The Brutalist Report

Variety

• Bulgaria Wins 2026 Eurovision Song Contest as U.K. Comes Last With One Point [18d]
• Bob Odenkirk Recalls Heart Attack on ‘Better Call Saul’ Set: ‘I Was Gone. I Turned Grey’ [18d]
• Bob Odenkirk Recalls Heart Attack on ‘Better Call Saul’ Set: ‘I Was Gone. I Turned Gray’ [18d]
• Keir Starmer Watches ‘Eurovision’ as Rivals Invade Home in ‘SNL U.K.’: ‘Eurovision’ Is the ‘Only Show Left With Any Integrity’ [18d]
• James Bond Search: ‘Sunset Boulevard’ Star Tom Francis Auditions to be Next 007 (EXCLUSIVE) [18d]
• Harry Styles Electrifies Amsterdam on Opening Night of ‘Together Together’ Tour: Concert Review [18d]
• ‘Slow Horses’ Banner See-Saw Signs $50 Million Multi-Year Film Financing Deal With Entourage Ventures (EXCLUSIVE) [18d]
• Has Raye Already Busted Into the Pantheon of Great 21st-Century Entertainers? This Year’s Smashing Tour Has Told the Tale [18d]
• ‘Paper Tiger’ Review: Miles Teller and Adam Driver Get Ensnared by the Russian Mob in a James Gray Film With More Atmosphere Than Plausibility [18d]
• Scarlett Johansson Doesn’t Pick Up FaceTime Call From James Gray During 7-Minute Cannes Standing Ovation for ‘Paper Tiger’ [18d]
• Ncuti Gatwa Takes Aim at ‘Doctor Who’ in ‘SNL U.K.’ Monologue: ‘About 12 of You Watched Me… Maybe That’s Why I Kept Crying’ [18d]
• Seth Rogen Says If You Use AI to Write Scripts, Then ‘You Shouldn’t Be a Writer’: ‘Go Do Something Else’ [19d]
• ‘Obsession’ Director Curry Barker on His Theatrical Debut, Cutting a Darker Ending and Taking on ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ Next [19d]
• Aubrey Plaza, Adam Driver, Vanessa Kirby and Matthew Broderick to Star in Kenneth Lonergan’s Drama ‘Tomorrow Is a Drag’ (EXCLUSIVE) [19d]
• Javier Bardem Gets Cannes Love for ‘The Beloved,’ Landing 7-Minute Ovation [19d]
• Harry Styles Set List: Every Song Played at His ‘Together Together’ Tour’s Opening Night in Amsterdam [19d]
• How Stars Leverage Themselves as Investors: Serena Williams, Eva Longoria and Kevin Yorn on Venture Capital, Vision and Dealmaking [19d]
• ‘The Beloved’ Review: Javier Bardem Is Powerful as a Filmmaker Directing His Estranged Daughter in Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s Making-of-a-Movie Drama [19d]
• Kristen Stewart on Her Absurd Cannes Movie ‘Full Phil’ and Being ‘So Sick’ of the Studio System: ‘There Needs to Be Less Making Billionaires More F—ing Billionaires’ [19d]
• Mark Ruffalo Thinks He’s ‘Already on a List’ of Paramount’s Banned Actors for Speaking Out Against Warner Bros. Merger: ‘Vindictive Motherf—–s’ [19d]
• ‘Rehearsals for a Revolution’ Review: A Perceptive, Poignant Chronicle of Great Hopes and Even Greater Disappointments [19d]
• Jordan Firstman’s ‘Club Kid’ Sparks Studio Bidding War at Cannes With High 7-Figure Offers (EXCLUSIVE) [19d]
• James Cameron Wants to Make ‘Avatar 4’ and ‘5’ in ‘Half the Time for Two-Thirds of the Cost’, But It’ll Take One Year to ‘Figure Out How to Do That’ [19d]
• Patricio Valladares Fuses Analog and Interactive in New FMV Horror Video Game (EXCLUSIVE) [19d]
• Hollywood Shunned Cannes in 2026: What Will It Take for Studio Blockbusters and Netflix to Return? [19d]
• Box Office: ‘Michael’ Reclaims the Crown With $7 Million; ‘Obsession’ Starts Strong $6.8 Million [19d]
• Vin Diesel Defends ‘Popular Cinema’ as ‘Not a Lesser Form of Art’ in Passionate Essay About His History at Cannes [19d]
• Hirokazu Kore-eda’s AI Family Drama ‘Sheep in the Box’ Earns 3.5-Minute Standing Ovation at Cannes [19d]
• ‘Lioness’ and ‘The Walking Dead’ Actor Jay Huguley Joins Viola Davis in Amazon MGM’s ‘Ally Clark’ (EXCLUSIVE) [19d]
• ‘Double Freedom’ Review: A Woodsman’s Simple Life Is Upended in Lisandro Alonso’s Beautifully Minimalistic Comment on Argentina’s Current Political Crisis [19d]
• Action-Thriller ‘The Butler,’ Starring Jean Reno and Tom Hollander, Sells to Multiple Territories (EXCLUSIVE) [19d]
