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Tesla is an ultimate celebrity magnet, and it’s easy to see why! These electric beauties combine speed, style, and serious tech. From Autopilot wizardry to surprisingly luxurious interiors, Tesla delivers a certain style that makes people stand out.

Plus, they’re eco-friendly, giving stars a chance to flex their green side while still turning heads. Whether it’s for the planet, the performance, or just the cool factor, one thing’s clear, celebs are fully charged on Tesla fever!

So here are seven of the most famous Hollywood A-listers, who are also proud owners of Teslas!

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With all his wealth, Leonardo DiCaprio decided to be a dedicated environmentalist. And thus, he fell in love with the Tesla Roadster long before electric vehicles became mainstream. Nicknamed the “tree-hugging Ferrari,” this sleek,...

Rolex’s longtime alignment with cinema extends to its sponsorship of the Academy Awards since 2017 and its status as a founding supporter of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures — and now the luxury watch brand has welcomed Leonardo DiCaprio into the Rolex family.

The Oscar-winning actor was named on Tuesday as the latest Rolex “Testimonee,” the watch brand’s appellation for its stable of brand ambassadors. In an announcement on Rolex’s site, the Geneva-based brand referred to DiCaprio as a “Hollywood icon and climate champion … renowned for his transformative performances and his tireless advocacy for environmental causes.”

Known for developing relationships with Testimonees who embrace global interests and causes often outside their chosen professions, Rolex put an emphasis on DiCaprio’s environmental commitments in its announcement, pointing to the actor’s establishment of the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation in 1998, a non-profit devoted to wildlife protections and sustainable efforts. “He has...

The colors of Mogwai’s volcanic explosions on the cover of The Bad Fire, the gloomy Glaswegians’ 11th record (by their count), are bright red, yellow, white, and periwinkle. Anyone who’s followed the post-rock group’s three-decade history knows, though, that Mogwai’s music burns neon blue — creating pure, clean heat but with the look of a bruise, a sense of confidence but with awareness of the damage that generates it. The title is a Scottish euphemism for Hell, but Mogwai have always favored purgatory.

Since the late Nineties,...

Garth Hudson, the keyboardist, sax player and archivist for Rock and Roll Hall of Famers The Band whose farewell show with the group was memorialized in Martin Scorsese’s landmark documentary The Last Waltz, died Tuesday in his sleep at a nursing home in Woodstock, NY. He was 87.

The executor of his estate executor confirmed the news to the Toronto Star.

Born Eric Hudson on August 2, 1937, in Windsor, Ontario, and was trained in classical piano and music theory. He played in local bands before hooking up in the late 1950s with rockabilly singer Ronnie Hawkins’ The Hawks, which eventually would feature many of his Band mates. The group would back Bob Dylan’s on the notorious mid-’60s “Going Electric” tours and, rechristened The Band, they collaborated on groundbreaking album The Basement Tapes, helping to invent the Americana genre.

Related: Ronnie Hawkins Dies: ‘Father Of Canadian Rock ‘N’ Roll’ Was...

Give your favorite music fan a box set for the holidays this year? You had a ton to choose from. Last year, record labels released enough shelf-straining packages of CDs or vinyl to fill a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame exhibit, with sets highlighting the works of David Bowie, Bob Dylan, the Beatles, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Elvis Costello, and more. And that’s in addition to the copious amounts of jazz sets regularly released, like 2024’s six-cd/eight-lp behemoth Miles in France, the latest volume of the Miles Davis Bootleg Series.

A stunning lineup of musical icons — including Bob Weir, Eric Clapton, Van Morrison, Elvis Costello, Lucinda Williams, Trey Anastasio, and Mavis Staples — are coming together Oct. 17, 2024, at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles to honor the life and music of Robbie Robertson. The bill for Life Is a Carnival: A Musical Celebration of Robbie Robertson also includes Ryan Bingham, Mike Campbell, Eric Church, Warren Haynes, Jim James, Jamey Johnson, Noah Kahan, Daniel Lanois, Taj Mahal, Van Morrison, Margo Price, Robert Randolph, Nathaniel Rateliff, Allison Russell, Benmont Tench, and Don Was.

It’s been 50 years since Bob Dylan’s acclaimed 1974 tour with The Band. Now, Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings will celebrate the anniversary with the release of Bob Dylan – The 1974 Live Recordings, a massive box set featuring “every single surviving soundboard recording” from the tour.

Due on September 20th, the new box set will feature 431 newly-mixed songs across 27 discs, including 417 never-before-released tracks. Among the highlights are the very first live performances of classics like “All Along the Watchtower” and “Forever Young,” the latter of which arrives today as a single. Stream it below.

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Along with the 27 discs, Bob Dylan – The 1974 Live Recordings will arrive with a book of photos and liner notes by journalist and critic Elizabeth Nelson. Check out photos of the packaging below. Pre-orders are ongoing.

