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In the Argentine Pampas, cousins Guillermina and Belinda cannot wait to grow up. When they are not swimming in the river and dancing through the long, breezy afternoons, they re-enact funeral ceremonies and feign surgery on dead animals. This quotidian desire to accelerate the in

“I would never fall in love if I was in a good relationship.” So says one participant in the women’s church group where Copenhagen-based wife and mother Kate (Kathrine Thorborg Johansen) confesses that she’s been having a three-year affair with another man, and doesn’t much regre

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for the Season 3 finale of “House of the Dragon,” now streaming on HBO Max. At last, Lord Ormund Hightower (James Norton) is no more. And he’s just one of countless casualties in the “House of the Dragon” Season 3 finale during the cl

If there’s anything Phoebe Bridgers knows how to do, it’s land a punch line. There are a lot of them in “Lost Weekend,” her first solo record in six years, and she doesn’t waste any time in getting to the first of the album’s many great jokes. Possibly the most quotable couplet c

When “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma” director Jane Schoenbrun described their vision for the bloody one-take sequence in which Little Death (Jack Haven) massacres an entire summer camp — all set to Counting Crows’ 1996 rock ballad “A Long December” — they said it should fe

LOCARNO, Switzerland —  Cross ocean love story “Spring Story” and false miracle comedy “The Surubí,” won big at Locarno’s 2026 pix-in-post First Look focus on Uruguay, sharing its top five prizes at a Sunday evening awards ceremony.  The industry awards went to two of its most su

Spidey keeps climbing… and climbing… and climbing at the box office. “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” has amassed a heroic $1.67 billion after just 12 days in theaters, including $1.01 billion internationally and $655 million domestically. It’s the second-fastest movie to reach the bi

Chilean duo Cristobal León and Joaquín Cociña made a dream nightmare debut with “The Wolf House,” a stop-motion fantasy that turned heads both with its wholly original design — incorporating claymation, puppetry and papier-mâché to palpably handmade but immersively surreal effect

The fight against the Islamic State has been give the Hollywood-style revenge thriller treatment in Halkawt Mustafa’s “No Paradise if You Are Killed by a Woman,” as revealed by the film’s first teaser trailer. The feature — which will have it world premiere out of competition at

Netflix has started production on a sequel to “Ad Vitam,” its 2025 French action thriller starring Guillaume Canet. The sequel has the working title “Ad Vitam Eternam,” which is Latin for “to eternal life.” Canet is returning as Franck Lazareff, a former operator for the GIGN, th

Latin Quarter Distribution has acquired world sales rights to José Dell’Acqua’s Uruguayan crime thriller “Maltrato Animal” (“Animal Budget”). The deal was closed after a screening of “Maltrato Animal” at Locarno’s First Look, a pix-in-post competition focused on rough-cut screeni

In the Argentine Pampas, cousins Guillermina and Belinda cannot wait to grow up. When they are not swimming in the river and dancing through the long, breezy afternoons, they re-enact funeral ceremonies and feign surgery on dead animals. This quotidian desire to accelerate the in

“I would never fall in love if I was in a good relationship.” So says one participant in the women’s church group where Copenhagen-based wife and mother Kate (Kathrine Thorborg Johansen) confesses that she’s been having a three-year affair with another man, and doesn’t much regre

Indian yogi and mystic Sadhguru is teaming with Graphic India on “Shiva: The Adiyogi,” an animated feature retelling the origin story of Hindu God Shiva as the first yogi. Sadhguru and Sharad Devarajan share story credit on the film. Graphic India is the studio behind India’s ani

Sony’s “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” has become the highest-grossing Hollywood film in India, dethroning “Avatar: The Way of Water.” A $10.6 million weekend boosted the “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” India total to $52.8 million, according to Sony. “Avatar: The Way of Water” had a lif

Less than one year after the producers met at the Locarno Film Festival’s Alliance 4 Development co-development platform, “Primo Viaggio,” produced by Italy’s Sacher Film and France’s Halley Production, has wrapped after shooting on location in Naples, Málaga and Marseille betwee

Filmotor has picked up world sales rights for “Letters From the Silenced Country” by Belarusian writer-director Andrei Kutsila, which has its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival. The partly animated documentary, screening in the Venice Open – Out of Competition section, is

Excel Entertainment is marking its 25th anniversary with the launch of “Excel Origins,” an initiative from co-founders Ritesh Sidhwani and Farhan Akhtar dedicated to discovering, developing and backing the next generation of Indian filmmakers under 30. Sidhwani and Akhtar were 26