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The Full Monty, and was nominated for two Oscars, for In the Bedroom (2001) and Michael Clayton (2007). He also appeared in films including Shakespeare in Love (1998), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), Batman Begins (2005) and The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014). He died suddenly at home on Saturday (December 30) with his wife and family, they said in a statement.

Tom Wilkinson has sadly passed away.

British actor Tom Wilkinson, who won a Bafta for his work in The Full Monty and was Oscar-nominated for Michael Clayton and In The Bedroom, has died at 75 on Saturday. No cause was given.

Pat Saperstein Deputy Editor Tom Wilkinson, the British actor who appeared in films including “The Full Monty,” “Shakespeare in Love” and “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,” died Saturday in the U.K., the BBC reported. He was 75.

Harry Potter film franchise was not up to his own standards. Oldman played Harry’s godfather Sirius Black across four of the films, starting with 2004’s Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and winding up with Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix in 2007. But now, in an interview on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, he has said that he is not especially proud of his contribution to the films.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director The “Harry Potter” film franchise might have saved Gary Oldman’s career, but he’s not giving himself much praise for his performance as Sirius Black. Oldman debuted as the fan favorite character in 2004’s “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.” During a recent interview on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast, the Oscar winner called his acting in the “Harry Potter” movies “mediocre.” Most fans across the world would probably disagree.

Gary Oldman isn’t a big fan of his portrayal of magician Sirius Black in the Harry Potter franchise.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent “Slow,” Marija Kavtaradze’s delicate romance, won the Crystal Arrow at the 15th edition of Les Arcs Film Festival from a jury presided over by Oscar-nominated Iranian director Asghar Farhadi (“A Separation”). Kavtaradze’s sophomore outing, “Slow” world premiered at the Sundance Film Festival where it won best director.

“The Drew Barrymore Show” to promote his AppleTV+ series, “Slow Horses,” Oldman, 65 – who is father to sons Alfie, Gulliver and Charlie and step-son William – said that he was cast in the “Harry Potter” movies shortly after divorcing his ex-wife, Donya Fiorentino, in 2001.“At 42 years old, I woke up divorced and I had custody of these boys and so that, in itself, was hard because there was a shift in the industry where a lot of productions were being [filmed in], it was Hungary, Budapest, Prague, Australia, you know, all of these places,” he told Drew Barrymore, 48. Barrymore interjected to explain that global filming locations shifted because of “tax reasons.” As a result, Oldman said he “turned down a lot of work” in order to be with his children.“Thank God for ‘Harry Potter,’” he said.

Harry Potter and Batman movies “saved” him when he became a single father.The actor, who is a father to sons Alfie, Gulliver and Charlie, detailed how being cast in the two film franchises helped him be at home with his family after he divorced his third wife, Donya Fiorentino, in 2001.Speaking on The Drew Barrymore Show on Thursday (December 14), Oldman said: “At 42 years old, I woke up divorced and I had custody of these boys. So that, in itself, was….

At 24, Edouard Philipponnat has already worked with powerhouse director Ridley Scott twice and his latest project Napoleon has him going toe to toe with the likes of Joaquin Phoenix and Vanessa Kirby.

Heida Reed, who has portrayed Special Agent Jamie Kellett on FBI: International since the CBS series launch in 2021, will be leaving the show early in the upcoming third season, sources confirm to Deadline.

Hollywood star Tilda Swinton has arrived at the Chanel fashion show tonight (Thursday) looking striking. The Grand Budapest Hotel star is known for her icy looks and inimitable style, and tonight's appearance was no different.

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EXCLUSIVE: Derval Whelan, who previously worked at Searchlight Pictures for 14 years until 2021, is returning to the Disney specialty label as their Head of Distribution. She takes over for former Head of Distribution Frank Rodriguez, who Deadline told you departed for Amazon MGM to be their General Sales Manager.

Todd Gilchrist editor Wes Anderson’s “Asteroid City” is a nesting doll of a film—a television broadcast of a documentary about a play, assembled with the same precision and detail as Anderson’s “The Royal Tenenbaums,” “The Grand Budapest Hotel” and “The French Dispatch” among others. Thematically, the connective tissue between its layers of reality, like many of those earlier films, is the notion and processing of loss.

Tool have announced a series of UK and European tour dates, set to kick off in 2024. Find a list of upcoming shows and ticket details below.All set to take place in spring next year, the upcoming tour dates come as the band – comprised of Maynard James Keenan, Adam Jones, Justin Chancellor and Danny Carey – are currently in the midst of a North American tour that extends into February.Set to kick off two months later, the tour will open with a slot at the ZAG Arena in Hannover, Germany on May 25, and continue two days later with a show at the Ziggo Dome in Amsterdam.From there, three performances around the UK are scheduled, opening with a performance in Birmingham on May 30, held at the Resorts World Arena.