Additionally, Third Man Records will honor the 50th anniversary of the tour with the release of a condensed 3xLP box set,...

I actually wasn’t that interested in David Beckham. I mean, I knew he was this famous, branded guy and that Victoria was a Spice Girl. I loved football. My first documentary was about Pelé and [Franz] Beckenbauer coming to America to play for the New York Cosmos. Then one of my dearest friends ended up running [the football club in] Liverpool. I just started getting obsessed with Liverpool and following Liverpool. The reason this movie came to me is because I had worked with Leonardo DiCaprio many times. David had been meeting a ton of directors, and David called Leo to get his advice. David said, “Leo, I’m really struggling [about] who to get.” And he was like, “You’ve got to call Fisher.”

David had just seen this movie that I directed, coincidentally, Palmer, with Justin Timberlake, and he loved the emotion in that, and he’d seen Before the Flood. So I...

Doctor Who has been around for such a long time, and juggles so many characters and storylines, that it's surely not surprising it has more than its fair share of mysteries. Some of these have puzzled fans for literal decades, while others are mysteries that current showrunner Russell T. Davies is presumably planning to solve before the end of the season.

It's fair to say that Doctor Who wouldn't be the same without a mystery or two for fans to solve. Part of the fun of watching is trying to get one step ahead of the Doctor and work out what's happening before he does. But not all the mysteries have neat tidy answers... or answers at all.

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While television had been a part of each past IndieWire Honors celebration, the medium took center stage on the evening of Thursday, June 6, with an event that celebrated the creators and stars of such well-regarded shows as “Abbott Elementary,” “Expats,” “Fellow Travelers,” “Mr. and Mrs. Smith,” and “True Detective: Night Country.”

Even before the awards ceremony began, as talent started filing into the Citizen News venue in the heart of Hollywood, it was a marvel to see “Palm Royale” star and Vanguard Award recipient Carol Burnett hold court as fellow honorees like “Under the Bridge” producer/star Riley Keough, recipient of the Maverick Award, and “Abbott Elementary” creator/star Quinta Brunson, recipient of the Visionary Award (and whom Burnett presented an Emmy to in January), came to greet the comedy legend.

Serving as host was comedian Alex Edelman, of HBO special “Just For Us,” who teased that among the “13 incredible...

On June 6, the 2024 IndieWire Honors ceremony celebrated 13 creators and stars responsible for some of the most stellar work of the TV season. Curated and selected by IndieWire’s editorial team, the event was a new edition of previous IndieWire Honors ceremonies, this time focused entirely on television. We showcased their work with new interviews leading up to the Los Angeles celebration.

“Is your desk very messy or is it very clean?”

This was the question host Alex Edelman asked renaissance man, actor, filmmaker, and documentarian Fisher Stevens before welcoming him to the stage to accept the Magnify Award at the 2024 IndieWire Honors. It’s a fair ask, as Stevens remains one of the busiest men in Hollywood and abroad. He’s a jack-of-all-trades, starring in films from Wes Anderson, as well as being a part of the hit series “Succession,” producing movies like “Swimfan” and “Uptown Girls,” and taking on...

Looking back, 1974 was a groundbreaking year for new musical releases. To re-create some of the magic that year brought, Classic Vinyl (Ch. 26) is counting down the top “50 Albums Turning 50” — as voted by you, our listeners!

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These are the possible album choices for this year’s “50 Albums Turning 50” countdown:

Aerosmith – Get Your Wings

America – Holiday

April Wine – Live!

Argent – Encore: Live in Concert

Bachman–Turner Overdrive – Not Fragile

Bad Company – Bad Company

Bill Wyman – Monkey Grip

Billy Joel – Streetlife Serenade

Blue...

Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross have, in less than 15 years, established themselves as the most exciting composers working in contemporary film.

Their first score was David Fincher’s masterpiece “The Social Network.” The score was a haunting, atmospheric triumph, and it won them Oscars, an even more impressive feat given the Academy’s historic anti-rock band bias. And what began as an exclusive collaboration with Fincher soon blossomed outward – they have worked with Pixar and Ken Burns, scored a prestige TV version of Alan Moore’s “Watchmen,” and an animated “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” movie. They can do it all, while remaining uniquely them.

They are unstoppable, too. This week “Challengers,” from Luca Guadagnino, is released alongside their soundtrack album. And they have a pair of scores still coming this year – for the big-budget Apple movie “The Gorge” and for Guadagnino’s “Queer,” starring Daniel Craig.

For the purposes of this list,...

Exclusive: Action megastar Keanu Reeves has partnered with Academy Award winner Fisher Stevens to co-produce a documentary on the life story of Benny “The Jet” Urquidez, the iconic athlete who introduced mixed martial arts to the world.

