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The newest entry in the “Poohniverse” gives a new horror twist on a familiar fairy tale classic. Jagged Edge Productions and ITN Studios has unleashed the new trailer for Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare today, ahead of the horror movie’s theatrical release next month.

Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare gets a limited theatrical release for three days only, from January 13, 2025 until January 15, 2025 only from Iconic Events Releasing.

It follows “Wendy Darling as she strikes out in an attempt to rescue her brother Michael from the clutches of the evil Peter Pan who intends to send him to Neverland. Along the way she meets a twisted Tinkerbell, who is hooked on what she thinks is fairy dust.”

Megan Placito stars as Wendy Darling, Martin Portlock (TV’s “Britain’s Got Talent”) as Peter Pan, Kit Green (Dragon’s Dogma 2 video game) as Tinkerbell, Peter DeSouza-Feighoney as Michael, Kierston Wareing as Roxy...

Exclusive: The Tribeca Film Festival kicks off in earnest this week and one of the indisputable highlights of this New York-centric fest as far as I am concerned is a documentary having its sold-out world premiere June 15 and chronicling a certain Southern California musical legend. Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road from director Brent Wilson (no relation) is not the first feature film to center on The Beach Boys icon responsible for a host of immortal hits from “Good Vibrations” to “In My Room” to “God Only Knows” and countless others, but taking a new look at Wilson, who has had more than his share of ups and downs including well-documented battles with mental illness over the course of a 60-year career at the top, this film somehow gets right to the core of what makes him tick without much verbal input from the man himself.

In this case it is...

Today sees the release of Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga on Netflix, the musical comedy movie starring, co-written and produced by Will Ferrell. Ferrell has come up with some classics over his career, to be sure, but sometimes his films are pretty divisive, with folks either loving or hating them. And it seems Eurovision is no different, as it’s getting some very polarizing reviews.

At the time of writing, Eurovision has a Rotten Tomatoes score of 59%, which officially means that it’s designated rotten. But, when you look at the user rating, based off 29 votes, it’s sporting an audience score of 90%. Obviously that will go down somewhat in time, but it’s clear that Netflix viewers are a lot more positive about it than critics. That said, some reviewers are still heaping praise on the film.

New York Post called it “the most enjoyable music...

The Dream Syndicate will release their third studio album in four years this spring with The Universe Inside, the Paisley Underground pioneers’ exploration of krautrock and electric jazz.

Ahead of The Universe Inside’s April 10th arrival, the band shared first “single” “The Regulator” and its video, a 20-minute “psychedelic journey through New York City, equal parts panoramic, psychedelic, somnambulistic and political,” the band said.

Along with founding singer and guitarist Steve Wynn, the current Dream Syndicate lineup features founding drummer Dennis Duck, bassist Mark Walton, guitarist Jason Victor and keyboardist Chris Cacavas,...

LONDON -- The BBC1 costume drama Cranford led the way with four mentions Tuesday morning as nominations were announced for the April 20 British Academy Television Awards.

Cranford, the ensemble costume drama about life in a rural English village, earned best actress nominations for Judi Dench and Eileen Atkins as well as noms for best drama serial and the Sky+ special award, which is voted on by the public. Other Sky+award nominees are comedy Gavin and Stacey, Strictly Come Dancing and Britain's Got Talent.

Channel 4 is the most-nominated network with 23 mentions, BBC1 was second with 20 noms, ITV had 12, BBC2 earned 11 and the Five channel had one. Among the digital nets, arts channel BBC4 earned five noms, youth channel BBC3 took two and Channel 4 and E4 each received one.

Four first-time nominees make up the best actor category including stage and screen star Anthony Sher, who was recognized for Primo, the stage biopic of Hollocaust survivor and writer Primo Levi. Also nominated are Andrew Garfield for Boy A, Tom Hardy for Stuart: A Life Backwards and Matthew Macfadyen for Secret Life.

