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Bob Dylan’s “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” has been covered by everyone from Avril Lavigne to the Grateful Dead — and, most famously, by Guns N’ Roses, who made it a hit in the early Nineties. Now, actress-singer Sophie Thatcher is tackling the classic for her upcoming horror film Heretic.

The cover sounds like a lo-fi lullaby, with Thatcher delicately laying down her vocals against slide guitar. “The cover version feels very melancholic and feminine, and more dreamy and atmospheric, whereas [Dylan’s] is far more straightforward,” she tells Rolling Stone. “There...

Decades never start quite on time, pop-culturally speaking, and it’s tempting to say that the Sixties didn’t really kick off until the Beatles played The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964, just as “Smells Like Teen Spirt” started the Nineties in 1991. But as David Browne’s new book, Talkin’ Greenwich Village: The Heady Rise and Slow Fall of America’s Bohemian Music Capital, suggests, the Sixties’ spirit really began in Greenwich Village, not Liverpool — and the music that really got it going was written by Bob Dylan. In June of 1963, Peter,...

Despite a big boost in business from late summer titles like “Deadpool & Wolverine,” AMC Theatres couldn’t get into the black in Q3 of 2024. The company reported a $20.7 million net loss in Wednesday’s earnings report.

Here are some of the topline figures:

Revenue: Thanks to films like “Deadpool 3,” Universal’s “Despicable Me 4” and “Twisters,” and Warner Bros.’ “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,” revenue for AMC reached a strong $1.33 billion. Still, that was approximately 5% down from last year, when “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” combined to set box office records.

Eps: Despite another quarterly loss, Q3 2024 is the closest AMC has been to getting in the black, reporting an adjusted loss per share of 6 cents that’s just above the 7-cent projections from Zacks Investment Research. That’s also slightly above the loss of 9 cents from the prior year’s Q3 and up from last quarter’s 43-cent loss.

Concessions record: Despite these topline slips,...

Nominations voting is from January 8-12, 2025, with official Oscar nominations announced January 17, 2025. Final voting is February 11-18, 2025. And finally, the 97th Oscars telecast will be broadcast on Sunday, March 2, and air live on ABC at 7 p.m. Et/ 4 p.m. Pt. We update our picks throughout awards season, so keep checking IndieWire for all our 2025 Oscar predictions.

The State of the Race

As we enter the fall/holiday season, “Wicked” (Universal) and “Gladiator II” (Paramount) are gathering early buzz for the Best Sound Oscar. Other standouts include “Emilia Pérez” (Netflix), “Blitz” (Apple TV+), “Maria” (Netflix), and “Nickel Boys” (Amazon MGM Studios). Still to come are the highly anticipated “Nosferatu” (Focus Features) and “A Complete Unknown” (Searchlight Pictures). Another major contender, course, is “Dune: Part Two” (Warner Bros.).

In “Wicked,” Jon M. Chu’s adaptation of the Broadway musical by Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman, we get the unlikely friendship between...

More than a hundred songwriters, composers, perfomers and films are represented in the nominees’ list for the 2024 Hollywood Music in Media Awards — from pop luminaries like Elton John & Brandi Carlile, Miley Cyrus, Lainey Wilson and Pharrell Williams to celebrated scorers like Hans Zimmer, Harry Gregson-Williams, Kris Bowers and Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross.

The list of nominees was unveiled Wednesday, in advance of a ceremony due to take place Nov. 20 at the Avalon in Hollywood.

“Emilia Pérez” led all films with five Hmma nominations. “Blitz” and “A Complete Unknown” have three nominations apiece. Other films picking up multiple noms include “Wicked,” “The Wild Robot,” “Moana 2,” “The Idea of You,” “Challengers” and “Elton John: Never Too Late.” (Scroll down to see the full lineup of 2024 nominees.)

The Hmma lineup of categories is the most expansive of any awards program recognizing musical achievements in the movies, between breaking down different genre categories for feature films,...

Nominations voting is from January 8-12, 2025, with official Oscar nominations announced January 17, 2025. Final voting is February 11-18, 2025. And finally, the 97th Oscars telecast will be broadcast on Sunday, March 2, and air live on ABC at 7 p.m. Et/ 4 p.m. Pt. We update our picks throughout awards season, so keep checking IndieWire for all our 2025 Oscar predictions.

The State of the Race

Fall has arrived, and “Conclave” (Focus Features), “Emilia Pérez” (Netflix), “The Brutalist” (A24), “Gladiator II” (Paramount), and “Wicked” (Universal) have all emerged as Best Editing Oscar contenders. However, “Blitz” (Apple TV+), “Nickel Boys” (Amazon MGM Studios), “Queer” (A24), and “The First Inside” (Amazon MGM Studios) look promising, and “September 5” (Paramount) is shaping up to be the dark horse. Still to be seen are “Nosferatu” (Focus Features) and “A Complete Unknown” (Searchlight Pictures), but don’t forget about “Dune: Part Two” (Warner Bros.).

“Conclave,” Edward Berger’s follow-up to...

