Monday, 30 September 2024

Cillian Murphy Is Tommy Shelby Once Again as Production Begins on ‘Peaky Blinders’ Film

Tommy Shelby is back. Cillian Murphy has reprised his iconic Peaky Blinders role and reunited with Steven Knight, the mastermind behind the hit Birmingham gangster drama, in a first look photo released Monday. The Peaky Blinders Netflix film, directed by Tom Harper, is officially in production, the streaming giant announced on Monday. The film follows […]

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NYFF: How a Palme d’Or Winner Pulled Off an ’80s-Style Action-Comedy Set Piece Involving a Sex Worker 

[The following story contains spoilers from Anora.] It’s the scene of the movie and perhaps of the season: halfway through his sex-worker dramedy Anora, director Sean Baker somehow puts on the board a 28-minute real-time scene in which a pair of heavies out of an ’80s action-comedy seek to rein in Mikey Madison’s tough-but-vulnerable escort […]

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Where Is Bob Weinstein? Brother of Harvey Answers the Question With Three New Films

For the past few years, Bob Weinstein has been quietly setting up movies under a new label, Watch This Entertainment. On Oct. 11, the first of those films, Seven Cemeteries, will arrive in theaters and on-demand courtesy of Quiver Distribution. Seven Cemeteries comes to screens as Bob’s older brother and former business partner, Harvey Weinstein, […]

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Julia Roberts to Receive Honorary French César Award

Julia Roberts will receive an honorary César award at the upcoming 50th César Awards in Paris. The Pretty Woman star will be honored at the gala event on Feb. 28, 2025 at the historic Olympia Hall in Paris. The ceremony will be broadcast live on Canal+. “Julia Roberts is not only a movie star but also […]

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Sunday, 29 September 2024

‘Nickel Boys’ Director RaMell Ross on How Film’s Subjective Point of View Serves as an “Experiment of Perception”

For his film adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s bestseller The Nickel Boys, director RaMell Ross largely tells the story using a subjective point of view, with the camera serving as the eyes of main characters Elwood (Ethan Herisse and Daveed Diggs) and Turner (Brandon Wilson). The immersive experience, Ross told The Hollywood Reporter ahead of the […]

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Kris Kristofferson, Idol of Country Music and the Movies, Dies at 88

Kris Kristofferson, the soulful country music superstar who wrote “Me and Bobby McGee” and “Help Me Make It Through the Night,” performed with the supergroup The Highwaymen and made audiences swoon in Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore and A Star Is Born, has died. He was 88.  Kristofferson died Saturday at home in Maui, Hawaii, […]

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John Ashton, ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ Actor, Dies at 76

John Ashton, known for playing John Taggert in Beverly Hills Cop and its various sequels, has died. He was 76. Ashton died on Thursday in Fort Collins, Colorado, his manager Alan Somers told The Hollywood Reporter. A cause of death was not immediately available. Detective Sergeant John Taggart appeared in the first two Beverly Hills […]

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Lamorne Morris Relates to Garrett Morris’ Experience as the First Black Cast Member of ‘SNL’

Garrett Morris, Saturday Night Live (SNL)’s first Black cast member, appeared on the show from 1975 to 1980 and was best known for his portrayal of the fictional Dominican baseball player Chico Escuela. However, it was his role as Stan Winters on the first three seasons of Martin Lawrence’s self-titled ‘90s sitcom Martin that made […]

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Saturday, 28 September 2024

Andrew Garfield Charms San Sebastian as ‘We Live in Time’ Wraps Up Film Festival

Andrew Garfield graced the red carpet in San Sebastian on Saturday night as his latest film, We Live in Time, closed the film festival on the Spanish coast. The British actor was not joined by his co-star Florence Pugh but did have director John Crowley by his side. We Live in Time, which screened out […]

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Box Office: ‘Megalopolis’ Bombs With D+ CinemaScore, ‘Wild Robot’ Soaring to No. 1

DreamWorks Animaton and Universal’s family film The Wild Robot is charming moviegoers and audiences alike, boasting both a stellar 98 percent Rotten Tomatoes critics score and a 98 percent audience score, not to mention an A CinemaScore from moviegoers — if only the love were being spread around. Francis Ford Coppola — in one of […]

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Nicholas Podany Watched ‘When Harry Met Sally’ for First Time Before ‘Saturday Night’ Audition for Billy Crystal

He is slightly embarrassed to admit it, but Nicholas Podany first watched When Harry Met Sally as he was gearing up for an audition to portray the classic rom-com’s star, Billy Crystal. Podany was going out for Jason Retiman’s Saturday Night (in theaters this weekend in limited release before opening wider on Oct 11.) Told […]

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Friday, 27 September 2024

Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Actress in Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Frenzy,’ Dies at 88

Barbara Leigh-Hunt, the Olivier Award-winning actress who portrayed one of the victims of Barry Foster’s Necktie Murderer in Alfred Hitchcock’s penultimate film, Frenzy, has died. She was 88. Leigh-Hunt died peacefully Sept. 16 at her home in Warwickshire, England, her family announced. The British star also was known for her performance as Lady Catherine de […]

