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Josh Brolin, who plays Gurney Halleck in director Denis Villeneuve’s two-part adaptation of the Frank Herbert novel Dune, let it be known that he thought the Academy “blew it” when Villeneuve didn’t receive a Best Director Oscar nomination for his work on the first Dune, and now he has told Variety that he feels so strongly that Villeneuve deserves an Oscar nomination for Dune Part Two, that he will quit acting if the Academy doesn’t show the director some love

Scripted by Villeneuve, Eric Roth, and Jon Spaihts, Dune Part One introduced viewers to Paul Atreides (played by Timothée Chalamet), “a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding”, who must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and his people. As malevolent forces explode into conflict over the planet’s exclusive supply...

Edward Berger’s papal thriller Conclave and the upcoming Timothée Chalamet-starring Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown lead the nominations for the AARP Movies for Grownups Awards, which annually champion movies for grownups, by grownups and encourage films and TV shows that resonate with older viewers.

Focus Features’ Conclave, starring Ralph Fiennes, scored a leading six nominations, while Searchlight’s James Mangold-directed Complete Unknown, which hits theaters on December 25, had five noms. The two pics are nominated for the Mfg’s marquee Best Picture/Best Movie for Grownups Awards, alongside Paramount’s Gladiator II and September 5 (which had four noms apiece) and Netflix’s Emilia Pérez, (three noms).

Last year’s Best Picture winner, Killers of the Flower Moon, went on to nab 10 Oscar nominations.

Other notable nominees include Robert Zemeckis’ Miramax-produced, Sony-distributed generation-spanning Here, starring Tom Hanks and Robin Wright and penned by Eric Roth in...

On Sunday night, per annual tradition, dozens of the current crop of top Oscar contenders — among them Maria lead actress Angelina Jolie, Gladiator II lead actor Paul Mescal, The Substance lead actress Demi Moore, The Brutalist lead actor Adrien Brody and Emilia Pérez supporting actress Selena Gomez — turned up at Ovation Hollywood for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Governors Awards ceremony, a black-tie dinner at which the organization presents special awards to industry legends.

The 15th Governors Awards’ highest profile honoree, composer-producer Quincy Jones, was celebrated posthumously, having died Nov. 3 at the age of 91. The most moving part of the evening came toward the end, when Jones’ honorary Oscar statuette was accepted by his daughter, actress-writer Rashida Jones, who, flanked by some of her siblings, tearfully paid tribute to her father and read the speech that he had planned to give at the ceremony.

An honorary Oscar...

Demi Moore, Denis Villeneuve, Malcolm Washington and Jason Reitman were announced as this year’s honorees of the Sffilm Awards Night.

The awards night, which “honors exemplary achievement in film craft and is a fundraiser with proceeds from the event supporting the organization’s mission to discover, nurture and showcase the next generation of film artists,” according to the organization, will take place Dec. 9 at San Francisco’s Gateway Pavilion at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture.

“We are so proud to honor this group of individuals as we close out 2024,” says Sffilm Director of Programming Jessie Fairbanks. “Their crafts and artistry elevates the cinematic experience and reminds us why we collectively love the power of film. Denis, Demi, Malcolm and Jason are all intrepid, tenacious and imaginative creatives. We look forward to honoring their work at Sffilm’s annual fundraiser.”

Villeneuve (director of Dune: Part Two) will receive the Irving M.

Here Movie Review Rating:

Star Cast: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Paul Bettany, and Kelly Reilly

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Here Movie Review Out ( Photo Credit – Instagram )

What’s Good: The concept is fascinating, and watching Zemeckis and his actors try to get the idea right is also quite compelling, but once the movie starts, it stumbles every single time.

What’s Bad: Execution is king, and Zemeckis fails to translate his screenplay to the screen. The use of CGI makes everything look fake and overproduced.

Loo Break: After the middle point, the movie loses its plot quickly, making staying engaged difficult.

Watch or Not?: This is a skip as better art pieces, including the original graphic novel, execute this idea better.

Language: English (with subtitles).

Available On: Theaters

Runtime: 104 Minutes.

User Rating:

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Robert Zemeckis is one of the greatest American filmmakers of all time; there is no doubt about that.

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Netflix is one of the best places to find the best movies and TV shows you can watch on any streaming service. Every month, it adds hundreds of new titles to its content library, but with that, there are also some titles that have got to go. So, today, we are here to tell you about the best film you should watch before it leaves Netflix in November 2024.

