Toronto Film Fest Signs New Lead Sponsor

Toronto Film Fest Signs New Lead Sponsor

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The Toronto Film Festival has found a replacement lead sponsor for its 49th edition in September. On Wednesday, Canadian phone giant Rogers was announced as the presenting sponsor of the 2024 edition and the concluding People’s Choice Awards. Terms of the sponsorship deal were not disclosed, but Rogers replaces rival phone giant Bell, lead sponsor […]

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Kevin Costner’s ‘Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 2’ to Get Venice World Premiere

Kevin Costner’s ‘Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 2’ to Get Venice World Premiere

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Part two of Kevin Coster‘s Horizon: An American Saga will premiere at the 2024 Venice Film Festival. Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter Two, directed by and starring the  Oscar-winning actor, boasts a star-studded supporting cast of Sienna Miller, Sam Worthington, Jena Malone and Danny Huston. It is set to get its world premiere in the out-of-competition section in […]

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Locarno Unveils 6 Spanish Projects for Work-in-Progress Section

Locarno Unveils 6 Spanish Projects for Work-in-Progress Section

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First Look, the work-in-progress section of the Locarno Film Festival’s Locarno Pro industry strand, unveiled the six projects on the verge of completion that will take center stage during its 13th edition this year. The promising feature film projects are from this year’s focus country, Spain. The event will take place Aug. 9-11 during Locarno Pro […]

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Mark Hamill Explains Why His New Film ‘Wild Robot’ Brings Back First ‘Star Wars’ Feelings

Mark Hamill Explains Why His New Film ‘Wild Robot’ Brings Back First ‘Star Wars’ Feelings

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An upcoming film from DreamWorks Animation starring actor Mark Hamill has him reminiscing about another movie — from a galaxy far, far away. The focus of a San Diego Comic-Con panel over the weekend, director Chris Sanders’ The Wild Robot follows the misadventures of a robot known as Roz (voiced by Lupita Nyong’o) learning to […]

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Concert Film ‘Usher: Rendezvous In Paris’ to Hit Theaters in September

Concert Film ‘Usher: Rendezvous In Paris’ to Hit Theaters in September

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Usher is coming to a theater near you. Following the footsteps of Taylor Swift and Beyoncé, the R&B star’s concert film — dubbed USHER: RENDEZVOUS IN PARIS — will hit global theaters from Sept. 12-15. AMC Theatres Distribution, Trafalgar Releasing and Sony Music Vision have partnered for the film, which was taped during Usher’s eight-concert […]

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Tilda Swinton to Narrate Interactive ADHD Documentary ‘Impulse’

Tilda Swinton to Narrate Interactive ADHD Documentary ‘Impulse’

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Tilda Swinton will lend her voice to Impulse: Playing with Reality, an interactive mixed-reality documentary exploring Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). The project, from co-directors May Abdalla and Barry Gene Murphy, will premiere at the 2024 Venice Immersive program of the 81st Venice International Film Festival. Swinton also narrated the directors’ 2021 VR work Goliath, […]

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San Sebastian Competition Sets New Films From Mike Leigh, Edward Berger, Joshua Oppenheimer

San Sebastian Competition Sets New Films From Mike Leigh, Edward Berger, Joshua Oppenheimer

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New films from directors Mike Leigh, François Ozon, Edward Berger, Joshua Oppenheimer, and Costa-Gavras will vie for the Golden Shell at this year’s San Sebastian Film Festival. Organizers on Tuesday announced the competition line-up for the 72nd edition of San Sebastian, which runs from September 20-28. Highlights include Leigh’s hotly-anticipated new film Hard Truths, which […]

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Locarno Film Festival, Mubi Team on New Award for Promising First Feature

Locarno Film Festival, Mubi Team on New Award for Promising First Feature

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The Locarno Film Festival is partnering with film producer, distributor and streaming service Mubi on a new award, the Mubi Award – Debut Feature, which will be given to a first-time director showing their film as a world or international premiere in the 77th edition of the fest’s official selection. The partners unveiled the new […]

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How the FIRST Festival Champions the Cause of Independent Chinese Cinema

How the FIRST Festival Champions the Cause of Independent Chinese Cinema

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Li Ziwei was taking the Mandarin Proficiency Test at Beijing’s Communication University of China when she first heard about plans to inaugurate what would evolve into the FIRST International Film Festival. That was 18 years ago and, as Li tells it, the landscape for cinema in China remained dominated solely by the major film and […]

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Ben Whishaw’s ‘Good Boy,’ Johnny Sibilly’s ‘Great Canyon’ to Open Vancouver Queer Film Fest (Exclusive)

Ben Whishaw’s ‘Good Boy,’ Johnny Sibilly’s ‘Great Canyon’ to Open Vancouver Queer Film Fest (Exclusive)

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The Vancouver Queer Film Festival has unveiled its first wave of titles, including opening films like Ben Whishaw’s Good Boy and Hacks actor Johnny Sibilly’s Great Canyon. The VQFF will kick off with Closer, an anthology of shorts led by Good Boy, the directorial debut from Mainstream co-writer Tom Stuart, the co-writer of Gia Coppola’s Venice-opener Mainstream. Skyfall […]

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Psychological Thriller ‘The Unraveling’ to Get U.S. Release From The Horror Collective (Exclusive)

Psychological Thriller ‘The Unraveling’ to Get U.S. Release From The Horror Collective (Exclusive)

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Entertainment Squad, the boutique distribution company founded by Shaked Berenson, has acquired worldwide rights to the psychological thriller The Unraveling from AZ If Productions and will release the movie on Oct. 8 under its genre label The Horror Collective. The company will bring the film to English-speaking territories, handling its release in the U.S., Canada, the […]

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China’s FIRST International Film Festival Jury Surprises Attendees by Leaving Main Prize Vacant

China’s FIRST International Film Festival Jury Surprises Attendees by Leaving Main Prize Vacant

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Surprises are expected at the FIRST International Film Festival, given its role as China’s leading gathering for cutting-edge independent cinema. But no one saw Sunday night coming. When it came time to announce the festival’s top Best feature film, the FIRST jury — led by Cannes Un Certain Regard winner Guan Hu (Black Dog) — left […]

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‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Is About Much More Than Those Cameos

‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Is About Much More Than Those Cameos

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[This story contains spoilers for Deadpool & Wolverine.] Unsurprisingly, much of the discussion surrounding Deadpool & Wolverine, both positive and negative, has focused on the so-called cameos in the film. Is it simply fan service? Do we care about seeing those characters again? Are they the purpose of the movie? Does it say anything about […]

