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Peacock has picked up the missing-person thriller My Son, starring James McAvoy and Claire Foy.

The STXfilms pic, an English-language remake of the hit French thriller Mon Garcon, will stream for free on the NBCUniversal streaming platform beginning Sept. 15. My Son follows a man (McAvoy) whose only son goes missing, which leads him to the town where his ex-wife (Foy) lives to find answers.

McAvoy was not given a script or dialogue, as was the case in the French film. He was aware of basic aspects of his character’s story and improvised and reacted to each moment as it unfolded. The rest of the cast ...

From today productions can receive compensation from the scheme for future Coronavirus-related losses.

The UK’s long-awaited £500m Film and TV Production Restart Scheme has officially gone live after it secured state aid approval from the European Union.

From today (October 16), productions can receive compensation from the scheme for future coronavirus-related losses including filming delays from illness amongst the cast and crew.

The scheme has been accepting early applications for two weeks, with productions set to be onboarded within days.

The deadline for productions to register and start shooting has also been extended from December 2020 until February 28, 2021.

The funding will...

From today productions can receive compensation from the scheme for future Coronavirus-related losses.

The UK’s long-awaited £500m Film and TV Production Restart Scheme has officially gone live after it secured state aid approval from the European Union.

From today (October 16), productions can receive compensation from the scheme for future coronavirus-related losses including filming delays from illness amongst the cast and crew.

The scheme has been accepting early applications for two weeks, with productions set to be onboarded within days.

The deadline for productions to register and start shooting has also been extended from December 2020 until February 28, 2021.

The funding will...

It has been confirmed that Benedict Cumberbatch’s ‘Doctor Strange’ will make an appearance in ‘Spider-Man 3’ alongside Tom Holland.

With Cumberbatch reprising his role of the New York-based Strange, it is thought that he will take on the mentorship of young Peter Parker now that Tony Stark has passed on and Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury.

With the casting of Cumberbatch and the recent addition of bringing back Jamie Foxx’s Electro, the role he played in 2014’s ‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2’, it is thought that Sony’s Spider-verse will heavily lean into the McU’s Multiverse.

Also in news – James McAvoy and Claire Foy to lead thriller ‘My Son’

The third ‘Spider-Man’ movie is set to begin production in Atlanta with director Jon Watts in November. Zendaya, Marisa Tomei, Jacob Batalon and Tony Revolori are all expected to reprise their roles from the previous two films.

Cumberbatch...

Split and X-Men: Days of Future Past star James McAvoy will be putting his talents to the ultimate test in an upcoming remake of the French thriller My Son. McAvoy has now signed up to lead the missing person drama, but, and here's the interesting bit, the actor will not be given a script or any lines of dialogue, and will instead improvise his way through the movie's narrative in real-time.

But, the intrigue does not stop there, as McAvoy's co-stars, which includes The Crown and The Girl in the Spider's Web star Claire Foy, will have received scripts and therefore know exactly where the story is going while James McAvoy blindly navigates his way through the plot's many twists and turns.

The original My Son, titled Mon Garçon, which was released in 2017 had a similar approach, with lead actor Guillaume Canet finding himself in the same position as McAvoy is about to.

James McAvoy (It: Chapter Two) is slated to star in My Son for STXfilms, a missing person thriller that will be a remake of the 2017 French movie Mon GARÇON directed by Christian Carion, but as an added twist, McAvoy will be the only member of the cast who won't be given a script or dialogue; That's certainly an interesting concept. My Son will find James McAvoy…...

The actor will star as the parent of a missing boy – with everyone but him knowing the script, as he attempts to solve the mystery in real-time

One of the biggest thrills of screen detectives is the knowledge that you are watching someone much smarter than you. When Sherlock Holmes vanishes into his mind palace to stitch together dozens of ostensibly unrelated clues into an undeniable truth, or when Columbo doggedly wears down an exasperated murderer to the point of confession, it is comforting to see their expertise deployed with such ease.

But such thrills aren’t for James McAvoy. For James McAvoy has just been signed up to star in My Son, where James McAvoy the actor has to solve a mystery without any help from anyone else. He will not be given a script. He will not be given any dialogue. In My Son, McAvoy will essentially just...

James McAvoy and Claire Foy will lead the English adaptation of the French thriller ‘My Son’.

French director Christian Carion will direct the adaptation, he also directed the French original, ‘Mon Garçon’ in 2017.

