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Zed and Addison return for a summer camp showdown between Daywalkers and Vampires.

If there’s one thing Disney knows how to do, it’s deliver a crowd-pleaser — and the “Zombies” franchise keeps hitting gold with its core audience. Now it’s back with a fourth installment that brings even more supernatural drama, big musical numbers, and high-energy camp counselor chaos. “Zombies 4: Dawn of the Vampires” premieres Friday, July 11 on Disney+, and this time, Zed and Addison find themselves caught in a whole new monster feud. From rival vampire factions to Daywalkers who glow in the sun, here’s everything to know about the latest Disney Channel Original Movie, “Zombies 4: Dawn of the Vampires.”

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Lakeshore Records is set to release The Life of Chuck—Official Soundtrack digitally today, June 6, with music by Andy Grush and Taylor Newton Stewart Aka The Newton Brothers (X-Men ’97). Also included on the album is the song “Joy” by Pocket Queen. The luminescent score provides an uplifting and atmospheric backdrop to the poignant story of the lead character.

From the hearts and minds of Stephen King and Mike Flanagan comes The Life of Chuck, the extraordinary story of an ordinary man. This unforgettable, genre-bending tale celebrates the life of Charles ‘Chuck’ Krantz as he experiences the wonder of love, the heartbreak of loss, and the multitudes contained in all of us.

Note Grush and Stewart: “Working on The Life of Chuck has been one of the most meaningful and emotionally resonant experiences we’ve had in our careers. We wanted the music to feel fragile, sweeping, and full of...

On the heels of headlining sets at Coachella 2025, Green Day will be honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The unveiling ceremony is set for May 1st at 11:30 a.m. Pt and will be streamed live on the Walk of Fame’s website.

“The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce is honored to welcome Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tré Cool to the Hollywood Walk of Fame,” Walk of Fame producer Ana Martinez said. “Green Day’s music has not only inspired generations but also served as the soundtrack to our lives.” Ryan Reynolds and Serena Williams (the latter who is a massive fan) are set to speak at the event, with Matt Pinfield hosting.

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After the star is revealed, fans and tourists can find Green Day’s at 6212 Hollywood Boulevard, conveniently outside of record store Amoeba Music, and...

The 2025 Berlin Film Festival jury, led by Todd Haynes, fell hard for their eventual Golden Bear winner “Dreams (Sex Love),” the third entry in a trilogy from Norwegian director Dag Johan Haugerud. Now, Strand Releasing has announced the acquisition of the film, about the fallout of a young woman’s (Ella Øverbye) crush on her female French teacher (Selome Emnetu), for North American release. Strand will also release the prior films in Haugerud’s Oslo Trilogy, “Sex” and “Love,” this summer as well. Watch the trailer for “Love” below.

Here’s the official synopsis of Berlin winner “Dreams,” as a refresh: “In ‘Dreams,’ Johanne falls in love for the first time, with her teacher. To preserve her feelings, she documents her emotions and experiences in writing. When her mother and grandmother read what she has written, they are initially shocked by its intimate content but soon see that it has literary potential.

Arthouse distributor and streaming service Mubi has acquired all rights in key markets to Sentimental Value, Joachim Trier’s latest feature film, which will premiere in competition at the 78th Cannes Film Festival, as unveiled on Thursday.

Mubi has taken all rights to the movie in the U.K., Ireland, Latin America, Turkey and India. “Theatrical release plans will be announced in coming months,” it said. Neon previously acquired the movie for North America. mk2 Films is handling sales for all other territories.

Directed by Trier and co-written by him and long-time collaborator Eskil Vogt (The Worst Person in the World, Oslo, August 31st), Sentimental Value stars Renate Reinsve (The Worst Person in the World), Stellan Skarsgård (Dune), Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas (A Beautiful Life), and Elle Fanning (A Complete Unknown).

The film is described as a comedy-drama about a family in Oslo, the house they have lived in for generations,...

In a 1992 comedy flick, a carefree cheerleader learns about her destiny to hunt down and kill vampires. Although this teenage girl is initially flippant about her burgeoning abilities, a series of events forces her to take vampire-hunting seriously. Amid a botched prom and an antagonistic showdown in the school basement, the girl and her allies emerge victorious, having put an end to the tyranny of vampires hounding Hemery High School. Mostly unserious and wholly slapstick, this Fran Rubel Kuzui-helmed film received a negative to lukewarm reception on release. This comedy was none other than "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."

But this isn't the version of Buffy that entered the global pop culture DNA. After all, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," the television series we know and love, is remembered through its enduring imagery: Black leather jackets, occult/religious iconography, passionate romance, and gothic architecture, to name just a few. At its...

Happy New Year! As the Deadline team gears up for another busy and discovery-filled 12 months on the global film festival circuit, here is our annual (non-exhaustive) list of U.S. and international movies we expect to see on the way. While we scored better than an 80% strike rate for 2024, this year’s list features a few returnees we still hope to see at a festival soon. As in our previous prediction lists, we’ve focused on titles that have already started filming or are in post-production and which haven’t yet been announced for a festival.

