Stars: Mãdãlina Ghenea, Ibrahima Gueye, Ed Westwick, Macarena Gómez, Stany Coppet, John-Paul Pace, Shane Rowe | Written by Robert Capelli Jr., Sophia Eptamenitis | Directed by Marcus Adams
Deep Fear, not to be confused with last year’s film about monsters under the streets of Paris (which is probably why they added the “Sharks vs Narcs” subtitle to the film for its digital release), is a call back to the shark films of the past. Not to Jaws or its imitators but to something earlier, like Shark!, Shark’s Treasure, and The Deep where the sharks were a secondary plot element, an added threat for the protagonists to face in addition to other humans.
In the case of Deep Fear that would be Naomi whom we first see showing her co-worker Barney how easily a reef shark can be steered away from people. When she surfaces her partner Jackson that he’s booked another tour.
Deep Fear, not to be confused with last year’s film about monsters under the streets of Paris (which is probably why they added the “Sharks vs Narcs” subtitle to the film for its digital release), is a call back to the shark films of the past. Not to Jaws or its imitators but to something earlier, like Shark!, Shark’s Treasure, and The Deep where the sharks were a secondary plot element, an added threat for the protagonists to face in addition to other humans.
In the case of Deep Fear that would be Naomi whom we first see showing her co-worker Barney how easily a reef shark can be steered away from people. When she surfaces her partner Jackson that he’s booked another tour.
- 11/6/2023
- by Jim Morazzini
- Nerdly
Halloween may be over but the truth is, it’s Always Halloween when you’re a horror fan. And even if networks like AMC and Freeform are no longer showing Halloween movies, make no mistake: the flood of new horror releases Never stops. We promise. Speaking of which…
Here’s all the new horror released on Friday, November 3, 2023!
For daily reminders about new horror releases, be sure to follow @HorrorCalendar.
A brand new shark attack horror movie swims our way today on Digital outlets from Gravitas Ventures, this one titled Deep Fear and mixing sharks, storms, and… cocaine?!
Madalina Ghenea (House of Gucci) and Ed Westwick (Gossip Girl) lead the cast of Deep Fear, which is marketing itself as something of a stealth “Cocaine Shark” movie.
“Set in the Caribbean, Deep Fear is an intense and visceral survival thriller with furious action throughout. Madalina Ghenea stars as Naomi, an accomplished round-the-world yachtswoman,...
Here’s all the new horror released on Friday, November 3, 2023!
For daily reminders about new horror releases, be sure to follow @HorrorCalendar.
A brand new shark attack horror movie swims our way today on Digital outlets from Gravitas Ventures, this one titled Deep Fear and mixing sharks, storms, and… cocaine?!
Madalina Ghenea (House of Gucci) and Ed Westwick (Gossip Girl) lead the cast of Deep Fear, which is marketing itself as something of a stealth “Cocaine Shark” movie.
“Set in the Caribbean, Deep Fear is an intense and visceral survival thriller with furious action throughout. Madalina Ghenea stars as Naomi, an accomplished round-the-world yachtswoman,...
- 11/3/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
The next shark attack horror movie swimming our way is titled Deep Fear, and Gravitas Ventures has unleashed the brand new official trailer this afternoon. You’ll find it below.
Deep Fear chomps its way onto Digital outlets here in the States on November 3, 2023.
Madalina Ghenea (House of Gucci) and Ed Westwick (Gossip Girl) lead the cast of Deep Fear, which is now marketing itself as something of a stealth “Cocaine Shark” movie.
Aside from the cocaine, it looks much like any other shark attack movie of the past 10 years.
“Set in the Caribbean, Deep Fear is an intense and visceral survival thriller with furious action throughout. Madalina Ghenea stars as Naomi, an accomplished round-the-world yachtswoman, who sets out on a solo trip to meet her boyfriend, Jackson – played by Ed Westwick – in Grenada. Her tranquil three-day sail aboard 47-foot yacht ‘The Serenity’ takes an unexpectedly dark turn when a...
Deep Fear chomps its way onto Digital outlets here in the States on November 3, 2023.
Madalina Ghenea (House of Gucci) and Ed Westwick (Gossip Girl) lead the cast of Deep Fear, which is now marketing itself as something of a stealth “Cocaine Shark” movie.
Aside from the cocaine, it looks much like any other shark attack movie of the past 10 years.
“Set in the Caribbean, Deep Fear is an intense and visceral survival thriller with furious action throughout. Madalina Ghenea stars as Naomi, an accomplished round-the-world yachtswoman, who sets out on a solo trip to meet her boyfriend, Jackson – played by Ed Westwick – in Grenada. Her tranquil three-day sail aboard 47-foot yacht ‘The Serenity’ takes an unexpectedly dark turn when a...
- 10/11/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
“Deep Fear,” the upcoming shark thriller starring “Gossip Girl’s” Ed Westwick and “House of Gucci’s” Madalina Ghenea, has gone into production in Malta.
The feature has also added Stany Coppet (“Vikings: Valhalla”) and Macarena Gomez (“Shrew’s Nest”), who will play drug traffickers Jose and Maria, as well as Ibrahima Gueye (“The Life Ahead”) who will play a boat hand called Barney.
“Deep Fear” sees Ghenea star as accomplished yachtswoman Naomi who embarks on a solo trip through the Caribbean to meet her boyfriend Jackson (played by Westwick) in Grenada.
When a storm forces Naomi of course, she encounters survivors of a shipwreck who, it soon transpires, are actually drug traffickers. They force Naomi to dive into the hull of their sunken ship to retrieve their shipment of cocaine, where she encounters a frenzy of vicious tiger sharks, whom she must outwit to survive.
The feature will shoot over...
The feature has also added Stany Coppet (“Vikings: Valhalla”) and Macarena Gomez (“Shrew’s Nest”), who will play drug traffickers Jose and Maria, as well as Ibrahima Gueye (“The Life Ahead”) who will play a boat hand called Barney.
“Deep Fear” sees Ghenea star as accomplished yachtswoman Naomi who embarks on a solo trip through the Caribbean to meet her boyfriend Jackson (played by Westwick) in Grenada.
When a storm forces Naomi of course, she encounters survivors of a shipwreck who, it soon transpires, are actually drug traffickers. They force Naomi to dive into the hull of their sunken ship to retrieve their shipment of cocaine, where she encounters a frenzy of vicious tiger sharks, whom she must outwit to survive.
The feature will shoot over...
- 2/28/2022
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
Giorgio Diritti’s biopic “Hidden Away,” about crazed primitivist painter Antonio Ligabue, was the big winner at Italy’s 66th David di Donatello Awards, the country’s top film prizes.
The Davids were held with an in-person ceremony aired from two venues amid a strong spirit of restart as Italian movie theaters gradually begin to reopen.
“Hidden Away,” which was the frontrunner with 15 nominations, scored seven statuettes including best picture, director and actor honors won by Elio Germano who tackles “the fiendishly difficult role” of the self-taught artist “with customary gusto,” as Variety critic Jay Weissberg noted in his review.
The best actress statuette went to Sophia Loren for her role as Madame Rosa, a former prostitute and Holocaust survivor, in Netflix Original “The Life Ahead,” directed by her son Edoardo Ponti. The Italian icon’s return to the big screen after a decade had been snubbed by the Oscars earlier this year.
The Davids were held with an in-person ceremony aired from two venues amid a strong spirit of restart as Italian movie theaters gradually begin to reopen.
“Hidden Away,” which was the frontrunner with 15 nominations, scored seven statuettes including best picture, director and actor honors won by Elio Germano who tackles “the fiendishly difficult role” of the self-taught artist “with customary gusto,” as Variety critic Jay Weissberg noted in his review.
The best actress statuette went to Sophia Loren for her role as Madame Rosa, a former prostitute and Holocaust survivor, in Netflix Original “The Life Ahead,” directed by her son Edoardo Ponti. The Italian icon’s return to the big screen after a decade had been snubbed by the Oscars earlier this year.
- 5/11/2021
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Things are of course very different this year, and all performances for the Academy Award nominees for Best Original Song were performed during the preshow, which began at 6:30 p.m. Et., rather than being interspersed and performed live during the Oscars event at Union Station in Los Angeles.
