Nag Ashwin’s ambitious sci-fi film “Kalki 2898 AD” has become a box office phenomenon, grossing over $84 million worldwide and debuting at No. 3 globally. With an estimated budget of $72 million, it’s one of the most expensive Indian films ever made. Set in a dystopian future, “Kalki 2898 AD” follows Bhairava (Prabhas), a powerful […]

The Match Factory has sold the rights in several key territories for Portuguese filmmaker Miguel Gomes’ “Grand Tour,” following its premiere in competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, where it received the best director prize. The film unravels the poignant tale of Edward, a British civil servant portrayed by Gonçalo Waddington (“Arabian Nights: Volume […]

Leading Korean actor Son Ye-jin received a huge roar of applause as she greeted fans and rounded off the Thursday red-carpet ceremony at the opening of Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BiFan). The star of “A Moment to Remember” and “April Snow,” Son is the subject of the festival’s retrospective section. But even as the […]

Actor James Krishna Floyd makes his directorial debut with “Unicorns,” a film that delves deep into the complexities of identity within the U.K.’s South Asian LGBTQ+ community. From a script written by Floyd, “Unicorns” follows Aysha/Ashiq, a queer South Asian club performer living a double life who meets Luke, a straight, single-father mechanic, with whom […]

Gru and his gang of minions are setting off box office fireworks this Independence Day. “Despicable Me 4,” the latest entry in Universal and Illumination’s wildly successful animated franchise, opened to $27 million on Wednesday. The sequel brings back Steve Carell as Gru, a recovering supervillain turned secret agent, and pits him against Will Ferrell […]

Our striking introduction to Kaloyan (Ognyan Pavlov) in Pavel G. Vesnakov’s potent and profound “Windless” is as an out-of-focus blur, smoking a cigarette in the foreground. Beyond him, trucks trundle down a highway, and bare trees throw their branches to the sky, while birds wheel and scatter against gray clouds. It is the first of […]

Noaz Deshe, whose “Xoftex” had its world premiere this week in competition at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, is in post-production with his next project. Deshe tells Variety the new film is a documentary set in Ukraine, which is a collaboration with Russian dissident Pyotr Verzilov – an artist and member of the anti-Kremlin performance […]

This week, “MaXXXine” rounds out the “X” trilogy, introducing a new mystery killer to the horror film franchise. In the final film, aspiring movie star Maxine Minx (Mia Goth) runs around Hollywood after surviving a massacre six years prior in the first film, 2022’s “X.” She’s joined by Kevin Bacon, Giancarlo Esposito, Elizabeth Debicki, Moses […]

In movies, small towns and big miracles go well together. Everybody knows each other there, news travels fast and city slickers — with their cynicism and logic and skepticism — rarely intrude. So it is with “Chronicles of a Wandering Saint,” a winsome comedy-drama about the residents of Santa Rita, a small coastal town in […]