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Alejandro G. Iñárritu may be currently shooting his latest starry big screen spectacle, an as-yet-untitled film for Warner Bros. led by Tom Cruise, but the Oscar-winning director is also delving back into his filmmaking past.

In a new book, Iñárritu will explore the production of his debut feature “Amores Perros,” the critically acclaimed crime thriller that first bowed in 2000 in Cannes, would be nominated for an Academy Award and — perhaps most importantly — heralded the arrival of a new master of modern cinema.

Published by Mack on the 25th anniversary of “Amores Perros'” release, the book — also entitled “Amores Perros” — features unseen on-set photography, storyboards and stills from the making-of by storyboard artist Fernando Llanos, Iñárritu’s handwritten notes and scene breakdowns. Meanwhile, alongside a new text by Iñárritu himself, it will include contributions by director Walter Salles (whose “I’m Still Here” recently won the Oscar for international film), award-winning novelists Jorge Volpi and Wendy Guerra,...

A gripping crime thriller is making its way to Netflix, bringing back the brutal world of covert operations, drug cartels, and moral ambiguity.

Sicario: Day of the Soldado is set to arrive for streaming on Netflixon April 1, offering subscribers a chance to experience the intense sequel to the 2015 crime thriller Sicario. The film continues to explore the dark and complex world of drug cartels along the U.S.-Mexico border, focusing on the escalating tactics employed in the war on drugs. Released in 2018, Sicario: Day of the Soldado shifts its narrative to follow federal agent Matt Graver, played by Avengers: Endgame's Josh Brolin, and the enigmatic operative Alejandro Gillick, played by Star Wars: The Last Jedi's Benicio del Toro, as they aim to incite a war among rival Mexican drug cartels.

Sicario: Day of the Soldado the film delves deeper into the moral ambiguities and brutal realities of their mission.

Tom Cruise’s latest movie has reportedly been thrown into disarray after a leading male cast member was said to have suffered a “horror injury” on set and ended up in hospital with injuries to his pelvis and leg.

The movie has been forced to halt filming at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, England, but no further details have been revealed at this time. The film, which is currently shooting under the working title of Judy, stars Cruise as the most powerful man in the world, a megalomanic who tries to save humanity. The movie also stars John Goodman, Jesse Plemons, and Riz Ahmed. According to The Sun, a source claimed:

“The actor is renowned for loving spectacular stunts which obviously involve some element of danger and the risk of injury - though they always strive to keep any risk to an absolute minimum. This incident won’t just be alarming...

Naomi Watts revealed on “Live With Kelly and Mark” (via Entertainment Weekly) that she nearly quit acting before she met the late David Lynch, who cast her as the lead in 2001’s “Mulholland Drive.” The film’s critical acclaim and global success turned Watts into a star after “10 years” of “flunking auditions.” Lynch died on Jan. 15 at 78 years old.

“I wouldn’t have stayed [in Hollywood] had I not met David Lynch,” Watts said. “The chips were down, it was 10 years into flunking auditions [and] nothing was happening…I was literally alienating people. I was making them uncomfortable because I was so like, ‘I need a job! I need a job!'”

Things got so bad for Watts “that my agent at the time said, ‘You’re too intense. You’re making people uncomfortable,'” the Oscar nominee remembered. “Yeah, I need a job. I’m desperate, I need to work. I planned on going home multiple times.

Mulholland Drive star Naomi Watts joins the legions of those paying tribute to the great David Lynch, whose death has been a devastating blow to lovers of all things strange and unusual. Yesterday evening, Watts took to Instagram to share both her grief and gratitude for the inimitable director, thanking Lynch for putting her "on the map" when he cast Watts in Mulholland Drive and subsequently kickstarted her career over two decades ago.

Those who are easily brought to tears (I proudly count myself among this group) should brace themselves when reading Watts' farewell to her longtime friend and mentor, as it perfectly evokes the sorrow we've all been feeling. "My heart is broken," Watts began. "My Buddy Dave ... The world will not be the same without him." The Oscar and Emmy-nominated actress went on to relay just how much Lynch had impacted her life, describing how she'd spent over...

Outspoken actor and director Sean Penn made a call for people to ditch political correctness and truly embrace diversity in thought and action as he received a career honor at the Marrakech Film Festival on Saturday evening.

Italian actor Valeria Golino, who has been close to Penn ever since appearing in his 1991 directorial feature debut The Indian Runner, presented the Oscar winner with the award.

The ceremony was attended by a raft of cinema heavyweights including this year’s festival jury president Luca Guadagnino, Alfonso Cuarón, Walter Salles, Monica Bellucci, Tim Burton, Justin Kurzel, Jeff Nichols, and Cannes Film Festival President Iris Knobloch among others.

“For those of you with any familiarity with me, and what has been my life, you will understand that I don’t often miss the opportunity to say an opinion, and I have one tonight in celebration of this incredible group of people that this festival brings together,...