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‘Garden State’ at 20: Zach Braff, Natalie Portman and More on the Wallpaper Shirt, Taking Jean Smart to “Bong School” and Giving The Shins a “Boost”

‘Garden State’ at 20: Zach Braff, Natalie Portman and More on the Wallpaper Shirt, Taking Jean Smart to “Bong School” and Giving The Shins a “Boost”

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Garden State was released in theaters on July 28, 2004, telling the offbeat story about a struggling actor who finds love and a new lease on life after returning to his hometown following his mother’s death. The romantic dramedy, which currently boasts an 86 percent freshness rating on Rotten Tomatoes, grossed more than $35 million […]

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Box Office: ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Lands 8th Biggest Opening of All Time With $205M, Makes R-Rated History

Box Office: ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Lands 8th Biggest Opening of All Time With $205M, Makes R-Rated History

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The Merc with the Mouth is back on the big screen and he’s a marvel. Directed by Shawn Levy in close collaboration with franchise mastermind and star Ryan Reynolds, Deadpool & Wolverine opened to a record-shattering $205 million at the domestic box office, landing the eighth biggest opening of all time among any film and […]

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Comic-Con: ‘John Wick’ Writer Derek Kolstad to Adapt Comic Book ‘Ordained’

Comic-Con: ‘John Wick’ Writer Derek Kolstad to Adapt Comic Book ‘Ordained’

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Derek Kolstad, the screenwriter behind the John Wick franchise and action movie Nobody, has set his sights on a new shoot ‘em up. The scribe has come aboard to adapt Ordained, a comic from upstart comic book publisher Bad Idea. Kolstad made the announcement a a Bad Idea panel held Saturday at San Diego Comic-Con. […]

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‘Star Trek: Section 31’ Movie Trailer Starring Michelle Yeoh Released at Comic-Con

‘Star Trek: Section 31’ Movie Trailer Starring Michelle Yeoh Released at Comic-Con

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"Section 31" trailer brings a different vibe to the franchise, with a Beyoncé track and a "bad bitch" Emperor Georgiou

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Lady Deadpool Actress on How Her ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Cameo Came to Be

Lady Deadpool Actress on How Her ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Cameo Came to Be

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[This story contains spoilers for Deadpool & Wolverine.] Speculation about who would play Lady Deadpool in Deadpool & Wolverine ran rampant when fans got the first glimpse at the character in a June teaser for Best Friends Day. The shot was brief, only showing legs that mildly resembled a woman’s, but that’s all it took […]

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Box Office: ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Heads For Record-Smashing $195M-$205M Opening After Massive $96M Friday

Box Office: ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Heads For Record-Smashing $195M-$205M Opening After Massive $96M Friday

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Marvel Studios is back. Director Shawn Levy’s threequel Deadpool & Wolverine delivered up a massive $96 million on Friday at the domestic box office, the sixth-biggest opening day of all time after edging out the final Harry Potter pic ($91.1 million), not adjusted for inflation. The Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman superhero pic is assured […]

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‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Star Dafne Keen Breaks Down Her Emotional Reunion with Hugh Jackman

‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Star Dafne Keen Breaks Down Her Emotional Reunion with Hugh Jackman 

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[This story does not contain major spoilers for Deadpool & Wolverine. But it does contain spoilers for The Acolyte.] 24 hours after Dafne Keen performed the tragic demise of her Star Wars: The Acolyte Jedi, she was reviving her signature role from Logan in Deadpool & Wolverine.  At age 11, Keen played Laura/X-23, the cloned […]

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‘Mutant: Year Zero’ Game Movie in the Works (Exclusive)

‘Mutant: Year Zero’ Game Movie in the Works (Exclusive)

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The Beyond director Hasraf “HaZ” Dulull is set to produce and helm an animated feature based on Mutant: Year Zero Road to Eden, a tactical adventure video game. The Mutant: Year Zero movie is set in a post-apocalyptic world where an unlikely team of animal-mutants, led by a witty duck and a gruff boar, set out on a […]

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David Dastmalchian Writing Horror Comic Book for Newly Launched Genre Company Panick Entertainment (Exclusive)

David Dastmalchian Writing Horror Comic Book for Newly Launched Genre Company Panick Entertainment (Exclusive)

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Actor David Dastmalchian is diving back into the world of comics, partnering with newly-launched Panick Entertainment for a new horror title. Dastmalchian, who this year starred in the acclaimed horror movie Late Night with the Devil and made his comics debut with spooky Dark Horse title Count Crowley, will co-write an untitled revenge tale with […]

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Pedro Pascal Reveals First ‘Fantastic Four’ Cast Photo: “Our First Mission”

Pedro Pascal Reveals First ‘Fantastic Four’ Cast Photo: “Our First Mission”

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Pedro Pascal posted the first cast photo of Marvel’s next superhero team. The actor revealed the first behind-the-scenes image of the core Fantastic Four cast, along with the message “our first mission.” Fantastic Four stars Pascal as Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic, Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm/The Invisible Woman, Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm/The Human Torch and Ebon […]

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Demi Moore’s ‘The Substance’ to Open Midnight Madness at Toronto Film Fest

Demi Moore’s ‘The Substance’ to Open Midnight Madness at Toronto Film Fest

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The Substance, a feminist horror pic where Demi Moore plays an aging Hollywood star who embraces a secret cloning procedure to save her career will open the Midnight Madness sidebar at the Toronto Film Festival with a North American premiere, organizers said Thursday. The Cannes award winner from director Coralie Fargeat also stars Margaret Qualley […]

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NY Film Festival Sets Steve McQueen’s ‘Blitz’ as Closing Night Selection

NY Film Festival Sets Steve McQueen’s ‘Blitz’ as Closing Night Selection

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The 2024 New York Film Festival has set Steve McQueen’s Blitz, starring Saoirse Ronan and Elliot Heffernan, as its closing night film. The movie, set in London during the blitzkrieg by the Germans during World War II, will receive its North American premiere on Oct. 10 at Alice Tully Hall. McQueen wrote, directed and produced […]

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Harland Williams, Spencer Grammer, Harry Lennix Lead Voice Cast for Animated Sci-Fi Movie ‘Isla Monstro’ (Exclusive)

Harland Williams, Spencer Grammer, Harry Lennix Lead Voice Cast for Animated Sci-Fi Movie ‘Isla Monstro’ (Exclusive)

