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With six Oscar nominations (with two wins), well over a dozen Golden Globe nods spanning 40+ years, three Primetime Emmys, and countless other accolades, Jessica Lange has had a fantastic career in Hollywood. But at 74, she thinks it may be time to hang it up – not because she’s older but partly due to comic book movies.

Speaking with The Telegraph, Jessica Lange said that she is concerned at how far creativity has fallen as a priority. And one of the key culprits is the sort of fare that Marvel, DC and more are pushing in theaters multiple times a year. “I’m not interested in these big comic-book franchise films. I think that they’ve sacrificed this art that we’ve been involved in…for the sake of profit.” While Lange didn’t explicitly say that the MCU is to blame for her leaving the business, consider this thought: “I...

Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we usually talk about movie stars and not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones they made in between. Today, however, we talk about Oscar movies (!), or better yet, movies that were snubbed of Oscar!

Conor and I welcome the wonderful Joe Reid & Chris Feil of the This Had Oscar Buzz podcast. An official podcast crossover! In today’s episode, we each choose an Oscar snub that still sticks in our craw, and use them as a jumping off point for the categories of that respective year.

We reference two great past Oscar Buzz eps (A Thousand Acres & Elizabethtown), the lasting influence of Lisa Gerrard, Dan’s favorite film performance, Joe’s love for Marcelo Zarvos’ brilliant score for The Door in the Floor, Chris’ admiration of the singular costume (and production) design in Down With Love,...

These days, it’s refreshing to speak with someone like Mike Leigh whose vocabulary hasn’t been corrupted by the latest Hollywood trends. For example, when Leigh uses the word “content,” it’s doesn’t mean the same thing as 98 of his peers, for whom the term has come to describe the swill that fills the various streamers’ pipelines.

For Leigh, “content” refers to the substance of a film or play, as I found when asking Leigh, who is the subject of a 14-film, career-spanning retrospective by New York’s Film at Lincoln Center — from “Bleak Moments” to “Peterloo,” with two shorts thrown in for good measure — where he thinks audiences unfamiliar with his work ought to begin.

“I certainly don’t think anybody should be preoccupied with seeing my films for the first time in chronological order,” he says. “I think you could drop anchor anywhere and start.”

A...

Mike Leigh is back in New York City for Film At Lincoln Center’s retrospective of his films, which starts Friday May 27th. He’s doing Q&a’s after three of his best—Naked, Secrets and Lies, and Topsy Turvy. Since he was last on the show (Episode 54), a few of his most treasured actors have been on and discussed the joy of working with the legendary director. There have even been some guests who have talked about the pleasure of working with him just in an audition, even though they weren’t selected. I ask him to break down his audition process and […]

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Mike Leigh is back in New York City for Film At Lincoln Center’s retrospective of his films, which starts Friday May 27th. He’s doing Q&a’s after three of his best—Naked, Secrets and Lies, and Topsy Turvy. Since he was last on the show (Episode 54), a few of his most treasured actors have been on and discussed the joy of working with the legendary director. There have even been some guests who have talked about the pleasure of working with him just in an audition, even though they weren’t selected. I ask him to break down his audition process and […]

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The box office fortunes of Warner Bros.’ “Fantastic Beasts” series continue to sink after the 43 million domestic opening of the third installment, “The Secrets of Dumbledore.” But even if this marks the end for the Eddie Redmayne-fronted spinoff films, it won’t be the end of the studio’s plans for J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World. The domestic opening weekend for “Secrets of Dumbledore” was 31 down from the 62 million opening of “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald,” a sequel poorly received by both critics and “Harry Potter” fans. While “Secrets” has received slightly better audience reception, the 191 million global launch is down 25 from “Crimes of Grindelwald,” which likely means it will be the first “Harry Potter” or Wizarding World film to fall short of the 500 million mark. Even considering the lingering impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on some overseas markets like China, these numbers aren’t the ones any...

The Fantastic Beasts series is credited with expanding the Wizarding World first introduced in the Harry Potter movies. Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore has continued the trend of introducing more magical creatures through Newt Scamander’s adventures, with the magizoologist already encountering dozens of animals.

Related: 8 Improvements The Secrets Of Dumbledore Did Upon The Crimes Of Grindelwald

Fans on Ranker have cast their votes on which fantastic beast they love the most, ranging from powerful creatures like the Thunderbird to smaller ones like Bowtruckles. Since these take into account hundreds of votes, there’s no doubt that these creatures are the pick of the bunch in the Fantastic Beasts franchise and the Wizarding as a whole.