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How to Watch ‘Apartment 7A’ Online, the Prequel to Horror Classic ‘Rosemary’s Baby’

Beginning Friday, Sept. 27, Apartment 7A, the Rosemary’s Baby prequel starring Julia Garner and Dianne Wiest, is available to stream on Paramount+. The film explores what happened in the Bramford, the apartment building where Rosemary’s Baby is set, before Rosemary (Mia Farrow) moved in. The psychological thriller is also available to purchase for $19.99 on Apple […]

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Box Office: ‘The Wild Robot’ Beats ‘Megalopolis’ in Previews

DreamWorks Animaton and Universal’s The Wild Robot started off its North American box office run with $1.95 million in Thursday previews, a solid start for a family animated film. The movie is based on Peter Brown’s beloved bestseller about a robot nicknamed ROZ who forms an unexpected bond with an orphaned gosling and other creatures […]

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‘Downton Abbey’ Cast, Creators Pay Tribute to Maggie Smith: “One of the Greatest Actors of Our Time”

Maggie Smith’s Downton Abbey family and other figures in Hollywood are paying tribute to the late, Oscar-winning actress who died on Friday. She was also known for her iconic role as Professor Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter film franchise, as well as The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and […]

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Thursday, 26 September 2024

Film Academy Postpones Event Set for Oct. 7 Amid Concerns (Exclusive)

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has postponed a reception for new members in New York from Oct. 7 — the first anniversary of the Hamas attacks on Israel — to a date to be determined later this year, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. “It is so important to us that everyone feel comfortable and […]

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‘Maria’ Teaser Sees Angelina Jolie as Legendary but Troubled Opera Singer

Angelina Jolie goes through all the emotions in the first teaser trailer for Maria, which sees the actress portray the legendary but troubled opera singer Maria Callas. The film, directed by Pablo Larraín (Jackie and Spencer), follows the “American-Greek soprano as she retreats to Paris after a glamorous and tumultuous life in the public eye. Maria reimagines […]

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Barbra Streisand Documentary in the Works From Frank Marshall

Barbra Streisand is getting into the music documentary game. The singer, actress, director, producer and EGOT winner has started production on a multipart documentary about her life and career directed by Frank Marshall and produced by Alex Gibney, the project’s creative team announced Thursday. The project aims to be an “intimate and comprehensive exploration of […]

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Wednesday, 25 September 2024

Tokyo International Film Festival Unveils Lineup

The Tokyo International Film Festival revealed its full 2024 lineup on Wednesday, including its main competition program and the Asian Future section for emerging regional filmmakers, as well as the all-new Women’s Empowerment section, which highlights nine films directed by women or involving female-focussed stories.  Tokyo’s 15-title main competition reveals a preference for securing world […]

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Oscars 2025: U.K. Selects ‘Santosh’ as International Feature Submission

The U.K. has selected Santosh, an Indian police procedural from director Sandhya Suri, to represent the country in the 2025 Oscars in the best international feature category. Shahana Goswami stars as the titular Santosh, a driven young Hindu widow who inherits her husband’s job as a police constable thanks to a government scheme. She finds […]

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Tuesday, 24 September 2024

AGBO Creative Chief Touts Priyanka Chopra Jonas, ‘Electric State,’ Robert Downey Jr. Digital Double

Priyanka Chopra Jonas, robots, Robert Downey Jr., and more were in focus in London Tuesday morning as executives from AGBO, the artist-led independent studio from brothers Joe and Anthony Russo, discussed upcoming series and film projects. Chief creative officer Angela Russo-Otstot, the sister of the duo, and chief marketing officer Marian Koltai-Levine also shared insights […]

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Oscars 2025: Mexico Picks Sundance Winner ‘Sujo’ for International Feature Race

Mexico has picked Sundance Film Festival winner Sujo to represent the country at the 2025 Oscars in the Best International Feature category. The drama from Identifying Features directors Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez premiered at Sundance this year, where it won the Grand Jury Prize for World Cinema. It is currently doing the festival tour […]

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Monday, 23 September 2024

Oscars 2025: Kazakhstan Picks ‘Bauryna Salu’ for International Feature Race

The submissions for the 97th Oscars in the best international feature category are coming thick and fast as countries rush to get in their entries before the Nov. 14 deadline. Kazakhstan is the latest to pick a national contender, selecting Askhat Kuchinchirekov’s coming-of-age tale Bauryna Salu. The feature premiered at the San Sebastian Film Festival […]

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Elizabeth Olsen’s Sister Act

Death has been on Elizabeth Olsen’s mind lately. It started — or, rather, became much more acute — on a recent helicopter ride. The actress was on an East Coast press tour for her new movie, His Three Daughters, and Netflix scheduled a junket day in New York City, followed by a screening out in […]

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Oscars 2025: India Selects ‘Laapataa Ladies’ for Best International Feature Race

