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Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is returning to Imax screens on Nov. 3 for a one-week exclusive run. The limited engagement includes six Imax 70mm film projections locations worldwide — four AMC Imax screens in California and New York City, and two more locations in London and Melbourne, Australia. The rare encore run for a Hollywood tentpole on Imax screens follows Oppenheimer grossing over $183 million worldwide on the company’s large format screens to date. That makes Nolan’s epic the fourth highest grossing Imax release of all time. The World War II-set biopic stars Cillian Murphy as physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, known…

Alex Wolff (Oppenheimer, Hereditary, Pig), Victoria Pedretti (You, Origin, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood), Asa Butterfield (Sex Education, Ender’s Game, Hugo) and Justice Smith (Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom) are set to star in the “dark and sexy” psychological thriller If She Burns, which Wolff will direct from his own screenplay. The film will follow a fiery young woman (Pedretti) who travels to Europe with her dysfunctional family after a traumatic incident. There she finds refuge and danger in a turbulent affair with her enigmatic neighbor (Wolff), which, along with increasing family tensions and…

Ozi: Voice of the Forest, the star-studded animated feature produced by Leonardo DiCaprio, has been picked up by Signature Entertainment for the U.K. and Ireland The film, produced by GCI Film and Appian Way, features the vocal talents of Laura Dern (Marriage Story), Amandla Stenberg (Bodies Bodies Bodies), Donald Sutherland (The Hunger Games), Djimon Hounsou (Blood Diamond), RuPaul (RuPaul’s Drag Race), Dean Charles Chapman (Game of Thrones) and Rachel Shenton (All Creatures Great and Small). Directed by Tim Harper (Roary the Racing Car) from a screenplay by Ricky Roxburgh (Tangled) and with animation by French studio Mikros, the feature follows…

When it comes to the post-summer box office blues, Taylor Swift: Eras Tour has helped shake it off. The film’s phenomenal success — it’s already the top-grossing concert film of all time in North America, not adjusted for inflation — as well as its unique rollout, in which Swift teamed up directly teaming directly with AMC Theaters, bypassing traditional studio distribution, is a bright light in an independent movie market sorely in need of some good news. Sadly, there is only one Taylor Swift. The rest of the independent film world, representatives of which will be gathering in Santa Monica…

During his press tour for John Wick 4, Keanu Reeves was asked about the two “martial arts legends” in Donnie Yen and Hiroyuki Sanada he got to work with in the film and made a point of adding Scott Adkins to this list. These three, he said, were “real martial artists” (as opposed to himself, a “movie martial artist”), and asserted that “Adkins’ technique, his passion, is on another level.” While that was high praise indeed from cinema’s current bloodied action franchise king, for the legions of international fans Adkins has amassed in the two decades he’s been spin-kicking, backflipping…

Dark Sky Films has acquired North American rights to Blackout, the new film from independent horror veteran Larry Fessenden. The thriller, about a fine arts painter convinced he is a werewolf wreaking havoc on a small American town, will be released in the first quarter of 2024 in theaters and on digital platforms. Yellow Veil Pictures is handling worldwide rights at the American Film Market.  Blackout — which stars Alex Hurt (Minyan, New Amsterdam) and Addison Timlin (Submission, American Horror Stories) and received rave reviews during its festival run — marks the reunion of Dark Sky, a subsidiary of MPI Media…

The Human Highlight Film is getting the documentary treatment. NBA legend Dominique Wilkins has committed to a documentary project about his life and career, partnering with the production studio Versus on the film. “I think the goal is to go from no light to highlight, you know, highlight being my nickname,” Wilkins tells The Hollywood Reporter in an interview (his nickname, “The Human Highlight Film,” was due to his acrobatic slam dunks). “And what that means is that when all seemed to fail, and there was no light at the end of the tunnel, to see my my fight and…

In Ava DuVernay’s latest film, Origin, which held its U.S. premiere at the Virginia Film Festival in Charlottesville on Friday, the filmmaker wrestles with a lot of big ideas. For the Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning filmmaker behind Selma, 13th and When They See Us, tackling big questions about race, class and history is nothing new — but for her latest feature, she admits she had to break a lot of established filmmaking rules to bring the story of Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Isabel Wilkerson to the screen. Taking inspiration from Wilkerson’s acclaimed 2020 book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, DuVernay’s film…

Ferrari, the new film about legendary ex-racer, racecar manufacturer and entrepreneur Enzo Ferrari, which was directed and produced by legendary filmmaker Michael Mann, will receive the Icon & Creator Tribute for Innovation at the 33rd Gotham Awards ceremony, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The newly created honor recognizes both a cultural icon (Ferrari) and a creator (Mann). The event will take place Nov. 27 at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City. Other previously announced honorees include Air director/supporting actor Ben Affleck and Maestro writer/director/lead actor Bradley Cooper. Meanwhile, this year’s Gotham Awards nominations — the first for which films of…

Year 10, the directorial feature debut of Brit filmmaker Ben Goodger, has wrapped production and is now set to make its market debut at the AFM, where Archstone Entertainment will be handling sales after having acquired worldwide rights. The apocalyptic adventure is set 10 years after the fall of civilization, with the environment having become hostile and dangerous and cannibalism the only option for humanity’s dwindling survivors. When a violent tribe murders his father and steals the medicine keeping his girlfriend alive, Jake must embark on a treacherous journey battling the elements, packs of vicious wild dogs and the cannibal…