Exclusive: Briarcliff Entertainment has acquired North American distribution rights to new musical franchise Verona’s Romeo & Juliet, in partnership with Hero Entertainment and Rainmaker Films. A modern reimagining of one of the most beloved love stories of all time, the first of the films will unspool wide on Valentine’s Day 2025, in one of Briarcliff’s biggest releases to date.
Set in 1301 at the end of Medieval times, Verona’s Romeo & Juliet finds our most famous star-crossed lovers turning the tides on the history Shakespeare based his own story on, as they reveal the truth to the very future of the Empire. But the biggest twist in this most beloved of tales is leaving the poetry of Iambic Pentameter in the past to tell the story with the help of original pop music.
With Clara Rugaard (Love Gets a Room) and Jamie Ward (His Dark Materials) in the lead as Romeo & Juliet,...
Set in 1301 at the end of Medieval times, Verona’s Romeo & Juliet finds our most famous star-crossed lovers turning the tides on the history Shakespeare based his own story on, as they reveal the truth to the very future of the Empire. But the biggest twist in this most beloved of tales is leaving the poetry of Iambic Pentameter in the past to tell the story with the help of original pop music.
With Clara Rugaard (Love Gets a Room) and Jamie Ward (His Dark Materials) in the lead as Romeo & Juliet,...
- 5/15/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Netflix’s forthcoming drama Black Rabbit, starring Jason Bateman and Jude Law, is filling out its cast.
Oscar winner Troy Kotsur, Abbey Lee, Odessa Young and Robin De Jesús will have regular roles in the limited series, which comes from creators Zach Baylin and Kate Susman. Seven actors — Amir Malaklou, Don Harvey, Forrest Weber, Francis Benhamou, Gus Birney, John Ales and Steve Witting — will have recurring parts. They join the two stars and the previously cast Cleopatra Coleman, Amaka Okafor, Sopé Dìrísù, Dagmara Dominczyk and Chris Coy.
Bateman and Law will play brothers in Black Rabbit. Law’s character, Jake, is the owner of a New York hotspot, and when he lets his turbulent brother (Bateman) back into his life, he opens the door to escalating dangers that that threaten everything he’s built.
Among those dangers, based on descriptions for some of the new castmembers, is the criminal underworld.
Oscar winner Troy Kotsur, Abbey Lee, Odessa Young and Robin De Jesús will have regular roles in the limited series, which comes from creators Zach Baylin and Kate Susman. Seven actors — Amir Malaklou, Don Harvey, Forrest Weber, Francis Benhamou, Gus Birney, John Ales and Steve Witting — will have recurring parts. They join the two stars and the previously cast Cleopatra Coleman, Amaka Okafor, Sopé Dìrísù, Dagmara Dominczyk and Chris Coy.
Bateman and Law will play brothers in Black Rabbit. Law’s character, Jake, is the owner of a New York hotspot, and when he lets his turbulent brother (Bateman) back into his life, he opens the door to escalating dangers that that threaten everything he’s built.
Among those dangers, based on descriptions for some of the new castmembers, is the criminal underworld.
- 4/30/2024
- by Rick Porter
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The official YouTube channel for Japanese singer-songwriter Mahiru Coda has started streaming a music video for her latest digital single song, "Love je t'aime," released on January 26. The song is now featured as the ending theme for the winter 2024 TV anime Bucchigiri?! . Coda made her professional debut as a singer-songwriter in 2021, and "Love je t'aime" is her first anime theme song work. The pop song features lyrics from the worldview of the anime, Arabic sounds, and also incorporates elements of jazz, Coda's musical roots. The music video was directed by Takeru Shibuya of Oddjob Inc., which has worked with Puffy, Punpee, Bikke Blanca, and other popular Japanese artists. The entire video was shot in greenback, with a variety of CG visuals to express the Arabian worldview of the song. Mahiru Coda "Love je t'aime" music video Bucchigiri?! anime creditless ending movie Digital single jacket Related: Funk Rock Band Kroi Posts Bucchigiri?...
- 2/6/2024
- by Mikikazu Komatsu
- Crunchyroll
At the age of 84, documentary legend Sheila Nevins today earned the first Oscar nomination of her career.
Nevins was nominated in the Documentary Short category this morning for her directorial debut, The ABCs of Book Banning, from MTV Documentary Films. She has won more than 30 Emmy Awards during her illustrious career, but this is her first Oscar recognition.
“It was a sleepless night,” Nevins says of the anticipation for the announcement. “It’s always a sleepless night. This was a particularly sleepless night.”
‘The ABCs of Book Banning’
Her film, co-directed by Nazenet Habtezghi and Trish Adlesic and produced by Adlesic, examines the surge of book banning in U.S. schools, and gives a platform to kids who share what it means to them to be denied access to reading materials in their libraries.
“I felt a rage to make it,” Nevins told Deadline back in October. “It had to...
Nevins was nominated in the Documentary Short category this morning for her directorial debut, The ABCs of Book Banning, from MTV Documentary Films. She has won more than 30 Emmy Awards during her illustrious career, but this is her first Oscar recognition.
“It was a sleepless night,” Nevins says of the anticipation for the announcement. “It’s always a sleepless night. This was a particularly sleepless night.”
‘The ABCs of Book Banning’
Her film, co-directed by Nazenet Habtezghi and Trish Adlesic and produced by Adlesic, examines the surge of book banning in U.S. schools, and gives a platform to kids who share what it means to them to be denied access to reading materials in their libraries.
“I felt a rage to make it,” Nevins told Deadline back in October. “It had to...
- 1/23/2024
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Independent Artist Group has signed Troy Kotsur, the actor-director best known for his historic Oscar win, as part of Apple TV+’s drama, Coda.
