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Olivia Colman has enjoyed one of the most acclaimed acting runs of the past decade, winning an Oscar for “The Favorite” in 2019 and receiving nominations for “The Father” and “The Lost Daughter” in addition to playing Queen Elizabeth II on “The Crown.” But the English actress doesn’t feel like her compensation has caught up to her success.

In a new appearance on CNN’s “The Amanpour Hour,” Colman shared her thoughts about gender equality in Hollywood, explaining that she feels many actresses are still underpaid despite being larger box office draws than their male colleagues.

“Don’t get me started on the pay disparity, but male actors get paid more because they used to say they drew in the audiences,” Colman said. “And actually, that hasn’t been true for decades but they still like to use that as a reason to not pay women as much as their male counterparts.

Olivia Colman is opening up about the pay disparity in Hollywood and says that she would make way more money if she were a man.

The Oscar winner was a guest on CNN’s The Amanpour Hour, where she talked to host Christiane Amanpour about the inequalities in pay she experienced in the film and TV industry.

“Don’t get me started on the pay disparity, but male actors get paid more because they used to say they drew in the audiences,” the Oscar-winner star said. “And actually, that hasn’t been true for decades but they still like to use that as a reason to not pay women as much as their male counterparts.”

When Amanpour asked if she had pay disparity despite her multiple accolades in the industry starring in films like The Favorite and Accused, as well as television shows like The Crown, Broadchurch and Hearstopper.

“I...

Actress Emma Stone has made waves this year with her Oscar-nominated performance in the dark comedy Poor Things. The actress was universally lauded for her performance as Bella Baxter in the period comedy which also starred Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe, and Ramy Youssef. The film was directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, who collaborated with Stone again after The Favorite.

Emma Stone has been nominated thrice before, winning Best Actress once for La La Land. This time, Stone shares the nominations with actresses such as Lily Gladstone, Sandra Huller, Carey Mulligan, and Annette Bening. Despite her worldwide stardom, the Easy A star is reportedly not the richest actress in the nominations. That post reportedly goes to veteran actress Annette Bening, who is nominated for her role in Nyad.

Emma Stone Is Not The Richest Actress In This Year’s Best Actress Oscar Nominees Emma Stone in Poor Things

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As cinephiles, we're always looking for a new film to watch. With modern means to stream movies without a requirement for cable, we almost certainly have subscriptions to at least one major streaming provider. However, it can be difficult to predict what's coming to a certain streaming service, resulting in you missing out on a film you've wanted to watch. To help, we've compiled a directory of every movie coming to major streaming services in March 2024, including Netflix, Max, Disney+, Hulu, and Peacock.

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Here's every movie coming to Max in March 2024:

Deadpool — March 1

The Expendables I, II, & III — March 1

Scream I, II, & III — March 1

A Revolution on Canvas — March 5

Wonka — March 8

Vacation — March 13

Dream Scenario — March 15

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The 11-Oscar nominated saucy absurdist comedy, Poor Things, from Disney’s Searchlight, is hitting Hulu on March 7 days before the Oscar ceremony on March 10.

The news comes in the wake of the movie crossing the $100M mark at the global box office. As Deadline told you, Searchlight co-head David Greenbaum became President, Disney Live Action and 20th Century Studios recently, taking over for Sean Bailey who is departing the studio. Stateside, Poor Things which is from director Yorgos Lanthimos has almost made as much stateside as his previous Searchlight Oscar winning title, The Favorite, $32.9M to $34.3M — pretty good for an R-rated arthouse movie nowadays.

The movie, which stars and is produced by Emma Stone, features her as Bella Baxter (Stone), a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe). Under Baxter’s protection, Bella is eager to learn. Hungry for the worldliness she is lacking,...

“Playing Bella was unbelievable,” said Emma Stone of her character Bella Baxter in Poor Things.

“Bella falls in love with life itself, rather than a person. And she accepts the good and the bad in equal measure. And that really made me look at life differently. She has stayed with me,” Stone said accepting the Golden Globe for Best Female Actor, Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.

Bella is a Victorian woman brought back to life by a brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe). She grows restless under Baxter’s protection and runs off with a slick, debauched lawyer (Mark Ruffalo) on a whirlwind European adventure.

The reanimation appeared problematic, as Baxter had given Bella the brain of an infant. Stone’s comic physicality sees Bella lurch and sway. Her childlike bluntness sets her in opposition to the restrictions and prejudices of the times. As she comes to understand herself and the world,...

Emma Stone and Mark Ruffalo in Poor Things. Photo by Atsushi Nishijima. Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures. © 2023 Searchlight Pictures All Rights Reserved.

