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UPDATE: Jasmila Žbanić’s Quo Vadis, Aida? was the big winner at the 34th European Film Awards tonight. The story of a woman’s fight to save her family during the true events of the 1995 Bosnian War genocide in Srebrenica scooped the top European Film prize as well as European Director for Žbanić and European Actress
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In 1992 the presidential race came down to three main candidates: the Republican incumbent, President George H.W. Bush, Democrat Bill Clinton, and Independent Ross Perot. But they weren’t the only contenders for the office. Terence Alan Smith also campaigned—as “America’s first drag queen for president.” Smith, under his drag name Joan Jett Blakk, ran as
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French-born filmmaker Elie Grappe moved to Switzerland 10 years ago and is now representing his adopted home in the International Feature Oscar race with Olga, a movie that itself focuses on a character living between two worlds. Olga debuted at the Cannes Film Festival, where it won the SACD prize in the Critics’ Week section,
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EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has the first exclusive tracks from Jay Wadley’s Swan Song score, which is set for digital release via Lakeshore Records on December 17—the same day that the Apple Original Film premieres  in theaters and globally on Apple TV+. The first feature from Oscar-winning writer-director Benjamin Cleary is set in the near future and centers on Cameron (Mahershala
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ITV has shifted focus to “aggressively pursuing talent deals”, according to CEO Carolyn McCall, who said the UK outfit is more lukewarm on straight acquisitions and has turned some down “because they were not the right economics.” Speaking during a two-hour investor conference this afternoon following the release of producer/distributor ITV Studios’ five-year masterplan, McCall
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While supervising sound editor and re-recording mixer Paul Hsu says that he is not “historically…a big Broadway fan,” he found the opportunity to adapt a stellar stage musical for the screen in tick, tick…BOOM!, the Netflix film released last month, which saw him collaborating with Tony, Grammy, Emmy and Pulitzer Prize winner Lin-Manuel Miranda. Hsu
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Director/writer Igor Drljaca’s The White Fortress premiered at the Berlin Film Festival earlier this year and is Bosnia and Herzegovina’s official submission to the International Feature Oscar race. In the film, two teens from very different backgrounds meet in post-war Sarajevo. Faruk (Pavle Cemerikic) lives with his ailing grandmother and forages for scrap metal while
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After a year’s delay due to the pandemic, Steven Spielberg’s remake of the Broadway classic and 10x Oscar-winning 1961 movie, West Side Story, finally tunes up this weekend as the sole wide major studio theatrical release in 2,800 U.S./Canada theaters and offshore debuts in France, Germany, Brazil, Mexico, Russia and UK. All in, the global outlook is
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Liz Watts, the established Australian producer whose credits include Animal Kingdom, The True History of The Kelly Gang, and the Cate Blanchett series Stateless, is joining See-Saw Films. In her new role, Watts will oversee the development and production of all film and television projects out of See-Saw’s Australian office, including for its joint venture
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Fans love watching the Real Housewives shows because they get a glimpse into the lavish lifestyles of the castmates and wonder what it would be like to be their best friends. Part of the allure of the Housewives reality series is that people can live vicariously through them. Most people don’t get to live in sprawling mansions
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Apple Original Films has confirmed it will be the studio backing and distributing Bad Blood, the drama about the shocking rise and fall of Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes that Adam McKay is writing to direct, with Jennifer Lawrence starring. The project was originally set up at Legendary after a heated auction in 2016, and it
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The glitterati was out in full force in Jeddah on Monday night as the inaugural Red Sea International Film Festival kicked off with the Middle Eastern premiere of Joe Wright’s musical romance Cyrano. Stars such as Catherine Deneuve, Saudi helmer Haifaa Al-Mansour, Anthony Mackie, Clive Owen, Hilary Swank, Vincent Cassel and Cannes Film Festival director
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Here’s your first trailer for Netflix’s WWII thriller Munich: The Edge Of War, which debuted earlier this year at the London Film Festival. Based on the novel by Robert Harris, the film is set in fall 1938 when Europe stands on the brink of war. Adolf Hitler is preparing to invade Czechoslovakia and Neville Chamberlain’s government desperately
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The Toxic Orb is a peculiar battle item in Pokémon Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl, badly poisoning any Pokémon holding it in battle. The original Pokémon Diamond and Pokémon Pearl introduced nearly as many items as it did new Pokémon to the series, including some bizarre held items like the Toxic Orb. However, very few held items in Pokémon can
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Neon and Participant opened animated documentary Flee to a $25,033 debut in four locations. That makes for a strong per-theater average of $6,258 ahead of a rollout early next year for the much-decorated Danish film ahead of Academy Award nominations Feb. 8. It’s one of a few rather particular offerings, including Drive My Car, that
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