With his Supporting Actor win for the film written and directed by Sian Heder, Kotsur became the first Deaf male to win an acting award on Hollywood’s biggest night. A film of major consequence, with regard to representation of the deaf community on screen, Coda adapted the French film La Famille Bélier to tell the story of Ruby (Emilia Jones), a Coda (or “child of deaf adult”) who serves as an interpreter for the members of her Boston family.
Kotsur memorably portrayed Ruby’s irreverent father Frank, a fisherman initially unsupportive of his daughter’s decision to pursue an education in music, who comes around in the end. The actor swept the ’21-’22 awards season with additional Best Supporting Actor wins at the BAFTA,...
With his Supporting Actor win for the film written and directed by Sian Heder, Kotsur became the first Deaf male to win an acting award on Hollywood’s biggest night. A film of major consequence, with regard to representation of the deaf community on screen, Coda adapted the French film La Famille Bélier to tell the story of Ruby (Emilia Jones), a Coda (or “child of deaf adult”) who serves as an interpreter for the members of her Boston family.
Kotsur memorably portrayed Ruby’s irreverent father Frank, a fisherman initially unsupportive of his daughter’s decision to pursue an education in music, who comes around in the end. The actor swept the ’21-’22 awards season with additional Best Supporting Actor wins at the BAFTA,...
- 1/10/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Nominations for the 30th annual SAG Awards were announced Wednesday, with Barbie and Oppenheimer mirroring their big summers at the box office by leading the way with four nominations apiece in the movie races, while on the TV side the last season of Succession scored five noms to lead the field.
Noms were revealed in a presentation hosted by Issa Rae and Kumail Nanjiani.
See the full list of nominees below and the scorecards below.
Barbie and Oppenheimer are joined in the Cast category by American Fiction, The Color Purple and Killers of the Flower Moon, with each scoring multiple noms. Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling and the stunt team picked up noms for Barbie; Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt and Robert Downey Jr did the same for Oppenheimer.
Robbie is part of a Lead Female Actor category that includes Nyad‘s Annette Bening, Flower Moon‘s Lily Gladstone, Maestro‘s Carey Mulligan...
Noms were revealed in a presentation hosted by Issa Rae and Kumail Nanjiani.
See the full list of nominees below and the scorecards below.
Barbie and Oppenheimer are joined in the Cast category by American Fiction, The Color Purple and Killers of the Flower Moon, with each scoring multiple noms. Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling and the stunt team picked up noms for Barbie; Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt and Robert Downey Jr did the same for Oppenheimer.
Robbie is part of a Lead Female Actor category that includes Nyad‘s Annette Bening, Flower Moon‘s Lily Gladstone, Maestro‘s Carey Mulligan...
- 1/10/2024
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
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The holidays are here, and there’s no better time to shower your loved ones with nerdy gifts. Reading materials are objectively the best thing to get anyone over four as presents, and holiday comics are a chance to help your friends get outside their comfort zones and try something new, while at the same time adding a dash of collectability to their lives. We’ve picked out a nice mix of old and new, seasonal and evergreen, comics for you to choose from.
Black Panther by Christopher Priest
Christopher Priest has been on fire lately, writing back to back to back gems at DC—Deathstroke, followed by Black Adam, followed by (currently running) Superman Lost is one of the greatest three-series stretches in the last 30 years of comics. But while Priest’s career stretches back to the ‘70s,...
The holidays are here, and there’s no better time to shower your loved ones with nerdy gifts. Reading materials are objectively the best thing to get anyone over four as presents, and holiday comics are a chance to help your friends get outside their comfort zones and try something new, while at the same time adding a dash of collectability to their lives. We’ve picked out a nice mix of old and new, seasonal and evergreen, comics for you to choose from.
Black Panther by Christopher Priest
Christopher Priest has been on fire lately, writing back to back to back gems at DC—Deathstroke, followed by Black Adam, followed by (currently running) Superman Lost is one of the greatest three-series stretches in the last 30 years of comics. But while Priest’s career stretches back to the ‘70s,...
- 11/24/2023
- by John Saavedra
- Den of Geek
David Dastmalchian of Ant-Man, The Suicide Squad, Oppenheimer, The Last Voyage of the Demeter, and The Boogeyman (among many other credits) has signed on to join previously announced lead actress Emeraude Toubia – who is best known for playing the character Isabelle Lightwood in 55 episodes of the Freeform TV series Shadowhunters (a.k.a. Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments) – in the cast of the “high concept” horror film Rosario, which will mark the feature directorial debut of Felipe Vargas. Also joining the cast are José Zúñiga (Twilight), Diana Lein (Fear the Walking Dead), Emilia Faucher (Coda), and Paul Ben-Victor (The Irishman).
Scripted by Alan Trezza (We Summon the Darkness), Rosario will see Toubia taking on the role of the title character, a successful stockbroker on Wall Street who is forced to spend the night with the body of her estranged grandmother Griselda, who has abruptly died. While waiting for the ambulance and...
Scripted by Alan Trezza (We Summon the Darkness), Rosario will see Toubia taking on the role of the title character, a successful stockbroker on Wall Street who is forced to spend the night with the body of her estranged grandmother Griselda, who has abruptly died. While waiting for the ambulance and...
- 11/2/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Described as a “high concept horror film,” the upcoming Rosario will star David Dastmalchian alongside José Zúñiga (Twilight), Diana Lein (“Fear the Walking Dead”), Paul Ben-Victor (The Irishman), Emilia Faucher (Coda) and Emeraude Toubia (“Shadowhunters”), Variety reports this morning.
Variety details, “The story, set in New York, revolves around Rosario (Toubia), a successful Wall Street stockbroker who is trapped in her estranged grandmother Griselda’s apartment during a snowstorm. Griselda has died, and supernatural forces possess her corpse. Rosario, now the target of a deadly family curse, must battle her past to save herself and her soul.”
