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The Berlinale’s new director Tricia Tuttle unveiled her inaugural line-up on Tuesday under the scrutiny of press and industry who are waiting to see whether she can get the festival back on track after a tumultuous 2024 edition.

The 19-title competition mixes works by confirmed big names such as Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon, Michel Franco’s Dreams, Radu Jude’s Kontinental ’25, Hong Sangsoo’s What Does That Nature Say To You with second and third movies by rising names such as Léonor Serraille’s Ari and Gabriel Mascaro’s The Blue Trail.

Outside of the competition, Tuttle may have secured a starrier than usual red carpet with previously announced invitations to works including Justin Kurzel’s series The Narrow Road To The Deep North with Jacob Elordi, Bong Joon Ho’s Mickey 17, with Robert Pattinson, and fresh addition A Complete Unknown, with Timothée Chamalet, but she is keeping...

The competition line-up for the 2025 Berlin International Film Festival is being announced at a press conference at 11am Cet (10am GMT).

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New festival director Tricia Tuttle is revealing the titles for the Competition and new Perspectives strand alongside co-directors of film programming Jacqueline Lyanga and Michael Stütz.

The announcement is being live-streamed on the festival’s social channels. Watch it live above.

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As previously announced, the festival will open with Tom Tykwer’s Special Gala out of competition selection The Light.

Bird and Fish Tank director Andrea Arnold plans to make the long-discussed FBI thriller Featherwood, starring Scarlett Johansson, as her next movie.

Indie director Andrea Arnold returned to her home turf in Kent to shoot Bird, the acclaimed drama (starring Barry Keoghan) released last year. If all goes to plan, she could be heading back to the United States for her next film – Featherwood, starring Scarlett Johansson.

In an interview with Screen Daily (via World Of Reel), Arnold reportedly said that, while a production date hasn’t been announced yet, she’s been on a location scouting tour in Texas.

Word of Featherwood – and Johansson’s attachment – first began to circulate last February. It’s based on the true-life story of Carol Blevins, the ‘property’ of a white supremacist gang member who became an FBI informant in a wide-ranging investigation in the 2000s. That investigation, in which Blevins became a key witness,...

Days before we find out who’ll compete for the Golden Bear, we’ve got programmes such as Panorama and Berlinale Special that have been filled-up. Bong Joon Ho‘s Mickey 17 has been confirmed, Justin Kurzel‘s series The Narrow Road to the Deep North is included and Brazilian filmmaker Anna Muylaert returns to the fest with A melhor mãe do mundo (The Best Mother in the World) – which tells the story of an escape from an abusive relationship, Gal puts her two young children into the recycling cart she uses to collect trash on the city’s streets and runs away.…...

It’s officially Jacob Elordi’s year.

The rising star has a slew of projects being released in 2025, including Justin Kurzel and Shaun Grant’s buzzy limited series “The Narrow Road to the Deep North,” which will be premiering at Berlinale 2025 as a Special Gala.

The sales title series was in development for years at Fremantle before Elordi’s casting was announced in 2022; the project was a Sony Pictures Television production. The official logline reads: “A celebrated World War II hero is haunted by his experiences in a Japanese prisoner of war camp and memories of an affair that took place just before the war in this adaptation of Richard Flanagan’s 2013 Booker Prize-winning novel.”

Elordi plays lead character Dorrigo Evans, an Australian army surgeon imprisoned at a Pow camp. The original novel jumps across multiple periods of Evans’ life, from his affair as a young man with his uncle...

2025 may end up a career year for director Justin Kurzel. Deadline reports that the Australian auteur’s series adaptation of Richard Flanagan‘s Booker Prize winner “The Narrow Road To The Deep North” will premiere at next month’s Berlin Film Festival. It’s one of several titles the Berlinale added this morning, as a Special Gala screening, which already features the likes of Bong Joon-ho‘s much-anticipated “Mickey 17.”

Read More: ‘The Order’: January 6 Made Justin Kurzel Realize He Needed To Make His White Nationalism Thriller

But Kurzel’s follow-up to last year’s “The Order” deserves the hype.

Continue reading ‘The Narrow Road To The Deep North’: Justin Kurzel’s Miniseries Starring Jacob Elordi To Premiere At The 2025 Berlinale at The Playlist.

Ahead of the Berlinale 2025 taking place February 13-23, they’ve unveiled their lineups for Berlinale Special, Panorama, Generation and Forum sections. Highlights include confirmation of Bong Joon Ho’s Mickey 17 alongside Ira Sachs’ Peter Hujar’s Day, Ancestral Visions of the Future from This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection director Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, a documentary on the making of Shoah, a new Jacob Elordi-led series from Justin Kurzel, and more.

See the lineup below via Deadline and check back for the competition lineup next week.

