The Best Actress race is already extremely stacked as we get closer to the 2025 awards season, with at least 10 significant contenders about to battle it out for only five slots at the Oscars. But if there’s one performance that is going to make it in, I believe it’s Nicole Kidman in “Babygirl,” written and directed by Halina Reijn. Why? Here are my top five reasons.
1. The performance.
Kidman gives a ferocious tour-de-force performance in “Babygirl,” which played at the Venice and Toronto Film Festivals and is opening in theaters in December. Kidman plays a high-powered CEO named Romy who enters a relationship with an intern named Samuel (Harris Dickinson) and in turn puts her job and family in jeopardy. Romy makes questionable choices throughout the narrative, but Kidman always keeps her grounded and empathetic in what I believe is her best movie performance since 2010’s “Rabbit Hole.”
SEENicole Kidman is ‘bold,...
1. The performance.
Kidman gives a ferocious tour-de-force performance in “Babygirl,” which played at the Venice and Toronto Film Festivals and is opening in theaters in December. Kidman plays a high-powered CEO named Romy who enters a relationship with an intern named Samuel (Harris Dickinson) and in turn puts her job and family in jeopardy. Romy makes questionable choices throughout the narrative, but Kidman always keeps her grounded and empathetic in what I believe is her best movie performance since 2010’s “Rabbit Hole.”
SEENicole Kidman is ‘bold,...
- 9/25/2024
- by Brian Rowe
- Gold Derby
As Hollywood continues to dish out one star after the other, one actor has been drawing the attention of fans and critics the most, the alluring and charming Jacob Elordi. Having gained attention for his role in the teen comedy romantic film, The Kissing Booth, his career trajectory is one for the history books.
Jacob Elordi in Saltburn | Credit: Warner Bros. Pictures
From his troubled dramatic role in Euphoria to playing Elvis Presley in Priscilla, Elordi is now expected to headline several genres and roles as far as his recent upcoming projects are concerned. While we celebrate his spectacular success, it also sheds light on his fellow actor Tom Holland’s Hollywood career.
Jacob Elordi’s Impressive Hollywood Trajectory: From a Teen Star to a Versatile Actor Jacob Elordi plays Nate Jacobs in Euphoria | Credit: HBO
Jacob Elordi might have garnered fans’ and critics attention as the bad boy Noah Flynn in The Kissing Booth,...
Jacob Elordi in Saltburn | Credit: Warner Bros. Pictures
From his troubled dramatic role in Euphoria to playing Elvis Presley in Priscilla, Elordi is now expected to headline several genres and roles as far as his recent upcoming projects are concerned. While we celebrate his spectacular success, it also sheds light on his fellow actor Tom Holland’s Hollywood career.
Jacob Elordi’s Impressive Hollywood Trajectory: From a Teen Star to a Versatile Actor Jacob Elordi plays Nate Jacobs in Euphoria | Credit: HBO
Jacob Elordi might have garnered fans’ and critics attention as the bad boy Noah Flynn in The Kissing Booth,...
- 9/24/2024
- by Maria Sultan
- FandomWire
In mouth-watering casting news, MRC said on Monday that Margot Robbie will star as Catherine Earnshaw opposite fellow Australian Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff in Emerald Fennell’s upcoming adaptation of Wuthering Heights. The film will shoot in the UK.
Robbie’s LuckyChap will produce the adaptation of Emily Brontë’s mid-19th century gothic tale of obsession and desire which has fascinated film and television producers for nearly a century.
Fennell will write, direct and produce Wuthering Heights, which MRC said on Monday is in pre-production ahead of a UK shoot in 2025. MRC is financing the production.
The upcoming feature is heavy on reunion.
Robbie’s LuckyChap will produce the adaptation of Emily Brontë’s mid-19th century gothic tale of obsession and desire which has fascinated film and television producers for nearly a century.
Fennell will write, direct and produce Wuthering Heights, which MRC said on Monday is in pre-production ahead of a UK shoot in 2025. MRC is financing the production.
The upcoming feature is heavy on reunion.
- 9/23/2024
- ScreenDaily
Emerald Fennell has found her Cathy and Heathcliff. The “Saltburn” and “Promising Young Woman” director had set up an adaptation of Emily Brontë’s “Wuthering Heights” at MRC, and now it’s full speed into the moors as Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi have joined the project in the lead roles of the doomed lovers.
Elordi is reuniting with Fennell after starring in her nuclear reactor of a social media buzz generator “Saltburn” in 2023, with Robbie’s LuckyChap producing for MRC. LuckyChap produced both “Saltburn” and Fennell’s Oscar-winning debut “Promising Young Woman.”
The film is now in pre-production, gearing up for a UK shoot in 2025. Fennell had already teased the project in a cryptic way, with an Instagram post featuring the title and the tagline “Be with me always. Take any form. Drive me mad.”
Emily Brontë’s only novel, “Wuthering Heights,” published in 1847, established a type of Gothic...
Elordi is reuniting with Fennell after starring in her nuclear reactor of a social media buzz generator “Saltburn” in 2023, with Robbie’s LuckyChap producing for MRC. LuckyChap produced both “Saltburn” and Fennell’s Oscar-winning debut “Promising Young Woman.”
The film is now in pre-production, gearing up for a UK shoot in 2025. Fennell had already teased the project in a cryptic way, with an Instagram post featuring the title and the tagline “Be with me always. Take any form. Drive me mad.”
Emily Brontë’s only novel, “Wuthering Heights,” published in 1847, established a type of Gothic...
- 9/23/2024
- by Christian Blauvelt
- Indiewire
Actress and producer Margot Robbie is set to star as “Catherine Earnshaw,” and Jacob Elordi as “Heathcliff,” in Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of “Wuthering Heights.” Fennell is set to write, direct and produce.
MRC is tapping LuckyChap to produce the upcoming feature film, based on the iconic romance novel by Emily Brontë, which was initially published in 1847 under her pen name “Ellis Bell.” This marks LuckyChap and Fennell’s third collaboration together.
Movie is in pre-production gearing up for a UK shoot in 2025. Widely considered to be one of the greatest novels ever written in English, “Wuthering Heights” is a gothic story that centers on anti-hero Heathcliff as he pursues revenge against the people who kept him away from his love, Cathy Earnshaw.
Fennell’s most recent film was psychological thriller “Saltburn” for Amazon MGM Studios, which starred Barry Keoghan and Jacob Elordi. She is repped by UTA, United Agents in Britain,...
MRC is tapping LuckyChap to produce the upcoming feature film, based on the iconic romance novel by Emily Brontë, which was initially published in 1847 under her pen name “Ellis Bell.” This marks LuckyChap and Fennell’s third collaboration together.
Movie is in pre-production gearing up for a UK shoot in 2025. Widely considered to be one of the greatest novels ever written in English, “Wuthering Heights” is a gothic story that centers on anti-hero Heathcliff as he pursues revenge against the people who kept him away from his love, Cathy Earnshaw.
Fennell’s most recent film was psychological thriller “Saltburn” for Amazon MGM Studios, which starred Barry Keoghan and Jacob Elordi. She is repped by UTA, United Agents in Britain,...
- 9/23/2024
- by Umberto Gonzalez
- The Wrap
Academy Award winner Emerald Fennell’s anticipated “Wuthering Heights” adaptation just got buzzier with Academy Award nominee Margot Robbie and BAFTA nominee Jacob Elordi attached to star as Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff.
MRC has tapped LuckyChap to produce the upcoming feature film — written, directed and produced by Fennell, based on the classic romance novel by Emily Brontë. This marks LuckyChap and Fennell’s third collaboration following 2020’s “Promising Young Woman” (which won Fennell the Oscar for best original screenplay) and 2023’s “Saltburn.” Fennell also had a featured role in LuckyChap’s $1.4 billion-grossing and Academy Award-winning “Barbie” movie, which Robbie produced and starred in last year.
“Wuthering Heights” is in pre-production, gearing up for a 2025 shoot in the U.K.
Fennell announced her plans to adapt “Wuthering Heights” as her third feature in July, posting a surprise announcement to social media with a graphic that reads, “Be with me always – Take any form – Drive me mad,...
