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Oh, Canada – Official Trailer : Starring Jacob Elordi & Richard Gere

Paul Schrader’s Oh, Canada is expected to arrive in the US soon. The film, which debuted at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival and then played at TIFF, features Jacob Elordi and Richard Gere portraying a documentarian in two different times of his life, with Elordi playing Gere’s younger self. The film is an adaptation of…

TIFF: A Confusing Picture of a Man in ‘Oh, Canada’

It’s hard to know how to distinguish fact from fiction, especially when someone else is telling the story. Details tend to play into the believability of a particular tale, and while specifics can make something seem realer, they can also reveal rehearsed inventions that have no basis in truth. Paul Schrader’s latest film Oh, Canada…

Richard Gere to Star in ‘The Agency’ for Showtime

Norman, © 2017 – Sony Pictures Classics Richard Gere is joining the star-studded cast of Showtime’s espionage-oriented political thriller, The Agency, which will stream on Paramount+. It will be the first time the 74-year-old actor will be seen in a major television role, though he’d earlier appeared in several miniseries over the course of his…

Miles Teller to Star in Paramount’s Reboot of ‘An Officer and a Gentleman’

Photo by Nicole Wilder/PARAMOUNT+ – © 2022 Paramount Pictures. All Rights Reserved.  Paramount has tapped Miles Teller to star in its update of the 1982 blockbuster An Officer and a Gentleman, which originally starred Richard Gere. Dana Fox is writing the script for the reboot, working on a draft written by Matt Johnson. The news was…

Molly Ringwald Passed on Playing Julia Roberts’ Pretty Woman Role Due to Disliking the Story

Molly Ringwald was one of Hollywood’s leading teen actresses of the 1980s, having starred in such hit coming-of-age romantic comedy-dramas as Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink and The Breakfast Club. But at the turn of the decade, the Golden Globe-nominated actress decided to turn down the titular role of the more mature romantic comedy, Pretty…