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Slow Horses adds five actors for season seven as season six wraps on Apple TV
Slow Horses has added Varada Sethu, Ethan Moorhouse, Tuppence Middleton, Merab Ninidze and Joshua McGuire for season seven, with James Callis back as Claude Whelan. The new season adapts Mick Herron's Bad Actors, and season six was scheduled to wrap on Apple TV on October 21.
October 22, 2026 10:34 am
Keanu Reeves is in talks for The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil, seven years after the remake was announced
Keanu Reeves is in talks to star opposite Ma Dong-seok in James Wan's remake of the Korean thriller at Paramount, seven years after the project was first unveiled. Trade reports say the original debuted at Cannes. By the time it screened there, 1.9 million Koreans had already seen it.
October 21, 2026 11:53 pm
Bloodaxe sets a January premiere on Prime Video, with season two already filming
Michael Hirst's Viking saga, with Australian actor Levi Miller as Haakon, arrives on January 20, 2027. Amazon renewed it in June, before a single episode had aired.
October 11, 2026 12:41 pm
Michael Douglas was Fox's third choice for Gordon Gekko, and the studio said he was too young
Douglas's new memoir says Warren Beatty and Richard Gere came first for Wall Street, and Fox thought he was too young. It also confirms Gekko never said "Greed is good" in that form.
October 10, 2026 11:14 am
Martin McDonagh Has Never Won a Golden Lion, and One Live Report Still Says He Just Did
A report published five days ago says Wild Horse Nine won the Golden Lion at Venice. It did not. Martin McDonagh has never won a Golden Lion, and the article is still up with no correction.
September 21, 2026 8:02 am
Fatih Akin Opens San Sebastian With a Festival Record There of Exactly Nothing
San Sebastian opens with Fatih Akin's Ghost Song. He has a Golden Bear, a Cannes screenplay prize and a Venice jury prize — and, at 52, has never once competed for the Golden Shell with a feature.
September 19, 2026 3:49 am
Venice Gave One Film Two Prizes, and the Rulebook Says It Can
Woman Unknown took the Golden Lion and Best Actress at Venice. The 'first woman to win' line now circulating is wrong by six predecessors, and the double award was not a jury error.
September 15, 2026 1:38 am
Warner Bros. Lost a Fortune on The Bride! and Signed Its Director Again Three Months Later
Maggie Gyllenhaal is presiding over the Venice jury this week. Six months ago her second film, The Bride!, opened to $7 million and a C+ CinemaScore on a budget somewhere between $80 and $90 million. Warner Bros. absorbed it and then, three months later, bought her the next one.
September 14, 2026 1:30 am
A Film About Refusing a Fortune Premieres at TIFF, and Nobody Can Say What the Fortune Was
I Play Rocky premieres at Toronto on 12 September — a film about a broke actor refusing to sell his script at any price. Sylvester Stallone says he had nothing to do with it and was never consulted. Peter Farrelly says he asked permission in person at the Beverly Hills Hotel and got it. And nobody can say what the money was.
September 13, 2026 1:25 am
Venice Picks Its Golden Lion Saturday, and the Frontrunner Story Falls Apart on Inspection
Venice awards the Golden Lion on Saturday. Martin McDonagh's Wild Horse Nine is being written up everywhere as the frontrunner, on the strength of a standing ovation nobody can source and an awards conversation about a different prize entirely — while two films in the same competition are rated higher.
September 12, 2026 1:20 am
Toronto Finally Admits It Is a Market, on Government Money That Runs Out
Toronto has been where films get sold for forty years without ever admitting it. On 10 September it admits it: a formal market opens at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, funded by a one-off C$23 million government cheque, pitched partly on the argument that buyers would rather not fly to the United States.
September 11, 2026 1:15 am
Ridley Scott Wants the Kid From Adolescence and Hugh Grant for His Treasure Island
Scott already has Hugh Jackman attached to his Treasure Island. This week he named the two people he'd like next, and one of them is a genuinely inspired idea.
August 24, 2026 8:37 am
2026 preview: 10 of the biggest upcoming movies worth the wait
Clear your calendar: 2026 is stacked, and these 10 upcoming movies are the ones everyone’s waiting for.
August 19, 2026 2:07 am
The next Wolverine in the MCU? Five actors to follow Hugh Jackman
Hugh Jackman won’t be Wolverine forever, so we picked five actors you could actually buy as the MCU’s next Logan.
August 14, 2026 10:29 pm
Wagner Moura embraces Mr. Sinister rumors for MCU’s X-Men: 'I would love it'
Wagner Moura just broke his silence on those Mister Sinister rumors swirling around Marvel’s X-Men reboot — and where the MCU’s mutant future actually stands now.
August 13, 2026 1:36 am
Fueled by $20,000 in cigars, Gary Oldman’s Darkest Hour transformation went beyond prosthetics
Gary Oldman’s Darkest Hour makeover leaned on intricate prosthetics — and something else that didn’t come cheap.
August 9, 2026 2:01 am
Rejected From 'Dead Poets Society,' Matt Damon Later Won an Oscar With Robin Williams
Matt Damon revealed he auditioned for Dead Poets Society during the film’s original casting and didn’t get the part.
July 24, 2026 4:07 am
How a savvy contract clause made Robin Williams millions on Good Will Hunting
A buried clause turned Robin Williams' supporting role into a shocking payday, the quiet contract move that minted a fortune.
July 20, 2026 2:12 am
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