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Five leading men made the cut for Best Actor at the 2025 Oscars: Adrien Brody (The Brutalist), Timothée Chalamet (A Complete Unknown), Colman Domingo (Sing Sing), Ralph Fiennes (Conclave), and Sebastian Stan (The Apprentice). But who will score the statuette come March 2?

After the nominations were announced, five top Oscar experts from major media outlets debated their winner predictions for Best Actor: Gold Derby’s Debra Birnbaum, Variety‘s Clayton Davis, The Hollywood Reporter‘s Scott Feinberg, Deadline’s Pete Hammond, and Indiewire’s Anne Thompson. Watch their full Oscars roundtable above.

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“I am really torn here,” says Feinberg. “Obviously we’ve seen already at the Globes appreciation for Adrien Brody, and well-deserved. He certainly bit off the most to have to chew of any of these guys. Three-and-a-half hours where he’s basically in every moment, over years and years of this guy’s life. It’s amazing.

The Cocaine Bear is dead. Long live the Meth Gator. Production company The Asylum, which is known for such cinematic classics as Ape vs. Mecha Ape, Android Cop, Mega Shark Versus Mecha Shark, Avengers Grimm: Time Wars, and, of course, the Sharknado series, is ready to unleash another drug-fueled beast upon the world in the form of the Meth Gator. In what's sure to be a masterpiece creature feature, Meth Gator promises to bring even more chaos than last years Cocaine Bear, from which The Asylums latest blockbuster triumph takes inspiration. You can check out the synopsis and trailer for Meth Gator below (via 3 Gates Productions).

Police warn residents to refrain from flushing methamphetamine down the toilet to prevent meth-gators. In Sweet Water Point, Florida, they didnt listen.

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Sundance Institute has laid off nearly a dozen staffers across its departments, representing about 6% of its 180-strong workforce, Deadline has confirmed. The cuts are part of a three- to five-year strategic plan to strengthen the organization amid a challenging economic landscape.

Founded by Robert Redford in 1981, the nonprofit institute runs the annual Sundance Film Festival in Park City — which will run January 19-28 next year — along with labs, fellowships and mentorships that support more than 1,000 artists each year. It also hosts many public programs in the U.S. and around the world.

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The Sundance film fest returned to an in-person event in 2023 after two years away from Park City, bringing deals, cash and some hope to a thawing post-Covid market.

Matt Grobar contributed to this report.

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Thirty years ago now, Steven Speilberg's iconic sci-fi film based on Michael Crichton's novel of the name, Jurassic Park, brought dinosaurs back from the dead and to the big screen to the absolute amazement of all, beginning a cinematic franchise and cementing itself a classic. The film takes place in the '90s, on a small island where the wealthy visionary John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) is in the final stages of opening his prehistoric-themed Jurassic Park, featuring real breathing dinosaurs, created using the blood of dinosaurs found in a mosquito fossilized in amber millions of years ago. Hammond is so close to fulfilling the dreams of "the children of the world."

Unfortunately, the park faces a lawsuit due to the death of one of the workers on the island, and to be cleared for opening, Hammond must gain the approval of paleontologist Alan Grant (Sam Neill), paleobotanist Ellie Sattler...

Cocaine Bear (read our review Here) screenwriter Jimmy Warden has said that he has ideas for multiple sequels to the film, and some movie-goers have already let it be known that they’re hoping and waiting for a movie that would be called Cocaine Shark. But while we wait to see if Cocaine Bear is going to spawn a franchise, the mockbuster masters at The Asylum have unveiled a poster of the mockbuster they have made to cash in on the Cocaine Bear hype: a movie called Attack of the Meth Gator! An exact release date hasn’t been announced, but we can expect to see Attack of the Meth Gator sometime this summer.

We can only assume that Attack of the Meth Gator is going to be about an alligator going on a killing spree after consuming meth, much like Cocaine Bear is about a bear going on a killing spree after consuming cocaine.

The first time Cecil B. DeMille parted the waters of the Red Sea, to film the 1923 version of The Ten Commandments, he did it at Seal Beach, CA, just 30 miles down the Pacific coast from Santa Monica. Three decades later, when Paramount Pictures decided to remake the Old Testament tale in Technicolor and VistaVision, the same director returned to do it again, only this time on location on the Sinai Peninsula with thousands of extras provided by the Egyptian army — no matter that the country’s military was rather busy with urgent geopolitical matters at the time. Both versions were massive hits, with the remake serving as the capper to DeMille’s illustrious career.

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Holt McCallany, Aunjanue Ellis and Killian Scott have been tapped as series regulars opposite Courtney B. Vance in AMC’s courtroom drama series 61st Street from BAFTA-winner Peter Moffat. Andrene Ward-Hammond will recur in the series, executive produced by Jordan and and produced by AMC Studios.

Ordered as a two-season television event with eight episodes per season, 61st Street is slated to begin production next month in Chicago for a 2022 premiere. It reunites Ellis and Vance who co-star together on HBO’s Lovecraft Country.

61st Street is a timely and relevant story that echoes projects such as Just Mercy, Clemency as well as When They See Us which earned Ellis an Emmy nomination. It follows Moses Johnson (Tosin Cole), a promising black high school athlete who is swept up into the infamously corrupt Chicago criminal justice system.

Making movies is hard. We should know – we write articles about them and we imagine actually making them is two, maybe three, times as hard (Ok, maybe a lot more).

There’s so many things to be dealing with, ranging from making sure catering are going to be able to provide a varied diet for the crew and that you have actors who can give the work the depth it requires. Of course, it’s very easy to take the easy route – make a product placement deal with Dominos that sees pizzas delivered to the set every day and hire Nicolas Cage.

The one place you’d imagine films wouldn’t skimp is in the creative department. The purpose of the whole enterprise is, after all, to make something entertaining for the audience. Except too often an overt focus on money takes over and a film simply steals entire swathes...