When Australian writer Lily Brett published her novel Too Many Men in 2001, critics marvelled at the light, comic tone she had managed to strike in a novel about the lasting impact of the Holocaust, passed down from one generation to the next. Families have their customary jokes; they squabble over the dinner table; they […]
Charles Grice “Lefty” Driesell, a Hall of Fame coach who made Maryland into a national power, died today at 92. He died at his home in Virginia Beach, Virginia, his family said, but did not disclose the cause. Maryland planned to honor Driesell with a moment of silence before its game against No. 14 Illinois […]
Lionel Richie was surprised when news reached him about Katy Perry’s imminent departure from American Idol. But “I’m not mad,” he said while visiting Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Thursday. “It just made me run off the road when I first heard about it,” he joked about Perry’s upcoming departure. “My phone blew up.” Perry’s recently […]
When real-life couple Justine Triet and Arthur Harari set out to write Anatomy of a Fall, about a woman on trial for the murder of her husband, they built the story on relationships first and foremost. “The first embryo was the relationship between the son and the mother and the idea of the son discovering he […]
Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry joined filmmaker Julia von Heinz for a press conference for new tragic comedy Treasure, which debuts this weekend in the Special Gala section at the Berlin Film Festival. As well as Dunham and Fry, the drama stars Zbigniew Zamachowski and is based on the bestselling book Too Many Men by Lily Brett. […]
Claudia Sanchez’s documentary Transmexico took the Audience Choice Award on Saturday at the Santa Barbara Film Festival, which revealed winners in its juried categories as it wraps its 39th edition. The doc follows three trans women who challenge societal norms while inspiring change against daunting odds. Other winners include Sophia Sabella and Pablo Feldman’s Edge […]
“Bobi has inspired our generation and the nation at large,” Bobi Wine: The People’s President co-director Moses Bwayo said of the famed Uganda performer now politician seeking to preserve his country’s waning democracy. “When he got into Parliament and said he wanted to dislodge the dictatorship … we trusted him,” Bwayo, who did double duty […]
New legal documents made public Friday by the Los Angeles City Ethics Commission indicate former CBS President and CEO Leslie Moonves has paid an $11,250 fine for trying to influence a former LAPD captain. NBC4 reports that in 2017, an L.A. police captain was leaking confidential information about a criminal investigation on Moonves. The top […]
Filmmaker Sean Wang’s endearing live-action short Năi Nai & Wài Pó might seem to be perhaps the lightest of all the Oscar nominees in the category, but he had more on his mind in chronicling the lives of his inseparable grandmothers, the 94-year-old Năi Nai (Yi Yan Fuei) and 83-year-old Wài Pó (Zhang Li Hua) […]
What would you do if you could extend loved ones’ lives through their memories? Another End, the latest film directed by Piero Messina and his writing team including Giacomo Bendotti, Valentina Gaddi and Sebastiano Melloni, boasts a cast led by Gael García Bernal, Renate Reinsve and Bérénice Bejo. It aspires to weave a complex narrative […]
“It’s been really interesting to talk about the film in this personal way, because it really was never meant to be so personal,” Elemental director Peter Sohn said at Deadline’s Contenders Film: The Nominees panel Saturday. “The seeds sort of started,” the Disney/Pixar vet added of his own Korean family story that birthed the Oscar-nominated toon. “And […]
NBC News’ Today with Hoda & Jenna had to scramble to find a guest host this week after singer Kelly Rowland left. On Thursday, Rowland had guested in the 8 a.m. hour of Today, and was scheduled to fill in for Jenna Bush Hager in the fourth hour as guest host, joining Hoda Kotb, didn’t […]
“It genuinely feels like things are happening in real time.” That’s Da’Vine Joy Randolph’s take on how her wise-beyond-years private school cafeteria lady Mary was able to forge a solid chemistry with Paul Giamatti’s curmudgeon ancient civilizations instructor Paul Hunham in Focus Features’ The Holdovers. “You’re genuinely seeing their relationship authentically develop,” says Randolph. “I’ve never […]