McAvoy will play the father whose son goes missing, leading him to travel to the town where his ex-wife (Foy) lives in search of answers to the mystery.

To play a man who doesn’t know what’s ahead of him, McAvoy will not be given a script or dialogue. Instead, he will improvise on set as each scene unfolds, as was the case in the original French film, with the rest of the cast and crew for the English language remake being aware of the scenes.

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“James will be doing the detective work of the film in real-time, on camera, to create real tension for this thriller.

James McAvoy (Split, The Chronicles of Narnia, Wanted) is set to star in a new version of My Son, a French missing person thriller which initially came out in 2017. Here’s the interesting part: McAvoy won’t be given a script or any lines of dialogue, so he’ll essentially be blindly making his way through the narrative in […]

The post ‘My Son’: James McAvoy Will Improv His Way Through a Missing Person Thriller appeared first on /Film.

Depending on your thoughts about English-language remakes, you’re either going to love or hate this news. According to ErosSTX, the production company is set to make an English-language remake of the French thriller, “My Son.” But there is some hope, as the cast and crew of the feature seem to point to a worthwhile retelling.

STXFilms will produce and distribute a new version of the French film “My Son,” with the original film’s director, Christian Carion returning to direct.

Continue reading ‘My Son’: James McAvoy & Claire Foy To Star In Improvised, Real-Time Thriller at The Playlist.

Production set for early November in Scotland.

STXfilms will finance and produce the English-language remake of French thriller My Son to star James McAvoy and Claire Foy.

STX will distribute in North America, UK, Italy, Benelux, Latin America, Spain, Australia, and China, while Mad River International handles sales on the outstanding territories.

Christian Carion directed the French film and will reprise his role on the remake about a man who visits his ex-wife in search of answers after their son goes missing.

To heighten the character’s sense of disorientation, McAvoy will not receive a script. Instead, armed with an overall awareness of the story,...

James McAvoy and Claire Foy are set to star in STX's English-language remake of the French thriller My Son, but the actors won't quite be on equal footing, as McAvoy will be in the dark, so to speak. McAvoy will play a man whose only son goes missing, so he goes to visit his ex-wife (Foy) in search of answers. To enhance the protagonist's mysterious and confusing circumstances, McAvoy will not be given a script or any dialogue, as was the case in the original 2017 French film starring Guillaume Canet. Instead, McAvoy will only …...

James McAvoy and Claire Foy will star in the upcoming English-language remake of the French thriller “My Son.” STXfilms has bought the worldwide rights to the film.

McAvoy will portray a man whose only son goes missing, leading to him travel to the town where his ex-wife (Foy) lives in search of answers. To play a man whose life is clouded by mystery, McAvoy will not be given a script or dialogue, so his character will only be aware of basic aspects of his story, and he will have to improvise and react to each moment as it unfolds. The rest of the cast and crew will be aware of the scenes.

The original film was released in 2017 with Christian Carion directing and Guillaume Canet starring in McAvoy’s role an absentee father searching for his kidnapped son in the mountains of southeast France. Carion has been attached to direct the English-language version,...

STXfilms has closed the rights for an English-language remake of the hit French thriller My Son, with James McAvoy and Claire Foy set to star. The film will be directed by Christian Carion, who also directed the French film. The pic is eyeing a November start in Scotland.

STX has locked distribution rights for North America, the UK, Italy, Benelux, Latin America, Spain, Australia and China.

In My Son, when a man’s (McAvoy) only son goes missing, he travels to the town where his ex-wife (Foy) lives in search of answers. To play a man whose life is clouded by mystery, McAvoy will not be given a script or dialogue, as was the case in the French film. The character will only be aware of basic aspects of his story, and will have to improvise and react to each moment as it unfolds. The rest of the cast and...

James McAvoy and Claire Foy will star in a thriller about a father’s missing child called “My Son” for STXfilms that’s an English-language remake of the 2017 French film of the same name, the studio announced Monday.

Christian Carion, who directed the original “My Son” starring Guillaume Canet and Mélanie Laurent, will also direct McAvoy and Foy in the remake. STX has closed the rights to distribute the film in North America and the UK, as well as Italy, Benelux, Latin America, Spain, Australia and China.

“My Son” stars McAvoy as a man searching for his missing son in the town where his ex-wife (Foy) now lives. But McAvoy will go about filming the project in an unusual way: he will not be given a script or dialogue, only the basic aspects of the story, and he will have to improvise and react to reach moment as it unfolds,...