• ‘Once Upon a Time in Gaza’ Wins Best Film at Critics Awards for Arab Films Announced in Cannes [19d]
• Julianne Moore Doesn’t Want to Act in Movies ‘With Explosions and Guns’ When ‘Things Are Rough Globally’: ‘I Don’t Want to Watch It’ [19d]
• Jamie King and Natasha Lyonne Team for ‘Pet Sematary’ Director Mary Lambert’s Dark Comedy Thriller ‘Darlene’ (EXCLUSIVE) [19d]
• It’s Time for German Dogma as Tom Tykwer, Nora Fingscheidt, Kurdwin Ayub, İlker Çatak and Helene Hegemann Pledge to Create Five Films According to Its Rules [19d]
• ‘Mask’ and ‘Eraser’ Director Chuck Russell, Higgsfield Team for AI-Driven Sci-Fi Features ‘Hyperia’ and ‘b’ (EXCLUSIVE) [19d]
• ‘Club Kid’ Review: Jordan Firstman Cleans Up His Act in a Sweet, Surprisingly Old-Fashioned Heartwarmer [19d]
• Matilda Lutz, Suzanne Clément, Holt McCallany and Fernanda Urrejola Star in Nicolas Bary’s Futuristic Thriller ‘Increase’ (EXCLUSIVE) [19d]
• Augenschein Moves Up a Level With Filmmaker-Driven Movies With Stars Attached Like Anne Hathaway, Ethan Hawke, Kristen Stewart [19d]
• ‘Carte Blanche’ Director Gerardo Herrero Discusses Blowback of Spain’s War in Morocco and Rise of Franco [19d]
• Nike Releases New Air Jordan 3 Retro Sneakers: Here’s How to New ‘Brazil’ and ‘World’s Best’ Colorways Online [19d]
• Russell Crowe Set to Attend Italy’s Taormina Film Festival to Launch His Latest Film ‘Bear Country’ [19d]
• Vampire Santa Claus Horror Pic ‘Red Snow’ by Ilja Rautsi Sells to Spain for Charades – and Christmas Is Cancelled (EXCLUSIVE) [19d]
• Michael Fassbender in Talks to Join Brady Corbet’s Next Movie (EXCLUSIVE) [19d]
• Selton Mello on Continous ‘I’m Still Here’ Momentum, Attending Cannes for the First Time With ‘La Perra’ and Playing Twins Alongside Starry Cast in ‘Zero K’ [19d]
• Annecy Title ‘Dudley and the Invasion of the Space Slugs’ Lands Territory Sales Ahead of Cannes Market Bow (EXCLUSIVE) [19d]
• James Franco Joins ‘John Rambo’ Prequel Movie With Noah Centineo (EXCLUSIVE) [19d]
• ‘Think Good’ Review: French Canadian Thesp Monia Chokri Convinces as a Jewish Wife Trapped in a Toxic Relationship [19d]
• Leonel Vieira Set to Shoot José Saramago Adaptation ‘The Night’ (EXCLUSIVE) [19d]
• Colin Jost Says ‘SNL’ Rejected Joke About Pete Hegseth Reading ‘Pulp Fiction’ Bible Verse Two Weeks Before It Happened in Real Life [19d]
• Indonesia Eyes Cannes 2028 Country of Honor as Culture Minister Fadli Zon Pushes Global Screen Agenda (EXCLUSIVE) [19d]
• Pablo Larraín’s Pijama Cuts MK2, Alpha Violet, Visit Films Deals (EXCLUSIVE) [19d]
• France’s Urban Factory Boards ‘Los Eastman’ at Cannes Fantastic Pavilion (EXCLUSIVE) [19d]
• ‘Ms. Marvel’ Star Iman Vellani to Lead Zarrar Kahn’s Climate Thriller ‘Suffering Is Optional’ (EXCLUSIVE) [19d]
• North American Rights to ‘Virginia Woolf’s Night & Day,’ Starring Haley Bennett and Lily Allen, Acquired by Quiver (EXCLUSIVE) [19d]
• Rodrigo Sorogoyen on Javier Bardem and Shooting ‘The Beloved’ as Full-On Experiment: ‘If This Had Been My First Film, I Wouldn’t Have Taken So Many Risks’ [19d]
• Fasten Films Revs Up Catalan Cinema (EXCLUSIVE) [19d]
• ‘In the Grey’ Review: Jake Gyllenhaal, Henry Cavill and Eiza Gonzalez Magazine-Cover Their Way Through Guy Ritchie’s Attractive Time-Killer [19d]
• India’s Indie Filmmakers Form Collective to Fight Theatrical and Streaming Barriers (EXCLUSIVE) [19d]
• Bill Maher Mocks Trump for Getting Played by China’s Xi Jinping: ‘He Holds the Cards Now’ [19d]
• Fifth Season and HarbourView Equity Partners Set Multi-Picture Financing Pact [19d]
• ‘Colony’ Director Yeon Sang-ho on AI, Individuality and Why Zombies Still Matter [19d]
• ‘Sonic 4’ Wraps Shooting; First Look at Metal Sonic Revealed [19d]
• ‘Propeller One-Way Night Coach’ Review: John Travolta’s Slim and Winning Boyhood Reverie of Air Travel in the Lost-Paradise Age of TWA [19d]