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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
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The 2024 movie schedule wasn’t exactly slouching throughout its first six months, with Abigail’s blood-soaked chaos and I Saw the TV Glow’s lo-fi hypnosis (among others) keeping vibes interesting, but the pre-Halloween months are generally when the genre hits hardest on the big screen. Following Oz Perkins’ Longlegs giving audiences Nic Cage-fronted nightmares, a new
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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
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Well, it looks like we have not seen the last of our favorite sentient child’s playthings, who are set to return to the big screen once again in Toy Story 5. The upcoming Pixar movie will be the latest installment of the beloved animation studio’s oldest franchise, as the original, revolutionary Toy Story — which
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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
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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.
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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
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Rebel Wilson has been making headlines as of late due to a dispute involving the producers of her new movie. The Deb is set to be the star’s directorial debut, and she took to social media last week to chastise collaborators Amanda Ghost, Gregor Cameron and Vince Holden. Wilson specifically claimed that the trio were
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Doing an impression of Robert De Niro is almost ritual at this point in pop culture, with Matthew McConoughey a close second favorite. But according to Zac Efron, who has worked with the Taxi Driver himself, no one does a better De Niro impression than Dave Franco. Efron was able to see Franco’s impression first
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Following a one-day strike on July 11, the Syndicat des employé-es de l’événementiel-CSN, representing around 60 Fantasia Film Festival workers, reached a tentative deal late Friday night to avert additional labor disruption. The union revealed no details on the agreement in principle before union workers vote on the deal early next week. A formal ratification
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences‘ website for submissions to be considered for the 2025 Oscars is now open, the Academy announced Friday. The Academy is currently accepting general entries (best picture and other categories), animated features, animated shorts, documentary features, documentary shorts, international features, live action shorts, original scores and original songs.
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