The nominees for Best Original Song span H.E.R.’s soulful anthem from Judas and the Black Messiah to Will Ferrell and Rachel McAdams’ melodramatically hilarious track from Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga. Songwriter Diane Warren, who has yet to win an Oscar,...
The nominees for Best Original Song span H.E.R.’s soulful anthem from Judas and the Black Messiah to Will Ferrell and Rachel McAdams’ melodramatically hilarious track from Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga. Songwriter Diane Warren, who has yet to win an Oscar,...
- 4/26/2021
- by Rolling Stone
- Rollingstone.com
One night, when Diane Warren was 15 years old, someone actually paid her to stop singing at a restaurant. “They had said, ‘Bring your guitar and play a couple of songs. Maybe you’ll get discovered.’ I got paid after one song to stop. $15. They said I was interfering with people’s dinners.”
But this teenage horror story is not the reason why Warren won’t perform any of the numerous hit songs she’s written—it’s because she’s only ever wanted to write, not sing. “As a kid I would look to see who wrote songs. I didn’t care to sing them really even then. It’s just nothing I ever wanted to do in my life,” she says, in a Zoom conversation from her L.A. studio.
Despite a list of hits as long as a phonebook, and her latest—incredibly, her 12th—Oscar nomination for Best Original Song,...
But this teenage horror story is not the reason why Warren won’t perform any of the numerous hit songs she’s written—it’s because she’s only ever wanted to write, not sing. “As a kid I would look to see who wrote songs. I didn’t care to sing them really even then. It’s just nothing I ever wanted to do in my life,” she says, in a Zoom conversation from her L.A. studio.
Despite a list of hits as long as a phonebook, and her latest—incredibly, her 12th—Oscar nomination for Best Original Song,...
- 4/15/2021
- by Antonia Blyth
- Deadline Film + TV
If “Io Sì (Seen)” wins the song Oscar on April 25, it will mark only the fourth time in Oscar history that a foreign-language lyric has taken the prize. Diane Warren’s song for “The Life Ahead,” which co-lyricist Laura Pausini sings in Italian, is the 10th song not in the English language to be nominated.
The winners were the title song from 1960’s “Never on Sunday,” in Greek; “Al Otro Lado Del Rio,” from 2004’s “The Motorcycle Diaries,” in Spanish; and “Jai Ho,” from 2008’s “Slumdog Millionaire,” a mix of Hindi, Urdu and Punjabi languages.
One of its strongest competitors is “Husavik,” from “Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga,” which is sung partly in Icelandic.
A non-English lyric is not necessarily a handicap. Multiple factors go into an Oscar song win, and it isn’t always just the competition. Manos Hadjidakis’ song “Never on Sunday” — from Jules Dassin...
The winners were the title song from 1960’s “Never on Sunday,” in Greek; “Al Otro Lado Del Rio,” from 2004’s “The Motorcycle Diaries,” in Spanish; and “Jai Ho,” from 2008’s “Slumdog Millionaire,” a mix of Hindi, Urdu and Punjabi languages.
One of its strongest competitors is “Husavik,” from “Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga,” which is sung partly in Icelandic.
A non-English lyric is not necessarily a handicap. Multiple factors go into an Oscar song win, and it isn’t always just the competition. Manos Hadjidakis’ song “Never on Sunday” — from Jules Dassin...
- 4/9/2021
- by Jon Burlingame
- Variety Film + TV
Following their win at the Golden Globes, in the category of Best Original Song – Motion Picture, songwriters Diane Warren and Laura Pausini have locked down an Oscar nomination, which recognized “Io Sì,” the original song they wrote for Italian Netflix drama, The Life Ahead.
While this recognition brought Warren to a career total of 12 noms, it happened to mark the first for Pausini, who’s referred to by her collaborator as “the best singer in Italy.”
“For Italy, this is an honor,” Pausini said. “I’m happy to be part of this project because this is a project we made as a family.”
While Warren is no newcomer to the Oscars competition, getting nominated for her songs never gets old. “This is so great, it really is, and so exciting,” she said. “I haven’t won yet, so maybe Laura, you’re my lucky charm here.”
Directed by Edoardo Ponti,...
While this recognition brought Warren to a career total of 12 noms, it happened to mark the first for Pausini, who’s referred to by her collaborator as “the best singer in Italy.”
“For Italy, this is an honor,” Pausini said. “I’m happy to be part of this project because this is a project we made as a family.”
While Warren is no newcomer to the Oscars competition, getting nominated for her songs never gets old. “This is so great, it really is, and so exciting,” she said. “I haven’t won yet, so maybe Laura, you’re my lucky charm here.”
Directed by Edoardo Ponti,...
- 3/15/2021
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Mere hours after the conclusion of the Grammys, the organizers of the Academy Awards have announced five more songs worthy of a golden statuette.
The nominees for Best Original Song are a fun mix of highbrow and lowbrow tunes, spanning H.E.R.’s soulful anthem from Judas and the Black Messiah to Will Ferrell and Rachel McAdams’ melodramatically hilarious track from Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga. Songwriter Diane Warren, who has yet to win an Oscar, earns her 12th nomination this year for her contribution to the Italian film,...
The nominees for Best Original Song are a fun mix of highbrow and lowbrow tunes, spanning H.E.R.’s soulful anthem from Judas and the Black Messiah to Will Ferrell and Rachel McAdams’ melodramatically hilarious track from Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga. Songwriter Diane Warren, who has yet to win an Oscar, earns her 12th nomination this year for her contribution to the Italian film,...
- 3/15/2021
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Last night in La La Land the 2021 Critics Choice Awards, hosted by Taye Diggs, took place on a hybrid stage of virtually and in-person to announce the past year’s best Film and Television offerings.
Netflix, yet again, came out on top with a host of their content, from ‘The Crown’, ‘The Queen’s Gambit’, ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ and ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ taking home gongs including Best Actor for the late Chadwick Boseman in film, Best Drama for ‘The Crown’ which also came with Best Actor and Best Actress awards of Josh O’Connor and Emma Corrin. ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ took home awards for both Best Limited Series and Best Actress in a Limited series for Anya Taylor-Joy.
Winning big on the film front came Chloé Zhao who not only took home the Best Director award for ‘Nomadland‘ but it also won Best Picture.
See the full list...
Netflix, yet again, came out on top with a host of their content, from ‘The Crown’, ‘The Queen’s Gambit’, ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ and ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ taking home gongs including Best Actor for the late Chadwick Boseman in film, Best Drama for ‘The Crown’ which also came with Best Actor and Best Actress awards of Josh O’Connor and Emma Corrin. ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ took home awards for both Best Limited Series and Best Actress in a Limited series for Anya Taylor-Joy.
Winning big on the film front came Chloé Zhao who not only took home the Best Director award for ‘Nomadland‘ but it also won Best Picture.
See the full list...
- 3/8/2021
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Carey Mulligan named best actress for Promising Young Woman.
Searchlight Pictures’ Nomadland won best film, Chloe Zhao earned best director and adapted screenplay, and Carey Mulligan and the late Chadwick Boseman took the top acting awards at the 26th annual Critics Choice Awards on Sunday (March 7).
Zhao became the first female and Chinese woman to win the directing award. Nomadland led the film leader board with four wins including Joshua James Richards for cinematography.
Netflix’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom earned three wins at the hybrid in-person/virtual ceremony, led by Boseman’s posthumous best actor award, while Focus...
Searchlight Pictures’ Nomadland won best film, Chloe Zhao earned best director and adapted screenplay, and Carey Mulligan and the late Chadwick Boseman took the top acting awards at the 26th annual Critics Choice Awards on Sunday (March 7).
Zhao became the first female and Chinese woman to win the directing award. Nomadland led the film leader board with four wins including Joshua James Richards for cinematography.
Netflix’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom earned three wins at the hybrid in-person/virtual ceremony, led by Boseman’s posthumous best actor award, while Focus...
- 3/8/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
On Sunday, the 26th annual Critics Choice Awards hosted by Taye Diggs took place on a virtual and in-person stage with Nomadland and The Crown walking away with numerous accolades.
