The Hollywood Reporter

2025

Levy Celebrates Starfighter Wrapping

The Hollywood Reporter Star Wars: Starfighter is getting ready to hit the ground running. Filmmaker Shawn Levy took to Instagram on Thursday to celebrate the forthcoming feature having wrapped filming. Ryan Gosling stars in the movie that Disney is set to release theatrically on May 28, 2027. Levy shared a...

19th December 2025

The Man Caught Between Sweeney and Seyfried

The Hollywood Reporter Here’s just a sampling of the many topics Brandon Sklenar refuses to talk about: the narrative arcs of his new movie, his favorite scenes, the toughest scenes, his character’s transformation, the ending. Especially the ending. Sklenar stars in The Housemaid, Paul Feig’s psychological thriller about a seemingly...

18th December 2025

RIP: Rob Reiner (78)

The Hollywood Reporter Rob Reiner, who directed such beloved Hollywood classics as This Is Spinal Tap, Stand by Me and When Harry Met Sally after starring in the trailblazing sitcom All in the Family, died Sunday along with his wife, Michele, in their Brentwood home. He was 78. Reiner and...

15th December 2025

Lucas Museum of Narrative Art Sets Opening for September 2026

The Hollywood Reporter After years of false starts and several postponements, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art has an opening date. The new cultural institution designed to celebrate illustrated storytelling, founded by Star Wars creator George Lucas and his wife Mellody Hobson, will open to the public on Sept. 22, 2026. “This...

12th November 2025

It Is No More

The Hollywood Reporter Adam Driver has revealed that Disney shot down a Star Wars sequel centered on Ben Solo, despite Lucasfilm being on board. The Oscar-nominated actor, who played the son of Han Solo and Leia Organa and the grandson of Anakin Skywalker (aka Darth Vader), and later turned into the villain Kylo Ren, recently detailed the...

21st October 2025

New ‘Simpsons’ Movie Set for 2027

The Hollywood Reporter The Simpsons are getting off the couch and heading back to theaters in 2027. Disney announced Monday that an untitled The Simpsons movie is set for theatrical release on July 23, 2027. The Simpsons Movie, a previous feature version of the long-running Matt Groening-created Fox animated series, hit theaters in 2007. Plot details for the...

29th September 2025

Starfighter Enlists Matt Smith in Villain Role

The Hollywood Reporter Matt Smith is finally getting his turn in the Star Wars galaxy. The House of the Dragon star, who at one point was eyed to appear in 2019’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, has been tapped to join Shawn Levy’s Star War: Starfighter, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. Lucasfilm could not be reached for comment. This...

6th August 2025

A Quiet Place Part III Is A Go

The Hollywood Reporter John Krasinski is officially returning to the franchise that catapulted him to A-list director status. Krasinski will write and direct A Quiet Place Part III, with Paramount setting a summer release date of July 9, 2027. No cast is set, but the first two installments were led...

2nd August 2025

Taking ‘Megalopolis’ on Tour

The Hollywood Reporter Francis Ford Coppola is going on tour. The legendary director has teamed with Live Nation for what is being promoted as “An Evening With Francis Ford Coppola and Megalopolis Screening.” Each of the six tour stops will feature a showing of the 2024 film followed by an interactive discussion with Coppola and the...

19th June 2025

Nicholas Galitzine Teases He-Man Costume

The Hollywood Reporter Nicholas Galitzine has revealed that the live-action Masters of the Universe film has wrapped production. The actor took to Instagram on Sunday to also tease his He-Man costume, as well as share his excitement for the project, based on the popular Mattel toy line. “Well, that’s a wrap on Masters of the Universe,” The...

15th June 2025

Mia Goth to Play Villain in Star Wars: Starfighter

The Hollywood Reporter Mia Goth has joined Ryan Gosling in Star Wars: Starfighter, the feature from director Shawn Levy. Gosling is leading the new feature project, which is expected to begin production this fall in England. It is scheduled to open May 28, 2027. Details on the project are scant, but it...

6th June 2025

Lilo & Stitch Box Office Mayhem

The Hollywood Reporter Talk about threading the needle perfectly. A week ago, no one could have imagined that Disney’s live-action reimagining Lilo & Stitch would make box office history and open to a record-breaking $182.6 million during the four-day Memorial Day weekend, including $146 million for the three days. Overseas, the live-action redux of...

28th May 2025

An R-Rated Star Wars Project?

The Hollywood Reporter Ryan Reynolds wants Disney to extend the R-rated success of Deadpool & Wolverine into the Star Wars franchise. The Deadpool actor revealed on an episode of The Box Office podcast that he “pitched” the idea of an R-rated Star Wars “property” to Disney. “I pitched to Disney, I said, ‘Why don’t we do an R-rated Star Wars property?’” he said, continuing...

24th May 2025

George Lucas Makes Rare Appearance

Source: The Hollywood Reporter The 2025 TCM Classic Film Festival kicked off with a screening of the 1980 hit Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, featuring a rare pre-movie discussion with director George Lucas. The Star Wars sequel, currently celebrating its 45-year anniversary, was the festival’s opening night programming at...