Smart, clever and inventive, Poor Things is described by the filmmakers as “the fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter (Emma Stone), a young woman brought back to life from the brink of death by the brilliant, daring scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe).” Based on the novel by the late Scottish author Alasdair Gray, director Lanthimos and scriptwriter Tony McNamara also reference Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein,” making this off-beat coming-of-age fantasy a kind of “feminist Frankenstein” that is part dark comedy, part adventure thriller and pure smart entertaining fantasy with an uplifting message.

Poor Things is a wild science fiction coming-of-age tale set in an alternate Victorian world that is part steam punk and part anachronistic fantasy from the writer/director who gave us The Favorite and The Lobster, Yorgos Lanthimos.

“Poor Things” Emma Stone is sure to get an Oscar nomination (she’s coming back to the Palm Springs International Film Festival for the Desert Palm Achievement Award) for her role in “Poor Things” from director Yorgos Lanthimos and co-starring Mark Ruffalo. But how is the rest of the film? Check out

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As “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour” continues to dominate the box office, one three-screen arthouse movie theater in Milwaukee will also show films starring several of Taylor Swift’s past boyfriends.

Cara Ogburn, artistic director of Oriental Theater overseer Milwaukee Film, brainstormed the idea in response to the requirement that theaters can only show “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour” Thursdays through Sundays.

“What if we show all Jake Gyllenhaal movies,” Ogburn, who was interviewed by The New York Times, recalled suggesting initially as a joke. “True counterprogramming.”

Thus next week, the theater will screen “Twilight” starring Taylor Lautner as werewolf Jacob Black, “Dunkirk” featuring Harry Styles formerly of the boyband “One Direction” and now doing just fine on his own as a solo musician and actor, “Crimson Peak” starring Tom Hiddleston before he took on the mantle of the MCU’s Lokie and several Jake Gyllenhaal features — “Zodiac,” “Enemy,” “Nocturnal Animals...

The winners for the 80th Venice International Film Festival are officially in, with Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things taking the coveted Golden Lion as the best film at the festival. Other winners include Italian director Matteo Garrone, as well as Priscilla actress Cailee Spaeny and Memory star Peter Sarsgaard.

Here is the list of major category winners from the Venice Film Festival:

Golden Lion: Poor Things by Yorgos Lanthimos

Grand Jury Prize: Evil Does Not Exist by Ryusuke Hamaguchi

Special Jury Prize: Green Border by Agnieszka Holland

Silver Lion: Matteo Garrone for Io capitano

Volpi Cup for Best Actress: Cailee Spaeny for Priscilla

Volpi Cup for Best Actor: Peter Sarsgaard for Memory

Golden Osella for Best Screenplay: Guillermo Calderón and Pablo Larraín for El Conde

Marcello Mastroianni Award: Seydou Sarr for Io capitano

Yorgos Lanthimos has won at the Venice Film Festival before, taking home the Best Screenplay award for Alps...

Peel back the layers of creature feature make-up and look beyond the gaudy, Gaudí-in-a-fishbowl sets, try to dim the swirling burlesque of guts and gore and pleasures of the flesh and you’ll find a rather classic – and classically appealing – Victorian coming-of-age tale at the center of Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Poor Things.”

That the film remains witty and wise throughout its most lurid stretches makes the Venice Golden Lion contender one of the year’s most unexpected heart-warmers. That the filmmakers lavish commensurate attention on all those bawdy embellishments also guarantees you a bloody good time along the way.

Reteaming with the director who pushed her to new highs in 2018’s “The Favorite,” Emma Stone outdoes herself with a role that deploys her (already considerable) comedic talent to superlative effect. As if born out of a mad-science experiment fusing “Frankenstein” with “Pygmalion,” her turn as Bella Baxter – a peculiar creation with the mind of an infant,...

There are plenty of intriguing titles vying for the Golden Lion at this year’s Venice Film Festival. But Yorgos Lanthimos‘ “Poor Things,” the director’s first film since 2018’s “The Favorite,” may be the most intriguing of all. Based on Alasdair Gray‘s 1992 novel of the same name, “Poor Things” stars Emma Stone as Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life by a scientist who, after running away with a lawyer, decides to explore life in all its freedom–including, especially, sexual freedom.

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A new image from Yorgos Lanthimos' upcoming film Poor Things has been released, giving audiences a first look at Margaret Qualley's character Felicity. The film, a re-imagining of the Frankenstein story, is set to hit theaters later this year, an adaption of the 1992 novel of the same name. Poor Things is the latest feature-length directorial effort from Lanthimos, following his much-acclaimed film The Favorite, which earned the director two Oscar nominations and won Olivia Colman her first.

