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The 2025 SXSW Film and TV Festival announced its award winners on Wednesday night, with Slanted from Amy Wang chosen as this year’s narrative feature winner.

“This unflinching satirical thriller examines racial identity in a bold and skin-tingling new way. Featuring simmering performances by the cast, this film is both specific to the fractured identity of Asian Americans and universally relatable in its theme of desperately needing to belong,” said narrative feature jury members Clayton Davis (Variety), Rebecca Ford (Vanity Fair), and Ryan Lattanzio (Indiewire) in a joint statement. “The director’s vulnerability in mining her personal experience combined with her delicate and daring filmmaking create a haunting piece that lingers long after the credits roll.”

The narrative feature jury also awarded special honors to Annapurna Sriram for her film F--ktoys and actress Amanda Peet (Fantasy Life).

“Annapurna Sriram is a visionary force, a rare artist whose work is as daring as it is singular.

Shifting the attention from starry premieres at Austin’s Paramount Theatre to the independent film and TV projects that make up the majority of its lineup, the South by Southwest Film & TV Festival has announced the jury awards for its 2025 edition.

Amy Wang’s “Slanted” won the narrative feature competition, rewarding the tonal and thematic audacity of a high school comedy with boundary-pushing “The Substance” vibes. Wang, who also wrote the upcoming “Crazy Rich Asians” sequel, challenges beauty standards in a culture that idealizes whiteness, imagining a Chinese American teen (Shirley Chen) so desperate to be elected prom queen that she undergoes a radical identity-reconstruction procedure (she’s played by Mckenna Grace post-operation). The insecure teen immediately enjoys the perks of white privilege, but isn’t at all prepared for the downsides.

“This unflinching satirical thriller examines racial identity in a bold and skin-tingling new way,” said the jury, praising...

If the first thought that crossed your mind after you came across the title, the trailer, or clips from Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie was, “Haven’t I already seen this movie before?” Well, you’re not wrong. Earlier this year, this movie was leaked on Twitter, and it was up for about 5 hours on the social platform before it was taken down. But, since nothing on the internet ever gets deleted, it was downloaded and shared in various formats. Hence, the movie has been unofficially reviewed and rated across many platforms. As someone who happens to be chronically online, I did take a peek at it. However, as soon as I realized that it was an unfinished product, I peeled my eyes away from it. And I am so glad that I did because Saving Bikini Bottom is silly, fun, and delivers a surprisingly relevant commentary on consumerism.

Netflix is all set for an entertainment-packed August this year. As we have already told you about all the entertaining AMC shows coming to Netflix in August, but there is more because Netflix being Netflix, makes a ton of original content and some of that is coming out this month. From the final season of Netflix’s hit superhero series The Umbrella Academy to a series that is being described as a “darkly comedic and contemporary reimagining of Greek gods” starring Jeff Goldblum. So, we also picked out the 10 best Netflix originals that will be coming out on Netflix this August.

Unstable Season 2 (August 1)

Unstable returns for more mayhem, more parental drama, more hilarious antics, and even more father-son bonding in its second season. Created by Rob Lowe, John Owen Lowe, and Victor Fresco, the Netflix workplace comedy series will see Jackson trying to prepare for an eventual takeover of his father’s company,...

Spongebob Squarepants film Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie is heading to Netflix, here’s the trailer.

Spongebob Squarepants is one of the most iconic, not to mention, successful, shows to emerge from Nickelodeon. Created by Stephen Hillenburg in 1999, the show grew into a huge hut and it is still running today. Clocking up 14 series and almost 300 episodes, it’s the highest rated show on the network.

The show follows the adventures of the tutular anthrpomorohic sponge and his friends, including Sandy, Squidward, Mr Krabs and his beloved snail Gary, under the sea in Bikini Bottom.

The character first made the leap to the big screen in 2004, and since then there have been two further films – Sponge Out Of Water in 2015 and Sponge On The Run in 2021. A fourth theatrical film remains in development.

The latest addition to the Scu – Spongebob Cinematic Universe – is spin-off Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie.

SpongeBob SquarePants is still revealing new details about its fan-favorite characters. Case in point, the first trailer for Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie has just revealed a previously unknown detail about its titular female squirrel.

The Saving Bikini Bottom trailer, which sees Sandy Cheeks and SpongeBob SquarePants teaming up to save Bikini Bottom after it's scooped out of the ocean by B.O.O.T.S. Marine Biology Lab, revealed that Sandy is a flying squirrel. "Wow, you never told me you were a flying squirrel," SpongeBob tells Sandy as they soar through the air on their to way to Texas. "It gives me jiggly arm flaps," Sandy replies, explaining why the beloved squirrel has never shared this detail about herself before. The trailer also revealed Sandy Cheeks' extended family, who will be instrumental in helping the duo save their friends and community from B.O.O.T.S.

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Rank Film (distributor) Three-day gross (May 3-5) Total gross to date Week 1. Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes (Disney) £3.2m £3.8m 1 2. The Fall Guy (Universal) £948,970 £6.7m 2 3. Challengers (Warner Bros) £333,125 £4.7m 3 4. Back To Black (Studiocanal) £211,104 £11.3m 5 5. Tarot (Sony) £140,983 £923,013 2

Gbp to Usd conversion rate: 1.25

Disney’s Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes topped the UK and Ireland box office with £3.2m, with warm weather possibly deterring cinemagoers.

The fourth instalment in the Planet Of The Apes reboot series, and the first of a planned trilogy, swung into 650 cinemas for a £4,923 location average and made £3.8m overall including previews.

Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes...