MRC has tapped LuckyChap to produce the upcoming feature film — written, directed and produced by Fennell, based on the classic romance novel by Emily Brontë. This marks LuckyChap and Fennell’s third collaboration following 2020’s “Promising Young Woman” (which won Fennell the Oscar for best original screenplay) and 2023’s “Saltburn.” Fennell also had a featured role in LuckyChap’s $1.4 billion-grossing and Academy Award-winning “Barbie” movie, which Robbie produced and starred in last year.
“Wuthering Heights” is in pre-production, gearing up for a 2025 shoot in the U.K.
Fennell announced her plans to adapt “Wuthering Heights” as her third feature in July, posting a surprise announcement to social media with a graphic that reads, “Be with me always – Take any form – Drive me mad,...
- 9/23/2024
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: In what is gearing up to be an A-list pairing for Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights movie, MRC is tapping Oscar-nominated actress and producer Margot Robbie and BAFTA-nominated actor Jacob Elordi to star in the adaptation of the classic novel.
LuckyChap also will produce Fennell’s upcoming feature film adaptation based on the iconic romance novel by Emily Brontë. Besides being the studio on the project, MRC also will finance the pic.
This marks LuckyChap and Fennell’s third collaboration together, having also produced her most recent pic Saltburn and Promising Young Woman, which won Fennell an Oscar for original screenplay.
Robbie is set to star as Catherine Earnshaw, and Elordi will play Heathcliff. Fennell is set to write, direct and produce. The film is in pre-production gearing up for a UK shoot in 2025.
The original novel by Brontë is considered by many to be one of the great...
LuckyChap also will produce Fennell’s upcoming feature film adaptation based on the iconic romance novel by Emily Brontë. Besides being the studio on the project, MRC also will finance the pic.
This marks LuckyChap and Fennell’s third collaboration together, having also produced her most recent pic Saltburn and Promising Young Woman, which won Fennell an Oscar for original screenplay.
Robbie is set to star as Catherine Earnshaw, and Elordi will play Heathcliff. Fennell is set to write, direct and produce. The film is in pre-production gearing up for a UK shoot in 2025.
The original novel by Brontë is considered by many to be one of the great...
- 9/23/2024
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
RankFilm (distributor)Three-day gross (Sep 13-15)Total gross to dateWeek 1. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Warner Bros) £2.5m £18.2m 3 2. Speak No Evil (Universal) £813,979 £3m 2 3. Lee (Studiocanal) £555,529 £1.8m 2 4. The Substance (Mubi) £519,668 £591,322 1 5. Despicable Me 4 (Universal) £369,840 £46.7m 11
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Warner Bros’ Beetlejuice Beetlejuice continued its reign at the UK and Ireland box office this weekend as it crossed the £18m mark while Mubi body horror The Substance opened in fourth place.
The Beetlejuice sequel dropped 42% in its third week to bring in £2.5m and push its total up to £18.2m. It will likely enter the UK top 10 highest-grossing films of 2024 within the next week.
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Warner Bros’ Beetlejuice Beetlejuice continued its reign at the UK and Ireland box office this weekend as it crossed the £18m mark while Mubi body horror The Substance opened in fourth place.
The Beetlejuice sequel dropped 42% in its third week to bring in £2.5m and push its total up to £18.2m. It will likely enter the UK top 10 highest-grossing films of 2024 within the next week.
- 9/23/2024
- ScreenDaily
Mubi horror The Substance leads the new releases at this weekend’s UK and Ireland box office, opening in 521 locations.
It is Mubi’s widest-ever release, beating out Priscilla which opened in 295 cinemas in January and the 150 locations How To Have Sex debuted in last year.
The Substance stars Demi Moore as a fading star who takes a mysterious drug that enables her to live as a younger version of herself, played by Margaret Qualley. Coralie Fargeat wrote and directed the feature which also stars Dennis Quaid.
The film had its world premiere at Cannes in competition, where it won...
It is Mubi’s widest-ever release, beating out Priscilla which opened in 295 cinemas in January and the 150 locations How To Have Sex debuted in last year.
The Substance stars Demi Moore as a fading star who takes a mysterious drug that enables her to live as a younger version of herself, played by Margaret Qualley. Coralie Fargeat wrote and directed the feature which also stars Dennis Quaid.
The film had its world premiere at Cannes in competition, where it won...
- 9/20/2024
- ScreenDaily
Actress Cailee Spaeny (“Alien: Romulus”) poses for “Wonderland” magazine, photographed by Alex G. Harper:
Spany's first major film role was in the science fiction feature "Pacific Rim Uprising (2018).
This was followed by roles in the films "Bad Times at the El Royale"...
..."On the Basis of Sex" and "Vice".
She had supporting roles in the TV miniseries "Devs" (2020) and "Mare of Easttown" (2021).
Spaeny played the lead in the supernatural horror film "The Craft: Legacy" (2020)......
...and portrays 'Priscilla Presley' in the biopic "Priscilla" (2023).
Click the images to enlarge...
Spany's first major film role was in the science fiction feature "Pacific Rim Uprising (2018).
This was followed by roles in the films "Bad Times at the El Royale"...
..."On the Basis of Sex" and "Vice".
She had supporting roles in the TV miniseries "Devs" (2020) and "Mare of Easttown" (2021).
Spaeny played the lead in the supernatural horror film "The Craft: Legacy" (2020)......
...and portrays 'Priscilla Presley' in the biopic "Priscilla" (2023).
Click the images to enlarge...
- 9/15/2024
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Paul Schrader may think that Glen Powell is the next Paul Newman, but the “Oh, Canada” filmmaker is making it clear that Jacob Elordi could follow in Richard Gere’s filmic footsteps.
Schrader cast Elordi as the younger version of Gere’s lead character in “Oh, Canada,” which premiered in competition at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival and went on to screen at TIFF.
However, Schrader is now suggesting that Elordi might have even beat out Gere for “American Gigolo” if they had been contemporaries.
“I saw his performance on Zoom and, if this was 40 years ago, this is the guy I would have cast for ‘American Gigolo,'” Schrader told The Hollywood Reporter of Elordi’s audition for “Oh, Canada.”
“American Gigolo” was led by Gere and released in 1980. The film later received a short-lived TV adaptation with Jon Bernthal starring.
Schrader added that since “Oh, Canada” was filmed prior...
Schrader cast Elordi as the younger version of Gere’s lead character in “Oh, Canada,” which premiered in competition at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival and went on to screen at TIFF.
However, Schrader is now suggesting that Elordi might have even beat out Gere for “American Gigolo” if they had been contemporaries.
“I saw his performance on Zoom and, if this was 40 years ago, this is the guy I would have cast for ‘American Gigolo,'” Schrader told The Hollywood Reporter of Elordi’s audition for “Oh, Canada.”
“American Gigolo” was led by Gere and released in 1980. The film later received a short-lived TV adaptation with Jon Bernthal starring.
Schrader added that since “Oh, Canada” was filmed prior...
- 9/13/2024
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Jacob Elordi was hired "for a dime and nickel" for his role in 'Oh Canada'.The 27-year-old actor plays the young Leonard Fife in Paul Schrader's adaptation of Russell Banks' 2021 novel 'Foregone', and was hired for the role before his breakout part as Elvis Presley in 'Priscilla', a time when the director didn't need a big "name" because he already had Richard Gere on board to play the older version of the character but he felt they had enough of a resemblance to one another.Paul explained to The Hollywood Reporter: "We got him (Elordi) for a dime and nickel for that reason. I didn’t need a name. I had Richard and that was enough. "But I saw his performance on Zoom and, if this was 40 years ago, this is the guy I would have cast for 'American Gigolo'."As for Richard, the...
- 9/13/2024
- by Viki Waters
- Bang Showbiz
Oh, Canada director Paul Schrader didn’t think long before deciding to reunite with Richard Gere, 44 years after they made American Gigolo together, for his latest movie about a dying draft dodger and doc maker looking to set the record on his life straight in one final interview.
In Schrader’s latest movie, which is having a North American premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, Gere plays Leonard Fife, an American who fled to Montreal to avoid the Vietnam War and eventually became celebrated as a documentary director.