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore could have used a little more magic on its opening weekend. Strike that, make that a lot more magic. The third chapter in Warner Bros.’ Harry Potter spin-off saga debuted to a less-than-fantastic 43 million in North America over the long Easter frame—the lowest roll-out in the series to date. However, some good news came from overseas, where the wizarding tale has been able to conjure significantly more enchantment, taking in 150.4 million in its first two weekends of release. Bereft of any magic all together was Sony’s fifth-place finisher Father Stu,, the inspirational story of a boxer-turned-priest starring Mark Wahlberg. Despite the religious-themed film’s Easter arrival, it laid an egg with a 5.7 million bow.

While the latest Fantastic Beasts is only the third chapter in a planned series of five, the Potter prequel franchise seems to already be showing signs of diminishing box-office returns.

Exclusive: The Park, a dystopian drama series that explores a society left to be governed by children as a mysterious virus starts killing off all adults, has wrapped production for Topic and Vanishing Angle.

The limited series, which is written and directed by Shal Ngo, who directed an episode of Hulu’s short film series Bite Size Halloween, and produced by Natalie Metzger (The Beta Test), is set to make the festival rounds with Topic and Vanishing Angle looking for broadcasters and streamers in the U.S. and internationally.

The Park stars Secrets of Sulphur Springs pair Chloe Guidry and Nhedrick Jabiar and Carmina Garay (PEN15).

It is a dystopian coming-of-age series focused on three kids who find themselves in an abandoned amusement park, aiming to unite whoever remains. With dangers lurking around every corner, they will do whatever it takes to survive their hellish Neverland.

Topic’s Ryan Chanatry...

The 64th Annual Grammy Awards will take place in 2022 and award music released during the eligibility period of September 1, 2020 through September 30, 2021. So who are the leading contenders for Record of the Year? See our potential favorites, dark horses, and spoilers below. Check back throughout the season as new singles are announced and released and the race takes shape.

Updated: October 1, 2021

Leading Contenders

“Bad Habits” by Ed Sheeran

Album: “Equals”

Label: Asylum

Release Date: June 25, 2021

Producers: Ed Sheeran, Johnny McDaid, Fred Gibson

“Butter” by BTS

Label: Big Hit/Sony Music

Release Date: May 21, 2021

Producers: Rob Grimaldi, Stephen Kirk, Ron Perry

“Damage” by H.E.R.

Album: “Back of My Mind”

Label: RCA

Release Date: October 21, 2020

Producers: Cardiak, Jeff “Gitty” Gitelman

“Drivers License” by Olivia Rodrigo

Album: “Sour”

Label: Geffen/Interscope

Release Date: January 8, 2021

Producer: Daniel Nigro

“Good Days” by Sza

Label: Top Dawg/RCA

Release Date: December 25, 2020

Producers: Carter Lang, Loshendrix, Nascent

“Happier Than Ever...

"Everyone is keeping secrets..." Netflix has revealed an official trailer for another intriguing home invasion suspense thriller called Intrusion, which looks a lot like so many of these other home invasion thrillers over the last few years. When a husband and wife move to a small town, a home invasion leaves the wife traumatized and suspicious that those around her might not be who they seem. Freida Pinto and Logan Marshall-Green star as the husband and wife who move into a very slick modern home built out in the desert. The film's cast also includes Robert John Burke, Sarah Minnich, Mark Sivertsen, and Hayes Hargrove. This looks like it might have some good twists in the second half, but the rest of it just seems so plain and obvious and derivative. These are all ending up the same - no one is who they seem. Check it out. Here's the...

Billy Strings has announced plans for a new solo album this fall. The rising bluegrass star’s Renewal will be released September 24th via Rounder Records and includes the new song “Fire Line,” which is out now.

Produced by Jonathan Wilson and recorded in Nashville, Renewal does not include the previously released collaborations like “Globe” featuring Fences or “Wargasm” with rapper Rmr among its 16 tracks. Strings and Wilson provide instrumentation alongside Strings’ band members Billy Failing, Royal Masat, and Jarrod Walker, with help from special guests Spencer Cullum, John Mailander,...

Michael Yezerski composed the music for the film “Blindspotting” and was invited back for the series currently airing on Starz, this time collaborating with fellow musician Ambrose Akinmusire. Dance and music play a key role in the series alongside the spoken word, with sequences meant to be evocative and used to enhance the characters’ emotions.

