Film News

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Film director Agnieszka Holland demanded an apology from Poland's justice minister after he compared her latest film , which explores the migration crisis at the Poland-Belarus border, to Nazi propaganda.

NEW YORK (AP) — Nia DaCosta, director of the upcoming “The Marvels,” has a diagnosis for the recent struggles of superhero movies. It basically comes down to, she says, “Mo’ money, mo’ problems.” Success inevitably breeds bigger budgets.

NEW YORK (AP) — The great films of the 1970s have long loomed in the imagination of filmmakers raised during one of the most fertile periods of American movies. But Alexander Payne wanted to take it a step further.

Fall is coming, and so are the movies. OK, not all the movies. Some of them, like “Dune: Part Two," have been postponed until next year due to the ongoing actors and writers strikes . But most of the film calendar has stayed intact — for now.

The Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is not dead in Pablo Larraín’s “El Conde.

NEW YORK (AP) — Hollywood is at a standstill . Actors and screenwriters are months into a dual strike. Film sets are dark. But the movies are still coming — or, at least, most of them. Even if that means some potentially solitary red-carpet walks.

VANCOUVER — Sofia Coppola's buzzworthy biopic "Priscilla," about a young Priscilla Presley's budding romance with music superstar Elvis, is headed to this year's Vancouver International Film Festival.

Toronto International Film Festival CEO Cameron Bailey is determined to prove that the annual fest is still valuable at its core, despite this year's unwelcome changes and challenges.

TORONTO — D.W. Waterson wasn't a cheerleader — but they did perform as one.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A leading member of Poland’s conservative government has sharply criticized a film that explores the humanitarian disaster affecting migrants along the Poland-Belarus border which premiered Tuesday at the Venice Film Festival.