Rodrigo Prieto was on double duty at Camerimage.

This year the veteran Camerimage Golden Frog winner sat on the international competition jury alongside Cate Blanchett. Away from official jury duties, however, Prieto was around town screening and promoting Pedro Páramo, the thrilling and elusive film he has directed for Netflix.

Pedro Páramo is Prieto’s directorial feature debut. Born and raised in Mexico, Prieto is best known as the DoP who lensed a series of now-celebrated features that shaped the early 2000’s renaissance of Mexican cinema like Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Babel, 21 Grams, and Amores Perros. Prieto is now widely considered one of contemporary Hollywood’s most trusted and in-demand cinematographers. In fact, much of the prep on Pedro Páramo took place while Prieto was photographing two of last year’s biggest movies, Greta Gerwig’s existential hit Barbie and Martin Scorsese’s Osage epic Killers Of The Flower Moon.

Showtime's Escape at Dannemora utilizes an exceptional cast to tell its true-crime story. The 2018 limited series is based on the 2015 Clinton Correctional Facility escape, which saw two men, Richard Matt and David Sweat, successfully break out thanks to the help of their shared prison-employee girlfriend, Joyce "Tilly" Mitchell. Showtime needed actors like Benicio del Toro, Patricia Arquette, Paul Dano, Bonnie Hunt, and more to bring these and other real-world characters to life.

Escape at Dannemora originally premiered on Showtime in 2018, but it has since come to Netflix, claiming a spot on the Top 10 In October 2024. The series, which was created by Brett Johnson and Michael Tolkin, was directed by actor Ben Stiller and explores the true events leading up to, during, and after the infamous 2015 prison break. Of course, any "based on reality" TV series requires some creative liberties, but with such an exceptional cast in Escape at Dannemora, it's...

One of the most exciting filmmaking talents to come out of Mexico in the 21st century has been Alejandro Gonzlez Irritu. He had an incredible surge in his career during the 2010s directing two of the decades best films, two films that showed his ability to craft both brazenly original and startlingly brutal stories: 2014s Birdman and 2015s The Revenant (both of which took home multiple Academy Awards). While these two films may have garnered him more mainstream attention, before them, he had already had a storied career, with highly acclaimed outings like 21 Grams and Babel.

For a long time Naomi Watts seemed destined to be known as Nicole Kidman‘s less successful close friend. Born in the United Kingdom but raised in Australia, Watts struggled for many years to find her footing as an actress. While her friend rose to fame, Watts just couldn’t seem to catch a break.

She did work some what steadily, but it wasn’t until she signed on for the lead in a television pilot by David Lynch that Watts found fame and acclaim. “Mulholland Drive” never made it as a television series but the pilot was released as a feature film, becoming an either love it or hate it classic. The film was named Best Picture by both the New York and National Society of Film Critics Awards, and Watts won the Best Actress Award from the National Society. Shockingly Watts was cast on the basis of a photo that the director saw.

Smile was an interesting film for Robert Salerno, a legendary producer whose work encompasses some of the most distinct and bold cinema of this century so far. Unlike the acclaimed directors behind those films, Parker Finn's Smile was his feature directorial debut. And yet it all worked out winningly, with Smile becoming one of the biggest horror hits of the year, both with critics and audiences.

Now, a sequel (a Salerno first) simply titled Smile 2 is coming out in less than a month. When we spoke with Salerno, we asked when he, Finn, and the whole team first knew that a Smile sequel was definitely in the cards. "Pretty early on," said Salerno, adding:

"As soon as the first one came out, it felt like it was just this lightning in a bottle. So that really was very exciting to all of us to see. I mean, we...

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Robert Salerno has spent his life producing some of the best films of the 21st century, but now steps into the director's chair with Here After, a film as supernatural as it is emotional. He discusses the Italian production (and the sequel to Smile) in this MovieWeb interview. Here After is in theaters Sep. 13, 2024 from Mubi and Paramount.

The main character of Here After, Claire, is overjoyed when her daughter, Robin, is miraculously revived after a fatal accident. However, her relief soon turns to dread as she starts to suspect that something dark has followed Robin back from the brink of death.

Travis Kelce wasn’t the only person Taylor Swift thanked while accepting her 2024 MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year on Wednesday. Swift – who won seven awards during the ceremony, bringing her lifetime total to 30, tying Beyonce for the most VMAs ever – made sure to show gratitude to several collaborators who helped her make the video for “Fortnight,” including stars Josh Charles and Ethan Hawke, featured artist Post Malone, and Oscar-nominated cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto.

“Directing this video and putting it together and writing it was the most wonderful experience. And that is because of all the people that I got to make it with, and that includes Ethan Hawke and Josh Charles who were amazing cameos,” she said. “That includes my amazing cinematographer/Dp Rodrigo Prieto, who goes out of his way to work with female directors. He’s a genius, and I can’t believe I got to work with him.

