Reality for the UK and Ireland. I caught the film in Berlin last month and absolutely loved it.The film comes to the screen from first-time director Tina Satter, and stars Sydney Sweeney (White Lotus, Euphoria).
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AFM will get picked up. But given the climate in Hollywood, many projects won’t officially hit the market until February at the European Film Market in Berlin.
The marketplace is not only strained by the strike but the shifting appetites and belt-tightening at the major studios and streamers. At the same time, the return of buyers from China to AFM after several years away is seen as a positive sign.
“Given the strikes and the tough global climate, many of the top international sales agents and talent agencies are holding back from exposing too many new high-end packages and will probably wait for the first half of next year,” said Dylan Leiner, senior exec VP of acquisitions and production for Sony Pictures Classics. And yet, Leiner noted, “There is a resilience in the independent market because of the wide range of films coming from international territories as well as documentaries, so companies looking for a wide range of films will have options.” For the most part, U.S.
and U.K. sales agents are banking on thrillers and horror projects to lure buyers.
Some of the hottest packages include Lionsgate’s “Now You See Me 3,” with Ruben Fleischer directing and Jesse Eisenberg starring; ”Above the Below,” co-directed by Idris Elba; AGC’s “Eden” (previously titled “Origin of Species”), a thriller starring Vanessa Kirby and Sydney Sweeney; and Black Bear and BlockFilm’s “Levon’s Trade,” starring Jason Statham. Black Bear also has “She Rides Shotgun,” starring Taron Egerton; FilmNation is selling “The Process,” with Halle Berry, and “Novocaine” with Jack Quaid; HanWay has “Walk With Me,” a psychological thriller, starring Emily Carey, Claes Bang and Suki Waterhouse; and Joseph Gordon-Levitt leads “Greedy People,” from Mister
.Reality for the UK and Ireland. I caught the film in Berlin last month and absolutely loved it.The film comes to the screen from first-time director Tina Satter, and stars Sydney Sweeney (White Lotus, Euphoria).
Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic “Perhaps if people talked less, animals would talk more,” observes one of the human characters in “Charlotte’s Web,” a kiddie classic that serves as both the butt of several jokes and an inspiration for Adam Sandler’s animated “Leo,” an endearing Netflix original that strikes just the right balance between heart and fart jokes. Basing the way Leo sounds on his squeaky-scratchy, slightly guttural impression of the late Hollywood agent Bernie Brillstein, Sandler voices a crusty old iguana who’s spent three-quarters of a century — practically his entire life — trapped in an elementary school classroom.
Pep Guardiola has been dealt yet another injury scare during the international break as Manchester City await an update on Erling Haaland before their impending Premier League showdown with Liverpool.
Lily Gladstone teared up giving a passionate speech honoring activists who work to protect Indigenous women at Variety’s Power of Woman event Thursday in Hollywood, presented by Lifetime. The “Killers of the Flower Moon” actor — who is one of Variety‘s honorees and cover stars this year — offered an account of how Martin Scorsese’s script’s evolution from a criminal investigation to a tale about an Osage woman, Mollie Kyle, and the husband who murdered her sisters and tribe members, speaks to the ongoing abuse facing Indigenous women today. “At one point, Leo wasn’t playing this complicated villain.
Jenelle Riley Deputy Awards and Features Editor Michael Fassbender is a two-time Academy Award nominee who trained at the Drama Centre London before touring with the Oxford Stage Company; he’s performed Chekov and Shakespeare and worked a veritable who’s who of greatest living directors. Rookie actor Kaimana had never even considered trying to be an actor, noting she avoided school plays “like the plague.” Yet the two form a winning pair in “Next Goal Wins,” the funny, touching, uplifting new film from “Jojo Rabbit” filmmaker Taika Waititi, hitting theaters Nov.
K.J. Yossman In 2013 Jamie Byng, CEO of publisher Canongate, gathered a host of familiar faces including Nick Cave and Gillian Anderson in a disused London church and persuaded them to read a bunch of letters in front of an audience for charity. Cave selected the message he’d sent to MTV turning down a nomination for Best Male Artist while Anderson re-enacted a letter Katharine Hepburn wrote to Spencer Tracy decades after he’d died.
Coronation Street fans have demanded the soap 'get rid' of one of its new characters as he continues to cause trouble on the cobbles. Mason Radcliffe. Following his arrival last month, we've seen Weatherfield High student Mason leading Dylan Wilson and Liam Connor astray.
