Tom Hanks is happy to leave Forrest Gump just how it is. The Oscar winner, who reteamed with his Forrest Gump co-star Robin Wright and director Robert Zemeckis for their new movie Here, recently told The New York Times that he’s thankful a sequel to the 1994 film was never made. “It is this extraordinary amalgam that stands completely on its
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Tom Hanks isn’t looking to go back and re-live his 30s. The 68-year-old actor, who plays a wide range of ages in director Robert Zemeckis’s new movie Here thanks to de-aging technology, was recently asked by Entertainment Tonight if there was a specific age he enjoyed going back to in the movie. However, Hanks said
Emily the Strange is getting the feature treatment from Warner Bros. Pictures Animation. The studio announced Wednesday that it is collaborating with producer Bad Robot to adapt the illustrated character that was created 30 years ago by artist Rob Reger and the Cosmic Debris team. The multimillion-dollar universe of Emily the Strange and her four
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
The Alpha Gang just got a whole lot bigger. A pack of A-listers, including Dave Bautista, Channing Tatum, Steven Yeun, Zoë Kravitz, Léa Seydoux, and Riley Keough are joining two-time Oscar winner Cate Blanchett in Alpha Gang, the new alien invasion comedy from the Zellner Brothers. The film, set “in a heightened reality” follows a
Wicked director Jon M. Chu will receive the ACE Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year Award from the American Cinema Editors (ACE), it was announced on Monday. The award recognizes “an artist who exemplifies distinguished achievement in the art and business of film,” according to ACE. Film editors Maysie Hoy and Paul Hirsch will also
Johnny Depp‘s plane was late coming into Rome, so he missed the Rome Film Festival press conference that was scheduled on Saturday to talk about the new film he directed, Modi: Three Days on the Wing of Madness. Depp was due to present the film that evening, pick up a prize and then fly out
The filmmakers behind prominent documentaries on casting directors and the #MeToo movement have set their sights on another Hollywood subject: the evolution of the performers’ union SAG-AFTRA. Director-producer Tom Donahue and producer Ilan Arboleda are working on a film about the transformation of the labor organization union between 2008, when the Writers Guild of America
Hugh Grant spent less than a minute at the podium on Thursday night to introduce his new film Heretic, but he made the most of 57 seconds in the spotlight. The veteran movie star was welcomed to the microphone by his directors, Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, who explained the inspiration for their religious horror
BAFTA TV Award winner Chris Cottam is set to direct The Light Fantastic, a new ballroom dance comedy movie starring Jeremy Irvine, Rupert Everett, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, and Layton Williams. Cornerstone will launch worldwide sales for the film at the American Film Market (AFM) in Las Vegas. Inspired by a true story, The Light Fantastic follows
Dick Pope, the veteran British cinematographer who worked on 11 movies with director Mike Leigh, died Tuesday, the British Society of Cinematographers announced. He was 77. No other details were given, but Leigh told Indiewire that Pope had undergone “major heart surgery” before work began on Hard Truths, their film that premiered last month at the Toronto
Amazon MGM Studios is doubling down on its original film business. The studio arrives at MIPCOM Cannes with nearly all its eggs in Earth Abide‘s basket, an original series starring Alexander Ludwig (Vikings) and Jessica Frances Dukes (Ozark). The show is a post-apocalyptic tale, based on George R. Stewart’s 1949 novel, about the fall of
In 2019, producer Scott Budnick was meeting with Barack Obama in Washington after the former president screened an early cut of his legal drama Just Mercy, in which Jamie Foxx plays an Alabama man who is wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death. At the time, Obama was in the midst of setting up his production
The Friend, a grief drama from writer/directors Scott McGehee and David Siegel about a writer mourning her late pal while dealing with the Great Dane dog he left behind, and starring Naomi Watts and Bill Murray, has been picked up by Bleecker Street. Having taken the North American rights to the pic, Bleecker plans an
Jennifer Fox, the Oscar-nominated film producer, will produce the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences‘ 2024 Governors Awards, Academy president Janet Yang announced Wednesday. It will be Fox’s sixth time overseeing the event, following the 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th and 14th editions. At the 15th Governors Awards, which will take place in the Ray
Venom: The Last Dance hopes to liven up the October box office this weekend with a domestic debut of $65 million and $100 million overseas, even though it’s looking like the threequel’s North American launch may be the lowest of Sony’s prized antihero franchise. The first Venom opened to $80.2 million in 2018, then a
