At the exact time Warner Bros. was cleaning up at the Oscars in early March thanks to “One Battle After Another” and “Sinners,” Lee Cronin was a short drive away on the studio’s lot, three-quarters into a 24-hour shift putting the finishing touches to his latest horror feature. “Lee Cronin’s The Mummy” was finally completed […]

French actress Leïla Bekhti is set to preside over the Un Certain Regard jury at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival. Bekhti — a Cannes regular who broke out in Jacques Audiard’s “A Prophet” and won the Cesar award for most promising actress in 2011 for “All that Glitters” — will be joined on the jury by Senegalese […]

Comedian and actor Paul Elia’s stand-up special “Good Son” is set be released on Watermelon+ in the wake of promotional restrictions he faced due to a brief mention of Donald Trump. Originally only planned as a YouTube special that premiered on April 8th, the self-financed hour-long special features a Trump impression followed by a joke […]

Asif Kapadia is set to complete the final chapter in what has long been considered a landmark and groundbreaking British TV docuseries. The “Up” series of films launched in 1964 with “7 Up,” capturing the lives of 10 boys and four girls in England all aged of seven at the time. Cameras then revisited the […]