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If there’s a challenge faced by all contemporary purveyors of superhero cinema, where expectations run amok, it’s adjusting the knobs that balance light and dark, the goofy and the grim, comedic character interplay and interplanetary stakes.

Those knob settings are, of course, a matter of taste, and certainly a bone of contention between fans of somber grit and those who like a bit — or a lot — of witty banter between mega-punches.

With his third Ant-man adventure, “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania,” director Peyton Reed and screenwriter Jeff Loveness (a “Jimmy Kimmel Live” and “Rick and Morty” vet making his big-screen debut) handle the balance of tones impressively. It’s a film that gives Paul Rudd multiple opportunities to display his comic charm, even turning a shameless bit of product placement into an effective running gag. At the same time, it sets the stage for a genuinely chilling villain,...

Paul Rudd and his “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” costar Jonathon Majors sport dueling Men’s Health Magazine covers this month that couldn’t be more different – and no one points that out quite like Rudd did on Friday’s “Tonight Show.”

“It’s strange, normally when you do a movie, and they ask you to do a magazine cover, and here I am in Men’s Health, but this time they did both of us,” Rudd told Jimmy Fallon.

Rudd said he wasn’t worried that the cover shoots would be similar and, in fact, explained that there are some pretty stark differences.

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Fallon drove home the point of just how stark those differences are when he pulled out the magazines, one which shows a shirtless, ripped Majors in very short red shorts standing in a pool,...

In kicking off Phase 5 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania marks the beginning of a new stage in the Multiverse Saga.

“This movie is the biggest of the three. We decided if we had a chance to make a third round, we wanted to go nuts,” director Peyton Reed (who also helmed the previous two Ant-Man films) told The Hollywood Reporter at the film’s Westwood premiere on Monday. “We wanted to beat Scott Lang up a little bit. It’s still comedic, but also it takes a very serious turn. We love the idea of putting the tiniest Avengers, and Avengers that maybe fans think are the least powerful Avengers, and [putting] them up against the most powerful villain in the multiverse.”

In Quantumania, Scott takes on his greatest challenge yet in Kang the Conqueror (played by Jonathan Majors) — the most powerful villain that the MCU has ever seen.

The U.K.’s Embankment Films has launched worldwide sales ahead of the Toronto Film Festival on “Call Me Kate,” a feature documentary on Katharine ‘Kate’ Hepburn, the actor from Hollywood’s Golden Age.

The feature documentary is from director Lorna Tucker and produced by Salon Pictures, the producers of the BAFTA nominated “McQueen.”

Hepburn was nominated for 12 Academy Awards, winning a record four for best actress. Her distinctive defiance and enduring talent have made her an icon to generations of women. In her own words: “I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.”

Tucker said: “I’ve always admired Katharine Hepburn: her badass attitude, poise and dignity. How she felt, what kept her going, what private turmoil she faced? She never gave up, and kept moving forward, through her resilience and fight to live her dreams – that’s truly inspirational”.

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If things had gone differently, the red-carpet mileage of awards season would still be splashed with the showy, flowy designs of Roy Halston Frowick: better known simply by his middle name, the Midwest-raised fashion designer belatedly put American couture on the map in the 1970s. After his luxury brand expanded to ubiquitous levels in just a few years, riding a wave of celebrity disco culture, a series of ill-advised business decisions and cruel corporate sabotage combined to demolish it even more suddenly, making Halston a has-been by the time of his AIDS-related death in 1990. It’s a true fashion tragedy that docmaker Frédéric Tcheng unpicks with devotion and compelling attention to detail in his plainly titled “Halston,” though the film errs by treating its subject’s demise as more of a mystery than it really was.

Soon-to-be-rebranded distributor The Orchard has already picked up U.S. rights to this suitably flashy Sundance premiere,...

The story of Martin Margiela will be traced in “Without Compromise,” a new feature doc that is being made with the cooperation of the influential Belgian fashion designer. Margiela changed the fashion world. He was part of the avante-garde Antwerp movement and founded the Maison Margiela fashion house.