Alan Trezza (We Summon the Darkness) wrote Rosario, which will mark the feature filmmaking debut of Colombian director Felipe Vargas (Milk Teeth).
“We cannot wait for cameras to roll on this smart and chilling film in the vein of the Blumhouse movies,” said Highland Film Group CEO Arianne Fraser.
Highland Film Group is...
Variety details, “The story, set in New York, revolves around Rosario (Toubia), a successful Wall Street stockbroker who is trapped in her estranged grandmother Griselda’s apartment during a snowstorm. Griselda has died, and supernatural forces possess her corpse. Rosario, now the target of a deadly family curse, must battle her past to save herself and her soul.”
Alan Trezza (We Summon the Darkness) wrote Rosario, which will mark the feature filmmaking debut of Colombian director Felipe Vargas (Milk Teeth).
“We cannot wait for cameras to roll on this smart and chilling film in the vein of the Blumhouse movies,” said Highland Film Group CEO Arianne Fraser.
Highland Film Group is...
- 11/1/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Have we found the most wholesome slice-of-life show of 2023? Maybe. Twinkling Watermelon hasn’t disappointed just yet, and we’re even more excited to see where the show takes us in the future. The adorable show follows a Coda who happens to time travel to 1995, the year his parents met. We’re not quite sure why he’s been sent there just yet, but it may be to learn about his father’s accident that caused him to go deaf or to save him from said accident. In the previous episode, Eun-Gyeol met with his own accident when he got electrocuted by a microphone due to heavy rains. On the way to the hospital, he wished to be back home with his parents, and he did wake up in the future. Or so he thinks.
Spoilers Ahead
What happens in episode 7?
As we predicted in episode 6 of Twinkling Watermelon, Se-Kyung...
Spoilers Ahead
What happens in episode 7?
As we predicted in episode 6 of Twinkling Watermelon, Se-Kyung...
- 10/24/2023
- by Ruchika Bhat
- Film Fugitives
Sources say crime epic could get minimum 45-day exclusive theatrical release.
Follwing rave reviews in Cannes Apple Original Films is high on its Martin Scorsese’s awards heavyweight Killers Of The Flower Moon and will go straight into a wide day-and-date global release in partnership with Paramount on October 20, scrapping the previously announced October 6 limited release.
‘Killers Of The Flower Moon’: Cannes Review
The crime epic, which was previously set to open in limited release before expanding wide on October 20, will then debut on Apple TV+ after the exclusive theatrical run.
The Apple TV+ launch date and length of...
Follwing rave reviews in Cannes Apple Original Films is high on its Martin Scorsese’s awards heavyweight Killers Of The Flower Moon and will go straight into a wide day-and-date global release in partnership with Paramount on October 20, scrapping the previously announced October 6 limited release.
‘Killers Of The Flower Moon’: Cannes Review
The crime epic, which was previously set to open in limited release before expanding wide on October 20, will then debut on Apple TV+ after the exclusive theatrical run.
The Apple TV+ launch date and length of...
- 8/29/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Throughout the course of its stellar four-season run, HBO's "Barry" has featured a number of cameo appearances. Most of these took the form of fictional guest characters, from Vanessa Bayer as a vapid TV executive in season 3 to the third episode of the current season, which featured both filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro as a crime lord (not coincidentally named "Toro") and co-creator Bill Hader's old Saturday Night Live cast member Fred Armisen as a doomed assassin.
Less common within the show (but just as welcome) are the cameo appearances from Hollywood figures playing themselves, such as Jon Hamm's portrayal of himself in a fantasy sequence from season 1. The latest episode of "Barry" happened to include another filmmaker playing themselves: director Sian Heder, whose 2021 film "Coda" won several Academy Awards (including Best Picture).
While most of the cameos in "Barry" act as visual gags, Heder's part in season 4 episode...
Less common within the show (but just as welcome) are the cameo appearances from Hollywood figures playing themselves, such as Jon Hamm's portrayal of himself in a fantasy sequence from season 1. The latest episode of "Barry" happened to include another filmmaker playing themselves: director Sian Heder, whose 2021 film "Coda" won several Academy Awards (including Best Picture).
While most of the cameos in "Barry" act as visual gags, Heder's part in season 4 episode...
- 5/3/2023
- by Bill Bria
- Slash Film
With Will Smith banned from attending the 94th Academy Awards after slapping Chris Rock at the 2022 ceremony, all eyes were on who the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences would select to present this year’s best actress category. The honor went to Halle Berry, a best actress Oscar winner herself for “Monster’s Ball.” Berry and Jessica Chastain jointly presented the best actor and best actress categories.
Chastain won best actress last year for “The Eyes of Tammy Faye.” Last year’s winners for best supporting actor and actress, Troy Kotsur (“Coda”) and Ariana Debose (“West Side Story”), presented this year’s supporting actor prize to Ke Huy Quan (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”) and this year’s supporting actress prize to Jamie Lee Curtis (“Everything Everywhere All at Once.”) Smith was the only 2022 acting Oscar winner not to present a category in 2023.
Tradition would have it that last year’s best actor winner,...
Chastain won best actress last year for “The Eyes of Tammy Faye.” Last year’s winners for best supporting actor and actress, Troy Kotsur (“Coda”) and Ariana Debose (“West Side Story”), presented this year’s supporting actor prize to Ke Huy Quan (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”) and this year’s supporting actress prize to Jamie Lee Curtis (“Everything Everywhere All at Once.”) Smith was the only 2022 acting Oscar winner not to present a category in 2023.
Tradition would have it that last year’s best actor winner,...
- 3/13/2023
- by Zack Sharf
- Variety Film + TV
The Oscar winner for Best Supporting Actress is Jamie Lee Curtis.
This year’s Academy Awards ceremony took place at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on Sunday (12 March) with Jimmy Kimmel returning as host.
