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Scarlett Johansson is a major movie star, having started her career as a child actress and starring in a series of critically and commercially successful films. The actress recently certified her icon status by becoming the highest-grossing actor of all time, and now she's ready to focus on being behind the camera as well.

For most of her career, Johansson focused on acting, but she also flirted with producing and now directing. She first directed a short film in 2009, These Vagabond Shoes, as well as an Ellie Goulding concert film, American Express Unstaged, but her official feature film is Eleanor the Great. After premiering at the Cannes Film Festival, production company Wayfarer Studios announced Eleanor the Great is heading to theaters on Sept. 26.

Following an incredible reception at Cannes, Eleanor The Great is officially headed to theaters in the US and Canada September 26! 🤩🎡Scarlett Johansson’s directorial debut...

Edward Berger’s Ballad Of A Small Player has been set for an awards corridor theatrical release in October by Netflix.

The dramatic thriller starring Colin Farrell will open in select theatres in the US on October 15 and in cinemas in the UK and Ireland on October 17, before making its global streaming debut on Netflix on October 29.

Berger’s films have been strong awards contenders in recent years, with Conclave winning this year’s British film Bafta and being nominated for the best picture Oscar and All Quiet On The Western Front winning the best international film Oscar for Germany...

Sony Pictures Classics will open Scarlett Johansson’s feature directorial debut Eleanor the Great on September 26 nationwide and in Canada.

The movie, which received a six-minute standing ovation at its Cannes Film Festival world premiere in May, follows Eleanor Morgenstein (Oscar nominee June Squibb), who is trying to rebuild her life after the death of her best friend. As a result, she moves back to New York City after living in Florida for decades.

Tory Kamen wrote the screenplay and the movie also stars Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jessica Hecht and Erin Kellyman.

Partnering for the first time, TriStar Pictures and Sony Pictures Classics boarded the project in 2024. The film is produced by Johansson, Jonathan Lia, and Keenan Flynn for These Pictures, Kara Durrett and Jessamine Burgum for Pinky Promise, and Celine Rattray and Trudie Styler of Maven Screen Media. Steve Sarowitz, Justin Baldoni, Jamey Heath and Andrew Calof are executive producing for Wayfarer Studios.

Bruce Springsteen was “Born to Run” into the 2025 Oscars race.

As The Boss gears up for the release of his much-anticipated biopic “Deliver Me from Nowhere” later this year, the iconic singer is already set to be honored during the fifth annual Academy Museum Gala. The timing couldn’t be better: The Academy Museum Gala will take place October 18, with “Deliver Me from Nowhere” arriving in theaters in October 24. Springsteen will be portrayed by Jeremy Allen White, with Jeremy Strong, Paul Walter Hauser, Stephen Graham, Marc Maron, Gaby Hoffmann, and David Krumholtz also starring in the ’80s-set feature.

The Academy Museum Gala recognition further ushers in the presumed Springsteen mania of this upcoming awards season. Springsteen will receive the museum’s inaugural Legacy Award and is also set for a live performance at the ceremony. The Legacy Award “honors an artist whose body of work has inspired generations of storytellers and deeply influenced our culture,...

The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures is set to honor Bruce Springsteen, Penélope Cruz, Bowen Yang and Walter Salles at its fifth annual fundraising gala, set for Oct. 18.

Springsteen, who will perform live at the event, will receive the inaugural Legacy Award, given to an artist whose body of work has inspired generations of storytellers and deeply influenced culture. Cruz is being recognized with the Icon Award, celebrating an artist whose career has had a big worldwide impact.

Yang will receive the Vantage Award, given to an emerging artist helping to challenge existing, entrenched narratives around film.

Salles is set to be honored with the Luminary Award, given to an artist whose contributions have expanded the creative possibilities of filmmaking.

Both Springsteen and Cruz are Oscar winners, and Yang is part of the cast of the Oscar-winning Wicked, the second part of which, For Good, is set to hit theaters on Nov.

Eleanor the Great receives an official US release date as its star, 95 years old, gears up for an Oscar campaign. From Scarlett Johansson in her directorial debut, with a script written by Tory Kamen, the drama stars June Squibb as the titular Eleanor Morgenstein, a nonagenarian Floridian who, after losing her best friend, moves back to New York City and forms an unlikely friendship.

In addition to Squibb in the lead role, the film also stars the Oscar-nominated Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave), Emmy-nominated Jessica Hecht, and Erin Kellyman.

Now, Sony Pictures Classics has announced that Eleanor the Great will be released in theaters in the United States and Canada on September 26. Another awards-season hopeful, Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another starring Leonardo DiCaprio, is also currently scheduled for that same date, as is The Strangers – Chapter 2.

What Eleanor The Great's Release Date Means For The Movie...

Scarlett Johansson’s directorial debut, “Eleanor the Great,” is getting a theatrical release in September.

The heartwarming drama, starring June Squibb as a 90-year-old woman trying to rebuild her life after the death of her best friend, will premiere in theaters in the U.S. and Canada on Sept. 26 from Sony Pictures Classics.