Nomadland won the biggest prize of Best Picture while filmmaker Chloe Zhao snatched trophies for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. Netflix’s The Crown continues its streak as Gillian Anderson won for Best Supporting Actress for Drama for her turn as Margaret Thatcher. Meanwhile, Josh O’Connor and Emma Corrin won for Best Actor and Actress in a Drama Series, respectively.
It was very noticeable that, right off the bat, the Critics Choice Awards were more inclusive than the Golden Globes with its winners — and nominees for that matter. In addition to Zendaya being honored with the SeeHer award, Daniel Kaluuya added more momentum to his awards season run as he won for Best Supporting Actor in Judas and the Black Messiah.
Nomadland won the biggest prize of Best Picture while filmmaker Chloe Zhao snatched trophies for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. Netflix’s The Crown continues its streak as Gillian Anderson won for Best Supporting Actress for Drama for her turn as Margaret Thatcher. Meanwhile, Josh O’Connor and Emma Corrin won for Best Actor and Actress in a Drama Series, respectively.
It was very noticeable that, right off the bat, the Critics Choice Awards were more inclusive than the Golden Globes with its winners — and nominees for that matter. In addition to Zendaya being honored with the SeeHer award, Daniel Kaluuya added more momentum to his awards season run as he won for Best Supporting Actor in Judas and the Black Messiah.
- 3/8/2021
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
The 26th annual Critics Choice Awards unfolded Sunday night, while Oscar voting is underway through March 10. That means that the CCAs, presented by the Broadcast Film Critics Association and the Broadcast Television Journalists Association, could actually have an impact on the Academy Awards nominations this year. TV winners could also sway the Emmys later this year.
Taye Diggs once again was master of ceremonies, and the show was an in-person/virtual hybrid with Diggs and some of the evening’s presenters live onstage in Los Angeles and nominees appearing live remotely from various locations around the world.
Presenters included Kevin Bacon, Angela Bassett, Mayim Bialik, Orlando Bloom, Phoebe Dynevor, Morgan Freeman, Gal Gadot, Jim Gaffigan, Tony Hale, Chelsea Handler, Justin Hartley, Chris Hemsworth, Tyler Hoechlin, Jameela Jamil, Leslie Jordan, Javicia Leslie, Eva Longoria, Chrissy Metz, Mads Mikkelsen, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jared Padalecki, Ashley Park, Kyra Sedgwick, Yara Shahidi, Elizabeth Tulloch, Courtney B. Vance,...
Taye Diggs once again was master of ceremonies, and the show was an in-person/virtual hybrid with Diggs and some of the evening’s presenters live onstage in Los Angeles and nominees appearing live remotely from various locations around the world.
Presenters included Kevin Bacon, Angela Bassett, Mayim Bialik, Orlando Bloom, Phoebe Dynevor, Morgan Freeman, Gal Gadot, Jim Gaffigan, Tony Hale, Chelsea Handler, Justin Hartley, Chris Hemsworth, Tyler Hoechlin, Jameela Jamil, Leslie Jordan, Javicia Leslie, Eva Longoria, Chrissy Metz, Mads Mikkelsen, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jared Padalecki, Ashley Park, Kyra Sedgwick, Yara Shahidi, Elizabeth Tulloch, Courtney B. Vance,...
- 3/8/2021
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
The Critics Choice Awards will be handed out on Sunday night, March 7, two days after the start of voting for Oscar nominations, so they have an opportunity to influence this year’s awards even more than usual. So who will win? Scroll down for our complete predictions in all 20 film categories, listed in order of our racetrack odds with our projected winners highlighted in gold.
SEE2021 Critics Choice TV predictions: Winner odds in 16 television categories
Our odds have been calculated by combining the predictions of Gold Derby users. They include Expert journalists from major media outlets, the Editors who cover awards year-round for Gold Derby, the Top 24 Users who got the highest scores predicting last year’s Critics Choice film winners, and the All-Star Top 24 who had the best prediction scores when you combine the last two years’ results.
These awards are handed out by the Critics Choice Association that comprises hundreds of print,...
SEE2021 Critics Choice TV predictions: Winner odds in 16 television categories
Our odds have been calculated by combining the predictions of Gold Derby users. They include Expert journalists from major media outlets, the Editors who cover awards year-round for Gold Derby, the Top 24 Users who got the highest scores predicting last year’s Critics Choice film winners, and the All-Star Top 24 who had the best prediction scores when you combine the last two years’ results.
These awards are handed out by the Critics Choice Association that comprises hundreds of print,...
- 3/5/2021
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
Sophia Loren returned this past year with “The Life Ahead,” her first role in a film since 2009. The actress plays Madame Rosa, a Holocaust survivor who takes care of children who need guidance.
Loren and her son, Edoardo Ponti, who also directed the film, recently spoke with Gold Derby editor in chief Tom O’Neil about the story of “The Life Ahead,” what the actress thought of her young c-ostar, Ibrahima Gueye, and her memories of winning the Oscar for “Two Women.” Watch the exclusive interview above and read the complete transcript below.
SEEDiane Warren interview: ‘The Life Ahead’ songwriter
Gold Derby: Edoardo, let’s start with you. Set up the story here of this film.
Edoardo Ponti: Well, it’s a story of love and friendship between two people, Madame Rosa and Momo. Madame Rosa is an aging ex-sex worker who is also an Auschwitz survivor, a Holocaust survivor who,...
Loren and her son, Edoardo Ponti, who also directed the film, recently spoke with Gold Derby editor in chief Tom O’Neil about the story of “The Life Ahead,” what the actress thought of her young c-ostar, Ibrahima Gueye, and her memories of winning the Oscar for “Two Women.” Watch the exclusive interview above and read the complete transcript below.
SEEDiane Warren interview: ‘The Life Ahead’ songwriter
Gold Derby: Edoardo, let’s start with you. Set up the story here of this film.
Edoardo Ponti: Well, it’s a story of love and friendship between two people, Madame Rosa and Momo. Madame Rosa is an aging ex-sex worker who is also an Auschwitz survivor, a Holocaust survivor who,...
- 3/4/2021
- by Kevin Jacobsen
- Gold Derby
Variety's Awards Circuit is home to the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars from Film Awards Editor Clayton Davis. Following Academy Awards history, buzz, news, reviews and sources, the Oscar predictions are updated regularly with the current year's contenders in all categories. Variety's Awards Circuit Prediction schedule consists of four phases, running all year long: Draft, Pre-Season, Regular Season and Post Season. Eligibility calendar and dates of awards will determine how long each phase lasts and will be displayed next to revision date.
To see all the latest predictions, of all the categories, in one place, visit The Collective
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2021 Oscars Predictions:
Best Original Song
Updated: Mar. 4, 2021
Awards Prediction Commentary: Have we arrived at the moment in time where 11-time Oscar-nominee Diane Warren is going to win an Oscar? After walking away with the Golden Globe for “Io Si (Seen)” from “The Life Ahead,...
To see all the latest predictions, of all the categories, in one place, visit The Collective
Draft>>>Pre Season>>>Regular Season>>>Post Season
2021 Oscars Predictions:
Best Original Song
Updated: Mar. 4, 2021
Awards Prediction Commentary: Have we arrived at the moment in time where 11-time Oscar-nominee Diane Warren is going to win an Oscar? After walking away with the Golden Globe for “Io Si (Seen)” from “The Life Ahead,...
- 3/4/2021
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
The list of music winners at the Golden Globes Sunday night bore a strange resemblance to the list of honorees in those two categories 10 years ago. Diane Warren, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross all repeated their wins from one decade ago.
They all had additional help this time, though. Reznor and Ross, who won in 2011 for “The Social Network,” repeated that victory in 2021 with the score for “Soul” — but they shared it with Jon Batiste, who composed the jazz parts of the film. It marked only the second time in the history of the Globes that a trio has triumphed in the category.
Warren won for “Io Sì (Seen)” from Netflix’s “The Life Ahead,” sharing the honor with singer Laura Pausini and Niccolò Agliardi. Warren’s win 10 years ago was for “You Haven’t Seen the Last of Me” from “Burlesque.”
