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Alfonso Cuarón to Receive Locarno Film Festival Lifetime Achievement Award
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‘National Anthem’ Filmmaker Luke Gilford on Crafting a Trauma-Free, Queer Cowboy Love Story
Gilford also opens up on the inspiration behind the film's title: "It’s so wild to me the way that some of the radical right has taken the flag and these symbols of patriotism when it's supposed to be for all of us."
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Greta Gerwig to Receive the Prestigious Will Rogers’ Pioneer of the Year Award
The 'Barbie' filmmaker will be honored at the charity organization's annual banquet in September.
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David Loughery, Screenwriter on ‘Star Trek V’ and ‘Passenger 57,’ Dies at 71
He also scripted ‘Dreamscape,’ ‘Money Train’ and features toplined by Beyoncé and Samuel L. Jackson.
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Timothée Chalamet in Talks to Star in Josh Safdie’s Next Film ‘Marty Supreme’
Timothée Chalamet is eyeing the lead role in Josh Safdie’s next film. The actor is in final negotiations to star in A24’s upcoming feature Marty Supreme, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. Plot details are under wraps, but the movie is said to be a fictionalized original work. Safdie is set to helm the film from […]
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Lionsgate Nabs ‘Power Ballad’ Musical Comedy Starring Paul Rudd, Nick Jonas
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
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’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
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 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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Box Office: ‘Despicable Me 4’ Easily Wins With $44.7M as ‘Longlegs’ Stuns With Record $22.6M Launch
Animation continue to the be hero of the summer office thanks to Despicable Me 4 and Inside Out 2, but Neon’s Longlegs can rightly take a bow after scoring the biggest opening for an independent horror pic in a decade with $22.6 million in ticket sales. From Illumination and Universal, DM4 easily stayed atop the […]
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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 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
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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Oscars: Submissions Now Open for 97th Awards
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ website for submissions to be considered for the 2025 Oscars is now open, the Academy announced Friday. The Academy is currently accepting general entries (best picture and other categories), animated features, animated shorts, documentary features, documentary shorts, international features, live action shorts, original scores and original songs. […]
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‘Fly Me to the Moon’ Director Greg Berlanti on NASA’s Openness to Conspiracy and Saying Goodbye to the Arrowverse
Fly Me to the Moon director Greg Berlanti doesn’t think of himself as a director first and foremost. He’s a storyteller with a keen sense of how he can best serve a project, be it as a producer, writer or director. In the case of Fly Me to the Moon, the New York native had […]
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A Timeline of the ‘Rust’ Shooting and Investigation
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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