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Iconic indie producer Christine Vachon is getting her due from the 2025 Austin Film Festival. IndieWire can exclusively announce that Vachon will be feted with the acclaimed Polly Platt Award for Producing at this year’s Aff Writers Conference, which will take place from October 23 to 26. “Dear White People” showrunner Yvette Lee Bowser will also be honored with the Outstanding Television Writer Award during the annual conference.

Vachon is an Independent Spirit Award and Gotham Award winner who co-founded powerhouse Killer Films with partner Pamela Koffler in 1995. Across 30 years, the duo’s banner has produced more than 100 acclaimed films, including “Boys Don’t Cry,” “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” “Far from Heaven,” “Still Alice,” “Past Lives” (which landed Vachon her first Oscar nomination in the Best Picture category), and “Carol.”

Vachon launched her career at Sundance in 1991 with her first feature film, which was “Carol” auteur Todd Haynes’ Grand Jury Prize-winning “Poison.

Ewan McGregor, the guest on this episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, which was recorded in front of an audience at the Newport Beach Film Festival, has been one of the world’s most admired screen actors for some 30 years.

The Scotsman, 53, shot to stardom in 1995’s Trainspotting, and has since done standout work in films such as 1998’s Velvet Goldmine, George Lucas’ second Star Wars trilogy (1999-2005), 2001’s Moulin Rouge!, 2003’s Big Fish, 2010’s The Ghost Writer, 2011’s Beginners and 2012’s The Impossible, and on TV limited series including Fargo (2017), Halston (2021) and Obi-Wan Kenobi (2022).

But rarely, if ever, has McGregor’s work generated the degree of enthusiasm — from critics and the general public alike — that he has garnered for his performance in the 2024 Paramount+ limited series A Gentleman in Moscow, a dramedy in which he plays Count Alexander “Sasha” Rostov, an aristocrat whose life is upended by the Russian Revolution,...

Ewan McGregor, the veteran Scottish actor who recently earned some of the best reviews of his 30-year career for his performance at the center of the Paramount+ limited series A Gentleman in Moscow, on which he also served as an executive producer, has been tapped for the Newport Beach Film Festival’s (Nbff) TV Performance of the Year Award.

McGregor, 53, will be celebrated at an event that will kick off on Tuesday, Oct. 22, at 5:30 p.m. Pt, at the Pelican Hill Resort in Newport Beach. To begin with, he will sit down with yours truly for a career-retrospective conversation that will be recorded for subsequent posting as an episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast. Then, the fest will present him with his award.

“The Newport Beach Film Festival could not be more honored to bestow this award to Ewan McGregor for his legendary career,” Gregg Schwenk,...

It is the Eisenhower era, a time of post-war promise in California, a place for new beginnings and new love. Into this setting, Shannon Pufahl placed her debut novel On Swift Horses, which was a prize winner for lesbian fiction, but in the movie version, this becomes a more complicated romantic drama, mixed with gambling, noir-ish tones, horse racing and a complex love triangle that don’t all mesh as well as they might, but give this attractive and talented cast an “A” for trying to make it all plausible.

Lee (Will Poulter), an agreeable guy has come home from the Korean War to settle down and start a dream kind of family life with his wife Muriel (Daisy Edgar-Jones), and for a short while, all seems just fine until Lee’s wayward brother Julius enters the picture after some time on the road. Lee’s hope is they all...

Exclusive: Thomas Middleditch (Silicon Valley), Krysta Rodriguez (Halston) and Alan Cumming (The Traitors) have signed on to star in Lunch Hour, a new indie comedy from director Larry Guterman (Cats & Dogs) and Winter State Entertainment.

Delving into the anatomy of an affair, Lunch Hour watches as a soup-loving married man meets the soup-loving married woman of his dreams. Thereafter, both throw caution to the wind and engage in a messy affair for the ages.

Oren Safdie wrote the script and serves as executive producer. Hamid & Camille Torabpour and Nick Hagen produced for Winter State.

“I am thrilled to work with Oren, Hamid, Camille and the Winterstate team to bring this whip-smart comedy, driven by nuanced and complex comic performances, to the screen,” Guterman told Deadline. “I fell in love with the script and I knew that I had to be part of the special project.”

Added the Torabpours, “Oren is a wonderful writer,...

Legendary Television has acquired the rights to the Anna Dorn novel “Perfume & Pain” with Clea DuVall set to write and direct, Variety has learned exclusively.

The book is described as a “a sexy and twisted character drama following a hopelessly romantic and equally reckless sapphic novelist on the verge of superstardom and simultaneously total self-destruction – depending which way the wind blows and what pill she pops next. Astrid will need to write her own deliverance into healing, true love, and success… before she succumbs to the vices that threaten to tear her apart.”

The book was originally published in the U.S. on May 21 by Simon & Schuster. Christine Vachon and Pamela Koffler will produce under their Killer Films banner.

