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By Jack Dunn According To The variety George Clooney is no longer interested in romance on the big screen. During a recent interview with the Daily Mail, Clooney said that after having a discussion with his wife, Amal Clooney, about his age, he will no longer be “kissing girls” in movies. “I’ve been trying to go the route Paul Newman did — ‘Okay, well, I’m not kissing a girl anymore,’” Clooney said. He added, “When I turned 60, I had a conversation with my wife. I said, ‘Look, I can still play basketball with the boys. I play with 25-year-old guys. I can still hang, I’m in shape. But in 25 years, I’m 85 years old. It doesn’t matter how many granola bars you eat, that’s a real number.'Clooney made his career as one of Hollywood’s most popular romantic leads. Some of hi...

By Andrew McGowan According To The variety Rian Johnson‘s “Wake Up Dead Man,” the third film in the Daniel Craig-starring “Knives Out” murder mystery series, just arrived on Netflix on Dec. 12. However, the director already has thoughts about the next installment in the franchise. Johnson told Entertainment Weekly, “I have some basic, elemental, conceptual ideas. Like, ‘Okay, it’d be interesting if it were this kind of thing’ kernels.” The director continued, “I don’t have actual concrete ideas. I don’t have a theme yet. I don’t have a location. It’s really pretty vague, and I feel like it’s good to kinda keep it vague until I’m ready to actually sit down and write it.” In the meantime, Johnson hopes to direct at least one original film before returning to “Knives Out” f...

By William Earl According To The variety The 1984 slasher “Silent Night, Deadly Night” was an above-average movie, which grew in infamy due to advertising that depicted a bloodied, axe-wielding Santa. Nationwide protests to shield children from the images coincided with the opening, which, of course, had the unintentional effect of drumming up more business. This ultimately led to four more chapters in the series and a loose 2012 reboot, yet most of the movies haven’t stood the test of time in the horror community compared to franchises like “Halloween” or “A Nightmare on Elm Street.” In fact, horror filmmaker Mike P. Nelson says his first experience with “Deadly Night” wasn’t the film itself, but rather the advertising campaign. I was born in ’82 and the movie came out in ’84,” N...

By Naman Ramachandran According To The variety Netanya Yemima, whose short film “The Most Handsome Fish on Earth” premiered at the 20th Jogja-Netpac Asian Film Festival last year, has her feature directorial debut “To My Dearest, My Dear…” selected for the JAFF Future Project, a time-travel drama about a dying father who leaps into the future to meet the daughter he’ll never live to see. The Indonesia production, directed by Yemima and produced by Bela Nabila and Bayu Arief, is among 10 Asia-Pacific titles selected for the JAFF Future Project at this year’s JAFF Market in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The project previously participated in Jakarta Film Week Producers Lab 2024 and Platform Busan 2025. To My Dearest, My Dear…” follows Adam, a soon-to-be father diagnosed...