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Maya Hawke is telling me about her short-lived attempt to call her father ‘Ethan’ on the set of their new film, “Wildcat.” We’re escaping the downpour at a cozy neighborhood restaurant in Chelsea, and sitting across from the striking father-daughter duo is like having a front-row seat to the royal family of art-house cinema. “I started using his name — ‘Ethan’ — to be like, ‘I’m a professional,’” the 25-year-old “Stranger Things” actress says. “And then I realized it was actually more distracting to people.

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Bradley Cooper appears to have another winner on his hands.

Maestro” — Bradley Cooper’s long-awaited second film as director — premiered at the Venice Film Festival to rapturous applause. The drama about the life of legendary stage composer Leonard Bernstein landed a seven-minute-standing ovation at its world premiere at the Sala Grande Theatre on Saturday night. Cooper, who also plays Bernstein in the Netflix film (with the help of nose prosthetics), and his co-star Carey Mulligan didn’t attend the night’s festivities due to the SAG-AFRTRA strike.

Ethan Hawke has directed, written and/or acted in quite a few notably esoteric projects throughout his multi-faceted career, and he’s now come up with another in Wildcat. This one makes use of four Flannery O’Connor stories that tie in to aspects of the writer’s difficult life and truly do illuminate aspects of it in clever and plausible ways. The general public would have no clue as to what’s going on in this often perceptively made film that connects with her work, but the episodes are frequently weird, abruptly amusing and almost always cleverly pertinent in some way. 

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic Flannery O’Connor saw folks in a way few writers did. She saw through them, past their petty prejudices and hollow pieties, to the less civilized selves they so desperately tried to keep under wraps.

EXCLUSIVE: LA-based Brit Stuart Ford has operated at the sharp end of international film sales and movie financing for more than two decades.

With nearly one week to go until the Toronto International Film Festival 2023 (or TIFF 2023) kicks off, the A-listers who are and aren’t attending have been revealed.

The Telluride Film Festival, a key part of the fall festival circuit launching awards season and perhaps some major Academy Award contenders, announced the wide-ranging lineup of films for its landmark 50th edition. The fest kicks off Thursday and runs through Labor Day and will feature world premieres of Oscar winners Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers (Focus Features), Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn (Amazon) and Free Solo filmmakers Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin’s narrative feature Nyad (Netflix).

EXCLUSIVE: Last week we brought you news of which A-listers would and wouldn’t be attending Venice. This week, the Toronto talent picture is taking shape ahead of its September 7th kick off.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor Bradley Cooper’s “Maestro” has been announced as the spotlight gala film at the 61st New York Film Festival. “Maestro is a bravura achievement for its director and star, a work of conviction and imagination that does justice to the brilliance and complexity of its subject,” said Dennis Lim, artistic director of New York Film Festival. “We are honored to have Bradley Cooper’s enthralling film as a gala presentation at this year’s festival, and doubly so to be showing it in a venue that is synonymous with Leonard Bernstein.” “Maestro” is a biographical romance in which Cooper plays the famed conductor Leonard Bernstein.

Netflix has released the first trailer for Maestro starring Bradley Cooper and Carey Mulligan – check out the clip below.Directed and co-written by Cooper, the film charts the lifelong relationship between composer Leonard Bernstein (played by Cooper) and his wife Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein (Mulligan).A synopsis reads: “Maestro is a towering and fearless love story chronicling the lifelong relationship between Leonard Bernstein and Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein. A love letter to life and art, Maestro at its core is an emotionally epic portrayal of family and love.”Along with starring, directing and co-writing the film with Josh Singer (Spotlight), Cooper has also produced the film alongside Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Fred Berner, Amy Durning and Kristie Macosko Krieger.Other cast members include Matt Bomer, Maya Hawke, Sarah Silverman, Josh Hamilton, Scott Ellis, Gideon Glick, Sam Nivola, Alexa Swinton and Miriam Shor.As shown in the trailer, Cooper and Mulligan both sport makeup to depict older versions of the couple, as it flips from black-and-white to colour.Bernstein is a renowned conductor and composer, who is perhaps best known for his work on the Broadway musical West Side Story.Maestro is released in select UK cinemas on November 24, before it arrives on Netflix from December 20, 2023.This is the second film Cooper has directed following 2018’s A Star Is Born, where he starred opposite Lady Gaga.

, Bradley Cooper embodies Leonard Bernstein, the first American conductor to receive international acclaim and the composer of operas, symphonies, and the beloved Broadway musical The film, co-written and directed by Cooper, and produced by Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg, centers on Bernstein's marriage to actress Felicia Montealegre, played by Carey Mulligan. The pair, who married in 1951, had a «strong connection,» which is evident in the teaser — though flashes to moments throughout their relationship reveal the emotional roller coaster it truly was.

Bradley Cooper and Carey Mulligan star in the newly-released trailer for “Maestro”.

The first teaser trailer for Maestro is here!

