The directors of this year’s best animated feature hopefuls talk inspiration, originality and why emotional truth comes before technique.

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Saoirse Ronan's movies range the gamut from blockbusters to romantic comedies to historical epics. The American-born Irish actress made her acting debut in The Clinic, an Irish medical drama. Ronan's ...

Spielberg has long been known for his love of alien-related material. That's why he produced the abduction-based Taken ...

The government is proposing a change in the law on parental child abduction. The crime and policing bill, under consideration in parliament, would make it a crime for a parent to take their child on ...

The past year has been a triumph for the anime community as a whole, with so many wins regarding released content and renewed ...

“The foolishness of the impulse to get out and run towards it, just assuming it would take off before I got very far — that was a big mistake that created a huge detour in my life,” Travis Walton says ...

Chris is a Senior News Writer for Collider. He can be found in an IMAX screen, with his eyes watering and his ears bleeding for his own pleasure. He joined the news team in 2022 and accidentally fell ...

Along a remote highway in New Hampshire’s White Mountains … ... a long-limbed creature greets visitors at a gas station. Inside, it’s green (and pink and purple ...

A Parkville man will be held without bond after allegedly trying to lure away three students near a private school last week, a judge ruled Monday. Cameron Keelan was charged with three abduction ...

Paramount+’s has released a trailer for its upcoming psychological drama Girl Taken , and it doesn’t take long to make ...

Some stories are so strange and so full of emotion that they refuse to fade away. The case of Travis Walton is one of those ...