Film-meets-fashion project “Without Compromise” is in production for a 2019 release. It will be the first doc on the complete career of Margiela, a man so elusive and private that no official photograph has ever been released and who has been dubbed “the fashion world’s answer to Banksy.”

The feature comes from Reiner Holzemer, whose previous work includes “Dries,” the film about designer Dries Van Noten. That was sold by Dogwoof, which has also boarded “Without Compromise.” It will present the project to buyers at Cannes.

Aminata Sambe is producing the Margiela film. “Dogwoof has an incomparable slate of world-class quality documentaries...

UK film I Am Not A Witch will feature in the Spotlight section In a break from the usual bitesize announcements, Sundance Film Festival has released the names of all 110 feature film titles that will screen at this year's festival in Utah.

British names in the frame, include Idris Elba - whose directorial debut, crime drama Yardie will premiere - and Rupert Everett, who also makes his directorial debut with the tale of the last days of Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince.

Other British and Irish stars include Kelly Macdonald, Andrea Riseborough, Keira Knightley, Robert Pattinson and rising Dublin-born star Barry Keoghan. The festival will also see actor Paul Dano make his directorial debut with Wildlife and Ethan Hawke step behind the camera again with Blaze.

Other UK productions and co-production premieres to make the cut are Stephen Loveridge's Matangi / Maya / M.I.A., about the Sri Lankan artist,...

Charitystars.com has a very special auction that is currently online: the unique opportunity to dine with fashion royalty, Dame Vivienne Westwood.

The highest bidder and a guest will join Vivienne Westwood and up to 24 of her highly influential friends at Sushisamba in London on Tuesday 7 November. The exclusive dinner will be created by corporate chef Claudio Cardoso, featuring dishes using ingredients sourced from the rainforest in the Peruvian Amazon.

Vivienne Westwood is a world renowned British fashion designer and businesswoman. She has donated this experience to support Cool Earth, a charity for which she is an ambassador and has already given more than £1 million to support the charity’s actions.

Cool Earth works alongside indigenous villages to halt rainforest destruction. It aims to put local people back in control, providing the resources they need to keep their forest intact.

This auction closes on 26 October 2017. For more information and to bid please click here.

Exclusive: Company wracks up deals on Cannes slate.

UK documentary specialist Dogwoof has inked a series of deals on its sales slate.

Westwood, Lorna Tucker’s film about fashion icon Vivienne Westwood, has sold to Japan (Kadokawa), Germany, Austria, Switzerland (Nfp), Australia and Nz (Madman), China (Tencent), and Hong Kong (Edko).

Currently in post-production ahead of delivery in autumn 2017, the film is being produced by John Battsek of Passion Pictures.

78/52, Alexandre O.Philippe’s feature which explores the iconic shower scene from Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, has gone to Australia and New Zealand (Monster), Italy (Koch Media), China (Huanxi Media), Spain (A Contracorriente), France (Films Distribution). The film premiered at Sundance and played SXSW. Watch a clip below.

Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story, Alexandra Dean’s film about the Hollywood career and life of Hedy Lamarr, has sold to Australia and New Zealand (Madman). The film was produced by Susan Sarandon and narrated by Diane Kruger. Previously...

Exclusive: Ken Loach biographical doc has sold to five territories.

UK-based documentary specialists Dogwoof has inked a series of sales on three of its titles at Toronto International Film Festival (Sept 8-18).

Louise Osmond’s biographical film Versus: The Life And Films Of Ken Loach [pictured] has gone to Australia and New Zealand (Transmission), Portugal (Mida Films), Turkey (Filmarti), Hong Kong (Edko) and Captive (airlines).

Produced by long-term Loach collaborator Rebecca O’Brien, the film chronicles Loach’s 50-year career in the film industry.

Lorna Tucker’s portrait of fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, Vivienne Westwood: Get A Life, has sold to Germany, Australia and Switzerland (Nfp) and Japan (Kadokawa). Dogwoof is also in discussions with buyers for the Us, Australia and New Zealand on the title.

The company has also scored sales on Jerry Rothwell and Reuben Atlas’s wine-fraud doc Sour Grapes, which has gone to Blue Ice Docs (Canada) and Rialto (Australia and New Zealand).