Juliette Binoche puts in another tremendous performance in Claire Denis’ drama Both Sides Of The Blade (aka Fire, and also aka Avec Amour Et Acharnement). The Berlin Film Festival competition title is an intimate slow-burner that sets a credible scene, but doesn’t quite deliver on the mystery it promises. Binoche plays Sara, a radio presenter
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Play video content It’s Tricky LisaRaye McCoy is laying down some surprising facts about Da Brat‘s pregnancy … saying she didn’t even get a call her sister’s expecting! The actress was on the new podcast “It’s Tricky with Raquel Harper” when she opened up about her rough relationship with her sister. It all spilled out
A determined Turkish mother takes on the authorities in Rabiye Kurnaz Vs. George W. Bush, Andreas Dresen’s drama that takes a light approach to a moving true story. Dresen’s first Berlin Film Festival competition film since 2015’s As We Were Dreaming, it stars comic actress Meltem Kaptan as Rabiye Kurnaz. She’s a cheerful, effervescent woman living in Germany, whose grown son, Murat,
While the debate over who the strongest Avenger is in the MCU now includes a variety of newer characters, it originated with 2012’s The Avengers and primarily focused on Chris Hemsworth’s Thor and Mark Ruffalo’s Hulk. The friendly rivalry between the two characters sparked discussions between audiences over who the stronger of the two is, which were
Films from Belfast to Drive My Car, from The Worst Person In The World to Nightmare Alley saw ticket sales pop after Academy Award nominations and as distributors kick into high gear for this weekend and beyond, juggling theater counts and ramped up media campaigns that now have a shiny new imprimatur. For Neon’s The Worst
There’s bleak, there’s despairing, and then there is Ulrich Seidl, Austrian chronicler of the marginal, the miserable and plain mad. If there are Nazis still worshipping Hitler in some rural basement, Seidl will dig them out. Closet religious fanatics, marriages mired in cruelty, depraved things respectable people do on holiday that nobody at home will
Over the past several months the Internet had been obsessed with debating Will Smith and Denzel Washington, trying to pinpoint who is, in fact, the better actor. The debate ran around so wildly that Washington was even asked about it on a red carpet and had a fun answer. Now, the two heavy hitters are
“It’s so great for representation and it’s also grounded in normalization,” says Naomi star Kaci Walfall of the barrier breaking CW superhero series from Ava DuVernay and Jill Blankenship. “So it’s a story that is just about a 16-year old girl whose Black, who happens to be a superhero and I think that is supercool
A biopic of Anna Nicole Smith is in the works, and her ex — Larry Birkhead — seems pretty peeved about the whole production. The film — currently titled “Hurricanna” — follows Anna’s therapist in an attempt to save Smith’s life. The therapist, played by Holly Hunter, goes on a “36-hour odyssey in which she
With only days until Valentine’s Day, couples must have already hatched elaborate plans to woo their partners. Reservations made, gifts bought, or plans include a simple quiet night; with a bowl of ice cream, two spoons, and a feel-good comedy ready to watch. However, all the singles out there might find such preparation infantile, irritating, or excruciatingly
EXCLUSIVE: The Daily Wire has acquired domestic rights to indie superhero comedy The Hyperions, which it will make available to its members on March 10, 2022. The conservative website bought the movie from Saban Films, which itself had bought it last summer. Above is a first trailer. The Daily Wire will confirm the acquisition and
Focus Features has dated B.J. Novak’s feature directorial debut, Vengeance, for Friday, July 29. The darkly comic thriller follows Ben Manalowitz, a journalist and podcaster who travels from New York City to West Texas to investigate the death of a girl he was hooking up with. The ensemble cast includes Issa Rae, Ashton Kutcher, Boyd Holbrook,
Columbia Pictures today unveiled a trailer and first-look images for its drama Father Stu, based on the true-life story of boxer-turned-priest, Father Stuart Long , which will be released in theaters on April 15. When an injury ends Long’s (Mark Wahlberg) amateur boxing career, he moves to L.A. dreaming of stardom. While scraping by as
There are certain people in the world that everybody seems to love and that, somehow through everything, actually seem to deserve all the admiration they are given. Dolly Parton is one of those people. It seems impossible not to love Dolly. She’s a fantastic talent, but beyond that, she’s nice to everybody, and she regularly
Warning: The following contains spoilers about the season one finale of The Book of Boba Fett, “In the Name of Honor” directed by Robert Rodriguez on Disney+. The bounty hunter Cad Bane, who mentored Boba Fett in the deeper Star Wars mythology of the animated series Clone Wars, spoke a lot of truths in the season one finale of
