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Leo Barraclough International Features Editor U.S. director-producer Laura Poitras, who won an Oscar and an Emmy with Edward Snowden film “Citizenfour,” and recently took the Golden Lion at Venice with opioid epidemic pic “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,” will be the Guest of Honor at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam. The 35th edition of the festival takes place from Nov. 9 to 20. Poitras will be honored at IDFA with the Retrospective and Top 10 programs, in which she curates 10 films. The Top 10 program includes reflections on political imprisonment (“Hunger” by Steve McQueen; “This Is Not a Film” by Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb), incarceration and psychiatry (Frederick Wiseman’s “Titicut Follies”), and genocide (Claude Lanzmann’s “Shoah”). As part of the Top 10, Poitras will be in conversation with several of her selected filmmakers during the festival’s public talks program.

Lauren Hutton is no longer afraid of anything after cheating death in a motorcycle accident. The 78-year-old model/actress almost lost her life back in 2000 during a trip across Nevada with a group which included actors Dennis Hopper and Jeremy Irons when the bike she was travelling on crashed around 25 miles outside of Las Vegas leaving her in a serious condition in hospital with injures including a punctured lung, two broken arms and multiple leg fractures. Lauren made a full recovery and now says she tries to live life to the full, telling You magazine: "(I learned to) listen to no one but yourself .

Causeway” (A24/Apple Original Films) Though Jennifer Lawrence had a juicy supporting role in Adam McKay’s disaster comedy “Don’t Look Up” last year, we have not seen the former Katniss Everdeen in the driver’s seat of a film since the one-two punch of “Mother!” and “Red Sparrow” (released in 2017 and 2018, respectively). She returns in earnest at TIFF with “Causeway,” about a soldier with a traumatic brain injury trying to readjust to normal life. 

Charles S. Cohen’s Cohen Media Group, which owns the Landmark Theatres chain of art-houses, has acquired HanWay Films, the U.K.-based international film sales giant founded by Jeremy Thomas and long run by his partner Peter Watson.

Manori Ravindran International Editor Cohen Media Group has acquired producer Jeremy Thomas’ prestigious international sales company HanWay Films in a major deal. Cohen Media Group owns Landmark Theatres in the U.S. and British distributor-exhibitor Curzon. HanWay Films was founded by “The Last Emperor” producer Thomas and is co-owned with his partner Peter Watson. Under the deal, HanWay Films will continue to be branded as an independent label selling theatrical titles to its distribution partners worldwide. It’s still unclear how much an exclusive tie-in there will be to parent company-owned Curzon.

EXCLUSIVE: In an eye-catching independent deal, Charles S. Cohen’s Cohen Media Group, owner of Landmark Theatres and UK cinema group Curzon, has added to his arthouse fleet with the acquisition of blue-chip international sales company HanWay Films, co-owned by stalwart Brit producer Jeremy Thomas and his partner Peter Watson.

Succession’s Jeremy Strong, and Spider-Man star Andrew is on board – but he says there are plenty of misconceptions about it. The actor, who played Sebastião Rodrigues, a role based on a real-life Jesuit priest, in Martin Scorsese’s 2016 film, said he was celibate for six months and also fasted. He said: ‘It was very cool, man.

Patrick Swayze's Dirty Dancing 'agony', Jennifer Grey wanted him firedLinkElvis went on Frank Sinatra's show and slept with his girlfriendLinkGarner and McQueen stayed friends, primarily because the former seemed to be a rare star with very little ego. The same cannot be said for some of the Hollywood heavyweights who tangled with McQueen. McQueen and Paul Newman starred in the classic disaster movie The Towering Inferno, alongside William Holden, Faye Dunaway and Fred Astaire.

Naman Ramachandran Musician and actor David Bowie has topped a Sky Arts list celebrating the 50 most influential British artists of the last 50 years.Bowie was named most influential by judges as they commended his influence across the industry and ability to transcend a variety of mediums including music, film and fashion.A team of judges across music, film and TV, performing arts, literature and visual art were asked to create the list by TV channel Sky Arts in a celebration of British artists past and present and their influence on global culture. The 15-person judging panel, led by DJ, presenter and author Lauren Laverne, included MOBO Awards founder Kanya King, writer Bonnie Greer, film critic Ali Plumb and theater critic Lyn Gardner.

EXCLUSIVE: After his breakout role as Eddie Munson on Stranger Things Vol. 4, Joseph Quinn has found a new agency as he has signed with CAA. The fourth season has been breaking records all summer long and Quinn has been one of the big winners as one of the newest members of the cast.

