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While most have heard of the Cannes Film Festival, one of the oldest international competitions, far fewer are aware of the Cannes Market, which happens simultaneously with the festival. The market is where executive producers with money to spend go to find their next films. Production studios with empty release
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Netflix initially announced in April 2024 that it was commissioning a feature film adaptation of the 2014 bestseller The Ballad of a Small Player. The project is directed by Edward Berger, whose All Quiet on the Western Front swept the BAFTAs (though not the Oscars) in 2023; from the outset,
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When reporting on projects that have not started filming, it's always best to wait for the official press release if you need confirmation on casting. While some trust IMDb, it's too easy for bad actors to edit the cast lists randomly; there are also last-minute circumstances
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Every few years, separate projects accidentally align in Hollywood in what is known in the industry as "twinning." Recent examples include 2022's pair of Pinocchio films, one from Disney and one from Netflix, and 2023's two TV series about Alexander Litvinenko, one with Benedict
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“I met this six-year-old child with this blank, pale, emotionless face and the blackest eyes – the Devil’s eyes.” Replace “child” with “penguin with a rubber glove on his head,” and this description of Halloween villain Michael Myers would easily apply to Feathers McGraw – a diminutive penguin whose beady black
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The American Sundance Film Festival is young compared to other "Big Five" International Film Festivals, aka the events where production studios debut their best bets for awards love. The original Big Three, the Venice Film Festival in Italy, The Cannes Film Festival in France, and The Berlin International
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Most films on housing insecurity, poverty, and homelessness follow the same playbook. People in bad situations make poor life choices and end up on the street; their inner strength and burning will to live help propel them through hardship until they pull themselves up and find their way back to
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Guy Ritchie's attempt to resuscitate his would-be British Upperclass Gangster Film Franchise, The Gentlemen, has gone far better than anyone could have imagined. The original film (with the same name) debuted at the end of 2019 in the U.K.; there were high hopes for it to land
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Luca Guadagnino isn't Spielberg-level famous, but cinephiles know the Call Me By Your Name director and his melancholic pathos. Guadagnino shook things up in 2024 with Challengers, ditching his signature fuzzy European landscapes for sharp volleys on a tennis court, splitting his fan base into two camps (pro-
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The Golden Globe nominations for the calendar year 2024 are out, and several upcoming arrivals, including The Brutalist, have already received multiple nominations. The film arrives in the U.S. in time for Christmas Week. However, it has already garnered stellar reviews from its Venice International Film Festival debut, taking
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Uberto Pasolini’s The Return isn’t just built off the closing stages of Homer’s Odyssey – featuring a guilt-ridden, lonely Odysseus (Ralph Fiennes) tentatively and reluctantly returning to the frayed, fragile kingdom overseen by his queen Penelope (Juliette Binoche) – it builds on an appealing interpretation of its final scenes.
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The Beatles broke up over half a century ago, but the world's first significant boy band out of the U.K. still attracts viewership. Get Back, Let It Be, and the new Beatles '64 are all official hits on Disney+ (one of the streaming service's