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The musical crime film by Jacques Audiard made history this year at the Academy Awards by receiving 13 nominations, including Best Picture and Best Actress for Karla Sofía Gascón. Gascón is the first openly trans woman to have been nominated for the honor, and many were speculating that the film and crew would win big at the awards.

Karla Sofía Gascón in Emilia Pérez | Credit: Pathé

However, such a feat seems difficult now that Karla Sofía Gascón’s old tweets have resurfaced causing a nightmare for the film. Truly racist and objectionable, one of her tweets even attacked the Oscars for their diversity.

Karla Sofía Gascón causes controversy after receiving her first Oscar nomination Karla Sofía Gasćon has already won several awards for Emilia Pérez | Credit: Instagram / @karsiagascon

Karla Sofía Gascón made history when she was nominated for the Best Actress Oscar for her role in Emilia Pérez. While...

Emilia Pérez star and Best Actress nominee Karla Sofia Gascón has apologized after several offensive social media posts she wrote resurfaced online on Thursday.

“I want to acknowledge the conversation around my past social media posts that have caused hurt,” Gascón said. “As someone in a marginalized community, I know this suffering all too well, and I am deeply sorry to those I have caused pain. All my life, I have fought for a better world. I believe light will always triumph over darkness.”

Gascón, who made history last week as the first openly trans woman nominated for Best Actress, came under fire for multiple social media posts that included inflammatory language about Muslims, George Floyd, diverse Oscar winners, and even the coronavirus.

In a since-deleted post from Nov. 22, 2020, Gascón wrote, “I’m sorry. Is it just my impression, or are there more Muslims in Spain? Every time I go...

For the past dozen years, the eventual Oscar winner for Best Supporting Actor has hailed from a Best Picture nominee. But that streak could finally end this year, based on Gold Derby’s predictions.

Kieran Culkin is the odds-on frontrunner to win Best Supporting Actor for his performance in A Real Pain. He plays Benjamin “Benji” Kaplan, who embarks on a roadtrip through Poland with his cousin, David Kaplan (Jesse Eisenberg), following the death of their grandmother. The Searchlight Pictures film also received a Best Original Screenplay nomination for Eisenberg, who directed, wrote, produced, and starred in the project, but it was snubbed in Best Picture.

Culkin has dominated the precursor awards and should he prevail at the Oscars, he would end a 12-year streak that began after Christopher Plummer won for Beginners (2011). Plummer notably claimed this award at age 82, making him the oldest acting winner at that time (an...

Hollywood’s biggest night? More like Hollywood’s messiest secret. The Oscars aren’t just about glitz and glam; they hide a darker side. Behind the golden statues and teary speeches, a tangled web of politics, personal grudges, and backroom deals runs the show.

A screengrab of the Oscars thumbnail | Credits: YouTube/Clanhold Cinema

Votes are cast, but merit, not always. Campaigning turns into a high-stakes game, and favoritism often eclipses talent. Those shiny awards aren’t always earned fair and square.

Oscars exposed: Glitz, glam, and a whole lot of sham The journey to Oscars 2025 has already begun | Image by Greg Hernandez, licensed under Cc 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Hollywood’s coveted award is a sham, or so the critics say.

Long considered the pinnacle of filmmaking achievement, the Oscars might just be the messiest popularity contest on planet Earth. Sure, those statues sparkle, but the system behind them? Nah,...

Mark your calendars, Oscars fans, because the 97th Academy Awards will air on Sunday, March 2, 2025 on ABC. The annual star-studded ceremony will honor movies released in theaters within the 2024 calendar year of eligibility. AMPAS members will vote on the Oscar winners in 23 categories, including Best Supporting Actor. But who will win? Here at Gold Derby, thousands of users have been making and updating their 2025 Oscar predictions for Best Supporting Actor, so let’s take a look at all of the top contenders in our photo gallery below.

These 25 Best Supporting Actor hopefuls are listed in order of their racetrack odds, which are derived from the combined forecasts of four unique groups: experts we’ve polled from major media outlets, editors who cover awards year-round for this website, top 24 users who had the best accuracy scores last year, and the mass of users who make up our biggest predictions bloc.

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Sundance Film Festival has announced the 16 jurors heading into the festival launch on January 23, with Critics’ Week artistic director Ava Cahen,Celine Song, and Daniel Kaluuya among those taking part.

Song, whose Oscar-nominated Past Lives premiered in Park City in 2023, joins Bob Marley: One Love director Reinaldo Marcus Green, and Iranian-born Succession actor Arian Moayed as U.S. Dramatic Competition jurors.

Serving on the corresponding documentary jury are Steven Bognar, director of Sundance 2019 selection American Factory, Higher Ground head of film and TV Vinnie Malhotra, and Marcia Smith, who is president of the non-profit Firelight Media that advocates for documentary filmmakers of colour.

