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Excusez-moi?Earlier, when the strategic genius is frustrated by rival Britain’s naval might, he whines like a little boy who’s been bullied at recess, “You think you’re so great because you have boats!”Depicting one of the most consequential figures in all of European history as a sourpuss clown who crazily rattles off nonsense is a brow-raising choice by Scott, screenwriter David Scarpa and the always peculiar Phoenix.After all, a person can’t very well forge a half-million-square-mile, multi-continental empire by being a total moron.But that’s what this Napoleon is — a fool. Viewers spend most of the two and a half hours (Scott says his Apple TV+ cut will be a merciless four) laughing mockingly at the guy who commissioned the Napoleonic Code.

Joaquin Phoenix has the support of his real-life partner Rooney Mara at the premiere of his new film Napoleon, though they skipped the red carpet photo op.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Holding the world premiere of Ridley Scott‘s “Napoleon” in Paris was a no-brainer for Sony Pictures’ chairman Tom Rothman, due to the film’s French DNA and its subject, the famous French emperor (played by Joaquin Phoenix). “Where else could you begin the worldwide rollout of ‘Napoleon’ than France?,” said Rothman on the red carpet of the event at the Salle Pleyel concert hall, where Phoenix, Vanessa Kirby and Tahar Rahim were able to attend thanks to the end of the 118-day SAG-AFTRA strike. But the French theatrical bow comes with a downside for Apple, which financed the pricey movie and will now have to wait 17 months to launch the movie on its service due to France’s strict windowing rules.

Paris’ Salle Pleyel hosted the world premiere of Ridley Scott’s Napoleon this evening, rolling out the red carpet for the epic that stars Joaquin Phoenix and Vanessa Kirby. Scott, the two leads and actor Tahar Rahim all were in attendance for the unveiling of the film from Apple Original Films and Sony. Watch Scott introduce the pic below.

EXCLUSIVE: Vanessa Kirby and Lauren Dark have come aboard as exec producers for Swiss Oscar entry Thunder from writer-director Carmen Jacquier. Kirby & Dark’s Aluna Entertainment will back the awards push for the film in the race for Best International Feature. 

It really does feel as if it’s been a minute since Ron Howard has directed a beloved film. His most recent films, “Hillbilly Elegy” and “Thirteen Lives,” both had big awards season aspirations but seemed to fall short.

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Ron Howard is heading into production at the end of November on survival thriller Eden, which was previously named Origin Of Species.

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, Part 2 is being delayed.

Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor Ridley Scott’s “Napoleon,” an epic look at the French emperor and military leader’s rise to power, is one of the final potential awards hopefuls awaiting its first reactions from critics and pundits. As awards season approaches, Variety has learned exclusively which Oscar categories the film will be submitted for. Most notably, Vanessa Kirby will vie for best supporting actress.

LOL, at Ridley Scott and “Napoleon” to borrow the boastful phrase, “I’m built different”—did Andrew Tate come up with that one?—and tweak it to, “I’m not built like other men,” in his new trailer for this war epic. It’s slightly comical to hear modern verbiage in period movies and period movie trailers, but hey, it’s not the first time.

“He came from nothing. He conquered everything.” So goes the tagline for Ridley Scott‘s upcoming historical epic “Napoleon,” in theaters this Thanksgiving.

Rudie Obias editor If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. Although the seventh installment in the “Mission Impossible” film franchise was a moderate box office hit when it was released in theaters back in June, it may find a wider audience now that it’s available on home video. Here’s how to watch “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, Part One” at home: It’s available to stream as a digital purchase in 4K Ultra HD for $19.99 on Prime Video — on Oct.

Ridley Scott has criticised Joker for “the way it celebrated violence”.The director has worked with Joaquin Phoenix – who played the titular DC villain in the 2019 film – in his new movie Napoleon, and was inspired to cast the Oscar-winner after seeing his performance in Joker.However, Scott explained in a new interview that while he was impressed by the performance, he wasn’t the biggest fan of the film as a whole.“I was blown away by his outrageous film Joker,” the filmmaker told Deadline. “I didn’t like the way it celebrated violence but Joaquin was remarkable.”“I thought he’d be an amazing asset to Napoleon, [not only creatively] also in a commercial sense,” he added.

Napoleon director-producer Ridley Scott was on stage at Deadline’s Contenders London event to discuss the journey behind his latest epic and why he chose Joaquin Phoenix to portray the iconic Emperor.

EXCLUSIVE: Actors Vanessa Kirby And Arthur Darvill (Broadchurch) have signed on to narrate the audiobook version of Good Material, the second novel from writer and journalist Dolly Alderton.

Ridley Scott is no stranger to historical epics, having directed the likes of “Gladiator,” “Kingdom Of Heaven,” and “The Last Duel” over the course of his near-fifty years career.

Ridley Scott has revealed he has a “fantastic” cut of his upcoming film Napoleon which runs for nearly four-and-a-half hours.His next film, which stars Joaquin Phoenix as the French leader Napoleon Bonaparte, has an official running time of 158 minutes. The director has said there’s an extended version which he hopes will eventually see the light of day.As reported in the September 2023 issue of Empire magazine (via Variety), the near 270-minute version “features more of Joséphine’s life before she meets Napoleon. He’d love Apple (who funded the film) to eventually screen it.

Joaquin Phoenix and Vanessa Kirby took commitment to their roles to the next level on the set of their upcoming movie "Napoleon." The 48-year-old actor slapped the 35-year-old actress while they were shooting a heated scene after the two made an agreement to "shock each other" on the set of the upcoming historical drama. Phoenix and Kirby, who star as Napoleon Bonaparte and his wife Josephine de Beauharnais, told Empire magazine they talked ahead of filming and decided to give each other full creative freedom when improvising physical interactions.