“Pedro Páramo” is not the kind of movie you’d expect to be the directorial debut of the cinematographer who shot “Barbie” — unless you know that that cinematographer, Rodrigo Prieto, also shot “Killers of the Flower Moon,” “Silence,” “Babel,” “21 Grams” and many other films that studiously avoid hot pink in any and all forms.

Rodrigo has been one of the most prolific and adventurous cinematographers of recent years, and if he’s drawing inspiration from any of the directors he worked for, it’s probably Iñárritu. “Pedro Páramo,” which had its world premiere on Saturday at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival, carries echoes of “Bardo” in the fact that it is simultaneously personal and mystical.

Drawing on family memories of the Mexican Revolution that embroiled his grandparents, summoning up universal thoughts of the guilt that can be passed down through generations, the adaptation of Juan Rulfo’s 1955 novel of...

Naomi Watts has appeared opposite some of the greatest stars in cinema — Sean Penn, Viggo Mortensen, Leonardo DiCaprio, even King Kong. But none of those leading men prepared her for Bing, the 145-pound Great Dane she co-stars with in “The Friend,” a drama about heartbreak, art and a very big dog that screens at this year’s Toronto Film Festival.

And getting comfortable with Bing was a six-week process that involved more than handing out a few treats. Bill Berloni, the veteran animal trainer whose job it was to prepare Bing for his close-up, insisted on having Watts meet two times a day for 20 minutes each with the dog, so she could learn how to control the lumbering giant on the streets of New York City, where “The Friend” was shot.

“Initially, I thought, is this necessary?” Watts admits. “I’m an animal lover. I’m not put off by a little fur and slobber.

The International Cinematographers Guild (Icg) will recognize two acclaimed professionals at award ceremonies later this year. Mexican cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto will receive the Distinguished Filmmaker Award. M. David Mullen will receive the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Mentor Award.

Prieto has worked on blockbuster films and critically-acclaimed independents. His credits range from Martin Scorsese’s upcoming “Killers of the Flower Moon” to Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie.” Prieto first found success with director Alejandro González Iñárritu in 2000s films like “Babel,” “21 Grams,” and “Amores Perros.” He has shown versatility across genres with work on movies such as “The Wolf of Wall Street,” “Argo,” and “8 Mile.”

Prieto is set to make his directorial debut with an adaptation of Juan Rulfo’s novel “Pedro Paramo.” He also received a 2024 MTV Video Music Award nomination for his cinematography on a Taylor Swift music video. The Icg says Prieto represents excellence in his field.

The International Cinematographers Guild will hand its Distinguished Filmmaker Award to Mexican cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto at this year’s Emerging Cinematographer Awards.

Born and raised in Mexico, Prieto was at the center of the early 2000’s renaissance of Mexican cinema, working on now-celebrated features like Babel, 21 Grams, and Amores Perros with Alejandro González Iñárritu.

Prieto’s next project–his feature film directorial debut–is an adaptation of the novel Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo, one of the most revered Mexican novels of the 20th century.

Also a frequent collaborator of screen legend Martin Scorsese, Prieto has been nominated for four Academy Awards for his work on Killers of the Flower Moon, The Irishman, Silence, and Brokeback Mountain. Other notable features photographed by Prieto include Barbie, The Wolf of Wall Street, Argo, and 8 Mile. Prieto was nominated for a 2024 MTV Video Music Award for his work on Fortnight by Taylor Swift,...

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Cinephiles love nothing more than a great movie, with each genre offering a distinct sense of excitement, whether it's a spine-chilling horror or a mind-blowing thriller. Furthermore, seeing them on the big screen provides an entirely different experience compared to viewing them on a mobile device or laptop. However, if you want to forgo the theater this month, you can watch new films on the abundance of streaming services that release a slew of new movies each month. To help you keep track, we've compiled a directory of every movie available on major streaming services in September 2024, including Netflix, Prime Video, Hulu, Disney+, and more.

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Prime Video has announced the lineup of movies and TV shows that will be available on the service in September. The Prime Video September 2024 lineup includes new Amazon original movies, TV shows, and specials. Below, you can also view the titles available on Amazon Freevee.

Members can look forward to The Money Game, The Grand Tour: One for the Road, and Evolution of the Black Quarterback, as well as Thursday Night Football, WNBA games, and more.

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The Prime Video September 2024 programming includes the following Originals.

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Amidst one of the most unpredictable and intense years of college athletics to date, The Money Game provides an exclusive, all-access pass inside Lsu Athletics. The docuseries examines a historic turning point in the NCAA upon policy changes on Nil rights—guaranteed to shape the trajectory of college sports forever...

Ryan Murphy has become the go-to person for actors who want to win Emmy Awards. In fact, 13 different performers have won Emmys for appearing in a Murphy production since 2010, for roles that are both humorous and monstrous. Starting with “Glee,” more than 40 actors have been recognized with a nomination by the TV academy, mostly in the limited series/movie categories. It’s no surprise Murphy’s name is typically heard at least once or twice per Emmy broadcast, whether in speeches thanking him or for nominations of his own for directing, producing and writing.