Titled The Jet, the film is currently in production under the direction of Emmy-nominated sports documentary editor turned filmmaker Jennifer Tiexiera. Its financiers are Chris Quintos Cathcart and Tyler Boehm of the newly formed Unapologetic Projects, a company dedicated to working with underrepresented creators. Maura Anderson and Zak Kilberg of Stevens’ recently launched production company Highly Flammable will also serve as producers along with John Scalise and his Faya Project. Nancy Weisler, Brian Maya and Chris Quintos Cathcart & Tyler Boehm of Unapologetic serve as executive producers on the project slated for release in 2025.

Nicknamed for his explosive spinning back kick, Sensei Benny “The Jet” Urquidez had a profound impact on martial arts in mainstream culture,...

China’s Pingyao International Film Festival has confirmed Lin Xudong as its new artistic director and revealed seasoned film programmers Kamiya Naoki and Fukatsu Junko as its programmers for foreign-language films.

The festival, founded by leading independent filmmaker Jia Zhangke, already counts Wu Jueren as its programmer for Chinese language films and Song Jia, as programmer for short films.

The announcements were made in Berlin on Sunday. At the same event the executive committee of Wings International was introduced as Jia, Tang Yan (chairman and CEO of Chinese social media firm Hello Group), Japanese film producer Ichiyama Shozo, Hong Kong film programmer Jacob Wong, and Casper Liang, CEO of Pingyao International Film Festival. The fund aims to support five foreign film projects of finished script each year.

Lin is a chronicler of the New Chinese Documentary Film movement and has hosted documentary film events in Beijing in 1997 and 2004, as well...

Fifty years ago this week, Bob Dylan and the Band launched their landmark Before the Flood reunion tour with a pair of shows at Chicago Stadium. Dylan had been off the road for eight very long years at this point, and demand to see his return was so intense that promoters received 5.5 million ticket requests via a cumbersome mail-order system. To put that in perspective, that was four percent of the entire population of America.

The last time that Dylan and the Band hit the road, they were met with...

This Doctor Who article contains spoilers.

“Never seen a Tardis before?”

We’ve seen a lot of shocking things in Doctor Who, but that question, delivered directly at the camera, ranks among the most surprising. It comes at the end of this year’s Christmas special, “The Church on Ruby Road,” from Mrs. Flood (Anita Dobson), the elderly neighbor of new companion Ruby Sunday. But it’s not just Mrs. Flood’s fourth-wall breaking that raises questions. It’s the fact that she’s a markedly different character than the one at the start of the special, who grouches to her neighbor Abdul (Hemi Yeroham) about the police box parked on her walk. She’s also different than she was midway through the episode, when the Tardis disappears before her, causing her to drop her groceries.

From those three brief scenes alone, it’s clear that Mrs. Flood is more than she initially seems.

The 2023 German mini-series A Thin Line is definitely a masterpiece, conveying a strong message about the environmental issues caused due to rapid urbanization. We have come across films and series like Before the Flood and Plastic Ocean with strong messages against environmental damage, but the passion that the characters display in this series is unique and beyond articulation. The love for the environment with which the series has been made rings right through the brilliant portrayal of the motives of the characters. The directors Sabrina Sarabi and Damian John Harper have done justice to the screenplay by putting able actors like Hanna Hilsdorf and Saskia Rosendahl to action. The two sisters, Anna and Benjamina (Benni), are eager to cross their lines in seeking justice against the flawed policies and regulations for the environment. While Benjamina resorts to illegal means to seek justice, Anna stays within the judicial limits and tries to protect her sister.

Almost two weeks ago, Netflix dropped its Beckham docuseries — giving viewers perhaps the most access ever to the soccer star subject. That has less to do with the project’s four-plus-hour runtime, however, than it does with the fact that David Beckham, for all of his fame, has never been much of a talker.

“I don’t think the guy ever sat for more than 20 minutes in his life and talked about himself,” Fisher Stevens tells The Hollywood Reporter. The documentarian (The Lincoln Project, Bright Lights, Before the Flood) and actor (Succession, Asteroid City), who directed and produced the instantly popular series that still sits atop the streamer’s global Top 10, spent days with David Beckham to coax out some candor on his complicated career and personal life. The result is, yes, a documentary whose subject is also one of its producers. But it’s also as thorough a portrait...

Exclusive: WME has signed Fisher Stevens and his production company Highly Flammable, which he launched last spring alongside producers Maura Anderson and Zak Kilberg. They’ll rep the Academy Award-winning multi-hyphenate, going forward, across all scripted and documentary projects.

The move comes less than a week after Stevens’ Beckham docuseries was released on Netflix, debuting as the streamer’s most-watched English-language series of the week. The four-parter, on which he teamed with Oscar and Emmy-winning producer John Battsek (Searching for Sugar Man), tells the inside story of the global football star and cultural icon, offering unprecedented access not only to Beckham, but also to his wife Victoria, his family, his friends and his teammates.