The Starz adaptation was created by Rafael Casal and Daveed Diggs, who wrote, produced and starred in the original film, and picks up six months after the movie’s timeline. Ashley, played by Jasmine Cephas Jones, and her partner of 12 years and father of their son, Miles, played by Casal, grapple with incarceration as mother and child are forced to move in with Miles’ mother and half-sister.

The arc of a TV series, compared to the movie, allows for Diggs and Casal to tap into their love not just for the arts, but the Bay...

This week in Freeze-Frame Casting News: TVLine can confirm that 90210 grad AnnaLynne McCord indeed appears in the promo for the next episode of The CW’s Legends of Tomorrow.

In the episode “Stressed Western,” airing Sunday, June 27, McCord — who, Google just told me, has been known to date Legends star Dominic Purcell — guest-stars as a character named Irma Rose. Charming and alluring, Irma Rose catches the eye of many a cowboy, including Behrad, but as we’ll find out, she also harbors some dark secrets…

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[This interview contains spoilers for episode one of Loki, as well as non-spoiler allusions to episode two.]

Gugu Mbatha-Raw has had brushes with Marvel in the past, but the stars finally aligned in time for Loki. On Marvel Studios’ third Disney+ series, Mbatha-Raw plays Ravonna Renslayer, who acts as the Time Variance Authority’s (Tva) judge, jury and executioner. She even sentences Loki (Tom Hiddleston) to death (“reset”) in the series premiere until Owen Wilson’s Mobius intervenes. With the series underway, Mbatha-Raw is now teasing what’s to come for Renslayer and Loki.

“She has a lot on her shoulders;...

Giovanni Ribisi (Sneaky Pete), Colin Hanks (Fargo) and Dan Fogler (Fantastic Beasts franchise) will join Miles Teller and Matthew Goode in Paramount+’s upcoming limited series The Offer.

The Offer is based on two-time Oscar-winning producer Al Ruddy’s experience of making the iconic 1972 film The Godfather that Francis Coppola directed and adapted with Mario Puzo from Puzo’s bestselling novel. The movie starred Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, John Cazale, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton and Talia Shire; it was nominated for 11 Oscars and won three — including to Ruddy for Best Picture.

Ribisi will play crime boss Joe Colombo. Hanks is Barry Lapidus. Fogler plays Francis Ford Coppola. Ruddy is played by Teller and Goode portrays Robert Evans.

The 10-episode event series is written and executive produced by Nikki Toscano, who also showruns, and creator and Oscar- and Emmy-nominated writer Michael Tolkin. Teller and...

Hey, "Chicago Med" fans. We hope you guys thoroughly enjoyed episode 14 tonight. Since it's officially come and gone, we are back in action with another new spoiler session for Chicago Med. In this article, we're going to tell you a few things to expect from the next, new episode 15 of Chicago Med's current season 6. It's due out next Wednesday night, May 19, 2021. The terrific folks over at NBC gave us a couple of new, official teaser descriptions for episode 15 via their official episode 15 press release. So, we're going to dig into those ,right now, and see what they're all about. Let's go. To start, NBC revealed that the new episode 15 is officially titled, "Stories, Secrets, Half Truths And Lies." It sounds like episode 15 will feature some possible intense, dramatic and emotional scenes as Crockett starts worrying he made a surgical mistake. Carol is in distress. Will and Natalie must correct...

Chicago Med Stories, Secrets, Half Truths and Lies Plot Synopsis and Air Date — NBC‘s Chicago Med: Season 6, Episode 15: Stories, Secrets, Half Truths and Lies plot synopsis and air date have been released. Cast and crew Chicago Med stars Nick Gehlfuss, Yaya DaCosta, Torrey DeVitto, Rachel Dipillo, Colin Donnell, Brian Tee, S. Epatha [...]

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Director Mike Leigh’s social-personal observations of life as it is lived in the U.K. always get to me — this one may simply be a more realistic soap opera, but it’s so good that one pays no attention to technical matters, who the actors are or when they are ‘acting’ … it just ‘is,’ and it’s so involving that one becomes anxious over the smallest thing. Leigh’s most acclaimed picture is the perfect antidote for bloated event filmmaking. And unlike some of his pictures, you walk out with a smile on your face.

