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I just watched an animated movie called Boys Go to Jupiter that was so weird and eccentric, I’m not sure I was in the right headspace to truly appreciate the experience until days later. Then came Ebony and Ivory, a film that might as well have “Nothing can prepare you” as its tagline, because I walked out of the screening asking myself, “What did we just watch?”

No, Ebony and Ivory is not a Hunter S. Thompson fever dream; it is a new film from writer/director Jim Hosking that cannot be labeled or quantified. Sure, “gonzo” seems like an appropriate term. Unhinged may be another. Though I am starting to think batsh*t crazy is more like it.

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Don’t tell Joaquin Phoenix he’s not a star. The Oscar winner recently appeared on Theo Von’s “This Past Weekend” podcast (via Entertainment Weekly) during his “Eddington” press tour and remembered a director telling him on set early in his career that all he would ever be is simply a “character actor.” Phoenix’s co-star at the time compared him to a higher-profile actor, to which the director butted in and shot down the comparison.

“It’s kind of code for like, ‘You can’t really, like, you’re never going to really get there, but you’ll work,'” Phoenix said of the director’s “character actor” dig at him. “And that fucking pissed me off.”

But Phoenix added, “I ultimately appreciate it because it made me go like, ‘Well, how do I find that way? Like, how do I find more?'”

The actor would go...

James Gunn might have inadvertently revealed what the canceled Dcu film is, and it is one that will likely disappoint fans. In June 2025, the DC Studios co-head confirmed that one of the previously announced Dcu films had been scrapped. Many thought it was the recently canceled Sgt. Rock film from Challengers director Luca Guadagnino, but Gunn's recent comments have suggested that the film could just be delayed. Fans have speculated which announced title was canned, and a recent comment by Gunn might mean bad news for Swamp Thing.

Speaking withNPR, Gunn gave details about a greenlit Dcu film that won't see the light of day. After multiple drafts of the script, he revealed that it just was not coming together, and decided, for the sake of the studio, and the filmmakers attached, it was better to kill the project than move forward with it. The most illuminating piece is...

Filmmakers like Mel Brooks and the trio of David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker (also known as Zaz) once made spoofs the cream of the comedy crop with hits like "Young Frankenstein," "Blazing Saddles," "Airplane!" and "The Naked Gun." Sadly, the popularity of "Scary Movie," a truly great horror parody from 2000 that followed in similar footsteps and kicked off a franchise of its own, resulted in a swath of far worse copycats from two of the film's co-writers, Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer. "Date Movie," "Epic Movie," "Disaster Movie," "Vampires Suck," and more all tried to cash-in on spoofing popular blockbusters of the time, but the comedy left plenty to be desired, and the poor reception essentially killed the greatness and the appeal of spoof comedy — at least for a little while.

Thankfully, there have still been bright spots in the years since, such as the music biopic-skewering "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story,...

Miloš Forman's critically acclaimed biographical film Amadeus has found a new streaming home. The 1984 Best Picture winner at the Academy Awards starts streaming for free this month on Tubi. Other titles set to be added to Tubi's library include Oscar winners like Forrest Gump, Pulp Fiction, Titanic, and Thelma & Louise.

The musical biopic was adapted by writer Peter Shaffer, who had already tackled the subject for his stage play in the late '70s. He was inspired by the 1830 stage play Mozart and Salieri by Russian playwright Alexander Pushkin. Amadeus follows Antonio Salieri's frequently debated contempt for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as the young musical prodigy revolutionized the musical scene in Vienna in the mid-1700s. Per the Rotten Tomatoes synopsis of the film:

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Hulce) is a remarkably talented young Viennese composer who unwittingly finds a fierce rival in the disciplined and determined Antonio Salieri...

As discussed in Gold Derby's 2025 Oscars halftime report, Sinners is sitting pretty with just under six months to go for the rest of the year. Of the films that have had theatrical releases thus far this calendar year, it's the easy frontrunner for Best Picture, and it's cultural footprint is about to become even larger as it heads to Max on July 4.

At this point, it seems like a foregone conclusion that Ryan Coogler's period vampire thriller will be a contender in year-end awards.

But which year-end awards?

There is an interesting possibility for Sinners when it comes specifically to its placement for the Golden Globes, which divides up the major film categories between drama and musical or comedy. Music, the blues and Irish folk in particular, is an essential element of the film — both in the lives of its characters and in the texture of the film itself...

Musicals can feel like a tough sell with their flashy songs and dance routines, but some films break through with gripping stories, sharp wit, or raw heart. These movies win over even those who cringe at spontaneous singing, feeling more like great cinema than stagey spectacles.

We’ve selected 10 movie musicals that ditch the Broadway fluff, ranked from captivating to unforgettable. Here’s why these films will hook you, even if musicals aren’t your vibe.

