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“Saturday Night Live” is coming back with a series of veteran hosts and musical guests as well as one notable newcomer. The NBC variety show will officially return on March 29 with “Anora” and “Better Things” star Mikey Madison as its host.

This episode will mark Madison’s debut hosting “SNL.” It also comes during an especially big moment for Madison as she recently took home the Oscar for Best Actress in a Leading Role. During that March show, she will be accompanied by musical guest Morgan Wallen. The Grammy-nominated country artist first made his “SNL” debut in Season 46 and will kick off the tour this summer for his album “I’m the Problem.”

Then, on April 5, the show will be hosted by Jack Black, who has hosted the series three times before. The comedy icon previously spearheaded the show during Seasons 27, 29 and 31. Black’s appearance comes a day after the release of his latest movie,...

The beloved “Star Wars” sequel “The Empire Strikes Back” is set to open this year’s TCM Classic Film Festival on April 24, with director George Lucas presenting the film for its 45th anniversary.

“’The Empire Strikes Back’ is like ‘The Godfather Part II.’ Yes, technically, they’re sequels, the second movie in a series. But they are so much more,” TCM’s primetime anchor Ben Mankiewicz said in a statement. “The first ‘Star Wars’ picture in 1977 ignited a new era in Hollywood and turned a generation of young people into passionate movie fans for life. Then, somehow, three years later, along comes ‘Empire,’ which might even be better. It’s a stunning accomplishment and surely stands one of the great achievements in the history of film.”

Additional titles that will screen at this year’s TCM Classic Film Festival include “The Fabulous Baker Boys,” “The Lady Eve,” “Cinderella,” “Apocalypse Now,...

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This weekend, Netflix tops the charts with five titles, including a Mollywood murder investigation thriller, a Kollywood coming-of-age superhit, a Hollywood heist film, and more. Meanwhile, Prime Video features three major releases, including a patriotic drama, a Gen Z relationship rom-com, and a murder mystery.

Scroll down for the full list of films and their availability.

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Den of Thieves 2: Pantera (English)

Release Date: Thursday, March 20

This film is a sequel to Den of Thieves (2018), with both the original and sequel directed by Christian Gudegast. Gerard Butler and O’Shea Jackson Jr. reprise their roles, and the plot is inspired by the real-life Antwerp diamond heist of 2003.

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Dragon (Tamil)

Release Date: Friday, March 21

Dragon follows a brilliant young...

The White Lotus star, Jason Isaacs is currently facing controversies for his bizarre “double standard” comment on his onscreen n*dity and his further attempt to backtrack his remarks. And suddenly, amid this chaotic time, we were reminded of when he refused to attack J.K. Rowling, following her remarks on the transgender community.

Jason Isaacs as Lucius Malfoy in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | image: Warner Bros.

Previously in 2020, when J.K. Rowling came under fire for her outspoken remarks on transgender rights, most of her Harry Potter stars stood against her—but not Jason Isaacs. Claiming to have different opinions from Rowling, in regards to trans rights, Issacs then highlighted the author’s goodwill and simply refused to criticize her.

Unlike the Golden Trio, Jason Isaacs refused to criticize J.K. Rowling’s controversial opinions

Ever since the rise of the LGBTQ+ movement, J.K. Rowling has...

Jason Isaacs is speaking out to take back comments that he made in response to questions about his full frontal scene on The White Lotus.

In multiple interviews last week, the 61-year-old actor was asked if he was wearing a prosthetic during that scene or if he was showing his actual anatomy.

“I think it’s interesting that there’s a double standard for men,” Jason told CBS Mornings. “But when women are naked… nobody would dream of talking to her about her genitalia or her nipples or any of those things. So, its odd that there’s a double standard.”

Jason cited Mikey Madison in Anora and Margaret Qualley in The Substance as recent instances.

Now, Jason admits he regrets the comments he made.

Keep reading to find out more…

“I said the wrong words in the wrong way. I used the phrase ‘double standard,’ which I didn’t mean at all.

Gwyneth Paltrow had to shoot “a lot” of sex scenes with co-star Timothée Chalamet on the set of the forthcoming ping-pong drama, “Marty Supreme” — and considering it was her first film role in years, it was also her first time working with an intimacy coordinator.