Nicholas Hoult is rumored to play either Superman or Lex Luthor in Superman: Legacy, but one character suits his talents particularly well. Under the newly formed DC Studios, Superman: Legacy is set to be the kick-off movie of the Dcu, with the movie hitting theaters on July 11, 2025, and DC Studios co-ceo James Gunn is writing and directing the film. Casting is underway for the movie, with numerous names in contention to play Superman.

Among those reportedly under consideration to portray Superman is Nicholas Hoult, but rumors of his involvement in Superman: Legacy are unusually complex, with Hoult also being rumored to play Lex Luthor in the film. With Superman: Legacy's frontrunners including David Corenswet, Tom Brittney, and Andrew Richardson alongside Hoult, the latter's attachment to the project is the most open to speculation and theorizing. With that said, Hoult's preceding career and some other factors suggest that he would...

You may recognize Emma Stone from her charming presence in seminal films such as La La Land, Superbad, and Easy A. But what about the secret behind her success? What makes her so captivating and why does she stand out among other Hollywood stars?

Emma Stone is a curious case of infectious charm and biting wit. Her quick to perfection retorts lend her a certain edge that leaves us with wanting more. She has developed a unique ability to make people laugh and cry with her skilled and subtle delivery, making it natural for us to root for her characters.

In this piece, we will explore the life of Emma Stone and discover the special combination of charm mixed with gut-busting humor that has made her one of the most sought after stars in Hollywood today. Join us as we delve into the secrets behind this actress’s reign as...

“You never quite know what’s ahead,” admits “The Great” costume designer Sharon Long in our recent webchat. Starting a new season means the wardrobe department only has two scripts and a brief synopsis. Long adds, “There was somebody who I thought was going to die and they didn’t die. So, there’s a little bit of fast thinking and trying to sort out things. The actors are great. There’s a lot of collaboration and conversations that happen in fittings, so I don’t get too carried away with something.” Watch our exclusive video interview above.

“The Great” is billed as “an occasional true story” about the rise of Catherine the Great (Elle Fanning) in Russia during the 18th century. The comedy series is created by Tony McNamara, the Oscar-nominated writer of “The Favorite.” The third season of the series premieres May 12 on Hulu. Long explains, “There are...

The mark of a great television show — a truly great one — is when it becomes difficult to remember a time before it even existed. Such is the case with Tony McNamara's The Great, which follows the "Almost Entirely Untrue Story" of Catherine the Great (Elle Fanning) and her tempestuous marriage to Peter III (Nicholas Hoult). Even as this series has had its ups and downs throughout its previous seasons to date, it has come to be known for a bevy of enjoyable traits: unabashed irreverence, absurd humor, and delicious crassness that clashes with its beautiful and impressive production and costume design. While the upcoming third season (of which all episodes were provided for review) continues to lean into everything the show has built a reputation on — and then some — it also proves that The Great is capable of growing and maturing in new ways. Season 3 might be the series' darkest yet,...

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Nicholas Hoult may have stolen the hearts of teenagers everywhere with his portrayal of bad boy Tony Stonem in the UK series "Skins," but despite the show premiering in 2007, he hasn't actually ever watched it himself. The actor played the lead role in the first two seasons, but he told Tom Green on "Hits Radio Breakfast" that it's just too difficult for him to look back.

"I've never even watched it!" he admitted. "I've never watched it. Maybe at some point, I think it would be too painful for me to watch." The 33-year-old, who was on the show to promote his new supernatural horror comedy "Renfield," added that he rarely watches any of his work. "I don't enjoy watching myself. I feel like, I don't know, I shrink away from this. Maybe when I'm like 80? If I make it to 80 . . ."

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Hoult did...

For the past five years in a row, the BAFTA Awards have correctly predicted the Oscar winner for Best Adapted Screenplay, recognizing “Call Me by Your Name,” “BlacKkKlansman,” “Jojo Rabbit,” “The Father” and “Coda.” But that winning streak may have already hit a snag in 2023, as the frontrunner for the Oscar — Sarah Polley’s “Women Talking” — didn’t even earn a nomination on the other side of the Atlantic. In fact, only two of the five Oscar nominees overlap with the BAFTA lineup: “All Quiet on the Western Front” and “Living.” Even though the former is tied as the most nominated film in the British academy’s history with 14 citations, could “Living” and its Nobel laureate screenwriter Kazuo Ishiguro ultimately prevail?