10. The Blues Brothers – English (1980) Universal Pictures

Jake and Elwood Blues race to save their orphanage with soulful tunes and wild car chases. John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd’s deadpan humor keeps it grounded and gritty.

The soundtrack, featuring Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles, feels like a live show, not a musical. We’re hooked by its chaotic, soulful energy.

9. School of Rock – English (2003) Paramount Pictures

Jack Black’s fake teacher turns kids into a...

Tom Rothman launched his entertainment career as an entertainment lawyer and producer in New York representing independent voices like Spike Lee and Jim Jarmusch, “the first filmmaker ever to take a big chance on me,” he said, waxing nostalgic after a reel showcasing in his NY indie roots.

“It’s fitting here in Queens that the reel you saw leaned into the early indie days of my career. That’s as it should be tonight.” said the chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment’s Motion Picture Group in remarks at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens. The venerable organization honored the exec at its spring gala alongside illustrious New York native and Severance star John Turturro.

Rothman launched his studio career in the early 1990s as president of worldwide production for the Samuel Goldwyn Company in its heyday. During his tenure, the company’s pictures won...

Snoop Dogg has a biopic that's currently in development, set to bring the life story of the famed rapper to the big screen. The first question fans will likely have about the movie is who will be playing the music icon, and the answer to that has just been revealed.

Per Deadline, actor Jonathan Daviss has been tapped to portray Snoop Dogg in the upcoming biopic in the works at Universal Pictures. The announcement comes just days after it was reported that Craig Brewer had signed on to direct the feature film. Snoop Dogg is on board as a producer on the project alongside Brian Grazer and Death Row Pictures President Sara Ramaker.

Daviss is best known for his Netflix work, particularly as one of the stars of the hit series Outer Banks. The Houston native plays the role of Pope on the show, which is set to end with its upcoming fifth season.

Shaboozey is clarifying his viral reaction at the 2025 American Music Awards and noting it had nothing to do with his co-presenter Megan Moroney.

The country star presented the Favorite Country Duo or Group category at the AMAs in Las Vegas on Monday night alongside Moroney.

Reading off the teleprompter, Moroney said the award they were going to present had been awarded to The Carter Family, “who basically invented country music.” This remark prompted a side-eye from Shaboozey, which turned him into an instant meme.

Following the viral AMAs moment, Shaboozey took to Moroney’s latest Instagram post to clear up that the shade was not to her, as she didn’t write the script she read at the award show.

“Just want to clear something up: my reaction at the AMAs had nothing to do with Megan Moroney!” Shaboozey wrote. “She’s an incredibly talented, hard-working artist who’s doing amazing things for country music,...

Before he established himself as a steady studio hand with franchise films such as Logan and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, director James Mangold was known for making the kind of movies that are rarely made these days: star-driven pictures aimed at adult audiences. One of his breakout films was Cop Land, which was released in theaters back in 1997, and boasted a stellar cast that included Sylvester Stallone and Robert De Niro. The movie was a solid hit at the time of its release, and it is now witnessing something of a resurgence on the Paramount+ streaming service. This is the same platform where Stallone's Tulsa King reigns supreme.

On May 27, Cop Land was the seventh-biggest title on the Paramount+ viewership charts, according to FlixPatrol. It debuted on the streamer on Friday, and has since accumulated 161 points. On May 27, Cop Land earned 91 points in total, outperforming three...

Exclusive: ESPN host and Improbable Media CEO Jay Williams has signed on to serve as an executive producer on A Bridge Between, an upcoming sports drama directed by Jeff Celentano (The Hill).

Based on a true story, A Bridge Between centers around Anthony Hodges, a young basketball player recovering from a devastating car accident that leaves him physically injured and mentally shaken. As Anthony battles self-doubt and the long road of rehabilitation, a chance encounter at a Ymca on Christmas Eve brings him face-to-face with Bobby Verdun, a former basketball coach turned mentor who carries emotional and physical scars of his own. Their unlikely bond becomes the foundation for Anthony’s return to the court – and a life defined not by tragedy, but by purpose.

Williams, whose own basketball career was cut short by a life-changing accident, said in a statement that he sees the film as a deeply personal and transformative project.

Shaboozey became a meme following a viral moment at the 2025 American Music Awards.

The country star took the stage in Las Vegas next to fellow artist Megan Moroney to present the Favorite Country Duo or Group category.

Shaboozey started by remembering that country music has been a part of the AMAs’ history, recalling that the award for Favorite Male Country Artist went to Charley Pride.

Things got awkward when Moroney took a turn reading off the teleprompter, saying, “That same year, Favorite Female Artist went to Lynn Anderson, and this award [Favorite Country Duo or Group] went to the Carter family, who basically invented country music.”