In a new cover profile interview with Vanity Fair, the Oscar-winning actress says that she did not know what an intimacy coordinator was when she started production, and that she and Chalamet agreed to wave theirs off.

“There’s now something called an intimacy coordinator, which I did not know existed … We said, ‘I think we’re good. You can step a little bit back,’” Paltrow recalled of the steamy production.

Reflecting on how the intimacy coordinator on “Marty Supreme” tried to rehearse one of the film’s sex scenes with her and Chalamet, Paltrow revealed, “I was like, ‘Girl, I’m from the era where you get naked,...

2024 was the year that Sean Baker and his stories of America's overlooked and underprivileged finally got the spotlight they deserved. The director has consistently crafted empathetic and strikingly naturalistic movies based on the lives of marginalized figures ever since his first film, "Four Letter Words," was released in 2000. Mainstream success somewhat eluded him in the two decades that followed, but each of his projects helped raise his profile, with 2015's "Tangerine" in particular gaining notoriety for being shot entirely on an iPhone 5S. 2017's "The Florida Project" was an American neorealist masterpiece, while 2021's "Red Rocket" was yet another critical success, even if it didn't quite propel Baker into the mainstream consciousness.

But "Anora," Baker's high-stress screwball comedy, was easily one of the best movies of 2024 and it seems the Academy agreed, with the film winning Best Picture at the 2025 Oscars. Star Mikey Madison also gave the 2025 Oscars its most...

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

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

Exclusive: Breakout Anora star Mark Eydelshteyn has inked with WME for representation in all areas, we can tell you.

The Russian actor made his English-language debut in Sean Baker’s Anora in which he played a Russian oligarch’s son who falls for a high-class stripper gal Ani (Mikey Madison) in a story set against the Russian immigrant community of Brighton Beach.

The movie, released by Neon stateside and Focus Features abroad, lit its wick at the Cannes Film Festival and went on to take home the Palme d’Or as well as five Oscars (out of six nominations), including Best Picture, Best Editing, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Actress for Madison. Baker counted four of those wins. Yura Borisov, who also starred in the movie, received a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination.

Eydelshteyn is a graduate of the Moscow Art Theater School. His other work includes Julia Trofimova’s Strada Sasha,...

Outside of film business circles (and even sometimes in them), the acronym NATO refers to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the transnational military alliance between 32 countries committed to maintaining the post-wwii world order. But for that niche group of people who make a big deal of going to CinemaCon in Vegas every April, NATO is the National Association of Theatre Owners. But now no one needs to be confused.

NATO, the cinema trade group which represents movie theaters across the country, is changing its name to Cinema United, NATO…er…Cinema United president Michael O’Leary told the Associated Press on Tuesday. O’Leary, who took over the post in 2023 after former president John Fithian stepped down, said the trade group was in need of a rebrand and also conceded that getting phone calls about Ukraine was getting a little old.

The rebrand also comes with a new tagline: Moviegoing Is Our Mission.

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

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

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

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

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

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Anora was the darling of the 97th Oscars, winning Best Picture and Best Actress for Mikey Madison, while Sean Baker picked up trophies for Best Director, Best Editing, and Original Screenplay. Now the Neon film is available to stream online on Hulu.

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Oscars host Conan O’Brien (Disney/Andrew Eccles)

Emmy Award winner Conan O’Brien apparently enjoyed his first time as the Oscars host enough to agree to return for the 98th Oscars. O’Brien joked about his return, saying, “The only reason I’m hosting the Oscars next year is that I want to hear Adrien Brody finish his speech.”

The Academy also announced that Raj Kapoor and Katy Mullan will return as executive producers. Jeff Ross and Mike Sweeney are on board as producers, with Sweeney also serving as a writer.

“We are thrilled to bring back Conan, Raj, Katy, Jeff, and Mike for the 98th Oscars!” stated Academy CEO Bill Kramer and Academy President Janet Yang. “This year, they produced a hugely entertaining and visually stunning show that celebrated our nominees and the global film community in the most beautiful and impactful way. Conan was the perfect host—skillfully...

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The basketball fan in your life is about to disappear for a few weeks. The 2025 NCAA Men’s and Women’s Basketball Tournaments begin this week, and that means that every college basketball fan in the United States will be buried in March Madness.