“Eleanor the Great” debuted in May at Cannes Film Festival in its Un Certain Regard section, earning a five-minute standing ovation. Johansson called screening the film at Cannes a “dream come true” during its premiere.

“When you make a film that’s an independent film like this, no one’s doing it for the money — surprise, surprise,” she continued. “Really, everyone that came together for this film came together because they loved the story, the script so much. It’s a film about many things: it’s about friendship, it’s about grief, it’s about forgiveness.

Scarlett Johansson had to contend with some "extraordinary circumstances" on the set of Jurassic World Rebirth.The 40-year-old actress - who stars in the new movie alongside the likes of Jonathan Bailey, Luna Blaise and Mahershala Ali - filmed Jurassic World Rebirth in places like Malta and Thailand, and Scarlett admits that she found it to be an "insane" yet rewarding experience.Speaking to People, she shared: "We all laughed a lot, and we were thrown into such extraordinary circumstances physically."Half our set would wash away, and then ten minutes later it would grow too large, and there's no continuity to anything because the sun was moving in. It was just insane."Scarlett actually recalled one particularly scary experience when they were filming in Thailand.She said: "When we first got to Thailand, we had to do a camera test of the full costume and all that stuff, and...

Film producers from Variety‘s 10 Producers to Watch List gathered at the Bentonville Film Festival for a panel moderated by Jenelle Riley to share their producing journeys and provide a glimpse into how they tackle different challenges on set.

Trevor Wall recalled starting out as an intern at Will Smith’s company on the Sony lot and then transitioning to assistant work and manning the reception. “I distinctly remember the first time Will called, and I panicked because you gotta understand, a Black kid in the 90s, Will was the man, he’s the man. I looked up to him so much, so when I first heard his voice on the phone, I basically panicked and just put him on hold, and when I picked back up, he wasn’t even there anymore,” Wall said.

Jesse Hope (“Rebuilding”) also gave an anecdote about early career stumbles. “My real first job...

Jack McBrayer's performance as Kenneth the Page on "30 Rock" is immortal because his indefatigable enthusiasm was the heart of a show that ruthlessly pursued each and every joke it could sink its teeth into.

The performance made Jack McBrayer the go-to man for wholesome, purehearted weirdos on TV, which is why Conan O'Brien thought it would be funny to send him into the meanest, cruelest place on the planet: Chicago's Wiener's Circle, a rough and tumble hole in the wall where employees and customers scream insults and expletives at one another. Poor Jack was no match for their negativity, but luckily he didn't come alone.

Enter: Triumph the Insult Comic Dog and his iconic cigar. Triumph, a rottweiler hand puppet performed by Robert Smigel with a seemingly never ending encyclopedia of insults, Triumph is one of Conan's most famous recurring characters and his journey into the depths of...

On Tuesday evening, Deadline launched its Deadline Dinners event series with Eleanor the Great screenwriter Tory Kamen as our first host. Proper Presents: Deadline Dinners is a new writer-focused event series designed to foster candid conversation, celebrate breakthrough storytelling and build community around the written word.

Kamen’s chosen theme for the evening was first-time female screenwriters, and she brought together a group of guests that included Ilana Wolpert (Anyone But You), Nora Garrett (After the Hunt), Rose Gilroy (Fly Me to the Moon), Amy Wang (Slanted), Jess Righthand (Grey’s Anatomy), Kale Futterman (Ginny & Georgia), Rebecca Rosenberg (The Librarians: The Next Chapter), Tracie Laymon (Bob Trevino Likes It) and Anna Greenfield (Late Bloomers).

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Kamen said of bringing the group together: “I really wanted a community of people that I could relate to, as somebody who’s trying to write features and really loves theatrical. What tonight’s about is celebrating future writers.

Scarlett Johansson thinks cinemagoers will have to watch Jurassic World Rebirth "through the crack in [their] fingers".The 40-year-old actress stars alongside the likes of Mahershala Ali, Rupert Friend and Jonathan Bailey in the new sci-fi action film, and Scarlett has been told that the new movie is the "scariest" in the history of the franchise.The Hollywood star - who has Rose, ten, with ex-husband Romain Dauriac - told E! News: "I've been talking to some other Jurassic fans and they say this is the scariest one, but I would let my daughter see it."It's still appropriate for the family. You just gotta watch it through the crack in your fingers."Despite this, Scarlett - who also has Cosmo, three, with husband Colin Jost - loves that her children can watch the new movie.The actress said: "When I saw the first Jurassic Park movie, I was 10 years...

After acclaimed showings at the Venice Film Festival and New York Film Festival last fall, Sarah Friedland’s Familiar Touch emerges as one of 2025’s great indie gems — sitting, as of time of writing, tied for the top spot on Metacritic’s highest-rated films of the year. Offering a beautifully nuanced approach to its well-trodden subject matter, Familiar Touch is the type of movie that will move you without feeling like it needlessly tugs at your heartstrings.

