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Sam Raimi-Produced Netflix Thriller ‘Don’t Move’ Debuts Trailer With Kelsey Asbille, Finn Wittrock
Kelsey Asbille learns the hard way not to trust strangers in the woods in the trailer for Netflix’s thriller feature Don’t Move. The streamer released the promo during its Geeked Week fan event in Atlanta on Thursday ahead of the movie debuting Oct. 25. Finn Wittrock, Moray Treadwell and Daniel Francis round out the cast […]
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Jared Leto Went Method on Set of ‘Tron: Ares’ While Playing “Big Rockstar,” Says Co-Star Jeff Bridges
Jared Leto’s Method acting ways on everything from Suicide Squad to Morbius have generated so much attention that when Jeff Bridges reported for work on Tron: Ares, he didn’t quite know what to expect. “I hadn’t met him before. I’m saying, ‘What’s it gonna be like?’ because he was also a producer of the show, […]
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Sublime Biopic Sets KJ Apa to Star as Late Singer Bradley Nowell for Director Justin Chon
The forthcoming Sublime biopic feature from Sony’s 3000 Pictures has found its Bradley Nowell. KJ Apa is attached to star as the late singer for the movie that has Justin Chon set to direct. The untitled project is currently in development, with Chon working on the screenplay with Bobby Hundreds following an initial draft from […]
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Struggling Hot Docs Festival Plans “Limited” Toronto Theater Reopening
The Hot Docs Canadian Documentary Festival, North America’s largest, has announced a “limited reopening” for its Toronto cinema after the struggling event shuttered its flagship theater as part of a financial restructuring. “Since temporarily closing Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema in June, the team has been working tirelessly throughout the summer to address the financial […]
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AFI Fest Adds ‘Heretic’ and ‘Maria’ to 2024 Lineup
AFI Fest continues to roll out selections for next month’s festival ahead of the reveal of the full lineup. The latest additions, billed as red carpet premieres, include the Hugh Grant-starrer Heretic from Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, and Pablo Larraín’s Maria starring Angelina Jolie as the famed opera singer. Heretic comes first, with its […]
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Queen Latifah Biopic in the Works From Producer Will Smith
A feature about the life of Queen Latifah is in the works as the first in a slate of independently financed hip-hop biopics hailing from Flavor Unit Entertainment, Westbrook Studios and Jesse Collins Entertainment. The film will follow the ascension of Latifah as the performer became a rapper, singer and actress who has won Emmy, Grammy and […]
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George Clooney Says He Wishes ‘Wolfs’ “Was Having a Wider Release” But “We’re Trying to Figure These Things Out as We Go”
George Clooney and Brad Pitt, who haven’t shared a screen together in 16 years, have reignited their iconic partnership for Apple original film Wolfs. The duo play two professional fixers who prefer to work alone but find themselves forced to work together after being hired for the same job. With the close friends playing rivals in the […]
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Trans, Non-Binary Cast, Crew “At Risk” on Canadian Film Sets, Study Says
As the Canadian film industry focuses on boosting representation for trans and non-binary people and characters on local film and TV screens, the industry has got a wake-up call about anti-trans sentiment and actions experienced by gender-diverse people working behind the camera. The Spindle Films Foundation, which supports greater inclusion and diversity for Canadian filmmakers, […]
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Freestyle Digital Media Acquires Quincy Jones and Debbie Allen-Produced Doc ‘King of Kings: Chasing Edward Jones’
Byron Allen’s digital film distribution wing Freestyle Digital Media has acquired the documentary King of Kings: Chasing Edward Jones. The Quincy Jones and Debbie Allen produced documentary from European filmmaker Harriet Marin Jones explores her searching for the truth about her grandfather, Edward Jones. Known as the most famous policy king, Jones rose to political […]
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Montclair Film Festival: ‘Conclave’ to Open, ‘The Piano Lesson’ to Close, ‘Unstoppable’ as Fiction Centerpiece (Exclusive)
The 2024 Montclair Film Festival has set its opening, closing and centerpiece films and revealed this year’s festival honors. The New Jersey festival will open with Edward Berger’s Conclave, following the selection of the new pope, with Ralph Fiennes Cardinal Lawrence running the secret procedure, during which he discovers deep secrets left behind by the […]
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Disney Animation Shake-Up: Jennifer Lee Exiting as Chief Creative Officer, Jared Bush Takes Over
Director-writer Jared Bush is replacing Jennifer Lee as chief creative officer of the Walt Disney Animation Studios as Lee returns to filmmaking full time at the company and stewards the Frozen franchise, Disney announced Thursday. Bush will report to Disney Entertainment co-chairman Alan Bergman, effective immediately. Lee, who had been in the top gig for […]
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Why Bumble — Yes, the Dating App — Is Backing a High-Profile Abortion Film
An abortion documentary backed by Hillary Clinton and Jennifer Lawrence is taking an unusual route to audiences courtesy of Bumble Inc, the Austin-based dating app company. Zurawski v Texas, which screened to critical raves and sold out crowds at the Telluride Film Festival over Labor Day weekend, will have a special screening in Austin on […]
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Distraught Saoirse Ronan Chases a Missing Child in Steve McQueen’s ‘Blitz’ Trailer
Saoirse Ronan plays a distraught mother searching for her missing son in World War II East London in the trailer for Steve McQueen’s Blitz, which dropped on Thursday. The drama follows George, a 9-year-old boy, played by Elliot Heffernan, in wartime London after his mother Rita (Ronan) sends him as an evacuee to safety in […]
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Oscars 2025: Norway Picks Renate Reinsve Starrer ‘Armand’ for International Feature Race
Norway has entered the 2025 Oscar race, selecting Halfdan Ullmann Tondel’s school-set drama Armand as its contender for next year’s Academy Awards in the best international feature category. Renate Reinsve, the breakout star of Joachim Trier’s double Oscar nominee The Worst Person in the World, plays the lead in Armand, namely Elisabeth, a local celebrity […]
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‘Anatomy of a Fall’ Outfit MK2 Inks Multi-Year Financing Deal With IPR.VC
French production and sales outfit mk2 films has signed a multi-year financing deal with the Finnish private equity fund IPR.VC to bankroll a slate of new projects, the two companies unveiled on Thursday. The new capital will come in handy for mk2, which is looking to build on recent crossover success, including its co-productions The […]
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Oscars 2025: Denmark Picks ‘The Girl With the Needle’ for International Feature Race
Denmark has selected Magnus von Horn’s period drama The Girl With the Needle as its nominee for Best International Feature at the 2025 Oscars. Set in Copenhagen in 1919, the feature stars Vic Carmen Sonne (Holiday, Godland) as Karoline, a young seamstress who is left high and dry when her wealthy lover (Joachim Fjelstrup) gets […]
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