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Vertical has acquired North American rights to Brian Kirk’s action thriller “The Dead of Winter,” the company announced on Friday.

Starring and executive produced by Emma Thompson and also starring Judy Greer, Marc Menchaca, Laurel Marsden (“Ms. Marvel”), Gaia Wise (“The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim”), Lloyd Hutchinson (“Mickey 17”) and Brían F. O’Byrne, the film is set for theatrical release in Q4 of this year.

From a screenplay by Nicholas Jacobson-Larson and Dalton Leeb, “The Dead of Winter” follows a widowed fisherwoman (Thompson) trapped in a Minnesotan blizzard who interrupts the kidnapping of a teenager (Marsden), only to realize that she is the young victim’s only hope. The film is Kirk’s follow-up to 2019’s “21 Bridges.”

“’The Dead of Winter’ is a merciless thriller, set in an epic wilderness with a beautiful love story at its heart. Emma Thompson gives a stunning...

2025 has been a slow year for movies so far, as new and original films that people have been craving underperformed severely. Just recently, exciting motion pictures like the sci-fi satire Mickey 17, the action comedy Novocaine, and the spy thriller Black Bag have been pulling in less-than-stellar financial numbers despite the critical praise they've gotten. This current trend has movie fans worried that the products they're enjoying won't make a huge commercial splash.

It's not just the current year of 2025 either. 2024, the year before, also had its fair share of fantastic movies that failed to make a grand impact at the box office. These films had either spectacular action, brilliantly executed concepts, an engaging true-story narrative, or became an unexpectedly magnificent installment in a long-running franchise. Between Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Transformers One, and Better Man, these otherwise acclaimed 2024 movies were unfortunate box office disappointments.

Monkey Man Had...

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Beginning over a decade ago, the John Wickmovie franchise became an unexpected hit that also revived the career of star Keanu Reeves. Since its 2014 launch, it's seen three sequels, a TV show prequel and a planned spinoff movie. This success only showcases how well it's honed in on its formula, but this doesn't mean that the same popularity has been found for obvious competitors.

John Wick's revival of revenge-based action films has seen many imitators, namely the recent 2025 film Novocaine. While that movie has been well-received, its box office haul may end up being fairly tepid. This has been the case even more so for other films of this variety, proving that the success of John Wick...

Anybody who grew up in the 1990s remembers Nickelodeon's unique brand of cartoons, justifiably dubbed Nicktoons -- and it'd be difficult to argue that Hey Arnold!Isn't among the very best of them. Hey Arnold! offers up a huge cast of colorful characters in their day-to-day, exploring the urban myths and traditions of their lively city. For a cartoon aimed at the younger demographic, Hey Arnold! often tackled more mature themes and a few episodes tug on the heartstrings as well as any drama.

Hey Arnold! ran for 5 seasons -- including a theatrical movie, 2002's Hey Arnold! The Movie and 2017's The Jungle Movie -- and in that time, delivered some truly unforgettable episodes. If one had grown up in the 90s and had access to Nickelodeon, they'd likely remember several moments from Arnold's adventures navigating childhood. There are a handful of episodes that truly withstood the test...

Novocaine North America Box Office: Opening Weekend Update(Photo Credit –Facebook)

Novocaine bested star-studded and highest-grossing studio films to emerge at the top in the weekly domestic box office chart on its debut weekend. It is one of the dullest weekends of the year, and Jack Quaid’s film is in the ruling position. The R-rated action film has fortunately landed in the projected range of the industry exhibitors, surpassing the weekend grosses of Black Bag and Captain America: Brave New World. Keep scrolling for the deets.

Jack Quaid’s film has received positive reactions from critics and has been awarded a B on CinemaScore. It has earned more than Love Hurts and Expend4bles but remained below The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, Monkey Man, The Beekeeper, and Argylle. For the unversed, it was made on a reported budget of $18 million.

According to Luiz Fernando’s report, Novocaine landed within the...

Novocaine North America Box Office: Opening Weekend Update(Photo Credit –Facebook)

Novocaine bested star-studded and highest-grossing studio films to emerge at the top in the weekly domestic box office chart on its debut weekend. It is one of the dullest weekends of the year, and Jack Quaid’s film is in the ruling position. The R-rated action film has fortunately landed in the projected range of the industry exhibitors, surpassing the weekend grosses of Black Bag and Captain America: Brave New World. Keep scrolling for the deets.

Jack Quaid’s film has received positive reactions from critics and has been awarded a B on CinemaScore. It has earned more than Love Hurts and Expend4bles but remained below The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, Monkey Man, The Beekeeper, and Argylle. For the unversed, it was made on a reported budget of $18 million.

According to Luiz Fernando’s report, Novocaine landed within the...

This evening saw the cream of the crop of thespian artists as well as filmmakers assemble at London’s Royal Festival Hall for this year’s BAFTA awards hosted by David Tennant.

This year’s nominations saw 12 nominations for ‘Conclave,’ 11 nominations for ‘Emilia Pérez,’ While ‘The Brutalist’ received 9 nominations. 7 nominations for ‘Anora,’ ‘Dune: Part Two’ and ‘Wicked.’

