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Hot off the press, The Office spinoff – The Paper – just released its first trailer. The mockumentary crew that documented the lives of Dunder Mifflin employees is back to film a group of volunteer reporters at a struggling newspaper outlet called Toledo Truth-Teller. Led by Domhnall Gleeson, the new editor-in-chief, his character brings energy and enthusiasm to a group of fresh underdog journalists in hopes of revitalizing the company.

For those of you who haven’t seen the trailer, here you go:

Greg Daniels, the showrunner who adapted BBC’s The Office (Ricky Gervais) for U.S. audiences, is a co-creator, along with Michael Koman (Late Night with Conan O’Brien). They have kept things hush-hush for quite some time, revealing only one still photo of Ned Sampson, the titular character played by Domhnall Gleeson. In an interview with People magazine, Gleeson says:

I don’t think my characters like Michael Scott at all.

David W. Thompson, Brendan Sexton III, Liana Wright-Mark, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Jorge Garcia and Lauren Glazier will star in “American Muscle.” It’s a gritty, character-driven thriller from writer-director Joel Veach that was shot entirely in Santa Clarita, Calif. Production recently wrapped on the indie feature.

The film follows a debt-ridden mechanic (Thompson) desperate to escape his violent past. When his estranged sister returns and two ruthless debt collectors come looking for payment, long-buried family secrets resurface, setting the stage for an explosive reckoning.

Thompson’s credits include “Mountainhead” and “It’s What’s Inside”; Sexton has starred in “Shelby Oaks” and “Don’t Breathe 2″; Wright-Mark appeared in “Poker Face” and “Love Bomb”; Akinnagbe is known for “The Wire” and “The Old Man”; Garcia shot to fame on “Lost”; and Glazier’s work includes “Mindhunter” and “Ransom Canyon.”

“American Muscle” marks Veach’s feature directorial debut. He previously wrote the psychological thriller “Old Man,...

The release of F1 is just around the corner, and we simply cannot wait to see the magic that Brad Pitt has created this time. From fast cars to high-stakes drama, the film is shaping up to be one of the most exciting releases of the year. However, while most of the buzz has been centered around the leading man, there is another name in the mix who deserves just as much attention – Kerry Condon.

The well-decorated actor was last seen in Bryce McGuire’s horror flick, Night Swim. In F1, Kerry Conon plays the role of Kate McKenna, the race director of the fictional Apxgp team, and the first female technical director for Formula 1. Here are five things you may not know about her.

1. Kerry Condon is an Oscar-nominated actress Kerry Condon in The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) | Credits: Searchlight Pictures

In 2022, Kerry Condon starred in Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees of Inisherin,...

Disney leaned into 100 years of brand heritage at its CineEurope slate presentation on Wednesday afternoon (June 18), with an array of titles that offer “magic, wonder and joy,” in the words of Andrew Cripps, head of theatrical distribution.

The distribution boss also placed the presentation in the context of “immersive experiences” that “bring imagination to life”.

With new titles from all seven Disney brands – Disney, Pixar, Walt Disney Studios Animation, Marvel, 20th Century Studios, Lucasfilm and Searchlight Pictures – the studio offers a slate with a “regular 12-month cadence”, and films that play “exclusively on the big screen, longer than any of...

Sam Rockwell, the Academy, Golden Globe, SAG, Critics Choice, BAFTA and Spirit award-winning and Emmy- and Tony award-nominated character actor who has been giving outstanding performances for more than 30 years, was honored last week at the inaugural Newport Beach TV Fest with the Supporting Performance of the Year Award. The prize was given in recognition of Rockwell’s showstopping portrayal of Frank, an American sex addict living in Thailand who reconnects with his old friend Rick (Walton Goggins), on the third installment of HBO’s The White Lotus.

In the middle of a ceremony at Newport Beach’s Lido Theatre that began with a clip of Rockwell’s hilariously unforgettable White Lotus monologue and that ended with the festival’s director presenting him with his award, the 56-year-old sat down in front of an audience of some 300 fest attendees to record an episode of THR’s Awards Chatter podcast with yours truly — his second,...

Exclusive: Toby Jones, Stephen Frears, Christopher Hampton and costume designer Jany Temime have been unveiled as honorees of the Scad Lacoste Film Festival in France’s Provence region later this month.

Organized by the Savannah College of Art and Design (Scad), the festival’s fourth edition will run in the picturesque town in the Luberon Valley from June 26 to 28.

The three-day event gathers film and TV industry professionals related to Scad’s degree programs for acting, film and television, production design, costume design and fashion for a program of screening, talks and networking.

UK Bafta-winning actor Jones – who is known for his diverse repertoire ranging from Captain America and The Hunger Games to the more recent TV drama Mr Bates vs The Post Office – will be presented with the Virtuoso Award.

He has chosen Matteo Garrone’s 2015 fantasy horror Tale of Tales – in which he co-starred alongside Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel...

