Jessica Chastain has joined Netflix’s “The Retrievals,” a new drama series from the streamer. The Oscar-winning actor will star as Kaitlyn Langford, a former art historian who has “spent the last decade stuck in an endless cycle of failed fertility treatments,” per Netflix. “When she learns she’s also a victim of criminal drug diversion at […]
Variety•Payton Turkeltaub16 Sept
France has selected Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Cannes Grand Prize winner “Minotaur” to represent the country in the international feature film race at the Oscars. The choice was made Wednesday by France’s Oscar committee following auditions with the producers, international sales agents and U.S. distributors behind the five shortlisted films, including Mubi, Neon and Sony Pictures Classics. […]
Variety•Elskes16 Sept
After exploding on to the horror movie universe with fresh and inventive films, Barbarian and the Oscar winning Weapons, I was a little worried to hear Zach Cregger’s next film was going to be yet another entry in Sony’s Resident Evil franchise that already has spawned about 8 movies, 6 of them starring Milla Jovocich’s […]
Deadline•Pete Hammond16 Sept
EXCLUSIVE: Sam Worthington (Avatar), Liam Hemsworth (The Hunger Games), and Cara Delevingne (Club Kid) are set to play the lead love triangle in Paul Schrader’s upcoming erotic thriller Non Compos Mentis. Production is due to get underway next month in New York on the movie, which Oscar nominee Schrader has written and will direct. Additional […]
Deadline•Andreas Wiseman16 Sept
The Vatican is set to submit a film for Oscar consideration for the first time in the 97-year history of the Academy Awards. “Green Lava,” an inspirational Vatican-produced documentary short featuring a young Italian man named Giacomo Mattivi who lives with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, will premiere this week in Los Angeles as a preamble to […]
Variety•Nvivarelli16 Sept
The odds will forever be in Jennifer Lawrence’s favor. With the Oscar winner set to briefly reprise her role as Katniss Everdeen in the prequel movie The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping,...
E! Online•Sabba Rahbar16 Sept
Markus Lehmusruusu’s futuristic drama “The Squirrel” has just been selected as the Finnish Oscar submission, and it already has a notable fan. “Aki Kaurismäki called it a masterpiece. He said it was like ‘2001: A Space Odyssey,’ but better because it’s full of humanism. I really loved that,” the director tells Variety. “I hope that […]
Variety•Marta Balaga16 Sept
EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios and Imagine Entertainment’s Ron Howard directed true-life film Alone at Dawn will begin a platform release on December 25, 2027, before expanding on January 7 and getting a wide break over the MLK weekend, January 14-17. Deadline first told you about the project. Oscar winner Anne Hathaway, 2x Oscar nominee Adam […]
Deadline•Anthonypauldalessandro15 Sept
Jesse Eisenberg is already stressed about awards season. The Oscar nominee confessed that he’s feeling anxious about the reaction to his new movie The Debut—which stars Julianne Moore and Paul...
E! Online•Sabba Rahbar15 Sept
Toronto film festival: A fictionalised version of the cantankerous crime author plots a murder with an ambitious editor in a story in need of a sharper edge The restrictions of Covid led to an inevitable rise in safely contained chamber-piece movies, where a handful of characters find themselves in a usually remote house, dialogue taking obvious precedence over action. There were some highlights, such Kevin Williamson’s timely slasher Sick , and some considerable low points, such as Sam Levinson’s vapid drama Malcolm & Marie , but while we had plenty of them, none of them rivalled some of the greatest and smartest pre-pandemic examples. The very best tended to be based on plays and quite often starred Michael Caine. He was in Anthony Shaffer’s Sleuth, which went from Tony to Oscar success back in the 1970s, and then the arguably even better Deathtrap in the decade after, which Sidney Lumet adapted from Ira Levin’s deviously plotted play. In between there was also an under-seen TV movie called One of My Wives Is Missing , based on 60s play Trap for a Single Man, which was notably lesser but still delivered a similarly specific brand of twisty, talky thrills. There would be secrets, surprises, reversals and usually at least one dead body by the end of it, a subgenre entirely indebted to the work of Agatha Christie (who reportedly loved Sleuth on stage so much that she dedicated a picture of herself to be hung in the house used in the big screen adaptation). The bar is therefore held rather high, a puzzle that requires an ingenious level of writing that needs to be smart without smug and shocking without feeling cheap. Continue reading...