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Spencer Grammer, Harland Williams, Will Friedle, Harry Lennix and John DiMaggio are among the performers comprising the ensemble voice cast of the animated sci-fi comedy movie Isla Monstro. Hailing from multimedia company Abyssmal Entertainment, the feature has completed production and launches promotion at San Diego Comic-Con with a booth and a panel taking place Saturday. […]

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Chloe Sevigny’s ‘Bonjour Tristesse,’ Kaniehtiio Horn’s ‘Seeds’ Join Toronto Film Fest Lineup

Chloe Sevigny’s ‘Bonjour Tristesse,’ Kaniehtiio Horn’s ‘Seeds’ Join Toronto Film Fest Lineup

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The Chloe Sevigny-starring adaptation of Françoise Sagan’s classic novel Bonjour Tristesse from director Durga Chew-Bose is set to open the 2024 Toronto Film Festival’s Discovery program with a world premiere, organizers said Wednesday. Claes Bang, Lily McInerny and French actress Nailia Harzoune also star in the English-language contemporary take by the Canadian writer-turned-director. TIFF’s Discovery program, which […]

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Timothée Chalamet Transforms Into Bob Dylan in ‘A Complete Unknown’ Trailer

Timothée Chalamet Transforms Into Bob Dylan in ‘A Complete Unknown’ Trailer

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Timothée Chalamet channels Bob Dylan in the first trailer for James Mangold’s upcoming biopic A Complete Unknown. The Dune actor takes on the role of the iconic folk singer-songwriter, who became a counter-culture force in the 1960s. Chalamet has also said he does his own singing for the role — just like his Dune Part 2 co-star Austin […]

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Marvel’s ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’: What the Critics Are Saying

Marvel’s ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’: What the Critics Are Saying

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Marvel Studios’ Deadpool & Wolverine hits theaters July 26, but the review embargo for the film broke on Tuesday, and the early reaction from critics has been largely positive. The third Deadpool movie, and first to be included in the wider Marvel Cinematic Universe, stars Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman as the titular characters and […]

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Nacho Vigalondo’s Sci-Fi Romance ‘Daniela Forever’ to Open Toronto Film Fest Platform Competition

Nacho Vigalondo’s Sci-Fi Romance ‘Daniela Forever’ to Open Toronto Film Fest Platform Competition

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Nacho Vigalondo’s Daniela Forever, starring Crazy Rich Asians star Henry Golding, will open the Toronto Film Festival’s Platform competition program with a world premiere. The Madrid-set sci-fi romancer has Golding playing Nicolas, a man grieving after the sudden death of his girlfriend (Beatrice Brannò) six months earlier and taking part in a clinical trial for a drug that […]

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An Iconic Tour, a Legendary Love Story: The Beatles Get Two Docs at Venice

An Iconic Tour, a Legendary Love Story: The Beatles Get Two Docs at Venice

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The Beatles are getting some attention at this year’s Venice Film Festival, which unveiled its 2024 lineup on Tuesday. The legendary band, who dominated the music industry for an entire decade from 1960, has earned spots in the prestigious fest’s documentary section in different capacities. Kevin Macdonald and Sam Rice-Edwards’ doc One to One: John […]

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Doc on Jerry Lewis’ Lost Holocaust Film ‘The Day the Clown Cried’ Gets Venice Classics Spot

Doc on Jerry Lewis’ Lost Holocaust Film ‘The Day the Clown Cried’ Gets Venice Classics Spot

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Footage from Jerry Lewis’ unreleased Holocaust film The Day the Clown Cried will screen at this year’s Venice Film Festival. From Darkness to Light, a documentary from directors Michael Lurie and Eric Friedler about Lewis’ project, features never-before-seen footage of the legendary lost film and will screen in Venice’s Classics section devoted to documentaries about […]

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Venice Film Festival Unveils 2024 Lineup (Updating Live)

Venice Film Festival Unveils 2024 Lineup (Updating Live)

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The Venice Film Festival is unveiling the official lineup for its 81st edition today. You can follow the announcement live on the festival’s website, or on YouTube, Facebook or X. Long-running festival director Alberto Barbera, who recently extended his contract through 2026, is presenting the Biennale lineup together with Biennale president Pietrangelo Buttafuoco, who was […]

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Angelina Jolie’s ‘Without Blood,’ Mike Leigh’s ‘Hard Truths’ Added to Toronto Film Fest Lineup

Angelina Jolie’s ‘Without Blood,’ Mike Leigh’s ‘Hard Truths’ Added to Toronto Film Fest Lineup

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The Toronto Film Festival has turned up the star power for its 49th edition, having added the latest movies from Alicia Vikander, Lupita Nyong’o, Steve Coogan, Ralph Fiennes, Jennifer Lopez, Salma Hayek, Lily James and Riz Ahmed. For the Gala section at Roy Thomson Hall, there’s world bows for two music specials: the Andrea Bocelli […]

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NY Film Festival Sets RaMell Ross’ ‘Nickel Boys’ as Opening Night Selection

NY Film Festival Sets RaMell Ross’ ‘Nickel Boys’ as Opening Night Selection

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The 2024 New York Film Festival will open with RaMell Ross’ Nickel Boys, it was announced today. The movie, an adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s 2019 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, stars Ethan Herisse, Brandon Wilson, Hamish Linklater, Fred Hechinger, Daveed Diggs and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor. Nickel Boys, which Ross directed from a script he wrote with Joslyn Barnes […]

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Venice Critics’ Week Unveils 2024 Lineup, Including Doc About Far-Right Donald Trump Activists

Venice Critics’ Week Unveils 2024 Lineup, Including Doc About Far-Right Donald Trump Activists

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Venice Critics’ Week, the Venice Film Festival sidebar dedicated to first-time filmmakers, unveiled the selection of seven competition features and two out-of-competition titles for its 39th edition, which runs Aug. 28-Sept. 7. Among the more timely entries is Homegrown from U.S. director Michael Premo. The documentary follows three far-right activists as they campaign for Donald […]

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‘Twisters’ Director on His Choice Between Kiss and No-Kiss Ending for Daisy Edgar-Jones, Glen Powell: “I Like It Better”

‘Twisters’ Director on His Choice Between Kiss and No-Kiss Ending for Daisy Edgar-Jones, Glen Powell: “I Like It Better”

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Twisters director Lee Isaac Chung has explained why he didn’t opt for the ending where Glen Powell‘s Tyler and Daisy Edgar-Jones‘ Kate share a passionate kiss (to the audience’s dismay). The natural disaster blockbuster had an estimated domestic opening of $80.5 million at the North American box office, making it the third-biggest start of the […]