The Toronto International Film Festival announced its second big wave of programming for the 47th edition, a 54 feature title lineup across its Discovery, Midnight Madness and Wavelengths sections.

READ MORE: Paul Newman: Risk factors of the 'horrible' disease that killed actorIn an earlier interview, this time at the TCM Classic Film Festival back in 2012, she said that her depression phase is more acute. "I go through more of the depression than the mania part," she said. Novak, whose dad reportedly suffered from depression, is not wrong in suggesting she could have inherited her illness from her family.

Documentary features, and really any artistic works having to do with history, often do not exist just to relay information but to make its audience not forget what it has to say. In that manner, few topics from more modern history are weightier to deal with than the Holocaust.

Sarah Paulson is set to star in Searchlight Pictures’ upcoming horror thriller Dust. Will Joines and Karrie Crouse are directing the pic, which was penned by Crouse.  The film will stream on Disney’s DTC platforms as a Hulu Original in the U.S., with additional release plans to be announced.  Principal photography is set to commence late August.

EXCLUSIVE: Antonia Thomas (The Good Doctor), Will Davis, Adelle Leonce (A Discovery of Witches), William Hope (Texas Chainsaw Massacre), Steven Cree (Terminator: Dark Fate) and Sharon D Clarke (Broadway’s Caroline, or Change) will join The Hunger Games franchise’s Sam Claflin in the Lionsgate supernatural thriller, Bagman.

Julia Roberts is set to become the first-ever Icon Award honoree at the upcoming Academy Museum Gala, honoring her as «an artist whose career has had a significant global cultural impact.»The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures announced on Friday that the legendary actress will be presented with the honor at the second annual gala on Oct. 15.

The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures will be giving Julia Roberts the Academy Museum Gala Icon Award on October 15, 2022. The award is presented to an artist whose career has had a “significant global impact.” The event, which will be presented by Rolex and raises funds for the museum’s initiatives, will be co-chaired by Halle Berry, Jason Blum, Ryan Murphy and Lupita Nyong’o.

Wilson Chapman editorJulia Roberts will receive an Academy Museum Gala Icon Award from the Academy this fall. The Oscar-winning actor will receive her award at the Museum’s second annual gala on Oct.

Julia Roberts, one of the most enduring stars of this era, will receive the Academy Museum Gala Icon Award at the second annual Academy Museum Of Motion Pictures Gala October 15, 2022. She joins the previously announced honorees Miky Lee, Steve McQueen, and Tilda Swinton.

Joe Turkel, a prolific character actor whose indelible performances included roles as the sinister bartender Lloyd in The Shining and the maker of artificial humans in Blade Runner, died Monday, June 27, at St. John’s Hospital. He was 94.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterAward winning actor Scoot McNairy will star opposite Amy Adams in the forthcoming adaptation of the best-selling book “Nightbitch.”Mounted by Searchlight Pictures and Annapurna, the film will tell of a suburban mom thrown into the stay-at-home routine of raising a toddler. As she embraces the feral power deeply rooted in motherhood, she becomes increasingly aware of the bizarre and undeniable signs that she may be turning into a dog.McNairy will star as Adams’ oft-traveling husband in the project.

John Wayne's death is just a few days away on June 11, 2022. The iconic American actor wowed audiences around the world for decades.

John Wayne - otherwise known as The Duke - was a Hollywood icon. He starred in over 70 films and even won an Oscar for Best Actor in 1970 for True Grit.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterApple Original Films has emerged as the highest bidder for Brad Pitt’s upcoming movie about Formula One racing.Joseph Kosinski, who just steered “Top Gun: Maverick” to blockbuster success, is directing the yet-to-be-titled film, which will be produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment and seven-time Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton.Brad Pitt is playing a driver who comes out of retirement to compete alongside a rookie driver and the titans of the sport. Ehren Kruger, one of the three screenwriters on “Top Gun: Maverick,” is responsible for penning the screenplay.Additional producers are Kosinski and Chad Oman of Jerry Bruckheimer Films.

John Wayne - otherwise known as The Duke - was a Hollywood legend. He starred in over 70 films and even won an Oscar for Best Actor in 1970 for True Grit.

Occupied City” about how Amsterdam was occupied by Nazi forces between 1940-1945. That film will be released by A24 and New Regency.

EXCLUSIVE: In a highly competitive situation, Apple has landed Blitz, the sought-after new feature from Oscar-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen featuring the stories of Londoners during World War II’s Blitz, which he will write, direct and produce. The film is is set to begin filming later this year.