The third category to be announced was Best Supporting Actress, for which Curtis took home the golden statuette.
Ariana DeBose and Coda Troy Kotsur presented the award, with the latter relaying their speech using sign language.
Curtis, 64, won for her role as Deirdre Beaubeirdre in Everything Everywhere All At Once, which also stars Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, and fellow Best Supporting Actress nominee Stephanie Hsu.
Follow along with updates from the ceremony at The Independent’s live blog here.
Other nominees in the category included Angela Bassett for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Hong Chau for The Whale, Kerry Condon for The Banshees of Inisheerin, and Hsu also for Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Accepting her award on stage,...
This year’s Academy Awards ceremony took place at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on Sunday (12 March) with Jimmy Kimmel returning as host.
The third category to be announced was Best Supporting Actress, for which Curtis took home the golden statuette.
Ariana DeBose and Coda Troy Kotsur presented the award, with the latter relaying their speech using sign language.
Curtis, 64, won for her role as Deirdre Beaubeirdre in Everything Everywhere All At Once, which also stars Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, and fellow Best Supporting Actress nominee Stephanie Hsu.
Follow along with updates from the ceremony at The Independent’s live blog here.
Other nominees in the category included Angela Bassett for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Hong Chau for The Whale, Kerry Condon for The Banshees of Inisheerin, and Hsu also for Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Accepting her award on stage,...
- 3/13/2023
- by Annabel Nugent
- The Independent - Film
The 2022 Oscars were quite the ride.
In a dramatic ceremony that saw Will Smith hit Chris Rock on stage, sci-fi epic Dune swept the board with the most prizes.
Apple TV+ movie Coda was the surprise Best Film winner, beating off competition from former favourite, Netflix’s The Power of the Dog.
The Eyes of Tammy Faye’s Jessica Chastain took home the gong for Best Actress, and Smith won for King Richard. Watch his tearful acceptance speech here.
Ahead of the 2023 ceremony, find the full list of 2022 Oscar winners below.
Best Picture
Belfast
Coda Winner
Don’t Look Up
Drive My Car
Dune
King Richard
Licorice Pizza
Nightmare Alley
The Power of the Dog
West Side Story
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Jessica Chastain – The Eyes of Tammy Faye Winner
Olivia Colman – The Lost Daughter
Penélope Cruz – Parallel Mothers
Nicole Kidman – Being the Ricardos
Kristen Stewart – Spencer
Best Actor...
In a dramatic ceremony that saw Will Smith hit Chris Rock on stage, sci-fi epic Dune swept the board with the most prizes.
Apple TV+ movie Coda was the surprise Best Film winner, beating off competition from former favourite, Netflix’s The Power of the Dog.
The Eyes of Tammy Faye’s Jessica Chastain took home the gong for Best Actress, and Smith won for King Richard. Watch his tearful acceptance speech here.
Ahead of the 2023 ceremony, find the full list of 2022 Oscar winners below.
Best Picture
Belfast
Coda Winner
Don’t Look Up
Drive My Car
Dune
King Richard
Licorice Pizza
Nightmare Alley
The Power of the Dog
West Side Story
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Jessica Chastain – The Eyes of Tammy Faye Winner
Olivia Colman – The Lost Daughter
Penélope Cruz – Parallel Mothers
Nicole Kidman – Being the Ricardos
Kristen Stewart – Spencer
Best Actor...
- 3/8/2023
- by Jacob Stolworthy
- The Independent - Film
From slap jokes to sex toys, we get the lowdown on this year’s Academy Awards, ahead of the ceremony on 12 March
Is that film with butt plugs and hotdog fingers really going to win?
It is. Everything Everywhere All at Once, the madcap multiverse comedy in which Michelle Yeoh plays a fed-up launderette owner who accesses different versions of herself to save the world (and defeat Jamie Lee Curtis’s villainously dowdy tax inspector) now looks a lock for best picture. It’s won all the key awards in the run-up, broke records at the Screen Actors Guild awards last Sunday and an auction of props on Friday raised more than half a million dollars.
Wow! It must be fantastically good!
Well … how do I put this? Remember how last year The Power of the Dog, Jane Campion’s tense homoerotic western, was pipped to the post by Coda,...
Is that film with butt plugs and hotdog fingers really going to win?
It is. Everything Everywhere All at Once, the madcap multiverse comedy in which Michelle Yeoh plays a fed-up launderette owner who accesses different versions of herself to save the world (and defeat Jamie Lee Curtis’s villainously dowdy tax inspector) now looks a lock for best picture. It’s won all the key awards in the run-up, broke records at the Screen Actors Guild awards last Sunday and an auction of props on Friday raised more than half a million dollars.
Wow! It must be fantastically good!
Well … how do I put this? Remember how last year The Power of the Dog, Jane Campion’s tense homoerotic western, was pipped to the post by Coda,...
- 3/3/2023
- by Catherine Shoard
- The Guardian - Film News
Are you ready for an agenda-pushing series about climate change?
Apple TV+ thinks you are.
The streamer released the trailer for its upcoming limited series, Extrapolation, with a pretty impressive list of talent attached.
The highly anticipated, star-studded drama Extrapolations, from writer, director and executive producer Scott Z. Burns will be told over a season of eight interconnected episodes.
Produced by Michael Ellenberg’s Media Res, Extrapolations will make its global premiere on Apple TV+ with the first three episodes on Friday, March 17, 2023, followed by one new episode every Friday through April 21, 2023.
Extrapolations is a bracing limited series that introduces a near future where the chaotic effects of climate change have become embedded into our everyday lives.
Eight interwoven stories about love, work, faith and family from across the globe will explore the intimate, life-altering choices that must be made when the planet is changing faster than the population.
Every story is different,...
Apple TV+ thinks you are.
The streamer released the trailer for its upcoming limited series, Extrapolation, with a pretty impressive list of talent attached.