If you’re completely uninterested in college basketball and are looking for something else to watch this week, this is the list for you. I’ve got another good selection of new TV shows and movies coming to streaming services every day to help you dodge basketball all week long.

Monday, March 17 ‘Anora’ streaming premiere | Hulu

The 2025 Academy Award winner for Best Picture is now available to stream at home! Audiences can check out “Anora” on both Hulu plans, unlocking this year’s five-time Oscar winner starting at just $10 per month depending on whether or not they want ads.

Every year, Jesse Shade of the Awfully Good Movies series provides us with his list of the ten worst movies of the year – and 2024 is no different! Now that the Oscars are out of the way and it has been revealed that the members of the Academy felt Anora was the best picture of 2024, Jesse Shade is here with his list of The 10 Worst Movies of 2024. You can find out what his picks are by checking out the video embedded above. Fittingly, this is also the video that has been chosen to launch the new JoBlo Awfully Good Movies YouTube channel!

If you want to know what Jesse Shade’s picks for the 10 Worst Movies of 2024 were before you start watching the video, here’s the list:

10. Joker: Folie à Deux

Directed by Todd Phillips, who also wrote the script with Scott Silver. Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Lady Gaga,...

Avengers: Endgame’s Joe Russo Says That Harvey Weinstein Is The Reason Why Blockbusters Stay Out Of The Awards Season: He Vilified Mainstream Movies…”(Photo Credit –Instagram/Wikimedia)

Avengers: Endgame co-director Joe Russo shared his thoughts on why blockbuster movies mostly do not win major awards in the awards reason, including the Oscars, and the reason is Harvey Weinstein. The convicted s*x offender reportedly pushed art house films for the Oscar campaign, and it has thus become a trend, as per the Russo brother. The remark comes after the Indie film Anora bagged the most wins at the Oscars 2025, including Best Picture and Best Actress. Keep scrolling for the deets.

Weinstein significantly influenced Hollywood cinema, particularly from the 1980s to the early 2010s. His production and distribution companies, Miramax Films and The Weinstein Company reshaped independent filmmaking and awards season strategies. Miramax brought independent films into the mainstream, supporting directors like Quentin Tarantino,...

As the format continues to gain traction, here’s our regularly-updated list of upcoming 4K Ultra HD disc releases in the UK.

Sitting alongside our list of upcoming DVD and Blu-ray releases (that you can find here), we’re also keeping a calendar for those who support the 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray disc format. As we learn of new UK releases, we’ll add them to this list.

We have started adding shopping links too. We’d be obliged if you clicked on them, as it really helps us in our quest to make the Film Stories project of magazines, website and podcast profitable. We’re a 100% independent publisher, and we quite like drinking coffee. It’d be lovely to afford some more.

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This week saw a new film debut atop the box-office weekend as Novocaine debuted as the number one film of the weekend, pushing last week’s top film, Mickey 17 to second place by the slim margin of $1.19 million.

Paramount Pictures International saw its latest release, Novocaine, debut atop the box-office weekend top ten with a total of $8.7 million to show for its opening weekend. This proved to be just enough to nudge last weekend’s top film, Mickey 17 to second place as it made $7.51 million in its second weekend of release, giving the Warner Bros. product an overall total of $33.3 million. Meanwhile, Black Bag debuted in third place over the weekend, bringing in $7.5 million for Focus Features. These two aforementioned debuts helped push Captain America: Brave New World down two spots to a fourth-place finish this weekend, where it made $5.5 million over the last three days. The Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures...

The popular slasher series Scream will continue with the upcoming Scream 7. The new installment will bring back a series of beloved legacy characters, as well as many characters who have died in previous installments.

While details about the plot of the upcoming Scream 7 are scarce, the new slasher will feature several returning actors, whose characters have died. Among them are also previous Ghostface stars, who were the serial killers in each installment. Speaking to Entertainment Tonight at the premiere of his latest film, Novocaine, Jack Quaid addressed a possible return to Scream 7.

Quaid starred in 2022's Scream, a reboot of the original series, where he played Richie Kirsch. The new film series echoed the original films and, similar to the first entry, Richie was Tara's boyfriend, just like Billy Loomis and Sydney Prescott in the first installment. In the end, it was revealed that Richie and...

