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Ned Benson’s The Greatest Hits is a poignant exploration of grief, memory and the transformative power of music, marking his foray into magical realism. At its core, this film, brought to life by a vibrant cast including Lucy Boynton, David Corenswet, Retta…

Oppenheimer blew up the 96th Academy Awards, taking a dominating seven trophies including Best Picture on Sunday at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood. Poor Things was next with four, and The Zone of Interest was the only other film to score multiple statuettes. Oppenheimer’s Universal Pictures snagged…

If you were concerned for Emma Stone and her broken dress following her appearance onstage at tonight’s Oscars to accept the prize for Best Actress, fear not. “They sewed me back in,” shared the star of Poor Things, Searchlight’s adaptation of the novel by Alasdair Gray. “Right when I came…

The LAUSD Education Foundation is embarking on a major capital campaign to benefit the musical instrument repair operation documented in the Oscar-nominated film The Last Repair Shop. The $15 million campaign, revealed at an event at Hollywood High School Tuesday night, will invest in the repair…

As an actor who’s no stranger to the green screen — having to create from the imagination while “just sort of floating in no man’s land” — Mark Ruffalo relished a very different sort of experience on the fantastical Poor Things. “I’ve worked on some really big pictures, pictures where they have a lot…

EXCLUSIVE: Searchlight Pictures and the L.A. Times Studios have released a new trailer for their Oscar-nominated short documentary The Last Repair Shop, days before the film debuts in hundreds of theaters. Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bowers directed the film about the handful of repair people who maintain…

Vivian Oparah is aware of the spotlight on her following her BAFTA Film Awards nomination for her breakthrough performance in Searchlight's romance movie Rye Lane, but she feels it's imperative that she "stay grounded" because it's a more disparate path towards stardom for Black actresses. "For me…

EXCLUSIVE: After seeing Searchlight Pictures release his acclaimed queer rom-com Fire Island via Hulu, Joel Kim Booster is back in business with the studio as the writer and producer of Again Again Again, a spec that it snapped up for development ahead of last year’s WGA strike. Eyed as a potential…

Suncoast, the feature directorial debut of Laura Chinn, starring Nico Parker, Laura Linney, Woody Harrelson and more, has set its Hulu premiere date ahead of its world premiere at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. The Searchlight Pictures title, bowing in U.S. Dramatic Competition on January 21st, will…

Deadline's Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year's most talked-about scripts continues with Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things, the darkly comedic genre-bender penned by Tony McNamara that marks a reunion of the Greek filmmaker with McNamara and star Emma Stone after 2018’s Oscar-nominated The Favour…

For Oscar-nominated filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos and cinematographer Robbie Ryan, Poor Things was the most ambitious film to date — daunting in terms of the volume of both sets and lights required. An adaptation of Alistair Gray’s novel, scripted by Lanthimos’s regular collaborator Tony McNamara, the…

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year’s most talked-about scripts continues with Andrew Haigh's romantic fantasy All of Us Strangers. Haigh directs and wrote the film that's loosely inspired by Taichi Yamada's 1987 novel Strangers. One night in his empty tower block in…