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Netflix plans to boost content investment to roughly $20 billion in 2026, signaling renewed spending even as artificial intelligence trims some production costs. The move ...
20 July 2026
ByDeclan Shore
Ruari Spooner, the young actor set to play Percy Weasley in HBO’s forthcoming Harry Potter adaptation, has signed on to a new Irish coming-of-age comedy ...
19 July 2026
London’s summer recess has suddenly become the pivotal moment for one of the year’s biggest media deals. A pause in parliamentary business has put the ...
18 July 2026
Brenda Fricker, the Irish actress whose screen work ranged from intimate drama to family blockbusters, has died after a period of ill health, her agent ...
17 July 2026
A small coming-of-age drama that found an audience on Letterboxd is headed for wider release: Antenna Releasing has picked up North American rights to Lemonade ...
15 July 2026
Prime Video’s new prequel series Elle reopens the story of Elle Woods for a younger generation, but the show’s creative identity remains closely tied to ...
14 July 2026
Hugh Jackman says he intends to keep wearing the claws as long as Marvel Studios will have him, a commitment that keeps the actor at ...
13 July 2026
The director of the Minions franchise has brushed off a persistent fan question about where the yellow henchmen were during World War II, insisting the ...
12 July 2026
Veteran film producer Moritz Borman died on July 1 in Munich at age 71 while on location for his latest project, a loss that immediately ...
11 July 2026
Two recognizable faces from film and television are reuniting behind a tense new project: Ron Perlman and Teri Polo will lead director Aida Gevorgyan’s psychological ...
10 July 2026
Production has begun on Thank You Mr. Brown, a feature documentary about Garrett Brown — the engineer and camera operator whose tools rewrote how movies ...
9 July 2026
Jodie Foster says artificial intelligence is already woven into Hollywood’s methods — and she points to the high-profile racing film F1 as evidence. Her comments ...
8 July 2026
The Munich International Film Festival is unfolding as a crossroads for German cinema and an increasingly international industry hub. With high-profile guests and recent accreditation ...
7 July 2026
Walt Disney Animation’s Zootopia 2 cleared the $1 billion mark worldwide in just 17 days, a rapid climb that underscores how animated franchises continue to ...
6 July 2026
The global media map is shifting again this week as regulatory scrutiny in Europe throws a wrench into a massive U.S. takeover, while signs of ...
5 July 2026
As the United States marks its 250th year, a new PBS documentary is using modern tools to reframe neglected stories from the Revolutionary era. Declarations: ...
3 July 2026
Fans of the 2001 hit Legally Blonde got a moment to celebrate in New York this weekend as the film’s original cast reunited while a ...
2 July 2026
At Prime Video’s Elle World reunion on Saturday, Jennifer Coolidge surprised the crowd by saying she originally believed she was trying out for the film’s ...
1 July 2026
This weekend’s indie slate reinforced a simple fact for theaters: well-timed releases and artist-led events still draw audiences. At New York’s IFC Center, John Early’s ...
30 June 2026
Aardman celebrated its half-century at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival on Sunday, using a masterclass to look back at its roots and forward to ...
29 June 2026
The 12th Bentonville Film Festival wrapped today, closing a multiday program that crowned winners across fiction, documentary and episodic categories after Saturday night’s awards. The ...
28 June 2026
The Annecy International Animation Film Festival opened with a bang on Sunday as Illumination unveiled the world premiere of Minions & Monsters, and filmmaker Guillermo ...
27 June 2026
The fallout from a police search that rocked a small Kansas town is now the subject of a prize-winning documentary, thrusting a local controversy into ...
26 June 2026
Paris-based studio Good Hero has kicked off production on Ballerina 2, beginning work this month as the original film approaches its tenth anniversary — a ...
25 June 2026
Freelancers who worked on a modern take of Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey are preparing legal action after the project collapsed in pre-production, leaving several crew ...
24 June 2026
