“If I could do it with an iPhone and 50 quid, I was making this film,” says Rich Peppiatt about his award-winning feature Kneecap. The Irish hip-hop “print the legend” biopic on the Belfast-based rap trio — boasting Michael Fassbender among its ensemble — is a far cry from iPhone quality, and has taken the indie film world by
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The board of directors of the Cannes Film Festival has unanimously re-elected Iris Knobloch to serve a second term as festival president. Knobloch, a former executive at Warner Bros. France, took over from Pierre Lescure as the first-ever female president of the Cannes festival in 2023. Her new mandate will run for three years, through
Phyllis Dalton, the revered British costume designer who created Peter O’Toole‘s iconic white desert robe for David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia and won Oscars 24 years apart for her work on Lean’s Doctor Zhivago and Kenneth Branagh‘s Henry V, has died. She was 99. Dalton died Thursday, The Telegraph reported. No other details were immediately
The fourth installment in China’s wildly popular Detective Chinatown action comedy franchise has locked down day-and-date theatrical release plans in North America, Europe and Southeast Asia. The highly anticipated feature will open around the world on Jan. 29, the same date it unfurls at home in China on the first day of the lucrative Lunar
Anora star Mikey Madison, David Jonsson and Marisa Abela are among BAFTA‘s 2025 Rising Star nominees. The full list this year includes Jharrel Jerome (Unstoppable) and Nabhaan Rizwan (In Camera) alongside Abela (Back To Black), Madison and Jonsson (Alien: Romulus). The five named were unveiled on Tuesday during a London press conference at The Savoy
French multi-hyphenate Julie Delpy will be honored with the Honorary Dragon Award at the 2025 Göteborg Film Festival, organizers announced Thursday. The veteran filmmaker and actor will attend the Swedish festival to present her latest directorial effort, the satire Meet the Barbarians, and participate in an on-stage conversation about her four-decade career spanning both sides
Olivia Hussey, who dazzled moviegoers as the female lead in Franco Zeffirelli‘s noteworthy 1968 adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, died Friday. She was 73. The Argentina-born actress died “at home surrounded by her loved ones,” according to an announcement on her official Instagram account. “Olivia was a remarkable person whose warmth, wisdom, and pure kindness
This week on TriVersity Talk, we tribute the life of Cindy Stine by re-airing a special interview. Cindy Stine was one of the fiercest warriors in the fight for social justice, yet she touched innumerable lives with her unfailing support and compassion. A former executive director of the TriVeristy Pride Center in Milford, PA, Cindy
The 2024 global film festival circuit featured something for every taste — from celebrated Lithuanian art house fare, such as Locarno winner Toxic and Drowning Dry, to such audience favorites as Sean Baker’s Anora and Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Pérez, from the highs to the lows, all garnished, of course, with a big serving of star
[This story contains major spoilers from The Brutalist.] Joe Alwyn first read the script for Brady Corbet‘s 3.5-hour epic The Brutalist five years ago. The pair met for coffee in New York. “I was such a such a fan of Brady and such a fan of the script,” the British actor tells The Hollywood Reporter.
Netflix has unveiled six filmmakers who will receive funding and professional support to make a short documentary as winners of the third year of the Netflix Documentary Talent Fund. “Following a rigorous application process and thousands of applications, a shortlist of 12 filmmaking teams from across the U.K. and Ireland were invited to Netflix’s U.K.
The International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) unveiled its 2025 Big Screen and Tiger Short competitive sections on Tuesday. Typical for Rotterdam, the selection is truly global, with films traversing from Montenegro to Malaysia, and from Congo to India. The Big Screen Competition, which features films that bridge arthouse and popular cinema, features highlights including The
Nicholas Hoult had 5,000 new friends once he wrapped filming for Nosferatu… well, rodent friends. The actor, who stars alongside Lily-Rose Depp and Bill Skarsgard in Robert Eggers’ supernatural horror film, shared during a recent appearance on The Graham Norton Show that the movie clearly had a “big rat budget.” “I think we had like 5,000
As major players in Hollywood walk back on earlier commitments to DEI, Eva Longoria says she hasn’t given up on her push for greater diversity, equity and inclusion across the entertainment industry. “This kind of pendulum swing of DEI programs being cut back means a lot of directors and writers from those programs will
On the eve of the Red Sea Film Festival opening Thursday, Imax has opened its first giant screen location in Jeddah with Muvi Cinemas, the country’s largest cinema chain. The latest Imax screen opening internationally comes as the cinema technologies company looks to show more local language movie titles on its global network of theaters.