Scroll through our photo gallery above (or click here for direct access) to see which actors have won Emmys for Ryan Murphy shows, with Niecy Nash-Betts (“Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story”) being the most recent addition. At the current 2024 Emmys, four performers are recognized for their work on FX’s “Feud: Capote vs. The Swans”: Tom Hollander,...

Four time Academy Award winner Alejandro González Iñárritu basically works with the crème de la crème of Hollywood. He scored Leonardo DiCaprio for “The Revenant” (which won DiCaprio his first Oscar award for Best Actor), Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett for “Babel,” and incredible ensemble troupes for “21 Grams” and “Birdman” to name just a few.

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Earlier this year, it was announced that Tom Cruise will be starring in the new film from director Alejandro Iñárritu for Warner Bros. and Legendary Entertainment, with this being Iñárritu’s first English language movie since The Revenant, which hit theatres back in 2015. Now Deadline has revealed the names of six of Cruise’s co-stars, breaking the news that he has been joined in the cast by John Goodman (The Big Lebowski), Jesse Plemons (Civil War), Sophie Wilde (Talk to Me), Sandra Hüller (Anatomy of a Fall), and Michael Stuhlbarg (Call Me by Your Name), with Riz Ahmed (Sound of Metal) in final negotiations to join in as well. Details on the characters they’ll be playing are being kept under wraps.

This will be Cruise’s first time working with all of these actors except for Plemons. Cruise and Plemons were in the 2017 film American Made together.

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Robert Salerno is known for producing many great films, including “21 Grams” (2003), “I’m Thinking of Ending Things” (2020), and “A Single Man” (2009). But the producer who has already helmed one short makes the big leap to feature-length filmmaking with the new supernatural horror/thriller “Here After.”

Starring Connie Britton (“The White Lotus”), Freya Hannan-Mills, and Giovanni Cirfiera, the plot focuses on a mother’s (Britton) teen daughter (Hannan-Mills) who starts to display increasingly disturbing behavior after a near-death experience.

Continue reading ‘Here After’ Trailer: Connie Britton Stars In A New Supernatural Thriller at The Playlist.

Sean Penn rarely grants interviews — he and the press haven’t always gotten along, to say the least — but last week, at his home in Malibu, the venerated actor and filmmaker sat down with The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast for an in-depth conversation about his life, career and most recent project, Daddio, an indie, released last Friday, of which he is particularly proud.

Seated in a small, light-filled room that he recently re-designed himself, the walls of which are covered with photos of his late parents, his two children and himself alongside many of world figures he has encountered in his travels as an activist, Penn, sporting a shock of white hair, puffed on cigarettes, spoke softly and was far warmer than his reputation would suggest he’d be. At 63, thrice divorced and currently single, he seems to have found a measure of peace — at least when one...

In 2014, Naomi Watts voiced an animated version of herself in the “BoJack Horseman” episode “One Trick Pony.” The Watts in Hollywoo — the “BoJack” stand-in for the entertainment industry’s epicenter, inhabited mostly by anthropomorphic animals — is starring opposite BoJack in a biopic about his frenemy, Mr. Peanutbutter. She appears on set preparing to play Diane, a burgeoning writer. The meta joke is the actress accepted the part to get a break from emotionally draining, praiseworthy performances.

“I just keep getting pigeonholed as these complex characters in highly acclaimed movies,” the animated Watts bemoans to a character who is a parody of host Ryan Seacrest (A Ryan Seacrest Type). “For once, I would just love to phone it in and play a two-dimensional girl in a rom-com with no inner life of her own. That’s kind of the reason I got into this business.”

Ten years later, that tongue-in-cheek guest appearance now feels almost prophetic.

Exclusive: Danny Huston (The Dead Don’t Hurt) has signed on to star alongside Liam Neeson, Pamela Anderson, Paul Walter Hauser and Kevin Durand in the untitled Naked Gun reboot from Paramount Pictures.

Details as to the film’s plot, as well as Huston’s role in it, are under wraps. But Neeson will play Detective Frank Drebin, as previously announced, with Hauser as his partner Ed. It’s not yet clear who Anderson will be playing, though it’s understood that Durand will be taking on one of the film’s villain roles.

Akiva Schaffer is directing and exec producing the comedy, slated for release on July 18, 2025. Dan Gregor and Doug Mand wrote the draft script along with Schaffer. Seth MacFarlane and Erica Huggins are producing via Fuzzy Door, with Daniel M. Stillman also serving as EP.

Known for their absurd scenarios and slapstick humor, past Naked Gun films centered on the misadventures of Drebin,...