A Man Called Otto (November 5) Credit – Sony Pictures

A Man Called Otto is a comedy-drama film directed by Marc Foster from a screenplay by David Magee. Based on the 2012 novel A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman and its 2015 Swedish adaptation of the same name by Hannes Holm, the 2022 film follows a lonely widower who sees no purpose in life and decides to take a drastic step but when his...

Robin Wright is not here for any takes about Jenny in “Forrest Gump” being an anti-feminist character — or Voldemort, for that matter. In a joint interview with Tom Hanks for the New York Times, she shot down criticism of the character she played in the Academy Award-winning 1994 film.

In “Forrest Gump,” Wright’s character Jenny Curran is the object of the title character’s affection since childhood. She is abused by her father as a child, and leaves their small town as soon as she can, pursuing a hippie dream in search of a better life. She does not find one, and she suffers from drug addiction and turns to sex work to survive. Eventually, she reunites with Forrest, and he professes his love to her and proposes to her. They have sex one time, but she leaves without saying goodbye. Five years later, she returns to introduce Forrest to...

Robert Zemeckis has always been about a great technological or storytelling conceit in his movies whether it’s the live-action animated hybrid of the 3x Oscar winning Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, the insertion of Tom Hanks in famed historical footage in Oscar Best Picture Forrest Gump or the motion capture of The Polar Express.

However, his latest movie, the $50M Miramax financed and Sony released Here, which brings back together the Gump gang of Tom Hanks, Robin Wright and scribe Eric Roth, was a situation of technology outshining the story. Critics deep sixed the multi-generation family drama which takes place in one location throughout time at a fixed angle with 36% Rotten while audiences weren’t any better with a B- CinemaScore, 57% Rt audience score and 69% positive on PostTrak.

It’s no wonder that the movie opened to $5M, and it’s unfortunate box office streak for the once blockbuster mass-appealing Back to the Future,...

Sunday Am: For a total weekend that’s making less than $100M, there were some impressive feats going on. From out of the blue, Sony/Marvel’s Venom the Last Dance after registering the lowest opening in the trilogy with $51M, actually held fantastically with a -49% second weekend or $26.1M. That percentile hold is the best for the trilogy ahead of Venom‘s second weekend decline of -56% and Venom: Let There Be Carnage‘s -65%, but it’s also great for a comic book movie ahead of Deadpool & Wolverine‘s (-54%) and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (-63%). But still for a B- CinemaScore comic-book movie — ‘Yeah!’ for Sony. Running total is $90M through Eod today.

Meanwhile, Universal/DreamWorks Animation’s Wild Robot saw an amazing sixth weekend spike of +11% –unheard of–with $7.55M for a second place steal; pic’s running cume now at $121.4M.

Tom Hanks and Robin Wright star in Here. Copyright © 2023 Ctmg, Inc. All Rights Reserved. **All Images Are Property Of Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. The magic of Forrest Gump seems to be weaving its way back onto the big screen. Tom Hanks stars in Here, a poignant film about family and the enduring legacy of a home. But Hanks isn’t the only Gump alum involved in this project. Director Robert Zemeckis, co-star Robin Wright, screenwriter Eric Roth, and cinematographer Don Burgess have all joined forces once again. For Hanks, getting the band back together was a no-brainer. The experience of making Forrest Gump created bonds that have lasted decades, both on and off screen. (Click on the media bar below to hear Tom Hanks) https://www.hollywoodoutbreak.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Tom_Hanks_Here_Forrest_Gump_Reunion.mp3

With a cast and crew this tight-knit, Here promises to deliver a moving...

Three decades after making “Forrest Gump,” director Robert Zemeckis is once again looking back in time and pushing filmmaking boundaries as he reteams with Tom Hanks and Robin Wright for his latest effort, “Here.”

Hanks and Wright play a married couple who are seen at many ages and life stages in the film, thanks to Zemeckis’ deft use of bleeding edge techniques including an AI-assisted aging and de-aging process to convey a lifetime. That meant paying meticulous attention to the specificity of a person’s body movements at a given age. To cite but one example, how one bounces off a couch as a nimble teenager is very different from how that same person gets up from a couch as a 60-something.

“You had to gear up for, in the morning you’re going to be 17, and in the afternoon you’re going to be 22,” Hanks tells Variety.

Hanks prepared...

As Americans prepare to watch the election next week, they seem less inclined to watch the movies. Theaters are seeing a somewhat muted weekend to start November, with the widest new release, Robert Zemeckis and Tom Hanks’ time-warping drama “Here,” now coming in behind the already slim projections it had going into the weekend.

The Miramax-financed production grossed $1.94 million from 2,647 locations across Friday and preview screenings, now on pace for an opening weekend around $5.1 million. It’s a disappointing sum for “Here,” which carries a production budget around $45 million. Sony’s TriStar is handling distribution after acquiring rights to the film.