A few notes on some big and exciting projects not listed below. Apple’s Brad Pitt Formula One pic F1 has a June release date leading to some question marks over a potential Cannes pit stop, but we get the impression a Croisette launch is unlikely for this one. Meanwhile, A24 and Timothée Chalamet...

Though we’re still more than a week away from 2025, Paul McCartney has already shared his New Year’s resolution. While answering fan questions on his official website, the Beatles member revealed that he hopes to “finish a new album.”

“I’ve been working on a lot of songs, and have had to put it to the side because of the tour,” McCartney wrote. “So, I’m hoping to get back into that and finish up a lot of these songs.”

He continued, “So, how’s about that? ‘My New Year’s resolution is to finish a new album!'”

McCartney’s last solo album, McCartney III, was released in December 2020. Several months later, he shared a covers project called McCartney III Imagined featuring contributions from Phoebe Bridgers, St. Vincent, Beck, and more.

Elsewhere in the Q&a, McCartney confirmed he was taking a “well-deserved rest” and spending time with...

The Greatest Showman songs remain iconic since the movie's release in 2017. The Greatest Showman sees Hugh Jackman star as entrepreneur P.T. Barnum, and he excels, leading an impressive supporting cast that features the likes of Zendaya, Zac Efron, and Michelle Williams. When the Barnum biopic was first announced, expectations and excitement were modest. However, The Greatest Showman performed strongly at the box office, earning $438,550,994 worldwide (via Box Office Mojo), although the reviews were mixed. In the years since its release, though, the movie has only gained in popularity, becoming something of a sensation, especially through TikTok.

While it might have glossed over the less savory elements of Barnum's life, The Greatest Showman delivered in terms of the sheer spectacle, the uplifting fun, and the music. The lasting popularity of The Greatest Showman's soundtrack (by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul) arguably eclipses the film itself, delivering a string of musical...

Warning: This article includes Major Spoilers for Wicked: Part 1, Wicked: Part 2, and the Broadway musical.

Some of the best moments from the Wicked Broadway musical will appear in Wicked: Part 2, increasing anticipation for the 2025 movie. Given the stage show’s incredible two-decade legacy, audiences went into Wicked: Part 1 with high expectations. Luckily, the show rose above and beyond in terms of acting, cinematography, and choreography. However, the movie cuts off at “Defying Gravity” because Wicked is releasing in two parts.

Consequently, Wicked’s story is far from over. The second act of the Broadway musical lasts around one hour, but the movie will certainly have a longer runtime, allowing it to expand upon the story from the source material. Fortunately, Wicked: Part 2 will include fantastic moments from the musical that bring this epic tale to a climactic ending.

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“Moana 2” is now in theaters and just like it’s predecessor, it is chock full of original songs.

This time though, Lin-Manuel Miranda isn’t the one who wrote them. That task fell to Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear, professionally known as Barlow & Bear, for the sequel. They are the same songwriters responsible for creating “The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical,” among others.

Composers and co-songwriters Mark Mancina and Opetaia Foa’i do return for the “Moana 2” soundtrack though, lending a hand in creating the extensive song list.

We’ve gone ahead and rounded up all the “Moana 2” songs for you though, in case you didn’t catch them in the credits. You’re welcome!

Here are all the songs in “Moana 2”:

“Tulou Tagaloa (Sei e Va’ai Mai)” by Olivia Foa’i, Te Vaka “We’re Back” by Auli’i Cravalho, Villagers of Motonui “Tuputupu (The Feast)” by Te...

Bad Boys: Ride or Die continues the franchise tradition of including a soundtrack filled with memorable songs. The Bad Boys movies have always had a close relationship with music thanks to the frequent use of Inner Circle's song "Bad Boys." Directed by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, Bad Boys: Ride or Die does not stray too far from what audiences expect to see or hear when Will Smith and Martin Lawrence are playing Mike Lowrey and Marcus Burnett.

The experience of watching Bad Boys: Ride or Die brings several opportunities to hear songs new and old. The franchise's Miami roots pave the way for plenty of Spanish music to be featured as Mike and Marcus embark on a new case. There are also some more modern hits, throwback tunes from different genres, original songs, and the usual return of "Bad Boys." This means Bad Boys: Ride or Die's...

David Gilmour is set to kick off a limited tour of London, Rome, Los Angeles, and New York (get tickets here) later this week in support of his new album, Luck and Strange. As a warm-up, he played a pair of live dress rehearsal shows at Brighton Centre in Brighton, England on Friday (September 20th) and Saturday (September 21st).

During the first concert, Gilmour debuted several songs from the new LP, including “The Piper’s Call,” “Between Two Points,” and “Dark and Velvet Nights.” More than half of the set was made up of classic Pink Floyd material, including many songs he hadn’t played since the mid-2000s.