Fisher’s scripted directing credits include the ex-convict drama Palmer, starring Justin Timberlake, which remains one of Apple TV+’s top 10 most popular films; the comedic thriller Stand Up Guys, starring Al Pacino, Christopher Walken, Alan Arkin,...

The Netflix docuseries Beckham, directed by Fisher Stevens, provides unprecedented personal access to soccer star David Beckham. Beckham's soccer career spanned 20 years, playing for top clubs like Manchester United and Real Madrid. Fisher Stevens, known for both his acting and directing work, agreed to direct the documentary through the recommendation of Leonardo DiCaprio. He was perfect because he wasn't too familiar with Beckham's personal history.

The Netflix docuseries Beckham, directed by Fisher Stevens, has captured audiences with its never-before-seen personal access to one of the biggest soccer stars in the world. The four-part series takes a deep dive into the previously unknown thoughts and sentiments of international celebrity David Beckham. Beckham rose to fame from his skills on the soccer field before also becoming a model and eventually the co-owner of the Mls team Inter Miami. Under Stevens's thorough direction, Beckham opens up like never before in this must-see...

Editor’s note: A few hours after this was published, a Netflix rep for “Beckham” emailed us Fisher Stevens’ answers to questions we asked on Thursday. His replies have been added to the bottom this article.

Even if you call football “soccer” like this ugly American, Netflix’s “Beckham” may be a docuseries for you.

Director Fisher Stevens’ four-part series certainly reminds viewers of David Beckham’s greatness on the pitch, but the project is at its finest away from the sidelines. Stevens had in-depth access to David and Victoria Beckham — until he didn’t.

Stevens is a serious documentary filmmaker: He directed Leonardo Di Caprio in 2016 Nat Geo climate change doc “Before the Flood” and won an Oscar in 2010 as a producer on documentary “The Cove.” He also landed an 2020 Emmy nomination as executive producer of another Netflix docuseries “Tiger King.” And it’s when Stevens stops asking questions that “Beckham,...

One of Magic: The Gathering's biggest crossovers to date is coming soon, as the long-running tabletop property will bring the dazzling universe of Doctor Who to decks everywhere on October 13, 2023. It's an exciting project that's only made possible by the existence of Universes Beyond, the concept that allows Mtg to branch into properties like Transformers, Lord of the Rings, and now, Doctor Who.

The Mtg x Doctor Who set will feature cards spanning all iterations of The Doctor, from his earliest days to more modern adaptations of the hero. That range also gives Principle Game Designer Gavin Verhey and the team a lot of options for how these characters, locations, and key moments will be represented mechanically. There's a lot to unpack in the set, which features a lot of complexity, but it all makes sense the same way The Doctor's frequent explanations of time and space theory do!

There’s no better way to encapsulate David Beckham’s unbridled star power than the story of how Fisher Stevens ended up directing his Netflix docuseries “Beckham.”

“I got a call from Leo DiCaprio’s office,” recalls Stevens, who directed the DiCaprio-produced 2016 climate change film “The Flood.” “Leo and David were hanging out, and David [had] been looking for a director of his documentary — and Leo suggested me.”

The anecdote doesn’t end there. Stevens, a multi-hyphenate who won an Oscar for producing the 2009 dolphin documentary “The Cove,” and appeared on three seasons of HBO’s hit series “Succession” as Waystar Royco publicist Hugo, wasn’t sure he wanted to take on the job directing the Beckham project. “I didn’t really know much about him other than, you know, he was kind of a good-looking brand guy married to a Spice Girl,” he tells Variety.

So Stevens did what anyone...

Fisher Stevens, best known as the oleaginous comms man Hugo Baker in Succession, has revealed that Leonardo DiCaprio played matchmaker between him and David Beckham.

Stevens directed the upcoming four-part Netflix documentary series devoted to the life of the former footballer, and he told the Guardian newspaper that it was DiCaprio who suggested him to the star subject.

“David was hanging out with Leo, and asked him who he should get,” he said. “He recommended me! David watched Before the Flood then Palmer [the 2021 Apple TV+ drama starring Justin Timberlake] that I directed and saw something he liked – the emotion I guess.”

Besides his acting career, Stevens has a strong pedigree in the documentary-making field. He won an Oscar for his 2009 film about dolphin hunting in Japan, The Cove, and went on to work with DiCaprio on the climate crisis documentary Before The Flood.

Despite this, he was uncertain about taking on the Beckham project,...

Programme includes ‘top 10’ films selected by director Wang Bing and selection of Peter Greenaway films.

The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) has revealed the first 50 titles for this year’s edition, running Nov 8 to Nov 19.

As part of a previously announced Wang Bing retrospective, the director has been invited to programme his “top 10”. The films he has selected are all Chinese and all date from 1999 or later.

They are: Before the Flood (2005) directed by Yifan Li, Yu YanBing’ai (2007) by Yan Feng; Born in Beijing (2011) by Li Ma; Last Train Home (2009) by Lixin Fan; The Next Life (2011) by Jian Fan...