But now facing terminal cancer, Fife rises from his deathbed and looks into a movie camera himself to recall key moments in his life and its many failings and lies. “Any number of actors could knock this out of the park. It’s a great role,” Schrader told The Hollywood Reporter about his movie adaptation of Russell Banks’ 2021 novel Foregone.
“To have seen Anthony Hopkins do it,...
In Schrader’s latest movie, which is having a North American premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, Gere plays Leonard Fife, an American who fled to Montreal to avoid the Vietnam War and eventually became celebrated as a documentary director.
But now facing terminal cancer, Fife rises from his deathbed and looks into a movie camera himself to recall key moments in his life and its many failings and lies. “Any number of actors could knock this out of the park. It’s a great role,” Schrader told The Hollywood Reporter about his movie adaptation of Russell Banks’ 2021 novel Foregone.
“To have seen Anthony Hopkins do it,...
- 9/13/2024
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
2024 got off to a very rough start at the box office, particularly in regards to mainstream horror releases. In 2022 and 2023, horror proved to be one of the most bankable genres that theaters could depend on in the aftermath of the pandemic. Unfortunately, the likes of "Night Swim," "Imaginary," "Abigail," and others disappointed earlier this year. Things have rebounded and we now have hits such as "A Quiet Place: Day One" and the unexpected $100 million hit that was "Longlegs." One movie stands tall above the rest though, and that movie is "Alien: Romulus." Even more crazy to consider? That movie nearly went straight to Hulu.
On its fourth weekend in theaters, director Fede Alvarez's "Romulus" added another $3.9 million to its ever-growing total domestically. "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice" took the lion's share of the attention with a massive $111 million opening, but the latest "Alien" movie is still holding its own. To that end,...
On its fourth weekend in theaters, director Fede Alvarez's "Romulus" added another $3.9 million to its ever-growing total domestically. "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice" took the lion's share of the attention with a massive $111 million opening, but the latest "Alien" movie is still holding its own. To that end,...
- 9/10/2024
- by Ryan Scott
- Slash Film
Paramount+’s JonBenét Ramsey miniseries has found its leading little lady.
Young actress Emily Mitchell — who has appeared in episodes of Ghosts and What We Do in the Shadows, and recent films including Priscilla — will fill the title role in JonBenét Ramsey, an upcoming limited series chronicling 6-year-old Ramsey’s tragic murder in 1996.
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Ordered to series earlier this month, JonBenét Ramsey (a working title) “follows the...
Young actress Emily Mitchell — who has appeared in episodes of Ghosts and What We Do in the Shadows, and recent films including Priscilla — will fill the title role in JonBenét Ramsey, an upcoming limited series chronicling 6-year-old Ramsey’s tragic murder in 1996.
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Ordered to series earlier this month, JonBenét Ramsey (a working title) “follows the...
- 9/10/2024
- by Rebecca Iannucci
- TVLine.com
Paramount+’s limited series JonBenét Ramsey (w/t), from MTV Entertainment Studios and 101 Studios, has tapped Emily Mitchell (The Apprentice) for its title role, also bringing aboard Garrett Hedlund (Tulsa King), Alison Pill (Trap) and Owen Teague (The Friend) for parts.
Mitchell’s JonBenét is a girl from an affluent family and child beauty queen, whose murder is at the heart of the story. Hedlund plays Detective Steve Thomas, a seasoned detective who is brought onto the JonBenét case, with Pill as Boulder, Colorado police detective Linda Arndt, who along with partner Detective Trujillo, is first on the scene after JonBenét Ramsey is reported missing/kidnapped. Teague plays Jeff Shapiro, a cocky, risk-taking reporter for the Globe tabloid.
As previously announced, Melissa McCarthy and Clive Owen lead the cast as JonBenét’s parents, Patsy and John. Others aboard include Shea Whigham, who plays District Attorney Alex Hunter, an acquaintance of the Ramsey family,...
Mitchell’s JonBenét is a girl from an affluent family and child beauty queen, whose murder is at the heart of the story. Hedlund plays Detective Steve Thomas, a seasoned detective who is brought onto the JonBenét case, with Pill as Boulder, Colorado police detective Linda Arndt, who along with partner Detective Trujillo, is first on the scene after JonBenét Ramsey is reported missing/kidnapped. Teague plays Jeff Shapiro, a cocky, risk-taking reporter for the Globe tabloid.
As previously announced, Melissa McCarthy and Clive Owen lead the cast as JonBenét’s parents, Patsy and John. Others aboard include Shea Whigham, who plays District Attorney Alex Hunter, an acquaintance of the Ramsey family,...
- 9/10/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
The JonBenét Ramsey limited series at Paramount+ is rounding out its cast with four new additions.
Variety has learned that Garrett Hedlund, Alison Pill, Emily Mitchell, and Owen Teague are all set to star in the series. They join previously announced series leads Melissa McCarthy and Clive Owen as well as cast members Shea Whigham and Will Patton. Production is set to begin soon in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
As previously announced, the official description for the series states it will follow “the Ramsey family, before and after the tragedy as they go through the painful loss of a child while facing intense public scrutiny caused by a media frenzy that caused this case to captivate an entire nation. At the heart of the series, it is the story of Patsy (McCarthy) and John Ramsey (Owen) – exploring the unbreakable partnership of these two complex people – as husband and wife, as mother...
Variety has learned that Garrett Hedlund, Alison Pill, Emily Mitchell, and Owen Teague are all set to star in the series. They join previously announced series leads Melissa McCarthy and Clive Owen as well as cast members Shea Whigham and Will Patton. Production is set to begin soon in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
As previously announced, the official description for the series states it will follow “the Ramsey family, before and after the tragedy as they go through the painful loss of a child while facing intense public scrutiny caused by a media frenzy that caused this case to captivate an entire nation. At the heart of the series, it is the story of Patsy (McCarthy) and John Ramsey (Owen) – exploring the unbreakable partnership of these two complex people – as husband and wife, as mother...
- 9/10/2024
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Elvis Presley’s ex-wife and heirs have spent decades hounded by public fascination and scrutiny. Members of an American folklore dynasty, they share a mythology that’s seemingly unstoppable. Not only did it inspire two recent prestige films from directors Baz Luhrmann and Sofia Coppola, but the films were critical hits that in turn generated legions of curious new fans. When Lisa Marie Presley, the only child of Elvis and ex-wife Priscilla Presley, died suddenly in January 2023 at the age of 54, the storied family was once again thrust into the spotlight.
- 9/10/2024
- by Nancy Dillon
- Rollingstone.com
Exclusive: TV industry veteran Katharina Feistauer has joined film service Mubi.
She has taken on a VP of Global Programming role at the film distributor, producer and streamer, having exited Paramount Global’s PlutoTV recently. Feistauer will report to Jason Ropell, Mubi’s Chief Content Officer.
Based in Mubi’s London office, she will lead Mubi’s programming team across all markets, driving the overall strategy of the streaming service and managing the pipeline of indie and filmmaker-driven content.
Mubi’s upcoming releases include Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance, the Demi Moore-starring horror that was acquired for north of $10M in Cannes and will release wide in theaters on September 20.
Other films on the slate include Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla, Ira Sachs’ Passages, Pedro Almodóvar’s Strange Way of Life, Molly Manning Walker’s How to Have Sex, Aki Kaurismäki’s Fallen Leaves, Kevin Macdonald’s documentary High & Low...
She has taken on a VP of Global Programming role at the film distributor, producer and streamer, having exited Paramount Global’s PlutoTV recently. Feistauer will report to Jason Ropell, Mubi’s Chief Content Officer.
Based in Mubi’s London office, she will lead Mubi’s programming team across all markets, driving the overall strategy of the streaming service and managing the pipeline of indie and filmmaker-driven content.
Mubi’s upcoming releases include Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance, the Demi Moore-starring horror that was acquired for north of $10M in Cannes and will release wide in theaters on September 20.
Other films on the slate include Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla, Ira Sachs’ Passages, Pedro Almodóvar’s Strange Way of Life, Molly Manning Walker’s How to Have Sex, Aki Kaurismäki’s Fallen Leaves, Kevin Macdonald’s documentary High & Low...