India has selected Kiran Rao’s comedy of errors Laapataa Ladies (Lost Ladies) to represent the country in the 2025 Oscar race in the Best International Feature category. The Hindi-language film, which premiered at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival, beat out Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine As Light, which had been considered the frontrunner for the […]

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Sunday, 22 September 2024

San Sebastian: How Audrey Diwan’s ‘Emmanuelle’ Helped Noémie Merlant Rediscover Her Libido

Noémie Merlant found she had a lot in common with her character in Emmanuelle. Her involvement in Audrey Diwan‘s new film, in the titular role, was so influential that she says it helped her re-examine her own relationship with female pleasure. “Like Emmanuelle, I was completely disconnected with my body,” the French actress tells The […]

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Karla Sofia Gascón Talks ‘Emilia Pérez’ Oscar Buzz in San Sebastian: “I Want the Focus to Be on My Acting”

Emilia Pérez star Karla Sofia Gascón has spoken candidly about her performance in Jacques Audiard’s one-of-a-kind Spanish language musical, saying that making history with an Oscar nomination is a possibility out of her control. The actress, a trans woman, has been the recipient of critical acclaim since the film debuted in Cannes, winning her the […]

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Saturday, 21 September 2024

Box Office: ‘Transformers One’ Getting Squeezed by ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ in an Unexpected Close Battle

In a surprise twist, the Bots are getting squeezed by Beetlejuice Beetlejuice at the weekend box office. Transformers One was expected to open to at least $30 million to $35 million in North America. Now, it’s looking like $26 million, which puts the Paramount and Hasbro movie in an all-too-close race with Warner Bros.’ Beetlejuice […]

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Kathryn Crosby, ‘7th Voyage of Sinbad’ Actress and Wife of Bing Crosby, Dies at 90

She also appeared in 'The Phenix City Story,' 'Operation Mad Ball,' 'The Big Circus' and 'Anatomy of a Murder.'

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Questlove Set to Direct Earth, Wind & Fire Documentary

21st night day of September, indeed. Questlove is on board to direct the Earth, Wind & Fire documentary in the works. The feature is set to examine the iconic group’s lasting legacy, cultural impact and enduring body of work. For the project, the Grammy- and Oscar-winning filmmaker will feature exclusive access to the band’s archives […]

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Sean Baker Talks ‘Anora’ Success in San Sebastian: “I’m Not Looking for It to Get Me a Marvel Film”

Sean Baker, director of Cannes’ Palme d’Or winner Anora, discussed the success of his latest movie at a San Sebastian Film Festival event Saturday, admitting that he won’t be using the momentum to take on big-budget studio films like Marvel’s. Baker spoke to a packed crowd about his film — now receiving Oscar buzz — […]

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Friday, 20 September 2024

James Cameron Says He Knows Parts of ‘Terminator’ Are “Cringeworthy,” Shuts Down Critics of Dialogue in His Films

James Cameron reflected on being “just a punk” when he directed The Terminator and how, looking back now, he knows it wasn’t perfect. The Oscar-winning director spoke to Empire magazine ahead of the classic sci-fi film’s 40th anniversary next month and noted he considers the project his first, despite technically getting his first director credit […]

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‘Happy Holidays’ Director Scandar Copti on Finding Love Across the Israeli, Palestinian Divide

Scandar Copti doesn’t like polemics. In his Oscar-nominated debut Ajami (2009), Copti, a Palestinian director and Israeli citizen, avoided easy answers, and obvious finger-pointing, to tell a story of crime and corruption, family belonging, and political divisions set in his hometown of Jaffa, a mostly Arab city just south of Tel Aviv. Co-directed with Jewish […]

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Thursday, 19 September 2024

Oscars 2025: Norway Picks Renate Reinsve Starrer ‘Armand’ for International Feature Race

Norway has entered the 2025 Oscar race, selecting Halfdan Ullmann Tondel’s school-set drama Armand as its contender for next year’s Academy Awards in the best international feature category. Renate Reinsve, the breakout star of Joachim Trier’s double Oscar nominee The Worst Person in the World, plays the lead in Armand, namely Elisabeth, a local celebrity […]

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‘Anatomy of a Fall’ Outfit MK2 Inks Multi-Year Financing Deal With IPR.VC

French production and sales outfit mk2 films has signed a multi-year financing deal with the Finnish private equity fund IPR.VC to bankroll a slate of new projects, the two companies unveiled on Thursday. The new capital will come in handy for mk2, which is looking to build on recent crossover success, including its co-productions The […]

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Oscars 2025: Denmark Picks ‘The Girl With the Needle’ for International Feature Race

Denmark has selected Magnus von Horn’s period drama The Girl With the Needle as its nominee for Best International Feature at the 2025 Oscars. Set in Copenhagen in 1919, the feature stars Vic Carmen Sonne (Holiday, Godland) as Karoline, a young seamstress who is left high and dry when her wealthy lover (Joachim Fjelstrup) gets […]

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Zurich Festival to Honor ‘Conclave’ Director Edward Berger