Dorn’s other works include “Exalted,” “Bad Lawyer,” and “Vagablonde.” Her next novel, “American Spirits,” is forthcoming from Simon & Schuster. She is repped by Gersh and Sanford J. Greenburger Associates for publishing.

The Ryan Murphy legal drama starring Kim Kardashian, All's Fair, is getting a boost to its cast. The ensemble series by Murphy is taking place in his TV universe, so naturally, the new additions to the cast include his regular muses. It has been revealed that Sarah Paulson, Niecy Nash, Teyana Taylor, and Naomi Watts are all joining Kardashian and Glenn Close for the Hulu TV show which will inaugurate Murphy's contract with the streamer.

Kardashian has been attached to the ensemble drama from the very start. It seems Murphy was more than impressed with her performance in American Horror Story: Delicate, the latest iteration of the horror anthology series which also featured Emma Roberts and Cara Delevingne. Per Variety, Kardashian will play a divorce lawyer in the rocky territory of Los Angeles' judicial system. The new cast is set to join the all-star team of lawyers led by Close.

“Feud: Bette and Joan” took the Emmys by storm in 2017, with the first season of the Ryan Murphy anthology show receiving rave reviews for its depiction of the rivalry between actresses Bette Davis (Susan Sarandon) and Joan Crawford (Jessica Lange).

Season two will hope to match that Emmy success (more on that later) with its portrayal of Truman Capote (Tom Hollander) and his falling out with a group of New York high society socialites known as the Swans. Capote wrote a fictionalized account of the Swans’ dramatic lives, leading to the Swans vowing revenge for betraying their confidence.

The glossy show is typically gorgeous, scandalous, and theatrical while the performances are all top-drawer. Hollander dazzles in the lead role as Capote, which is no mean feat considering the late, great Philip Seymour-Hoffman won the Best Actor Oscar for his turn as Capote in 2005’s “Capote”). Meanwhile, Naomi Watts, Diane Lane,...

As Paramount’s British series “A Gentleman in Moscow” hopes to break into the highly competitive limited series races, the show has submitted for 20 Primetime Emmys, including lead actor for star Ewan McGregor and supporting actress for Mary Elizabeth Winstead.

The eight-episode series follows an aristocrat, Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov, who spends decades banished to an attic hotel room following the October Revolution after being sentenced to house arrest by a Bolshevik tribunal. Based on the 2016 novel by Amor Towles, the series was written by Ben Vanstone, who also serves as the executive producer and showrunner, and whose pilot episode titled “A Master of Circumstance” is submitted for consideration. The same episode will represent Sam Miller in the directing race, who has previously landed three Emmy bids: one for “Luther” in 2012 and two “I May Destroy You” in 2021.

The series received solid reviews from critics and boasted an impressive 91% on Rotten Tomatoes.

For the last seven years, Ewan McGregor and Mary Elizabeth Winstead have been searching for a project to work on together. At one point, they were certain they had found the perfect match.

“We thought we had something, but someone else made it in the meantime,” McGregor says with a laugh. “We didn’t know! It was like, ‘How’s it going with that?’ And we Googled and someone fucking made it!”

It’s now been eight years since they met on the set of “Fargo” in 2016, and two years since they tied the knot. But they’re still in the honeymoon stage. During our photoshoot, they effortlessly pose together, spending much of their time looking into each other’s eyes with little direction whatsoever.

This loving interaction was on also on display during our subsequent interview, with the pair holding hands, touching each other’s faces lovingly after sharing...

While there is certainly an audience that knows him best for his role as Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars franchise, Ewan McGregor is an actor of great versatility. Its been impressive that despite his fame, McGregor often chooses character-driven projects over more commercial fare. In recent years, hes shown his dedication to prestigious television with acclaimed performances in the third season of Fargo, the biopic series Halston, and emotional spy thriller A Gentleman In Moscow. Though A Gentleman In Moscow has earned rave reviews, McGregor first tried out the espionage genre in a 2016 adaptation of the John le Carre novel, Our Kind of Traitor.

Getting ready to make your 2024 Emmy predictions for Best TV Movie/Limited Series Actor? Be sure to scroll through our photo gallery showcasing the men who are most likely to land in the lineup. Out in front is “Fargo” star and former drama lead winner Jon Hamm, who could also pick up dual supporting bids this year for the comedy and drama series “Good Omens” and “The Morning Show.”

Actor currently vying for bookend trophies in this category are Ewan McGregor (“A Gentleman in Moscow”; formerly of “Halston”), Michael Douglas (“Franklin”; “Behind the Candelabra”), and Benedict Cumberbatch (“Eric”; “Sherlock”). Also in the mix is Tony Shalhoub, who recently reprised his three-time Best Comedy Actor-winning role of Adrian Monk in “Mr. Monk’s Last Case: A Monk Movie.”

The other current hopefuls who have previously won Emmys outside of this category are Jeff Daniels (“A Man in Full”), Tobias Menzies (“Manhunt”), Aaron Paul...

