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For actors, the word retirement is more or less a detour than a final destination. Terrence Howard bowed out of acting in 2022, only to quietly reappear in indie dramas. Cameron Diaz stepped away from Hollywood for nearly a decade before signing on to Netflix’s Back in Action. Jane Fonda famously left the industry in 1990, returning 15 years later. Even Clint Eastwood, who’s staged more than one “final” bow, keeps finding new projects. And now, after eight years away, one of the industry's most elusive figures, Daniel Day-Lewis, has dusted up his tools and is back, perhaps for one last hurrah.

The three-time Academy Award winner, who announced his retirement following 2017’s Phantom Thread, is stepping back into the spotlight in Anemone, an upcoming feature directed by his son, Ronan Day-Lewis. News of Day-Lewis ending his retirement became apparent when he was spotted filming in Manchester last October. The film...

Daniel Day-Lewis blamed his slow rhythm and style of working for delivering fewer films in his career, which is also why he probably has not done TV shows. The three-time Oscar winner announced his retirement from acting multiple times and was last seen in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom Thread eight years ago.

When asked about his slow output and his work style, Day-Lewis said that he learned pretty early on that his energy would be depleted if he took on more than he could chew, so he became choosy with his projects. He also said that he could not work on someone else’s timeline (via BBC).

A lot of other people just think I’m a lazy bum [he laughs]. You’re sweet to say that. I think the reason I don’t work more often – I have a slow rhythm, a slothful rhythm even. You can’t work to somebody else’s rhythm.

Daniel Day-Lewis fans finally get a first look at the actor's newest film, Anemone. The project effectively breaks the actor's eight-year-long retirement from acting.

The Hollywood Reporter shared a first-look image of the Oscar-winning performer in his first role since 2017's Phantom Thread. Anemone is set to have its world premiere at the New York Film Festival, which runs from Sept. 26 to Oct. 13. It will have a limited theatrical release in the United States on Oct. 3 before expanding to a wider release on Oct. 10. The film is the feature directorial debut of Lewis' son, Ronan Day-Lewis, with both father and son writing the script.

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Per the film's description, Anemone will be "an absorbing family drama about lives undone by seemingly irreconcilable legacies of political and personal violence." Sean Bean stars as a middle-aged man who "sets out from his suburban home on a journey into the...

Daniel Day-Lewis officially retired after his final role in Phantom Thread (2017), marking nearly eight years away from acting. He made a rare exception to star in Anemone, especially because it’s a project led by his son, Ronan Day-Lewis.

A Unique Father-Son Creative Fusion

The film represents Ronan Day-Lewis’s feature directorial debut. Ronan, a visual artist who graduated from Yale, has exhibited his work internationally. Anemone is co-written by Daniel and Ronan, blending the elder Day-Lewis’s legendary screen presence with his son’s fresh creative vision.

Plot & Themes

Anemone is described as an emotionally gripping drama exploring fractured familial relationships, particularly between fathers, sons, and brothers. The story centers on a suburban man (Sean Bean) who ventures into Northern England’s woods to reconnect with his estranged brother (Daniel Day-Lewis), a hermit. Their relationship is shaped by long-buried personal and political trauma.

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He's baaaaaaack!

Three-time Academy Award winner Daniel Day-Lewis has emerged from his second retirement from acting — this one stemming back from 2018's Phantom Thread — with a first look at the directorial debut of his son Ronan Day-Lewis, Anemone.

The film, which the elder Day-Lewis cowrote with the younger, is set for a premiere at the New York Film Festival, as a part of its Spotlight Selections.

While the film has yet to play in front of audiences, the presence of one of his generation's most celebrated actors is enough to kick off an awards conversation, so here's everything you need to know about Daniel Day-Lewis in Anemone.

Who else stars in it?

Day-Lewis aside, Anemone has a solid cast. Sean Bean, also featured in the first-look image, has the other lead role. It's exciting to see an actor who has done such strong supporting work for decades across mediums get...

Daniel Day-Lewis is returning to the silver screen for his son’s directorial debut, titled Anemone, whose first look, featuring Sean Bean and Day-Lewis, has been unveiled. In 2024, the Oscar winner announced that he was officially ending his retirement run, which commenced ahead of Phantom Thread‘s release in 2017, as the actor later expressed that he felt compelled to stop acting.

However, with Ronan Day-Lewis’ upcoming movie, it appears Day-Lewis is making an exception, mainly due to personal reasons, it does opens the door for the long-speculated third movie from the duo of Scorsese and Day-Lewis.