Ex-MLB player Jeremy Giambi — who played in the MLB from 1998 to 2003 — has passed away, TMZ Sports has learned. He was 47 years old. Giambi played for the Royals, Athletics, Phillies, and Red Sox over the course of his career … earning a .263 batting average and hitting 52 home runs and
EXCLUSIVE: Abbey Lee (The Neon Demon, Lovecraft Country) and Christopher Abbott (Black Bear, Catch-22) are attached to lead Fear is the Rider, a chase thriller from BAFTA-nominated director John Michael McDonagh (The Guard, Calvary, The Forgiven) that The Exchange is introducing to international buyers at the 2022 virtual EFM. Fear is the Rider is based
The Lord of the Rings and Hobbit movie rights are going on sale this week in Hollywood. J.R.R. Tolkien’s beloved fantasy novels are nearing the beginning of a new adaption on Amazon Prime Video with The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power TV series. The show comes after Peter Jackson brought the Lord of the Rings franchise
Oscar winner Russell Crowe (Gladiator, The Loudest Voice) will star alongside Aaron Taylor-Johnson in Sony Pictures’ Marvel film Kraven the Hunter, from director J.C. Chandor (A Most Violent Year, Margin Call), Deadline can confirm. Details with regard to the film’s plot and the character Crowe is playing are being kept under wraps. But Kraven (Taylor-Johnson) is
Those theatrical motion picture studios earning Oscar Best Picture nominations today will put their best foot forward at the box office, and increase the cinema footprint of their contenders in an effort to capitalize on their success and raise the pics’ profiles. And while the box office has improved, natch, because of the reopening of
Douglas Trumbull, the legendary special effects master who helped create the worlds of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Blade Runner and Star Trek: The Motion Picture has died, according to a social media post from his daughter, Amy Trumbull. He was 79. Trumbull developed the slit-scan photography process that was
When The Color Purple arrived in theaters in 1985, it marked a change of pace from Steven Spielberg’s typical blockbusters. The period drama was based on the best-selling novel by renowned author Alice Walker, who served as a consultant and writer on the film. The film went on to become a critical and commercial hit,
EXCLUSIVE: On the eve of the virtual EFM buyers are circling rights to Tom Hanks comedy A Man Called Otto, which is among the most sought-after packages in the market. We understand there are multiple big offers for the project from streamers, studios and indie distributors, including an eight-figure offer that would mark a record
The key medic on “Rust” is now taking legal action against Hannah Gutierrez-Reed and Dave Halls … suing them over the fatal shooting that killed Halyna Hutchins. Cherlyn Schaefer filed suit against the movie’s armorer and assistant director — plus the production company and others — claiming the defendants’ alleged negligence caused her severe emotional
Is this finally the year Netflix’s dreams come true and it takes a Best Picture Oscar? On the basis of the showing for Jane Campion’s The Power Of The Dog with 12 nominations, a figure that surprised the best guesses of even those inside Netflix, you have to unequivocally proclaim this film as the front runner now. It is
A new tie-in novel for The Batman provides fans with some fascinating background details for Paul Dano’s version of the Riddler. An iconic member of Batman’s infamous rogues gallery, the Riddler was first created by Bill Finger and Dick Sprang in 1948, and would go on to join the likes of the Joker as one
Robert Blalack, a towering figure in the world of visual effects, died on Wednesday. His wife Caroline Charron-Blalack confirmed the news to Deadline. He was 73. Blalack said he specialized in “solving the Visual Effects requirements of ‘can’t be done’ Motion Picture productions.” He proved the truth of that statement on his second film project,
Refresh for latest…: While Spider-Man: No Way Home continued to lead the international box office for studio films this weekend, weaving its way to a worldwide cume of $1.77B through Sunday, the biggest overseas action was out of (and limited to) China. The Lunar New Year kicked off last Tuesday and has come in at
EXCLUSIVE: Former 20th Television drama exec Albert Page has become President of Clickbait and The Capture producer Heyday Television U.S. Page is tasked with growing the Universal International Studios-backed indie’s scripted slate of high-end shows. Heyday EVP Jillian Share was previously heading up the U.S. operation before moving to eOne as Co-President of Film Production last
Keanu Reeves may play a bunch of serious characters, but he’s known for being a silly goose when the cameras aren’t rolling. The star of the Matrix franchise was just spotted filming reshoots for the upcoming John Wick 4, and Keanu Reeves took a moment out of his bust shooting schedule to have a little