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Besides performing The Dark Side of the Moon song “Breathe (In the Air)” for the first time since 2006, Gilmour dusted off cuts from The Division Bell like “Marooned” and “A Great Day for Freedom” for the first time since 2004 and 2006, respectively.

Exclusive: A strong cast of actors, financiers and producers has come together for Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value, the follow-up to his critical and commercial hit The Worst Person in the World, which was Oscar nominated and took more than $12 million at the global box office.

That film’s breakout star Renate Reinsve is back to play the lead in Sentimental Value, as previously reported, and we can reveal that she will be joined by Stellan Skarsgård (Dune), Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas (A Beautiful Life) and Elle Fanning (The Great).

Production has begun in Oslo on Trier’s anticipated sixth feature. It will film in Norway’s capital through November, with additional shoots in France, before launching in 2025. Refreshingly, the comedy-drama keeps Trier in his native Norwegian language.

The film will be fully expected by many to launch in Cannes competition in 2025. The Worst Person in the World had its world premiere in 2021 at Cannes,...

Exclusive: Neon has prebought North American rights to Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value, the latest project from the Norwegian director that stars Renate Reinsve.

It marks the second collaboration for Neon, Trier and Reinsve after 2021’s The Worst Person In The World, which was nominated for a Best International Feature Oscar in 2022 as well as Best Original Screenplay. That project also played in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival the year prior, where it earned Reinsve the Best Actress Award.

Eskil Vogt and Trier wrote the screenplay of Sentimental Value, which is described as a family drama about two sisters forced to deal with their estranged father following the death of their mother. Neon is planning a 2025 theatrical release for the title.

The film is produced by Maria Ekerhovd for Mer Film, Andrea Berentsen Ottmar for Eye Eye Pictures, Lizette Jonjic and Sisse Graum for Denmark/Sweden’s Zentropa, Juliette Schrameck for Agat Films,...

Despite the underwhelming 1992 film of the same name, Buffy the Vampire Slayer quickly proved to be one of the smartest and most exciting genre shows in television history. Combining the parameters of a coming-of-age high school narrative with a flesh-out world of demons and vampires, series creator Joss Whedon earned a significant fanbase for the larger “Buffyverse.” The success of Buffy the Vampire Slayer prompted Whedon and his creative team to launch the spinoff Angel, which focused on David Boreanaz’s titular vampire as he searches for redemption in Los Angeles and starts his own detective agency. Early episodes of the series may have felt closer in tone to the “monster of the week” style of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but Angel turned into a darker and more existentialist drama series with the groundbreaking season two episode “Reprise.”...

Warning: This list contains spoilers for Hazbin Hotel season 1.

Hazbin Hotel's second season promises dynamic musical numbers for both old and new characters. The diverse soundtrack of Hazbin Hotel season 1 ranked as No. 13 on the most-consumed album list in the U.S. Hazbin Hotel season 2 may include new songs for characters like Charlie, Angel, Husk, Cherri Bomb, Lilith, and the Vees.

The first season of Hazbin Hotel includes numerous amazing musical numbers, and the second season will doubtlessly be the same. Charlie (Erika Henningsen) and the other main characters sing showstoppers that deserve to be played on a loop. Furthermore, several old and new Hazbin Hotel characters merit songs of a particular style or narrative purpose next season that will highlight the vocals of the voice actors and the emotional weight of the character arcs. With certain characters stepping into the spotlight in the future, the composers will need...

"Love is for suckers." Studiocanal UK has revealed an official trailer for a re-release of the 1982 film titled One from the Heart, Francis Ford Coppola's follow up to Apocalypse Now. One from the Heart: Reprise is a spectacular 4K restoration and reimagining of the 1982 cult classic – six minutes of footage were added to replace the original negative, previously thought to be destroyed, resulting in this brand-new "Reprise" version, approved by Coppola himself. The film tells the story of a Las Vegas couple (Teri Garr & Frederic Forrest) whose break-up on the 4th of July leads them both to a night on the strip in pursuit of romantic fantasies (Raul Julia & Nastassja Kinski). But in this town of gamblers and dreamers should they bet it all on dreams, or give true love another roll of the dice? "Featuring breathtaking design, show-stopping set pieces, the stunning photography of Vittorio Storaro and accompanied...

The Mean Girls movie musical is out in theaters now!

The new adaptation is the third rendition of the story, following the 2004 original movie and the Broadway musical, which premiered in 2018.

While adapting the Broadway show’s music for the new movie, there were several songs cut from the musical.

Keep reading to find out more…

In total, 14 songs were cut from the stage musical for the movie musical, including all of the Aaron Samuels songs. However, only 10 of those songs were recorded for the Original Broadway Cast Recording.

There was also a new song added to the movie that was not in the Broadway show – “What Ifs” as performed by Angourie Rice as Cady Heron.

If you’re wondering which songs were cut from the Broadway musical for the movie, we have the full list right here!