Secrets and Lies

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The Criterion Collection 1070

1996 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 142 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date March 30, 2021 / 39.95

Starring: Timothy Spall, Phyllis Logan, Brenda Blethyn, Claire Rushbrook, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Elizabeth Berrington, Michelle Austin, Lee Ross, Lesley Manville, Ron Cook, Emma Amos.

Cinematography: Dick Pope

Film Editor: Jon Gregory

Production Design: Alison Chitty

Original...

National Geographic has revealed an official trailer for a new documentary special event called Secrets of the Whales, which is being presented as a four-part miniseries streaming on Disney+ starting Earth Day this April. Featuring the expansive knowledge & skill of acclaimed National Geo Explorer and photographer Brian Skerry, the series ventures deep into the world of whales to witness the extraordinary communication skills and intricate social structures to reveal life and love from their perspective. Filmed over three years in 24 global locations, throughout this epic journey, we learn that whales are far more complex and more like us than ever imagined. This is a personal story that very few are lucky enough to witness...until now. Secrets of the Whales is narrated by award-winning actress and conservationist Sigourney Weaver and scored by French composer Raphaelle Thibaut. The special is created by Red Rock Films. It's executive produced by the one-and-only James Cameron.

The forecast for Modern Love Season 2 calls for a dusting of Jon Snow.

Amazon Prime on Monday announced the cast for the anthology dramedy’s upcoming seven-episode second season, and Game of Thrones vet Kit Harington is one of two dozen-plus actors orbiting Cupid’s crossbow.

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Joining Harington in Season 2 — which is set to debut later this year — will be Minnie Driver...

Warning: This recap contains major spoilers from Tell Me Your Secrets’ Season 1 finale.

When Emma’s memory kicks in, it really kicks in, eh?

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Tell Me Your Secrets‘ Season 1 finale handed out revelations with abandon. Pretty much all of the questions raised throughout the season were answered, culminating in a series of final moments that pulled off a huge twist and set the series up for...

Ryan Tedder, the prolific songwriter and lead singer for pop-rock band OneRepublic, is the latest high-profile artist to cash in on their prolific song catalog — selling a majority stake of his recorded music and publishing rights to investment firm Kkr on Monday morning.

Tedder’s 500-song catalog includes major OneRepublic hits like “Counting Stars,” “Apologize,” and “Secrets,” along with other platinum hits he’s co-written for many other artists like Beyonce’s “Halo” and Adele’s “Rumour Has It.” Kkr declined to detail how much it paid for the catalog...

The Criterion Collection’s March 2020 lineup has been unveiled, and it’s an epic one. Along with their previously announced Wong Kar Wai box set, they will also release Jacques Rivette’s masterpiece Céline and Julie Go Boating, which was long unavailable in good quality and recently debuted on The Criterion Channel.

Also arriving in March is Mike Leigh’s Palme d’Or winner Secrets & Lies, Albert Brooks’ Defending Your Life (with a new essay by Ari Aster), and, getting a solo release after its inclusion in a World Cinema Project box set, Djibril Diop Mambéty’s Touki Bouki, which we discussed on The Film Stage Show below.

Check out the lineup and special features below, with more details on their official site.

New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-rayAudio commentary from 2017 featuring critic Adrian MartinJacques Rivette: Le veilleur, a 1994 two-part feature documentary by Claire Denis,...

Exclusive: Michael Ealy (Stumptown) has been tapped as the male lead opposite Parisa Fitz-Henley in Triage, ABC’s second cycle medical drama pilot from David Cornue, Erica Messer, Jon M. Chu and 20th Television.

Created by Cornue, Triage is a character-driven medical drama that follows pioneering surgeon Finley Briar (Fitz-Henley) over three distinct decades at the same hospital. With the evolution of medicine as the backdrop, the show explores the interconnected careers, friendships and romances of Finley and her colleagues, and their tenuous relationship with time.

Ealy will play brilliant neurosurgeon Nathaniel Price, a brilliant neurosurgeon who is one of Finley Briar’s (Fitz-Henley) closest friends and colleagues with a profound personal connection.

2020 ABC Pilots & Series Orders

Cornue executive produces alongside Messer who serves as showrunner. Chu will executive produce and direct. Steven Marrs and Courtney Hazlett of OutEast Entertainment also executive produce alongside Caitlin Foito.

Ealy is coming off...

“We’re trained by the society and popular culture to bury secrets within us, when It’s not rooted in our instincts to keep them like this. Therefore it brings the inevitable struggle & conflict. Our persistent trials of escapism only lead to more silent sufferings. But, the question is, are we alone in this journey?”