Shaboozey paused to process Moroney’s words and let out a laugh before continuing to present the nominees in the category, which was ultimately won by the duo Dan and Shay.

Update: Shaboozey Defends Megan Moroney After “Hateful Comments” Following Ama’s Side-Eye: “Let’s Not Twist The Message...

If there's one thing Hollywood loves more than a biopic, it's a music biopic. From "Walk the Line" to "A Complete Unknown," these mythologizing movies about famous musicians tend to be reliable crowd pleasers that, even when they repeat and remix the same formula over and over, are almost sure to win all involved extra attention during awards season, and for good reason.

These films often require even more meticulous work on behalf of the cast and crew, as directors and designers have to capture the feel of iconic locations, time periods, and historical events. Screenwriters have to tell life stories that span decades while naturally weaving musical numbers into the story. And the actors must faithfully and respectfully embody some of the most recognizable and beloved figures in entertainment history, while almost always having to musically perform iconic songs. Making even a halfway decent music biopic is deceptively difficult,...

Rupert Friend (Obi-Wan Kenobi, Companion) has joined Lily James and Raffey Cassidy (The Brutalist, The Killing of a Sacred Deer) in Spencer and Lloyd Harvey’s directorial feature debut ‘Photo Booth.’

Joining as the male lead is Friend, he will star in the emotional thriller as Ben, Lily James’ husband. Ben is a talented portrait artist living in his successful wife’s and famous father’s shadow. He finds himself caught up in a messy but charged triangle between his wife, who is desperate for a child, and the young waitress (Cassidy) he has a child.

Cathy Konrad (Girl Interrupted, Walk the Line) and her Tree Line Films, Lily James & Gala Gordon’s Parodos Productions (upcoming Swiped and Cliffhanger), will partner with Australian-based Carver Films, Sarah Shaw and Anna McLeish.

Also in news – Denzel Washington, Robert Pattinson & Daisy Edgar-Jones set for heist movie ‘Here Comes The Flood’

It was announced...

Rupert Friend has joined the cast of upcoming emotional thriller “Photo Booth.”

The “Obi-Wan Kenobi” and “Companion” star — heading to Cannes as part of Wes Anderson’s “The Phoenician Scheme” — has been cast as the male lead alongside Lily James and Raffey Cassidy.

The film marks the directorial feature debut of Australian sibling filmmakers Spencer and Lloyd Harvey, and is described as a “gripping emotional thriller that confronts the most primal choices we make about love, ambition and building a family.” HanWay is handling international sales in Cannes, with UTA Independent Film Group selling for North America. The film starts principal photography this October in Australia and London

“Photo Booth” will see Friend star as Ben, James’ husband. Ben is a talented portrait artist living in his successful wife and famous father’s shadows who finds himself caught up in a messy but charged triangle between his wife, who is desperate for a child,...

Stars: Timothée Chalamet, Edward Norton, Elle Fanning, Monica Barbaro, Joe Tippett, Eriko Hatsune, Scoot McNairy | Written by James Mangold, Jay Cocks, Elijah Wald | Directed by James Mangold

The biopic has been a genre around since the early days of filmmaking, and over the course of more than 100 years, it has changed drastically with every passing decade. In the early 2000s the genre, in particular the musical biopic, hit somewhat of a snag. It got caught up in formulaic storytelling and became a parody of itself. So much so that the 2007 film Walk Hard made fun of the formula so much it ruined the genre forever. However, some films still missed the joke and went ahead and followed the formula anyway, such as 2018’s Bohemian Rhapsody. The formula itself reduced the artist’s life to their Wikipedia page. Often opening with the film’s subject ready to take the stage of one of their famous performances,...

Image Source: 20th Century Studios One of the most discussed contenders during the 2019 awards season was the compelling sports biography, Ford v Ferrari. The film, which had four Academy Award nominations including the coveted Best Picture, attracted greatly attention. Under the capable James Mangold and with the star power of two Academy Award winners – Christian Bale, portraying the tenacious race car driver Ken Miles, and Matt Damon, embodying the visionary former driver and automotive designer Carroll Shelby – the stage was set for a compelling cinematic experience. Mostly because of the strong core performances, Ford v Ferrari enthralls fresh viewers even years after its original release. A testament to its continuing brilliance, the movie has an amazing 92% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Particularly for his subtle interpretation of a real-life character, Christian Bale earned a lot of praise. Bale had previously won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his gripping...

James Keach has led a very interesting life, and has orbited the lives of other very interesting people. He co-wrote and also starred in The Long Riders (along with his brother Stacy), a classic Western film which caught the eye of Johnny Cash. Cash and June Carter became close friends with Keach, who would go on to develop and produce the Cash biopic Walk the Line. He wasn't the only iconic musician Keach befriended; iconic artist Glen Campbell became a good friend of James Keach, and also worked with him on a movie. Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me is a beautiful, Oscar-nominated documentary about Campbell's "Goodbye Tour" and the musician's life-ending Alzheimer's disease. Now, Keach is giving Campbell the Walk the Line treatment with an intimate biographical drama.

