Sandra Hüller, the Oscar-nominated actor of “Anatomy of a Fall,” and four-time Academy Award nominee Willem Dafoe (“At Eternity’s Gate”) are set to co-star in Kent Jones’ “Late Fame,” reteaming “May December” co-screenwriter Samy Burch and producer Killer Films.
One of the hottest packages set for a Cannes Launch, “Late Fame” has been boarded by MK2 Films which is hot off an Oscar win for “Anatomy of a Fall” and will represent worldwide sales outside of North America. WME Independent, UTA Independent Film Group and Cinetic Media will co-represent North American rights. Pamela Koffler and Christine Vachon will serve as producers for Killer Films (“Past Lives,” “May December”). The film will start shooting in NYC in the fall.
“Late Fame” “tells the story of Ed Saxberger (Dafoe), who wrote a book of poetry a long time ago that no one ever cared about. When a group of young artists rediscover his work,...
One of the hottest packages set for a Cannes Launch, “Late Fame” has been boarded by MK2 Films which is hot off an Oscar win for “Anatomy of a Fall” and will represent worldwide sales outside of North America. WME Independent, UTA Independent Film Group and Cinetic Media will co-represent North American rights. Pamela Koffler and Christine Vachon will serve as producers for Killer Films (“Past Lives,” “May December”). The film will start shooting in NYC in the fall.
“Late Fame” “tells the story of Ed Saxberger (Dafoe), who wrote a book of poetry a long time ago that no one ever cared about. When a group of young artists rediscover his work,...
- 5/6/2024
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
A French collective representing the interests of French film festival workers has called for a general strike of “all employees of the Cannes Film Festival and of its sidebars.”
The Sous les écrans la dèche (Broke Behind the Screens) collective made the call in a public statement Monday.
The group has long been sounding the alarm about the precarious nature of film festival work, which typically involves short-term freelance contracts. But unlike other so-called intermediate workers in the entertainment industry, many festival workers are not covered by France’s unemployment insurance program, meaning they do not qualify for unemployment benefits in between jobs or projects.
The Sous les écrans noted that the latest set of benefit reforms, set to go through July 1, will further tighten the rules for employees.
“These reforms are throwing festival workers in such precariousness that the majority of us will have to give up our jobs,...
The Sous les écrans la dèche (Broke Behind the Screens) collective made the call in a public statement Monday.
The group has long been sounding the alarm about the precarious nature of film festival work, which typically involves short-term freelance contracts. But unlike other so-called intermediate workers in the entertainment industry, many festival workers are not covered by France’s unemployment insurance program, meaning they do not qualify for unemployment benefits in between jobs or projects.
The Sous les écrans noted that the latest set of benefit reforms, set to go through July 1, will further tighten the rules for employees.
“These reforms are throwing festival workers in such precariousness that the majority of us will have to give up our jobs,...
- 5/6/2024
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Matteo Garrone’s Oscar-nominated drama “Io Capitano,” about the odyssey of two young African men who decide to leave Dakar to reach Europe, and Paola Cortellesi’s feminist dramedy “There’s Still Tomorrow” were both the big winners at Italy’s 69th David di Donatello Awards.
“Io Capitano” won Davids for best picture, director, producers, editor, and cinematographer, among other prizes, while “Still Tomorrow,” which is about the plight of an abused housewife in post-war Rome and had 19 nominations scored six statuettes, including best directorial debut, actress, non supporting actress, screenplay, and audience award.
“Still Tomorrow,” which marks the directorial debut of popular Italian actor Paola Cortellesi, who also stars, is shot in black-and-white and riffs on Italy’s neorealist past, albeit with a contemporary female empowerment angle.
“I made this debut at the brink of menopause,” Cortellesi, who is 50, said while accepting the statuette for best debuting director. “I hope...
“Io Capitano” won Davids for best picture, director, producers, editor, and cinematographer, among other prizes, while “Still Tomorrow,” which is about the plight of an abused housewife in post-war Rome and had 19 nominations scored six statuettes, including best directorial debut, actress, non supporting actress, screenplay, and audience award.
“Still Tomorrow,” which marks the directorial debut of popular Italian actor Paola Cortellesi, who also stars, is shot in black-and-white and riffs on Italy’s neorealist past, albeit with a contemporary female empowerment angle.
“I made this debut at the brink of menopause,” Cortellesi, who is 50, said while accepting the statuette for best debuting director. “I hope...
- 5/3/2024
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Matteo Garrone’s refugee drama Io Capitano, an Oscar nominee this year for Italy in the best international feature category, was the big winner of this year’s 2024 David Di Donatello Awards, Italy’s equivalent to the Oscars, winning best film and director for Garrone.
Io Capitano also picked up prizes for best cinematography, editing, sound, and visual effects.
Paola Cortellesi’s There’s Still Tomorrow, a black-and-white feminist dramedy that became the top-grossing film in Italy last year, won Cortellesi the Donatello honors for best actress, directorial debut, and original script for the screenplay she co-wrote with Furio Andreotti and Giulia Calenda.
“I want to thank those who gave me the opportunity to write this role as I wanted it,” she said, accepting her actress honor.
Cortellesi’s film, a dramedy about an abused woman in post-wwii Rome that manages to combine serious social drama with situational comedy, sight gags and even a musical number,...
Io Capitano also picked up prizes for best cinematography, editing, sound, and visual effects.
Paola Cortellesi’s There’s Still Tomorrow, a black-and-white feminist dramedy that became the top-grossing film in Italy last year, won Cortellesi the Donatello honors for best actress, directorial debut, and original script for the screenplay she co-wrote with Furio Andreotti and Giulia Calenda.
“I want to thank those who gave me the opportunity to write this role as I wanted it,” she said, accepting her actress honor.
Cortellesi’s film, a dramedy about an abused woman in post-wwii Rome that manages to combine serious social drama with situational comedy, sight gags and even a musical number,...
- 5/3/2024
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
FilmNation and Charades are teaming up to present “Alpha,” the new film from Julia Ducournau, to buyers at Cannes.
It’s the same place where Ducournau caused a sensation with 2021’s “Titane,” her subversive and divisive body horror film, which won the Palme d’Or, the festival’s top award. Ducournau became the second female director to win the award, following Jane Campion (“The Piano”). “Anatomy of a Fall” director Justine Triet would become the third female winner in 2023. Ducournau’s other films include 2016’s “Raw,” a coming-of-age film about a young vegetarian who develops a taste for cannibalism.
“Alpha’s” cast includes Golshifteh Farahani, who appeared in “The Patience Stone” and “Paterson,” as well as César award-winning Tahar Rahim, best known for his work in “The Mauritanian,” “A Prophet” and “The Serpent.”
“‘Alpha’ is Julia’s most personal, profound work yet, and we are looking forward to a global...
It’s the same place where Ducournau caused a sensation with 2021’s “Titane,” her subversive and divisive body horror film, which won the Palme d’Or, the festival’s top award. Ducournau became the second female director to win the award, following Jane Campion (“The Piano”). “Anatomy of a Fall” director Justine Triet would become the third female winner in 2023. Ducournau’s other films include 2016’s “Raw,” a coming-of-age film about a young vegetarian who develops a taste for cannibalism.
“Alpha’s” cast includes Golshifteh Farahani, who appeared in “The Patience Stone” and “Paterson,” as well as César award-winning Tahar Rahim, best known for his work in “The Mauritanian,” “A Prophet” and “The Serpent.”
“‘Alpha’ is Julia’s most personal, profound work yet, and we are looking forward to a global...
- 5/3/2024
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: The Cannes Film Festival is well known as a place of protest and this year will be no different. However, this edition, the rebellion is coming from within.
We can reveal that up to 200 French film festival workers — a combination of Cannes workers and workers from other festivals across France — are planning protests during the event over pay.
The protests are being led by the group known as Sous Les Écrans La Dèche: Collectif Des Précaires Des Festivals De Cinéma. The name is a reference to the famous slogan of the May ‘68 protests: “Sous les pavés, la plage”.
The progressive union launched in March 2020 and features workers from across different Cannes sections, including those who work on the Official Selection, the festival’s Marché du Film and parallel...
We can reveal that up to 200 French film festival workers — a combination of Cannes workers and workers from other festivals across France — are planning protests during the event over pay.
The protests are being led by the group known as Sous Les Écrans La Dèche: Collectif Des Précaires Des Festivals De Cinéma. The name is a reference to the famous slogan of the May ‘68 protests: “Sous les pavés, la plage”.
The progressive union launched in March 2020 and features workers from across different Cannes sections, including those who work on the Official Selection, the festival’s Marché du Film and parallel...