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Director Souradeep Datta proved a strong command on visual presentation and audio soundscapes with his debut film “Colour Palette of a Soldier“. In his follow up, “Secrets”, the director further develops his technical skills while offering a more concrete narrative. As a result, the production shows both growth and an understanding of previous strengths.

As mentioned, the sound and visuals play a key part in the success of the short film. Notably, both elements create a sense of intimacy which captures the subjects’ desperation and anxiety.

Chris Messina is one of those actors where as soon as he appears on-screen, you know you’re in good hands. Whether it’s a lead role or a supporting one, Messina is reliably and consistently good, which has made him a favorite of collaborators such as Ben Affleck. As much as he’d like to move away from nice guy roles like his The Secrets We Keep character, Lewis, his peers appreciate that very same quality he shares with many of his parts.

In Secrets, Messina’s Lewis is torn between his wife, Maja (Noomi Rapace), and a Swiss factory worker, Thomas (Joel Kinnaman), whom ...

Chris Messina is one of those actors where as soon as he appears on-screen, you know you’re in good hands. Whether it’s a lead role or a supporting one, Messina is reliably and consistently good, which has made him a favorite of collaborators such as Ben Affleck. As much as he’d like to move away from nice guy roles like his The Secrets We Keep character, Lewis, his peers appreciate that very same quality he shares with many of his parts.

In Secrets, Messina’s Lewis is torn between his wife, Maja (Noomi Rapace), and a Swiss factory worker, Thomas (Joel Kinnaman), whom ...

Pitch‘s Kylie Bunbury and Secrets and Lies‘ Ryan Phillippe have no idea what dangers lurk when they set out to catch a small-town killer in ABC’s Big Sky (premiering Tuesday, Nov. 17 at 10/9c).

The network’s lone new fall drama — which was previewed in a series of promos during Sunday’s 72nd Emmy Awards — hails from prolific TV producer David E. Kelley (Big Little Lies), and stars TV faves Bunbury and Phillippe as private detectives on the hunt for two kidnapped sisters in Montana. Soon they discover that these are not the only girls who have disappeared in the area — at one point,...

Exclusive: Entertainment One is soon taking out a package, an adaptation of the Sylvain Neuvel novella The Test. John Boyega and Payman Maadi star in the Gavin Hood-drama about a soft-spoken immigrant (Maadi) taking a citizen evaluation test, and a brilliant young behavioral psychologist (Boyega) supervising “the test” confront a terrorist group lead by a far-right fanatic. Hood, who directed Tsotsi and more recently the tense drone drama Eye In The Sky and Official Secrets. He wrote the script. Erwin Stoff will produce with Zev Foreman and Ilda Diffley overseeing for eOne.

The film is a contained thriller, like many films being assembled to shoot during the pandemic. It’s a two-hander and the hope is to secure this as the next slot for Boyega, who makes a strong turn in the upcoming Red, White and Blue, a segment of the Steve McQueen-directed anthology Small Axe that will...

The worst sin of “The Secrets We Keep” is not that it so blatantly and flagrantly rips off Ariel Dorfman’s play and subsequent movie “Death and the Maiden” — although if the Chilean author wanted to sue for a credit, he’s certainly got a case.

The history of art is the history of creators borrowing from each other, whether they call it homage or reference or appropriation. What grates about director Yuval Adler and his co-writer Ryan Covington pilfering so obviously from Dorfman’s work is that they haven’t done anything particularly interesting with it.

Is there potential in changing the setting of “Death and the Maiden” from an unnamed Latin American country to the USA of the 1950s, still reeling in various ways from World War II? Absolutely. Do Adler and Covington achieve that potential? Not in the slightest.

Noomi Rapace stars as Maja, trying her best...

It’s been a rueful joke for three-quarters of a century now that after World War 2, there were miraculously no Nazis (or even ex-Nazis) left in Germany. To start unblemished postwar lives, an entire generation invented cover stories to minimize or deny the political affiliations most of them had before Axis defeat. Some went further than others, adopting whole new identities in new lands to bury wartime deeds. The fictitious exhumation that is “The Secrets We Keep” has Noomi Rapace as a European refugee appalled to realize her former uniformed persecutor now lives in the same American small town as she does.

