Hours after the Gotham Awards ended Monday night, planes full of talent, publicists, executives, and press made their way across the country back to the West Coast. Approximately 24 hours after, many Gotham attendees were now at Netflix’s Holiday Party in Hollywood, where stars such as Jacob Elordi, Joel Edgerton, and Jason Bateman, among others, mingled with the media, perhaps hoping to snag an important Golden Globe or Critics’ Choice vote. Continue reading Ariana Grande & Cynthia Erivo Surprise As ‘Wicked For Good’ Shows Its Still A Major Oscar Player at The Playlist.

The 2025 Gotham Awards were handed out in a ceremony in Manhattan tonight. The first real awards show of the 2026 Oscar season, the night saw Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” taking Best Feature. Jaguar Panahi’s “It Was Just An Accident” dominated the ceremony winning Director, Original Screenplay and International Feature. MUBI’s “My Father’s Shadow” surprised with two wins. READ MORE: Park Chan-wook On How “No Other Choice” Became Inherently More “Timely” 15 Years After He Began Writing It Wunmi Mosaku took Supporting Performance “Sinners” in a massively competitive field. Continue reading ‘One Battle After Another’ Wins Best Feature At The 2025 Gotham Awards [Complete List] at The Playlist.

Cannes Critics’ Week Grand Prix winner “A Useful Ghost” is finally headed to U.S. theaters, with a new domestic poster and trailer announcing a January 16 release via Cineverse and positioning it as a deadpan, dust-choked ghost story about grief, labor, and a woman who comes back by possessing a vacuum cleaner. READ MORE: Fall & Winter Film 2025 Preview: 61 Movies To Watch The premise is wonderfully strange. Continue reading ‘A Useful Ghost’ Trailer: Cannes Critics’ Week Winner Turns Grief & A Possessed Vacuum Into A Surreal Thai Haunting at The Playlist.

There’s something immediately sly about seeing Jodie Foster slip into fluent French and then straight into obsession. The new trailer for “A Private Life” packages Cannes’ latest French psychoanalytic murder mystery for U.S. theaters, with Sony Pictures Classics setting a one-week qualifying run starting December 5, 2025, ahead of a nationwide release on January 16, 2026. Directed by Rebecca Zlotowski, the film casts Foster as Lilian Steiner, a renowned psychiatrist in Paris who becomes deeply troubled by the sudden death of one of her patients. Continue reading ‘A Private Life’ Trailer: Jodie Foster Goes Full French In Rebecca Zlotowski’s Psychoanalytic Noir at The Playlist.

Most filmmakers know better than to publicly torch another director’s film or an actor’s performance, but Quentin Tarantino has never really played by those rules. On a new episode of Bret Easton Ellis’ podcast, where the pair ran through their top 20 films of the century, Tarantino used his praise of Paul Thomas Anderson’s “There Will Be Blood” as a springboard to lay into one of its key performers: Paul Dano. Continue reading Quentin Tarantino Blasts Paul Dano As The “Giant Flaw & Weak Sauce” Of ‘There Will Be Blood’ at The Playlist.

For a guy who happily turned TV into a psychedelic sandbox with “Fargo” and “Legion,” Noah Hawley always sounded like an unnervingly good fit for “Star Trek.” On a new episode of the SmartLess podcast, the writer/director walked through what happened to the ‘Trek’ movie he almost made — an entirely written, prepped project that had stages booked in Australia — and how a new regime at Paramount decided they needed a safer “transition” out of Chris Pine’s Enterprise instead. Continue reading Noah Hawley Said Paramount Loved His Original ‘Star Trek’ Idea Before New Execs Asked About A “Transition” From Chris Pine at The Playlist.

As the year begins to come to a close and the awards chatter begins to pick up speed, the need to be in constant catch-up mode is inescapable. There are too many quality movies worth keeping track of. December is no different, with a few major releases, such as “Marty Supreme” and “The Testament of Ann Lee,” that have been teased for months now. READ MORE: Fall & Winter Film 2025 Preview: 61 Movies To Watch Elsewhere, there are some other festival favorites, such as the highly anticipated “Resurrection” from filmmaker Bi Gan and the Bradley Cooper-directed “Is This Thing On? Continue reading 16 December Films To Watch: ‘Marty Supreme,’ ‘Anne Lee’ ‘Is This Thing On?’ & More at The Playlist.