The musical landscape for Pixar’s “Soul” was divided between two worlds.
They all had additional help this time, though. Reznor and Ross, who won in 2011 for “The Social Network,” repeated that victory in 2021 with the score for “Soul” — but they shared it with Jon Batiste, who composed the jazz parts of the film. It marked only the second time in the history of the Globes that a trio has triumphed in the category.
Warren won for “Io Sì (Seen)” from Netflix’s “The Life Ahead,” sharing the honor with singer Laura Pausini and Niccolò Agliardi. Warren’s win 10 years ago was for “You Haven’t Seen the Last of Me” from “Burlesque.”
The musical landscape for Pixar’s “Soul” was divided between two worlds.
- 3/1/2021
- by Jazz Tangcay and Chris Willman
- Variety Film + TV
Variety's Awards Circuit is home to the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars from Film Awards Editor Clayton Davis. Following Academy Awards history, buzz, news, reviews and sources, the Oscar predictions are updated regularly with the current year's contenders in all categories. Variety's Awards Circuit Prediction schedule consists of four phases, running all year long: Draft, Pre-Season, Regular Season and Post Season. Eligibility calendar and dates of awards will determine how long each phase lasts and will be displayed next to revision date.
To see all the latest predictions, of all the categories, in one place, visit The Collective
Draft>>>Pre Season>>>Regular Season>>>Post Season
2021 Golden Globe Predictions:
Best Motion Picture – Foreign Language
Updated: Feb. 24, 2021
Awards Prediction Commentary: The Golden Globes nominations were announced on Feb. 3, with Netflix’s “Mank” from David Fincher leading with six nods. As the ceremony approaches on Feb. 28, the categories have been analyzed to...
To see all the latest predictions, of all the categories, in one place, visit The Collective
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2021 Golden Globe Predictions:
Best Motion Picture – Foreign Language
Updated: Feb. 24, 2021
Awards Prediction Commentary: The Golden Globes nominations were announced on Feb. 3, with Netflix’s “Mank” from David Fincher leading with six nods. As the ceremony approaches on Feb. 28, the categories have been analyzed to...
- 2/24/2021
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Growing old after having been an international sex symbol is a difficult feat to pull off with style. Where some of her contemporaries have gone all out to cling to the appearance of youth with cosmetic surgery, and others have simply hidden away from the world, Sophia Loren has shown that for her it was always the craft of acting that mattered, not stardom for its own sake. Here she sheds the vestiges of glamour for a gem of a role, playing Madame Rosa, a woman whose difficult life has made her tough as nails, yet who still has a soft spot in her heart for a boy with troubles of his own.
She first encounters the boy, Momo (Ibrahima Gueye), in the local marketplace, where he snatches her bag. Though he flees the scene, he doesn't get away with it. The doctor (Renato Carpentieri) who has taken it upon himself.
She first encounters the boy, Momo (Ibrahima Gueye), in the local marketplace, where he snatches her bag. Though he flees the scene, he doesn't get away with it. The doctor (Renato Carpentieri) who has taken it upon himself.
- 2/14/2021
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Soon after the nominees were announced for the 2021 Critics Choice Awards, our forum posters let loose with their opinions related to whose work was recognized and whose was snubbed. In particularly, folks loved the extra attention for “Sound of Metal” and rolled their eyes at the “Judas and the Black Messiah” snubs. Some saw this year’s lineups as basic and complained about certain inclusions, while others cheered the redemption of a few performers left out of the running at this year’s Golden Globe and SAG Awards.
Below is just a sampling of our readers’ brutally honest Critics Choice Awards reactions regarding the nominees in many of the film categories. Take a look, then join in if you’re brave enough. The winners in both film and TV will be handed out March 7 during a live CW telecast hosted by Taye Diggs. Gold Derby’s predictions center is open,...
Below is just a sampling of our readers’ brutally honest Critics Choice Awards reactions regarding the nominees in many of the film categories. Take a look, then join in if you’re brave enough. The winners in both film and TV will be handed out March 7 during a live CW telecast hosted by Taye Diggs. Gold Derby’s predictions center is open,...
- 2/8/2021
- by Matthew Stewart
- Gold Derby
Moments ago, the 26th annual Critics Choice Association revealed who and what their nominees are. For this very unique year, there’s of course a very unique slate of nominated films and talent. Scoring the most nominations this time around was David Fincher’s Mank, with Lee Isaac Chung’s Minari not far behind. Showing up for the first time in a clutch spot was Ben Affleck in Best Actor for The Way Back, while Never Rarely Sometimes Always still managed a handful of citations. Cca spread the love, as expected, though undoubtedly it was a strong showing for Netflix. Stay tuned to see how the Critics Choice Awards go down next month… Here now is the list of nominees: Best Picture Da 5 Bloods (Netflix) Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Netflix) Mank (Netflix) Minari (A24) News of the World (Universal Pictures) Nomadland (Searchlight Pictures) One Night in Miami (Amazon Studios) Promising Young Woman...
- 2/8/2021
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
’Mank’ has 12 nominations, followed by ’Minari’ with 10.
David Fincher’s Mank leads this year’s Critics Choice Awards film nominations with 12 nods, including best picture, director, actor for Gary Oldman and supporting actress for Amanda Seyfried.
It is followed by Minari, which has 10 nominations including best picture, director for Lee Isaac Chung, actor for Steven Yuen and supporting actress for Yuh-jung Youn.
Netflix leads the way for distributors with 46 nominations in total, including a record-setting four best picture nods: Da 5 Bloods, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Mank and The Trial of the Chicago 7.
The awards are presented by the Critics...
David Fincher’s Mank leads this year’s Critics Choice Awards film nominations with 12 nods, including best picture, director, actor for Gary Oldman and supporting actress for Amanda Seyfried.
It is followed by Minari, which has 10 nominations including best picture, director for Lee Isaac Chung, actor for Steven Yuen and supporting actress for Yuh-jung Youn.
Netflix leads the way for distributors with 46 nominations in total, including a record-setting four best picture nods: Da 5 Bloods, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Mank and The Trial of the Chicago 7.
The awards are presented by the Critics...
- 2/8/2021
- by Screen staff
- ScreenDaily
“Mank” led all films in nominations for the 26th annual Critics Choice Awards, the Critics Choice Association announced on Monday.
Boosted by seven nominations in below-the-line categories, David Fincher’s drama set in 1930s Hollywood received 12 nominations, two more than the runner-up, Lee Isaac Chung’s “Minari.”
Other films with multiple nominations include “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” with eight; “News of the World,” with seven; “Da 5 Bloods,” “Nomadland,” “One Night in Miami.” “Promising Young Woman” and “The Trial of the Chicago 7” with six; and “Sound of Metal” and “Tenet” with five.
All of those films except “Tenet” were nominated in the Best Picture category.
In the acting categories, which contained between six and eight nominees, almost all of the performers nominated for the Golden Globes and Screen Actors Guild Awards were also recognized by Critics Choice voters, with the exception of Amy Adams for “Hillbilly Elegy,” Sophia Loren for “The Life Ahead,...
Boosted by seven nominations in below-the-line categories, David Fincher’s drama set in 1930s Hollywood received 12 nominations, two more than the runner-up, Lee Isaac Chung’s “Minari.”
Other films with multiple nominations include “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” with eight; “News of the World,” with seven; “Da 5 Bloods,” “Nomadland,” “One Night in Miami.” “Promising Young Woman” and “The Trial of the Chicago 7” with six; and “Sound of Metal” and “Tenet” with five.
All of those films except “Tenet” were nominated in the Best Picture category.
In the acting categories, which contained between six and eight nominees, almost all of the performers nominated for the Golden Globes and Screen Actors Guild Awards were also recognized by Critics Choice voters, with the exception of Amy Adams for “Hillbilly Elegy,” Sophia Loren for “The Life Ahead,...
- 2/8/2021
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
The 2021 Critics Choice Awards nominations announced on February 8 are topped by “Mank” with a leading 12 bids, followed closely by a surging “Minari” at 10. “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” has eight nominations followed by “News of the World” with a lucky seven.