Joining me in the Apple Original Films portion of Deadline’s Contenders Film: The Nominees were several Oscar nominees for Martin Scorsese’s epic Western Killers of the Flower Moon, and since the film has been nominated for a whopping 10 Academy Awards it was a good cross-section of artisans who made this very big film come […]
EXCLUSIVE: L.A. filmmaker Jacqueline Elyse Rosenthal has won the first edition of Stage 32 and Catalyst Studios’ Empowering Women Script Competition for her social impact film Backlog. The drama is inspired by the real-life U.S. Senate Hearing to end the national backlog of millions of untested rape kits. It follows a young college sexual assault […]
EXCLUSIVE: Blockchain animated show Cyko KO is set to launch today. The retro-inspired Cyko KO: The Animated Series is notable not only for being a high-profile pilot powered through blockchain tech, but also for reuniting several cast members from Napoleon Dynamite, as we first told you in September 2022. The pilot stars Jon Heder (Napoleon […]
“This is a very, very romantic film,” Gael García Bernal said of his Berlin competition title, Another End. The Mexican actor was speaking at the press conference for the pic this morning in the German capital alongside his co-stars Renate Reinsve, Bérénice Bejo, Olivia Williams, and Pal Aron. “I’m very proud and happy to be […]
Prince Harry has pronounced himself “willing to return to a temporary role within the British Royal Family, it has been reported in the UK media. Following his visit with his father King Charles after the latter’s cancer diagnosis was made public nearly a fortnight ago, sources have shared with The Times of London that Harry […]
Australian Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning actor and producer Toni Collette (Knives Out) has been announced as a Master at the 10th edition of the Doha Film Institute’s Qumra talent incubator, running from March 1 to 6. She joins Leos Carax, Claire Denis, Atom Egoyan, Martín Hernández, and Jim Sheridan who were previously announced as […]
EXCLUSIVE: Zosia Mamet is set to co-star alongside Ann Dowd in upcoming horror thriller The Undertaker’s Children, producer and seller The Exchange has announced as it rolls out sales at the EFM. Mamet, whose credits include the HBO TV series Girls and The Flight Attendant, has been seen most recently in Columbia Pictures action-sci fi […]
BAFTA weekend has arrived, and with it the kickoff of key celebrations ahead of the BAFTA Film Awards on Sunday night, which will then be followed by a host of glitzy afterparties well into the wee hours of Monday morning. The awards themselves will be handed out beginning at 5pm local time on Sunday at […]
EXCLUSIVE: Australia’s Odin’s Eye Animation (OEA) has boarded sales on caveman comedy Rock Bottom, starring the voices of top comedy actors Rob Schneider and Gabriel “Fluffy” Iglesias. The movie is the latest production from Mexican animation powerhouse Huevocartoon Studios, for which OEA previously sold Little Eggs: An African Rescue and Little Eggs: A Frozen Rescue. Schneider has voiced a raft of […]
Filmmaker Andreas Dresen and actress Liv Lisa Fries took part morning in the press conference for new drama From Hilde, With Love, which debuts this weekend in Competition at the Berlin Film Festival. Dresen’s affecting and resonant film, set in Berlin during the Second World War, charts the little known story of Hilde and Hans […]
Taylor Swift was left speechless by the largest crowd she’s fronted on her record-breaking tour when she took to the stage in Melbourne, Australia, on Friday evening. Almost 100,000 fans were in the crowd at the city’s famous cricket ground (the MCG) for her biggest concert so far – and they did not go unnoticed […]
EXCLUSIVE: Film Mode Entertainment has locked a series of deals on Blue Light, the latest feature from American filmmaker Andy Fickman (Race to Witch Mountain, Parental Guidance, The Game Plan, and She’s The Man). Sales for Blue Light include Germany (Lighthouse Home Entertainment), Malaysia (Feather Entertainment), Portugal (Nos Lusomundo), Philippines (Pioneer Films), United Kingdom (101 […]