25th April 2025

Enola Holmes Returning

Source: The Hollywood Reporter Another Enola Holmes film is in the works at Netflix, with the streaming giant picking up a third installment of the series based on the book by Nancy Springer. Enola Holmes 3 will once again star Millie Bobby Brown (Stranger Things) as Enola Holmes, the younger sister of the famed detective Sherlock...

22nd April 2025

Lucas and Spielberg to Present AFI Life Achievement Award to Coppola

Source: The Hollywood Reporter When Francis Ford Coppola receives the AFI Life Achievement Award in Hollywood on Saturday, he will be supported by an A-list group of friends, family and former collaborators. The American Film Institute announced on Tuesday that George Lucas and Steven Spielberg will present the 50th AFI Life Achievement Award to the famed filmmaker at...

22nd April 2025

How Movie Studio Spies Size Up the Competition

Source: Hollywood Reporter Tom Cruise’s longest-running role on the big screen is playing Ethan Hunt, a rogue spy who works for a shadowy government agency. His character has more in common with CinemaCon than might meet the eye. For decades, rival studios have used the Las Vegas convention of theater owners to...

20th April 2025

Forgotten Island Sets Fall 2026 Release

Source: The Hollywood Reporter DreamWorks Animation is setting sail for a magical island. The Universal-owned animation studio announced a new original movie on Tuesday that’s titled Forgotten Island. It will hit open in theaters on Sept. 25, 2026. Plot details are being kept under wraps, but the film is described...

15th April 2025

The Breakfast Club Stars Reunite

Source: Hollywood Reporter The Breakfast Club stars Molly Ringwald, Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy and Anthony Michael Hall united publicly for the first time since the film’s 1985 release on Saturday, taking part in a 40th anniversary conversation at the C2E2 convention in Chicago. “I feel really very emotional...

12th April 2025

RIP: Val Kilmer (65)

Source: Hollywood Reporter Val Kilmer, the charisma-oozing leading man who lost himself portraying such tormented, self-loathing characters as Jim Morrison, gunslinger Doc Holliday and Batman during his all-too-brief career, died Tuesday. He was 65. Kilmer, who came to fame for playing the competitive naval aviator Tom “Iceman” Kazansky alongside Tom...

2nd April 2025

RIP: Clive Revill (94)

Source: Hollywood Reporter Clive Revill, the New Zealand native who after being recruited to be an actor by Laurence Olivier starred on Broadway, appeared in two films for Billy Wilder and provided the original voice of the evil Emperor Palpatine in The Empire Strikes Back, has died. He was 94. Revill...

27th March 2025

This Isn’t Journalism, This Is Bullying

Source: Hollywood Reporter Millie Bobby Brown has had enough. The British actress took to Instagram on Monday night, to hit back more forcefully at people on social media and the press who have commented on her appearance during the press tour for her new movie The Electric State, and also went so far...

4th March 2025

Rest In Peace: Geneviève Page (97)

Source: Hollywood Reporter Geneviève Page, the alluring French actress who starred in such films as Belle de Jour, El Cid and The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, died Friday. She was 97. Page died at her home in Paris, her granddaughter, actress Zoé Guillemaud, told the AFP news agency. In a career of...

15th February 2025

2024

RIP: Angus MacInnes (77)

Source: Hollywood Reporter Angus MacInnes, an actor most known for his role in 1977’s Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope and 2016’s Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, has died. He was 77. MacInnes died “peacefully, surrounded by his family and love” on Dec. 23, his family shared...

31st December 2024

Kathleen Kennedy to Be Honored

Source: Hollywood Reporter Kathleen Kennedy is set to be honored by the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) with the 2025 ASC Board of Governors Award, the organization announced on Wednesday. The ceremony will take place on Feb. 23 at the 39th Annual ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards Gala at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills. The ceremony will be...

12th December 2024

Chris Evans Returning to Marvel

Source: Hollywood Reporter After appearing in Deadpool & Wolverine, Chris Evans is dipping back into the Marvel Cinematic Universe once again for Avengers: Doomsday, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. Evans’ longtime collaborators the Russo brothers — who directed Evans in four films — are directing, with Robert Downey Jr. playing Doctor Doom. The film has a...

10th December 2024

Disney Takes Star Wars Off 2026 Calendar

Source: Hollywood Reporter Disney has removed a planned Star Wars movie from its 2026 release calendar, while the latest installment of a popular animated franchise will take that slot. Ice Age 6 has now been slated to hit theaters on Dec. 18, 2026. Details of the Star Wars film that was initially set for that date...

15th November 2024

RIP: Greg Hildebrandt (85)

Source: Hollywood Reporter Greg Hildebrandt, the admired artist and illustrator who created movie posters for the original Star Wars and Clash of the Titans, drew Marvel characters and designed iconic 1970s calendars that celebrated the Lord of the Rings trilogy, has died. He was 85. Hildebrandt died in Denville, New Jersey, his son, Greg Jr., told The Hollywood...

2nd November 2024

Rest In Peace: Kris Kristofferson (88)

Source: Hollywood Reporter Kris Kristofferson, the soulful country music superstar who wrote “Me and Bobby McGee” and “Help Me Make It Through the Night,” performed with the supergroup The Highwaymen and made audiences swoon in Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore and A Star Is Born, has died. He was 88....

30th September 2024