Five films — “Da 5 Bloods,” “Nomadland,” “One Night in Miami,” “Promising Young Woman” and “The Trial of the Chicago 7” — each reaped six bids while “Sound of Metal” has five. (See the complete list of Critics Choice Awards nominees below.) All of these titles save for “Sound of Metal” make up our predicted Top 10 nominees for Best Picture at the Oscars. We have “The Father,” which was nominated in four other categories here, ahead of “Sound of Metal” at the Academy Awards.
Winners of the 2021 Critics Choice Awards will be revealed on March 7 during a live CW telecast hosted by Taye Diggs. This is two days after Oscar nominations voting...
Five films — “Da 5 Bloods,” “Nomadland,” “One Night in Miami,” “Promising Young Woman” and “The Trial of the Chicago 7” — each reaped six bids while “Sound of Metal” has five. (See the complete list of Critics Choice Awards nominees below.) All of these titles save for “Sound of Metal” make up our predicted Top 10 nominees for Best Picture at the Oscars. We have “The Father,” which was nominated in four other categories here, ahead of “Sound of Metal” at the Academy Awards.
Winners of the 2021 Critics Choice Awards will be revealed on March 7 during a live CW telecast hosted by Taye Diggs. This is two days after Oscar nominations voting...
- 2/8/2021
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
Of course, 2020 was a year like no other when it came to screen entertainment. As the coronavirus pandemic shut down productions across the U.S., it allowed Netflix to continue churning out content from its deep arsenal of movies and series.
Last year, Netflix put forth no fewer than eight original song contenders, including contributions from Taylor Swift and John Legend. What are the chances the streamer will dominate, and ultimately win, in the category? Two words: Diane Warren.
The legendary songwriter has been nominated for original song 11 times, but never won. If the Academy feels she’s long overdue, “Io Si (Seen),” her contribution to Netflix’s “The Life Ahead,” the Sophia Loren starrer whose song is performed in Italian by Laura Pausini, is as deserving as they come. Warren wrote the lyrics in English before it was translated. As she explains of the film’s two main characters,...
Last year, Netflix put forth no fewer than eight original song contenders, including contributions from Taylor Swift and John Legend. What are the chances the streamer will dominate, and ultimately win, in the category? Two words: Diane Warren.
The legendary songwriter has been nominated for original song 11 times, but never won. If the Academy feels she’s long overdue, “Io Si (Seen),” her contribution to Netflix’s “The Life Ahead,” the Sophia Loren starrer whose song is performed in Italian by Laura Pausini, is as deserving as they come. Warren wrote the lyrics in English before it was translated. As she explains of the film’s two main characters,...
- 1/27/2021
- by Jazz Tangcay and Jon Burlingame
- Variety Film + TV
Academy Award-winning composer Gabriel Yared was forced to take an unconventional approach to crafting the score to the new film “The Life Ahead,” starring Sophia Loren. While Yared typically prefers to join a project early in its run, director Edoardo Ponti brought a draft of the film to Yared’s residence in Paris after shooting was complete. Still, the composer was struck by the emotional journey of the film. “I was really immediately captivated and overwhelmed by the story, by the characters, by the performances,” says Yared in an exclusive new interview with Gold Derby. “It has an emotional depth and also a melancholia that attracted me straight away.” Watch the interview above.
SEEEdoardo Ponti interview: ‘The Life Ahead’ writer and director
Yared was tasked with the challenge of composing themes for two very different characters — the haunted Madame Rosa (Loren), and the youthful Momo (newcomer Ibrahima Gueye). “Those two...
SEEEdoardo Ponti interview: ‘The Life Ahead’ writer and director
Yared was tasked with the challenge of composing themes for two very different characters — the haunted Madame Rosa (Loren), and the youthful Momo (newcomer Ibrahima Gueye). “Those two...
- 1/13/2021
- by Kevin Jacobsen
- Gold Derby
Exclusive: Sophia Loren, the Oscar winner who has returned to the screen starring in this year’s Netflix move The Life Ahead directed by her son Edoardo Ponti, will receive this year’s Kcet Cinema Series Lumière Award. The honor, which recognizes excellence, artistry and innovation and outstanding contribution to film, will be bestowed during a special screening of the film January 28.
Loren and Ponti will join the screening, hosted by Deadline’s Pete Hammond, for a conversation about the movie, her life and career (check out a bit of the conversation in the video below). Tickets to the virtual event are available here.
In The Life Ahead, Loren plays Madame Rosa, a Jewish Holocaust survivor and former sex worker, who is brought together in unlikely circumstances with Momo (Ibrahima Gueye), a Senegalese street kid. After a contentious start they begin to find a deeper connection to each other that...
Loren and Ponti will join the screening, hosted by Deadline’s Pete Hammond, for a conversation about the movie, her life and career (check out a bit of the conversation in the video below). Tickets to the virtual event are available here.
In The Life Ahead, Loren plays Madame Rosa, a Jewish Holocaust survivor and former sex worker, who is brought together in unlikely circumstances with Momo (Ibrahima Gueye), a Senegalese street kid. After a contentious start they begin to find a deeper connection to each other that...
- 1/12/2021
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Edoardo Ponti (“The Life Ahead”) and Robert Jury (“Working Man”) joined us for our “Meet the Experts” film writers panel to discuss their work. But since they’re also the directors of their films, which part of the creative process compels them most? Watch them discuss that and more in our group conversation above. Click on each of their names above to view our individual chats with these two men.
SEE2021 Oscar Predictions: Best Picture
For Ponti, the writing process never really stops. He adapted “The Life Ahead” from a 1975 novel about the unlikely bond between a Holocaust survivor (Sophia Loren) and a Muslim orphan (Ibrahima Gueye) she fosters. But even after you’ve gotten the words down, “each phase is in essence a writing phase,” he explains. “When you start shooting the movie you’re essentially rewriting it with images. Then you’re cutting it, and you’re rewriting...
SEE2021 Oscar Predictions: Best Picture
For Ponti, the writing process never really stops. He adapted “The Life Ahead” from a 1975 novel about the unlikely bond between a Holocaust survivor (Sophia Loren) and a Muslim orphan (Ibrahima Gueye) she fosters. But even after you’ve gotten the words down, “each phase is in essence a writing phase,” he explains. “When you start shooting the movie you’re essentially rewriting it with images. Then you’re cutting it, and you’re rewriting...
- 12/17/2020
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
“It was a novel that I’ve loved ever since I was a teenager,” says writer-director Edoardo Ponti about the 1975 book “The Left Before Us” by Romain Gary, which inspired Ponti‘s new Netflix film “The Life Ahead.” “I read it I think when I was 15, and then I read it again in my 20s, and what really inspired me first and foremost was the relationship … between these two completely different people … They could be no more different on the surface and yet really they’re just two opposite sides of the same coin. They’re both survivors.” Ponti recently joined us for our “Meet the Experts” writers panel. Watch our video interview above.
SEESophia Loren poised to make Oscar history again with ‘The Life Ahead’
The film tells the story of Momo (Ibrahima Gueye), a Muslim orphan from Africa who is taken in by Madame Rosa (Sophia Loren), a...
SEESophia Loren poised to make Oscar history again with ‘The Life Ahead’
The film tells the story of Momo (Ibrahima Gueye), a Muslim orphan from Africa who is taken in by Madame Rosa (Sophia Loren), a...
- 12/17/2020
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
There’s no better time than the first time, at least when it comes to actors debuting in their inaugural feature films.
In the history of the Oscars, more than 25 actors have been nominated for their feature debuts across all four acting categories. Among them are winners like Lupita Nyong’o (“12 Years a Slave”) and Anna Paquin (“The Piano”) and nominees such as Edward Norton (“Primal Fear”) and Barkhad Abdi (“Captain Phillips”). This year, an intriguing mix of performers, both seasoned and youthful, are trying their hand at the game of awards season.
Chloé Zhao’s “Nomadland” casts real-life nomads from different areas of the United States for her moving portrait of the American West. The brilliant Swankie tackles her role like a veteran in what one could argue is the film’s most effective element. Her counterparts Linda May and especially Bob Wells also have their moments, and it...