Getting ready to make your 2024 Emmy predictions for Best TV Movie/Limited Series Actor? Be sure to scroll through our photo gallery showcasing the men who are most likely to land in the lineup. Out in front is “Fargo” star and former drama lead winner Jon Hamm, who could also pick up dual supporting bids this year for the comedy and drama series “Good Omens” and “The Morning Show.”

Hamm would be the first actor to win this award for “Fargo,” following the unsuccessful bids of inaugural season cast members Martin Freeman and Billy Bob Thornton and third season lead Ewan McGregor. As the star of “A Gentleman in Moscow,” McGregor happens to be seeking a second win in this category after being honored for “Halston” in 2021.

Others vying for bookend trophies here are Michael Douglas (“Franklin”; formerly of “Behind the Candelabra”) and Benedict Cumberbatch (“Eric”; “Sherlock”). Also in the mix is Tony Shalhoub,...

Between shows like “Halston,” “The New Look,” “The Collection,” and Ridley Scott’s movie “House Of Gucci,” stories about the fashion empire seem to be on the neverending rise. And in the era of Peak TV—which hasn’t really subsided despite reports to the contrary—it seems like almost anyone is worthy of their own mini-series. To that end, one of the most famous icons of modern fashion, eccentric German designer Karl Lagerfeld, is getting the biopic treatment, or rather, origin story in the new Hulu mini-series, “Becoming Karl Lagerfeld.”

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Lagerfeld was one of the larger-than-life figures in fashion with his trademark look of white mane, ponytail, black gloves and dark sunglasses.

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Ewan McGregor's role in "A Gentleman in Moscow" showcases his range in a quirky yet dramatic historical drama. Despite being fictional, the show weaves real-life events with fiction in an entertaining and provocative manner. McGregor's Emmy-winning performance in "Halston" is distinct from his hero roles, deserving of more attention and reassessment.

Ewan McGregor's upcoming historical drama, A Gentleman in Moscow, is a staunch reminder that viewers should revisit the Scottish actor's underrated Netflix drama from 2021. Some of the best Ewan McGregor movies and TV shows have seen the actor take on drastically different roles, which have ranged from people struggling with substance abuse to powerful Jedi to even Satan. However, A Gentleman in Moscow, still remains a firm reminder to rewatch the actor in what is not only one of his most distinct roles, but also one of his least appreciated shows from 2021.

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Ewan McGregor leads the cast in "A Gentleman in Moscow," based on a novel by Amor Towles. The series boasts a talented supporting cast and is directed by Sam Miller and Sarah O'Gorman. With a 90% Rotten Tomatoes rating, the show debuted on Paramount+ on March 29, 2024, to positive reviews.

A Gentleman in Moscow features a robust cast led by Emmy-winning actor Ewan McGregor. The new Paramount and Showtime series is based on the celebrated 2016 novel of the same name by American novelist Amor Towles. The 2024 series, which was originally set to star Kenneth Branagh as the protagonist Count Rostov, stars Ewan McGregor in the lead role of Count Alexander Rostov. A Gentleman in Moscow also stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Anna Urbanova, Leah Harvey as Marina Samarova, Johnny Harris as Osip Glebnikov, Paul Ready as Prince Nikolai Petrov, and Alexa Goodall as Nina Kulikova.

A Gentleman in Moscow is directed by Sam Miller and Sarah O'Gorman.

When you have had a career as distinguished, and successful as that of Ewan McGregor, to claim a part in the ‘role of a lifetime’ carries some weight, but having seen him in action in Paramount+’s new drama series A Gentleman in Moscow, it’s easy to see why.

To mark the launch of the show, which kickstarts on March 29 on the platform, we had the pleasure in speaking to McGregor alongside his wife and screen partner Mary Elizabeth Winstead, as they talk about the great fun they had on the project, and how they went about balancing their work life with their home life.

Watch the full interview with Ewan McGregor & Mary Elizabeth Winstead here:

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An adaptation of Amor Towles’ internationally best-selling novel, A Gentleman In Moscow follows Count Alexander Rostov, played by Emmy Award winning actor Ewan McGregor, who, in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution,...

Intimacy coordinators, basically delicate choreographers for sex scenes, are not new to Hollywood productions. But this may be a first.

For the Paramount+ with Showtime limited series “A Gentleman in Moscow,” in which Ewan McGregor plays a Russian aristocrat banished to a bleak hotel room during the early days of the Soviet Union, the actor told Britain’s Radio Times that the production still used an intimacy coordinator for one romantic sequence, even though his scene partner was Mary Elizabeth Winstead, his wife of two years.

“We did have an intimacy coordinator!” McGregor said, when it was suggested he probably didn’t need one. “It’s still necessary, because it’s also about the crew, and it’s odd to be naked in front of people, it’s odd to be intimate in front of the camera. If you were doing a dance scene, you’d have a choreographer. It...

