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Ethan Hawke on First Best Actor Oscar Nomination and Leading ‘The Weight’ at Sundance 2026

Summary Collider's Perri Nemiroff talks with the team behind The Weight at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. In this interview, Ethan Hawke discusses his first Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for his depiction of lyricist Lorenz Hart in Richard…

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Astrid Rotenberry, Back To One, Episode 377Filmmaker Magazine

Astrid Rotenberry has had roles on Law & Order SVU, The Four Seasons, and American Sports Story. Now she plays Catherine Kelly in the Netflix limited series His and Hers, and her performance is so authentic and affecting it runs the risk of being taken…

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‘Stranger Things’ Star Charlie Heaton Breaks Down His ‘Industry’ Character’s Downward Spiral

[Editor's note: The following contains spoilers for Industry Season 4, Episode 4.] Summary In Season 4 of the HBO series 'Industry,' Harper and Yasmin clash as Tender's mysteries implode and financial journalist James Dycker's exposé backfires. Charlie Heaton likens 'Industry'…

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Sara Dosa on Time and WaterFilmmaker Magazine

A splendid yet elegiac homage to dying, receding, failing, yet magnificent glaciers, Sara Dosa’s Time and Water, a documentary produced with National Geographic and Sandbox Films, is awe-inspiring precisely because it makes you feel helpless to move. That’s what awe is,…

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‘The Social Reckoning’ Star Billy Magnussen Confirms the Film Is Not a True Sequel to ‘The Social Network’

Summary Collider's Steve Weintraub speaks with Billy Magnussen for AMC and AMC+'s The Audacity at the Sundance Film Festival 2026. Magnussen discusses working with Aaron Sorkin and teases the upcoming sequel to The Social Network, The Social Reckoning. Magnussen also…

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Charlie Polinger on The PlagueFilmmaker Magazine

The Plague The awkwardness of puberty is exacerbated by a cruel social game in The Plague, the feature debut from writer-director Charlie Polinger. Set in 2003, Ben (Everett Blunck), a shy yet precocious kid, finds himself shipped off to a…

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Vella Lovell Teases Emily Getting Messy, ‘Community’ Stars, and a Cliffhanger Finale

Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers for Animal Control, Season 4 Summary In an interview with Collider, Animal Control star Vella Lovell says Emily Price is getting “messier this season,” as her secret relationship with Shred immediately starts affecting her…

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“These Guys Don’t Miss”: Padraic McKinley on Directing Ethan Hawke and Russell Crowe in The Weight

The Weight, courtesy of Sundance Institute. When Padraic McKinley first received The Weight screenplay from producers Nathan and Simon Fields, he loved the atmospheric world it summoned forth. Original screenwriter Matthew Booi, along with Leo Scherman and Matthew Chapman, had…

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The Groundbreaking Story of Nelson Mandela’s 27 Year Struggle Revealed in New Documentary

Summary Collider's Steve Weintraub talks with Antoine Fuqua for Troublemaker. In this interview, Fuqua discusses using Nelson Mandela's own recordings, archives, and other personal testimonies to tell this global leader's story. He also talks about the use of animation and…

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“What Is a Golf Course but the Gentrification of Land?”: Rafael Manuel on Filipiñana

Filipiñana. Photo Credit: Potocol, Ossian International, Epicmedia, Easy Riders, Idle Eye In Filipiñana, tension often lives inside the image itself: a desiccated pine tree creaks against a bright blue sky; mangos left to rot on the branch. There is beauty…

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‘Industry’s Kiernan Shipka Breaks Down Episode 3’s Shocking Three-Way Scene and Hayley’s Manipulations

[Editor's note: The following contains spoilers for Episode 3 of Season 4 of Industry.] Summary In Season 4 of the HBO series 'Industry,' Tender executive assistant Hayley Cale is calculated and quietly in control, weaponizing events to gain agency. The…

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John Wilson on The History of ConcreteFilmmaker Magazine

The History of Concrete, courtesy of Sundance Institute. The History of Concrete, John Wilson’s first feature-length film, is far stranger and more compelling than the title suggests—and a perfect continuation of his oft-meandering, always philosophical practice. Yes, there are novel…

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