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Shot in takes that run as long as possible without cutting, Antoine Fuqua understands just what makes Mr. Gyllenhaal one of the prime actors in the modern world of film. So when The Guilty called for cameras to be on his lead at all times, Fuqua obviously tackled the challenge with great gusto. The shorthand

EXCLUSIVE: CAA has signed French filmmaker and novelist Audrey Diwan. Her second film, L’Evenement (Happening), won the Golden Lion on Saturday, the top prize at the Venice Film Festival. The picture immediately becomes a hot awards-season title, and domestic distribution is being sorted by CAA Media Finance and Wild Bunch. While the adaptation of the

Kaley Cuoco and her ex, Karl Cook, insist their pending divorce is anger and animosity-free … and she’s proving it with a pretty affectionate Instagram comment. “The Flight Attendant” star offered some public support of her estranged hubby — who’s a professional equestrian — on a post by Traverse City Horse Shows announcing Karl won

Teen Wolf ’s pivotal elements are its particular and supernatural creatures, whether they’re werewolves, wendigos, chimeras, ghost riders, or other particular mythical beings. Nevertheless, the main characters of this show, both the good guys and the villains, all have a human side that the public can somehow relate to. RELATED: 10 Shows & Movies With Werewolves If You Miss Teen

Poland’s National Film School in Lodz has produced some extraordinary talents, including directors Roman Polanski, Krzysztof Kieślowski, and Andrzej Wajda. The next great filmmaker to emerge from the school may be Agą Woszczyńska. Woszczyńska’s feature directorial debut, Silent Land, is making its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. “I’m really honored to be here,”

Focus Features landed another specialty success with The Card Counter, Paul Schrader’s biggest directorial opening in over 30 years since 1987’s Light of Day and with a likely No. 8 ranking at the North American box office this weekend. The film – starring Oscar Isaac, Tiffany Haddish, Tye Sheridan and Willem Dafoe — ran in 580

Refresh for latest…: Disney/Marvel’s Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings handily crossed the $250M mark globally this weekend, seeing a very good 34% drop at the international box office and maintaining No. 1s in such key markets as Australia, Brazil, France, Germany, Korea, Italy, Mexico, Russia, Spain and the UK. The overall overseas

Although it probably isn’t very pleasant for people to look like a dementor is sucking the life out of them when your age is revealed, it actually makes a ton of sense why fans would react to Daniel Radcliffe being over 30. For a lot of Harry Potter fans, Radcliffe represents their childhood. Think about

Jennifer Lopez knows how to travel in style … even when she precariously boards a tiny boat! J Lo was decked out in D&G head to toe as she jumped on a gondola in Venice, Italy, during the Venice International Film Festival. It’s part of a fashion shoot that took about an hour and a

In Annus Mirabilis, the English poet Philip Larkin wrote that sexual intercourse was invented in 1963. Life was thus never better, he concluded, than in that year. Those lines strayed into my mind watching L’Événement (Happening), about a student in provincial France named Anne (Anamaria Vartolomei) who realizes she is pregnant during the countdown to

Michael C. Hall recommends watching four specific episodes of Dexter before watching Dexter: New Blood. Hall has played the titular character, Dexter Morgan, for eight seasons and is returning to reprise the character in the much-awaited revival that will feature ten episodes. Clyde Phillips has been brought back as the showrunner after departing the original series at the end of season 4, and the

Refresh for latest…: The Venice Film Festival concludes this evening with prizes including the Golden Lion about to be handed out inside the Lido’s Sala Grande. For the second year in a row, the world’s oldest film festival proved it would not let the pandemic cancel a physical event, and organizers put on a selection

Refresh for more analysis and chart With great success, comes continued great chaos for the theatrical experience this past week. On the plus side, the domestic box office is continuing its rebound during the pandemic with the second weekend of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings earning $9.7M in its second Friday, -67%

Though it is interesting that the report does not mention the confirmed status of Spider-Man: No Way Home, which is reportedly coming this December as well. However, in that instance, while Marvel Studios obviously had a hand in making No Way Home, it ultimately hails from Sony Pictures, so the latter likely has more say

Editor’s note: One in a series of remembrances on the 20 years since 9/11. The 2001 Toronto Film Festival was at its midpoint on a clear and sunny Tuesday morning, when American Airlines Flight 11 out of Boston hit the North Tower of the World Trade Center at 8:46 a.m., followed by United Airlines Flight