Ewan McGregor returns to television in the new historical drama, A Gentleman in Moscow. The new limited series is eight episodes and will be premiering on Showtime Friday, March 29. The premium movie channel has just released a new trailer ahead of its premiere. The drama has McGregor playing Count Rostov as he becomes imprisoned in the grand Hotel Metropol. A Gentleman in Moscow also stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead as film actress Anna Urbanova, Alexa Goodall as the Count’s unlikely young friend Nina, Johnny Harris as conflicted secret police officer Osip and Fehinti Balogun as Mishka, the Count’s best friend from university.

The official synopsis reads,

“An adaptation of Amor Towles’ internationally best-selling novel, A Gentleman In Moscow follows Count Alexander Rostov, played by Emmy® Award-winning actor Ewan McGregor, who, in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, finds that his gilded past has placed him on the wrong side of history.

Christine Vachon doesn’t mess around. She is a film professor, best-selling film book author, wife, mother of a film marketing professional, and most of all, producer of independent films. They’re often directed by her close friend and fellow Brown alumnus Todd Haynes. She launched her career at Sundance 1991 with her first feature film, Haynes’ “Poison,” which won the Grand Jury Prize.

Since 1995, she and her producing partner Pam Koffler’s company Killer Films has steadily produced hundreds of movies and television series. Many have won prizes and nominations over the years for the likes of Hilary Swank (“Boys Don’t Cry”), Julianne Moore (“Still Alice”) and Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara (“Carol”), but this year’s Best Picture Oscar nomination for Celine Song’s “Past Lives” is Killer’s first.

New York-based Vachon was packing her bags for the Berlin International Film Festival when we spoke on Zoom, a...

Exclusive: Ewan McGregor (Obi-Wan Kenobi) has signed on to star opposite Anne Hathaway in Warner Bros Motion Picture Group’s currently untitled new film from David Robert Mitchell, the filmmaker behind titles like It Follows and Under the Silver Lake.

Pic’s logline is under wraps, though it’s previously been described as a “thrill-ride” to be shot in Imax. Mitchell will direct from his own original script and produce alongside J.J. Abrams and Hannah Minghella for Bad Robot, and Jackson Pictures’ Matt Jackson. Jake Weiner and Chris Bender of Good Fear Content will serve as executive producers. Sheila Walcott and Zach Hamby are overseeing the project for Wbmpg.

Recently reprising his role as Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi in Disney+’s Emmy-nominated limited series of the same name, McGregor won an Emmy for his starring turn on Netflix’s Halston, also appearing in films like Birds of Prey, Doctor Sleep and Christopher Robin.

Showtime today released first-look images from the new eight-episode series A Gentleman In Moscow and announced it will premiere Friday, March 29 on streaming and on demand for Paramount+ subscribers with the Paramount+ with Showtime plan before its on-air debut on Paramount+ with Showtime on Sunday, March 31 at 9 p.m. Et/Pt. The series also will premiere on Paramount+ on March 29 in Canada, the UK and Australia with additional Paramount+ international territories to follow at a later date. An adaptation of Amor Towles’ internationally best-selling novel, A Gentleman In Moscow follows Count Alexander Rostov, played by Emmy® Award-winning actor Ewan McGregor, who, ... Read more...

Plot: Acclaimed writer Truman Capote surrounded himself with a coterie of society’s most elite women – rich, glamorous socialites who defined a bygone era of high society New York – whom he nicknamed “the swans.” Enchanted and captivated by these doyennes, Capote ingratiated himself into their lives, befriending them and becoming their confidante, only to ultimately betray them by writing a thinly veiled fictionalization of their lives, exposing their most intimate secrets. When an excerpt from the book, Answered Prayers, Capote’s planned magnum opus, was published in Esquire, it effectively destroyed his relationship with his swans, banished him from the high society he so loved and sent him into a spiral of self-destruction from which he would ultimately never recover.

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The new HBO series “The Gilded Age” hails from “Downton Abbey” creator Julian Fellowes, and much like that hit period series, this one features a lot of characters. Several cadres of characters keep the plot pivoting back and forth between households and prominent locations around 1890s New York, as the show tells a story of New York City on the cusp of change, where the battle between old money and new money — as well as old and new ways of doing things — is being fought.

A mix of veteran actors and actresses balance out some newer talent in Julian Fellowes’ latest fictional show — from “Sex and the City’s” Cynthia Nixon to Meryl Streep’s youngest daughter Louisa Jacobson, who plays a main heroine at the heart of aristocratic New York City.

“American Horror Story’s” Taissa Farmiga plays a supporting role with room for growth: Gladys Russell,...

Oscar nominee Ron Nyswaner (Philadelphia) brings Thomas Mallon’s 2007 bestselling novel Fellow Travelers to life in a Showtime limited series starring Matt Bomer (The Normal Heart) and Jonathan Bailey (Bridgerton). The first episode of the eight-episode season will stream on Friday, October 27, 2023 on Paramount+ with Showtime before premiering on Showtime on October 29 at 9pm Et/Pt.