Documentary festival IDFA, which runs Nov. 8 to 19 in Amsterdam, has revealed its first 50 titles, including the top 10 Chinese films selected by Chinese filmmaker Wang Bing, IDFA’s Guest of Honor.

The festival has also revealed the films playing in two of the three Focus programs: Fabrications, which probes the difference between reality and realism, and 16 Worlds on 16, an homage to 16mm film.

Wang’s selection will take the viewer “on a contemplative journey into contemporary Chinese cinema,” according to the festival. “The films and their politics are subtle in their film language, representing a wave of filmmaking rarely shown internationally.”

The selection (see below), which covers films produced since 1999, includes Lixin Fan’s 2009 film “Last Train Home,” which was supported by IDFA’s Bertha Fund. The film documents the millions of migrant factory workers that travel home for Spring Festival each year.

Fabrications explores the relationship of trust between documentary film and audiences,...

Acclaimed director Wang Bing, this year’s guest of honor at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, will be using his IDFA platform to highlight nonfiction cinema of his native China.

The festival, which runs from Nov. 8-19, announced the 10 films Bing has selected to be screened at IDFA – one of the perquisites of being named guest of honor. Among the documentaries he’s choosing to highlight are Old Men (1999), directed by Lina Yang; Wheat Harvest (2008), directed by Tong Xu, and IDFA Bertha Fund-supported Last Train Home (2009) by Lixin Fan, “documenting the millions of migrant factory workers that travel home for Spring Festival each year.” (Scroll to see Bing’s full top 10 list).

Director Wang Bing attends the Cannes Film Festival May 19, 2023.

The documentaries chosen by Bing “and their politics are subtle in their film language,” IDFA noted in a release, “representing a wave of filmmaking rarely shown internationally.

Correction: Andy Samberg was incorrectly listed as being one of the recent signatures on the open letter to TIFF against Rbc.

Update, Exclusive: Deadline has learned that Oscar winner and environmental crusader Leonardo DiCaprio has added his name to the open letter to TIFF calling for the film festival to drop the Royal Bank of Canada as its sponsor given the company’s track record with fossil fuel extraction and enabling of projects on Indigenous lands without consent.

DiCaprio joins Succession Primetime Emmy winner Jeremy Strong as well as Succession‘s Fisher Stevens in adding their names to the letter which was organized by filmmakers Elza Kephart and Jose Luis Guiterrez.

DiCaprio has been active in the climate change movement, producing several documentaries about the environment and donating millions to myriad causes. He is a co-founder of Re:wild, an organization working to protect and restore the diversity of life on Earth,...

Bob Dylan has shared a statement on the passing of Robbie Robertson, The Band guitarist who backed Dylan during his legendary electric period.

“This is shocking news,” Dylan said. “Robbie was a lifelong friend. His passing leaves a vacancy in the world.”

Dylan and Robertson met in 1965, and Dylan quickly hired The Hawks — the original name of The Band — to perform as his backing band. In 1965 and 1966, Dylan performed two sets on tour: one of the acoustic folk music that made him famous, and one set, featuring The Hawks, that signified his controversial progression toward electric guitar.

In 1967, The Hawks joined Dylan in Woodstock, New York to work on new music. These sessions formed the basis of The Band’s 1968 record Music from Big Pink, and recordings featuring Dylan later appeared on 1975’s The Basement Tapes. Following their debut as The Band, Robertson and company redirected their attention to their own music,...

Oscar winning documentary producer is at Sheffield DocFest with Chris Smith’s ‘Wham’ and Sundance hit The Deepest Breath.

Ventureland co-founder John Battsek knew the chance to tell a postive, upbeat story about the UK 1980s pop band Wham! could very well appeal to sought-after young audiences.

Wham! , directed by the US’ Chris Smith, was one of two new films with which the Oscar-winning documentary producer was at Sheffield DocFest in the UK last week. The other was Laura McGann’s Sundance hit, The Deepest Breath, about Italian freediving champion Alessia Zecchini, which was acquired by Netflix late last year.

When it comes to earworms that instantly conjure memories of sitting cross-legged in front of the TV on a Saturday morning, it's hard to beat the theme song for the original "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" cartoon series. The invigorating hype track about the "heroes in a half-shell" was composed by Dennis C. Brown and Chuck Lorre. James Mandell, who provided the vocals, told Dish Nation that he was a session singer in the 1980s and one day he "got a call to come in and sing a tune with a 'wacky' lyric." 

Now, Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor (also known for his wacky lyrics) and his longtime collaborator, Atticus Ross, are bringing their musical talents to the underworld of the Turtles. The news was let slip by professional skateboarder Tony Hawk, who recently visited Reznor to shoot a music video cameo appearance for a cover of Nine Inch Nails' "Wish.