The 2025 Sundance Film Festival announced its 16-member jury on Tuesday, which is set to include “Bob Marley: One Love” director Reinaldo Marcus Green, actors Daniel Kaluuya (“Judas and the Black Messiah”) and Elijah Wood (“The Lord of the Rings” trilogy) and more.

Green, along with “Succession” actor Arian Moayed and “Past Lives” filmmaker Celine Song, will handle the U.S. Dramatic Competition. Oscar- and Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Steven Bognar (“American Factory”), producer Vinnie Malhotra and Marcia Smith will oversee the U.S. Documentary Competition.

Heading up the World Cinema Dramatic Competition are Ava Cahen, Wanuri Kahiu and Kaluuya. Daniela Alatorre, Laura Kim and Kevin Macdonald will oversee the World Cinema Documentary Competition.

Kaniehtiio Horn, Maggie Mackay, and Kibwe Tavares will oversee the Short Film Program Competition, while Wood will handle the Next section.

The jury for the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize deliberated ahead of the festival and awarded the prize to “Sally,...

The 2025 Sundance Film Festival has unveiled its buzzy Beyond Film lineup with top filmmakers in attendance.

The Beyond Film program will take place in-person from January 24-31; the festival films will become available to audiences across the country on the online Festival Platform throughout the week. The festival will take place from January 23 to February 2 in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah.

Highlights of the Beyond Film panels include conversations with Chloë Sevigny — who appears in two Sundance 2025 films, “Atropia” and “Magic Farm” — Olivia Colman (“Jimpa”), Marlee Matlin (“Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore”), and Steven Yeun, who stars in and produces “Bubble & Squeak.”

“Past Lives” writer/director Celine Song, Daniel Kaluuya, and “Guardians of the Galaxy” writer Nicole Perlman are also among the panelists. A live podcast recording of Elijah Wood and Daniel Noah’s “Visitations” will additionally take place; Wood and Noah both produce “Rabbit Trap,” which premieres at the festival.

The Sundance Film Festival has unveiled the 2025 lineup for its Beyond Film series of talks and events.

Notables participating, with films in the festival, include Chloë Sevigny, Olivia Colman, Steven Yeun and Marlee Matlin, to name just a few. Celine Song, the Oscar-nominated filmmaker behind Past Lives, and Oscar-winning actor Daniel Kaluuya (Judas and the Black Messiah) will also be on hand.

Beyond Film talks fall under the program strands of Power of Story, Cinema Café, Film Church, and The Big Conversation, all of which are free to attend, with the exception of Power of Story. Talks will take place in person from January 24–31, 2025, with most offerings to be available to audiences online the day following the in-person event.

Sundance announced just this morning that the festival will, in fact, move forward this year,...

When it comes to superhero portrayals, fans often end up associating the actor and the character with one another. So much so that it is hard to see one without the other, and Chadwick Boseman is one such actor. Having achieved global stardom with his portrayal of Black Panther in the MCU, the actor tragically lost his life to colon cancer in 2020.

Chadwick Boseman as Black Panther | Credit: Marvel Studios

Since then, his character has even been killed off in the MCU. But for years, fans have been demanding another Black Panther and it seems that Marvel Studios is finally ready to recast the character for Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars. Well, if they do, here are three actors who can surely live up to the legacy of the late actor and fill up his shoes.

1. Aldis Hodge Aldis Hodge | Credit: Black Adam / Warner Bros.

One of the most...

Nominations voting is from January 8-12, 2025, with official Oscar nominations announced January 17, 2025. Final voting is February 11-18, 2025. And finally, the 97th Oscars telecast will be broadcast on Sunday, March 2 and air live on ABC at 7:00 p.m. Et/ 4:00 p.m. Pt. We update our picks through awards season, so keep checking IndieWire for all our 2025 Oscar predictions.

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First things first, if there was any major snub to happen upon the Oscar shortlists being released, it is “Beautiful That Way” by Miley Cyrus, co-written with Lykke Li and Andrew Wyatt, not making the cut for Best Original Song. The track from “The Last Showgirl” not only received Golden Globes and Critics Choice Awards nominations, but just received an awards nomination from the Society of Composers and Lyricists as well, which does actually consist of Music branch members of the Academy. To our knowledge, however,...

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This December, Paramount+ is bringing you a ton of entertainment with the highly anticipated new series in the Dexter universe alongside a ton of great shows and movies. However, for the purposes of this article, we are only including the films that are coming to Paramount+ this month and have a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score. So, check out the 13 best films coming to Paramount+ in December 2024 with a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score.

Boogie Nights (December 1) Rotten Tomatoes Score: 94% Credit – New Line Cinema

Boogie Nights is a period coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. The 1997 film is set in Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley, and it follows Eddie Adams, a young nightclub dishwasher who became a big name in the adult film industry in the 1970s. Boogie Nights stars Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore,...

