Ten years after he attended the Tokyo International Film Festival for the screening of The Grandmaster, Tony Leung returned to the festival on Thursday to conduct a masterclass. The Hong Kong acting icon, dressed in a black tailored suit and fashion-forward Kolor sneakers, was met with warm applause at a …
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The SCAD Savannah Film Festival, which takes place each year at the Savannah College of Art and Design shortly before the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences votes to determine its Oscar shortlists, and which has become a premier showcase for documentary programming, has revealed the names of the …
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The Federation of European Screen Directors has joined the chorus of European filmmakers coming out in support of Polish director Agnieszka Holland, who has faced a backlash from a member of Poland’s right-wing government over her new film, refugee drama The Green Border. The film dramatizes the situation of migrants …
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The Peasants, directed by creators D.K. Welchman and Hugh Welchman, uses much of the same oil live action-painting-on-canvas techniques captured in their earlier Oscar-nominated animated film Loving Vincent. But the artistic process of actors first shot in live action and then thousands of oil paintings created from the film footage …
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For their doc feature about music superstar Lil Nas X, filmmakers Carlos López Estrada and Zac Manuel didn’t want to do a typical concert doc. With Lil Nas X: Long Live Montero, which had its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, the filmmakers hoped to provide a viewing experience …
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UPDATED with RBC response: First the Toronto Film Festival loses its prime sponsor Bell, and now this. Hollywood stars including Mark Ruffalo, Julianne Moore, Rachel McAdams, Edward Norton, Joaquin Phoenix and 200-plus filmmakers including Adam McKay and Kat Coiro have signed an open letter to TIFF CEO Cameron Bailey blasting …
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There’s a game that Malik (Blake Cameron James) and Eric (Gian Knight Ramirez), the protagonists of Minhal Baig’s poignant third feature We Grown Now, like to play. It starts with pilfering mattresses from an empty apartment in their building. They push them down the stairs because the elevators usually don’t …
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TORONTO — Promoting a film at the Toronto International Film Festival is inherently challenging, and even more difficult in the absence of lead actors for support during press engagements and on the red carpet. Many directors are grappling with this amid the ongoing strike by the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation …
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ComingSoon Editor-in-Chief Tyler Treese spoke with Ernest & Celestine: A Trip to Gibberitia co-directors Julien Chheng and Jean-Christophe Roger about the animated movie. The duo discussed handing mature themes and the advantages of working together as a directing duo. “Ernest and Celestine return to Ernest’s land, Gibberitia, to repair his …
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Kennedy McMann as Nancy Drew, Alex Saxon as Ace. Shane Harvey/The CW Nancy Drew directors Larry Teng and Amanda Row have helped craft many of the show’s most iconic moments over the years — and that includes the culmination of Nancy and Ace’s love story. During an exclusive interview with …
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Zack Snyder’s Star Wars-meets-Dune sci-fi epic Rebel Moon dropped its first teaser trailer Tuesday, and the director is already revealing plans for another, longer version of the project — including roughly an hour of additional footage. Now before we get to Snyder’s explanation, one might wonder why Rebel Moon needs …
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Disney’s live-action remake of 1937’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs doesn’t come out until next year, but a culture war surrounding the film — titled Snow White — is already at full boil. First, conservative critics took issue with casting of Latina star Rachel Zegler (West Side Story) as …
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