"We're working on doing the Walk the Line version of the Glen Campbell story," Keach told MovieWeb in an interview revolving around Alzheimer's disease.

As it turns out, Zendaya would never let go of playing Ronnie Spector. Five years after it was announced that the Emmy Award-winning Euphoria star would embody the Ronettes lead singer in a feature film, Deadline reported on Wednesday that the A24 project had secured a new director in Oscar winner Barry Jenkins. Dave Kajganich, a frequent Luca Guadagnino collaborator, is now writing the screenplay after Pulitzer Prize winner Jackie Sibblies Drury was initially mentioned as a possible screenwriter in 2020 when the project was first announced.

Deadline offered no timeline for the Spector film, but it’s safe to assume it’ll be a while. Jenkins was recently attached to direct a science-fiction movie for Universal with Glen Powell in a lead role. At the same time, Zendaya is seemingly constantly busy and now filming Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey. However, whenever the project comes to fruition and lands an actual release date,...

UK-based production studio Versa Studios is expanding its London site after acquiring an additional 200,000 square feet of space adjacent to its existing location in Ealing, West London.

The studio has said it will house the production of the long-running reality show Big Brother, including the Celebrity edition and the nightly Big Brother Late & Live shows, which will be filmed at the original Versa London studio.

Today’s expansion brings Versa’s total studio space across the UK to 600,000 square feet. The studio also holds facilities in Manchester and Leeds. The studio previously served as the home of Simon Cowell‘s ITV format Walk The Line. Other productions on the Versa lot include BBC Morning Live, Bullseye, Martin Lewis Live, The John Bishop Show, Justin’s House, Walk the Line, Celebability, Life Stories with Kate Garraway, BAFTA-winning Friday Night Live, and Saturday Night Takeaway.

Versa was established in 2018, first operating at Granada...

Exclusive: Enliven Content’s Jeff Celentano and Warren Ostergard, who previously collaborated on the Dennis Quaid movie The Hill, have teamed up with Walk Like A Duck Entertainment for A Bridge Between, a sports drama about a young basketball player’s struggle to reclaim his identity on and off the court.

Based on a true story, A Bridge Between centers on Anthony Hodges, a young basketball player recovering from a severe car accident that left him with injuries and doubts about his future. As Anthony struggles with his physical and mental rehabilitation, he meets Bobby Verdun, a former basketball coach turned mentor who also carries scars of his own, both literal and metaphorical. Their chance encounter at a Ymca on Christmas Eve becomes the catalyst for Anthony’s journey back to the basketball court and a life of meaning.

The film is penned by Bobby Verdun (Hustle) and Rob Goodrich...

After a healthy box office run, Timothée Chalamet's A Complete Unknown is making its way to Hulu later this month. Directed by James Mangold (Walk the Line), A Complete Unknown starred Chalamet as the influential folk singer Bob Dylan and chronicled the artist's early years. Opening on Christmas Day 2024, A Complete Unknown proved to be a box office and critical hit, earning eight Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Director.

Deadline confirms that A Complete Unknown will be available to stream on Hulu starting Mar. 27. It will arrive on Hulu 92 days after it opened in theaters on Dec. 25, 2024. A Complete Unknown was distributed through Searchlight Pictures, a subsidiary of the Walt Disney Company. The filmbecame available to own on digital platforms on Feb. 25, 2025, while its physical media release date is approaching soon on Apr. 1. The biopic also stars Edward Norton, Elle Fanning, Monica Barbaro, Boyd Holbrook,...

Break out the acoustic guitars and tambourines: “A Complete Unknown” will be streaming on Hulu starting next week. The Timothée Chalamet-fronted Bob Dylan biopic has finally set a streaming release date of March 27, when it will be available for all Hulu and Hulu/Disney+ subscribers.

Nominated for eight Oscars including Best Actor and Best Picture, the film charts the early years of Bob Dylan’s rise in the New York City folk scene of the 1960s. The movie chronicles Dylan’s popularity and stardom, and eventual pivot to electric that left many in the folk community feeling burned. His relationship with mentor Pete Seeger (Edward Norton) is a particular focus of the film.

Chalamet prepared to play this role for years and does all his own singing and guitar playing in the film, which earned him many positive notices and a SAG award for Best Actor. Monica Barbaro also...

The streaming release date for the critically acclaimed Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown has been unveiled. Starring Timothée Chalamet as the great singer-songwriter, James Mangold's latest film delves into the early 1960s folk scene to document the rise of Dylan as a successful musician and when he caused somewhat of a stir for his electric sound at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. A Complete Unknown features an ensemble cast, including Edward Norton as folk icon Pete Seeger, Elle Fanning as Sylvie Russo, and Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez.

