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Apple TV+ unveiled the trailer for season five of “Slow Horses,” the Emmy and BAFTA Award-winning espionage drama starring Academy Award winner and Emmy Award nominee Sir Gary Oldman. Adapted from “London Rules,” the next novel in the CWA Gold Dagger Award-winning Mick Herron “Slough House” book series, the six-episode fifth season of “Slow Horses” premieres September 24, 2025 with the first episode, followed by one episode weekly until October 29, 2025...

The newly restored Cave of Forgotten Dreams just screened at the Telluride Film Festival, with Herzog present for the event – traveling there from the Venice Film Festival where he received the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement. The 6K version will be released in theaters in early 2026. Descending into Chauvet remains for Herzog a profound and vivid experience. “When you’re in the cave, it’s like your heart stops beating for a whole minute,” he recalls. “It’s so incredible.” The French minister of culture and regional authorities were the ones who granted Herzog access to the cave. They could not have chosen a more appropriate filmmaker – not only because of his vast curiosity and cinematic gifts, but for his deep-seated fascination with ancient cave artworks.“The real source to all this is the awakening of my own soul,” he observes. “When I was 12 years old, I discovered a book in a bookstore of cave paintings, and I worked as a ball boy on tennis courts to buy this book. The shudder when I opened it and saw these paintings is still in me. And so, since I’m 12 years old, somehow my own intellect and my own soul was awakened by cave paintings.”That sense of awe reverberates with anyone who enters his Cave of Forgotten Dreams. (Courtesy Matthew Carrey)..

It was Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia that first ignited international interest in Jordan as a film location. The epic made breathtaking use of the country’s terrain, including the red cliffs of Wadi Rum and the rock formations of Jebel Tubeiq. Sixty-three years later, the images still captivate. A wave of major productions has followed. Alongside Indiana Jones, Jordan has hosted Ridley Scott’s The Martian, Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty, and Denis Villeneuve’s Dune parts one and two. The Dune director famously said that he “fell in love with the people — and the landscape, of course, which is so stunning. Every 25 miles, you have a totally different landscape,” Villeneuve told THR in 2021. “You have all different kinds of deserts here. I remember thinking, if I ever do a sci-fi movie like Dune, this will be the place.” Ahmad Khatib, communications and culture manager at the Royal Film Commission — Jordan, says the country has become “an open-air studio” over the years. “It’s a five-hour drive from north to south,” he explains. “You can see a huge diversity in locations as you go — from forests and lakes to Roman cities and historical sites, all the way down to Petra and the mountains in the south, ending in the Gulf of Aqaba and Wadi Rum. Filmmakers are also being lured by a revamped cash rebate scheme, introduced at the Cannes Film Festival in May. The program offers rebates between 25 and 45 percent of in-country spending for qualifying film and TV productions. Projects are assessed using a points system that factors in budget size, cultural value, and the incorporation of Jordanian content. The top 45 percent rebate tier is reserved for films that spend more than $10 million and prominently feature Jordanian cultural elements.

Daniel Day-Lewis, Richard Linklater and Yorgos Lanthimos set for Talks at BFI London Film Festival. Celebrated filmmakers Jafar Panahi, Lynne Ramsay and Chloé Zhao will also join for sessions at this year's edition of Screen Talks in the British capital. Day-Lewis, the only person to win three best actor Oscars, is best known for his era-defining roles in such diverse films as My Beautiful Laundrette, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, My Left Foot, The Age of Innocence, There Will Be Blood, Lincoln and Phantom Thread. Lanthimos’ work has established him as one of the most renowned directors of the 21st century. His frequent collaborators include Jesse Plemons and Emma Stone, who star in the recently premiered Venice feature Bugonia. Among his most famous projects is Poor Things, The Favourite, The Killing of a Sacred Deer and Dogtooth. Linklater will make an appearance at LFF to discuss his wide-ranging filmography, from Dazed and Confused, Me and Orson Welles and Everybody Wants Some to the comedies School of Rock, Bad News Bears, and Hit Man and the beloved Before trilogy. His latest film, the Cannes feature Nouvelle Vague, follows the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s 1959 Breathless, one of the first projects to usher in the wave of experimental French cinema. Panahi, whose body of work has critiqued Iranian society and had a real-world impact on his life, will be welcomed to discuss his classics The White Balloon, The Circle and Offside, as well as more recent films including Taxi, No Bears and Closed Curtain...

Ridley Scott confirmed: "I've got three films written, ready to go." Detailing his upcoming movies, Scott said his next priority is a Bee Gees biopic, followed by a Western film titled Freewalkers, and a WWI film based on Covenant with Death, a John Harris novel he's loved for 50 years. This reveal gives fans and studios a clear sense of where Ridley Scott is heading next, and it is a lineup that spans genres and generations. The Bee Gees biopic marks Scott's entry into musical storytelling, a notable first for the director. Given his eye for large-scale, emotionally grounded stories, it could be a prestige contender if executed well...

Fandango will parnter with TikTok on a new venture that will let users purchase movie tickets directly in-app. The first-of-its-kind deal will be run through TikTok Spotlight, a vertical launched by the Chinese company in 2024 to specifically highlight new movies and TV shows. The first title covered by the deal is Disney’s forthcoming “Tron: Ares,” a sequel starring Jared Leto. In terms of the TikTok user interface, the purchase link will manifest as a “Get Tickets” button. Fandango asserts 50% of domestic TikTok users have discovered a new movie coming to theaters on the platform, and 36% are inspired to “take action.” In 2023, TikTok claimed it had over 150 million active users. “Tron: Ares,” co-starring Jeff Bridges, Evan Peters and Greta Lee, hits theaters nationwide on Oct. 10...