Berlinale Special

Ancestral Visions of the Future

by Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese | with Siphiwe Nzima, Sobo Bernard, Zaman Mathejane, Mochesane Edwin Kotsoane, Rehauhetsoe Ernest Kotsoane

France / Lesotho / Germany / Saudi Arabia 2025

Berlinale Special | World premiere | Documentary form

A poetic allegory of the filmmaker Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese’s childhood, an ode to cinema and an inner nod to his mother. Through fragmented narratives and mythic imagery,...

The Berlin Film Festival (February 13-23)has unveiled a raft of additions to its programme, including the full Special, Panorama, Generation and Forum line-ups.

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Eight works have been added to the Berlinale Special line-up, including confirmation the festival will host the German premiere ofParasitedirector Bong Joon Ho’sMickey 17.The filmstars Robert Pattinson in the story of an “expendable” on a mission to colonise an ice planet who keeps dying and coming back to life. It is likely to world premiere in South Korean ahead of playing at the Berlinale.

The world premiere of...

The Berlin Film Festival has confirmed that Bong Joon Ho‘s highly anticipated Mickey 17, the director’s first feature since his historic Oscar sweep with Parasite, will have its international premiere out of competition in Berlin. The film will bow first in South Korea on Jan. 28, and will roll out in the U.S. on March 7. Warner Bros. is releasing the film worldwide.

The Robert Pattinson-starrer will get a Berlinale Special gala screening at the 2025 Berlinale. The sci-fi film features an ensemble cast including Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, Toni Collette and Mark Ruffalo alongside Pattinson.

Dylan Southern’s family drama The Thing With Feathers, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, also secured a Berlinale Special slot. The adaptation of Max Porter’s novel follows a father grappling with his wife’s sudden death while raising their young children.

The Narrow Road to the Deep North, the upcoming series from Australian director Justin Kurzel (The Order,...

The Berlin Film Festival has confirmed that Bong Joon Ho’s Robert Pattinson movie “Mickey 17” will play at the festival, in the Berlinale Special section, alongside a new – and equally glitzy — addition, Justin Kurzel‘s series “The Narrow Road to the Deep North” starring Jacob Elordi.

Variety first reported last week that “Mickey 17” would have its international premiere at Berlinale.

“The Narrow Road of the Deep North” will world premiere at the festival. Adapted from Richard Flanagan’s Booker Prize-winning novel, the highly anticipated series stars Elordi as a celebrated World War II hero who is haunted by his experiences in a Japanese prisoner of war camp and memories of an affair that took place just before the war.

Also joining the Berlinale Special roster is “The Thing with Feathers,” Dylan Southern’s film starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Richard Boxall. The movie, which will have its European premiere at the fest,...

Aussie filmmaker Justin Kurzel’s series adaptation of Richard Flanagan’s Booker Prize-winning novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North, starring Jacob Elordi, will screen at this year’s Berlin Film Festival.

The Narrow Road to the Deep North was among several titles added to Berlin’s lineup this morning.

The festival describes the series as a “riveting new Australian drama” about a WWII hero haunted by his past. The show will screen as a Berlinale Special Gala. Also in Specials strand is The Thing with Feathers starring Benedict Cumberbatch. The pic screens at Berlin following a debut bow at Sundance and is from filmmaker Dylan Southern. The pic is an adaption of Max Porter’s novel about a grieving father wrestling with the sudden death of his wife while also raising their young children. As previously reported, Bong Joon Ho’s Mickey 17 will also screen. Scroll down...

The past year has arguably been the biggest year for the Hollywood actor Nicholas Hoult, who further showcased his depth as an actor in several movies like Juror No. 2, Nosferatu, and The Order. And the latter featured him in a standout role as the leader of a neo-Nazi terrorist group, Bob Mathews.

Nicholas Hoult | Credit: Gage Skidmore/Cc-By-Sa 2.0/Wikimedia Commons

As the actor gears up for another major role, with fans eagerly anticipating his portrayal of DC villain Lex Luthor in Superman: Legacy, he recently opened up about his role in The Order and a compliment that left him feeling uneasy.

Nicholas Hoult reflects on being cast as a white supremacist in The Order

Before taking on the role of the DC villain Lex Luthor in James Gunn’s Superman: Legacy, the X-Men star took on the role of “horrible white supremacist” in the 2024 crime thriller, The Order.

The Order and Nitram director could be about to team up with Sebastian Stan on the true-life thriller, Burning Rainbow Farm.

Even if the ongoing awards season seems determined to ignore it, Sebastian Stan enjoyed a wonderful 2024, not only appearing in two excellent films but putting in career-best work in both of them. In A24’s A Different Man, Stan showcased his excellent taste for choosing roles which challenge him as an actor whilst also pointing to his inclinations for seeking out and developing roles that some of his contemporaries would fear to take.

