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A new documentary shows an intimate behind-the-scenes portrait of a country's leader as she holds back the pandemic, cradles her baby, and persuades her citizens to turn in their automatic weapons.
Tribeca: "She did not have the strongest moral compass," said the man who co-wrote Walters' biography with her in a truthful moment among many in Jackie Jesko's nuanced documentary.
Nathan Lane recently said that if Trump knew that the gay-themed series "Mid-Century Modern" was on the air, he'd have it taken down.
Late night television has reached a moment of convergence where the traditional shows are making more online efforts as the online shows are becoming more traditional.
The "Materialists" star said that the Oscar-nominated "Apprentice" actor has been offering to team up for a play for years, but it has yet to happen.
In his latest field piece, the comedian meets the crowd at last weekend's event celebrating the 250th birthday of the U.S. Army and the 79th Birthday of Donald J. Trump.
The auteur is set to tour the country with "An Evening With Francis Ford Coppola and 'Megalopolis'" that will include a discussion about "How to Change Our Future."
Writer/producers Molly McNearney, Danny Ricker, Gary Greenberg, and Josh Holloway explain how their late night ABC show adapts to unpredictable news cycles, and an upcoming rotation of guest hosts.
The studios have given up on comedies, but Liam Neeson's police spoof represents a golden opportunity to remind Hollywood that we need them more than ever.
After the 50th anniversary screening of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" at Karlovy Vary, Paul Zaentz — producer Saul Zaentz's nephew — joined Douglas to condemn Trump, remember the iconic film, and discuss a series adaptation of Ken Kesey's novel.
The comedy star discussed taking on the role during the consequential 2024 election and his approach to portraying a president who, per Carvey, was "compromised mentally — I mean, it was obvious."
Terry Gilliam explained how Trump's second term has 'killed' his 'Carnival at the End of Days' mnovie, leading him to rewrite it.
The documentarian follows her Oscar-nominated "The Edge of Democracy" with "Apocalypse in the Tropics," a Plan B-produced sequel that tracks the rise of Christian Nationalists in Brazil.
Filmmaker Nathan Deming takes IndieWire inside the swing state's miraculous arts effort, passed through the 2025-2027 biennial state budge last week.
Offerman tells IndieWire why the "Parks and Recreation" character likely would've despised the current President and discusses the Michael Flynn Jr. meme he blasted, and roles like in his new film "Sovereign" that defy his own political beliefs.
Even at Trump's Comedy Central Roast, I Saw Rosie O'Donnell irk him — she wasn't even there. But just the idea of Rosie got under his skin.
CBS's statement says, "This is purely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night. It is not related in any way to the show’s performance, content or other matters happening at Paramount."
Exclusive: The Oscar-nominated docmaker follows in the footsteps of RaMell Ross: Adapting a novel as his first narrative feature for Plan B, Orion Pictures, and Amazon/MGM Studios.
The day after the instantly infamous Donald Trump episode of "South Park" aired, its creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker spoke on a panel at Comic-Con about their process.
On this week's episode of IndieWire's "Screen Talk" podcast, we review Matt Shakman's Marvel needle-reset "The Fantastic Four: First Steps" and parse the latest fall festival announcements.
In the week after the shock announcement of CBS/Paramount cancelling "The Late Show," host Stephen Colbert went there repeatedly — with a lot of backup from his competitors and predecessor David Letterman.
Director Avalon Fast made her feature debut at Slamdance in 2022 with this surreal horror film that feels like "Yellowjackets" and "Virgin Suicides."
The former "Tonight Show" host's comments were posted just days after the cancellation of "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert" was announced.
"The Serpent's Skin" director chats with IndieWire about the Shudder acquisition and the Dark Star Pictures collaboration that's already turned her into a genre powerhouse.
A full year after Paramount's board approved a deal for Paramount to merge with Skydance, that deal has finally closed, and the merger is officially complete.
Locarno: Jude's three-hour joke conflates artificial intelligence with Vlad the Impaler — two undead bloodsuckers that feed on humanity in order to seem alive.
IndieWire spoke with three filmmakers about personal storytelling through genre, from a folk monster hungry for breast milk ("Feed") to vaginoplasty administered by a witch ("The Dysphoria") to a vigilante service worker stuck waiting tables mid-abortion ("Th…
Desi Lydic, Jordan Klepper, Michael Kosta, and Ronny Chieng sat down with IndieWire for a roundtable discussion about their Emmy-nominated show and the state of late night comedy.
Telluride: Ivy Meeropol's intimate documentary about the trailblazer — in more ways than one, for better and quite worse — works hard to contextualize her as a person, not a victim.
Venice: A subdued and soothingly plaintive Dano plays a fictional Putin-appointed spin doctor who trudges backward through three decades of Russian history. It's a low-register Assayas drama that could've used more blood and bile to carry its intended urgency.
A shaggy-dog story in documentary form, the film by Jen Gatien and Billy Corben is available on demand later this month.
Michael Chaves delivers a significant step-up from the "Devil Made Me Do It" in a mixed-bag film that (theoretically) closes the book on Warner Bros.' divisive and lucrative universe of hauntings.
The winners of the Creative Arts Emmys support the idea that "Saturday Night Live" and "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" could dethrone perennial Primetime Emmy winners "The Daily Show" and "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver" this year.
Charlie Kirk prior to his death praised what he called the 'hilarious' send-up of himself on 'South Park,' which will not air a re-run of the episode.
Driven by Luca Marinelli's dynamite performance, MUBI's limited series follows the Italian leader from his influential start in media through a capital insurrection and chaotic government takeover.
With a report that Paramount and Skydance could be prepping a bid to buy Warner Bros. Discovery in full, it leaves a lot of questions.
