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Apple has acquired the global rights to The Last First: Winter K2, the mountaineering doc from Amir Bar-Lev that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Propagate, Ventureland and Object Studios are behind the doc, which follows a 2021 expedition to conquer the "last great prize in mountaineering", climbing Asia's K2 mountain in winter, an attempt that left five dead. Bar-Lev centers his story on mountaineers John Snorri Sigurjónsson and Pakistani father-son team Ali and Sajid Sadpara, who set out to be the first to summit K2 in the winter, but find themselves on the ascent with influencer climbers and their film crews, commercial expedition clients, and Nims, a Nepalese celebrity mountaineer, and his team of Sherpas...

While speaking at a Senate hearing (via ComicBookMovie), Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos commented on the streamer's commitment to a 45-day theatrical window for Warner Bros. films. The executive admitted that the window will shift slightly depending on how movies perform at the box office, citing Superman as an example of one that landed on digital sooner rather than later. While James Gunn previously stated that his 2025 blockbuster hit digital platforms early in order to line up with Peacemaker, Netflix suggested that it was the box office performance that dictated the decision. "[45 days] is the industry standard for self-enforcement. However, routinely, movies that underperform, the window moves a little bit. Superman was a little shorter window. And Sinners was a little longer window."...

Mano Negra was one of the best-known alternative bands to emerge out of France in the 1980s, gaining cult status on the back of hits such as Mala Vida, Out of Time Man and King Kong 5. Born on the fringes of the Paris music scene and fronted by Manu Chao, the group was only active from 1987 to 1994, but in that short time it garnered fans worldwide with its hybrid sound mixing rock, rap, punk, reggae and world music and lyrics in English, French, Spanish and Arabic. Aside from its music, Mano Negra was also renowned for its anti-system, alter-globalisation and pro-democracy spirit as well as its epic concert tours across Europe, Latin America and Asia, with the group also setting down in North America. More than three decades after they disbanded, French director, writer and journalist David Dufresne, whose recent credits include police violence exposé The Monopoly of Violence, is in the throes of post-production on a documentary exploring their legacy. Paris-based film company Goodfellas has unveiled details as it gears up to launch sales on the work at the European Film Market this month. Dufresne, who first encountered the band in the 1980s as a regular at the New Moon club in Paris' Pigalle district, has gathered some 700 hours of mainly exclusive archive footage, capturing the group behind the scenes and on stage. It includes exclusive footage shot by some members of the band, capturing their El Expresso del Hielo train journey through Colombia, as well as their encounters with the likes of Joe Strummer, Urban Dance Squad, Jello Biafraand and more intimate behind-the-scenes moments. The archive footage is intercut with interviews with people close to the band. Alongside celebrating their raw energy and musical legacy, Dufresne also explores how they symbolize a moment in history, through Mano Negra's optimistic, power-of-the-collective worldview colliding with the emerging neo-liberalism of the time....

The trailer for Anne Hathaway's upcoming film The Devil Wears Prada 2 just set a jaw-dropping record for the studio. It's been 20 years since the first Devil Wears Prada movie was released in theaters, and Hathaway, Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, and Stanley Tucci are reuniting for the highly-anticipated sequel. In a stunning update on X, 20th Century Studios just revealed that the brand-new trailer for The Devil Wears Prada 2 notched 222 million views in the first 24 hours, which makes it the most-viewed trailer in the history of the studio. "Groundbreaking. Literally," the social media post added, a nod to an iconic line from the first film: "Florals? For Spring? Groundbreaking." This isn't the first time that a preview for The Devil Wears Prada 2 set a record. The teaser trailer released in November was the most-viewed trailer of 2025, with 181.5 million views within the first 24 hours, according to Forbes, which noted that a third of the views came solely from Hathaway's social media posts. Moana, Lilo & Stitch, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Toy Story 5, Avatar: Fire and Ash, Zootopia 2, The Odyssey, Michael and Wicked: For Good also had the most-viewed trailers of 2025. The first Devil Wears Prada, which is Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes with a 75% score, is based on Lauren Weisberger's novel of the same name and went on to gross $326 million at the global box office against a $35 million budget...

When you think of Alamo Drafthouse, two things probably come to mind: It's the much-loved cinema chain that pioneered serving food and alcohol in theaters, and has the industry's strictest policy of no talking or texting during a movie. Earlier this month, the company revealed a change that is being widely viewed as undermining the second part, and the chain's loyal fans, critics and even some industry insiders are not pleased. So far, moviegoers say the new system is anything but smooth and distraction free, and some Alamo supporters in the industry have blasted the change. "A move completely antithetical to the ethos of the Alamo and to those who love the theatrical experience they provide," wrote The Lord of the Rings star and Austin resident Elijah Wood. "This is a profound and upsetting mistake." The Austin Film Critics Association released a detailed statement slamming the new experience: "'Don't talk. Don't text' has been the Drafthouse's mission statement since its earliest days as a single-screen cinema in Austin. Its growth into a national cinematic institution has been in no small part due to audiences knowing they can have a disturbance-free experience, and that staff will intervene to prevent the distraction of cellphone usage." The statement went on to point out the new process "puts staff in an impossible position of policing the right and wrong kind of phone usage, opening the system to abuse, and the potential of piracy," and also noted "this is particularly worrying as Drafthouse locations are often used for festival and prerelease screenings."...

Film and high-end TV production in the U.K. topped 6.8 billion pounds ($9.2 billion) in 2025, a 22 percent increase from 2024 and the third-highest annual spend on record, according to the BFI, with the sector continuing to generate billions for the country's economy. The majority of the total production spend was contributed by high-end TV, which accounted for 59 percent of the total spend and is up 17 percent on 2024 figures. Feature film production contributed 2.8 billion pounds, 31 percent up on last year's stats, and the highest annual spend on record. The majority of spending last year was contributed by inward investment films — 193 went into production in 2025 in the U.K. — with 2.51 billion pounds from 58 features, "continuing to demonstrate the U.K.'s reputation globally as a world-class production hub," said the BFI. Inward investment films here included Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights, Sam Mendes' The Beatles – A Four-Film Cinematic Event, and Craig Gillespie's Supergirl, as well as the Russo brothers' Avengers: Doomsday and Michael B. Jordan's The Thomas Crown Affair. Elsewhere, the U.K. box office generated 996.8 million pounds ($1.35 billion) in 2025, up 2 percent on 2024, but down 21 percent from pre-pandemic levels in 2019. A Minecraft Movie was the highest-earning release at the U.K. and Ireland box office, but there were a multitude of U.K.-shot films in the top 10, including Wicked: For Good, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, Jurassic World Rebirth, Mission Impossible – The Final Reckoning and The Fantastic Four: First Steps. The top five U.K. independent films at the box office were The Roses, We Live In Time, The Salt Path, I Swear and The Choral...