Our collective users certainly think so, although it looks to be a tight race between the two contenders. According to our combined odds, “Living” holds the lead over “All Quiet” by fewer than 200 predictors.

Banijay Rights has closed further sales of “Marie Antoinette,” a dazzling costume drama created and written by Deborah Davis (“The Favorite”).

“Marie Antoinette” tells the story of the avant-garde young queen, played by Emilia Schüle. An Austrian noble, Marie Antoinette was married off to Louis-Auguste, the future king of France, while she was still a girl.

Produced by Banijay Studios France, Capa Drama and Les Gens, the series was picked up by Antenna Plus (Ant1+) in Greece, Ceska Televize in the Czech Republic, Directv in Latin America and Canada’s national public broadcaster CBC/Radio-Canada for CBC Gem (English)and Ici Télé and Ici Tou.tv (French).

The richly drawn series has also been acquired by RTÉ in Ireland, Sky Italia, Radio & Television Slovakia – Rtvs and Viaplay across all Nordic and Baltic countries and the Netherlands, among others.

Davis penned “Marie Antoinette” with Louise Ironside (“The Split”), Avril E. Russell (“All...

Canal+, France’s leading pay TV group, has signed distribution deals with Universal and Sony to ramp up its programming of U.S. movies.

Under the pact, Canal+ now has access to the studios’ new films six months after their releases, a spokesperson told Variety. Sony’s “Spiderman : No Way Home” is currently being broadcast on Canal+’s linear pay TV channels, along with its transactional VOD platform, My Canal.

The news was teased by Maxime Saada, Canal+ Group’s chair and CEO, during the company’s upbeat press conference on Sept. 14, which was held at their posh headquarters in Paris. Saada, who recently joined the management board of Vivendi, Canal Plus Group’s parent company, said the outfit already boasts partnerships with Fox, Disney and Warner, as well as Paramount.

Canal+ also has a six-month window on French movies. The company previously had to wait 9 months after the...

In Panama to shoot “The Stars at Noon,” French auteur Claire Denis spoke at an Iff Panama fest panel about shooting the film in Panama and her hallmark “instinctive” filmmaking.

With her were her two male actors, lead Joe Alwyn (“The Favorite”) and rising Panamanian thesp and former wrestler Nick Romano (“Kimura”), who plays a key secondary role. The panel was moderated by Iff Panama festival director Pituka Ortega Heilbron.

Based on the eponymous novel by Denis Johnson, “The Stars at Noon” is set in 1984 Nicaragua during the Sandinista-led revolution as it relates the unlikely romance between an enigmatic Englishman (Alwyn) and a willful American journalist, played by Margaret Qualley who’s just received great reviews for her performance in Netflix series “The Maid.” The two lovers are soon caught up in a perilous web of lies and conspiracies and forced to flee the country.

Qualley, who was supposed to be at the panel,...

The HBO Original four-episode limited series Landscapers, starring Emmy(R)-winner Olivia Colman and Emmy(R) nominee David Thewlis, debuts Monday, December 6 (9:00-10:00 p.m. Et/Pt) on HBO and will be available to stream on HBO Max. The three subsequent episodes will debut each Monday at the same […]

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The Emmy Awards are notorious for shocking wins that defy Gold derby odds and best guesswork from top pundits. But the 2021 Creative Arts ceremony instilled a false sense of security in awards-watcher’s forecasts after votes appeared to be united around a select few series. Emmy voters still had some shockers up their sleeves however. Even the clean sweep for Netflix’s “The Crown” didn’t play out as expected. Check out the top seven shocking moments of Emmys 2021, below.

Brett Goldstein fends off co-stars in Comedy Supporting Actor

Keenan Thompson had dominated our odds for the majority of the season, and Bowen Yang swooped in towards the end with a compelling narrative and viral “iceberg” sketch. So it seemed unlikely that Brett Goldstein could prevail, no matter how strong his series “Ted Lasso” looked. After all, he was nominated alongside three other co-stars in this category. How would voters choose their favorite supporting player?...

Mark Ruffalo will star opposite Emma Stone in Yorgos Lanthimos’ upcoming adaptation of “Poor Things,” from Searchlight Pictures, Film 4 and Element Pictures.

Ruffalo, an Emmy winner and three-time Oscar nominee, joins Oscar winner Stone and four-time nominee Willem Dafoe in the film adaptation of Alasdair Grey’s novel.

Lanthimos will direct and produce the film from a script by Tony McNamara, after pairing on “The Favourite,” for which McNamara earned an Oscar nomination for co-writing the screenplay.

