoration of...

If the 2025 Oscars nominations were announced today, what would Gold Derby predict as the nominees and winners? Since our predictions center opened on July 1, 2024, more than 6,300 people have made their forecasts in 18 top categories. So who’s out front to claim these golden trophies, according to the Gold Derby Oscar predictions 2025?

Below, see a snapshot in time of our racetrack odds for the 97th Academy Awards, updated on Dec. 2, 2024. See how the odds and rankings have changed over time by examining our previous Oscar snapshots on July 3, July 9, July 16, July 23, July 29, Aug. 6, Aug. 19, Aug. 28, Sept. 11, Sept. 19, Sept. 23, Sept. 30, Oct. 7, Oct. 14, Oct. 22, Oct. 28, Nov. 4, Nov. 11, Nov. 18, and Nov. 25.

Now expected to receive a nomination since the last update: Cynthia Erivo in Best Actress. The “Wicked” star has skyrocketed up our charts over the past several weeks, ever since the Universal Pictures adaptation of the popular Broadway stage musical first started screening for critics.

That ’70s Show is one of the most beloved sitcoms of all time. Although the series has seen its fair share of controversy in recent years, when it comes to its cast members, there is no denying that its impact is unmatched. Having launched the careers of many beloved stars, the series has helped fans find some of their most beloved celebrities.

A still from That 70’s Show | Credit: The Carsey-Werner Company

In recent years, one of the most beloved and cherished members of the cast has been Topher Grace. With the success that he has seen outside of the series, one would assume that he is also one of the richest cast members. However, it would seem that someone else from the series has taken this title.

Topher Grace’s Net Worth Isn’t a Small Figure

Topher Grace has become quite a beloved figure since he joined the cast of That ’70s Show.

The upcoming third season of Showtime’s hit horror-drama series “Yellowjackets” is headed our way early next year, with “Yellowjackets” Season 3 set to debut with two episodes on Friday, February 14, 2025 on streaming and on demand for Paramount+ subscribers with the Paramount+ with Showtime plan before its on-air debut on Sunday, February 16.

The season will launch internationally on February 14 on Paramount+ in the UK, Australia, Latin America, Brazil, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Austria and later in the year in France.

While you wait, Entertainment Weekly has shared a gallery of first-look images today.

“Definitely buckle up this season,” co-creator Ashley Lyle teases in a chat with Entertainment Weekly as part of the preview coverage this week. “The cannibalism cat is out of the bag.”

Two-time Academy Award-winning actress Hilary Swank (Million Dollar Baby) will guest star and join the all-star cast, along with Joel McHale (Community).

Created by Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson...

RankFilm (distributor)Three-day gross (Nov 29-Dec 1)Total gross to dateWeek 1. Moana 2(Disney) £12m £12m 1 2. Wicked(Universal) £8.3m £28.5m 2 3. Gladiator II(Paramount) £2.6m £23.4m 3 4. Paddington In Peru(Studiocanal) £1.8m £27.3m 4 5. Conclave(Black Bear) £886,000 £1.1m 1

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It was another record-breaking weekend at the UK and Ireland box office as Moana 2 sailed to the top with a £12m debut for Disney.

The sequel had the third-highest opening of the year, behind last week’s Wicked (£13.7m) and Deadpool & Wolverine (£12.6m) but was ahead of fellow Disney animation Inside Out 2 which scored an £11.3m debut back in June.

Glicked alone may not have done Barbenheimer numbers, but Moglicked is apparently exactly what the doctor ordered. In what AMC theaters CEO Adam Aron called a "national phenomenon" (per Deadline), the 5-day holiday stretch brought in a record-breaking $420 million at the domestic box office, shattering the previous record from 2018. That year,...

A new film has claimed the top spot of the box-office weekend top ten. With a debut total $55.5 million over its closest rival, Moana 2 easily took control of the weekend box office.

Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures saw Moana 2 bring in a total of $135.5 million over the course of its opening weekend and a total of $221 million overall. This pushed last weekend’s top film, Wicked to second place where it took in $80 million for Universal Pictures, bringing the film’s two-week tally to $111.2 million. Meanwhile, Gladiator II fell from second to third place where it added $30.7 in its second weekend of release to give the Paramount Pictures product an overall total of $111.2 million. Red One also dropped a spot to land in fourth where it brought in $12.9 million, raising its three-week tally to $76.1 million. Lionsgate saw The Best Christmas Pageant Everclimb a spot to claim fifth place this weekend with $3.3 million,...

