1+ hour, 16+ min ago   (392+ words) indiewire.com ‘Wildwood’ Trailer: Laika Heads to the Forest for an Epic Fantasy Adventure Best known for “Coraline” and “Kubo and the Two Strings,” Laika has spent years innovating and refining the famously meticulous, time-consuming art…...

21+ hour, 46+ min ago   (1635+ words) Genre fans, take note. Fantastic Fest, the most reliably eclectic and unapologetically strange American film festival on the fall calendar, has unveiled a lineup that promises to delight any cinephile whose tastes lie outside the conventional. Fantastic Fest 2026 takes place…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (853+ words) IndieWire Why the Podracing Sequence in ‘The Phantom Menace’ Epitomizes the Very Best of What Prequels Can Be IndieWire’s desks are arranged as part of an open-plan office, and sometimes our fine colleagues at [redacted non-entertainment PMC brand]…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (272+ words) Fathom Entertainment will release “Wildwood” in theaters October 23. Take a look at the film’s poster, and read Knight’s full statement, an IndieWire exclusive, below. “How do you distill sixteen years of world-building into a single image? It’s a bit like…...

3+ week, 20+ hour ago   (305+ words) “Elsinore,” a new film starring Andrew Scott and Olivia Colman set to premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, has been acquired by Focus Features ahead of its debut, and the distributor has announced a first-look image and fall release…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (393+ words) IndieWire ‘Blade Runner 2099’ Teaser: Michelle Yeoh Goes Cyberpunk in New TV Spinoff 10 long years after “Blade Runner 2049,” the franchise is going 50 years into its future with “Blade Runner 2099.” At San Diego Comic-Con on July 24, Prime…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (370+ words) It’s a grim day for gamers. After the long holiday weekend, the U.S. video game industry is back on the clock and reckoning with yet another round of devastating layoffs. On Monday, Microsoft announced it would eliminate 4,800 jobs, including roughly…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (868+ words) IndieWire All the Animation News That Stood Out from Annecy 2026 I was unable to spend this week in Southeast France for the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, the premier film festival celebrating the medium of animation. Instead, I experienced the…...

2+ mon, 16+ hour ago   (400+ words) As we’re doing with other crafts this summer, the IndieWire Craft team reached out to some incredible second unit directors and stunt coordinators about what they’ve seen on TV this year that’s blown them away. In fact, stuntwork’s ability to…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (901+ words) Editor’s note: This is the seventh chapter of “A Producer’s Path,” an ongoing column for IndieWire’s Future of Filmmaking from independent producer Daren Smith. Read previous chapters here. I’ve done it. I made a film that no one saw. We…...