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Penelope Cruz, Walter Salles, Bruce Springsteen and Bowen Yang have been set as the honourees for the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures gala fundraiser in Los Angeles on October 18.

Actress Cruz will receive the Icon Award, which the Academy Museum says “celebrates an artist whose career has had a significant global impact.”

Brazilian filmmaker Salles will get the Museum’s Luminary Award, “given to an artist whose singular contributions have expanded the creative possibilities of filmmaking.”

Rock icon Springsteen, who won an Oscar in 1994 for his song Streets Of Philadelphia, from the film Philadelphia, will get the inaugral Legacy Award,...

Doug Liman’s Asteroid and Edward Berger’s Submerged are among 69 projects selected for Venice Immersive, the extended reality section of Venice International Film Festival (August 27-September 6).

Xr (extended reality) thriller Asteroid is a 30-minute-long immersive short following a group of strangers who take an old rocket to mine a near-earth asteroid for a chance at substantial wealth.

After its Venice world premiere, Asteroid will launch on Google’s Xr app later this year. It is produced by 30 Ninjas Production, in association with Google initiative 100 Zeros, run in partnership with A Complete Unknown producers Range Media Partners. Creators are Liman,...

American virtual reality and generative AI pioneer Eliza McNitt will preside over the jury of Venice Film Festival’s Immersive section, which has unveiled its selection of 69 projects from 27 countries, 30 of which are in competition.

Highlights of the Venice Immersive competition include “Bourne Identity” director Doug Liman’s upcoming Xr short “Asteroid,” which is “about a group of strangers who risk it all by taking an old rocket to mine a near-earth asteroid for a chance at unimaginable wealth,” according to its synopsis. “Asteroid” will launch on Google’s Xr app later this year.

McNitt, who won the grand prize in the VR category at Venice in 2018, is the director of the groundbreaking VR experience “Spheres.” Executive produced by Darren Aronofsky, the project featured Millie Bobby Brown, Jessica Chastain and Patti Smith. Her latest project, “Ancestra” — which uses a mix of live-action performances and AI-based visuals — recently premiered at Tribeca...

The Venice Film Festival has unveiled the lineup for the 2025 Venice Immersive section, showcasing the cutting edge of VR and immersive cinema.

Venice Immersive will present 69 projects from 27 countries, 30 of them in competition.

Among the highlights of this year’s selection are Submerged, a new immersive film from Conclave director Edward Berger for Apple; Asteroid, an Xr thriller from Edge of Tomorrow director and VR enthusiast Doug Liman, due to launch on Google’s Xr App later this year; Charlotte Mikkelberg’s Adventure: Ice Dive for Apple; Agnès Molia’s Dance Dance Dance – Matisse, an immersive, dance-led trip through Henri Matisse’s most iconic works; and La Magie Opéra, a VR exploration of the Palais Garnier by Jonathan Astruc. Also featured are The Exploding Girl VR by Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel, which premiered earlier this year in Cannes’ immersive competition, and Blur, a mixed-reality theatre experience from Craig Quintero...

Bourne Identity director Doug Liman will unveil his upcoming Xr thriller Asteroid in the Venice Film Festival’s immersive showcase.

Asteroid, which is due to launch on Google’s Android Xr platform later this year, was among 69 works announced for Venice Immersive on Wednesday.

Produced by Liman’s 30 Ninjas Production, in association with Google’s 100 Zeros, a content initiative in partnership with Range Media Partners, the immersive short follows a group of strangers who risk it all by taking an old rocket to mine a near-earth asteroid for a chance at unimaginable wealth.

Creators alongside Liman are Julina Tatlock and Jed Weintrob, who also take producer credits with Marty Schulman, Neil Parris and Jon Zepp.

Launched in 2017, Venice Immersive is dedicated to the immersive arts and media and includes all forms of creative Xr expression including immersive videos, virtual and mixed reality, virtual worlds and immersive installations.

Asteroid will be...

Disney’s “Lilo & Stitch” will take the No. 1 spot at the box office for a third weekend, earning $32.5 million and fending off Lionsgate’s “Ballerina,” which is underperforming with a $25 million start.

“Lilo & Stitch” is continuing its push to leg out to the $1 billion mark, currently standing at $335.8 million domestic and $772 million worldwide. Its legs will be challenged next weekend by the arrival of another remake: Universal/DreamWorks’ “How to Train Your Dragon.”

“Ballerina,” a “John Wick” spinoff starring Ana De Armas, is opening below projections of a $30 million start, with its $25 million opening roughly a third of the $73.8 million opening of “John Wick: Chapter 4” in 2023.

While Lionsgate says they are in line to turn a profit on the film thanks to foreign presales that allowed it to recoup a substantial portion of the film’s $80-90 million budget, “Ballerina” risks being squeezed out by the summer competition despite positive audience reception,...

