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PARIS (AP) — New films from Wes Anderson , Ari Aster , and Richard Linklater will compete for the Palme d’Or at the 78th Cannes Film Festival , organizers announced Thursday.

It’s oddly comforting that a movie can still dial M when it wants to. Smart phones have largely been a bit of a buzzkill for horror films, leading filmmakers to find all kinds of reasons — dead batteries, no service — to strand potential prey.

Filmmaker Alex Garland wanted to make a different kind of war film.

Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland ’s “Warfare” is more defined by what it isn't than what it is. In their Iraq War -set film, there’s never any description of a wider strategy.

Before Jack Ryan was introduced into the culture, Robert Littell imagined Charlie Heller, a quiet, CIA cryptographer who goes rogue on a quest for vengeance after his love is killed by terrorists.

TORONTO — Cineplex Inc. says its box office revenue for March totalled $29.5 million, down from $59.2 million a year earlier when its results were powered by Dune: Part Two and Kung Fu Panda 4.

Hollywood needed “A Minecraft Movie” to be a hit, and it delivered in its opening weekend, significantly narrowing this year's box office deficit . No one guessed just how big it would be.

“Universal Language" director Matthew Rankin says he's channelling his creative energy into two new films: one probing Canada's conservative legacy and another on the world's most famous made-up language.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Tom Cruise opened his highly anticipated CinemaCon appearance on Thursday with a moving tribute to his “Top Gun” co-star, Val Kilmer, who died Tuesday in Los Angeles.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — When Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo and director Jon M. Chu took the stage in Las Vegas last April to tease “Wicked” months before its theatrical release, there was cautious optimism that the long-anticipated film would be a hit.