A record-breaking Thanksgiving frame is lifting all boats, tentpoles the most evident, with boom, boom, boom for Moana 2, Wicked and Gladiator II. Some 30 million moviegoers went to see one of these. In the weird post-Covid shift, tentpoles can slay, and indies can disappear. This weekend, however, they didn’t. Audiences showed decent specialty support for films from Heretic and A Real Pain, to Conclave and even Latvian animated Flow. Anora is still in theaters. Three indies graced the top ten.

The indie market is still punishing, but “it kind of seems like the first time that people go to the theater to see one film and then say, ‘Let’s see that’” [too], says one independent distribution executive. “Not to mention the overall box office being huge … What worries me is that there are not enough screens to hold things. But I guess that’s a good problem.”

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The folks at the House of Mouse have a lot to celebrate this year, with them being able to lay claim to three of the highest-grossing movies of 2024. This summer, they had back-to-back smashes with Inside Out 2 and Deadpool & Wolverine, and now Moana 2 just set a Thanksgiving record, making a jaw-dropping $135.5 million and $221 million over the five-day holiday according to Deadline. Yowza. That’s a crazy number for a movie that was retrofitted from a streaming series into a feature film and quite a turnaround for a company that was in the dog house in 2023 following a series of pricey flops.

Our box office predictions were way off for Moana 2, which just grew and grew as the weekend went on. What’s doubly impressive is the fact that its success didn’t suck up all the air at the box office, with Universal’s Wicked having stellar holdover business,...

Thanksgiving has long been a deadline of sorts for studios campaigning for Oscar nominations, because it offers the tempting proposition of a holiday weekend in which voters might have free time to catch up on movies. In past years, that meant a steady stream of screener DVDs arriving in voters’ mailboxes in the days before Thanksgiving – but now, with the Academy focusing on its members-only screening platform and placing restrictions on physical screeners, the push is to get new films into the Academy Screening Room before the holiday.

Fifteen new films were added to that room on Wednesday, a departure from the usual weekly additions, which typically come every Friday. The newcomers include Best Picture contenders “Conclave” and “The Piano Lesson,” following a Nov. 22 influx that included “Emilia Perez,” “Joker: Folie a Deux,” “Juror No. 2,” “Nightbitch,” “A Real Pain,” “The Room Next Door,” “Saturday Night” and “September 5.”

But some major films are still missing,...

It’s easier to imagine selling A24 on a complex theological discussion masquerading as a horror-comedy about two missing Mormons — but it’s not that much easier.

Written and directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods (“A Quiet Place”), “Heretic” hit theaters on November 8 after premiering to mostly positive reviews at TIFF. A dialogue-heavy indie about society’s failing faith in God, the surprisingly heady abduction thriller found unlikely success in an eclectic month for genre. That was true even against the back half of major October titles such as “Terrifier 3” and “Smile 2.”

The dense script is a tough sell. A villainous Hugh Grant is cast against type — delivering what may be cinema’s all-time best Jar Jar Binks joke — doesn’t come with a built-in crwods Beck and Woods’ mid-budget genre experiment follows odd-couple missionaries, Sister Paxton (Chloe East) and Sister Barnes (Sophie Thatcher), into the serpentine...

Hugh Grant‘s career has entered what the actor himself coined the “freak show stage” of his career. From the oh-so-tiny Oompa Loompa in Wonka to the short-lived Edward Keplinger in The Regime, the seasoned British actor has departed from his romantic lead typecast. For his most recent leading role as Mr. Reed in Heretic, Grant traps two young Mormon missionaries in his basement game of faith and horror. Green-haired, dancing orange man aside, Mr. Reed is his most extreme role to date. Playing a man who traps women in cages is as large a departure as he can take, especially when his origins are largely rooted as charming leads in romantic comedies. And not just any romantic leads. Grant has starred in some of the most iconic romantic comedies: Edward Farris in Ang Lee’s Sense and Sensibility, William Thacker in Richard Curtis‘ Notting Hill, Charles in Four Weddings and a Funeral...

Universal’s screen adaptation of “Wicked” dominated the U.K. and Ireland box office with a commanding £13.7 million ($17.2 million) debut, according to numbers from Comscore.