Given his growing tendency to line up half of Hollywood to appear in his films, anyone cast in a Wes Anderson movie might worry just how much screen time they’ll end up getting.

Not Fisher Stevens.

After minor roles in The Grand Budapest Hotel (a concierge), Isle of Dogs (the voice of a mutt called Scrap) and The French Dispatch (an unnamed magazine story editor), he’s now set to make a similarly background appearance in Asteroid City, Anderson’s latest, and featuring arguably the director’s most ludicrous array of top-tier talent to date (a list so long, it may test the wide lenses of Cannes’ red carpet paparazzi when it bows May 23). And very happily so.

“I’m around. I mean, you’ll see me in the film. But I wouldn’t say it’s my Oscar-winning performance,” Stevens tells The Hollywood Reporter, adding that blink-and-you’ll-miss-it or not,...

Exclusive: Oscar winner Fisher Stevens has today announced the launch of Highly Flammable, a new director-led production company that will focus on setting up premium unscripted stories for streamers across various series and feature formats, operating out of both New York and Los Angeles.

Joining Stevens as Partners at the company are Emmy nominated director-producer Maura Anderson (Menudo: Forever Young) and producer Zak Kilberg of Social Construct. Iz Web and Caitlin Lawrie are also on board to support the company as part of the development team.

We Are Guardians

Highly Flammable is premiering its first feature doc, We Are Guardians, at the Hot Docs Film Festival on May 3rd, with UTA to handle sales. The company is completing editorial on a documentary about New Orleans’ Zulu Club, directed by Matthew Henderson, with Impact Partners and Terry Douglas/Rhea Films, and is also in production with Exile Content and Muck Media...

Exclusive: Julia Butters (The Fabelmans), Jacob Tremblay (Room), Martin Freeman (Fargo) and Taylor Schilling (Pam & Tommy) have been tapped as the leads for the folk horror film Queen of Bones, from Appian Way, Lumanity Productions and Productivity Media, which has entered production in Canada.

Queen of Bones follows twin siblings Lily (Butters) and Sam (Tremblay) who live at a remote homestead with their widowed father, Malcolm (Freeman), a violinmaker in 1931 Oregon. When Lily and Sam find an Icelandic spell book in the cellar, they begin to suspect a connection between their mother’s death and dark forces in the woods. They then embark on a dangerous mission to force their father and his friend, Ida May (Schilling), to reveal the truth.

Robert Budreau (Delia’s Gone) is directing from a script by Michael Burgner (The Darkest Corner of Paradise).

Queen of Bones is the latest project to reteam Budreau with Productivity Media,...

For almost 100 years, the motion picture academy has honored the best in film, but many times the winners aren’t always the best remembered, or the films that go on to become classics. At the 14th ceremony, “How Green Was My Valley” famously won Best Picture over “Citizen Kane,” now considered by most filmmakers, historians and cinephiles as the greatest movie ever made – and even those who disagree acknowledge its profound influence on the industry. Additionally, there were quite a few now-classic films and performances that either didn’t win, or were snubbed altogether. Let’s flashback 80 years ago to the 1942 Oscars ceremony.

SEE15 biggest Oscar Best Picture upsets, ranked

Hosted by Bob Hope, the ceremony took place on February 26, less than three months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and a month after beloved actress Carole Lombard was killed in a plane crash – while returning home after selling war bonds.

As the director and producer of both “House of Gucci” and “The Last Duel,” Ridley Scott is poised to score big when the 2022 Oscar nominations are announced three months from now. Reaping double Best Picture or Best Director bids would make the 83-year-old the first to pull off either feat since Steven Soderbergh did so in 2001. Even if he ends up being left out of both lineups, he could still make history if academy voters decide to recognize the work of his two leading ladies. If Jodie Comer (“The Last Duel”) and Lady Gaga (“House of Gucci”) are both chosen to compete for Best Actress, Scott will become the fifth person to direct female leads from different films to nominations in a single year.

The first of these rare occurrences dates back to the third Oscars ceremony in 1930 when Nancy Carroll (“The Devil’s Holiday”) and Gloria Swanson (“The Trespasser...

Exclusive: In a pre-emptive situation, MGM has secured a deal for the feature film project Jim Jones, with Leonardo DiCaprio in final talks to star as the 1970s religious cult leader who was behind the Jonestown mass suicide on November 18, 1978 that took more than 900 lives. The Oscar winner will produce for his Appian Way company alongside Jennifer Davisson.

MGM scooped up the Scott Rosenberg-penned script in what we hear was a seven-figure deal. The Venom scribe will also executive produce Jim Jones.

Jones founded the Peoples Temple in Indianapolis in 1955, and hailed it as a fully integrated congregation promoting Christian Socialism. By the 1970s he openly rejected traditional Christianity and claimed that he was God. He constructed Jonestown in Guyana in 1974 and spurred a following to live with him there as he touted a socialist paradise free from U.S. government oppression.