In the actress category, Dench and Atkins will vie alongside newcomer Kierston Wareing for Channel 4's It's a Free World and Gina McKee for her role in BBC1 drama The Street.

On the entertainment side, ITV1 hit Britain's Got Talent goes head to head with BBC1's Strictly Come Dancing, which has received its 3rd nomination, as well as comedian Harry Hill for Harry Hill's TV Burp and Stephen Fry in celebrity panel show "QI."

Burp's Hill also was named in the performance category alongside first-time nominees Simon Amstell for Never Mind the Buzzcocks, Alan Carr and Justin Lee Collins for The Friday Night Project and four-time performance nominee Stephen Fry for "QI."

In the international category, Family Guy takes on My Name is Earl, Californication and Heroes.

Stephen Merchant and David Mitchell receive individual acclaim this year in the comedy performance category for Extras Christmas Special and Peep Show respectively.

PARIS -- David Mackenzie's Hallam Foe took the top prize at the 18th Dinard Festival of British Cinema, which wrapped Sunday in the Brittany resort town.

A jury led by French actress Josiane Balasko and including actresses Linh Dan Pham, Sylvie Testud and Cecile Cassel bestowed the Hitchcock d'Or Grand Prize upon Mackenzie's coming-of-age comedy, which stars Jamie Bell as a 17 year-old misfit mourning his mother's sudden death who spies on the world from his treehouse.

The jury gave an honorable mention to John Carney's musical comedy Once, which took the audience award this year at the Sundance Film Festival.

"Foe" also went home with the Hitchcock Blanc, Kodak Limited prize for best photo direction.

Sarah Gavron's Brick Lane won the Grand Marnier Lapostolle award for best screenplay and the Hitchcock d'Argent audience award.

Lenny Abrahamson's Garage was awarded the Hitchcock de Bronze prize, which provides distribution to the winner in 40 movie theaters in the west of France.

The British Council gave it's €1,500 ($2,123) "Entente Cordiale" award for the best short film made by a graduate of French film school to Marcal Fores' Friends Forever.

The four-day festival kicked off Thursday with Ken Loach's It's a Free World and closed Sunday with Pascal Thomas' Gallic title L'heure zero.

Director Ang Lee has triumphed at the Venice Film Festival - by winning the event's top award for the second time in two years. The filmmaker was awarded the Golden Lion for Lust, Caution at this year's festival in Italy; the same honor he won in 2005 for Brokeback Mountain. He dedicated his prize to iconic Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, who died in July. Cate Blanchett was named Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival for her role in Bob Dylan biopic I'm Not There, while Brad Pitt was awarded the Best Actor honor for The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford, although neither star was at the ceremony to collect their prize. Pitt told reporters at the Toronto Film Festival, where he is promoting the outlaw movie, "I could try to play it down, but it's great fun. The nicest thing is how excited my friends are for me and to be amongst the lineage of people that have also been bestowed this honor. It's a really nice honor." Other winners included Brian De Palma, who was honored for Best Direction for Iraq War drama Redacted. British director Ken Loach was awarded Best Screenplay for It's a Free World, while Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci was lauded with a special award for his work in cinema, which includes Last Tango In Paris and The Last Emperor.

PARIS -- The 18th Dinard Festival of British Film, which unspools in the Brittany resort Oct. 4-7, will open with Ken Loach's It's a Free World, organizers said Wednesday.

The four-day event will see six U.K. movies vie for the fest's top prize. Competition titles this year include David McEnzie's Hallam Foe, Julian Jarrold's Jane, Asif Kapadia's Far North, Mark Jenkin's The Midnight Drive, Sarah Gavron's Brick Lane and John Carney's Once.

Gallic actress and director Josiane Balasko will lead a jury composed of fellow French female thesps Cecile Cassel, Linh Dan Pham, Claire Nebout and Sylvie Testud, actor Robin Renucci, comedian Laurent Gerra, British actress Imelda Staunton and documentary filmmaker Michael Grigsby.