Claire Foy and James McAvoy are set to star in My Son, the missing person thriller from ErosSTX Global Corp. and a remake of the 2017 French movie Mon Garçon (My Son).

French director Christian Carion will direct the English-language adaptation for STXfilms after he helmed the original French thriller that starred Guillaume Canet as a father doing anything to get his young boy back.

The My Son remake will see McAvoy play a father whose son goes missing, leading him to travel to the town where his ex-wife (Foy) lives in search of answers to the mystery.

To play a man who ...

Claire Foy and James McAvoy are set to star in My Son, the missing person thriller from ErosSTX Global Corp. and a remake of the 2017 French movie Mon Garçon (My Son).

French director Christian Carion will direct the English-language adaptation for STXfilms after he helmed the original French thriller that starred Guillaume Canet as a father doing anything to get his young boy back.

The My Son remake will see McAvoy play a father whose son goes missing, leading him to travel to the town where his ex-wife (Foy) lives in search of answers to the mystery.

To play a man who ...

The Kid Detective, Escape Room 2 also move.

Sony Pictures has moved up the Screen Gems Milla Jovovich and Tony Jaa action thriller Monster Hunter from April 23, 2021, to December 30 of this year.

The studio also said on Monday (October 5) that Escape Room 2 has been moved from December 30 2020 to an unset future date, while Stage 6 Films’ recent TIFF Industry Selects entry The Kid Detective will open on October 16 this year.

Paul W.S. Anderson adapted the video game adaptation Monster Hunter starring his wife and Resident Evil lead Jovovich in the story of a scratch team that battles alien beings. Tony...

The Asian Film Awards Academy has decided to announce the winners online on October 14.

Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite leads the nominations for this year’s Asian Film Awards (Afa) – hosted by Busan International Film Festival and the first to be held outside of Hong Kong and Macau – with ten nominations including best film and best director.

The Asian Film Awards Academy (Afaa), comprising the Hong Kong, Tokyo and Busan international film festivals, announced during last year’s Busan that the 14th Afa ceremony would be held in the South Korean city this year. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the organisers...

After seeing Jimmy Wang Yu in so many swordplay wuxia movies, it’s a bit odd to see him in a suit, without a sword, living in a big modern brick house and driving a convertible sports car. “My Son” is an early 70s song and dance, family tragedy about an angry young man, Yang Kuo Liang (Jimmy Wang Yu), the rebel son of Detective Yang.

Kuo Liang lives with his father whom he blames for the death of his mother. The two of them are forever arguing and behaving like enemies. He doesn’t have a job, spends his time playing pool in night clubs and gets into fights all the time. Actually he behaves like a spoiled kid with no future. One night, he rescues Mei Lin (Margaret Hsing Hui), a young girl, from being raped and they become worthy friends. Mei Lin comes from a poor family,...

German cinema looks set for an exciting year with forthcoming works that include a high-profile Cannes selection celebrating one of Germany’s most iconic filmmakers, an expressionistic thriller set in 1920s Vienna, a tale of Nazi seduction and a new Thomas Mann adaptation.

The Covid-19 pandemic dashed the excitement of a splashy Cannes premiere for Oskar Roehler’s “Enfant Terrible,” part of the festival’s Official Selection, but the film is nevertheless certain to generate buzz with its portrayal of legendary filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and his turbulent film career that spanned 1969 to 1982.

In making the film, Roehler found inspiration in Fassbinder’s own work.

“We didn’t want to do your standard biopic,” says producer Markus Zimmer, managing director of Bavaria Filmproduktion. “I think we did come very close to what Fassbinder would have made out of his own life. We tried to be in line with the artistic...

Pre-recorded presentations are being shown in three time zones.

The projects under discussion at the two-day schedule of presentations at the Us agency-led Cannes virtual market has been announced.

Pre-recorded presentations are being shown in three time zones and visitors click on the zone that best corresponds to their region: Los Angeles, Cannes, and Tokyo.

Monday’s sessions included: AGC Studio’s The Blacksmith; Wild Bunch International’s Armageddon Time; HanWay Film’s Peggy Jo; Pathé’s Notre Dame On Fire; FilmNation’s Faster Cheaper Better; Other Angle’s Lives In Secret; WestEnd Films’ Mr. Malcolm’s List; and Archstone Entertainment’s Bonzai Shadowhands.