- 5/1/2024
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Dang, the New York Film Critics Circle is getting old. The group’s 90th-annual ceremony is promising to be a toast each and every one of those nine decades come 2025.
The NYFCC will ring in its 90th anniversary with a Gala Awards dinner on Wednesday, January 8, 2025 at Tao Downtown. IndieWire can confirm that a special anniversary program is in the works to celebrate this historic milestone for the NYFCC.
“This has already been an exciting time for moviegoing, and I can’t wait to see what the rest of 2024 holds before our 90th anniversary dinner,” NYFCC Chair David Sims said. “NYFCC has always been there to recognize and celebrate the best in cinema, and we’ll be sure to put on an especially fun show next January.”
Sims will serve as the 2024 Chair of the NYFCC, Stephen Garrett will continue as the group’s General Manager. IndieWire’s own Kate Erbland...
The NYFCC will ring in its 90th anniversary with a Gala Awards dinner on Wednesday, January 8, 2025 at Tao Downtown. IndieWire can confirm that a special anniversary program is in the works to celebrate this historic milestone for the NYFCC.
“This has already been an exciting time for moviegoing, and I can’t wait to see what the rest of 2024 holds before our 90th anniversary dinner,” NYFCC Chair David Sims said. “NYFCC has always been there to recognize and celebrate the best in cinema, and we’ll be sure to put on an especially fun show next January.”
Sims will serve as the 2024 Chair of the NYFCC, Stephen Garrett will continue as the group’s General Manager. IndieWire’s own Kate Erbland...
- 4/30/2024
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Last year, the whole world was amazed by the storyline of Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall, a legal drama about a writer trying to prove innocence in her husband's death. It demonstrated the potential toxicity of not only the failed relationship, but the world around us, when people get blamed for crimes even when there’s not enough proof.
There is a 2019 movie of the same genre, telling a similar story, but on much a larger scale. Its plot revolves around Robert Bilott, the real-life environmental attorney, known for the lawsuits against the chemical company DuPont after they contaminated the whole town in West Virginia with unregulated chemicals.
This premise seems to be boring enough to put you asleep with a bunch of pretentious speeches about the need to defend our ecology. However, this drama is not only going to keep you awake, but closely follow the DuPont case.
There is a 2019 movie of the same genre, telling a similar story, but on much a larger scale. Its plot revolves around Robert Bilott, the real-life environmental attorney, known for the lawsuits against the chemical company DuPont after they contaminated the whole town in West Virginia with unregulated chemicals.
This premise seems to be boring enough to put you asleep with a bunch of pretentious speeches about the need to defend our ecology. However, this drama is not only going to keep you awake, but closely follow the DuPont case.
- 4/30/2024
- by info@startefacts.com (Ava Raxa)
- STartefacts.com
The 2024 Cannes Film Festival has announced its all-star lineup of jurors to decide this year’s Palme d’Or.
As previously announced, “Barbie” director Greta Gerwig will serve as jury president. Fellow recent Oscar nominee Lily Gladstone is part of the jury, as well as writer/director J.A. Bayona, Eva Green, Omar Sy, Pierfrancisco Favino, director Kore-eda Hirokazu, screenwriter Nadine Labaki, and screenwriter and photographer Ebru Ceylan.
The 2024 Cannes Film Festival will take place May 14-25. The jury will have the honor of awarding the Palme d’Or to one of the 22 films in competition, with contenders including Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis,” Sean Baker’s “Anora,” David Cronenberg’s “The Shrouds,” Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Kinds of Kindness,” and Paul Schrader’s “Oh, Canada.”
New films from Paolo Sorrentino (“Parthenope”), Mohammad Rasoulof (“The Seed of the Sacred Fig”), Karim Aïnouz (“Motel Destino”), and Andrea Arnold (“Bird”) are also debuting in competition.
As previously announced, “Barbie” director Greta Gerwig will serve as jury president. Fellow recent Oscar nominee Lily Gladstone is part of the jury, as well as writer/director J.A. Bayona, Eva Green, Omar Sy, Pierfrancisco Favino, director Kore-eda Hirokazu, screenwriter Nadine Labaki, and screenwriter and photographer Ebru Ceylan.
The 2024 Cannes Film Festival will take place May 14-25. The jury will have the honor of awarding the Palme d’Or to one of the 22 films in competition, with contenders including Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis,” Sean Baker’s “Anora,” David Cronenberg’s “The Shrouds,” Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Kinds of Kindness,” and Paul Schrader’s “Oh, Canada.”
New films from Paolo Sorrentino (“Parthenope”), Mohammad Rasoulof (“The Seed of the Sacred Fig”), Karim Aïnouz (“Motel Destino”), and Andrea Arnold (“Bird”) are also debuting in competition.
- 4/29/2024
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
From top left: Omar Sy; Lily Gladstone; Juan Antonia Bayona; Nadine Labaki; Greta Gerwig; Ebru Celan; Hirokazu Kore-ada; Eva Green; and Pierfrancesco Favino (Pablo Arroyo). Photo: Courtesy of Cannes Film Festival; Selly Sy, Lindsay Siu, Germán Romani, Jihad Hojelli, Ben Rayner, Nuri Bige Celan, Mikiya Takimoto, Xavier Torres-Bacchetta, Pablo Arroyo As pre-Cannes anticipation goes in to overdrive, the organisers have announced the full Competition jury under the already announced presidency of Greta Gerwig whose Barbie made her the first director in the history of cinema to top the billion-dollar mark at the box office.
Besides other prizes the jury’s most onerous task is to bestow the Palme d’Or which last year went to Justine Triet’s Anatomy Of A Fall.
Oscar nominee Lily Gladstone who was in Cannes last year for Killers Of The Flower Moon steps on to the jury roster alongside French actress Eva Green (from...
Besides other prizes the jury’s most onerous task is to bestow the Palme d’Or which last year went to Justine Triet’s Anatomy Of A Fall.
Oscar nominee Lily Gladstone who was in Cannes last year for Killers Of The Flower Moon steps on to the jury roster alongside French actress Eva Green (from...
- 4/29/2024
- by Richard Mowe
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Cannes is going to the dogs.
Messi, the breakout dog star of “Anatomy of a Fall,” is getting his own short program that will during the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, producer D18 Paris announced. It will be set at the festival, but not part of the festival lineup. But hey, we say give him the the Palme d’Or too — though he’d probably settle for a Milk-Bone.
The program will allow viewers to experience the Cannes Film Festival from dawn until late night “through the eyes and the voice of Messi,” D18, which referred to the pooch as “the canine George Clooney,” said in a press release. In our book, that’s high praise for George Clooney.
“This will be an opportunity for Messi to ask his guest any questions with the innocence of a dog,” it continued. “When you’re the current international star, you can do anything… and...
Messi, the breakout dog star of “Anatomy of a Fall,” is getting his own short program that will during the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, producer D18 Paris announced. It will be set at the festival, but not part of the festival lineup. But hey, we say give him the the Palme d’Or too — though he’d probably settle for a Milk-Bone.
The program will allow viewers to experience the Cannes Film Festival from dawn until late night “through the eyes and the voice of Messi,” D18, which referred to the pooch as “the canine George Clooney,” said in a press release. In our book, that’s high praise for George Clooney.
“This will be an opportunity for Messi to ask his guest any questions with the innocence of a dog,” it continued. “When you’re the current international star, you can do anything… and...
- 4/26/2024
- by Tony Maglio
- Indiewire
One part of the Megalopolis distribution puzzle could be close to falling into place in France.
The country’s Le Point magazine reported on Tuesday that Paris-based distributor Le Pacte had acquired French rights for Francis Ford Coppola’s $120M self-financed epic ahead of its world premiere in Competition at Cannes.
Contacted by Deadline, Le Pacte CEO Jean Labadie played down the reports but did not deny talks, saying: “We don’t have the film yet. Nothing is signed.”
Deadline has also reached out to Coppola and his reps.
Speculation around French release plans for Megalopolis had been brewing ever since its Cannes Competition slot was announced by Delegate General Thierry Frémaux at the festival’s press conference on April 11.
Under Cannes regulations, films selected for Competition must release theatrically in France and cannot debut first on a streamer in the country.
This stipulation is thorny because France’s strict...
The country’s Le Point magazine reported on Tuesday that Paris-based distributor Le Pacte had acquired French rights for Francis Ford Coppola’s $120M self-financed epic ahead of its world premiere in Competition at Cannes.
Contacted by Deadline, Le Pacte CEO Jean Labadie played down the reports but did not deny talks, saying: “We don’t have the film yet. Nothing is signed.”