That approach was certainly true when it came to his other role last year, taking on the part of a younger Donald Trump in The Apprentice. As with A Different Man, Stan took a role in an election year that – given the febrile state of America’s political landscape – was sure to be divisive and gave...

Exclusive: Early one morning up in Haddon Hall, a grand Tudor hall in Derbyshire, England, this corpulent, menacing-looking man swathed in a richly brocaded tunic trimmed with fur shuffled over to have a chat with filmmaker Karim Aïnouz and the Oscar-winning actor Alicia Vikander.

I had no idea who he was.

We were on the set of Firebrand, about Henry VIII’s marriage — his sixth and final one — to Katherine Parr.

Jude Law was supposed to join them. “Where is he?” I asked Gabby Tana, Firebrand’s producer.

“He’s in front of you talking to Karim,” Tana responded.

“That’s Jude Law?” I blurted.

Jude Law is bemused when I recount the story

He’s calling me from New York, and when he realizes that I’m in Beverly Hills, his voice breaks as he mentions that he’s been in touch with friends “who have lost everything” in...

Child stars don’t have it easy in the Hollywood system. We’ve all heard horror stories of young actors who become cash cows for dismissive parents or lose themselves to the industry’s indulgent lifestyle. Others simply fade away, leaving their mark at a young age then failing to find work as they mature into adulthood.

Many child actors try to avoid this fate by signing on to shocking projects or accepting bold and often scandalous roles. Known for his work in the High School Musical franchise, Zac Efron attempted this feat by playing notorious serial killer Ted Bundy. Joe Berlinger’s Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile positions this prolific murderer as a duplicitous but charming boyfriend able to woo his way through a bumbling legal system until the reality of his crimes finally catches up. But does this glamorous casting serve to glorify a sadistic predator? Has...

Rank Film (distributor) Three-day gross (Jan 3-5) Total gross to date Week 1. Mufasa: The Lion King (Disney) £3.3m £20.7m 3 2. Nosferatu (Universal) £3.1m £5.3m 1 3. Sonic The Hedgehog 3 (Paramount) £2.7m £18.7m 2 4. Moana2 (Disney) £1.8m £38.2m 6 5. We Live In Time (Studiocanal) £1.7m £2.8m 1

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Robert Eggers’ vampire horror Nosferatu scared up a £3.1m opening weekend at the UK-Ireland box office, with an impressive £5.3m start including previews; as Mufasa: The Lion King held top spot.

Holding the crown for an impressive third consecutive weekend, Mufasa: The Lion King dropped just 23% across its latest outing with £3.3m. Barry Jenkins...

The Order director Justin Kurzel has offered a clarification on an early story doing the rounds that he wants to make a Mad Max prequel.

On the 27th December, out came The Order – what is for this writer one of the finest thrillers of 2024. Early in the promotional trail for that film, its director Justin Kurzel was quoted as saying he’d be interested in making a prequel to George Miller’s seminal 1979 revenge piece, Mad Max.

The quotes originated from an interview with Collider, and we reported on Kurzel’s comments in early December 2025. “I’ve always been curious about what happened before the first Mad Max,” Kurzel said at the time; “what was that world with the Nightrider, pre-Mad Max?”

(The Nightrider Kurzel refers to is a member of the maniacal biker gang that turns Mel Gibson’s protagonist Max Rockatansky from patrolling highway cop to avenging angel.

Robert Eggers’ vampire horror Nosferatu opens in 624 UK-Ireland cinemas this weekend through Universal, having made an excellent start since New Year’s Day.

Nosferatu took £1.3m on Wednesday, January 1 from 574 sites at a £2,247 location average; with a further £870,000 on Thursday for £2.2m already banked in previews.It could become Eggers’ highest-grossing film by the end of the weekend, ahead of the totals of 2022’s The Northman(£4.7m), 2020’s The Lighthouse (£1.4m) and 2016’s The Witch (£1.2m).

The £1.3m Wednesday figure was the highest-grossing single day for a horror title in the territory since Disney’s Alien: Romulus opened with £1.4m...

RankFilm (distributor)Three-day gross (Dec 27-29)Total gross to dateWeek 1. Mufasa: The Lion King (Disney) £4.2m £12.6m 2 2. Sonic The Hedgehog 3 (Paramount) £4m £11.8m 1 3. Wicked (Universal) £2.7m £53m 6 4. Moana2 (Disney) £2.2m £33.8m 5 5. Better Man (Efd) £1.3m £1.6m 1

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Disney animation Mufasa: The Lion King held off Paramount’s Sonic The Hedgehog 3 in the final UK-Ireland weekend box office of 2024.

Mufasa fell a slim 4% on its second session, taking £4.2m; the film had £12.6m by the end of Sunday, December 29, from 10 days in cinemas.

