Film News 2026-08-25

• Sumerian Pictures Acquires North American Rights to ‘Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt’
  Indie Wire
• New York City’s East Side Will Lose Yet Another Movie Theater with Imminent Closure of AMC Kips Bay
  Indie Wire
• Indie Star Joe Swanberg Never Really Left — but He’s Definitely Back Now
  Indie Wire
• ‘Call My Agent’ Is Getting Its First Movie — Can the Beloved French Farce Delight Fans New and Old?
  Indie Wire
• California Attorney General Rob Bonta Cancels Planned Paramount Merger Meeting Over ‘Lack of Good Faith’
  Indie Wire
• ‘Buddy’ Review: Casper Kelly’s Bloodthirsty Riff on ‘Barney’ Is the First Great Midnight Movie of 2026
  Indie Wire
• Cannes 2026 Movies Sold: Javier Bardem-Starrer ‘The Beloved’ Goes to Kino Lorber
  Indie Wire
• How the New American Repertory Boom Is Reinventing the Asian Film Canon
  Indie Wire
• ‘Lanterns’ Review: Episode 2 Flips the Script to Start Hunting the Manhunter — Spoilers
  Indie Wire
• A24’s ‘Tony’ Heats Up Indie Box Office, Earning an Impressive $5 Million
  Indie Wire
• Michael Wright, ‘The Five Heartbeats’ and ‘Oz’ Star, Dies at 70
  Indie Wire
• Nearly a Century Later, Sci-Fi Western Film Serial ‘The Phantom Empire’ Still Feels Like the Future
  Indie Wire