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"This is a legendary place for me." Another exciting video from Paris to enjoy. The latest Video Club video from Konbini in Paris features the acclaimed Italian filmmaker Luca Guadagnino - there to promote the release of Queer in French cinemas (already opened in the US last year). He opened two brand films last year - Challengers and Queer. They recently had Francis Ford Coppola and Christopher Nolan visiting, but now it's Guadagnino's turn to geek out about movies of all kinds. Luca takes a trip "to the Video Club to talk about his greatest cinematic inspirations, from American Psycho to La Grande Illusion." This one is for die-hard cinephiles, as Luca chats about cinema & filmmakers of all kinds - bringing up Bertolucci, Fassbinder, Cocteau, Renoir, Powell & Pressburger, Akerman, Cronenberg, Maybury, Harron, plus a whole thing about the 2010 Palme d'Or winner Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives.

Mike Flanagan's "Doctor Sleep" is a miracle of a movie. It's a faithful adaptation of author Stephen King's 2013 novel of the same name, which itself is a follow-up to King's novel version of "The Shining" from 1977. It's also, however, a sequel (and a bit of a legacy sequel at that) to Stanley Kubrick's 1980 cinematic adaptation of "The Shining," and it's this latter aspect which still seems staggeringly impossible to do on paper, even as Flanagan ended up deftly proving that it was very possible. After all, upon taking on "Doctor Sleep," Flanagan was facing numerous obstacles: first and foremost, a sequel to a Kubrick movie is a daunting prospect all by itself. The second, even tougher issue involves King's infamous distaste for Kubrick's film; given the disparities between Kubrick's movie and King's novel, and the fact that those differences make up the bulk of contention between author and filmmaker,...

Masashi Kishimoto has never hesitated in bringing out the best of each character in Naruto. Each and every character has a sense of individuality whether by design or personality. Uniqueness is not something Naruto is short of and that shows from every angle. Even the characters that may not be as popular or often disliked are recognizable because of one or the other unique features.

Sakura beating Naruto | Credit: Studio Pierrot

Despite making such visually and emotionally appealing characters, there are moments when the mangaka falls short. While it is understandable to not be able to focus on each and every character because of the sheer number of them, it becomes questionable when one of those characters also happens to be one of the main ones.

Masashi Kishimoto Couldn’t Prioritize Sakura

During the Jump Festa 2010 (via The Naruto News), Masashi Kishimoto took into regard the character of Sakura Haruno...

There’s been no shortage of great celebrity documentaries in recent years, and it’s easy to understand why. Popular culture fanatics are often keen to learn more about their heroes and seek an understanding of the critical events that shaped their careers. While celebrity-focused documentaries can occasionally offer important contextual information, they often present a more sanitized approach to their subject’s life that is reliant on a reflective approach to their achievements. However, celebrity documentaries that capture history in the making offer a rare opportunity for highly publicized figures to be vulnerable in a way that they are not generally perceived to be. By examining the immediate and lasting ramifications of the 2010 The Tonight Show controversy, the documentary Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop examines Conan O’Brien’s integrity and hard work as an artist.

Get ready to journey back to the 1980s with Netflix's curated selection of iconic films screening in select theaters and available to stream. From classic 80s staples like Beverly Hills Cop to cult classics like A Nightmare on Elm Street, there's something for every movie buff to enjoy. Netflix's Milestone Movie Collection celebrates cinema milestone years, with 1984 films lined up for April and May screenings, including The Natural and This is Spinal Tap.

If you're feeling nostalgic for the 1980s, Netflix has got you covered. As part of their Milestone Movies: The Anniversary Collection, the streamer is sending over two dozen 1984 movies to Netflix-owned theaters for a limited time. The films will screen at the Paris Theater in New York, The Egyptian Theater in Hollywood, and The Bay Theater in Pacific Palisades, California, throughout select dates in April and May (via Variety). The films will also be available to stream.

When "Cheers" returned to NBC's airwaves for its third season, viewers were desperate to see how bartender Sam Malone (Ted Danson) and Diane Chambers (Shelley Long) had handled their breakup at the conclusion of the previous season's finale. Had they moved on or possibly reconciled?

The answer was a little more complicated than perhaps many fans expected.

