Bob Mackie, the Oscar-nominated and Tony- and Emmy-winning fashion designer who dressed Cher in her most eye-popping costumes, Barbra Streisand in her batwing gown in Funny Lady and sketched the design for Marilyn Monroe’s beaded white dress she wore to sing “Happy Birthday” to JFK, died Monday. He was 87. The news was announced on […]
Deadline•Patrick Hipes14 Sept
EXCLUSIVE: Room Best Actress Oscar winner Brie Larson is set to star as Katy Silver and executive produce Paramount Pictures’ feature adaptation of Rebecca Serle’s New York Times bestselling novel One Italian Summer. Enola Holmes franchise filmmaker, Harry Bradbeer, is set to helm the Temple Hill Entertainment production. A theatrical release for Mother’s Day weekend, […]
Deadline•Anthonypauldalessandro14 Sept
EXCLUSIVE: Three-time Oscar nominee Woody Harrelson is set to lead Summer of Roses, a new suspense drama from Rick Alverson, who directs from a script co-written with Micah Jayne. Caleb Landry Jones, Harrelson’s co-star in Martin McDonagh’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is also set, as are Hannah Gross (The Drama) and Kaya Wilkins (aka […]
Deadline•Matthewgrobar14 Sept
Oscar nominee Salma Hayek Pinault is stepping behind the camera. Variety can exclusively reveal that the Oscar-nominated actor of “Frida” and Emmy-nominated actress and producer of “Ugly Betty” will make her theatrical directorial debut with “Arena,” an epic romantic adventure she also wrote. The independently financed film pairs her with Yura Borisov, who earned an […]
Variety•Clayton Davis14 Sept
The 'Sultan of Sequins' won nine Emmys and earned three Oscar noms. 'A woman who wears my clothes is not afraid to be noticed,' he once said.
The Hollywood Reporter•Mike Barnes14 Sept
“Last Meals,” the upcoming drama from Oscar nominated writer-director Ramin Bahrani (“The White Tiger,” “99 Homes”) and starring Mads Mikkelson in the lead role, has expanded its cast as the start of principal photography nears. BAFTA and Emmy nominee Tessa Thompson (“Hedda,” “Creed”) and two-time Oscar nominee Michael Shannon (“Revolutionary Road,” “Nocturnal Animas”) have joined […]
Variety•Alex Ritman14 Sept
Ildikó Enyedi’s “Silent Friend” is Hungary’s submission for the 2027 Oscars in the best international feature film category. Enyedi’s “On Body and Soul,” which won Berlin’s Golden Bear, was Oscar nominated in the same category in 2018. “Silent Friend,” which stars Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Luna Wedler, Enzo Brumm and Léa Seydoux, is a poetic exploration […]
Variety•Leo Barraclough14 Sept
Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev also speaks on the possibility that he'd be chosen to represent France in the Oscar race for the first time: "I would be very proud, and very grateful."
The Hollywood Reporter•David Canfield14 Sept
Javier Bardem will be honored with a lifetime achievement award by the Rome Film Festival where the Oscar-winning actor will present a screening of Spanish director Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s “The Beloved” (“El ser querido”) that is being showcased in the event’s best of the fests section. In “The Beloved,” which world-premiered at Cannes, Bardem plays an […]
Variety•Nvivarelli14 Sept
Israel’s culture minister has called for the Oscar-winning Israeli directors of 'NAZA', Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, to be stripped of their citizenship. The documentary about the country’s mass killing of civilians in Gaza won Venice's Special Jury Prize.
Euronews14 Sept
John Malkovich has become an early awards season frontrunner after winning Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival. The actor has also made headlines for cancelling his upcoming trip to Israel, following falsely attributed quotes.
Euronews14 Sept
The day after Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor‘s bombshell Israeli documentary NAZA alleging the Israeli army targeted civilians in Gaza won the Special Jury Prize at Venice, Israel’s Culture Minister Miki Zohar announced that he would “act immediately to revoke the Israeli citizenship” of the directing duo. According to a translation provided by X, Zohar went on to call […]
Deadline•Tomt14 Sept
Cynthia Erivo already earned two best actress Oscar nominations for portraying Harriet Tubman and the green-skinned Elphaba in “Wicked” — not to mention her Tony-winning work in “The Color Purple” — but her latest film, “Prima Facie,” might be her most challenging high-wire act yet. She pulled it off, according to the audience at the […]
Variety•Angelique Jackson14 Sept
Miki Zohar accuses Oscar-winning directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor of ‘treason against the state’ ‘They know the house they are bombing is full of children’: NAZA’s directors on their devastating film about Israeli intelligence Israel’s culture minister has called for the Oscar-winning Israeli directors of NAZA , a documentary about the country’s mass killing of civilians in Gaza, to be stripped of their citizenship, accusing them of “treason against the state”. NAZA, which was produced by the Guardian, is named for an acronym used by Israel’s intelligence service to indicate how many civilians it expects to die in an airstrike on Gaza. Continue reading...
The Guardian•Sian Cain and agencies14 Sept
The Oscar nominee tackles the role originated by Jodie Comer on the West End and Broadway in Susanna White's film version of Suzie Miller's award-winning play.
The Hollywood Reporter•Caryn James13 Sept
Variety and Chanel’s annual Women in Film dinner was the place to see and be chic at the Toronto Film Festival on Friday night. When Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh entered the bar for the evening cocktail hour, Emmy winners Sarah Paulson and Colman Domingo greeted her with hugs. Soon, Patricia Arquette breezed in too, pulling […]
Variety•Angelique Jackson13 Sept
Going through Miles Buckle's Instagram feed is like stumbling into a parallel universe where cinema's greats – Lynch, Hitchcock, Fellini, Kubrick – are reimagined in the familiar but distinctly different visual language of video games. The " here's Johnny " scene from The Shining, where Jack Nicholson terrorises Shelley Duvall, recreated in the stilted comedic style of The Sims 2 . The opening sequence of Twin Peaks told through the landscapes of SimCity 2000 – one of several "orthographic experiments" that Buckle has done using the most iconic Maxis game of my childhood. A low-poly Peter Finch doing the Oscar-winning "I'm a human being, god dammit!" monologue from Sidney Lumet's classic Network. Perfect fever dreams that can't and won't exist outside of these short clips. Read more
Like Peter Farrelly's earlier film 'Green Book,' this crowd-pleaser could seriously contend for TIFF's audience award en route to major Oscar noms (including best actor for Anthony Ippolito, who plays Sylvester Stallone).
The Hollywood Reporter•Scott Feinberg13 Sept
Nicole Kidman and her daughter Faith Margaret are causing a racquet with their fashion. Indeed, the Oscar winner and her 15-year-old daughter—whom she shares with ex Keith Urban—served stylish...
E! Online•Paige Catton12 Sept
The truly legendary singer Darlene Love had her story already lightly sketched out in a 2013 film about backup singers of yore, 2013’s Oscar-winning “20 Feet From Stardom.” But what Love’s fans — and they are legion — really have hungered for is a movie in which she is less than 10 feet from the […]
Variety•Chris Willman12 Sept