14 out of 24 nominees in the performance categories received their first BAFTA Film nomination, including Yura Borisov (Anora), Kieran Culkin (A Real Pain), Cynthia Erivo (Wicked), Karla Sofía Gascón (Emilia Pérez), Ariana Grande (Wicked), Selena Gomez (Emilia Pérez), Clarence Maclin (Sing Sing), Mikey Madison (Anora), Demi Moore (The Substance), Guy Pearce (The Brutalist), Isabella Rossellini (Conclave), Zoe Saldaña (Emilia Pérez), Sebastian Stan (The Apprentice) and Jeremy Strong (The Apprentice).

Also in news – The 2025 European Shooting Stars arrive at Berlinale

Winners are highlighted in bold.

Best Film

Anora The Brutalist A Complete Unknown Winner – Conclave...

The 2025 BAFTAs are here!

The annual celebration of film is taking place Sunday (February 16) at Royal Festival Hall in London, England. Doctor Who actor David Tennant is hosting for the second year in a row.

This year, Conclave scored the most nominations with 12 total. Emilia Pérez is in second place, with 11 nominations this year.

Just Jared will be live updating with all the winners throughout the event, so stay tuned!

Keep reading to find out more…

See the full list of nominees and winners…

Best Film

“Anora” — Alex Coco, Samantha Quan, Sean Baker

“The Brutalist”

“A Complete Unknown”

“Conclave” - Winner!

“Emilia Pérez”

Outstanding British Film

“Bird” — Andrea Arnold, Tessa Ross, Juliette Howell, Lee Groombridge

“Blitz” — Steve McQueen, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Anita Overland

“Conclave” — Edward Berger, Tessa Ross, Juliette Howell, Michael A. Jackman, Peter Straughan - Winner!

“Gladiator II” — Ridley Scott, Douglas Wick, Lucy Fisher, Michael Pruss, David Scarpa,...

“Conclave” won Best Film at the 2025 EE BAFTA Film Awards, leading the pack with four BAFTAs overall. The British equivalent of the Oscars took place February 16 from the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall in central London, honoring the best in film for its 78th annual edition.

Edward Berger’s “Conclave” led all films with 12 BAFTA nominations, and it won Best Film, Outstanding British Film, Best Adapted Screenplay for Peter Straughan, and Best Editing. It’s an upset after “Anora” swept all three of the DGAs, PGAs, and WGAs. The last film to win those three prizes, but not Best Picture at the Oscars was “Brokeback Mountain,” but then again, it did win the BAFTA for Best Film.

“Anora” did have a strong showing though, with Mikey Madison pulling off an upset and winning Leading Actress over Demi Moore for “The Substance.” “Anora” also won Best Casting, though Madison lost...

BAFTA weekend is upon us, and with it the annual flurry of pre- and post-awards cocktail receptions, dinners and swanky soirées to celebrate nominees, winners and the industry as a whole. (Scroll down for a list of events.)

The BAFTA Film Awards will be handed out on Sunday evening in London at a ceremony hosted by David Tennant and beginning at 5pm local time – Deadline will be on the red carpet and inside Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall to cover the proceedings. The ceremony will air on BBC One and BBC iPlayer from 7pm local. In the U.S., Britbox is airing the Film Awards from 11am Pt/2pm Et.

On the road to Sunday, and through the wee hours of Monday morning, there will be champagne flowing in Central London with oodles of talent expected in town for a well-heeled weekend party crawl.

There was unsettling news on...

Update, February 13 10.40 GMT:Screenhas confirmed that Karla Sofia Gascon will not be attending the Bafta Film Awards this Sunday, February 16.

Gascon is nominated for best actress in a leading role; but has been largely absent from the awards circuit since the discovery of her past derogatory social media posts at the end of last month.

Netflix remains in contact with Gascon’s team.

Original story:Nominees Ariana Grande, Selena Gomez and Timothee Chalamet are among the actors confirmed to attend the Bafta Film Awards this Sunday, February 16; fellow nominee Karla Sofia Gascon, however, is not expected to attend.

Emilia Perez star Gascon...

The winners of the 2025 London Critics’ Circle Film Awards have been announced!

Zoe Saldana, Ralph Fiennes, and Mikey Madison were among the top winners at the awards show that took place on Sunday night (February 2) held at the Mayfair Hotel in London, England.

Along with winning Best Supporting Actress for her role in Emilia Pérez, Zoe was also honored with the Derek Malcolm Award for Innovation while Daniel Craig was honored with the Dilys Powell Award for excellence in film.

Other stars in attendance at the event included Colman Domingo, Jesse Eisenberg, Lesley Manville, America Ferrera, Anora director Sean Baker, Back to Black actress Marisa Abela and fiancé Jamie Bogyo, The Brutalist actress Raffey Cassidy, and Abigail actress Alisha Weir.

Head inside to check out the full list of winners…

Keep scrolling to see the full list of winners…

Film Of The Year

“The Brutalist” – Winner

“All We Imagine As Light...

We present our red carpet interviews from the 2025 Critics Circle Awards in London at the May Fair Hotel. Attending were Daniel Craig, Ralph Fiennes, Jesse Eisenberg, Sean Baker, Mikey Madison, Alisha Weir, Dan Hough, Elliot Heffernan, Raffey Cassidy, Michelle Austin, Nick Park + Merlin Crossingham, Nykika Adams, Amy Liptrot, and Gints Zilbalodis.

Colin Hart and Ethan Hart were on the red carpet, here are their interviews.