Recovering alcoholic Sam was back on the sauce and carousing with self-destructive abandon. Diane was, as ever, Diane, but she couldn't bear to see Sam in such a rough way. She didn't want to get back together with him, certainly not while he was scraping rock bottom, but she still cared about her ex. She needed to see him in at least a semi-functional state. She needed to get him help. And she believed she knew just the man who could throw him a lifeline.

That man, of course, was psychiatrist Frasier Crane.

The term "nepo baby" tends to carry a negative connotation, but it doesn't have to. Take the Deschanel sisters, Emily and Zooey. Their mother, Mary Jo Deschanel (née Weir), began acting in the 1960s and has dozens of film and TV credits to her name, from "2010: The Year We Make Contact" to "Twin Peaks." Their father, Caleb Deschanel, is likewise a decorated director and cinematographer whose career spans 50 years, having collaborated with filmmakers like Philip Kaufman, Carroll Ballard, William Friedkin, Richard Donner, Roland Emmerich, and Christopher McQuarrie.

In the face of that, "nepo babies" Emily and Zooey Deschanel have emerged as artists fully worthy of admiration on their own merits. On top of forming one-half of the successful indie pop group She & Him, Zooey Deschanel spring-boarded from her early breakout roles in the hits "Almost Famous" and "Elf" into an ongoing career as a movie star, in addition to...

Robert Downey Jr. has quickly become the Oscars frontrunner for Best Supporting Actor for his transformative turn in Christopher Nolan‘s acclaimed biopic “Oppenheimer.” This Universal blockbuster chronicles how Cillian Murphy‘s titular scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer created the atomic bomb. Emily Blunt features as Oppenheimer’s wife, Kitty, while Downey Jr. portrays his political foe Lewis Strauss. Third time should prove to be the charm for this charmer. That got us thinking about his first two Oscar races.

Downey Jr. was first nominated in 1993 for Best Actor for “Chaplin.” Another biopic, he played the titular role of the cinematic legend Charlie Chaplin. Directed by Richard Attenborough, the film recounts Chaplin’s incredible life and career from his poverty-stricken childhood to his worldwide acclaim. Downey Jr. turned in a pitch-perfect performance, nailing the accent, mannerisms, and expressions of the great man and receiving acclaim of his own along the way.

The 2010 The Last Airbender featured weak bending Netflix must stay true to the characters. Aang's journey must be properly set up and explored.

Excitement is building for Netflix's live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender series as its 2024 release approaches, and a first proper look is expected at the forthcoming Geeked Week in November. The success of the One Piece series has also restored faith in some trepidatious fans due to a string of failed anime adaptations from the streamer prior. The upcoming Netflix series marks the second attempt at bringing the legend of Aang to live-action, as the first time through with M. Night Shyamalan was notoriously rough. The Netflix series faced production hiccups when original series creators Michael Dante Dimartino and Bryan Konietzko departed the project over creative differences. Albert Kim went on to take over showrunner duties from Dimartino and Konietzko, with the show now a reality and in sight.

David Fincher isn’t quite ready to give a “like” to the concept of doing a sequel to his 2010 Academy Award-winning film about the founding of Facebook, The Social Network.

Fincher, 61, talked about it with The Guardian in support of his new movie with Michael Fassbender, The Killer.

“Aaron [Sorkin, The Social Network’s screenwriter] and I have talked about it, but, um… that’s a can of worms,” Fincher said, and did not elaborate.

Sorkin would be up for it. In a 2021 interview, he said, “”I think what has been going on with Facebook these last few years is a story very much worth telling, and there is a way to tell it as a follow up to The Social Network, and that’s as much as I know.”

The Social Network won Oscars for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Film Editing, and Best Original Score at the 2011 Academy Awards. It starred Jesse Eisenberg as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg,...

Netflix revealed its list of movies coming to their streaming platform in the fall season, including the release dates of awards contenders such as Pain Hustlers and The Killer, among other films.

David Fincher's Netflix thriller, starring Michael Fassbender, recently released a poster and a dark trailer to promote the much-hyped movie. According to Deadline, Fincher’s latest movie will be shown in select theaters on October 27th and will hit the streaming platform with a November 10th premiere date. Fincher's last movie with Netflix, Mank earned critical acclaim. The film earned numerous nominations at the 93rd Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Supporting Actress, and won for Best Production Design and Best Cinematography. It also received six nominations at the 78th Golden Globe Awards, including Best Motion Picture – Drama.

