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USC Annenberg’s Inclusion Initiative released its annual “Inclusion in the Director’s Chair” which analyzes 1,500 top films from 2007 to 2021 for gender and race/ethnicity representation. Overall, there have been significant gains for women and people of color directors but improvement is still needed, the study…

The number of top-grossing films in 2021 directed by women has decreased, according to the latest Celluloid Ceiling study from the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego State University. Women accounted for 17 percent of directors working on the top 250 films, down from 18 percent the year…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winning Nomadland director Chloé Zhao will help bring the overlooked tragedy of Vincent Chin’s murder and the subsequent civil rights case to TV as she boards Participant’s limited scripted series as an executive producer. Participant’s upcoming series, which is in development through an exclusive…

SATURDAY UPDATE: With Friday's numbers included, Disney/Marvel's Eternals increased its international box office to $38.4M through the first three days of offshore rollout. This portends an overseas opening weekend of $80M+. The global cume through Friday is $69.1M with domestic included, making for a possible $150M+…

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details from Disney/Marvel’s Eternals. Eternals director Chloé Zhao never considered casting anyone other than Harry Styles to portray Thanos’ brother Eros in a bonus scene from the Disney/Marvel film, which hit US theaters on Thursday. All she needed to make that dream a reality was…

"It's one of the great honors of our lives to tell a story like this, there is a lot of us in this movie," Eternals co-screenwriter Kaz Firpo says of the Chloé Zhao-directed film set to open Friday. "It's the most challenging Marvel movie and it's an honor to make something that feels different," the filmmaker added…

By hiring Academy Award winner Chloé Zhao to helm its much-awaited Eternals and handle the cinematic introduction of 10 new superheroes in its canon, Marvel has not lost its marbles. And no, its not sending the MCU in the art house direction of Nomadland and The Rider, the two most notable Zhao-directed films to date…

EXCLUSIVE: Hannah Peterson has been tapped to adapt and direct Daniel Hornsby's critically acclaimed novel, Via Negativa for the big screen. The film is being produced by Complementary Colors. Via Negativa tells the story of a spurned priest who goes on a mythic road trip with a wounded coyote, a loaded pistol…

Venice Film Festival jury president Bong Joon-Ho told the press corps at the opening press conference this morning that he's looking forward to bringing his panelists together and hoping to "have an explosion with them" as they judge the 19 movies in competition. He added that the jury is "ready to fight, maybe, on…

The 78th Venice International Film Festival has set its full roster of juries. As previously announced, Parasite filmmaker Bong Joon Ho will preside over this year’s Competition jury. Joining the Korean filmmaker are Italian filmmaker Saverio Costanzo, Belgian-French actress Virginie Efire, British actress Cynthia Eriv…

Here's the first trailer for Marvel Studios' Eternals, the epic superhero flick from Oscar-winning Nomadland director Chloé Zhao. Based on the comics of the same name, the film follows a diverse group of heroes – technically aliens from an immortal race who have secretly lived on earth for thousands of years – who…

Gold House, the nonprofit collective of Asian and Pacific Islander founders, creative voices and leaders, has unveiled its annual A100 List, honoring the most impactful Asians and Asian American & Pacific Islanders in culture. Vice President Kamala Harris, newly minted multiple Oscar winner Chloé Zhao and Shang-Chi and…