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‘Nonostante,’ ‘September 5’ to Open Venice Horizons Sidebar

‘Nonostante,’ ‘September 5’ to Open Venice Horizons Sidebar

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The 81st Venice International Film Festival has announced the opening night films for its Horizons and Horizons Extra competition sections. Nonostante, the second feature from Italian director Valerio Mastandrea (2018’s Ride) will open the Horizons competition section on August 28. The Horizons Extra competition section will kick off on August 29 with September 5, Tim […]

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Kevin Feige Weighs in on “Trying to Crack” the New ‘Blade’ Movie, Says R-Rating Likely

Kevin Feige Weighs in on “Trying to Crack” the New ‘Blade’ Movie, Says R-Rating Likely

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As a new Blade film continues its long gestation process, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige is offering a bit of insight into the company’s approach for the reboot. Feige sat down with BlackTree TV to promote the July 26 release of Disney’s Deadpool & Wolverine. During the interview released Saturday, the film producer was asked […]

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Glen Powell and ‘Twisters’ Co-Stars Make Surprise Visit at Luke Combs Concert to Chug Beers Onstage

Glen Powell and ‘Twisters’ Co-Stars Make Surprise Visit at Luke Combs Concert to Chug Beers Onstage

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Twisters stars Glen Powell, Daisy Edgar-Jones and Anthony Ramos got to wet their whistles during a surprise appearance at a Luke Combs concert over the weekend. The performers joined the country singer onstage at his show Friday at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey. As seen in footage shared to social media, Combs and the castmembers […]

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Whitney Rydbeck, ‘Friday the 13th’ Actor and Crash Test Dummy in Seat Belt Ads, Dies at 79

Whitney Rydbeck, ‘Friday the 13th’ Actor and Crash Test Dummy in Seat Belt Ads, Dies at 79

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Whitney Rydbeck, the actor and mime who portrayed the last of the paintball victims in Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part VI and one of the original crash test dummies in an iconic public service campaign that promoted seat belt safety, has died. He was 79. Rydbeck died Monday of complications from prostate cancer while […]

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Box Office: ‘Twisters’ Whipping Up Huge Storm With Record $74.6M Domestic Opening

Box Office: ‘Twisters’ Whipping Up Huge Storm With Record $74.6M Domestic Opening

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Lee Isaac Chung’s Twisters is whipping up huge winds at the box office, with forecasters predicting a far better-than-expected domestic opening of $74.6 million. If projections hold, it will become the top opening domestically for a natural disaster film, not adjusted for inflation. (The current crown holder is Roland Emmerich’s The Day After Tomorrow, which […]

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Kelly Sue DeConnick Returning to Creator-Owned Comics with ‘FML’ for Dark Horse (Exclusive)

Kelly Sue DeConnick Returning to Creator-Owned Comics with ‘FML’ for Dark Horse (Exclusive)

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Comic book writer Kelly Sue DeConnick and artist David López were co-pilots on Captain Marvel, the comic book series that revamped Carol Danvers for the 21st century. It was so influential that it even helped convince Oscar-winner Brie Larson to star in the Marvel Studios film of the same name. So it’s only fitting that […]

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Christina Sandera, Clint Eastwood’s Companion, Dies at 61

Christina Sandera, Clint Eastwood’s Companion, Dies at 61

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Christina Sandera, the companion of Clint Eastwood for the past decade, has died, the actor-director announced. She was 61. “Christina was a lovely, caring woman, and I will miss her very much,” he said in a statement released Thursday night. A Warner Bros. spokesperson told The Hollywood Reporter that no further information would be forthcoming. […]

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‘Twisters’ Whips Up $10.7M in Thursday Previews

‘Twisters’ Whips Up $10.7M in Thursday Previews

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A storm has arrived at the box office, with Twisters bringing in $10.7 million in Thursday night previews. Going into the weekend, tracking services projected Twisters could score anywhere from $40 million to $50 million domestically (with some distributors believing it would go higher). The biggest Thursday preview of 2024 belongs to Pixar’s Inside Out […]

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Venice Days Lineup Puts Spotlight on Women’s Stories

Venice Days Lineup Puts Spotlight on Women’s Stories

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The Giornate Degli Autori, simply known as Venice Days, has unveiled its 2024 lineup. The independently run event, which takes place alongside the Venice Film Festival, will this year follow a theme of creatures “poised over an abyss, walking a tightrope”. “To reach the other side, or else to escape from something behind them, or […]

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Glen Powell Reveals the Bill Paxton Acting Trick He Used in ‘Twisters’

Glen Powell Reveals the Bill Paxton Acting Trick He Used in ‘Twisters’

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Glen Powell is sharing how he’s kept Bill Paxton’s memory alive throughout his career thus far. While appearing on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the Twisters star reflected on working with the late actor on a film years ago. “I shot this movie called Red Wing years and years ago and Bill and I […]

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Tim Blake Nelson, Payal Kapadia, Luca Marinelli Join Locarno Film Festival Jury

Tim Blake Nelson, Payal Kapadia, Luca Marinelli Join Locarno Film Festival Jury

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Tim Blake Nelson, the actor, writer, director, producer and regular Coen Brothers collaborator, Indian filmmaker Payal Kapadia (All We Imagine as Light), Italian actor Luca Marinelli (Old Guard), and Belgian producer Diana Elbaum (Elle, Green Border) will join Austrian director Jessica Hausner on the jury of the main competition section of the Locarno Film Festival. […]

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‘Twisters’ Director Lee Isaac Chung Talks Steven Spielberg’s Big Assist and How ‘Star Wars’ Helped Him Land the Job

‘Twisters’ Director Lee Isaac Chung Talks Steven Spielberg’s Big Assist and How ‘Star Wars’ Helped Him Land the Job

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In early 2019, Twisters director Lee Isaac Chung had come to terms with the fact his filmmaking career might be over. He’d already recognized the writing on the wall a year earlier and decided to pen a semi-autobiographical script known as Minari, but everything would soon change in February 2019. That’s when Plan B agreed […]

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Box Office: ‘Twisters’ Hopes to Whip Up Category 5 Storm in U.S. Debut

Box Office: ‘Twisters’ Hopes to Whip Up Category 5 Storm in U.S. Debut

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Universal Pictures hopes to whip up a Category 5 story at the box office this weekend as Twisters hits the big screen nearly three decades after the original Twister blew away audiences with nearly $500 million in global ticket sales, not adjusted for inflation. The studio has never tried to bill Twisters as a direct […]

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Japan’s Wowow Launches Production Services Unit (Exclusive)