- 9/9/2024
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Gia Coppola’s The Last Showgirl is a dreamy, melancholy portrait of a veteran Las Vegas dancer reeling from the news that her career has hit its expiration date. The movie is as gossamer-thin as the wings that the title character, Shelly — played by Pamela Anderson with an undiluted sense of heartbreak — keeps tearing on her stage costume. The story more often drifts than advances, favoring ambience over substance in a few too many wordless sequences observing Shelly wandering or dancing or just staring into the abyss in sun-blasted parking lots, on rooftops and streets, bathed in lens flare and the shimmering score of Andrew Wyatt.
After her promising 2013 feature debut Palo Alto and her sophomore stumble seven years later with Mainstream, Coppola seems more in thrall than ever to the impressionistic style of Aunt Sofia. But the new film — written by Kate Gersten, a Coppola clan member by marriage...
After her promising 2013 feature debut Palo Alto and her sophomore stumble seven years later with Mainstream, Coppola seems more in thrall than ever to the impressionistic style of Aunt Sofia. But the new film — written by Kate Gersten, a Coppola clan member by marriage...
- 9/7/2024
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Paris-based Loco Films has boarded “Paying For It,” Canadian helmer Sook-Yin Lee (“Octavio is Dead!”)’s adaptation of Chester Brown’s best-selling graphic novel. The movie is world premiering at Toronto Film Festival in the competitive Platform section.
Co-written by Lee and Joanne Sarazen, the live action movie stars Dan Beirne, emerging actor Emily Lê (“Riceboy Sleeps”), and acclaimed activist, author and performer Andrea Werhun.
The film explores the themes of love, sex and non-monogamy for adults. It’s set in the late 90s and revolves around Chester, an introverted cartoonist who starts sleeping with sex workers and discovers a new kind of intimacy after his girlfriend, Sonny, decides to redefine their committed relationship.
“Paying For It” is produced by Matt Code of Wildling Pictures, whose credits include “See for Me,” “Mary Goes Round” and the upcoming “Young Werther;” as well as Sonya Di Rienzo and Aeschylus Poulos of Hawkeye Pictures...
Co-written by Lee and Joanne Sarazen, the live action movie stars Dan Beirne, emerging actor Emily Lê (“Riceboy Sleeps”), and acclaimed activist, author and performer Andrea Werhun.
The film explores the themes of love, sex and non-monogamy for adults. It’s set in the late 90s and revolves around Chester, an introverted cartoonist who starts sleeping with sex workers and discovers a new kind of intimacy after his girlfriend, Sonny, decides to redefine their committed relationship.
“Paying For It” is produced by Matt Code of Wildling Pictures, whose credits include “See for Me,” “Mary Goes Round” and the upcoming “Young Werther;” as well as Sonya Di Rienzo and Aeschylus Poulos of Hawkeye Pictures...
- 9/6/2024
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Guillermo del Toro has partnered with Netflix to present Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein for modern-day audiences. Oscar Isaac plays the titular scientist in Frankenstein while Euphoria star Jacob Elordi dons the role of the monster. While filming his passion project, del Toro explored his fantasy of the supernatural by staying in a haunted hotel room.
Guillermo del Toro | Credits: @gdtreal/Ig
While he hasn’t experienced any major paranormal events, del Toro could confirm that he felt the presence of an evil force in the room in Aberdeen Scotland. The Pan’s Labyrinth director has also written the screenplay for the film and is producing it alongside his earlier collaborator J. Miles Dale.
Guillermo del Toro Felt The Presence of A Ghost While Filming Frankenstein in Scotland Guillermo del Toro | GuillemMedina, licensed under Cc By-sa 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Guillermo del Toro‘s works have been long characterized by horror elements and his love for monsters.
Guillermo del Toro | Credits: @gdtreal/Ig
While he hasn’t experienced any major paranormal events, del Toro could confirm that he felt the presence of an evil force in the room in Aberdeen Scotland. The Pan’s Labyrinth director has also written the screenplay for the film and is producing it alongside his earlier collaborator J. Miles Dale.
Guillermo del Toro Felt The Presence of A Ghost While Filming Frankenstein in Scotland Guillermo del Toro | GuillemMedina, licensed under Cc By-sa 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Guillermo del Toro‘s works have been long characterized by horror elements and his love for monsters.
- 9/4/2024
- by Hashim Asraff
- FandomWire
Mediawan has taken a majority stake in Our Films, the production and film financing company launched earlier this year by top Italian producers Mario Gianani and Lorenzo Mieli.
Rome-based Our Films reunites Gianani and Mieli who have worked together on productions including HBO’s The Young Pope, The New Pope and My Brilliant Friend.
Recently, Mieli has produced films such as Paolo Sorrentino’sThe Hand of God and Parthenope, Luca Guadagnino’s Bones And All and Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla.
Gianani’s recent film credits include The Eight Mountains by Felix Von Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch, Italian box office smash...
Rome-based Our Films reunites Gianani and Mieli who have worked together on productions including HBO’s The Young Pope, The New Pope and My Brilliant Friend.
Recently, Mieli has produced films such as Paolo Sorrentino’sThe Hand of God and Parthenope, Luca Guadagnino’s Bones And All and Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla.
Gianani’s recent film credits include The Eight Mountains by Felix Von Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch, Italian box office smash...
- 8/27/2024
- ScreenDaily
Mediawan, the European parent company of Brad Pitt’s Plan B, is taking a majority stake in Our Films, a new production and film financing company led by film and TV producers Mario Gianani and Lorenzo Mieli.
Launched in 2024 and based in Rome, Our Films is focused on working with established and emerging European, U.S. and international filmmakers and talent across features documentaries and series.
Mediawan, which is home to over 80 production companies, has produced projects like “Call My Agent,” “Three Body Problem,” “Bob Marley: One Love,” “Miraculous Ladybug,” “Rhythm and Flow France,” “The Agency,” “The Count of Montecristo,” “Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story,” “Hip/High Potential,” and “One Day.”
Its investment in Our Films comes as part of the company’s strategy to create a truly pan-European studio with an increasingly growing presence, which now spans 13 countries including France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Scandinavia, Benelux, and the UK in Europe,...
Launched in 2024 and based in Rome, Our Films is focused on working with established and emerging European, U.S. and international filmmakers and talent across features documentaries and series.
Mediawan, which is home to over 80 production companies, has produced projects like “Call My Agent,” “Three Body Problem,” “Bob Marley: One Love,” “Miraculous Ladybug,” “Rhythm and Flow France,” “The Agency,” “The Count of Montecristo,” “Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story,” “Hip/High Potential,” and “One Day.”
Its investment in Our Films comes as part of the company’s strategy to create a truly pan-European studio with an increasingly growing presence, which now spans 13 countries including France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Scandinavia, Benelux, and the UK in Europe,...
- 8/27/2024
- by Lucas Manfredi
- The Wrap
Plan B’s pan-European parent company Mediawan has taken a majority stake in Our Films, the new production and film financing company formed by Mario Gianani and Lorenzo Mieli, the award-winning Italian producer duo behind “The Young Pope” and “My Brilliant Friend.”
Based in Rome, Our Films reunites Gianani and Mieli, who exited their respective Fremantle-owned banners, Wildside and the Apartment, earlier this year. The pair, whose flair for talent has shined through their impressive track record over the years, will continue working with European, U.S. and international filmmakers and talent across features, documentaries and series.
Gianani and Mieli also have a co-production deal with Fremantle under which they will continue to shepherd a number of projects that they initiated at Fremantle, some of which are hot titles world premiering at the Venice Film Festival, such as Luca Guadagnino’s “Queer,” starring Daniel Craig; Pablo Larraín’s Maria Callas...
Based in Rome, Our Films reunites Gianani and Mieli, who exited their respective Fremantle-owned banners, Wildside and the Apartment, earlier this year. The pair, whose flair for talent has shined through their impressive track record over the years, will continue working with European, U.S. and international filmmakers and talent across features, documentaries and series.
Gianani and Mieli also have a co-production deal with Fremantle under which they will continue to shepherd a number of projects that they initiated at Fremantle, some of which are hot titles world premiering at the Venice Film Festival, such as Luca Guadagnino’s “Queer,” starring Daniel Craig; Pablo Larraín’s Maria Callas...
- 8/27/2024
- by Elsa Keslassy and Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Mediawan has made it official that their majority stake in Lorenzo Mieli and Mario Gianani’s Our Films has closed as the Venice Film Festival gets underway. News of both parties’ union began to emerge out of Cannes.