Sophie Okonedo will receive the Richard Harris Award at the 2024 British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs), organizers unveiled Monday. The Richard Harris Award recognizes the outstanding contribution of an actor to British film. Previous recipients of the honor include the likes of Samantha Morton, Riz Ahmed, Kristin Scott Thomas, Judi Dench, Vanessa Redgrave, Daniel Day-Lewis,
Silvia Pinal, the revered film and television actress who left an indelible mark on Mexico’s Golden Age of Cinema, has died. She was 93. Mexico’s culture secretary, Claudia Curiel de Icaza, as well as the Asociación Nacional de Intérpretes announced Pinal’s passing on social media. The Associated Press reported that Pinal had been hospitalized for
The Locarno Film Festival‘s Open Doors program, which supports filmmakers from underrepresented regions of the world, has unveiled a new team for its next four-year mission: To focus on supporting and elevating African cinema. The co-production and talent develpment initiative, previously focused on Latin America and the Caribbean, will turn its attention to the African
Mindy Kaling has boarded the live-action short Anuja as a producer off the back of its wins at the Oscar-qualifying HollyShorts Film Festival, the Montclair Film Festival, and the New York International Short Film Festival, The Hollywood Reporter can reveal. Anuja, from Adam J. Graves and Suchitra Mattai, is the story of a gifted nine-year-old
For fans of The Holiday movie hoping to someday Airbnb the cottage from the film, Jude Law has some disappointing news. In an interview with BBC Radio on Sunday, the actor, who starred in the 2006 film alongside Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet and Jack Black, made a big reveal about the film’s Rosehill cottage after
The 1,500 guests who arrived at the Beverly Hills Temple of the Arts on Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills on a balmy mid-October evening had to pass a squadron of armed guards, go through a metal detector, and have their IDs checked before taking their seats inside the Saban Theater. The security was a fitting prelude
Wendy Stuart will be hosting TriVersity Talk! this Wednesday at 7 PM ET with featured guests Lady Clover Honey and Gladiola Gladrags. This episode is a part of The Best of Triversity Talk series. TriVersity Talk! is a weekly web series with featured guests discussing their lives, activism and pressing issues in the LGBTQ Community.
Macedonian producer and actress Labina Mitevska has been selected as the recipient of this year’s Eurimages International Co-production Award, honoring producers for their contribution in fostering international film collaboration. Mitevska, who co-founded Sisters and Brother Mitevski Production in Skopje, North Macedonia, will receive the award from European film subsidy group Eurimages and the European Film
Werner Herzog travels to Getunkirchenburg to investigate the death after a local factory worker named Dorem Clery dies under mysterious circumstances in Piotr Winiewicz’s feature film debut About a Hero. Vicky Krieps also stars, and Stephen Fry appears. “But Herzog, our narrator, is not who he seems, and the film is not what we expect…,”
Arthouse streamer and distributor MUBI has canceled its international film festival in Istanbul, Turkey over concerns about local censorship just as the annual event was set to kick off. The MUBI Fest was to open on Thursday evening with a screening of Queer, Luca Guadagnino’s LGBTQ+ themed drama with Daniel Craig in the lead role.
Yoshida Daihachi’s Teki Cometh proved to be the big winner of the Tokyo International Film Festival’s major awards categories that were revealed Wednesday night at a glitzy ceremony in the Japanese capital. Teki Cometh, a feature adaptation of a book by celebrated Japanese novelist Tsutsui Yasutaka, won the festival’s top prize, the Tokyo Grand Prix,
No Other Land can lay claim to be one of the most important documentary of the year. A timely, powerful, and as The Hollywood Reporter critic Lovia Gyarkye put it in her Berlin review, “devastating portrait” of life under Israeli occupation in the West Bank, the film was shot over five years by a collective
Taiwanese-Burmese filmmaker Midi Z caused a stir and gained good notices with his 2019 film Nina Wu, which dealt with the exploitation of women in entertainment, and was released in the midst of the global #MeToo movement, a long overdue public reckoning for powerful men who had committed acts of sexual violence and misconduct. Selected
New technologies led by artificial intelligence and virtual production are profoundly changing visual effects but are still “another paintbrush” in the service of storytelling, says VFX veteran George Murphy. “Virtual production is not just a tool for VFX; it’s a storytelling tool that allows actors to feel fully immersed in the scene, instead of having
Hirokazu Koreeda confessed he had wanted to have an in-depth talk with Indian filmmaker Payal Kapadia ever since he saw her film All We Imagine as Light at the Cannes Film Festival this year. On Tuesday, the Japanese auteur finally got his chance as part of the intimate TIFF Lounge talk series held during Tokyo
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