Sales agent Beta Cinema is launching its Cannes Market slate, which is headlined by psychological thriller “Corvidae,” with a playful and novel approach. The company has produced an entertainment show, in the style of a late-night chatshow, featuring its sales team pitching its films and presenting exclusive clips from them. Variety has been given an exclusive sneak peek at the show before it goes live on Friday.

Beta Cinema CEO Dirk Schürhoff is the charismatic host of chatshow “The Beta Cinema Show,” filmed at the company’s offices in Oberhaching, near Munich, while Thorsten Ritter, exec VP acquisitions, sales and marketing, leads the house band on electric guitar. Its sales executives beam in their reports from around the world, while the kangaroo from the hit film “The Kangaroo Chronicles” assists. The tone is fun and tongue-in-cheek, but it’s a serious attempt to add a bit of showbiz pizzazz to the virtual market format.

Jan Howard, a 49-year member of the Grand Ole Opry and a chart-topping country singer, died Saturday in Gallatin, Tennessee, according to a statement from the Opry. She was 91.

Born Lula Grace Johnson in West Plains, Missouri, in 1930, she was the eighth of 11 children, two of whom died before reaching the age of two. After dropping out of high school, Howard married at 16 but soon divorced and moved to Los Angeles. There, she would meet Wynn Stewart, one of the architects of the Bakersfield Sound. She would also meet her second husband,...

The Academy has finally caught up with the outside world – its task now is to avoid returning to its insular ways

After years of upholding the values of mainstream-prestige dullness and having cultivated a habit of rewarding mediocrity and conformity, the Oscars have made a bold and brilliant choice. Hooray for the good taste of Hollywood. Best picture, best director and best international feature have gone to a movie that really deserves it, a film from beyond the Los Angeles parish pump. Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite from South Korea is the stunningly clever and powerful upstairs-downstairs satire of a predatory family moving into a wealthy household, and in so doing revealing the dual dysfunction of both the master and servant family groups and the unhappiness of wider society, disclosing a new 21st-century serfdom.

I admit that on a purely subjective level, I had been rooting for Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman,...

The American Society of Cinematographers said Thursday that it will give this year’s Board of Governors Award to Werner Herzog. The prolific writer-director and occasional actor (Disney+’s The Mandalorian) will be honored January 25 at the 34th annual Asc Awards for Outstanding Achievement at Hollywood & Highland’s Ray Dolby Ballroom.

The Asc Board of Governors Award is given to industry stalwarts whose body of work has made significant and indelible contributions to cinema. It is reserved for filmmakers who have been champions for directors of photography and the visual art form.

The German-born Herzog has produced, written, and directed more than 70 feature and documentary films, with Oscar nominations for his documentary Encounters at the End of the World (2009) and an Emmy nom for Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997).

His credits at the vanguard of German cinema along with fellow filmmakers Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Volker Schlöndorff include Aguirre, the Wrath of God...

Wang Xiaoshaui's So Long, My Son is Mubi Go's Film of the Week of December 6, 2019.Coming to international attention in 2001 with his social drama Beijing Bicycle, Chinese director Wang Xiaoshuai has been on the rise ever since. His latest film, So Long, My Son (2019), premiered at the Berlinale in an edition marked by a couple of films pulled out at the last-minute films by China. Surprisingly, So Long, My Son was granted the “dragon seal”—the Chinese mark of censorship approval—and started scooping prizes for its leading couple’s staggering performances. A graciously elaborated, time-leaping tale of loss and friendship, So Long, My Son attempts to catalogue all the political and cultural changes China went through in over the last three decades. Opening on the dramatic apparent death by drowning of Yaojun (Wang Jingchun) and Liyun’s (Yong Mei) son Xingxing while playing at a reservoir with his best friend Haohao,...

Cannes — Sao Paulo-based Boutique Filmes, which burst onto the international scene producing Netflix’s first big international hit, “3%,”is bringing to Mipcom a powerful slate of five new series projects.

Boutique’s Mipcom slate packs significant industry news. Wild Bunch TV, for example, has boarded “Gama,” one of the top new titles. John Brownlow has written the scripts to “Ratlines.”

At the same time, the slate says much about he ambitions of Boutique’s Filmes, which also has four series in development with Wild Sheep Content, the new company of Erik Barmack, Netflix’s former global originals head.

