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Oliver Stone has always had one eye pointed south of the U.S. border. It began with his phenomenal script for Brian De Palma’s Scarface, which transformed the famous Chicago gangster into a hardened Cuban refugee. After that, Stone directed the photojournalist saga Salvador, about the deadly civil war that gripped El Salvador in the 1980s.
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Kevin Costner‘s new Western epic may have gotten a 10-minute standing ovation at Cannes, but once critics got back from festival screenings to their hotel rooms, they posted reviews for Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter 1 that were far less enthusiastic. Horizon is the first film in writer-director-star Costner’s massive four-picture gamble that he
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Kate Hudson has made her bones on rom-coms throughout most of her career, yet she’s now entering a new chapter: music. The Oscar nominee recently released her first album and celebrated at the album release party, where she rocked a sheer black dress. This may be a surprise to those only familiar with her romantic
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Three days after the It Ends With Us trailer took the internet by storm, director and star Justin Baldoni is opening up about the reaction and some of the most buzzed-about changes from the book to the movie. The film, starring Baldoni, Blake Lively and Brandon Sklenar, is adapted from Colleen Hoover’s hit novel of
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Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan, who officially ended their marriage in 2018, are still in court six years after their separation due to marital finances, including profits from the Magic Mike franchise. Amidst this ongoing dispute, many are curious about how the former couple is managing co-parenting responsibilities and other aspects of their personal lives.
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When asked to name her organization’s biggest accomplishment so far, Charlene Deleon-Jones, the executive director for Film AlUla and Saudi Tourism leadership board member, doesn’t hesitate to name-check Norah, the first Saudi film to crack the Cannes lineup. The Tawfik Alzaidi-helmed indie movie, which will compete in the fest’s Un Certain Regard section, was shot in
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The newly released trailer for the upcoming Twisters, which references the original film’s thrilling conclusion, suggests that the 2024 movie schedule entry will be sizzling. In Hollywood, grandiose storytelling often overshadows authenticity. However, for Anthony Ramos, one of the film’s stars, a note from the legendary Steven Spielberg himself changed everything. In fact, it grounded
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Here’s how to take a children’s book geared to younger children and adapt it into an animated feature that adults can enjoy just as much: Simply hire Jared Hess and Jerusha Hess, the husband-and-wife screenwriting team responsible for such films as Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre, and have them apply their unique brand of off-kilter
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For a decade, writer/director Dean DeBlois expressed his vision for the How To Train Your Dragon movies in collaboration with the talented filmmakers at DreamWorks Animation. Five years after the final movie’s emotional ending, DeBlois has been back in the fictional Isle Of Berk, but this time in a much more physical sense. After nearly
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In recent years, the creatives behind Radio Silence Productions have made a name for themselves in the horror space, including making the most recent Scream movies, V/H/S films, Ready Or Not and 2024’s vampire flick Abigail. Following its directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett no longer helming Scream 7, they are pursuing new projects. Their
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Like one of those fiendish knots that tighten the more you squirm, director Magnus von Horn’s Cannes competitor The Girl With the Needle builds to a devastating climax, taut as piano wire. Danish actress Vic Carmen Sonne (Holiday, Godland) offers an understated but multi-layered performance as Karoline, a vulnerable but resilient seamstress living in post-WWI/early-1920s
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In his short but prolific acting career, 17-year-old Finn Little has covered a lot of terrain, from desolate shorelines to U.S. ranchlands. And his latest, The Surfer, took him to the idyllic beaches of Western Australia.  From director Lorcan Finnegan (2019’s Vivarium), The Surfer centers on a man (Nicolas Cage), who takes his son (Little) to the beach where he used to surf
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The 2024 Cannes Film Festival competition jury, led by president Greta Gerwig, met the international press Tuesday — and it didn’t take long before the assembled stars were urged to address the various fraught political issues swirling around this year’s edition of the world’s most glamorous film fest. On the eve of the 77th festival, Cannes artistic director
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Chinese sales company Parallax Films has notched a batch of sales deals for director Qiu Jiongjiong‘s Locarno 2021 jury prize-winning historical drama A New Old Play. The acclaimed Chinese indie film has sold to France’s Carlotta Films, Japan’s Katsuben Cinema Club, and Singapore’s Cineaste Production House for distribution across all Southeast Asian territories, excluding Indonesia and Vietnam.
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