Familiar Touch Review

Familiar Touch follows Ruth, an octogenarian, who finds herself struggling to assimilate into her new life after moving into assisted living to receive additional care for her dementia. While Sarah Friedland’s feature debut hits several familiar beats, such as the protagonist struggling in her relationship with her adult child or rebelling against her own decline, it feels like a deconstruction of the preconceived notions we have of aging, whether...

"The Big Bang Theory" spin-off series "Young Sheldon," as the title suggested, explored the life of Sheldon Cooper in his youth. Set years before "The Big Bang Theory," "Young Sheldon" introduced an array of characters from Sheldon's life who were either only mentioned or much older in the original series. This meant a whole new cast was brought on board to bring Sheldon's family and formative years to life. What some fans of "Young Sheldon" may not have realized, however, is that the cast included several actors from Disney's "Toy Story" movies.

"Young Sheldon" features Annie Potts as Sheldon's "Meemaw" Connie Tucker. Wallace Shawn appears on the "Big Bang Theory" spin-off as Dr. John Sturgis, a university professor, Sheldon's penpal and an eventual love interest of Meemaw. Both of these actors had major roles in 1995's "Toy Story" and its subsequent sequels. Potts voiced Bo Peep, the love interest of Tom Hanks' Woody,...

Acclaimed actress Danielle Deadwyler is back on the big screen this summer with the release of R.T. Thorne’s “40 Acres.” The critically praised 2024 TIFF premiere — a survival action-thriller set after a plague has destroyed animal life on Earth — doesn’t open nationally until July 2. But select audiences can see the movie for free on the upcoming Juneteenth holiday, June 19, courtesy of distributor Magnolia Pictures.

As IndieWire exclusively announces, Magnolia will partner with top radio stations, DJs, and affinity groups in select U.S. cities to bring the film directly to local communities in honor of the 160-year anniversary of the end of slavery in the United States. (Juneteenth became a federal holiday in 2021.)

Cities and partners include Atlanta, Ga (Majic 107.5/97.5), Birmingham, Al (Wbhk-fm 98.7 Kiss), Chicago, Il (Creative Cypher + Xl Fest), Dallas, TX (Juilliard Black Alumni Association – Jbaa), Houston, TX (Prairie View University Alumni), Los Angeles, CA (Radio Free 102.3 Kjlh), Nashville,...

High-brow film awards events like The Academy Awards and the Emmys always bring Hollywood’s tastiest milkshakes to the yard. However, while I enjoy a red carpet romp as much as the next cinephile, plenty of movies and television shows I’ve enjoyed throughout the year don’t get so much as a mention when the nominations come from parties that don’t tend to share my cinematic values. That’s why we’ve got JoBlo’s Golden Schmoes and celebrations like the fifth annual Critics Choice Super Awards! Today, the nominations for this year’s ceremony are making the rounds, with titles like Marvel’s Deadpool & Wolverine, Thunderbolts*, and HBO’s The Last of Us leading the pack.

Nominations for this year’s Critics Choice Super Awards cover a spectrum of genres, including superhero cinema, high-octane action, bleak dramas, mind-bending science-fiction, cerebral war drama, comedic action, spine-tingling horror, and more!

Hannah John-Kamen, Lewis Pullman, Wyatt Russell, David Harbour, Florence Pugh, and Sebastian Stan in ‘Thunderbolts*’ (Photo by Chuck Zlotnick © 2025 Marvel)

Thunderbolts* and Deadpool & Wolverine top the list of 2025 Critics Choice Super Awards nominees on the film side, with The Last of Us pulling in the most nominations in the television catergories. Deadpool & Wolverine, Thunderbolts*, and The Last of Us earned six nominations each.

The 5th annual Critics Choice Super Awards winners will be revealed on Thursday, August 7, 2025 at 9am Pt on CriticsChoice.com. The annual awards recognize the best of the superhero, science fiction/fantasy, horror, and action genres.

“The Super Awards continue to spotlight the incredible achievements in genre cinema and television,” stated Sean O’Connell, Cca Director of the Super Awards. “This year’s slate of nominees truly blew us away with their performances and craftsmanship. These selections represent the very best of popular culture, and we can...

Deadpool & Wolverine, Thunderbolts, and The Last of Us are having a super good Wednesday.

The pair of Marvel movies lead the film nominations for the fifth annual Critics Choice Super Awards, with six apiece including Best Superhero Movie. That top category is rounded out by Captain America: Brave New World, The People’s Joker, Robot Dreams, and Venom: The Last Dance.

For television, HBO's zombie apocalypse drama The Last of Us leads the field with six bids, including Best Superhero Series, Limited Series, or Made-for-tv Movie. The other programs competing in that race are Agatha All Along, The Boys, Fallout, The Penguin, and Superman & Lois.

The Critics Choice Super Awards honor films and shows in four separate genres: action, superhero (which includes comic book and video game adaptations), horror, and science fiction/fantasy. While heroes are the stars of the show, there are also two categories for villains. This year's...