This is well down on the £36.9m of 2019’s The Lion King...

“Carry-On”, Jaume Collet-Serra’s thriller with Taron Egerton and Jason Bateman, continues to add to its claim to be one of the most watched Netflix original movies ever. During the high-end viewership holiday period, it now has been #1 for three weeks in a row. Even being in the top spot for two consecutive weeks is rare among Netflix films, but a third return to #1 elevates it into a position not seen at least in the last two years.

Even “Glass Onion,” the “Knives Out” sequel, only managed two weeks at #1, and it is currently the #10 English-language film on the Netflix All Time list. Netflix will release worldwide statistics on Tuesday, but based on its current position, look for them to elevate “Carry-On” among their biggest successes.

“Gladiator II” (Paramount) immediately took over the #1 position on PVOD with its release after five weekends in theaters. It’s another sign of how lucrative these platforms are,...

Directed by Justin Kurzel, The Order follows the true story of a real-life White supremacist named Bob Mathews and makes us privy to the kind of chaos the man caused back in the day. It can be said that the Jude Law starrer reimagines the real-life events that took place in the early eighties and told us about the ideology of the man and why he did what he did. Most of the events shown in the film happened in real life, though the filmmaker has taken certain creative liberties and created fictional characters (like that of Terry Husk) to somewhat dramatize the conflict and make it meatier. So, let’s find out what happened in The Order film and if Bob Mathews’ thinking was as crooked as it was shown in the film.

I believe that to understand a man, it is very necessary to understand where he came from,...

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.

Between the Temples (Nathan Silver)

In a state of arrested development after his wife unexpectedly died from a freak accident, Ben Gottlieb (Jason Schwartzman) is suicidal, pleading to a truck to just run him over and begging that he be fired from his job as cantor at the local Jewish temple in upstate New York. While this set-up may not scream comedy, Between the Temples is in fact hilarious, packed with endless jokes and adoration for physical gags while we witness Ben find new meaning in life through an unexpected acquaintance. Above all, Nathan Silver’s feature, from a script he co-wrote with C. Mason Wells,is a thrillingly alive, nimble piece of filmmaking: shot on 16mm by Sean Price Williams with...

Jude Law found the key to his ‘The Order’ character when he was “sniffling and coughing and haggard”.The 51-year-old actor stars in the movie as FBI agent Terry Husk, who is hunting down neo-Nazi bank rubber Bob Mathews (Nicholas Hoult), and he relished the chance to “let [himself] go” to play the “broken” detective.He recently told Britain’s Hello! Magazine: “I was adding to the DNA of the guy and, physically, I was waiting for a click.“That came about because I got sick and I was very run down and tired.“Our director Justin Kurzel saw something in me one day when I was sniffling and coughing and haggard. He was like, ‘Ok, this is him. This is the guy!’“I just wanted him to feel broken. I wanted you to worry that he wasn’t actually going to make it, that there was a sense of doubt.

The Order (2024) is a brooding investigative thriller that puts another feather in director Justin Kurzel’s cap. After following the chilling character portraits in ‘Nitram’ and ‘The Snowtown Murders,’ Kurzel returns with an equally harrowing depiction of evil in human beings. This time, he shifts his focus toward a White Supremacist terrorist group that was active in the 1980s. He paints the picture of a small American town mainly through the eyes of an FBI agent, who ends up in a cat-and-mouse chase with the terrorist group’s members. Although the plot essentially leads us toward its leader’s capture, it is more interested in interrogating the human tendencies that affect the usual order of any place; and how people react in such situations of change.

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The Order (2024) Plot Summary & Movie Synopsis:

‘The Order’ starring Jude Law offers a grim portrait of an FBI investigation in the 1980s...

“The Order” is a thriller movie starring Jude Law, Nicholas Hoult, and Tye Sheridan. It is written by Zach Baylin, and directed by Justin Kurzel.

This cinematic tour de force, set against the backdrop of 1980s Pacific Northwest, plunges viewers into a harrowing world of violent bank heists and armored car robberies that sent shockwaves through the region.

At the heart of this gripping narrative lies a chilling truth: these aren’t your run-of-the-mill criminals, but a group of Aryan supremacists led by the charismatic and dangerous Bob Mathews, brilliantly portrayed by Nicholas Hoult. Their audacious goal? To finance an armed uprising against the U.S. government, a premise that sends shivers down the spine and keeps viewers on the edge of their seats.

Enter FBI agent Terry Husk, brought to life by the ever-versatile Jude Law. As Husk delves deeper into the treacherous world of white supremacists, the film ratchets up the tension,...