The musical fantasy leads a robust frame that saw Paramount’s “Gladiator II” maintain strong momentum in its sophomore session with £4.7 million, pushing its cumulative total to £18.4 million.

Studiocanal’s “Paddington in Peru” continues to demonstrate impressive holds in its third weekend, collecting £4.2 million for a running total of £24.5 million. Warner Bros.’ “Red One” secured fourth position with £866,764, bringing its three-week total to £5.9 million.

Entertainment Film Distributors’ “Heretic” rounded out the top five with £205,457, accumulating £5.4 million over four weeks. Universal’s “The Wild Robot” placed sixth with £183,578 (£13.5 million total), while Lionsgate U.K.’s “Small Things Like These” ranked seventh with £166,803 (£3.5 million total).

Trafalgar Releasing’s Metropolitan Opera presentation of “Tosca” debuted in eighth place with £129,206, followed by Polish holiday entry “Listy Do M. 6” from Magnetes Pictures,...

Nominations voting is from January 8-12, 2025, with official Oscar nominations announced January 17, 2025. Final voting is February 11-18, 2025. And finally, the 97th Oscars telecast will be broadcast on Sunday, March 2 and air live on ABC at 7:00 p.m. Et/ 4:00 p.m. Pt. We update our picks through awards season, so keep checking IndieWire for all our 2025 Oscar predictions.

The State of the Race

The past couple of years, the Best Actor Oscar race has been rigid to the point of there typically only being room for one surprise nominee to gain momentum in the back half of awards season. Though few nominations have been released, 2024 is shaping up to be no different, with prognosticators really having to stretch to create a list longer than 10 names who have a shot at a nod, if that.

What most people have been waiting to see is how voters will respond to Timothée Chalamet...

Exclusive: Claire McCarthy has added seven to the cast of Shiver, her adaptation of the New York Times bestselling YA fantasy novel by Maggie Stiefvater. The newcomers are Sofia Wylie (The Map That Leads to You), Iman Vellani (The Marvels), Lyon Daniels (The Spiderwick Chronicles), Alexander Ludwig (Earth Abides), Ross Butler (Shazam! Fury of the Gods), Alicia Witt (Longlegs), and Oscar nominee Greg Kinnear (As Good As It Gets).

As previously announced, Maddie Ziegler and Levi Miller star. Production in Vancouver is underway.

Adapted for the screen by McCarthy and Jett Tattersall, Shiver follows Grace, who was attacked by a pack of wolves as a child. However, one of them—a yellow-eyed wolf — saved her, creating an inexplicable bond between them. Years later, she meets a young man named Sam with the exact same yellow eyes and immediately feels a connection to him. Their love story unfolds against the backdrop of mystical events,...

It was the weekend that box office observers had circled on their calendars for months. Universal Pictures released the big Broadway musical adaptation "Wicked" in theaters on the same day that Paramount Pictures unleashed Ridley Scott's "Gladiator II" on audiences in North America. 2023 had Barbenheimer. 2024 had Glicked. While pretty much everyone was a winner here, it was director Jon M. Chu's fantastical musical epic that came out on top.

Chu's latest topped the domestic charts with an estimated $114 million. Coupled with the film's solid $50.1 million overseas total, that leaves "Wicked" with a ridiculously strong $164 million global opening. "Gladiator II" still managed to open to $55 million, which was great all things considered, but Universal's return to the land of Oz ended up blowing past already optimistic industry projections with its opening. It now ranks as by far the biggest opening weekend ever for an adaptation of a pre-existing stage musical,...

Coppola Wine.

After wrapping October with Robert Zemeckis’ hilarious dark comedy Death Becomes Her (listen), we kicked off November with a look back at Wes Craven’s classic slasher A Nightmare on Elm Street (listen), followed by Albert Ray’s pre-Code 1932 “classic” The Thirteenth Guest (listen).

In honor of Patrick Brice and Mark Duplass re-teaming for Shudder’s The Creep Tapes (review), we’ve decided to revisit the better-than-the-original sequel Creep 2.

In the film, after dispatching new “friend” Dave (Karan Soni), Aaron (Duplass) sets his sights on flailing YouTube personality Sara (Desiree Akhavan). After trying all of the same tricks as the first film, however, Aaron finds that Sara is unflappable: she’s not bothered by his pranks and jump scares and seems more than willing to match his freak in every conceivable way

As the battle of wills escalates, it soon becomes clear that these two may just be made for each other.