Deadpool & Wolverine, Thunderbolts* and The Last of Us scored six nominations apiece to lead nominations for the Critics Choice Super Awards, which recognized the most popular superhero, sci-fi/fantasy, horror and action movies and TV series.

Nominees were announced Tuesday, with winners to be revealed August 7.

Both Deadpool and Thunderbolts* are up for Best Superhero movie alongside Captain America: Brave New World, Robot Dreams, Venom: The Last Dance and the indie The People’s Joker, with leads including Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman, Emma Corrin, Jennifer Garner, David Harbour, Lewis Pullman, Florence Pugh and Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Corrin and Pullman were among those that picked up multiple noms.

Other notables with acting noms across genres included Tom Cruise (Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning), Lady Gaga (Joker: Folie à Deux), Ana de Armas (From the World of John Wick: Ballerina), Lupita Nyong’o (The Wild Robot), Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt (The Fall Guy...

Scarlett Johansson found directing to be a "really rewarding" experience.The 40-year-old star made her directorial debut with 'Eleanor the Great', the new drama movie starring June Squibb in the title role, and Scarlett has revealed that she loved the challenge of working behind the camera.The Hollywood star told 'Extra': "I have a different perspective on just the process of, you know, pre-production and then what goes on after we all leave. I think, as an actor, you’re hoping that the director sees kind of what you were doing and follows, you know, pulls the right thread and all of that stuff, but you don’t know."You have no, kind of, control over it and now, you know, having experienced the other side of it, it just gives you, I think, an interesting insight into how people, other directors make their choices and the process that they go through to,...

“Cinema is magic.” So said veteran filmmaker Richard Linklater when the lights came up inside the Grand Lumiére Theatre and he was handed a microphone following an electric 10-minute standing ovation for his Nouvelle Vague, Linklater’s love letter to French moviemaking. But the phrase works when applied to the events of the 78th Cannes Film Festival, which once again displayed the big-screen’s spellbinding charms. While this year may have delivered the most politically charged festival in recent memory, the glamour glittered just the same. To capture the stars off the red carpet, The Hollywood Reporter once again partnered with award-winning visual storyteller Julian Ungano for an exclusive festival portfolio. The veteran lensman worked up his own special blend of magic thanks to intimate portraits of Scarlett Johansson and her Eleanor the Great team of June Squibb and Erin Kellyman, Linklater’s French-speaking star Zoey Deutch, Harris Dickinson and his Urchin collaborator Frank Dillane,...

Scarlett Johansson stunned the Cannes audience this week, not as an actor but as a filmmaker. Her directorial debut, Eleanor the Great, earned a five-minute standing ovation at its world premiere. Based on the theme of identity, grief, and loss, the dramedy struck a chord with the audience, who stood in applause.

But while Johansson now basks in praise, she admitted she hadn’t always felt so confident. Before the release of her movie, she was worried that her debut might overlap a little too closely with Jesse Eisenberg’s debut. Turns out her fears were unfounded.

Scarlett Johansson was worried that her movie might overlap with Jesse Eisenberg’s directorial debut Scarlett Johansson in a still from Marriage Story | Credit: Netflix

In an exclusive interview with Collider, Scarlett Johansson recalled hearing about Jesse Eisenberg’s own directorial debut, When You Finish Saving the World, which also explores Jewish identity and generational tension.

Scarlett Johansson is "not sure" whether to focus her attention on directing or acting.The 40-year-old movie star recently made her directorial debut with 'Eleanor the Great', the new drama film starring June Squibb and Chiwetel Ejiofor, but Scarlett doesn't yet know whether her long-term future is in front, or behind, the camera.Asked if the film marks a new beginning for her, Scarlett told Collider: "I don't know. I'm not sure. I guess we'll see. "My intention is to work on projects I would go and see, whether they're like 'Jurassic World' or this film. The commerciality of things is also important to me, too. Would audiences want to see this, too? Is this generally interesting? Those are things I look for and focus on and care about. So, we’ll see, I guess." Scarlett - who is one of the best-paid actresses in...

Scarlett Johansson’s cinematic dream came true when she took over the director’s seat and premiered her movie, Eleanor The Great, at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival.

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She turned to the renowned fashion house Prada to commemorate this new milestone in her career. Considering her appointment as Prada ambassador in 2023, I wasn’t surprised Johansson chose to sport the luxury fashion house’s elegant and sophisticated pieces.

Scarlett Johansson showcases her evolving directorial-era style in three distinct Prada looks—white pointed-toe pumps,...

Neon CEO Tom Quinn took no chances this year en route to winning the company’s sixth Cannes Palme d’Or in a row, for Iranian dissident Jafar Panahi’s “It Was Just an Accident.” He acquired the film just two days before Saturday’s award ceremony. Neon also collected the festival Jury Prize for “Sirât” (shared with Mubi’s recent buy “Sound of Falling”), and two awards for Brazil’s “The Secret Agent” — Best Director (Kleber Mendonça Filho) and Actor (Wagner Moura ).