The Zurich Film Festival will this year present director Edward Berger with its prestigious Golden Eye A Tribute To…Award, honoring his life’s work. Berger, whose 2022 war epic All Quiet on the Western Front was nominated for 9 Oscars and won 4, is back in the award conversations this year with his latest feature, Conclave. […]

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Wednesday, 18 September 2024

Oscars 2025: France Picks ‘Emilia Pérez’ for Best International Feature Race

France has picked Jacques Audiard’s queer crime musical Emilia Pérez as its contender for the 2025 Oscar race in the best international feature category. Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez and Adriana Paz star alongside Spanish trans actress Karla Sofia Gascón in the genre-jumping feature about a Mexican drug lord (Gascón) who enlists the help of a […]

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BAFTA: Asif Kapadia Backs Doc, Factual Content Talent Program

BAFTA, film director Asif Kapadia (Amy, Senna, docu-fiction thriller 2073), TV host Reggie Yates (Reggie Yates: Extreme Russia, Reggie Yates: Insider), advocacy organization We Are Doc Women, and British luxury menswear house Dunhill are partnering on a BAFTA Elevate program to accelerate the careers of up to 20 mid-senior level creatives making documentary and specialist factual TV content and feature […]

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Tuesday, 17 September 2024

GLAAD’s 2023 Studio Responsibility Index Reports Sharp Increase in LGBTQ Characters of Color

GLAAD released the 12th installment of its Studio Responsibility Index, a study that tracks the “quantity, quality and diversity” of LGBTQ characters in films released in a calendar year by 10 Hollywood distributors. The report found that most of the companies received low grades and overall representation ticked down just slightly. To compile the data, […]

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Pamela Anderson to Receive Golden Eye Honor at Zurich Film Festival

Iconic Canadian actress Pamela Anderson will be honored at the 20th Zurich Film Festival (ZFF) with the festival’s Golden Eye award in honor of her “versatile career.” Anderson will present her latest feature, Gia Coppola’s The Last Showgirl, at the 2024 Zurich Festival and will receive her award on Oct.4. In The Last Showgirl, which premiered […]

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Monday, 16 September 2024

Oscars 2025: Finland Picks ‘Family Time’ for International Feature Race

Finland has picked the dramedy Family Time to represent the country for the 2025 Oscars in the best international feature category. The film, by writer/director Tia Kouvo, is a sharp look at the familial ties that bind, following three dysfunctional generations as they come together at their grandparents’ house over the holidays. Ria Kataja, Elina […]

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Bike Theft Comedy ‘James’ Wins Oldenburg Film Festival

James, a quirky Canadian comedy about a stolen bike, has won the German Independence Award for Best Film at this year’s Oldenburg Film Festival. The black-and-white feature, from director Max Train, which our reviewer compared to the “early works of Jim Jarmusch” follows the down-on-his-luck title character (played by Dylan Beatch, who co-wrote the screenplay […]

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BFI Chair, Working Title Films Bosses Set for London Film Festival Spotlight Sessions

Spotlight sessions featuring the bosses of Working Title Films, the international head of Searchlight Pictures and the chair of the BFI, as well as panels on the story behind the success of Last Swim, emerging film writers and documentary makers, adaptations and remakes, the art of sound, and marketing magic are among the industry sessions […]

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Sylvia Le Fanu’s First Feature ‘My Eternal Summer’ Gets Teaser Before San Sebastian Debut (Exclusive)

Sylvia Le Fanu‘s feature debut My Eternal Summer, which is set to have its world premiere in the New Directors lineup of the San Sebastian International Film Festival, now has a teaser trailer. “Fifteen-year-old Fanny and her parents retreat to their summer house, embracing familiar routines: reading, swimming, and walking,” a synopsis of the movie […]

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Sunday, 15 September 2024

Toronto Awards Takeaways: Feinberg on an Off-Year for the Fest

The Toronto International Film Festival — which I have been attending since 2007, and from which I just returned — has long been an important launching pad for Oscar contenders, from 1981’s Chariots of Fire to 1999’s American Beauty to 2008’s Slumdog Millionaire to 2018’s Green Book. But a few years ago, that status was jeopardized […]

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Paramount Snags Fall’s Hottest Sales Title ‘September 5,’ Shaking Up Oscar Race (Exclusive)

In a move that will thoroughly shake up the Oscar race, September 5, the hottest sales title that played at this year’s fall film festivals and an across-the-board awards contender, has landed at Paramount Pictures, The Hollywood Reporter has exclusively learned. The studio has secured the worldwide distribution rights for the film — with the exception […]

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Toronto: Mike Flanagan’s ‘The Life of Chuck’ Wins Audience Award

Mike Flanagan’s The Life Of Chuck picked up the top People’s Choice honor Sunday at the Toronto Film Festival as its 2024 edition wrapped with renewed celebrity heat but still in the shadow of Venice and Cannes. The Stephen King novella adaptation stars Mark Hamill, Karen Gillan and Chiwetel Ejiofor in a genre-tripping film about […]

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Saturday, 14 September 2024

Newcomer Gia De Sauvage on Debut Thriller and Her Admiration for Gena Rowlands

Gia De Sauvage is just starting her career onscreen, but she already has a model for the path she’d like to follow. “I just absolutely adore Gena Rowlands, and I would love to have a career like hers,” the newcomer says. She makes her debut in the new television movie, Nightmare in the Desert, the first of the cable […]

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‘Shell’ Review: Elisabeth Moss and Kate Hudson Headline a Superficial but Serviceable Horror Comedy About Youth and Beauty

Kaia Gerber and Amy Landecker co-star in Max Minghella's second film, premiering at the Toronto Film Festival.