This December, Timothée Chalamet will portray Bob Dylan in the film A Complete Unknown. The movie will follow Dylan in the early 1960s. It begins with his arrival in New York City and concludes at his decision to go electric. Dylan is a notoriously prickly and private celebrity, but he is reportedly very supportive of the film.

Bob Dylan is throwing his support behind the Timothée Chalamet film ‘A Complete Unknown’

James Mangold, director of A Complete Unknown, sat down with Dylan to discuss the film. In their conversation, he explained that it was “not really a Bob Dylan biopic.” Instead, he views it as an ensemble film about that period in New York.

“The reason Bob has been so supportive of us making it, is … as in all cases I think of the best true-life movies are never cradle to grave but they’re about a very specific moment,...

If the 2025 Oscars nominations were announced today, what would Gold Derby predict as the nominees and winners? Since our predictions center opened on July 1, 2024, more than 5,300 people have made their forecasts in 18 top categories. So who’s out front to claim these golden trophies, according to the Gold Derby Oscar predictions 2025?

Below, see a snapshot in time of our racetrack odds for the 97th Academy Awards, updated on November 4, 2024. See how the odds and rankings have changed over time by examining our previous Oscar snapshots on July 3, July 9, July 16, July 23, July 29, August 6, August 19, August 28, September 11, September 19, September 23, September 30, October 7, October 14, October 22, and October 28.

Now expected to receive a nomination since the last update: “Wicked” in Best Sound. It’s no doubt being buoyed by the positive reactions from those who saw early screenings of Universal’s film adaptation of the classic Broadway musical.

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The cinematic landscape of Hollywood is getting ready for not one but two biopics on music two legends: Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen. It is old news now that the latter would be led by The Bear actor Jeremy Allen White and is titled Deliver Me from Nowhere. The hype surrounding it is huge, and now with Timothée Chalamet at the forefront of A Complete Unknown, comparisons are inevitable.

Timothée Chalamet in the trailer of A Complete Unknown | Credits: Search Light Pictures

Even though Allen White and Chalamet have previously proven their versatility in the business, their next movie will see them vying for the title of outstanding biopic.

A Biopic Face-Off Between Jeremy Allen While and Timothée Chalamet Jeremy Allen White in The Bear | Credits: FX on Hulu

Time and again, Jeremy Allen White has proved his capacity as a remarkable actor. While many loved his role as a chef on The Bear,...

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As the AFI Fest concludes, Clint Eastwood’s taut courtroom thriller “Juror #2” saw better reviews than Bob Zemeckis’ Tom Hanks drama “Here.” Screen Talk co-host Ryan Lattanzio wrote a positive reaction but upon further refection, finds flaws, including the de-aging techniques used on Hanks and Robin Wright, the “Forrest Gump” costars. Anne Thompson wonders if Zemeckis’s obsession with technology has helped his filmmaking.

Eastwood’s movie is opening on just 50 screens nationwide, with no current plans to expand. Why is Warner Bros., his studio home for decades, which benefited from box office and Oscars from such films as “Unforgiven,” “Million Dollar Baby’ and “American Sniper,” treating the 94-year-old so badly? Because studio chief David Zaslav has lost the belief that a straight, no-frills drama like this can perform at the box office. Does a movie have to be an event now to lure audiences?...

Welcome to Oscar Experts Typing, a weekly column in which Gold Derby editors and experts Joyce Eng and Christopher Rosen discuss the Oscar race — via Slack, of course. This week, we revisit Best Picture, which is still without a clear-cut frontrunner.

Christopher Rosen: Hello, Joyce! We’ve circled our weekly column back around to the Best Picture race, and after five weeks, this field remains very much in flux — so much so that I don’t even know what film could stake claim to being this year’s “frontrunner.” Ok, that’s not totally true. In terms of the odds, “Anora” remains the pick du jour. But even the film’s biggest fan, aka me, would probably bet against “Anora” ultimately winning Best Picture next year. “Emilia Pérez,” my pick for Best Picture right now, is in second place in the odds — but that doesn’t feel right either. I...

Exclusive: Almost 25 years after Russell Crowe waged war on the Roman Empire — and won an Oscar for his trouble — in Gladiator, the actor is once again set to stir the warrior within for The Last Druid.

The movie will tell the story of a Roman Emperor who discovers a secluded Druid stronghold in the mountains of Caledonia. A peaceful Celtic elder (Crowe) must take up arms to protect his family and people from annihilation. Additional casting is underway.

Stuart Ford’s AGC is launching sales on the project for the AFM. Range Media Partners and CAA Media Finance arranged financing for the picture with Nostromo and are representing the U.S. rights.

Will Eubank (Underwater) is set to direct from a script he penned with Phil Gawthorne and Carlyle Eubank.

42’s Ben Pugh is producing alongside Range Media Partners’ Brian Kavanaugh-Jones and Fred Berger, with Adrián Guerra also producing for Nostromo.