The investment is in line with Mediawan’s strategy of creating a Pan-European studio, home to more than 80 production companies. The Paris-based studio made a majority investment in Brad Pitt’s Plan B back in December 2022 with four of that shingle’s projects premiering on the Lido: Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, the Apple Jon Watts directed Pitt-George Clooney comedy noir Wolfs, and documentaries One to One: John & Yoko, directed by Kevin Macdonald, and Apocalypse in the Tropics directed by Petra Costa.
Mieli and Gianani departed as CEOs of their respective Fremantle labels, Wildside and The Apartment, in January, and launched their Rome, Italy-based Our Films earlier this year.
The investment is in line with Mediawan’s strategy of creating a Pan-European studio, home to more than 80 production companies. The Paris-based studio made a majority investment in Brad Pitt’s Plan B back in December 2022 with four of that shingle’s projects premiering on the Lido: Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, the Apple Jon Watts directed Pitt-George Clooney comedy noir Wolfs, and documentaries One to One: John & Yoko, directed by Kevin Macdonald, and Apocalypse in the Tropics directed by Petra Costa.
Mieli and Gianani departed as CEOs of their respective Fremantle labels, Wildside and The Apartment, in January, and launched their Rome, Italy-based Our Films earlier this year.
- 8/27/2024
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
We’re taking a look back Jacob Elordi‘s dating history!
The 27-year-old actor skyrocketed to fame when he starred in the Netflix’s The Kissing Booth, which debuted in 2018.
Since then, Jacob has become the Internet’s new favorite heartthrob as he stars in one of HBO’s most popular shows – Euphoria – and has fans going wild over his roles in the new movies Priscilla and Saltburn.
We’re now taking a look back at Jacob‘s dating history, which includes former co-stars, a supermodel, and a very popular YouTuber.
Click through the slideshow to see all of the famous women Jacob Elordi has dated over the years…...
The 27-year-old actor skyrocketed to fame when he starred in the Netflix’s The Kissing Booth, which debuted in 2018.
Since then, Jacob has become the Internet’s new favorite heartthrob as he stars in one of HBO’s most popular shows – Euphoria – and has fans going wild over his roles in the new movies Priscilla and Saltburn.
We’re now taking a look back at Jacob‘s dating history, which includes former co-stars, a supermodel, and a very popular YouTuber.
Click through the slideshow to see all of the famous women Jacob Elordi has dated over the years…...
- 8/25/2024
- by Just Jared
- Just Jared
Jason Schwartzman’s been a totemic figure so long it can be hard to separate player from part. Beginning as idol of teenage rebellion Max Fischer in Wes Anderson’s “Rushmore,” the actor’s spent a quarter-century inhabiting numerous types — stuffy writers, disgruntled husbands, mourning widows, drug addicts, a bumping Pi on HBO’s perpetually ill-appreciated “Bored to Death” — that have doubled as progressions of professional versatility and real-life aging.
Like Jean-Pierre Léaud before him, Schwartzman is seemingly now cast for the weight his name and visage can carry. This sequence continues with “Between the Temples,” which finds him playing Benjamin, a cantor whose mourning for his deceased wife finds focus in sessions with Carla (Carol Kane), a fellow widow who decides now’s high time to receive the Bat Mitzvah she missed 60-or-so years prior. A brilliantly shaped scriptment from Nathan Silver and C. Mason Wells makes ideal scene...
Like Jean-Pierre Léaud before him, Schwartzman is seemingly now cast for the weight his name and visage can carry. This sequence continues with “Between the Temples,” which finds him playing Benjamin, a cantor whose mourning for his deceased wife finds focus in sessions with Carla (Carol Kane), a fellow widow who decides now’s high time to receive the Bat Mitzvah she missed 60-or-so years prior. A brilliantly shaped scriptment from Nathan Silver and C. Mason Wells makes ideal scene...
- 8/22/2024
- by Nick Newman
- Indiewire
Charles Melton is spilling the beans on “Beef” Season 2.
While the Golden Globe and Emmy-winning Netflix and A24 limited series has not officially been renewed for a second season, Melton confirmed that he is indeed cast in the next installment. “Beef” starred Ali Wong and Steven Yeun as two L.A. residents whose road rage incident spurs mutual destruction in their respective personal lives.
Deadline reported that Season 2 will instead focus on two warring couples, with “May December” breakout Melton and “Priscilla” star Cailee Spaeny playing one duo. While both Melton and Spaeny have separately confirmed their respective castings, the other actors Deadline reported have not.
Those stars are rumored to be Oscar winners Oscar Isaac and Carey Mulligan as the other couple; Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway were rumored to have also been asked to join the series. And this wouldn’t be the first time Gyllenhaal and Isaac...
While the Golden Globe and Emmy-winning Netflix and A24 limited series has not officially been renewed for a second season, Melton confirmed that he is indeed cast in the next installment. “Beef” starred Ali Wong and Steven Yeun as two L.A. residents whose road rage incident spurs mutual destruction in their respective personal lives.
Deadline reported that Season 2 will instead focus on two warring couples, with “May December” breakout Melton and “Priscilla” star Cailee Spaeny playing one duo. While both Melton and Spaeny have separately confirmed their respective castings, the other actors Deadline reported have not.
Those stars are rumored to be Oscar winners Oscar Isaac and Carey Mulligan as the other couple; Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway were rumored to have also been asked to join the series. And this wouldn’t be the first time Gyllenhaal and Isaac...
- 8/20/2024
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Stars: Cailee Spaeny, David Jonsson, Archie Renaux, Isabela Merced, Spike Fearn, Aileen Wu, Rosie Ede, Robert Bobroczkyi, Trevor Newlin | Written by Fede Alverez, Rodo Sayagues | Directed by Fede Alverez
The 7th instalment of the Alien franchise brings some new faces, some new ideas, and some old ones too.
Cailee Spaeny has had a breakout 12 months, from her brilliant performance in Priscilla last year, to one of the year’s best films in Civil War. Now Spaeny stars in Alien: Romulus as Rain, a young girl trapped on a run-down planet, trying to find a way off for her and her adopted synthetic brother. After her efforts of working her way off the planet are halted, her chance of escape comes when a group of seemingly old friends find an abandoned Weyland ship floating just out of the planet’s atmosphere. The group realises the ship has enough supplies to take...
The 7th instalment of the Alien franchise brings some new faces, some new ideas, and some old ones too.
Cailee Spaeny has had a breakout 12 months, from her brilliant performance in Priscilla last year, to one of the year’s best films in Civil War. Now Spaeny stars in Alien: Romulus as Rain, a young girl trapped on a run-down planet, trying to find a way off for her and her adopted synthetic brother. After her efforts of working her way off the planet are halted, her chance of escape comes when a group of seemingly old friends find an abandoned Weyland ship floating just out of the planet’s atmosphere. The group realises the ship has enough supplies to take...
- 8/20/2024
- by Alex Ginnelly
- Nerdly
Face-hugs all round: it’s been a good weekend for Alien at the global box office. The sci-fi horror franchise burst back to life this year with Fede Alvarez’s Alien: Romulus, the first film in the series since 2017’s Ridley Scott-directed Alien: Covenant, this time with a somewhat back-to-basics approach – scared space-colonists battling hordes of Xenomorphs on a hellish space station, with chest-bursting, acid-dripping, monster-birthing results. That approach put bums in seats across the world – since Romulus’ opening weekend came in at $108 million worldwide. Not bad for a film that was originally slated for Disney+.
In the US, Romulus pulled in $41.5 million in ticket sales, and it fared well internationally too – it earned $66.7 million elsewhere around the world, with a major whack coming in from China ($25.7 million). It also hit #1 at the UK and Ireland box office, earning £3.74 million across the weekend. The film’s budget reportedly totalled at around $80 million,...
In the US, Romulus pulled in $41.5 million in ticket sales, and it fared well internationally too – it earned $66.7 million elsewhere around the world, with a major whack coming in from China ($25.7 million). It also hit #1 at the UK and Ireland box office, earning £3.74 million across the weekend. The film’s budget reportedly totalled at around $80 million,...