Neon came out ahead on the acquisitions derby, as Mubi’s starry $23-million pick-up “Die My Love,” from Scottish/British filmmaker Lynne Ramsay, came up empty-handed. A Cannes Actress win for Jennifer Lawrence could have fueled an Oscar campaign, but that loss won’t stop Mubi from pursuing that goal. Similarly, although Oliver Hermanus’ muted American drama “History of Sound” won nothing, Focus may still pursue acting...

Just when you thought Scarlett Johansson was done with the Marvel Cinematic Universe, she’s now showing interest in returning. The only problem is, it won’t be as Black Widow, but rather to direct.

Scarlett Johansson — who hasn’t been in a Marvek movie since 2021’s Black Widow —recently spoke to Deadline about the possibility of helming an MCU flick of her own, said that she is drawn to the appeal of a blockbuster, especially of that magnitude. “I think the movies that I like that are big action movies also have the human connectivity piece. Even producing Black Widow and being a part of the production of that, and the development of the story, and the story between Natasha and Yelena… [there is] I think, a way of doing it, a way of maintaining the integrity of the idea of human connection, family, disappointment, all of the things that were...

The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo, Chilean writer-director Diego Céspedes’ AIDS bigotry drama and feature debut, spotlighted by THR as a festival gem, has claimed the top prize in the Cannes Film Festival’s 2025 Un Certain Regard competition.

The winning drama, set in the 1980s, portrays a small mining town in Chile where an unknown illness spreads and gay men are accused of transmitting it with their gaze. That leaves Lydia, an 11 year-old girl, to find out the truth. The Un Certain Regard competition winners were revealed in an awards ceremony in the Debussy Theatre on Friday.

Other honorees included A Poet, by Colombian director Simón Mesa Soto, taking home the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize for the drama about a failed poet mentoring a talented, young woman. The best director prize went to Tarzan Nasser and Arab Nasser for Once Upon a Time in Gaza, a Palestinian crime thriller...

As the lights go up on the last of the 22 films in Competition this year, Deadline’s critics reflect on the potential winners in what must be the strongest lineup in recent years…

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I don’t think I’ve seen a Cannes Film Festival with so many enthusiastic reviews from the press. Only a handful of films seemed to get totally negative notices and none of them across the board. I walked out on a couple, including Resurrection, the Chinese film. Life is just too short. I also didn’t make it through Sebastian Lelio’s The Wave, or the Italian women’s prison flick Fuori despite liking Italians and its star Valeria Golino. I just wasn’t feeling it.

Otherwise, I have to say everything else I saw was above average but some of it overpraised in other quarters. Calm down! I mean, The Secret Agent was good,...

The 2026 Oscar race has already started.

Over the last two weeks, several major titles premiered at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, and it’s a safe bet to assume many of the films and performances launched on the French Riviera will play a significant part in the forthcoming awards season.

Ahead, the movies and actors who gained the most during the Cannes Film Festival.

Sentimental Value

Heading into this year’s Cannes Film Festival, no movie had more awards buzz than Sentimental Value — and yet, somehow, it seems like the actual film surpassed those lofty expectations. The response at Cannes to Joachim Trier’s latest was nothing short of ecstatic: Sentimental Value earned an absurd 19-minute standing ovation and was called a “masterpiece” by critics and instantly became the film to beat for the Palme d'Or. Regarding its awards prospects, expect most pundits to pencil this one in for nominations in Best Picture,...

See all the best red carpet looks from the Cannes Film Festival, which is expected to welcome stars including Tom Cruise, Scarlett Johansson, Kristen Stewart and Robert De Niro. The jury is headed by Juliette Binoche, with members including Halle Berry, Jeremy Strong, Alba Rohrwacher, Payal Kapadia, Leïla Slimani, Dieudo Hamadi, Hong Sangsoo, and Carlos Reygadas.

The opening night film was “Partir un Jour” (Leave One Day), while Robert De Niro received his honorary Palme d’Or from Leonardo DiCaprio before the screening. On Wednesday, stars climbed the Palais steps for the “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning” red carpet. On Friday, stars including Pedro Pascal, Austin Butler and Emma Stone hit the red carpet for the screening of Ari Aster’s Western “Eddington.” Saturday’s premieres included Lynne Ramsay’s “Die, My Love,” with Robert Pattinson and Jennifer Lawrence among those walking the red carpet.

Stars walking the carpet...

Scarlett Johansson has done it all—from sci-fi films to Oscar-nominated dramas, and even MCU blockbusters. But now, she has ventured onto a different path, altogether. After decades of appearing onscreen and sometimes serving as a producer, Johansson made a dazzling splash at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, with her directorial debut, Eleanor the Great.

Trading her Black Widow latex suit for a director’s chair, Scarlett Johansson made waves with her new film Eleanor the Great. But somehow, fans can’t seem to move past her MCU role, and wondered if she might consider returning to Marvel. Turns out, she’s eyeing something exciting and totally unexpected.