Colin Farrell’s 2008 dark comedy thriller In Bruges marked the feature-length debut for its writer/director Martin McDonagh, who earned an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay. Farrell and Brendan Gleeson star as Irish hitmen hiding in Bruges, Belgium. Ralph Fiennes is featured as the duo’s boss. Along with its Oscar nod, In Bruges is “Certified Fresh” on Rotten Tomatoes with an 84% critic score.

Most recently, Farrell starred as the titular Penguin/Oswald “Oz” Cobb in HBO’s The Penguin,a role that nabbed him a Golden Globe in 2025. Farrell, who reprised his Penguin role from 2022’s The Batman, joined a long list of actors who have played the villain. One of which is Danny DeVito, who portrayed Penguin in 1992’s Batman Returns.Both DeVito and Farrell sat down for a new interview with Variety, and the subject of both In Bruges and The Penguin was brought up by DeVito.

Actress Parker Posey will be the first recipient of the Legend Tribute at the second annual Gotham Television Awards, set for 2 June at Cipriani Wall Street in New York and streamed live on Variety’s YouTube channel. Executive director Jeffrey Sharp said Posey’s “fearless originality and emotional truth” make her “a true television icon” as she moves from her early indie-film acclaim to recent work in The White Lotus season three.

The new tribute category was created to honor performers whose careers have reshaped television culture, and organisers pointed to Posey’s Emmy-nominated turn in Mr. & Mrs. Smith, her breakout film role in Dazed and Confused, and a long list of Christopher Guest collaborations to illustrate her range. Posey joins a roster of special honourees that already includes Sheryl Lee Ralph, who will accept the Sidney Poitier Icon Tribute, and Presumed Innocent creator David E. Kelley, slated for the Visionary Tribute.

Colin Farrell is a versatile Irish actor who has excelled in a variety of genres, from action films to dramas and from wild comedies to very very dark comedies.

Farrell has had the good fortune to work with many of the best directors out there, including Terence Malick and Steven Spielberg. Two writers/directors in particular have been instrumental in pushing Farrell to new artistic ground. Martin McDonagh directed Farrell to his first Golden Globe win (Best Actor for "In Bruges"), and Yorgos Lanthimos led Farrell to his second Best Actor Globe nomination, this time for "The Lobster."

He also received acclaim for "The Banshees of Inisherin" with his first Oscar nomination and become a DC villain in "The Batman." That film role led to television with excellent reviews and big ratings for the HBO Max limited series "The Penguin."

Let's raise a pint of Guinness for a toast and...

Fresh off stealing scenes following his debauched turn in HBO’s The White Lotus, Sam Rockwell is off to New York City to fight zombies in director Zach Golden’s Hellhound. Rockwell will be joined by the great Marisa Tomei and Chris Messina in what’s being called a zombie comedy. Here’s the official synopsis via the press release:

When a zombie outbreak hits small-town New York, a washed-up veterinarian must team up with his ex-wife and her new cop boyfriend to stop President William White and his right-hand man General Graves from destroying NYC. It’s a battle of zombies, power, and unresolved feelings—and the fate of millions rests in the hands of a guy who’s already given up.

This marks the continuation of an interesting detour into genre for Rockwell, who also recently wrapped director Gore Verbinski’s Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die, in...

Concord, considered to be the world’s leading independent music company, has acquired Broadway Licensing Global and its imprints Broadway Licensing, Dramatists Play Service, Playscripts, and Stage Rights.

All of the imprints will now become part of Concord Theatricals. The acquisition does not include Stageworks or the Broadway On Demand streaming service.

Concord Theatricals was formed in 2018 and has since become one of the world’s most significant theatrical companies, comprising the catalogs of Rodgers & Hammerstein Theatricals, Tams-Witmark, Samuel French and The Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection, in addition to dozens of new signings each year. The firm provides comprehensive services to creators and producers of plays and musicals, including theatrical licensing, music publishing, script publishing, cast recording and producing. In all, the company supports more than 125,000 artists and songwriters whose works are licensed, marketed, and performed globally.

Concord’s catalog includes 1.3 million songs, compositions, sound recordings, films, plays, and musicals.

Shelter PR, the bi-coastal PR firm repping some of the industry’s top talent that’s also a key player in the awards space, has promoted four senior publicists across its Los Angeles and New York offices.

The promotees are Jenny Tversky, Jessica Sze, Stephanie Kazanjian, and Larissa Saenz, who (with the exception of Saenz), worked alongside Shelter PR’s founding Partners — Marla Farrell, Cara Tripicchio and Christine Tripicchio — during their earlier tenure at Wkt Public Relations, the firm now known as Wolf Kasteler PR.

Named Executive Vice President, Tversky will oversee company and staff relations across both coasts. A founding member of Shelter PR, Sze has been promoted to Vice President within the company’s New York office, as has Kazanjian. And then there’s Saenz, who has been named a Vice President of Shelter PR’s Los Angeles office.