“Anora,” a free-wheeling comedy about a sex worker who becomes entangled with the family of a Russian oligarch, led the Gotham Awards, picking up four nominations, including a nod for best feature.

“Nickel Boys,” the story of two African-American teens who are sent to an abusive reform school, and “I Saw the TV Glow,” a psychological horror film about high schoolers who begin to lose touch with reality, were close behind with three nods apiece.

“Nickel Boys” will vie for best feature alongside “Anora.” Other nominees for the top prize include the erotic drama “Babygirl,” the black comedy “A Different Man” and “Challengers,” a love triangle that unfolds against the backdrop of professional tennis. There were several notable omissions, with critically heralded films like “The Brutalist” and “Conclave” passed over for a best feature nomination. “The Brutalist” did earn two nominations for its star Adrien Brody and for the supporting turn of Guy Pearce.

Timothée Chalamet recreates one of Bob Dylan’s most famous songs and visuals with a version of “Subterranean Homesick Blues” for the upcoming biopic, A Complete Unknown.

Chalamet’s new recording of the 1965 classic is the fullest offering yet of the actor’s take on Dylan’s singular singing voice. The previously released trailer for a Complete Unknown just included snippets of his renditions of songs like “Girl from the North Country” and “Like a Rolling Stone.”

The visual, meanwhile, appears to incorporate some scenes from the upcoming biopic, plus some behind-the-scenes footage.

Searchlight Pictures released its latest marketing video for James Mangold’s upcoming Bob Dylan movie “A Complete Unknown,” again focusing on how star Timothee Chalamet mimics the legendary singer-songwriter in the forthcoming film.

In the new featurette, Chalamet as Dylan sings “Subterranean Homesick Blues” and partially recreates Dylan’s famous video for the song where he flips through placards emblazoned with the track’s lyrics.

Here’s the official synopsis for the film from Searchlight:

New York, early 1960s. Against the backdrop of a vibrant music scene and tumultuous cultural upheaval, an enigmatic 19-year-old from Minnesota arrives in the West Village with his guitar and revolutionary talent, destined to change the course of American music. As he forms his most intimate relationships during his rise to fame, he grows restless with the folk movement and, refusing to be defined, makes a controversial choice that culturally reverberates worldwide. Timothée Chalamet...

The real-life Timothée Chalamet — not to be confused with the countless doppelgängers who swarmed Washington Square Park this past weekend to compete in a lookalike contest — is set to portray Bob Dylan in the upcoming biopic A Complete Unknown. We’ve already seen the trailer for the film, which chronicles Dylan’s early years in New York City in the 1960s, but today Searchlight Pictures has offered a new teaser which recreates which offers an extended preview of Chalamet singing “Subterranean Homesick Blues.”

The clip, which can be seen below, also sees Chalamet recreate the cue card scene from the original video for “Subterranean Homesick Blues” as well as features behind-the-scene footage from the film.

Directed by James Mangold, A Complete Unknown is set to open in theaters on December 25th, 2024. Alongside Chalamet as Dylan, the film stars Edward Norton as Pete Seeger, Boyd Holbrook as Johnny Cash, Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez,...

The real-life Timothée Chalamet — not to be confused with the countless doppelgängers who swarmed Washington Square Park this past weekend to compete in a lookalike contest — is set to portray Bob Dylan in the upcoming biopic A Complete Unknown. We’ve already seen the trailer for the film, which chronicles Dylan’s early years in New York City in the 1960s, but today Searchlight Pictures has offered a new teaser which recreates which offers an extended preview of Chalamet singing “Subterranean Homesick Blues.”

The clip, which can be seen below, also sees Chalamet recreate the cue card scene from the original video for “Subterranean Homesick Blues” as well as features behind-the-scene footage from the film.

Directed by James Mangold, A Complete Unknown is set to open in theaters on December 25th, 2024. Alongside Chalamet as Dylan, the film stars Edward Norton as Pete Seeger, Boyd Holbrook as Johnny Cash, Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez,...

While the unrefined masses were out impersonating Timothée Chalamet, Chalamet himself was becoming possessed by the spirit of Bob Dylan. At least, that's what the marketing for James Mangold's Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown wants you to think, and frankly, it's not unconvincing. There's a passing physical resemblance between...

If the 2025 Oscars nominations were announced today, what would Gold Derby predict as the nominees and winners? Since our predictions center opened on July 1, 2024, more than 5,100 people have made their forecasts in 18 top categories. So who’s out front to claim these golden trophies, according to the Gold Derby Oscar predictions 2025?

Below, see a snapshot in time of our racetrack odds for the 97th Academy Awards, updated on October 28, 2024. See how the odds and rankings have changed over time by examining our previous Oscar snapshots on July 3, July 9, July 16, July 23, July 29, August 6, August 19, August 28, September 11, September 19, September 23, September 30, October 7, October 14, and October 22.

Now expected to receive a nomination since the last update: “A Real Pain” in Best Picture, “Challengers” in Best Score for Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, and “Sing Sing” (“Like a Bird”) in Best Song for Adrian Quesada & Abraham Alexander. Note that the music score for “Dune: Part Two” was deemed ineligible last week,...