Like other iconic Netflix global hits from international producers, “3%” was seen by more viewers outside than inside Brazil. Headed at Mipcom by “Ratlines,” “Gama” and “Rota 66,” Boutique’s first slate retains that international punch – in creatives, characters, industry partners and appeal. Now in its fourth and final season, “3%” is sci-fi dystopia thriller.

By the second half of the 20th century, country music was big business. Radio, records, television and movies all played a part in its popularity, but its artists and its songs were still at the forefront, even as profits soared or slumped. The second half of Ken Burns’ Country Music begins in 1964 and runs through the mid-Nineties, exploring everything from the rise of the Bakersfield Sound to the pop-country explosion of the Seventies, right up to Garth Brooks’ unprecedented approach to superstardom. Rolling Stone Country looks at 10 key moments from...

Telluride and Toronto documentary The Biggest Little Farm by John Chester reaped a solid start over the weekend with the best per theater average in the three-day. The Neon release grossed an estimated $101K in five theaters, averaging $20,202. The PTA is the highest of Neon’s three 2019 non-fiction releases, though Apollo 11 went out in a comparatively wider 120 locations in its debut for $1.6M in its launch weekend, averaging $13,929. Apollo 11 has totaled $8.64M.

Amazing Grace played a December weekend in three theaters before its April start for the title’s regular theatrical run. It has cumed $3.28M to date.

Kenneth Branagh-directed historical drama All Is True bowed in four theaters for $46,809 in four locations, averaging $11,702, the second best of the specialty reporting specialty newcomers. Other debuts had below five-figure PTAs. Kino Lorber’s Pasolini starring Willem Dafoe played...

While working on studio projects, Kenneth Branagh had also been pursuing a more ‘indie’ project with All Is True, returning to his longtime interest in Shakespeare. Starring Branagh along with Judi Dench and Ian McKellen, the filmmaker/actor called up his pals at Sony Classics about taking on the title, which it opens stateside this weekend. Following doc hits Apollo 11 and Amazing Grace, Neon is going for three with the Friday release of documentary The Biggest Little Farm, which debuted in Telluride last fall. IFC Films is opening crime biodrama Charlie Says by director Mary Harron and starring Matt Smith and Hannah Murray in the top 25 markets this weekend ahead of its on-demand availability beginning May 17, while Cohen Media Group is out with French-language drama My Son starring Guillaume Canet in New York and L.A.

Other limited releases include Kino Lorber’s Pasolini from Abel Ferrara, starring Willem Dafoe...

Director Christian Carion and his frequent star Guillaume Canet show off their very particular sets of skills in “My Son” (“Mon garçon”), a polished, if mechanical, vigilante thriller that attempts to combine the psychological deep dive of Denis Villeneuve’s “Prisoners” with the adrenaline shot of Pierre Morel’s “Taken.” Falling well short of those superior films, this limited-release offering — which did modest business when it opened in France back in 2017 — squanders a compelling performance by top-billed Canet, playing an absentee father searching for his kidnapped son in the mountains of southeast France. Themes of parental guilt and the effects of broken families on children are hinted at early but discarded in favor of genre pleasures, which Carion provides to increasingly formulaic effect.

“My Son” is Carion’s fifth feature and his first in a contemporary setting since his 2001 César-nominated debut, “The Girl from Paris.” Since then, he’s tackled World War I,...

The French thriller “My Son” is about a missing boy, an absentee dad, and a welcome lack of affectation in selling its unnerving premise. Less a vigilante explosion à la “Taken” than a methodical suspense flick built around Guillaume Canet’s character’s turbulent reaction to an in-the-moment tragedy, it might roil those who prefer their cinematic hunts to be speckled with Neeson-esque catchphrases and choreographed violence.

This one’s moodier and messier. But in its modest, stripped-down way, it’s a worthy cousin to the genre stalwarts, anchored in the unvarnished power of Canet’s performance, and the no-nonsense approach to Christian Carion’s direction.

We meet Julien (Canet) as he’s driving into the snow-capped mountains of eastern France, having just received word from his distraught ex-wife Marie (Mélanie Laurent) that their 7-year-old son Mathys (Lino Papa) has gone missing from a nature camp in the dead of night.