- 8/19/2024
- by Ben Travis
- Empire - Movies
The summer movie season is now all but over, the tea leaves are in, and everyone in the industry is working hard to read them. Sizing up the future of movies, should we be hopeful? Fearful? Somewhere in between?
To recap the signs: There were many big hits this summer, and that’s reason to celebrate. News flash: People still like to go to the movies!
But…the total box-office receipts lagged behind those of 2023, so there’s reason to be wary. But…the impact of the strike still registered this summer in a profound way, since there wasn’t enough product to satisfy demand. That’s good news. It means that the demand is there, and that the situation can be rectified in 2025.
And yet, if you stand back and look at the great big pie chart of moviegoing, there is still a major piece missing.
Back in the ’90s,...
To recap the signs: There were many big hits this summer, and that’s reason to celebrate. News flash: People still like to go to the movies!
But…the total box-office receipts lagged behind those of 2023, so there’s reason to be wary. But…the impact of the strike still registered this summer in a profound way, since there wasn’t enough product to satisfy demand. That’s good news. It means that the demand is there, and that the situation can be rectified in 2025.
And yet, if you stand back and look at the great big pie chart of moviegoing, there is still a major piece missing.
Back in the ’90s,...
- 8/17/2024
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
Back in 2013, director Fede Alvarez revitalized the much-loved horror franchise Evil Dead, delivering an edition that paid homage to its predecessors whilst injecting plenty of new life of its own. Just over ten years later, the director who also received acclaim for his original movie Don’t Breathe in 2016, aims to do the same thing with the Alien franchise. A passion project of his that stars Cailee Spaeny (Priscilla), Archie Renaux (Upgraded), David Jonsson (Rye Lane) and Isabela Merced (Instant Family), Alien: Romulus follows a group of young space colonizers who come face-to-face with the most terrifying form of life in the universe, whilst scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station. Slotting beautifully in between Alien and Aliens and many decades after the events in Prometheus and Covenant, Alien: Romulus is a dread-inducing, tense and scary space horror with excellent performances, a concise story and tremendous use of practical effects.
- 8/17/2024
- by Becca Johnson
- Talking Films
Few cinematic characters have left as big of an impression as Ellen Ripley, Sigourney Weaver’s iconic “Alien” survivor, who led four films in the franchise and left behind some massive shoes to fill for everyone who’s come since. In “Alien: Romulus,” that’s a young cast of franchise newcomers, led by “Priscilla” and “Civil War” star Cailee Spaeny.
Directed by “Don’t Breathe” and “Evil Dead” filmmaker Fede Álvarez, the latest installment heads back between the events of “Alien” and “Aliens,” introducing a young group of friends desperate to escape their grungy mining colony. You will, of course, recognize the Xenomorph — H.R. Giger’s inimitable alien creature — but for everyone else, here’s a handy guide to the “Alien: Romulus” cast and characters.
Cailee Spaeny in “Alien: Romulus” (20th Century Studios)
Cailee Spaeny as Rain — A recent A24 darling, “Priscilla” and “Civil War” star Cailee Spaeny plays Rain; the resourceful,...
Directed by “Don’t Breathe” and “Evil Dead” filmmaker Fede Álvarez, the latest installment heads back between the events of “Alien” and “Aliens,” introducing a young group of friends desperate to escape their grungy mining colony. You will, of course, recognize the Xenomorph — H.R. Giger’s inimitable alien creature — but for everyone else, here’s a handy guide to the “Alien: Romulus” cast and characters.
Cailee Spaeny in “Alien: Romulus” (20th Century Studios)
Cailee Spaeny as Rain — A recent A24 darling, “Priscilla” and “Civil War” star Cailee Spaeny plays Rain; the resourceful,...
- 8/16/2024
- by Haleigh Foutch
- The Wrap
Disney blockbuster Alien: Romulus crawls into 676 cinemas at this weekend’s UK-Ireland box office, as the first title in the franchise since 2017’s Alien: Covenant.
Directed by Fede Alvarez, Alien: Romulus is set between the events of 1979’s Alien and 1986’s Aliens, and sees a group of young space colonists scavenging a derelict space station and coming face-to-face with a xenomorph alien.
Alvarez and Rodo Sayagues wrote the script, based on characters by Dan O’Bannon and Ronald Shusett. Civil War and Priscilla star Cailee Spaeny leads the cast, alongside Archie Renaux, Isabela Merced and Screen Stars of Tomorrow David Jonsson and Spike Fearn.
Directed by Fede Alvarez, Alien: Romulus is set between the events of 1979’s Alien and 1986’s Aliens, and sees a group of young space colonists scavenging a derelict space station and coming face-to-face with a xenomorph alien.
Alvarez and Rodo Sayagues wrote the script, based on characters by Dan O’Bannon and Ronald Shusett. Civil War and Priscilla star Cailee Spaeny leads the cast, alongside Archie Renaux, Isabela Merced and Screen Stars of Tomorrow David Jonsson and Spike Fearn.
- 8/16/2024
- ScreenDaily
With Alien: Romulus, Cailee Spaeny finds herself up against an iconic menagerie of monsters. As she tells us, though, she's always been drawn to the dark.
Cailee Spaeny came out of nowhere, and suddenly she is everywhere.
Maybe she broke your heart in HBO’s Mare Of Easttown as the teenage mother lured into the woods to die. She was in Alex Garland’s philosophical sci-fi series Devs as tech genius Lyndon, and starred in Garland’s intense gut-punch of a film, Civil War. Most likely you will know her as the lead in Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla, which earned her a Golden Globe nomination: she was the actor brave enough to take on a role that would not only be heavily scrutinised, but would also require her to apply cat-eyeliner, in one take, without a mirror. Her characters are memorable because they exist at the extremes of human experience,...
Cailee Spaeny came out of nowhere, and suddenly she is everywhere.
Maybe she broke your heart in HBO’s Mare Of Easttown as the teenage mother lured into the woods to die. She was in Alex Garland’s philosophical sci-fi series Devs as tech genius Lyndon, and starred in Garland’s intense gut-punch of a film, Civil War. Most likely you will know her as the lead in Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla, which earned her a Golden Globe nomination: she was the actor brave enough to take on a role that would not only be heavily scrutinised, but would also require her to apply cat-eyeliner, in one take, without a mirror. Her characters are memorable because they exist at the extremes of human experience,...
- 8/15/2024
- by Hayley Campbell
- Empire - Movies
Alien: Romulus is the eighth instalment in the long-running Alien film franchise, set between the events of Ridley Scott’s 1979 Alien and James Cameron’s 1986 sequel, Aliens. Directed by Fede Álvarez and co-written with frequent collaborator Rodo Sayagues, the film was produced by Scott Free Productions.
Rain Carradine, played by Cailee Spaeny (known for Priscilla and The Civil War), is a mine worker on Jackson’s Star, a human colony located somewhere in the solar system. Denied leave from her job despite fulfilling the required time, the frustrated young woman hatches a plan to leave for sunnier climes.
Accompanied by Andy, a docile android inherited from her father and portrayed by David Jonsson (known for Rye Lane), Rain joins a group of scavengers aboard a derelict spaceship, hoping to find a way off their prison planet. Their desperate gamble takes a terrifying turn when they discover the ship is infested...
Rain Carradine, played by Cailee Spaeny (known for Priscilla and The Civil War), is a mine worker on Jackson’s Star, a human colony located somewhere in the solar system. Denied leave from her job despite fulfilling the required time, the frustrated young woman hatches a plan to leave for sunnier climes.
Accompanied by Andy, a docile android inherited from her father and portrayed by David Jonsson (known for Rye Lane), Rain joins a group of scavengers aboard a derelict spaceship, hoping to find a way off their prison planet. Their desperate gamble takes a terrifying turn when they discover the ship is infested...
- 8/14/2024
- by Linda Marric
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The seventh instalment in the increasingly aimless Alien franchise is better than it has any right to be, a genuinely thoughtful reimagining that pays stylish homage to the one-two punch packed by Ridley Scott and James Cameron in 1979 and 1986 but adds in some inventively nasty surprises of its own. Sigourney Weaver is nowhere in sight, and Cailee Spaeney might seem, at first glance, to be an unlikely successor, but the Priscilla star certainly earns her stripes by the end of Alien: Romulus’ tight and deceptively well-judged two-hour running time.