“Women’s Health.”The “Euphoria” star, 26, bared it all for the poolside photoshoot, sporting a series of sexy looks.The “Anyone But You” actress got candid in her chat about the highs and lows in her career, explaining just how much her parents sacrificed for her to pursue a career in Hollywood.“I watched my parents lose a lot. We filed for bankruptcy,” Sweeney admitted, adding that they lost their house at one point.The Washington native continued: “We couldn’t afford life in LA. We couldn’t afford life anywhere.
who died Oct. 28 at his California home of an apparent drowning.LeBlanc penned a touching tribute Tuesday via Instagram about Perry, nearly a week after he paid his respects at the late actor’s funeral in LA. “Matthew,” he began.
Savina Petkova A vampire with qualms about killing to survive is no longer a figure exclusive to the “Twilight” franchise, when a Canadian French-language debut places a teenage girl in a tricky situation, torn between what the world demands of her and what she herself wants. The film’s title is eloquent enough — “Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person” — and it already won Ariane Louis-Seize the best director prize at this year’s Venice Days, and was praised for a “strong directorial vision.” The film screened as part of the main competition at the Thessaloniki Film Festival last week.
Euphoria and The Idol producer Kevin Turen has passed away aged 44.His death was confirmed by father Edward Turen as well as company Penske Media Corporation, though no cause of death has been revealed.“Kevin was so incredibly special, this world is going to be less without him,” Edward said in a statement (via Deadline).Jay Penske, head of PMC, added: “Despite his many achievements in Hollywood, Kevin’s greatest passion was his family and friends. He was so proud of his children.
Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large “Black-ish” star Anthony Anderson and his mother, Doris Bowman, are once again teaming up to host another game show together. The son-and-mother duo have been announced as the new hosts of Fox’s upcoming music gamer “We Are Family,” which premieres Wednesday, Jan.
The Osbournes podcast – which sees Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne discuss a multitude of topics with his wife Sharon and children Kelly and Jack.In the latest instalment, Kelly and Jack revealed that they had uncovered a lesser-known disco track that their mother had recorded back in 1978, and proceeded to play a snippet of it on the episode.“You are not the only singer in this family,” Jack told his father in the discussion (via Consequence). “Who knew Kelly and I came from such greatness when it comes to music?”From there, he played a brief section from the song, titled ‘You Can Strike Oil In Hollywood’, from his phone which started with the “snake charmer song”, before breaking into a stereotypical disco beat.In the podcast, Sharon went on to shed light on her previous time in a music group and revealed the song’s source of inspiration.According to her, her group was called The Sheikettes and they consisted of Carol Connors – who co-wrote the Rocky theme song ‘Gonna Fly Now’ – and another musician by the name of Avril Giacobbi.“There is a house on Sunset Boulevard, and it’s an ugly white house now [but] It used to be a beautiful white classic home,” she recalled, sharing what inspired the song.
“It’s Vanderpump Rules, not Little House on the Prairie,” said Lisa Vanderpump, star and exec producer of the long-running Hollywood-set reality series during a panel session at BravoCon.
Tom Sandoval isn’t ready for BravoCon this weekend!
kicked off the highly anticipated “Live’s Halloween: The Eras Show” as Cher, and her late husband, Sonny Bono, Tuesday. The longtime “Live” host, 52, showed off her figure in a yellow and white outfit with heavy eye makeup and black wig. Consuelos, who took over hosting duties from Ryan Seacrest, wore a yellow 70s-looking shirt, which he covered with a white jacket.
K.J. Yossman Trinity Creative Partnership have snapped up U.K. sales rights for historical war film “Love, Courage and the Battle for Bushy Run,” which is launching at AFM.
Adele is the latest celebrity to pay tribute to Matthew Perry.
On the heels of the wonderful 2019 The Two Popes, in which Anthony Hopkins starred as Pope Benedict XVI in an imagined conversation with Jonathan Pryce’s future Pope Francis, Hopkins is once again involved in the same kind of cinematic historical fictional meeting as founder of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud, who is engaged in a private debate with The Chronicles of Narnia author and theologian C.S. Lewis (played by Matthew Goode) on the existence of God. As with The Two Popes, there is no proof whatsoever that any meeting ever took place, but it clearly provides lots of material to wrap your head around. That is exactly what Mark St. Germain did in creating his 2009 play Freud’s Last Session, which was built on the 1967 Harvard lectures of Dr. Armond M. Nicholi Jr in his presentation “The Question of God: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and the Meaning of Life.”
Is Tom Sandoval really a narcissist? We’re about to find out!