Rank Film (distributor) Three-day gross (Nov 22-24) Total gross to date Week 1. Wicked (Universal) £13.7m £13.7m 1 2. Gladiator II (Paramount) £4.7m £18.4m 2 3. Paddington In Peru (Studiocanal) £4.2m £24.4m 3 4. Red One (Warner Bros) £822,000 £5.8m 3 5. Heretic(Efd) £205,457 £205,457 4

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Wickedcast its spell on UK-Ireland audiences this weekend, bringing in £13.7m in its debut – the best-performing opening weekend for a stage-to-screen adaptation in the territory, and the biggest opening weekend of 2024.

The musical was released at 701 sites, for a site average of £19,543 for Universal.It beat previous stage-to-screen record holder Les Misérables, with £8.1m in 2013. Wicked also knocked Deadpool & Wolverine...

It's not quite Barbenheimer, but this year's pink-and-black portmanteau, Glicked, still made some magic at the box office. After some dire weeks led by titles like Venom: The Last Dance and Red One, Wicked proved that—when it comes to ticket sales—it really is very shrewd to be a...

Sunday Update: Moviegoers looked to the western sky this weekend in record numbers, as “Wicked” defied expectations by earning a whopping $114 million at the U.S. box office. That’s the best opening weekend ever for a film adaptation of a Broadway musical, beating the previous record-holder, “Into the Woods” (2014), at $31 million. “Wicked” is now the third biggest domestic opener of 2024, following “Deadpool & Wolverine” at $211 million and “Inside Out 2” at $154 million. Elsewhere, “Gladiator II” brought in an impressive $55 million, good enough for second place. Three cheers for “Glicked”!

Friday Update: Heading into Friday, “Wicked” had already made $19.2 million in previews: $2.5 million from Monday showings, $5.7 million from Wednesday advances, and $11 million for Thursday screenings. Comparatively, “Gladiator II” made $6.5 million in Thursday previews. This is shaping up to be one of the biggest box office weekends of the 2024 calendar year.

What will be the winners and the losers this week at the U.

The buzz has been steadily rising the last few weeks for Jon M. Chu’s Wicked Part I, the long-anticipated big-screen adaptation of the hit Broadway show. In our weekly box office predictions column, we forecast the movie opening to $120 million, and the film opened just a little bit below that, with an estimated $114 million weekend. That makes it only the fourth film this year to open north of $100 million, and positions it well to keep earning big bucks over the upcoming holiday weekend. While it will see big competition from Moana 2, I expect Wicked to show big staying power, with it possible that the movie will end its domestic run north of $300 million, which is a significant number. While I was wary of it, I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed it (read my review), and audiences seem to agree, earning an A CinemaScore rating.

By contrast,...

Hugh Grant, one of the most household names in Hollywood romcoms for two decades, is now pulling out all the big guns as the creepy, majestic, and hardcore critic of all things religion in Scott Beck and Bryan Woods’ new Mormon horror, Heretic (2024). Beck and Woods have previously tried their hands on filmmaking after co-writing the 2018 blockbuster “A Quiet Place,” but they couldn’t really tap into the horror genre before this venture with Grant. “Heretic” is one of those movies that stay with you long after you’re done watching it, and is bound to be a solid Thanksgiving horror for those who fancy the genre. The film raises questions about religious beliefs and points out the dogma behind every big religion. The cast also includes Sophie Thatcher and Chloe East as the two Church members stuck with Mr. Reed and his web of mind games.

Heretic (2024) Plot Summary...

Exclusive: Maddie Ziegler (My Old Ass) and Levi Miller (Kraven the Hunter) are set to star in Shiver, a feature adaptation of the New York Times bestselling YA fantasy novel by Maggie Stiefvater.

Claire McCarthy (Ophelia) will direct. Andy Fickman had been attached to a prior iteration of the project, as we first reported.

Currently in production in Vancouver, the film follows Grace, who was attacked by a pack of wolves as a child. However, one of them — a yellow-eyed wolf — saved her, creating an inexplicable bond between them. Years later, she meets a young man named Sam with the exact same yellow eyes and immediately feels a connection to him. Their love story unfolds against the backdrop of mystical events, mysterious disappearances, and intrigues that reveal to Grace the true nature of Sam and his connection to the wolves. At the same time, as winter approaches, Sam must fight...

