In brief: Michelle Williams, Daisy Edgar-Jones to star in new thriller and more
Michelle Williams and Daisy Edgar-Jones are set to star in A Place in Hell, the new film from director Chloe Domont. Deadline reports that Domont will write and direct the film, which is described as a thriller that follows two women at a high-profile criminal law firm …
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim is making its streaming debut. The animated film from New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. Animation will be available to watch exclusively on Max on Feb. 28. It’ll debut on HBO linear on March 1. Set 183 years before the events of the original trilogy, the film tells the story of the House of Helm Hammerhand, who is the legendary King of Rohan …
Kumail Nanjiani and Molly Shannon are joining forces on their next project. Deadline reports that the pair will star in the film Driver’s Ed, which will be a teen road trip comedy directed by Bobby Farrelly. The film, which will begin shooting in North Carolina in March, follows a group of teens who steal their school’s driver’s ed car for a road trip to help a high school senior win back his college freshman former girlfriend …
It’s time to roll out the red carpet and butter the popcorn.
If you can believe it, the 2025 Academy Awards ceremony is Sunday. Perhaps the awards season has flown by and you’ve found yourself needing to catch up on this year’s Oscar-nominated films. With that in mind, here’s a guide to where you can watch the films nominated for best picture at the 97th annual Oscars.
A Complete Unknown, the Timothée Chalamet-starring Bob Dylan biopic, will be available to watch online on Feb. 24. It’s currently available for preorder on Apple TV and Prime Video. Chalamet is nominated for best actor, while Monica Barbaro picked up a nod for best supporting actress, Edward Norton is up for best supporting actor and James Mangold received a nomination for best director.
Anora, which follows a young sex worker’s marriage to the son of a Russian oligarch, is available to buy or rent on Apple TV and Prime Video. In addition to best picture, it picked up nominations for best director, best actress, best supporting actor, best original screenplay and best editing, with director Sean Baker personally up for an impressive four awards.
Brady Corbet‘s The Brutalist is still available in movie theaters, but it’s also available to buy or rent on Apple TV and Prime Video. The film, which follows a Hungarian Jewish architect who flees Europe after the war to build a new life in America, is up for an impressive 10 nominations at the awards ceremony.
Conclave, which follows the behind-the-scenes workings of selecting a new pope after the previous one’s death, is available to stream on Peacock, while the Denis Villeneuve-directed Dune: Part Two is streaming on Netflix, Max and Hulu.
Emilia Pérez, which follows a Mexican drug lord who wants to undergo gender-affirming surgery, is available to stream on Netflix. It leads the pack with the most nominations of the ceremony with 13 in total, including best director, best actress and best supporting actress.
I’m Still Here, the Brazilian film starring Fernanda Torres, is available to watch in theaters and is available to preorder on Apple TV and Prime Video, while RaMell Ross‘ Nickel Boys is currently available to buy or rent on both of those platforms.
Finally, the Demi Moore-starring The Substance is available to watch on Mubi, while Jon M. Chu‘s movie-musical Wicked will begin streaming on Peacock a few weeks after the Oscars ceremony on March 21. It is currently available to buy or rent on Apple TV and Prime Video.
It doesn’t end with us: Colleen Hoover is keeping the movies coming. Maika Monroe will star in the film adaptation of Hoover’s novel Reminders of Him, as Deadline first reported. The Universal Pictures film will be directed by Vanessa Caswill from a script written by Hoover and Lauren Levine. The story follows themes of motherhood, forgiveness and the power love has to heal a shattered heart …
Peacock has released the trailer for season 5 of Law & Order: Organized Crime. The show, which has a two-episode premiere on April 17, will drop a new episode every Thursday on the streamer. Christopher Meloni, Danielle Moné Truitt, Ainsley Seiger, Rick Gonzalez and Dean Norris star in the show, which will also air its premiere episode on NBC April 17 at 10 p.m. ET …
The newest The Big Bang Theory spinoff has found its title. Deadline reports the upcoming show, currently in development for Max, will be titled Stuart Fails to Save the Universe. This means the character Stuart Bloom, played by Kevin Sussman on the original show, will be put front and center in the new series. Though it has not yet received a green light, other The Big Bang Theory alums Lauren Lapkus, Brian Posehn and John Ross Bowie are also attached to the project …
Dakota Johnson is stuck between two of Hollywood’s hottest leading men in the trailer for the new romantic comedy Materialists.
Written, directed and produced by Past Lives filmmaker Celine Song, the trailer for the A24 film was released on Monday. Johnson stars as Lucy, a young, ambitious matchmaker living in New York City. She finds herself torn between the affections of her new beau, played by Pedro Pascal, and her imperfect ex-boyfriend, played by Chris Evans.
In the trailer we find Johnson’s Lucy celebrating the ninth marriage her matchmaking business is responsible for.
While attending a wedding, she meets Pascal’s dashing character. As he flirts with her, he is interrupted by Lucy’s ex, played by Evans, who is working the event as a waiter.
As the trailer goes on, we watch Pascal’s character woo Lucy, as Evans’ character yearns for her.
“When I see your face, I see wrinkles and children that look like you. So where does that leave us?” Evans says.
At the end of the trailer, Evans’ character asks Lucy: “Why does anyone even get married?”
She shrugs, before she answers, “Because they’re lonely. And because they’re hopeful.”
The trailer also features a brand-new, original song from the pop band Japanese Breakfast, which is fronted by Michelle Zauner.
Zoe Winters, Marin Ireland, Dasha Nekrasova, Louisa Jacobson and Sawyer Spielberg also star in Materialists. It arrives in theaters on June 13.