In a rather surprising turn of events, after Cannes skipped on premiering Emmanuelle––Audrey Diwan’s follow-up to her Golden Lion-winning Happening––the film won’t be at Venice, Telluride, or TIFF either as the 72nd San Sebastian Festival announced it will world premiere as their opening night film on September 20. Starring Noémie Merlant, Naomi Watts, Jamie Campbell Bower, and Will Sharpe, see the full announcement below along with a new still.

The French production Emmanuelle directed by Audrey Diwan will open the 72nd San Sebastian Festival in competition. The feature film will be screened as a world premiere on 20 September and will be attended by its director and leading cast.

Diwan, winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival with Happening / L’événement in 2021, co-wrote the screenplay with fellow filmmaker Rebecca Zlotowski. The film follows the steps of a woman in search of a lost pleasure, whose...

Audrey Diwan’s Emmanuelle has been announced as the opening film of the 72nd San Sebastian Festival, in competition.

The feature film will world premiere on September 20 in a gala screening attended by the director and the cast, led by French actress Noémie Merlant in the titular role.

Further cast members include Naomi Watts, Will Sharpe (The White Lotus), Jamie Campbell Bower (Stranger Things), Chacha Huang and Anthony Wong.

Diwan, who won the Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion with Happening in 2021, co-wrote the screenplay with filmmaker Rebecca Zlotowski.

The English-language feature is inspired by the character and world created by writer Emmanuelle Arsan, whose 1967 erotic novel was adapted into the cult 1970s movie starring Sylvia Kristel.

Plot details have been largely under wraps, but the festival revealed on Tuesday that the film “follows the steps of...

Michael Douglas is in terrific form as Benjamin Franklin in Apple TV’s new historical limited series “Franklin” but he isn’t the only actor to emerge with awards whispers whizzing through the air. Veteran actor Eddie Marsan features in a key supporting role as John Adams and delivers one of the finest performances of his career while also shining a new light onto a man that many actors have depicted before.

The limited series follows Franklin’s eight years in France as he tried to persuade King Louis XVI (Tom Pezier) to join the colonies’ cause and aid them in the American Revolutionary War. The scenes between Douglas and Marsan are nothing short of spectacular and Marsan nails his performance as Adams, as noted by critics.

Clint Worthington (Roger Ebert) noted: “Marsan’s energy as Adams is decidedly different from Paul Giamatti’s in Ellis’ original 2008 miniseries—“Franklin” feels...

Oh, Captain, my Captain! Hayley Atwell is joining the cast of Netflix’s Heartstopper, and she’s bringing Jonathan Bailey and Eddie Marsan along for the ride.

Heartstopper is about love, friendship, loyalty, and mental illness. It encompasses all the small stories of Nick and Charlie’s lives that make something more significant. Charlie (Joe Locke) and Nick (Kit Connor) attend the same school but only meet the day they’re made to sit together. Sparks (or leaves) begin to fly, and soon, the duo falls in love and embarks on a relationship worth aspiring to. Netflix’s Heartstopper also expands the roles of Nick and Charlie’s friends, who each have challenges to overcome throughout the series.

When Hayley Atwell joins Heartstopper Season 3, she’ll play Diane, Nick’s aunt, who takes him on a summer holiday to Menorca and imparts some tough advice about his relationship with Charlie.

Tom Cruise made headlines earlier this year with the announcement that he was returning to Warner Bros. after a decade to collaborate on a new project. A while back ago, fans were given the exciting update that Oscar-winning Mexican filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu is helming the film. This makes the new project even more exciting for Tom Cruise as the director’s achievements speak volumes about his films.

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Adding to the excitement, it was reported that the project is being treated as a top secret at David Zaslav’s Warner Bros. Discovery. No plot details are released at this time, except the fact that Iñárritu teamed up with his Oscar-winning Birdman writers for the script of the film.

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Having helmed acclaimed character-driven films like Amores Perros, 21 Grams, Babel, and Biutiful, Alejandro G. Iñárritu emerged as a formidable force on the world stage of filmmaking. But he was only getting warmed up as his next two projects, shot and released back-to-back, pushed the cinematic envelope in exciting new directions regarding technique. With 2014's Birdman, which earned him Oscars for producing, directing, and writing, Iñárritu pulled off the undoubtedly painstaking task of crafting a narrative that seemingly played out in one continuous shot, putting frequent collaborator Emmanuel Lubezki's photographic mastery to meticulous and jaw-dropping use.

2023 was a miraculous year for German actress Sandra Huller. Not only did she receive critical acclaim for her riveting portrayal of a woman on trial for murdering her husband in France’s “Anatomy of a Fall,” she was also praised for her role as the wife of a Nazi commander in the United Kingdom’s German-language “The Zone of Interest.” Indeed, there was much interest in Huller and her two films. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for “Anatomy.” And both “Anatomy” and “Zone” landed slots for Best Picture, as well as Best Director bids for Justine Triet and Jonathan Glazer, respectively.

