Movie News From Around the World ¦ 13th November 2026.

World Movie News: The Last 24 Hours

Brad Pitt’s next film, a packed Friday at the cinema, Fjord arrives, a Danish Oscar entry finds a US home & Whoopi Goldberg turns 71.

Morning, all. It’s Friday the 13th, so go careful out there… not that I believe in any of that superstitious nonsense. But it is a busy Friday at the cinema, with Johnny Depp as Scrooge and Cristian Mungiu’s Palme d’Or winner finally arriving in the UK. There’s also a big casting announcement for Brad Pitt.

New in UK and Irish cinemas:

• Ti West’s horror-tinged Ebenezer, a take on Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, stars Johnny Depp as Scrooge, with Ian McKellen as Jacob Marley, Rupert Grint as Bob Cratchit, Sam Claflin as Scrooge’s nephew Fred, Daisy Ridley and Andrea Riseborough, and it’s been shot in London, Dublin and Kent. Reviews are split, with Deadline calling it a blissful take on the classic, The Hollywood Reporter calling it creepily effective and IndieWire giving it a C-.
• Prima Facie, Susanna White’s film version of the famous one-woman stage play sees the wonderful Cynthia Eriva sizzling in the lead role. The film expands the scope of the play to make for a feature. I saw this one at the London Film Festival and really enjoyed it, although it is a tough watch. (Trigger warnings for sexual assault.)
• David Leitch’s heist comedy How to Rob a Bank, from Sony, stars Nicholas Hoult, Zoë Kravitz, Anna Sawai, Pete Davidson, Christian Slater and John C. Reilly, as a crew of robbers who livestream their heists, and it’s rated 15.
• Cristian Mungiu’s Fjord, from Picturehouse, finally arrives in UK cinemas, with Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve as a Romanian father and Norwegian mother whose family comes under scrutiny in a remote coastal town. It’s rated 15 and runs for 146 minutes. I also saw this at the London Film Festival and it was one of the disappointments for me: it had much merit for most of its run but the finale left me cold.
• It’s also the weekend of two classic returns, the first being The Man Who Fell to Earth, starring David Bowie, back in cinemas from Studiocanal for its 50th anniversary, and
• Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette returning from Park Circus 20 years after it was released.
• The Mosquito Bowl: Peter Berg’s Netflix football drama, which opened in US cinemas two weeks ago, arrives in UK cinemas today, ahead of its Netflix debut on 25 November.
• Whispers in the Woods: a documentary from celebrated wildlife photographer Vincent Munier, set in the Vosges forests where he passes on his tricks and techniques to his son. 
• 1 in 2: a cancer documentary with sufferers talking about how their cancers were detected and their treatment, and.
• The Broken Arrow: a darts-based comedy.

New in US cinemas only: James Gray’s Paper Tiger opens in limited release in the US today before expanding on 20 November. This James Gray film, which I saw at the LFF, stars Adam Driver, Miles Teller and a superb Scarlett Johannson. It has a very unconventional story arc but I really rated it. It opens in the UK on Boxing Day. Other US openers include Bleecker Street’s Victorian Psycho, Sony Pictures Classics’ Bitter Christmas, and Jim Caviezel’s action film Ghost Soldier.

Brad Pitt’s next film: Brad Pitt is to star in Connector, a new film from Apple and the Sound of Metal director Darius Marder, according to Deadline. It follows David Fincher’s The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth, which I mentioned last week. There are no further details yet.

A Danish Oscar entry finds a US home: Cohen Media Group has acquired US rights to May el-Toukhy’s Woman Unknown, which won the Golden Lion at Venice and is Denmark’s entry for the Oscars, in a deal that closed at the American Film Market.

Marrakech’s jury: The Marrakech International Film Festival has announced its jury, with Claes Bang, Kaouther Ben Hania and Vicky Krieps joining the previously announced president, Marion Cotillard. As I mentioned earlier this month, it opens with The Debut on 20 November, and runs until 28 November.

Two trailers: Amazon MGM has released another full trailer for its remake of The Thomas Crown Affair, starring Michael B. Jordan, and Paramount has released a new trailer for Gina Prince-Bythewood’s Children of Blood and Bone, in which Chiwetel Ejiofor’s King Saran confronts Thuso Mbedu’s Zélie.

Birthdays: Whoopi Goldberg, who won an Oscar for Ghost, turns 71 today, and Gerard Butler of 300 and How to Train Your Dragon turns 57.

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That’s all for today.

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