Deadline has also reached out to Coppola and his reps.
Speculation around French release plans for Megalopolis had been brewing ever since its Cannes Competition slot was announced by Delegate General Thierry Frémaux at the festival’s press conference on April 11.
Under Cannes regulations, films selected for Competition must release theatrically in France and cannot debut first on a streamer in the country.
This stipulation is thorny because France’s strict...
- 4/23/2024
- by Melanie Goodfellow and Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
In the run-up to its world premiere in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, Francis Ford Coppola’s 135-minute epic “Megalopolis” is on track to sell to a French distributor, Le Pacte.
The indie company, presided over by veteran French distributor Jean Labadie, is currently negotiating a deal. It seems like an odd match for such a pricey movie considering Le Pacte’s fairly modest size. Although the company has had recent hits, including Justine Triet’s “Anatomy of a Fall” and Maiwenn’s “Jeanne du Barry,” it may not be able to splurge on P&a. Coppola’s lawyer Barry Hirsch, who also served as a producer, has been courting studios and streamers to secure a splashy deal with a P&a commitment amounting to more than half of the film’s $120 budget, according to industry insiders. The pending deal with Le Pacte suggests that the film, which Coppola self-financed, might...
The indie company, presided over by veteran French distributor Jean Labadie, is currently negotiating a deal. It seems like an odd match for such a pricey movie considering Le Pacte’s fairly modest size. Although the company has had recent hits, including Justine Triet’s “Anatomy of a Fall” and Maiwenn’s “Jeanne du Barry,” it may not be able to splurge on P&a. Coppola’s lawyer Barry Hirsch, who also served as a producer, has been courting studios and streamers to secure a splashy deal with a P&a commitment amounting to more than half of the film’s $120 budget, according to industry insiders. The pending deal with Le Pacte suggests that the film, which Coppola self-financed, might...
- 4/23/2024
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Updated On April 22, 2024: With the addition of two new films to this year’s competition section, both directed by men, this year’s competition slate now includes 21 films, only four of which are directed by women. That tallies to just 19 percent of this year’s competition titles being helmed by women.
Our original story from April 11, 2024 follows.
Hot off last year’s record-breaking competition lineup — including seven films directed by women, plus an eventual Palme d’Or win for Justine Triet (only the third woman to win the festival’s top prize) — this year’s Cannes Film Festival has returned to old habits. The 77th edition will include (as of today’s announcement) just four films directed by women in the competition section, bringing representation down to 2021 levels (and returning the festival’s female-directed entries to a number that was only hit in 2011).
Among the competition titles announced today:...
Our original story from April 11, 2024 follows.
Hot off last year’s record-breaking competition lineup — including seven films directed by women, plus an eventual Palme d’Or win for Justine Triet (only the third woman to win the festival’s top prize) — this year’s Cannes Film Festival has returned to old habits. The 77th edition will include (as of today’s announcement) just four films directed by women in the competition section, bringing representation down to 2021 levels (and returning the festival’s female-directed entries to a number that was only hit in 2011).
Among the competition titles announced today:...
- 4/22/2024
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Christopher Abbott is returning to his indie roots and reuniting with his 2015 filmmaking collaborator Josh Mond for upcoming feature “It Doesn’t Matter.”
Abbott, who recently appeared in “Poor Things” and is set to lead Universal’s “Wolfman,” stars opposite Jay Will in the dramedy revolving around the redemptive relationship between a lost man from Staten Island and a young filmmaker.
“It Doesn’t Matter” premieres at the Acid programming section, run by France’s Association for the Diffusion of Independent Cinema (Acid) and takes place parallel to the Cannes Film Festival. “It Doesn’t Matter” is writer/director Mond’s first movie since his breakout Sundance 2015 directorial debut “James White,” which also starred Abbott.
In addition to directing, Mond previously produced Sean Durkin’s “Martha Marcy May Marlene” and Antonio Campos’ “Simon Killer.” “It Doesn’t Matter” is his sophomore film.
Mond teased “It Doesn’t Matter” to IndieWire in 2015, saying that while the...
Abbott, who recently appeared in “Poor Things” and is set to lead Universal’s “Wolfman,” stars opposite Jay Will in the dramedy revolving around the redemptive relationship between a lost man from Staten Island and a young filmmaker.
“It Doesn’t Matter” premieres at the Acid programming section, run by France’s Association for the Diffusion of Independent Cinema (Acid) and takes place parallel to the Cannes Film Festival. “It Doesn’t Matter” is writer/director Mond’s first movie since his breakout Sundance 2015 directorial debut “James White,” which also starred Abbott.
In addition to directing, Mond previously produced Sean Durkin’s “Martha Marcy May Marlene” and Antonio Campos’ “Simon Killer.” “It Doesn’t Matter” is his sophomore film.
Mond teased “It Doesn’t Matter” to IndieWire in 2015, saying that while the...
- 4/16/2024
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Clockwise from top left: The Taste Of Things, Asteroid City, Fallen Leaves and Four Daughters With much of the Cannes programme now announced for 2024, including heavy hitters Francis Ford Coppola, Andrea Arnold and David Cronenberg, we're taking a look back at last year's Class of Cannes 2023 for our Streaming Spotlight last week - which ended up being a bumper year in terms of dominating the following awards season. This year's Cannes runs from May 14 to 25 and you can read all our coverage as it comes in here.
Anatomy Of A Fall, free to stream with Amazon Prime
Justine Triet's slowburn courtroom drama - written with her partner - Arthur Harari won the top prize Palme d'Or before heading on a statuette-winning spree around the awards circuit, culminating in an Oscar for Best Screenplay. Sandra Hüller could also easily have won for her performance as writer Sandra Voyter, who stands...
Anatomy Of A Fall, free to stream with Amazon Prime
Justine Triet's slowburn courtroom drama - written with her partner - Arthur Harari won the top prize Palme d'Or before heading on a statuette-winning spree around the awards circuit, culminating in an Oscar for Best Screenplay. Sandra Hüller could also easily have won for her performance as writer Sandra Voyter, who stands...
- 4/16/2024
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Cannes parallel section Acid, run by France’s Association for the Diffusion of Independent Cinema (Acid), has unveiled its 2024 line-up. (scroll down for full list)
This year’s selection world premieres nine features, three of which are documentaries.
They include It Doesn’t Matter, the second feature by U.S. producer and director Josh Mond, who made waves with his first movie James White at Sundance in 2015, and has since focused mainly on producing.
Christopher Abbott and Jay Will star in the drama revolving around the redemptive relationship between a lost man from Staten Island and a young filmmaker.
Launched in 1992, Acid previously showcased the early features of the likes of Oscar winner Justine Triet and Oscar-nominated director Kaouther Ben Hania as well as award winning filmmakers Radu Jude, Guy Maddin and Robert Guediguian.
Cannes 2023 Palme d’Or winner Triet’s first feature Age of Panic (La Bataille de Solférino...
This year’s selection world premieres nine features, three of which are documentaries.
They include It Doesn’t Matter, the second feature by U.S. producer and director Josh Mond, who made waves with his first movie James White at Sundance in 2015, and has since focused mainly on producing.
Christopher Abbott and Jay Will star in the drama revolving around the redemptive relationship between a lost man from Staten Island and a young filmmaker.
Launched in 1992, Acid previously showcased the early features of the likes of Oscar winner Justine Triet and Oscar-nominated director Kaouther Ben Hania as well as award winning filmmakers Radu Jude, Guy Maddin and Robert Guediguian.
Cannes 2023 Palme d’Or winner Triet’s first feature Age of Panic (La Bataille de Solférino...
- 4/16/2024
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
The Cannes Critics’ Week, the parallel film festival sidebar organized by the French film critics’ union, has unveiled its 2024 selection.
The psychological thriller Ghost Trail, the first feature from acclaimed French shorts director Jonathan Millet, will open the 2024 sidebar. Adam Bessa (star of 2022’s Un Certain Regard winner Harka) plays the lead in the manhunt drama about a man pursuing his former torturer, using only his sensory memories to guide him.
The competition lineup includes Brazilian drama Baby from director Marcelo Caetano, a portrait of a young outsider growing up in São Paulo; Constance Tsang’s Blue Sun Palace, which looks at the lives of Chinese immigrants in Queens; and the Egyptian/French/Danish/Qatari/Saudi Arabian drama The Brink of Dreams about a group of girls from the disenfranchised Christian Copts who defy tradition and set up an all-female street theater troupe.
Baby
Other competition titles include Antoine Chevrollier’s Block Pass,...
