The 2026 Venice Film Festival will be splashy—but it could have been a whole lot splashier. There are a number of hotly-anticipated titles that were once expected to sail to the Lido this September, but now, it turns out, will not be in attendance: Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Tom Cruise-led Digger; Aaron Sorkin’s The Social Reckoning…
Charli XCX‘s new album Music, Fashion, Film has arrived, and unlike the lyrics of “SS26” suggest, it might save us after all. Music, Fashion, Film spans 11 tracks, clocking in at just over 30 minutes. It features her previously released singles “Rock Music” (b side: “I Keep On Thinking Bout You Every Single Day and…
Director of the European Film Academy Matthijs Wouter Knol and Yorgos Lanthimos’ producer Athina Rachel Tsangari are among the industry professionals tapped to join British star Emily Watson on the Sarajevo Film Festival jury. Alongside filmmaker Igor Bezinović and actress Sara Klimoska, they will judge the feature film competition at the Bosnian film festival, running…
Salvador Dalí, El Mago, courtesy of Taschen, via Another Man In the early 1970s, the producer Albert R. Broccoli commissioned the artist Salvador Dalí to make a tarot deck for the upcoming James Bond film Live and Let Die. Based on Ian Fleming’s 1954 novel of the same name, Live and Let Die was released…
Published on 13/07/2026 – 12:21 GMT+2 The Odyssey is soon upon us, with Oscar-winning director Christopher Nolan adapting Homer’s ancient Greek epic into the blockbuster event of 2026. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The filmmaker’s follow up to Oppenheimer is not only the most expensive film of his career – with an estimated budget of $250 million –…
Mubi has acquired worldwide rights for “Making Marie Antoinette,” a behind-the-scenes look at Sofia Coppola’s Oscar-winning film “Marie Antoinette.” The documentary, which marks the 20th anniversary of “Marie Antoinette,” is built from roughly 80 hours of previously unseen footage shot by Eleanor Coppola on the set of her daughter’s third feature, which starred Kirsten Dunst…
Published on 07/07/2026 – 14:22 GMT+2 The AI nightmare continues as Particle 6, the UK-based company which gave the world the controversial AI-generated “actress” Tilly Norwood, is officially developing its first AI feature film – starring, of course, Norwood. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT For those of you who haven’t heard of Tilly Norwood, she was created last…
3 Weeks After is not for the faint of heart. The timely new film from Miroslav Terzić (Redemption Street, Stitches) takes us inside the nightmares that high school can be made of. And the Serbian director’s third feature, which world premieres on July 7 in the Crystal Globe Competition of the 60th edition of the…
“Film directors are a bunch of wretches who devote themselves to doing something that is, technologically, almost obsolete,” Orson Welles declared in a 1985 interview, recorded by ‘Arte TV’ (source in Spanish), months before his death. Alonso Quijano could have said something similar about the profession of chivalry, already obsolete in the Renaissance Spain that…
Just like in many parts of life, making a film is a team effort. And so is putting together the lineup of a big film festival. Just ask Karel Och, the artistic director of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF). “I don’t think I’ve ever used a singular whenever I talk about the selection,…