The hope for “Here” is that the reunion between Zemeckis, Hanks and fellow “Forrest Gump” star Robin Wright could reach an older audience. Written by “Gump” scribe Eric Roth, adapting Richard McGuire’s acclaimed graphic novel, the film sees Zemeckis using cutting-edge technology again, with lots of de-aging effects on his actors.

Tom Hanks is all set to reunite with his creative partners from Forrest Gump in the recently released Here. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, the film sees the life-cycle of a few characters from the perspective of a piece of land. Hanks stars along with Robin Wright in the film, which also sees them get de-aged and play younger versions of themselves.

While the Forrest Gump reunion might be a draw for audiences, the film’s opening seemed to be abysmal, with only $475K in box office earnings during Thursday previews. With a $50 million budget, mixed reviews, and a projected $5 million opening, the film might not be able to break even.

Tom Hanks-Robin Wright’s Reunion After Forrest Gump Gets A Shoddy Opening Robin Wright and Tom Hanks in Here | Credits: Sony Pictures

After winning the Oscar and the hearts of millions of fans with Forrest Gump, Tom Hanks finally reunited...

Robert Zemeckis' longtime obsession with technology and innovation continues in "Here," a film that's unlike anything I've ever seen. The project is a "Forrest Gump" reunion, reteaming the director with writer Eric Roth and stars Tom Hanks and Robin Wright for another decades-spanning tale. But this time, the story doesn't just focus on one set of characters: The camera (mostly) doesn't move for the whole film, appearing as a fixed point in space that witnesses dinosaurs, the ensuing meteor that wipes them out, the ice age, regrowth, Indigenous characters, and finally, a house being built on this spot, with the unmoving camera now hovering unseen in a living room that will eventually depict multiple families moving in and out as they experience the ups and downs of life. The film is based on a comic that has the some conceit, but it's certainly a bold experiment for Zemeckis to try this as a movie,...

“Here” is here.

Robert Zemeckis’ latest, which serves as a reunion with his “Forrest Gump” stars Tom Hanks and Robin Wright, along with that film’s writer Eric Roth, serves as an adaptation of Richard McGuire’s celebrated graphic novel. The movie takes place with a single, locked off location – a suburban living room. Through that living room, though, Zemeckis shows a truly incredible passage of time and zeroes in on the life of a couple (Hanks and Wright) as they maneuver through their own story.

It’s the kind of story that only Zemeckis could tell – epic and yet intimate, technologically advanced but also seamless, universal and specific, elaborate and plainspoken.

But how can you watch “Here” – will you have to leave your living room to watch the story of somebody else’s living room? Well, we’ve got you covered.

What is the release date?

“Here” hits theaters on November 1.

Is it streaming?...

Loiter on any patch of land for a few hours, and you can feel centuries of history quietly thrumming beneath your feet. Stand in the corner of a suburban house on a lot that was once nothing but barren, ashen ground and will, several million years into the future, be blessed with the name “New Jersey,” and you’ll witness life in all its wonder, sorrow, and glory. Dinosaurs stomp past, ice ages come and go, indigenous people hunt for food. Rebels fight the redcoats, Ben Franklin bitches about his politically backward son,...

Plot: The events and people who occupy a single spot of land are followed from pre-history to 2024.

Review: Robert Zemeckis is a director who’s always been well ahead of the industry regarding technical innovation. Many of his movies, including Back to the Future, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and, yes, even Forrest Gump, are classics. With Here, he once again tries to innovate, with a static shot of a single spot of land being followed from the dinosaur era to today. Most of the film revolves around the inhabitants of a colonial home built for the son of Benjamin Franklin. Eventually, it is occupied by many different families, with the most significant emphasis being placed on the Young Family.

It’s here that Zemeckis once again tries to innovate in terms of VFX. He uses AI-enhanced de-aging technology to depict about eighty years in the life of this family, with Paul Bettany,...

Richard McGuire’s Here, though all of six pages long, is a classic of the 1980s alternative comics movement. Three dozen black-and-white panels depict the same corner of an anonymous living room at different points in time, as its inhabitants read the newspaper, listen to the radio, pose for pictures.

The holiday movie season may be getting off to a slow start over the next few weeks, but that’s not due to the lack of star power or Oscar hopefuls. Read on for Gold Derby’s box office preview.

What’s a little strange about this November kick-off weekend is that there are not one, not two, but three movies from filmmakers who have directed movies that won Best Picture at the Oscars. And yet, only one of them is getting a wide theatrical release and is bound to report box office.