“Bomer plays charismatic Hawkins Fuller, who maintains a financially rewarding, behind-the-scenes career in politics. Hawkins avoids emotional entanglements – until he meets Tim Laughlin (Bailey), a young man who’s brimming with idealism and religious faith. They begin a romance just as Joseph McCarthy and Roy Cohn declare war on ‘subversives and sexual deviants,’ initiating one of the darkest periods in 20th-century American history,” reads Showtime’s synopsis.

“Over the course of four decades, we follow our five main characters – Hawk, Tim, Marcus (Jelani Alladin), Lucy (Allison Williams), and Frankie (Noah J. Ricketts) – as they...

Frédéric Tcheng on celebrating Bethann Hardison: “I think it’s really important to see what Bethann did and the historical movement she created.” Photo: Oliviero Toscano, courtesy of Magnolia Pictures

When I spoke with Tribeca Film Festival Artistic Director Frédéric Boyer on Zoom from Paris, months before the 22nd edition, he noted Frédéric Tcheng and Bethann Hardison’s Invisible Beauty (produced by Lisa Cortes of Harold Crooks and Judd Tully’s The Melt Goes on Forever: The Art & Times of David Hammons) as one of the highlights to see and commented: “We play all the films by Frédéric Tcheng (Halston and the World première of Dior And I). He’s a great person, very elegant.” Frédéric also co-directed Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel with Lisa Immordino Vreeland and Bent-Jorge Perlmutt and was a co-editor with Bob Eisenhardt for Matt Tyrnauer’s Valentino: The Last Emperor.

Frédéric Tcheng...

In a move not attempted by actors at San Diego Comic-Con, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Trainspotting actor Ewan McGregor took the stage at the Javits Center today at New York Comic-Con to discuss himself, not struck work, during what is the 91st day of the SAG-AFTRA strike.

“This is the first thing like this I’ve done, and it’s been a big decision to do it, but I really wanted to take part,” said McGregor, who also didn’t represent or speak of any studio during the onstage convo.

“It’s difficult for us to be up here and not be allowed to talk about our actual films,” he added. “I’m sure you would want to hear about [them], so I apologize for that. But that’s just the way we have to do it, I suppose.”

McGregor’s appearance came a day after AMPTP and SAG-AFTRA contract talks broke down,...

There is much that is lovely to gaze upon in the elegantly tailored documentary “Invisible Beauty,” about fashion maverick Bethann Hardison, whose role in her industry, starting in the late ’60s and continuing into the present, has been remarkable personally and game-changing culturally.

Those five decades — hers and the industry’s — are expertly woven together by co-directors Hardison and Frédéric Tcheng, using a cache of personal photos, a wealth of archival images, clips and interviews sewn together by Hardison’s sharing of recollections and insights. The film is also buoyed by a delicate, sometimes moody piano-led score courtesy of Marc Anthony Thompson, with some additionally vivid musical choices that match the energy of the late, “Black is Beautiful” ’60s and the fashion-fast-forward ’70s.

When there were shifts in how the fashion industry viewed models of color, Hardison was there as participant but more often catalyst. She was one...

Ryan Murphy is throwing out a lifeline to help past and present cast and crews under his employ that need financial assistance during Hollywood’s dual strikes.

Murphy has committed $500,000 to launch the Ryan Murphy Productions Assistance Fund, which “stands ready to support the exceptional casts and committed crews of Ryan Murphy Productions.” The creation of the fund was announced on Instagram Friday with a post directing those in need to a website where they can apply for financial assistance. With Murphy being one of Hollywood’s most prolific creators of television and film, the initiative could support thousands.

“Every story we’ve woven, each character brought to life and every set constructed carry with them an inimitable thread of collaboration. As my colleagues face the challenges brought forth by the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, the imperative to support each other is even more pronounced,” reads the post. “Together, we...

Since producing Todd Haynes’ Sundance-winning drama “Poison” in 1991, Christine Vachon has helped bring some of the most unique and memorable independent films to the big – and small screen. Her work, which includes over 100 films and television projects, ranges from ushering in debut films from directors like Rose Troche and Mary Harron to Oscar dramas like “Boys Don’t Cry” and “Far From Heaven,” to prestige TV like HBO’s “Mildred Pierce” and Netflix’s “Halston.” Within her tremendous filmography, there is one common thread: Vachon has an eye for filmmakers with strong, clear artistic vision.

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Ewan McGregor not only received a lifetime achievement award, but also much love and adoration during a brief, but emotional ceremony at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival on Saturday night.

During the event at the big cinema celebration in the Czech spa town, organizers and fans feted the Scottish actor, director and producer as the President’s Award for lifetime achievement was bestowed upon him. On Friday’s opening night of the fest, Alicia Vikander received the same award, while Russell Crowe was honored with the festival’s Crystal Globe.