"How far would you go to bring your child home?" Cohen Media Group has released an official Us trailer for the French thriller My Son, originally titled Mon Garçon in French (which just translates to My Son). This premiered in 2017 in France, but is just now finally getting a theatrical release in the Us starting in Los Angeles next month. Guillaume Canet plays a man in the midst of a failing marriage. One day he receives a distressing message from his ex-wife that their seven-year-old son has disappeared while at camp, which sends him on a dark path to find out the truth. Director Christian Carion "places long-time collaborator Guillaume Canet in unique shooting conditions to create this searing portrait of a man out of control, a father forced into violence by his desire to protect his son." This also stars Mélanie Laurent, Olivier de Benoist, and Mohamed Brikat. It's...

One of the most exciting plots used in film revolves around the desperation that leads people to do things they never would have in search of their missing child. Denis Villeneuve tackled the plot beautifully with his film “Prisoners.” One of Mel Gibson’s most iconic roles comes from a similar film, “Ransom.” And now, filmmaker Christian Carion keeps the tradition alive with the new French thriller “My Son.”

In honor of the film’s upcoming May release, we’re thrilled to present an exclusive look at the trailer for “My Son.” As described above, the film follows the extreme lengths that one father will go to find his missing 7-year-old son after he disappears while at camp.

Continue reading ‘My Son’ Exclusive Trailer: Guillaume Canet & Mélanie Laurent Search For Their Missing Son In New Thriller at The Playlist.

It beat ‘Shazam!’ into second place.

Hong Kong crime thriller P Storm fought off DC’s latest superhero film Shazam! for the top spot over the long weekend created by the Qingming (tomb-sweeping) holiday on April 5.

As it is not always a tradition to have a Friday opening in China, several new titles received a staggered release to take advantage of the Qingming holiday, with India’s Andhadhun opening on April 3, P Storm and Lou Ye’s The Shadow Play on April 4 and Shazam! on April 5.

Thanks largely to the Qingming weekend, the first week of April (April 1-7) enjoyed...

Ticket sales dropped 35 percent week-on-week.

The last week of March (March 25-31) suffered a heavy drop in ticket sales of 35% week-on-week making it the second-quietest week in 2019 so far, behind the traditionally slow pre-Chinese New Year week only.

Although February was the biggest single month in a single market, overall the first quarter of 2019 turned out to be a sluggish one at the China box office. Gross box office receipts fell by 8% to $2.8bn compared to the same period in 2018. The months of January and March were each down 20% year-on-year.

In such a slow week, Song Of Youth emerged as...

The world premiere of Hong Kong thriller Bodies at Rest, starring Nick Cheung and Richie Jen, and directed by Finnish filmmaker Renny Harlin, has been announced as the opening film of the 43rd Hong Kong International Film Festival. Francois Ozon’s Berlin Grand Jury Prize winner By the Grace of God will close the festival, which runs from 18 March until 1 April 2019. Other Berlin favourites, including Nadav Lapid’s Golden Bear winner Synonyms, and Best Director winner Angela Schanelec’s I Was at Home, But… will also feature, although Wang Xiaoshuai’s So Long, My Son, which bagged both the Best Actor and Best Actress trophies, is notably absent. Best known for Hollywood action thrillers Die Hard 2, Cliffhanger and The Long Kiss Goodnight, Renny...

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It’s the Oscar record no one wants on their resume. With Amy Adams‘ loss at the 91st Academy Awards for “Vice,” she now ties Deborah Kerr and Thelma Ritter as the three actresses with six Oscar nominations and no wins. Unfortunately, Glenn Close tops them all with seven Oscar misfires; she lost on Sunday to Olivia Colman (“The Favourite”). Among male actors, Richard Burton (seven noms) and Peter O’Toole (eight bids) are the record-holders. Click through our photo gallery above for a closer look at Adams’ six Oscar nominations.

See 2019 Oscars: Full list of winners (and losers) at the 91st Academy Awards [Updating Live]

For her role as Lynne Cheney, devoted wife of Vice President Dick Cheney, Adams earned her latest bid for Best Supporting Actress. Her co-nominees this time around were Marina de Tavira (“Roma”), Regina King (“If Beale Street Could Talk”), Emma Stone (“The Favourite”) and Rachel Weisz...

‘Buoyancy’.

Rodd Rathjen’s debut feature Buoyancy has been awarded a prize from the Ecumenical Jury after its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival.

Representing Interfilm and Signis, the international film organisations of the Protestant and Catholic Churches, the jury honours the directors whose films succeed in portraying actions or human experiences that are in keeping with the Gospels or in sensitising viewers to spiritual, human or social values.