Ditching, for the time being, all the boring conceptual non-sequiturs that flooded in after Alien 3 — the creationist story of the xenomorphs and the ongoing soap opera of the Wayland-Yutani Corporation, with its airy-fairy plans to use extraterrestrial DNA for … whatever — Alien: Romulus sets out its stall roughly midway in the 57-year gap between the events of the first movie and the second.
Ditching, for the time being, all the boring conceptual non-sequiturs that flooded in after Alien 3 — the creationist story of the xenomorphs and the ongoing soap opera of the Wayland-Yutani Corporation, with its airy-fairy plans to use extraterrestrial DNA for … whatever — Alien: Romulus sets out its stall roughly midway in the 57-year gap between the events of the first movie and the second.
- 8/14/2024
- by Damon Wise
- Deadline Film + TV
August continues with one more franchise film that stands the best chance at making money before the month ends. Read on for Gold Derby’s box office preview.
It has been 45 years since filmmaker Ridley Scott first got attention with his horror-sci-fi film “Alien” and seven years since his last movie in that franchise, 2017’s “Alien: Covenant.” Sir Ridley is still involved as a producer with “Alien: Romulus,” the first movie produced under 20th Century since being bought by Disney. For this latest reboot, they’ve brought on Fede Álvarez, best known for the “Don’t Breathe” movies and the 2013 remake of Sam Raimi‘s “Evil Dead.”
It’s been a long time since Sigourney Weaver‘s Ripley was leading these things, but for this one, they’ve brought on Cailee Spaeny of “Civil War” and “Priscilla,” as well as Isabela Merced from “Transformers: The Last Knight” and “Dora and the Lost City of Gold.
It has been 45 years since filmmaker Ridley Scott first got attention with his horror-sci-fi film “Alien” and seven years since his last movie in that franchise, 2017’s “Alien: Covenant.” Sir Ridley is still involved as a producer with “Alien: Romulus,” the first movie produced under 20th Century since being bought by Disney. For this latest reboot, they’ve brought on Fede Álvarez, best known for the “Don’t Breathe” movies and the 2013 remake of Sam Raimi‘s “Evil Dead.”
It’s been a long time since Sigourney Weaver‘s Ripley was leading these things, but for this one, they’ve brought on Cailee Spaeny of “Civil War” and “Priscilla,” as well as Isabela Merced from “Transformers: The Last Knight” and “Dora and the Lost City of Gold.
- 8/14/2024
- by Edward Douglas
- Gold Derby
By the time the world discovered Dominic Sessa, it was too late for him to play his real celebrity doppelgänger, Bob Dylan. That honor, of course, went to Timothée Chalamet, who’s getting tangled up in blue (and singing it himself!) for James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown, out in theaters December 25. However,...
- 8/13/2024
- by Emma Keates
- avclub.com
French band Phoenix rocked the Paris Olympics Closing Ceremony, with fellow French act Air appearing to duet with them as they closed out the Games on Sunday night as part of the sci-fi-themed ceremony. Phoenix kicked off their set with “Lisztomania” to an enthusiastic response from athletes from around the world, who were seen dancing jubilantly to the music.
DJ Kavinsky and Belgian singer Angèle joined the band for “Nightcall,” which was followed up by “If I Ever Feel Better” and a duet with Ezra Koenig of Vampire Weekend.
“They’re unbelievable, great band, always bringing the energy,” host Jimmy Fallon said as he commentated during the band’s performance.
The band was joined by French duo Air for “Playground Love,” a song featured in filmmaker Sofia Coppola’s dreamy 1999 drama “The Virgin Suicides” — Air scored the film. Phoenix frontman Thomas Mars has been married to Coppola since 2011. He and...
DJ Kavinsky and Belgian singer Angèle joined the band for “Nightcall,” which was followed up by “If I Ever Feel Better” and a duet with Ezra Koenig of Vampire Weekend.
“They’re unbelievable, great band, always bringing the energy,” host Jimmy Fallon said as he commentated during the band’s performance.
The band was joined by French duo Air for “Playground Love,” a song featured in filmmaker Sofia Coppola’s dreamy 1999 drama “The Virgin Suicides” — Air scored the film. Phoenix frontman Thomas Mars has been married to Coppola since 2011. He and...
- 8/11/2024
- by Sharon Knolle
- The Wrap
August 9
Q: On this day exactly 50 years ago, August 9 1974, Richard Nixon became the first and only President to resign his office. Nixon also significantly brought Best Actor nominations to two actors who played him on screen. Who are they?
A: Anthony Hopkins was nominated for the Best Actor Oscar for 1995’s Nixon. Frank Langella was nominated in the same category for 2008’s Frost/Nixon. Langella had previously won a Tony Award for the play on which that movie was based. Only one actor has ever won a Best Actor Oscar for playing a real life U.S. President. Daniel Day Lewis took his third Lead Actor Academy Award in 2012’s Lincoln. Raymond Massey was also previously nominated as Lincoln for Best Actor in 1940’s Abe Lincoln In Illinois. Nixon and Lincoln are the only real life U.S. Presidents to be responsible for multiple Oscar nominations for those who played them.
Q: On this day exactly 50 years ago, August 9 1974, Richard Nixon became the first and only President to resign his office. Nixon also significantly brought Best Actor nominations to two actors who played him on screen. Who are they?
A: Anthony Hopkins was nominated for the Best Actor Oscar for 1995’s Nixon. Frank Langella was nominated in the same category for 2008’s Frost/Nixon. Langella had previously won a Tony Award for the play on which that movie was based. Only one actor has ever won a Best Actor Oscar for playing a real life U.S. President. Daniel Day Lewis took his third Lead Actor Academy Award in 2012’s Lincoln. Raymond Massey was also previously nominated as Lincoln for Best Actor in 1940’s Abe Lincoln In Illinois. Nixon and Lincoln are the only real life U.S. Presidents to be responsible for multiple Oscar nominations for those who played them.
- 8/9/2024
- by The Deadline Team
- Deadline Film + TV
To lead the next installment in the “Alien” franchise, Cailee Spaeny actually looked to other classic horror films to maintain a sense of terror on set.
Breakout “Priscilla” actress Spaeny told SFX magazine that while she did her best to convey being horrified during scenes for “Alien: Romulus,” she sometimes had to call in reinforcements to inspire fear.
“You do sort of run out of ideas. You’re like, ‘I don’t know how to be horrified again today in an interesting way. I’ve got, like, three facial expressions and you’ve seen all of them about 100 times now!'” Spaeny said. “Honestly, when you shoot a movie like this for months, and you’re doing so many horror beats, you do run out of ways to be horrified! The whole time I was making the movie, the second I got home I either had a sci-fi or a...
Breakout “Priscilla” actress Spaeny told SFX magazine that while she did her best to convey being horrified during scenes for “Alien: Romulus,” she sometimes had to call in reinforcements to inspire fear.
“You do sort of run out of ideas. You’re like, ‘I don’t know how to be horrified again today in an interesting way. I’ve got, like, three facial expressions and you’ve seen all of them about 100 times now!'” Spaeny said. “Honestly, when you shoot a movie like this for months, and you’re doing so many horror beats, you do run out of ways to be horrified! The whole time I was making the movie, the second I got home I either had a sci-fi or a...
- 8/2/2024
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
It’s the dog days of summer, and while that sometimes brings some dire offerings to the world of cinema, August still has plenty of distractions worth looking into. For one, M. Night Shyamalan returns with the serial killer film “Trap,” starring Josh Harnett, Matt Damon, and Casey Affleck star in “The Instigators” crime comedy for ‘Bourne Identity’ filmmaker Doug Liman, and horror suspense filmmaker Fede Álvarez finds a new muse in Cailee Spaeny (“Priscilla”), for his scary-looking “Alien: Romulus” franchise installment.
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- 8/2/2024
- by Ally Johnson
- The Playlist
With their last Joker film, Todd Phillips and Joaquin Phoenix reinvented the character from the ground up. Now, they’re about to change the game all over again in Joker: Folie À Deux – a follow-up that sends Phoenix’s Arthur Fleck (and Lady Gaga’s Harley ‘Lee’ Quinzel) into song-and-dance territory. It’s one of the year’s most eagerly-anticipated films, and the new issue of Empire is your all-access guide.