Daniel Day-Lewis Leads Ronan Day-Lewis’s Directorial Debut, Anemone

With a cast featuring Sean Bean, Samantha Morton, Samuel Bottomley, and Safia Oakley-Green, Daniel Day-Lewis, in Anemone, plays the estranged brother to Bean’s middle-aged man. The movie is said to be an exploration of familial bonds, especially the intricate relationship between fathers, brothers, and sons.

Programmers at the New York Film Festival are stealing some of the thunder from TIFF. The Spotlight line-up landed three world premieres (namely Ronan Day-Lewis‘ Anemone – a Focus Features release with the return of Daniel Day-Lewis) and Apple TV+ 5-parter docu by Rebecca Miller in Mr. Scorsese), two U.S. premieres, and six New York premieres. This also becomes the first festival to showcase Richard Linklater‘s two 2025 films in the Berlinale preemed Blue Moon and Cannes comp Nouvelle Vague. Geeta Gandbhir‘s The Perfect Neighbor (which premiered at Sundance and landed a huge deal with the Netflix folks) receives an autumn showcase and Harry Lighton‘s well-received Un Certain Regard winner Pillion – which will be headed to Telluride.…...

Daniel Day-Lewis has emerged from his retirement in a first-look photo of his new film, Anemone.

The project from Focus Features is set to have its world premiere at the The New York Film Festival —which kicks off Sept. 26 and runs through Oct. 13 — and marks the return of the three-time Oscar winner after an eight-year “retirement.”

The film marks the feature directorial debut of Lewis’ son, Ronan Day-Lewis, and was co-written by both men.

The official description of Anemone calls the film “an absorbing family drama … about lives undone by seemingly irreconcilable legacies of political and personal violence.” Set in Northern England, the film follows a middle-aged man (Sean Bean) who “sets out from his suburban home on a journey into the woods, where he reconnects with his estranged hermit brother (Day-Lewis). Bonded by a mysterious, complicated past, the men share a fraught, if occasionally tender relationship — one that was...

Focus Features has shared an image from Ronan Day-Lewis' feature directorial debut Anemone, starring Daniel Day-Lewis in his first role since retiring from acting eight years ago. The three-time Academy Award-winning actor co-wrote the film with his son, the director, who brought his father back to the screen following a lengthy hiatus after 2017's Phantom Thread. The two teaming up for the project is quite apt as the movie is described as a family drama that explores "the complex and profound ties that exist between brothers, fathers, and sons."

Day-Lewis looks quite different in the first-look photo of Anemone (shared below) compared to the last time he was seen onscreen as Reynolds Woodcock in Phantom Thread. Instead of wearing tailored suits and bow ties with his hair in a swept-back style, Anemone sees him sporting short gray hair, long sideburns, and a horseshoe mustache. He is looking up towards the sky,...

The first image has been revealed for Anemone, marking the return to the screen of Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis. The movie will explore generational conflicts, focusing on the dramatic story of a group of fathers, sons, and brothers. Anemone is also directed by Day-Lewis' real son, Ronan Day-Lewis.

In addition to Daniel Day-Lewis, the cast includes Samantha Morton, Sean Bean, Safia Oakley-Green, Samuel Bottomley, and Adam Fogerty. The father-son Day-Lewis duo co-wrote the movie's script together. Anemone is scheduled for release on Oct. 10, 2025.

As per Focus Features, the first image has been revealed of Anemone, showing Day-Lewis sporting a gray mustache and short gray hair, looking up to the sky. Bean stands in the background, looking at Day-Lewis. Exactly what Day-Lewis is looking at is not shown.

Three-time Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis returns to the screen with Anemone, directed by Ronan Day-Lewis. Also starring Sean Bean and Samantha Morton.Premiering...

Daniel Day-Lewis is officially coming back to the big screen after an eight-year break, and the first look at his new movie, Anemone, has been revealed. The drama is directed by his son, Ronan Day-Lewis, and explores deep and emotional relationships between brothers, fathers, and sons. The film will premiere at the 63rd New York Film Festival before hitting theaters later this year.

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According to Focus Features, Anemone was written by Ronan Day-Lewis and co-written with his father. This marks Daniel’s first role since his retirement after the 2017 film Phantom Thread. Joining him in the cast are Sean Bean, Samantha Morton, Samuel Bottomley, and Safia Oakley-Green. The movie will be released in select theaters in the United States on October 3, 2025, and then expand nationwide on October 10.

News of the project first broke in September 2024, when it was announced that Daniel Day-Lewis would return to acting.

Daniel Day-Lewis is stepping back into the spotlight after eight years away from acting. His new film, Anemone, will have its world premiere at the 63rd New York Film Festival before opening in select U.S. theaters on October 3, 2025. A week later, it will expand nationwide.