That movie is “Here,” based on the graphic novel by Richard McGuire. It reunites “Forrest Gump” director Robert Zemeckis with two of his stars, Tom Hanks and Robin Wright, as well as Oscar-winning screenwriter Eric Roth, for a unique family drama that essentially keeps the camera in place to show the events of a specific Philly location over time.

Sony will own the first weekend of November at the box office, with the second frame of the Culver City lot’s Venom: The Last Dance down around 60%, or $20 million, for No. 1, followed by the studio’s release of Miramax’s adult drama Here.

Here, which reps the Forrest Gump reteam of filmmaker Robert Zemeckis, scribe Eric Roth and stars Tom Hanks and Robin Wright, is expected to do around $7M with an eye on hopefully pulling older adults out again this weekend after they made a date for Focus Features’ Conclave last weekend ($6.6M opening).

It remains to be seen whether Here slots in second place, giving Sony the frame’s 1-2 punch.

The question is whether audiences will go along with watching a generations drama story about various families on the same property/house at a skewed-degree angle. Hanks and Wright are technologically de-aged to their former 1980s/1990s selves,...

Robert Zemeckis has always been a filmmaker who doubles as a magician. His films are loaded with neat little tricks, and, as is the case with any good magician, you find yourself wondering how he pulled them off. His debut "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" used clever editing, archival footage, and stand-ins to recreate the Beatles' debut on The Ed Sullivan Show. The "Back to the Future" trilogy is bursting with eye-popping special effects. "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" seamlessly blended live-action and animation. "Death Becomes Her" is overloaded with gross-out gags. "Forrest Gump" found fun little ways to insert Tom Hanks into moments of televised American history. The list goes on and on. But at some point, the trickery began to overwhelm the process. His "Beowulf," "The Polar Express," and "A Christmas Carol" embraced heavy motion-capture animation with ghastly, uncanny valley results ("The Polar Express" has somehow become a recurring...

November is considered by many to be the beginning of the holiday movie season, but it’s also when many of the prestige films that will vie for next year’s Oscars get released. In fact, a number of popular festival favorites will be hitting theaters this month and/or expanding from their limited releases, which means that Oscar season is now in full swing. Read on for Gold Derby’s November box office preview.

“Wicked” (Universal – Nov. 22)

This adaptation of the mega-hit Broadway musical based on Frank L. Baum‘s characters made famous in the 1939 film classic “The Wizard of Oz” might be one of the biggest blockbusters of the year. Directed by Jon M. Chu (“Crazy Rich Asians”), it stars Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba, pop superstar Ariana Grande as Glinda, Jeff Goldblum as the Wizard, as well as recent Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh, and Bowen Yang from “Saturday Night Live.

Thanksgiving may promise a bounty on the dinner table, but the multiplex still looks bare. Continuing this year's theme, our November film preview features another relatively light month at the movies. Still, it’s quality over quantity, and if you ignore Red One, the $250 million attempt at turning Christmas lore into a Marvel movie,...

They say that time flies, but memories last forever, and perhaps no filmmaker alive today seems more desperate in their plea for you to remember the good times than Robert Zemeckis. Maybe that’s why his latest tech trek “Here” finds him reuniting with the dream team that made “Forrest Gump” such a lasting—for better or worse—piece of cinema history. From his pair of leading stars down to the film’s screenwriter, to his own depleting sense of filmic wonder, Zemeckis has ensured that everyone has been reassembled to go down with the ship.

Like if Terrence Malick had dropped his scribbled “Tree of Life” notes in his favorite kombucha cafe, only for it to be claimed by a failed theater kid who found his solace in a wall poster of Elon Musk, “Here” attempts to cover the entire expanse of what it means to be human—to live,...

As Forrest Gump marks its 30th anniversary, Here finds director Robert Zemeckis reteaming with that film’s screenwriter, Eric Roth, and two stars, Tom Hanks and Robin Wright, for an adaptation of Richard McGuire’s 2014 graphic novel of the same name. This film turns out to be a fitting companion piece to Zemeckis’s divisive 1994 best picture winner, as it sees him once again applying boomer nostalgia to a unique, albeit woefully misguided, VFX-aided odyssey through mid-20th-century America.

With their script, Zemeckis and Roth seek to lend an air of cosmic grandeur to their tale of suburban triumphs and woes. The action stretches back to the age of the dinosaurs, and it catches up to contemporary times, but for all of the film’s bobbing and weaving through various time periods, it doesn’t take long to figure out that the only era that the filmmakers actually care about...