Loach's Free World will open the fest and Pascal Thomas' Gallic title L'Heure Zero will close it.

Dinard-bound cinephiles will also be treated to 20 French premieres including such titles as Anthony Byrne's How About You, Kevin Macdonald's documentary Mon Meilleur Ennemi and Lenny Abrahamson's Garage. The public will vote on a short film prize awarded by the British Council.

Shane Meadows and his producer Marc Herbert will be in the spotlight with films This is England, Dead Man's Shoes, A Room for Romeo Brass, Twenty 4 Seven" and Once Upon a Time in the Midlands."...

TORONTO -- The Toronto International Film Festival gave world cinema the stage Wednesday as it announced slots for the latest films from Ang Lee, Manoel de Oliveira and Francois Ozon.

Toronto, which considers itself a barometer for international cinema, also announced a high-profile slot at Roy Thomson Hall for Alexi Tan's Chinese-language period drama Blood Brothers, scheduled to debut at the Venice Film Festival.

The 32nd annual Toronto International Film Festival runs Sept. 6-15.

Fortissimo Films' Brothers was produced by John Woo and Terence Chang and portrays three friends in 1930s China who move from the countryside to a life of crime in Shanghai.

Toronto also booked a Roy Thomson Hall sendoff for Bengali director Rituparno Ghosh's The Last Lear, which stars Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan in her first leading English-language role.

Other Toronto titles unveiled Wednesday that will head here after Venice include Lee's Lust, Caution from Focus Features, Ken Loach's It's a Free World and The Sun Also Rises, Jiang Wen's China-Hong Kong co-production.

"Not only does this international presence speak to the diversity of the city of Toronto, but seeing ourselves reflected in films from other countries, we see how the art of filmmaking unites us all," festival co-director Noah Cowan said in making the announcement.

ROME -- With more than a third of this year's features made in the U.S. or U.K., the 75th anniversary edition of the Venice Film Festival will have a stronger English-language flavor than it's had in years, organizers revealed as they took the wraps off the full lineup Thursday.

Fifteen U.S. films, including Wes Anderson's The Darjeeling Limited and George Clooney starrer Michael Clayton, and seven Brit titles are among the 57 features screening at the festival. But artistic director Marco Mueller's well-known taste for Asian cinema remains in evidence and the festival boasts a strong presence of homegrown Italian fare.

"There are a lot of films in English, but that is because those countries continue to be willing to risk everything when that's needed," explained Mueller, who said more than 3,000 films were considered before selecting the final lineup. "The films we selected are very innovative works with casts of really big stars, and we continue to look for surprising and innovative films, wherever they come from."

Among the U.S. films joining Anderson's Darjeeling Limited and the Tony Gilroy-helmed Clayton in competition are Redacted from Brian De Palma, a story about the war in Iraq; Andrew Dominik's The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford starring Brad Pitt as Jesse James; In the Valley of Elah from Paul Haggis, about a soldier who returns from Iraq to a family crisis; Todd Haynes' I'm Not There, on the life of folk icon Bob Dylan; and the China-U.S. co-production Se, jie (Lust, Caution) from Golden Lion winner Ang Lee, a thriller set in World War II-era Shanghai.

Lee's film is just the tip of the iceberg for Asia-produced or co-produced films in competition, joining with China-Hong Kong co-production The Sun Also Rises from Jiang Wen; Japan's Sukiyaki Western Django from Takashi Miike; and Taiwan's Bangbang wo aishen (Help me Eros) from Lee Kang Sheg.

Other noteworthy competition titles include Kenneth Branagh's Sleuth -- marking the second consecutive year a Branagh film has screened in Venice, following last year's adaptation of The Magic Flute; Ken Loach's It's a Free World; and Andrea Porporati's Italian drama Il Dolce e l'amaro (The Sweet and the Bitter).

The festival's opening night film, Atonement, from Joe Wright and starring Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, and Vanessa Redgrave also will be in competition.