As I was speaking to academy members ahead of last Sunday’s ceremony, I detected a surprisingly robust amount of support for Huller. And many of those who had voted for her mentioned her work in “The Zone of Interest.” It really did seem...

Naomi Watts has a stellar career to her name with her astounding versatility. The British actor has appeared in several movies across genres including Mulholland Drive, 21 Grams, and of course, King Kong. But beyond the showbiz, the actor has carried a childhood trauma that affected her life and shaped her career.

Naomi Watts Plays Barbara “Babe” Paley. Credit: FX

Watts rose above the ashes of deep desolation and she has forged her life and career from the scratches. The ex-wife of X-Men Origins: Wolverine’s Sabretooth star Liev Schreiber revealed that her trauma began at the age of just four when her mother Myfanwy ‘Miv’ Edwards Roberts split from her dad, Peter Watts.

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Naomi Watts endured a devastating past witnessing...

“Feud: Capote vs. The Swans” pits the incendiary author Truman Capote against a “gaggle” of New York socialites, but there is one “swan” that is truly at the heart of the roost, namely, Babe Paley, played by Naomi Watts. Since Babe is the closest of all the women to the writer, his betrayal of the group in 1975 in his scathing “Esquire” excerpt from his unfinished novel “Answered Prayers” hits her the hardest, and the other swans rally to her defense to ice the “In Cold Blood” scribe out of the upper echelons of society.

What makes the relationship between Babe and Truman so compelling—in addition to the performances of Watts and Tom Hollander—is how much we see of their friendship blossoming. The entire opening sequence of the season shows Capote comforting and strategizing with Babe over how to handle the latest and most disgraceful of her husband Bill’s (Treat Williams) infidelities.

It’s been two decades since an epic fantasy film made history at the Oscars, winning every category in which it was nominated, and three women set new records. There weren’t many surprises at the 76th Academy Awards, but there were some memorable moments. Billy Crystal hosted for his eighth time on February 29, 2004. Read on for Gold Derby’s Oscars flashback 20 years ago to 2004.

It was finally Peter Jackson‘s time as the third installment of his “Lord of the Rings” trilogy earned him a trio of awards. Despite numerous nominations, the first two films failed to make big showings; however, “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” not only claimed Best Picture, but won all 11 categories in which it was nominated. It tied with “Ben-Hur” (1960) and “Titanic” (1998) for most wins in one ceremony, and holds the record for biggest sweep. It was the 10th film...

Tom Cruise's upcoming movie with Alejandro G. Iñárritu could land him his first Oscar nomination in over 20 years. Cruise's new Warner Bros. deal enhances his chances of finally winning an Academy Award. Shift towards working with auteur directors like Iñárritu could lead to more Oscar nominations and potentially a win for Cruise.

Tom Cruise already has a new project under his recent Warner Bros. partnership, and this could be the project that finally breaks a years-long career streak and gives him a huge career first. Tom Cruise’s acting career began in the 1980s, with his big break being the 1983 coming-of-age comedy Risky Business. Although Cruise has starred in movies from different genres since then, such as horror with Interview with the Vampire, psychological drama with Eyes Wide Shut, and period drama with The Last Samurai, Cruise is best known for his action roles.

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Fresh on the heels of Cruise forging a “strategic partnership” with Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group, Warner Bros. and Legendary are in negotiations to acquire a new film from Alejandro González Iñárritu that will star Cruise, sources told IndieWire.

The untitled project marks “The Revenant” auteur’s latest collaboration with his “Birdman” co-writers Alexander Dinelaris and Nicolas Giacobone, with Sabina Berman also sharing a screenwriting credit. Cruise is set to produce along with Legendary.

Plot details are being kept under wraps.

Warner Bros. and Legendary did not immediately respond to IndieWire’s requests for comment.

The film would be Iñárritu’s first English-language feature since 2015’s “The Revenant,” which landed Leonardo DiCaprio a Best Actor Academy Award. Iñárritu’s 2014 English-language “Birdman,” starring Michael Keaton, won Best Picture. He released the Spanish-language passion project “Bardo” on Netflix in 2022.

Cruise, meanwhile, will next be seen in the eighth “Mission: Impossible” film, and...

Here’s some exciting news: Deadline reports that Tom Cruise is set to star in a new movie from Alejandro Iñárritu for Warner Bros. and Legendary Entertainment. This would be Iñárritu’s first English language movie since The Revenant, which hit theaters nearly a decade ago.

Plot details are being kept under wraps, but it’s said that Iñárritu co-wrote the script last year with Sabina Berman as well as his Birdman co-writers Alexander Dinelaris and Nicolás Giacobone. It was reported yesterday that Tom Cruise was looking to return to more serious, dramatic fare with an award-winning director, and Alejandro Iñárritu certainly fits the bill. The movie will also be the first project that will fall under Cruise’s strategic partnership with Warner Bros.