This “Death and the Maiden”-like suspense drama is neither fully convincing nor particularly original, its narrative running a course that feels somewhat predictable from the outset. But it’s still strong enough to be effective, particularly as a vehicle for the actors. mong other things, it provides...

We may be currently living through Stephen King’s The Stand, but come March, the acclaimed horror novelist promises a new narrative — at least in terms of fiction. Monday, he teased a new book titled Later with the tagline: “Only the dead have no secrets.”

A full synopsis, courtesy of Amazon, is as follows. The book is due March 2:

Sometimes Growing Up

Means Facing Your Demons

The son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood. But Jamie is no ordinary child. Born with an...

Idw Publishing welcomes Marieke Nijkamp, New York Times bestselling author of This Is Where It Ends and writer of DC’s The Oracle Code graphic novel, to pen the latest entry in the long-running children’s horror series, Goosebumps! Written by Nijkamp, the monthly Goosebumps: Secrets of the Swamp comic book miniseries will debut in September, featuring the artwork of Yasmin Flores Montanez and colors by Rebecca Nalty. The five-issue Secrets […] More...

c Hey, "Blue Bloods" fans. We are back at you for another round of spoilers scoops. In this article, we're going to tell you all about what the next, new episode 19 has in store. Thanks to the lovely folks over at CBS, we've got an official press release for episode 19. So, we're going to delve deep, deep into it to unravel a few episode 19 plotlines. With no further ado, let's do it. To start, episode 19 is officially entitled, "Family Secrets." It sounds like episode 19 will feature some pretty interesting, possible dramatic, intense and action-filled scenes as Sean investigates an unknown relative. Frank gets a personal request from a woman. Danny seeks out the truth about a murder. Eddie and Janie discover an abandoned baby and more.

Exclusive: Outfest has unveiled their lineup for the 17th annual Outfest Fusion — or the more official title: Outfest 2020: Culture. Film. Music. Story. The fest will run March 6-10 and include screenings, performances, panels, galas, workshops, and world premieres in Los Angeles.

Outfest Fusion brings together one of the largest, inclusive and diverse cross-sections of the Lgbtq+ community and its allies. The fest is a space the next generation of storytellers and cultural ambassadors are discovered. This year, Outfest Fusion 2020 will feature more than 60 films, including 11 World Premieres, 4 North American Premieres, 12 West Coast Premieres, 13 Los Angeles Premieres and 1 International Premiere.

Films featured this year include El Principe (The Prince) directed by Sebastián Muñoz’s El Principe (The Prince) which won the Queer Lion at the 2019 Venice Film Festival. The fest will also feature the L.A. premiere of Andrew Ahn’s Driveways which stars Hong Chau and Golden...

Colin Firth returned to movie screens this summer with the sequel “Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again,” reuniting the original all-star cast of Meryl Streep, Amanda Seyfried, Pierce Brosnan, Dominic Cooper, Stellan Skarsgård, Christine Baranski and Julie Walters) plus adding Cher to the cast (surprisingly as the mother of Streep).

Firth began his career on the British stage which led to roles in film and television. It wouldn’t be until 10 years into his career that Firth would become a household name in the United Kingdom when he starred in the highly successful BBC production of “Pride and Prejudice.” His role as Mr. Darcy in the film made him one of the top sex symbols in his native country. He would later lampoon his position as one of the countries most desired men when he played the role of Mark Darcy in “Bridget Jones’ Diary.” Bridget longs for her own...

It’s been 18 years since Jocelyn Moorhouse was behind the camera and directed A Thousand Acres. I caught her in jovial spirits laughing a lot as she talked about that film,...

Jocelyn Moorhouse with Sue Maslin and Anne-Katrin Titze, on Grey Gardens: "Definitely. I was inspired by that." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

Kate Winslet and Judy Davis working together, Friedrich Dürrenmatt's The Visit and Jack Nicholson in Sean Penn's The Pledge, Sergio Leone spaghetti westerns, Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven, Albert Maysles and David Maysles' Grey Gardens - Jocelyn Moorhouse, director of A Thousand Acres (Michelle Pfeiffer, Jessica Lange, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jason Robards, Colin Firth), and Proof (Hugo Weaving, Geneviève Picot, Russell Crowe) and The Dressmaker producer Sue Maslin, who reunited with novelist Rosalie Ham, discuss cinematic links and small-town logistics.

Molly (Judy Davis) and Tilly (Kate Winslet), the Dunnages: "You can just see these two great actresses at the height of their power."