Related: The Killer Poster Teases David Fincher's Netflix Thriller

Pain Hustlers, a crime drama...

Dreams is one of Akira Kurosawa's final films and the first in his legendary career to be solely written by him. An anthology film containing eight vignettes spanning various settings and time periods, each short is based on a recurring dream that the filmmaker had over the course of his life. There's no overarching connective tissue in the plot, with the stories rarely having anything to do with one another.

Instead, the film embraces a strong thematic line throughout -- one that quietly explores nature, regret, and humanity through a horrific lens. Dreams -- now available through a Criterion Collection re-release -- is Kurosawa's grand addition to the horror genre. While not every entry in the film's run-time is rooted in that tone, so much of what makes Dreams a lingering experience is the way it uses beautiful filmmaking to showcase frightening concepts and real-world tragedies.

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Lovers of Yorgos Lanthimos are poor things no more, as the full trailer for his first feature in five years has debuted.

“Poor Things” opens September 8 from Searchlight Pictures and stars Emma Stone, who earned an Oscar nomination for 2018’s “The Favourite,” Lanthimos’ dark period piece written by Tony McNamara, who returns again to pen this visually sumptuous twist on the Frankenstein story.

The film centers on the incredible tale and fantastical evolution of 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, Bella runs off with Duncan Wedderburn (Mark Ruffalo), a slick and debauched lawyer, on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the prejudices of her times, Bella grows steadfast in her purpose to stand for equality and liberation.

Mo'Nique is finally ready to put the past behind her, and by that she means her 13-year feud with Lee Daniels. In the midst of her return to TV, movies, and standup comedy, the comedian sat down for an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, published on March 8, to recap the years of her career after she won her 2010 Oscar for Daniels's "Precious" - a movie that also led to their public fallout.

It all started in 2009 in the run-up to Mo'Nique's big night at the Oscars, when, according to the comedian, she refused to do full-court press for "Precious" because she wouldn't be compensated to promote it during award season, per THR. At the time, Mo'Nique was hosting a talk show on BET and also wanted time to spend with her husband (and manager), Sidney Hicks, and her sons Shalon, 32, and twins Jonathan and David, 17. Lionsgate, who backed the film,...

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery has been praised for featuring more comedy than its predecessor, but one obscure joke went over most viewers' heads. The 2019 movie follows Knives Out with Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) attempting to solve another, completely unrelated murder, and this time it's on a sun-soaked Greek island instead of a gothic-looking New England mansion. When invited to tech billionaire Miles Bron's (Edward Norton) private island for a fun murder mystery weekend, an actual killing takes place, and everyone is a suspect, including the billionaire himself. What follows is tons of backstabbing and, more interestingly, exploration of the fantastical island.

Just like Knives Out, the big appeal of Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery is the actual murder mystery, but unlike the 2019 movie, Glass Onion has tons of celebrity references and gags. Given how narcissistic and chauvinistic Miles is, most of the jokes are based on his malapropisms and name-dropping.

A forgotten piece of lore from the 2010 film Predators has been completely transformed in the current run of Predator comics from Marvel. 2010's Predators by Nimród Antal and Alex Litvak is a film that saw eight different people dropped into a mysterious forest and facing countless Predators in a terrifying game of cat-and-mouse. While some dismissed the entry for being more of the same, it actually expanded the lore more than people thought by revealing that the Predators actually kidnapped these characters and brought them to a gaming preserve in space to hunt them. This was huge at the time because it showed that the Predators don't just choose where to hunt. It's a piece of lore in the Predator mythos that has sadly been forgotten more and more as time goes on, but a teaser for the next arc in the Predator comics is bringing it back and redefining it.

When the 2003 Christmas classic Love Actually entered the world, it was like a stuffed stocking, filled to the brim with some of Britain’s greatest actors.

From Hugh Grant and Emma Thompson to Alan Rickman, it attracted some of the best performers of the era.

The film also launched the careers of Thomas Brodie-Sangster and Olivia Olson, who were children when they starred in the romcom.

