“Lost Land” premiered earlier this year in the Orizzonti section of the Venice Film Festival and features an entirely non-professional cast. It was produced by Kazutaka Watanabe, Angèle de Lorme, Sujauddin Karimuddin, Elise Shick and Christian Jilka—an international team whose collaboration underscores the borderless urgency of the Rohingya crisis.

Actor Sadia Islam Mou, though not a regular on screen, often appears in special television projects tied to national occasions. This year, she returns to television with a Victory Day special drama titled “Doctor Bari”, set to air on Channel i on December 16 at 7:50pm.

The three-year deal will allow Sora to create short, user-generated videos featuring more than 200 popular Disney, Pixar, Marvel, and Star Wars characters.

For Sunny, the film is not “urgent” — a word he resists — but it offers a revision of political history told through lived experience rather than rhetoric. “We’ve been mistreated by the British, by India, by Pakistan, by our own governments. These layers flow through the film. If it does anything, it helps us see where we stand politically, socially, and economically. And honestly, no one needs to watch a film. Sometimes not watching is the best choice.”

In 2025, fandom is a central part of storytelling, and studios and creators design worlds that fans can live in, expand, debate, and emotionally inhabit. Stories are co-owned and these fandoms are where ownership is vocalised.

Jeff Garcia, the American voice actor best known for playing Sheen Estevez in the Jimmy Neutron franchise, has died at the age of 50.

“Tribunal”, a courtroom drama based on a case filed under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act, 2001, is nearing completion with about 75 percent of its filming wrapped. The film explores the fraught intersection of justice, morality and political influence.

The year opened in a slump: eight January–February titles drifted through cinemas with little audience interest and almost no critical chatter. Then Eid-ul-Fitr arrived on April 1, and the box office finally showed signs of life.

Afran Nisho has opened up about the physically demanding and weather-challenged shoot of his upcoming film “Domm” in Kazakhstan, describing how the cast and crew pushed through harsh conditions to complete the schedule on time. The actor returned to Dhaka on December 6—just in time for his birthday on December 8—surprising fans who had assumed he would miss this year’s celebrations.

The first poster for Kristoffer Borgli’s upcoming romantic comedy “The Drama” has been unveiled, with Zendaya sharing the image on social media. The film, in which she stars opposite Robert Pattinson, is set to release in cinemas on April 3, 2026 — and fans are already calling it the rom-com comeback moment.

Bollywood actor Kartik Aaryan sparked a wave of excitement online after sharing a photo with Hollywood star Johnny Depp at the Red Sea International Film Festival in Jeddah. The festival, which has drawn global celebrities to Saudi Arabia, saw a memorable meeting between the two actors.

Created by Mike White, the satirical drama first premiered on HBO in 2021 and has since captivated audiences with its sharp social commentary, dark humor, and visually stunning cinematography.

Mahfuj Alam did not shy away from the struggle behind the upgrades. “It was very, very difficult to come to this stage of development,” he said, underscoring the challenge of allocating budget in a sector long overshadowed by competing priorities.

Bollywood megastar and icon Shah Rukh Khan stands out as the sole Indian personality included in the New York Times list of the 67 Most Stylish People of 2025.

The organisers of the Dhaka International Film Festival (DIFF) have officially announced the jury board for the Asian Films Competition segment of its upcoming edition.

The actor captivated the audience by reciting shayari in the style of her iconic character, evoking memories of the beloved film.

The project was first announced in January, with plans to start shooting the following month. However, despite early buzz, production never commenced. Huda explained that the delays stemmed from unresolved issues in the story.

"Wicked" has spent two decades dismantling that framework. What began on Broadway as a renegade act of revisionism has now expanded on screen into Jon M Chu’s two-part cinematic saga, which is unhurried, emotionally layered, and audaciously uninterested in letting romance or heroism overshadow the real heart of Oz: the evolving, often painful bond between Elphaba and Glinda. Chu’s adaptation understands that audiences come pre-loaded with assumptions.

To make his case, he pointed to the polished but hollow brilliance of AI-generated mashups — those uncanny clips that fuse iconic artists into impossible collaborations.

With post-pandemic crowds returning and pre-release ticketing now a regular phenomenon, the chain’s programming choices have helped define the year’s most commercially and culturally significant releases.