Warner Bros., New Line Cinema, and producer Zach Cregger (Barbarian) are keeping Companion shrouded in mystery, revealing nothing about the plot. New Companion images unveiled this morning don’t uncover the enigmatic plot, but they do give us a closer look at key characters.

Described as a sci-fi/horror movie, Companion will mark the directorial debut of Drew Hancock, who also wrote the script. At this time, plot details are under wraps.

The sci-fi horror movie will release in theaters on January 31, 2025.

The film’s cast includes Sophie Thatcher alongside Rupert Friend (Separation), Harvey Guillén (“What We Do in the Shadows”), Lukas Gage (“You”), Megan Suri (It Lives Inside), and Jack Quaid.

The new images give a close-up of Thatcher and Quaid, along with a wide shot that gives a glimpse of Gage’s character during a moment of horror. Furthermore, the new images introduce the characters’ names. Thatcher, Quaid,...

Paramount+ with Showtime today announced the season three premiere date for the Emmy-nominated Showtime drama series Yellowjackets. The season will debut with two episodes on Friday, February 14, on streaming and on-demand for Paramount+ subscribers with the Paramount+ with Showtime plan before its on-air debut on Sunday, February 16.

The season will launch internationally on February 14 exclusively on Paramount+ in the UK, Australia, Latin America, Brazil, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and later in the year in France.

Two-time Academy Award-winning actress Hilary Swank (Million Dollar Baby) will guest star and join the all-star cast, along with Joel McHale (Community).

Created by Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson (Narcos), Yellowjackets is the saga of a team of wildly talented high school girls soccer players who become the (un)lucky survivors of a plane crash deep in the remote northern wilderness.

The series chronicles their descent from a complicated but thriving team to savage clans...

“Yellowjackets” is officially returning in February. This will mark a nearly two year gap from when Season 2 premiered.

Hilariously given its dark subject matter, the first two episodes of the Showtime original will debut Feb. 14 on both streaming and on demand for those subscribed to the Paramount+ with Showtime plan. Season 3’s linear premiere will then take place on Feb. 16. Internationally, the season will premiere on Paramount+ in the U.K., Australia, Latin America, Brazil, Italy, Germany, Switzerland and Austria on Feb. 14. It will then debut in France later this year.

This season will introduce two new stars to the Emmy-nominated drama’s twisted story. Two-time Academy Award-winning actress Hilary Swank (“Million Dollar Baby”) will guest star along with “Community” and “Animal Control” star Joel McHale.

Created by Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson, “Yellowjackets” takes place across two different timelines. In the 1990s, the series follows a promising high school...

Paramount+ with Showtime has announced this morning that the hotly anticipated “Yellowjackets” Season 3 is headed our way in early 2025. The season will debut with two episodes on Friday, February 14 on streaming and on demand for Paramount+ subscribers with the Paramount+ with Showtime plan before its on-air debut on Sunday, February 16.

Watch the “Yellowjackets” Season 3 announcement teaser below.

The season will launch internationally on February 14 on Paramount+ in the UK, Australia, Latin America, Brazil, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Austria and later in the year in France.

Two-time Academy Award-winning actress Hilary Swank (Million Dollar Baby) will guest star and join the all-star cast, along with Joel McHale (Community).

Created by Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson (Narcos), “Yellowjackets” is the saga of a team of wildly talented high school girls soccer players who become the (un)lucky survivors of a plane crash deep in the remote northern wilderness. The series chronicles their descent...

Paramount’s “Gladiator II” dominated the U.K. and Ireland box office with a £9.1 million ($11.5 million) opening weekend, according to numbers from Comscore.

Studiocanal’s “Paddington In Peru” maintained momentum in its sophomore session, collecting £6.8 million for a cumulative £18.8 million after two weeks. Warner Bros.’ “Red One” secured third place with £1.4 million, pushing its two-week total to £4.6 million.

Entertainment Film Distributors’ “Heretic” added £505,118 in its third frame, reaching £4.9 million total. Sony’s “Venom: The Last Dance” continued its run with £398,650, accumulating £11.8 million after four weeks.

Universal’s “The Wild Robot” showed staying power in its fifth week with £387,352, bringing its total to £13.2 million. Lionsgate U.K.’s “Small Things Like These” gathered £326,315 for a three-week cume of £3 million.