At some point during the first act of Robert Lorenz’s handsome but egregiously hackneyed “In the Land of Saints and Sinners,” which is maybe the 900th Liam Neeson movie about a weary hitman/rancher/fixer/truck driver/ex-cop/very tall person who decides to take matters into his own hands when some bad guys step over the line, the prolific Irish actor turns to one of his scene partners and sighs: “There’s more to me than this, and I’d like folks to see it.”

Needless to say, the first part of that sentence is much easier to believe than the second.

Cast here as a regretful assassin who tries to change his ways at the height of the Troubles (only to get mixed up with a trio of Ira terrorists who take cover in his quaint coastal village after a car bomb goes wrong), Neeson again reaffirms...

Plot: In 1974, an aging hitman (Liam Neeson) tries to leave his violent past behind and reinvent himself in a small, isolated town in Ireland. However, his good nature leads to him making a fateful decision that puts him in the crosshairs of an insane Ira assassin (Kerry Condon) and her cronies.

Review: I know what you’re thinking – another Liam Neeson action flick. Ho-hum. Normally, I’d be right there with you. While no one can deny he’s become the 21st century’s version of Charles Bronson, with him churning out a steady diet of B-level action flicks, not all of them are disposable in the way something like Blacklight, Honest Thief, Retribution and too many others are. Once in a while, he works with a really interesting director, such as on the beautifully photographed Marlowe by Neil Jordan. One of his better recent action flicks was definitely The Marksman,...

Exclusive: Paula Abdul is among an ensemble cast for a feature-length podcast from Steven Jay Rubin (Bleacher Bums), Billy Riback (Home Improvement) and stand-up comic Bruce Smirnoff.

The American Idol star is starring in Spacemen From Planet Judy alongside Phil Hendrie (Rick and Morty), Hal Rudnick (Reno 911), John Mariano (The Offer) and Eric Waddell (Funny You Should Ask).

It begins when all of Earth’s gay males, and two straight men dressed in drag because there was a mix-up in their Halloween costumes, are abducted to the distant planet Judy (named after Judy Garland), the gay haven world of the universe, where they will live in freedom without oppression.

Inadvertently kidnapped, bumbling information technology specialists Mitch (Hendrie) and Lenny (Rudnick) find themselves on an exotic world of constant partying, mingling and cuddling, all run by the Golden Ram Man (Mariano), a mad tyrant who abhors insubordination and seeded grapes.

Liam Neeson was 56 when his career took an unexpected detour into the action hero genre thanks to 2008’s Taken, a Pierre Morel-directed surprise blockbuster that raked in more than $226 million worldwide and kick-started a franchise. He’s kept up a respectable pace ever since, churning out high-octane thrillers one after the next — and he’s not ready to hang up his holster.

“Audiences are innately intelligent and they’ll know when you’re past your prime in regards to throwing punches and firing guns, but I’m not there yet,” explained Neeson over Zoom last week while discussing his newest film, In the Land of Saints and Sinners. The Samuel Goldwyn Films release casts Neeson, who will be 72 in June, as Finbar Murphy, a man leading a relatively quiet life in the remote coastal town of Glencolmcille, Ireland, in the 1970s. While he’s eager to leave a dark past behind,...

We’re wrapping this week up with a new episode of the Wtf Happened to This Horror Movie? video series, and with this one we’re looking back at one of the most maligned sequels ever made: the 1997 release An American Werewolf in Paris (watch it Here). How did this follow-up to An American Werewolf in London go so wrong? Watch the video embedded above to find out!

Directed by Mute Witness‘s Anthony Waller, who also wrote the screenplay with Tim Burns and Tom Stern, An American Werewolf in Paris has the following synopsis: A group of carousing American tourists is taking in the cultural landmarks of Paris when a chance encounter results in sightseer Andy McDermott saving the life of Parisian Serafine Pigot. While on a date at a nightclub with Serafine, Andy is suddenly attacked and bitten by a werewolf. The next day he discovers that Serafine is also a lycanthrope,...

Exclusive: The Robo Force toy line has inspired an animated show and The Nacelle Company has given it a straight-to-series order.

The studio behind The Toys That Made Us, Kevin Hart’s Guide to Black History, 2019’s Mad About You reboot, Icons Unearthed and Behind the Attraction is self-financing its first animated television series based on the 1980s property they acquired back in 2021.

Tom Stern (Spongebob Squarepants) and Gavin Hignight (Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy) have joined to write and produce as showrunners. The pilot episode will be directed by Brian Volk-Weiss, and the first season is set to have six, twenty-two-minute episodes.

“I didn’t think anything would be more surreal than selling thousands of Maxx 89 and Wrecker figures, but making an animated series come to life takes the suction cup-covered cake… and yes, we will be revealing why Wrecker comes with red roses!” said Nacelle Company Founder and CEO,...

Exclusive: Laurence Fishburne is set to join Liam Neeson to star in the upcoming action adventure film The Ice Road, which Jonathan Hensleigh will direct from his screenplay. Shivani Rawat’s ShivHans Pictures is boarding the action film as producer and co-financier alongside producer/financier Code Entertainment. Pic is underway in Winnipeg, Canada.

Starring with Fishburne and Neeson will be Ray McKinnon (Ford V Ferrari) Marcus Thomas (The Forger), Benjamin Walker (Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter), and Amber Midthunder (Hell Or High Water).

The film tells the story of a rescue mission over a frozen ocean to save trapped miners in a collapsed diamond mine in the far northern regions of Canada. Fishburne will plays Goldenrod, the trucking company owner who hires driver Mike (Neeson), and accompanies him on the dangerous mission.

Hensleigh’s credits as a writer include Die Hard with A Vengeance, Armageddon and Jumanji, and he directed The Punisher and Kill The Irishman.