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Franca Bettoia, Italian Actress in ‘The Last Man on Earth,’ Dies at 88

Franca Bettoia, the Italian actress who starred opposite Vincent Price in the 1964 cult sci-fi film The Last Man on Earth, has died in Rome, her family told the Italian news agency Adnkronos. She was 88. Bettoia was married to Italian actor Ugo Tognazzi — he starred in the 1978 movie La Cage aux Folles […]

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Friday, 13 September 2024

‘The Fire Inside’ Review: Ryan Destiny and Brian Tyree Henry Give Knockout Performances in Barry Jenkins-Penned Boxing Drama

Cinematographer Rachel Morrison makes her directorial debut with this chronicle of the career of two-time Olympic gold medal-winner Claressa Shields.

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THR Critics Pick the Best Films From the Fall Festivals

An ambitious American immigrant saga, Nicole Kidman’s steamy erotic thriller, an intimate John Lennon doc and a trippy Luca Guadagnino-Daniel Craig collaboration are among our reviewers’ 15 faves out of Venice, Telluride and Toronto.

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Michael Long Brings Liverpool to Oldenburg With ‘Baby Brother’: “My City Has Never Been Shown the Way It Should”

Michael Long is a proud Scouser, meaning a native of Liverpool, and wants the world to know it. The actor-turned-director’s debut feature film is getting its world premiere on Friday at Oldenburg Film Festival. It’s a big moment for Long, who admits to The Hollywood Reporter that it’s been a “rough” journey and he sometimes […]

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Thursday, 12 September 2024

‘Transformers One’ Review: Chris Hemsworth and Brian Tyree Henry Lead a Delightful, Franchise-Revitalizing Prequel

Directed by Josh Cooley ('Toy Story 4') and based on the Hasbro toy line, the origin story explores the friendship — and eventual animosity — between Optimus Prime and Megatron.

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5 Films to Watch From Oldenburg Honoree Dominik Graf, “Germany’s John Carpenter”

The Oldenburg Film Festival, Germany’s leading indie film fest, has devoted its 2024 retrospective to the movies of Dominik Graf. The ridiculously prolific filmmaker —  Graf has more than 50 films and TV series to his credit — is rightly hailed as “Germany’s John Carpenter”: An auteur director who walks the line between genre and arthouse […]

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Hala Matar’s ‘Electra’ Is Where ‘Mr. Ripley’ and ‘Saltburn’ Meet — And the Director Is Delighted

Hala Matar is the first of her kind. The director tells The Hollywood Reporter she is the first female Bahraini director to make a feature film. After growing up in the Middle East and studying theater at school, Matar studied in America at the University of Virginia. By mistake, she enrolled in a cinematography class, […]

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How AI Helped Create a Key Dream Sequence for “Shoestring Budget” Oldenburg Film ‘Traumnovelle’

Sometimes, an interview subject surprises you with something you didn’t see coming at all. “This film is one of the first films to incorporate a fully AI-generated sequence,” Florian Frerichs (The Last Supper), director and co-writer of Traumnovelle, a new adaptation of the Arthur Schnitzler novella that inspired Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut, mentions during […]

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Wednesday, 11 September 2024

Sandra Oh Doubles Reel Asian Film Fest Donation to $100K

Sandra Oh has doubled her donation to the Toronto Reel Asian Film Festival for prize giving to $100,000. During a reception at the Toronto Film Festival, the Killing Eve star added another $50,000 to take her overall contribution to the festival’s Reel Asian Fire Horse Award to $100,000 over five years. Oh, a long-time activist […]

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Nikolai Kinski, Director Florian Frerichs on Sex Scenes Always Being “Super Awkward” and ‘Traumnovelle,’ Their German-Style ‘Eyes Wide Shut’

Remember Eyes Wide Shut, Stanley Kubrick’s exploration of marriage and relationships starring Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise? Of course, you do! Now, get ready for Traumnovelle, a new adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler’s famed erotic short story that inspired Eyes Wide Shut and that opens the Oldenburg Film Festival on Wednesday! The drama, from German director […]

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Maura Delpero’s Venice-Winning Period Drama ‘Vermiglio’ Lands North American Distribution 

Sideshow and Janus Films have scooped up North American rights to Maura Delpero’s acclaimed Italian period drama Vermiglio, winner of the Venice Film Festival’s silver lion grand jury prize.  The film debuted in competition in Venice and received its North American premiere Tuesday night at the Toronto Film Festival. Sideshow and Janus say they will […]

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Tuesday, 10 September 2024

‘Meet the Barbarians’ Review: Julie Delpy’s Middling Refugee Comedy Has Its Heart in the Right Place

The latest feature from the director of '2 Days in Paris' reveals what happens when a tiny French town welcomes a Syrian family into its midst.

