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Michelle Pfeiffer is currently filming “Margo’s Got Money Problems,” the Apple TV+ series adaptation of the bestselling novel co-starring Nicole Kidman and Elle Fanning, in Los Angeles. In the last 20 years or so, Pfeiffer says of the 23 projects she’s worked on, only three have shot in the city.

“That’s crazy,” the three-time Oscar nominee told me Friday, following her hand and footprint ceremony at the Tcl Chinese Theater in Hollywood. Like so many people in television and movies, Pfeiffer worries Los Angeles is on the verge of no longer being an industry town.

“I don’t know lot about the politics of it all, but I know you need to bring back tax incentives,” Pfeiffer said. “People look at the bottom line for productions — where are we going to get the most for our dollars because you want all that money to go on screen, and if...

Led Zeppelin on Imax, Parthenope by Paolo Sorrentino and Armand starring Renate Reinsve, both Cannes premieres, and Barry Koeghan in Irish drama Bring Them Down headline an interesting specialty weekend.

Sony Pictures Classics debuts Bernard MacMahon’s hybrid docu concert film Becoming Led Zeppelin exclusively in Imax at 369 locations this week, opening wide next week on over 1,000 screens. Powered by never-before-seen footage, performances and music, the film is billed as an experiential cinematic odyssey exploring Led Zeppelin‘s creative, musical, and personal origin story. It’s told in Led Zeppelin’s own words and is the first officially sanctioned film on the group.

An early version premiered at the Venice Film Festival back in 2021 as a work in progress to a 10-minute standing ovation. It subsequently incorporated a brand-new sound mix, newly unearthed material from the archives of all four band members (including home movies and family photos), and exclusive interviews with Jimmy Page,...

Irish sheep farming, deep-seated family tensions, and a brewing conflict between neighbors—sounds like the setup for a quiet indie drama. But in “Bring Them Down,” the upcoming revenge thriller from first-time director Chris Andrews, those elements fuel a gripping, morally complex battle of wills. In this episode of The Discourse, host Mike DeAngelo sits down with actor Christopher Abbott to discuss leading the film, producing it, and why he was drawn to a story steeped in generational trauma and rural survival.

Continue reading ‘’Bring Them Down’: Christopher Abbott Talks His Irish Revenge Thriller, ‘Wolf Man,’ & His Unexpected ‘Kraven The Hunter’ Blockbuster Turn [The Discourse Podcast] at The Playlist.

Bring Them Down is coming!

The new Chris Andrews-directed movie starring Christopher Abbott, Barry Keoghan, and Colm Meaney hits theaters on February 7, 2025.

Nora-Jane Noone, Paul Ready and Susan Lynch also star.

Here’s a plot summary: “Michael, the last son of a shepherding family, lives with his ailing father, Ray. Burdened by guilt over the death of his mother, Michael has isolated himself from the world. When a conflict with rival farmer Gary and his son Jack escalates, Michael is drawn into a devastating chain of events, forcing him to confront the horrors of his past and leaving both families permanently altered.

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Find out which other projects Barry Keoghan has lined up.

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Bound In Heaven, the feature debut of director Huo Xin, won the top prize at the 2024 Rome Film Festival, with the awards unveiled at the Auditorium Parco della Musica on October 26.

The domestic abuse drama won best film in the Progressive Cinema Competition, the festival’s competitive strand, and also shared the best first feature award ex aequo with Edgardo Pistone’s Ciao Bambino.

Bound In Heaven premiered at Toronto, and features a starry cast including Ni Ni, Zhou You and Liao Fan. Director Huo is a veteran scriptwriter whose credits include Shower, Kung Fu Hustle, Sunflower and The Monkey King.

The independent UK film industry is “coming to grips” with leaving the European Union, suggestedBring Them Down director Chris Andrews, at the Rome Film Festival this week.

The sheep-farming revenge tale starring Barry Keoghan, Christopher Abbott and Colm Meaney was produced by the UK’s Wild Swim Films; Ireland’s Tailored Films and Belgium’s Frakas Productions.

“We’re in a point in the UK where we are coming to grips with what’s happened post b-word [Brexit],” said Andrews. “The space that we’ve found ourselves in, because we don’t have the access to the [Creative Europe] Media programme anymore [we need to be] thinking...

In a career filled with so many, Nicole Kidman is on another hot streak.

The Oscar-winner picked up a best actress prize last month at the Venice Film Festival for her critically acclaimed turn in Halina Reijn’s steamy Babygirl, only to see her new Netflix series The Perfect Couple rocket to the No. 1 spot on the streaming rankings days later. She next stars in the second season of Taylor Sheridan’s Paramount+ series Lioness, which debuts Sunday, and she’s just about to jump in front of cameras on Amazon Studios’ Scarpetta opposite fellow Oscar winners Jamie Lee Curtis and Ariana DeBose and based on the Patricia Cornwell novel.

So, how is Kidman feeling about all the good work right about now? It’s complicated. “I wish my mama was here,” she told The Hollywood Reporter on Wednesday night while walking the red carpet at Hollywood’s Linwood Dunn Theatre.