“Poor Things” is a Frankenstein-esque tale set in the Victorian-era, described as a story of “love, discovery and scientific daring,” focusing on a young woman named Belle Baxter (Stone) brought back to life by an eccentric but brilliant scientist.

Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe of Element Pictures, which has produced all of Lanthimos’ English-language films, as well as “Room” and Hulu’s “Normal People,” will produce the film. In addition to starring in the film,...

It was only two years ago when Olivia Colman earned her first Academy Award nomination for her portrayal of Queen Anne in “The Favorite.” She won the lead actress prize that night and is now returning to the Oscar stage with a second nomination, this time for Supporting Actress in “The Father.” Should she win, Colman would become a rare two-time winner earning a second in such a short time span.

The last time another actor won their second Oscar in such quick succession was Mahershala Ali who took the Supporting Actor prize in 2017 for “Moonlight” and again in 2019 for “Green Book.” That two year span is the same turn-around that Colman would achieve this year. The most recent actor to do it even quicker than that is Tom Hanks, who won back-to-back Best Actor trophies in 1994 and 1995 for “Philadelphia” and “Forrest Gump.”

In “The Father,” Colman plays Anne, daughter...

Unlike the supporting performance categories, there there are no clear trends in terms of preferred length in the lead races. At one hour, 27 minutes, and 29 seconds, Renee Zellweger’s 2020 Best Actress-winning performance in “Judy” ranks among the 11 longest to ever win in the category. But 2019 winner Olivia Colman’s 49 minutes and 48 seconds of screen time in “The Favorite” is the lowest since Kate Winslet won for “The Reader” in 2009 with a total of 41 minutes and 55 seconds.

Not surprisingly, Colman was the subject of category fraud discussion, which leading nominees have generally avoided over the past decade. Her co-stars Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone clocked in at 42 minutes, 51 seconds and 57 minutes, 20 seconds respectively but contended in supporting. All things considered, screen time does not matter much when it comes to selecting Best Actress winners, which hopefully indicates that voters are concerned with the quality of work in the category above all else.

This summer a new board of directors took the reins at the Greek Film Center (Gfc), the body that oversees all aspects of the country’s film policy, from bolstering the development and production of local cinema to luring international film and television shoots to the Mediterranean nation. Despite recent years in which the Gfc has often appeared adrift, industry veterans have thus far been cautiously optimistic that the shake-up will bring much-needed stability and continuity to the organization.

Markos Holevas, who was recently named president of the Gfc’s board, told Variety that the center would waste little time in ensuring that the Greek industry hits the ground running in 2021. “We want to change many things before the end of the year, to begin the new year with a new profile,” he said.

As the Thessaloniki Film Festival winds down, Holevas said the new board was now determined “to...

Giorgos Valsamis could not have predicted where his career path would lead almost a decade ago, when, as a student of fine arts and accounting, he bought a camera to photograph the dramatic landscapes of Iceland, where he was on a study-abroad program. “It never crossed my mind that I could be a cinematographer,” Valsamis told Variety. “Until 2013, I didn’t know what a director of photography actually was.”

Seven years and two Palmes d’Or later, Valsamis is a fast-rising talent, and one of eight Greek cinematographers being feted this week as part of the Thessaloniki Film Festival’s Meet the Future program, which launched last year to give a boost to emerging film professionals from across Europe.

For its first edition, Meet the Future showcased 15 promising young Greek directors who were developing their first feature films. This year, the program trained its lens on up-and-coming local cinematographers. “The...

For his first feature role since netting an Emmy nomination for Hulu series Normal People, Paul Mescal has landed in Maggie Gyllenhaal directorial debut The Lost Daughter.

The project will see The Favorite and The Crown actress Olivia Colman star as an elegant college professor on a seaside summer vacation who becomes consumed by Nina and her young daughter as she watches them on the beach, only to be overwhelmed by fearful memories of early motherhood. Forced to consider the unconventional choices she made as a young mother and the consequences they had for her family, she begins to unravel.

Mescal joins a cast that also includes Jessie Buckley ...

For his first feature role since netting an Emmy nomination for Hulu series Normal People, Paul Mescal has landed in Maggie Gyllenhaal directorial debut The Lost Daughter.

The project will see The Favorite and The Crown actress Olivia Colman star as an elegant college professor on a seaside summer vacation who becomes consumed by Nina and her young daughter as she watches them on the beach, only to be overwhelmed by fearful memories of early motherhood. Forced to consider the unconventional choices she made as a young mother and the consequences they had for her family, she begins to unravel.

Mescal joins a cast that also includes Jessie Buckley ...

