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IndieWire spoke to directors Mailys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han about adapting the original book and representing Japan through animation.Read more

Makeup designers Kazu Hiro, Mike Hill, and Dave Elsey tell IndieWire how even just small applications can transform an actor's appearance.Read more

On this week's Screen Talk podcast, we also assess the state of the race for Netflix's awards slate.Read more

Dolores Fonzi offers a tense retelling of a precedent-setting reproductive rights case that doesn't require much intellectual straining to feel relevant in 2025.Read more

A unique art style helps "The Obsessed" feel wildly different than most of today's anime films.Read more

Like Victor, making ‘Frankenstein’ changed del Toro, and he tells IndieWire he's ready to abandon the soundstage craft he's been perfecting for 30 years to make a rougher, grounded '70s-style film.Read more

Lawrence gives an unleashed performance as a mother in freefall that festival Best Actress awards are made for.Read more

Exclusive: How to market a meditative film about isolation and memory in an age of algorithmic chaos? Meet audiences where they're already seeking stillness.Read more

Dan Trachtenberg might have found a secret antidote to franchise fatigue: start with underdeveloped I.P.Read more

Stellan Skarsgård and Renate Reinsve soar in a drama about a director who casts his estranged daughter in a movie based on his own life.Read more

After decades of sporadic and limited screenings, the complete version of Tarantino's epic will finally be released nationwide on December 5 — complete with a new anime sequence.Read more

There's a sweetness at the heart of Alex Woo's "In Your Dreams," but a movie about imagination can't afford to have so little of its own.Read more

"Avatar: The Way of Water" might be the most digitally sophisticated movie ever made, but it only worked because all of its tech was in service to human emotion.Read more

Bucking convention at every turn — not just for fun, but to exemplify its central thesis — the "Breaking Bad" and "Better Call Saul" creator's latest New Mexico-set drama can be fitfully satisfying from scene to scene, but wields its many big ideas into a potent season with surplus potential.Read more

Director Alex Woo spoke to IndieWire about his inspirations behind the family animated movie, and releasing an animated film in the streaming age.Read more

Major spoilers ahead: Zach Cregger spills behind-the-scenes details on the wild climax of his summer hit — and why the Gladys prequel won't be about trauma or grief — in conversation with IndieWire.Read more

Damien Leone was sued for breach of contract by actress Catherine Corcoran last week, drawing attention to several freelance artists who say the filmmaker misled them.Read more

The sibling filmmakers explained why, even after making two movies out of King's horror opus, unanswered questions kept leading them back to Derry.Read more

WBD now has 128 million subscribers globally and hopes to reach 150 million by next year, even as a split or sale rumors swirl.Read more

Produced by Natalie Portman, the film from first-time director Ugo Bienvenu follows the adventures of a time-traveling young boy and the friends (and robots) he meets along his journey.Read more

In a trashy-fun whodunit that overstays its welcome, a young boy is taken and his family members become the prime suspects — starting, of course, with his mother.Read more

Exclusive: Frequent collaborator Toni Servillo stars as a fictional Italian president contemplating the legalization of euthanasia.Read more

Exclusive: Let Shu Qi and Jackson Yee take you on what is truly a big, bold, beautiful journey.Read more

The King of Pop's nephew Jaafar Jackson is starring in director Antoine Fuqua's film opening April 24, 2026.Read more

Writer/director Fastvold and co-screenwriter Brady Corbet follow "The Brutalist" with an even more audacious metaphor for the agony and ecstasy of artistic creation.Read more

The stop-motion maestro behind "Coraline" and "The Nightmare Before Christmas" has spent decades intersecting with the fellow New Jersey superstar. But, as he writes for IndieWire, Scott Cooper's film still astonished him.Read more

Briskly covering James Garfield's unexpected nomination for the presidency through his assassination just four months after taking office, Mike Makowsky's four-episode Netflix series is a savvy deconstruction of American myths invigorated by rip-roaring performances and a wily sense of humor.Read more

"Murdaugh: Death in the Family" is great, but it'd be better if the cast looked... worse.Read more

“Last Life in the Universe” director Pen-ek Ratanaruang reunites with cinematographer Christopher Doyle for an unusually mouth-watering take on the revenge genre.Read more

Ramsay tells IndieWire about "Die My Love" cuts made since Cannes, feeling protected by Martin Scorsese in pre- and post-production, and how she knows "when a movie lives or not."Read more

The cooking show would aim to capture the chaos of the video game with high-stakes kitchen challenges.Read more

Sony and Netflix have closed a deal for a follow-up to the animated smash hit, as have directors Chris Appelhans and Maggie Kang.Read more

The creator behind the "Breaking Bad" TV universe first cut his teeth on "The X-Files," and he tells IndieWire how he's bringing that sensibility (and "Better Call Saul" star Rhea Seehorn) to his ambitious new Apple TV series.Read more

Choreographers, voice dubbers, colorists, intimacy coordinators, and more now have expanded visibility on a film's credits page.Read more

The Sundance winner will receive a limited release next month with an expansion targeted for January 2026.Read more

Exclusive: The Spanish surrealist's sacrilegious classic, starring Silvia Pinal as a woman preparing to be a nun, opens November 14 at Film Forum from Janus Films.Read more

The beloved Los Angeles genre festival will launch a new event at Chicago's Music Box Theatre next spring.Read more

In James Vanderbilt's historical drama "Nuremberg," the actor plays Supreme Court justice Robert H. Jackson, a very serious role in a film with a surprising edge of humor. He tells IndieWire about preparing for the role, performing R.E.M. on the road, and his history of in-interview prank-pulling.Read more

The three-time Golden Globes winner will be the first Cecil B. DeMille Award recipient to accept the honor during the "Golden Eve," the awards organization's new primetime TV special.Read more

A prequel to the Cartoon Network Latin America series "Frankelda's Book of Spooks," the Ambriz brothers' debut feature is an ingeniously crafted delight.Read more