Every now and then a man comes along who just captures the moment and becomes the It Guy. Right now, Timothée Chalamet is that guy, so much so that a lookalike contest was recently held in which the winner got $50 – do you know how many peaches that could buy?! Adding to the story, however, was that Timothée Chalamet himself turned up…looking the least like Timothée Chalamet out of anyone there.

Over the weekend, the Timothée Chalamet lookalike contest was held in New York City, bringing thousands into Washington Square Park to see who had the aura of the namesake celebrity. It seemed like everywhere you turned there was Willy Wonka and Paul Atreides and even just street clothes Chalamet. According to multiple sources, RSVP numbers were anywhere between 900 and 2,500. That’s an insane amount of people that look like – or were at least told they looked like – Timothée Chalamet.

Over the past couple of months, we’ve begun to see ads and trailers for James Mangold’s Bob Dylan biopic, “A Complete Unknown.” But that’s not the only biopic on the calendar to feature an iconic American musician. We also have “Deliver Me From Nowhere,” which focuses on New Jersey’s own Bruce Springsteen. And now we have our first look at Jeremy Allen White as the man himself.

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Much like the aforementioned “A Complete Unknown,” we have to reserve judgment on White’s resemblance to Bruce Springsteen until we see some actual footage from the film.

Continue reading ‘Deliver Me From Nowhere’: Here’s Your First Look At Jeremy Allen White As Springsteen In Upcoming Biopic at The Playlist.

Jeremy Allen White is Bruce Springsteen in a first-look image released by 20th Century Fox.

The Bear star features as The Boss in the upcoming biopic Deliver Me From Nowhere, directed by Scott Cooper (Crazy Hearts) and based on the 2023 book Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska by Warren Zanes. Long-time music manager of Springsteen Jon Landau will be portrayed by Succession and The Apprentice actor Jeremy Strong.

The photo released on Monday shows White in a leather jacket and flannel shirt.

Jeremy Allen White is Bruce Springsteen in #DeliverMeFromNowhere. Coming to theaters in 2025. pic.twitter.com/T5qG9SIvrc

— 20th Century Studios (@20thcentury) October 28, 2024

Deliver Me From Nowhere explores the making of Springsteen’s 1982 album Nebraska, which followed the singer-songwriter’s huge The River album. White recently told GQ: “I’m really lucky that there’s sort of a team of folks now...

Actor Timothée Chalamet made a surprise appearance at a fan event in New York City on Sunday. Over 2,700 people had RSVP’d for the Timothée Chalamet Look-Alike Contest held in Manhattan’s Madison Square Park.

Contest organizers expected hundreds of admirers to compete for a $50 prize by mimicking Chalamet’s acting roles and style.

The event took an unexpected turn when the real Chalamet showed up. Sporting a mustache and shorter hair for an upcoming film role, Chalamet greeted fans and interacted with some of the contestants. Videos posted on social media capture fans’ shock and excitement upon realizing the star had joined them.

the moment his look alike realized the actual timothee showed up is one for the books pic.twitter.com/fma1nRbavb

— industry s3 awards campaign manager...

Timothée Chalamet himself showed up at a Timothée Chalamet lookalike contest in Washington Square Park in New York City on Sunday afternoon, posing for photos with shocked doppelgängers and fans who had gathered to watch the competition.

The contest, which was promoted via street flyers and on the social media over the last few weeks, saw multiple Chalamet lookalikes compete for a grand prize of $50. The real-life Chalamet showed up about 30 minutes into the competition, initially sneaking through the crowd by concealing his face with a mask and baseball hat.

The NYPD eventually broke up the fun, dispersing the crowd and issuing a $500 fine to the event’s organizers for failing to secure a permit for the event. One of the contestants was also detained by police for an undisclosed reason. Despite the disruption, a Staten Island college student named Miles Mitchell was crowned the winner.

The real-life Chalamet can...

Timothée Chalamet was in good company during a visit with fans this weekend, where he was more than likely asked to call them by his name.

On Sunday, the Oscar nominee made a surprise appearance at New York City’s Madison Square Park, where hundreds of fans gathered to compete in a Timothée Chalamet lookalike contest.

In videos shared to social media, several doppelgängers posed for photos in the sea of people before the Dune star joined them, resulting in some genuinely shocked faces. A frenzy broke out as he hugged his admirers and posed with them.

Incidentally, Chalamet didn’t win the contest, arriving with a mustache and a shorter head of hair — after portraying Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown.

The contest took place after flyers popped up around the city with a Qr link to the event’s Partiful page and the offer of a $50 cash prize.

La leyenda musical cobra vida en la pantalla bajo la dirección de James Mangold. © 20th Century Studios

20th Century ha anunciado la fecha de estreno de la esperada A Complete Unknown, el biopic del legendario Bob Dylan.