Two-time Oscar-nominated cinematographer Ed Lachman looked shattered by the time he sat down with us for an interview here at EnergaCamerimage in Torun, Poland. 

< 1 min read In Budapest, controversy surrounds the World Press Photo exhibition, where minors are barred from viewing five LGBTQ-themed photographs captured by Filipino photojournalist Hannah Reyes Morales, depicting the lives of older LGBTQ+ individuals in the Philippines.

Pablo Larraín and Angelina Jolie were spotted at the Hungarian State Opera,in Budapest. The two looked comfortable as they sat next to each other in the Opera’s theater box. As the story developed on the stage, Jolie was visibly moved, wiping tears from her eyes while Larraín stood from his seat to get a better look at the stage.

The world-renowned actress, philanthropist, and filmmaker Angelina Jolie found herself seated beside the talented Chilean director Pablo Larraín.Leo Messi is a Maluma fan! The beloved athlete was captured at the Colombian artist’s Miami concertÚrsula Corberó joins Madonna onstage at Barcelona concertBritney Spears dances to J Balvin’s hit song after he shared his thoughts about her memoir

EXCLUSIVE: Big shift in the film distribution sphere here today as Searchlight’s longtime Head of Distribution Frank Rodriguez is heading to Amazon MGM Studios as their new General Sales Manager.

Christopher Vourlias With the resolution of the Hollywood writers strike in September, hopes were high for a return to business as usual in bustling Budapest, host to such recent high-profile productions as Yorgos Lanthimos’ Venice sensation and Oscar frontrunner “Poor Things.” But the sudden breakdown in negotiations between SAG-AFTRA and the AMPTP in early October dampened that enthusiasm. “We were starting to get momentum back, which was leading us to believe that we would be opening up offices on new shows in early November, on the assumption that the strike would be over by the end of October,” says Adam Goodman of Mid Atlantic Films, which is currently servicing Peacock and Sky’s spy series “The Day of the Jackal.” Instead, a waiting game is playing out in studios and C-suites across the globe, as actors, talent reps, executives and other industry players not only try to hash out a blueprint for the film and TV business moving forward but plot the next step for the many productions put on pause during the nearly four-month-old strike.

Christopher Vourlias Annecy Cristal Prize winner Áron Gauder, who won the festival’s top prize in 2005 for his time-traveling love story “The District!”, returned to the prestigious French animation event this year with “Four Souls of Coyote,” an epic adventure inspired by a Native American myth about the creation of the universe that scooped the festival’s Jury Award. Produced by Budapest-based animation studio Cinemon Entertainment and written and created by Gauder, the 2D-animated project is Hungary’s selection for the best international feature film race at the 96th Academy Awards and plays next at the Hungarian Film Festival of Los Angeles, which runs Oct. 27 – Nov.

Christopher Vourlias As a young boy growing up in Budapest, a town that would come to be known as “Hollywood on the Danube,” Béla Bunyik dreamed of being in the pictures. “I fell in love with movies in Hungary back in the ’50s,” Bunyik tells Variety. “When I was 12 years old, I started to work as an extra in a few movies….

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix debuts the first track of Nyad score ahead of the film’s theatrical release. The film is scored by two-time Oscar-winning composer Alexandre Desplat (The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Shape of Water).

Tom Cruise.The actor, who next stars as a young Willy Wonka in the upcoming musical fantasy film Wonka, shared during an interview with GQ an email Cruise had sent him after he finished filming on 2021’s Dune.“After I met Tom Cruise, right after finishing the first Dune, he sent me the most wonderfully inspiring email,” Chalamet said.As noted in the interview, the email contained a list of experts that he might need for stunt training, including a motorcycle coach and a helicopter coach.Chalamet added: “He basically said, in Old Hollywood, you would be getting dance training and fight training, and nobody is going to hold you to that standard today. So it’s up to you.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director In a lengthy new cover story for GQ magazine, Timothée Chalamet reveals that Tom Cruise sent him an email after they met following the production of “Dune” in which Cruise offered up a list of all the stunt trainers, motorcycle coaches and more that Chalamet could reach out to. “He basically said, in Old Hollywood, you would be getting dance training and fight training, and nobody is going to hold you to that standard today.

Ralph Fiennes is spending time with filmmaker Svetlana Zill.

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