Nicholas Hoult plays a wannabe far-right martyr, and Law and Tye Sheridan the feds on his tail, in a well-cast if anticlimactic true-crime tale

Justin Kurzel directs a workmanlike true-crime thriller about a real-life American white supremacist movement called the Order, which, in the 1980s, murdered Jewish radio journalist Alan Berg and pulled off bank robberies to fund a planned national insurrection. Its leader, Bob Mathews, sought a creepy martyrdom involving an Alamo-style standoff with federal agents at the group’s remote farmhouse in Washington state. Screenwriter Zach Baylin (Oscar-nominated for King Richard) adapts the book about the case, The Silent Brotherhood, by Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt; Nicholas Hoult plays the baby-faced Mathews, with Jude Law and Tye Sheridan as the (fictional-composite) officers battling to take him down.

Kurzel contrives a solid, vehement film, with Law and Hoult proving to be interestingly cast; there are well-turned action sequences and...

Disney’s “Mufasa: The Lion King” roared to the top of the U.K.-Ireland box office in its debut weekend with £4.4 million ($5.5 million), according to numbers from Comscore through Dec. 23.

As the holiday season reaches its peak, Universal’s “Wicked” continues to enchant in its fifth frame, conjuring £2.5 million for a robust £48.2 million running total. Disney’s “Moana 2” sailed to third place with £2 million, pushing its four-week cume to £29.7 million.

Studiocanal’s “Paddington in Peru” remained steady in fourth, adding £653,489 in its seventh weekend for a £31.3 million total. Paramount’s “Gladiator II” rounded out the top five with £497,569, reaching £29.6 million after six weeks.

In sixth place, Black Bear’s “Conclave” collected £331,308 for a £4.9 million total, while Trafalgar Releasing’s “Ivanov/Wright The Nutcracker” Royal Opera House ballet presentation earned £227,082 in seventh. Sony’s “Kraven the Hunter” collected £171,942 in eighth position for a total of £1.2 million, while Park Circus...

Welcome to Career Watch, a vocational checkup of top actors and directors and those who hope to get there. In this edition, we take on Nicholas Hoult, who’s doing what he’s always done: owning character roles in film, theater, and television.

Bottom Line: Hoult has an enigmatic persona that fits just about any role. The camera is drawn to his deep blue eyes, and you can count on Hoult to deliver a character’s emotional spine. (He’s not one to go overboard.) That’s why this grown-up child actor never falls out of favor. He can handle anything: Marvel superheroics, Nic Cage flicks (“The Weatherman” and “Renfield”), movies starring Toni Colette (“About a Boy” and “Juror #2”), action thrillers, and comedic bodice-rippers.

Career Arcs: Hoult first trod the boards when he was three, following in the footsteps of his older siblings. He starred opposite Toni Collette and Hugh Grant...

Directed by Justin Kurzel and written by Zach Baylin, The Order is a gripping 2024 action thriller based on the acclaimed non-fiction book The Silent Brotherhood by Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt.

Bringing to life one of the most chilling chapters in modern American history, the film explores the rise of a violent white supremacist terrorist group in the 1980s and the relentless FBI pursuit to bring it to justice. It stars Jude Law, Nicholas Hoult, Tye Sheridan, Jurnee Smollett, Alison Oliver, and Marc Maron.

We sat down for a chat with actor Jude Law to talk about his role as producer and actor in the film. We also talked about the importance of retelling such important stories, especially during these dark times. Finally we couldn’t resist the temptation to ask hi8m about The Holiday, a Christmas movie that has continued to inspire and delight audiences almost 2 whole decades after it was first released.

Starring Jude Law and Nicholas Hoult, and directed by Justin Kurzel, tense thriller The Order is one of 2024’s last must-see films. Our review:

Director Justin Kurzel has a certain way of depicting death. Where most filmmakers might serve up an aesthetised, cinematic version of what dying looks and feels like, Kurzel captures it in what feels unsettlingly real: the shock, the gasping for air, the sensation of drowning in blood. It’s something he brought to his startling debut Snowtown, and continued into his later work, whether it’s his Technicolor adaptation of Macbeth (2015) or his disturbing 2021 drama, Nitram.

Like much of Kurzel’s earlier work, The Order, written by Zach Baylin, is based on real events: the FBI’s hunt for a white supremacist militia group in the early 1980s. Between 1983 and 1984, the group – which called itself The Order – waged a terror campaign across Colorado and Washington, bombing buildings,...

A critically acclaimed thriller starring Jude Law and Nicholas Hoult is getting a VOD release. Known for The Talented Mr. Ripley and Cold Mountain, two films that earned him Academy Award nominations, Law has maintained an impressive catalog across his 38-year career. The actor currently leads the Star Wars: Skeleton Crew cast on Disney+, a particular bright spot for the franchise in terms of audience reception, and has appeared in other major blockbusters over the years, including Sherlock Holmes, Captain Marvel, and Fantastic Beasts. Law also starred in fan-favorite romantic movies Closer and The Holiday.