Now, Searchlight Pictures has revealed thatA Complete Unknown will be available to stream on Hulu beginning March 27. This comes after the film’s successful theatrical run, during which A Complete Unknown earned eight Academy Award nominations, including a Best Picture nomination and a Best Actor nod for Chalamet's portrayal of Dylan.The movie will also be available on Blu-ray and DVD...

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Robbie Williams is British pop royalty, and he was hoping to score a worldwide hit with his recent biopic Better Man.

Robbie’s movie may not have been a box office smash, but steadily drumming up global word of mouth, even from people who have never heard of Take That. While the film is a traditional biopic in that it tells the singer’s life story, it also comes with one very bizarre caveat.

Instead of an actor playing Robbie (or the man even playing himself), the singer is portrayed as a CGI anthropomorphic chimpanzee, making it seem more like a Planet of the Apes film rather than Walk the Line.

Robbie Williams performs on stage during the “Wetten, dass…?” Live Show on November 19, 2022 in Friedrichshafen, Germany. (Photo by Andreas Rentz/Getty Images)

Robbie does use his voice in the movie, but the monkey was performed by Jonno Davies,...

The U.K. and Ireland box office soared in February, generating £100.7 million ($129.9 million), a notable 20% boost compared to the £83.8 million ($108.1 million) recorded in February 2024, according to Comscore. The year-to-date figures are also encouraging, tracking 15% ahead of 2024 and 21% ahead of 2023.

Universal reigned supreme, thanks to “Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy,” which delivered $49.6 million for the month, securing the title of the top-grossing film of the year so far. The latest chapter in the beloved franchise opened with a record $15.7 million, surpassing the $13.4 million debut of 2004’s “Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason.” It has also eclipsed that title’s lifetime gross of $46.4 million and is steadily approaching the totals of “Bridget Jones’s Diary” ($54.2 million) and “Bridget Jones’s Baby” ($62.1 million). The film achieved a stellar 4.5-star rating in PostTrak exit polls and an impressive 96% Total Positive score among female audiences.

At No.2 for both February and the year to date, “Captain America: Brave New World...

If there's one thing you need to know about me, it's that I love hating on music biopics. To me, they all just feel like "Walk Hard" without jokes, and I find the genre exhausting; it also feels relevant to say here that "Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping," another pitch-perfect parody of music biopics, is one of my favorite movies of all time. I also think actors should, for the most part, stop winning Oscars for doing extended impressions of people who already exist, because I think creating a character from whole cloth is way more interesting than just doing, like, a really long "Saturday Night Live" bit. That's why I cannot believe what I'm about to write, which is ... Timothée Chalamet should have won the Oscar for playing a young Bob Dylan in "A Complete Unknown."

I'm shocked by my own opinion on this, but I'm going to go...

Timothée Chalamet immersed himself completely into the work of Bob Dylan for years to prepare for “A Complete Unknown,” the James Mangold-directed biopic that is up for eight Oscars and has grossed over $120 million at the box office. Now Chalamet could become the youngest Best Actor winner ever if he scores the Oscar win like he did the SAG Award, but plenty are surely wondering where to watch “A Complete Unknown” if they haven’t seen the Bob Dylan movie yet.

Here’s everything you need to know.

Is “A Complete Unknown” streaming?

Not yet, but a streaming release date is imminent. The film hit theaters on Christmas and since it’s a Searchlight Pictures release, it will be streaming on Hulu likely around 90 days after it first opened. That would put its streaming release around March 25 or so. Stay tuned, we’ll update this post when we know more.

Exclusive: The journey to bring Bob Dylan’s formative story to the screen took more than a decade. The film had a coterie of producers as it wound its way to production. Fred Berger and Alex Heineman got the PGA mark along with writer/director James Mangold. The other producers are Bob Bookman, Alan Gasmer, the film’s star Timothee Chalamet, Peter Jaysen, and Jeff Rosen. Here, Berger and Heineman explain the road to bring to screen the evolution of Dylan from the future from folk to rock icon. The Searchlight film tonight competes for eight Oscars including Best Picture.

Deadline: When Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016, he didn’t show up for the ceremony. What was the process in getting him to play ball here?

Fred Berger: Alex and I started talking about this movie in 2017 before either of our seven and a half year old kids were born.

Years before Tobey Maguire starred in 2002’s Spider-Man, and before Reese Witherspoon won an Oscar, the pair starred in the teen satire/comedy movie Pleasantville. The 1998 film is now streaming for free on Tubi. The film also stars Jeff Daniels, Joan Allen, Don Knotts, William H. Macy, and Jane Kaczmarek. It was nominated for three Academy Awards in 1999, including Best Music, Original Score, Best Costume Design, and Best Art Direction.