Two years after director Yorgos Lanthimos turned Tony McNamara’s script “The Favourite” into a twisted, Oscar-winning look at the British court of Queen Anne, McNamara himself has applied the same sensibility to 18th-century Russia in “The Great.” The Hulu series stars Nicholas Hoult as the egotistical but inept Peter III and Elle Fanning as his young, naïve wife Catherine, who would go on to lead Russia for more than 30 years.

The opening credits to each episode call “The Great” “an occasionally true story,” and certainly there’s a distinctly modern sensibility and a load of deliberate anachronisms in the portrayal of the dysfunctional Russian court. The series is blackly comic feast centered on the delicious feuding between Hoult, played by “The Favorite” vet Nicholas Hoult, and Catherine, played by Elle Fanning with a breezy combination of innocence and steel. Fanning, who also served as an executive producer on the series,...

“The Blacksmith,” “Ferrari,” “Armageddon Time” and “The Card Counter” look like market highlights of an extraordinary Cannes market, which saw its two virtual platforms delivering for a select number of big U.S. projects, amid large market caution and even fear of a second Covid-19 spike.

In the art film sector, Cannes Official Selection label titles made much of the running, with distributors lamenting that they would have loved to have seen more screened at Cannes. “Without the festival, the market was weak in terms of arthouse, because we lacked the buzz, hype and the experience of being all together in a screening room,” said Stefano Massenzi, head of acquisitions and business affairs at Italy’s distribution banner Lucky Red.

Equally, more mainstream distributors looked for greater depth in the pre-sales market. Most everyone, however, was delighted and some even surprised that the markets functioned at all, giving hope of...

On the first Crew Call podcast of the Emmy season we speak with Oscar nominated The Favorite screenwriter Tony McNamara about his new Hulu/Media Rights Capital series The Great which follows Elle Fanning as 18th Century Empress of Russia Catherine the Great as she carefully plots a coup d’etat to take down her boorish husband, Peter III (Nicholas Hoult), in a mission to enlighten the country with the mores that are liberating her European homeland. Similar to what he did with The Favorite, McNamara has reinvigorated period drama with a riveting sense of absurdist wit and edginess. We talk with McNamara, who also penned Disney’s upcoming 101 Dalmatians live action spinoff Cruella, about how The Great originated (it was well before The Favorite) and speaks to a number of today’s issues from Time’s Up and #MeToo to off-kilter despots.

Tony McNamara, the writer of Yorgos Lanthimos’s razor-sharp 2018 movie The Favourite, is once again exploring a woman’s quest for power – this time as the creator, writer, and executive producer of a new Hulu series called The Great. The Favourite‘s Nicholas Hoult seems to enjoy playing a fool, because he’s at it again here […]

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The postponement of the Cannes Film Festival from mid-May to the end of June has elicited a mix of sadness and skepticism among international film executives.

The festival’s decision Thursday evening to delay this year’s edition from its originally scheduled dates of May 12-23 to an as yet undetermined period between June and July was not surprising, given the event’s vulnerability to the rampant outbreak of coronavirus in Europe.

“It was the logical step to take,” says prominent Spanish producer and distributor Antonio Saura, “and I’m very glad they made it now, and didn’t wait until mid-April (as organizers had previously said).”

The executive, who says the postponement is “bad news” for independents that do “half their business” in Cannes, notes he has been “preparing” for such an eventuality due to the pandemic’s aggressive spread.

Saura, who heads Madrid-based Latino Films, adds he is...

The final trailer and an all-new poster have been released by Marvel Studios for Black Widow, the next movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. With Scarlett Johansson in the titular role, the trailer features plenty of new footage previously unseen in the last two teasers. The new poster is also looking pretty sweet, featuring Johnasson front and center as Black Widow with several of the movie's co-stars brandished on the image behind her. It's all enough to make big Marvel fans that much more excited less than two months away from the movie's release, and you can watch the full final trailer below.

Black Widow tells a new story from the past of Natasha Romanoff, also known as Black Widow. In the movie, Natasha "confronts the darker parts of her ledger when a dangerous conspiracy with ties to her past arises. Pursued by a force that will stop at nothing to bring her down,...

Powered by Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV Plus and Disney Plus, among others, the subscription video on demand market is booming. But in five years from now, it will have contracted with no single service fully dominating the landscape, according to the 7th Nostradamus Report, which forecasts trends in film and TV.

The thorough study was presented by its author, Johanna Koljonen, during the Nordic Film Market at the Göteborg Film Festival on Friday.