In a statement on the promotions, the Shelter Partners said,...

Sam Rockwell, the Oscar-winning actor who is currently in Emmy contention for his off-the-wall performance in the third installment of Mike White’s HBO/Max drama series The White Lotus, has been tapped for the TV supporting performance of the year award (actor) at the inaugural Newport Beach TV Fest, the fest announced Wednesday.

The award will be presented to Rockwell immediately following a live recording of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast — moderated by yours truly and featuring a career-retrospective conversation — which will kick off at 6 p.m. on Sunday, June 8, at Newport Beach’s Lido Theater.

“The Newport Beach TV Fest is proud to honor Sam Rockwell for his electrifying work in The White Lotus,” Gregg Schwenk, CEO and executive director of the fest, said in a statement. “Like all viewers, we were captivated by Sam’s surprise appearance in the show, as his ability to inhabit...

Steve Buscemi and Daniel Brühl are set to attend Slano Film Days, which will focus on the work of actors this year. The festival, which was set up two years ago by former Sarajevo Film Festival chief Miro Purivatra, runs June 17-21 in Slano, Croatia. The actors will “share their insights and experiences with talented regional filmmakers,” the festival said.

Slano will screen Buscemi’s latest film, ”Psycho Therapy: The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write About a Serial Killer,” which recently won the Audience Award at the Tribeca Film Festival. The film’s director, Tolga Karaçelik, will also be among the festival’s guests. The film that brought Brühl international fame, ”Good Bye, Lenin!” will be screened in Slano in honor of the director Wolfgang Becker, who died recently.

Buscemi is currently working on a new film, “Wild Horse Nine,” directed by Martin McDonagh, for Searchlight Pictures.

Any filmmaker who chooses to create something new is undoubtedly thinking about the legacy they will leave behind. Even films that may not seem to have huge ambitions want to make some kind of positive mark on their audience. This is even truer for films focused on characters who themselves are thinking of the legacy they'll leave in their fictional lives.

Enter "The Banshees of Inisherin." A period piece, this pitch-black comedy-drama set in Ireland in the mid-1920s we initially reviewed at Fantastic Fest 2022 has a distinctive legacy of its own, while also telling a story about how personal legacies can spin wildly out of control. The tragicomedy is a proud member of the Nominated Only club, getting eight Oscar nominations and winning none. Yet the fact that "The Banshees of Inisherin" walked away with no golden statuettes almost burnished its aura as a tough-as-nails, surprisingly deep film with...

As Brad Pitt's F1 racing movie speeds toward its theatrical release on June 25, 2025, it's time to meet the cast and characters featured in the highly anticipated Apple Studios' production. In addition to several real-life Formula One racers lending authenticity in background roles, Pitt steers a superb ensemble of fictional characters played by Oscar winner Javier Bardem, Kerry Condon, Damson Idris, Tobias Menzies, Sarah Niles, and more.

A vicarious redemption story, Pitt plays Sonny Hayes, a once-prominent F1 racer whose career ended following a devastating car crash. Pulled out of retirement by an old friend to train a hotshot up-and-comer, Hayes relives past glory through his mentorship. With three months until Warner Bros. raises the checkered flag on F1, it's never too early to get a jump on the competitors featured in the upcoming racing movie.

Brad Pitt as Sonny Hayes Warner Bros.

Brad Pitt stars in F1 as Sonny Hayes,...

Martin McDonagh is coming off of the critical darling The Banshees of Inisherin with Wild Horse Nine. The director is partnering with Searchlight Pictures again after working with them on another critical darling, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. The new film already has an all-star cast associated with the project, including Sam Rockwell, Mark Ruffalo and John Malkovich. The project was first announced back in 2021 and was yet to be titled. According to Deadline, the film rolls cameras this month on Rapa Nui, “the indigenous name for Easter Island, a protected Chilean wildlife area 3,700 kilometers off the country’s coast known for its unrivalled cultural landscape and for being the most remote inhabited island on Earth. The Rapa Nui National Park continues to maintain a high degree of authenticity, having had minimal intervention since the area’s near-abandonment in the late 19th century.” Now, Deadline reports that Tom Waits, who...

Exclusive: Mariana di Girolamo, Oscar nominee Tom Waits, Ailín Salas and Paola Giannini are boarding Martin McDonagh’s massive ensemble for Wild Horse Nine, opposite previously announced Sam Rockwell, John Malkovich, Parker Posey and Steve Buscemi.

The dark comedic drama, which we first told you about, reunites McDonagh with Searchlight Pictures, Blueprint Pictures, and Film4, following their recent collaboration on 9x Academy Award nominated The Banshees of Inisherin, with Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin and Anita Overland producing.

Chilean film, theatre and television actress di Girolamo starred in Pablo Larraín’s critically acclaimed Ema opposite Gael García Bernal, which gained her international recognition, as well as Kill The Jockey which premiered in Official Competition at the Venice Film Festival. She previously appeared in television series such as La Jauría and El Reino.