The psychological thriller Ghost Trail, the first feature from acclaimed French shorts director Jonathan Millet, will open the 2024 sidebar. Adam Bessa (star of 2022’s Un Certain Regard winner Harka) plays the lead in the manhunt drama about a man pursuing his former torturer, using only his sensory memories to guide him.
The competition lineup includes Brazilian drama Baby from director Marcelo Caetano, a portrait of a young outsider growing up in São Paulo; Constance Tsang’s Blue Sun Palace, which looks at the lives of Chinese immigrants in Queens; and the Egyptian/French/Danish/Qatari/Saudi Arabian drama The Brink of Dreams about a group of girls from the disenfranchised Christian Copts who defy tradition and set up an all-female street theater troupe.
Baby
Other competition titles include Antoine Chevrollier’s Block Pass,...
- 4/15/2024
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The David Hemingson-scripted Alexander Payne dramedy The Holdovers and Cord Jefferson’s American Fiction were the big film winners at the strike-delayed 2024 Writers Guild Awards, which were handed out Sunday in Los Angeles and New York.
Jefferson — who also was honored with the WGA West’s Paul Selvin Award — followed his Oscar win for Adapted Screenplay as the WGA’s weird, wild and elongated Awards season wrapped with simultaneous ceremonies on both coasts. Hemingson scored a modicum of revenge for losing the Original Screenplay Academy Award to Justine Triet and Arthur Harari for Anatomy of a Fall.
The latter script, however, wasn’t eligible for a Writers Guild Award. That’s because, unlike other guilds, the WGA deems ineligible any scripts for movies not produced under its Minimum Basic Agreement or a bona fide collective bargaining agreement with various affiliated countries.
Later, the Documentary prize went to Errol Morris...
Jefferson — who also was honored with the WGA West’s Paul Selvin Award — followed his Oscar win for Adapted Screenplay as the WGA’s weird, wild and elongated Awards season wrapped with simultaneous ceremonies on both coasts. Hemingson scored a modicum of revenge for losing the Original Screenplay Academy Award to Justine Triet and Arthur Harari for Anatomy of a Fall.
The latter script, however, wasn’t eligible for a Writers Guild Award. That’s because, unlike other guilds, the WGA deems ineligible any scripts for movies not produced under its Minimum Basic Agreement or a bona fide collective bargaining agreement with various affiliated countries.
Later, the Documentary prize went to Errol Morris...
- 4/15/2024
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
The 40th edition of the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, one of the key stops on the road to the Oscars, will take place Feb. 4-15, 2025 — two days longer than past editions of the fest on the American Riviera, to allow for extra programming in celebration of the milestone — the fest announced on Thursday.
“As we embark on our 40th year, we are proud of what we’ve accomplished and exhilarated for what is ahead of us,” Sbiff executive director Roger Durling said in a statement. “We will be announcing a few surprises in the next few months.”
Given Santa Barbara’s close geographical proximity to Los Angeles and calendar proximity to the final round of Oscars voting (which in 2025 will run from Feb. 11-18), the fest annually draws some of the biggest names in the Oscar race.
Earlier this year, the fest’s 39th edition attracted, among others, eventual Oscar winners Robert Downey Jr.,...
“As we embark on our 40th year, we are proud of what we’ve accomplished and exhilarated for what is ahead of us,” Sbiff executive director Roger Durling said in a statement. “We will be announcing a few surprises in the next few months.”
Given Santa Barbara’s close geographical proximity to Los Angeles and calendar proximity to the final round of Oscars voting (which in 2025 will run from Feb. 11-18), the fest annually draws some of the biggest names in the Oscar race.
Earlier this year, the fest’s 39th edition attracted, among others, eventual Oscar winners Robert Downey Jr.,...
- 4/11/2024
- by Scott Feinberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Paris, April 11 (Ians) Even as the Indian media celebrates the inclusion of Payal Kapadia’s first feature film in the competition section of the Cannes Film Festival, world cinema’s most prestigious event this year will bring together several iconic filmmakers, reports ‘Variety’.
The roster includes notable names such as Francis Ford Coppola with ‘Megalopolis’ starring Adam Driver, George Miller with ‘Furiosa’ featuring Anya Taylor-Joy, and ‘Star Wars’ creator George Lucas, who will be feted with an honorary Palme d’Or.
Kevin Costner will also be on hand with the first installment of his Western epic, ‘Horizon, An American Saga’.
Some of the high-profile films in the pipeline for this year’s competition, according to ‘Variety’, include ‘Poor Things’ helmer Yorgos Lanthimos’ ‘Kinds of Kindness’, a stylised three-part story set in the present that reunites the Greek director with Emma Stone and Willem Dafoe; Paul Schrader’s ‘Oh Canada’ with Richard Gere,...
The roster includes notable names such as Francis Ford Coppola with ‘Megalopolis’ starring Adam Driver, George Miller with ‘Furiosa’ featuring Anya Taylor-Joy, and ‘Star Wars’ creator George Lucas, who will be feted with an honorary Palme d’Or.
Kevin Costner will also be on hand with the first installment of his Western epic, ‘Horizon, An American Saga’.
Some of the high-profile films in the pipeline for this year’s competition, according to ‘Variety’, include ‘Poor Things’ helmer Yorgos Lanthimos’ ‘Kinds of Kindness’, a stylised three-part story set in the present that reunites the Greek director with Emma Stone and Willem Dafoe; Paul Schrader’s ‘Oh Canada’ with Richard Gere,...
- 4/11/2024
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
Passed over by France’s Oscar-nominating committee, but finding Academy favor nevertheless, Justine Triet’s Palme d’Or-winning “Anatomy of a Fall” has also become an indie champion in mainland China. Its success may hold lessons in a market that has become increasingly impenetrable to content from outside the mainstream.
It is increasingly rare for Western arthouse films to play in Chinese commercial theaters. These are increasingly dominated by local “main melody” titles, with a little room remaining for Hollywood franchise titles and Japanese animation. Nevertheless, “Anatomy of a Fall” released in China on March 29 and has garnered $3 million (RMB22 million) to date. The film’s director, Justine Triet, even made a visit to the country to participate in Q&As at several screenings.
Below, Julien Favre, head of film at Chinese distributor Road Pictures, speaks with Variety about the long process of getting it to screen.
Where did the journey begin?...
It is increasingly rare for Western arthouse films to play in Chinese commercial theaters. These are increasingly dominated by local “main melody” titles, with a little room remaining for Hollywood franchise titles and Japanese animation. Nevertheless, “Anatomy of a Fall” released in China on March 29 and has garnered $3 million (RMB22 million) to date. The film’s director, Justine Triet, even made a visit to the country to participate in Q&As at several screenings.
Below, Julien Favre, head of film at Chinese distributor Road Pictures, speaks with Variety about the long process of getting it to screen.
Where did the journey begin?...
- 4/11/2024
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
In what looks to be another robust year in the making, the 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival will bring together several iconic filmmakers, including Francis Ford Coppola with “Megalopolis” starring Adam Driver, George Miller with “Furiosa” starring Anya Taylor-Joy, as well as George Lucas who will be feted with an honorary Palme d’Or. Kevin Costner will also be on hand with the first installment of his Western epic “Horizon, an American Saga.”
Some of the high-profile films in the pipeline for this year’s competition include Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Kinds of Kindness,” a stylized three-part story set in the present that reunites the “Poor Things” helmer with Emma Stone and Willem Dafoe; Paul Schrader’s “Oh, Canada” with Richard Gere, based on a novel by the late Russell Banks (“Affliction”); Jacques Audiard’s musical melodrama “Emilia Perez” starring Zoe Saldana and Selena Gomez; Paolo Sorrentino’s “Parthenope” with...
Some of the high-profile films in the pipeline for this year’s competition include Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Kinds of Kindness,” a stylized three-part story set in the present that reunites the “Poor Things” helmer with Emma Stone and Willem Dafoe; Paul Schrader’s “Oh, Canada” with Richard Gere, based on a novel by the late Russell Banks (“Affliction”); Jacques Audiard’s musical melodrama “Emilia Perez” starring Zoe Saldana and Selena Gomez; Paolo Sorrentino’s “Parthenope” with...
- 4/11/2024
- by Elsa Keslassy, Ellise Shafer, Alex Ritman and Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Francis Ford Coppola’s sci-fi passion project Megalopolis is to screen in competition at the Cannes Film Festival in May.