It’s been almost 20 years since Richard Curtis’s film was released, and they’ve all been very busy since then.

Some of the stars of the movie have gone on to work with Curtis again, while others have had huge franchise roles or become synonymous with certain characters, like Martin Freeman’s Dr John Watson in Sherlock.

Here’s a rundown on the Love Actually cast’s varied careers, from 2003 to now…

Bill Nighy

After playing rock and roll legend Billy Mack in Love Actually,...

Film and television production designer Albert Brenner died on Dec. 8 at the age of 96. His wife of more than 40 years, Susan, was by his side. Some of his prominent credits included production work on “Bullitt,” “The Turning Point,” “Beaches,” “Sunshine Boys” and “California Suite.”

Brenner’s talent was well-respected within the industry, notching him five Academy Awards nominations for best art direction throughout his long-spanning career, for “Beaches,” “California Suite,” “Sunshine Boys,” “The Turning Point” and “2010: The Year We Make Contact.” Brenner worked on 57 films across four decades in the entertainment industry. In addition, Brenner served on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Board of Governors along with a stint as the President of the Society of Art Directors. His contributions to the profession of production design was acknowledged by the Art Directors Guild with a Lifetime Achievement award in 2003.

Born on February 17, 1926 and raised in Brooklyn,...

Jessica Hecht, a 2010 Tony Award nominee, will join the previously announced Laura Linney on Broadway this spring in the Manhattan Theatre Club’s world premiere of Summer, 1976, the new play by Pulitzer Prize winning Proof author David Auburn. Daniel Sullivan will direct.

Summer, 1976 will begin previews on Tuesday, April 4, 2023 ahead of a Tuesday, April 25 opening night at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. The casting was announced today by Mtc’s Lynne Meadow (Artistic Director) and Barry Grove (Executive Producer).

The play is set during a summer night when an unlikely friendship develops between Diana (Linney), a fiercely iconoclastic artist and single mom, and Alice (Hecht), a free-spirited yet naive young housewife. As the Bicentennial is celebrated across the country, these two young women in Ohio navigate motherhood, ambition, and intimacy, and help each other discover their own independence.

The production will mark the Broadway returns of five-time Tony nominee...

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Hollywood and other movie industry representatives are paying tribute to Jean-Luc Godard on social media following the news on Tuesday that the Franco-Swiss legend had died.

A former film critic who wrote for the legendary Cahiers du Cinéma during its heyday of the 1950s, Godard burst onto the scene in 1960 with his debut Breathless, which won the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. The Paris-set crime caper, starring Jean Seberg and Jean-Paul Belmondo, heralded the arrival of cinematic modernism. Using jump cuts, nods to the camera and other meta-fictional devices, it commented on the story as it was unfolding.

Goddard’s career would go on to span half a century, with the filmmaker directing upwards of 70 projects including features, documentaries, shorts and TV. His work was known at various times throughout his long career for everything from its pop-art homages and historical...

Usher established the Usher's New Look Foundation to empower young people from underserved neighborhoods around the world to create change in their communities.

Challenging himself creatively and testing musical boundaries are characteristics that have defined Usher’s career since he was first discovered twenty years ago on Star Search. Usher has been ranked by the Recording Industry Assn. of America as one of the best-selling artists in American music history, having sold over 46 million albums worldwide. He has won numerous awards including 8 Grammy Awards and was named the #1 Hot 100 artist of the 2000s decade. Usher has attained nine Hot 100 #1 hits (all as a lead artist) and 18 Hot 100 top-10 singles.

Realizing that with success comes responsibility. Usher has also proven to be a major philanthropic force. In 1999, Usher created New Look, a charitable organization that develops global youth leaders by way of access, awareness and empowerment. In recognition of his accomplishments,...

Exclusive: In their first-ever professional collaboration, top Asian-American fashion designers Prabal Gurung and Phillip Lim have joined the creative team for the upcoming Disney+ series American Born Chinese. The duo will work together with American Born Chinese costume designer Joy Cretton to design costumes for culturally significant characters from Chinese mythology and classic literature portrayed in the series by stars Michelle Yeoh and Daniel Wu.