Can a relationship be art? “Maestro” offers a bold look at the complicated and compelling story of Leonard Bernstein and Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein; the new film delves into the legendary conductor’s life, focusing on his unique connection to Montealegre Cohn Bernstein. Through it all, they found a way to support one another in a world judgemental of anything that didn’t fit the period’s societal norms.

Katie Reul editor Netflix has revealed the first official trailer for “Maestro,” Bradley Cooper’s second directorial effort that sees the actor star as conductor Leonard Bernstein. The biographical romance, which Cooper also co-wrote and produced, chronicles the life of the acclaimed conductor and composer with a focus on his tumultuous 25-year marriage to Felicia Montealegre. Co-starring opposite Cooper is “She Said” actor Carey Mulligan as Montealegre.

Billie Eilish is naming names when it comes to sharing her celebrity crush.

Phoebe Bridgers made a surprise appearance on stage with Christian Lee Hutson last night (August 10) as he performed at an Øya spin-off show.The gig took place at Oslo’s Vulkan Arena concert hall, with the singer-songwriter headlining the venue as part of his ongoing tour.Bridgers joined the artist during the show to perform ‘Lose This Number’ together – watch footage of the moment below. She has previously teamed up with Hutson on stage at last year’s The Ally Coalition benefit gig and during a television appearance on CBS Mornings.

Maya Hawke in the first trailer for The Kill Room – check out the clip below.Directed by Nicol Paone (Friendsgiving), the dark comedic thriller follows art dealer Patrice Capullo (Thurman) who becomes business partners with hitman Reggie Pitt (Joe Manganiello) and Reggie’s boss, Gordon Davis (Samuel L. Jackson).A synopsis reads: “The Kill Room is a dark comedic thriller that follows an art dealer who teams up with a hitman and his boss for a money laundering scheme that accidentally turns the hitman into an overnight avant-garde sensation, forcing the dealer to play the art world against the underworld.”Hawke, who is the daughter of Thurman and Ethan Hawke, is briefly seen in the trailer, who plays one of the figures surrounding the criminal triangle.Other cast members include Debi Mazar, Dree Hemingway, Amy Keum, Candy Buckley, Larry Pine, Jennifer Kim, Matthew Maher, Tom Pecinka and Alexander Sokovikov.The Kill Room is released in cinemas on September 29.Hawke had her breakthrough role as Robin Buckley in Netflix’s Stranger Things.

Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. Wes Anderson’s dazzling desert Americana “Asteroid City” will be available to stream on Peacock starting Aug. 11.

Uma Thurman and Maya Hawke are teaming up for a new movie!

Maya Hawke already worked with her dad Ethan Hawke on the Flannery O’Connor biopic “Wildcat.” Now it’s time for her to star in something alongside her mom, Uma Thurman. And that something would be “The Kill Room,” a crime comedy about money-laundering scheme that accidentally turns a hitman into an overnight avant-garde sensation.

In this first trailer for Shout! Studios' new caper, Uma Thurman stars as a high-end art gallery owner who gets in over her head in a money laundering scheme with a hitman (Joe Manganiello) and his handler (Samuel L. Jackson).The film also brings Thurman together on-screen for the first time with her real-life daughter, star Maya Hawke — whom she shares with ex-husband Ethan Hawke.It also serves as a reunion for Thurman and Jackson, who haven't starred together in a film since in 1994.In the film, Jackson stars as an assassination facilitator who turns to Thurman to launder money by selling artwork made by Manganiello, a hitman who uses his tools for murder (specifically, plastic bags he suffocates victims with) as materials for Avant-Garde artworks.Unexpectedly, the hitman — going by the name The Bagman — becomes an overnight sensation in the art world and begins attracting media attention, to the frustration of his boss.

Ethan Hawke has been a member of the Screen Actor’s Guild for quite some time.

Quentin Tarantino is shooting down the rumors that he was working on Kill Bill: Volume 3.

Already in limited release, Wes Anderson’s “Asteroid City” opens in a wider release this weekend, Friday, June 23. Essentially split into two parts, the film centers on a grieving father (Jason Schwartzman) who travels with his tech-obsessed family to a small rural ‘Asteroid City’ to compete in a junior stargazing event, only to have his perspective on life— his cosmology as it where— disrupted forever by world-altering events.

Margot Robbie, Matt Dillon, Tilda Swinton, Edward Norton and Steve Carell couldn’t make it today for what’s already resembling an Oscars’ night selfie. Who we do have is Scarlett Johansson, Maya Hawke, Adrien Brody, Tom Hanks, Jeffrey Wright and Bryan Cranston, plus the director himself, Wes Anderson. So, what makes this quirky comedy-romance-sci-fi set around a 1955 junior stargazer competition in the desert such a hot ticket? Well, it’s a Wes Anderson movie.

Maya Hawke is dishing some family secrets. The "Stranger Things" actress, 24, opened up about lying to her famous father, Ethan Hawke, on "Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen." Maya recalled being in the worst trouble she's ever been in when she lied to her dad. "I lied.