Megalopolis, the long-in-the-making sci-fi opus from director Francis Ford Coppola, is still seeking a distributor, but it’s also set to make its debut at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
There have been reports for a while that Coppola’s latest movie would make an appearance at the festival, but now it’s been confirmed by The Hollywood Reporter that Megalopolis will screen in competition on the 17th May – meaning it’s in contention for a coveted Palme d’Or prize. The previous winner was Justine Triet’s forensically precise drama, Anatomy Of A Fall.
Coppola first came up with the idea of Megalopolis back in the 1970s, and he’s spent the decades since trying to get it made. It’s a project that has so obsessed him...
Megalopolis, the long-in-the-making sci-fi opus from director Francis Ford Coppola, is still seeking a distributor, but it’s also set to make its debut at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
There have been reports for a while that Coppola’s latest movie would make an appearance at the festival, but now it’s been confirmed by The Hollywood Reporter that Megalopolis will screen in competition on the 17th May – meaning it’s in contention for a coveted Palme d’Or prize. The previous winner was Justine Triet’s forensically precise drama, Anatomy Of A Fall.
Coppola first came up with the idea of Megalopolis back in the 1970s, and he’s spent the decades since trying to get it made. It’s a project that has so obsessed him...
- 4/10/2024
- by Ryan Lambie
- Film Stories
Park Chan-wook is speaking out on the Academy’s decision to not include his 2022 noir film “Decision to Leave” on the Oscar ballot.
While fellow international filmmaker Justine Triet won the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for “Anatomy of a Fall” and landed both Best International Feature, Best Director, Best Actress, and Best Picture nominations, “Decision to Leave” was entirely iced out of the 2023 ceremony.
Now, Park is admitting that his career may have looked a little differently without that “Decision to Leave” Oscars snub. Park told The New Yorker that it would be hypocritical to deny the fact that awards are paramount to a filmmaker’s power trajectory in Hollywood.
“It would be hypocrisy to say that art is the only thing that matters,” Park said. “If you get an award, it might mean you have more power, more creative freedom, in your next project. It might mean you can have a bigger budget.
While fellow international filmmaker Justine Triet won the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for “Anatomy of a Fall” and landed both Best International Feature, Best Director, Best Actress, and Best Picture nominations, “Decision to Leave” was entirely iced out of the 2023 ceremony.
Now, Park is admitting that his career may have looked a little differently without that “Decision to Leave” Oscars snub. Park told The New Yorker that it would be hypocritical to deny the fact that awards are paramount to a filmmaker’s power trajectory in Hollywood.
“It would be hypocrisy to say that art is the only thing that matters,” Park said. “If you get an award, it might mean you have more power, more creative freedom, in your next project. It might mean you can have a bigger budget.
- 4/8/2024
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Spanish director Rodrigo Sorogoyen (Stockholm, The Realm, Madre, The Beasts), who was nominated for the best international film honor at Italy’s David Di Donatello Awards, has been named jury president of this year’s Cannes Critics’ Week, the festival sidebar run by the French film critics union that focuses on first and second features from up-and-coming directors.
In a social media clip shared Friday, Sorogoyen called the jury duty “a great responsibility.”
Rodrigo Sorogoyen sera le Président du Jury de la 63e Semaine de la Critique ! À cette occasion, le réalisateur de "Que Dios nos perdone", "El Reino" ou encore "As Bestas" a un message pour vous.
#sdlc2024 #rodrigosorogoyen #Cannes2024 @semainecannes pic.twitter.com/XOBeKDGmhp
— AlloCiné (@allocine) April 5, 2024
Originally set up by an association of French film critics in 1962, Critics’ Week is the oldest nonofficial Cannes sidebar. The section is credited with discovering some of the biggest names in independent and art house cinema,...
In a social media clip shared Friday, Sorogoyen called the jury duty “a great responsibility.”
Rodrigo Sorogoyen sera le Président du Jury de la 63e Semaine de la Critique ! À cette occasion, le réalisateur de "Que Dios nos perdone", "El Reino" ou encore "As Bestas" a un message pour vous.
#sdlc2024 #rodrigosorogoyen #Cannes2024 @semainecannes pic.twitter.com/XOBeKDGmhp
— AlloCiné (@allocine) April 5, 2024
Originally set up by an association of French film critics in 1962, Critics’ Week is the oldest nonofficial Cannes sidebar. The section is credited with discovering some of the biggest names in independent and art house cinema,...
- 4/5/2024
- by Scott Roxborough and Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Swann Arlaud’s career has gained a new lease to life with his performance on Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall. He plays Maître Vincent Renzi in the French legal drama alongside Sandra Hüller, Milo Machado-Graner, and Antoine Reinartz. His quintessential portrayal of a lawyer defending a writer suspected of killing her husband elevated the film, which premiered to critical acclaim at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2023. Since its release, the movie has picked up some of the most coveted awards in the business. This includes five nominations at the 96th Academy Awards, out of which it won Best
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- 3/30/2024
- by Banks Onuoha
- TVovermind.com
Exclusive: This year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) will unspool in close collaboration with Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the Scottish capital’s historic performing arts event, under a new expansive partnership confirmed today by the two organizations.
As part of the deal, Edinburgh’s film programme will open in close proximity to wider Fringe events, including theatre, music, and comedy performances, using new venues across the city, including non-traditional cinema spaces in Summerhall and at the heart of the Fringe footprint.
This year, the Picturehouse-run Cameo Cinema on Home Street will be the film festival’s cinema hub. The century-old cinema is one of the original Eiff venues and has hosted some of the festival’s most seminal moments, including a 1953 lecture by Orson Welles.
Also expanding are the Eiff film strands. From this year, Eiff will mount a strand of Out of Competition films, which management said will...
As part of the deal, Edinburgh’s film programme will open in close proximity to wider Fringe events, including theatre, music, and comedy performances, using new venues across the city, including non-traditional cinema spaces in Summerhall and at the heart of the Fringe footprint.
This year, the Picturehouse-run Cameo Cinema on Home Street will be the film festival’s cinema hub. The century-old cinema is one of the original Eiff venues and has hosted some of the festival’s most seminal moments, including a 1953 lecture by Orson Welles.
Also expanding are the Eiff film strands. From this year, Eiff will mount a strand of Out of Competition films, which management said will...
- 3/29/2024
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Takashi Yamazaki, the Japanese filmmaker behind Oscar-winning smash hit “Godzilla Minus One,” has signed with CAA for representation.
“Godzilla Minus One,” on which Yamazaki served as writer, director and VFX supervisor, earned the first-ever nomination and win for a Japanese production in the VFX category at the Academy Awards earlier this month. The film beat strong contenders such as “The Creator,” “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3,” “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” and “Napoleon.” The Oscar win also marked the second time in 55 years that a director won the VFX award.
“Godzilla Minus One” also became the third-highest grossing foreign language feature in the U.S. box office history.
Budgeted at $15 million, the film follows former Kamikaze pilot Kōichi Shikishima (Kamiki Ryunosuke), who grapples with survivor’s guilt following World War II and the trauma of having been attacked by Godzilla. While he manages to build a life for his newfound family,...
“Godzilla Minus One,” on which Yamazaki served as writer, director and VFX supervisor, earned the first-ever nomination and win for a Japanese production in the VFX category at the Academy Awards earlier this month. The film beat strong contenders such as “The Creator,” “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3,” “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” and “Napoleon.” The Oscar win also marked the second time in 55 years that a director won the VFX award.
“Godzilla Minus One” also became the third-highest grossing foreign language feature in the U.S. box office history.
Budgeted at $15 million, the film follows former Kamikaze pilot Kōichi Shikishima (Kamiki Ryunosuke), who grapples with survivor’s guilt following World War II and the trauma of having been attacked by Godzilla. While he manages to build a life for his newfound family,...
- 3/28/2024
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
The entire film industry is soon to descend upon the Côte d’Azur this May as the Cannes Film Festival readies for its 77th edition. From May 14 through May 25, the iconic festival event of the year will host much-awaited new works for auteurs and rising directors alike, across sections like the Competition, Directors’ Fortnight, Un Certain Regard (with jury president Xavier Dolan), and Critics’ Week. Major prizes will come at the end of the festival, and will no doubt set the tone for the movie year ahead.
Such was the case last year when Justine Triet’s eventual Oscar winner “Anatomy of a Fall” took home the top award, the Palme d’Or, the fourth consecutive film distributed by Neon to do so. Jonathan Glazer’s 2023 Grand Prize winner “The Zone of Interest” also won two Academy Awards, while Competition entries “Perfect Days” and “May December” earned Oscar nominations, too.