Jack Quaid has debunked a major rumor that has been circulating.

Joaquin Phoenix and Vanessa Kirby really let each other have it while filming an intense fight scene in their latest film, “Napoleon”.

Joaquin Phoenix slapped his co-star Vanessa Kirby on the set of their upcoming movie "Napoleon" after the two made an agreement to "shock each other" during filming. The 48-year-old Academy Award winner, who plays Napoleon Bonaparte and the 35-year-old "Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One" actress, who portrays his wife Josephine de Beauharnais, opened up to Empire magazine about how they built trust while shooting the Ridley Scott-directed historical drama.

charting a swift and brutal rise to power. The narrative focuses on Napoleon Bonaparte’s hot-and-cold relationship with his first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais (Kirby), and the fallout from the couple’s tortuous divorce.

Napoleon co-star Vanessa Kirby on set to “surprise” her, as part of a pact they’d made.The actor, who portrays the titular character in Ridley Scott’s upcoming biopic about the French military commander, hits his fictional wife Joséphine de Beauharnais (Kirby) in a heated divorce scene.Phoenix and Kirby explained to Empire that they’d agreed to shock each other whilst filming to ensure that the movie didn’t feel like a boring, overly planned biopic.“We were using the real words from their divorce in the church,” Kirby said. “When that happens, you can faithfully go through an archival re-enactment of it and read out the lines and then go home.

EXCLUSIVE: There is no deal in sight for the writers and actors with the studios and streamers, but one of Hollywood’s consummate dealmakers was on the picket line today in New York City

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle Editor SAG-AFTRA held an informational meeting for about 500 people over Zoom on Monday afternoon. Among those who signed on were actors Lupita Nyong’o, Vanessa Kirby, Melissa McCarthy, Vanessa Hudgens, Lucy Liu,  Laverne Cox, Michael Stuhlbarg, Paul Walter Hauser, Jon Huertas and Josh Pence, according to a source. CAA’s Bryan Lourd, Faith France and Ryan Abboushi also attended, as did UTA’s Kristen Saig and Kris Heller of APA Agency. Publicists included Mara Buxbaum, Jill Fritzo, Luke Windsor, Brianna Smith and Cheryl Maisel. The meeting was led by SAG-AFTRA national executive director and chief negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland. The guild shared a one-sheet of talking points for participants. Among the bulleted items on revenue sharing, health care and retirement, online casting platforms and artificial intelligence, the memo states, “Without a transformative change in SAG-AFTRA’s current contract with the AMPTP, the acting profession will no longer be an option for future generations of performers, and actors already working in the industry will need to pursue other careers in order to survive.”

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers from “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One,” now playing in theaters. The “Mission: Impossible” movies have no shortage of death-defying stunts, but the Tom Cruise-starring action franchise is known for another iconic magic trick: its mask reveals. “Dead Reckoning Part One” features two mask reveals — in the first, Cruise’s Ethan Hunt uses a mask to infiltrate a meeting between CIA director Eugene Kittridge (Henry Czerny) and officials from various intelligence agencies about a rogue artificial intelligence system, known as the Entity. The other is a face swap between Hayley Atwell’s Grace, a pickpocket who becomes embroiled in IMF’s hunt for the Entity, and Vanessa Kirby’s black-market arms dealer Alanna Mitsopolis, aka the White Widow.

Brent Lang Executive Editor “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” netted $8.3 million at the box office on Thursday, pushing the action sequel’s North American gross to $23.8 million after two days of release. The film, which finds Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt hurtling off cliffs, fighting knife-wielding bad guys on trains and evading pursuers while driving a Fiat through the streets of Rome, was incredibly expensive to produce. Shot during the pandemic (with all the attendant shutdowns, delays and health protocols that were a staple of the COVID era), the budget on the film ballooned to $290 million. So “Mission: Impossible” will need to generate a lot of repeat business if it’s going to turn a profit, and it needs to boom at the global box office.

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One stars Simon Pegg and Rebecca Ferguson have revealed the secret Morse Code meaning behind the franchise’s theme.Speaking to NME, the pair shared that they were recently made aware of the secret while appearing the Today FM show Dermot & Dave, hosted by Dermot Whelan and Dave Moore.“This is an amazing fact,” began Pegg. “Dave from Dermot & Dave, an Irish Radio show told us that when Lalo Schifrin wrote the original music, the theme, [he put in] two dashes, two dots [which translates to] ‘MI’,” the actor explained while sounding out the tune.“Stop it, it’s true!” interjected Ferguson, who was equally as excited to share the little-known fact.Lalo Schifrin, an Argentine composer, recorded the M:I theme in 1967.

Missions: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One stars Pom Klementieff and Vanessa Kirby were present when Tom Cruise performed one of the most dangerous stunts in cinema history – and they were understandably stunned.Speaking to NME, the pair explained how they watched Cruise drive a motorbike off the top of a cliff six times while shooting the franchise’s latest instalment. You can watch their full interview above.“It was mind-blowing,” said Klementieff, who stars in the film as French assassin Paris.Kirby, who reprises her role Alana Mitsopolis, added: “Everyone else was so nervous and fearful, and he wasn’t.

The moment it was announced that Ridley Scott was teaming up with actor Joaquin Phoenix for a historical epic about the rise and fall of Napoleon, people have been anointing the film as an instant Oscar contender. Now, we are mere months away from the film’s fall release, and we finally get our first real look at the action-packed drama, “Napoleon,” to see whether or not the film can live up to its hype.