Amid rumors of human rights abuses, the American...

The comedy recordings by legendary singer, actor, and filmmaker Rudy Ray Moore have been sold to the independent label 800 Pound Gorilla Records by his longtime manager Donald H. Randell. The deal was facilitated by SongVest, the online marketplace for buying and selling royalties.

The main Dolemite comedy catalog includes over 40 of the late comedian’s most famous recordings, as well as unreleased masters with outtakes from his comedy shows, instrumental tracks, and more. The albums include: “Eat Out More Often,” “The Dirty Dozen House Party,” “Greatest Hits,” “This Ain’t No White Christmas,” “Dolemite for President,” “Return of Dolemite-‘Superstar’,” “50 Years of Cussing,” “The Beatnik Scene,” “The Rudy Ray Moore Album: I Can’t Believe I Ate the Whole Thing,” “Live in Concert,” “The Player—The Hustler,” “Sweet Peeter Jeeter,” “The Turning Point,” “Close Encounter of the Sex Kind,” “The Sensuous Black Man” and many more.

Moore’s recordings, standup routines,...

Variety's Awards Circuit is home to the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars from Film Awards Editor Clayton Davis. Following Academy Awards history, buzz, news, reviews and sources, the Oscar predictions are updated regularly with the current year's contenders in all categories. Variety's Awards Circuit Prediction schedule consists of four phases, running all year long: Draft, Pre-Season, Regular Season and Post Season. Eligibility calendar and dates of awards will determine how long each phase lasts and will be displayed next to revision date.

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2021 Golden Globe Predictions:

Best Motion Picture – Animated

Updated: Feb. 24, 2021

Awards Prediction Commentary: The Golden Globes nominations were announced on Feb. 3, with Netflix’s “Mank” from David Fincher leading with six nods. As the ceremony approaches on Feb. 28, the categories have been analyzed to determine...

Variety's Awards Circuit is home to the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars from Film Awards Editor Clayton Davis. Following Academy Awards history, buzz, news, reviews and sources, the Oscar predictions are updated regularly with the current year's contenders in all categories. Variety's Awards Circuit Prediction schedule consists of four phases, running all year long: Draft, Pre-Season, Regular Season and Post Season. Eligibility calendar and dates of awards will determine how long each phase lasts and will be displayed next to revision date.

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2021 Golden Globe Predictions:

Best Motion Picture – Foreign Language

Updated: Feb. 24, 2021

Awards Prediction Commentary: The Golden Globes nominations were announced on Feb. 3, with Netflix’s “Mank” from David Fincher leading with six nods. As the ceremony approaches on Feb. 28, the categories have been analyzed to...

Variety's Awards Circuit is home to the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars from Film Awards Editor Clayton Davis. Following Academy Awards history, buzz, news, reviews and sources, the Oscar predictions are updated regularly with the current year's contenders in all categories. Variety's Awards Circuit Prediction schedule consists of four phases, running all year long: Draft, Pre-Season, Regular Season and Post Season. Eligibility calendar and dates of awards will determine how long each phase lasts and will be displayed next to revision date.

To see all the latest predictions, of all the categories, in one place, visit The Collective

Draft>>>Pre Season>>>Regular Season>>>Post Season

2021 Golden Globe Predictions:

Best Actress In A Supporting Role In A Motion Picture

Updated: Feb. 24, 2021

Awards Prediction Commentary: The Golden Globes nominations were announced on Feb. 3, with Netflix’s “Mank” from David Fincher leading with six nods. As the ceremony approaches on Feb. 28, the...

Variety's Awards Circuit is home to the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars from Film Awards Editor Clayton Davis. Following Academy Awards history, buzz, news, reviews and sources, the Oscar predictions are updated regularly with the current year's contenders in all categories. Variety's Awards Circuit Prediction schedule consists of four phases, running all year long: Draft, Pre-Season, Regular Season and Post Season. Eligibility calendar and dates of awards will determine how long each phase lasts and will be displayed next to revision date.

To see all the latest predictions, of all the categories, in one place, visit The Collective

Draft>>>Pre Season>>>Regular Season>>>Post Season

2021 Golden Globe Predictions:

Best Actress In A Motion Picture (Comedy Or Musical)

Updated: Feb. 24, 2021

Awards Prediction Commentary: The Golden Globes nominations were announced on Feb. 3, with Netflix’s “Mank” from David Fincher leading with six nods. As the ceremony approaches on Feb. 28, the categories...

Who’s leading in the Oscars and where is it all trending? The question that’s examined ad nauseam in this extended and unusual year of cinema. Depending on your reading on the awards season temperature, you can find the reading on which films could lead in the final nomination tally. One of the main strategies from awards publicists and studios is gain as much support from each branch, most notably the technical artisans.