Scarlett Johansson revealed her plans for her MCU return

Although most of us have failed to move past Black Widow’s death in Avengers: Endgame, the actress behind the role, Scarlett Johansson, seems to have bid adieu to Natasha Romanoff. So, while fans...

Scarlett Johansson is looking chic in a skirt suit to continuing promoting her directorial debut at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival.

The 40-year-old Oscar-nominated actress stepped out for her film Eleanor the Great‘s photo call on Wednesday morning (May 21) in Cannes, France.

Scarlett was joined by the film’s two stars, June Squibb and Erin Kellyman. They all walked the carpet at the premiere one night earlier!

June stars as Eleanor, a 94-year-old woman navigating life, grief, and identity after the death of her best friend. She relocates to New York, where she finds herself in a cross-generational friendship with a young journalist (Kellyman).

The film has been earning some strong reviews!

Deadline wrote, “I wouldn’t be surprised to hear a lot about Eleanor the Great during awards season, especially when it comes to Squibb, whose moving performance is simply exquisite; there is no other word for it.”

Fyi: Scarlett is wearing Prada.

Scarlett Johansson will always be known for her work as Black Widow in the MCU, but now that she’s several years removed from playing the legendary spy, she’s taken on a new career challenge. Johansson makes her directorial debut on Eleanor the Great, the drama following Eleanor (June Squibb), a 70-year-old woman who moves to New York and makes friends with a 19-year-old, Nina (Erin Kellyman). Eleanor the Great recently premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, and reviews for the film have given fans an idea of just how well Johansson handled her first time behind the camera. Eleanor the Great, which also stars Chiwetel Ejiofor, currently sits at a 67% from critics on Rotten Tomatoes. This comes from only 12 reviews at the time of writing, so it is subject to change as more reviews come in.

Eleanor the Great has yet to secure distribution, and it’s unclear...

Scarlett Johansson's feature directorial debut Eleanor the Greathad its world premiere during the Un Certain Regard section (which translates to "a certain look" and presents films with unusual styles or non-traditional stories) of the prestigious Cannes Film Festival on May 20. The response to the movie proved just how great Eleanor is, as the screening earned rapturous applause and a five-minute standing ovation from the crowd for Johansson and her talented cast, which includes June Squibb, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Erin Kellyman.

MCU star Johansson called it "a dream come true" to premiere Eleanor the Great at Cannes, though she is also attending the festival as part of the star-studded cast of Wes Anderson's The Phoenician Scheme. Per Variety, the actress-turned-filmmaker highlighted the themes of the story, which was penned by first-time feature writer Tory Kamen and follows 94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein (Squibb) who moves to New York to live with...

Over these last few years in cinema, many famous actors have decided to try their hand at directing. Let's be honest – not that many are good at it, as it is an entirely different skill set and requires more creativity and leadership in addition to storytelling competence. Directing is an art. However, every once in a while we do get to discover that an actor is just as wonderful at filmmaking as they are at performing. I am very happy to report that Scarlett Johansson joins the small list of terrific actors who are also terrific directors. Her brand new feature directorial debut is a charming little original film titled Eleanor the Great, premiering in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival (right alongside directorial debuts from fellow actors Harris Dickinson and Kristen Stewart as well). The movie stars the absolutely amazing, adored 94-year-old actress June Squibb,...

Jodie Foster, flashing a broad smile, embraced director Rebecca Zlotowski at the Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday night as “Vie Privée” scored an impressive eight-minute standing ovation. The crowd cheered wildly for Foster even as the actress kept gesturing towards Zlotowski, as if reminding the audience that this was the filmmaker’s moment to bask in the applause. “Vie Privée” is an off-beat mystery about a psychotherapist who becomes convinced that her patient’s suicide was actually a murder — think of it as “Only Murders in the Building” with a dose of ennui.

The crowd for the film was certainly star-studded, a sign of the esteem in which Foster is held. Gael García Bernal and Alejandro González Iñárritu posed for pictures before the screening, while Scarlett Johansson strode the red carpet with her husband, Colin Jost. Johansson was accompanied by June Squibb, the 95-year-old star of her feature directorial debut,...

Jennifer Lawrence isn’t the only Best Actress hopeful generating Oscar buzz at the Cannes Film Festival.

On Tuesday, Sony Pictures Classics premiered Eleanor the Great, Scarlett Johansson’s directorial debut with June Squibb in the lead role. Truth be told, the awards campaign for Squibb began months ago, when Thelma Star and Johansson presented together at the Academy Awards.

So while the reviews for Eleanor the Great were largely mixed, it comes as little surprise that Squibb has been deemed innocent of its flaws.

“June Squibb is a pure joy from start to finish, delivering the finest performance of her career, making audiences laugh out loud one moment and breaking their hearts the next,” Next Best Picture’s Matt Neglia wrote on social media.

“It’s not every day that a 95-year-old gets a standing ovation at Cannes. Here’s June Squibb, the lead of Scarlett Johansson’s directorial debut Eleanor the Great,...

