JANUARY 15, 2025

2025 WGA Award Nominees Include 'A Real Pain,' 'Anora,' 'Wicked,' and More The guild's annual award ceremony will be held on Saturday, February 15 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles.  By Harrison Richlin

'Conclave' Leads BAFTA Film Nominations with 12, Ahead of 'Emilia Pérez' and 'The Brutalist' "Challengers" was shut out entirely. So was Denzel Washington. And "Wicked" from the Best Film category.  By Ryan Lattanzio	'Wolf Man' Review: Universal's Latest Monster Reboot Is a Dark and Toothless January Mess Leigh Whannell did a brilliant job of modernizing "The Invisible Man," but werewolves prove much harder to tame.  By David Ehrlich

'One of Them Days' Review: Keke Palmer and SZA Power the Kind of Joyride It Feels Like Cinemas Are Missing These Days Director Lawrence Lamont makes his feature debut with this mad caper about a last-minute scramble for rent money.  By Esther Zuckerman	MSNBC Is a Mess Network president Rashida Jones resigns, Rachel Maddow returns, and ratings are way, way down.  By Tony Maglio

	Every Studio Film Directed by Filmmakers of Color Coming Out in 2025 and 2026 While the film industry has survived to 2025, efforts to hire a more diverse array of filmmakers for studio releases seem to have not.  By Marcus Jones
	Forget 'The French Connection' - the Best Chase Scene in American Movies Belongs to 'Hollywood Homicide' Ron Shelton's buddy film didn't find the audience it deserved in 2003, but it contains Harrison Ford's loosest, funniest performance and som … By Jim Hemphill
	'Goosebumps: The Vanishing' VFX Stay Grounded Even as Its Horrors Take Flight For Season 2, the creative team went full body horror as David Schwimmer's botanist gets into some serious trouble.  By Mark Peikert
	Vimeo Unveils 2024 Staff Picks 'Best of the Year' Awards and Breakout Creators List Exclusive: "Best of the Year" alumni have become Academy Awards, Sundance Awards, and Cannes winners since 2008.  By Samantha Bergeson
	Alamo Drafthouse Lays Off 9% of Corporate Staff The dine-in theater chain has simultaneously let go of staff — primarily seasonal workers — at the venue level.  By Tony Maglio