Iranian filmmaker Majid Majidi’s Midday Meal won the Best Film Award at the close of the Busan International Film Festival tonight. As a result of the win, the film automatically qualifies for submission to the Best International Feature category of the Oscars.SourcesDeadline · The Hollywood Reporter · VarietyRead on DeadlineRead on The Hollywood ReporterRead on Variety
Lee is a biographical film based on real events that is available on Prime Video. The feature portrays the horrors of World War II in striking terms.SourceAdoroCinemaRead on AdoroCinema
Marvel and Sony’s “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” involved nearly 2,000 VFX shots and just 24 weeks of post-production, with 445 shots delivered in a single week, overall VFX supervisor Jerome Chen revealed at View Conference in Turin on Wednesday.SourceVarietyRead on Variety
One of the year's most difficult films hits Brazilian theaters this Thursday (15), but we're not talking about narrative complexity.SourceOmeleteRead on Omelete
AMPAS is set to have a significant presence at Asia's biggest film event, and will also an event for Academy members.SourceThe Hollywood ReporterRead on The Hollywood Reporter
LYON, France — Short films by Brady Corbet, Kleber Mendonça Filho and Céline Sciamma are joining the international sales catalogue of Paris-based MK2 Films, which is expanding its collection of lesser-seen works by established filmmakers.SourceVarietyRead on Variety
The harrowing but ultimately hopeful story of the FlyDubai airline hijacking incident last month is being developed as a narrative film by Dori Media Group and India’s Sphereorigin. The Sept.SourceVarietyRead on Variety
Carol Morley's adaptation of her semi-autobiographical novel about her adolescence near Manchester also stars Gemma Whelan and Aidan Gillen and premieres at the BFI London Film Festival.SourceThe Hollywood ReporterRead on The Hollywood Reporter
EXCLUSIVE: Eleven titles from Southeastern Europe and the Mediterranean region have been selected to take part in the 2026 Agora Works in Progress sessions at the 2026 Thessaloniki Film Festival.SourceDeadlineRead on Deadline
Trine Dyrholm, Christian Slater, Dree Hemingway are set to star in Jesper Just’s Incidents of Intimacy, the second production in Zentropa’s new collection of Dogma25 pictures.SourcesDeadline · The Hollywood ReporterRead on DeadlineRead on The Hollywood Reporter
The documentary "Mestre Zu", a tribute to journalist, writer and immortal of the Brazilian Academy of Letters (ABL), Zuenir Ventura, premieres on October 22.Sourceg1Read on g1
Mother arrived in time for Halloween, so we ranked all of Pamela Voorhees' brutal, bloody, and gory kills in Crystal Lake.SourceNerdistRead on Nerdist
Faithful characterizations, unafraid to embrace the campiness and ridiculousness of the source material, are not enough to save "Street Fighter" from the biggest sin an adaptation of a classic fighting game series could commit.Sourceg1Read on g1
Gillian Anderson is having a busy year: she starred in the cult-favorite film "Miasma Camp: Adolescence, Sex and Death", is in the play "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" in London, and now appears in "Survival", Netflix's new film.Sourceg1Read on g1
Kirti Kulhari’s first feature as a producer, “Kinaare” (“Shores”), will premiere at the 15th Dharamshala International Film Festival (DIFF), which will open with Rima Das’ Berlin-awarded “Not a Hero.” The festival will run Oct.SourceVarietyRead on Variety
The Oscar-nominated director nearly skipped Asia's leading film festival, but ultimately decided to attend so that he could speak out about the war’s toll on ordinary Iranians.SourceThe Hollywood ReporterRead on The Hollywood Reporter
