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Brent Lang Executive Editor Elle Fanning will make her Broadway debut in the upcoming production of “Appropriate,” a darkly comic family drama from Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. The show is directed by Lila Neugebauer, the director of the acclaimed 2018 revival of “The Waverly Gallery.” Fanning, best known for her work on Hulu’s “The Great” and “Super 8,” joins a previously announced ensemble that includes Natalie Gold, Alyssa Emily Marvin, Sarah Paulson and Corey Stoll. Jenkins is an Obie Award-winning playwright whose credits include “An Octoroon” and “Gloria.” “Appropriate” follows the Lafayette family as it returns to their late patriarch’s Arkansas home to deal with the remains of his estate.

There may not have been a red carpet at the L.A. premiere of Priscilla, but the stars still stepped out in style.

Jaden Thompson The red carpet for Sofia Coppola‘s “Priscilla” premiere in L.A. on Monday has been canceled amid current world events, distributor A24 confirmed.

Following in the wake of several events after Hamas’ attack on Israel, the red carpet at the Los Angeles of premiere of A24’s Priscilla has been canceled. The screening is still taking place.

The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on Thursday said it has decided to cancel the red carpet planned for Saturday’s Academy Museum Gala, its annual fundraiser.

J. Kim Murphy The Academy Museum has canceled plans for a red carpet ahead of its annual fundraising gala “out of respect for the devastating conflict and loss of life” happening amid the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict. The gala itself is still set to take place on Saturday evening, with no formal press coverage of arrivals beforehand.

Michaela Zee Cailee Spaeny and Jacob Elordi attended the North American premiere of Sofia Coppola‘s “Priscilla” at the New York Film Festival on Friday night, where they sat down for a post-screening Q&A to discuss the biographical drama. “I got really lucky to actually sit down with Priscilla herself and ask her all the questions I wanted to,” Spaeny explained to the audience, adding that their conversation helped her “know where I was trying to go and what I wanted to say throughout those years playing her.” The production was completed on a tight deadline of 30 days, with producer Youree Henley emphasizing the team’s doubts that they could “make this in less than 35 days.” Spaeny said the hair, makeup and costumes acted like her “anchor of where I was in the storylines.” “We shot it in 30 days and also out of order, so I’d be pregnant in the morning, and then after lunch I’d be 14 years old,” she said with a laugh.

Jacob Elordi and Cailee Spaeny hit the red carpet for the NYC premiere of their new movie Priscilla, but writer and director Sofia Coppola was noticeably absent.

Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis” did last year. The eccentric manager is only mentioned in passing.

Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla Presley biopic Priscilla is the centerpiece premiere at the New York Film Festival this evening, but the filmmaker had to miss the movie’s presser today at short notice, sending a note that she is “with her mother.” 

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor The Match Factory has sold Sofia Coppola‘s “Priscilla” to distributors worldwide, the sales agency revealed Friday ahead of its North American premiere at the New York Film Festival. The film had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival last month, and won the Coppa Volpi award for best actress for Cailee Spaeny’s performance. Adding to the previously announced sales in France (ARP SAS), The Match Factory has secured distribution in Australia and New Zealand (Madman Entertainment), Spain (Elastica Films and BTeam Pictures), Switzerland (Filmcoopi), CIS (Capella Film), Scandinavia and Iceland (Nordisk Film), Poland (Best Film), Greece (Spentzos Film), Portugal (Nos Lusomundo), Baltics (Kino Pavasaris), Hungary (ADS), Middle East and North Africa (Front Row Filmed Ent.), Israel (Lev Cinemas), former Yugoslavia (MCF Megacom), Ukraine (Arthouse Traffic), Japan (GAGA Corporation), Taiwan (Moviecloud) and worldwide airline distribution (Echo Lake Distribution).

The Match Factory has announced a raft of world sales for Sofia Coppola’s biopic Priscilla ahead of its North American premiere as the Centrepiece selection of the New York Film Festival on Friday.

Priscilla” looks like one of the best movies of the year. The film, directed by Sofia Coppola and starring Cailee Spainee and Jacob Elordi, has amassed critical acclaim on its festival run, including a Best Actress win at the Venice Film Festival.

A24 has released a new trailer for Priscilla!

Priscilla Presley’s iconic updo is hitting the screens in a fresh trailer for Sofia Coppola’s upcoming flick “Priscilla”.

