Will Arnett, Miles Caton, Zoey Deutch, Joel Edgerton, Dylan O’Brien and Benny Safdie will also be feted at the nation’s largest university-run film festival, which will run Oct. 25 through Nov. 1.
The 69th London Film Festival has named its juries for the official competition, first feature competition, best documentary and best short film ahead of the Oct. 8-19 event.
The French Academy, hosting its 51st edition in February 2026, described ‘The Mask’ and ‘The Truman Show’ star as “one of the most original voices in modern cinema.”
Other highlights at Tokyo’s 38th edition include Chloé Zhao ‘Hamnet,’ Brendan Fraser’s Japan-set ‘Rental Family,’ acclaimed doc ‘The Ozu Diaries,’ loads of anime, and the much belated local premiere of Paul Schrader’s cult classic ‘Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters.’
After decades of political sensitivities and threats kept it from screens, Schrader’s Yukio Mishima biopic, considered by many his masterpiece, will finally play for Japanese audiences.
He and ill-fated director Al Adamson fed drive-ins with these kinds of movies — ‘Dracula vs. Frankenstein’ among them — starting in the late 1960s.
The star joined Adam Sandler, Laura Dern, Billy Crudup and director Noah Baumbach at the film’s New York Film Festival premiere.
Outfest is mounting a new event, OutfestNEXT presented by HBO Max, that will be a four-day screening series set for Nov. 6-9.
Though Leonardo DiCaprio’s Bob, Anderson explores limits and frustrations of a revolutionary in an America where the disenfranchisement of Black and Latino populations has grown beyond his generation’s ability to combat.
There can be only one? Nope. Irons will be the second antagonist in the remake.