The highly anticipated, star-studded drama Extrapolations, from writer, director and executive producer Scott Z. Burns will be told over a season of eight interconnected episodes.
Produced by Michael Ellenberg’s Media Res, Extrapolations will make its global premiere on Apple TV+ with the first three episodes on Friday, March 17, 2023, followed by one new episode every Friday through April 21, 2023.
Extrapolations is a bracing limited series that introduces a near future where the chaotic effects of climate change have become embedded into our everyday lives.
Eight interwoven stories about love, work, faith and family from across the globe will explore the intimate, life-altering choices that must be made when the planet is changing faster than the population.
Every story is different,...
- 2/15/2023
- by Carissa Pavlica
- TVfanatic
Odds are that three of the four individual film winners at the SAG Awards on February 26 will be collecting Oscars two weeks later. Over the past 28 years, 83 the 112 Academy Awards winners in the four acting races had first collected SAG Awards. That success rate of 74 makes this precursor prize a key bellwether to follow when making your 2023 Oscar predictions.
Last year all four SAG champs — leads Will Smith (“King Richard”) and Jessica Chastain (“The Eyes of Tammy Faye”) plus supporting players Troy Kotsur (“Coda”) and Ariana DeBose (“West Side Story”) — repeated at the Oscars. The results of the previous four races at both the SAG and Academy Awards breakdown as follows:
Best Actor: 22 of the SAG winners went on to win Oscars (plus Benicio del Toro who prevailed in supporting at Oscars for “Traffic”). In 2021, Chadwick Boseman prevailed here for “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” but the late actor lost at...
Last year all four SAG champs — leads Will Smith (“King Richard”) and Jessica Chastain (“The Eyes of Tammy Faye”) plus supporting players Troy Kotsur (“Coda”) and Ariana DeBose (“West Side Story”) — repeated at the Oscars. The results of the previous four races at both the SAG and Academy Awards breakdown as follows:
Best Actor: 22 of the SAG winners went on to win Oscars (plus Benicio del Toro who prevailed in supporting at Oscars for “Traffic”). In 2021, Chadwick Boseman prevailed here for “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” but the late actor lost at...
- 2/7/2023
- by Paul Sheehan
- Gold Derby
The Sundance Film Festival has unveiled its Jury and Audience Award winners for 2023.
The day’s big winners included Maryam Keshavarz’s The Persian Version, which claimed both the Audience Award and Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award in U.S. Dramatic Competition, as well as A.V. Rockwell’s A Thousand and One for Focus Features, which took the Grand Jury Prize in the same section.
Other titles taking top awards included Festival Favorite Radical from filmmaker Christopher Zalla and 3Pas Studios; Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project from Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson, which took the Grand Jury Prize for U.S. Documentary; Madeleine Gavin’s Beyond Utopia, which nabbed the U.S. Documentary Audience Award; and D. Smith’s Kokomo City, which dominated the Next section as it claimed both the Innovator and Audience Award.
Written, directed and produced by Keshavarz for Archer Grey, The Persian Version watches...
The day’s big winners included Maryam Keshavarz’s The Persian Version, which claimed both the Audience Award and Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award in U.S. Dramatic Competition, as well as A.V. Rockwell’s A Thousand and One for Focus Features, which took the Grand Jury Prize in the same section.
Other titles taking top awards included Festival Favorite Radical from filmmaker Christopher Zalla and 3Pas Studios; Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project from Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson, which took the Grand Jury Prize for U.S. Documentary; Madeleine Gavin’s Beyond Utopia, which nabbed the U.S. Documentary Audience Award; and D. Smith’s Kokomo City, which dominated the Next section as it claimed both the Innovator and Audience Award.
Written, directed and produced by Keshavarz for Archer Grey, The Persian Version watches...
- 1/27/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
The nominations for the 2023 Oscars are here – and they arrived with the usual snubs and surprises.
Leading this year’s nominations pack is Everything Everywhere All at Once, which has 11 nods, and Netflix’s German-language film All Quiet on the Western Front, which follows close behind with 10.
The Banshees of Inisherin and Elvis received eight nominations, while Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans and Top Gun: Maverick received seven each.
Featured among the nominees are some unexpected (and wholly welcome) names, but there have also been snubs aplenty.
Below, we run through the most striking surprises and notable ommissions from the 2023 noms list.
Find the full list of Oscar 2023 nominations here – and follow along with live updates here,
Surprise: Paul Mescal and Bill Nighy are officially Oscar nominees
Days before the nominations were announced, many felt the Best Actor category was mostly decided, save for the fifth and final slot. In this place,...
Leading this year’s nominations pack is Everything Everywhere All at Once, which has 11 nods, and Netflix’s German-language film All Quiet on the Western Front, which follows close behind with 10.
The Banshees of Inisherin and Elvis received eight nominations, while Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans and Top Gun: Maverick received seven each.
Featured among the nominees are some unexpected (and wholly welcome) names, but there have also been snubs aplenty.
Below, we run through the most striking surprises and notable ommissions from the 2023 noms list.
Find the full list of Oscar 2023 nominations here – and follow along with live updates here,
Surprise: Paul Mescal and Bill Nighy are officially Oscar nominees
Days before the nominations were announced, many felt the Best Actor category was mostly decided, save for the fifth and final slot. In this place,...
- 1/24/2023
- by Jacob Stolworthy and Louis Chilton
- The Independent - Film
For her third feature film, “Cat Person,” which plays in the Premieres section of Sundance Film Festival, director Susanna Fogel and screenwriter Michelle Ashford felt strongly that the film should be the “next instalment in the conversation that we’ve been having with these films that have dealt with issues of gender, relationships, consent, sexuality and dating over the past several years,” Fogel tells Variety.