In the 92 years of the Academy Awards, the film that has led the nominations has won best picture 58 times. In that history, there have only been seven films that went home empty-handed, most recently with 2013’s “American Hustle” from David O. Russell, going zero for 10. Before that, you have to go back to 1983’s “The Color Purple” from Steven Spielberg, who, along with 1977’s “The Turning Point,” is among the biggest “losers” netting nil of their 11 nominations.

Can there still be any justification for calling Justin Timberlake an under-the-radar movie talent? Sure, he has an Oscar nomination — but it’s for the “Trolls” soundtrack. Meanwhile, he’s been racking up solid acting credits for years, yet every time he turns in another strong performance, people are newly surprised.

Fisher Stevens’ earnest small-town tale “Palmer” — streaming on Apple TV+ — is unlikely to earn Timberlake any awards, but it is another reminder that he’s got the potential for loftier dramatic ambitions.

What “Palmer” is, in every sense of the word, is decent. It’s familiar, and predictable, and a little bit hokey. But it’s also genuinely moving and surprisingly memorable, thanks to its two leads.

Watch Video: 'Palmer' Trailer: Justin Timberlake Plays an Ex-Con Turned Father Figure

The first, of course, is Timberlake, as ex-felon Eddie Palmer. Palmer’s been in prison for 12 long years...

Justin Timberlake gives the strongest performance of his acting career in Palmer. He plays an ex-con that bonds with a transgender child after returning to his rural Louisiana home. Palmer has an exceedingly predictable narrative, but is powerfully dramatic and incisive. The film confronts multiple difficult themes with a thoughtful, sensitive approach. Palmer doesn't offer many twists or turns, but leaves a solid impression. Its message of redemption and understanding is certainly heartfelt.

Eddie Palmer (Justin Timberlake) is freed after twelve years in a federal prison. He returns to live with his grandmother, Vivian (June Squibb), in the small Louisiana town of his youth. Vivian rents a trailer on her land to Shelly (Juno Temple), a promiscuous drug addict and ne'er-do-well. Shelly has a young son, Sam (Ryder Allen), who wants to be a princess. Vivian cares for Sam when Shelly disappears with various men on her drug-fueled benders.

Palmer...

Two years after John Ireland (“All the King’s Men”) became the first supporting Oscar nominee to deliver a longer performance than a lead nominee from the same film (Broderick Crawford) in 1949, Kim Hunter (“A Streetcar Named Desire”) did the same versus Marlon Brando. Since then, nine more Best Supporting Actress nominees have had higher screen time totals than a co-star nominated in a lead rce. Here is a look at each instance, in order from lowest screen time difference to highest.

1961: Mary Ure (“Sons and Lovers”) – 21 minutes, 4 seconds

0 minutes, 50 seconds over Trevor Howard

Although she is absent from nearly all of the first half of “Sons and Lovers,” Ure still manages to appear in over 20% of the film. Up to that point, less than half of all Best Supporting Actress-nominated performances had reached that mark. Howard’s performance, on the other hand, did not reach that percentage, but he received a lead nomination regardless.

Last year we watched as Renee Zellweger followed the yellow brick road all the way to the Wizard of Oscar as Judy Garland in “Judy.” Can lightning (or a tornado) strike two years in a row? That’s surely the hope of Andra Day, looking like a strong Best Actress Oscar contender for her title role in “The United States vs. Billie Holiday.” Like Garland, Holiday rose to stardom in the late 1930s. She also had multiple marriages, faced financial woes and struggled with drugs and alcohol. The question is: can the role in this Hulu release deliver the Oscar to Day?

Before making a decision, keep in mind that the academy has a long history of recognizing actresses for portraying other actresses or entertainers. And the more drama, trauma and tragedy the better. Even raging and hysterical divas are welcome. Let’s look back at some prime and primadonna examples from Oscar’s history.

In “Living Water,” the feature doc debut of Czech anthropologist Pavel Borecky, the forces of tradition and progress, conservation and recklessness are at war in the otherwise remarkably peaceful state of Jordan. The film makes its world premiere in the Testimonies section of the Ji.hlava Film Festival, which runs Oct. 27-Nov. 8.

With a long tradition of accepting refugees, including hundreds of thousands from Syria of late, the desert country finds itself set on a new path by Hashemite King Abdullah II, who dreams of turning the port city of Aqaba into the next Dubai. This, of course, will require rivers of fresh, clean water, a vital resource that’s increasingly scarce as farmers in villages of the vast Wadi Rum desert, developers and others drill down through a pre-historic aquifer, the Disi.

“I tried to structure the film around seasons,” says Borecky, who spent a year filming desert locations,...

As part of our newly updated survey of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, we’re publishing a series of pieces on the making and impact of key records from the list. Bob Dylan’s Blood on the Tracks came in at number nine. The following piece was originally published in a Dylan special issue in 2015.

In the spring of 1974, Dylan returned to Carnegie Hall, where he’d first played a small recital hall in 1961, just days after signing with Columbia. But it wasn’t music that brought him there.