Director Sean Baker made an impassioned plea in support of the theatrical experience (and independent cinema) when he picked up four Academy Awards recently. And it’s fitting that his Best Picture-winning Anora has passed its biggest box office milestone on the same weekend as Joe Russo and Anthony Russo debuted their Netflix film The Electric State. Produced on a reported budget of $320 million, The Electric State is the antithesis of the kind of cinema that Baker stands for. He has declared that he’s an indie filmmaker for life, and that his follow-up to Anora will likely be an even smaller project.

To help you anticipate and navigate all that television has to offer across broadcast, cable and streaming, TVLine offers daily, weekly and monthly What to Watch digests, as well as an overview of every new TV show premiering in 2025.

This week, you’ll find eight new shows (including Dennis Quaid in Happy Face, Ellen Pompeo in Good American Family and Uzo Aduba in The Residence), seven finales (including Severance, Shifting Gears and Happy’s Place), five streaming debuts (including Anora, Wicked and the final episodes of Yellowstone) and more.

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In the summer of 1969, a sensitive, X-rated studio movie called “Midnight Cowboy” proved a box office surprise, upending norms when it won best picture at the Oscars. Flash-forward to this year, and the screwball Stripperella comedy “Anora” unexpectedly repeated that coup, demonstrating once again that the industry is capable of looking beyond stereotypes where sex workers are concerned.

Now comes “Summer of 69,” a risqué coming-of-age movie that manages to be both retrograde and refreshing in its portrayal of an awkward Catholic school student (Sam Morelos) who hires an inspirational pole dancer (Chloe Fineman) to help boost her confidence in the “bedroom department.” It’s a throwback to decades of raunchy-sweet sex comedies, from “No Hard Feelings” to “The Girl Next Door,” while also being somewhat progressive in that this time, it’s a girl who’s taking charge.

The problem — and hardly an insignificant one — is that however funny...

Bill Maher returned to the topic of the Best Picture Oscar winner Anora on Friday’s Real Time with Bill Maher.

Last week, Maher posited that Sean Baker’s indie hit winning the big prize on Oscar night was helped by the Karla Sofía Gascón controversies that tainted her leading Oscar nominee Emilia Pérez.

This week on his HBO show, Maher held up Anora in a “New Rules” segment about “whores having a moment,” questioning when the term “sex worker community” became the norm, playing clips of both Mikey Madison and Baker thanking the group during their Oscar acceptance speeches.

Comparing the phrase to when the term “homeless” became “unhoused” and “illegal alien” became “undocumented migrant,” Maher said argued that the repositioning can be looked at as a detriment.

“You can get so caught up in the virtue signaling that you actually do harm to the cause, and using ‘sex...

It’s all about Sean Baker’s Anora in the air and we cannot help it! The indie filmmaker, known for his raw filmmaking, swept the Oscars with five major wins, including Best Director, Best Picture and Best Actress for Mikey Madison. The director is finally enjoying mainstream recognition like never before. But with the spotlight comes scrutiny, and Baker is facing a wave of controversy that threatens to overshadow his success.

Allegations have surfaced recently regarding Anora’s production, with claims that Baker tried to stop the crew from unionizing. Meanwhile, discussions regarding his 2021 film Red Rocket have emerged and online users have accused the movie of normalizing grooming. As social media buzzes with discussions, it does make one wonder if these claims hold any truth, or if Baker is simply the latest victim of Hollywood’s cancel culture.

From labor rights disputes to moral debates over his storytelling choices,...

Jason Isaacs is never the person to back down from speaking up his mind, whether it is about his roles or the film industry. Famous for his role as Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter movies, the actor was recently seen in The White Lotus as a financier struck in a conundrum.

Jason Isaacs as Lucius Malfoy in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | Credit: Warner Bros

Recently, the internet has been abuzz with questions about Isaacs’ nude scene in The White Lotus. Questions like whether he really did get naked for the scene or was he wearing prosthetics are being asked rampantly by fans over social media. In a recent interview, instead of answering the said questions, Isaacs clapped back at the double standards of the film industry when it comes to male nudity.

Jason Isaacs on his The White Lotus nude scene Jason Isaacs as Timothy Ratliff...