In the film, set in the 1990s, a strange television repairman, played by Don Knotts, is impressed that teenager David, played by Maguire, is so fiercely devoted to a 1950s television series. The mysterious technician then gives David and his sister, Jennifer, played by Witherspoon, a way to escape inside the TV show. David feels seemingly right at home in the silly, yet corny world of Pleasantville, a 1950s TV series, but Jennifer, on the other hand, tries to...

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The Awards season catch up doesn't just begin and end with 2024 movie releases. With the 97th Academy Awards on the horizon, it is time to revisit old winners, and really consider if they deserved that victory. Conversations have emerged on social media recently about which award the academy is most commonly "wrong" about. Unfortunately for fans, the general consensus was that they usually stumble when it comes to one of the most important awards of the night.

Those who don't keep up with the Academy Awards may think that the Best Supporting Actor/Actress award is just a stepping stone to greatness, but that couldn't be further from the truth. Just last year, Robert Downey Jr. tore through the awards season with his portrayal of Lewis Strauss in Oppenheimer,...

James Marsden wants to play Frank Sinatra in a biopic.

“I’ve always loved emulating some of the old crooners, like Bobby Darin and Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin,” Marsden told the New York Post this week. “I always thought there were so many interesting stories of Frank Sinatra’s life that could be played. And for whatever reason, you’ve never really seen a movie about him.”

To be fair, Ray Liotta played Sinatra in 1998’s made-for-television movie The Rat Pack, James Russo played him in Stealing Sinatra, also made for TV (released in 2003, the movie covers the 1963 kidnapping of the singer’s famous son), Dennis Hopper played him in 2003’s The Night We Call It a Day, about Sinatra’s 1963 Australia tour, and Robert Knepper played him in 2012’s My Way, about the life of French singer Claude François.

But Marsden is still kind of right — there has...

We had custom anamorphic lenses built by Dan Sasaki, using the oldest front element glass he could piece together. He created a new hybrid that also allowed us to do close focus. Jim always likes to be physically close shooting the concert scenes. When we tell our stories, we like to put the audience in the moment. It's something we discovered on Walk the Line, how to shoot it where you feel like you're literally on stage with him.

James Mangold, the guest on this episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, is — and for 30 years has been — one of the most dependable filmmakers in Hollywood, always good for an entertaining and solid, if not showy, film, featuring great performances, regardless of genre.

Indeed, Mangold has directed dramas (Heavy and Girl, Interrupted), biopics (Walk the Line), westerns (3:10 to Yuma), crime/thrillers (Cop Land), action movies (Ford v Ferrari), rom-coms (Kate & Leopold), action/comedies (Knight and Day), mystery/horror films (Identity) and franchise films (The Wolverine, Logan and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny). But because he does little to call attention to himself as the auteur of a film, he has, for much of his career, been overlooked, in terms of conversations about top filmmakers and awards.

That changed this awards season with his latest film, A Complete Unknown, which chronicles four years in the life of Bob Dylan,...

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The 97th Oscar nominations for Best Picture were recently announced and some of the silver screen's most beloved hits will compete to take home the highly-coveted statuette. While the results were largely as expected, there were also quite a few surprises. What do you need to know about the 10 films nominated for Best Picture at the 2025 Academy Awards, and where can you watch all of them before the big day? Here's an official list.

Updated February 14, 2025: This article has been updated with additional content and streaming information regarding the buzzed-about Best Picture nominees.

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Directed by independent-cinema darling Sean Baker, Anorahas been one of the buzziest films all season and was all but guaranteed a Best Picture nomination. It won the 2024 Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and has received practically...

James Mangold, the co-writer and director of A Complete Unknown, is no stranger to exploring the life of major musicians in the 1960s, having helmed the 2005 Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line. But in tackling Bob Dylan (played by Timothée Chalamet), Mangold approached his subject through a more narrow, intimate lens, focusing on the star’s initial rise to fame and his relationships with such contemporaries as Joan Baez (Monica Barbaro). In this scene, Bob and Joan are waking up after sleeping together for the first time as the world reckons with a potential nuclear war at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Mangold chose to focus on this scene in particular because of the dramatic tension stemming from a number of factors.

Once both characters are conscious, they’re dealing with the awkwardness of waking up next to a stranger. Bob’s first words in the scene are...

James Mangold has spent decades making some of Hollywood’s most emotionally rich and visually striking films. From the musical biopic “Walk the Line” to the superhero drama “Logan” to the action-packed “Ford v Ferrari,” his body of work has shown his versatility as a filmmaker. But with “A Complete Unknown,” his Bob Dylan biopic starring Timothée Chalamet, Mangold has reached a new career milestone: His first Academy Award nomination for best director.