Based on the graphic novel by Gene Luen Yang, American Born Chinese tells the story of Jin Wang, an average teenager juggling his high school social life with his home life. When he meets a new foreign student on the first day of the school year, even more worlds collide as Jin is unwittingly entangled in a battle of Chinese mythological gods. The genre-hopping action-comedy explores identity, culture, and family.

“Prabal and Phillip are both incredibly talented artists who have made their mark in the fashion world,...

What do documentary filmmakers working with contributors suffering from trauma or experiencing traumatic situations need to take into account when filming?

This key question, which has become all the more timely for filmmakers against the backdrop of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, was among the themes addressed at Cph:Conference, the Copenhagen Intl. Documentary Film Festival’s industry event that runs alongside the fest.

Much of the conversation revolved around questions of power and consent in filmmaking.

According to panelist Katy Robjant, a consultant clinical psychologist specializing in the treatment of Ptsd and other trauma-related disorders in asylum seekers, refugees and victims of trafficking, “the whole nature of trauma is the dynamic of power and powerlessness, especially when talking about interpersonal violence. All of their control and self-autonomy has been taken away from them, so one of the first things to consider is the inherent power dynamic between you and the traumatized person.

Wearing a blush floral Prada gown and matching headband, Helen Mirren told Variety at the 28th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards that she felt like the “homecoming queen.” A fitting title, since she was on hand as the 57th recipient of the SAG Life Achievement Award. But Mirren admitted her upcoming role as villain Hespera in the superhero film “Shazam! Fury of the Gods,” set to release in 2023, won’t be quite as romantic.

“I had such a good time in ‘Shazam,’ playing a Roman goddess,” Mirren told senior entertainment writer Angelique Jackson during Variety On the Carpet presented by Directv. “I am a bit of a baddie, yes. Watch this space.”

Throughout her career, Mirren has taken on roles that range from three different British queens to her upcoming turn as Golda Meir, the former prime minster of Israel. She’s also a featured player in the “Fast & Furious” franchise,...

Earl Sweatshirt has debuted a new single, “2010,” the rapper’s first solo release since 2019. The track, produced by Black Noi$e, is accompanied by an intimate music video directed by Ryosuke Tanzawa.

The single sees the rapper hitting lyrics about his humble beginnings and reflecting on his trajectory of success to date. “Threw me loose changе/Look at what I made of it,” Sweatshirt boasts on the song.

Fans had been speculating about the song’s release after Sweatshirt revealed coordinates that lead fans to cryptic billboards with an augmented reality filter.

Roger Ross Williams, Ronan Farrow, Jean Tsien, Cecilla Aldarondo, Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh will be honored at the 2021 IDA Documentary Awards.

Williams, who won the 2010 Oscar for best documentary, short subjects with “Music by Prudence,” will receive the Career Achievement Award. He was the first African American director to win an Oscar, and he also picked up a nomination in 2017 for best documentary feature with “Life, Animated.” The doc also picked up two News & Documentary Emmy Awards, and Williams won a Primetime Emmy for “The Apollo” in 2020.

Farrow will receive the Truth to Power Award. His investigative journalism for The New Yorker helped break the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse scandal, for which the magazine won a Pulitzer Prize. Farrow is currently producing documentaries for HBO.

Tsien, who has worked in documentary film for over 35 years, will receive the Pioneer Award. She started her career as an editor, then story consultant,...

Exclusive: IFC Films has taken North American rights to Andrea Arnold’s well-received Cannes Film Festival documentary Cow.

Cow, which made its world premiere earlier this month in the newly created Cannes Premiere section, reps IFC and Arnold’s second teaming together after her award-winning Fish Tank, which starred Katie Jarvis and Michael Fassbender.

U.S. sales rep Submarine Entertainment brokered the deal for Cow on behalf of the filmmakers. Submarine sold Todd Haynes’ The Velvet Underground to Apple TV+ back in October; that doc also made its world premiere at Cannes this year.

Cow was shot over seven years, and repped Arnold’s return to Cannes after her 2016 young-adult movie American Honey. It was produced by Kat Mansoor of Halcyon Pictures and executive produced by Rose Garnett of BBC Film and Maxyne Franklin and Sandra Whipham of Doc Society.

This film is an endeavour to consider cows. To move us closer to them.