The 75th Ace Eddie Awards recognized achievements in film and television editing on Friday night at UCLA’s Royce Hall. The ceremony, originally scheduled for January 18, was postponed due to wildfires in the Los Angeles area. The event shifted from a traditional red-carpet affair to a more casual gathering, with a portion of ticket sales contributing to wildfire relief efforts.

Juliette Welfling won Best Edited Feature Film (Drama) for Emilia Pérez, a musical crime thriller by Jacques Audiard. The film’s approach to blending musical elements with its narrative stood out among competitors like Conclave and Dune: Part Two. Wicked, edited by Myron Kerstein, won in the comedy category, prevailing over Sean Baker’s Anora, which had won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing earlier this month.

In the animated category, The Wild Robot, edited by Mary Blee, took home the award. Will & Harper, a documentary following a cross-country...

The Oscars have come and gone, bringing some amazing films, stunning red carpet looks, and unforgettable moments to audiences. The night of the Oscars was especially magical for the movie Anora, for being the Best Picture Winner in 2025. Sean Baker’s twisted retelling of the Cinderella story won the Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, Best Editing, Best Director, and Best Actress, with Mikey Madison taking home the title of one of the youngest actors receiving the Oscar.

Mikey Madison in Anora | Credit: Neon

But where can you watch Anora? If you have missed the movie in the theatres, you can now enjoy it from the comfort of your home. Want to know how? Read ahead.

Where can you stream Anora? A still from the movie Anora | Credit: Neon

The 2024 movie is available to rent or purchase digitally on Prime Video. The movie will also be available to stream on Hulu starting Monday,...

“Emilia Pérez,” “Wicked” and “The Wild Robot” were the top film winners at the 75th Ace Eddie Awards, which took place on Friday evening at UCLA’s Royce Hall, nearly two weeks after the Oscars and nearly two months after the Eddies’ original date of Jan. 18. The ceremony held by the American Cinema Editors was postponed in January due to the wildfires that raged through the L.A. metro area earlier this year.

Wins by Juliette Welfling for “Emilia Pérez” and Myron Kerstein for “Wicked” stood in contrast to the outcome at the 97th Academy Awards on March 2, when Sean Baker won film editing for “Anora.” Last year, “Oppenheimer” and “The Holdovers” won at the Eddies, and “Oppenheimer” went on to win the Oscar. In the six-plus decades that the American Cinema Editors have been giving out awards, one of its feature-film winners has then won the Oscar for Best...

Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Pérez,” the embattled musical crime thriller about gender confirmation, was the surprise Feature Dramatic Editing winner, Friday night at the 75th annual Ace Eddie Awards (held at UCLA’s Royce Hall).

Besting such contenders as “Conclave” and “Dune: Part Two,” “Emilia Pérez” editor Juliette Welfling cut against the start and stop rhythms of traditional musicals with sequences that flowed naturally from dialogue to musical moments in this operatic fever dream, starring Best Supporting Oscar winner Zoe Saldaña and controversial Best Actress nominee Karla Sofía Gascón.

In addition, Jon M. Chu’s maximalist “Wicked” musical beat out Sean Baker’s Oscar-winning “Anora” in the comedy category. Editor Myron Kerstein excelled at handling the tonal shifts and blending different genres to explore the volatile friendship between Elphaba/the Wicked Witch (Oscar-nominated Cynthia Erivo) and Galinda/Glinda the Good Witch (Oscar-nominated Ariana Grande).

Originally set for January 18, the ceremony...

Unless you've been living under a rock (or part of a conclave), you'll know that Mikey Madison won the Oscar for Best Actress for her barnstorming and achingly vulnerable performance in Anora, the modern-day Cinderella-story dramedy from writer-director Sean Baker. Baker's film, which tells the story of a young sex worker from Brooklyn who falls in love with the son of a Russian oligarch, won five Academy Awards in total, a remarkable turn for a small, independent film concerning a topic that should only be broached with the greatest of sensitivities.

Jason Isaacs would rather you not ask about his penis in the new episode of The White Lotus. The actor said he thinks there’s a “double standard” in how the public discusses male and female nudity. In an interview with CBS Mornings, Isaacs addressed the conversation around his character’s body part being shown on TV, as he dodged anchor Gayle King’s question about the rumored use of a genital prosthetic for the scene.