2025 Critics Circle Awards Red Carpet Interviews

2025 Critics Circle Awards Winners

Film Of The Year

“The Brutalist” – Winner

“All We Imagine As Light”

“Anora”

“La Chimera”

“Conclave”

“Emilia Pérez”

“Kneecap”

“Nickel Boys”

“Nosferatu”

“The Substance”

Foreign-language Film Of The Year

“All We Imagine As Light” – Winner

“La Chimera”

“Emilia Pérez”

“I’m Still Here”

“Kneecap”

Documentary Of The Year

“No Other Land” – Winner

“Dahomey”

“Grand Theft Hamlet”

“Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger”

“Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story”

Animated Feature Of The Year

“Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl...

Brady Corbet’s epic American immigrant saga “The Brutalist” has been given the top prize by the U.K.’s leading film writers and broadcasters.

At the London Critics’ Circle Film Awards on Sunday night, the feature was named film of the year in a ceremony that saw the honors widely shared across a number of titles, although notably both “The Substance” and “A Complete Unknown” came away empty-handed.

Edward Berger’s Vatican thriller “Conclave” took two awards, including British/Irish film of the year and actor of the year for Ralph Fiennes, while RaMell Ross’s radical Colson Whitehead adaptation “Nickel Boys” was recognised with director of the year and the technical achievement award for Jomo Fray’s first-person cinematography.

Elsewhere on the night, Jesse Eisenberg’s dark comedy “A Real Pain” was another multiple prizewinner, awarded screenwriter of the year for the actor-filmmaker, and supporting actor of the year for co-star Kieran Culkin.

Kill Earns Two Nominations At The Vulture Stunt Annual Awards 2025 (Photo Credit – Instagram)

The Lakshya starrer actioner Kill was hailed as a revolutionary film in the genre of action and gore. The film, which is backed by Dharma Productions and Sikhya Entertainment, garnered a lot of critical acclaim upon its release in 2024. The movie also did well in the Ott space. Now, if this was not enough, the film has now won big at the Vulture Stunt Awards 2025.

Kill has won a nomination in two major categories at the Vulture Stunt Awards 2025. The film has earned a nomination in the Best Fight category between Lakshya and actor Raghav Juyal who essayed the main antagonist in the same. This category is awarded to hand-to-hand combat sequences that are not a shoot-out but might involve weapons. The award will be presented to the stunt coordinator or the choreographer. The movie has been...

In British writer-director Bryn Chaney’s feature debut, he uses Celtic folklore and the intimacy of sound to unpack a darkness that some might struggle to put in words.

Set in 1973, Rabbit Trap stars Dev Patel and Rosy McEwen as Darcy and Daphne, an influential musical couple from London who retreats to an isolated cabin in the Welsh countryside to finish their next album. But when Darcy records a sound not meant for human ears, he accidentally conjures ancient mystical beings from the forest.

Best viewed in Dolby, the film utilizes hypnotic sounds in every scene, largely through the field recordings made by Darcy in the surrounding woods. In addition to sounds of dripping water, clanging metal and crunching grass, Darcy demonstrates how the medium is sacred as he explains that “sound is a ghost … and your body is the house it haunts.”

After recording strange sounds in the forest,...

Among another impressive stack of new horror titles looking to spook audiences at this year’s Sundance, “Rabbit Trap” joins a growing library of psychological folk horrors that have recently offered more (deeply) unsettling creeps than out-and-out scares.

Bowing in the Midnight slot in Park City on Friday and the feature debut of Brit director Bryn Chainey, the film doesn’t just boast an Oscar nominee in Dev Patel among its somewhat limited cast (there are only three characters in the entire feature), but comes with the backing of Elijah Wood’s SpectreVision.

Set in 1976 in rural Wales, “Rabbit Trap” centers on Daphne Davenport (“Blue Jean” breakout Rosy McEwen), an experimental electronic musician who, alongside her troubled husband and collaborator Darcy (Patel), has moved to a remote abandoned farmhouse in the countryside. It’s here where, equipped with a wild laboratory of analogue synthesizers, tape decks, theremins and very little else,...

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No matter how many of us try to avoid the irritating pitter-patter of award season, we usually find ourselves drawn into it regardless. It's a perfect storm of movie discourse — combining people using the words 'overrated' and 'underrated' liberally and their desire to explain why we don't get the Best Picture's symbolism. It's also a good moment to reflect on the past year for movies, where we have been, and where we might go next. Dev Patel's Monkey Man is an example of the heights 2024 took us to, and it's no surprise that it's being shut out of awards conversations. It's a shame because it's really good, but this happens every year.

There is no telling about tastes. Dev Patel’s senseless bloodbath Monkey Man (Dev plans a Hanuman avatar) has been nominated for a BAFTA award in the Outstanding Debut as director category. Sobhita Dhulipala who has a role as commodious as Jacqueline Fernandez in Fateh, is very happy.

I am happy for her. But not quite in the waltzy mode over the film. Watching Dev Patel’s much-extolled directorial debut, rightly banned in India and from Netflix where it was scheduled for streaming, is a painful experience. The stylized relentless violence, with stunt passages choreographed like the opposite of a ballet,are sickening in their self-important gratuitousness.

But I would forgive the endless pointless carnage—to each his own John Wick, I guess—were it not for the strange uncalled-for references to Hindu mythology that keep popping up with nagging regularity all through the sanguinary excursion, as if to remind...

