Formerly Known As Cinema

Official Trailer 'Train Dreams'; Directed by Clint Bentley; Starring Joel Edgerton, Felicity Jones, Kerry Condon, and William H. Macy; “Contains all the wondrous, devastating layers of an entire life”

Official Teaser 'The Testament of Ann Lee'; Directed and written by Mona Fastvold (The World to Come, The Brutalist); Starring Amanda Seyfried, Thomasin Mckenzie, Lewis Pullman, Tim Blake Nelson, and Christopher Abbott; All singin', all dancin' tale of founding leader of the Shaker Movement

IP Reboot Fatigue: Lessons from 'Tron: Ares'; What Were They Thinking? Proof of Concept? Market and Timing Factors

The ‘Predator’ Franchise Is Hollywood’s Blankest Canvas; Dan Trachtenberg might have found a secret antidote to franchise fatigue: start with underdeveloped I.P.

Resources: Film Financing, Vol 1.

No-one knows how much movies cost to make anymore; Film industry has largely stopped sharing production budgets, leaving less than 4% of movies with any public data, and when tested, many of the figures we do have prove to be unreliable

In Praise of Ed Wood Jr and the Pain of Pronouns; Reclaiming the trash filmmaker and trans icon from an era that couldn’t comprehend his shape-shifting forms of self-identification

‘The Lowdown’: Novelist Walter Mosley on Episode 7 and Writing a Crime Noir Where ‘the Crime Is Original Sin’; Acclaimed author and screenwriter spoke to IndieWire about the "challenge" that brought him to "The Lowdown," his history with Sterlin Harjo, and what being a "truthstorian" really means. "There are all kinds of history, but none of it is true."

Full Trailer 'Merrily We Roll Along'; Stephen Sondheim's Musical; Directed by Maria Friedman; Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff and Lindsay Mendez

Official New Series Trailer From 'Breaking Bad' Creator Vince Gilligan, the oddly curious 'Pluribus'; Starring Rhea Seehorn, Carlos Manuel Vesga, Karolina Wydra, Miriam Shor, and Samba Schutte

Official Trailer 'Rebuilding'; Directed by Max Walker-Silverman; Starring Josh O'Connor, Meghann Fahy, Amy Madigan, and Zeilyanna Martinez

Official Trailer 'Icefall' Directed by Austrian filmmaker Stefan Ruzowitzky; Starring Joel Kinnaman

How Art Deco Changed American Cinema; On the centennial of the movement, Film Forum is hosting a months-long retrospective of screenings

Hold Your Applause: Tyranny of Film Festival Standing Ovations Must Be Stopped; What began as a tribute has become a brachial arms race of emotional semaphore, like castanets at a funeral

Gaumont at 130: Cinematic Staying Power at the Academy Museum, Los Angeles

Which Agencies Represent The Most In-Demand Directors? Gathered data on a thousand directors and their agencies to understand how much control a handful of companies really have

Sony Pictures CEO Reflects on Giving the Wildly Successful ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ to Netflix: ‘At the Time, It Made Sense’

Review: Ildikó Enyedi's Film 'Silent Friend' is Tree-Loving Bliss; Do plants have feelings? Are trees interacting with humans?

'Highest 2 Lowest’ Movie Ending Explained: The Meaning Behind the New Spike Lee and Denzel Washington Movie

Ted Talk Ten Minute Video: Why Artist Corporations? How to get creative people more power? "New lens for understanding their self-interest"

Inspirational Iranian Feminist Doc Trailer 'Cutting Through Rocks'; Directed by Sara Khaki and Mohammadreza Eyni; Premiered at the 2025 Sundance

Official US Trailer 'Palestine 36'; Film by Annemarie Jacir; Starring Hiam Abbass, Kamel Al Basha, Yasmine Al Massri, Liam Cunningham, and Jeremy Irons

Excellent Final Trailer 'Landman, Season 2'; Starring Billy Bob Thornton, Ali Larter, Michael Peña, Jon Hamm, and Demi Moore; Producer Taylor Sheridan

‘Long Day’s Journey Into Night’ Finally Acquired by Quiver, Sets 2026 Release Four Years After Wrap; Starring Jessica Lange, Ed Harris and Ben Foster .. .. Wikipedia: 'Long Day's Journey into Night'

Worst to Best: The Films of Kelly Reichardt; From one of America's best independent filmmakers, even the worst film is essential viewing

Film Review: The True-ish Story of a Rediscovered Schiele Masterpiece; New film 'Auction' layers an awful lot of melodramatic meat on the skeleton of the facts to create its vision of the art world

The Innovation That’s Killing Restaurant (and Cinema) Culture; Delivery has turned America into a nation of order-inners

The Great Dance Man, Bill “Bojangles” Robinson as Portrayed by Bob Baker Marionettes

Official Trailer 'The Beast in Me'; Dark and twisting new series; Starring Claire Danes, Matthew Rhys, Brittany Snow, and Natalie Morales

Official Trailer 'The Secret Agent'; Thriller; Directed by Brazilian filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho; Starring Wagner Moura