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Jamie Lang The Venice International Film Festival and Campari will honor production designer Marcus Rowland with this year’s Campari Passion for Film Award at this year’s 75th edition, where “Last Night in Soho,” his latest collaboration with director Edgar Wright, will screen out of competition. Rowland will receive the honor during a ceremony on Sept.

Edgar Wright is a filmmaker with a very distinct style. If you’ve seen any of his films, you can see how his editing, his use of music, and his distinct brand of humor can be found in every feature he’s created.

Dune and Edgar Wright’s Last Night in Soho.Also set to premiere at the September festival, a highlight of the film calendar, is the Adam Driver and Jodie Comer-starring The Last Duel, with all three films screening out of competition.Among those competing in competition for the prestigious Golden Lion are Diana biopic Spencer, starring Kristen Stewart, Jane Campion’s Netflix film The Power of the Dog with Benedict Cumberbatch and Paolo Sorrentino drama The Hand of God.Maggie Gyllenhaal’s

Richard Donner was one of the most prolific directors in Hollywood. He started his career in television and later made some huge blockbusters including the ‘Superman’ and ‘Lethal Weapon’ franchise.

The Cannes Film Festival begins this week and one of the films that is going to debut there will be “Annette,” the movie is helmed by French filmmaker Leos Carax (“Holy Motors“) with a script penned by Carax alongside Ron Mael and Russell Mael, aka The Sparks Brothers, who will also have roles in the film. The siblings were recently the subject of a rock documentary “The Sparks Brothers” directed by Edgar Wright.

Havoc,” an action thriller starring Tom Hardy and Forest Whitaker, has rounded out its cast.In addition to the previously announced Hardy and Whitaker, the Netflix movie will also feature Timothy Olyphant, “Training Day” and “The Umbrella Academy” actor Justin Cornwell, star of the upcoming Edgar Wright horror film “Last Night in Soho” Jessie Mei Li and Malaysian actress Yeo Yann Yann.

TIFF 2021 is going forward with some big names and big premieres.

The Toronto International Film Festival has announced its first wave of films for its 2021 lineup, and new movies by Kenneth Branagh, Céline Sciamma, Ted Melfi and Edgar Wright are among the nine films announced on Wednesday.

Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast, Edgar Wright’s Last Night In Soho, Celine Sciamma’s Petite Maman and Theodore Melfi’s Netflix dramedy The Starling starring Melissa McCarthy and Kevin Kline are among the first announced official selections of the 46th edition of the Toronto Film Festival, which is taking place September 9-18.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaNew works by Kenneth Branagh, Edgar Wright, and Céline Sciamma will screen at the 2021 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival.

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Chris Willman Music WriterFilmmaker Edgar Wright turns to Ron and Russell Mael — inasmuch as anyone can turn to another in a Zoom call — and laughs about the task at hand: “I have to say, it’s very strange for me, but I kind of love it, rating your albums in front of you.”Mind you, Variety has not asked Wright to run through the entire discography of 25 Sparks studio albums from the last 50 years in order of preference, an exercise in which there would be no possible way to beat the clock.

Who are Sparks? What are they about? That’s exactly what Edgar Wright’s outstanding new documentary “The Sparks Brothers” tries to unpack and demystify. Because Sparks is not only a versatile art-pop band (chiefly brothers, Ron and Russel Mael), but they’re a highly eclectic, trailblazing rock group that’s fairly elusive and mysterious to a lot of people, even music connoisseurs.

British actress Anya Taylor-Joy has been having a bit of a hot streak lately with her massively popular Netflix series “The Queen’s Gambit,” the Edgar Wright horror film “Last Night In Solo” coming out later this year, reunited with “The Witch” director Robert Eggers for his Viking epic “The Northman,” and was recently tapped to play a young Furiosa in George Miller’s “Mad Max: Fury Road” prequel “Furiosa.” Now, Taylor-Joy is looking to join the comedic thriller “The Menu” for director Mark

Edgar Wright has announced that Scott Pilgrim vs. the World will return to UK cinemas for a limited theatrical run.Taking to Twitter, the director confirmed that to celebrate the film’s 10th anniversary a select few venues across the country will be showing it on the big screen across June.“Time to level up UK fans!” wrote the director.

John Krasinski is heading across the pond!

A musical performance from a cult-classic movie is finally available on streaming services, thanks to the efforts of director Edgar Wright.

The Exorcist filmmaker William Friedkin has praised A Quiet Place Part II.The director, who also made The French Connection, took to social media to share his thoughts on the sequel movie in John Krasinski’s horror universe.“A QUIET PLACE 2 is a classic horror film,” Friedkin wrote on Twitter.

It’s going to be the summer of Sparks. Everything is really coming together for the hard-working U.S.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterFollowing its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, Wes Anderson’s latest “The French Dispatch” is coming to theaters in the fall.The comedic drama, from Searchlight Pictures, has been scheduled to release on Oct.

Last Night in Soho has finally been released. The psychological horror film from Edgar Wright (previously Baby Driver and Shaun of the Dead) is one of this year’s most anticipated releases.

Anya Taylor-Joy's fondness for wearing all of the best costumes and acting the hell out of them continues with Edgar Wright's, in which she's dressed the part of a '60s fashion icon caught in a mysterious, trippy, time-traveling game of cat and mouse.The movie's first teaser trailer introduces us to Ellie ( breakout Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie), an aspiring fashion designer living in modern-day London who is mysteriously able to transport back to the 1960s.

The Sparks Brothers,” which will also be released by Focus Features next month and is Wright’s first documentary. The film follows the Los Angeles pop band Sparks, made up of Ron and Russell Mael, and how the group has proved to be wildly influential and successful while somehow still flying under the radar for the general public.

Anya Taylor-Joy is back in her stylish mod ways and if you were hoping for another charming rendezvous like The Queen’s Gambit, then her latest flick will pack a more frightening punch.

The teaser trailer for writer and director Edgar Wright‘s new psychological thriller Last Night in Soho is finally here. Watch it below!

Natalie Oganesyan editorEdgar Wright’s horror-thriller “Last Night in Soho” released a hair-raising trailer, set for release on Oct. 22.The London-set psychological thriller stars Anya Taylor-Joy, Thomasin McKenzie and Matt Smith.

Last Night in Soho has just been released – you can check it out below.The film will star Thomasin McKenzie as Sandy, a young girl in 1960s London who meets her idol, a singer, before things unravel.A synopsis for Last Night In Soho reads: “A young girl, passionate about fashion design, is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s where she encounters her idol, a dazzling wannabe singer.

Over the years, Edgar Wright has tackled and unpacked a multitude of genres, often within the same film.