When it comes to Hoult, whose star has been on the rise for the past decade, X-Men: First Class and Warm Bodies seemed to kickstart his mainstream career. Since then, he has taken on various projects that achieved commercial success and/or garnered praise from audiences, reprising his role as Beast in multiple X-Men sequels...

As much as Jurnee Smollett is an actor, she could also be considered an archivist — given how much of her 38-year career she’s spent capturing elements of untold history.

Smollett has been in front of the camera since she was 10 months old, but began acting in earnest when she was 5, appearing on sitcoms like “Full House” and “Hangin’ With Mr. Cooper.” Since then, Smollett played Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Smallest Freedom Fighter” (8-year-old Sheyann Webb) in the 1999 TV movie “Selma, Lord Selma”; the sole female debater at a historically Black college in 1935 Texas in 2007’s “The Great Debaters”; a woman who escapes slavery in the 2016 series “Underground”; and a fiery Civil Rights activist fighting both societal and supernatural monsters in 2020’s “Lovecraft Country,” HBO’s acclaimed sci-fi drama for which Smollett earned her first Emmy nomination.

In her latest film, “The Order,” Smollett plays an FBI agent (a...

Santa Claus won’t be the only thing coming down the chimney this Christmas Eve, as director Justin Kurzel’s FBI thriller The Order comes to On Demand. In the film, a string of violent robberies in the Pacific Northwest leads a veteran FBI agent into a domestic terrorist plot to overthrow the federal government. Nothing says Christmas like violence and corruption! Who’s bringing the spiked eggnog?

Here’s the official synopsis for The Order:

“For over a year, a series of bold daylight bank robberies and armored car heists leaves law enforcement baffled and the public panicked throughout the Pacific Northwest. As the attacks become increasingly violent, FBI agent Terry Husk (Jude Law) becomes convinced that the robberies are the work of a domestic terrorist gang that plans to use the loot to finance an armed uprising against the U.S. government.

Based on a true story, The Order...

Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2024, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists.

Reflecting on the past year in film, I find myself at an interesting crossroads where my alignment with the consensus is back off the axis. After 2022 left me feeling a bit out in the weeds regarding cinema culture, last year I was more in tune with the overall vibes––several favorites picked up Academy Awards, including Best Picture. This year is similar to 2022 for me, in that I won’t be surprised if not a single one of my top ten even gets a nomination.

But that doesn’t mean it was a poor year in my eyes; quite the contrary. From massive big swings by long-dormant auteurs or those recently bursting on the scene, to quiet dramas with volumes to say, to a bevy of formally...

Jude Law, the guest on this episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, is an Englishman who has been one of the world’s finest screen actors for some 30 years.

Twice Oscar-nominated before he was even 30, first for his breakout supporting turn in 1999’s The Talented Mr. Ripley and then for his first major leading role in 2003’s Cold Mountain, both of which were directed by Anthony Minghella, he has also been directed by Clint Eastwood, David Cronenberg, Steven Spielberg, Sam Mendes, David O. Russell, Kenneth Branagh, Mike Nichols, Martin Scorsese, Joe Wright, Steven Soderbergh, Wes Anderson, Paolo Sorrentino and Brady Corbet, among others.

And now, at the age of 51, he is starring on the well-received Disney+ series Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, and has given what many regard as his finest performance yet as an FBI agent on the hunt for white nationalists in 1980s Idaho in Justin Kurzel...

Exclusive: Actor and Director Simon Baker has signed with Gersh for representation.

Baker won international acclaim in the television series The Mentalist which screened in over 130 countries and garnered him Best Actor nominations for the Screen Actors Guild (SAG), Emmy and Golden Globe Awards. His film credits include the 1997 Academy Award-winning film, L.A. Confidential, The Devil Wears Prada and Margin Call.

Baker has had himself quite the. 2024 and his 2025 looks to remain busy as he is currently shooting the Amazon Series, Scarpetta, alongside the likes of Nicole Kidman, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Ariana DeBose. He also recently wrapped production on Klara And the Sun from Taika Waititi in the can at Sony opposite Jenna Ortega, Amy Adams, and Natasha Lyonne. Additionally, he will soon be seen opposite Jacob Elordi in the Sony limited series, The Narrow Road To The Deep North directed by Justin Kurzel.

His most recent credits...

There's no such thing as a "bad" year for movies -- not if you watch enough of them. That statement might come across like a hackneyed cliché every time film fans trot that out and lob it into the ether like a self-righteous grenade ... but it's still true!