A Complete Unknown está ambientada en la influyente escena musical de neoyorquina de principios de los años sesenta. Narra el meteórico ascenso del músico de Minnesota Bob Dylan, un cantante folk de 19 años, a las salas de conciertos y a la cima de las listas de éxitos. Sus canciones y su mística se convirtieron en un fenómeno mundial que culminó en 1995 con su rompedora actuación de rock eléctrico en el Newport Folk Festival.

Dirigida por James Mangold y con un guion del propio Mangold y Jay Cocks (Silencio), la película está protagonizada por Timothée Chalamet junto a Edward Norton, Elle Fanning, Mónica Barbaro (Top Gun: Maverick), Boyd Holbrook, Dan Fogler, Norbert Leo Buzt...

Nominations voting is from January 8-12, 2025, with official Oscar nominations announced January 17, 2025. Final voting is February 11-18, 2025. And finally, the 97th Oscars telecast will be broadcast on Sunday, March 2 and air live on ABC at 7 p.m. Et/ 4 p.m. Pt. We update our picks through awards season, so keep checking IndieWire for all our 2025 Oscar predictions.

The State of the Race

As we enter the fall/holiday season, “Wicked” (Universal) and “Gladiator II” (Paramount) are gathering early buzz for Best Costume Design. Other standouts include “Conclave” (Focus Features), “Emilia Pérez” (Netflix), “Blitz” (Apple TV+), and “Maria” (Netflix). Still to come are the highly anticipated “Nosferatu” (Focus Features), and “A Complete Unknown” (Searchlight Pictures). Also in the running, of course, is “Dune: Part Two” (Warner Bros.).

“Wicked,” Jon M. Chu’s adaptation of the Broadway musical fantasy by Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman, explores the teen friendship between the Wicked Witch...

Is the Netflix Oscar drought finally about to end?

The streamer has long been chasing the elusive Academy Award for best picture. After a series of near misses, 2024 might just be the year the streaming giant claims the coveted prize — thanks to Jacques Audiard’s critically lauded crime musical “Emilia Pérez.”

The Spanish-language drama premiered to fanfare at Cannes and has a star-studded cast, including Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez, Karla Sofía Gascón and Adriana Paz. The bold narrative, riveting performances and groundbreaking representation garnered critical acclaim, leading to a shared best actress prize for the four stars. Some pundits believe “Emilia” has the goods to go the way of Bong Joon Ho’s “Parasite,” which in 2020 became the first non-English-language film to win best picture. “Emilia” is also France’s submission for international feature, which further positions it as a viable Oscar darling.

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After a breakout role in 2022’s “Top Gun: Maverick,” Monica Barbaro‘s career is poised to soar even higher after her next starring role in “A Complete Unknown,” in theaters this December. So no wonder she joins one of Hollywood’s buzziest upcoming projects. Deadline reports that Barbaro is the latest to join Bart Layton‘s “Crime 101” at Amazon MGM.

Continue reading ‘Crime 101’: Monica Barbaro Joins Amazon MGM’s Buzzy Crime Thriller at The Playlist.

"It was important for me to sing and play on set because it was in the spirit of the movie to do it live." Searchlight Pictures has revealed a new behind-the-scenes featurette for the film A Complete Unknown, opening in theaters this December. We also featured the official trailer a few weeks ago as they begin their big marketing push for the release. The film is about the early days of maestro musician Bob Dylan's life. At the Newport Folk Festival in 1965, a young Bob Dylan shakes up his act on the folk music scene by going electric and siring rock as the voice of a generation - defining one of the most transformative moments in 20th century music. Timothée Chalamet stars as a young Bob Dylan in this film written and directed by James Mangold, coming off of his work on the Indiana Jones movie. It also stars Edward Norton as Pete Seeger,...

Timothée Chalamet looks and sounds eerily like the young Bob Dylan in “A Complete Unknown.” In this new featurette from Searchlight, he talks about taking on this demanding role, which required him to play the guitar and harmonica while singing such classic tunes as “Blowin’ in the Wind” and “Like a Rolling Stone.” As the Oscar nominee notes,”Bob wouldn’t let himself be boxed in, which for me as a young artist is the most inspiring.”

The film, which is out on Christmas Day, chronicles the rise to fame of Dylan. The Minnesota native was just 19 when he moved to New York’s Greenwich Village in 1961. He soon cracked the folk music scene and rocked his fans in 1965 with his electric rock and roll performance at the Newport Folk Festival.

“A Complete Unknown” director James Mangold weighs in on the decision to record all the musical performances in real-time.

It appears another “Star Wars” movie will get an official release date soon. World Of Reel reports (via Empire) that after the press tour for his upcoming Bob Dylan biopic “A Complete Unknown,” in theaters in December, James Mangold will turn his focus to “Dawn Of The Jedi.” And the “Star Wars” prequel could start shooting as early as next year.

Continue reading ‘Dawn Of The Jedi’: James Mangold Could Shoot His ‘Star Wars’ Movie As Soon As Next Year at The Playlist.

Filming for Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi will begin soon. The upcoming prequel, set earlier in the timeline than any other film in the franchise, will be directed by James Mangold, who co-wrote the script with Beau Willimon (known for Andor and House of Cards).