Entitled “A Creative Explosion,” the report highlights key trends for the next three-to-five years with six chapters dedicated to “Diversity Beyond 50/50,” “After The Streaming Wars,” “The Pain And Glory of Feature Film,” “The Irishman In the Window,” “Boom Year Problems” and “Insight As Leverage.”

The report is based on collected data and media analysis and built around a wide range of interviews with industry experts, including Alex Mahon, CEO of Channel 4; Lars Blomgren, Endemol Shine Group...

“The Crown” will end after season five, in which Imelda Staunton is to play Queen Elizabeth, Variety has confirmed.

The historical drama from Sony-backed Left Bank Pictures, once believed to be an open-ended pursuit that could see the inclusion of Meghan Markle and her new family, will end with Staunton, who had been rumored to be helming the series for a number of months.

“The Crown” has been Netflix’s most global-facing original out of the U.K., and saw Claire Foy play the Queen across its first two seasons, earning her both Golden Globe and Emmy Awards. The most recent season, which debuted last year, saw Oscar-winning “The Favorite” actor Olivia Colman portraying the monarch.

Production has begun on season four, which will see the introduction of Princess Diana (Emma Corrin). “God’s Own Country” actor Josh O’Connor plays Prince Charles, while Colman will also return as the Queen.

The nominations for the 2020 Academy Awards have been announced. As expected, Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman,” Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” and Bong Joon Ho’s “Parasite” are all major contenders across various contenders. These films as well as Noah Baumbach’s “Marriage Story,” Todd Phillips’ “Joker,” and Sam Mendes’ “1917” picked up multiple nominations across many categories, in addition to top bids for Best Picture.

Last year’s Oscar nominations were dominated by Alfonso Cuaron’s “Roma” (Netflix) and Yorgos Lanthimos’ “The Favorite” (Fox Searchlight), both of which earned 10 nominations. “Roma” took home honors for Best Director, Best Cinematography, and Best Foreign Language Film, but it was controversially beat by Peter Farrelly’s “Green Book” (Universal) in the Best Picture race. Many film critics were outraged over the end result and named “Green Book” the worst Best Picture winner since “Crash” infamously won the Academy...

“The Favourite” actress Olivia Colman will be voicing a guest character in an upcoming episode of “The Simpsons,” the cartoon’s executive producer James L. Brooks tweeted Friday.

“Just this second came from recording one of the best guest appearances in Simpson’s history. No kidding, I am flying,” Brooks said in the tweet. “Olivia Coleman playing the most down home femme fatale ever who attracts every man she’s ever met but falls hard, harder than she ever imagined, for Homer Simpson.”

Colman will voice a character named “Lily” in an episode titled “The 7 Beer Itch” that will air next spring, a Fox spokesperson told TheWrap.

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After earning $854 million worldwide with his Hollywood studio debut “Thor: Ragnarok,” writer-director Taika Waititi is returning to indies this fall with his anti-hate satire “Jojo Rabbit.” The Fox Searchlight release notably features Waititi in front of the camera as Adolf Hitler, but the movie’s story has a lot more on its mind than just mocking the Nazi dictator.

“Jojo Rabbit” is based on the book “Caging Skies” by Christine Leunens. The film stars newcomer Roman Griffin Davis as Jojo “Rabbit” Betzler, a young boy living in Nazi Germany with his mother Rosie (Scarlett Johansson). Jojo’s imaginary friend is Adolf Hitler (Waititi), but the boy is forced to confront his nationalism after Rosie decides to hide a young Jewish girl (“Leave No Trace” breakout Thomasin McKenzie). The supporting cast also includes Sam Rockwell, Rebel Wilson, Stephen Merchant, and “Game of Thrones” Emmy nominee Alfie Allen.

Waititi became a worldwide...

Exclusive: Brad Anderson has been set to direct In Search of Captain Zero, a film based on Allan Weisbecker’s true-life novel of the same name that has been adapted by Michael Bacall. The project hails from Ken Kao’s Waypoint Entertainment, which recently produced Yorgos Lanthimos’ Oscar-nominated The Favorite, with Kao and Mike Weber aboard as producers and Josh Rosenbaum and Ted Field executive producing.

Casting is underway on what is being eyed as a strong two-hander, with a spring 2020 start date in the works.

Published in 2001, Weisbecker’s memoir details the story of how, in 1996, he sold his home and possessions, loaded his dog and surfboards into his truck, and set off in search of his best friend and long-time surfing companion Christopher, who had vanished into the depths of Central America.

Anderson is currently in post on Fracture, the Netflix movie starring Sam Worthington and Lily Rabe.