Japan’s Wowow Launches Production Services Unit (Exclusive)

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Leading Japanese pay-TV broadcasting company Wowow is planting a flag in the production services business, hoping to both encourage and profit from a surge of industry interest in Japan-set live-action content. The company revealed Wednesday the launch of Tokyo Bridge, a new subsidiary that will provide a full suite of services to international film and […]

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San Sebastian Film Festival Unveils 11 Filmmakers Competing for New Directors Award

San Sebastian Film Festival Unveils 11 Filmmakers Competing for New Directors Award

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This year’s San Sebastian Film Festival will show the first and second films of 11 new moviemakers in the fest’s New Directors category. Together, with the remaining few to be announced in the coming weeks, they will compete for the Kutxabank-New Directors Award. Included amongst the lineup in Spain is New York-based Michael Tyburski (New York, […]

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Lee Isaac Chung Says ‘Twisters’ is a Road Movie… With Tornadoes

Lee Isaac Chung Says ‘Twisters’ is a Road Movie… With Tornadoes

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Lee Isaac Chung is barely settled in a café chair parked on this South Pasadena sidewalk when he begins our conversation with the question he’s most expecting: “So how did I go from Minari to this?” He laughs about it now, but this late June meeting is on the eve of a global Twisters media […]

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‘Twisters’ Director on Not Mentioning Climate Change: Movies Shouldn’t “Preach a Message”

‘Twisters’ Director on Not Mentioning Climate Change: Movies Shouldn’t “Preach a Message”

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"I wanted to make sure that we are never creating a feeling that we’re preaching a message, because that’s not what I think cinema should be about."

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Ben Stiller’s ‘Nutcrackers’ to Open Toronto Film Festival

Ben Stiller’s ‘Nutcrackers’ to Open Toronto Film Festival

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Nutcrackers, David Gordon Green’s new comedy starring Ben Stiller, is set to open the 2024 Toronto Film Festival on Sept. 5. The TIFF opener — marking Stiller’s first starring role in a movie since Mike White’s Brad’s Status and Noah Baumbach’s Netflix family drama The Meyerowitz Stories in 2017 — will have a world premiere […]

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Alfonso Cuarón to Receive Locarno Film Festival Lifetime Achievement Award

Alfonso Cuarón to Receive Locarno Film Festival Lifetime Achievement Award

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Alfonso Cuarón, the Oscar-winning Mexican filmmaker known for the likes of Gravity, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and Roma, will receive a lifetime achievement award at the 77th edition of the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland. He will receive the honor, a tribute to “film personalities with extraordinary careers,” on Sunday, Aug. 11 […]

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Lionsgate Nabs ‘Power Ballad’ Musical Comedy Starring Paul Rudd, Nick Jonas

Lionsgate Nabs ‘Power Ballad’ Musical Comedy Starring Paul Rudd, Nick Jonas

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Lionsgate has picked up the North American, UK and Ireland rights to John Carney’s musical comedy Power Ballad, which stars Nick Jonas and Paul Rudd. The project, which was recently shot in Dublin, follows Rudd as a wedding singer and Jonas as a flagging pop star who come together to write a song to comedic […]

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Kate Winslet Cracks Glass Ceiling Among War Photographers in Latest ‘Lee’ Trailer

Kate Winslet Cracks Glass Ceiling Among War Photographers in Latest ‘Lee’ Trailer

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Even as bombs and bullets fly around her, Kate Winslet also has to battle sexism among Second World War correspondents in the latest trailer for Lee. In Ellen Kuras’ biopic for Sky, Winslet portrays real-life American war correspondent Lee Miller. “I just want to do my part. Why should the men get to decide what […]

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Sean Baker and Mikey Madison’s Palme d’Or Romance ‘Anora’ Debuts First Trailer

Sean Baker and Mikey Madison’s Palme d’Or Romance ‘Anora’ Debuts First Trailer

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Sean Baker’s latest film Anora, which took home the top prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, has debuted its first trailer. Mikey Madison, best known for her work on the FX series Better Things, stars as the titular character, as a New York sex worker who marries the son of a Russian oligarch. The […]

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Original ‘Willy Wonka’ Actors Join Musical Parody

Original ‘Willy Wonka’ Actors Join Musical Parody

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After more than 50 years, two actors are diving back into the world of Willy Wonka (sort of). Julie Dawn Cole and Paris Themmen, two of the child stars of 1971’s Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, will participate in a live stage reading of Willy’s Candy Spectacular, an upcoming musical parody inspired by a […]

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Tim Robbins Slams Conspiracy Theories Linking His Movie to Trump Shooting

Tim Robbins Slams Conspiracy Theories Linking His Movie to Trump Shooting

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Tim Robbins is strongly condemning conspiracy theorists attempting to link his 1992 political drama Bob Roberts to the assassination attempt of Donald Trump. Robbins wrote, directed and starred in the film, which chronicles the rise of a populist conservative politician running for a U.S. Senate seat in Pennsylvania. In the film, the fictional Roberts stages […]

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Charlize Theron Calls ‘Furiosa’ “A Beautiful Film,” Says She Hasn’t Discussed Movie With Anya Taylor-Joy But “We’ve Really Been Trying to Connect”

Charlize Theron Calls ‘Furiosa’ “A Beautiful Film,” Says She Hasn’t Discussed Movie With Anya Taylor-Joy But “We’ve Really Been Trying to Connect”

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Charlize Theron hosted the fourth annual block party for her Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project on Saturday, where she also shared her reaction to Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. Furiosa, which was released in late May, served as a prequel to 2015’s Mad Max: Fury Road, and saw Anya Taylor-Joy portraying the early life of […]

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Fantasia Film Fest Reaches Tentative Deal With Union Workers

Fantasia Film Fest Reaches Tentative Deal With Union Workers

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Following a one-day strike on July 11, the Syndicat des employé-es de l’événementiel-CSN, representing around 60 Fantasia Film Festival workers, reached a tentative deal late Friday night to avert additional labor disruption. The union revealed no details on the agreement in principle before union workers vote on the deal early next week. A formal ratification […]

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Box Office: ‘Despicable Me 4’ and Nicolas Cage’s ‘Longlegs’ Prosper, ‘Fly Me to the Moon’ Struggles In Liftoff

Box Office: ‘Despicable Me 4’ and Nicolas Cage’s ‘Longlegs’ Prosper, ‘Fly Me to the Moon’ Struggles In Liftoff

