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Shia LaBeouf has landed his comeback role in Abel Ferrara's new film months after he was accused of sexual battery by his ex-girlfriend FKA Twigs. The American independent filmmaker revealed to Variety that the embattled actor has been cast in the lead role in his next movie, which will depict the younger years of Italian Saint Padre Pio.

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transform his career. The former Disney Channel star is plotting a comeback after a string of career-canceling abuse charges and allegations — by playing a real-life saint in controversial director Abel Ferrara’s newest film.The 70-year-old filmmaker told Variety that LaBeouf, 35, is on board to play the lead role in his next movie, which will center on the life of Italian saint Padre Pio.

Not a fan. Chrishell Stause had some strong feelings amid reports that Shia LaBeouf is planning to return to acting after allegations about his past behavior made headlines.

Will Thorne Staff WriterAbel Ferrara has made a career as one of the industry’s leading provocateurs.While his latest film, “Zeros and Ones,” may not shock quite like “Driller Killer” or “Ms .45,” it still stands out for being very deliberately set during the pandemic.“Zeros and Ones” stars Ethan Hawke as an American soldier stationed in Rome, caught in the midst of an apocalyptic siege, wandering empty streets that feel eerily familiar.

Lockdown affected us all in peculiar ways, and given that veteran provocateur Abel Ferrara was pretty damn peculiar, to begin with, it’s no surprise that “Zeros And Ones” — a fiction that makes use of the non-fictional pandemic in ways both fascinating and frustrating — should turn out to be such a conundrum, equal parts confounding and intriguing, repellent and rewarding.

Legendary filmmaker Abel Ferrara has never been a creator to avoid risks. He’s the type of director that will happily tempt fate by going down the path less traveled in the name of art.

Will Thorne Staff WriterShia LaBeouf could be making a comeback turn.Legendary director Abel Ferrara has exclusively told Variety that LaBeouf has signed on to play the lead role in his next feature, which centers on the younger years of Italian Saint Padre Pio. Ferrara’s regular collaborator and close friend Willem Dafoe is also circling a role in the film, according to the director.“We’re doing a film about Padre Pio, he’s a monk from Puglia.

Once upon a time, there was a plan to turn Abel Ferrara‘s sleaze/bad cop masterpiece, “Bad Lieutenant,” into a franchise. The original 1992 film starring Harvey Keitel was rated NC-17, featured full-frontal nudity of its star, and generally shocked and scandalized audiences with its lurid depravity about a rogue cop spiraling into drugs, violent delusions of grandeur, and madness.

The 74th Locarno Film Festival will take place in person from August 4 to August 14 in Locarno, Switzerland, and the festival’s film lineup has been announced via The Hollywood Reporter. The Swiss event was founded back in 1946 and is one of the longest-running film festivals in the world.

Switzerland’s Locarno Film festival has unveiled its line-up ahead of a physical 2021 edition running August 4-14. Scroll down for a list of titles.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentThe Locarno Film Festival has unveiled a promising lineup combining edgy new works by established auteurs such as Abel Ferrara alongside plenty of potential discoveries by emerging helmers and global newcomers for its upcoming 74th edition.It will be the first one under new Artistic Director Giona A.

Abel Ferrara’s latest film, “Siberia,” finds his constant muse, Willem Dafoe, in an icy, isolated wasteland not explicitly meant to be the Russian tundra but rather an abstract plane of solitude. His character Clint, an English-speaking bartender out of place in this far-off land populated by indigenous peoples, follows the ambient energy of the area on a metaphysical journey through his own past.

Actor Willem Dafoe is known for his quirky smaller pictures, and it looks like his upcoming release “Siberia” won’t be an exception. The project comes by way of “King of New York” and “Bad Lieutenant” director Abel Ferrara, pushing some strong visuals seen in the film’s trailer that has arrived via Screen Rant.

Dave McNary Film ReporterEthan Hawke, Cristina Chiriac and Phil Neilson will star in the upcoming war thriller “Zeros and Ones,” with Abel Ferrara directing from his own script.Filming begins in Italy later this month. Hawke will portray an American soldier stationed in Rome as it’s under siege, with the Vatican blown up.

Though no one would be mad at Ethan Hawke for taking some clear “paycheck films” at this point in his career, after starring in some of the best features of the past 30 years, the actor is clearly going down a more challenging path, as he tackles some of the most interesting projects in the industry.

Ethan Hawke will star in the next film from director Abel Ferrara, a war-time thriller called “Zeros and Ones.”Hawke joins a cast that also includes Cristina Chiriac and Phil Neilson, and “Zeros and Ones” will begin filming in Italy later this month.“Zeros and Ones” is both written and directed by Ferrara, and it stars Hawke as JJ, an American soldier stationed in Rome under siege, locked down and at war who witnesses an attack on The Vatican.

Ben Croll World premiering this week at NewImages Festival in Paris before playing at the London Film Festival in early October, the Franco-British-Taiwanese co-production “Missing Pictures Ep.

Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on-demand, vintage, and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This biweekly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching.

Guy Lodge Film CriticThere is no writing credit for “Sportin’ Life,” which feels like an omission, but an apt one. On the one hand, this documentary self-portrait by rogue auteur Abel Ferrara feels wholly the product of his eccentric imagination, colored by his voice from beginning to hasty end.

Bronx-born, Italian-based filmmaker Abel Ferrara is a character and so is Cypriot independent movie theater owner Nicolas “Nick” Nicolaou. “I do it cause it combines two things I like to do,” Nicolaou says in Ferrara’s new documentary “The Projectionist.” “Make money and keep neighborhood theaters alive.

Nancy Tartaglione International Box Office Editor/Senior ContributorSometimes controversial director Abel Ferrara addressed the idea of cancel culture in today’s world and whether it had become more difficult to make the kinds of films he once did. “It’s on the artist to uncancel himself, to come clean with himself,” he said.

“The documentary on the act of making documentaries.” Filmmaker Abel Ferrara perfectly sums up the crux of his new film in the opening seconds of the trailer for “Sportin’ Life.” His succinct description would only be better if he was able to somehow weave in that Willem Dafoe is featured throughout.

Abel Ferrara’s “Sportin’ Life” is set to premiere at this year’s Venice Film Festival.

Leo Barraclough Senior International CorrespondentNewImages Festival has unveiled the XR competition lineup for its 3rd edition, running at Forum des Images in Paris from Sept. 23-27.

The word “canceled” means so much to different people in today’s society. For some, it’s a possible end-result of a celebrity’s terrible actions that were made public.

Fernando Sulichin is used to doing things differently. The veteran producer and CEO of New Element Media has established a reputation for working with maverick auteurs — Oliver Stone, Sean Pean, Abel Ferrara, Michael Winterbottom, Larry Clark, Harmony Korine — and finding creative ways to get films made that don't fit the industry's cookie-cutter models.

Sometime after the second or third film together, director Abel Ferrara and his frequent star Willem Dafoe developed something of a shorthand. “The closer we are and the more experience we have together, the more independent we become on the set,” says the Bronx-born auteur behind such indie classics asKing of New YorkandBad Lieutenant.