Robin Wright is calling it quits with husband Clément Giraudet.
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EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, Clement Virgo has signed with WME in advance of the TIFF world premiere of Brother, starring Lamar Johnson, Aaron Pierre and Marsha Stephanie Black. His debut feature, Rude, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in Un Certain Regard and opened the Perspectives Canada program at TIFF. His credits includes the boxing drama Poor Boy’s Game, Lie With Me and Love Come Down.
On the TV side, he directed and co-wrote the six part miniseries adaptation of Lawrence Hill’s novel The Book of Negroes. The series debuted to record-breaking numbers on the CBC in Canada and on BET in the U.S. and went on to win twelve Canadian Screen Awards and earned two U.S. Critics Choice TV Awards nominations for Best Limited Series and Best Actress in a Limited Series (Aunjanue Ellis). He also directed the pilot of the drama series Greenleaf, and serves as an executive producer for the series alongside Oprah Winfrey.
His upcoming TV work includes directing two episodes of the Ryan Murphy series Monster and Jason Katmis’ Dear Edward for Apple TV+. He has directed episodes of critically acclaimed TV series such as HBO’s The Wire, Showtime’s Billions and Fox’s Empire.
His production company, Conquering Lion Pictures, is co-run by his producing partner Damon D’Oliveira. Clément is managed by Jon Huddle at Fourth Wall Management, his attorney is Craig Emanuel at Paul Hastings, and his Canadian agent is Ralph Zimmerman at Great North Artists Management.
Robin Wright is calling it quits with husband Clément Giraudet.
Robin Wright and husband Clement Giraudet have split.
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Timothee Chalamet says he feels “older” than his years. The ‘Little Women’ star believes he was “born with” the “perspective” of someone beyond his years as he becomes British Vogue’s first solo male cover star in its 106 year history. The 26-year-old actor told the Conde Nast fashion bible’s October issue: "The ways I feel older than 26 I have always felt.
Timothée Chalamet is sharing some sage career advice Leonardo DiCaprio gave him. In British October issue, where Chalamet is making history as the first male solo star on the cover, the 26-year-old got candid about his career and his upcoming role as Willy Wonka in the movie musical, .The advice from DiCaprio came in 2018, when Chalamet first met the Oscar-winning actor, and the star kept it pretty simple: «No hard drugs and no superhero movies.»While it appears Chalamet has achieved that so far, the actor said he never envisioned his career blowing up the way that it has.«I had a delusional dream in my early teenage years to have, in my late teenage years, an acting career.
Leonardo DiCaprio.The actor, known for his breakout roles in Call Me By Your Name, Lady Bird and Dune, first met DiCaprio in 2018, where he shared some advice for his future career.As revealed in an interview with Vogue, DiCaprio told Chalamet: “No hard drugs and no superhero movies.”Speaking to Time in October last year, Chalamet previously said that he received the advice from “one of my heroes” without revealing his identity. “One of my heroes – I can’t say who or he’d kick my ass – he put his arm around me the first night we met and gave me some advice.“No hard drugs and no superhero movies,” he told the outlet.Chalamet has reunited with Call Me By Your Name director Luca Guadagnino for his next film, Bones And All, a coming-of-age romantic horror road film based on the novel of the same name.Alongside Chalamet, the film stars Taylor Russell, Mark Rylance, Michael Stuhlberg, Andre Holland, Chloe Sevigny, Jessica Harper and David Gordon Green.
Leonardo DiCaprio has taken Hollywood “it boy” Timothée Chalamet under his wing, lending him some practical – and PG-rated – career advice: “No hard drugs and no superhero movies.” Chalamet, 26, shared the cheeky advice from his 47-year-old fellow “Don’t Look Up” co-star with British Vogue on Thursday. The wholesome advice from party boy DiCaprio, who was most recently spotted having a bros night out on Tuesday after being seen with potential new love interest Gigi Hadid this week, Page Six reported, is on target.
After his 2017 star turn in Luca Guadaginino‘s “Call Me By Your Name,” Timothée Chalamet has become Hollywood’s new young heartthrob. And Chalamet’s done a good job bolstering up that reputation with his turns in “Lady Bird,” “The French Dispatch,” and “Dune.” Up next for the actor? Guadagnino’s latest, “Bones And All,” fresh off its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival.
Timothée Chalamet says, despite his global stardom at 26, he’s an old soul.
Jennie Punter Stoked by raves and strong receptions to their world-premiering Toronto festival films, “Brother” producers Damon D’Oliveira and Clement Virgo, “Black Ice” producer Vinay Virmani, and “Alice, Darling” producer Noah Segal are warming up a new basketball-themed crime series, “The Count,” for this fall’s marketplace, Variety has learned. A modern spin on French author Alexandre Dumas’ classic 19th-century novel of wrongful imprisonment “The Count of Monte Cristo,” the TV drama will bounce between Toronto’s basketball milieu and Haiti’s cultural mélange as it follows the transformation of a Haitian basketball player facing a life sentence for murder into to justice-seeking saboteur.
Two Jamaican-Canadian brothers hailing from Scarborough, a neighborhood in Toronto, look up at a soaring transmission tower. The older sibling Francis (Aaron Pierre, “The Underground Railroad”) explains to his younger brother Michael (Lamar Johnson, “The Hate U Give”) that the higher you climb, the more the reverberations of the electricity buzz and shake you.
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Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Italian director Paolo Virzì (“Human Capital,” “Like Crazy”) is in Venice where his dystopic drama “Siccità,” which means drought in Italian, is premiering out-of-competition. The innovative pic, which features an A-list ensemble cast comprising Monica Bellucci, Sara Serraiocco (“Counterpart”) and Silvio Orlando (“The Young Pope”), is set amid a protracted drought caused by climate change in the Italian capital where the Tiber has dried up. Virzì spoke to Variety about how “Siccità” germinated during COVID-19 and was shot amid tight pandemic protocols. Excerpts. You worked with novelist and screenwriter Paolo Giordano on the concept and the script for this film. How did the collaboration start?
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