This project is a family affair. Anemone is directed by Daniel’s son, Ronan Day-Lewis, who also co-wrote the script with his father. The film dives deep into the emotional connections between brothers, fathers, and sons, exploring how those relationships can be both complicated and profound.

Alongside Daniel Day-Lewis, the cast includes Sean Bean, Samantha Morton, Samuel Bottomley, and Safia Oakley-Green.

The film marks Daniel’s first role since Phantom Thread in 2017, which was widely believed to be his final performance after he announced his retirement. In September 2024, the news broke that he would return to the screen for Anemone.

Ronan, making one of...

The New York Film Festival has announced its Spotlight lineup, which will include the world premieres of Apple docuseries Mr. Scorsese, Ben Stiller’s Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost and Ronan Day-Lewis’s Anemone.

The 12 titles in the Spotlight section are described by fest organizers as “significant and anticipated features.” The strand is designed to complement the main slate, which was announced last week. This year’s NYFF opens September 24 with Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt and runs through October 13.

Two Richard Linklater-directed films, Blue Moon and Nouvelle Vague, will be part of Spotlight. Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere will also screen as the Spotlight Gala selection.

Mr. Scorsese is a five-part series portrait of Martin Scorsese, told through his own words and new interviews with collaborators and family and directed by Rebecca Miller.

Stiller & Meara is directed by Ben Stiller, who explores his roots in the...

Daniel Day-Lewis will return to the screen for the first time in eight years with Anemone, a new film he co-wrote with his son, Ronan Day-Lewis, who makes his directorial debut. Ahead of its world premiere at the New York Film Festival this fall, Focus Features has unveiled the film’s first look.

Along with Day-Lewis, Anemone stars Sean Bean, Samantha Morton, and Samuel Bottomley. Following its premiere at the New York Film Festival, it will receive a limited theatrical release in the US on October 3rd, before expanding wide a week later on October 10th.

Here’s the official synopsis from NYFF: “The Northern England–set Anemone begins as a middle-aged man (Bean) sets out from his suburban home on a journey into the woods, where he reconnects with his estranged hermit brother (Day-Lewis). Bonded by a mysterious, complicated past, the men share a fraught, if occasionally tender relationship...

After their Main Slate and Currents lineups have been unveiled, the 63rd New York Film Festival has now revealed its Spotlight selections. Highlights include the world premiere of Anemone, marking Daniel Day-Lewis’ first role since 2017’s Phantom Thread, alongside world premieres of Rebecca Miller’s five-hour Martin Scorsese documentary and Ben Stiller’s Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost. Also among the highlights are two films by Richard Linklater, Harry Lighton’s Pillion, Mamoru Hosoda’s Scarlet, and one of the best documentaries from Sundance: Geeta Gandbhir’s The Perfect Neighbor. The 63rd New York Film Festival will take place from September 26 through October 13, while Springsteen will hit theaters on October 24.

Spotlight Gala

Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere

Scott Cooper, 2025, U.S., 120m

Jeremy Allen White inhabits a legend and lays bare his beating heart in this graceful, exceptionally moving film about a very specific part of peerless American rock icon Bruce Springsteen’s life.

The world premieres of Ronan Day-Lewis’s Anemone featuring the return of Daniel Day-Lewis, Rebecca Miller’s Mr. Scorsese, and Ben Stiller’s Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost have been added to Spotlight Selections in New York Film Festival.

The festival announced 12 additions on Tuesday, including US premieres for Sepideh Farsi’s Cannes Acid Gaza documentary Put Your Soul On Your Hand And Walk,and Mamoru Hosoda’s upcoming Venice world premiere, Scarlet.

New York premieres include Harry Lighton’s UK queer romance and Cannes Un Certain Regard premiere Pillion; Paolo Sorrentino’s Venice opener La Grazia; and two...

An unexpected — and, frankly, quite charming — theme to this year’s New York Film Festival? Family. Specifically, creative families. Look no further than today’s latest lineup announcement, featuring the festival’s Spotlight slate, designed as a “selection of 12 significant and anticipated features.”

The most obvious significance? Filmmaking as family endeavor. Among the selections for this year’s Spotlight section: new works from Rebecca Miller (the five-part documentary “Mr. Scorsese”) and her son Ronan Day-Lewis (“Anemone”), the latter of which stars no less than Daniel Day-Lewis, who is, of course, husband to Miller and father to the younger Day-Lewis. Also on offer, the latest film from Ben Stiller, which is about his own iconic parents, Jerry Stiller and Anna Meara and is titled “Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost”.