Waits reteams with McDonagh and Rockwell following their collaboration on Seven Psychopaths. His previous film credits also include Licorice Pizza,...

Colin Farrell is reportedly in talks to take the lead role in ‘Sgt. Rock’, a new adaptation of the DC Comics series directed by Luca Guadagnino.The 47-year-old actor, currently best known among younger fans for playing the Penguin in ‘The Batman’, is being considered for the part after Daniel Craig, 56, dropped out of the project in February, according to Variety.‘Sgt. Rock’ is expected to begin shooting this summer at DC Studios' production base in England.In the original comics, the titular Sgt. Rock is a World War II soldier and battlefield hero. The character has been the subject of multiple failed film adaptations, with Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger previously linked to the role. This latest iteration is being developed under the guidance of DC Studios co-chairs James Gunn and Peter Safran.Colin made his DC Universe debut in Matt Reeves’s 2022 blockbuster 'The Batman', starring...

Colin Farrell may be double-dipping in the DC Universe. “The Penguin” star is circling the lead in “Sgt. Rock,” a comic book adaptation from Luca Guadagnino.

Daniel Craig was eyed for the role, but the actor never formally committed to the movie before he dropped out of consideration in February.

In the comics, Sgt. Rock is a World War II hero and combat fighter. There have been attempts to bring the character to the screen over the years with actors like Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger, but those films never came to pass.

This attempt is expected to begin shooting this summer in England. Justin Kuritzkes, who previously wrote “Challengers” and “Queer” for Guadagnino, is penning the “Sgt. Rock” screenplay. The new movie is being developed under DC’s leadership team of James Gunn and Peter Safran. The duo has described the adaptation as a straightforward war film and view...

Steve Buscemi joins Sam Rockwell in the cast of Martin McDonagh's upcoming movie Wild Horse Nine. One of the most prominent character actors in Hollywood, Buscemi has an impressive filmography, first shooting to fame with a supporting role in Quentin Tarantino's debut Reservoir Dogs. He later appeared in several hit movies, including Pulp Fiction, Con Air, The Big Lebowski, and Ghost World. With a strong body of work on television too, including a supporting role in The Sopranos and the lead role in Boardwalk Empire, Buscemi remains one of the most recognizable and iconic stars of film and TV.

Per The Hollywood Reporter, Buscemi will replace Mark Ruffalo in Wild Horse Nine, and is also joined by Parker Posey and John Malkovich. The movie, which McDonagh will write and direct, is described as a darkly comedic drama, and will begin shooting later this month in Rapa Nui, aka Easter Island.

Steve Buscemi has stepped in for Mark Ruffalo in an upcoming film titled Wild Horse Nine, directed by Martin McDonagh.

Little is currently known about the film’s plot, Steve‘s character, or why Mark is no longer a part of the production. However, it has also been confirmed that John Malkovich, Parker Posey, and Sam Rockwell will also have roles.

Keep reading to find out more…

The project will be filmed on Easter Island, which is a very rare setting to film a mainstream American film, as it is one of the most remote and inhabited locations on Earth, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Meanwhile, Martin is an acclaimed director known for films such as Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and In Bruges.

Wild Horse Nine, which is produced by Spotlight, will be his first feature film since 2022′s The Banshees of Inisherin.

As for Mark, he currently has...

One of the more mysterious films making the rounds is the next feature from writer/director Martin McDonagh (“The Banshees of Inisherin”) as the pic, “Wild Horse Nine,” reunites him with actor Sam Rockwell after the two previously working together on “Seven Psychopaths” and “Three Billboards” (the latter earning Rockwell a Best Supporting Actor Oscar win). More casting news has arisen while we patiently wait for plot details from the studio.

Continue reading ‘Wild Horse Nine’: Steve Buscemi Replaces Mark Ruffalo In Martin McDonagh’s Next Dramedy Starring Sam Rockwell at The Playlist.

Steve Buscemi has joined the high-flying cast of Wild Horse Nine, a Searchlight feature being directed by Martin McDonagh. It is the filmmaker’s first feature since his acclaimed The Banshees of Inisherin.

Sam Rockwell, who starred in McDonagh’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, as well as John Malkovich and Parker Posey are already in the saddle for the dark comedic drama that begins shooting later this month in Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island.

Plot and character details are being kept under wraps, but it is extremely rare that a production, let alone an American or British one, shoots on the island, which lies 3,700 kilometers off the coast of Chile and is one of the most remote, inhabited islands on Earth. It is also one of the rare areas not overrun by modern conveniences, as it is run by the Rapa Nui National Park.

Buscemi is stepping...

Off Broadway’s much-honored Atlantic Theater Company and the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees have reached a tentative agreement that could see the Atlantic become the first-ever not-for-profit theater company producing solely Off Broadway shows to have such a union agreement.

