Film News 2025-05-20

• ‘Final Destination Bloodlines:’ How New Line Positioned a 25-Year-Old Horror Franchise to Be a Box Office Hit
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• ‘Alpha’ Review: ‘Titane’ Director Julia Ducournau Adopts a More Grounded Form of Body Horror for This Dour and Dismal AIDS Allegory
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• Pinky Promise Founder Jessamine Burgum Doesn’t Want You Faking It | What No One Tells You
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• Ryan Murphy in Development on Bret Easton Ellis’ ‘The Shards’ Adaptation for FX and Star Kaia Gerber
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• ‘Étoile’: Inside the Show’s Collaborations with Lincoln Center and Three Real Paris Ballet Companies
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• Kate Mara on Treating ‘Friendship’ Like a ‘Dramatic’ Indie and the Surprisingly ‘Weird’ Connection to Werner Herzog
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• ‘Renoir’ Review: An 11-Year-Old Girl Ponders the Mysteries of the Universe in Chie Hayakawa’s Extremely Low-Key Coming-of-Age Drama
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• ‘Dying for Sex’ Changed Everything for Jenny Slate
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• ‘Highest 2 Lowest’ Review: Spike Lee Returns with a Jarringly Fun and Upbeat Riff on One of Akira Kurosawa’s Bleakest Films
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• ‘Splitsville’ Review: Open-Relationship Comedy from ‘The Climb’ Team Hits All the Right Notes
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• ‘A Poet’ Review: A Pathetic Man of Letters Sets the Stage for a Cringe-Inducing Satire of Prestigious Art Spaces
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• Tom Cruise Will ‘Never Stop’ Making Movies: I’m Going to Be Acting ‘Into My 100s’
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