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1 hour ago

There may be a beauty and she may be sleeping, but that’s pretty much where the comparisons end between the classic fairytale and this modern retelling by Spanish filmmaker Ado Arrietta, who works with a French-speaking cast – as well as a helicopter, an iPhone and a Conga line – to tell the story of a spoiled prince trying to undo the curse befallen upon a kingdom and its beloved princess.

Not quite for children, nor necessarily for adults seeking out an imaginary thrill-ride, the highly eclectic affair stars auteur-friendly actors Agathe Bonitzer (Right Here Right Now), Niels Schneider (Heartbeats) »

- Jordan Mintzer

1 hour ago

All This Panic, Jenny Gage and Tom Betterton's documentary about two teenage girls coming of age in New York that had its world premiere at this year's Tribeca Film Festival, has found a U.K. home.

Dogwoof, the London-based doc sales and distribution company, picked up the film, signing a deal with its U.S. agent The Film Sales Company with plans to release it theatrically and online across the U.K. in March 2017.

"All This Panic is a gem of a movie, and we were delighted at the number of people who fell for its charm at the BFI London Film »

- Alex Ritman

4 hours ago

Rape, murder and the turmoils of puberty are all part of the same package in What’s in the Darkness (Hei chu you shen me?), an ambitious feature debut from distaff writer-director Wang Yichun that combines a serial killer mystery with a coming-of-age tale set in 1990’s rural China.

Taking several cues from Bong Joon-Ho’s Memories of Murder, but not always mixing its disparate parts into a convincing whole, this polished if overlong effort offers lots to chew on in its portrait of a shy teenage girl whose growing pains are made all the worse by the bodies that keep piling »

- Jordan Mintzer

4 hours ago

Placing as many bets as possible, the International Press Academy announced its nominations today for its 21st annual Satellite Awards. It nominated 12 movies for best motion picture, a list that encompasses La La Land, Moonlight, Manchester by the Sea, Lion, Jackie, Hacksaw Ridge, Loving, Hell or High Water, Nocturnal Animals, Captain Fantastic, Hidden Figures and Fences.

Its best director nominees include Moonlight’s Barry Jenkins, Manchester’s Kenneth Lonergan, Hacksaw’s Mel Gibson, La La Land’s Damien Chazelle, Animals’ Tom Ford, Jackie’s Pablo Larrain and Fences’ Denzel Washington.

For best motion picture actor, it named Manchester’s Casey Affleck, La La Land’s Ryan Gosling, »

- Gregg Kilday

8 hours ago

The Gotham Awards are to the Oscars what the Iowa caucuses are to a presidential election and the NFL's preseason games are to its regular season: they're the first "results" to come in, so they get a lot of attention, but the reality is they don't really tell us much of anything about what's to come.

This is not to rain on the parade of Moonlight, the big winner at Monday night's 26th annual Gothams — it took best feature, best screenplay, a special ensemble prize and the audience award, and, at the end of the day, it may well »

- Scott Feinberg

8 hours ago

The Comedian, starring Robert De Niro, will open the Capri Hollywood Film Festival on Dec. 27 with its European premiere.

The new film directed by Taylor Hackford (Ray) stars De Niro as aging insult comic Jackie Burke who gets a second lease on life after meeting Harmony (Leslie Mann). The two find inspiration in each other and his resulting new material finds the formerly has-been comic going viral. 

An all-star supporting cast includes Edie Falco, Billy Crystal, Danny DeVito, Charles Grodin, Cloris Leachman, Harvey Keitel and Patti LuPone. Art Linson, Jeff Ross, Richard Lagravenese and Lewis Friedman wrote the screenplay. It »

- Ariston Anderson

9 hours ago

Academy Award-winning director Paolo Sorrentino has shelved plans to make a biopic about Italy’s former Prime Minster Silvio Berlusconi.

Fresh off the success of the September premiere of his TV series The Young Pope in Venice, Sorrentino announced the film project, titled Them, meant to be a balanced, not overly-critical look about the controversial media mogul turned politician.

But now he says his focus is on writing the second season of The Young Pope, and only once he finishes the script will he turn his focus back to his next project in cinema.

“I wanted to write a script »

- Ariston Anderson

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