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Francis Ford Coppola’s “One From the Heart: Reprise” is getting a restored re-release.

The 1982 film, which follows a couple in Las Vegas, landed a “Reprise” cut with more than 19 minutes of additional footage in September 2023, debuting at the Venice Film Festival. Overseen by Coppola, the 4K restoration of the “Reprise” cut comes courtesy of distributor Rialto Pictures, which will release the film in select theaters on January 19.

“I’ve always loved ‘One from the Heart,’ despite the disruption it caused in my dreams for American Zoetrope,” Coppola said. “However, there is magic in cinema and while preparing this film for 4K, it was apparent I could refine the story. This new version is an improvement in many ways and I am proud of what was achieved with ‘One from the Heart: Reprise.'”

“One From the Heart” centers on Hank (Frederic Forrest} and Frannie (Teri Garr) who break up on their fifth anniversary.

Neil Young has released a new album called Before and After, out now via Reprise. But instead of writing and recording a batch of new material, the singer-songwriter took a cue from the Taylor Swift playbook, re-recording select songs from throughout his career.

Before and After is described as “a trip into his music history,” with Young having picked some of his own favorite songs from his catalog to re-visit. It’ll mostly be solo acoustic re-recordings, sequenced so its 13 songs blend seamlessly together from front to back.

“The feeling is captured, not in pieces, but as a whole piece — designed to be listened to that way,” Young said in a statement. “This music presentation defies shuffling, digital organization, separation. Only for listening. That says it all.”

Young also co-produced and co-mixed the record, which includes his 1966 debut with Buffalo Springfield “Burned” all the way up to his 2021 tune “Don’t Forget Love.

One of the best concert films of all time, The Band’s The Last Waltz directed by Martin Scorsese, is returning to theaters in celebration of its 45th anniversary. It will be back on the big screen for one day only on November 5th.

The theatrical return will feature a never-before-seen introduction from the late Robbie Robertson “providing a quick look into the genesis and impact” of the film chronicling The Band’s farewell concert. Showtimes for its return are 4:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. local time. Purchase your tickets via Fathom Events.

The Band’s November 25th, 1976 concert at Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco featured more than a dozen special guests, including Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Ringo Starr, Neil Diamond, Emmylou Harris, Paul Butterfield, Dr. John, Muddy Waters, Ronnie Wood, Eric Clapton, and Van Morrison. First released in April 1978, the film splices interviews with each...

One of the best concert films of all time, The Band’s The Last Waltz directed by Martin Scorsese, is returning to theaters in celebration of its 45th anniversary. It will be back on the big screen for one day only on November 5th.

The theatrical return will feature a never-before-seen introduction from the late Robbie Robertson “providing a quick look into the genesis and impact” of the film chronicling The Band’s farewell concert. Showtimes for its return are 4:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. local time. Purchase your tickets via Fathom Events.

The Band’s November 25th, 1976 concert at Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco featured more than a dozen special guests, including Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Ringo Starr, Neil Diamond, Emmylou Harris, Paul Butterfield, Dr. John, Muddy Waters, Ronnie Wood, Eric Clapton, and Van Morrison. First released in April 1978, the film splices interviews with each...

One person’s “Worst Person in the World” is another filmmaker’s new favorite collaborator.

Norwegian filmmaker Joachim Trier, director of the cult-favorite coming-of-age romance “The Worst Person in the World,” is reteaming with that film’s star, Renate Reinsve, for “Sentimental Value.” The show-business drama will be their second film together after she won the Best Actress award at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival for portraying a restless, mercurial spirit Julie. “The Worst Person in the World” was nominated for Best Original Screenplay (Trier with Eskel Vogt) and Best International Feature at the 94th Academy Awards.

As first reported by Variety, “Sentimental Value” follows an actor named Nora (played by Reinsve) and her sister Agnes (yet to be cast), both grieving the death of their mother. Meanwhile, their estranged father, a formerly successful filmmaker named Gustav, re-enters their lives with a comeback script, offering the leading role to Nora. She refuses.

Harry Potter actress Miriam Margolyes has become the latest big name to join the cast of Doctor Who.

Margolyes, a beloved UK acting vet, will voice Meep, the iconic creature adapted from The Star Beast comic strip.

“I’m relieved I got to work on Doctor Who before I died,” said Margolyes. “With sci-fi you never know. Thank you for making an old woman very happy.”

Margolyes, who played Professor Sprout in Harry Potter, has boarded three special episodes at the end of this year, which will see David Tennant take on the role of the 14th Doctor to coincide with the show’s 60th anniversary. Sex Education’s Ncuti Gatwa will then become the 15th Doctor in the new year.

Related: ‘Doctor Who’: Bonnie Langford Returns To Reprise Mel Bush Role

Others to have joined Russell T Davies’ revitalized Doctor Who, which counts Disney+ as co-commissioner and Bad...

