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Triangle Of Sadness Wins Palme d’Or At Cannes, Park Chan-Wook Wins Best Director If you’re like me, you’ve been paying close attention to the Cannes Film Festival so that you know which films to check out once they get a wider release. The festival’s in-house awards will help narrow your watchlist. The highest prize at Cannes since 1955 is the Palme d’Or, and the 2022 Palme winner,announced on Saturday, May 28, was"Triangle of Sadness,“the latest from Swedish director Ruben Östlund....

TV Bits: ‘American Horror Story: 1984’, ‘Hyperdrive’, ‘Ballers’, Whispers Of A ‘Happy Endings’ Revival, And More In this edition of TV Bits: Always stay together.#AHS1984premieres Sept. 18 on@FXNetworks. Who will escape Camp Redwood? See who’s left @https://t.co/OkCZnDWocWpic.twitter.com/gHmPlBL7E9 — AmericanHorrorStory (@AHSFX)July 08, 2025 Hung out to dry.https://t.co/OkCZnDEMOm#AHS1984pic.twitter.com/MWegv0RWXQ — AmericanHorrorStory (@AHSFX)July 25, 2025 A slasher stalks his prey in recent teasers forAmerican Horror Story: 1984, the newest season ofRyan Murphy’s anthology horror series....

TV Bits: ‘Breaking Bad’, ‘Legned Of Korra’, ‘Falling Skies’, ‘Firefly’, ‘Homeland’, ‘Dexter’, ‘Arrested Development’ There’s a ton of TV tidbits to plow through today, some of it Con-related and some of it not. After the jump: Bryan Cranstonsuggestedrecently that aBreaking Badmovie sequel was “not far-fetched,” but it seems creatorVince Gilligandoesn’t feel the same way. “God bless him for his enthusiasm,” said Gilligan. “But I don’t know how to do that at this point....

What’s This? A Queer Reading Of ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’ (Welcome toQueering the Scene, a series that explores LGBTQ themes and content in films of all kinds…especially where you least expect it.)The Nightmare Before Christmashas been the source of great debate and contention for decades. In the 26 years since its release, it’s ruined friendships, torn families asunder, and stoked the flames of sibling rivalries across the globe over this one conundrum: is it a Christmas or Halloween film?...

“For The Moment The Door Is Closed” For Spider-Man’s Return To The MCU, Sony Pictures CEO Says After Jon Favreaugave fans a little bit of hopeabout the possibility of Spider-Man maybe, perhaps, possibly, conceivably returning to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Sony Pictures CEOTony Vinciquerrahas seemingly put the nail in the coffin on that thought – for now, anyway. Speaking at Variety’s Entertainment and Technology summit, Vinciquerra said, “for the moment the door is closed” regarding Spider-Man’s reunion with his MCU pals, and he commented that it’s been “an interesting couple of weeks” since word first surfaced about the character’s split from Disney’s Marvel Studios....

‘A Field In England’ Trailer And Poster: A 17th Century Mind Trip By Ben Wheatley It’s not likeDown Terrace,Kill List, andSightseerswere safe and conventional to begin with, butBen Wheatley’s latest feature is by all accounts his weirdest yet. A quick glance at the new trailer, and you’ll see exactly what we mean. Set during the English Civil War,A Field in Englandcenters around a group of soldiers who follow an alchemist on his search for treasure....

‘A Wrinkle In Time’ Movie Photos: Ava DuVernay Wraps Filming If you’re not following directorAva DuVernayon Twitter, you’re missing out – few filmmakers are as generous and enlightening on their social media. The extraordinarily talented director ofSelmaand13thjust wrapped production on her big-budget adaptation of Madeleine L’Engle’s science fiction adventureA Wrinkle in Timeand she took to Twitter to celebrate, honoring her cast and crew while sharing a whole bunch of A Wrinkle In Time movie photos from the set....

‘Bad Boys’ TV Spin-Off With Gabrielle Union Ordered By NBC [Updated] Update:The Hollywood Reportersays NBC has given a formal pilot order to this still-untitled show, and some new details about the plot have come to light. Those new details can be found at the bottom of our original article from October 2017, which begins below. Plans forBad Boys 3may have stalled, but there’s may still be some more action yet in the form of a new Bad Boys TV spin-off....

‘Beauty And The Beast’ Sneak Peek: Emma Watson And Dan Stevens Share A Moment This year marks the 25th anniversary of the animatedBeauty and the Beast, and Disney’s taking this opportunity to remind you they’ve also got a live-actionBeauty and the Beastcoming our way next year. The studio has just released a sneak peek at the new film, featuring starsEmma WatsonandDan Stevensand directorBill Condon. Check it out below. Here’s theBeauty and the Beastsneak peek, which is included in the bonus features for the animatedBeauty and the Beast’s upcoming home video release....

‘Blade Runner’ Prequel/Sequel Rights Acquired By Warner Bros Warner Bros-based Alcon Entertainment (the financing and production company behindThe Blind SideandThe Book of Eli) are in final discussions to secure film, television and ancillary franchise rights to produce prequels and sequels toRidley Scott’s iconic 1982 science-fiction filmBlade Runner. Not many details are known about the situation, but we have been told the following: Alcon’s franchise rights would be all-inclusive, but exclude rights to remake the original....

‘Bumblebee’ Featurette: Generation 1 ‘Transformers’ Designs Aim For Redemption TheTransformersfranchise from Paramount Pictures saw a great deal of box office success, but it certainly wasn’t something that most fans of the original animated series and Hasbro toys found themselves loving. A large part of that disconnect came from the designs of the Transformers themselves, which went more for industrial realism by having hundreds of moving parts rather than adhering to any previous designs that fans loved....

‘Dune’ Adaptation Seeking New Director And A Start Date By Spring 2011 Rights holders for big genre, comic book and toy properties are getting smart. In the past few decades we’ve seen many potentially huge adaptations languish as studios and producers waffled about finding the right approach to a project. But in the wake of big-dollar successes fromLord of the RingstoSpider-ManandThe Dark Knight, companies such as Hasbro and the rights holders for projects likeDuneare demanding new contracts, levying fines for delayed production starts and refusing to grant option extensions to studios that can’t get a project off the ground....

‘Ghost Draft’ Hoping To Draft Betty Gilpin And J.K. Simmons Alongside Chris Pratt Ghost Draft, a sci-fi thriller featuring alien invasions, time travel, andChris Pratt, is looking to add a few new cast members:Betty Gilpin,J.K. Simmons, andSam Richardson. Gilpin and Richardson’s roles remain a secret, but Simmons would likely be playing Pratt’s father.Chris McKay, the filmmaker behindThe LEGO Batman Movie, is directing from a script byZach Dean. Chris Pratt hasn’t had the best of luck in live-action films outside of the Marvel orJurassic Parkuniverses....