A warm welcome to McGregor by a host was followed by a particularly well-received career highlights reel that repeatedly drew laughs and cheers for scenes from the likes of the Star Wars universe, I Love You Phillip Morris and, of course, Trainspotting.

“This is like a dream to see that,” McGregor told the audience at the Hotel Thermal, the...

TheWrap is proud to present the 12 finalist films in the 2023 ShortList Film Festival, chosen from award-winning shorts from across the world in the past year. This year’s films tell personal stories that captivate and inspire — including a film about two Chinese grandmothers, a film about scuba diving in the ruins of a tsunami and one film about the LAPD blowing up a neighborhood.

The films – which include narrative, documentaries and animation - are available to watch and vote on from June 28 through July 12, exclusively on TheWrap.

The award-winning short film that is chosen by TheWrap’s Industry Jury will be honored with the prestigious Industry Prize. This year’s jury comprises award-winning producer Christine Vachon, director Elegance Bratton, veteran producer Amy Baer and PR veteran Joshua Jackson. The Shortlist is programmed by respected short film programmer Landon Zakheim.

The top-ranking short film that receives the most online votes will...

Ryan Murphy, the television writer and producer behind American Horror Story and Glee, is planning to leave Netflix to join Disney.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Murphy will reunite with former colleagues if the reported Walt Disney deal is finalized. Dana Walden, who previously collaborated closely with Murphy during her tenure at the then-20th Century Fox TV, where he held a deal, will be reunited with him. Walden is one of Murphy's closest friends and trusted advisors, currently serving as co-chairman of Disney Entertainment. Although Murphy's existing Netflix agreement remains in effect until the end of the month, the expected forthcoming agreement, will bring Murphy back to work closely with FX's John Landgraf, who works at the Disney General Entertainment Content division. Murphy and Landgraf have maintained a strong creative partnership with the FX boss giving the greenliight to his series American Horror Story and its spinoffs along with Feud and Pose.

After a $300 million dollar deal, Ryan Murphy is heading back to where he started — sort of. The “Glee” and “American Horror Story” creator is reportedly planning to leave Netflix for a new deal with the Disney Corporation, bringing him back into the fold with many of his collaborators from his time at 20th Century Fox TV.

According to a report from Bloomberg on Tuesday, Murphy has not finalized his deal with Disney yet, but has spent the past year negotiating with the House of Mouse and reportedly managed to iron out the details before the Writer’s Strike began in May. Murphy’s Netflix deal, which was first signed in 2018, will expire this July.

If the deal goes through, it will reunite Murphy with Dana Walden, who served as the CEO and head of Fox Television when Murphy worked there from 2003, with the premiere of his show “Nip/Tuck,” to 2018. Under Walden’s leadership,...

Netflix is saying goodbye to one of its most high-profile showrunners.

Ryan Murphy is cutting ties with the streamer now that his five-year production deal — worth a reported $300 million — is expiring. According to Bloomberg, who first reported the news, Murphy is heading to Disney, where he’ll reunite with entertainment co-chairman Dana Walden, who worked with Murphy on many of his Fox and FX hits. (TVLine reached out to Netflix for comment; a Disney spokesperson declined to comment.)

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Whether fans know him as a legendary boxer or the inventor of a popular grill, George Tillman Jr.'s Big George Foreman examines the life of George Foreman, full of characters based on the real people who helped him become a household name. Foreman's road to fame was full of pitfalls, including poverty and a near-death experience that almost made him swear off boxing forever in favor of the clergy. The trials and tribulations only make him stronger, and eventually, he gets back in the ring to become the oldest boxer at 45 to win the Heavyweight Championship Belt in history.

As the true story behind Big George Foreman reveals, someone like Big George Foreman didn't go the distance all by himself, and the Big George Foreman cast highlights the wife who shared his burdens, the trainer who never left his side, and the friends who believed in him. It even focuses on his rivals,...

Hello there! Obi-Wan Kenobi himself Ewan McGregor could be poised to make a quick return to the Emmys two years after he won Best Limited Series/TV Movie Actor for “Halston.” The Scottish actor will be competing in that same category this year for his titular role in the acclaimed Disney+ series “Obi-Wan Kenobi.”

After starring as the bearded Jedi in George Lucas‘ prequel trilogy, McGregor returned to the role for this limited series. In the “Star Wars” timeline, the action takes place between “Revenge of the Sith” and the one that started it all, “A New Hope.” The series opens with a defeated Obi-Wan in hiding and keeping an eye on the young Luke Skywalker on Tatooine. He’s sucked back into the world of heroic Jedi duty when a young Princess Leia is kidnapped. He is tasked with saving her while being pursued by Imperial Inquisitors and his former Padawan Anakin Skywalker,...

Ewan McGregor is set to star in a drama series currently in development at Amazon Prime Video, Variety has learned exclusively.