Chrystia Cabral’s Spellling & the Mystery School is a collection of songs from throughout her career as Spellling, but with a twist, as each track has undergone a complete reimagination. The already eerie “Under the Sun,” from 2019’s Mazy Fly, has been masterfully reworked into an even eerier sci-fi ballad with an ominous string arrangement and an interlude punctuated by synth flashes, while “Phantom Farewell,” from 2017’s Pantheon of Me, beefs up some of the song’s original sonic distortions for a bigger, grander sound.

The new electronic elements may give the album’s songs a supernatural quality, but there’s heart and humanity in the lush orchestral arrangements, velvety drum patterns, and Cabral’s captivating, soulful voice. The minimalistic percussion and piano on tracks like “Hard to Please (Reprise)” provide Cabral the space to showcase her impressive vocal prowess, accompanied by background vocalists Toya Willock and Dharma Moon-Hunter.

While...

Glen Hansard has announced All That Was East Is West of Me Now, his first solo album in four years. The project is out in full October 20th, while lead single “The Feast of St. John” is available to stream now.

Rather than working out new songs in solitude or road-testing compositions while on tour, Hansard began prepping All That Was East Is West of Me Now by playing a five-show residency in a pub in his native Ireland last November. “I told no one,” he said of the gigs. “We set up in the corner and played to the locals, some of whom were only half listening. A collection of farmers and workers, dart players, pool sharks.”

Hansard continued, “I played two hours of new songs each week, some songs finished, some half-baked. Through this process I realized what I had and what I had to work on further...

Today, multi-platinum selling singer, songwriter and producer, Moby, shares In My Heart remixes from acclaimed British DJ’s Carl Cox and Paul Woolford.

In My Heart is one of 15 iconic Moby tracks written or recorded in New York between 1994 – 2010 orchestrally reworked for his recent 20th studio album Resound NYC, released through Deutsche Grammophon.

Broken Hands. Paul Woolford

On working with Carl Cox and Paul Woolford, Moby said, “‘one of my favorite things is to send multitracks of a song to legendary remixers like Paul and Carl, and then happily listen to the magic they’ve created’.”

Paul Woolford said, “I’ve been playing Moby’s records since the start in 1991 so when he asked me to rework In My Heart with Gregory Porter I immediately said yes. Furthermore, I wanted to contribute a Special Request version of the song that almost floats as a beatless ambient version, so there’s...

Mk2 Films is set to reunite with Joachim Trier following “The Worst Person in the World,” the Norwegian helmer’s Cannes prize-winning and Oscar-nominated romantic comedy which was also a worldwide box-office hit.

The Paris-based company will handle international sales and co-produce alongside Juliette Schrameck at Agat Films, who was also a co-producer on “The Worst Person in the World,” alongside Nathanaël Karmitz and Elisha Karmitz for Mk Production. Mk2 films, Schrameck and the Karmitz brothers join producers Maria Ekerhovd at Mer Film and Andrea Berentsen Ottmar at Eye Eye Pictures.

Trier is writing his untitled sixth feature with his long-term collaborator Eskil Vogt, with whom he shared an Oscar nomination for best screenplay. “It is an ambitious yet playful family drama. An intimate, moving, and often funny film about family, memory, and how we need to rewrite the stories we tell about ourselves in order to survive,” said the pair.

The Ronnie James Dio-era Black Sabbath live album Live Evil is receiving a 40th anniversary Super Deluxe Edition release on May 19th.

Originally released in December of 1982, Live Evil is culled from Sabbath’s 10-month tour in support of Mob Rules. The 15-song tracklist includes Dio-era staples such as “Neon Knights,” “Heaven and Hell,” and “The Mob Rules,” as well as Sabbath classics such as “Iron Man” and “Paranoid” with Dio on lead vocals.

For the 40th anniversary 4-cd/4-lp edition, the original album’s 15 songs have been remastered by Andy Pearce and are included on the first two discs. Meanwhile, a brand new 2023 mix of the album by longtime band associate Wyn Davis from the original analog multi-tracks is included on the other two discs. An illustrated hardback book featuring new liner notes and replicas of the concert book and the “Mob Rules” tour poster are included...

The Worst Person in the World a Norwegian saga of a young willy-nilly woman who finds peace with herself directed by Joachim Trier,

The final film in Trier’s Oslo trilogy, The Worst Person In The World earned its star Renate Reinsve the best actress prize in Cannes, and she went on to a European Film Awards nomination. Reinsve stars as a young woman navigating the troubled waters of her love life and her struggles to find a career path. Trier’s Reprise and Thelma were both submitted for this category — but neither made the shortlist. Norway did make the shortlist last year with Maria Sødahl’s Hope, and was last nominated in 2012 with Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg’s Kon-Tiki.

After its Cannes premiere it went on to play in Serbia at the European Film Festival Palic),Karlovy Vary, Jerusalem, Deauville American Film Festival), Toronto, New York Film, Hamptons, Woodstock and BFI London Film Festivals.