$3.8 billion. That’s the amount of money Clint Eastwood’s films have grossed at the North American box office throughout his career. A superstar since the 1960s, Eastwood is rare in that almost all of his biggest blockbusters, including all the Dirty Harry movies, were all made for Warner Bros. It’s been his home studio since about the time he made The Outlaw Josey Wales. He’s made everything from Oscar-winners to action movies, to movies where he’s chilling with his pal Clyde the Orangutan for them, and they almost always ended up at least breaking even. Sure, he’s had a few flops, but even in his golden years, he still cranked out smash hits for them, with American Sniper making over half a billion dollars, while The Mule and Sully both made over $100 million domestically. Even when his movies didn’t do well, Eastwood keeps his...

Netflix film executive Niija Kuykendall is leaving the streamer after three years.

She joined in October 2021 as VP of film, where she oversaw a new department focusing on mid-sized holiday, faith-based and young adult movies. Netflix didn’t give a reason for her departure but confirmed she’ll be exiting the company at the end of the year.

“Niija’s creative relationships with established and upcoming filmmakers, like Tyler Perry, Denzel and Malcolm Washington, and David Yates, have had a great impact on our film slate,” Netflix’s film VP Doug Belgrad said in a statement. “I want to thank her for her many contributions, including films such as ‘The Piano Lesson,’ ‘The Deliverance,’ ‘The Six Triple Eight,’ ‘Pain Hustlers’ and ‘Mea Culpa.’”

Kuykendall was hired by Netflix’s former film chief Scott Stuber, who was replaced earlier this year by Dan Lin. In Lin’s first month on the job,...

Netflix film executive Niija Kuykendall is departing the company after three years.

The vp film joined the streaming service in October 2021 and managed faith-based, young adult and holiday features. She will exit at the end of the year following a transitional period.

Her forthcoming slate includes Tyler Perry’s The Six Triple Eight, starring Kerry Washington in the story of the only Women’s Army Corps unit of color during World War II, and first-time director Malcolm Washington’s The Piano Lesson, an August Wilson play adaptation.

“Niija’s creative relationships with established and upcoming filmmakers, like Tyler Perry, Denzel and Malcolm Washington, and David Yates, have had a great impact on our film slate,” Netflix vp of film Doug Belgrad said in a statement. “I want to thank her for her many contributions, including films such as The Piano Lesson, The Deliverance, The Six Triple Eight, Pain Hustlers and Mea Culpa.

Lakeith Stanfield made his feature debut just over a decade ago, but in the years since, he's put together a career that would be notable for an actor working in Hollywood twice as long. He's made a name for himself on both television and the big screen, working in a variety of different genres and with exciting up-and-coming directors. With his penetrating stare and off-kilter sense of humor, Stanfield is an undeniably distinctive screen presence, and he's becoming one of the most fascinating actors of his generation. Over the course of his career, he's also gathered a collection of accolades, including an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor in 2021 for his work in "Judas and the Black Messiah."

Although almost all of his performances are noteworthy in one way or another, there are a few that stand out as the best of the best. Here, we've assembled the most interesting...

Movies based on hit video games have been notoriously difficult to get right, but Hit-Monkey creators Will Speck and Josh Gordon have their sights set on adapting The Oregon Trail. Originally created in 1971, the adventure game was initially developed as an educational tool to teach middle school students about 19th-century pioneer life. Renowned for its frequently dark and often amusing outcomes, it would become synonymous with having its players repeatedly die of dysentery. Over the years, the game has seen countless remakes and spinoffs created, with a PlayStation 5 edition released as recently as February 2024.

Per The Hollywood Reporter, Speck and Gordon have been tapped by Apple Studios to direct and produce a movie adaptation of The Oregon Trail based on a script penned by screenwriters and comedians The Lucas Bros. (Judas and the Black Messiah) and Max Reisman. The movie adaptation is also reported to feature original musical numbers in the vein of 2023s Barbie,...

Apple Original Films is set to develop “Oregon Trail,” an action/comedy feature, which is in early development. It will be produced by Egot winners Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, via their Ampersand production banner, and directed and produced by Will Speck and Josh Gordon, according to an insider with knowledge of the project.

Based on the popular video game franchise, which is owned by HarperCollins, the script will be written by The Lucas Bros. and Max Reisman. In 2021, Apple Arcade launched an official successor and modern twist to “The Oregon Trail.” The global phenomenon video game continues to be highly rated, and is available to play on Apple Arcade.

Caroline Fraser will produce for HarperCollins Productions. Kevin K. Vafi will also serve as producer.

Speck and Gordon most recently directed Sony’s live-action musical adaptation of the children’s book “Lyle Lyle Crocodile.” They are also the creators and...

Dysentery is coming to the big screen! Apple Original Films is officially set to develop “Oregon Trail,” an action/comedy feature that will be produced by Egot-winners Benj Pasek and Justin Paul via their Ampersand production banner, and directed and produced by Will Speck and Josh Gordon.

Based on the popular video game franchise, which is owned by HarperCollins, the script will be written by The Lucas Bros. and Max Reisman. Caroline Fraser will produce for HarperCollins Productions, and Kevin K. Vafi will also serve as producer.