Michael Cera finally stepping into Wes Anderson’s pastel kingdom is apparently the cinematic moment Benedict Cumberbatch didn’t know he needed. The Sherlock star got real about just how right it feels to see Cera’s offbeat awkwardness meshed with Anderson’s perfectly symmetrical madness in The Phoenician Scheme.

According to Cumberbatch, it’s not just a good fit, but a divine-level casting. Cera steps in like he owns the frame, effortlessly bestowing that offbeat, hyper-stylized energy Anderson thrives on.

Benedict Cumberbatch says Michael Cera in Wes-land is like God discovering water Benedict Cumberbatch in Star Trek Into Darkness | Credits: Paramount Pictures

Benedict Cumberbatch didn’t hold back. Dropping divine praise on Michael Cera’s unexpected Wes Anderson debut, he alluded (via Variety),

Watching him discover Michael is like God discovering water. It seems like a really natural, obvious element to have in his arsenal as a filmmaker. It was really a perfect partnership.

Dirigida por Carlos Sedes y protagonizada por Ivana Baquero, Carmen Machi y Tristán Ulloa. © Netflix

Netflix ha desvelado el primer tráiler y póster de su película La viuda negra, su nueva apuesta en el género del true crime patrio, dirigida por Carlos Sedes y escrita por el mismo equipo de guionistas de El caso Asunta.

La viuda negra (no confundir con el popular personaje de Marvel interpretado por Scarlett Johansson) se basa en la historia del caso conocido como la viuda negra de Patraix: en agosto de 2017 aparece el cadáver asesinado de un hombre en un aparcamiento de Valencia, acuchillado siete veces. Todo apunta a un crimen pasional, y una inspectora veterana lidera una investigación a contrarreloj que pronto los conduce a una sospechosa que nadie esperaba: Maje, la joven viuda, dulce y serena, que llevaba menos de un año casada con la víctima.

El true crime está protagonizado por...

The A24 project Death of a Unicorn (it originally had an E at the end its title), which stars Paul Rudd (Ant-Man franchise) and Jenna Ortega (Wednesday) and was executive produced by Hereditary/Midsommar/Beau Is Afraid director Ari Aster, reached theatres at the end of March. JoBlo’s own Chris Bumbray wasn’t too impressed with the movie, giving it a 5/10 review that can be read at This Link – but if you’ve been looking forward to watching Death of a Unicorn at home, you’ll be glad to hear that the movie has already been given a digital release. You can check it out on Amazon’s Prime Video Here, where it’s available to rent for the price of $19.99 or purchase for $24.99.

A dark comedy, Death of a Unicorn marks the feature debut of writer/director Alex Scharfman, who co-founded the production company Secret Engine and has...

A24 is getting set to unleash their fantastical nightmare Death of a Unicorn in theaters on March 28, 2025, and tickets for the Jenna Ortega-starring film are up for grabs now.

Death of a Unicorn is rated “R” for “strong violent content, gore, language and some drug use.” Get your tickets now and watch a video featuring SXSW 2025 crowd reactions below!

Jenna Ortega and Paul Rudd lead the cast of A24’s dark comedy.

Payback… it’s a beast…

In Death of a Unicorn, “A father (Rudd) and daughter (Ortega) accidentally hit and kill a unicorn while en route to a weekend retreat, where his billionaire boss (Richard Grant) seeks to exploit the creature’s miraculous curative properties.”

The upcoming feature is produced by Ari Aster (Beau is Afraid, Midsommar). Of particular note for horror fans, horror master John Carpenter will compose music for the film! The score has reportedly been composed by John Carpenter,...

Prime Video's God of War is part of the company's plan to transform countless beloved video games into live-action TV shows. Following the success of Fallout last year, Prime Video announced several new adaptations were in the works, including the aforementioned God of War. The video game franchise, created by Santa Monica Studio, began in 2005 with God of War which received two sequels, but gained a second life when the fourth entry (also titled God of War) was released in 2018 and received its own sequel, God of War: Ragnarök. It is that version of Kratos that showrunner Ronald D. Moore will likely bring to the screen in the series. However, he recently made a shocking confession that is sure to anger fans of the video game.

During an appearance on The Sackhoff Show, Moore admitted that he isn't a gamer and hasn't played much of the God of War franchise.

The Boys star Jack Quaid is going to extremes to promote his new movie. The actor gets battered and bruised while sitting courtside at a Los Angeles Clippers game in a brilliant marketing stunt for Novocaine.

In the short clip shared by Pop Crave on X, Quaid can be seen watching the Los Angeles Clippers take on the Sacremento Kings alongside his Novocaine co-star Amber Midthunder. The actor, who is wearing a cast on his arm, seemingly gets more injured throughout the night. He eventually conducts an interview in the arena wearing a neck brace, with cuts and bruises on his face.