This was emotionally complex and satisfying but in that it was more personal vs. universal I don’t think it will win the Oscar, though it deserves to be nominated and in a different line-up would win.

Watch the trailer here.

Isa MK2 has licensed the movie to Neon for USA, Madman for Australia/ Nz, Cineart for Benelux, Camera for Denmark, Memento for France, Mozinet for Hungary, Gaga for Japan, Front Row for Middle East and Africa, Sf Studios for Norway, M2 for Poland, Alambique for Portugal, Independenta for Romania, Anticipate for Singapore, Elastica for Spain, Triart for Sweden, Frenetic for Switzerland, Hooray for Taiwan, Arthouse Traffic for Ukraine, Mubi for France, Germany, Latin America, Turkey, India.

Renate Reinsve’s barnstorming, flesh-and-blood performance is the heartbeat of Joachim Trier’s wistful tragicomic romance

Danish-born Norwegian writer-director Joachim Trier’s existential tragicomedy opened to rave reviews in Cannes last year and has since garnered international awards recognition, including Oscar nominations for original screenplay (with regular co-writer Eskil Vogt) and international feature film. Described by Trier as “a coming-of-age film for grownups who feel like they still haven’t grown up”, it continues the director’s cinematic love affair with the Norwegian capital, previously explored in Reprise and Oslo, August 31st, with which this forms a loose trilogy. Blending melancholy wistfulness with unruly energy and piercing humour, it’s a down-to-earth tale of love and death, boosted by a brilliantly believable central performance and elevated by fantastical moments of hallucinogenic horror and ecstatic joy.

Cannes best actress winner Renate Reinsve is a revelation as Julie, a potential high-achiever with...

When The Worst Person in the World premiered in competition in Cannes this year there was the sense of an arrival, notably in the case of its leading lady, Renate Reinsve, who won the festival’s award for best actress. In actual fact, the film was closer to a destination, being the third part of an unofficial triptych begun by Norwegian director Joachim Trier with his 2006 feature debut Reprise, about two young bohemian writers living in Oslo. He followed it in 2011 with Oslo, August 31st, in which Reprise’s star, Anders Danielsen Lie, by day a successful medical doctor, played a melancholic drug addict and Reinsve made her acting debut with just one line of dialogue (“Let’s go to the party!”).

While the two films do not necessarily follow on, they each evoke a time and a place, which struck Trier when he and his co-writer Eskil Vogt began...

The Phife Dawg estate has shared the tracklist for the A Tribe Called Quest Mc’s posthumous album Forever, revealing appearances from Q-Tip, Rhapsody with Renée Neufville, and De La Soul’s Maseo and Pos, among others.

Forever arrives on March 22, six years to the date of Phife Dawg’s death. As Rolling Stone reported last year, the artist began chipping away at the album while working on A Tribe Called Quest’s sixth and final studio album We Got It From Here … Thank You 4 Your Service, released in November...

On paper, the prominent use of sensitive American singer-songwriter music from the 1970s and ‘80s in a modern Norwegian romantic comedy might seem rather incongruous, if not downright anachronistic. But five decades on from some of their biggest successes, Art Garfunkel, Todd Rundgren, Harry Nilsson and Christopher Cross are back on the big screen helping soundtrack Danish/Norwegian director Joachim Trier’s acclaimed “The Worst Person in the World,” which is nominated for best original screenplay and best international feature film at the upcoming Academy Awards.

Co-written by Trier and longtime collaborator Eskil Vogt, “Worst Person” has already won best foreign language film from the New York Film Critics Circle and garnered Renate Reinsve the best actress award at Cannes. The movie follows Reinsve’s Julie as she navigates the restless transition from her 20s into her 30s, spanning two long-term relationships that conjure tough existential questions about love, fidelity,...

For such a small and lightly populated region, the Nordics have been delivering an impressive number of critical darlings from a wide range of filmmakers. Nordic features hit a milestone this year, with three Cannes prize-winning films, Valdimar Jóhannsson’s “Lamb,” Juho Kuosmanen’s “Compartment No. 6” and Joachim Trier’s “The Worst Person in the World,” along with Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s documentary “Flee,” among the 15 on the Oscar shortlist, with the last two getting multiple noms.

Sundance also hosted a record number of Nordic movies, such as Alli Haapasalo’s “Girl Picture,” which picked up the Audience Award in the World Dramatic section, while more pics are in the pipeline at the Berlinale.

For decades, Sweden, Denmark and, to a lesser extent, Norway, were considered the top purveyors of internationally successful movies with helmers including Lars von Trier, Thomas Vinterberg, Susanne Bier, Roy Andersson, Trier and Ruben Ostlund, taking...

Joachim Trier’s “The Worst Person in the World,” about a young woman figuring out life and love, might have brought Renate Reinsve the best actress award at Cannes, but the two actually started their collaboration in 2011 on “Oslo, August 31st” – Reinsve’s very first film.