Action movies are dismissed in some circles as mindless displays of violence, but many of the genre's best movies are just as deep and intelligent as any drama. The action genre tends to get a bad wrap, because people generalize the genre based on some of its least substantial popcorn flicks. While it's true that action has the potential for shallow spectacle, this isn't the norm.

Many of the best action movies ever have deep stories that leave audiences with a lot to think about, even if some people simply see them as explosive and entertaining. In many cases, the action is only given meaning by the dynamics between the different characters and their personal journeys. This helps make action movies more exciting, and it also makes them linger in the memory.

Monkey Man (2024) Dev Patel's Revenge Thriller Is Rooted In Indian Mythology

Monkey Man 8/10

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This afternoon, Will Sharpe and Mia McKenna-Bruce announced the list of lucky nominees for 2025’s Ee BAFTA Awards.

This year nominations see 12 nominations for ‘Conclave,’ 11 nominations for ‘Emilia Pérez,’ While ‘The Brutalist’ received 9 nominations. 7 nominations for ‘Anora,’ ‘Dune: Part Two’ and ‘Wicked.’

14 out of 24 nominees in the performance categories have received their first BAFTA Film nomination, including Yura Borisov (Anora), Kieran Culkin (A Real Pain), Cynthia Erivo (Wicked), Karla Sofía Gascón (Emilia Pérez), Ariana Grande (Wicked), Selena Gomez (Emilia Pérez), Clarence Maclin (Sing Sing), Mikey Madison (Anora), Demi Moore (The Substance), Guy Pearce (The Brutalist), Isabella Rossellini (Conclave), Zoe Saldaña (Emilia Pérez), Sebastian Stan (The Apprentice) and Jeremy Strong (The Apprentice).

The Ee BAFTA Film Awards ceremony will once again be held at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall in central London, and broadcast on Sunday 16 February 2025 on BBC One and iPlayer in the UK.

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Bafta has unveiled the nominations for its 2025 Film Awards, which will take place in London on Sunday, February 16.

Below are the lists of feature film nominationsby distributor, and for each film.

Nominations by distributor

Universal Pictures & Focus Features – 32

The Brutalist – 9

Anora – 7

Wicked – 7

Nosferatu – 5

The Wild Robot - 3

Monkey Man - 1

Netflix – 16

Emilia Perez - 11

Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl – 3

Daughters – 1

Will & Harper – 1

Black Bear – 15

Conclave – 12

Sing Sing – 3

Disney - 10

A Complete Unknown – 6

A Real Pain – 2

Inside Out 2 - 1

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes – 1

Curzon Artificial Eye – 8

Kneecap – 6

Flow – 2

Warner Bros - 8

Dune: Part Two – 7

Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story...

Today, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) released the film nominations for 2025, with two international films leading the list. Edward Berger’s papal thriller Conclave received 12 nominations, and Jacques Audiard’s musical Emilia Pérez received 11 nominations.

Both films have open categories for the best film, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay. The Brutalist, directed by Brady Corbet and a Golden Globe winner, has received nine nominations.

Universal Pictures led the nominations this year with 32 for its films. The studio has had success with several productions: “The Brutalist” received nine nominations, “Anora” and “Wicked” got seven each, “Nosferatu” had five, “The Wild Robot” got three, and “Monkey Man” received one. Netflix trails behind with 16 nominations, partly thanks to “Emilia Pérez.”

Some odd missing items have caught the industry’s eye. “Wicked” was not nominated for Best Film despite receiving good technical nominations. Denzel Washington, a well-known actor, did...

Roll up, awards buffs: shiny trophy season is hotting up, with BAFTA having announced its nominees for this year’s ceremony. And fittingly, it seems BAFTA members might have gathered in robes to submit their votes on little white slips of paper: papal thriller Conclave is the most-nominated film this year, receiving 12 nods including Best Film, Director for Edward Berger, Leading Actor for Ralph Fiennes, Supporting Actress for Isabella Rossellini, Adapted Screenplay and more. Send up the white smoke, people.

Hot on Conclave’s heels is Emilia Pérez, Jacques Audiard’s genre-defying crime-thriller-musical-character-drama, in which a cartel boss undergoes gender-reassignment surgery to begin her new life. The film is nominated in 11 categories. Audiard is nominated for Director, while the film itself is up for Best Film, Adapted Screenplay, Film Not In The English Language. Emilia herself, Karla Sofía Gascón, is up for Leading Actress, with Selena Gomez and Zoe Saldaña...

Universal is absolutely towering over the studios and streamers when it comes to this year’s BAFTA nominations.

Thanks to “The Brutalist” (nine nominations), “Anora” and “Wicked” (seven each), plus “Nosferatu” (five), “The Wild Robot” (three) and “Monkey Man” (one), Universal and its offshoot label Focus Features have amassed an astonishing 32 nominations in total, twice that of its nearest competitor, Netflix. The streamer landed 16 overall, led by the 11 from “Emilia Pérez.”

But Universal could have had five more had it not offloaded Coralie Fargeat’s body-horror “The Substance” before Cannes.

Further down, the nascent distributor Black Bear U.K. had a phenomenal year thanks to the 11 nominations for “Conclave”, and three for “Sing Sing.” Black Bear’s total of 12 was two up on Disney, which earned 10, most coming from Searchlight’s “A Complete Unknown.”