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Animation continues to the be hero of the summer office thanks to Despicable Me 4 and Inside Out 2, but others should take a bow as well. From Illumination and Universal, DM4 is on course to top the domestic chart in its second weekend with $44 million for a global cume of $441 million through […]

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‘John Wick’ Scribe Derek Kolstad Co-Writing Sci-Fi Comic ‘Planet Death’ (Exclusive)

‘John Wick’ Scribe Derek Kolstad Co-Writing Sci-Fi Comic ‘Planet Death’ (Exclusive)

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After making a name for himself with grounded action movies John Wick and Nobody, screenwriter Derek Kolstad is leaving Earth with Planet Death. He teams with writer Robert Venditti and artist Tomás Giorello on the upcoming space invasion limited series, which publisher Bad Idea will release in early March. The Hollywood Reporter has a first-look […]

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Saoirse Ronan’s ‘The Outrun’ Gets Sony Pictures Classics Release

Saoirse Ronan’s ‘The Outrun’ Gets Sony Pictures Classics Release

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Sony Pictures Classics has picked up Saoirse Ronan’s addiction drama The Outrun for a fall theatrical release. Director Nora Fingscheidt’s film, which stars Ronan as a young Scottish woman from the Orkney Islands who repeatedly plumbs rock bottom before finally resolving to control her alcohol addiction, will hit theaters on Oct. 4. Sony Pictures Classics […]

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First ‘Captain America: Brave New World’ Trailer Hands the Shield to Anthony Mackie

First ‘Captain America: Brave New World’ Trailer Hands the Shield to Anthony Mackie

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Anthony Mackie is adjusting to a new world order. The actor stars as Sam Wilson in Captain America: New World Order, the Marvel Studios film that is described as a grounded political thriller that harkens back to the 2014 feature Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Mackie has played Sam Wilson since Winter Soldier, which introduced […]

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Colman Domingo’s ‘Sing Sing’ to Open Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival

Colman Domingo’s ‘Sing Sing’ to Open Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival

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Colman Domingo’s prison drama Sing Sing is set to open the 22nd Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival (MVAAFF). This year’s lineup also includes Christine Swanson’s road drama Albany Road, starring Renée Elise Goldsberry and Lynn Whitfield; Dawn Porter’s Luther Vandross documentary Luther: Never too Much; the doc short The Rebel Girls; and Harvard historian […]

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Shelley Duvall, Robert Altman Protege and Tormented Wife in ‘The Shining,’ Dies at 75

Shelley Duvall, Robert Altman Protege and Tormented Wife in ‘The Shining,’ Dies at 75

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The versatile actress was memorable in 'McCabe & Mrs. Miller,' 'Nashville,' 'Popeye' and '3 Women' and produced TV series for kids.

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Bloodied Demi Moore Battles Ageism in ‘The Substance’ Body Horror Trailer

Bloodied Demi Moore Battles Ageism in ‘The Substance’ Body Horror Trailer

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Demi Moore plays an aging Hollywood star who embraces a secret cloning procedure to save her career in the trailer for The Substance, a surreal feminist horror pic earlier picked up by Mubi for distribution. Revenge director Coralie Fargeat’s second feature, a campy body horror pic, debuted in Cannes, where it earned the best screenplay […]

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Netflix Shares Teaser, Release Date for Second Part of Spanish Film ‘The Platform’

Netflix Shares Teaser, Release Date for Second Part of Spanish Film ‘The Platform’

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Netflix has revealed an Oct. 4 release date for the anticipated second part of The Platform universe, after the first film was one of the most popular Spanish movies on the streamer. Ranking fifth in the non-English film top ten category with nearly 83 million views, The Platform was released to huge success in 2019. […]

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Andrew Garfield Falls for Florence Pugh After Her Car Hits Him in ‘We Live in Time’ Trailer

Andrew Garfield Falls for Florence Pugh After Her Car Hits Him in ‘We Live in Time’ Trailer

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Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh find everlasting love after she accidentally runs him over in her car in the trailer for director John Crowley’s We Live in Time, which dropped on Wednesday. That chance encounter changes their lives over decades as they find romance, build a home and family together and face a host of […]

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Sharon Stone to Receive Taormina Film Fest Lifetime Achievement Honor

Sharon Stone to Receive Taormina Film Fest Lifetime Achievement Honor

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Sharon Stone will receive a lifetime achievement honor on the closing night of the 70th edition of the Taormina Film Festival next month. The fest will present her with the Cariddi d’oro alla carriera (Golden Cariddi for Lifetime Achievement), which has previously been awarded to the likes of Jessica Lange, Robert De Niro, Tom Cruise, […]

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Locarno Fest Lineup Includes Hong Sang-soo, Paz Vega Films, Honors for Mélanie Laurent, Guillaume Canet

Locarno Fest Lineup Includes Hong Sang-soo, Paz Vega Films, Honors for Mélanie Laurent, Guillaume Canet

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The Locarno International Film Festival in Switzerland has unveiled an eclectic lineup for its 77th edition, taking place Aug. 7-17. The fest will screen 225 total films, including 104 world premieres, five international premieres and some debut features, including new films from such directors as Hong Sang-soo, Spanish actress Paz Vega and Radu Jude. Gianluca Jodice’s Le […]

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Sarah McLachlan, Sheryl Crow, Bonnie Raitt, Erykah Badu Headline ‘Lilith Fair’ Documentary (Exclusive)

Sarah McLachlan, Sheryl Crow, Bonnie Raitt, Erykah Badu Headline ‘Lilith Fair’ Documentary (Exclusive)

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Canadian singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan’s 1990s all-female music festival Lilith Fair is the subject of a feature documentary from the CBC and director Ally Pankiw. The first Lilith Fair, which McLachlan spearheaded to defy a male-dominated music industry that couldn’t envision more than one woman performing on a concert stage or on a radio playlist, kicked […]

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Sharon Stone Leaves Nothing Unturned

Sharon Stone Leaves Nothing Unturned

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Elizabeth Taylor hurt her hip. And Sharon Stone’s life would never be the same. It was May 1995, and the Basic Instinct star, then 37, was at the Cannes Film Festival plugging her new movie, The Quick and the Dead, when she was approached by Dr. Mathilde Krim, founder of the American Foundation for AIDS […]

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Richard E. Grant, Tom Ellis Among Latest Stars to Join Cast of Netflix’s ‘The Thursday Murder Club’

Richard E. Grant, Tom Ellis Among Latest Stars to Join Cast of Netflix’s ‘The Thursday Murder Club’