"If the dream, according to the interpretation, represents a wish fulfilled, what is the cause of the peculiar and unfamiliar manner in which this fulfillment is expressed?...

Kate Winslet can do anything ... except save this movie from quirky overkill. The Dressmaker, based on a 2000 novel by Rosalie Ham, gives the actress a hell of a role. She's Tilly Dunnage, a 1950's fashionista who's decided to return home to dusty Dungatar (an apt name), the small Aussie town that spawned her. Tilly got run out of Dungatar 20 years ago, when she was just a 10 year-old, for allegedly murdering her schoolmate Stewart Pettyman. Everyone believes she bashed the kid's skull in – including her snaggle-toothed old mum, Molly (Judy Davis,...

Western remake “The Magnificent Seven” (Sony) faces off against animated “Storks” (Warner Bros.) for #1 this weekend. But ranking is less important than how much the two movies pull in audiences. This fight pits the latest iteration of the venerable Hollywood western against a new example of the dominant genre ruling the 2016 box office.

Last weekend’s three duds and a big drop in Top Ten box office can be explained by retread projects that lacked appeal. However after a quick start to the season where six out of seven initial wide releases disappointed (Clint Eastwood’s “Sully” will end up grossing more than the other six combined), this week sees only two new wide releases.

That’s actually a sign of strength, since both look appealing enough to boost numbers. It’s an interesting combo, with both films having potential but neither guaranteed to open as well as “Sully” ($35 million), although both cost more.

Laura Jones, the winner of the inaugural Awg Lifetime Achievement Award and screenwriter of Brick Lane, will appear in conversation with Holding the Man scribe Tommy Murphy later this month.

Jones has worked with Gillian Armstrong on High Tide and Oscar and Lucinda, with Jane Campion on An Angel at My Table and A Portrait of a Lady, with Samantha Lang on The Well and Jocelyn Moorhouse on A Thousand Acres.

As well as Holding the Man, Murphy has written episodes of Spirited, Offspring and Devil's Playground.

The event will be held at Sydney's Harlequin Hotel on June 28.

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Jocelyn Moorhouse and producer Sue Maslin.

Jocelyn Moorhouse has joined this year.s Vivid Ideas program, appearing in an .In Conversation. event presented by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (Aacta).

The event will be held June 16 at Event Cinemas on George Street.

Moorhouse.s most recent film, The Dressmaker, received five Aacta Awards, including the Aacta People's Choice Award for Favourite Australian Film, and quickly became one of the most successful films of all time at the Australian box office.

Moorhouse also directed Proof, starring Hugo Weaving and Russell Crowe, and produced Muriel's Wedding, which made stars of Toni Collette and Rachel Griffiths.

Internationally, Moorhouse directed Anne Bancroft and Winona Ryder in How to Make an American Quilt, and Michelle Pfeiffer, Colin Firth, Keith Carradine, Jason Robards, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Jessica Lange in A Thousand Acres.

Topics to be discussed during Directing The Dressmaker: In...

Laura Jones.

Laura Jones will receive the inaugural Australian Writers. Guild Lifetime Achievement Award at this year.s National Screenwriters. Conference.

A joint initiative of the Awg and Foxtel, the Lifetime Achievement Award is decided by a unanimous vote of the Awg National Executive Committee, and recognises significant contribution to the Australian screen industry. .

Jones' screenwriting credits include Angela.s Ashes, Possession, A Thousand Acres, Oscar and Lucinda, The Portrait of a Lady, An Angel at My Table, Hightide and Brick Lane. .

.Laura.s characters and stories resonate powerfully with audiences and bring a uniquely Australian perspective to the world,. said Foxtel.s Group Director of Corporate Affairs Bruce Meagher..

.She has achieved a sustained critical and commercial success throughout an entire career which is a brilliant feat for an Australian feature film writer. We are delighted that Laura is the inaugural recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award..

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So entertaining, so unexpected, so wonderfully oddball, so damn good. Witty genre-busting simmering with pathos, humor, and calamity. I’m “biast” (pro): love Kate Winslet; desperate for stories about women

I’m “biast” (con): nothing

I have not read the source material

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Like a gunslinger riding into town. Determined and dangerous. This is how director Jocelyn Moorhouse depicts the return of Tilly Dunnage to her backwater Australian town of Dungatar. The locale may be vaguely western-ish — remote and dusty — but the year is 1951 and Tilly comes armed only with a Singer sewing machine, her Parisian-inspired haute-couture style, and a superpowered ache for revenge.