Trafalgar Releasing’s “Kiss Me, Kate: The Musical” debuted with £258,966 and Trinity’s “The Last Dance” earned £187,203 for a total of £1 million. Andrea Bocelli’s concert film, “Andrea Bocelli 30: The Celebration,...

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2024 is nearly over and while we have seen some brilliant horror films come out this year I don’t think it has been such a great year for the genre. With most horror films flopping at the box office and the dreaded Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey sequel coming out it all felt wrong. But don’t worry because I have picked out the 18 best horror films that have come out this year. I haven’t ranked the films in the article and I will update the list as more films come out.

Terrifier 3 (In Theaters) Credit – Cineverse

Terrifier 3 is a Christmas supernatural slasher horror film written and directed by Damien Leone. The 2024 film is the third entry into the fan-favorite slasher franchise. It is set during the holidays and it follows Sienna and her brother...

The 15th annual Governors Awards, hosted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, celebrated industry legends on Sunday night, most notably music and producing icon Quincy Jones, who died earlier this month at the age of 91.

The entire crowd was moved to tears when his daughter Rashida Jones, accompanied by three of her siblings, took the stage to speak about their legendary father. Rashida fought through emotions as she read parts of her father’s speech that he had intended to read on the night, and it was followed by an uplifting tribute by Jennifer Hudson, who was accompanied by a 12-member gospel choir. She performed “Maybe God Is Tryin’ to Tell You Something’,” a song from the 1985 film “The Color Purple.”

There was no emcee for the celebration, which was surprising after comedian John Mulaney’s showstopping duties last year. Instead, following opening remarks from Academy President Janet Yang,...

“It’s the Oscar for people who never made a movie good enough to win an Oscar.”

That’s how Governors Award recipient writer/director Richard Curtis jokingly described the Governors Awards — or at least, how he overheard his son describing it to son’s girlfriend.

In truth, the awards are bestowed by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences on a select group of industry standouts, whose career achievements merit singular recognition. Along with Curtis, who received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award (given to someone who has brought credit to the industry by promoting human welfare), this year’s honorees, as voted on by AMPAS’s Board of Governors, were Quincy Jones, Juliet Taylor, and producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli.

Held annually in mid-November, the Governors Awards ceremony has become the unofficial first stop on the Oscars campaign circuit, and given the current wide-open race, this year...

Pre-Code Problems.

After wrapping up October with Robert Zemeckis’ hilarious dark comedy Death Becomes Her (listen), we kicked off November with a look back at Wes Craven’s classic slasher A Nightmare on Elm Street (listen). Now, we’re traveling all the way back to the ’30s to discuss Albert Ray‘s 1932 murder mystery comedy The Thirteenth Guest!

In The Thirteenth Guest, Marie Morgan (Ginger Rogers) has just turned 21 and can now accept the inheritance that her father left her when he died at a dinner party 13 years prior. That dinner party was supposed to have 13 guests in attendance, but only 12 showed up.

While Marie tries to figure out the identity of the mysteriously absent thirteenth guest, a psychopath has started killing off the other attendees of that fated dinner party, with the dead bodies being left at the table in the same seats they had originally occupied all those years ago.

RankFilm (distributor)Three-day gross (Nov 15-17)Total gross to dateWeek 1. Gladiator II(Paramount) £8.8m £9.1m 1 2. Paddington In Peru(Studiocanal) £6.8m £18.9m 2 3. Red One(Warner Bros) Figures to come Figures to come 2 4. Heretic(Efd) £505,119 £4.9m 3 5. Venom: The Last Dance(Sony) £398,202 £11.8m 4

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Gladiator II posted a strong £8.8m start at the UK-Ireland box office, for the biggest opening weekend of director Ridley Scott’s career.

The Paramount blockbuster comfortably bested the £6.6m start of Scott’s The Martian from 2015. It also took a 146.4% increase on the £3.6m opening of Gladiator from 2000.

Playing in 722 cinemas, Gladiator IItook a £12,134 site average.

Last week, we predicted that Venom: The Last Dance would lose its odd grip on the number one spot at the box office the minute a big studio tentpole popped into the mix. Turns out it didn't take a huge franchise film—or even a relatively successful entry—at all:...