Mangold has been nominated for two Academy Awards: one for writing Logan (2017) and another as a producer on Ford v. Ferrari, which was nominated for Best Picture. His other notable works include The Wolverine and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.

According to Empire (via World of Reel and ScreenRant), Mangold mentioned in an interview for his Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown, starring Timothée Chalamet, that once that project wraps—already drawing Oscar buzz—he’ll begin shooting Dawn of the Jedi. Filming could potentially start by late 2025.

Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi takes place 25,000 years before A New Hope and...

‘Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi’ will begin filming soon. The upcoming ‘Dawn of the Jedi’, a prequel set earlier than any other movie in the series, will be directed by James Mangold. The script is co-written by Mangold and Beau Willimon (known for Andor and House of Cards).

Mangold has been nominated for two Oscars: one for writing the 2017 film ‘Logan’ and another as a producer on ‘Ford v. Ferrari’, which was up for Best Picture. Mangold has also directed ‘The Wolverine’ and ‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.’

According to Empire magazine (via World of Reel and ScreenRant), ‘Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi’ is set to start filming soon. In an interview promoting his new Bob Dylan biopic, ‘A Complete Unknown’, starring Timothée Chalamet, Mangold mentioned that after wrapping up work on that project, which is already getting Oscar attention, he will begin shooting the new Star Wars movie.

If the 2025 Oscars nominations were announced today, what would Gold Derby predict as the nominees and winners? Since our predictions center opened on July 1, 2024, more than 4,900 people have made their forecasts in the categories for picture, directing, acting, writing and animation (below-the-line categories were added in early October). So who’s out front to claim these golden trophies, according to the Gold Derby Oscar predictions 2025?

Below, see a snapshot in time of our racetrack odds for the 97th Academy Awards, updated on October 22, 2024. See how the odds and rankings have changed over time by examining our previous Oscar snapshots on July 3, July 9, July 16, July 23, July 29, August 6, August 19, August 28, September 11, September 19, September 23, September 30, October 7 and October 14.

Now expected to receive a nomination since the last update: “September 5,” the Paramount Pictures historical drama about the 1972 Munich Olympic hostage crisis, in Best Picture, plus Edward Berger in Best Director for “Conclave,” the Focus Features mystery-thriller film.

Adrien Brody and Nicole Kidman are back in the Oscars race this year with their respective films “The Brutalist” and “Babygirl” from A24, both already making the rounds in the awards contention with strong festival premieres. The stars are now looking to claim victory in their respective categories of Best Actor and Best Actress, and if that sounds familiar, it’s because they both won these same races 22 years ago for “The Pianist” and “The Hours.” Can they strike gold for the second time and become the first duo in Oscars history to win the lead categories twice in the same years?

The year of 2002 was considered one of the most unpredictable Oscar seasons in multiple main categories. Starting with Kidman and “The Hours,” the Stephen Daldry movie took home Golden Globe Awards for Best Drama Actress and Best Drama Motion Picture, along with writing accolades for David Hare at...

How do you even begin to prepare to play Bob Dylan? The folk musician who changed the entire scene is at the heart of James Mangold’s new film, A Complete Unknown – and for star Timothée Chalamet, the challenge was to find a way to make the real Dylan… well, known. First came a three-and-a-half year period of learning to play guitar, getting to grips with Dylan’s songs and unique vocal style. And from there, it was all about letting go and reaching for something real beyond just a surface impression.

“Bob has a very specific, soulful voice, but what most defines it is his negotiation with his own words and the way he tells the story,” Mangold tells Empire, digging into his and Chalamet’s approach to the icon. “That essence is what Timmy and I were after more than a specific mannerism or tic, per se.” The...

Exclusive: Netflix has acquired the spec script Out There, a high-concept sci-fi thriller in the vein of A Quite Place and Cloverfield. Netflix intends to make this one for a price, and it will mark the directorial debut of Stefan Grube, the veteran film editor. Script is by Shane Van Dyke, Carey Van Dyke and Ian Levy. The Van Dykes’ credits include Don’t Worry Darling and Levy produced Pay the Ghost.

The Picture Company partners Alex Heineman & Andrew Rona will produce along with Josie Liang of Space Bandit. Nick Meyer of Sierra Pictures will serve as executive producer.

Grube hails from the world of post-production, having collaborated with directors Dan Trachtenberg, Jason Reitman and JJ Abrams. His editing credits include films such as 10 Cloverfield Lane, Tully, The Front Runner, and Star Wars: Episode IX. He has also crafted some of the better trailers of the past decade.

The logline is currently under wraps,...

Nominations voting is from January 8-12, 2025, with official Oscar nominations announced January 17, 2025. Final voting is February 11-18, 2025. And finally, the 97th Oscars telecast will be broadcast on Sunday, March 2 and air live on ABC at 7 p.m. Et/ 4 p.m. Pt. We update our picks through awards season, so keep checking IndieWire for all our 2025 Oscar predictions.