Hollywood, California – October 25: (L-r) Tom Hanks, Robin Wright and writer/director/producer Robert Zemeckis attend the AFI Fest Centerpiece World Premiere of Robert Zemeckis’ Film Here at Tcl Chinese Theatre on October 25, 2024 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Stewart Cook/Sony Pictures via Getty Images) Copyright 2024 Stewart Cook Oscar-winning director Robert Zemeckis reunites with his Forrest Gump dream team – Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, and screenwriter Eric Roth – in the ambitious new film Here. Based on Richard McGuire’s acclaimed 2014 graphic novel, Here breaks the mold of traditional storytelling by exploring the lives of multiple families who inhabit a single location across vast stretches of time, from the distant past to the far future. Zemeckis, who co-wrote the screenplay with Roth, has long sought to collaborate with this trio again. (Click on the media bar below to hear Robert Zemeckis) https://www.hollywoodoutbreak.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Robert_-Zemeckis_Here_Reunitng_Tom...

Tom Hanks and Robin Wright are collaborating again for the first time since their iconic roles in Forrest Gump over 25 years ago. The acting duo stars in Here, a new drama directed by Robert Zemeckis that had its premiere at AFI Fest in Los Angeles on Friday. Here tells the interweaving stories of multiple families and their connection to a single location across generations. Zemeckis also directed Hanks and Wright in Forrest Gump, which won six Academy Awards including Best Picture.

At the premiere, Hanks described reuniting with his costar Wright as natural and easy. When asked about working together again after so long, Hanks said “You know what it was? It was like, ‘Hey, how you doing?'” He noted that their professional rapport picked up right where they left off over two decades ago. Wright agreed, saying that she and Hanks “love each other because we’re so easy with each other.

After 30 years, Tom Hanks and Robin Wright slipped right back into their onscreen chemistry for Here.

During the Robert Zemeckis film’s Friday premiere at AFI Fest in Los Angeles, Hanks opened up about reuniting with Wright for the century-spanning epic drama after starring together in Zemeckis’ Oscar-winning Forrest Gump (1994).

“Everybody was [saying], ‘Oh, what was it like, the reunion?’ You know what it was? It was like, ‘Hey, how you doing?'” Hanks told People.

“We just picked up right where we left off. I’m going to say we love each other because we’re so easy with each other,” he continued. “It was a luxury to be able to come in and get the same conversations we’ve been having for the last 30 years after a moment of, ‘Hey, this kooky look, do you believe this? Can you believe this? Look at this, look at this.'”

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Thiry years after collaborating on the Academy Award-winning movie Forrest Gump, Robert Zemeckis teams up with Tom Hanks and Robin Wright for the film Here. Zemeckis teamed up with Eric Roth (also from Forrest Gump) to adapt Richard McGuire’s graphic novel of the same name. Here had its World Premiere at the 2024 AFI Film Festival.

Here Movie Review

Here follows a generational story about families and the special place they inhabit, sharing in love, laughter, loss, and life. From the moment the film begins, Zemeckis attempts to paint a picture of a house and its evolution from its ancestry to its construction, as well as how many memories and families have resided inside through the years. As he brushes with each stroke, things connect but don’t always land.

The definition of “Here” is in or at this place. In this film, “Here” was a house, a place of...

If there’s one topic in Hollywood right now that gets the most discussion, it’s probably the use of AI. And if there’s one film right now that is taking full advantage of it, it’s Robert Zemeckis’ Here. Now, ahead of the movie’s November 1st release, the first reactions are coming out of AFI Fest.

By and large, it seems like Robert Zemeckis pulled off an incredible feat with Here, which has the bonus gimmick of being shot from the same angle for the movie’s duration. Check out some of the reactions below:

#HereMovie Nice to see Tom Hanks & Robin Wright back on the screen together 30 years after #ForrestGump. The de-aging tech in the movie was pretty expressive. It's interesting to see the entire movie from one camera angle about decades stories in one house.For me the stories of… pic.twitter.com/8mp0KJAoKD...

In Hollywood, most movies tell stories. But not “Here.”

Adapted from a conceptual graphic novel by Richard McGuire where the perspective is the same on every page — the living room of a century-old American house — while rectangle-shaped panels within each frame reveal actions from different years, if not entirely separate epochs, “Here” is about an idea.

Have you ever sat in a place — maybe a hotel room, a park bench or a remote clearing — and wondered what happened there before? How many people have kissed on that exact spot? Or fought, or fallen in love? And what does that say about human experience, that people can be linked by common actions, and places can hold both memories and secrets?

There are deep thoughts to be found down such rabbit holes, and a film version of “Here” points in roughly the right direction, only to get distracted by a handful of far shallower threads — namely,...