Currently titled “Lodi,” the series is inspired by a true story as told in an Alta online article by Andrew Dubbins.

The official description of the series states, “In 1977, a car salesman, Lou (McGregor), goes from ordinary small-town citizen to FBI informant infiltrating the mafia when a key member of organized crime offers to buy his Cadillac dealership. Over the next three years, Lou finds his quest for glory tested when he becomes embroiled in the inner workings of the crime family – from fronting a multimillion-dollar operation, to becoming a surrogate son– before procuring the first-ever conviction of an infamous crime boss.”

Timothy Greenberg is attached as showrunner and executive producer. McGregor will executive produce in addition to starring. Allie Goss and Jon Liebman of Brillstein Creative Partners will executive produce,...

Among the Emmy categories that “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story” is looking to get nominated in, Best Movie/Limited Actor for its star Daniel Radcliffe is right at the top along with Best TV Movie. The Roku Channel’s hit telefilm may seem like an unconventional nominee, but there are several promising factors that are working in his favor.

The fact that the movie is a flat-out comedy could be viewed as something of an obstacle for it to overcome. But, performances from comedic-dramas have scored noms here, including Jeff Bridges for “A Dog Year” (2010) and Hugh Grant for “A Very English Scandal” (2019). We have also seen three comedy performances contend in this category: two for Ricky Gervais for “Extras: The Extra Special Series Finale” (2008) and “Derek: The Special” (2015) and one for Jesse Plemons for “Black Mirror: USS Callister” (2018).

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Trainspotting is a cult classic of the '90s that gathers a brilliant young cast to tell a harrowing story about characters mixed up in drugs. Set in Edinburgh in the late '80s, the movie revolves around a group of delinquents at the moment they decide to overcome their heroin addiction and find a better future for themselves. Yet, what seems easy in theory turns out to be nearly impossible with the constant allure of friends and a series of tragedies that bring them right back to their hopeless state.

Trainspotting starts off as a comedy and quickly gives way to drama, exploring the perspective of each character in the face of compulsion, death, and despair. The movie's reputation only grew stronger as the years went by, eventually earning a sequel with the original cast 20 years later. Trainspotting is still considered Danny Boyle's best movie, and it introduced...

By this fall Jessica Chastain could be three-quarters of the way to Egot. She won an Oscar last year for “The Eyes of Tammy Faye.” She’s a Tony contender for her Broadway role in “A Doll’s House.” And she has a good chance of winning the Emmy for Best Movie/Limited Actress for playing country legend Tammy Wynette in “George and Tammy.”

“George and Tammy” is a Showtime limited series that explores the lives and careers of country music supercouple Tammy Wynette and George Jones (played by Michael Shannon). The performance earned Chastain a Golden Globe nomination for Best TV Movie/Limited Actress, which she lost to reigning Emmy champ Amanda Seyfried (“The Dropout”). But then Chastain pulled off an upset by beating Seyfried at the Screen Actors Guild Awards. The SAG Awards are presented by industry peers just like the Emmys are, so that was a significant result.

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Kieran Culkin is opening up about growing up with his massive and famous family in New York City. Kieran, who stars as Roman Roy on "Succession," is one of seven kids shared by Kit Culkin and Patricia Brentrup. The pair never married, though their split in the 1990s and ensuing custody battle became tabloid fodder because Kieran's brother Macaulay had become very famous after starring in 1990's "Home Alone" franchise. Kieran revealed in an interview with Esquire published March 27 that his dad - an actor himself - had all seven try to be actors, though only Macaulay (who his siblings call Mack), Kieran, and Rory pursued it seriously.

The family grew up in the Yorkville section of Manhattan, and Kieran says that even though he was just a kid himself, he felt bad for the way fame affected Macaulay's life. "Poor f*cking guy," he told Esquire of his brother.

“Star Wars” is finally getting some recognition for its acting talents. A galaxy far, far away has always been appreciated for its below-the-line work but among the cast only Alec Guinness earned an Oscar nomination across the 11 live-action movies (Best Supporting Actor for “A New Hope” in 1978). One of the small screen expansions of the franchise, “The Mandalorian,” has reaped four Emmy bids for its cast: in 2020, Giancarlo Esposito contended for his guest role while Taika Waititi was up for voicing Ig-11; in 2021, Esposito was promoted to series regular and reaped a supporting bid while Timothy Olyphant and Carl Weathers vied against each other for their guest turns.

That trend looks to continue this year thanks to the influx of “Star Wars” shows gracing our screens on Disney+. Here are six actors who could earn Emmy bids for “Star Wars” shows.

Ewan McGregor — “Obi-Wan Kenobi”

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Just as limited and anthology series based on real events have taken over the TV landscape, they have taken over the Emmys. But how well have programs of this particular genre actually gone over with the academy throughout the past few years?

