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Daisy Edgar-Jones to Play Lead in Sony’s Upcoming Carole King Biopic

The 24-year-old British actress Daisy Edgar-Jones will be playing the role of songwriter Carole King in Sony’s upcoming film adaptation of the Broadway production Beautiful: The Carole King Musical. The biopic is to be directed by Lisa Cholodenko, who had earlier directed The Kids Are All Right. Edgar-Jones most recently starred in Sony’s highly successful…

Edward Moran

December 16, 2022

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Oscar and Tony Award-nominated Writer-Director Douglas McGrath Dies at 64

Famed movie, theater and television writer-director-actor, Douglas McGrath died suddenly Thursday in New York City at the age of 64, Deadline is reporting. He was best known for being nominated for a Tony Award for Beautiful: The Carole King Musical and an Oscar for the screenplay he co-penned with Woody Allen for Bullets Over Broadway….

Karen Benardello

November 4, 2022

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City Hunter / Review : It’s All Very Slick, But Still Faithful to the Fans

Ryohei Suzuki, Fumino Kimura, ©Courtesy of Netflix Like all long-running manga-anime series, the “City Hunter” franchise has a complicated history of adaptations. Technically, this is the first live-action Japanese film based on Tsukasa Hojo’s Shonen series, but previous non-animated film adaptions were produced in Hong Kong (starring Jackie Chan and Gary Daniels) and France (as…

Joe Bendel

April 25, 2024

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Storyline Revealed For Angelina Jolie’s Cancelled Cleopatra Movie

©By the Sea. Screenwriter Brian Helgeland has revealed the plot details for his canceled Cleopatra movie, which would have starred Angelina Jolie as the titular Egyptian queen. The scribe, who won an Oscar for penning L.A. Confidential, started writing a screenplay for a new Cleopatra film in 2011 for Sony Pictures. Emmy winner David Fincher…

Karen Benardello

April 25, 2024

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The Hazy Days of Art College 1994

©Courtesy of Dekanalog Like many young people, the Chinese art students in this film largely ignore politics. Very few of them could have conscious memories of the Cultural Revolution, unlike superstar Chinese artists Ai Weiwei, Cai Guo-Qiang, and Wang Guangyi. However, these artists-in-training consciously aspire to their level of success. They also hope to make…

Joe Bendel

April 25, 2024

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‘Boy Kills World’: Exclusive Video Interview with Director Moritz Mohr

©Courtesy of Lionsgate Check out more of CinemaDaily US’ video interviews on our YouTube channel German-born filmmaker Moritz Mohr has been directing short films and television for almost two decades, but with Boy Kills World, he takes on his first feature film, a violent and gory revenge thriller starring Bill Skarsgård (It, Barbarian) as the…

Edward Douglas

April 24, 2024

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Daisy Edgar-Jones to Play Lead in Sony’s Upcoming Carole King Biopic

Oscar and Tony Award-nominated Writer-Director Douglas McGrath Dies at 64