This year’s Spotlight section includes three world premieres, two U.S. premieres, and six New York premieres, as well as...

The 2025 New York Film Festival has unveiled its full Spotlight lineup including the world premieres of Ben Stiller’s Nothing Is Lost documentary about his parents, Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, Rebecca Miller’s Mr. Scorsese and Daniel Day-Lewis’ acting return in son Ronan Day-Lewis’ Anemone. In addition, the section will feature the U.S. premiere of Sepideh Farsi’s Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk, the Palestinian subject of which was killed in an Israeli air strike earlier this year.

Ben Stiller’s Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost, set to be released by Apple Original Films on Oct. 17, uses archival recordings, footage and letters as well as interviews with friends and collaborators of the late couple to tell the story of the elder Stiller and Meara’s groundbreaking comedy duo as well as the challenges and insecurities of a showbiz family.

Additionally, Miller’s Martin Scorsese docuseries,...

The world premieres of Ronan Day-Lewis’s Anemone featuring the return of Daniel Day-Lewis, Rebecca Miller’s Mr. Scorsese, and Ben Stiller’s Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost have been added to Spotlight Selections in New York Film Festival.

The festival announced 12 additions on Tuesday, including US premieres for Sepideh Farsi’s Cannes Acid Gaza documentary Put Your Soul On Your Hand And Walk,and Mamoru Hosoda’s upcoming Venice world premiere, Scarlet.

New York premieres include Harry Lighton’s UK queer romance and Cannes Un Certain Regard premiere Pillion; Paolo Sorrentino’s Venice opener La Grazia; and two...

The triple Oscar winner has retired from the profession twice – and returned twice. Ahead of Anemone, directed by his son Ronan, we gorge on Day-Lewis’s back catalogue

Perhaps keen not to be pigeonholed in high-fibre roles, Daniel Day-Lewis took on a pair of zany culture-clash comedies that featured him singing in a bubble bath. In Stars and Bars, he is a prim English art expert who travels to the American south to retrieve a Renoir from its owner (Harry Dean Stanton) and butts heads with various irksome oddballs. Playing the sort of nitwit that would become Hugh Grant’s meal-ticket, Day-Lewis proves that wackiness is not in his wheelhouse.

For Hollywood studios eyeing Oscar gold, deciding where to premiere a film is one of the season’s most crucial strategic choices. The right debut at the right festival can generate months of positive buzz; the wrong one can torpedo an awards campaign before it begins.

“It’s a calculated gamble every time,” says a studio executive who requested anonymity in discussing internal strategy. “You’re weighing the potential upside of a festival launch against the very real risk of an early critical rejection that follows you all season long.”

Premieres at festivals like Telluride, Venice or Toronto offer studios several key benefits. First, they provide crucial early momentum. Films that generate acclaim at top-tier events often carry that goodwill through months of campaigning, creating a sense of inevitability that can sway Academy voters.

Festivals also allow studios to test their films with critics, industry professionals and tastemakers whose endorsements shape early conversation.

As fall festival lineups are revealed, the awards race comes into focus. This week saw major announcements from the Venice Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival, making the rest of the year for Oscar watchers a bit clearer on which movies will be vying for the top awards.

But some mysteries remain. As release dates loom and Telluride remains tight-lipped as usual, a number of presumed Oscar contenders are question marks at the moment.

Here are the questions we're asking as we look ahead at the end-of-the-year film festival line-ups.

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We were disappointed when the Cannes lineup came out and Jim Jarmusch’s next film was not on it. But it seems like we just had to wait a little longer.

Efe Cakarel, the CEO of Mubi, which is distributing Jarmusch’s next movie, told a crowd at SXSW London that Jarmusch’s “Father Mother Sister Brother” will premiere at the Venice Film Festival in the main competition.

“That’s already confirmed,” he said during a keynote speech at the festival on Friday (via Variety). He also added one other movie joining the lineup that Mubi will be releasing, Paolo Sorrentino’s next movie “La Grazia” starring Toni Servillo.

Venice won’t announce its lineup for some time, but it’s an exciting get for the festival and could be the first of several high profile contenders on the Biennale. Benny Safdie’s “The Smashing Machine” from A24 has been rumored,...

It’s the final installment of beloved series turned film franchise “Downton Abbey.” Aptly titled “Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale,” the third film debuted its trailer during CinemaCon, and is now sharing it with audiences everywhere. Julian Fellowes returns to write the installment, which is set in the same universe as his show “The Gilded Age.” Fellowes previously teased that the elusive plot of “The Grand Finale” is “emboldened” by the clock timer invention that takes place in “The Gilded Age.”