Speck and Gordon most recently directed Sony’s live-action musical adaptation of the children’s book “Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile.” They are also the creators and showrunners of the Hulu/Marvel series “Hit Monkey,” which stars Jason Sudeikis and recently premiered its second season The pair’s other credits include “Blades of Glory,” “The Switch” and “Office Christmas Party.”

Songwriters and producers Pasek and...

Grab your wagons and oxen, and get ready to ford a river: A movie adaptation of the popular grade school computer game Oregon Trail is in development at Apple.

The studio landed the film pitch, still in early development, that has Will Speck and Josh Gordon attached to direct and produce. Egot winners Benj Pasek and Justin Paul will provide original music and produce via their Ampersand production banner. Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that the movie will feature a couple of original musical numbers in the vein of Barbie.

The Lucas Bros. (Judas and the Black Messiah) and Max Reisman are set to pen the screenplay about the game that is meant to mimic 19th-century pioneer times, following a covered wagon train heading west. Created in 1971, the game reached cult status among American grade schoolers by the 1990s as one of the first educational computer games allowed in schools...

Could Ridley Scott ride an overdue narrative to an Oscar win? Who or what will be the shocking snub or nomination this season? Gold Derby editors and experts Christopher Rosen and Joyce Eng are here to answer your burning questions of the week.

Since “Gladiator II” has screened for press this week, Scott has surged to sixth place in the Best Director odds. The four-time Oscar nominee has an inconsistent track record at the Oscars and was surprisingly snubbed the last time he was firmly in a race, for 2015’s “The Martian.” But in a field that lacks a marquee name of the top contenders and with the possibility of “Dune: Part Two’s” Denis Villeneuve being snubbed again, will voters feel inclined to vote for the soon-to-be 87-year-old?

See Experts slugfest mailbag: ‘Saturday Night,’ ‘Here,’ and a third Oscar for Denzel Washington?

Scott’s snub for “The Martian” was...

Biography is undoubtedly one of the most popular genres in existence, because people just love to watch a Wikipedia page come to life in live-action format. But as someone who has flunked his history exams quite a few times, I don’t like a by-the-numbers chronicling of the past. I love biographies that tend to have pizazz, if they have the audacity to be experimental with their storytelling, or if they are centered around a not-so-popular subject matter. Off the top of my head, I can name Schindler’s List, Ford v Ferrari, Elvis (the 2022 one), Rocketman, Jarhead, The Aviator, First Man, Spotlight, Serpico, Spencer, American Animals, Dog Day Afternoon, Tetris, Judas and the Black Messiah, Dolemite Is My Name, and Chopper as some of my favorite biopics. Now, it seemed like The Man Who Loved UFOs was tailor-made for me. It had a peculiar subject matter. The filmmaking looked good.

Actor Daniel Kaluuya quickly established himself as one of the finest actors, with a meteoric rise to fame in the late 2010s. The actor gained recognition for his frequent collaborations with filmmaker Jordan Peele. At the same time, Kaluuya also appeared in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with 2018’s Black Panther, starring the late Chadwick Boseman in the titular role.

Daniel Kaluuya appeared in 2018’s Black Panther (Credit: Marvel Studios).

In an interview, Kaluuya spoke about his MCU stint and reflected on his time working alongside Boseman. The actor who was just making his way up the ladder of fame at the time praised Boseman for looking after him during the production of Black Panther like an elder brother. Here is what Kaluuya revealed about his experience with Boseman.

Daniel Kaluuya Is Grateful For How Chadwick Boseman Helped Him During Black Panther

Daniel Kaluuya gained recognition for his performance in the British series Skins.

Daniel Kaluuya claimed there is “less hierarchy” on UK productions compared to the US while speaking at the BFI London Film Festival (Lff) today (October 9).

The UK actor, writer and director spoke of the key differences between working in the two countries, notably the impact of the lack of free healthcare in the US.

“I feel like there is much more anxiety in America because there’s a lot on the line. Here [in the UK], I think there’s a better work-life balance,” Kaluuya said.

“When you finish [a work day] you finish and the crew go to the pub and sometimes the cast will go the pub.

Daniel Kaluuya discussed the early days of his career in a Screen Talk on the opening day of the BFI London Film Festival on Wednesday.

Speaking to fellow actor and close friend Ashley Walters, the Oscar winner took time to salute his Screen Talk host, someone he said had provided major inspiration when he was just starting out in the mid-2000s.

Kaluuya said seeing Walters’ face on the cover of a magazine while shopping in a supermarket was the “moment I believed it could happen… I was like, ‘Oh, he looks like me.'”

While Kaluuya may be one of the best known British actors working today — and one with a statue recently unveiled in his honor in central London — he said it was Walters’ work on screen that “really gave me the kind of belief” that a career as an actor was a possibility. He also suggested that Walters,...

Keke Palmer, Naomi Ackie, Lakeith Stanfield, and Demi Moore will star in Boots Riley’s I Love Boosters for Neon, which will finance, produce and distribute worldwide.

