Hollywood Reporter
Directed by John Madden ('Shakespeare in Love') based on a script by Paul Mayhew-Archer, the "emotional and surprisingly funny" film also features Monica Dolan and Rory Kinnear.
Hollywood Reporter
TIFF also booked the latest films by Wayne Wang, Danny Boyle, Pedro Almodovar, Mike Leigh and Jesse Eisenberg as it laid out upcoming Gala and Special Presentation titles.
Variety
Henry James’ classic novel “The Portrait of a Lady” is set to be adapted for Masterpiece on PBS and the BBC, starring Bill Nighy, Gemma Arterton and Nell Tiger Free. “Game of Thrones” star Free will lead the six-episode limited series as James’ New World ingénue Isabel Archer, who leaves the States for Europe in […]
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Roku confirmed two new original films for its seasonal roster: ‘Second Chance Holiday’ starring Curry and Daddario, and ‘The Holiday Spark’ starring Chung opposite Graziadei in his first feature film role.
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Public broadcaster ZDF said a new song by musicians Danger Dan and Igor Levit could be considered an incitement to violence against the far right.
Variety
Emily (Zola Grimmer) can’t help but be forthcoming when, in a juvenile game of truth or dare at a party, she’s asked to confess her biggest regret. She first opts for a harmless revelation, but when probed, she admits to having taken someone’s life by accident. The night will end with another unexpected death under […]
Variety
“Masters of the Universe” will be available to stream on Prime Video starting July 22. The movie had a disappointing run at the summer box office with just $113 million worldwide. The film is based on the universe created by Mattel in 1982 and marks the franchise’s second live-action adaption, with the first premiering in […]
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Oscar-winning director Giuseppe Tornatore‘s docufilm “Brunello: The Gracious Visionary” — about Brunello Cucinelli, the fashion designer known as Italy’s “King of Cashmere” — has been sold to a slew of territories, expanding the film’s global footprint. Sales company Twenty-Nine Palms Entertainment has clinched deals that will now see the docufilm released to audiences across Europe, Asia, and […]
Hollywood Reporter
Ahead of the superhero feature hitting theaters later this year, Disney helped to iron out some details about the sequel with the new footage released online.
Variety
The first trailer for “Avengers: Doomsday” is finally here. After being shown to CinemaCon attendees in April, the full “Doomsday” trailer is now public and brings together nearly every hero in the MCU. “Doomsday” is the culmination of the MCU’s multiverse-crossing storytelling over the past seven years and three Phases since “Avengers: Endgame” released and […]
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Fox Corp.’s Red Seat Ventures is the latest entity to strike up a partnership with Amazon in a bid to give advertisers broader reach in programmatic venues. Amazon will give advertisers the chance to buy up programmatic advertising inventory from Red Seat via its demand-side platform, the latest in a series of similar alliances media companies […]
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Megan Rapinoe, soccer champion, activist and entrepreneur, is entering a new chapter with the forthcoming launch of weekly interview show “Why Are You Like This?” The show, produced and distributed by Vox Media, will feature Rapinoe’s conversations with artists, athletes, activists and “architects of culture.” On the podcast, Rapinoe will try to get at what […]
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Tisha Thompson in 2024 broke news about one of the biggest and most surprising scandals in sports — the transfer of large sums of money from baseball great Shohei Otani’s bank account to illegal bookmakers. Two years later, she just might have more to say on the subject. Thompson will lead a six-part podcast series, […]
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What’s yellow, fluffy and has a name that’s likely to get stuck in your head? The insurance sector’s newest TV star. Liberty Mutual worked its way into consumers’ brains over the past decade with a series of ads that feature a hard-to-forget slogan (Just repeat the first name of the company several times in sing-song […]
The Guardian Culture
‘Alan and I have neat hair because we’d both just been in a military play. If we’d had crazy 1980s mullets, it wouldn’t have become a timeless classic’I’d done WarGames and Ladyhawke and was getting sent a lot of “young guy” parts. I was a little concerned at first because Ferris talks to the audience – I’d done that in two plays and didn’t want to it to seem like that’s all I can do. Meanwhile, my agent said: “You’ve been asked to do a John Hughes movie. You’re doing it.” I didn’t know much abo
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The boss of Israel’s Jerusalem Film Festival, Roni Mahadav-Levin, has written an open letter urging Palestinian filmmakers to take part in next year’s edition. “To artists around the world, and specifically to Palestinian filmmakers, my call to you is this: grab the opportunity to reach the public in our cinema halls,” Mahadav-Levin wrote in the […]
The Guardian Culture
From missing scenes and characters to a brand new ending, the director has taken some artistic liberties with Homer’s epic poemTurning a 12,000-line poem that takes a day to read aloud into a three-hour film was always going to require some pruning. So it has proved with Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, which dispenses with a number of scenes and characters from Homer’s ancient Greek epic. The director has also changed the emphasis in some of the story’s most famous episodes and made a few of hi
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Honey Trehan’s “Satluj” — about a Sikh activist in the 1990s investigating extrajudicial killings — conjures heavy emotions despite its hagiographic hues. Just as intriguing as its provocations are the controversies surrounding its release, starting with its unexplained removal from the Toronto International Film Festival lineup in 2023, then under the title “Punjab ’95.” This […]
The Guardian Culture
Struggling to make it in Australia, aspiring director Anthony Frith cold-calls the team behind Sharknado and bites off more than he can chew in this making-of documentary‘A bad movie is better than no movie” is the motto of this behind-the-scenes documentary, which charts director Anthony Frith’s quest to make his debut feature for ultra-schlock studio The Asylum; it doubles up as an affable salute to film-making savoir-faire.Stuck making corporate videos to support his young family, Adelaide-ba
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The left-wing politician and former mayor of Manchester — widely seen as "a man of the people" in Britain — takes over from Keir Starmer after being named Labour Party leader last week.