The tentative agreement – pending approval via ratification by the workers – covers nearly 100 production workers employed by the company. If ratified, the agreement will end a strike that began in January after months of negotiations stalled. The Atlantic’s crew voted nearly unanimously to unionize with IATSE in February 2024.

In a joint statement, the Atlantic and IATSE said the proposed agreement includes “significant compensation increases including comprehensive benefits that both parties believe reflect the essential contributions of the production crew to Atlantic Theater Company’s success.”

Full details of the agreement will be made available to the workers and organization stakeholders in the coming days, according to the statement.

Film4 is considering the commercial potential of its slate “more than we have done,” said the division’s director Ollie Madden during an on-stage interview at Film London’s Upstream IP pitching event on March 4.

“In British independent film, we’ve had an internalised snobbery about being too commercial,” said Madden, speaking in conversation with Film London CEO Adrian Wootton.

He clarified: “At Film4, [commerciality] is not the driving factor. We have a cultural remit, we’re a non-profit self-sustaining broadcaster. Unlike a commercial company like Warner Bros, that’s not the driving incentive.

“That said, look at how well Bridget Jones...

Emmy-nominated directors and “American Vandal” co-writers Kevin and Matthew McManus are back at SXSW with a revenge thriller that calls to mind another filmmaking duo: The Daniels.

The McManus brothers co-wrote and co-directed “Redux Redux,” an action film that spans various multiverses. That dash of Daniels’ Best Picture-winning “Everything Everywhere All at Once” could make “Redux Redux” one of the buzziest titles at SXSW 2025.

The official synopsis for “Redux Redux” reads: “In an attempt to avenge her daughter’s death, Irene Kelly travels through parallel universes, killing her daughter’s murderer over and over again. She grows addicted to the revenge streak, putting her own humanity in jeopardy.”

Michaela McManus leads the film, along with supporting turns from Stella Marcus, Jim Cummings, Taylor Misiak, Grace Van Dien, and Jeremy Holm.

“Redux Redux” is debuting at SXSW as a sales title. The McManus duo previously premiered their dark comedy feature “Funeral...

The British Film Institute (BFI) has thrown its weight behind a strengthened copyright framework for creative works in response to the government’s consultation on plans that would automatically include UK creative assets in generative AI modelling.

“Copyright is the lifeblood of the creative sector; it underpins its economic growth and our screen culture. We support strengthening the copyright framework to require licensing in all cases, alongside a commitment to transparency measures, so that UK producers, writers, directors, and performers can fully exploit their copyrighted works and catalogues,” said Harriet Finney, BFI director of external affairs and deputy CEO.

The government’s consultation closed yesterday,...

Key figures from the UK creative sector have urged the government to rethink plans that would automatically include UK creative assets in generative AI modelling.

Former Bafta chair and producer Pippa Harris, Eon’s Barbara Broccoli and directors Paul King and Martin McDonagh are among those who signed a letter to The Times saying that proposed changes “represent a wholesale giveaway of rights and income from the UK creative sectors to big tech”.

The government’s AI and Copyright Consultationproposes introducing a new exemption in copyright law that would allow tech companies to train their AI models on creative works including films,...

John Malkovich will be starring in Marvel’s The Fantastic Four: First Steps this summer and recently opened up about why it took him this long to act in one.

In a new interview, Malkovich revealed the real reason he had not appeared in the MCU until now was due to pay.

“The reason I didn’t do them had nothing to do with any artistic considerations whatsoever,” Malkovich told GQ. “I didn’t like the deals they made, at all.”

He continued, “These films are quite grueling to make…. If you’re going to hang from a crane in front of a green screen for six months, pay me. You don’t want to pay me, it’s cool, but then I don’t want to do it, because I’d rather be onstage, or be directing a play, or doing something else.”

The Fantastic Four: First Steps was...

Two decades into her career, there isn't much Taylor Swift hasn't done. She's won album of the year at the Grammys a record-breaking four times, grossed over $2 billion with The Eras Tour, and incited economic boosts in cities, the vinyl record industry, and the NFL. The one thing Swift has yet to achieve is a major role in film or television, having only dipped her toes in acting throughout her long career.

It's not rare for musicians to transition to acting careers, as evidenced by the likes of Justin Timberlake and Madonna. However, for Swift, her massive celebrity status can be seen as distracting to some filmmakers, which is why the "Twilight" movies turned down a cameo from the then-country star. By her own admission, Swift tends to prefer to be in the director's chair, telling Martin McDonagh for Variety's Directors on Directors, "I've been part of things where you didn't know the script,...

Ralph Fiennes, the guest on this episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast — which was recorded last week in front of 2,000 people at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, where Fiennes was honored with the Outstanding Performer of the Year Award in recognition of his Oscar-nominated performance in Conclave — has been widely regarded as one of the world’s greatest screen actors for more than 30 years.

