EXCLUSIVE: First came Cocaine Bear and Cocaine Shark. Now meet Cocaine Werewolf. Ireland’s Tarf Media has secured worldwide sales rights (excluding North America) to the indie comedy-horror film, which is written by Ford Austin and Tyger Torrez. Mark Polonia, who directed Cocaine Shark, is directing…

Roger Corman, the independent filmmaker known as the “King of the Bs,” has died at the age of 98. The Oscar-winning director and producer of films like 1959’s The Wasp Woman and 1960’s The Little Shop of Horrors, died at his home in Santa Monica on Thursday, May 9th. “He was generous…

The 35th annual GLAAD Media Awards took place in New York City. Singer and talk show host Jennifer Hudson and country singer Orville Peck were honored. Hudson received the Excellence in Media Award for championing allyship and promoting acceptance of LGBTQ people and issues. Peck received the Vito Russo Award for…

EXCLUSIVE: 20th Century Studios/Disney's Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is beating its chest towards a $125M global bow this weekend. At the international box office, we understand the Wes Ball-directed installment is at around $31M through Friday. As Anthony has reported, domestic is looking at a…

On the eve of the start of the Cannes Film Festival, embattled Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof is gaining support from others in the film industry. Tribeca Festival co-founders Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal have issued a statement on the sentencing of Rasoulof. Earlier this week, it was…

Sigourney Weaver is in talks to return to space for a key role in the next Star Wars movie, The Mandalorian & Grogu. Jon Favreau is directing the film as well as producing alongside Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy and chief creative officer Dave Filoni. Production is slated to start later this…

EXCLUSIVE: Gilmore Girls star Lauren Graham and The Nightingale‘s Aisling Franciosi have joined the cast of Three Point Capital and David Permut Production’s movie Twinless. They will star opposite previously announced Dylan O'Brien and James Sweeney.  Sweeney is also writing and directing the pic…

Joel Edgerton has been in Star Wars and the series Obi-Wan Kenobi, so he is versed in sci-fi. But he failed his audition for the role of Star-Lord in Guardians of the Galaxy. He says the reason for that is not understanding the film’s tone. In an EW interview, Edgerton said that the part…

Donald Glover has been booked and busy, but those rumors about his schedule holding up production on Peacock’s Community: The Movie aren’t accurate, according to the multihyphenate. “It’s happening but I don’t know when. I swear, it’s happening,” Glover told Deadline earlier this week at the Deadline…

EXCLUSIVE: A longtime passion project imagined by the late Steve McQueen has been revived. Two decades after the iconic actor’s son Chad McQueen and family friend/Warner Bros exec Lance Sloan began development on the film Yucatan, Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer (Blue Beetle, Miss Bala) has been set as the…

With support from the Nancy P. & Richard K. Robbins Family Foundation and Resonance Philanthropies, DocPitch 2024 has awarded five independent documentary filmmakers cash awards totaling $100,000 to help them complete their feature documentary film projects currently in development or…

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures has rounded out the cast of its coming-of-age musical teaming director Michel Gondry and producer Pharrell Williams with four additions: Tim Meadows (Dream Scenario), Jaboukie Young-White (C’mon C’mon), Jamilah Rosemond (Rustin) and Jayson Lee (61st Street). Details as…