See the list of top-performing distributors below:

Universal Pictures & Focus Features (32)

“Anora” 7

“The Brutalist” 9

“Monkey Man...

The nominations for the 2025 BAFTAs are here!

This year, Conclave scored the most nominations with 12 total. Emilia Pérez is in second with 11 nominations this year.

This year’s ceremony is set to take place on Sunday (February 16) live from London, England with Doctor Who‘s David Tennant returning to host.

Just Jared will be live updating throughout the event, so stay tuned!

Keep reading to find out more…

Scroll down for the full list of nominees…

Best Film

“Anora” — Alex Coco, Samantha Quan, Sean Baker

“The Brutalist”

“A Complete Unknown”

“Conclave”

“Emilia Pérez”

Outstanding British Film

“Bird” — Andrea Arnold, Tessa Ross, Juliette Howell, Lee Groombridge

“Blitz” — Steve McQueen, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Anita Overland

“Conclave” — Edward Berger, Tessa Ross, Juliette Howell, Michael A. Jackman, Peter Straughan

“Gladiator II” — Ridley Scott, Douglas Wick, Lucy Fisher, Michael Pruss, David Scarpa, Peter Craig

“Hard Truths” — Mike Leigh, Georgina Lowe

“Kneecap” — Rich Peppiatt, Trevor Birney,...

The 2025 BAFTA Film Awards nominations are in, and Netflix’s Emilia Pérez is among the films leading the way with 11 nods, just behind Black Bear’s Vatican drama Conclave, directed by Edward Berger, with 12. In the animated and kids area, Netflix’s Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl was also one of the top nominations earners with three.

But it was a different name that topped a list of most-nominated studios/distributors, provided by BAFTA on Wednesday: Universal Pictures and Focus Features, which scored noms for the likes of Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist, Jn M. Chu’s Wicked, Sean Baker’s Anora, and Robert Eggers’s Nosferatu.

Smaller and emerging players also feature on the list of companies whose movies are in BAFTA contention.

“It’s such an exciting, really rangy year,” Anna Higgs, chair of BAFTA’s Film Committee told THR. “It’s such an amazing field of players – big studios,...

The 2025 Ee BAFTA Film Awards nominations are in, with 42 films receiving nods on Wednesday morning. Leading the crop of nominees are “Conclave” with 12, “Emilia Pérez” with 11, and “The Brutalist” with nine. “Anora,” “Dune: Part Two,” and “Wicked” all received seven nominations, even though “Wicked” was shut out from the Best Film category. Ireland’s Oscar entry “Kneecap,” which is on the Academy shortlist, made a strong showing with six nominations. Same with “A Complete Unknown.” “Nosferatu” and “The Substance,” meanwhile, both earned five nominations.

Shut-outs and also-rans included “Challengers,” which received zero nominations; Denzel Washington from the Best Supporting Actor category for his work in “Gladiator II”; Nicole Kidman, out for her work in “Babygirl”; and Daniel Craig, the English actor snubbed for his work in “Queer.” “Sing Sing” did well with three nominations including for Best Actor Colman Domingo and Best Supporting Actor Clarence Maclin. Selena Gomez is in for “Emilia Pérez,...

The BAFTA Film Awards nominations were revealed this afternoon in London, with a mix of titles from studios (and their specialty labels), indies and streamers spread out across the field again this year. All nominations are led by Edward Berger’s Conclave which scored 12 total. In the UK, the papal election thriller is released by Black Bear which nabbed a total 15 nods (including three for Sing Sing). Conclave is a Focus title in North America. (Scroll down for scorecards by film and distributor.)

Combined, Focus and parent studio Universal landed a leading 32 nominations as distributor for such movies as The Brutalist (nine), Anora (seven), Wicked (seven), Nosferatu (five), The Wild Robot (three) and Monkey Man (one).

Related: 2025 Awards Season Calendar: Dates For Oscars, Spirits, Grammys, Tonys, Guilds & More

Netflix had a better showing this year than last, with Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Pérez the second most nominated feature at 11, including...

The 2025 BAFTA Film Awards nominations are in – here’s a look at the snubs and the snub-ies.

With A Real Pain star Will Sharpe and last year’s Rising Star Award winner Mia McKenna Bruce taking on hosting duties, the results are in for the films BAFTA’s 8,100 film awards voters consider the best of 2024.

It’s a lovely afternoon for Conclave and Emilia Pérez, leading the awards with 12 and 11 nominations respectively, and a slightly less lovely afternoon for Daniel Craig (who missed out on a Best Actor nod for Queer) and Denzel Washington, who holds onto his title as a no-time BAFTA-nominee after Gladiator II failed to register with voters.

Among the biggest surprises is the addition of Hugh Grant in the Best Actor category for his creepy-man role in Heretic – together with the three nominations for Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance, 2025 is already showing the horror genre much more love than previous years.

Congratulations are in order for Rich Peppiatt and his Kneecap crew and cast — the movie became one of the British Academy’s most nominated debut films ever, just behind Rocks (2019) and Billy Elliot (2000).

Peppiatt himself became the most nominated debut director ever with 4 nods, just ahead of Billy Elliot‘s Stephen Daldry (3).

The Irish hip-hop “print the legend” biopic on the Belfast-based rap trio — boasting Michael Fassbender among its ensemble — scored six nominations overall on Wednesday, including for outstanding British film, outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer and best casting for Carla Stronge.

