The nominees for the 97th Academy Awards were announced Thursday morning, with “Emilia Pérez,” a polarizing musical about a drug kingpin who undergoes gender affirming surgery, leads this year’s race with 13 nods including Best Picture. It was followed closely by “The Brutalist,” a historical epic the examines the Jewish immigrant experience, and “Wicked,” the hit Broadway […]

Village Roadshow Entertainment Group has lost its lead showman. Steve Mosko, the veteran television and film executive who made his name at Sony, has departed his embattled company. Sources told Variety that Mosko left his role as chief executive officer in recent days. The company, a producer on films including “Joker” and “The Matrix,” has […]

Lionsgate’s advertising campaign for “Flight Risk” credits its latest film to “the award-winning director of ‘Braveheart,’ ‘Apocalypto’ and ‘Hacksaw Ridge’,” which seems a circumspect way of recognizing Mel Gibson as its helmer. Unfortunately, the movie’s problem is not that it lacks Gibson’s name, but his personality as a filmmaker. Reminding audiences of those very good […]