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‘The Apprentice’ Releases First Trailer Ahead of October Release

Donald Trump biopic The Apprentice released its first trailer on Tuesday ahead of the much-discussed movie’s October release. The film, from director Ali Abbasi and writer Gabriel Sherman, follows Sebastian Stan as a young Trump under the mentorship of Jeremy Strong’s Roy Cohn. Upon its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May, The Hollywood […]

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Erotic Infidelity and Berlin S&M Feature in Trailer for Oldenburg Opener ‘Traumnovelle’ (Exclusive)

This is not your father’s Traumnovelle. Florian Frerichs’ new adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler’s famed erotic novella — the work that inspired Stanley Kubrick‘s Eyes Wide Shut — promises to be a much more explicit version of the story. The trailer for the film, which opens this year’s Oldenburg Film Festival on Sept. 11, is heavy on the hot and […]

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Oscars 2025: Czech Republic Submits ‘Waves’ for International Feature Race

The Jirí Mádl-directed movie Waves, a new take on the time before and after the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Soviet Union-led Warsaw Pact troops, is the Czech Republic’s submission for the best international feature race at the 2025 Oscars. The film, which had its world premiere at the 58th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF), was […]

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Monday, 9 September 2024

Cam Gigandet, Sam Trammell Action-Thriller ‘72 Hours’ Lands at Brainstorm Media (Exclusive)

Brainstorm Media has picked up the action-thriller 72 Hours, directed by Christian Sesma and starring Sam Trammell and Twilight actor Cam Gigandet. A theatrical and on-demand release is planned for Nov. 1, 2024. 72 Hours centers on two brothers, a dedicated FBI agent and a crypto international money launderer, putting aside their differences and joining […]

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‘The Brutalist’: Venice Winner Brady Corbet Opens Up About the Tireless Seven-Year Journey Behind His Buzzy Epic

A monumental triumph of independent filmmaking is coming to a cinema near you. Brady Corbet’s 3.5-hour-long, seven-years-in-the-making historical epic The Brutalist finally secured a U.S. distribution deal over the weekend. The movie, which won Corbet the Venice Film Festival’s best director prize Saturday, will be released by indie tastemaker A24 sometime later this year with […]

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Max Minghella Sees a Lot of ‘Look Who’s Talking’ in ‘Shell,’ His Second Feature as a Director

Shell is Max Minghella’s second feature film as a director. Dubbed a “dark comedy and body horror about society’s obsession with youth and good looks,” it stars none other than his The Handmaid’s Tale colleague Elisabeth Moss as a struggling actress opposite Kate Hudson as the CEO of a mysterious, and potentially monstrous, beauty company. The […]

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‘Without Blood’ Review: Salma Hayek Pinault and Demián Bichir in Angelina Jolie’s Overly Cautious War Parable

Adapted from a novella by Alessandro Baricco, the director's latest feature focuses on two strangers revisiting their memories of an unnamed war over a long evening.

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Sunday, 8 September 2024

A24 Buys Brady Corbet’s ‘The Brutalist’ for U.S.

A24 has won the bidding war to acquire U.S. rights to Brady Corbet’s buzzy Venice Film Festival winner The Brutalist. A24 announced the deal, brokered with CAA Media Finance, on Sunday, ahead of the film’s North American premiere at the Toronto Film Festival on Sept. 10. Adrien Brody stars in the historical epic as László […]

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Toronto Hidden Gem: ‘Universal Language’ Is An Absurdist Homage to Iranian Cinema Via Winnipeg

Matthew Rankin’s second feature, Universal Language, certainly echoes the comic sensibility of fellow Winnipeg filmmaker Guy Maddin (The Saddest Music in the World, Rumours). But its fantastical and multilayered structure — intended to pay homage to the Iranian cinema he loves — is difficult to explain.  Asked to describe what Universal Language is about, Rankin […]

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Malcolm Washington on Surprising His Mom With ‘The Piano Lesson’ Tribute

“It’s all a little overwhelming. When you make something that’s so personal to you, it feels like you’re just making it for yourself or for your people. But then you’re reminded that this will exist in the world,” says Malcolm Washington of his feature directorial debut, The Piano Lesson. The adaptation of the August Wilson […]

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Toronto First Look at Time Travel Romance ‘Fate’ With Harvey Keitel and Faye Dunaway (Exclusive)

Harvey Keitel (Bugsy, Pulp Fiction), Faye Dunaway (Bonnie & Clyde, Chinatown) and Cheech Marin (Nash Bridges) feature in an exclusive first-look image from the time travel romance movie Fate. Directed by Jonathan Baker (Lionsgate’s Inconceivable, starring Nicolas Cage, Gina Gershon, and Dunaway), the film, which recently wrapped production in Vancouver, also stars Andrew McCarthy (The […]