To name just a few of the films in which the Englishman has shined: Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List, Robert Redford’s Quiz Show, Kathryn Bigelow‘s Strange Days, Anthony Minghella’s The English Patient, István Szabó’s Sunshine, Neil Jordan’s The End of the Affair, David Cronenberg’s Spider, Fernando Meirelles’ The Constant Gardener, Martin McDonagh’s In Bruges, Stephen Daldry’s The Reader, Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker, Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel, Luca Guadagnino’s A Bigger Splash...

Barry Keoghan and Riley Keough have entered into negotiations to star in the English language drama ‘Butterfly Jam’ from Russian filmmaker Kantemir Balagov.

The drama centres on a tight-knit U.S. community of Circassian immigrants and a complicated relationship between a father and son, in which the son imbues his father with qualities he doesn’t actually possess.

Also in news – John Malkovich, Mark Ruffalo & Parker Posey set for Martin McDonagh’s ‘Wild Horse Nine’

The movie, which is based on a story penned by Balagov, is his first English-language feature.

Pascal Caucheteux’s Why Not Productions is joining Alexander Rodnyansky’s Ar Content to produce the film. Executive producers are Michael Kupisk for Ar Content, Pauline Lamy for Why Not Productions and Livia Van der Staay from Goodfellas.

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John Malkovich, Mark Ruffalo and Parker Posey have been cast in Martin McDonagh’s upcoming Wild Horse Nine feature.

Plot details are being kept under wraps but it is said to be set on an island and that island would ‘be a character’ of the film. The trio join the previously announced cast of Sam Rockwell.

Also in news – Ed Harris, Tim Roth and Damon Hill Set to Attend Glasgow Film Festival

Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin and Anita Overland are producing. Oscar Isaac and Christopher Walken but have since dropped out of the project. McDonagh reunites with Searchlight Pictures, Blueprint Pictures and Film4 for this project.

Filming is set to commence in March on Rapa Nui (Easter Island), the most remote inhabited island on Earth and a protected Chilean wildlife area known for its famous statues.

The post John Malkovich, Mark Ruffalo & Parker Posey set for Martin McDonagh’s ‘Wild Horse Nine...

Parker Posey joins Wild Horse Nine on its Rapa Nui location shoot, due to start next month.

After sweeping up awards nominations galore for 2022’s Banshees Of Inisherin, it seems like Martin McDonagh is sticking to the island-set formula for his next film – which has just added Thelma and Beau Is Afraid star Parker Posey to its cast.

According to Variety, the film is due to start production next month in Rapa Nui, the indigenous name for Easter Island. The protected Chilean wildlife area is known for being the most remote inhabited island on Earth. We’re sure it’s got nicer weather than Inishmore, too.

Posey joins the film alongside Sam Rockwell, John Malkovich and Mark Ruffalo, ahead of her debut in season 3 of similarly island-obsessed drama, The White Lotus. Is there a buy-one-get-one-free deal on island location shoots going on?

The project marks McDonagh’s third collaboration with Rockwell,...

Martin McDonagh is back with another darkly intriguing project, and this time, he’s bringing some heavy hitters along for the ride. Wild Horse Nine, the Oscar-winning filmmaker’s next film, has officially landed at Searchlight Pictures, with John Malkovich, Mark Ruffalo, and Parker Posey joining the previously announced Sam Rockwell in leading roles, as per Deadline and Variety. Cameras are set to roll in March on Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, which is certainly a lot more exotic, if just as isolated, as the Irish isle setting of The Banshees of Inisherin.

British-Irish filmmaker Martin McDonagh made massive waves in previous awards seasons with dramatic comedies such as “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” and “The Banshees of Inisherin,” the latter earned nine nominations without a single win. The playwright-turned-filmmaker is now lining up his next feature effort, titled “Wild Horse Nine” which would see him reunite with Oscar-winner Sam Rockwell. McDonagh previously worked with the versatile actor on ‘Three Billboards’—that performance earned his Best Supporting Actor Oscar statue—and “Seven Psychopaths.”

Two other high-profile casting additions have been announced as Deadline reports: John Malkovich (“Opus,” “The Fantastic Four: First Steps“) and Mark Ruffalo (“Poor Things,” “Mickey 17“), with production set to begin next month in Rapa Nui, the indigenous name for Easter Island.

Continue reading ‘Wild Horse Nine’: Mark Ruffalo & Parker Posey Cast Alongside Sam Rockwell In Martin McDonagh’s Mysterious Next Film at The Playlist.

As filmmakers go, British-Irish director and playwright Martin McDonagh is certainly one of the more well traveled among his peers. He's taken us to Belgium with In Bruges, Los Angeles for Seven Psychopaths, the American Midwest in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, and a fictitious Irish Island with The Banshees Of Inisherin. For his next joint, Wild Horse Nine, the director is adding another stamp to the passport with a trip all the way out to Easter Island — and he's bringing quite the touring party with him. Per Variety's reporting, Mark Ruffalo, John Malkovich, and Parker Posey are set to join McDonagh regular Sam Rockwell for the BAFTA award winner's latest.