In the history of the Oscars, more than 25 actors have been nominated for their feature debuts across all four acting categories. Among them are winners like Lupita Nyong’o (“12 Years a Slave”) and Anna Paquin (“The Piano”) and nominees such as Edward Norton (“Primal Fear”) and Barkhad Abdi (“Captain Phillips”). This year, an intriguing mix of performers, both seasoned and youthful, are trying their hand at the game of awards season.
Chloé Zhao’s “Nomadland” casts real-life nomads from different areas of the United States for her moving portrait of the American West. The brilliant Swankie tackles her role like a veteran in what one could argue is the film’s most effective element. Her counterparts Linda May and especially Bob Wells also have their moments, and it...
- 11/26/2020
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
John Huston directed his father Walter to an Oscar in 1948 for “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre” and his daughter Anjelica to one in 1985 for “Prizzi’s Honor.” Edoardo Ponti, 47, could well do the same for his mother, Sophia Loren, who shines in the acclaimed new Netflix drama “The Life Ahead.”
Ponti, the youngest of Loren’s two sons with her late husband, producer Carlo Ponti, is a graduate for USC School of Cinematic Arts and worked as an assistant with such directors as Michelangelo Antonioni and Robert Altman. He first directed his mother in his 2002 debut “Between Strangers.” Loren won the David di Donatello Award for their 2014 collaboration on “The Human Voice” based Jean Cocteau’s 1930 one-act play “The Human Voice.”
For “The Life Ahead,” Ponti and Ugo Chiti adapted Romain Gary’s 1975 novel “The Life Before Us,” which was also the source of the Oscar-winning 1977 French drama “Madame Rosa,...
Ponti, the youngest of Loren’s two sons with her late husband, producer Carlo Ponti, is a graduate for USC School of Cinematic Arts and worked as an assistant with such directors as Michelangelo Antonioni and Robert Altman. He first directed his mother in his 2002 debut “Between Strangers.” Loren won the David di Donatello Award for their 2014 collaboration on “The Human Voice” based Jean Cocteau’s 1930 one-act play “The Human Voice.”
For “The Life Ahead,” Ponti and Ugo Chiti adapted Romain Gary’s 1975 novel “The Life Before Us,” which was also the source of the Oscar-winning 1977 French drama “Madame Rosa,...
- 11/24/2020
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby
The 86-year-old star’s expressive performance as a former sex worker caring for an orphaned child is the main draw in this sometimes formulaic tale directed by her son
In 1962, Sophia Loren won an Academy Award for her starring role in Vittorio De Sica’s Two Women (La ciociara), the first actor to triumph at the Oscars in a foreign language film. In 1965 she was nominated again, for De Sica’s Marriage Italian Style (Matrimonio all’italiana), before receiving an honorary award in 1991 for “a career rich with memorable performances that has added permanent lustre to our art form”. Now, Loren is reportedly in the running once more, this time for a standout late-career turn in The Life Ahead (La vita davanti a sé), adapted from the novel by Romain Gary, and directed by her son Edoardo Ponti. Recently tipped by Variety as a contender for the 2021 awards, the 86-year-old...
In 1962, Sophia Loren won an Academy Award for her starring role in Vittorio De Sica’s Two Women (La ciociara), the first actor to triumph at the Oscars in a foreign language film. In 1965 she was nominated again, for De Sica’s Marriage Italian Style (Matrimonio all’italiana), before receiving an honorary award in 1991 for “a career rich with memorable performances that has added permanent lustre to our art form”. Now, Loren is reportedly in the running once more, this time for a standout late-career turn in The Life Ahead (La vita davanti a sé), adapted from the novel by Romain Gary, and directed by her son Edoardo Ponti. Recently tipped by Variety as a contender for the 2021 awards, the 86-year-old...
- 11/15/2020
- by Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
Sophia Loren earned her status as a cinema legend through her portrayals of women who were larger than life, yet specific enough, that we felt we might encounter them walking down the street. Her Filumena in Marriage Italian Style conveyed decades of suffering and dedication with a heartbreaking glance; her Giovanna from Sunflower seemed to have created the concept of longing and how to overcome it. And her ferociousness as Cesira — the mother devoted to protecting her daughter at all costs in Two Women — made one believe she could dive into a volcano, and come out unscathed.
The Madame Rosa she plays in The Life Ahead almost belongs in that pantheon of neorealist heroines – Loren favored raw emotion over stylization even in high melodrama. Rosa, a former prostitute turned reluctant caretaker to abandoned children, retains that indomitable essence and feels specific enough because of the way she moves in the world.
The Madame Rosa she plays in The Life Ahead almost belongs in that pantheon of neorealist heroines – Loren favored raw emotion over stylization even in high melodrama. Rosa, a former prostitute turned reluctant caretaker to abandoned children, retains that indomitable essence and feels specific enough because of the way she moves in the world.
- 11/14/2020
- by Jose Solís
- The Film Stage
It’s always a pleasure to see a screen legend return to starring roles. For Sophia Loren, we haven’t seen her on the screen in a major way in over a decade, since her supporting appearance in Nine. Now, she’s back as a lead, showcasing her talents in Netflix’s latest awards contender, the international feature The Life Ahead. A movie built around her, and one that aptly showcases her, it’s a contender not just potentially in Best International Feature, but in Best Actress for Loren as well. Hitting the streaming service today, it’s well worth a watch, if only to see Loren in action once again, proving she hasn’t missed a beat. The film is a drama, based on the novel The Life Before Us, which has twice been adapted already before this. Taking place in an Italian seaside town, a 12-year-old street kid...
- 11/13/2020
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
Maybe Netflix knows that people have more important things on their mind this month, maybe the streamer is just saving its big guns for later, or maybe it’s just trying to focus everyone’s attention on Diana’s introduction on “The Crown” (she roller-skates in Buckingham Palace!), but November 2020 might be Netflix’s most anemic month for new releases since this column first ran four years ago. The jury is still out on Ron Howard’s Oscar hopeful “Hillbilly Elegy,” but with “Mank” and “The Prom” waiting in the wings until December that leaves a paltry slate of Netflix Originals topped off by the well-reviewed drama “The Life Ahead” and the as-yet-unscreened pop doc, “Shawn Mendes: In Wonder.”
When it comes to library titles, the offerings range from hard classics like “Boyz n the Hood” and “A Clockwork Orange” to reliable favorites like “Ocean’s Eleven” and… whatever “The Next Karate Kid...
When it comes to library titles, the offerings range from hard classics like “Boyz n the Hood” and “A Clockwork Orange” to reliable favorites like “Ocean’s Eleven” and… whatever “The Next Karate Kid...
- 11/3/2020
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Six years ago, Sophia Loren emerged from retirement to film Jean Cocteau’s “The Human Voice” — her version of the one-act play that Tilda Swinton and Pedro Almodóvar recently adapted during lockdown, and which Anna Magnani and Ingrid Bergman had each tackled decades before. In the 25-minute project, which was directed by her son Edoardo Ponti, Loren plays a woman alone but for her housekeeper in an Italian villa, speaking to the man she once loved via a shaky phone connection.
“The only thing left between us is this telephone wire,” Loren says in the film, her voice torn.
In a way, that short feels like a forecast of Loren’s life today, as the coronavirus has forced so many into isolation — including the still vibrant acting legend, who laughs easily and often over the course of a career-spanning 90-minute phone call. The Italian star, the first person from any...
“The only thing left between us is this telephone wire,” Loren says in the film, her voice torn.
In a way, that short feels like a forecast of Loren’s life today, as the coronavirus has forced so many into isolation — including the still vibrant acting legend, who laughs easily and often over the course of a career-spanning 90-minute phone call. The Italian star, the first person from any...
- 11/2/2020
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
The best actress race is full of veterans this year, with the likes of Meryl Streep, Michelle Pfeiffer and Ellen Burstyn all vying for Oscar attention. Joining the list is Sophia Loren, one of the most prolific actresses of Hollywood’s Golden Age, in Edoardo Ponti’s “The Life Ahead.”