Rathjen won a cash prize of €2,500 for the drama set in rural Cambodia which follows 14-year-old Chakra (Sarm Heng), who sets off to escape his family’s poverty but is enslaved aboard a Thai fishing trawler. Squalor and cruelty threaten to crush his spirit but he finds the courage to break the chains.

Out of 45 titles from 38 countries which screened in the festival’s Panorama section, the jury chose Buoyancy as an exquisitely-crafted debut feature which serves as an...

By The Grace Of God wins the Silver Bear, while Yong Mei and Wang Jingchun take the acting Bears for Wang Xiaoshuai’s So Long, My Son.

Nadiv Lapid’s Synonymes won the Golden Bear for best film at Dieter Kosslick’s 18th and final outing as Berlin’s festival director at the Berlinale Palast tonight (Feb 16).

It’s the first time in the Berlinale’s history that an Israeli director has won the Golden Bear. The film is a French-Israeli-German co-production.

Lapid dedicated the award to his late mother, the editor Ara Lapid, who he described as his “most...

Deborah Kerr would’ve celebrated her 97th birthday on September 30, 2018. With six Oscar bids to her name, the Scottish-born thespian is one of the most celebrated performers of all time. However, she never actually won one of those little gold statuettes, giving her the dubious distinction of tying Thelma Ritter and Glenn Close as the most nominated actress without a victory. Still, she must’ve done something right to rack up all that Academy recognition. In honor of her birthday, let’s take a look back at 15 of her greatest films, ranked worst to best.

Born in 1921, Kerr got her start on the London stage before appearing in her first film when she was just 20-years-old: “Major Barbara” (1941). She had her big break two years later in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger‘s epic “The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp” (1943). Kerr reunited with the filmmaking duo for “Black Narcissus...

At the start of April, a spattering of American and French journalists gathered, Champagne in hand, at the home of French consul general to Los Angeles Christophe Lemoine for the lineup announcement of the 22nd City of Lights, City of Angels film festival, which kicks off tonight with Eric Barbier’s Romain Gary biopic “Promise at Dawn.” It was the perfect setting to announce a film about the French writer, a former Los Angeles consul general himself, who managed to keep one foot in his native land and another in Hollywood, through both his diplomatic appointment and his marriage to Jean Seberg. Colcoa has been striving to strike a similar balance for the past two decades.

Initially commissioned as the flagship project of the Franco-American Cultural Fund — a joint project among the MPAA, DGA, WGA and France’s Sacem — Colcoa provides a week’s worth of French film premieres in the middle of L.

Eric Barbier’s “Promise at Dawn” will headline the 2018 Colcoa French Film Festival on April 23, the Franco-American Cultural Fund announced Tuesday.

“Promise at Dawn” is an adaptation of French author Romain Gary’s autobiography that stars Pierre Niney and Charlotte Gainsbourg. The film will kick off the screenings of 37 new features and documentaries competing for the Colcoa Cinema Awards at the Directors Guild of America in Los Angeles. The event will present a record total of 86 films, TV shows, digital series, and virtual reality programs, 75 of which will be considered for the Colcoa awards throughout the week’s festivities, which will culminate on May 1.

Colcoa executive producer and artistic director Francois Truffart also announced that this year’s festival will set aside a day exclusively for screening first films made by female writers and directors. The day, titled “Focus on a Filmmaker Day,” will honor writer, director, and actor Melanie...

When a father’s little boy disappears in the snowy woods of eastern France, he embarks on a nail-biting crusade to get him back before it’s too late. Seen this one before?

From Taken to Prisoners to the recent Kidnap, there's been no shortage of movies depicting parents going out on a limb to save their children from imminent doom. And while My Son (Mon Garcon), which marks the latest collaboration between Joyeux Noel director Christian Carion and star Guillaume Canet, hardly deviates from formula, it’s got a nervously eerie feel to it that’s grounded in Canet’s gripping turn as ...

When a father’s little boy disappears in the snowy woods of eastern France, he embarks on a nail-biting crusade to get him back before it’s too late. Seen this one before?

From Taken to Prisoners to the recent Kidnap, there's been no shortage of movies depicting parents going out on a limb to save their children from imminent doom. And while My Son (Mon Garcon), which marks the latest collaboration between Joyeux Noel director Christian Carion and star Guillaume Canet, hardly deviates from formula, it’s got a nervously eerie feel to it that’s grounded in Canet’s gripping turn as ...