Such was the case last year when Justine Triet’s eventual Oscar winner “Anatomy of a Fall” took home the top award, the Palme d’Or, the fourth consecutive film distributed by Neon to do so. Jonathan Glazer’s 2023 Grand Prize winner “The Zone of Interest” also won two Academy Awards, while Competition entries “Perfect Days” and “May December” earned Oscar nominations, too.
- 3/27/2024
- by Ryan Lattanzio, Kate Erbland and David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
The Current Debate is a column that connects the dots between great writing about a topic in the wider film conversation.Oppenheimer.“If there’s a sense of disconnect between what’s on stage and the outside world,” Alison Willmore writes of the 96th Academy Awards in Vulture, “Hollywood’s always declared itself the kingdom of dreams.” That might well be true, but the ceremony’s ostrichlike indifference toward some of the issues dominating global headlines this year felt especially jarring. While pro-Palestine protesters outside the theater blocked traffic and held signs with messaging like, “What good is art that ignores genocide,” only Jonathan Glazer, director of the Holocaust drama The Zone of Interest (all films 2023 unless otherwise noted), which was crowned Best International Film, dared to address the bloodshed in Gaza and Israel. Per Time’s Judy Berman, his speech, which connected the unspeakable atrocities of the past to the horrors of today,...
- 3/25/2024
- MUBI
Lily Gladstone has always been a huge fan of Cate Blanchett and now, fresh off joining her acting idol in the elite realm of best actress Academy Award nominees, the two women are teaming up.
Not on screen (yet), but for a greater cause.
Gladstone is among the boldfaced names joining the selection committee for Proof of Concept, an accelerator program focused on supporting the perspectives of women, trans and non-binary people by financially backing their short “proof of concept” films.
The program was announced last December, with Blanchett and her Dirty Films partner Coco Francini teaming up with Dr. Stacy Smith, founder of the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative and supported by the Netflix Fund for Creative Equity to tackle the ongoing disparities facing these communities in the entertainment business.
Per the latest annual reports from Dr. Smith and the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, only 6% of the directors of the 1,700 top-grossing...
Not on screen (yet), but for a greater cause.
Gladstone is among the boldfaced names joining the selection committee for Proof of Concept, an accelerator program focused on supporting the perspectives of women, trans and non-binary people by financially backing their short “proof of concept” films.
The program was announced last December, with Blanchett and her Dirty Films partner Coco Francini teaming up with Dr. Stacy Smith, founder of the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative and supported by the Netflix Fund for Creative Equity to tackle the ongoing disparities facing these communities in the entertainment business.
Per the latest annual reports from Dr. Smith and the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, only 6% of the directors of the 1,700 top-grossing...
- 3/25/2024
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
With two films nominated for multiple Oscars at the 96th Academy Award, 2023 is perhaps the best year in Sandra Hüller’s decades-long career. Apart from Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest, which won Best Sound and Best International Feature Film, the German thespian performed alongside Swann Arlaud and Milo Machado-Graner in Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall. She played the wife of Nazi officer Rudolf Höss in Glazer’s adaptation of Martin Amis’ 2014 Holocaust novel and a novelist facing trial for the murder of her husband in Triet’s legal drama. The latter earned Sandra Hüller her first Academy Award nomination
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- 3/23/2024
- by Banks Onuoha
- TVovermind.com
One of the most acclaimed movies of the year is finally arriving on streaming. On Friday, March 22, the Academy Award-winning French film “Anatomy of a Fall” will be available to stream on Hulu. The film won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay earlier this month as it follows a trial into the death of a man as his wife is charged with his murder. Directed by Justine Triet, the film is an incredible look into the courtroom and how different perspectives can lead to different truths. You can watch with a 30-Day Free Trial of Hulu.
How to Watch 'Anatomy of a Fall' When: Friday, March 22, 2024 Where: Hulu Stream: Watch with a 30-Day Free Trial of Hulu. 30-Day Free Trial$7.99+ / month hulu.com About 'Anatomy of a Fall'
In “Anatomy of a Fall,” Sandra is accused of her husband Samuel’s murder after he falls out...
How to Watch 'Anatomy of a Fall' When: Friday, March 22, 2024 Where: Hulu Stream: Watch with a 30-Day Free Trial of Hulu. 30-Day Free Trial$7.99+ / month hulu.com About 'Anatomy of a Fall'
In “Anatomy of a Fall,” Sandra is accused of her husband Samuel’s murder after he falls out...
- 3/22/2024
- by Matt Tamanini
- The Streamable
Anatomy of a Fall actress Sandra Hüller could be making a roast for Akiva Schaffer’s The Naked Gun reboot, so how hot and wet do you like it? A report from industry insider Daniel Richtman says Sandra Hüller is in talks to play the romantic lead in the forthcoming comedy, starring Liam Neeson as Frank Drebin Jr., the son of Leslie Nielsen’s Lt. Frank Drebin from the Police Squad series and Naked Gun film trilogy.
In the Naked Gun trilogy, Lt. Frank Drebin falls in love with Jane Spencer (Lisa Marie Presley), an assistant for industrialist Vincent Ludwig, utterly unaware of his villainy. After a slapstick-ridden meet-cute, Frank and Jane form a heated courtship accompanied by steamy home-cooked meals, ultra-protected sex, and trips to the baseball field.
How Liam Neeson and Hüller’s characters cross paths in the Naked Gun reboot remains a mystery. We must also wait...
In the Naked Gun trilogy, Lt. Frank Drebin falls in love with Jane Spencer (Lisa Marie Presley), an assistant for industrialist Vincent Ludwig, utterly unaware of his villainy. After a slapstick-ridden meet-cute, Frank and Jane form a heated courtship accompanied by steamy home-cooked meals, ultra-protected sex, and trips to the baseball field.
How Liam Neeson and Hüller’s characters cross paths in the Naked Gun reboot remains a mystery. We must also wait...
- 3/20/2024
- by Steve Seigh
- JoBlo.com
In 2017, Sofia Coppola made history after becoming the second female filmmaker to win Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival for The Beguiled, starring, the Queen of Cannes, Nicole Kidman. On this historic occasion, the actress vowed to continue supporting women in the industry, which has been largely dominated by men since its very inception.
While other major A-listers have also spoken in support of female filmmakers, including Natalie Portman, it has been the Eyes Wide Shut Star, who has held her promise.
Nicole Kidman Continues to Deliver on Her Promise
Nicole Kidman | Credit: Expats
Having been surrounded by strong women throughout her life, Kidman has been pretty vocal about her fondness for working with women, stressing she feels safe and comfortable around them. And considering the stats for 2016 showed that only a minuscule percentage of the top films were directed by women, Kidman decided to ameliorate things herself. Staying...
While other major A-listers have also spoken in support of female filmmakers, including Natalie Portman, it has been the Eyes Wide Shut Star, who has held her promise.
Nicole Kidman Continues to Deliver on Her Promise
Nicole Kidman | Credit: Expats
Having been surrounded by strong women throughout her life, Kidman has been pretty vocal about her fondness for working with women, stressing she feels safe and comfortable around them. And considering the stats for 2016 showed that only a minuscule percentage of the top films were directed by women, Kidman decided to ameliorate things herself. Staying...
- 3/20/2024
- by Santanu Roy
- FandomWire
Neon and Waypoint have struck a strategic financial partnership to collaborate on a theatrical slate of “bold, genre-spanning”larger independent features.
The non-exclusive pact sees Waypoint, led by Ken Kao, invest in the slate after the partners worked together on Tilman Singer’s Cuckoo, which premiered in Berlinale Special gala last month.
Waypoint founder and president Kao said, “Our joint venture will focus on the underserved market of larger independent films, specifically in the $10m+ range that often get overlooked by studios and streamers.”
Neon founder and CEO Tom Quinn hailed Waypoint’s “commitment and unique ability to create bold,...
The non-exclusive pact sees Waypoint, led by Ken Kao, invest in the slate after the partners worked together on Tilman Singer’s Cuckoo, which premiered in Berlinale Special gala last month.
Waypoint founder and president Kao said, “Our joint venture will focus on the underserved market of larger independent films, specifically in the $10m+ range that often get overlooked by studios and streamers.”
Neon founder and CEO Tom Quinn hailed Waypoint’s “commitment and unique ability to create bold,...
- 3/19/2024
- ScreenDaily
Neon is bolstering its production and distribution capabilities with a new financial investment from the producers of its most recent film, “Cuckoo,” which just screened at the SXSW Film Festival.
Indie-studio Neon has formed a strategic financial partnership with Waypoint Entertainment, a production company led by producer Ken Kao that’s been behind films like “The Favourite” and “The Nice Guys.” Together, the two companies will work on a slate of genre films intended for theatrical release.
