Ahead of the world premiere of George Miller’s Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga in Cannes, all eyes will be on Warner Bros. to see if the studio will again demonstrate its talent for using Europe’s A-list festivals to catapult its most challenging blockbusters to commercial success and critical acclaim. Warners has been …
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AMC Networks Film Group head Scott Shooman and his team really took the phrase “dinner and a movie” to heart. When they released The Taste of Things, the Juliette Binoche-starring French-language movie that IFC acquired out of last year’s Cannes Film Festival, the distributor partnered with restaurants like New York’s Frenchette and Los Angeles’ …
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Adam Bessa finds himself in the unique position of being both a Cannes Un Certain Regard award winner and a frequent collaborator with Hollywood’s best-known blockbuster brothers, Anthony and Joe Russo — two spheres with marginal overlap. Nonetheless, a decade after Bessa began acting in earnest, he is a regular …
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The world premiere of Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter 1 at the Cannes Film Festival in an out-of-competition slot on May 19 will test the appetite for a film genre that has never lost its appeal among directors and critics but has proven one of the most challenging to make work at …
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After a partial comeback in 2023, Chinese cinema is returning to this year’s 77th Cannes Film Festival in a major way. While unveiling his 2024 lineup in April, festival chief Thierry Frémaux noted that “it’s been three or four years that China has been less present in world cinema,” but …
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Cillian Murphy, Kin season two and Paul Mescal were among the winners of the Irish Film & Television Awards 2024, which were handed out during a ceremony in Dublin on Saturday. Lies We Tell, about an orphaned teenage heiress in 19th-century Ireland who is forced to embrace the dark legacy …
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Netflix is debuting its Prince Andrew film Scoop on April 5, with Rufus Sewell starring as the royal, Gillian Anderson as the BBC host whose interview got the prince in trouble and Billie Piper as a booker-producer on the news show. The stars came together in London on Wednesday for the …
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The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) has updated its classification guidelines, informed by its largest-ever public consultation, meaning its age ratings will change according to changing public opinion, including on the on-screen depiction of violence, sex and drug use. Throughout 2023, the BBFC spoke to 12,000 people across the …
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Rufus Sewell had “an instinct” about how to portray Prince Andrew in global streaming giant Netflix‘s feature film Scoop, but he and co-star Gillian Anderson both initially didn’t want to play their respective parts, they shared on Thursday. Sewell and Billie Piper talked about their filming experience at the Next …
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Lies We Tell, with 13, That They May Face the Rising Sun and Double Blind, with 11 each, are leading the nominations for the movie portion of the Irish Film & Television Awards 2024. Lies We Tell is about an orphaned teenage heiress in 19th-century Ireland who is forced to …
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“And the BAFTA goes to…” Those words will be on many lips at the BAFTA Film Awards ceremony in London on Sunday, hosted by Scottish actor David Tennant (Doctor Who, Inside Man) at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall in the British capital. Christopher Nolan’s biographical epic Oppenheimer is leading the pack of the 2024 BAFTA film …
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The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) handed out its 2024 awards on Saturday, and Talk to Me won big, including for best film and best director, while Margot Robbie was honored with the Trailblazer Award. Barbie, Oppenheimer and The Bear were among the Hollywood honorees, with big …
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