Stars Naoise Ó Cairealláin, Liam Óg Ó Hannaidh and JJ Ó Dochartaigh feature as themselves in the movie. Peppiatt is also nominated for best film not in the English language and original screenplay. Julian Ulrichs and Chris Gill picked up a nomination for best editing.

“It’s a really exciting one to see,” Anna Higgs,...

Julia Roberts is one of the most influential and iconic actresses to have ever gotten success in Hollywood. An Oscar-winner for Erin Brockovich, Roberts is also seen as the one actress who single-handedly bridged the gap between the salaries of male and female actors.

This journey, began with 1990’s Pretty Woman, which paid her just $300k for a role she eventually became iconic for. However, while she would go on to become the most well-paid female actor in the industry, her work on Pretty Woman also brought her backlash from feminists.

Julia Roberts sees Pretty Woman as a ‘fairytale’! Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman. | Credit: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.

Despite her success, Pretty Woman remains a defining yet divisive part of Julia Roberts’ legacy. Released in 1990, the film grossed over $400 million worldwide and earned Roberts her second Oscar nomination. However, the fairytale romance about a Hollywood s*x worker...

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2024 was a good year for the action genre fans as this year saw the release of many brilliant films like Monkey Man and The Fall Guy. While many films like Dune Part Two had great action in them, they weren’t actually action films. We didn’t include those, so let’s find out which of the 2024 action films were the best.

Civil War (Max & Rent on Prime Video) Credit – A24

Civil War is a dystopian action thriller film written and directed by Alex Garland. The 2024 film is set in a dystopian future America as civil war rages on, and it revolves around a group of journalists as they race to Washington, D.C., to interview the President before rebel factions descend upon the White House. Civil War stars Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, Cailee Spaeny, Stephen McKinley Henderson,...

Marco (2024) Movie Review: There is a reason that the word “hero” has become synonymous with “protagonist” in Indian mainstream cinema; the lead role in a given mass masala film is almost always a morally upstanding and decent person who fights for the weak, even if they initially appear otherwise. Yet there has always been a craving for more “grey-shaded” roles from the filmgoing audience. Ajith Kumar’s iconic villainous turn in the Tamil film “Mankatha” (2011) had an impact that is still felt today, as the promise of a similar villainous role for “Thalapathy” Vijay from director Venkat Prabhu was a major selling point of “The Greatest of All Time.” Even “Kgf”, one of the most influential franchises in current memory, is planning to bring back Yash’s Rocky bhai character who, as both films hurry to assure us, is not a hero but a “villain” and even a “monster!

There...

Tom Cruise is considered the biggest action star working right now, and for good reason. He is in his 60s, he is still running as fast as some of the most brilliant athletes out there and performing the wildest vehicular stunts imaginable. And it doesn’t seem like he is in the mood to vacate that throne yet. But that doesn’t mean actors from all over the globe aren’t trying to live up to the standards he has set, especially in terms of doing their own stunts. Raymond Lam Fung knocked it out of the park in Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In. Dev Patel was excellent in Monkey Man. Emilio Sakraya took everyone’s breath away in Sixty Minutes. Jun Jong-seo surprised everyone in Ballerina. The work done by Alban Lenoir in the two Lost Bullet films are inspirational. Joe Taslim, Iko Uwais, Cecep Arif Rahman, Julie Estelle,...

Gold House has unveiled its fifth annual Gold List with “Wicked” and “Moana 2” among the films being honored.

The list spotlights the most exceptional achievements in film by Asian Pacific creatives over the past year. It also serves as a guide for awards voters and celebrates a monumental year for Asian Pacific representation in cinema.

Since its launch five years ago, the Gold List has celebrated an emerging tide of increasing representation in film by honoring over 200 Asian Pacific films and creatives, with many proceeding to receive Academy Awards. Among those films are “Everything Everywhere All At Once,” “Minari,” “Rrr,” “Parasite,” “The Boy and the Heron” and “The Elephant Whisperer.”

In a year when Asian Pacific creativity dominated the box office —”Moana 2″ and Jon M. Chu’s “Wicked” alone grossed over $1.2 billion globally — the Gold List celebrates these blockbusters alongside “All We Imagine As Light,” “Dìdi” and “Monkey Man.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences announced on Monday the 207 feature films eligible for Best Picture consideration, two days before voting for the 2025 Oscar nominations begins.

There are 323 feature films eligible for the Academy Awards, but just 207 met the Best Picture competition eligibility requirements.

As stated by the Academy in a press release, “To be eligible for consideration in the general entry categories, under rules implemented for the 97th Academy Awards year, feature films must open in a commercial motion picture theater in at least one of six U.S. metropolitan areas: Los Angeles County; the City of New York; the Bay Area; Chicago, Illinois; Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas; and Atlanta, Georgia, between Jan. 1, 2024, and Dec. 31, 2024, and complete a minimum qualifying run of seven consecutive days in the same venue. Feature films must have a running time of more than 40 minutes.”

But Best Picture eligibility is different. Films under consideration...

DreamWorks’ animated film The Wild Robot, which has been nominated for four Golden Globe Awards, three Critics Choice Awards, and ten Annie Awards, will begin streaming exclusively on Peacock on January 24.