There has been a “crop of movies that spoke of this moment in the zeitgeist by presenting this sort of revenge feminism, where the woman is avenging the years of oppression and the men are put in their place, and it’s more of a binary between women and men in terms of women taking the power back and men being chastized for their cultural role,” she says.
They wanted to ask themselves: “What’s the next move in that conversation?,” she says, and try...
There has been a “crop of movies that spoke of this moment in the zeitgeist by presenting this sort of revenge feminism, where the woman is avenging the years of oppression and the men are put in their place, and it’s more of a binary between women and men in terms of women taking the power back and men being chastized for their cultural role,” she says.
They wanted to ask themselves: “What’s the next move in that conversation?,” she says, and try...
- 1/21/2023
- by Tara Karajica
- Variety Film + TV
A24’s Everything Everywhere All at Once won Best Picture at the 28th annual Critics Choice Awards, which were handed out tonight in Los Angeles. Brendan Fraser won Best Actor for A24’s The Whale, and Cate Blanchett took Best Actress for Focus Features’ Tár.
Everything Everywhere came into the ceremony at the Fairmont Century Plaza with a leading 14 nominations and left leading all pics and TV shows with five trophies, including Best Director for Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert.
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The screenplay awards went to Kwan & Scheinert for Everything Everywhere (Original) and Sarah Polley for MGM/United Artists Releasing’s Women Talking (Adapted).
Ke Huy Quan...
Everything Everywhere came into the ceremony at the Fairmont Century Plaza with a leading 14 nominations and left leading all pics and TV shows with five trophies, including Best Director for Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert.
Related Story Critics Choice Awards Photos: Live From The Red Carpet and Gala Ceremony Related Story Critics Choice Awards Will Require Covid Test Of All Attendees As List Of Dropouts From Virus Grows Related Story How To Watch Sunday's Critics Choice Awards On TV & Online
The screenplay awards went to Kwan & Scheinert for Everything Everywhere (Original) and Sarah Polley for MGM/United Artists Releasing’s Women Talking (Adapted).
Ke Huy Quan...
- 1/16/2023
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Jeremy O. Harris, Eliza Hittman, and Marlee Matlin have been named the jurors of the U.S. Dramatic Competition section at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. Harris was at Sundance in 2020 with Zola, the same years Hittman screened her film Never Rarely Sometimes Always. Matlin starred in 2021 Sundance winner Coda.
W. Kamau Bell, Ramona Diaz, and Carla Gutierrez are the jurors for the U.S. Documentary Competition; Shozo Ichiyama, Annemarie Jacir, and Funa Maduka for World Cinema Dramatic Competition; and Karim Amer, Petra Costa, and Alexander Nanau for World Cinema Documentary Competition. Madeleine Olnek is the juror for the Next competition section, Destin Daniel Cretton, Marie-Louise Khondji, and Deborah Stratman will judge the Short Film Program Competition.
The jury for Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize is Dr. Heather Berlin, Jim Gaffigan, Dr. Mandë Holford, Shalini Kantayya, and Lydia Dean Pilcher, and have already awarded the prize to Sophie Barthes’ The Pod Generation.
W. Kamau Bell, Ramona Diaz, and Carla Gutierrez are the jurors for the U.S. Documentary Competition; Shozo Ichiyama, Annemarie Jacir, and Funa Maduka for World Cinema Dramatic Competition; and Karim Amer, Petra Costa, and Alexander Nanau for World Cinema Documentary Competition. Madeleine Olnek is the juror for the Next competition section, Destin Daniel Cretton, Marie-Louise Khondji, and Deborah Stratman will judge the Short Film Program Competition.
The jury for Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize is Dr. Heather Berlin, Jim Gaffigan, Dr. Mandë Holford, Shalini Kantayya, and Lydia Dean Pilcher, and have already awarded the prize to Sophie Barthes’ The Pod Generation.
- 1/11/2023
- by Mia Galuppo
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In any other season, actors Trevor Donovan and Daniel Durant (Coda) would both likely be going to the finals next week but the level of talent in Season 31 of Dancing With the Stars was just too high to keep the two actors in the competition any longer. TV Insider spoke to the pair of semi-finalists and their pro partners about their DWTS journey after their eliminations were announced. “I’m so happy and proud of myself,” Durant said on the post-show press line. “I feel like we did it. Just seeing the dance floor getting smaller and smaller each week [showed me how far we went]. I’m so happy where we got to in the competition.” “I’m so proud of Daniel,” Britt Stewart, Durant’s pro dancer partner, adds. “I might be biased but I think he deserved to be in the finals — 100 percent! But it’s an accomplishment to get where we did.
- 11/15/2022
- TV Insider
Story tells of beloved ‘World Of Warcraft’ community member Mats Steen.
Vendôme Pictures, producer of best picture Oscar winner Coda, has hired Morten Tyldum to direct Ibelin based on the inspirational life of online gamer Mats Steen.
Kyle Killen (Halo) will write the screenplay about Steen, who died aged 25 from Duchenne muscular dystrophy. What his parents did not know and discovered on the day of his funeral was the youngster’s popularity, as people from all over Europe turned up to pay their respects to a beloved member of the World Of Warcraft community, where he went by the name Ibelin.
Vendôme Pictures, producer of best picture Oscar winner Coda, has hired Morten Tyldum to direct Ibelin based on the inspirational life of online gamer Mats Steen.
Kyle Killen (Halo) will write the screenplay about Steen, who died aged 25 from Duchenne muscular dystrophy. What his parents did not know and discovered on the day of his funeral was the youngster’s popularity, as people from all over Europe turned up to pay their respects to a beloved member of the World Of Warcraft community, where he went by the name Ibelin.
- 11/14/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Widely sold Critics’ Week selection up for best feature, breakthrough director, lead performance, breakthrough performance.