Filmmakers from Bring Them Down, The Ceremony and Tuesday feature prominently on the filmmaker new talent longlists for the 2024 British Independent Film Awards (Bifas).

Bring Them Down’s Christopher Andrews is longlisted for the Douglas Hickox Award for best debut director and the best debut screenwriter award, while the film’s debut producer Jacob Swan Hyam is longlisted for breakthrough producer.

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The Ceremony repeats that trio for writer-director Jack King and producers Hollie Bryan and Lucy Meer; as does Tuesday for writer-director Daina O Pusic and producer Helen Gladders.

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First-time feature director and co-writer Chris Andrews came out swinging at the Toronto International Film Festival with the world premiere of Bring Them Down. The Irish "mafia-esque" drama stars Oscar-nominee Barry Keoghan and Christopher Abbott as two warring families set against a cold, pastoral mountainside. This "violent and brutal" debut is packed with talent in a quiet, simmering allegory for the ruthlessness of war.

There are some actors who, no matter how shaky the film around them may be, can hold your attention and never let go. Lucky for “Bring Them Down,” it has two of the very best in Christopher Abbott (“It Comes at Night”) and Barry Keoghan (“Bird”) to hold this rather bloody mess together. Without them, there’s a good chance the whole thing would simply go to pieces as this is a thriller about two feuding families so perpetually grim it risks becoming a slog. Director Chris Andrews has made a fraught feature debut that drags you through scenes of gruesome violence multiple times over, hammering you over the head with how bleak it all is to an almost comically unsubtle degree. The saving grace of the film’s world comes in the form of its two leads who, despite all the drudgery that they must push through, create something gripping.

Exclusive: Two-time Oscar winner Christoph Waltz (Inglorious Basterds), Stranger Things and Maestro star Maya Hawke, Cannes Best Actor winner John Turturro (Severance), and Emmy winner Jon Hamm (Mad Men) are set to star in Oscar-nominated director Stephen Frears’ (The Queen) Wilder & Me, which will be a buzzy package at this month’s EFM market.

Hawke will play Calista, a young musician whose life takes on a whole new meaning while working on the set of Billy Wilder’s film Fedora. Waltz will play legendary film director Wilder, known for classics including Some Like It Hot, Sunset Boulevard and The Apartment. Turturro will play his lifelong friend and screenwriting partner I.A.L. Diamond. Hamm will play famed actor William Holden.

Described as a “bittersweet drama”, the project has been adapted for the screen by two-time Oscar winner Christopher Hampton (The Father) with Oscar winner Jeremy Thomas (The Last Emperor) producing and shoot scheduled for early 2025 in Greece.

In the span of one dark month in 2015, Pam and Chris Andrews’ world was shattered.

Last March, they learned both of their daughters have Niemann-Pick disease type C1 — a rare, fatal genetic disorder sometimes referred to as “childhood Alzheimer’s.” Most children diagnosed with the disease are dead within 10 years of diagnosis, Dr. James Gibson, a geneticist at Ascension’s Dell Children’s Medical Center in Austin, Texas, told them.

Six-year-old Belle was diagnosed on March 10, 2016. Three weeks later, Abby, now 2, was diagnosed. Both Chris and Pam, who met on Match.com in October 2006, inherited an autosomal recessive gene and...

Clemenger Bbdo Melbourne was named agency of the year at the Melbourne Advertising & Design Club Awards tonight.

The agency won top honours for the second year running. However, rival Gpy&R Melbourne – which won more lions at Cannes this year than any Australian agency – did not enter for the second consecutive year. Last year, Patts Ecd Ben Coulson cited cost reasons for not supporting the event, which is Melbourne’s top awards show.

The awards list in full:

The Adstream Award for Agency of the Year

Winner

Clemenger Bbdo Melbourne

The Madc Award for Best in Show

Winner

Guilt Trips V/Line Agency McCann

The Madc Award for Lifetime Achievement

Winner

Scott Whybin, Whybin Tbwa

The Blackley Award for Creative Leader of the Year

Winner

Jason Williams, Leo Burnett

The Madc Award for Client of the Year

Winner

Carlton United Brewers

The Exit Films Award for Best Junior

Winners

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The best radio ad of the year is to be decided at the national Siren Awards next month, with agencies such as Bmf, Clemenger Bbdo Melbourne, Ajf Partnership, The Monkeys and Eardrum in contention to win the Gold Siren.

The winners of the top award will be entered into the Cannes Radio Lions, to take place in June. And for the first time, the client will be invited along to Cannes too.

Commercial Radio Australia boss Joan Warner said this recognised “the important role clients play in driving the writing, production and delivery of high quality radio ads.”

Last year’s gold siren was won by Andrew Woodhead and Eamonn Dixon of Leo Burnett Melbourne for “Slow Mornings” for 7-Eleven.

The finalists in full:

Singles

303 Group, Perth, Dav Tabeshfar, Office of Road Safety, Baby Bmf, Sydney, Dennis Koutoulogenis and Jake Rusznyak, Mla Australia, Chop Culture Rant Clemenger Bbdo, Adelaide, Matt O’Grady,...