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Richard E. Grant and Tom Ellis are the latest additions to Netflix‘s The Thursday Murder Club film, based on the beloved novel series by Richard Osman. The newly-released cast, alongside Geoff Bell (Kingsman: The Secret Service, Top Boy), Paul Freeman (Tokyo Trial, Raiders of the Lost Ark), Sarah Niles (Ted Lasso, F1), and Ingrid Oliver […]

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As Alec Baldwin Heads to Trial, Dueling ‘Rust’ Documentaries Become Part of Tangled Drama

As Alec Baldwin Heads to Trial, Dueling ‘Rust’ Documentaries Become Part of Tangled Drama

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Among the many people who will be closely watching Alec Baldwin’s involuntary manslaughter trial when it begins in Santa Fe this week are two sets of documentarians covering parallel and potentially competing stories from the movie Rust.  Both sets of filmmakers have also become part of the still unfolding tragedy of the indie Western set, […]

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Jon Landau Remembered by ‘Titanic’ Backer Bill Mechanic: “That Movie Required a Lion, and He Proved He Could Roar”

Jon Landau Remembered by ‘Titanic’ Backer Bill Mechanic: “That Movie Required a Lion, and He Proved He Could Roar”

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Veteran film executive Bill Mechanic shares some memories about producer Jon Landau, who died on July 5 at the age of 63, and the experiences they shared during the making of James Cameron’s 1997 epic Titanic, which was backed by Fox Filmed Entertainment when Mechanic was that company’s chairman and CEO. * * * I […]

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How A Song by The Cure Inspired Italian-French Film ‘My Summer With Irène’

How A Song by The Cure Inspired Italian-French Film ‘My Summer With Irène’

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Listening to The Cure song “To Wish Impossible Things” from 1992 was a key inspiration for Italian filmmaker Carlo Sironi in writing, with Silvana Tamma as co-writer, and directing the Italian-French drama My Summer With Irène. “The young and timid Clara meets the spirited Irène,” according to a plot description of the website of the […]

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Warner Bros. Discovery Unveils Three Short Films for Season 3 of Black Britain Unspoken Program

Warner Bros. Discovery Unveils Three Short Films for Season 3 of Black Britain Unspoken Program

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Warner Bros. Discovery Access, the company’s talent development division for under-represented creatives, on Monday unveiled Donell Atkinson-Johnson, Lauren Gee and Joladé Olusanya as the three filmmakers who will tell their stories of what it means to be Black and British in shorts as part of the third annual Black Britain Unspoken program. Launched in 2022, it aims […]

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Brad Pitt ‘F1’ Teaser Trailer Arrives: “We Need to Build Our Car for Combat”

Brad Pitt ‘F1’ Teaser Trailer Arrives: “We Need to Build Our Car for Combat”

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The first trailer for Brad Pitt’s Formula 1 movie has arrived. The Brad Pitt-led teaser for F1 features a high-speed montage of racing set to Queen’s “We Will Rock You.” “Red Bull, Ferrari, Mercedes, Aston and now McLaren all have a speed on the straights. Our shot is battling it in the turns,” Pitt says […]

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Box Office: ‘Despicable Me 4’ Rules July 4th With $120M Opening, ‘MaXXXine’ Scares Up $7M-$8M

Box Office: ‘Despicable Me 4’ Rules July 4th With $120M Opening, ‘MaXXXine’ Scares Up $7M-$8M

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Illumination and Universal’s Minions franchise isn’t getting any worse for the wear as Despicable Me 4 rules the Fourth of July box office with an estimated five-day opening of $120 million, including a three-day weekend haul of $72.4 million. That’s in line with expectations and a strong start for the fourth outing in the main […]

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A Timeline of the ‘Rust’ Shooting and Investigation

A Timeline of the ‘Rust’ Shooting and Investigation

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On Oct. 21, 2021, tragedy struck the set of Rust in New Mexico when Alec Baldwin discharged a prop firearm that had a live round in it, killing the film’s director of photography Halyna Hutchins and wounding director Joel Souza. Baldwin has maintained that he didn’t pull the trigger on the gun that killed the […]

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The Best Movie Sequels of the Last 20 Years

The Best Movie Sequels of the Last 20 Years

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Since the 1980s, sequels have become a Hollywood infrastructure — and public opinion on their pop-cultural and artistic value has shifted. No longer were sequels just quasi-remakes with few returning faces and significantly cheaper budgets, but events that studios could promote as highlights of their yearly slates. That’s not to say sequels gained favor overnight […]

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How Peter Jackson Inspired the Style of ‘Waves’ and Why Its Czech Director Compares It to a Christmas Tree

How Peter Jackson Inspired the Style of ‘Waves’ and Why Its Czech Director Compares It to a Christmas Tree

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The period around 1968 in what was then known as Czechoslovakia has gotten the film and TV treatment numerous times. But the 58th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) saw the world premiere Waves, of a new take on the time before and after the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Soviet Union-led Warsaw […]

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The Best Slasher Movies of the Decade

The Best Slasher Movies of the Decade

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Men in masks. Final girls. A steadily increasing body count. A memorable weapon (a knife, a chainsaw, a hook, a… salt shaker). And then, of course, there’s the blood. Lots and lots of blood. Mix them, bend them, subvert them however you wish — these are the core elements of the slasher movie, one of […]

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Nicolas Winding Refn’s Restored Cult Classic ‘Pusher’ to Premiere in Venice Classics

Nicolas Winding Refn’s Restored Cult Classic ‘Pusher’ to Premiere in Venice Classics

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A newly-restored version of Nicolas Winding Refn’s 1996 Danish cult classic Pusher will be featured at this year’s Venice Film Festival in the Venice Classics Competition Restored Films section. The Danish crime drama, which featured a break-out performance by a young Mads Mikkelsen alongside co-star Kim Bodnia, will premiere at the 81st Venice Festival, which […]

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Bulgarian Rapper Fyre Realized He Played Himself, Kind of, in Claustrophobic Family Drama ‘Windless’

Bulgarian Rapper Fyre Realized He Played Himself, Kind of, in Claustrophobic Family Drama ‘Windless’

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“After years away Kaloyan returns to his native Bulgaria in order to sell his late father’s flat. What at first seems like a routine task devoid of emotion gradually develops into a journey to the depths of his being, where he is confronted with distant traumas, yet he also strikes a new path towards self-discovery.” […]

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‘Despicable Me 4’ Director on Spoofing Superheroes, GentleMinions and Those Crowd-Pleasing Cameos

‘Despicable Me 4’ Director on Spoofing Superheroes, GentleMinions and Those Crowd-Pleasing Cameos