Robert Zemeckis clearly has a thing for time — past, present and Back to the Future. With a filmography that also includes films like The Polar Express and especially his Oscar-winning Best Picture Forrest Gump, the director loves mixing the newest filmmaking technologies with relatable stories that play with our perceptions of life as time goes by. He really dives into this theme in a big way in his ambitious adaptation of Richard McGuire’s 2014 graphic novel Here, which does not send its century-plus cast of characters back in time, but rather lets time come to them on a single piece of land, later a home, over the course of the entire 20th century, a bit before that and a bit after. The great French director Claude LeLouch did a similar thing in 1974’s splendid romance And Now My Love, in which a couple’s chance meeting at first sight is...

There’s something quintessentially American and straight out of Norman Rockwell about centering a survey of multiple generations around the living room, with idealized themes of home and family reinforced by scenes around the Christmas tree or the dining table, fully extended to accommodate the ever-expanding clan at Thanksgiving. But relatable doesn’t always mean interesting, even if the moments of joy don’t hide the vein of sadness and disappointment that runs through Here.

The same goes for the idea of shooting everything — reaching back to prehistory and right on up through contemporary times — from the same fixed point and using the same wide angle. In terms of technical craft, it’s a daring experiment, but one perhaps less geared to a dynamic narrative than an art installation. Narrowing the frame constricts the storytelling, no matter how many times a Significant Life Moment is shoved up close to the lens for emphasis.

Life isn’t too short — it’s long, as Robert Zemeckis’ brisk, inventive, and earnest latest experiment, “Here,” ponders in an hour and 40 minutes that span multiple centuries and lifetimes unfolding on the same spot on Earth. The Oscar-winning, ever-envelope-pushing filmmaker opens on prehistoric times as dinosaurs stalk the Earth, charts the arrival of Indigenous people in that very spot, gives us the birth of Benjamin Franklin, his kid, and his kid’s kid, and then takes us through the life and times of a midcentury American family led by a de-aged Tom Hanks and Robin Wright. It’s a “Forrest Gump” reunion for Zemeckis in more ways than one, as his Forrest and Jenny, here Richard and Margaret Young, are joined by that film’s Oscar-winning scribe, Eric Roth, in adapting Richard McGuire’s celebrated graphic novel.

For all the good and bad of what I am about to say,...

International Film Festival Rotterdam has unveiled the first tranche of films selected for its 54th edition, which runs Jan. 30 – Feb. 9. These 13 titles, which will play in the Bright Future or Harbour sections, will each have their world premiere at IFFR.

Bright Future is dedicated to feature-length debuts, while Harbour offers a broad range of contemporary cinema.

The first wave of titles includes several IFFR alumni, including Daniel Hoesl, a former Tiger Award winner for micro-budget experimental feature “Soldate Jeannette,” with his new work “Un gran casino”; Hubert Bals Fund awardee Pelin Esmer, who returns to the festival with a world premiere of “And the Rest Will Follow”; Christina Friedrich presenting “The Night Is Dark and Brighter Than the Day,” which comes after her IFFR debut this year with “Zone”; and avant-garde trailblazer Alexander Kluge returns, after the world premiere of “Cosmic Miniatures” in the most recent edition of the festival,...

Billy Crystal is going darker than audiences have ever seen him before in “Before,” a new Apple TV+ psychological thriller premiering on Friday. But it was not a role that the actor and comedian expected to take on.

Crystal, who is best known for light-hearted roles in “When Harry Met Sally,” “City Slickers” and “Monsters Inc.,” plays child psychiatrist Eli, who encounters a troubled young boy named Noah (Jacobi Jupe) after recently losing his wife, Lynn (Judith Light). As Eli attempts to help Noah, their mysterious bond deepens, sparking haunting memories and unearthing unsettling secrets from the past.

He told TheWrap that the series, which he executive produced and developed in partnership with Eric Roth, went through many twists and turns to get to where it is today.

Billy Crystal and Jacobi Jupe in “Before” (Apple TV+)

“[Eric] and I were working on a show, along with Sam Sprecker and Howie Miller,...

Sony Pictures has released the highly anticipated trailer for Here, the latest film by Robert Zemeckis, reuniting him with Forrest Gump stars Tom Hanks and Robin Wright. Based on Richard McGuire’s groundbreaking graphic novel, Here tells a century-long story of a single space — a room in a house — and the multitude of lives that pass through it over time. The unique storytelling method involves a fixed camera perspective, capturing generations within the same physical space as they navigate love, loss, and transformation.