The deal is non-exclusive, and no details on the slate of films were announced today — but the films will be indies in the $10 million+ range. The investment should give Neon a bit more financial firepower to compete with the likes of A24. Neon will handle global distribution on each of Waypoint’s titles via its newly-launched international sales division.
“Ken Kao and the Waypoint team have long demonstrated their commitment and unique ability to create bold,...
Indie-studio Neon has formed a strategic financial partnership with Waypoint Entertainment, a production company led by producer Ken Kao that’s been behind films like “The Favourite” and “The Nice Guys.” Together, the two companies will work on a slate of genre films intended for theatrical release.
The deal is non-exclusive, and no details on the slate of films were announced today — but the films will be indies in the $10 million+ range. The investment should give Neon a bit more financial firepower to compete with the likes of A24. Neon will handle global distribution on each of Waypoint’s titles via its newly-launched international sales division.
“Ken Kao and the Waypoint team have long demonstrated their commitment and unique ability to create bold,...
- 3/19/2024
- by Brian Welk
- Indiewire
French legal drama Anatomy of a Fall‘s against-the-odds global box office run isn’t over just yet. The acclaimed courtroom thriller, which won the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or in 2023 and the Oscar for best original screenplay last week, has secured a nationwide theatrical release date in China on March 29.
Chinese specialty distributor Road Pictures will handle the local marketing and release of Anatomy of a Fall in partnership with the state-backed China Film Group. The film’s writer and director Justine Triet will attend a local premiere event in Beijing on March 24.
Anatomy of a Fall is being positioned as a specialty release, but its feminist themes could align well with a recent trend of women-focused stories being a major box office force in China. Greta Gerwig’s Barbie defied early expectations last year to become a word-of-mouth hit by resonating with China’s young urban women,...
Chinese specialty distributor Road Pictures will handle the local marketing and release of Anatomy of a Fall in partnership with the state-backed China Film Group. The film’s writer and director Justine Triet will attend a local premiere event in Beijing on March 24.
Anatomy of a Fall is being positioned as a specialty release, but its feminist themes could align well with a recent trend of women-focused stories being a major box office force in China. Greta Gerwig’s Barbie defied early expectations last year to become a word-of-mouth hit by resonating with China’s young urban women,...
- 3/18/2024
- by Patrick Brzeski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A successful photographer celebrated around the world. A writer who resorts to publishing her own novels. Each had a long history of relationships, familial and otherwise, before they met in middle age. Now he’s 84 and she’s 75, and they are facing mortality together. Will love save them? The premise for “Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other,” Jacob Perlmutter and Manon Ouimet’s quietly relatable documentary about the marriage of Joel Meyerowitz and Maggie Barrett, sounds like the real-life companion piece to Michael Haneke’s “Amour.” Soon enough, however, it’s revealed to be closer to Justine Triet’s “Anatomy of a Fall,” a dissection of a marriage full of resentment and hidden grievances.
Barrett and Meyerowitz met at the right time to start a lasting relationship. Both had seen strife and happiness, which led them to have a real connection. As they are presented in the film,...
Barrett and Meyerowitz met at the right time to start a lasting relationship. Both had seen strife and happiness, which led them to have a real connection. As they are presented in the film,...
- 3/16/2024
- by Murtada Elfadl
- Variety Film + TV
The 2024 Oscars ceremony is history, and in come ways it was historic, as well.
Read on below for answers to all your questions about the 2024 Academy Awards.
When Was The 2024 Oscars?
The ceremony took place on March 10, 2024 at 4 p.m. Pt/7 p.m. Et. The event was broadcast on ABC.
Vanessa Hudgens hosted The Oscars Red Carpet Show. It marked the third Oscars in a row that the actress and singer fronted the official lead-in. She was joined by Dancing With the Stars vet Julianne Hough as co-host. The Oscars Red Carpet Show began at 3:30 p.m. Pt/6:30 p.m. Et.
Who Is Hosted The 2024 Oscars?
Jimmy Kimmel hosted the show, marking the fourth time (and second straight year) that the Jimmy Kimmel Live! mainstay took on the gig. Only Billy Crystal, Johnny Carson and Bob Hope hosted more times.
Related: Oscar Red Carpet Gallery
Who Is Nominated For An Oscar This Year?...
Read on below for answers to all your questions about the 2024 Academy Awards.
When Was The 2024 Oscars?
The ceremony took place on March 10, 2024 at 4 p.m. Pt/7 p.m. Et. The event was broadcast on ABC.
Vanessa Hudgens hosted The Oscars Red Carpet Show. It marked the third Oscars in a row that the actress and singer fronted the official lead-in. She was joined by Dancing With the Stars vet Julianne Hough as co-host. The Oscars Red Carpet Show began at 3:30 p.m. Pt/6:30 p.m. Et.
Who Is Hosted The 2024 Oscars?
Jimmy Kimmel hosted the show, marking the fourth time (and second straight year) that the Jimmy Kimmel Live! mainstay took on the gig. Only Billy Crystal, Johnny Carson and Bob Hope hosted more times.
Related: Oscar Red Carpet Gallery
Who Is Nominated For An Oscar This Year?...
- 3/16/2024
- by Tom Tapp
- Deadline Film + TV
2023 was a miraculous year for German actress Sandra Huller. Not only did she receive critical acclaim for her riveting portrayal of a woman on trial for murdering her husband in France’s “Anatomy of a Fall,” she was also praised for her role as the wife of a Nazi commander in the United Kingdom’s German-language “The Zone of Interest.” Indeed, there was much interest in Huller and her two films. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for “Anatomy.” And both “Anatomy” and “Zone” landed slots for Best Picture, as well as Best Director bids for Justine Triet and Jonathan Glazer, respectively.
As I was speaking to academy members ahead of last Sunday’s ceremony, I detected a surprisingly robust amount of support for Huller. And many of those who had voted for her mentioned her work in “The Zone of Interest.” It really did seem...
As I was speaking to academy members ahead of last Sunday’s ceremony, I detected a surprisingly robust amount of support for Huller. And many of those who had voted for her mentioned her work in “The Zone of Interest.” It really did seem...
- 3/14/2024
- by Tariq Khan
- Gold Derby
The Argentinan government has moved ahead with plans to withdraw all state funding from the National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts (Incaa), the film body that backs the majority of Argentinian films and festivals and events including Ventana Sur (with the Marche du Cannes) and the Mar Del Plata International Film Festival.
The announcement was made on March 11 via the country’s Ministry of Human Capital. It claimed the Incaa had a $4m deficit.
“Our commitment to a zero budget deficit is non-negotiable,” said the government in a statement. “The time when film festivals were financed with the hunger...
The announcement was made on March 11 via the country’s Ministry of Human Capital. It claimed the Incaa had a $4m deficit.
“Our commitment to a zero budget deficit is non-negotiable,” said the government in a statement. “The time when film festivals were financed with the hunger...
- 3/13/2024
- ScreenDaily
The government of Javier Milei, Argentina’s far-right leader, has pushed through highly controversial plans to defund all state funding to the National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts (Incaa), the country’s national film body.
In an official public notice published Tuesday, Milei’s Human Capital Ministry said it discovered a $4 million deficit in Incaa’s budget partly funded by the Treasury and, as a result, would move to cut costs by suspending all funding to the institute.
“Our commitment to a zero budget deficit is non-negotiable. The time when film festivals were financed with the hunger of thousands of children is over,” the ministry stated.
The austerity plans will see large parts of Incaa’s everyday operations suspended, with phone lines, transport fares, overtime pay, and staff contracts cut. The decision will also suspend all support for national film releases. The move is also expected to affect the...
In an official public notice published Tuesday, Milei’s Human Capital Ministry said it discovered a $4 million deficit in Incaa’s budget partly funded by the Treasury and, as a result, would move to cut costs by suspending all funding to the institute.
“Our commitment to a zero budget deficit is non-negotiable. The time when film festivals were financed with the hunger of thousands of children is over,” the ministry stated.
The austerity plans will see large parts of Incaa’s everyday operations suspended, with phone lines, transport fares, overtime pay, and staff contracts cut. The decision will also suspend all support for national film releases. The move is also expected to affect the...
- 3/13/2024
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Christopher Nolan has already unlocked a big achievement in his career by winning his first Academy Award on Sunday night. By winning his award in the Best Director category for his work in Oppenheimer (2023), he has solidified his position in the filmmaking world yet again. Given this significant achievement, many would think that he might just be busy celebrating the feat but he seems already back in action.