The September 2024 issue isn’t on newsstands until tomorrow, Thursday 1 August – but you can take a sneak peek at what’s in story below. Order a copy online here.
Joker: Folie À Deux
How do you follow up a billion-dollar character drama take on one of the world’s most famous villains? Why, you make a music-fuelled romance, of course! Empire speaks with filmmaker Todd Phillips, stars Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga, and more, getting the inside story on...
The September 2024 issue isn’t on newsstands until tomorrow, Thursday 1 August – but you can take a sneak peek at what’s in story below. Order a copy online here.
Joker: Folie À Deux
How do you follow up a billion-dollar character drama take on one of the world’s most famous villains? Why, you make a music-fuelled romance, of course! Empire speaks with filmmaker Todd Phillips, stars Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga, and more, getting the inside story on...
- 8/1/2024
- by Ben Travis
- Empire - Movies
It’s almost August, which means two things: It’s the last month of the summer movie season, and we’re into the traditional “Dog Days of Summer” when studios often dump a lot of crap in hopes that moviegoers, at least those not taking their last-minute vacations, might go see them. Oddly, this month we also have a number of original films with just two franchise reboots, and a couple movies based on popular books and one video game. Read on for Gold Derby’s August 2024 box office preview.
“Alien: Romulus” (20th Century – Aug. 16)
Uruguyan filmmaker Fede Alvarez (“Don’t Breathe”) is the latest director to take over this long-running horror sci-fi franchise that began all the way back in 1979 with Ridley Scott‘s “Alien.” Scott is still involved as a producer after directing “Prometheus” and “Alien: Covenant” in 2012 and 2017, respectively, the former being the highest-grossing movie in the franchise with $402.4 million worldwide.
“Alien: Romulus” (20th Century – Aug. 16)
Uruguyan filmmaker Fede Alvarez (“Don’t Breathe”) is the latest director to take over this long-running horror sci-fi franchise that began all the way back in 1979 with Ridley Scott‘s “Alien.” Scott is still involved as a producer after directing “Prometheus” and “Alien: Covenant” in 2012 and 2017, respectively, the former being the highest-grossing movie in the franchise with $402.4 million worldwide.
- 7/30/2024
- by Edward Douglas
- Gold Derby
Nearly 50 years later, Alien’s Xenomorph remains one of the greatest and most terrifying monster designs of all time. With its gnarled limbs, double snapping jaws, slimy skin, and propensity for sneaking around in dark corners, it’s a creature that still inspires awe and fear. And it’s none more scary than when conjured practically – with real, tangible puppet effects. So, that’s exactly what filmmaker Fede Alvarez chose for Alien: Romulus, his new face-hugging, chest-bursting horror, aiming to bridge the tense terror of Alien with the all-out war thrills of Aliens.
For star Cailee Spaeny, those practical Xenomorph effects were a game-changer. “The puppeteers were absolutely brilliant,” she tells Empire in a major new career interview. “I mean, they were really puppeteering these creatures. I just don’t think we see that anymore; we turned a corner where everything became green screens and acting to tennis balls. So...
For star Cailee Spaeny, those practical Xenomorph effects were a game-changer. “The puppeteers were absolutely brilliant,” she tells Empire in a major new career interview. “I mean, they were really puppeteering these creatures. I just don’t think we see that anymore; we turned a corner where everything became green screens and acting to tennis balls. So...
- 7/30/2024
- by Ben Travis
- Empire - Movies
Qatari beIN media group and Dubai-based film distributor Front Row Filmed Entertainment have renewed an ongoing first run deal for another three years until 2027.
Under the accord, beIN has secured exclusive pay one window rights to up to 300 movie titles for its linear and subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) services across the Middle East and North African region.
Titles covered by the deal include Better Man, Priscilla, Anatomy of a Fall, The Night of the Zoopocalypse, La Cocina, Ezra, Mother’s Instinct, Bad Genius, Riddick: Furya; The Smashing Machine, Parthenope, and the upcoming Cliffhanger reboot, on which Front Row is a backer.
“Front Row Filmed Entertainment has been an important partner ever since beIN expanded its portfolio to include entertainment content, so we are very pleased to be continuing this relationship,” said Esra Altop, Chief Entertainment Content Officer at beIN.
“The partnership with Front Row Filmed Entertainment aligns with beIN’s continued strategic...
Under the accord, beIN has secured exclusive pay one window rights to up to 300 movie titles for its linear and subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) services across the Middle East and North African region.
Titles covered by the deal include Better Man, Priscilla, Anatomy of a Fall, The Night of the Zoopocalypse, La Cocina, Ezra, Mother’s Instinct, Bad Genius, Riddick: Furya; The Smashing Machine, Parthenope, and the upcoming Cliffhanger reboot, on which Front Row is a backer.
“Front Row Filmed Entertainment has been an important partner ever since beIN expanded its portfolio to include entertainment content, so we are very pleased to be continuing this relationship,” said Esra Altop, Chief Entertainment Content Officer at beIN.
“The partnership with Front Row Filmed Entertainment aligns with beIN’s continued strategic...
- 7/30/2024
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Press Play Films has revealed its latest project, “Spaceman,” a genre-bending film that blends sci-fi, fantasy and coming-of-age elements.
The film, written and directed by emerging filmmaker Dan Abramovici, features a cast including Oscar winner J.K. Simmons (“Whiplash”), Mena Massoud (“Aladdin”) and Trevor Copp.
The story follows an artist’s journey to reclaim his lost creative passion. Copp stars as the titular Spaceman, who must confront his imposter syndrome (played by Simmons) and team up with his passion (Massoud) to rediscover himself. The narrative explores themes of identity, artistic expression and mental health.
“Spaceman” aims to combine classic Hollywood techniques reminiscent of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton with cutting-edge practical effects and hopes to draw comparisons to the work of Michel Gondry and Baz Luhrmann with its approach. It employs an array of techniques, including mime, stop motion, classic animation and theatrical elements.
The film builds on Abramovici’s previous work,...
The film, written and directed by emerging filmmaker Dan Abramovici, features a cast including Oscar winner J.K. Simmons (“Whiplash”), Mena Massoud (“Aladdin”) and Trevor Copp.
The story follows an artist’s journey to reclaim his lost creative passion. Copp stars as the titular Spaceman, who must confront his imposter syndrome (played by Simmons) and team up with his passion (Massoud) to rediscover himself. The narrative explores themes of identity, artistic expression and mental health.
“Spaceman” aims to combine classic Hollywood techniques reminiscent of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton with cutting-edge practical effects and hopes to draw comparisons to the work of Michel Gondry and Baz Luhrmann with its approach. It employs an array of techniques, including mime, stop motion, classic animation and theatrical elements.
The film builds on Abramovici’s previous work,...
- 7/29/2024
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
When you don’t have star power or a massive superhero movie to show off in San Diego Comic-Con’s highly-visible Hall H, you have to get creative.
And Disney and its 20th Century Studios division did just that for its Alien: Romulus panel. A little theatrics — red strobe lights followed by a gurgling man stumbling on stage, then dying from a “chest burster” — and video questions from surprise filmmaker guests such as original Alien director Ridley Scott or filmmaker Guillermo del Toro, among others can go a long way to bolster the already strong clips that were shown.
And if that fails, then you leave them with parting gifts, in this case, rubber alien “face huggers” that were distributed to all 6,500 or so people who packed the cavernous hall of the San Diego Convention Center Friday, many of whom immediately proceeded to take selfies and post the photos to all their friends.
And Disney and its 20th Century Studios division did just that for its Alien: Romulus panel. A little theatrics — red strobe lights followed by a gurgling man stumbling on stage, then dying from a “chest burster” — and video questions from surprise filmmaker guests such as original Alien director Ridley Scott or filmmaker Guillermo del Toro, among others can go a long way to bolster the already strong clips that were shown.
And if that fails, then you leave them with parting gifts, in this case, rubber alien “face huggers” that were distributed to all 6,500 or so people who packed the cavernous hall of the San Diego Convention Center Friday, many of whom immediately proceeded to take selfies and post the photos to all their friends.
- 7/27/2024
- by Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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