Updated: Amazon MGM Studio’s big tentpole of the year Red One staggered into action over the weekend with a confirmed $32.1m number one North American debut.

While not a poor number in and of itself for an original film, the reported $250m price tag will raise eyebrows. Despite generally poor reviews, filmgoers gave it an A- Cinemascore, offering hope that if the family holiday season film plays into the holiday season, it might reach a decent number in North America to complement the $51.1m and counting international tally.

Dwayne Johnson stars as the head of security for Santa Claus (J.K. Simmons), who goes missing,...

Amazon MGM Studio’s big tentpole of the year Red One staggered into action over the weekend with an estimated $34.1m number one North American debut.

While not a poor number in and of itself for an original film, the reported $250m price tag will raise eyebrows. Despite generally poor reviews, filmgoers gave it an A- Cinemascore, offering hope that if the family holiday season film plays into the holiday season, it might reach a decent number in North America to complement the $50m and counting international tally.

Dwayne Johnson stars as the head of security for Santa Claus (J.K. Simmons), who goes missing,...

Is Dwayne Johnson still as big of a star as he seems to think he is? That’s the question that will be at the tip of everyone’s tongue this weekend, with his latest four-quadrant family film, Red One, opening to an underwhelming $34 million domestically. While that’s not a truly terrible number, what makes it sting more than it would otherwise is that the movie carries an astronomical budget of at least $200 million, meaning the movie may – rightly or wrongly – be viewed as something of a flop.

Consider this: Black Adam, which has a reputation for being a flop, still opened with about twice what Red One did. Unless word-of-mouth is terrific, Red One might have difficulty crawling to $100 million domestically.

Yet, it may not be as big of a flop as some think. The fact is, it was designed as a streaming movie for Prime Video, so...

Amazon MGM’s “Red One” has seen its numbers improve after an uptick in ticket sales on Saturday, but it still doesn’t look like it will leave much of a mark at the box office with a domestic opening weekend of $34 million from 4,032 theaters.

Let’s start with the good news: the Seven Bucks-produced Christmas action film starring Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans performed above Friday estimates with $13.2 million grossed on Saturday, and the film earned an A- on CinemaScore and an 89% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes after getting mostly negative reviews from critics. That could help the film as it tries to leg out into December as a seasonal offering.

But a $34 million start, which hits the top end of pre-release projections, would still be considered a huge bust for a $250 million action film starring A-listers like Johnson and Evans were it released by a legacy studio that...

“Red One,” a Christmas-set action comedy starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson as Santa’s head of security, unwrapped a soft $34.1 million from 4,032 North American theaters in its box office debut.

Those ticket sales were enough to top the domestic box office, ending the three-week reign of “Venom: The Last Dance.” However, the Amazon MGM film cost $250 million before accounting for global marketing efforts of roughly $100 million. So “Red One” is bound to spark yet another debate about what qualifies as a success at a time when streaming services are scrambling traditional business models. Case in point: “Joker: Folie à Deux,” which was released by Warner Bros., was instantly labeled a flop with $37 million to start against a $200 million budget. But last year’s “Killers of the Flower Moon,” from Apple and director Martin Scorsese, was categorized more favorably after opening to $23 million despite a similarly huge price tag.

Overseas, where Warner Bros.

Worldwide box office November 15-17 Rank Film (distributor) 3-day (world) Cume (world) 3-day (int’l) Cume (int’l) Territories 1. Gladiator II (Paramount) $87m $87m $87m $87m 63 2. Red One(Warner Bros / Amazon MGM Studios) $48.8m $84.1m $14.7m $50m 76 3. Venom: The Last Dance(Sony) $24.7m $436.1m $17.3m $308.5m 67 4. The Wild Robot(Universal)

$10.3m $308.5m $5.9m $170.7m 81 5. Paddington In Peru(Studiocanal) $8.7m $23.8m $8.7m $23.8m 1 6. To Gather Around (Various) $8.6m $10.9m $8.6m $10.9m 1 7. Heretic(Various / A24)

$6.8m $27.8m $1.6m $7.4m 14 8. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever(Lionsgate) $5.5m $20m $70,000 $70,000 3 9. Kanguva (Prathyangira Cinemas) $5m $9.2m $4.8m $8.6m 23 10. Smile 2(Paramount) $4.7m $131.9m $1.7m $66.2m 52

Credit: Comscore.