Riley’s follow-up to his Sundance 2018 debut Sorry To Bother You is scheduled to begin production this autumn, with Aaron Ryder and Andrew Swett producing for Ryder Picture Company, alongside Savage Rose Films’ Allison Rose Carter and Jon Read. Mike Jackman and Gus Deardoff will serve as executive producers.

I Love Boosters follows a group of shoplifters, also known as boosters, who go after a ruthless fashion maven. Additional casting is underway. Neon...

Neon has boarded worldwide rights to Boots Riley’s I Love Boosters to star Keke Palmer, Naomi Ackie, Lakeith Stanfield, and Demi Moore and will distribute in the US and handle international sales.

Riley’s follow-up to his Sundance 2018 debut Sorry To Bother You is scheduled to begin production this autumn, with Aaron Ryder and Andrew Swett producing for Ryder Picture Company, alongside Savage Rose Films’ Allison Rose Carter and Jon Read. Mike Jackman and Gus Deardoff will serve as executive producers.

I Love Boosters follows a group of shoplifters, also known as boosters, who go after a ruthless fashion maven.

Daniel Kaluuya will be honored with a statue in his home city of London celebrating the actor’s breakout role in 2017 hit “Get Out.”

The Oscar-winning star, now considered one of the U.K.’s finest on-screen talents, was chosen from a poll of 5,000 British film fans as the actor people would most like to see as part of the “Scenes in the Square” trail in Leicester Square, landing one fifth of the vote. His statue — depicting the famed ‘Sunken Place’ scene in “Get Out” in which Kaluuya’s character falls into a hypnosis-induced suppressed metaphysical abyss — will be unveiled in October.

Kaluuya joins an eclectic array of statues on the trail from the past century of cinema, including Harry Potter, Batman, Wonder Woman, Mary Poppins and Gene Kelly. These figures were unveiled 4 years ago and have since seen additions such as the “Game of Thrones” iron throne, Clifford the...

Jermaine Fowler will star opposite Tracy Morgan in the upcoming Paramount+ multi-cam comedy series “Crutch,” Variety has learned.

The show was first announced back in May and is said to be set in the same world as the CBS comedy “The Neighborhood.” Per the official logline, “Francois ‘Frank’ Crutchfield (Morgan), who goes by ‘Crutch,’ is a brash, yet beloved Harlem shop owner whose world is turned upside down when his highbrow son (Fowler) and free-spirited daughter move back into the family home.”

Fowler’s character is named Jake. He is described as “an Ivy League educated lawyer who forgoes a high-paying position at a swanky, white shoe law firm to provide low-cost legal aid in Harlem.”

The role brings Fowler back into the Paramount fold, as he previously starred in the CBS multi-cam “Superior Donuts” for two seasons. His other TV credits include the FX limited series “A Murder at the End of the World...

The 68th BFI London Film Festival has unveiled its lineup of Screen Talks, featuring a roster of high-profile filmmakers and actors.

The program includes sessions with Steve McQueen, Lupita Nyong’o, Denis Villeneuve, Andrea Arnold, Sean Baker, Daniel Kaluuya, Mike Leigh, Zoe Saldaña, and the documentary duo Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin.

Villeneuve, fresh off the success of the “Dune” films, will take audiences through his filmography, which includes “Arrival” and “Blade Runner 2049.” British filmmaker Andrea Arnold will share insights into her impact on both big and small screens, while Sean Baker, recent Palme d’Or recipient for “Anora,” will explore his approach to representing marginalized lives on film.

McQueen, whose film “Blitz” serves as the festival’s opening night gala, will discuss his work spanning both cinema and television. Oscar winner Nyong’o is set to reflect on her career trajectory from “12 Years a Slave” to recent...

British Film Institute’s London Film Festival annual Screen Talks returns with a star-studded lineup that includes Andrea Arnold, Sean Baker, Steve McQueen, Lupita Nyong’o, Zoe Saldaña, and many more.

After featured Martin Scorsese, Andrew Haigh, and Lulu Wang spoke at the festival in 2023, this year’s crop of filmmakers represent the most highly-anticipated features on the 2024 festival circuit.

Sean Baker famously won the Palme d’Or at Cannes 2024 for “Anora,” which is an early Oscar frontrunner after IndieWire critic David Ehrlich praised the film for being a blend of “Uncut Gems” and “Pretty Woman.” At BFI, Baker will discuss his filmography including “Tangerine,” “The Florida Project,” and “Red Rocket.”

Steve McQueen, director of the Lff’s Opening Night Gala-selected film “Blitz,” will talk about his new film, alongside his work for the big and small screen, from “Hunger” and “12 Years a Slave” to “Widows,” “Small Axe,” and “Occupied City.

Casting Society (CSA) on Tuesday announced that the 40th Annual Artios Awards honoring casting professionals will be held on February 12, 2025 jointly at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills and the Edison Ballroom in New York City – with a London venue yet to be revealed. It also unveiled its newly-elected Board of Directors for 2024-25.

