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This surreal half-hour comedy special came to the streaming platform in 2019. But with Guillermo del Toro's "Frankenstein" and "Stranger Things" Season 5 in the news, it's never been more timely.Read more

Wētā VFX Supervisor Sheldon Stopsack and Animation Supervisor Karl Rapley tell IndieWire about bringing an emotive expressiveness to one of cinema's great monsters.Read more

Spoilers: Jon M. Chu mangles his musical's point with a discordant finale that's borderline depressing.Read more

The co-writer and director of the touching new dramedy talks about finding a visual language for isolation and connection in a post-COVID world and how Brendan Fraser's character reflects her own life experienceRead more

Production designer Cara Brower tells IndieWire about designing a manor house that is entirely Hedda's world, but not a home.Read more

Tony Gilroy, Diego Luna, Sanne Wohlenberg, Dan Gilroy, Genevieve O'Reilly, Adria Arjona, Brandon Roberts, and Dave Acord joined IndieWire for a Pass the Remote conversation.Read more

The comedian and Oscar-nominated actor will receive the 51st AFI Life Achievement Award at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on April 18, 2026.Read more

The follow-up to last year's musical smash "Wicked" brought in $30.8 from advanced screenings on Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday this week.Read more

On this week's "Screen Talk" episode, we also look at the ascension of "Marty Supreme" after rapturous New York and LA screenings.Read more

Michelle Monaghan really needs to start doing background checks on the men she wants to marry.Read more

The "Arrested Development" star tells IndieWire about learning to be unfunny for his career-best performance in "Is This Thing On?"Read more

The filmmakers sit down with IndieWire's Future of Filmmaking at the SCAD Savannah Film Festival to talk films like "If I Had Legs I'd Kick You," "Sorry, Baby," and "Rental Family."Read more

IndieWire led a panel with producers including Ellen Goldsmith-Vein ("Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere"), Alison Owen ("Back to Black"), Debra Hayward ("Bridget Jones's Diary"), and more for Savannah College of Art and Design students looking for hands-on advice.Read more

The casting director tells IndieWire, "If you don't care about the characters, you're not gonna care about the movie," while discussing her work on the visual effects-heavy 'Avatar' films.Read more

At this year's SCAD Savannah Film Festival, some of Hollywood's brightest craftspeople spoke with IndieWire at one of their signature "Behind Their Lens" panels about salient advice that extends way beyond the industry.Read more

Series creator Vivienne Medrano tells IndieWire about how casting and character design work together to create the most delightful hotel staff in Hell.Read more

Movie after movie has fallen short in theaters this fall, but studios aren't waving the white flag on all of them. PVOD, streaming, licensing, and a litany of other factors over years are all factoring into the equation.Read more

The Oscar winner's latest leading role in Hikari's crowdpleasing "Rental Family" allowed him to take Method acting in some cuddly directions. As he tells IndieWire, those sorts of choices excite him, and may even lead him back to a return to beloved franchise.Read more

A sequel to her 2003 hit "Freaky Friday" was never a guaranteed hit, but the actress and rising producer tells IndieWire how her instincts, beloved co-star Jamie Lee Curtis, and a genuine interest in doing new things just might have set the stage for her next chapter.Read more

The sophomore season of Mike Schur's Netflix sitcom sends Ted Danson's undercover agent back to college, where a thief threatens a billionaire's school-saving donation — and Mary Steenburgen has a date with her husband.Read more

Regina Hall, Delroy Lindo, and Imogen Poots will present honors in San Francisco on Monday, December 8.Read more

In the lauded documentary, the filmmakers sit down with rabble-rousing journalist Seymour Hersh, and come away with a damning portrait of America's worst moral crimes.Read more

The 2026 film, which also stars Rachel Sennott and Alexander Skarsgård, marks the feature directorial debut of Aidan Zamiri.Read more

Glenn Douglas Packard expands his Dark Domain series with a horrifying take on two beloved public domain characters made famous by Disney.Read more

Nina Gold tells IndieWire about how an inspired casting choice can be 17 years in the making.Read more

Jalmari Helander's sequel expands on its predecessor's scale without losing touch with the simple premise and tight action choreography that made it a cult classic.Read more

Seed&Spark's The Crowdfunding Playbook turns a decade of insights into a free guide that makes fundraising a creative discipline, not a cry for help.Read more

The social media platform for film lovers lets you rent a curated crop of movies to stream after adding them to your watchlists.Read more

Oscar voters are responding to Netflix's heart-wrenching Sundance pickup, which Edgerton said was a chance "to do something that's very much me and personal."Read more

"He sees himself as a grand, great novelist," Hawke tells IndieWire. "He's self-mythologizing all the time — he thinks he's two days away from winning the Pulitzer and having everything he's ever written published, even though a lot of it probably isn't very good."Read more

Sara Khaki and Mohammadreza Eyni’s precisely lensed film follows Sara Shahverdi, the first councilwoman in the history of her remote village.Read more

Hikari's Tokyo-set drama stars Fraser as a wayward American actor whose latest part is pretending to be the father of an 11-year-old girl.Read more

Exclusive: Stops on the Neon-led tour for "It Was Just an Accident" include New York, L.A., Boston, Seattle, Chicago, and San Francisco.Read more

Exclusive: Neville's essay film "Breakdown: 1975" features a murderers' row of talking heads, from Martin Scorsese to Ellen Burstyn, to track how the culture of the mid-'70s led to some of our best films. And it's coming to Netflix next month.Read more

For her second feature with filmmaker Luca Guadagnino, the casting director had the benefit of a major star already in place. As she tells IndieWire, that only added to the fun of assembling the rest of her cast.Read more

The International Documentary Association will also honor producer Julie Goldman, director Brittany Shyne, and Impact Partners with special awards at the ceremony in Los Angeles on December 6.Read more

Director Ruben Fleischer, who directed the third franchise entry "Now You See Me: Now You Don't," talks to IndieWire about the franchise's surprising longevity.Read more

Bringing Mona Fastvold's vision to life on a tight schedule required meticulous planning and the director's "infectious" enthusiasm.Read more

"It's been done a million times before. Give us something new," said Thompson to IndieWire, of the spirit that drove her and DaCosta's audacious new film adaptation of the canonical Ibsen play.Read more

Co-director Kevin Macdonald tells IndieWire about making the kind of experimental film John Lennon and Yoko Ono would enjoy.Read more