Worldwide box office November 15-17 Rank Film (distributor) 3-day (world) Cume (world) 3-day (int’l) Cume (int’l) Territories 1. Gladiator II (Paramount) $87m $87m $87m $87m 63 2. Red One(Warner Bros / Amazon MGM Studios) $48.8m $84.1m $14.7m $50m 76 3. Venom: The Last Dance(Sony) $24.7m $436.1m $17.3m $308.5m 67 4. The Wild Robot(Universal)

$10.3m $308.5m $5.9m $170.7m 81 5. Paddington In Peru(Studiocanal) $8.7m $23.8m $8.7m $23.8m 1 6. To Gather Around (Various) $8.6m $10.9m $8.6m $10.9m 1 7. Heretic(Various / A24)

$6.8m $27.8m $1.6m $7.4m 14 8. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever(Lionsgate) $5.5m $20m $70,000 $70,000 3 9. Kanguva (Prathyangira Cinemas) $5m $9.2m $4.8m $8.6m 23 10. Smile 2(Paramount) $4.7m $131.9m $1.7m $66.2m 52

Credit: Comscore.

Oxford grad Hugh Grant has outgrown most of his romantic comedy ticks from his early years – flopsy-mopsy hair, fluttery eyelashes and charming stutter – and has matured into an exceptional and versatile actor. Not that he has lost his sense of humor. Anyone who chuckled over his villainous turn in this year’s “Paddington 2” as a pompous, cravat-wrapped actor who frames his cuddly ursine co-star for a crime he didn’t commit can testify to that Then there was his finely tuned scoundrel turn in the BBC miniseries, “A Very English Scandal,“ in which his Parliament member Jeremy Thorpe plots the botched murder of his male lover.

Grant began his acting career in the ‘80s as secondary player in both British period pieces — some good (“Maurice”) and others faintly ridiculous (“The Lair of the White Moon”) – and Hollywood comedies (the gangster farce “Mickey Blue Eyes”). But any hopes that he...

It’s beginning to look a lot like $30 million for the opening weekend of Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans’ mega-budget Christmas actioner “Red One,” coming in on the shorter side of projections. The Amazon MGM Studios feature unwrapped $10.9 million from 4,032 theaters across opening day and preview screenings in North America.

That’s not exactly a jolly result for a special-effects adventure playing premium large format auditoriums and sporting a whopping $250 million production budget, plus sizable marketing costs. Unless the Seven Bucks production can stay relevant among the blitz of “Wicked,” “Gladiator II” and “Moana 2” arriving ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday, it seems unlikely that “Red One” will see green in its theatrical run.

The question remains of how much Amazon really cares about being associated with lukewarm theatrical returns, what with the market cap north of $2 trillion and all. The cost of “Red One” doesn’t seem as daunting in that context.

Like Mr. Reed, the villain at the center of their A24 horror thriller Heretic, filmmakers Scott Beck and Bryan Woods were preoccupied with an experiment.

An embodiment of lifelong existential questions and concerns, their latest project posed an unusual question: Is it possible to turn a three-person dialectic on faith, within a contained setting, into a thrill ride, the kind of cinematic experience that is essential theatrical viewing?

Released on November 8, Heretic watches as Sisters Paxton (Chloe East) and Barnes (Sophie Thatcher), a pair of Mormon missionaries, are lured into the home of the reclusive Reed (Hugh Grant), where a sinister test of faith and the nature of belief turns into a fight for their lives.

For Beck and Woods, Heretic is something of a rebellion against a filmmaking culture of “complacency” — a world in which it’s easier than ever for art to become just more “white noise.” An Iowa-based duo,...

The expensive price tag on Dwayne Johnson’s Red One came out to over $200 million, which is actually not unusual for the superstar’s mega-budget movies. Deadline is reporting that the Christmas adventure movie is on track to see a $35 million opening this weekend as the early Thursday night previews totaled in at $3.7 million. Our own Chris Bumbray was not impressed with the film as he said in his review, “Red One is the very definition of a streaming movie. While it’s getting a theatrical release, it seems tailor-made as a movie meant to please the algorithm and audiences looking for an easily digestible family action film they can break up in pieces.”

Deadline also made sure to note that this figure also includes money made from a Sunday special screening. The Santa rescue caper has been sitting still on tracking for a good amount time with a $30 million to a $35 million projection.