“I was an extra with one line,” she said during an online discussion with the director, accompanying a surprise screening of their film at Rotterdam Film Festival. “The Worst Person in the World” was recently shortlisted for Best International Feature Film at the Academy Awards.

“I had nothing to compare it to – it was my first movie set. I thought you guys were just a group of friends having fun and making a movie. I didn’t think acting was supposed to be like that at all. The next movie I did after I worked with you, Joachim, I was in shock.”

Trier, who...

This review was first published on July 9, 2021, after it screened at Cannes 2021.

Norwegian director Joachim Trier continues his series of films about young Oslonians with the charming romantic drama “The Worst Person in the World,” which premiered at last year’s Cannes Film Festival.

The film is about the life and loves of a restless 30-year-old woman named Julie — and in the lead role, Renate Reinsve delivers a standout performance. Her Julie is funny and skittishly unsure of herself as she begins a relationship with an established and admired comic book artist, Aksel. He is played by Anders Danielsen Lie, the lead in Trier’s previous Oslo films, “Reprise” and “Oslo, August 31st,” which brings a Richard Linklaterish theme of time and connection to this loose trilogy of people adrift in the city.

But this is Trier’s most appealing and marketable film yet, casting Oslo in a gorgeous light...

After a sleepy January mostly dominated by Spider-Man: No Way Home taking victory laps after its explosive December opening, February looks to be considerably more eventful. The star-powered slate includes a franchise follow-up (Death on the Nile) and a potential franchise starter (Uncharted) mixed in with a musical rom-com (Marry Me) and a comedy (Dog) to round things out, not to mention a potential boost to the specialty market once the Oscar nominations come out. The month should get off to a solid start this weekend with the latest Roland Emmerich disaster epic Moonfall and the return of the Jackass gang in Jackass Forever.

It may be a close match, but the weekend will likely go to Jackass Forever. Paramount is releasing the film on 3,600 screens and is expecting a gross in the mid-teens for the series’ fourth film (fifth when you count the associated Bad Grandpa). That would make...

The Brazilian jazz standard “The Waters of March” is a breezy song that conceals a bitter truth. Its oblique lyrics, set to a lilting melody, relay a sense of our mortal fates. The song, which plays over the end credits of The Worst Person in the World, is an apt correlative for Joachim Trier’s latest film, where strategic amusements mask more serious preoccupations.The Norwegian director burst onto the film scene fifteen years ago with Reprise, an energetic debut about friends in their twenties with literary aspirations. His second feature, Oslo, August 31st, followed a day in the life of a recovering addict. While the scrappy propulsion of Reprise seems far from the somber mood of Oslo, August 31st, their central themes remain the same: urban youth adrift, searching for meaning, and grasping at immortality.The Worst Person in the World follows suit and completes what’s been dubbed the “Oslo Trilogy,...

In a new series, Variety catches up with the directors of films shortlisted for the International Feature Film Oscar to discuss their road to the awards, what they’ve learned so far, and what’s taken them off guard.

“The Worst Person in The World” competed at Cannes where it was acquired by Neon for domestic rights and earned its star Renate Reinsve a best actress award. The critically lauded romantic drama rounds out Trier’s Oslo Trilogy, which began with “Reprise” in 2006 and continued with “Oslo, August 31st” in 2011. In the film, Trier revisit Norway’s capital to chronicle four years in the life of Julie (Reinsve), a young woman who navigates the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find a career path, leading her to take a realistic look at who she really is.

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Joachim Trier didn’t even start to think of his so-called Oslo Trilogy as just that, a single trilogy, until his frequent star Anders Danielsen Lie read the script for what would become the capper on a trio of stories told over 15 years, “The Worst Person in the World.” “He said, ‘I love the script but to me it feels just like a continuation. It feels like you are doing a third part in an Oslo trilogy,'” recalled Trier during a recent interview with IndieWire. He was on to something.

Released in 2006, the first installment, “Reprise” — titled after the act of repetition (in music or in life) — centers on two young writers and best friends, Phillip (Danielsen Lie) and Erik (Espen Klouman Høiner), evaluating their potential for greatness. The second part, 2011’s “Oslo, August 31st,” chronicles a decisive day in the damaged existence of a 34-year-old man (Danielsen Lie...

“We made a small movie in Norway and we felt it was really important and it moved us. It changed something in us and changed everyone’s perspectives on their choices and their love life,” says Renate Reinsve about what “The Worst Person in the World” means to her personally and how it seems to be resonating with audiences around the world. “You never know how far it’s going to reach, but I suppose that when you make something and try to be really true and have something important to say, it will reach far,” she says. “It’s just been so incredible for us to have all these conversations about the movie everywhere.” Watch our exclusive video interview above.

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“The Worst Person in the World” is a dark romantic comedy-drama directed by Joachim Trier, the third in his...

