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‘Toy Story 5’ Has A Best Friend At The Box Office: $160M U.S. Opening Reps Record For Franchise, Best YTD – Update
Disney/Pixar's Toy Story 5 opened to a franchise-record $160M domestically — the best debut any film has posted in 2026 and the second-best animated opening ever — propelled by a Taylor Swift tie-in s
Catalonia's Animation Surge Lands 11 Titles at Annecy
Catalonia's animation sector grew from one theatrical feature in 2017 to 717 studios, sending 11 titles to Annecy 2026 — fueled by tripled public funding, a rebooted "Triplets," and the "Tad" franchis
Go2Films Boards Sales on Entebbe Doc 'To Kill A Nazi'
Go2Films has boarded international sales on 'To Kill A Nazi,' a Jason Alexander-narrated documentary about the 1976 Entebbe hostage crisis, ahead of its world premiere at LA's Dances With Films festiv
Bologna's Rediscovered Cinema Festival Opens 40th
Bologna's Il Cinema Ritrovato opens its 40th edition on Saturday with more than 500 restored and overlooked films, drawing a new generation of streaming-age cinephiles after last year's event attracte
MuVpix Casts Brown & Cabau in 'Romeo & Juliet
Microdrama platform MuVpix has cast Gabrielle Faith Brown as Juliet and Yolanthe Cabau as The Nurse in 'Romeo & Juliet, Reimagined,' a dual horizontal-and-vertical adaptation of Shakespeare set in mod
O.T. Fagbenle Joins 'Eleven Missing Days' as Allen Lane
Emmy-nominated actor O.T. Fagbenle has been cast as Agatha Christie's publisher Allen Lane in 'Eleven Missing Days,' a Bertie Ellwood-directed mystery thriller about the author's real-life disappearan
Abdy & De Luca to Headline TIFF's Inaugural Market
Warner Bros. co-chairs Pam Abdy and Mike De Luca will headline the inaugural TIFF Market's Dialogues programme in September, discussing studio strategy and content development in a global marketplace.
Uwe Boll's 'Citizen Vigilante' Banned in Germany Over
Director Uwe Boll says Germany's FSK rating agency refused to classify his Armie Hammer action film 'Citizen Vigilante,' effectively banning it after ruling in a 6-2 vote that the movie 'incited viole
Taylor-Joy cast as original elf in Serkis's 'Hunt for
Anya Taylor-Joy has been cast as Seren, an original elf assassin not found in Tolkien's books, in the Andy Serkis-directed "The Hunt for Gollum" — a film one critic argues is "expensive gap-filler" th
Luca Guadagnino’s Nearly Finished Sam Altman Movie ‘Artificial’ Dropped by Amazon After OpenAI Partnership
Amazon MGM Studios has dropped Luca Guadagnino's nearly finished film "Artificial," starring Andrew Garfield as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, months after committing $50 billion to a sweeping partnership wit
‘Dear You’ Director Credits Overseas Chinese Letter-Writing Tradition for Sleeper Hit’s Emotional Power
Director Lan Hongchun told the 28th Shanghai International Film Festival that his sleeper hit "Dear You" — now past $255 million at the Chinese box office — drew its emotional power from qiaopi, the c
Pearl River Film Launches Studio With Author Guo Ni, Sets Eight-Franchise Slate
Pearl River Film and Black Body Interactive have launched a dedicated studio with Chinese author Guo Ni, committing to adapt eight of her YA and sci-fi franchises for the screen, with "Dreamship" set
Warner Bros. Chiefs to Headline TIFF's Inaugural
Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group co-chairs and CEOs Pam Abdy and Mike De Luca will headline the Speakers' Summit at TIFF's first-ever market, joining TIFF CEO Cameron Bailey for a Sept. 11 conversati
Hayley Kiyoko’s Feature Film ‘Girls Like Girls’ Took a Decade to Make. Now That It’s Here, She Hopes It’s Just the Beginning for Sapphic Media
Hayley Kiyoko's feature film "Girls Like Girls" opens in U.S. theaters on June 19, a decade-long expansion of her 2015 sapphic music video, with Kiyoko rewriting the ending to keep the final beat enti
Jordanian Filmmakers Reject Western Funder Stereotypes
Jordan's emerging filmmakers are using institutional support from the Jordan Film Fund, Royal Film Commission and Amman Film Festival to push back against Western funder expectations and tell locally
Grammy-nominated music producer Tay Keith, who worked with Drake and Travis Scott, dies aged 29
Grammy-nominated hip-hop producer Tay Keith (Brytavious Chambers), known for co-producing Travis Scott's "Sicko Mode" and Drake's "Nonstop," was found dead at his Nashville apartment at age 29, with n
Kay Hanley Losing SAG Health Insurance Over Missing Josie & The Pussycats Residuals
Kay Hanley, the Letters to Cleo frontwoman who sang the vocals for the 2001 film "Josie and the Pussycats," says the film's producers never filed her paperwork with SAG-AFTRA, leaving her without resi
Sugar review – Colin Farrell’s detective show is a luxurious labyrinth of noir
Apple TV+'s Sugar returns for season 2 with Colin Farrell's alien private investigator John Sugar sidelining his extraterrestrial identity in favor of moody, slow-burn noir cases across Los Angeles —
Curry Barker Sets Third Horror Film With Universal, Blumhouse
Curry Barker will write, direct, and produce his third horror feature for Universal Film Group and Blumhouse Atomic Monster, based on an original idea he pitched, following his $297M breakout hit.
Peacock Orders 'Dungeon Crawler Carl' TV Series
Peacock has greenlit a TV adaptation of Matt Dinniman's bestselling 'Dungeon Crawler Carl' book series, with Seth MacFarlane's Fuzzy Door producing and Chris Yost ('The Mandalorian') writing.
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