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Actress Naomi Watts poses for "Tatler" magazine, wearing Giambattista Valli, Valentino, Stéphane Rolland and a whole lot more, photographed by Daniel Sachon:

Watts made her film debut in the Australian drama "For Love Alone" (1986), then appeared in the Australian TV series "Hey Dad..!" (1990), "Brides of Christ" (1991), "Home and Away" (1991), followed by the film "Flirting" (1991).

In the US, Watts obtained parts in the films "Tank Girl" (1995), "Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering" (1996), "Dangerous Beauty" (1998) and the TV series "Sleepwalkers" (1997–1998).

Watts played an aspiring actress in director David Lynch's "Mulholland Drive" (2001) and starred in the horror remake of "The Ring" (2002).

She subsequently received an Oscar nomination as a grief-stricken mother in Alejandro González Iñárritu's "21 Grams" (2003). Her next films include "I Heart Huckabees" (2004), "King Kong" (2005), "Eastern Promises" (2007) and "The International" (2009).

For her role as 'Maria Bennett' in the disaster film "The Impossible" (2012), Watts received another Academy Award nomination for 'Best Actress'.

Feud: Capote Vs. The Swans is the second installment of Ryan Murphy's anthology series exploring Hollywood rivalries. The season is based on Truman Capote's relationships with a group of high-society women known as his "swans." The cast of the series features six accomplished actresses in leading roles, including Naomi Watts, Diane Lane, and Demi Moore.

Feud: Capote Vs. The Swans is the second installment in the Ryan Murphy FX anthology series that examines well-documented Hollywood rivalries. After a successful first season based on the famous feud between Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, season 2 is based on Lawrence Leamer’s best-selling book, Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era. The season will look at what really happened between Truman Capote and his “swans,” a group of six high-society women he exposed in his writings.

Through his successful career as a television writer,...

Actress Naomi Watts poses for the February 2024 issue of “Marie Claire” (Australia) magazine:

Watts made her film debut in the Australian drama "For Love Alone" (1986), then appeared in the Australian TV series "Hey Dad..!" (1990), "Brides of Christ" (1991), "Home and Away" (1991), followed by the film "Flirting" (1991).

In the US, Watts obtained parts in the films "Tank Girl" (1995), "Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering" (1996), "Dangerous Beauty" (1998) and the TV series "Sleepwalkers" (1997–1998).

Watts played an aspiring actress in director David Lynch's "Mulholland Drive" (2001) and starred in the horror remake of "The Ring" (2002).

She subsequently received an Oscar nomination as a grief-stricken mother in Alejandro González Iñárritu's "21 Grams" (2003). Her next films include "I Heart Huckabees" (2004), "King Kong" (2005), "Eastern Promises" (2007) and "The International" (2009).

For her role as 'Maria Bennett' in the disaster film "The Impossible" (2012), Watts received another Academy Award nomination for 'Best Actress'. She appeared in "Birdman" (2014), "St. Vincent...

Quinn Donoghue, whose long career as a Hollywood publicist included beating the drum for Superman, Pink Panther and Three Musketeers films, Steven Soderbergh’s The Limey and Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s 21 Grams, has died. He was 86.

Donoghue died Dec. 28 in Los Angeles, his son Alex Donoghue announced.

Donoghue also served as a unit publicist on Norman Jewison’s Fiddler on the Roof (1971) and Jesus Christ Superstar (1973), Jean-Jacques Annaud’s Quest for Fire (1981), Roman Polanski’s Frantic (1988) and Bitter Moon (1992), Michael Caton-Jones’ Rob Roy (1995), Robert Altman’s Kansas City (1996) and Ridley Scott’s Gladiator (2000) and Kingdom of Heaven (2005).

He did publicity for Blake Edwards’ The Pink Panther (1963), The Return of the Pink Panther (1975) and The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976) and Richard Lester’s The Three Musketeers (1973), The Four Musketeers: Milady’s Revenge (1974) and The Return of the Musketeers (1989), Superman II (1980) and Superman III (1983) and Cuba (1979).

Plus, he produced several films,...

Two decades ago at this time, the Oscar race for Best Actor was shaping up to be a rather competitive one. We had no idea what we were in for. Allow me to backtrack just a bit.

Three-time previous nominee Sean Penn had taken an early lead for his role as a troubled ex-convict and grieving father in Clint Eastwood’s crime drama “Mystic River.” Then Bill Murray began to generate major buzz for his portrayal of an aging movie star in Sofia Coppola’s acclaimed Tokyo-set comedy “Lost in Translation.”

The Golden Globes did little to clarify things. Penn prevailed in the drama category while Murray picked up the comedy/musical award. The latter did arguably get a bit of a boost with his charming acceptance speech.

All eyes were then on the Screen Actors Guild Award, which many thought would serve as a tie-breaker. But in the ultimate awards twist,...