David Ellison‘s Paramount Pictures had recently hired producer Neal H. Moritz for their gestating live-action “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” movie, and now they’ve revealed a release date for the project that will combine live-action/CGI animation and will be heading to screens on November 17, 2028. That’s not all, as a mysterious “Sonic The Hedgehog” spinoff movie (referred to in the report from Variety as “Untitled Sonic Event film“) is also landing a concrete date of December 22, 2028, from Moirtz, with “Sonic 4” also set for March 19, 2027. Continue reading Paramount Slates Live-Action/CGI Hybrid ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ & Mysterious ‘Sonic The Hedgehog’ Spinoff Movies For 2028 at The Playlist.

Blumhouse Productions and writer/director Curry Barker are behind the upcoming horror feature “Obsession,” which will be arriving in theaters next spring. The film’s cast features Michael Johnston, Inde Navarrette, Cooper Tomlinson, Megan Lawless, and former late-night sidekick Andy Richter. A producing team is led by James Harris of Teashop Productions, Haley Nicole Johnson at Under the Shell, Christian Mercuri via Capstone Pictures, and Roman Viaris, with a group of executive producers consisting of Jason Blum of Blumhouse, Leonora Darby (Teashop), Mark Lane (Teashop), David Haring (Capstone), and Ruzanna Kegeyan (Capstone Pictures). Continue reading ‘Obsession’ Teaser Trailer: Blumhouse & Focus Features’ Latest Horror Pic From Curry Baker Heads To Theaters May 15 at The Playlist.

Desperate People Do Dangerous Things. Maika Monroe stars in a new neo-noir film, “In Cold Light,” from French-Canadian director Maxime Giroux, that sees the actress in a tough and gritty dramatic thriller as an ex-con who’s barely out of prison before she’s back trying to reclaim her drug empire, which co-stars “CODA” actor Troy Kotsur and Helen Hunt. Continue reading ‘In Cold Light’ Trailer: Maika Monroe Plays An Ex-Con In Drug Empire Thriller That Also Features Troy Kotsur & Helen Hunt at The Playlist.

While James Cameron has previously suggested that advances in artificial intelligence tools could benefit the VFX industry to speed up studio assignments and lower costs of productions like his “Avatar” sequels without directly jeopardizing jobs, he’s now calling out the potential use of “generative AI,” with replacing actors being a major concern, and why he’s opposed to the idea. CBS Sunday Morning recently spoke with Cameron about his opinions on generative AI concerning actors, where he stated, “For years, there was this sense that, ‘Oh, they’re doing something strange with computers and they’re replacing actors,’ when in fact, once you really drill down and you see what we’re doing, it’s a celebration of the actor-director moment,” Cameron said. Continue reading James Cameron Believes Generative-AI Replacing Actors Is “Horrifying” at The Playlist.

When “Flesh of the Gods” was first announced in 2024, an 1980s vampire thriller set in Los Angeles from “Mandy” director Panos Cosmatos that has a script from veteran screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker (“The Killer,” “Se7en,” “Psycho Killer”) with actors such as Kristen Stewart (“Love Lies Bleeding”), Oscar Isaac (“Frankenstein”), and Elizabeth Olsen (“Eternity”) assembled to star in lead roles, it felt like a no-brainer that it would end up an awesome genre project that should be quickly rushed into production given the demanding schedules of the film’s high-profile main cast. Continue reading Kristen Stewart Reveals ’80s-Set Vampire Thriller ‘Flesh Of The Gods’ Co-Starring Oscar Isaac & Elizabeth Olsen Still “Looking For Financing” at The Playlist.