Okay, we won't put lipstick on a pig: the state of the industry these days feels, to put a fine point on it, dire. Blockbusters have bullied out smaller and more original offerings on their way to ruling the roost, though even that's no guarantee anymore with the way budgets keep skyrocketing. Streaming platforms have become a last, desperate haven for passion projects from our best and brightest filmmakers ... but that only makes it easier for the Powers That Be to take movies like Clint Eastwood's "Juror #2" and sentence them to a digital death penalty. And unless they're dealing with names like Christopher Nolan,...

The actor on 90s nostalgia, how exhaustion helped with his latest role, and his guilt at revealing the truth about Christmas classic The Holiday

Actor Jude Law, 51, grew up in south-east London as the son of teachers. His breakthrough role in The Talented Mr Ripley earned him a Bafta, an Oscar nomination and enduring tabloid attention. Always versatile, he’s been cast in more complex roles as he’s aged, most recently playing Henry VIII in Firebrand. He’s currently starring in Star Wars: Skeleton Crew on Disney+, and next comes The Order, which Law co-produced and stars in as veteran FBI agent Terry Husk. Directed by Justin Kurzel and written by Zach Baylin, it’s an action film with a political message, anchored in the true story of a white supremacist terror group’s downfall. Its leader was inspired by The Turner Diaries, a novel referenced by Trump supporters...

Nicholas Hoult has truly outdone himself in 2024.

The English actor has received the best reviews of his nearly three-decade-long career for a trio of critically acclaimed films that were all timed to the final two months of the calendar year. To top it all off, he delivered a new take on Lex Luthor in James Gunn’s Superman (2025), one of the most anticipated and consequential releases in quite some time. A first look is expected to arrive next week.

Beginning with Nov. 1’s Juror #2, Hoult portrayed the title character in what many consider to be Clint Eastwood’s finest film in ages. The warm response from critics and audiences has also helped keep the drama in the year-end conversation after a surprisingly limited theatrical release and modest awards campaign.

“It’s always difficult when you release movies. You put in so much, emotionally, and you obviously care deeply. But once you release it,...

Bucky Barns himself, Sebastian Stan, looks set to continue his impressive work away from the Marvel Cinematic Universe with a collaboration with director Cristian Mungiu.

If there’s one member of the ranks of the MCU that has really succeeded at searching out roles that stretch him as an artist, it’s surely Sebastian Stan. Yes, Robert Downey Jr won an Oscar this year and has been (rightly) lauded by all and sundry since stepping out of the Iron Man suit, but Stan has been picking roles that demand he loses himself in them.

His last two films are The Apprentice and A Different Man, two of this year’s most absorbing dramas, and as the leading man in both projects, Stan is fantastic. While awards aren’t everything, he’s sure to be in the conversation for some shiny orbs this year. Whether he ends up picking up and...

Taking its cues from the gritty 1970s crime thrillers of Sydney Lumet and perhaps drawing some influence from recent dramas about little-known historical events ala “BlackKklansman” or even “Judas And The Messiah,” the crime drama, “The Order,” is the latest film from Aussie director Justin Kurzel (“Macbeth,” “Nitram”).

Starring Jude Law, Nicholas Hoult and Tye Sheridan, the film centers on a lone FBI agent (Law) who begins to believe that a series of bank robberies and car heists frightening communities in the Pacific Northwest are the work of a dangerous domestic terrorist and white supremacist group.

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It’s been a banner year for Sebastian Stan, with his two Golden Globe nods on Monday the icing on the cake. He’s up for Lead Actor in both the Drama and Musical/Comedy categories, for “The Apprentice” and “A Different Man,” respectively. And Deadline reports that Stan shows no signs of slowing down his buzzy output, as a new interview details three upcoming projects for the actor.

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Everardo Gout has signed on to direct action thriller Clementine, a co-production between Stuart Ford’s AGC Studios and Yeardley Smith and Ben Cornwell’s U.S. independent production company Paperclip Ltd.

Gout will direct from the 2022 Black List script by David L. Williams, with Paperclip’s Jordan Foley, Nick Smith and Ben Cornwell and AGC’s Ford producing. Paperclip’s Smith, AGC’s Lorelle Lynch and Gout will executive produce. AGC Studios will fully finance the film and AGC International will handle worldwide sales. Casting is underway for an early 2025 start.

Set in real time, Clementine is a young mother in Miami who barely escapes a pawn shop shootout and goes on the run from her violent ex-husband, a terrifying mob boss, and a relentless hitwoman, all while protecting her young diabetic daughter.

“As a thriller, Clementine has the real-time...

When thinking about why he wanted to star in a film like “The Order” during this time in history, Jude Law reflects that the idea of division through hatred is something that’s been around forever but also highlighted a story that he felt needed to be amplified. “It shone light on the early forming of hate groups and extremist groups in the States and by going back, telling a story that somehow has these uncomfortable relevances to today is a great way of talking and having a conversation starter,” he tells Gold Derby during our recent webchat (watch the video interview above). He adds, “By concentrating on getting that authentic, it seemed to be effective as a piece that’s commenting on where we are now.”