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Saturday, 7 September 2024

PETA Activists Protest Pharrell Williams ‘Piece By Piece’ Press Screening at Toronto Film Festival

PETA activists protested a press screening for Piece by Piece, the animated documentary about singer, songwriter and record producer Pharrell Williams, on Saturday morning at the Toronto Film Festival. The protesters brandished posters reading “Fur Is Dead” and “Pharrell: Stop Killing Animals for Fashion” as they urged Williams, who is also Louis Vuitton’s men’s creative director, to stop […]

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‘Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter Two’ Review: Kevin Costner’s Western Epic Trudges Ahead With a Slightly More Watchable Sequel

Sienna Miller, Giovanni Ribisi and Luke Wilson also star in the sprawling adventure, intended as part of a four-film series about the settlement of the American frontier.

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Ontario’s Behind-the-Camera Talent Boom Sparks Hollywood Collaborations With Global Impact

Ontario talent has long starred onscreen in Hollywood, from Ryan Gosling and Mike Myers to Rachel McAdams and Sandra Oh. But just as the province has become a key Hollywood production hub for the major studios and streamers, top global film and TV producers are also embracing local below-the-line talent to realize their creative ambitions […]

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‘Unstoppable’ Review: Jharrel Jerome and Jennifer Lopez Bring Grit and Determination to Conventional but Crowd-Pleasing Sports Bio

Bobby Cannavale, Michael Peña and Don Cheadle also star in the directing debut of veteran editor William Goldenberg, based on the underdog story of wrestling champion Anthony Robles.

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Friday, 6 September 2024

How to Hide a Movie Star at the Toronto Film Festival 

The Toronto Film Festival sure likes Hollywood A-listers on its red carpets.  But away from movie premieres and parties, uber-stars do a disappearing act starting with flight arrivals and departures at Pearson International Airport.  Don’t expect Cate Blanchett or Ben Stiller to be jostling at a baggage carousel or going beltless and barefoot through a […]

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Cody Christian to Star in Sci-Fi Thriller ‘SYNC’ (Exclusive)

Cody Christian, Jonetta Kaiser and Michael Paré have nabbed lead roles in the sci-fi thriller SYNC being unveiled as part of Toronto Film Festival’s informal market. Christian will play a grieving man in 2035 who turns to groundbreaking technology to reunite with an artificial intelligence-generated version of his deceased fiancée, played by Kaiser. But as […]

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Alex Ross Perry’s ‘Pavements’ Lands at Utopia After Venice Bow

Utopia has picked up the U.S. rights to Pavements, director Alex Ross Perry’s musical portrait of the 1990s al-rock band a day after a world premiere in Venice earlier this week. “One of our favorite filmmakers, one of our favorite bands, Pavements joining Utopia is simply a dream come true. The band’s iconic status has […]

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Toronto Kicks Off Battle of the Fall Film Markets

With the start of the 2024 Toronto Film Festival, the first shot has been fired in a battle for supremacy in the fall film markets. Toronto will officially launch its new market in 2026, with the help of an eight-figure sum from the Canadian government, and the ground is being laid to make TIFF a […]

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Thursday, 5 September 2024

‘Dune’ Scribe Jon Spaihts Unveils Sci-Fi Thriller at Toronto Film Festival

Dune screenwriter Jon Spaihts is set to make his directorial debut with a sci-fi thriller unveiled at the Toronto Film Festival on Thursday. Indie studio Laika is producing the film about a woman investigating a mystery that took place during a week she cannot remember. Spaihts knows his way around sci-fi films. Besides Dune and Dune 2, his […]

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Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Megalopolis’ Sets New York Film Fest Advance Screening

Francis Ford Coppola will bring his sci-fi epic Megalopolis to the New York Film Festival for an advanced screening on Sept. 23. The special event selection at the AMC Lincoln Square Theater in New York will be preceded by Imax live-streaming a Q&A with Coppola to 66 giant screen theaters across the U.S. The advanced […]

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James McAvoy’s Directorial Debut About Hip Hop Hoax Sells to Studiocanal for U.K.

James McAvoy‘s directorial debut California Schemin‘ about a hip hop hoax has pre-sold to Studiocanal for the U.K. and Ireland and a range of other international markets. The movie is based on the true story of Gavin Bain and Billy Boyd, two friends from Dundee, Scotland, who conned the music industry by using American accents and pretending […]

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Wednesday, 4 September 2024

Danielle Deadwyler Struck All the Right Notes With Denzel’s ‘The Piano Lesson’ (and She Won’t Be Snubbed Again)

On a bright, late summer day in midtown Manhattan, the city’s bustling sidewalk traffic has been brought to a standstill. Clutching morning coffees, a small gaggle of curious onlookers have gathered on a Fifth Avenue corner to watch Danielle Deadwyler pose for a photographer who can’t get enough of the gamine star’s enviable beauty. It […]

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Andra Day Almost Turned Down the Lead Role in ‘The Deliverance.’ This Is What Changed Her Mind