In a stunning visual feat, Hanks and Wright play their characters across decades, beginning as teenagers and aging into their 80s, thanks to de-aging technology and makeup. Hanks stars as Richard, a Vietnam-era teenager, while Wright plays his lifelong love, Margaret. Supporting roles feature Paul Bettany, Kelly Reilly, Michelle Dockery, and Gwilym Lee, who portray other individuals tied to the house through different historical moments. The trailer...

Clint Eastwood is an undeniable icon of film. From his on-screen roles in Westerns like "The Good, The Bad and the Ugly" to his efforts behind the camera in massive hits like "American Sniper," the man has been a huge part of American cinema for decades. But it seems his time as a filmmaker is coming to a close, as Warner Bros.' upcoming "Juror #2" is being billed as his final film. That's one great hook for an awards season campaign. That being the case, the film's release next weekend could be looked at as a meaningful start to this year's Oscar race at the box office. It comes with many questions and complications.

The problem with Eastwood's latest is that Warner Bros. is reportedly only releasing the movie in roughly 50 theaters across the U.S. That would be fine to start but it seems like there are currently no plans for expansion.

International Film Festival Rotterdam has made the first programming selections for its 54th edition in the Bright Future and Harbour strands.

The festival has selected 13 titles, all world premieres – five in Bright Future and eight in Harbour.

Scroll down for the full list of titles

Titles in Bright Future, the section for feature debuts, include Oskar Weimar’s Kenyan filmInvisible Flame. Set in a fishing community, it sees an elderly woman face accusations of witchhood when fish begin vanish. Melbourne-based director Weimar previously made 2021 short Each Other which played at Slamdance in the US.

Also in Bright Future is Lilly Hu’s One Girl Infinite,...

Premiering on Friday, October 25th on Apple TV+, Before stars Billy Crystal and Jacobi Jupe, who I caught up with during a recent press day to discuss the psychological thriller.

“Before” stars Billy Crystal as Eli, a child psychiatrist who, after recently losing his wife, Lynn (Judith Light), encounters a troubled young boy, Noah (Jacobi Jupe), who seems to have a haunting connection to Eli’s past. As Eli attempts to help Noah, their mysterious bond deepens, sparking haunting memories and unearthing unsettling secrets about the past. The ensemble cast also includes Rosie Perez, Maria Dizzia and Ava Lalezarzadeh.

The upcoming ten-episode atmospheric and character-driven psychological thriller is created by Sarah Thorp (“The Bounty Hunter”) who also serves as showrunner, writer and executive producer. Crystal executive produces alongside Eric Roth, pilot director Adam Bernstein and producing director Jet Wilkinson.

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Before stars Billy Crystal as Eli, a child psychiatrist who, after recently losing his wife, Lynn (Judith Light), encounters a troubled young boy, Noah (Jacobi Jupe), who seems to have a haunting connection to Eli’s past. As Eli attempts to help Noah, their mysterious bond deepens, sparking haunting memories and unearthing unsettling secrets about the past.

The ten-episode limited series makes its global debut on Apple TV+ with the first two episodes on Friday, October 25, with one new episode every Friday through December 20.

Last week, we sat down with showrunner, writer, and executive producer Sarah Thorp to learn more about Before. During our interview, she talked about assembling the show's impressive cast, the complicated character dynamics, and the way this story explores grief, mental illness, and perhaps even the supernatural.

Thorp also comments on Before's unique opening credits, the chances of a second season, and addresses some of...

Billy Crystal plays a child psychiatrist with a haunted past in this new Apple TV+ psychological thriller series.

Billy Crystal is trying something different. The famous funny man known for “When Harry Met Sally…,” “Analyze This” and most recently, the comedy-drama “Here Today”- which he directed, produced, and co-wrote, is taking on something much darker. He stars in the 10-episode psychological thriller Apple TV+ series, “Before,” debuting on Friday, Oct. 25 with its first two episodes, followed by new episodes every Friday through Dec. 20. Here’s everything you need to know about Billy Crystal’s dark turn in “Before.”

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Adapted from Richard McGuire’s acclaimed 2014 graphic novel, Here takes viewers on a multi-generational journey, tracing the lives of different families as...

Denis Villeneuve says he hopes to make a dialogue-free feature film, that focuses on “the power of images.”

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The topic of silence and listening came up several times during the 75-minute session, which picked up...

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The State of the Race

Sequels have been a dominant part of the Best Adapted Screenplay conversation the past couple years, and though those productions show no signs of stopping, we have finally leveled out this year, with only two or three sequels that are seriously in the screenplay awards conversation serving as follow-ups to scripts that have already been nominated for the Oscar.