The 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival continues on Day 8 with the world premieres of A Private Life, starring Jodie Foster, and Eleanor The Great, the directorial debut of Scarlett Johansson, starring June Squibb in the titular role as part of the Un Certain Regard lineup. Other premieres today include It Was Just an Accident, The Disappearance of Josef Mengele, and Fuori.

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Squibb brings to vivid life the witty and proudly troublesome 94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein, who, after a devastating loss, tells a tale that takes on a dangerous life of its own. Johansson’s directorial debut is a comically poignant exploration of how the stories we hear become the stories we tell. The cast also includes Erin Kellyman, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jessica Hecht and Rita Zohar.

The film A Private Life, starring Jodie Foster as Lilian Steiner,...

Cannes – A little over a year since her breakout as a comedy action star in the 2024 art house hit “Thelma,” June Squibb’s late career renaissance continues. Her latest leading role? That of “Eleanor the Great” in Scarlett Johansson‘s directorial debut, a world premiere at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. And despite Squibb’s indomitable efforts, it’s sadly a less satisfying experience.

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We’re introduced to Eleanor (Squibb) and her lifelong friend and roommate Bessie (Rita Zohr) as the pair spend their golden years getting into mischief in sunny Florida (perhaps the worst Southern California for Florida we can remember).

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Scarlett Johansson has brought her film – Eleanor the Great – to the 2025 Cannes Film Festival!

If you don’t know, this is Scarlett‘s directorial debut. She walked the Cannes red carpet with cast members June Squibb and Erin Kellyman at the Vie Privée (A Private Life) premiere red carpet on Tuesday (May 20) in Cannes, France.

Scarlett also brought her husband, SNL‘s Weekend Update anchor Colin Jost, to celebrate with her. See all the photos from the Cannes premiere in the gallery of this post below!

When the film screened at Cannes, it received a six-minute ovation from the crowd, Deadline reports.

Here’s the synopsis: June stars as Eleanor, a 94-year-old woman navigating life, grief, and identity after the death of her best friend. She relocates to New York, where she finds herself in a cross-generational friendship with a young journalist (Kellyman).

If you don’t know, Scarlett once...

It was moving to watch Denzel Washington lope up to the Lumière stage at Cannes and tear up as he accepted his Honorary Palme d’Or from Cannes veteran Spike Lee Monday night at the “Highest 2 Lowest” premiere. It was a surprise to the actor, as he watched a clip reel that ranged from his four prior roles with Lee to “Philadelphia,” “Flight,” “The Book of Eli,” “The Hurricane,” “The Tragedy of Macbeth,” “Fences,” and more.

Festival director Thierry Frémaux knows how to make the most of a Hollywood movie star, who flew into France and out again on his one day off from doing eight sold-out shows a week as Shakespeare’s “Othello” on Broadway. If the man looked weary, it’s understandable. At 70, he’s at the peak of his powers, and if the Oscar gods are smiling, he’ll land his third Oscar (after “Training Day” and...

The 95-year-old actor gives an enjoyably twinkly performance in a film that misjudges how seriously its story should be taken

Scarlett Johansson’s directorial feature debut, from a screenplay by Tory Kamen, is honestly intentioned and sweetly acted – notably by the film’s 95-year-old star June Squibb, whose remarkable career renaissance began with her being nominated for a best supporting actress Oscar for Alexander Payne’s 2013 film Nebraska. But this frankly odd film is misjudged and naive about the implications of its Holocaust theme. Its bland, TV-movie tone of sentimentality fails to accommodate the existential nightmare of the main plot strand, or indeed the subordinate question of when and whether to put your elderly parent in a care home.

Squibb plays Eleanor Morgenstein, a widowed Jewish lady with a waspish way of speaking her mind to condescending youngsters, including the blandly unhelpful teen working in a supermarket who presumes to...

Impersonally directed by one of the most famous people in the world, “Eleanor the Great” is the near-opposite of auteur fare. Filmmaker Scarlett Johansson wouldn’t have it any other way – channeling her fame and star power into an uneven if moving drama about historical transmission that stresses the importance of sharing other people’s stories. Coming from any other first-time director, this same film, scene for scene and shot for shot, wouldn’t exactly scream for such an auspicious global launch. But coming from Johansson, this Holocaust survivor tale just took a long bow in Cannes.

That survivor, mind you, is not the titular Eleanor (June Squibb) – and that’s the very point. In effect widowed for the second time over, the feisty 94-year-old shows no signs of slowing after the death of her life-long best friend Bessie (Rita Zohar), but her life suddenly loses all direction. The two...

At ninety-four, Eleanor Morgenstein uproots herself from sun-drenched Florida to the gray grid of New York City—an act that reads less like senile wanderlust and more like a defiant thesis on aging (she refuses to recede). Under Scarlett Johansson’s camera, directed with austere clarity, Eleanor is propelled by grief—a scholarly case study in how loss propels us into unfamiliar spaces, both physical and moral. Tory Kamen’s screenplay grants June Squibb a razor-sharp voice, one that snaps through polite small talk and lands squarely on the aching nerve of human loneliness.