There has never been a more obsessed-over American pop icon than Elvis Presley, right? So what does Sofia Coppola do as a kind of palate cleanser to the pop extravaganza of Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis”? Give space, time, and breathing room to tell the story of his overlooked and overshadowed wife, Priscilla Beaulieu, aka Priscilla Presley. READ MORE: ‘Priscilla’ Review: Sofia Coppola’s Understated Biopic Lets Us Draw Our Own Conclusions [Venice] With films like “Marie Antoinette” and “Lost In Translation,” Coppola has already excelled at telling girlhood stories of teenage alienation, and her latest film, “Priscilla,” which debuted at the Venice Film Festival earlier this fall and now makes its North American premiere at the New York Film Festival, looks as if it will do the same.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Sofia Coppola told the Wall Street Journal that her “Priscilla” budget was so “strained” at times that she thought of raffling off a pickleball game with her star Jacob Elordi in order to raise funds for additional shooting days. “Euphoria” alum Elordi plays Elvis Presley in the film opposite Cailee Spaeny in the title role. Spaeny won best actress honors at the Venice Film Festival for her performance.

Kirsten Dunst had a little hand in casting Cailee Spaeny in Priscilla.

The 61stNew York Film Festival opens Friday on a high note, with advance sales of passes and tickets at kickoff up 50% from last year, which was a record-breaking fest. It’s also a day of heavy rains and flooding in New York City.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter As New York Film Festival’s artistic director, Dennis Lim has become adept at multitasking. “Sometimes, I have to introduce one film and then run across the street to moderate a Q&A for different film,” he says. “If I have an hour or two free, I will sneak into a cinema and watch something as a way to hide out.” This year, he’ll be bouncing around Manhattan’s Upper West Side to host some of the buzziest movies from Cannes and Venice, like Todd Haynes’ soapy romantic drama “May December,” Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein biopic “Maestro” and Sofia Coppola’s “Elvis and “Me” adaptation “Priscilla.” NYFF will also showcase the world premiere of Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie’s genre-defying series “The Curse” and the Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal-led sci-fi story “Foe.” Ahead of the 61st edition, which takes place from Sept.

“A lot of very impressive people have led this festival and what connects them is a love for movies and culture and what that can achieve,” Kristy Matheson told Deadline of her new job as Director of the British Film Institute’s London Film Festival.

Sofia Coppola drew from her own experiences in telling the story of Priscilla Presley.

Dakota and Elle Fanning are enjoying an afternoon of fun and good food!

Sean Durkin’s wrestling drama, The Iron Claw, is the latest in a string of upcoming A24 theatrical releases to get cleared for a SAG-AFTRA interim agreement.

Olivia Munn & John Mulaney are stepping out to celebrate Sofia Coppola!

Sofia Coppola was joined by so many of her celebrity friends to celebrate the launch of her first book, “Sofia Coppola Archive: 1999-2023.”

Jaden Thompson Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Sofia Coppola and her longtime collaborator and costume designer Stacey Battat will receive the second annual Variety Creative Collaborators award at the Middleburg Film Festival in October. The award will honor their achievements together on films such as “The Bling Ring,” “The Beguiled,” “On the Rocks” and the upcoming A24 release “Priscilla.” Middleburg Film Festival executive director Susan Koch said, “We’re delighted that these two immensely talented women — director Sofia Coppola and her longtime costume designer, Stacey Battat — will be receiving Variety’s Creative Collaborators Award and presenting ‘Priscilla’ at this year’s festival.

Her, the sci-fi romantic drama written and directed by her ex-husband Spike Jonze.Coppola discussed Jonze’s 2013 film during an interview with Rolling Stone, where she noted the comparisons with her 2003 film Lost In Translation. Both films are said to have been partly inspired by the couple’s divorce in 2003.Speaking about Her, Coppola said: “I never saw it! From the trailer, it looks the same too.

Film anniversaries are a great way to make someone feel old. Has it really been 20 years since Sofia Coppola’s “Lost in Translation?” Apparently so.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Fresh off the world premiere of her last directorial effort, “Priscilla,” at the Venice Film Festival (where star Cailee Spaeny won best actress), Sofia Coppola joined Rolling Stone to reflect on the 20th anniversary of her beloved “Lost in Translation.” Coppola, whose script for “Lost in Translation” won the Oscar for original screenplay, partly used the dissolution of her marriage to fellow director Spike Jonze as inspiration for the film, which follows a college graduate (Scarlett Johansson) who accompanies her celebrity photographer boyfriend (Giovanni Ribisi) on a trip to Tokyo. While he’s out flirting with a Hollywood actress (Anna Farris), she befriends a faded movie star (Bill Murray) who’s in town to shoot a commercial. Since the film premiered in 2023, viewers have associated Johansson’s character with Coppola and Ribisi’s with Jonze.