Charlotte Wells’ feature directorial debut Aftersun is in contention for best feature at the 2022 Gotham Awards alongside Juan Pablo Gonzalez’s Mexican drama Dos Estaciones, Ricky D’Ambrose’s The Cathedral, Daniels’ Everything Everywhere All At Once, and Todd Field’s TÁR.
In a highly satisfying day (October 25) for Wells, the Scottish filmmaker’s drama earned four nods including one for Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award. Paul Mescal is up for best lead performance in the gender-neutral acting categories and Frankie Corio is among the...
Charlotte Wells’ feature directorial debut Aftersun is in contention for best feature at the 2022 Gotham Awards alongside Juan Pablo Gonzalez’s Mexican drama Dos Estaciones, Ricky D’Ambrose’s The Cathedral, Daniels’ Everything Everywhere All At Once, and Todd Field’s TÁR.
In a highly satisfying day (October 25) for Wells, the Scottish filmmaker’s drama earned four nods including one for Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award. Paul Mescal is up for best lead performance in the gender-neutral acting categories and Frankie Corio is among the...
- 10/25/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Film to open theatrically in December.
After months of speculation, Apple has confirmed it is releasing the Will Smith runaway slave thriller Emancipation and has set a December 2 theatrical release followed by the global platform debut one week later – right in the awards season corridor.
Apple sources had not returned calls at time of writing to discuss potential awards plans. It is being spoken of as possibly director-executive producer Antoine Fuqua’s best work and is expected to feature a stirring lead performance by Smith. See the first trailer below.
However Smith remains a challenge for the company as it moves forward with a release,...
After months of speculation, Apple has confirmed it is releasing the Will Smith runaway slave thriller Emancipation and has set a December 2 theatrical release followed by the global platform debut one week later – right in the awards season corridor.
Apple sources had not returned calls at time of writing to discuss potential awards plans. It is being spoken of as possibly director-executive producer Antoine Fuqua’s best work and is expected to feature a stirring lead performance by Smith. See the first trailer below.
However Smith remains a challenge for the company as it moves forward with a release,...
- 10/3/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Film to open theatrically in December.
After months of speculation, Apple has confirmed it is releasing the Will Smith runaway slave thriller Emancipation and has set a December 2 theatrical release followed by the global platform debut one week later – right in the awards season corridor.
Apple sources had not returned calls at time of writing to discuss potential awards plans. It is being spoken of as possibly director-executive producer Antoine Fuqua’s best work and is expected to feature a stirring lead performance by Smith.
However Smith remains a challenge for the company as it moves forward with a release,...
After months of speculation, Apple has confirmed it is releasing the Will Smith runaway slave thriller Emancipation and has set a December 2 theatrical release followed by the global platform debut one week later – right in the awards season corridor.
Apple sources had not returned calls at time of writing to discuss potential awards plans. It is being spoken of as possibly director-executive producer Antoine Fuqua’s best work and is expected to feature a stirring lead performance by Smith.
However Smith remains a challenge for the company as it moves forward with a release,...
- 10/3/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Award-winning actress Louise Fletcher has died at age 88.
Deadline reports that news of her death was announced Friday, Sept. 23 by her family via agent David Shaul.
While no cause of death was specified, Shaul told the outlet that Fletcher passed away in her sleep, surrounded by family, at the home she had built from a 300-year-old farmhouse in Montdurausse, France. Earlier on Friday, she said to her family about her home, “I can’t believe I created something so meaningful to my well-being.”
Fletcher won the Best Actress Oscar at the 1976 Academy Awards for her portrayal of sadistic Nurse Ratched in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”, a role that remains her best-known; the character was successfully resurrected in 2020 for the Netflix series “Ratched”, which told the her backstory.
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Born in 1934 to deaf parents, Fletcher famously used American Sign Language...
Deadline reports that news of her death was announced Friday, Sept. 23 by her family via agent David Shaul.
While no cause of death was specified, Shaul told the outlet that Fletcher passed away in her sleep, surrounded by family, at the home she had built from a 300-year-old farmhouse in Montdurausse, France. Earlier on Friday, she said to her family about her home, “I can’t believe I created something so meaningful to my well-being.”
Fletcher won the Best Actress Oscar at the 1976 Academy Awards for her portrayal of sadistic Nurse Ratched in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”, a role that remains her best-known; the character was successfully resurrected in 2020 for the Netflix series “Ratched”, which told the her backstory.
Read More: ‘Ratched’ Is Netflix’s Most-Watched Series Debut Of 2020
Born in 1934 to deaf parents, Fletcher famously used American Sign Language...
- 9/24/2022
- by Brent Furdyk
- ET Canada
"Jojo's Bizarre Adventure" has a devoted audience in Japan, but it took years before it found a following in the United States. Conventional wisdom says that it was David Production's anime adaptation of the series that led to its acceptance abroad. I would be even more specific and say that it was the anime's theme songs that were responsible. The first "Jojo" theme, "Sono Chi wa Sadame," roared onto the scene like an unholy chimera of a James Bond song and a classic anime power anthem like "Ai wo Torimodose!!" The second, "Bloody Stream," matched the swagger of its predecessor to a funky beat. While "Sono Chi wa Sadame" melted the faces of Jojo-curious viewers, "Bloody Stream" proved the show's musical stylings weren't a fluke. It helped that the animation accompanying those songs was incredible, courtesy of talented animator Naoki Yoshibe and his crew.
The fifth arc of the "Jojo" anime,...
The fifth arc of the "Jojo" anime,...
- 9/23/2022
- by Adam Wescott
- Slash Film
Australia’s answer to the 2022 Oscar Best Picture winner Coda is here. I’m only half-joking. Blueback is a bit better than the movie that most recently won Best Picture at the Academy Awards, but it employs a similar sort of lightweight treatment of banner issues. Blueback has two major characteristics in its favor: the aquatic cinematography by Andrew Commis and Rick Rifici and that it’s satisfied with being a message movie for kids. It would be perfect to show in a middle school or elementary school classroom during substitute teacher day, like Free Willy, a choice selection when I was a kid. It’s completely inoffensive but also lacking emotional heft, a result of sloppy story structure and flashback-heavy plotting that may have worked well in the source novel by Tim Winton (who also wrote the screenplay), but drains the tension in this adaptation.
