Warner Bros. Discovery pushes two Oscar frontrunners amid $111B Paramount merger
Warner Bros. Discovery is heavily marketing Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” and Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners,” both Oscar nominees. The former swept the BAFTAs and won DGA and PGA awards, while the latter set a record with 16 nominations and captured the Actor Awards. The campaign unfolds as Warner navigates its $111 billion acquisition by Paramount.

Pakistani director Sarmad Sultan Khoosat’s supernatural horror‑musical Lali debuted in Berlin’s Panorama, marking Pakistan’s first all‑local film at the Berlinale. Inspired by a family short story, the film fuses horror, black comedy, folk songs and a vivid red‑purple palette to explore cursed marriages, gender dynamics and a subtle queer gaze. Khoosat explains the difficulty of merging tones, the use of chapter breaks, and the meticulous color design, while editor Saim Sadiq’s cuts shape the shifting narrative perspective. The genre‑bending work signals a new wave of South Asian gothic cinema.
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In this episode, Jim Hempill interviews director Baz Luhrmann about his new Elvis project, Epic Elvis Presley in Concert, which stitches together rare, unseen concert and behind‑the‑scenes footage into a dream‑like narrative told from Elvis’s own voice. Luhrmann explains how the lost...

British psychological thriller “Past Life”, directed by Simeon Halligan, opens a limited theatrical run on 20 March 2026 before a digital release on 6 April via Miracle Media. The film features an ensemble cast including Aneurin Barnard, Jeremy Piven, Pixie...