I had no idea what I was in for with The Dressmaker, and even that opening — with its witty genre-busting that culminates in Tilly’s snarl to herself of “I’m back, you bastards” — couldn’t possibly have clued me in.

The last time Vulture talked with Kate Winslet, about her role in the upcoming Steve Jobs biopic, she was drinking rosé while cooking a chicken. We caught up with the actress again last week at the Toronto Film Festival to discuss The Dressmaker, a manic, absurdist Australian comedy-drama from director Jocelyn Moorhouse (Proof, A Thousand Acres) based on the novel by Rosalie Ham. The book and film are about a Paris-trained seamstress who returns to her minuscule hometown in desolate southeast Australia, from which she was exiled as a child for allegedly killing a boy — and winds up outfitting the entire female population in couture. The tone is more menacing than it sounds — Moorhouse has called it “Unforgiven with a sewing machine” — and the juxtaposition of all that 1950s glamour against those gnarled bushes and tumbleweeds is striking. Plus, it involves Winslet spending some quality time with Liam...

Australian filmmaker Jocelyn Moorhouse has had an odd career. After making an auspicious home-turf debut with 1991’s Proof — about a blind photographer, his housekeeper and his best friend (played by Russell Crowe) — she offered up gloppy back-to-back slices of deep-dish Americana: one sweet (the Winona Ryder-led ensemble piece How to Make an American Quilt), one sour (her adaptation of Jane Smiley’s novel A Thousand Acres, with Michelle Pfeiffer and Jessica Lange). Following an 18-year hiatus, Moorhouse is behind the camera — and down under — again, though it would be a stretch

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A needle and thread is an unexpected combination that changes lives in the forthcoming "The Dressmaker." Well that, coupled with movie star good looks. And the first trailer has landed for the bittersweet Aussie comedy that pairs up Kate Winslet and Liam Hemsworth. Based on the book by Rosalie Ham, co-written by P.J. Hogan ("Muriel's Wedding") and directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse ("Proof," "A Thousand Acres"), the story follows a woman who returns to her small hometown after years away working in classy fashion houses. And her arrival certainly shakes things up. Here's the official synopsis:  Based on the best-selling novel by Rosalie Ham, The Dressmaker is a bittersweet, comedy-drama set in early 1950s Australia. Tilly Dunnage (Kate Winslet), a beautiful and talented misfit, after many years working as a dressmaker in exclusive Parisian fashion houses, returns home to the tiny middle-of-nowhere town of Dungatar to right the wrongs...

Kate Winslet and Judy Davis lead cast of the new film from director Jocelyn Moorhouse.

Production has begun on The Dressmaker at Docklands Studios Melbourne, directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse (Proof, A Thousand Acres).

As previously announced, the cast includes Oscar-winning actress Kate Winslet, Judy Davis, Liam Hemsworth and Hugo Weaving.

Joining the cast are Caroline Goodall, Shane Bourne, Kerry Fox, Rebecca Gibney, Sacha Horler, Shane Jacobson, Alison Whyte, Genevieve Lemon and Sarah Snook.

Based on the best-selling novel by Rosalie Ham, The Dressmaker is described as “a bittersweet comedy”, set in 1950s Australia.

Winslet plays Tilly Dunnage, who returns to her rural home town after many years working as a dressmaker in Parisian fashion houses. She reconciles with her ailing mother Molly, played by Davis, and goes about transforming the women of the town to get revenge on those who did her wrong.

The Dressmaker is set to release in Australia on Oct 1, 2015.

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The fall TV season may be upon us, but many of our go-to shows for laughs won’t be returning until 2015, or ever. Don’t despair, fans of Broad City, Parks and Recreation, Archer, the dearly departed Enlisted, and other comedies — Vulture has your back. These humorous books should help with your grief over canceled sitcoms or tide you over until your favorite funny characters return.For Fans Of Parks And Recreation Moo, by Jane Smiley In this campus satire about a midwestern land-grant university, the Pulitzer Prize–winning writer of A Thousand Acres captures the same earnest goofiness on which Parks & Rec thrives. Though Smiley, as a former academic, is an expert at peeling back layers of bureaucracy to show the absurdity underneath, she also treats her characters — school administrators, professors, students, and even the occasional pig — with real warmth. For Fans Of Portlandia Metropolitan Life, by Fran Lebowitz...