From DreamWorks Animation comes an adaptation of Peter Brown’s award-winning, #1 New York Times bestseller, The Wild Robot. The epic adventure stars Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong’o as Roz.

Roz is a robot shipwrecked on an uninhabited island and must adapt to the harsh surroundings. Gradually Roz starts building relationships with the animals on the island, including a clever fox voiced by Pedro Pascal, and becomes the adoptive parent of an orphaned gosling named Brightbill voiced by Kit Connor.

The Wild Robot is a story about self-discovery, a thrilling examination of the bridge between technology and nature, and a moving exploration of what it means to be alive and connected to all living things.

Directed by three-time Academy Award nominee Chris Sanders,...

2024 has been a relatively strong year for the action genre. Jason Statham's The Beekeeper started the year off on a high note, becoming a surprise hit. The film did so well, in fact, that The Beekeeper 2 is now confirmed to be on the way. After Dune: Part Two dazzled audiences with its sci-fi action, movies like Monkey Man and The Fall Guy hit theaters, with the latter disappointing at the box office but faring well with critics and audiences.

The summer and fall saw the release of a handful of other notable titles in the action genre, including Bad Boys: Ride or Die, which was a hit, and Twisters, a well-received reboot of the 1996 classic. Wolfs also featured plenty of action, as did Ridley Scott's Gladiator 2. Another title that hit theaters earlier in the year earned overwhelmingly positive reviews despite failing to make much of a mark at the box office,...

Emilia Pérez and Conclave led the British Academy of Film and Television Arts longlist selections on Friday, the first step toward securing BAFTA Awards nominations when the list of official 2025 award contenders is revealed on Jan. 15.

Netflix’s top contender Emilia Pérez landed on 15 longlists — tying a record set by Netflix’s All Quiet on the Western Front two years ago and Oppenheimer, Killers of the Flower Moon, and Barbie last year. Among its mentions were Best Film, Best Film Not in English Language, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay for Jacques Audiard, and four longlist nods for its quartet of actresses — with Karla Sofia Gascon hitting the lead actress longlist and co-stars Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez, and Adriana Paz all appearing on the supporting actress longlist. The four actresses shared the Best Actress honors at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, where Emilia Pérez made its debut.

Conclave was second with 14 longlist mentions,...

The BAFTA Film Awards have unveiled this year’s longlists for 25 categories, and in the lead are Jacques Audiard’s rollicking crime drama Emilia Perez and Edward Berger’s craft papal thriller Conclave. Scroll down for the lists in full.

Emilia Perez has landed on the most longlists with 15 nods. This haul includes Best Film, Best Director, Adapted Screenplay, Film Not In The English Language, and leading actress for Karla Sofía Gascón. Selena Gomez and Zoe Saldaña are longlisted in supporting alongside Adriana Paz. The haul of 15 longlist mentions equals the previous record first set by Edward Berger’s war feature All Quiet on the Western Front and matched last year by Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, and Martin Scorsese’s Killers Of The Flower Moon.

Conclave nabbed 14 appearances on the longlists. This haul includes Best Film, Supporting Actress for Isabella Rossellini, Supporting Actor for Stanley Tucci,...

The British Academy has unveiled the results of the first round of voting across all 25 categories for the 2024 BAFTA Film Awards, with two very different thrillers leading the pack of longlisted features.

Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Pérez,” a Spanish-language music-thriller that was picked up by Netflix in Cannes, has emerged ahead of the race with slots in 15 categories, including best film, director, leading actress and three in the supporting actress list. Meanwhile “Conclave,” Focus Features’ Papal mystery-thriller from Edward Berger set within the Vatican, has 14, including best film, director and leading actor for Ralph Fiennes.

Further down, a tight pack of films includes “The Substance,” “The Brutalist” and “A Complete Unknown” on 11 lists, “Wicked” and “Dune: Part Two” on 10 and “Anora” and “Gladiator 2” on nine. All, with the exception of “Gladiator 2,” are on the best film longlist. Ridley Scott’s epic return to the coliseum also missed out...

Even though there’s still $2 billion to $3 billion missing in the post Covid annual domestic box office, there was plenty to be thankful for in 2024 which is coming in at an estimated $8.72 billion, -3% from 2023’s $9 billion. That figure is factored from Comscore and Deadline calculations.

First of all, many were expecting 2024 to final at $8 billion, so the fact that we’re $720M beyond that point in a year which was half wrecked by the aftermath of the strikes, is praiseworthy. There were fewer tentpoles in Q1, not to mention there wasn’t a Marvel Studios movie to fire up summer in early May (that didn’t come until late July with Deadpool & Wolverine which at $211.4M is the highest opening of the year).

Before the first weekend in May, the domestic box office was lagging -20% behind 2023’s running cume. As of yesterday, the U.S./Canada 2024 box...

Former CIA officer John Kiriakou has given a high accuracy score to Dev Patel's true story movie about the 2008 Mumbai attacks, which came out in 2019. Patel's best movies see him in thrilling roles, portraying captivating characters that are highly unique depending on the story he's contributing to. This includes everything from his theatrical debut in 2008's Slumdog Millionaire, to his first directorial movie as the lead character in 2024's Monkey Man. His performances are often memorable thanks to the way he commands the screen whenever he's front-and-center.

