Film

He joins an already star-studded slate with Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande starring as Elphaba (aka the Wicked Witch of the West) and Glinda (or Glinda the Good), respectively. 

The Spanish-American actress, who rose to fame leading Prime Video’s Spanish-language Culpables trilogy, is ready to reach whole new audiences with her upcoming projects as part of a newly announced talent deal with Amazon.

Georges Khabbaz stars alongside German film legend Hanna Schygulla in Ameer Fakher Eldin’s melancholic drama about an exiled Syrian writer who travels to a North Sea island, contemplating suicide.

THR caught up with writer-director Dylan Southern at the BFI London Film Festival.

“Seeing it for the first time was a revelation,” says ‘Billy Elliot’ director Daldry, while Friedman shares: “I hope it reminds us of the extraordinary impact that even the smallest acts of kindness can have.”

The love letter to pioneering director Kira Muratova, screening at Austria’s Viennale this week, features interviews with the likes of Virginie Despentes, Céline Sciamma, Alice Diop, and Joey Soloway.

The ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show’ actor, who has a new memoir, ‘Vagabond,’ also opened up about his fraught relationship with his mother.

Julia Jackman’s sophomore feature, also starring Charli xcx, Nicholas Galitzine, Felicity Jones and Amir El-Masry, ended an almighty run of A-lister-heavy premieres at the 2025 London Film Festival.

“She sent me these beautiful flowers and said, ‘May the odds be ever in your favor,'” Fanning said of Banks, as she takes over the role of Effie Trinket in ‘The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping.’

After a Sundance premiere, writer-director Kevin Smith’s feature was picked up by Miramax for a theatrical bow on Oct. 19, 1994.