The State of the Race

“The Brutalist” (A24), “Nickel Boys” (Amazon MGM), “Blitz”(Apple TV+), “Saturday Night” (Sony Pictures), “Conclave” (Focus Features), “Emilia Pérez” (Netflix), “Maria” (Netflix), “Queer” (A24), and “September 5” (Paramount) have all emerged from the fall festivals as Best Production Design Oscar contenders.

Other films still to come are “Gladiator II” (Paramount), “Wicked” (Universal), “Nosferatu” (Focus Features), and “A Complete Unknown” (Searchlight Pictures).

“Dune: Part Two” (Warner Bros.) was the early favorite for continuing Denis Villeneuve’s epic sci-fi trilogy with bigger and more lavish world-building, but watch out for the...

Welcome to Oscar Experts Typing, a weekly column in which Gold Derby editors and Experts Joyce Eng and Christopher Rosen discuss the Oscar race — via Slack, of course. This week, we discuss Best Supporting Actor, which ostensibly has one open slot.

Christopher Rosen: Hello, Joyce! The Mets are on the brink, the Yankees are hateful, and we’re here to type about Best Supporting Actor. This race has felt top heavy since the summer, when many had Samuel L. Jackson walking away with his first competitive Oscar for “The Piano Lesson.” That feels… unlikely now and it’s very easy to imagine Jackson missing out altogether. So what we’re left with is a group of newcomers to the Oscars stage, one massive movie star, and a couple of “Succession” Emmy winners. Let’s start there, with your favorite Roy son, Kieran Culkin. The actor’s work in “A Real Pain...

Adrien Brody won an Oscar at the 2003 ceremony for his performance in “The Pianist.” Despite his impressive career, that film has brought him his only nomination. Things could change in early 2025 now that his latest film “The Brutalist” has him competing for Best Actor. An Oscars victory would add him into an exclusive club that currently just has seven members: performers to win two Academy Awards for their only two nominations.

Our Gold Derby odds for Best Actor currently have Brody tied for second place with Colman Domingo (“Sing Sing”) at 9/2 odds. Ralph Fiennes (“Conclave”) is out front in first place at 4/1 odds. We then have Timothee Chalamet (“A Complete Unknown”) at 6/1, Daniel Craig (“Queer”) at 21/2, Sebastian Stan (“The Apprentice”) at 16/1, and John David Washington (“The Piano Lesson”) at 30/1.

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Is there room at the best picture table for more than one “part two?”

This year, several installments in established franchises are banging on the Academy’s door, hoping for a coveted slot in the category. With no clear frontrunner, this could be the season that more than one sequel secures a place in the race. That has happened only once, in 2022 (“Avatar: The Way of Water” and “Top Gun: Maverick”).

The Oscars have long hesitated to embrace anything with a Roman numeral affixed to it. Historically, only nine sequels have been nominated for best picture: “The Bells of St. Mary’s” (1945), “The Godfather Part II” (1974), “The Godfather Part III” (1990), “The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers” (2002), “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” (2003), “Toy Story 3” (2010), “Mad Max: Fury Road” (2015), “Avatar: The Way of Water” (2022) and “Top Gun: Maverick” (2022). Just two — “Godfather 2” and “Return of the King” — won.

The motion picture academy made it a little easier in 2021 to predict the winners by combining Best Sound Mixing and Best Sound Editing into one category: Best Sound. Both sound mixers and sound editors are recognized in the combined category. Up to six statuettes will be awarded to one production sound mixer, two supervising sound editors and three re-recording mixers. The inaugural winner of Best Sound was, appropriately enough “Sound of Metal.” In 2022 this prize went to “Dune” while “Top Gun: Maverick” won in 2023. The reigning champ is “The Zone of Interest.” (Scroll down for the most up-to-date 2025 Oscar predictions for Best Sound.)

The sound branch determines the nominees in two stages. First, members of the branch cast preferential ballots with the top 10 vote-getters, announced on December 17, moving on to the second stage. Members who attend screenings of excerpts from these 10 semi-finalists or attest that they have seen them cast...

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I’m back! Well, not quite but working towards it. We're going to do an 80s theme in early November, okay? But let’s start with a question and a list to prove that I have actually been watching movies (and am alive) though I’ve rarely been writing and miss it terribly.

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The greatest of all movie genres is always threatened with extinction but it's also resilient and still with us almost a century after its debut. The year isn't over so the initial bolded question is premature. Mean Girls was a dud early in the year and the highly anticipated Joker Folie A Deux is currently flopping which serves it right for sidelining Lady Gaga (of all people) and being so uncomfortable about calling itself a musical. But we've...

Nominations voting is from January 8-12, 2025, with official Oscar nominations announced January 17, 2025. Final voting is February 11-18, 2025. And finally, the 97th Oscars telecast will be broadcast on Sunday, March 2, and air live on ABC at 7 p.m. Et/ 4 p.m. Pt. We update our picks throughout awards season, so keep checking IndieWire for all our 2025 Oscar predictions.