The logline for “The Grand Finale” reads: “The time has come to say goodbye to ‘Downton Abbey.’ Focus Features is bringing the beloved Crawley household to theaters for the final installment of the wildly successful franchise written by creator Julian Fellowes.”

The ensemble cast includes Hugh Bonneville, Laura Carmichael, Jim Carter, Raquel Cassidy, Brendan Coyle, Michelle Dockery, Kevin Doyle, Michael Fox, Joanne Froggatt, Harry Hadden-Paton, Robert James-Collier, Allen Leech,...

Seth Rogen used Apple TV+’s FYC showcase in Hollywood this week to make an audacious plea: coax three-time Oscar-winner Daniel Day-Lewis out of semi-retirement for a cameo in Season 2 of “The Studio,” the streamer’s hit satire of modern moviemaking. “He’s the greatest living actor…his process is so specific that I think that would be interesting to explore on the show,” Rogen said, before addressing the actor directly: “Daniel, please consider a Zoom with us. We’ll pitch you a good idea!”

Apple renewed the ten-episode comedy last week after its March debut drew a 93 percent critics’ score on Rotten Tomatoes and a string of celebrity cameos from Martin Scorsese to Charlize Theron. Production is expected to start later this year for a 2026 launch.

Whether Day-Lewis, 68, is persuadable remains uncertain. The actor declared he was “no longer working as an actor” after 2017’s “Phantom Thread” but agreed...

Seth Rogen's hit series The Studio lampoons Hollywood with the help of many big-name guest stars brought in to play themselves. The series will be back for a second season, likely with many new exciting guests, but Rogen may have some trouble getting the one he wants most of all.

Per Variety, Rogen said how he's really hoping to get semi-retired actor Daniel Day-Lewis on The Studio. This is in part because Day-Lewis is the "greatest living actor" in the eyes of Rogen, though he's certainly not alone with that opinion. It may be a long shot to get Day-Lewis involved, as the Oscar-winning actor has largely stepped back from performing in recent years, but Rogen feels that he may be influenced to come on board if he hears the pitch they have in mind.

“He’s the greatest living actor,” Rogen said at Apple TV+'s FYC event in Hollywood.

After Season 1’s critical success, Seth Rogen is eyeing an even bigger second season for The Studio. The Apple TV+ satirical comedy series shocked fans by featuring several huge cameos in each of its episodes. Now, Rogen seems to elevate the show to the next level, as he is inviting Daniel Day-Lewis to The Studio‘s Season 2.

Daniel Day-Lewis is widely named among the greatest actors of all time, with 3 Oscars under his belt. Although he retired from acting after starring in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom Thread, the legend is now coming out of his retirement for his son’s directorial debut, Anemone, set to release this year.

Can Seth Rogen bring in Daniel Day-Lewis for The Studio Season 2? Seth Rogen in The Studio Season 1 | Credits: Apple TV+

The Studio is a satirical comedy Apple TV+ show that centers around Seth Rogen’s Matt Remick, a cinephile studio head,...

Ahead of a July 2025 broadcast, the official accounts for The Stunned Hero and the Assassin Princesses anime today unveiled a brand-new character trailer and visual introducing Anemone, a skilled assassin disguised as a priest whose favorite things are alcohol and money. The Stunned Hero and the Assassin Princesses Anemone Character Trailer The Stunned Hero and the Assassin Princesses Anemone Character Visual The Stunned Hero and the Assassin Princesses anime's confirmed cast is as follows: Toto voiced by Shunsuke Takeuchi (Harumi in My Senpai Is Annoying ) Ciel voiced by Iori Saeki (Menou in The Executioner and Her Way of Life ) Anemone voiced by Hitomi Ueda (Granat in Tales of Wedding Rings ) Goa voiced by Haruka Shiraishi (Asirpa in Golden Kamuy ) Related: The Stunned Hero and the Assassin Princesses Anime Introduces Ciel in Character Trailer Noriaki Akitaya directs The Stunned Hero and the Assassin Princesses at studio Connect, with series composition by...

The star-studded first season of Seth Rogen’s sitcom-as-Hollywood-love-letter The Studio included appearances by Olivia Wilde, Bryan Cranston, Charlize Theron, and Steve Buscemi, among countless others. So it’s no surprise that he knows exactly who he wants for the second season, and he’s aiming big: Daniel Day-Lewis. “He’s the greatest living actor,” Rogen told Variety this week. “His process is so specific that I think that would be an interesting thing to explore on the show.”

But Rogen didn’t stop at simply putting his wish into...

The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is known for its surprising casting choices. Throughout its existence, the superhero franchise has shocked fans with its ambitious and bold casting, underscoring the MCU’s reputation for making bold and effective casting choices.