Even before he finished his own so-called final film, Quentin Tarantino had already started carving a personal canon for everyone else. After unveiling his 11–20 picks on the Bret Easton Ellis podcast — a beautifully deranged stretch that ran from “Battle Royale” to “West Side Story” — he finally rolled out the top 10, a list that put war cinema, animated heartbreak, paranoid thrillers, and down-and-dirty genre work on the same altar, with “Black Hawk Down” sitting at number one. Continue reading Quentin Tarantino’s Best-Of-The-Century Top 10 Includes ‘Black Hawk Down,’ ‘Dunkirk’ & ‘Fury Road’ at The Playlist.

After years of teasing that “Creed” spinoffs and TV series could be on the way, star and director Michael B. Jordan is confirming that a TV series focused on Adonis’ daughter, Amara, is currently on the table and in the works (he alludes to it being at Amazon Prime Video). Jordan revealed the project’s status while speaking with Variety on their Awards Circuit podcast, “We’re spinning off doing Adonis’s daughter, Amara’s story, the television show that’s picked up at Amazon. Continue reading Michael B. Jordan Confirms ‘Creed’ Spinoff Series In The Works At Amazon Focusing On Adonis’ Daughter Amara at The Playlist.

Jodie Foster didn’t romanticize her career when she spoke in front of a packed audience at the 22nd Marrakech International Film Festival. In an intimate onstage conversation, she looked back on six decades in front of the camera and admitted she never would have chosen the profession that defined her life. She told the crowd that acting was never her dream in the first place. “I would never have chosen to be an actor; I don’t have the personality of an actor. Continue reading Jodie Foster Talks “Cruel” Child Stardom, Uninteresting De Niro Lunches & Fighting For Women Directors [Marrakech] at The Playlist.

Today, The Ink Factory announced some big casting additions to the upcoming John le Carré series “Legacy of Spies” with Charlie Hunnam as British intelligence officer Alec Leamas, Daniel Brühl as East German spy Jens Fielder, and Devrim Lingnau Islamoğlu as Doris Quinz (aka, Agent Tulip) in the gestating project coming from MGM+ and the BBC. Continue reading John le Carré Series ‘Legacy Of Spies’ Adds Charlie Hunnam, Daniel Brühl & Devrim Lingnau Islamoğlu To Cast Led By Matthew Macfadyen at The Playlist.

The members of the New York Film Critics Circle practically telegraphed their Best Film winner for weeks. If it weren’t Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another,” we would have been concerned for the mental well-being of many NYFCC members who have championed it. That also meant there were very few surprises overall when the members became the first major critics group to make their year-end selections. READ MORE: “One Battle After Another” Wins Best Feature At The 2025 Gotham Awards [Complete List] The group sent in a different direction for Best Director, selecting Jafar Panahi for “It Was Just An Accident.” Panahi won Best Director, Original Screenplay, and International Film at the Gotham Awards less than 24 hours ago. Continue reading ‘One Battle After Another’ Is New York Film Critics Circle’s Best Film Of 2025 at The Playlist.

Even with “Alien: Earth” finally giving the Xenomorph franchise a full-blown TV mythology and Predator roaring back in movies, Noah Hawley said fans shouldn’t expect an Alien vs. Predator-style mash-up on his show anytime soon. On a recent episode of SmartLess, the creator was asked point-blank if a Yautja might ever drop into his FX series — and he gently, but clearly, waved it off. The question came in bluntly: “Or Predator coming onto your show?” Hawley answered just as plainly. Continue reading ‘Alien: Earth’: Sorry, Noah Hawley Saw No ‘Predator’ Crossover With His Sci-Fi Series at The Playlist.

The Radio Silence collective is back with a follow-up installment to their breakout satire horror film “Ready or Not,” as “Ready or Not 2: Here I Come” landed a batch of first-look images via People Magazine, showcasing the film’s new group of actors joining Samara Weaving‘s Grace in the next chapter that takes place after the brutal events of the final girl’s “killer” wedding night. Continue reading ‘Ready Or Not 2: Here I Come’ First Look Images: Radio Silence’s Satirical Horror Follow-Up Coming To Theaters On April 10 at The Playlist.