The State of the Race

“Anora” (Neon), “The Brutalist” (A24), “Nickel Boys” (Amazon MGM), “Emilia Pérez” (Netflix), “Maria” (Netflix), “The Fire Inside” (Amazon MGM), “Blitz” ( (Apple TV+), and “September 5” (Paramount) have all emerged from the fall festivals as Best Cinematography Oscar contenders. For those keeping track, “Anora,” “The Brutalist,” and “Maria” were all shot on Kodak film.

Other films still to come include “Gladiator II” (Paramount), “Wicked” (Universal), “Nosferatu”, and “A Complete Unknown” (Searchlight Pictures).

Prior to the fall festivals, “Dune: Part Two” (Warner Bros.) emerged as the early favorite, joined by such...

Searchlight Pictures would love to work with Emerald Fennell on a future project. But times are tough, even for a distributor owned by Disney (and even with its former boss running the whole operation), and Searchlight gets consistently “priced out” by the deep pocketed streamers.

Katie Goodson-Thomas, the head of international production and development for Searchlight in the UK, was blunt about her specialized-distribution business and the larger competitive marketplace.

“We can’t be competitive with Netflix. It’s just not going to happen…or Apple or Amazon,” she said in a panel discussion at the BFI London Film Festival (via THR).

Goodson-Thomas mentioned Fennell as an example of how Searchlight gets beat out by the streamers and how that “happens on a daily basis — it really does.” The “Saltburn” director is next making an adaptation of “Wuthering Heights” for MRC that will star Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi. Technically...

A slew of Oscar hopefuls has already been released in theaters. Among these are two leading Best Picture contenders — “Dune: Part 2” and “Sing Sing,” which came out in March and July respectively. However, their main competition at the Academy Awards has yet to screen for the public. Scroll down to find out the release dates for the rest of the Oscars contenders.

Many of these movies have played the festival circuit and built up buzz in advance of their commercial releases. Eight of our predicted top 10 Best Picture nominees will be released between now and the end of the year.

Oscar nomination voting runs from Jan. 8 to Jan. 12 with the slate of finalists revealed on Jan. 17. Final voting is from Feb. 11 to Feb. 18 and the 2025 Oscars take place on March 2.

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A crucial change in Gold Derby’s Oscar odds for Best Actor now has Ralph Fiennes saying, “Amen.” The “Conclave” star has officially broken his tie with Colman Domingo (“Sing Sing”) at the upcoming 2025 Oscars. Fiennes now has leading 4/1 odds to win the trophy, compared to Domingo’s second-place odds of 9/2. It goes without saying that it’s still quite early in this awards season, and things will undoubtedly keep changing as our Experts, Editors and Users continue to update their predictions.

Fiennes plays Cardinal Thomas Lawrence in the Focus Features mystery-thriller from director Edward Berger. Following the death of the Pope, Lawrence is tasked with overseeing the election of the successor, but he soon realizes many of the candidates have personal scandals that could upend the church. Fellow cast members include Stanley Tucci as Cardinal Bellini, John Lithgow as Cardinal Tremblay, Sergio Castellitto as Cardinal Tedesco and Isabella Rossellini as Sister Agnes.

If the 2025 Oscars nominations were announced today, what would Gold Derby predict as the nominees and winners? Since our predictions center opened on July 1, 2024, more than 4,700 people have made their forecasts in the categories for picture, directing, acting, writing and animation (below-the-line categories were added in early October). So who’s out front to claim these golden trophies, according to the Gold Derby Oscar predictions 2025?

Below, see a snapshot in time of our racetrack odds for the 97th Academy Awards, updated on October 14, 2024. See how the odds and rankings have changed over time by examining our previous Oscar snapshots on July 3, July 9, July 16, July 23, July 29, August 6, August 19, August 28, September 11, September 19, September 23, September 30 and October 7.

Now expected to receive a nomination since the last update: Saoirse Ronan in Best Supporting Actress for playing Rita in Steve McQueen‘s historical war drama film “Blitz.” She’s also expected to be nominated in Best Actress for “The Outrun.

La leyenda musical cobra vida en la pantalla bajo la dirección de James Mangold. © 20th Century Studios

Se ha publicado un nuevo tráiler de A Complete Unknown, el biopic del legendario Bob Dylan.

A Complete Unknown está ambientada en la influyente escena musical de neoyorquina de principios de los años sesenta. Narra el meteórico ascenso del músico de Minnesota Bob Dylan, un cantante folk de 19 años, a las salas de conciertos y a la cima de las listas de éxitos. Sus canciones y su mística se convirtieron en un fenómeno mundial que culminó en 1995 con su rompedora actuación de rock eléctrico en el Newport Folk Festival.

Dirigida por James Mangold y con un guion del propio Mangold y Jay Cocks (Silencio), la película está protagonizada por Timothée Chalamet junto a Edward Norton, Elle Fanning, Mónica Barbaro (Top Gun: Maverick), Boyd Holbrook, Dan Fogler, Norbert Leo Buzt (Como la vida misma) y Scoot McNairy.