Jack Quaid promoted his new movie ‘Novocaine’ at the Kings versus Clippers game by getting more and more beaten up as the game progressed on. pic.twitter.com/ZWav0EQFUj— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) March 11, 2025

Novocaine sees Jack Quaid starring as Nathan, a bank executive who has a...

Friends actor Stephen Park is looking back at a racist incident he experienced while filming the hit sitcom in the 1990s.

The actor, who appeared in two episodes of the show — “The One With the Chicken Pox” in season two and “The One With the Ultimate Fighting Champion” in season three — recalled working on Friends during a recent episode of the Pod Meets World podcast.

“It was at the time, I felt it was kind of a toxic environment,” Park said about Friends. “James Hong [known for roles in Everything Everywhere All at Once and Kung Fu Panda, among hundreds of other projects] was the actor who was also on the episode with me, and [the Ad] was calling him to the set and you know, essentially saying, you know, ‘Where the fuck is the Oriental guy? Get the Oriental guy.'”

The Mickey 17 actor said he knew “this is bigger than this show” as “this...

Several months ago, we heard that production had wrapped on an A24 project called Death of a Unicorn (it originally had an E at the end its title), which stars Paul Rudd (Ant-Man franchise) and Jenna Ortega (Wednesday), was executive produced by Hereditary/Midsommar/Beau Is Afraid director Ari Aster. We’re anxious to see how this one has turned out – and thankfully, we don’t have much longer to wait. A24 will be giving Death of a Unicorn a theatrical release on March 28th. With one month to go until that date arrives, a new trailer for the film has dropped online and can be seen in the embed above.

Said to be a dark comedy, Death of a Unicorn marks the feature debut of writer/director Alex Scharfman, who co-founded the production company Secret Engine and has produced films like Blow the Man Down and Resurrection. The story...

Six years after directing his last feature, Dustin Guy Defa returns with The Adults, a film of complicated shared histories and gradually revealing inner lives. With his relatively sprawling Person to Person, Defa followed a wide array of characters over five interweaving storylines. This time he focuses on one family and, closer still, on an unmistakable feeling: that of moving out and growing up, only to return home and realize all that delicately assembled adulthood was merely a façade. Playing out across a leafy town in upstate New York, The Adults follows a trio of siblings as they reunite: the brother who went away and the sisters who did not.

This is new territory for Defa. Warmth was in short supply in his debut, Bad Fever. It was absent altogether in his script for The Mountain. Shot on fuzzy 16mm, Person to Person allowed him to show a more benevolent side to his cinema.

Fathom Events, Warner Bros and DC invite you to a premiere event when Reign of the Supermen comes to cinemas nationwide for a special two-day event on January 13th and January 14th.

The action-packed event will include two features, audiences will first see The Death of Superman followed by the brand-new release of Reign of the Supermen.

The two-part film is an animated adaptation of “The Death of Superman,” DC’s’ landmark 1992-93 comic phenomenon, and features an all-star voice cast led by Jerry O’Connell, Rebecca Romijn and Rainn Wilson as the voices of Superman, Lois Lane and Lex Luthor, respectively.

The Death of Superman

An Asteroid hurtles through our atmosphere and with it arrives an unstoppable force known only as Doomsday. With innocent lives threatened and Metropolis under attack, the Justice League rally to meet this otherwordly menace. But when the dust settles, only an epic showdown between...

Morelia, Mexico — Mexican helmer-scribe Marcelo Tobar is teaming up for the third time with producer Elsa Reyes of Zensky Cine to make his most ambitious film to date. Contrary to his earlier features, which cost roughly $150,000 each to make, Tobar’s latest film, “Los Idealistas,” boasts a $1 million budget.

Zensky Cine produced and distributed Tobar’s 2017 hit “Polar Bear,” the first Mexican movie to be shot entirely on an iPhone and winner of last year’s Best Mexican Feature at Morelia, and his earlier 2014 film, “Asteroid.”

“It was a challenge to raise the financing for “Los Idealistas” but after several attempts, we were finally able to tap Mexico’s film incentives,” said Reyes, who added that Cinepolis Distribution has shown interest in releasing the film.

“It’s the first comedy I direct,” said Tobar, adding: “What greater challenge after ‘Polar Bear’ than to make a comedy for the general public...

A little after 10pm on Wednesday, Killing Joke frontman Jaz Coleman was stomping around the stage of New York’s Irving Plaza, bellowing out the band’s brutish 2003 industrial-metal anthem “Loose Cannon,” which as he told the crowd beforehand, was inspired by a period when excessive drinking sent him off the rails. “I’m an urban animal!” the 58-year-old shouted. “One step from a cannibal.”

Like so much of the show — from dreadlocked, raggedly dressed bassist Martin “Youth” Glover reminding the crowd of his days spent spinning records at bygone...