The current CSA president Destiny Lilly said, “I am privileged to continue my role as President of CSA, especially as we prepare to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Artios Awards, a wonderful milestone in our ongoing mission to support and spotlight the contributions of casting professionals globally. Our shift to the February ceremony date allows us to position the nominees and winners as influential precursors to the Academy Awards, where Casting will debut as an award in 2026.”

SEE2024 Artios Awards winners: Casting Society honors ‘Barbie,’ ‘Killers of the Flower Moon,’ ‘The Holdovers’…

The 2024-2025 CSA...

Will this year be Diane Warren’s sweet 16 for Oscar nominations?

The legendary songwriter and 15-time Oscar nominee is aiming for her 16th Academy Awards invitation this year with the track “The Journey” from Tyler Perry’s upcoming war drama, “The Six Triple Eight,” starring Kerry Washington.

Netflix is set to release “The Six Triple Eight,” which tells the inspiring true story of the first and only all-Black Women’s Army Corps unit stationed overseas during World War II. The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion contributed to the war by sorting through a three-year backlog of undelivered mail and delivering it to American soldiers far from home. In the face of discrimination and a vast, unfamiliar country divided by global conflict, these 855 women brought hope to the front lines.

Read: Variety Awards Circuit’s Oscar predictions in every category.

Written by Warren and performed by global singing sensation H.E.R., “The Journey...

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De acuerdo con Deadline, Lakeith Stanfield y Jennifer Lawrence en el thriller Die, My Love, de Lynne Ramsay producido por Martin Scorsese.

Die, My Love adapta la novela homónima de la escritora argentina Ariana Harwicz y está ambienta en una remota y olvidada zona rural. Sigue a una madre que lucha desesperadamente por mantener su cordura en medio de una creciente psicosis.

Lawrence está vinculada para interpretar el papel de la madre, mientras que los papeles de Pattinson y Stanfield todavía se desconocen.

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We found out last month that Silver Linings Playbook Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence and The Batman star Robert Pattinson have the lead roles in the thriller Die, My Love, which is coming our way from We Need to Talk About Kevin and You Were Never Really Here director Lynne Ramsay. Now Deadline reports that Lakeith Stanfield – whose credits include The Book of Clarence, Atlanta, Sorry to Bother You, Judas and the Black Messiah, The Harder They Fall, Haunted Mansion, Short Term 12, Knives Out, Selma, Uncut Gems, Death Note, The Girl in the Spider’s Web, The Changeling, War Machine, Straight Outta Compton, and Get Out (pictured above) – is in final negotiations to join Lawrence and Pattinson in the cast.

Scripted by Ramsay and Enda Walsh, Die, My Love is said to be “set in a remote forgotten rural area,” with the story centering on a mother who struggles to maintain...

Exclusive: Lakeith Stanfield is in final negotiations to star opposite Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson in the thriller Die, My Love, which Lynne Ramsay is directing. Ramsay also co-wrote the script with Enda Walsh.

Set in a remote forgotten rural area, the story follows a mother who struggles to maintain her sanity as she battles with psychosis. It is unknown who Stanfield would play.

Justine Ciarrocchi and Lawrence (through their Excellent Cadaver banner), Martin Scorsese, Andrea Calderwood and Black Label Media producing. Black Label Media is also financing pic.

Stanfield is continuing to deliver a diversified slate as he continue to be one of Hollywood’s busier stars. He was most recently seen in Sony and Legendary’s The Book of Clarence as well as Disney’s The Haunted Mansion. On the TV side, he starred in the Apple TV+ drama The Changeling, which he also exec produced.

In 2021, he...

In 2023, Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige said that the company would be slowing down its Disney+ TV slate, which included the highly-anticipated "Ironheart" series. The announcement came after the first D23 celebration following the quarantine era of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2022, where a short preview look was shown to an eager audience. It's been two years since the footage of Riri Williams (Dominique Thorne) in her solo adventure series was presented to the public and since the character made her Marvel Cinematic Universe debut in "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever," but 2024's D23 event showed our best look at Riri yet.Joining Thorne is "In the Heights" breakout Anthony Ramos, who will play The Hood, alongside "Solo: A Star Wars Story" and "Oppenheimer" star Alden Ehrenreich. Lyric Ross ("This Is Us"), drag queen Shea Couleé, Shakira Barrera ("Glow"), Manny Montana, and Zoe Terakes round out the supporting cast.

/Film's Jacob Hall...

Blue Harbor Entertainment has acquired the distribution rights to writer and director Zia Mohajerjasbi’s “Know Your Place,” a drama about change and loss in Seattle.

The film features all first-time actors and stars Joseph Smith and Natnael Mebrahtu. It follows Robel Haile (Smith), a 15-year-old Eritrean American boy, who sets out to deliver a huge and heavy suitcase across town destined for a sick family member in his parents’ homeland. He and his best friend Fahmi Tadesse (Natnael Mebrahtu) embark on the errand together, when an unexpected turn changes the small task into an odyssey across Seattle.

