How the ‘BlackBerry’ Creative Team Expanded Their Film Into a Limited TV Series

Hunter Ingram SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers from the film “Australia” and the limited series “Faraway Downs,” now streaming on Hulu. Fifteen years after the release of his 2008 epic romance “Australia,” Baz Luhrmann still struggles to find the right words to sum up its production. In this particular interview, he settles on one –– “fraught.” While shooting the film on location across its namesake continent, the native Australian director tried not to take it personally when the set-trained horses contracted a rare equine flu, or when the portion of the outback where they were filming received its first major rainfall in 150 years. But one thing after another repeatedly delayed production, and tested the cast and crew’s resilience.

RAYE has opened up about her experience of abuse of power in the music industry, calling the effects “crippling”.In a snippet of an upcoming interview with Louis Theroux, the singer delved into what it has taken to release her debut album, ‘My 21st Century Blues‘. The interview will be released on November 28.“When you’re up and coming, when you have a dream and you cross paths with powerful people – some people abuse their power and the effects of that can be crippling,” she said.As RAYE initially entered her music career, she said she was “so young and so hungry to make my dreams a reality.”But in 2021, RAYE publically expressed her frustrations at her then-label, Polydor.

Manchester City may feel Saturday’s 1-1 draw with Liverpool was an opportunity missed given they fell off top spot later in the day.

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Sarah Paulson is looking back fondly on her friendship with Matthew Perry.

Welcome to Deadline’s International Disruptors, a feature where we’ll shine a spotlight on key executives and companies outside of the U.S. shaking up the offshore marketplace. This week, we’re talking visual effects powerhouse Union VFX, an independent outfit based in London and, more recently, Montréal, which has spent the last 15 years quietly building a reputation for delivering some of the most seamless and invisible visual effects across the film and television spheres. We sit down with three of their heads to talk about how the business has grown, why it’s important to involve VFX teams at early stages and what’s next for the company. 

Garry Keane and Stephen Gerard Kelly’s documentary In The Shadow Of Beirut, which is Ireland’s Oscar category this year, is headed to the Red Sea International Film Festival, running November 30 to December 9 in the Red Sea port of Jeddah.

Caroline Brew editor Makoto Shinkai discussed his inspirations for establishing the tone of “Suzume” and how he approached themes of natural disaster in a conversation for Variety’s Artisans Screening Series moderated by Variety’s chief film critic Peter Debruge and translated by Mikey McNamara. Shinkai revealed that with “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” being grouped together as “Barbenheimer,” he expected “Barbie” to carry a similar seriousness to “Oppenheimer.” Thus, he was surprised to see how comedic the film was.

Sarah Paulson is reflecting on her friendship with the late Matthew Perry.

Rachel Zegler and Josh Andrés Rivera had a fun time on the set of The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes!

Colman Domingo plays civil rights activist Bayard Rustin, an organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, in the Netflix film Rustin. Domingo said he felt a responsibility to introduce Rustin to modern audiences.

The Peasants would already be a daunting project in the best of times. Like their previous film, Loving Vincent, directors Hugh and DK Welchman oversaw a team of animators painting each frame of the film based on live-action reference material. Hugh, who came to Los Angeles from Poland just for his 12-minute Contenders panel, said The Peasants also had to work around COVID and the Ukraine War.

Todd Gilchrist editor Intellectual property — the books, films, characters and properties that get butts into seats — has long been a cornerstone of Hollywood moviemaking. But many of this year’s films have drawn from less likely, though perhaps inevitable, sources of inspiration: products and brands.

Variety hosted “U.S. Filmmaking in France: Living the French Experience,” a series of panels with directors, producers and executives who discussed their experiences filming in the European country.

Film Movement has acquired U.S. rights to Maciek Hamela’s In the Rearview, winner of well over a dozen awards at film festivals around the world, including the top prize at Sheffield DocFest.

Entertainment Tonight during the annual “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way To Cure Parkinson’s” gala, a benefit hosted by the Michael J. Fox Foundation.“He was a hockey player, a good hockey player, and we played hockey together,” the “Back to the Future” star added. According to Fox, Perry once gave his foundation, which began in 2000 and specializes in research into Parkinson’s disease, a gracious donation.

Matthew Perry‘s story should have been one about finding great success, then struggling with the demons of addiction only to win and live to tell about it. Unfortunately, due to a terrible tragedy, he didn’t get to live as long as he should have after getting sober.

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are back together again. This time the beloved couple have gone international with their romance.

The Simpsons, detailed in an op-ed for The New York Times his first meeting with Perry, who died aged 54 last month (October 28).“We met almost 40 years ago, and he was, by far, the funniest friend I ever had,” Azaria wrote. “He also was the person who helped me get sober.”Perry, who had been open about his struggles with drugs and alcohol throughout his life, took Azaria to his first A.A.

Karamo Brown is spilling some tea after hanging out with the cast of Vanderpump Rules behind the scenes at BravoCon 2023.