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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
Rafe Spall's amnesiac Sherlock Holmes fills a three-year gap that took Conan Doyle ten years to close
The new Sky series is set between Reichenbach and The Empty House. Conan Doyle's readers waited almost a decade for that return.
October 18, 2026 12:27 pm
Penélope Cruz says she and Javier Bardem rarely work together, yet Bunker is their sixth film
At Deadline's Contenders London, Cruz explained why she and Bardem keep work and marriage apart. Florian Zeller's Bunker is the sixth time they have shared the screen.
October 13, 2026 12:17 pm
Busan's top prize now qualifies a film for the Oscars without its country selecting it
Busan opens on Monday with A-list status and a new power: its top prize now qualifies a film for the international feature Oscar without any national committee selecting it. Two countries with films in this year's competition did not submit to the Academy at all.
October 1, 2026 4:47 pm
The Oscar international deadline closes today and nobody can agree how many countries entered
Submissions for the international feature Oscar close today. Depending on which tracker you open, either 68 or about 87 countries have entered, and four of the biggest film-producing nations in the world are not among them.
September 30, 2026 4:12 pm
San Sebastian says all 17 Golden Shell films are world premieres and Mike Leigh has played three festivals already
San Sebastian closes on Saturday with seventeen films competing for the Golden Shell, and the preview copy says every one of them is a world premiere. Mike Leigh's entry has already played Telluride, Toronto and New York.
September 25, 2026 5:33 pm
A Netflix Series Is Competing for San Sebastian’s Golden Shell, and It Drops Today
Pablo Larrain's Mis muertos tristes is competing for San Sebastian's Golden Shell as a feature. It arrives on Netflix today as four episodes, two days before the jury decides.
September 24, 2026 10:18 am
Angh Did Not Take India’s Oscar Slot. The Academy’s Rule Says “In Addition To”
A Konyak-language debut from Nagaland won TIFF's Platform Prize and was reported as seizing an Oscar slot India had already given to another film. The Academy's rule says the word 'addition' and nobody quoted it.
September 21, 2026 5:24 pm
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
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
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
Korea Spent Its Biggest Budget Ever on Hope. Na Hong-jin Made More Money With $8 Million.
Na Hong-jin has not released a film since The Wailing in 2016. His return, Hope, opens in the US on 9 September on the biggest budget in Korean cinema history — and has so far taken less money at home than the film he made for a fraction of the price.
September 10, 2026 1:10 am
Will Smith’s Unexpected Pick for Best Film Ever
Will Smith stuns fans by naming a classic war epic as his all-time favourite film, and opens up about his admiration for Humphrey Bogart and the legendary Casablanca.
January 26, 2026 7:13 am
Oscars 2026: Park Chan-wook’s Snub Sparks Outrage
Park Chan-wook’s acclaimed thriller No Other Choice was left out of the Oscars, despite critical praise. What’s behind the Academy’s decision, and does it reveal a deeper issue with how awards are handed out?
January 24, 2026 4:00 am
How ‘Paris, Texas’ Changed Gael García Bernal’s View of Film
Gael García Bernal shares the moment a classic film shifted his perspective on storytelling, revealing the deep impact it had on his creative journey.
January 21, 2026 2:24 am
Wagner Moura’s Dramatic Turn Shakes Up Golden Globes 2026
A Brazilian actor’s gripping performance in The Secret Agent stirs up the 83rd Golden Globes, setting a new benchmark for international talent.
January 13, 2026 4:41 am
Critics’ Choice Sparks Outrage With Red Carpet Award Snub
The Secret Agent’s big win at the Critics’ Choice Awards left fans fuming after the film’s director was handed the trophy in a way that many called disrespectful. Find out what happened and why it’s causing such a stir.
January 6, 2026 10:16 am
How Scorsese’s Lowest Point Sparked ‘Raging Bull’
After the flop of New York, New York, Martin Scorsese hit rock bottom, but that dark chapter set the stage for his creative comeback with Raging Bull.
December 21, 2025 3:47 am
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