Sitting down for the Variety Awards Circuit Podcast, Mangold reflects on his creative process, the deep collaboration with Chalamet and co-star Monica Barbaro, his early struggles within his Hollywood career, and why he had no interest in commissioning an original Bob Dylan song for the film. Listen below!

Director James Mangold and Timothée Chalamet on the set of A Complete Unknown.

Mangold is the first to admit he wasn’t an obsessive Bob Dylan fan before taking on the film.

Receiving a single Oscar nomination would be an incredible personal achievement. But the four nominations A Complete Unknown costume designer Arianne Phillips has earned over her career extend “beyond my wildest 8-year-old dreams,” she tells Gold Derby in the final days of this year’s awards campaign.

Her bid this year for Best Costume Design is a full-circle moment. Phillips received her first nomination for James Mangold’s Walk the Line, a character-driven musical biography about Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash. Now, she’s back in competition at the Oscars for the Bob Dylan film A Complete Unknown, another Magnold feature about a legendary musician. To further add to the symmetry, Johnny Cash is a supporting character.

“This nomination resonates in a way that is similar to probably my first nomination,” Phillips says. “Plus, it was a year of great costumed movies – very vivid costume movies, big costume movies.

“A Complete Unknown,” a musical biopic starring Timothée Chalamet as “Like a Rolling Stone” composer Bob Dylan, has cemented a box office milestone, notching $100 million in global ticket sales.

After seven weeks on the big screen, “A Complete Unknown” has grossed $70 million in North America and $30 million internationally for a grand total of $100 million. The R-rated film ranks as Searchlight’s sixth-highest grossing domestic release of all time and is expected to pass “Sideways” ($71.5 million) to crack the top five in the coming weeks.

James Mangold (“Walk the Line”) directed the movie, which reportedly cost between $60 million to $70 million to produce. Since movie theater owners get to keep roughly half of ticket sales, “A Complete Unknown” likely won’t turn a profit in its theatrical run. But still, it’s no small feat these days for specialty fare to crack the $100 million mark.

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Absolutely great ahead of the Oscars, as James Mangold’s Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown is quite known around the world coursing past $100M at the global box office.

The eight-time Oscar nominated movie is now Searchlight Pictures’ No. 6 highest grossing title of all-time at the domestic box office with $69.5M behind Sideways ($71.5M) and it’s expected to strum to the Disney classic label’s fifth best ever in the coming weeks.

In its first weekend, the Timothée Chalamet, Edward Norton, Elle Fanning and Monica Barbaro movie repped Searchlight’s biggest opening since Disney acquired the company, quickly ranking as the second-largest opening in the studio’s history – just behind 2009’s Notorious ($20.4M).

In its second weekend, the film became Searchlight’s highest grossing film domestically since Disney acquired the company in early 2019 – surpassing 2022’s The Menu ($38.5M...

Costume designer Arianne Phillips is 0-3 for Oscar wins to nominations. But her nod this year for James Mangold’s “A Complete Unknown” may be the film that turns her luck around.

Phillips’ talents have made her Tom Ford’s go-to designer (“A Single Man” and “Nocturnal Animals”), as well as Mangold’s, having collaborated with him on “Girl, Interrupted,” “Identity,” “Walk the Line” and “3:10 to Yuma.” She’s styled Courtney Love, Madonna and Lenny Kravitz to name a few, and her resume includes print, fashion and editorial work.

She was well on her way as a costume designer when she started working closely with Madonna, but was told, “You need to either be a stylist or a costume designer; you need to do rock and roll or fashion,” she says. “I chose to keep going,” Phillips says, by not picking one over the other. What she did do,...

Having partnered with such A-list musicians as Madonna for decades, costume designer and self-described visual artist Arianne Phillips is no stranger to the music world. Her latest work on James Mangold’s Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown, marks Phillips’ fourth Academy Award nomination for best costume design and her sixth collab with Mangold. The two first teamed up for Girl, Interrupted in 1999, while their work on Walk the Line, which focused on Johnny Cash’s life and career, in 2005 is revisited through the Cash-Dylan friendship depicted in A Complete Unknown. For the film, which landed eight Oscar nominations, Phillips and her bicoastal team of 42 created approximately 8,000 costumes, including 67 wardrobe changes for Timothée Chalamet in the starring role.

“So much happens in the first four years of Bob’s career that it was really thrilling, as a costume designer, to guide the audience through his dramatic style evolution,” Phillips tells The Hollywood Reporter.

RankFilm (origin)DistributorFeb 7-9 grossTotalWeek 1 Dog Man (US) Universal £3.2m £3.2m 1 2 A Complete Unknown (US) Disney £831,546 £10m 4 3 Mufasa: The Lion King (US) Disney £700,071 £30.3m 8 4 Macbeth: David Tennant And Cush Jumbo (UK) Trafalgar £680,840 £1.5m 1 5 September 5 (Ger-us) Paramount £517,000 £639,000 1

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Universal animation Dog Man topped the UK-Ireland box office with a £3.2m opening weekend.