The duo dazzle up front in screenwriter Florence Vignon’s first film – an Easy Tiger production set to be sold by Orange Studio – which begins filming tomorrow. The first clapperboard is set to slam tomorrow, Wednesday 31 March, on L’échappée belle, which will be the first film directed by screenwriter Florence Vignon (the winner of 2010’s Best Adapted Screenplay César for Mademoiselle Chambon and nominated for 2013’s Best Original Screenplay César via A Few Hours of Spring). Shining bright at the head of the cast is seasoned actor Jacques Gamblin and rising star Zita Hanrot (awarded 2016’s Best New Female Hope César for Fatima and...

The Dominican Republic’s lauded film law marks its 10th year amid general elections set for July. Fortunately, the three main candidates are said to be pro-cinema.

“The law is up for a review, but we don’t think there will be too many changes,” says film commissioner Yvette Marichal.

As the country gears up to emerge from its Covid-19 lockdown by July 1, it is still unclear when productions will restart and shuttered cinemas reopen. Nevertheless, pre-production on some shows is in full swing.

Set construction for a big-budget supernatural thriller by a major Hollywood director has begun at the world-class Pinewood Dominican Republic water filming facility, albeit with health and safety protocols in place. Another supernatural thriller, “Geechee” from Stuart Ford’s AGC Studios, will resume production at Pinewood Dr by the end of July.

A Rupert Wainwright-directed drama based on the Florida boating accident of three NFL players,...

Mel Gibson is hitting back at explosive claims by Winona Ryder that the Oscar-winning actor and director made anti-Semitic and bigoted remarks and accusing the “Stranger Things” star of lying about their interactions.

“This is 100% untrue,” a representative for Gibson said in a statement to Variety. “She lied about it over a decade ago, when she talked to the press, and she’s lying about it now.”

Ryder accused Gibson of making anti-Semitic and anti-gay comments in a recent interview with the Sunday Times. She has told similar stories in the past, including in a 2010 GQ profile.

“We were at a crowded party with one of my good friends,” she told the reporter from the Telegraph. “And Mel Gibson was smoking a cigar, and we’re all talking and he said to my friend, who’s gay, ‘Oh wait, am I gonna get AIDS?’ And then something came up about Jews,...

Now that self-quarantining and social distancing have become the new norm to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus, people have been catching up on or discovering new shows on various streaming platforms. In fact, they’re streaming so much that Netflix has been asked to slow down its streaming and decrease the quality from HD to standard definition to prevent an internet overload. This is what we’ve come to, folks.

With streaming now owning the entertainment space though while movie theaters and theme parks are shut down, there’s prime real estate for just about any show you would want to see and for some, that would be a Nightmare on Elm Street Netflix series. If it existed, that is.

A YouTuber by the name of Mindd Kidzag has made a new fan trailer for the horror movie which imagines the IP as a Netflix show. It doesn...

From 2018’s feature doc Oscar winner Icarus, to 2019’s Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary recipient Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, to the Sundance Grand Jury Prize nabbing Of Fathers and Sons and Dina, Impact Partners has been behind some of the most critically acclaimed nonfiction work of recent years. The company’s winning streak, however, actually goes back a decade, all the way to 2010’s Academy Award for Documentary Feature recipient The Cove. And Impact Partners itself goes back even further. Founded in 2007 by Dan Cogan and Geralyn Dreyfous with a mission to bring […]...

From 2018’s feature doc Oscar winner Icarus, to 2019’s Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary recipient Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, to the Sundance Grand Jury Prize nabbing Of Fathers and Sons and Dina, Impact Partners has been behind some of the most critically acclaimed nonfiction work of recent years. The company’s winning streak, however, actually goes back a decade, all the way to 2010’s Academy Award for Documentary Feature recipient The Cove. And Impact Partners itself goes back even further. Founded in 2007 by Dan Cogan and Geralyn Dreyfous with a mission to bring […]...

Syd Mead, a visual effects artist and American industrial designer who helped imagine the futuristic look of science fiction classics like “Blade Runner” and “Aliens,” has died. He was 86.

A representative with the Art Directors Guild, which was meant to honor Mead in February with the William Cameron Menzies Award, told TheWrap that Mead died on Monday in Pasadena, California due to complications from lymphoma cancer, for which he had been undergoing treatment for the past year.