“A lot of people are debating it. It’s all over the internet,” Isaacs said.

Jason Isaacs is not willing to talk about his genitalia, despite being asked about it in multiple interviews after his full frontal scene on The White Lotus.

The 61-year-old actor bared everything on the HBO series when his robe fell open in an episode four scene. Fans have questioned whether it was really him or if he was wearing a prosthetic, and his co-stars have confirmed the true answer.

Jason appeared on CBS Mornings and Good Day New York on Friday morning (March 14) in New York City to promote the show. He was asked about the scene in both interviews and he shut down the question both times.

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“A lot of people are debating it. It’s all over the internet,” Jason said. “And it’s interesting because the best actress this year is Mikey Madison at the Oscars. And I don’t see anybody discussing her vulva,...

Despite opening the show with three songs, Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande both went home without Oscars for their work in Wicked. Erivo had tough competition going up against Demi Moore's triumphant return in The Substance and the eventual winner, the incredible and transformative, Mikey Madison in Anora. Grande surprised audiences with how perfect she was as Galinda, but there was seemingly no stopping Zoe Saldaña winning every Best Supporting Actress Award for her work in Emelia Pérez. With the upcoming release of Wicked: For Good, there's some hope one or both women could not only be nominated again, but potentially even win. Lord of the Rings sweeping the Oscars for its third entry suggests the Academy likes to delay rewarding a movie until the franchise's final installment, but Oscar history has not been as kind to actors reprising their roles...

TheWrap is back with another round of titles landing on Hulu in March.

From Oscar-winning Cinderella stories to ultimate classics celebrating their 15th anniversary, Hulu is giving viewers a ton of different options. We’ve listed flicks you can watch with the family and films you can tune into while cuddling with your boo, but each movie is a must-see.

While Hulu’s list of new films in March stretches way beyond these seven titles, we wanted to point your attention to the best ones on its lineup. Check out our picks for the best new movies on Hulu in March 2025 below.

Paramount Pictures “The Truman Show” (1998)

“The Truman Show,” known as one of Jim Carrey’s most notable films, follows the life of a man named Truman Burbank. No, literally. He has no idea he’s part of a massive live broadcast centered on his life. As he’s...

What’s going to be this year’s “Anora”? As the Cannes Film Festival rapidly approaches, that’s the question for artistic director Thierry Fremaux and movie buffs around the world.

A month before Cannes Film Festival’s press conference, the official selection is still very much a work in progress, with little reliable information filtering through about which movies have already been invited. In fact, as of Friday — despite the volume of splashy prediction stories — it appears that only three films have so far been given a golden ticket to compete in Cannes. Variety can reveal that one of them is Jim Jarmusch’s anticipated “Father Mother Sister Brother“ starring Cate Blanchett, Adam Driver and Tom Waits.

The last edition of the festival, which Fremaux had warned would be slightly weaker due to the impact of the double Hollywood strikes, proved to be anything but. Headlined by Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or-winning “Anora,...

If you’re looking for something to watch in March, you’ve come to the right place. This month is stacked with streaming debuts of Oscar-winning movies, blockbusters from last year and hidden gems from years past that are being newly added to streamers like Netflix, Max, Prime Video and Peacock this month — including, yes, the streaming debut of “Wicked” so you can sing along at home as many times as you want and the streaming debut of Best Picture Oscar-winner “Anora.”

Check out our curated picks for the best new movies streaming in March 2025 below.

“Heretic” “Heretic” (A24)

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A24 released “Heretic,” easily the best, spookiest movie they put out last year, after Halloween. A baffling choice, for sure, but one that still paid off – the movie made almost $60 million worldwide on a budget of only $10 million. If you missed the movie in its initial release or want...

What does the Criterion Collection have in store for home video enthusiasts this June? The boutique label just announced their new releases for that month today, with five new movies entering the Collection. Leading the pack? A Sidney Lumet musical and one of William Friedkin‘s tensest efforts, as well as a classic screwball comedy, a doc about one of jazz’s greatest pianists, and a boldly unconventional film biography.