Penélope Cruz has no plans at the moment to slip into spandex and a cape, but the Oscar winner says she’d love to do a superhero movie. “If it’s something interesting, why not? It’s fun,” Cruz told me Friday at Variety’s 10 Directors to Watch brunch at the Parker Palm Springs. “As you could imagine, that’s what my kids ask me sometimes, ‘Are you ever going to do that, mom?’ Because I’ve done so much drama and so many films I can’t show to them yet.”

Cruz said she has had “conversations here and there” about appearing in a superhero movie, “but nothing specific that will happen soon.”

What is probably happening soon is a musical movie. Cruz teased that she’s probably going to start filming a musical any day now. “I’m going to do one soon, I think,” she said. “I...

After a starry awards gala kicked off the Palm Springs Film Festival, several of this year’s awards contenders and friends reconnected at Variety’s 10 Directors to Watch & Creative Impact Awards Presented by Directv, Friday at the Parker Palm Springs hotel.

Before the presentation, the honorees posed on the red carpet and stopped for questions with Variety’s senior culture & events editor Marc Malkin. Anna Kendrick, a new member of Variety’s 10 Directors to Watch, recalled the first time she yelled action on set for her film “Woman of the Hour.”

“Day one I was really worried about moving slowly on the first shot, of the first day, of the first Monday because it always sets the tone for the week,” the star-turned-director said. “And certainly, the very first one sets the tone for the whole shoot. I really raced through the first couple of setups because I was like,...

The official trailer for Feud season 2 has now been released by FX Networks. The second season of Feud focuses on Truman Capote and his relationship with New York socialites. The cast includes Naomi Watts, Diane Lane, Chloë Sevigny, Calista Flockhart, Demi Moore, Molly Ringwald, and Treat Williams.

The first trailer for Feud: Capote vs. The Swans has arrived. The show is the second season of the Ryan Murphy co-created anthology show Feud, which premiered on FX in 2017 with a season exploring the animosity between Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, particularly focusing on their time making the movie What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?. The new season revolves around writer Truman Capote (Tom Hollander) and his relationship to a cadre of New York socialites, featuring a cast that also includes Naomi Watts, Diane Lane, Chloë Sevigny, Calista Flockhart, Demi Moore, Molly Ringwald, and the late Treat Williams.

FX Networks has...

Fair Play, directed by Chloe Domont, premiered at Sundance and is now streaming on Netflix. The film focuses on a couple whose relationship is tested by a promotion. Lead actors Phoebe Dynevor and Alden Ehrenreich deliver standout performances, with an explosive ending that has garnered attention. The supporting cast, including Eddie Marsan, Rich Sommer, Sebastian de Souza, Geraldine Somerville, and Patrick Fischler, adds depth to the story.

Written and directed by Chloe Domont, Fair Play has a small but stellar cast. The film follows a couple who is pushed to the edge after a promotion complicates their relationship and works to destroy them. Fair Play first premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, where it received rave reviews from critics and was quickly picked up by Netflix.

The film is now streaming on its platform, and it boasts some top-notch performances from its lead actors. Domont’s film keeps its story tight,...

The cast of Reptile is impressive, with an Academy Award winner and famous stars playing complicated characters in a murder mystery backdrop. Benicio del Toro shines as Detective Tom Nichols, who investigates the brutal murder of Summer Elswick while navigating his own personal journey. Besides del Toro, other notable cast members include Justin Timberlake, Alicia Silverstone, and Michael Carmen Pitt, all delivering strong performances in their respective roles.

The cast of Reptile is impressive — it features the likes of an Academy Award winner and numerous famous stars playing complicated characters against a murder mystery background. The 2023 Netflix crime thriller film tells the story of the brutal murder of Summer Elswick in Scarborough, Maine, and a detective who follows numerous leads to find out what happened to the victim in his latest case. Of course, while the movie explores the mystery behind Summer's death, it also focuses on Detective Tom Nichols's life,...

Actress Naomi Watts poses for the November 2023 issue of "Tatler" magazine, wearing Giambattista Valli, Valentino, Stéphane Rolland and a whole lot more, photographed by Daniel Sachon:

Watts made her film debut in the Australian drama "For Love Alone" (1986), then appeared in the Australian TV series "Hey Dad..!" (1990), "Brides of Christ" (1991), "Home and Away" (1991), followed by the film "Flirting" (1991).

In the US, Watts obtained parts in the films "Tank Girl" (1995), "Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering" (1996), "Dangerous Beauty" (1998) and the TV series "Sleepwalkers" (1997–1998).

Watts played an aspiring actress in director David Lynch's "Mulholland Drive" (2001) and starred in the horror remake of "The Ring" (2002).

She subsequently received an Oscar nomination as a grief-stricken mother in Alejandro González Iñárritu's "21 Grams" (2003). Her next films include "I Heart Huckabees" (2004), "King Kong" (2005), "Eastern Promises" (2007) and "The International" (2009).

For her role as 'Maria Bennett' in the disaster film "The Impossible" (2012), Watts...