There is laughter here, yes, but it rattles against a deeper disquiet: Eleanor’s chance stumble into a Holocaust survivors’ circle becomes a provocation about ownership of narrative. The cityscape—crowded delis, hushed community-center halls—serves as a crucible for her deception and eventual reckoning.

Squibb’s performance oscillates between bristling humor and raw vulnerability (her...

Scarlett Johansson has had a busy week after hosting the final Saturday Night Live of the season, the Jurassic World: Rebirth trailer just dropped online and now reactions are coming in for her directorial debut — Eleanor the Great. The film stars June Squibb as a 90-year-old Floridian woman who strikes up an unlikely friendship with a 19-year-old student in New York City. The movie just screened at Cannes (and got June Quibb a five-minute standing ovation afterwards) and reactions have hit social media.

Matt Neglia had a lot of positive things to say in his reaction, “Eleanor The Great is as hilarious as it is moving. In her feature directorial debut, Scarlett Johansson brings a gentle, assured touch to this story about grief, connection, and the instinct to retreat inward in the face of loss. June Squibb is a pure joy from start to finish, delivering the finest performance of her career,...

Scarlett Johansson made an unheralded transition from screen star to filmmaker when her directorial debut, Eleanor the Great, premiered in Un Certain Regard at the 78th Cannes Film Festival on May 20, 2025. Walking the red carpet as director rather than actor marked a milestone in a career defined by both blockbuster and art‐house roles.

The film follows 94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein, played by June Squibb, who leaves her Florida home to forge an unlikely friendship with 19-year-old student Nina in New York City. Through gentle humor and quiet poignancy, it explores how stories “take on a life of their own,” a theme Johansson describes as central to her vision.

Johansson, who first aspired to direct at age 12 after observing Robert Redford on the set of The Horse Whisperer, was drawn to Tory Kamen’s script for its emotional depth and themes of forgiveness. In a recent Vanity Fair interview, she emphasized...

The Oscar campaign for Eleanor the Great starts now.

Raucous cheers and quite a few tears greeted the world premiere of Scarlett Johansson’s directorial debut, which premiered in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section on Tuesday.

The Cannes crowd warmly embraced the dramedy, which stars June Squibb at the titular Eleanor Morgenstern (Squibb), a fiercely independent Florida retiree who, after the sudden death of her lifelong best friend, relocates to New York to live with her daughter. A series of events leads her to a young woman, played by Erin Kellyman, suffering from the loss of her mother. The two bond over their shared grief and a desire to reconnect with their Jewish identity. But Eleanor has a secret that threatens to destroy the friendship they have built.

The Hollywood Reporter‘s Cannes review of the film was mixed, with critic Lovia Gyarkye saying the film had a “bold premise that could have worked better.

Scarlett Johansson has made a major splash in Cannes with her feature directorial debut “Eleanor the Great.” Competing in the Un Certain Regard competition, the film — starring June Squibb, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Erin Kellyman — earned Johansson and her cast a five-minute standing ovation on Tuesday.

Johansson was escorted by her all-powerful agent and CEO of CAA, Bryan Lourd. Her husband, “Weekend Update” anchor Colin Jost, arrived solo and mingled with Sony Pictures Classics executives Tom Bernard and Michael Barker. Reigning best actor Oscar winner Adrien Brody and his partner Georgina Chapman also attended, chatting up Jost.

Introducing the film, Johansson said premiering it at Cannes is “really a dream come true.”

“When you make a film that’s an independent film like this, no one’s doing it for the money — surprise, surprise,” she continued. “Really, everyone that came together for this film came together because they loved the story,...

Scarlett Johansson’s Eleanor the Great had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival today, where it received a six-minute ovation. She said afterward that her film is “very timely.”

Playing in the Un Certain Regard strand, Johansson’s feature directorial debut stars nonagenarian June Squibb as Eleanor, a woman grieving the loss of Bessie, her best friend and roommate.

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When Eleanor moves to Manhattan to live with her daughter and grandson, she finds herself going on something of an odyssey in search of connection — with sometimes shocking results. When she inadvertently joins a Holocaust survivors group, Eleanor is reminded of her late friend Bessie’s harrowing experience growing up in Nazi-occupied Poland. But when journalism student Nina (Erin Kellyman) takes a vested interest in Eleanor,...

Don’t let the title fool you. Eleanor the Great is not some royal costume epic set in 1566. Instead Scarlett Johansson’s wonderful and richly textured feature directorial debut is a small but beautifully realized story of a 94-year-old woman named Eleanor Morgenstern who, at the point in life where most have just given up, instead packs her bags and moves from Florida to New York City to be closer to her daughter and grandkids.

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She is played by 95-year-old June Squibb, who has done the impossible: start a whole new career in her mid-90s as a leading motion picture star. After last season’s hit Thelma, in which she showed her action chops in the title role, now she finds a very different kind of title role as a woman who is determined to...