Though there is a lot of trickiness around how to campaign “Dune: Part Two,” being that voters do not often flock toward the second film in a proposed trilogy,...

Writer-director Cord Jefferson won Best Adapted Screenplay at the 2024 Oscars for turning Percival Everett‘s novel “Erasure” into the critically acclaimed film “American Fiction.” That marked the fourth time in a decade that a film based on a novel won this award. The others: “Women Talking” (Sarah Polley), “Jojo Rabbit” (Taika Waititi), and “Call Me By Your Name” (James Ivory). This is the most common form of adaptation to win. Indeed this award, which dates back to the first Oscars in 1928, has gone to the adapters of 48 novels over the year. (Scroll down for the most up-to-date 2025 Oscar predictions for Best Adapted Screenplay.)

Peter Straughan reaped an Oscar bid in 2012 for his adaptation of John le Carre‘s spy tale “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.” His screen version of Robert Harris‘ taut thriller about Vatican intrigue should bring him back to the Oscars.

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Tom Hanks, Robert Zemeckis, Eric Roth and Robin Wright are all coming back together for Here – and it’s heading to the UK in January 2025.

A reunion of director Robert Zemeckis and star Tom Hanks would have ignited something of a scramble some ten years ago. They’d previously made Forrest Gump and The Polar Express before, although their most recent collaboration – Pinocchio – was comfortably dwarfed by Guillermo del Toro coming in with his own version.

However, Here looks fascinating. In a podcast episode earlier in the year, writer Eric Roth dropped some hints about the movie. It was funded independently, and only after it was put to market did Sony Pictures pick it up. Even then, Sony grabbed the US distribution, and the UK release was in limbo.

But not anymore. Last week it was revealed that Amazon MGM had acquired the UK distribution rights, and was looking to...

Apple TV+’s Before trailer teases a Billy Crystal performance far different from his usual characters. Six-time Emmy winner Crystal stars as a child therapist who feels an unusual connection to a troubled young boy.

Jacobi Jupe (Peter Pan & Wendy) stars as the young boy. The cast also includes Emmy and Tony winner Judith Light (Transparent), Oscar nominee Rosie Perez (The Flight Attendant), Tony nominee Maria Dizzia (Orange Is the New Black), and Ava Lalezarzadeh (In the Garden of Tulips).

Apple TV+ offers this description of the psychological thriller: “Before stars Crystal as Eli, a child psychiatrist who, after recently losing his wife, Lynn (Light), encounters a troubled young boy, Noah (Jupe), who seems to have a haunting connection to Eli’s past. As Eli attempts to help Noah, their mysterious bond deepens.”

Apple TV+ has set an October 25, 2024 premiere date for the first two episodes of the 10-episode series.

In Rob Reiner's classic 80s rom-com When Harry Met Sally, there's a moment where Billy Crystal's Harry asks Meg Ryan's Sally, "Don't you have a dark side?" And whilst in that film, as in so many others over the years, that question serves as the set-up for a Crystal comic zinger, in Sarah Thorp's upcoming Apple TV+ psychological thriller Before, it looks like we'll be seeing the iconic funnyman's own dark side for the first time. Here, Crystal plays Eli, a grieving child psychiatrist who develops an inexplicable bond with troubled patient Noah (Jacobi Jupe) — and if the first trailer's anything to go by, then it looks like things may be about to take a turn for the supernatural in Crystal's dramatic lead debut. Check it out:

Dead wife. Creepy farmhouse. Even creepier kid. And a dramatic rendition of 'You'll Never Walk Alone'? Monsters, Inc. this ain't.

“September 5,” “All We Imagine as Light,” “The Luckiest Man in America,” “Zurawski v Texas,” and “Oh, Canada” are among the titles that round out the 2024 AFI Fest lineup, organizers announced on Tuesday.

This year’s AFI Fest takes place in Los Angeles from October 23 to October 27.

The festival will open with the world premiere of “Music By John Williams,” the upcoming documentary about the Oscar-winning composer John Williams. The film will have a limited theatrical release before arriving on Disney+.

Clint Eastwood’s “Juror No. 2” will close the festival before it premieres in theaters on November 1.

Other big screenings at AFI Fest include “Here,” “Heretic,” “Maria,” “Nightbitch,” “Bird,” “A Real Pain,” “The Room Next Door,” “The Fire Inside,” “I’m Still Here,” “The Order,” and “Unstoppable.” AFI also plans to honor Robert Zemeckis, director of the upcoming film “Here,” which reunites the “Forrest Gump” Oscar winner with Tom Hanks and Robin Wright.