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez are reminding everyone they know how to dress to impress — which is good, because all eyes were on them for their big public event debut. Ya gotta see Ben and Jen together Friday at the 78th Venice International Film Festival … it’s the first time since they reunited that

EXCLUSIVE: What better to liven up a quite Toronto Film Market than a package for a movie set in the rap arena, that has stars and a slam dunk a top-selling soundtrack? Justice Smith, Idris Elba and Taylour Paige will star in We All Die Young, a drama that Hamilton star Daveed Diggs has scripted

The Real Housewives of Orange County alum Tamra Judge is reportedly joining the season 2 cast of the Real Housewives spin-off series on Peacock. The first installment of the spin-off was filmed in May in Turks and Caicos, featuring current cast members from the many Housewives franchises. However, no one from RHOC was in the cast. The first season will include Kenya Moore,

Universal will be releasing the Blumhouse/Miramax movie Halloween Kills in theaters and on Peacock on Oct. 15. The release date stays the same, the distribution pattern changes up. Why is Uni doing this in the wake of moviegoers’ great return to theaters for Disney/Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of Ten Rings, that pic having cleared $106M?

EXCLUSIVE: Yellowstone and Fifty Shades franchise actor Luke Grimes has signed on to star in the sci-fi-thriller Hello Stranger, with April Mullen (Wander) slated to direct from a screenplay penned by Ryan Christopher Churchill. In Hello Stranger, a woman attempts to replace her newly deceased husband, Evan (Grimes), with an android simulant. Although SIM Evan

Jason Momoa plays Duncan Idaho in Dune against a huge cast also including Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Dave Bautista, Oscar Isaac and Josh Brolin (among many others). The actor recently told Collider that he’s checked out the movie a few times, and he’s been viewing it from the outside looking in, as if he’s not a

EXCLUSIVE: Rosario Dawson has been set to join LaKeith Stanfield and Tiffany Haddish in Haunted Mansion, Disney’s latest live-action film based on one of its theme park attractions. Justin Simien is directing a script from Katie Dippold, and the pic is now gearing up to begin shooting next month. The plot is under wraps and

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez are back in Italy, and even though this time it’s for industry biz … there’s always time to pack in a little PDA. It’s what they do. The couple arrived Thursday for the 78th Venice International Film Festival, and were all smiles — and all over each other — on

“We have three days before the future is changed irrevocably,” proclaims Star Trek: Picard’s Sir Patrick Stewart in the telling and time jumping latest look at Season 2 of the Paramount+ series. However, the future was on display in more ways than one this Star Trek Day for Jean-Luc as the newest Picard trailer (watch

Paul Schrader, who co-wrote Martin Scorsese‘s Raging Bull, disagrees with his old collaborator on whether Marvel movies are cinema. Schrader has screenwriting credits on some of Scorsese’s most acclaimed works, including Taxi Driver, Bringing Out the Dead, and The Last Temptation of Christ. He’s also an impressive director in his own right. Despite this storied resume, Schrader picked up his first

EXCLUSIVE: Among the world premieres being offered at the Toronto Film Festival this week is the latest from director Ted Melfi, The Starling, which reteams him with Melissa McCarthy and Chris O’Dowd. Both also appeared in Melfi’s much acclaimed St. Vincent that starred Bill Murray and which also had its world premiere at TIFF in 2014.

Before the industry could calculate summer’s final box office figures, they had to wait for Disney, which had the final say. Because when you have a Marvel movie like Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings programmed during the final weekend of the season, and it delivers a Labor Day holiday opening of $94.67M, it

EXCLUSIVE: Power Book III: Raising Kanan star Omar Epps and Stumptown‘s Michael Ealy are teaming for the Lionsgate and Command Films thriller The Devil You Know, Deadline has learned. Written and directed by Charles Murray, The Devil You Know follows Marcus Cowans (Omar Epps), who after a lifetime of trouble, finally has the chance to turn things around with the love and

From the moment they discover this gigantic threat to life as we know it, Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence’s Don’t Look Up protagonists are sent on a wild ride. Visits to the White House, andspots on cable news with anchors played by Cate Blanchett and Tyler Perry ensue, all with the goal of getting the

Tributes for Michael K. Williams are pouring in from the sports world after his shocking death Monday morning … with star athletes and pro teams honoring the late actor on social media. Dwayne Johnson — who worked with Williams in the 2013 film “Snitch” — penned an emotional message on Instagram … saying, “You’ll be