First floated as a potential Christopher Walken and Oscar Isaac starrer back in 2021, Wild Horse Nine — which will mark McDonagh's third collaboration with both Sam Rockwell and Three Billboards and Banshees production banner Searchlight — is being deliberately and carefully...

Ahead of her highly-anticipated visit to “The White Lotus,” Parker Posey has signed on to star in Martin McDonagh’s next film, “Wild Horse Nine.”

Posey joins previously announced star Sam Rockwell, who won the Oscar for best supporting actor for his most recent collaboration with McDonagh, 2017’s “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.” John Malkovich and Mark Ruffalo are also among the cast.

McDonaghi reuniting with Searchlight Pictures, Blueprint Pictures and Film4, following their collaboration on 2022’s “The Banshees of Inisherin.” The dark comedy earned nine Oscar nominations including best picture, as well as directing and screenplay nods for McDonagh.

Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin and Anita Overland are producing “Wild Horse Nine,” written and directed by McDonagh. The logline for the film is being kept tightly under wraps, with additional casting to be announced. Production is set to begin next month in Rapa Nui, the indigenous name for Easter Island,...

Exclusive: Martin McDonagh is returning to the studio of his two Oscar winning Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri; Searchlight, for his next movie Wild Horse Nine. John Malkovich and Mark Ruffalo have boarded. They join Sam Rockwell who has already been attached to the project.

Deadline first told you about the project which was untitled back in 2021.

For Ruffalo and Malkovich, it’s the first time they’ve worked with McDonagh on the big screen. For Rockwell it’s his third teaming with the Oscar winning McDonagh. McDonagh won an Oscar for the 2006 short live action title Six Shooter.

Blueprint Pictures and Film4 are producing Wild Horse Nine. SVP of Production Taylor Friedman and Director of Development and Production Peter Spencer are overseeing the project for Searchlight Pictures, reporting to Heads of Production and Development Katie Goodson-Thomas and DanTram Nguyen.

Producers on the McDonagh written and directed Wild Horse Nine are Graham Broadbent,...

Bob Odenkirk is praising Ben Stiller for sticking to his guns more than 35 years ago.

Odenkirk, who was a staff member of “Saturday Night Live” alongside Stiller for just one season, told The Hollywood Reporter that it was “ballsy as hell” of Stiller to exit the famed sketch series. Stiller was a writer and featured performer at age 23 before quitting the show in 1989.

“He was ballsy as hell to walk away from ‘SNL’ and to be able to say with confidence about himself and his career, ‘This isn’t going to work for me. I have to leave here,’” Odenkirk said.

Instead, Stiller landed his own eponymous MTV (and later Fox) series “The Ben Stiller Show,” which he also directed. Odenkirk was a writer on the satirical sketch series.

“He was very serious about it, solemn,” Odenkirk said of Stiller’s directing style at the time. “He was talking about...

As improbable as it may seem, one of the best films out of South by Southwest last year was about rival sheep farmers in rural Ireland. It's also one of the most nuanced and provocative films about toxic masculinity in recent memory, and equally unsettling. Written and directed by Christopher Andrews (in his feature debut), Bring Them Down stars Christopher Abbott and Barry Keoghan as the sons of sheep farmers who stand to inherit their respective father's farms on either side of a shared hill.

When their long-simmering rivalry boils over, misunderstandings give way to misguided deeds and ill-conceived notions of revenge in a film that evokes the darkest of Joel and Ethan Coen's crime thrillers. Comparisons to the films of fellow Irishman Martin McDonagh seem inevitable, but Bring Them Down is bleaker and less sentimental than McDonagh's nastiest work.

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Four major recent releases from Disney have disappeared from the Disney+ streaming service in the UK – one of which is now exclusive elsewhere.

I’m going to have a go at trying to work out how the ins and outs of Hollywood studios go, but still confess it baffles me a bit. Back when Disney acquired the 20th Century Fox movie studio and its assorted projects, it infamously laid out thousands of staff and culled dozens of movies that were in development. For anything to sneak through that process was a bit of a minor miracle.

Thus, when we learned that Gareth Edwards’ sci-fi film The Creator – originally known as True Love – was being backed by Disney money, it was something of a surprise. Released under the 20th Century Studios label, this was a standalone, non-franchise sci-fi original, costing $80m to make, and just as much to release and market.

April 5, 2000 was a momentous day in comedy history. That night, “Saturday Night Live” paid tribute to Blue Oyster Cult’s 1976 jam “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper” and one iconic bit of percussion.

The cowbell.

The hit song, a latter-day bit of psychedelia, infamously had a repeated cowbell on the track. In the sketch, which of course anyone reading this has seen, Christopher Walken’s supposedly legendary producer “Bruce Dickerson” keeps beseeching cowbell player Gene Frenkle to play more emphatically: “I gotta a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell.”

