Oscar-winning filmmaker Ryusuke Hamaguchi has already followed “Drive My Car” with the strange, enigmatic “Evil Does Not Exist”. Now, he’s shifting gears again. NEON has released the first trailer for “All Of A Sudden,” his sprawling 196-minute drama about care, mortality, friendship, and the dignity afforded to people nearing the end of their lives.

The film stars Virginie Efira as Marie-Lou, the newly appointed director of an elder-care facility in Paris.

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Kenneth Branagh was part of the team of directors alongside Jon Favreau, Louis Leterrier, Joss Whedon, and Joe Johnston who helped usher the Marvel Studios franchise into pop culture with his first solo “Thor” movie in 2011. So, of course, people are still picking his brain about his experience with the studio and tackling the first big fantasy-driven Marvel film (bringing his experience making lavish Shakespearean films).

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After spending most of the last decade literally saving the world, Tom Cruise is apparently ready to destroy it. “Digger,” the black comedy from Alejandro G. Iñárritu, turns Cruise’s familiar savior persona inside out, casting him as billionaire oil tycoon Digger Rockwell, who desperately tries to fix an ecological catastrophe he helped create.

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The trailer suggests something resembling a contemporary “Dr.

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There have been enough versions of “Carrie” by now that everyone knows where this is going: a bullied teenage girl, telekinetic powers, prom, pig’s blood, and an extremely bad night for virtually everyone involved. But Mike Flanagan has repeatedly stressed that his eight-episode Prime Video adaptation isn’t interested in simply stretching Stephen King’s novel into television. Now, the official trailer offers the clearest look yet at just how far he plans to push the story in a new direction.

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After turning one of the internet’s strangest horror concepts into a theatrical movie, Kane Parsons isn’t leaving the yellow hallways behind. The filmmaker will return to direct “Backrooms 2” for A24, with the sequel now set to become his next feature. The news follows A24’s reported effort this summer to lock Parsons into a major new deal that included a contemplated “Backrooms” sequel.

Dread Central reports that Parsons has officially signed on, with a formal announcement expected shortly.

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Netflix has released a new U.S. trailer for “La Bola Negra,” the sprawling queer historical drama from Spanish filmmaking duo Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, better known as Los Javis. After initially dating the film for November, Netflix has moved its U.S. theatrical release up to October 16, followed by its streaming debut on December 2.

The film already arrives with considerable pedigree.

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There were a bunch of actors and actors that had been vying to play Max and Furiosa for George Miller‘s “Mad Max: Fury Road” and one of those pairings in the auditioning process was Gal Gadot, best known for her work in “Wonder Woman” and “The Fast & The Furious” franchise, and “Loki” star Tom Hiddleson.

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Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson have already played brothers, Texas detectives, and more or less themselves onscreen. Now, their real-life friendship—and the lingering possibility that they might genuinely share a father—forms the basis of Apple TV’s “Brothers.”

The eight-episode comedy reunites the actors as heightened versions of themselves, more than a decade after their celebrated pairing in the first season of “True Detective”.

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Emilia Jones has found her next major television role. The “CODA” and “Task” star will lead the cast of “The Retrievals,” Netflix’s upcoming drama series from Molly Smith Metzler, the creator behind “Maid” and “Sirens.”

Based on the Peabody Award-winning New York Times and Serial Productions podcast of the same name from journalist Susan Burton, “The Retrievals” dramatizes the disturbing true story of patients at the Yale Fertility Center who underwent IVF egg-retrieval procedures without the pain relief they had been promised.

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For several years, Matthew McConaughey appeared destined to become the next major star of Taylor Sheridan’s sprawling “Yellowstone” empire. The project never materialized, and as Paramount moved ahead with other extensions of the franchise, it increasingly seemed like another high-profile TV idea that had quietly fallen by the wayside. Apparently, not entirely.

Speaking on The Playlist’s Discourse podcast while promoting “The Rivals of Amziah King,” McConaughey revealed that he and Taylor Sheridan have continued talking about potentially working together, even if there remains no concrete project attached to those conversations.

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There have been a lot of what-ifs over the years concerning Quentin Tarantino films, such as Samuel L. Jackson missing out on a minor supporting part in “Reservoir Dogs” as an undercover LAPD detective to Randy Brooks, only for him to land an even bigger career-landmark part in “Pulp Fiction.” Well, we’re now learning from “The Walking Dead” franchise alum Jeffrey Dean Morgan that he was nearly in the film as well, for a role you might not expect was even up for other actors.

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After tackling warriors, superheroes, and historical epics, Gina Prince-Bythewood is going even bigger with “Children Of Blood And Bone,” Paramount’s adaptation of Tomi Adeyemi’s bestselling fantasy novel. The first trailer has arrived, introducing the sprawling world of Orïsha and a massive ensemble led by Thuso Mbedu, Damson Idris, Amandla Stenberg, and Tosin Cole, alongside Chiwetel Ejiofor, Regina King, Idris Elba, and Viola Davis.

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Having the Russo Brothers coming back to the fold at Marvel Studios had been a long time coming after they had teased a desire to return to the MCU after “Avengers: Endgame,” but it didn’t look like they were going to be back when it was announced that Destin Daniel Cretton (“Shang-Chi”) was brought on to tackle “Avengers: The Kang Dynasty” before the big pivot to “Avengers: Doomsday” and Cretton being recruited for “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” (coming out this weekend).