However, there has been a recent rumor going around claiming the legend Daniel Day-Lewis is being eyed to play Magneto in the franchise. While he is back from retirement for a short while, it seems a little far-fetched, even for Kevin Feige’s Marvel Cinematic Universe, that they would be eyeing an actor like Ddl.

Rumor: MCU wants to cast Daniel Day-Lewis as Magneto Daniel Day-Lewis in Lincoln | Credit: 20th Century Fox

Daniel Day-Lewis is one of the greatest actors of all time. The ultimate Goat and an actor of actors, there is no comparison to his talent, craft, diligence, and virtuosity.

Thus, it came as joyful news when rumors of...

It felt like a Hollywood miracle when it was announced. Living legend Daniel Day-Lewis would pull himself out of a self-imposed acting retirement for the family drama, “Anemone,” he co-wrote with his son, Ronan Day-Lewis, who will also take on directing duties. The film will be produced by Brad Pitt’s Plan B.

Focus Features (a division of Universal Pictures) announced this week that it will release “Anemone” on October 3 in limited release before expanding on October 10, placing it in a prime awards season spot.

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The release date has been revealed for Daniel Day-Lewis' new film, Anemone. Day-Lewis is one of the most celebrated actors of his time. While he started acting as early as the 1970s, it was not until 1985 that he saw his breakout role in My Beautiful Laundrette. Five years later, he won his first Oscar for Best Actor in My Left Foot. Day-Lewis has since been nominated for five more Oscars, winning two for Lincoln and There Will Be Blood.

Per Focus Features, a release date for Anemone has been revealed. The movie will come out in limited release on October 3, and then expand to a wider release the following weekend on October 10. The logline is that "the film explores the complex and profound ties that exist between brothers, fathers, and sons.

What This Means For Daniel Day-Lewis He Had Announced Retirement In 2017

While Day-Lewis plays the starring role in Anemone,...

A24 has confirmed that Austin Butler and Jeremy Allen White are to star in crime story Enemies, from writer-director Henry Dunham.

The film centres on a relentless detective and an infamous contract killer who collide in a deadly game of cat and mouse.

Production is due to start this summer in Chicago. A24 is handling international sales.

Ari Aster and Lars Knudsen of Square Peg will produce with A24 and Alejandro De Leon. Josh Bachove will serve as executive producer.

Butler was most recently seen in awards contender Dune: Part Two and starred in Elvis and The Bikeriders. He is...

After eight years in retirement, Daniel Day-Lewis is returning to acting in Anemone, a collaboration with his son, director Ronan Day-Lewis.

Daniel Day-Lewis is widely considered to be one of the greatest actors of all time, and with three Oscars on his mantle and a filmography for the ages, that opinion isn’t likely to change. Day-Lewis hasn’t appeared in a film since 2017’s Phantom Thread, but with movies like There Will Be Blood, My Beautiful Laundrette and My Left Foot to his name, his place in on the list of all-time greats is assured.

Day-Lewis retired from acting eight years ago, sticking to the maxim of ‘always leave ’em wanting more.’ But now he’s returned to collaborate with his son, Ronan Day-Lewis, on Anemone – a family drama also set to star Sean Bean, Samantha Morton, Samuel Bottomley and Safia Oakley-Green. The film is said to explore “familial...

Focus Features has set an October 2025 release for Anemone, which will mark Daniel Day-Lewis’ first on-screen performance since 2017. Daniel Day-Lewis co-wrote the film with his son, Ronan Day-Lewis, who is making his directorial debut. The script “explores family bonds, specifically those involving fathers, sons and brothers.”

Anemone will receive a limited release on October 3rd before expanding wide on October 10th.

Anemone, Daniel Day-Lewis’ Comeback Film, Gets October Release

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Focus Features has set an October 3 awards corridor release date for Anemone, the much anticipated drama that will mark Daniel Day-Lewis’ return to the screen after eight years.

Day-Lewis’ son Ronan Day-Lewis makes his directing debut on the project and father and son co-wrote the screenplay, which deals with the complex ties between brothers, fathers and sons.

Sean Bean, Samuel Bottomley, Safia Oakley-Green and Samantha Morton star alongside the elder Day-Lewis. Plan B is producing.

The project shot last autumn in the north of England and Wales with Ben Fordesman serving as director of photography, Jane Petrie as costume designer...

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Daniel Day-Lewis' screen return Anemone finds release date

Focus Features will give drama Anemone a limited release on Oct. 3 and expand to wide release on Oct. 10. The film will mark three-time Academy...