Read More: Criterion’s April Releases Include ‘Anora,’ ‘Chungking Express,’ ‘Some Like It Hot’ & More

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The Current Debate connects the dots around a topic of the critical conversation.Anora.Remember Cord Jefferson’s plea at last year’s Oscars? Picking up his Best Adapted Screenplay award for American Fiction (2023), the director chided the industry for being “risk-averse,” and suggested that, “instead of making one $200 million movie,” producers should spread those resources to make room for more diverse and bolder voices. “Try making twenty $10 million movies,” he said, “or fifty $4 million movies.” Jefferson was of course alluding to Oppenheimer (2023), Christopher Nolan’s thunderous portrait of “father of the atomic bomb” J. Robert Oppenheimer, a $100-million Best Picture winner that racked up seven statuettes and nearly a billion dollars at the box office. A year later, a cursory glance at the list of 2025 Oscar winners might make you think the industry did, in fact, heed the call. It’s not that there were no big-budget films among...

Anora will look to pass one final box office milestone this weekend now nearly two weeks removed from its big night at the Oscars. Currently sitting at a $19.1 million domestic total, if Anora can perform this weekend similar to how it did last weekend, it will pass $20 million at the domestic box office, which will likely be its final major domestic milestone. The Best Picture-winning film has also added $28.1 million from international markets for a global total of $47.3 million, and while $50 million globally may not be completely out of reach, it will require a much greater push than $20 million domestically. Anora is one of the top five highest-grossing movies ever for Neon, recently passing Ferrari (Adam Driver).

With movie awards season over, and rumors that Adrian Brody’s Oscar acceptance speech is finally coming to an end, the year 2025 sees a surprising amount of faces coming straight back into the conversation. For one, Zoe Saldaña will be putting her Supporting Actress Oscar to good use on the publicity trail for one of the biggest tentpoles of the year: James Cameron’s Fire and Ash, the third in the Avatar series, in which she reprises her role as Na’vi princess Neytiri.

It doesn’t seem especially likely that lightning will strike twice for Saldaña, but the win will bring extra gravitas to the franchise, which secured four nominations (including Best Picture) last time. Fire and Ash hits cinemas in the middle of December, usually a risky strategy, awards-wise — think Wonka, Nosferatu and even A Complete Unknown — but Cameron has good form on this front, and, presumably for...

Looks like Conan O'Brien didn't sign an NDA.

The freshly minted Oscars host has revealed several secrets about the Academy's quirky rules for its 97-year-old, 13-inch, eight-pound golden mascot. "No clothing on Oscar. Oscar is always naked," O'Brien dished on his Conan Needs a Friend podcast during a conversation with the ceremony's head writer, Mike Sweeney.

Per the Oscar overlords, the statuette can only ever be shown standing upright. "One of the people from the Academy came forward and said, 'Oscar can never be horizontal,'" O'Brien recalled. "And that blew my mind. Wow, this is like the thigh bone of St. Peter. This is a religious icon."

O'Brien also revealed his original vision for his Oscar promotional spot. He sought to put an apron on the trophy, housewife-style, and have it serve O'Brien leftovers. That'd didn't fly. Instead, a 9-foot version of the statuette appeared in its normal, pristine...

After scoring big hits with “Anora” and “Longlegs” in 2024, Neon wants their box office success to continue this calendar year, too. So far so good for the distributor on the rise: “The Monkey” was another hit for Neon last month, with a bigger turn-in now than Sean Baker‘s Oscar Best Picture winner.

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Expect “The Life Of Chuck” to extend Neon’s streak of box office supremacy this summer, too.

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Ready for another spooky Stephen King adaptation from Mike Flanagan? Well too bad! With “The Life of Chuck,” Flanagan is only bringing the feels. Sure, the specter of death looms large over the Tom Hiddleston-led drama — plus its interest in the otherworldly is clear — but the story forgoes King’s usual frights for a far more straightforward and sentimental tale of all the vital and divine components that make up a life.

In IndieWire’s review out of TIFF, where “The Life of Chuck” won the People’s Choice Award, critic Katie Rife wrote, “Structured around a verse from Walt Whitman’s ‘Song of Myself’ — ‘Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes’ — ‘The Life of Chuck’ is told in reverse order from the end of a man’s life to the beginning. It does so in a way that’s...