Over the festival season, the film won several awards, including Golden Space Needle Audience award for best film and the New American Cinema Grand Jury prize at the Seattle International Film Festival.

“Know Your Place” will open in Los Angeles on Aug. 16 and will roll out regionally throughout the summer, opening in New York in the fall.

Exclusive: Academy Award winner Ariana DeBose (West Side Story), Emmy Award winner Rachel Brosnahan (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel), Academy Award nominee Lakeith Stanfield (Judas and the Black Messiah), Emmy Award winner Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones), Chris Messina (Argo), Ted Levine (The Silence of the Lambs), Danny Huston (The Constant Gardener), Matthew Jacobs (Bar America), Rhys Coiro (Entourage) and Stephen Dorff (Blade) have joined Academy Award winners Al Pacino and Jessica Chastain in Bernard Rose’s Lear Rex, a film adaptation of Shakespeare’s King Lear.

Barry Navidi is the producer, marking his fifth collaboration with Pacino following The Merchant of Venice, Wilde Salomé, Salomé as well as this year’s Modi directed by Johnny Depp. Sharon Howard-Field, the film’s Casting Director, shares a long working history with Navidi. Navidi’s finance partners are Mattias Westman of Westman Films, Eco Entertainment, Dali Films and World Vision. CAA Media Finance...

Exclusive: Lil Rel Howery, Janelle James, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Keyla Monterroso Mejia, Maude Apatow and Katt Williams have joined TriStar’s untitled buddy comedy starring Keke Palmer and four-time Grammy-winning musician Sza. Joshua Neal, Aziza Scott and Patrick Cage will also star.

The logline is being kept under wraps. Lawrence Lamont is directing with the screenplay written by Syreeta Singleton. Producing is Hoorae’s Issa Rae and Sara Diya Rastogi, ColorCreative’s Deniese Davis and Macro Film Studios’ Charles D. King, James Lopez and Poppy Hanks. Singleton is co-producing. Big Boss’ Palmer and Sharon Palmer are executive producing. Macro Film Studios is also co-financing.

The project came together from the CoCre lab at Sony Pictures, a previous pact between ColorCreative and Sony to source and incubate emerging, diverse screenwriters to develop and write their first studio feature based on original ideas.

Howery is continuing to busy, recently starring in Vacation Friends 2,...

Exclusive: 20th has landed the rights to a feature adaptation of the New York Times bestselling novel California Bear from Duane Swierczynski. Gary Lennon will write the feature alongiside Swierczynski with Ryan Coogler’s Proximity Media producing, sources tell Deadline.

Swierczynski’s latest novel is a thriller that follows four unlikely vigilantes whose decision to take justice into their own hands pits them against the villain behind California’s coldest murder case.

California Bear is 20th’s first project with Proximity. Rashonda Joplin, 20th’s Director of Production, and Catherine Hughes, Creative Executive, will be shepherding the project. 20th’s Head of Literary Affairs, Clare Reeth was instrumental in bringing the book into the studio. Ryan Coogler, Zinzi Coogler, Sev Ohanian produce through their company, Proximity Media. Rebecca Cho will exec produce and oversee the project along with Hannah Levy for Proximity Media.

In March, Lennon extended his development deal...

Hip-hop pioneer Rakim is back with a new song, “Be Ill,” the lead single from his first new album in 15 years, G.O.D.’s Network (Reb7rth), out July 26.

On “Be Ill,” Rakim is as lyrically dexterous as ever, rhyming, “Design flows in binary codes, no matrix/Light-speeds, time could be froze, no spaceships/Walking paradox, I made them all believers/Shift the paradigm, even time, alter features.” The song also finds Rakim bringing the two coasts together with guest verses from Wu-Tang Clan member Masta Killa and Tha Dogg Pound Mc Kurupt.

Plot: The incredible true story of Hollywood revolution meeting social revolution: it’s a wild caper of Black Panther founder Huey Newton escaping from the FBI to Cuba with the help of famed producer Bert Schneider in an impossibly elaborate plan – involving a fake movie production — that goes wrong every way it possibly can. And somehow, it’s all true. Mostly.

Review: The stories of revolutionary political figures and social reformers have been popular for big and small screen adaptations for decades. There seems to be more focus on the 1960s and 1970s than any other period in American history. The 2021 film Judas and the Black Messiah looked at controversial figure Fred Hampton, while this year’s Shirley chronicled Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm’s run for United States President. While these and the stories of Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X have made for acclaimed productions, the story of Black...

As Neil Young once sang, the now shuttered Participant is gone, but not forgotten.

Some of Tinseltown’s leading talents like Regina King, George Clooney, Ava DuVernay, Daniel Dae Kim, Martin Sheen, Regina King, Alfonso Cuaron, Matt Damon, Diego Luna and more have joined up with the National Domestic Workers Alliance to express “gratitude and pride” in the work put out by the Jeff Skoll-created shingle over the last two decades. At the same time, the A-Listers are imploring the ever increasingly conglomerated industry to keep their eyes on the social impact prize.

