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Andrea Arnold to Receive Cannes Directors’ Fortnight Golden Coach Award
British director Andrea Arnold (American Honey, Cow) will receive the 2024 Carrosse d’Or, or Golden Coach Award, at the Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes, which runs alongside the Cannes Film Festival. Organizers on Tuesday lauded the British director as “an avid explorer of the fringes of society.” She will receive the honor on May 15 during the opening ceremony of […]
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MonsterVerse Future Looks Bright After ‘Godzilla x Kong’
Jaws dropped at Legendary and Warner Bros. when Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire opened to $80 million in North America over Easter weekend despite getting shredded by critics. It wasn’t quite double what tracking services had predicted, but close enough. And by day 10, its global cume had hit an impressive $361.1 million as […]
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Jackie Chan Responds to Fans Concerned Over His Health: “Don’t Worry!”
Jackie Chan reassured fans he is healthy as can be in a recent Instagram post, explaining that he currently looks much older than he is because of his role in an upcoming movie. “Not so long ago, a lot of friends saw some recent photos of me on the internet, and they were all concerned […]
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George Miller on ‘Furiosa’ Star Anya Taylor-Joy: “There’s Something Mystical About Her”
Before Focus Features released Edgar Wright’s neo-noir thriller Last Night in Soho in October 2021, the filmmaker showed a cut to pal George Miller. The Australian director was so struck by star Anya Taylor-Joy’s performance that he went back to Wright with an idea. “I said, ‘Gee, she’d be good for…,’” detailed Miller, who then […]
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Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Megalopolis’ Faces Uphill Battle for Mega Deal: “Just No Way to Position This Movie”
NBCUniversal chief content officer Donna Langley was there. So was Sony head Tom Rothman. Bob Iger was one of the few Hollywood heavyweights who couldn’t make it, but at least he had a good excuse, still in the midst of a vicious proxy battle with investor Nelson Peltz. The event: The grand unveiling of Megalopolis, the […]
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Billy Dee Williams Says Actors Should Be Allowed to Wear Blackface
Billy Dee Williams said this week he believes actors should be allowed to do blackface, specifically praising Laurence Olivier’s performance in Othello. “When he did Othello, I fell out laughing,” Williams said of Olivier on Sunday’s episode of Club Random With Bill Maher. In the 1965 film, Olivier wore blackface to play the film’s titular character. “He […]
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Zendaya Says Intimacy Coordinator Was “Very Helpful” for ‘Challengers’: “Important That We Felt Safe”
Sydney, Paris, now Rome: Luca Guadagnino’s match moved to the Italian capital on Monday as the highly anticipated Warner Bros. film Challengers continued its world tour. A film about love, relationships and tennis starring Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist, the feature is the eighth film from the director of Call Me by Your Name […]
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‘Loki’ Actress Wunmi Mosaku Joins Michael B. Jordan in Ryan Coogler’s Untitled Supernatural Thriller (Exclusive)
Wunmi Mosaku, best known for her work in Marvel Studios’ Loki and HBO’s Lovecraft Country, has joined Michael B. Jordan in the untitled supernatural horror thriller that Ryan Coogler is directing for Warner Bros. The buzzy project, the object of a high-profile bidding war in January, heads before cameras later this month in New Orleans and […]
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Geena Davis Set to Receive Viola Davis Trailblazer Award at CinemaCon
CinemaCon kicks off today in Las Vegas, and as the official convention of the National Association of Theater Owners gets underway, organizers have added another honoree to the roster: Geena Davis. The Oscar winner will be feted with the Viola Davis Trailblazer Award during the Big Screen Achievement Awards inside the Colosseum at Caesars Palace […]
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Netflix Film Division Undergoes Genre-Based Reorg (Exclusive)
Netflix’s film division is getting a reorg under new head Dan Lin. Several sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that the features division at the streaming service will now be split up by genre — such as sci-fi, rom-com and faith-based. While Lin officially started his Netflix tenure April 1, sources note that the reorg has […]
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20th Century Lands Bruce Springsteen Movie to Star Jeremy Allen White
20th Century and Disney has landed Deliver Me From Nowhere, the Bruce Springsteen project that has Jeremy Allen White in talks to star as the Boss. Scott Cooper, who treaded into music territory with his debut Crazy Heart, will write and direct the feature that will be based on the 2023 book Deliver Me from […]
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‘Pulp Fiction’ Stars Reuniting at TCM Classic Film Festival (Exclusive)
Opening night of the TCM Classic Film Festival next week will also serve as a Pulp Fiction reunion. Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson, Rosanna Arquette and Harvey Keitel are among those joining John Travolta on April 18 for the 30th anniversary, 35mm screening of Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction (1994) at the TCL Chinese Theatre in […]
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Kevin Costner Western ‘Horizon’ Set for Cannes Debut
Kevin Costner is moseying his way onto the Croisette. Costner’s highly anticipated western Horizon: An American Saga will screen out of competition at the Cannes Film Festival. The film will screen Sunday, May 19, 2024, at the fest, joining already announced titles that include the Mad Max film Furiosa. “I’d like to thank the Festival […]
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Robert Downey Jr. Says He’d “Happily” Return as Iron Man, Regularly Threw Out His Dialogue
Robert Downey Jr. may have recently won his first Oscar for Oppenheimer, but he’s not looking to run from his Marvel past. In fact, the actor says he’d “happily” return as Tony Stark/Iron Man. “It’s too integral a part of my DNA,” Downey told Esquire in a new interview. “That role chose me. And look, […]
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Spike Lee, Paul Mescal and Annie Lennox Join Cinema For Gaza Auction
New film celebrities have joined the Cinema for Gaza auction that is raising funds for the charity Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP). The latest auction lots include a signed and framed Malcolm X poster offered by Spike Lee and Paul Mescal donating a signed Aftersun poster. On the experiences side, actress Tessa Thompson is offering to have […]
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Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum Blast Off in ‘Fly Me to the Moon’ Trailer
Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum find themselves in each other’s orbit in the first trailer for Fly Me to the Moon. Apple Original Films’ romantic comedy feature from director Greg Berlanti hits theaters July 14, with Sony handling distribution. Jim Rash, Ray Romano and Woody Harrelson round out the cast for the film that takes […]
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