The Guardian•Benjamin Lee in Toronto15 Sept
EXCLUSIVE: With Mr. Irrelevant already gaining buzz prior to its holiday opening, Skydance Sports is looking to hit a home run with its next big pic on one of the more iconic baseball figures in the past 50 years. Sources tell Deadline that Oscar winner Robert De Niro is in talks to play Tommy Lasorda, […]
Deadline•Matthewgrobar15 Sept
Quentin Tarantino is writing a novel version of his “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” spinoff “Cliff Booth.” It will debut later this year, timed to the release of the forthcoming film starring Brad Pitt, who reprises his Oscar-winning role as a longtime stuntman. Tarantino’s book is titled “The Adventures of Cliff Booth,” which differs […]
Variety•Rebecca Rubin15 Sept
Moshe Rosenthal’s “Tell Me Everything” continues to build momentum after winning 10 Ophir Awards, including best picture, best director and best screenplay, from a record-breaking 16 nominations. Israel’s submission for the international feature Oscar, the father-son drama has secured a string of international sales, including France (Maverick), as well as Australia and New Zealand (Moving […]
Variety•Elskes15 Sept
EXCLUSIVE: Fiona Gubelmann (The Good Doctor, A Royal Montana Christmas), Marco Grazzini (Virgin River, Haunted Harmony Mysteries) and Oscar nominee and two-time Emmy winner Carol Kane (Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Anxious People) have been cast in An Angel in My Stocking, a new original Hallmark Channel movie set to premiere during its annual Countdown […]
Deadline•Denise Petski15 Sept
Backing comes after Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor were threatened with having their citizenship revoked and accused of treason Film industry heavyweights across the globe have expressed solidarity with Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, the Oscar-winning Israeli directors of documentary NAZA, who have been threatened with having their citizenship revoked by Israel’s culture minister, who accused them of “treason against the state”. NAZA, which was produced by the Guardian, is named for an acronym euphemistically used by Israel’s intelligence service to indicate how many civilians it expects to die in an airstrike on Gaza. It includes interviews with 24 Israeli military or intelligence soldiers and officers who outlined the AI-powered targeting systems used to bombard Gaza, resulting in the mass killing of Palestinian civilians. Continue reading...
The Guardian•Catherine Shoard in London and Lorenzo Tondo in Jerusalem15 Sept
EXCLUSIVE: Three-time Oscar nominee Nick Nolte (48 Hrs) and Milo Gibson (Hacksaw Ridge) are leading horror film Vested, which recently wrapped production in British Columbia, Canada. The synopsis reads: “Set in a remote, decaying mountain town, Vested follows a fractured family bound by an inherited legacy of violence and secrecy. When a series of brutal […]
Deadline•Andreas Wiseman15 Sept
EXCLUSIVE: Cohen Media Group has bought U.S. rights to Isabelle Huppert comedy All About Corinne ahead of its North American bow tomorrow at TIFF. In Marc Fitoussi’s (Call My Agent!) film, screen legend and Oscar nominee Huppert stars alongside a stacked French and European cast including Sandrine Kiberlain, Anne Marivin, Emmanuelle Bercot, Diane Kruger, Ana […]
Deadline•Andreas Wiseman15 Sept
Tom Cruise told GQ magazine as part of a new cover story on the “Digger” star that rumors about him being intense on movie sets are true, and he warns his co-stars upfront about it before filming starts. Movies are all about connecting “humanity,” the Oscar-nominated actor said, and he’s not afraid to be intense […]
Variety•Zack Sharf15 Sept
Oscar-winner Asif Kapadia takes the reins for a last catchup with the 70-year-olds. Plus: a year in the life of Gemma Collins. Here’s what to watch this evening 9pm, ITV1 Asif Kapadia directs the final instalment of the long-running documentary (it first aired in 1964) and it does all its subjects – and their loyal viewers – proud. Meeting the now 70-year-olds again tugs at the existential heartstrings and some, such as cheeky dreamer Tony, have stayed close to their childhood selves, whereas the more mellow John worries about how he has been portrayed. Hannah Verdier Continue reading...
The Guardian•Hannah Verdier, Graeme Virtue, Hollie Richardson and Phil Harrison15 Sept
Greenwich House Theater, New York The Oscar-winning actor transfixes in a Marin Ireland’s masterfully nuanced play about a woman reeling from a toxic relationship Paradoxically, the more stars step into the lead role in Pre-Existing Condition , the more the brilliance of Marin Ireland’s domestic abuse play takes center stage. Not that it ever suffered from a lack of acting talent – when it premiered in 2024, at New York’s tiny Connelly Theater Upstairs, it counted Tatiana Maslany , Edie Falco and Deirdre O’Connell among the actors who played its central character in quick succession, for only a few weeks each. And this return engagement, at the larger Greenwich House Theater across town, kicks off with Lupita Nyong’o , before making way for Phillipa Soo, Susannah Flood, Hari Nef, Falco again and Whitney White. It’s a straightforward conceit, perfectly calibrated for a 75-minute run time. A woman (whom the script refers to as A, currently played by Nyong’o) is dealing with the aftermath of a breakup triggered by her partner hitting her. When we meet her, someone (perhaps a lawyer, or a therapist) is laying out the reality of her situation: even with the deep pockets required to go to court, it’s been seven months since the incident, it happened across state lines and she never called the police. “You have to be ready for a fight,” she tells A. “Which, just from our short time with each other, I can already tell that you’re not.” Continue reading...
The Guardian•Juan A Ramírez15 Sept