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There were a slew of interviews coming out of this weekend’s Marvel Studios presentation at Hall H, since the press rounds take place after the big reveals. Kevin Feige, the studio head, tends to do the bulk of the interviews, and a new one sees him talking up the latest Multiverse threat: Robert Downey Jr.‘s Victor Von Doom, aka Doctor Doom, who is going to be the next MCU-wide bad guy featured in their big holiday release, “Avengers: Doomsday.”

Speaking with TheMovieReporter, Feige shared what Doom’s worldview is and how being created in the 1960s establishes him as one of the first big supervillains in this sort of fiction, pre-dating Darth Vader from “Star Wars” in 1977, and might have influenced George Lucas‘ other masked antagonist.

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Will Ferrell is considered by many to be American comedy royalty, which, oddly enough, happened well after his “SNL” tenure with films such as “Anchorman” and the equally hilarious two-hander “Step Brothers.” He’s back this summer with the new sports comedy series “The Hawk,” and considering it covers golf, the obvious Adam Sandler connection is hard to ignore (“Happy Gilmore 2” was also a Netflix original).

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Carrie White has endured abusive parenting, high-school humiliation, telekinetic awakening, and one catastrophically bloody prom night across several generations of screen adaptations. Now, Mike Flanagan is bringing Stephen King’s first published novel into the social-media era—and stretching its mounting cruelty across an entire television season.

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During the show’s San Diego Comic-Con panel, Prime Video debuted the first teaser for “Carrie” and announced that all eight episodes will premiere globally on October 7.

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We’ve known for a while via mega-producer Jerry Bruckhemier that they were trying to figure out an angle to bring back Tom Cruise‘s NASCAR driver Cole Trickle to the big screen after the racing pic “Days of Thunder,” helmed by Tony Scott helped to prepare the actor for his action star status early on when he was sort of tranistioning into that genre alognside Scott’s previous pic with him “Top Gun.” There is now an update of sorts concerning the status of “Days of Thunder 2,” as they’ve started active talks with a director.

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Chris Rock has spent more than a decade away from the director’s chair, and his return is fittingly built around an actress attempting a comeback of her own. A24 has released the first trailer for “Misty Green,” Rock’s new Hollywood drama starring Rosalind Eleazar, which will make its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival this September.

Eleazar, who broke out playing MI5 agent Louisa Guy on Apple TV’s “Slow Horses,” stars as Misty Green, a once-promising actress trying to revive a career that never quite fulfilled its early promise.

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Nearly 40 years after Paul Verhoeven turned “RoboCop” into a bloody corporate satire, the franchise is heading back to television at a moment when its ideas about tech companies, privatized policing, and machines replacing people feel less like science fiction than the evening news. Prime Video has officially ordered eight episodes of the new series, with original co-creator and co-writer Ed Neumeier joining as an executive producer.

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Pedro Pascal has survived gladiator arenas, infected hordes, and galaxy-spanning adventures, but “Behemoth!” gives him a very different challenge: passing convincingly as a world-class cellist. Searchlight Pictures has released the first trailer for Tony Gilroy’s movie-music drama, which stars Pascal as Alex, a prodigal musician returning to Hollywood’s film-scoring world after decades on the road.

READ MORE: ‘Behemoth!’ First Look: Pedro Pascal Stars In Tony Gilroy’s “Love Letter” To Movie Music

Written and directed by Gilroy, “Behemoth!” centers on a former child prodigy and third-generation studio musician who has spent roughly two decades performing symphonic work around the country.

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Before Millie Bobby Brown became one of Netflix’s defining genre faces with “Stranger Things,” she almost entered superhero cinema through a very different door. Brown recently recalled screen-testing opposite Hugh Jackman for James Mangold’s “Logan,” the 2017 Wolverine film that ultimately introduced Dafne Keen as Laura/X-23.

Brown shared the story during Entertainment Weekly’s’s video series “Lie vs.

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After turning Christmas into vampire season with “Nosferatu,” Robert Eggers is returning to the holiday corridor with another period horror nightmare. Focus Features has unveiled the first look at “Werwulf,” Eggers’ new 13th-century horror film starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Lily-Rose Depp.

The film marks Eggers’ fifth feature after “The Witch,” “The Lighthouse,” “The Northman,” and “Nosferatu,” and reunites him with Taylor-Johnson and Depp after last year’s gothic vampire tale.

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Netflix has set a prime Oscar-season release date for “La Bola Negra,” the Cannes Film Festival sensation from Spanish filmmaking duo Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, known as Los Javis. The film will debut on Netflix on December 4, 2026, following a theatrical run that begins November 6, 2026.

READ MORE: ‘La Bola Negra (The Black Ball)’ Review: Three Generations Of Queer Men Cross Paths In Javier Ambrossi And Javier Calvo’s Epic And Heartbreaking Melodrama [Cannes]

The streamer has officially closed U.S.

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Craig Gillespie has always been drawn to outsiders. From “Lars and the Real Girl” to “I, Tonya,” “Cruella,” and “Dumb Money,” the filmmaker’s work often centers on bruised, misunderstood characters trying to survive systems that have already decided who they are. So, in that sense, “Supergirl” may be a bigger, more cosmic canvas than Gillespie is used to, but it is not necessarily a left turn.

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Few filmmakers have spent more time, more delicately, sifting through the emotional wreckage of parents, children, and the makeshift families people build to survive than Hirokazu Kore-eda. A Palme d’Or winner for “Shoplifters,” and the filmmaker behind “After Life,” “Nobody Knows,” “Like Father, Like Son,” and “Monster,” Kore-eda has turned the family drama into one of modern cinema’s most quietly devastating canvases.

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