The Hot Docs Canadian Documentary Festival, North America’s largest, has unveiled its programming team for its upcoming 2025 edition. The Toronto festival said Heather Haynes has been promoted to director of programming, and her team for the 2025 edition includes programmers who abruptly resigned in March amid financial woes and the departure of artistic director Hussain Currimbhoy. As
A new installment in Tom Holland‘s Spider-Man universe is coming soon. During an appearance on the Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Tuesday, Holland revealed that Spider-Man 4 is officially a go. “It’s happening,” he told Fallon. “Next summer we start shooting. Everything’s good to go. We’re nearly there. It’s super exciting. Yeah, I can’t
The Chloe Sevigny-starring adaptation of Françoise Sagan’s classic novel Bonjour Tristesse from director Durga Chew-Bose is set to open the 2024 Toronto Film Festival’s Discovery program with a world premiere, organizers said Wednesday. Claes Bang, Lily McInerny and French actress Nailia Harzoune also star in the English-language contemporary take by the Canadian writer-turned-director. TIFF’s Discovery program, which
Marvel and Disney‘s Deadpool & Wolverine is at last unfurling in cinemas, reuniting on-screen and off-screen BFFs Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds, the latter of which is the mastermind behind the irreverent series. Fellow BFF Shawn Levy directed. In addition to North America, the movie is also opening around the globe and is expected to
Deadpool & Wolverine has been a long time coming, stretching back to when Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman first crossed paths while making 2009’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine. In that film, Reynolds played a very different version of Deadpool than he would play in the later movies — without the famous red suit and with his
The 2024 New York Film Festival will open with RaMell Ross’ Nickel Boys, it was announced today. The movie, an adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s 2019 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, stars Ethan Herisse, Brandon Wilson, Hamish Linklater, Fred Hechinger, Daveed Diggs and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor. Nickel Boys, which Ross directed from a script he wrote with Joslyn Barnes
The 81st Venice International Film Festival has announced the opening night films for its Horizons and Horizons Extra competition sections. Nonostante, the second feature from Italian director Valerio Mastandrea (2018’s Ride) will open the Horizons competition section on August 28. The Horizons Extra competition section will kick off on August 29 with September 5, Tim
Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman knew it wasn’t going to be easy to get Madonna‘s permission to use her 1989 hit “Like a Prayer” in Deadpool & Wolverine. The two actors, along with director Shawn Levy, shared in a recent interview with Andy Cohen on SiriusXM, via People, that they actually had to visit the iconic singer to ask her
Brandy Norwood is having quite a year, which includes returning as Cinderella more than two decades after first playing the role for Disney. Norwood starred as the storybook heroine for ABC’s 1997 television movie Cinderella, opposite Paolo Montalban as Prince Charming. The pair is back to reprise their characters in Descendants: The Rise of the
One of the finest Japanese independent films of the past few years is finally landing in U.S. cinemas this weekend. Second-time director Kei Chika-ura’s Great Absence, which debuted to strong reviews at the 2023 Toronto Film Festival and later won the best actor prize in San Sebastian for its star, Japanese screen icon Tatsuya Fuji (In the
Tim Blake Nelson, the actor, writer, director, producer and regular Coen Brothers collaborator, Indian filmmaker Payal Kapadia (All We Imagine as Light), Italian actor Luca Marinelli (Old Guard), and Belgian producer Diana Elbaum (Elle, Green Border) will join Austrian director Jessica Hausner on the jury of the main competition section of the Locarno Film Festival.
Julia Garner is a young dancer on the brink of fame when disturbing circumstances begin to happen around her in the first-look images at Paramount+‘s Apartment 7A. The upcoming film, which is a prequel to the 1968 horror classic Rosemary’s Baby, is set in 1965 New York City and explores what happened in the infamous
Viggo Mortensen is revealing why he hasn’t starred in another major Hollywood franchise following the Oscar-winning Lord of the Rings trilogy. The actor, who played Aragorn in Peter Jackson’s films from 2001 to 2003, shared in a recent interview with Vanity Fair what he looks for in the movie roles he accepts, noting they need
Alfonso Cuarón, the Oscar-winning Mexican filmmaker known for the likes of Gravity, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and Roma, will receive a lifetime achievement award at the 77th edition of the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland. He will receive the honor, a tribute to “film personalities with extraordinary careers,” on Sunday, Aug. 11
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