Talk Fuse

    Topic: Film

    Film covers cinema in all its forms, from new releases and streaming discoveries to classic favourites, franchises and the people who make them. It also follows the creative choices behind films, including performances, soundtracks, adaptations and the changing fortunes of productions over time.

    The topic matters because film remains a major part of popular culture and a significant industry. Coverage helps readers keep track of what to watch, how studios and streaming services are evolving, and the wider business and policy decisions shaping what reaches the screen.

    • Cardiff cinema secures funding to avoid permanent closure

      The Grade II listed Abbeydale Picture House in Sheffield, which closed more than two years ago, has been removed from the Theatres Trust’s risk register and is described as “no longer at risk of permanent closure”. The change follows its purchase by independent brewery and hospitality firm True North Brew Co, which plans to convert…

    • The Dybbuk: Guttenberg, Grant and Bierko cast in horror film

      Steve Guttenberg, Beth Grant and Craig Bierko have been cast in the lead roles of a new horror film, The Dybbuk, a contemporary adaptation of S. Ansky’s classic play. The project marks the feature directing debut of writer-director Lee Amir-Cohen, who developed it alongside writer-producer Ashley Bua, with filming having recently wrapped in Los Angeles.…

    • Karlovy Vary: David Chase reflects on Sopranos regrets and unmade HBO LSD drama

      Speaking to reporters at the 60th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Czech Republic, The Sopranos creator David Chase discussed both his celebrated past work and his forthcoming HBO project. He confirmed he is in the early “story stage” of Project: MKUltra, a limited series adapting John Lisle’s nonfiction book about the CIA’s Cold…

    • Green Day announce new single I’m Never Gonna R.I.P

      Green Day have announced the soundtrack to Nimrods, a forthcoming road-trip comedy the band produced with Live Nation, and have shared a new song recorded for the film titled “I’m Never Gonna R.I.P.” The movie follows a fictional punk band on a desperate journey to open for Green Day, who appear as themselves, and it…

    • Being Heumann to open 51st Toronto film festival from CODA director Sian Heder

      The Toronto International Film Festival has confirmed that “Being Heumann,” an Apple Studios drama from “CODA” director Sian Heder, will open its 51st edition on 10 September at Roy Thomson Hall. The film stars Ruth Madeley as disability rights advocate Judith Heumann and marks Heder’s most significant project since her Oscar-winning 2021 feature, with its…

    • Ncuti Gatwa to executive produce Niamh Marie Smith’s short film Passing Through

      Ncuti Gatwa, the former star of “Doctor Who”, is to executive produce a new short film called “Passing Through”, written and directed by his former co-star Niamh Marie Smith. Marie Smith appeared in the 2024 “Doctor Who” Christmas special “Joy to the World” as Sylvia Trench, and the collaboration marks a reunion between the two.…

    • Being Heumann to open Toronto film festival’s 51st edition

      The Toronto International Film Festival has announced Apple Original Films’ Being Heumann from CODA Oscar winning filmmaker Siân Heder as the 51st edition’s opening night film. In addition there are two other world premieres including Prima Facie from British director Susanna White and starring 3x Oscar nominee Cynthia Erivo, and The Assassin(s) from Korean filmmaker…

    • Being Heumann to open 51st Toronto film festival, directed by Sian Heder

      The Apple Studios feature joins a 2026 TIFF lineup to include world premieres for Susanna White’s ‘Prima Facie’ legal drama starring Cynthia Erivo, and Hur Jin-ho’s ‘The Assassin(s).’

    • A fox under a pink moon draws Oscar-winning executive producer David Borenstein

      EXCLUSIVE: David Borenstein, the Oscar-winning director of Mr. Nobody Against Putin, is coming on board a documentary that’s a contender for next year’s Academy Awards. Borenstein announced he will serve as an executive producer on A Fox Under a Pink Moon, the film directed by Mehrdad Oskouei and Soraya Akhlaghi that has won awards at…

    • Being Heumann to open Toronto film festival with Cynthia Erivo premiere among highlights

      The Toronto International Film Festival has confirmed that Siân Heder’s activist drama “Being Heumann” will open its 51st edition, with a world premiere on 10 September at Roy Thomson Hall. The film is significant as the follow-up to Heder’s “CODA”, which sold to Apple for $25 million and won the Oscar for best picture, and…