[This story contains spoilers from The Deliverance.] When Andra Day was considering the lead role of Ebony in Lee Daniels’ latest film The Deliverance, she consulted two entities: God and her mom. “At first, she [her mother] kind of had pause,” Day tells The Hollywood Reporter, admitting she was equally hesitant about dabbling in the […]

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Todd Phillips on Why Making ‘Joker 2’ With Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga Made Him “More Nervous” Than the First Film

DC Comics’ greatest villain has descended upon the Venice Film Festival. Director Todd Phillips, Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga swept onto the Lido arm-in-arm Wednesday to discuss the creation of Warner Bros’ wildly anticipated sequel Joker: Folie à Deux. The director and his stars are in Italy in hopes of recreating the first Joker film’s […]

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How Rage — and Laughter — Inspired Kaniehtiio Horn’s Directorial Debut ‘Seeds’

With Seeds, Canadian Mohawk actor Kaniehtiio Horn has embraced the indigenous horror-thriller genre — with some added comedy. “I didn’t want to make a trauma movie,” the Reservation Dogs actor tells The Hollywood Reporter about her directorial debut, a genre-bending home invasion film she wrote, stars in and produced. And she wants her world premiere […]

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Tuesday, 3 September 2024

Netflix Unveils New Films, Series From South Africa at MIP Africa

Netflix unveiled a first look at some of its upcoming films and a series from South Africa at MIP Africa on Tuesday. Ben Amadasun, Netflix’s vp of content for the Middle East and Africa, unveiled the slate additions, which the streamer says are “showcasing Netflix’s ongoing commitment to delivering authentic local stories from South Africa […]

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Let’s Talk About Sex, Baby: Erotic Films Seduce Venice

Venice has got its sexy back. Erotica of all varieties — gay, straight, kinky and theoretical — is on glorious display at this year’s Venice Film Festival, with plenty of sizzling action on screen and little of it gratuitous. Two of the, em, hottest festival titles this year — Halina Reijn’s Babygirl and the TV […]

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Soviet Cinema Legend Inspires Artist in Exile in ‘I Will Revenge This World With Love – S. Parajanov’ (Exclusive Trailer)

The legacy and inspiration of Soviet director Sergei Parajanov is at the center of I Will Revenge This World With Love – S. Parajanov, a new documentary from director Zara Jian, which premieres at this year’s Venice Film Festival. The Hollywood Reporter has gotten the exclusive first look at the trailer for the film — […]

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Monday, 2 September 2024

‘Happyend’ Review: High School Becomes a Potent Microcosm of Surveillance-State Oppression in Affecting Near-Future Drama

In Neo Sora's narrative feature debut, the threat of natural disaster and citizen unrest provides justification for increasing incursions into personal freedoms by both the Japanese government and education authorities.

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‘Harvest’ Review: Caleb Landry Jones and Harry Melling Lead a Moving Scottish Highlands Period Drama

The latest feature by Greek Weird Wave filmmaker Athina Rachel Tsangari is an adaptation of Jim Crace's acclaimed novel.

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Tilda Swinton, Julianne Moore Embrace Life, Death, Female Friendship in New Pedro Almodóvar Film

Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore could have spoken forever, it seems, on the genius of Pedro Almodóvar. The Spaniard, who has created films such as Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, All About My Mother, and Volver, will see the world premiere of his first-ever English language feature at the 81st Venice Film […]

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Ethan Hawke Compares Acting to “the Joys of Doing Drugs,” Talks About Being “Slightly Disappointed That I’m Not a Wizard or a Jedi”

The joys, magic and business side of filmmaking, his take on independent and blockbuster movies, including Star Wars and Harry Potter, as well as his collaborations with directors Richard Linklater and Peter Weir, and his lack of work with many female filmmakers, were all part of a Venice Film Festival master class featuring actor-director Ethan […]

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Sunday, 1 September 2024

‘Wolfs’ Director Jon Watts to Miss Venice World Premiere After Catching COVID

George Clooney had some unfortunate news to share at the first press conference for Apple’s hotly anticipated action comedy Wolfs at the Venice Film Festival.  The Hollywood actor, seated beside co-star Brad Pitt, revealed that the film’s director Jon Watts would be missing the movie’s world premiere in Italy Sunday night because he caught Covid.  […]

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Director Brady Corbet Gets Emotional Discussing Staggeringly Ambitious Post-War Epic ‘The Brutalist’

The Venice Film Festival is buzzing over director Brady Corbet’s monumental historical drama The Brutalist, starring Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones and Guy Pearce. The film won’t officially premiere until Sunday night, but the thunderous applause and rapt excitement that followed the film out of its first press screenings on the Lido has many festival-goers speculating that it’s the […]

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Richard Gere Jokes He Had “No Chemistry” With Julia Roberts in ‘Pretty Woman’

It was a role that solidified Richard Gere as one of Hollywood’s most dashing leading men, but the actor has admitted he hasn’t watched his performance in Pretty Woman for a long time. The star spoke at a masterclass at the 81st Venice Film Festival on Sunday on the art and craft of cinema through […]

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