Abby and Dora (Radha Mitchell...
Abby and Dora (Radha Mitchell...
- 9/18/2022
- by Soham Gadre
- The Film Stage
Rodrigo García’s charming two-hander Raymond & Ray is the double-act we never knew we needed, an unlikely pairing — Ethan Hawke and Ewan McGregor — in a similarly unexpected comedy from a director better known for gentle female-fronted dramas. Truth be told, Toronto’s Roy Thomson Hall was a little big for it (Sundance might have been a better platform), but this TIFF Gala Presentation from Apple Original Films went over well and could well be this year’s indie sleeper, with awards potential for its ensemble cast, and Hawke in particular.
The setting doesn’t suggest a barrel of laughs — the uptight Ray (McGregor) turns up at the home of his laidback jazz musician half-brother Raymond (Hawke) with sad news: their father is dead. It soon becomes clear that neither has any affection for the old man — he was, after all, “a bitter son of a bitch” says Ray — but Raymond...
The setting doesn’t suggest a barrel of laughs — the uptight Ray (McGregor) turns up at the home of his laidback jazz musician half-brother Raymond (Hawke) with sad news: their father is dead. It soon becomes clear that neither has any affection for the old man — he was, after all, “a bitter son of a bitch” says Ray — but Raymond...
- 9/13/2022
- by Damon Wise
- Deadline Film + TV
Film Independent, the organization responsible for the Independent Spirit Awards, has announced that all acting categories will be gender-neutral, beginning with next year’s ceremony. This means that men, women and non-binary performers will compete in the same acting categories.
Film Independent president Josh Welsh said of the acting categories: “We’re thrilled to join the other festivals and award shows that are already moving to celebrate great acting without reference to gender…We’re also happy to welcome non-binary performers into the Spirit Awards without forcing them to choose to identify as male or female.”
The Independent Spirit Awards now join the British Independent Film Awards and the Gotham Awards in switching to gender-neutral categories. With this, the acting categories will expand to 10 nominees, compared to the usual five. They will also introduce two new categories: Best Breakthrough Performance and Best Supporting Performance in a New Scripted Series.
Prior...
Film Independent president Josh Welsh said of the acting categories: “We’re thrilled to join the other festivals and award shows that are already moving to celebrate great acting without reference to gender…We’re also happy to welcome non-binary performers into the Spirit Awards without forcing them to choose to identify as male or female.”
The Independent Spirit Awards now join the British Independent Film Awards and the Gotham Awards in switching to gender-neutral categories. With this, the acting categories will expand to 10 nominees, compared to the usual five. They will also introduce two new categories: Best Breakthrough Performance and Best Supporting Performance in a New Scripted Series.
Prior...
- 8/23/2022
- by Mathew Plale
- JoBlo.com
Jane Campion has spoken for the first time about her ‘snub’ at this year’s Oscars – when her film The Power of the Dog was nominated for 12 awards but won just one, for Campion herself as best director.
Campion was diplomatic about Coda, the film that trumped hers to best picture, telling the BBC:
“With the Academy it seemed that Coda really captured the hearts of people. It was an easier film to understand and, you know, that’s the way it went and I’m happy for them.”
The epic western which was streamed on Netflix was Campion’s first feature film for more than a decade. She laughed off rumours that the streamer had offered her a budget of more than 30million, but did admit that Netflix were the most generous of all the partners she approached.
Campion told the BBC: “The film couldn’t have been...
Campion was diplomatic about Coda, the film that trumped hers to best picture, telling the BBC:
“With the Academy it seemed that Coda really captured the hearts of people. It was an easier film to understand and, you know, that’s the way it went and I’m happy for them.”
The epic western which was streamed on Netflix was Campion’s first feature film for more than a decade. She laughed off rumours that the streamer had offered her a budget of more than 30million, but did admit that Netflix were the most generous of all the partners she approached.
Campion told the BBC: “The film couldn’t have been...
- 7/9/2022
- by Caroline Frost
- Deadline Film + TV
Galeca: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics has announced its Dorian Award nominations for the best in movies. Netflix and Neon dominate the nominations this year.
Jane Campion’s volatile period drama The Power of the Dog leads the pack with nine nods, including for best film, LGBTQ film, director and three for acting. Coming in a few rungs lower with five nominations each: The 1920s-set racial drama Passing, the unusual animated refugee documentary Flee, and Steven Spielberg’s vibrant reimagining of West Side Story.
Formed in 2009, Galeca: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics’ Dorian Awards go to the best in film and TV, mainstream to queer+, at separate times of the year. Galeca consists of critics, journalists and broadcasters who work for some of the most prominent and influential media outlets in the United States, Canada, Australia and the U.K. A nonprofit professional organization, the Society—via its televised Toast awards specials,...
Jane Campion’s volatile period drama The Power of the Dog leads the pack with nine nods, including for best film, LGBTQ film, director and three for acting. Coming in a few rungs lower with five nominations each: The 1920s-set racial drama Passing, the unusual animated refugee documentary Flee, and Steven Spielberg’s vibrant reimagining of West Side Story.
Formed in 2009, Galeca: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics’ Dorian Awards go to the best in film and TV, mainstream to queer+, at separate times of the year. Galeca consists of critics, journalists and broadcasters who work for some of the most prominent and influential media outlets in the United States, Canada, Australia and the U.K. A nonprofit professional organization, the Society—via its televised Toast awards specials,...
- 2/23/2022
- by Valerie Complex
- Deadline Film + TV
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