At a gala ceremony on Saturday night, the 77th Cannes Film Festival’s winners were announced. Sean Baker was awarded the Palme d’Or, the festival’s highest honor for his latest outing, Anora which is about a rowdy whirlwind romance between an exotic dancer (Mikey Madison) and the obscenely rich son of a Russian oligarch (played by…
©Courtesy of George Floyd’s Wikipedia Daddy Changed the World, a biopic about George Floyd, is being produced. Floyd was choked to death by a Minneapolis police officer in 2020, setting into motion a worldwide demand for an end to racism and police brutality. Gregory R. Anderson is writing the screenplay for the film, but a…
@Courtesy of film, “Super Size Me” The documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock died yesterday in upstate New York at the age of 53 of cancer complications. His brother Craig announced it with this statement: “It was a sad day, as we said goodbye to my brother Morgan. Morgan gave so much through his art, ideas and…
©Photo by COURTESY OF NETFLIX – © 2023 Netflix, Inc. Netflix has unveiled data about the time users spent watching its titles, as well as how wide its global reach was, during the second half of 2023. The apocalyptic psychological thriller, Leave the World Behind, was the most-watched film, while the anime-inspired live action show One…
Tribeca Festival, presented by OKX, today announced the 2024 jury members who will select winning projects in the film, games, and audio storytelling sections. The Festival has 17 competition categories in which jurors will honor winning storytellers and creators with artistic awards. This year’s festival jury includes a diverse roster of groundbreaking filmmakers, award-winning actors,…
© APPRENTICE PRODUCTIONS ONTARIO INC. / PROFILE PRODUCTIONS 2 APS / TAILORED FILMS LTD. 2023 Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is threatening a lawsuit against Ali Ablassi’s film The Apprentice, which debuted at Cannes this week to an 11-minute standing ovation. Complaining about “blatantly false assertions from these pretend filmmakers,” campaign spokesperon Steven Cheung denounced the film,…
©Courtesy of Fred Roos Family Fred Roos, the Oscar-winning producer and casting director who had close relationships with the Coppola family, has died, Variety is reporting. The filmmaker, who’s remembered for casting and producing The Godfather series, American Graffiti and Megalopolis, was 89. He died on Saturday in Beverly Hills, four days before what would…
©Immaculate, Courtesy of Neon Edgar Wright is reportedly in talks with Sony to direct a remake of the 1968 Barbarella cult classic that starred Jane Fonda. Potential scriptwriters Jane Goldman and Honey Ross, a mother-daughter team, may also be involved in the negotiations, reports Deadline. Wright’s directorial credits include Baby Driver, Hot Fuzz, Last Night…
©Photo by Nobuhiro Hosoki Filmmaker Paul Schrader has disclosed that his next directing project will be titled Non Compos Mentis, a film noir that will deal with sexual obsession and irresponsibility “Non compos mentis” is a Latin legal term translated as “of unsound mind.” More specifically, Schrader says that his new film will explore “the…
©Photo: Noriko Hayashi/The New York Times Goodfellas has taken over the worldwide distribution rights for Japanese director Chie Hayakawa‘s Tokyo-set drama Renoir before its premiere. Hayakawa’s debut film, Plan 75 set in a near future in Japan, focus on the government program Plan 75 which encourages senior citizens to be euthanized to remedy an…
Hiroyuki Sanda, Courtesy of FX FX and Hulu confirmed this week that they are in the process of developing two more seasons of Shōgun, based on James Clavell’s epic 1975 novel set in Edo-period Japan. To accomplish these goals, a writers’ room will get underway this summer to map out a creative strategy….
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