Cannes–Five projects by Greek filmmakers were presented Monday at Thessaloniki Goes to Cannes, the Cannes Film Market’s pix-in-post industry showcase backed by the Thessaloniki Intl. Film Festival. The Greek Film Center also supports this initiative.

The third edition shined a spotlight on dynamic new fiction features whose producers are currently in Cannes looking for festival premieres, sales agents and distribution. Thessaloniki Intl. Film Festival general director Elise Jalladeau said the presentation built on the success of the first two editions, which launched a number of recent Greek films onto the international festival circuit.

“We continue because it works,” said Jalladeau, pointing to the strong industry turnout Monday afternoon. “It’s very good to promote the films.”

Greek cinema has enjoyed a high profile in recent years, thanks in part to the success of filmmakers like Yorgos Lanthimos, who helped launch the movement known as the Greek Weird Wave.

Can “Killing Eve” make a killing in the Best Drama Actress Emmy race? Our early odds have Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer making the cut, which would be the first time in 17 years one show has produced two nominees in the category.

“Six Feet Under” was the last show to do so, with Frances Conroy and Rachel Griffiths, who lost to Allison Janney (“The West Wing”). For the three years before that, “The Sopranos” stars Edie Falco and Lorraine Bracco competed against each other, with the former winning twice.

The ‘90s yielded co-star nominees in 1997 (“ER’s” Julianna Margulies and Sherry Stringfield) and 1994. But it was ’80s where co-star nominees ruled since there were far fewer shows back then compared to the 500 now. “Cagney & Lacey” (Tyne Daly and Sharon Gless) and “L.A. Law” (Susan Dey and Jill Eikenberry) dominated, but others included “Dallas” (Barbara Bel Geddes and Linda Gray...

With next year’s Bond 25 confirmed to be Daniel Craig’s final outing as 007, it’s widely felt that Eon needs to break the mold this time around when finding the next James Bond. As we all know, Idris Elba is an eternal favorite to land the role, but there’s always the conversation of whether Bond could and should ever be a woman as well. And if this was ever to happen, the internet has chosen who should be Bond. Jane Bond: Charlize Theron.

Theron and Craig were paired together to present the award for Best Supporting Actor at yesterday’s Oscars ceremony, which left viewers desperately wanting to see Theron take over from Craig as the seventh version of the super-spy on the big screen. Author Chuck Wendig even suggested that Craig could play the typical eye candy role usually filled by the female lead.

Charlize Theron as James Bond.

After she won Best Actress at the 91st Academy Awards, an almost-overcome Olivia Colman thanked her director and co-stars, and then thanked the actress she seems to think should have won tonight.

“Glenn Close, you’ve been my idol for so long and this isn’t how I wanted it to be,” said Colman, who won for “The Favorite, in which she portrayed Queen Anne. “I think you’re amazing and I love you very much.”

Close, a seven-time nominee who has never won an Oscar but was seen as a front-runner this year after her work in “The Wife” won a Golden Globe in January and could be seen beaming during Colman’s speech.

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Speaking to IndieWire at the Television Critics Association press tour, Ian McShane said he has a simple measure for film criticism: “Every good film should take you to another world.” This includes the upcoming feature-length finale of “Deadwood,” the iconic HBO western drama that turned McShane into an unforgettable force on American television. Long awaited by fans, the narrative ties up the loose ends left after HBO canceled the show in 2006.

McShane said he had some trouble settling back into the character of saloon owner Al Swearengen during the first week of shooting. “I walked onto the set, seeing all these people and I’ve loved and known — some of them I hadn’t seen for 30 years, some I had, you know whatever. But we all weirdly kept in touch.”

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Deborah Davis with Tony McNamara (Photo credit: David Fisher/Shutterstock)

Screenwriter Tony McNamara and production designer Fiona Crombie have scored their first Academy Award nominations for director Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite.

McNamara and co-writer Deborah Davis are in contention for best original screenplay while Crombie is nominated for best production design, shared with her colleague Alice Felton for set decoration.

Fox Searchlight’s The Favorite and Netflix’s Roma lead the field with 10 nominations apiece, followed by Warner Bros’ A Star Is Born and Annapurna Pictures’ Vice with eight.

Disney/Marvel’s Black Panther scored seven, although not for director Ryan Coogler, and Focus Features’ BlacKkKlansman got six.

The contenders for best picture are Black Panther, BlacKkKlansman, Bohemian Rhapsody, The Favourite, Green Book, Roma, A Star is Born and Vice.

Advocates for gender equality will be incensed about the total absence of nominations for female directors, cinematographers, film editors, composers and visual effects artists.