film
Lupita Nyong’o Says Adopting a Cat Helped Mend Her Broken Heart: “I Was Flirting With Depression”
Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong’o has opened up on overcoming her fear of cats, recovering from a breakup so bad her mother flew to be by her side from Kenya, and what she believes to be the worst part of her job: interviews. Ironically, the star sat down with Glamour to talk about her upcoming […]
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Netflix Rejected David Cronenberg’s ‘The Shrouds’ as a Series, Director Says: “I Felt I Can’t Let This Die”
David Cronenberg has opened up on putting his film The Shrouds to Netflix executives as a television series, who greenlit writing a first episode before rejecting the director’s project. The sci-fi drama, which aired in Cannes to a three-and-a-half minute applause before Cronenberg spoke to the audience, follows Karsh (Vincent Cassel), a prominent businessman and […]
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Paul McCartney Becomes First U.K. Billionaire Musician on Famous Rich List: Who Else Made It?
Paul McCartney is the first U.K. musician to become a billionaire, it has been revealed, as the Sunday Times unveiled all the famous faces on its wealth-tracking Rich List for 2024. The top 350 are not just your typical hedge fund owners and oil moguls — the list includes the King, the British Prime Minister […]
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Jessica Hausner Named Jury President at Locarno Film Festival
Austrian filmmaker Jessica Hausner will serve as jury president of the Concorso Internazionale, at the 77th Locarno Film Festival, organizers said on Thursday. She will oversee the jury that decides the winner of the Pardo d’Oro – the Golden Leopard – at the Swiss film festival, taking place Aug 7-17. Hausner began her career in […]
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Inaugural San Quentin Film Festival — First Film Fest Inside a Prison — Will Screen A24’s ‘Sing Sing’ (Exclusive)
The inaugural San Quentin Film Festival — the first film festival to be held inside a prison — will take place Oct. 10, 2024 at the maximum security correctional facility located near San Francisco. The one-day event, designed to spark collaboration between incarcerated people and the entertainment industry, will include a screening of A24’s Sing […]
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The h.wood Group Launches Media Division With Kid Cudi, Jean-Michel Basquiat Projects (Exclusive)
With more than a dozen high-profile venues in their hospitality portfolio (Delilah, Bootsy Bellows, Bird Streets Club), The h.wood Group’s John Terzian and Brian Toll are the go-to-guys for L.A.’s coveted tables, the masterminds behind A-lister nights out and the gatekeepers of exclusive events surrounding Super Bowl and Paris Fashion Week. Now, they are harnessing […]
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Polish Director Agnieszka Zwiefka on Defying the Aging Process in Her Unique Doc ‘Vika!’
There’s a moment capturing the spirit that drives Agnieszka Zwiefka’s documentary Vika! and it involves the character at the center of the film — an 84-year-old Lithuanian-born Polish DJ — as she sums up her dress sense, as much as she does her life “The older I get, the more colorful I become,” says Wirginia “Vika” […]
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Portland’s New Tomorrow Theater Attracts David Byrne, Ruth E. Carter With ‘Carte Blanche’ Series
A 300-seat theater on Southeast Division Street in Portland with a curious past is giving notable talents such as David Byrne and Ruth E. Carter a new stage on which to tell their stories: the Tomorrow Theater. The venue, which is part of the Portland Art Museum’s film-and-new-media Center for an Untold Tomorrow (PAM CUT), […]
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China Sets Sights on Global Expansion at Filmart
The China Pavilion has set up shop in the middle of this year’s Hong Kong Filmart for the third year running as it aims to share the story of the evolution of the country’s film industry. Organizers the China Film Co-production Corporation (CFCC) have brought data with them, they say reflects that there are more […]
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Why Ireland Is Thriving as a Film Hub
“You can literally film anything in Ireland that you want to — obviously desert scenes are a bit complicated, but we’ll have a go.” In this quick quip, veteran Irish producer Tristan Orpen Lynch sums up so much about his home country’s movie business right now. A fresh swell of opportunity and confidence may be […]
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Prosecutors in Italy Request Dismissal in Paul Haggis Sexual Assault Case
The criminal sexual assault case against Paul Haggis in Italy could be coming to an end, with prosecutors in the Southern Italy city Brindisi, where Haggis was charged with sexual assault, requesting that the case be dismissed. The case dates back to June 2022, when the writer-director was booked and placed under house arrest following […]
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Paul Dano Says “Quantity Over Quality” in Hollywood Contributed to Superhero Fatigue
Paul Dano is sharing his thoughts on the superhero fatigue that’s hitting the film industry, calling it a “welcome moment” he thinks could lead to better movies down the road. During an interview with The Independent, published online Saturday, the Spaceman actor said he feels “quantity over quality” in recent years played a role in […]
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