Christopher Nolan on Wednesday’s ‘Late Show
According to a recent report, Nolan seems to have indulged himself in a new project, which is creating quite a buzz on the Internet, given that it’s only been a day after his first Oscar win.
Christopher Nolan is Reportedly Working on a New Project Cillian Murphy in Oppenheimer
The 53-year-old filmmaker is already a renowned personality in the cinematic world due to his impeccable projects such as Memento, The Dark Knight trilogy, and Inception.
Christopher Nolan on Wednesday’s ‘Late Show
According to a recent report, Nolan seems to have indulged himself in a new project, which is creating quite a buzz on the Internet, given that it’s only been a day after his first Oscar win.
Christopher Nolan is Reportedly Working on a New Project Cillian Murphy in Oppenheimer
The 53-year-old filmmaker is already a renowned personality in the cinematic world due to his impeccable projects such as Memento, The Dark Knight trilogy, and Inception.
- 3/13/2024
- by Priya Sharma
- FandomWire
The 96th Academy Awards were a resounding success this year. Anatomy of a Fall was one of the films to be nominated for Best Picture. Even though it eventually lost to Christopher Nolan’s magnum opus, Oppenheimer, the French film left its mark.
The writers of the film, the French duo Justine Triet and Arthur Harrari, became the talk of the town during the awards season. Not only did they win big at the Oscars, but the grapevine suggests that Hollywood heavyweights are trying to do all they can to collaborate with Triet and Harrari.
The French legal drama won top honors at the Oscars (Source: Anatomy of a Fall)
Hollywood heavyweights trying to woo Anatomy of a Fall writers
The French legal drama enjoyed a remarkable run during the awards season this year. From winning the Palme d’Or to the British Film Awards (BAFTAs), Golden Globes, and now the Oscars,...
The writers of the film, the French duo Justine Triet and Arthur Harrari, became the talk of the town during the awards season. Not only did they win big at the Oscars, but the grapevine suggests that Hollywood heavyweights are trying to do all they can to collaborate with Triet and Harrari.
The French legal drama won top honors at the Oscars (Source: Anatomy of a Fall)
Hollywood heavyweights trying to woo Anatomy of a Fall writers
The French legal drama enjoyed a remarkable run during the awards season this year. From winning the Palme d’Or to the British Film Awards (BAFTAs), Golden Globes, and now the Oscars,...
- 3/13/2024
- by Sreshtha Roychowdhury
- FandomWire
Following months of theorizing, Justine Triet - the director behind the Oscar-winning Anatomy of a Fall - confirmed what many assumed about the film's head-scratching ending.
The French courtroom drama has gripped audiences since its release in late October, with moviegoers wondering if Sandra Hüller's Sandra Voyter did, in fact, push her husband out a window.
The movie - which is set to stream on Hulu in the U.S. - leads viewers to believe Voyter was responsible for the death of her husband but leaves things ambiguous, leading many to question who exactly was responsible.
Read full article on The Direct.
The French courtroom drama has gripped audiences since its release in late October, with moviegoers wondering if Sandra Hüller's Sandra Voyter did, in fact, push her husband out a window.
The movie - which is set to stream on Hulu in the U.S. - leads viewers to believe Voyter was responsible for the death of her husband but leaves things ambiguous, leading many to question who exactly was responsible.
Read full article on The Direct.
- 3/13/2024
- by Klein Felt
- The Direct
This time last year, Katja Cahill was taking a break pre-Oscars to visit “Banshees of Inisherin” breakout Jenny the Miniature Donkey — and her date (!!) — in a livestock trailer outside the Dolby.
“That was the best part of my Oscars, just getting to go hang out in the donkey trailer,” Cahill told IndieWire. “And donkeys have support donkeys too, so there were two donkeys there.” A frequent Oscars contributor, the costume designer crafted a glittering gold vest she described as a “blinged-out service animal jacket” for Jenny to wear on stage.
At the 96th Academy Awards, the self-professed animal lover once again brought her artistry to an attendee of a different species. Cahill dressed “Anatomy of a Fall” scene-stealer Messi the dog — who played Snoop for director Justine Triet’s Best Picture nominee and Best Original Screenplay winner (co-written with Arthur Harari) — in an oversized bow tie.
“[Messi] was the cutest dog...
“That was the best part of my Oscars, just getting to go hang out in the donkey trailer,” Cahill told IndieWire. “And donkeys have support donkeys too, so there were two donkeys there.” A frequent Oscars contributor, the costume designer crafted a glittering gold vest she described as a “blinged-out service animal jacket” for Jenny to wear on stage.
At the 96th Academy Awards, the self-professed animal lover once again brought her artistry to an attendee of a different species. Cahill dressed “Anatomy of a Fall” scene-stealer Messi the dog — who played Snoop for director Justine Triet’s Best Picture nominee and Best Original Screenplay winner (co-written with Arthur Harari) — in an oversized bow tie.
“[Messi] was the cutest dog...
- 3/12/2024
- by Alison Foreman
- Indiewire
The 2024 Oscars etched several milestones, and one in particular happened with great frequency: A lot of the night’s winners were first-timers.
Above and below the line talent on “Oppenheimer,” “Poor Things,” “Godzilla Minus One” and more earned their first Oscars ever, including Robert Downey Jr. and Christopher Nolan. Three countries — Japan, Ukraine and the United Kingdom also knocked out some first-time milestones.
Here’s a rundown of those earned their first Oscar at the ceremony.
Da’Vine Joy Randolph (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
Da’Vine Joy Randolph (“The Holdovers”), Best Supporting Actress-
Da’Vine Joy Randolph’s first Oscar kicked off the night.
Cord Jefferson accepts the Best Adapted Screenplay award for “American Fiction” at the 96th Annual Academy Awards (Credit Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
Cord Jefferson (“American Fiction”), Best Adapted Screenplay
Best known for his TV writing, Jefferson accepted his first Oscar with a stirring speech calling on Hollywood...
Above and below the line talent on “Oppenheimer,” “Poor Things,” “Godzilla Minus One” and more earned their first Oscars ever, including Robert Downey Jr. and Christopher Nolan. Three countries — Japan, Ukraine and the United Kingdom also knocked out some first-time milestones.
Here’s a rundown of those earned their first Oscar at the ceremony.
Da’Vine Joy Randolph (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
Da’Vine Joy Randolph (“The Holdovers”), Best Supporting Actress-
Da’Vine Joy Randolph’s first Oscar kicked off the night.
Cord Jefferson accepts the Best Adapted Screenplay award for “American Fiction” at the 96th Annual Academy Awards (Credit Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
Cord Jefferson (“American Fiction”), Best Adapted Screenplay
Best known for his TV writing, Jefferson accepted his first Oscar with a stirring speech calling on Hollywood...
- 3/12/2024
- by Andi Ortiz, Ross A. Lincoln
- The Wrap
On the eve of the 96th annual Academy Awards, the hottest party in town, returning for its 15th year, was the Chanel and Charles Finch pre-Oscar Dinner at the iconic Polo Lounge in the Beverly Hills Hotel.
IndieWire attended alongside stars including Margot Robbie, Kristen Stewart, America Ferrera, Robert De Niro, Chloë Sevigny, Colman Domingo, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Dominic Sessa, Sandra Hüller, Willem Dafoe, Alexander Payne, Cord Jefferson, Celine Song, and Jonathan Glazer, to name a few.
Walking into the event, we were greeted by a festive band playing music along the hotel’s walkway. On an intimate patio outside of the Polo Lounge, hors d’oeuvres and champagne flowed as nominees, actors, musicians, directors, producers, writers, and Hollywood influencers celebrated and pre-gamed the biggest night in cinema.
“It’s just such a nice moment to celebrate before things get too crazy tomorrow night. It’s always such an eclectic and fun group of people,...
IndieWire attended alongside stars including Margot Robbie, Kristen Stewart, America Ferrera, Robert De Niro, Chloë Sevigny, Colman Domingo, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Dominic Sessa, Sandra Hüller, Willem Dafoe, Alexander Payne, Cord Jefferson, Celine Song, and Jonathan Glazer, to name a few.
Walking into the event, we were greeted by a festive band playing music along the hotel’s walkway. On an intimate patio outside of the Polo Lounge, hors d’oeuvres and champagne flowed as nominees, actors, musicians, directors, producers, writers, and Hollywood influencers celebrated and pre-gamed the biggest night in cinema.
“It’s just such a nice moment to celebrate before things get too crazy tomorrow night. It’s always such an eclectic and fun group of people,...
- 3/11/2024
- by Vincent Perella
- Indiewire
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