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King spent the evening watching Powell’s ‘Hitman,’ leaving the actor hoping “that I still had the role in the morning.”

The faith-based ‘Soul of Fire’ also opens nationwide this weekend after earning $575,000 in previews, while Luca Guadagnino’s ‘After the Hunt’ begins its platform run at the specialty box office

A remote farming community’s sheep population vanishes in the film starring Kenton Lloyd-Morgan, Eiry Thomas, and ‘The Crown’s’ Fflyn Edwards, one of four Film4 shorts at the London Film Festival.

The Hollywood Reporter senior writer Seth Abramovitch will also be making the trip to Chicago to moderate the conversation, set to take place at AMC Newcity 14 on Saturday, Oct. 18.

The Korean maestro behind ‘Oldboy,’ ‘The Handmaiden’ and ‘Decision to Leave’ unpacks his long-gestating comedy thriller, starring ‘Squid Game’ actor Lee Byung-hun — and why it might finally earn him his first, long-overdue Oscar nomination.

The Iranian dissident auteur, who won the Cannes Palme d’Or 2025 for ‘It Was Just an Accident,’ will instead record the Screen Talk, which will be made available online for free.

“Wait until you see the Tin Man and the Scarecrow… There was no room for error,” said the filmmaker about not using any digital effects on the iconic characters in the upcoming sequel.

Everything that worries and pains us is there — wars, the environmental crisis, political arrogance, migration, women’s rights, and, above all, the fragile ties of family life,” says fest director Tiina Lokk.

Neon dropped the first official look at the Korean maestro’s buzzy black comedy thriller, which stars Lee Byung-hun, of recent ‘Squid Game’ fame, as an unemployed everyman who decides his only choice is to eliminate the competition. 

David Ajala, Art Malik and Hannah Waddingham also star in Simon Stone’s murder mystery for Netflix, based on the bestseller by Brit novelist Ruth Ware.