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Despicable Me 4 introduces a new bundle of joy to the popular animated franchise, along with some long-planned Minions shenanigans that have finally come to fruition. The fourth installment in Universal’s movie series that hails from Illumination Entertainment opened in theaters Wednesday ahead of the Fourth of July weekend. Will Ferrell, Sofía Vergara, Joey King, […]

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Daniel Brühl on His Role in HBO’s ‘The Franchise,’ a Horror Movie Idea, and Embracing His Midlife Crisis

Daniel Brühl on His Role in HBO’s ‘The Franchise,’ a Horror Movie Idea, and Embracing His Midlife Crisis

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There was no rain after a morning drizzle. Instead, German-Spanish star Daniel Brühl (Becoming Karl Lagerfeld, All Quiet on the Western Front) was showered with love, appreciation and much applause as he arrived on the red carpet at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) on Thursday afternoon. The love fest continued inside when he […]

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Lego Unveils ‘Jaws’ Set Timed for Summer Season

Lego Unveils ‘Jaws’ Set Timed for Summer Season

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Cue the famous John Williams score, because it’s time to not go into the water. Instead,i t’s time to head to a fine table to build with bricks. Lego has unveiled a new set based on Jaws, the Steven Spielberg blockbuster that changed summer moviegoing and made countless people afraid to go into the ocean. […]

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Clive Owen on Picking Roles “That Scare Me a Little Bit” and Being Keen on a “Really Good Comedy”

Clive Owen on Picking Roles “That Scare Me a Little Bit” and Being Keen on a “Really Good Comedy”

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Clive Owen has never been interested in being comfortable. From Spike Lee’s Inside Man and Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men to Robert Altman’s Gosford Park and Steven Soderbergh’s The Knick, the actor has worked with a range of filmmakers across an expanse of projects over both film, television and the stage. “I like to choose […]

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Marvel’s ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Tracking for Record $160M-$165M Debut

Marvel’s ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Tracking for Record $160M-$165M Debut

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Three weeks out, Deadpool & Wolverine‘s claws are looking plenty sharp. The Marvel Studios movie — the third outing in the celebrated superhero franchise that’s the brainchild of star Ryan Reynolds — is tracking to open to at least $160 million to $165 million domestically over the July 26-28 weekend, with plenty of upside. That […]

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Mortensen, Harrelson, Clarkson & Co.: Why Stars Heart the Karlovy Vary (Love) Fest So Much

Mortensen, Harrelson, Clarkson & Co.: Why Stars Heart the Karlovy Vary (Love) Fest So Much

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Even Hollywood’s biggest stars may sometimes need to get away from Tinseltown and all that talk about box office declines, streaming challenges, and the threats of TikTok and generative AI. No surprise then that the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) has found passionate fans among the A-list with its offering of summer refreshment, like […]

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‘In the Land of Brothers’ Directors Examine the Plight of Afghan Refugees in Iran

‘In the Land of Brothers’ Directors Examine the Plight of Afghan Refugees in Iran

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In the Land of Brothers, the feature debut of young Iranian directors Raha Amirfazli and Alireza Ghasemi, sets itself apart both from contemporary Iranian cinema and from other stories of refugees, by focusing on a community that has until now been all but invisible on screen: the millions of refugees from Afghanistan who have found […]

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‘Awards Chatter’ Pod: Sean Penn on ‘Daddio’ Film (and Possible Stage Version), Zelenskyy (and the Oscar He Loaned Him) and 50 Years in the Biz

‘Awards Chatter’ Pod: Sean Penn on ‘Daddio’ Film (and Possible Stage Version), Zelenskyy (and the Oscar He Loaned Him) and 50 Years in the Biz

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Sean Penn rarely grants interviews — he and the press haven’t always gotten along, to say the least — but last week, at his home in Malibu, the venerated actor and filmmaker sat down with The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast for an in-depth conversation about his life, career and most recent project, Daddio, an indie, […]

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‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ to Open Venice Film Festival in World Premiere

‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ to Open Venice Film Festival in World Premiere

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Say his name. The 81st Venice International Film Festival will kick off this year with the world premiere of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Tim Burton’s hotly-anticipated sequel to his 1988 comedy-horror hit. The film will have its world premiere in Venice on August 28, screening out of competition. Beetlejuice alums Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, and Catherine O’Hara […]

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Shah Rukh Khan to Receive Locarno Festival Lifetime Honor

Shah Rukh Khan to Receive Locarno Festival Lifetime Honor

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Indian superstar Shah Rukh Khan will be honored with the lifetime achievement award, the Pardo alla Carriera, or career leopard, at the 2024 Locarno Film Festival. The Panthaan, Don 2 and Om Shanti Om star, known to his fans as “King Khan,” will receive the prize at Locarno’s iconic Piazza Grande on Aug. 10. As […]

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Steven Soderbergh on Struggles for Control, Why Sex Scenes are “Ridiculous” and Taylor Swift

Steven Soderbergh on Struggles for Control, Why Sex Scenes are “Ridiculous” and Taylor Swift

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Steven Soderbergh has been all over the Czech spa town of Karlovy Vary in recent days. On Monday, he shared his takes and insights on such topics as AI, sex scenes, movie release windows, Hollywood’s current “correction,” new projects and even the success of Taylor Swift with a group of reporters. The prolific director, producer, screenwriter and […]

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Saoirse Ronan, Harris Dickinson Lead Steve McQueen’s ‘Blitz,’ Set to Open London Film Festival

Saoirse Ronan, Harris Dickinson Lead Steve McQueen’s ‘Blitz,’ Set to Open London Film Festival

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The world premiere of Steve McQueen‘s Blitz, starring Saoirse Ronan and Harris Dickinson, will open 2024’s BFI London Film Festival (LFF) this October. The Apple original film – directed, produced, and written by Oscar winner McQueen (12 Years a Slave) – follows the journey of nine-year-old George, played by newcomer Elliot Heffernan, in London through […]

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Mia Hansen-Løve’s Next Film Will Be A Period Drama on the Life of Pioneering Feminist Mary Wollstonecraft

Mia Hansen-Løve’s Next Film Will Be A Period Drama on the Life of Pioneering Feminist Mary Wollstonecraft

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The next film from French director Mia Hansen-Løve (Things to Come, One Fine Morning) will be a period drama on the life of ground-breaking English writer and activist Mary Wollstonecraft. Hansen-Løve is writing and directing If Love Should Die on the visionary 18th-century writer, considered one of the founder philosophers of feminism. Filming is planned […]

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