The film, based on Dav Pilkey’s children’s graphic novel series of the same name, played in 610 locations, taking a strong £5,347 location average.

That putsDog Man ahead of animation comparisons The Smurfs 2 (a lesser £3.2m in 2013), Trolls Band Together (£3.1m in 2023) and...

Rank Film (origin) Distributor Jan 31-Feb 2 gross Total Week 1 A Complete Unknown (US) Disney £1.2m £8.3m 3 2 Mufasa: The Lion King (US) Disney £1.1m £29.3m 7 3 Sonic The Hedgehog 3 (US) Paramount £708,000 £24.1m 6 4 Companion (US) Warner Bros £670,512 £737,840 1 5 The Brutalist (US-uk) Universal £607,434 £1.8m 2

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Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown topped the UK-Ireland box office for an impressive third weekend for Disney; as Warner Bros’ Companion led the new titles with a fourth-place opening.

James Mangold’sA Complete Unknown fell 28% with £1.2m taking it to £8.3m total, now likely to overtake the £10.4m of Mangold’s 2006 Johnny Cash biopic Walk The Line...

Reese Witherspoon revealed in a recent interview with People magazine that she burned a bridge with a fellow actor friend after she roasted her at an awards ceremony. The actor no longer speaks to Witherspoon. The “Walk the Line” Oscar winner did not reveal the actor’s name, but she did admit that the whole situation “haunts me, it literally haunts me.”

“So this friend of mine, who I didn’t really know that well, but she was a very serious, proper actress,” Witherspoon said. “She asked me to give her an award, but I had never been to this award ceremony, so I thought it was like a roast. So I got up and I roasted her.”

“But that was not the tone,” she continued. “The tone was British, elegant, classy, and I was like, ‘Remember the time we got laser hair removal?’ I’m still embarrassed about it.

If there is one song you will be left struggling to get out of your head after watching “You’re Cordially Invited,” it will be “Islands in the Stream.” There are no less than three versions of the Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers song sung by the cast in the film — but are they actually singing themselves?

Now streaming on Prime, the movie — directed by “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” and “Neighbors” vet Nicholas Stoller — centers on two families who unknowingly have weddings double booked at one tiny inn. One is for Jenni (Geraldine Viswanathan), booked by her dad Jim (Will Ferrell). The other is for Neve (Meredith Hagner), booked by her sister Margot (Reese Witherspoon).

Eventually, Margot and Jim agree to try and share the space for the weekend. They trade off between taking the outside and indoor event space, but when a massive rainstorm hits, Jim and his family are forced to crash the indoor festivities.

RankFilm (origin)DistributorJan 24-26 grossTotalWeek 1 A Complete Unknown(US) Disney £1.7m £5.9m 2 2 Mufasa: The Lion King (US) Disney £1.4m £27.9m 6 3 Sonic The Hedgehog 3(US) Paramount £872,000 £23.3m 5 4 Flight Risk(US) Lionsgate £810,244 £810,244 1 5 The Brutalist(US-uk) Universal £703,617 £753,400 1

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Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist made a muscular start at the UK-Ireland box office with £703,617 from just 170 cinemas; as Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown wore the crown for a second weekend.

Disney’s A Complete Unknown added £1.7m – a fall of just 35%. James Mangold’s film now has £5.9m; a strong tail, boosted by awards attention, could see it chase...

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For a while it looked as though the "John Wick" franchise had a thing or two to teach the industry about building a connected universe, but the abysmal "Continental" TV show confirmed what most of us surely knew: that Keanu Reeves was the real draw the whole time. Universal's planned "Dark Universe" also went out with a whimper before it really had a chance to get going, while Warner Bros.' ill-fated DC Extended Universe wrapped up in ignominious fashion in...

Reese Witherspoon Assault Story ( Photo Credit – Instagram )

Reese Witherspoon once shared a mind-wrenching truth about her early Hollywood days. At just 16, she was assaulted by a film director. But that’s not all; she felt “anger… at the agents and producers” who made silence a condition of her work.

Witherspoon alluded to this in a powerful speech at the Elle Women in Hollywood event, opening up about a chapter she’d long kept under wraps. “I wish I could tell you that that was an isolated incident in my career, but sadly, it wasn’t,” she admitted. Her words hit hard, especially as Hollywood reckoned with its dark underbelly during the Harvey Weinstein fallout.

The Oscar-winning actress didn’t dive into specifics about her teenage experience, but she confessed to enduring “multiple other experiences of harassment and sexual assault” throughout her career. Despite years of silence, something about this moment,...