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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
James McAvoy pitched a young Picard series after playing young Patrick Stewart in four X-Men films
His Star Trek idea, Mutiny on the Stargazer, covered Picard's first command. Six novels and a newer USS Stargazer got there first.
October 19, 2026 11:46 am
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
Wildwood review counts four Laika Oscar nominations, but the studio is five for five
Deadline's London Film Festival review leaves out The Boxtrolls. It also misspells the book illustrator's name and calls Caleb Deschanel new to animation.
October 15, 2026 12:43 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
Tom Cruise's Digger takes fourth place by just $1,771 as loss estimates double
Iñárritu's political satire edged out an A24 film for fourth place on its opening weekend. Published budgets run from $125 million to nearly $180 million, and the loss estimates doubled in a week.
October 10, 2026 3:05 am
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
San Sebastian gave its Golden Shell to the one competition film three festivals had already shown
San Sebastian gave its Golden Shell to the one film in competition that everybody had already seen. Mike Leigh's Tender Loving Care premiered at Telluride on 4 September, played Toronto and New York, and then took three prizes in Spain on Saturday night.
September 28, 2026 3:27 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
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
Lee Chang-dong Was Away Eight Years, Not Sixteen, and Burning Was Never Nominated
Lee Chang-dong came back to Venice after eight years and took the Grand Jury Prize. Half the coverage says sixteen years, and the Oscar claim attached to his last film has been wrong since 2019.
September 16, 2026 7:08 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
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
Two Star Wars Films Just Reappeared on Paper. Neither Has a Date.
A trade listing dated 3 September put both Star Wars: New Jedi Order and Dave Filoni's long-dormant crossover film back on paper — the first sign of life from either in about a year. It is not a greenlight, and Lucasfilm has said nothing. But these are the two films Kathleen Kennedy pointedly did not discuss on her way out the door.
September 8, 2026 1:10 am
Norman Reedus Wrapped Daryl Dixon in June. He Already Has an Apple TV Thriller.
Norman Reedus has joined Apple TV's Disavowed as a series regular opposite James Marsden. His role is undisclosed. It is his first announced series since he finished shooting the last of Daryl Dixon in June — sixteen years after he first played the part.
September 4, 2026 1:15 am
TV’s biggest myth? Ryan Murphy busts it with The Shards
Ryan Murphy draws a line in the sand for The Shards, explaining why it avoids graphic content—and what sets the FX coming-of-age thriller apart from Heated Rivalry.
August 16, 2026 3:51 am
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