Screen Anarchy

Yeon Sang-ho’s new film Colony sees the Korean director return to the zombie genre, after their international smash hit Train to Busan and follow-up Peninsula. It will have its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival this Friday.    Gianna Jun… stars as Se-jeong, a biotechnology professor attending an industry conference when a rapidly mutating virus is released, plunging the venue into chaos as the infected begin to transform and the authorities seal the building.    When you’re this popular on the world stage everyone wants a piece of you, or at least a piece of any movies you make. We already knew last month that the folks at Well Go USA had acquired Colony. What follows in THR’s report is the full list, so…

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The first wave of titles participating in the 15th anniversary edition of Frontières have been announced!

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An obsessive filmmaker and a sensorially gifted archivist who can “hear” silent films
search the world for surviving copies of NOSFERATU to reassemble and reinvent F.W.
Murnau’s vampire classic from a multiplicity of decayed versions.

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Brandon Daley’s wild comic thriller stars Michael Kunicki, Vinny Kress, Trevor Dawkins, and Kaylyn Carter.

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Plus: ‘Decorado,’ ‘Life Hack,’ ‘Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway: The Sorcery of Nymph Circe,’ ‘Been Here Stay Here,’ ‘The Wizard of the Kremlin,’ ‘Magic Hour.’

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To paraphrase Shakespeare *, some attend Cannes, some yearn to attend Cannes, and some watch Cannes selections months or years later. I have been in the third camp all my life, but I remain eager to see what films are selected, which films generate excitement, and which films disappear under a wave of bad press. Screenings at the 79th Festival de Cannes commence tomorrow, Tuesday, May 12, 2026. Visit the festival’s selection page to dive further into the program, which divides into the higher-profile, established auteur-filled Competition titles, the usually-more-intriguing Un Certain Regard section, Out of Competition, Cannes Premieres, Special Screenings, Cannes Classics, and so forth, not to forget Quinzaine des cineastes (Director’s Fortnight), which starts on Wednesday. Several of our contributors are attending in…

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An obsessive filmmaker and a sensorially gifted archivist who can “hear” silent films
search the world for surviving copies of NOSFERATU to reassemble and reinvent F.W.
Murnau’s vampire classic from a multiplicity of decayed versions.

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Karl Urban stars as the hyper-violent beat-’em-up returns, R-rated and ready to rumble.

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During Christmas, things got rather busy in my household and as the International Film Festival Rotterdam was right after, I totally forgot to show you all the pretty fantastic-looking Blu-ray boxset of the second season of Arcane, the pretty fantastic League-of-Legends-inspired animated series. Well, it’s a few months onward and I was wondering if I should actually still do this article. But I see this set for sale online still, sometimes going for astronomic prices, and I can imagine people being on the fence about whether to buy this or not. So, consider this to be a bit of extra consumer information. Also, I did write about the boxset for the first season so it would feel like unfinished business not to mention this one….

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Deadline reported this week that Vertical has acquired the North American distribution rights to the horror film Pendulum, the directorial debut of screenwriter Mark Heyman. They sent out the first look today, that of its two stars, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Phoebe Dynevor.   This new horror film was “… Produced by Darren Aronofsky (The Whale) for Protozoa, Motel Mojave’s Jacob Jaffke (X trilogy), and C2’s Dave Caplan (Longlegs), the film stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Looper), Phoebe Dynevor (Fair Play), Norman Reedus (Ballerina), and two-time Oscar nominee Jacki Weaver (Silver Linings Playbook)”.   … married couple Patrick (Gordon-Levitt) and Abigail (Dynevor) journey to a new-age retreat in New Mexico, drawn by the possibility of healing after a traumatic event. Patrick is willing to do anything to help…

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