Looking for what to see in theaters? Our feature, updated weekly, highlights our top recommendations for films currently in theaters, from new releases to restorations receiving a proper theatrical run.

While we already provide extensive monthly new-release recommendations and weekly streaming recommendations, as distributors’ roll-outs can vary, this is a one-stop list to share the essential films that may be on a screen near you.

Anora (Sean Baker)

Sean Baker’s radiant rom-com / rollicking thriller Anora is one of the most acclaimed films of the year for good reason. The Palme d’Or winner is finally now in theaters, giving audiences a chance to witness Mikey Madison’s captivating performance. Luke Hicks said in his review, “Anora is a devastating, gut-busting beauty––regular cinematographer Drew Daniels lending his brilliance to yet another Baker triumph––the kind that hurts your heart and holds you tight to recover at the same time,...

The overwhelming number of sequels, reboots, and remakes in Hollywood has been the topic of much discourse these past few years. Viewers and critics complain about what is a perceived increase in continuations of pre-existing intellectual properties and a concurrent decrease in originality. Sequels have become culturally synonymous with a lower caliber of movies. The second installment of a franchise is a sure way to make popcorn money, but not a way to attract prestige. Thus, when it comes to the Academy Awards, the institution primarily associated with recognizing the highest echelon of film, there are not many sequels that can say they have competed for the show's top prize.

While technically 10 sequels have been nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars, only two have ever won: The Godfather Part II in 1974 and The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King in 2003. What exactly is it about sequels that makes them anti-Oscar bait,...

Film is so back. Shooting on Kodak film continues to be both a more popular choice among filmmakers and to gather more Oscar prestige. At this year’s Academy Awards Sean Baker’s Best Picture winner, “Anora,” was shot on 35mm by cinematographer Drew Daniels; Brady Corbet’s Best Cinematography winner, “The Brutalist,” was shot on 35mm VistaVision to great aplomb by Dp Lol Crawley; Walter Salles’ Best International Feature Film winner, “I’m Still Here,” was shot on both 35mm and S8mm by cinematographer Adrian Teijido; and the Best Live Action Short winner, “I’m Not a Robot,” was also shot on 35mm.

This year looks set to build on that success. There will be a cohort of prominent movies captured on film from some of the usual analog-loving directors: Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners,” Luca Guadagnino’s “After the Hunt,” Wes Anderson’s “The Phoenician Scheme,” Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Bugonia,” Josh Safdie’s “Marty Supreme,...

The folks over at Neon have several reasons to celebrate this month. Not only did the indie distributor pick up its second Best Picture Oscar for director Sean Baker's Anora, it's also experiencing some much-needed success at the box office. Director Osgood Perkins' The Monkey has delivered a solid (if not spectacular) commercial performance, and although the film has out-performed several recent horror offerings, it'll always be compared to Perkins' previous release, the blockbuster hit Longlegs. Incidentally, each of these three films — Anora, Longlegs, and The Monkey — rank among Neon's five highest-grossing releases of all time globally.

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The Global Production Awards, in association withScreen Global Production(formerlyKFTV) andBroadcast, celebrates outstanding and sustainable work from the world of film and TV production, locations and studios around the globe.

The awards ceremony will take place on Monday, May 19 during the Cannes Film Festival.

Judges this yearinclude Jay Roewe, senior vice president at HBO, Valerie Guerette-Langlais, head of production tax and incentives at A24, and Veronica Sullivan, head of global production external affairs and state and local government at NBCUniversal.

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Max is bringing back a fan-favorite travel comedy series with a 94% Rotten Tomatoes score, continuing its run of globe-trotting hilarity.

According to Deadline, Max has officially renewed the acclaimed travel series Conan O'Brien Must Go for a third season. The series follows comedian and former The Simpsons writer Conan O'Brien as he embarks on international journeys to meet fans, immerse himself in diverse cultures, and create spontaneous comedic moments. Building on O'Brien's previous travel specials, the show combines his sharp wit with unpredictable encounters, making it a standout in Max's lineup.

A Look Back at the Show’s Success

Since its debut, Conan O'Brien Must Go on Max has been met with critical and audience acclaim, earning a 94% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes and becoming a standout hit for Max. The series has taken O'Brien to a variety of destinations, including Norway, Thailand, Argentina, and Ireland, where he meets with...