“The Order,” currently in theaters and being distributed by Vertical, stars Law as Husk, an FBI agent. Husk goes to Idaho to investigate...

Forever Purge director Everardo Gout will helm the thriller Clementine for AGC Studios and Paperclip Ltd.

Based by David L. Williams’s Black List screenplay, the story takes place in real time as the titular young mother in Miami barely escapes a pawn shop shootout and goes on the run from her violent ex-husband, a mob boss, and a relentless hitwoman while protecting her diabetic daughter.

Paperclip’s Jordan Foley, Nick Smith and Ben Cornwell and AGC head Stuart Ford are producing, with Paperclip’s Yeardley Smith, AGC’s Lorelle Lynch and Gout serving as executive producers.

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Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series highlighting the scripts behind the awards season’s buzziest films continues with The Order, Justin Kurzel’s period crime drama based on a chilling and timely true story. The screenplay was written by Oscar-nominated King Richard scribe Zach Baylin.

The film starring Jude Law, Nicholas Hoult, Tye Sheridan and Jurnee Smollett has been hitting the fall festival circuit beginning with its world premiere at Venice. It has since opened the Zurich and Marrakesh film festivals and hit theaters in limited release this past weekend via Vertical.

Baylin’s script, adapted from the book The Silent Brotherhood by Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt, centers on a string of violent robberies and other crimes beginning in the early 1980s Pacific Northwest that the FBI, and specifically veteran agent Terry Husk (Law), figured out were being perpetrated by a white supremacist group plotting to overthrow the government.

Director Justin Kurzel was not at all familiar with the story of Bob Mathews until he started reading the script for “The Order” written by Zach Baylin. “I’d sort of read the first 15 pages and I was like, oh wow, this reminds me of these great seventies films that Friedkin and Lumet used to kind of do,” he reveals to Gold Derby during our recent webchat (watch the video interview above).

As he read the script he found himself more and more captivated by the subject of American extremism. “I wasn’t aware of ‘The Turner Diaries.’ I wasn’t aware of this sort of organization such as The Order. I was curious. I’ve been interested in the past with films that I’ve done here about how communities can be influenced by figures that can manipulate them to believe in their own kind of ideology.”

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Warning: The following contains Spoilers for The Order.Director Justin Kurzel offers a vague explanation for the hunting scene in The Order, which stars Jude Law as FBI agent Terry Husk and Nicolas Hoult as Bob Matthews, the leader of the white supremacist terrorist group called The Order. Based on the 1989 non-fiction book, The Silent Brotherhood, the film sees Husk team up with a local cop to uncover a series of domestic attacks in the United States orchestrated by The Order in the 1980s. Including the hunting scene, there are several occasions when Bob opts out of killing Terry.

When asked why Terry hesitated to shoot the deer and what Bob's intention is in the hunting scene, the director told Screen Rant that there's a "sort of pursuit" that Terry "thinks he's going to do," but he's "intimidated and in awe" by what's in front of him at the same time.

On Monday, Sebastian Stan pulled off a rare feat, scoring Golden Globe nominations for Lead Actor in both Drama and Musical/Comedy categories. Following the announcement, Stan got candid about upcoming projects with Cristian Mungiu, Christian Tafdrup and Justin Kurzel, his experience on the awards circuit with his nominated turn as Donald Trump in The Apprentice, and more.

In discussing his upcoming slate, Stan seemed particularly excited about a project not yet announced with Cristian Mungiu, the Romanian filmmaker behind Palme d’Or winner 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, which he expects to shoot next year.

“I was born in Romania. I still speak the language, and I’ve been trying to find a project where I can go back and tap back into that history that I have,” said the actor, “so I’m excited about working with him, and hopefully that’s going to come together.”

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Nominations for the 82nd annual Golden Globe were revealed Monday, with Wicked, Gladiator II, Anora, Emilia Pérez, A Complete Unknown, Baby Reindeer, The Bear, Shōgun and Slow Horses among film and TV projects in the mix.

Emilia Pérez leads film nominations with 10, ahead of The Brutalist with seven and Conclave with six. TV nominations are led by The Bear with five and Only Murders in the Building and Shōgun with four each.

The big-budget box office hits fared slightly less well than the leading festival movies with Wicked, Gladiator II and Dune: Part Two scoring eight nominations among them. See the full list of nominees below.

Kate Winslet (Lee and The Regime), Sebastian Stan (The Apprentice and A Different Man), Selena Gomez (Emilia Pérez and Only Murders in the Building) are all double nominees. Steve Martin is nominated for a fourth consecutive year in the Best Television Actor in a...