It isn’t the jokes that write themselves, not really, but the critical appraisals. The worst person in the world? More like the best performance of the year! And yet nothing about Renate Reinsve’s breakout turn in Joachim Trier’s “The Worst Person in the World” is that pat, that silly, or that throwaway. Subtitled “Julie (in 12 Chapters),” the third entry in Trier’s Oslo Trilogy shifts gears from its darker predecessors — “Reprise” and “Oslo, August 31st” — to follow Reinsve as the ecstatic, shiftless, and totally marvelous Julie though four key years of her young adulthood.

Though the film opens in the middle of Julie’s story, it soon catapults backwards in time, as the soon-to-be college graduate realizes, hey, maybe medical school is not for her. In fact, maybe many things she thought were right or correct or fulfilling are not. Call it “Millennial Ennui: The Movie,” but...

With films in languages other than English finally breaking out of their limiting, designated category at the Academy Awards in the last few years, it’s outrageous that actors in those stories rarely obtain similar recognition.

Despite “Parasite” winning multiple Oscars, including Best Picture, the cast was left out of the acting categories — even lead Song Kang-ho, whose performance is pivotal to the film’s success. Last year, Danish star Mads Mikkelsen was also overlooked, while “Another Round” won the award for Best International Feature Film and Thomas Vinterberg was nominated for Best Director. This season, several stars from abroad could enrich the lineup of contenders.

Another glaring oversight is that none of the riveting performances in Iranian master Asghar Farhadi’s two Oscar-winning films, “A Separation” and “The Salesman,” received accolades stateside. Yet there’s a chance for redemption this year with his latest drama, “A Hero,” which features...

"The Worst Person in the World" is coming to the Criterion Closet. Joachim Trier's Norwegian dark comedy-drama has swept the festival circuit and picked up multiple awards, including the Best Foreign Language Film award by the New York Film Critics Circle, and a Best Actress award for its star, Renate Reinsve, upon its debut at Cannes Film Festival. "The Worst Person in the World" is also Norway's official Oscar submission for the Best International Feature Film category at this year's Academy Awards.

The third film in Trier's Oslo Trilogy following the films "Reprise" and "Oslo, 31 August," "The Worst Person in...

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Sometimes She Loved Them Too: Trier Formulates Winning Composite of Love and Self Discovery

For his fifth film, The Worst Person in the World, Norway’s Joachim Trier returns to the vibrant energy which graced his forlorn protagonists in Reprise and Oslo, August 31st in a “twelve chapter (plus prologue and epilogue”) odyssey of one young woman’s navigation to self-discovery. On paper, its conceit sounds like countless other romcom inclined narratives, contemporary and otherwise, but Trier, with his trusted scribe Eskil Vogt, manages something which feels unique and transportive in an effortless showcase of four years in the life of a young woman still deciding what she wants to do and who she wants to be.…...

Anders Danielsen Lie may be the consummate multitasker. In the past year, he took two films to Cannes in which he turned out two of the year’s best performances — and, oh, he’s also a doctor pioneering Covid-19 and flu vaccines in his home country of Norway.

For that reason, the 42-year-old actor — who stars in 2021 arthouse favorites “Bergman Island” and “The Worst Person in the World” — still feels like a stranger in the world of show business, and it’s a position he’s comfortable maintaining.

“I feel like a tourist sometimes in the film industry, in a good sense of that word. I can always say that I actually have a foot in the real world,” Danielsen Lie explained to IndieWire over Zoom out of Oslo, where he works as a general practitioner and a municipal doctor for the state. He’s been called a “Covid-19 hero” and “2021’s hottest actor-doctor,...

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It's official. Finally. Two truly excellent Scandinavian films are joining the Oscar competition. Norway's Cannes sensation Worst Person in the World, a romantic dramedy from the great Joachim Trier, and the animated documentary Flee about a gay Afghan refugee who made his home in Denmark are now officially in the hunt for Oscar glory. The Best International Feature Film category is always hugely competitive and the voting system is complex so there are never any "locks" but both films have a headstart at making the 15 wide finalist list; they're already widely seen and wildly acclaimed from their multiple festival outings. Flee will actually be gunning for multiple nominations as it could theoretically compete for the two other specialty feature categories:  Documentary and Animated Feature.

Norway and Denmark aren't the only countries to announce over the past few days. After the jump twelve other Oscar hopefuls from around the Globe.

After earning the love of critics and audiences alike at this year's Cannes Film Festival, "The Worst Person in the World" has dropped a new trailer. The darkly comedic drama is the third chapter of Norwegian filmmaker Joachim Trier's "Oslo Trilogy," following the films "Reprise" and "Oslo, 31 August." Check out the trailer for "The Worst Person in the World" below!

The trailer doesn't reveal much about the plot of "The Worst Person in the World," but we do get to see some of its fantastical imagery. We watch as Julie (Renate Reinsve) falls in love and must reckon with the emotional rollercoaster of ending a relationship...

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