After winning its first-ever Emmy at the Creative Arts ceremony last weekend, Stephen Colbert's "Late Show" took home its second trophy in the top category for talk shows.
"This one's on us," Matt Stone and Trey Parker said, the latest twist in a strange semi-weekly release schedule on Comedy Central.
After sending Bradley Jackson (Reese Witherspoon) into orbit and Alex Levy (Jennifer Aniston) into the arms of alt-reality Elon Musk, "The Morning Show" scales things back (relatively speaking) to focus on basic relationship drama... and makes even less sense.
A propulsive, hilarious, and overwhelmingly tender paranoid comedy-thriller car chase blockbuster whatever, PTA's $~150 million Leonardo DiCaprio epic is the first movie of its size to accurately crystallize how insane it feels to be alive right now.
Poynter Institute SVP Kelly McBride speaks to IndieWire about why Kimmel being pulled is a landmark moment, why he doesn't have a legal case, and why the First Amendment won't remedy the situation.
In his emotional return to "Jimmy Kimmel Live!," the late-night host delivered a strong show and an even stronger monologue, clearly illustrating he's not the enemy in this fight. But is that enough for this administration to back down?
Tuesday's decision to postpone Jessica Chastain's upcoming thriller — about an investigator who impersonates online extremists in order to prevent domestic terror attacks — has sparked backlash, even from the star herself. But there are more reasons to believ…
"I will be imposing a 100% Tariff on any and all movies that are made outside of the United States," the President said on the Truth social platform. But we still don't know what that means.
The release of the Sora 2 AI video model opened a legal can of worms for copyright holders, but the flood of social media videos already created with it show OpenAI's priorities lie beyond Tinsel Town.
New York's premiere nonfiction film festival returns from November 12-20.
Onion CEO Ben Collins and CMO Leila Brillson tell IndieWire about its "cinematic night of film at the movies" for the premiere of "Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile."
An impressively sick but tiresomely self-amused celebration of bad taste.
A tribute to the White House movie theater, now demolished along with the rest of the East Wing. Jimmy Carter watched 'Star Wars' with Sadat there.
His quiet role as Bruce Springsteen's manager in Scott Cooper's just-opened biopic could land the "Succession" Emmy winner a second Supporting Actor Oscar nomination.
Exclusive: In anticipation of expanded tax incentives in 2026 and beyond, Film Florida is partnering with Stage 32 to create a pipeline to develop a ready and certified crew base.
Visit the U.S.-Mexico border in 2015's found-footage 'Savageland,' directed by Phil Guidry, Simon Herbert, and David Whelan, starring Noé Montes.
More than 200 films and events come to New York City from November 12-20. Here's a mix of under-the-radar titles to check out.
As America's 250th birthday approaches (with the grim reaper looming large), the distinguished documentarian's 12-hour series on our country's first — and, he argues, ongoing — revolution aims to rally the republic around rejecting despots, then and now.
According to several outlets, the president has used his connections at the studio to breathe new life into disgraced director Brett Ratner's long-stalled sequel.
From dreaming up a Black alternative to CNN with Ryan Coogler to Steven Soderbergh saving the ending after A24 abandoned ship, Kahlil Joseph takes us inside “BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions.”
If movie theaters cease to be, cinephiles will build community on a smaller scale or underground. AGFA theatrical sales director Bret Berg interview.
Vimeo said mistakes were made in its “rushed” response to child protection laws, but concerns about the Staff Picks curation team’s independence linger.
Sundance: Will Poulter and Noah Centineo star as brothers struggling with opiates in a sensitively observed, occasionally myopic addiction docudrama set in rural Ohio.
The film is the latest streamer-funded, carefully choreographed, boring, celebrity puff piece being branded as a documentary. It's also a harbinger of what sorts of "true stories" are being championed these days.
With a $7 million opening weekend, it's the highest opening for a non-music doc in over a decade, but the $75 million price tag for Amazon tells a different story.
What does it mean that Netflix and Warner Bros. Discovery offered a 7-day waiver period to Paramount to make its best and final offer?
Now that Paramount, not Netflix, is buying Warner Bros. Discovery, we have a lot of big questions about what the future holds.
Dropout CEO Sam Reich lent the world of 'Game Changer' to ABC's police procedural with Nathan Fillion and faced backlash from subscribers. Analysis.
SXSW: Keke Palmer, Naomi Ackie, Taylour Paige, and Demi Moore are all deeply attuned to Riley's weird rhythms, even as his high-concept sci-fi ideas grow scattershot.
At the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, filmmakers say even strong docs are failing to land festivals or U.S. buyers.
Commissioner Brendan Carr is ushering broadcast news and late night entertainment into a terrifying era under Trump. What's at risk? Analysis.
Writer/director Oscar Boyson and co-writer Ricky Camilleri's dark comedy about edgelords, internet trolls, social media addiction, and school shootings was also shut out by SXSW, as the filmmakers tell IndieWire.
Jon Voight had previously been reported to be lobbying for some filming incentives to be offered on the federal level in an effort to bring production back to the United States.
The satirical newspaper has mounted another attempt to buy the disgraced conspiracy site out of bankruptcy.
Exclusive: Filmmakers and siblings Meghan and Justin Ross' latest project explores how people process their fear of the end and why we avoid talking about it — particularly in an Arab family like theirs.
Lucasfilm’s mishandling of the “Star Wars” sequel trilogy didn’t create fandom radicalization, but it did let women become scapegoats for a film culture that was already crumbling.
Carroll has defeated Donald Trump in court twice, but he is coming after her now with perjury and money-laundering charges.
Meyers and "Late Night" writer Sal Gentile and director Alex Vietmeier tell IndieWire about creating an environment where Mr. Met can seamlessly fit into a hard news segment.