The Oscar-winning Italian actor landed her gold statuette for “Two Women” (“La ciociara”) in 1962, which made her the first actor to win an Academy Award for a foreign-language film. She put up one more nomination in 1965 for “Marriage Italian Style” (“Matrimonio all’italiana”) and if she manages a nomination for “The Life Ahead,” a new record could emerge. In 2021, it will mark 56 years since her last nomination, and if nominated, she will break the record currently held by Henry Fonda as the longest gap between acting nominations. Fonda was nominated in 1941 for “The Grapes of Wrath” and he won the Oscar in 1982 for “On Golden Pond,...
The Oscar-winning Italian actor landed her gold statuette for “Two Women” (“La ciociara”) in 1962, which made her the first actor to win an Academy Award for a foreign-language film. She put up one more nomination in 1965 for “Marriage Italian Style” (“Matrimonio all’italiana”) and if she manages a nomination for “The Life Ahead,” a new record could emerge. In 2021, it will mark 56 years since her last nomination, and if nominated, she will break the record currently held by Henry Fonda as the longest gap between acting nominations. Fonda was nominated in 1941 for “The Grapes of Wrath” and he won the Oscar in 1982 for “On Golden Pond,...
- 10/30/2020
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
The last time Romain Gary’s novel “The Life Before Us” was turned into a movie, the year was 1977, the film was “Madame Rosa” and the result was an Oscar win for Best Foreign Language Film and a Cesar Award for star Simone Signoret as the title character, a Holocaust survivor and former prostitute taking care of a young Algerian boy.
Gary’s book is now headed back to theater screens in a new, Italian-language adaptation titled “The Life Ahead,” directed by Edoardo Ponti and starring Ponti’s mother, who happens to be the legendary actress Sophia Loren in her first feature-film role in more than a decade. It’s easy enough to see why she came out of semi-retirement for the film – not only is it the third time she’s worked with her son, after 2002’s “Between Strangers” and the 2014 short “Human Voice,” but it’s one of...
Gary’s book is now headed back to theater screens in a new, Italian-language adaptation titled “The Life Ahead,” directed by Edoardo Ponti and starring Ponti’s mother, who happens to be the legendary actress Sophia Loren in her first feature-film role in more than a decade. It’s easy enough to see why she came out of semi-retirement for the film – not only is it the third time she’s worked with her son, after 2002’s “Between Strangers” and the 2014 short “Human Voice,” but it’s one of...
- 10/29/2020
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
On paper, “The Life Ahead” sounds like sentimental mush — orphaned immigrant kid gets rescued from a tortuous life of crime by the maternal Holocaust survivor and former prostitute who takes him in. And make no mistake: Director Edoardo Ponti, who directs his mother Sophia Loren as said survivor opposite newcomer Ibrahima Gueye as the immigrant child in question, certainly has made that kind of movie. But with its formidable odd couple at the center and Ponti’s alternately slick and sensitive direction,
While “The Life Ahead” draws from the same Romain Gary novel that inspired the 1977 Oscar-winner “Madame Rosa,” Ponti and co-writer Ugo Chiti have transplanted the setting from France to inner-city Italy and set the drama in the present day. That means cinematic grand dame Loren, returning to the screen for the first time in a decade, can play a role that fits her 86-year-old visage, and she brings a sturdy,...
While “The Life Ahead” draws from the same Romain Gary novel that inspired the 1977 Oscar-winner “Madame Rosa,” Ponti and co-writer Ugo Chiti have transplanted the setting from France to inner-city Italy and set the drama in the present day. That means cinematic grand dame Loren, returning to the screen for the first time in a decade, can play a role that fits her 86-year-old visage, and she brings a sturdy,...
- 10/29/2020
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
The last time most of us saw Sophia Loren on screen, we barely saw her at all: not just because her role in 2009’s star-spangled musical deadweight “Nine” was so minor, but because Rob Marshall’s film was so enamored of the shimmery silver radiance generated by its various luminaries that it often forgot to look at them directly. That’s not a failing of “The Life Ahead,” her first feature-length starring vehicle in 16 years, and that alone makes it something of an event. That extraordinary face, regal and leonine as she heads into her mid-eighties, is so generously and adoringly cradled by the camera, it sometimes seems she has to be yanked out of scenes entirely for the narrative to progress.
Who can blame director Edoardo Ponti? His star is not only a last-of-a-generation icon, but his own mother: The film, modest and often maudlin on its own storytelling terms,...
Who can blame director Edoardo Ponti? His star is not only a last-of-a-generation icon, but his own mother: The film, modest and often maudlin on its own storytelling terms,...
- 10/29/2020
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Sophia Loren on Thursday during an online press conference to promote her new film “The Life Ahead” – in which she plays a Holocaust survivor who forges a bond with a 12-year-old Senegalese immigrant boy – called the drama “a message of tolerance, forgiveness, and love.”
“We all have a right to be seen and listened too, otherwise it’s impossible to live,” Loren said. “We have a right to be loved, and to pursue our dreams,” the iconic Italian actor added.
In “The Life Ahead,” which marks Loren’s return in front of the camera for a feature film after a decade, Loren plays Madame Rosa, a tough Auschwitz survivor and former prostitute who cares for children of streetwalkers. Her doctor asks her to take in 12-year-old orphan Senegalese kid named Momo, who recently robbed her, and the pair become each other’s protectors.
Loren said that to play Madame Rosa...
“We all have a right to be seen and listened too, otherwise it’s impossible to live,” Loren said. “We have a right to be loved, and to pursue our dreams,” the iconic Italian actor added.
In “The Life Ahead,” which marks Loren’s return in front of the camera for a feature film after a decade, Loren plays Madame Rosa, a tough Auschwitz survivor and former prostitute who cares for children of streetwalkers. Her doctor asks her to take in 12-year-old orphan Senegalese kid named Momo, who recently robbed her, and the pair become each other’s protectors.
Loren said that to play Madame Rosa...
- 10/29/2020
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Eight months ago, Netflix scooped up “The Life Ahead,” Italian USC grad Edoardo Ponti’s third collaboration with his mother, two-time Oscar-winner Sophia Loren, returning to the screen at age 86 for the first time in almost a decade. It’s easy to see why the streamer wanted to buy the Italian movie. Like the 1977 foreign-language Oscar-winner “Madame Rosa” starring Simone Signoret, Ponti’s film is adapted from Romain Gary’s 1975 French novel “The Life Before Us.” He moved the setting from France in the ‘70s to a contemporary Italian seaside town, but the story is much the same.
Madame Rosa is a tough Auschwitz survivor and former prostitute who cares for the children of streetwalkers. Her doctor asks her to look after a sullen 12-year orphan Muslim who reluctantly returns her filched purse. At first, the Sudanese boy seems intractable, getting into fights with her other kids and selling drugs...
Madame Rosa is a tough Auschwitz survivor and former prostitute who cares for the children of streetwalkers. Her doctor asks her to look after a sullen 12-year orphan Muslim who reluctantly returns her filched purse. At first, the Sudanese boy seems intractable, getting into fights with her other kids and selling drugs...
- 10/26/2020
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Eight months ago, Netflix scooped up “The Life Ahead,” Italian USC grad Edoardo Ponti’s third collaboration with his mother, two-time Oscar-winner Sophia Loren, returning to the screen at age 86 for the first time in almost a decade. It’s easy to see why the streamer wanted to buy the Italian movie. Like the 1977 foreign-language Oscar-winner “Madame Rosa” starring Simone Signoret, Ponti’s film is adapted from Romain Gary’s 1975 French novel “The Life Before Us.” He moved the setting from France in the ‘70s to a contemporary Italian seaside town, but the story is much the same.
Madame Rosa is a tough Auschwitz survivor and former prostitute who cares for the children of streetwalkers. Her doctor asks her to look after a sullen 12-year orphan Muslim who reluctantly returns her filched purse. At first, the Sudanese boy seems intractable, getting into fights with her other kids and selling drugs...