Beyond original stories for the big screen, Patel has also starred in multiple adaptations of existing works. This includes 2019's The Personal History of David Copperfield, where he played the title character, and 2021's The Green Knight, where he was the Arthurian knight Gawain. However, his talent also stretches into movies based on real events, like portraying mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan in...

"Sometimes I dream..." Time for one more stunning look back at the past year in movies. Are your favorites included? As 2024 winds down and we get ready to jump right into 2025, cinema lovers have been making their own video recaps and trailer mashups. One of them that debuted just days before the New Year arrives is this one created by a filmmaker / editor known as Clementine Narcisse who often just goes by simply "Clementine". Her 2024 in Film video is a ravishing, refreshing, amusing roundup of some of her favorite films from this year. I'm delighted to see her include a bunch of under-the-radar picks that aren't mentioned as much as they should by others - terriific films such as Monkey Man, Problemista, Blink Twice, Bird, The Outrun, Cuckoo, Saturday Night, The Last Showgirl, Love Lies Bleeding, Oddity, The Shadow Strays. Her editing in this so good, especially cutting together all...

From Paul and Feyd’s climactic knife fight in Dune: Part Two to Lucius and Macrinus’ climactic swordfight in Gladiator II, the movies of 2024 have brought a bunch of great fight scenes. A good fight scene can really invigorate an audience. It’s a chance for stunt choreographers to get creative, and it can be a crowd-pleasing moment when a noble hero violently triumphs over a despicable villain.

2024 has delivered both gruesome, blood-soaked fight scenes, like the nightclub sequence in Monkey Man, and hilarious slapstick set-pieces, like the cartoonish saloon brawl in Hundreds of Beavers. There were even great fight scenes in non-action movies, like the body horror opus The Substance. From the final showdown in Boy Kills World to the multiversal mayhem of Deadpool & Wolverine, 2024’s movies have been jam-packed with well-staged fight scenes.

Boy & Mina Vs. The Shaman Boy Kills World

Boy Kills World has some of the...

The holidays are officially in full swing and that means a lot of folks are heading into some well-earned time off, and probably some long-overdue catchup on the biggest movies of the year. As we all know in 2024, trying to find out what’s streaming where is half the battle when you’re wondering what to watch.

Whether you’re looking for major box office hits like “Beetlejuice Beeltejuice” and “Inside Out 2” or lesser-known gems like “Thelma” and “The Bikeriders,” there are a ton of 2024 movies that you can watch on streaming over the holiday. Want to caught up with some awards contenders? “Conclave,” “Challengers” and “Emilia Perez” are all streaming now too, among others. Rather catch up on horror? “The Substance” is on Mubi and, naturally, Shudder has you covered with “Oddity,” “In a Violent Nature” and more.

Whatever you’re looking for, here are all the 2024 movies you can stream right now.

2024 was an exceptionally strong year for cinematography, with several standout films that represent the art form at its apex. Perhaps what’s most welcome about these films is their variety, not only in terms of genre and tone but also budget and position in the marketplace. From the studio system, we have Greig Fraser’s extraordinary work on “Dune: Part Two,” which doubles down on the ambition and tactile detail of Fraser’s work on its predecessor (for which he justly received an Academy Award) to create one of the most flat-out beautiful epics since the glory days of David Lean. From the world of low-budget, independent filmmaking, we have “I Saw the TV Glow,” where cinematographer Eric Yue designs a meticulous and expressive visual corollary for his protagonist’s inner state. Like Fraser, cinematographer Lawrence Sher brings more innovation to his approach to a sequel — in Sher’s case,...

Sean Baker’s “Anora” and Brady Corbet’s “The Brutalist” have topped the 45th London Critics’ Circle Film Awards nominations with seven nods each.

Edward Berger’s “Conclave” and Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance” followed with six nominations each, while Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Pérez” secured five nods. Mike Leigh’s “Hard Truths” and Rich Peppiatt’s “Kneecap” each received four nominations.

The Film of the Year race features 10 contenders: Payal Kapadia’s “All We Imagine As Light,” “Anora,” “The Brutalist,” Alice Rohrwacher’s “La Chimera,” “Conclave,” “Emilia Pérez,” “Kneecap,” RaMell Ross’ “Nickel Boys,” Robert Eggers’ “Nosferatu,” and “The Substance.”

In the performance categories, Actress of the Year nominations went to Marianne Jean-Baptiste (“Hard Truths”), Nicole Kidman (“Babygirl”), Mikey Madison (“Anora”), Demi Moore (“The Substance”), and Saoirse Ronan (“The Outrun”). The Actor of the Year category features Adrien Brody (“The Brutalist”), Timothée Chalamet (“A Complete Unknown”), Daniel Craig (“Queer”), Colman Domingo...

2024's best action movies range from big-budget sci-fi epics to martial arts thrillers. There has been a lot of variety in the biggest action movies of the year. Some big franchises returned for highly-anticipated sequels, but there has also been enough room for original stories, some of which could yet act as the launch pad for emerging new talents in the genre. Overall, 2024 has been a strong year for action movies, even though the box office hasn't always reflected this.

Some true greats of the action genre returned to cinemas in 2024. Directors like Guy Ritchie, George Miller, and David Leitch all released new movies, but there were plenty of surprises too. Dev Patel's Monkey Man showcased his talents as a martial arts star and a director, while Jake Gyllenhaal's Road House remake massively surpassed expectations. 2024 has shown that the action genre is alive and well, and as...