Let’s take a look back at all nominations earned by limited and anthology series starting in 2015; that’s the year in which the rules were tweaked to require that a program can only compete as a limited series if it has a minimum of two episodes with a total running time of at least 150 minutes, tells a complete, non-recurring story, and doesn’t have an ongoing storyline and/or main characters in subsequent seasons.

This rule change came just a year after limited series (referred to as “miniseries” at the time) and TV movies were once again split up into separate program categories, undoing a three-year-old change that consolidated the two awards.

“Parsing the difference between movies, TV and streamers – it’s becoming really difficult.”

Producers should make the most of collapsing boundaries between feature film and television content, according to Killer Films producer Christine Vachon, speaking today (February 18) in Berlin.

Speaking on a European Film Market industry sessions talk titled ‘Producers Embracing New Horizons’, Vachon said, “To start parsing the difference between movies, TV and streamers – it’s becoming really difficult. I don’t know what makes something television anymore.”

Vachon has produced two films at this year’s Berlinale – Rebecca Miller’s opening title She Came To Me, and Celine Song...

Editor’s note: This review was originally published at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. Magnolia Pictures releases the film in NYC theaters on Friday, September 15 with expansion to follow on Friday, September 22.

Progress in the face of systemic injustice does not occur naturally, it is urged along by sheer force of will — often by one radical visionary. In the case of the fashion industry’s racism, that person is Bethann Hardison. A trailblazing model in the 1970s, she became one of the most important agents of the ’90s, discovering the first male supermodel Tyson Beckford and mentoring Naomi Campbell and Iman. When fickle trends threatened to erase all of her hard work in the aughts, she boldly called out the industry’s blatantly racist casting practices, causing a seismic shift once and for all.

Hardison’s remarkable and fabulous life serves as an inspiring lesson in affecting radical change from within the system,...

Prolific TV producer Ryan Murphy accepted the Carol Burnett Award at the Golden Globes on Tuesday night, paying tribute to many of the people he has worked with in front of and behind the screen.

Murphy ran through some of the highlights of his career — Michaela Jaé Rodriguez becoming the first trans actress to win a Golden Globe, seeing “Pose” star Billy Porter, who introduced him, wearing a black tuxedo gown on the Oscars red carpet, and working with actors such as Niecy Nash, Matt Bomer and Jeremy Pope, who were able to present their true selves on screen.

“When I was a young person at home in the ’70s watching ‘The Carol Burnett Show,’ I never ever saw a person like me getting an award or even being a character on a TV show. It’s hard being an LGBTQ kid in America. In fact, all over the world,...

In less than a quarter century, Ryan Murphy has produced 20 TV series (and counting), which means he is only six such credits away from outpacing the legendary Norman Lear. After being honored with the Producers Guild of America’s Norman Lear Award in 2018, Murphy is now going to follow Lear as the next recipient of the Carol Burnett Golden Globe Award for career achievement in television. Like his predecessor, he has earned this tribute because he has made a name for himself as an innovative and inclusive creator whose body of work constitutes its own distinct era within TV history.

At 57, Murphy is the youngest Carol Burnett Award honoree so far. After originally being bestowed upon its namesake (85) in 2019, the special prize has gone to Ellen DeGeneres and Lear. According to Hollywood Foreign Press Association President Helen Hoehne, Murphy was chosen because of his unique ability to “enthrall audiences with...

Megaproducer Ryan Murphy landed a Golden Globe nomination this week for his Netflix hit “Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story,” which is in the running for best TV limited series, anthology series or TV movie, among other nods. But now he’s guaranteed to take home at least one statue at the upcoming Globes ceremony, no matter what: Murphy has been selected to receive the kudocast’s fourth-ever Carol Burnett Award.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association was set to announce Murphy’s Carol Burnett Award on Thursday morning. The news means that Murphy will be on hand at the 80th annual Golden Globe Awards on Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023, to accept the honor.

The Carol Burnett Award was launched in 2019 as the television equivalent of the HFPA’s long-established Cecil B. DeMille Award, which has honored talent from the world of film since 1952. Burnett received the first award, followed by Ellen DeGeneres...

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Chuck Lorre’s HBO Max comedy How to Be a Bookie continues to grow its cast.

The latest addition is Maxim Swinton (Fleishman Is in Trouble), who will play the stepson of star and esxecutive producer Sebastian Maniscalco. Swinton joins an ensemble that also includes Omar J. Dorsey, Andrea Anders, Vanessa Ferlito and Jorge Garcia.

How to Be a Bookie is Lorre’s first show for HBO Max, which gave it a straight-to-series order in October. The single-camera comedy, which Lorre is writing with frequent collaborator Nick Bakay, centers on Danny (Maniscalco), a veteran Los Angeles bookie who struggles to keep his business going amid the widespread legalization of sports gambling, unstable clients, family, co-workers and a lifestyle that takes him to every part of the city.

Swinton will play Anthony, Danny’s 11-year-old stepson. Anthony is described as “a sweet kid who...