Nearly eight years after Phantom Thread hit theaters, Daniel Day-Lewis is officially headed back to the big screen in his next starring role. The three-time Academy Award-winning actor is coming out of retirement to feature in an upcoming drama directed by one of his sons. For those looking forward to his long-awaited unretirement, they will be able to see it in theaters later this year.

On Tuesday, Focus Features announced that Anemone, directed by Ronan Day-Lewis, is getting a limited theatrical release on Oct. 3 before getting an expanded run starting Oct. 10. Per the official logline, "the film explores the complex and profound ties that exist between brothers, fathers, and sons." In addition to Daniel Day-Lewis, the film stars Sean Bean, Samantha Morton, Samuel Bottomley, and Safia Oakley-Green. Details remain quite slim on the project, but judging by the logline, it is quite clear why Daniel Day-Lewis unretired from acting for the new drama.

Focus Features has locked in a release date for Anemone, its film bringing three-time Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis back to the big screen for the first time since Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom Thread in 2017.

Marking the directorial debut of the actor’s son, Ronan Day-Lewis, the film is said to explore the complex and profound ties that exist between brothers, fathers, and sons. It’s slated to open in limited release on October 3rd before expanding on October 10th.

Ronan Day-Lewis directed from a script written with Daniel Day-Lewis, with Brad Pitt’s Plan B producing. The cast also includes Sean Bean, Samuel Bottomley, Safia Oakley-Green, and Samantha Morton.

Prior to the announcement of Anemone, Daniel Day-Lewis had formally announced his retirement from acting, stating through his publicist, “Daniel Day-Lewis will no longer be working as an actor. He is immensely grateful to all of his collaborators and audiences over the many years.

“Bugonia,” the latest collaboration between director Yorgos Lanthimos and star Emma Stone, will premiere ahead of schedule.

The film will open in select theaters on Oct. 24 before expanding nationwide on Oct. 31. That’s slightly earlier than the original release date of Nov. 7. Focus Features is rolling out “Bugonia” in the U.S. and Canada while Universal Pictures, the specialty studio’s parent company, will handle international distribution.

“Bugonia,” a remake of the South Korean sci-fi comedy “Save the Green Planet,” revolves around two conspiracy-obsessed friends who kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major corporation because they are convinced she’s an alien intent on destroying Earth. Jesse Plemons, who worked with Stone and Lanthimos on “Kinds of Kindness,” also leads the cast alongside Aidan Delbis, Stavros Halkias and Alicia Silverstone.

Lanthimos is directing from a script by Will Tracy, whose credits include “The Menu” and “Succession.” Stone and Lanthimos were...

Cate Blanchett announced earlier this week that she is considering stepping away from acting. In a recent interview with Radio Times, the two-time Oscar winner revealed, “My family roll their eyes every time I say it, but I mean it. I am serious about giving up acting. [There are] a lot of things I want to do with my life.”

While Blanchett has remained busy with high-profile projects — including Disclaimer for Apple TV+ and Jim Jarmusch’s upcoming film Father, Mother, Sister, Brother, c0starring Adam Driver — she sounded sincere about stepping away from the business. Fame, she admits, has never felt entirely natural.

“When you go on a talk show, or even here now, and then you see sound bites of things you’ve said, pulled out and italicized, they sound really loud. I’m not that person,” she explained. “I make more sense in motion – it’s been a long...

Focus Features’ CinemaCon 2025 presentation was heavy on the auteurs, with the studio offering attendees a first look at two of the year’s most anticipated titles expected to debut on the European festival circuit: Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Bugonia” and Wes Anderson’s “The Phoenician Scheme.”

“Bugonia” sees Lanthimos re-teaming with frequent collaborators Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons in predictably subversive fashion. A loose remake of Jang Joon-hwan’s 2003 sci-fi satire “Save the Green Planet,” the film stars Stone as a powerful pharmaceutical executive who is kidnapped by a conspiracy theorist (Plemons) who believes she is an alien. Lanthimos’ take on the project is written by “The Menu” scribe Will Tracy and produced by Ari Aster. With a November release date on the books, many expect the film to debut in Venice before launching an Oscar campaign.

The “Bugonia” footage was especially brief, showing footage of a honey bee pollinating flowers, which...

Focus Features chairman Peter Kujawski took to the stage in Las Vegas to talk up this year pipeline on the back of the company’s second biggest ever hit Nosferatu, and a successful awards season.

Kujawski told attendees at The Colosseum in Caesars Palace: “While I truly do believe that the specialty sector does pollinate the movies business,” he said, referencing his CinemaCon 2023 address, “it’s more important that I say movie theatres pollinate our entire global culture.”