During last week’s special screening of “The Lost Chapter: Yuki’s Revenge” (as part of a tie-in with the popular video game “Fortnite“) at Tarantino’s own Vista Theater in Los Angeles, director Quentin Tarantino, speaking with Entertainment Weekly, teased two other potential animation ideas, including another”Kill Bill” expansion project featuring Bill’s (played by David Carradine) origin, that’s if the busy fella ever gets around to doing them (notably, many of Tarantino’s ideas don’t end up coming to fruition or ends up pivoting to something else). Continue reading Quentin Tarantino Teases Desire To Make Animated ‘Kill Bill’ Origin For Bill & Possibly ‘The Vega Brothers’ Crossover at The Playlist.

Scarlett Johansson recently made her directorial debut with the film emotional drama “Eleanor The Great,” and is now shockingly doubling down on her defence of the disgraced filmmaker Woody Allen, despite child molestation allegations that go back to 1992. Of course, Johansson’s relationship with Allen goes back to working with the director on a bunch of his modern features, such as “Scoop,” “Match Point,” and “Vicky Christina Barcelona.” But since Allen’s bigger fallout, which has since made him sort of a Hollywood pariah, Johansson stopped working with him, but it sounds like she isn’t giving up on defending the director anytime soon. Continue reading Scarlett Johansson Still Defends Her Support For Woody Allen & Isn’t Sure If She’s Lost Work Over It at The Playlist.

Yes, it’s time for another new season of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” as the Emmy-winning reality competition returns for its 18th season. Having survived the Skydance-Paramount merger – in fact, it was listed as a franchise “priority” by Paramount Television honcho George Cheeks – “Drag Race” will be back on MTV beginning on January 2nd. The first episode, titled “Reclaim! Renew! Rejoice!,” will find the queens paying tribute to the queens that came before them by using their leftover treasures from the “Drag Race” vaults to create their own signature drag look. Continue reading Meet The Queens Of ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Juicy New Season 18 at The Playlist.

Nicholas Hoult and Daisy Edgar-Jones have been tapped to lead the new Disney+ series “Mosquito,” which hails from Tony McNamara, the creator of Hulu‘s comedic historical series “The Great.” While the new TV project is going to be released on Disney+ internationally, domestic subscribers will be able to watch the show on Hulu. Continue reading ‘Mosquito’: Nicholas Hoult & Daisy Edgar-Jones To Lead New Hulu/Disney+ Absurdist Comedy Series From ‘The Great’ Creator Tony McNamara at The Playlist.

Actress Jodie Foster got a huge breakout role in Martin Scorsese‘s landmark film “Taxi Driver,” and has since gone on to become a filmmaker/producer in her own right over the years. While reciving an award at the Marrakech Film Festival over the weekend, she was speaking on-stage (via Deadline) and shared the impression that “Killers of the Flower Moon,” which covered the infamous string of murders of wealthy members of the Osage Nation from the David Grann novel, would have worked better as an eight-hour streaming series at Apple (Paramount Pictures distributing the movie in theaters), rather than a shorter theatrical release as a feature film, as it could have allowed them to tell a more in-depth story of those events and the Osage people. Continue reading Jodie Foster Thinks Martin Scorsese’s ‘Killers Of The Flower Moon’ Should Have Been An 8-Hour Streaming Series To Explore Events In Greater Depth at The Playlist.

Ahead of the film’s official launch later this month, the press screenings for James Cameron‘s third installment in his Pandora saga, “Avatar: Fire & Ash,” have led to a stream of first reactions to the epic sci-fi action event film making their way online. Many of the reactions are mostly positive, with the main highlights of the movie being the technical aspects of the visual effects and action set pieces (something expected), but a handful of those reactions point out that some are still unimpressed with the film’s story/narrative, which comes off as unsatisfying to a portion of the folks who watched the movie. Continue reading ‘Avatar: Fire & Ash’ First Reactions: James Cameron Brings The Heat With Third Installment, But There Are Still Issues at The Playlist.