In Peacock’s “SNL 50: Beyond Saturday Night” docuseries (via the New York Post), Ferrell, who wrote the “More Cowbell” sketch, opens up about how much Walken has come to resent the ubiquity of it. It all came out when Ferrell visited Walken when the actor was appearing in Martin McDonagh’s “A Behanding in Spokane” on Broadway in 2010.

“I went to see [Walken] backstage,...

Colin Farrell has done it all in his two-and-a-half decades-long career, stepping into roles ranging from supervillain to kind-hearted hero. In the world of independent film, Farrell has made himself a great reputation. He is a regular in the films of Yorgos Lanthimos and Martin McDonagh. Over the years, he has also earned several accolades for his roles.

Colin Farrell as the titular character in The Penguin | Credits: HBO Max

The Irish actor’s only Academy Award nomination came for the role in The Banshees of Inisherin. In the same year as the tragicomedy, he also starred in Matt Reeves’ The Batman as the Penguin, a role that got a spin-off series of its own. The Penguin received critical acclaim and won him a Best Actor Award at the 82nd Golden Globes.

Among his films, some performances of the actor will remain etched in the minds of the viewers.

5. The Killing of a Sacred Deer...

On Friday 3 January 2025, BBC Two broadcasts Celebrity Mastermind!

Season 23 Episode 10 Episode Summary

The upcoming episode of “Celebrity Mastermind” on BBC Two promises an exciting mix of personalities and topics. This week’s lineup features Athena, known for her role in the popular TV show “Gladiators.” Alongside her are actor Kieran Hodgson, singer Lindsay Armaou from the band B*Witched, and comedian Kae Kurd. Each celebrity will face the challenge of answering questions on their chosen subjects.

Athena will dive into the world of the Ridley Scott film “Gladiator.” Fans of the film can expect some intriguing insights and details that only she can provide. Kieran Hodgson will tackle questions about Gustav Mahler, the famous composer, bringing his unique perspective as an actor to the discussion.

Lindsay Armaou will share her knowledge on the plays of Martin McDonagh, a celebrated playwright known for his dark humor and thought-provoking themes. Lastly, Kae...

UK short film festival Encounters will return in 2025, having cancelled its 2024 edition due to funding challenges.

The Bristol-based event will take place from September 24-28, 2025, for its 30th edition. Veteran festivals and event producer Dave Taylor-Matthews has joined Encounters as executive director.

Originally scheduled for September 27-30, the 2024 edition was cancelled in April this year due to Brexit-fuelled funding issues, with doubt cast over future editions.

Submissions for the 2025 edition will open tomorrow, for live action, animated, documentary or experimental films of under 40 mins in length.

To account for the cancellation of the 2024 edition, films completed on or after...

Exclusive: Oscar nominee Brendan Gleeson (The Banshees of Inisherin) has joined The Boat, an Oscar-qualified live-action short from writer-director Luke Morgan, as executive producer.

Based on a true story, the film follows a father who, in discovering that his daughter Dhukia is showing the early symptoms of leprosy, must make a devastating choice.

Dhukia’s story was the inspiration behind the Global Leprosy Eradication Programme, an initiative on the part of The Mission To End Leprosy, which is a global network of organizations looking to help end the oldest known and still existing communicable disease in human history. The short looks to the Oscars after winning qualifying awards at the Foyle Film Festival and Cork Film Festival.

Jake and Luke Morgan produced via their Ireland-based Morgan Brothers. Currently, the film can be viewed on online platform Omeleto.

Said EP Gleeson, “The Morgan Brothers’ The Boat is a powerful short film...

Bringing many audiences together across the globe, the crime and gangster genres have delivered some of the most entertaining, thought-provoking and well-crafted films ever made. Although some may assume that the best crime and gangster films originate from North America, the truth is that multiple countries have produced interesting story variations in the crime and gangster genres; while also offering viewers a chance to see a new cinematic perspective from a foreign nation.

With a multitude of crime and gangster films made throughout the world, the ones that stick with audiences always present an engaging narrative, a unique style that does something different within each genre and highlights memorable characters that leave an impression on viewers. Given the sheer number of Hollywood movies that tackle the crime and gangster genres, the foreign market also provides a much-needed shake-up that can give audiences something out-of-the-box and challenge the traditional way of telling these kinds of films.

Barry Keoghan may soon be rocking a mop top, at least if Ringo Starr is to be believed.

The legendary drummer confirmed to “Entertainment Tonight” that the “Saltburn” star will play him in Sam Mendes’ sprawling look at the Beatles. “I think it’s great,” Starr said when asked for his reaction on Keoghan’s casting. “I believe he’s somewhere taking drum lessons, and I hope not too many,” he added.

The film, which Sony Pictures is producing, will consist of four separate movies, one from each Beatle’s point of view. For the first time since the group transformed popular music, Paul McCartney, Starr and the families of the late John Lennon and George Harrison have granted full life story and music rights for the scripted films. That’s made casting of the Four Fab a source of endless rumors and speculation. Harris Dickinson, Joseph Quinn and Paul Mescal...