Mead was known as a “visual futurist” whose concept art and architectural background served as the basis for Ridley Scott’s classic sci-fi, as well as other films such as “2010,” “Tron” and “Star Trek: The Motion Picture.” More recently, Mead served as a consultant on the films “Tomorrowland,” “Elysium” and “Blade Runner 2049.”

He specifically worked...

Updated, with more detail: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has pulled back the curtain on its shortlist for the International Feature Film Oscar race. Not surprisingly, the expanded field of 10 includes Bong Joon Ho’s Palme d’Or winner Parasite, which already has been making waves this awards season, and Pedro Almodóvar’s Pain And Glory, whose star Antonio Banderas won Best Actor at Cannes and is up for a Golden Globe Award. Also on the list is France’s Les Misérables from Ladj Ly, one of the breakout filmmakers of this year’s Cannes. Each of those titles received Golden Globe nominations last week in the comparable Foreign Language category.

As expected, Russia’s Beanpole from Kantemir Bagalov, Barnabas Toth’s Hungarian pic Those Who Remained and Mati Diop’s Atlantics from Senegal further made the Oscar shortlist cut today. The four films that round it...

Douglas Rain, the Canadian-born actor best known as the voice of Hal 9000 in “2001: A Space Odyssey” and its sequel “2010: The Year We Made Contact,” died Sunday at St. Marys Memorial Hospital in St. Mary’s, Ontario, according to CTV News. He was 90.

“Canadian theatre has lost one of its greatest talents and a guiding light in its development,” Stratford Festival artistic director Antoni Cimolino said in a release.

“Douglas Rain was that rare artist: an actor deeply admired by other actors. The voice of Hal in ‘2001: A Space Odyssey,’ Douglas shared many of the same qualities as Kubrick’s iconic creation: precision, strength of steel, enigma and infinite intelligence, as well as a wicked sense of humour.”

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Cimolino continued: “But those of us lucky enough to have worked with Douglas...

Arthur C. Clarke, the legendary science fiction writer whose work inspired the classic Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey, died early Wednesday at his home in Sri Lanka; he was 90. According to his aide, Rohan De Silva, Clarke died after suffering from breathing problems; the author had been suffering from post-polio syndrome since the 1960s, and often used a wheelchair. Born in the United Kingdom, Clarke served in the Royal Air Force during World War II, and after the war earned a degree in math and physics at King's College London. He soon became involved with the the British Interplanetary Society, and also pioneered the concept that satellites could serve as telecommunications relays. While writing a number of non-fiction technical books on space exploration, he also began work on fiction in the 1940s, including "The Sentinel," a 1948 short story he wrote for a BBC competition that would later serve as the basis for the film 2001: A Space Odyssey. After meeting with filmmaker Stanley Kubrick in 1964, the two began to collaborate on the script for a film that would expand on Clarke's initial story. Both began work on a book that would serve as a basis for the screenplay, but work on the film began in conjunction with the writing of the novel. As a result, the Kubrick film was released in 1967, well before the book's publication in 1968. While Clarke and Kubrick were both credited with the film's screenplay (earning an Academy Award nomination), Clarke was cited as the sole author of the book; the writer would go on to document the many differences between the book and film in The Lost Worlds of 2001, published in 1972. The film became a landmark work of cinema, featuring such iconic images as a looming black monolith and a score of classical music, including the piece "Thus Spake Zarathustra," that would become forever linked with the film. Clarke also was a television commentator alongside Walter Cronkite for the Apollo moonshots in the late 1960s, and would go on to host a number of science-oriented television shows in the 1980s. He continued to write throughout the 1970s (his works included the novel Rendezvous with Rama), and in 1982 wrote a sequel to 2001 entitled 2010: Odyssey Two, which would later become a 1984 film. Though he was not credited on the screenplay, Clarke corresponded with filmmaker Peter Hyams over the film. In the late 1990s, he was the subject of accusations of pedophilia, just as he was about to be made a knight; later investigations cleared him of all charges, and he finally received his knighthood in 2000. Clarke's home since 1956 was Sri Lanka, where he pursued his passion for marine diving. In December of 2007 he recorded a "good-bye" video message for friends, family and fans of his work. Clarke was briefly married in the early 1950s, and has no children. --IMDb staff...