Paul Giamatti
‘Downton Abbey 3’ Sets Fall 2025 Global Release in Theaters
Downton Abbey 3 has decided on its theatrical release date. The third film in the small-screen turned big-screen franchise will open in cinemas globally on Sept. 12, 2025, Focus Features announced Wednesday. Universal Pictures International is handling the movie overseas. Focus Features and Carnival Films are partnering on Downton Abbey 3, which will be written […]
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‘Hostel’ TV Series Starring Paul Giamatti in the Works (Exclusive)
Hostel is coming to television. Paul Giamatti has closed a deal to star in a Hostel TV series with the franchise’s Eli Roth, Chris Briggs and Mike Fleiss all returning for the project from Fifth Season, the studio behind Apple TV+’s Severance. The Hostel show, which is currently in development and does not yet have […]
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Third ‘Downton Abbey’ Movie Set With Paul Giamatti
Downton Abbey is coming back to the big screen. Focus Features and Carnival Films are working on the latest Downton movie that will be written by Julian Fellowes, the scribe who created the acclaimed TV show that ran from 2010-15. Simon Curtis is returning to direct after helming 2022’s Downton Abbey: A New Era. Along […]
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Stephen Colbert and Paul Giamatti Conversation Set for North to Shore Festival in New Jersey (Exclusive)
Paul Giamatti is set to join Stephen Colbert for an evening of conversation as part of the second annual North to Shore Festival in New Jersey this June. The event, set for June 29 at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark, will raise money for Montclair Film, the New Jersey based arts organization […]
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Paul Giamatti Would Rather Talk About Bigfoot and UFOs Than Pretty Much Anything Else
Like everyone else during the pandemic, Paul Giamatti found solace on Zoom. The veteran actor caught an online talk presented by Stephen Asma, an author and philosophy professor at Columbia College Chicago. Giamatti liked what Asma had to say about imagination and consciousness, so he did what any well-connected fan would do and reached out. […]
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Oscar-Nominated Film ‘The Holdovers’ Is Now Streaming: Where To Watch the Boarding School Comedy Online
The Holdovers is nominated for five Academy Awards — including best picture, best original screenplay, best film editing, best actor for Paul Giamatti and best supporting actress for Da’Vine Joy Randolph — and it’s now available to watch on-demand at home, ahead of the Oscars. The coming-of-age comedy is available to stream on Peacock, as well […]
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Da’Vine Joy Randolph Jokes About Lack of Heated Seats in a Boston Winter While Filming ‘The Holdovers’ in Spirit Awards Acceptance Speech
Da’Vine Joy Randolph joked about the struggles of filming The Holdovers, including a lack of “heated seats during a Boston winter,” and other resources but also praised independent filmmaking as “the beating heart of this industry” while accepting the Film Independent Spirit Award for best supporting performance on Sunday. “I often joke that making Holdovers […]
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Santa Barbara Film Fest: Paul Giamatti Talks ‘The Holdovers,’ ‘Sideways’ and Everything in Between, Joking, “I’ve Played a Lot of Snakes, Haven’t I?”
Adding to his awards season accolades, Paul Giamatti was honored with the Cinema Vanguard Award at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival on Wednesday, where he sat down for a conversation about his long career and journey to The Holdovers. In a 75-minute chat moderated by The Hollywood Reporter‘s Scott Feinberg, Giamatti walked the Santa […]
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Santa Barbara Film Fest: ‘Holdovers’ Oscar Nominee Paul Giamatti Tapped for Cinema Vanguard Award (Exclusive)
Paul Giamatti, the veteran character actor who is currently generating considerable best actor Oscar buzz for his performance in Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers — for his portrayal of a curmudgeonly boarding school teacher, he won best actor National Board of Review, Critics Choice and Golden Globe awards en route to his pending SAG, BAFTA and […]
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Paul Giamatti Says Oscar Nomination for ‘The Holdovers’ Makes Him Feel Like He “Did the Right Thing” With His Life
It’s been almost 20 years since Paul Giamatti’s last Oscar nomination, for Ron Howard’s Cinderella Man in 2006. This year, with Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers, Giamatti scores his long-overdue first lead nod after coming extremely close with another Payne collaboration, Sideways, in 2004. The Holdovers follows a curmudgeonly teacher (Giamatti) at a New England boarding […]
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Rambling Reporter: Selena Gomez Can’t Stop Quitting Instagram
Selena Gomez Can’t Seem to Quit Social Media “Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.” The words of Mark Twain work surprisingly well when applied to Selena Gomez’s relationship with social media. The most followed woman on Instagram, fresh from a viral moment […]
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‘The Holdovers’ Breakout Dominic Sessa Graduated From Boarding School to … Boarding School
When Dominic Sessa found out he had been cast in Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers, he was a high school senior at the prestigious boarding school Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts and was in the middle of writing a paper about “Hamlet or something” for a teacher who rarely gave good grades and was “super hard to […]
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