Madame Rosa is a tough Auschwitz survivor and former prostitute who cares for the children of streetwalkers. Her doctor asks her to look after a sullen 12-year orphan Muslim who reluctantly returns her filched purse. At first, the Sudanese boy seems intractable, getting into fights with her other kids and selling drugs...
- 10/26/2020
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Italian singer Laura Pausini has released “Io Si (Seen),” written by 11-time Oscar nominee Diane Warren. The song is taken from “The Life Ahead” starring Sophia Loren. “lo Si” (Seen) is the Grammy winner’s second entry in the original song race, with hopse to land a nom for the 93rd Academy Awards set for next April.
Warren, who also has “Free” from Disney Plus’ “The One and Only” in contention, is hoping to increase her odds of taking home a Best Original Song Oscar on April 25, 2021 by returning to form with an emotional power ballad. “The Life Ahead,” directed by Edoardo Ponti, bows Nov. 13 on Netflix.
“Both Madame Rosa and Momo, masterfully played by the legendary Sophia Loren and Ibrahima Gueye, are not seen for who they are by the outside world,” said Warren, “but they learn to truly see each other and though it’s not easy at first,...
Warren, who also has “Free” from Disney Plus’ “The One and Only” in contention, is hoping to increase her odds of taking home a Best Original Song Oscar on April 25, 2021 by returning to form with an emotional power ballad. “The Life Ahead,” directed by Edoardo Ponti, bows Nov. 13 on Netflix.
“Both Madame Rosa and Momo, masterfully played by the legendary Sophia Loren and Ibrahima Gueye, are not seen for who they are by the outside world,” said Warren, “but they learn to truly see each other and though it’s not easy at first,...
- 10/23/2020
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
In her first feature film role since her turn in Rob Marshall’s Nine in 2009, the legendary Sophia Loren is starring in The Life Ahead, a new Netflix international production. Starring alongside newcomer Ibrahima Gueye, she plays the role of his ward, forming an indelible bond in seaside Italy. Ahead of a release this November, Netflix has now debuted the first trailer for Edoardo Ponti’s new feature.
A remake of Madame Rosa, the 86-year-old Loren plays Madame Rosa, a role previously played by Simone Signoret to critical acclaim. A holocaust survivor and former prosistute in sea-side Italy, she takes in a muslim orphan named Momo (Gueye) as her ward after an undisclosed tragedy rendered him orphaned. The relationship begins tersely as Momo had previously robbed her but begins to evolve into between the two survivors of two separate worlds brought together by their shared tragedies in life.
See the trailer below.
A remake of Madame Rosa, the 86-year-old Loren plays Madame Rosa, a role previously played by Simone Signoret to critical acclaim. A holocaust survivor and former prosistute in sea-side Italy, she takes in a muslim orphan named Momo (Gueye) as her ward after an undisclosed tragedy rendered him orphaned. The relationship begins tersely as Momo had previously robbed her but begins to evolve into between the two survivors of two separate worlds brought together by their shared tragedies in life.
See the trailer below.
- 10/22/2020
- by Margaret Rasberry
- The Film Stage
Netflix has debuted the first trailer for Italian drama ‘The Life Ahead’ in which iconic actress Sophia Loren makes her comeback.
In the colourful Italian port city of Bari, the streetwise 12-year-old Senegalese orphan Momo (Ibrahima Gueye) has ambitions to make his fortune in the underworld of the town’s shady alleyways. One day, he steals a bag of items from the elderly Madame Rosa (Sophia Loren), a Holocaust survivor who makes a meagre living raising the children of prostitutes with whom she once shared the streets. When Momo is forced to apologize to Rosa, she reluctantly agrees to take him in temporarily and the two lonely individuals find an unlikely family in each other through a deep and unconventional bond. The kindred spirits become connected to a common destiny that will change the course of their lives.
Directed by Edoardo Ponti and adapted by Ponti, Ugo Chiti from Romain Gary’s novel,...
In the colourful Italian port city of Bari, the streetwise 12-year-old Senegalese orphan Momo (Ibrahima Gueye) has ambitions to make his fortune in the underworld of the town’s shady alleyways. One day, he steals a bag of items from the elderly Madame Rosa (Sophia Loren), a Holocaust survivor who makes a meagre living raising the children of prostitutes with whom she once shared the streets. When Momo is forced to apologize to Rosa, she reluctantly agrees to take him in temporarily and the two lonely individuals find an unlikely family in each other through a deep and unconventional bond. The kindred spirits become connected to a common destiny that will change the course of their lives.
Directed by Edoardo Ponti and adapted by Ponti, Ugo Chiti from Romain Gary’s novel,...
- 10/22/2020
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Italian acting icon Sophia Loren is returning to Oscar season this fall with the Netflix foreign drama “The Life Ahead,” directed and co-written by Loren’s son Edoardo Ponti. The film is based on Romain Gary’s bestselling novel “The Life Before Us” and stars Loren as a Holocaust survivor who becomes a maternal figure for a 12-year-old street kid named Momo who robs her. Loren won the Academy Award for Best Actress with her 1961 drama “Two Women,” and now Netflix is mounting a Best Actress campaign for her with “The Life Ahead.” Watch the official trailer for the movie in the video below.
Netflix’s synopsis for “The Life Ahead” reads: “In the colorful Italian port city of Bari, the streetwise 12-year-old Senegalese orphan Momo (Ibrahima Gueye) has ambitions to make his fortune in the underworld of the town’s shady alleyways. One day, he steals a bag of...
Netflix’s synopsis for “The Life Ahead” reads: “In the colorful Italian port city of Bari, the streetwise 12-year-old Senegalese orphan Momo (Ibrahima Gueye) has ambitions to make his fortune in the underworld of the town’s shady alleyways. One day, he steals a bag of...
- 10/22/2020
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
In 1984, the Oscar-winning actress Sophia Loren (“Two Women”) and her then-11-year-old son Edoardo Ponti starred in the TV movie “Aurora.” That little-remembered film began a lovely collaboration between the legendary actress and Ponti, Loren’s younger son by her late husband, producer Carlo Ponti.
Edoardo Ponti gave up acting and switched to directing after earning a fine arts degree in 1998 from USC in film directing in production. And he directed Loren for the first time in the 2002 drama “Between Strangers.” Mother and son both earned acclaimed for their 2014 short, “The Human Voice,” based on Jean Cocteau’s one-act 1930 play.
Their latest collaboration-and Loren’s first film since “The Human Voice”- is the Italian drama “The Life Ahead,” a contemporary adaptation of Romain Gary’s 1975 best-seller “The Life Before Us.” The still-stunning 86-year-old Loren plays a Holocaust survivor named Madame Rosa who becomes unlikely friends with a rebellious 12-year-old...
Edoardo Ponti gave up acting and switched to directing after earning a fine arts degree in 1998 from USC in film directing in production. And he directed Loren for the first time in the 2002 drama “Between Strangers.” Mother and son both earned acclaimed for their 2014 short, “The Human Voice,” based on Jean Cocteau’s one-act 1930 play.
Their latest collaboration-and Loren’s first film since “The Human Voice”- is the Italian drama “The Life Ahead,” a contemporary adaptation of Romain Gary’s 1975 best-seller “The Life Before Us.” The still-stunning 86-year-old Loren plays a Holocaust survivor named Madame Rosa who becomes unlikely friends with a rebellious 12-year-old...
- 10/21/2020
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby
"It is precisely when you give up hope that good things happen." Netflix has released an official trailer for The Life Ahead, an emotional Italian drama made by filmmaker Edoardo Ponti starring the one-and-only glorious Sophia Loren. A contemporary adaptation of the international bestseller "The Life Before Us" by Romain Gary. In seaside Italy, a Holocaust survivor with a daycare business takes in a 12-year-old street kid who recently robbed her. the two lonely individuals find an unlikely family in each other through a deep and unconventional bond. In addition to Loren, the cast also includes Ibrahima Gueye, Renato Carpentieri, Iosif Diego Pirvu, Massimiliano Rossi, Abril Zamora, and Babak Karimi. This looks like a deeply moving and inspiring story of humility and empathy, something we all need more of right now. I have to say - I am very interested in watching. This looks wonderful, and of course now I...
- 10/21/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
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