“As we say goodbye to Participant, we must underscore that values-based storytelling is needed now more than ever; to expand the room for debate, to open our hearts to experiences vastly different from our own, to immerse us in the beauty of humanity’s complexities,” the star-studded letter says. “And in the face of unprecedented change and uncertainty,...

H.E.R., the Oscar, Emmy, and five-time Grammy award-winning musical artist who made her feature acting debut with the recent The Color Purple musical adaptation, is keeping her movie career marching along.

The multi-hyphenate is set to develop, produce, and star in a majorettes-inspired project set up at 20th Century Studios.

The untitled project reteams her with Oprah Winfrey and Scott Sanders, her producers on Color Purple. Fascinated by the majorettes and their impact on Black culture, H.E.R. approached Winfrey and Sanders with this project after working with them on Color Purple. The duo will produce alongside H.E.R., with Winfrey producing via her Harpo Films, and Sanders through Scott Sanders Productions.

Lauren Ashley Smith has been tapped to pen the script for what is being described as dance movie set at a fictional Historically Black College or University (Hbcu) in Atlanta. The story follows an introverted ballet dancer from L.

Projects centered around the left-wing revolutionary group, the Black Panther Party, continue to fascinate popular culture. In 2022, Daniel Kaluuya won an Oscar for portraying the betrayed deputy chairman, Fred Hampton, in the bio-crime drama, “Judas and the Black Messiah.” Now, a new limited series, “The Big Cigar,” based on a Playboy Article by Joshuah Bearman (known for the Wired Article that inspired “Argo”), tells the too-good-to-be-true story of Black Panther co-founder Huey Percy Newton’s escape to Cuba with the assistance of a famous film producer.

Continue reading ‘The Big Cigar’ Trailer: André Holland Stars As Black Panther Huey Newton For Apple Series In May at The Playlist.

Lakeith Stanfield has entered into negotiations to star in and produce a feature adaptation of the hit neo-noir video game ‘El Paso, Elsewhere’.

The story will follow James Savage (Stanfield), who, while recovering from a toxic relationship, confronts both his inner demons and enigmatic ex-girlfriend, Janet, before she executes a world-ending ritual. James navigates her reality-bending universe of ethereal monsters while facing the truth of his own addictions and skewed sense of self-worth, learning that the only route to love is through healing.

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The production of an upcoming project will be a collaborative effort between Lorenzo di Bonaventura’s Di Bonaventura Pictures, known for their work on blockbuster franchises such as Transformers and G.I. Joe, and Colin Stark. Both parties will be actively involved in the production process.

Stanfield’s most recently appeared in ‘The Book of Clarence’ and is known...

Academy Award nominee Lakeith Stanfield (The Book of Clarence) is in talks to star in and produce a feature adaptation of the hit neo-noir video game El Paso, Elsewhere, Deadline has learned.

Lorenzo di Bonaventura’s Di Bonaventura Pictures and Colin Stark will also produce.

The film will center on James Savage (Stanfield), who while recovering from a toxic relationship, confronts both his inner demons and enigmatic ex-girlfriend, Janet, before she executes a world-ending ritual. James navigates her reality-bending universe of ethereal monsters while facing the truth of his own addictions and skewed sense of self-worth, learning that the only route to love is through healing.

Released in September 2023, the game was developed by Strange Scaffold, the development label of BAFTA nominee Xalavier Nelson Jr.

Known for roles in films like Judas and the Black Messiah, The Book of Clarence, Knives Out and Selma, Stanfield has...

End of an era, end of a business model, end of a gravy train, end of the world. There were plenty of mixed emotions this week in response to the closure of Oscar-winning production company Participant, and at the very least the industry has agreed something has come to an end.

When Variety broke the news Tuesday that billionaire Jeff Skoll’s 20-year-old company will shut down — after fetching 21 Oscars and introducing a business model that prioritized social impact a bit more than profits – many in the industry were rattled. Not just that mid-level, standalone financier and producer had left the market, but what that means for the viability of movies and TV shows that ask vital questions about justice and the humanity’s future.

“The end of Participant Media is devastating news to anyone who cares about documentaries,” director Julie Cohen wrote bluntly on X. She’s the co-director...

The shocking news that Participant, a leading producer of specialized/independent features with a socially relevant interest as well many top documentaries, is shutting down immediately hit the industry hard Tuesday. With a profile of co-produced films over the last 20 years that rivals any other company’s slate, this was devastating news.

Founder and owner Jeff Skoll’s decision to shut down his company will impact the production of a certain kind of specialized film, particularly in the documentary field. Never a distributor, and most often collaborating with other production companies, Participant was still a significant force for most of its two decades.

But what’s the real impact of this move? Jonathan Dana, a veteran distribution executive and producer, commented, “It didn’t fail. It just ran its course.” That typifies much of the insider reaction, which relates to the specific purpose and goals of the company.

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