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The Next Best Picture Podcast – Interview With “Wasteman” Stars David Jonssan & Tom Blyth
“Wasteman” is a 2025 British prison film directed by Cal McMau from a screenplay by Hunter Andrews and Eoin Doran. The film stars David Jonsson and Tom Blyth as incarcerated cellmates who have to do what they need to do in order to survive the prison’s brutal conditions. The film premiered at the 2025 Toronto…
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The Next Best Picture Podcast – Interview With “Erupcja” Stars Jeremy O. Harris, Lena Góra, And Director Pete Ohs
“Erupcja” is a 2025 drama film directed and produced by Pete Ohs, from a screenplay by Ohs, Jeremy O. Harris, Charli XCX, Lena Góra, and Will Madden. It stars XCX, Góra, O. Harris, and Madden. It had its world premiere at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival in the Centerpiece section, and also played in…
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The Next Best Picture Podcast – Interview With “The Christophers” Stars Ian McKellen & Michaela Coel
“The Christophers” is a 2025 black comedy film directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by Ed Solomon. It stars Sir Ian McKellen, Michaela Coel, Jessica Gunning, and James Corden. The film premiered at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival, where it received positive reviews from critics for Ed Solomon’s screenplay and the performances of Sir…
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The Next Best Picture Podcast – Interview With “Mile End Kicks” Filmmaker Chandler Levack
“Mile End Kicks” is a 2025 Canadian romantic comedy film written and directed by Chandler Levack. Based in part on Levack’s own young adulthood before becoming a professional music critic and filmmaker, the film stars Barbie Ferreira as Grace Pine, a young woman who moves to Montreal, Quebec, in 2011 to write a book about…
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The Un Certain Regard Jury For The 2026 Cannes Film Festival
After British filmmaker Molly Manning Walker last year, Leïla Bekhti will serve as President of the Un Certain Regard Jury at the 79th Festival de Cannes. She and her four jury members, Senegal’s producer Angèle Diabang, Lebanon’s composer Khaled Mouzanar, Italy’s director Laura Samani, and France’s director Thomas Cailley, will be tasked with selecting the…
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CinemaCon 2026 Recap: Walt Disney Studios
Despite a brand-new era for Walt Disney Studios, with newly installed CEO Josh D’Amaro replacing Bob Iger just this past March, little was made of the transition during their CinemaCon 2026 presentation. It makes sense, of course, as a clear continuity of leadership feels safe, especially for the movie theater owners and exhibitors at CinemaCon,…
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The Next Best Picture Podcast – “Frost/Nixon”
Hello NBP Film Community! Our 2008 retrospective has officially begun!! And we’re kicking things off with Ron Howard’s politically charged film adaptation of the stage play of the same name, written for both mediums by Peter Morgan, “Frost/Nixon” starring Frank Langella, Michael Sheen, Kevin Bacon, Rebecca Hall, Toby Jones, Matthew Macfadyen, Oliver Platt & Sam…
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CinemaCon 2026 Recap: Paramount Pictures
The same week that more than 2,000 actors, directors, and producers signed onto a letter opposing Paramount Pictures’ bid to purchase Warner Bros, David Ellison stepped out onto the CinemaCon stage. The middling applause told the whole story: the exhibitors in the crowd don’t exactly know how to feel. Ellison made some genuinely exciting promises:…
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