Affirming the company’s range of films and commitment to ”the vital theatrical experience”, the executive

Kujawski showed first-looks from Wes Anderson...

To celebrate the film’s 20th anniversary this year, Focus Features is re-releasing Pride & Prejudice nationwide in a special theatrical event starting on April 20. Tickets are now available for the Jane Austen adaptation, which was a global hit with audiences of all ages and earned four Academy Award nominations, becoming one of the most beloved romance films of all time.

In addition to the theatrical event, the film’s 20th anniversary will be celebrated with a new line of merchandise. Focus is also partnering with Decca Records for the long-awaited vinyl release of the Academy Award-nominated Pride & Prejudice soundtrack, composed by Dario Marianelli and performed by Jean-Yves Thibaudet, to be released later this spring in multiple formats.

Directed by Joe Wright and written by Deborah Moggach, Pride & Prejudice was originally released in 2005 and grossed over $122 million at the global box office.

The film’s cast includes Keira Knightley,...

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With the feather in the cap of this past Oscar season, it’s time to look ahead to the next.

This annual Variety tradition of blindly forecasting awards season is meant to be fun and expectation-free. Last year’s edition correctly predicted three of the 10 best picture nominees — “Conclave,” “Dune: Part Two” and “Nickel Boys” — but the actual winner,...

Sean Bean has been tapped to star opposite Jack Patten in MGM+’s upcoming series Robin Hood.

From Lionsgate TV and showrunner John Glenn, Robin Hood is described as a sweeping, romantic adventure, a modern take of the classic tale that brings historical authenticity, psychological depth, and a heightened focus on the relationship between Rob and Marian.

In the series, following the Norman invasion of England, Rob (Patten) – a Saxon forester’s son – and Marian, the daughter of a Norman lord – fall in love and work together to fight for justice and freedom. As Rob rises as the leader of a band of rebel outlaws, Marian infiltrates the power at court, as both work together to thwart royal corruption and bring peace to the land.

Bean will play the Sheriff of Nottingham who is envisioned as a statesman, a strategist, and a builder of Nottingham itself. A loving father, a politician,...

Daniel Day-Lewis as Count Dracula? In another world, director Robert Eggers' "Nosferatu" could've given us just that.

"Nosferatu" evokes images of silent movie actor Max Shreck in a bald cap and pointed ears as he played the vampire Count Orlok. But in Eggers' new "Nosferatu," Orlok actor Bill Skarsgård looks nothing like that — or himself, even.

Similar to Skarsgård's performance as Pennywise in "It," he totally submits himself over to the character, disappearing behind make-up and (in "Nosferatu") an echo effect on his voice. I agree wholeheartedly with /Film's Chris Evangelista that when you watch Skarsgård's Orlok, you don't feel as if you're seeing a performance, but a true evil walking on screen. In that way, it's the most fully inhabited villain performance I can recall since Heath Ledger's Joker in "The Dark Knight."

Now, this can all sound like a backhanded compliment, treating Skarsgård as a mere stand-in...

Exclusive: Following the success of their Western Old Henry, which the National Board of Review named one of the Top Ten Independent Films of 2021, Hideout Pictures is back in the saddle with The Isolate Thief, a new Western to star Sean Bean (Lord of the Rings franchise), Mackenzie Foy (Interstellar), and Odeya Rush (Lady Bird).

Directed by John Suits (3022), the film is set at the close of the U.S. Civil War, as a young woman struggles to conceal the gold she stole from a group of violent outlaws who have seized control of her remote outpost. As the men relentlessly hunt for the treasure, she must outwit and deceive the ruthless bandits at every turn. Amid a deadly winter, survival transforms into a perilous game of cunning and betrayal.

Suits called the film “a story about resilience, survival, and the strength it takes to outlast the harshest odds—both from nature and humanity,...

Brian Cox reflects on Daniel Day-Lewis' method acting and how it affected their 1997 movie. Daniel Day-Lewis' method acting is well-known, with the actor fully immersing himself in the roles he plays. This approach has resulted in numerous performances that garnered critical acclaim, leading to six Academy Award nominations for Best Actor, and three wins. He first won Best Actor for his performance as Christy Brown in the 1989 movie My Left Foot, in which he plays a man born with cerebral palsy who is only able to move his left foot.

Day-Lewis' other Academy Award wins are for playing oilman Daniel Planview in Paul Thomas Anderson's 2007 movie There Will Be Blood and as Abraham Lincoln in Steven Spielberg's 2012 biopic Lincoln. His last movie, Phantom Thread, in which he reunited with Anderson and received an Academy Award nomination, marked the final role before his retirement. However, Day-Lewis is coming out...