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When it comes to the term ‘nepo baby’ in the entertainment industry, it is often used to refer to actors whom fans believe do not deserve fame or even acting gigs. However, actress Elle Fanning is one such rare ‘nepo-kid’ that fans believe not only deserves every bit of praise but also every role coming her way.

Having shown her prowess in a range of versatile roles, many have wondered about Fanning’s heritage and nationality. Her impeccable accent in Hulu’s The Great (2020-2023) has further heightened fan interest in her background. So, without further ado, let’s take a look at the life of Elle Fanning and whether or not she has an accent.

Elle Fanning’s nationality and origin story Elle Fanning as Catherine the Great | Credit: Hulu

Elle Fanning has been in the film industry since she was just two years old, playing the younger version...

Pamela Anderson’s comeback tour continues: After leading “The Last Showgirl” and flexing her comedy chops in the upcoming “Naked Gun,” Anderson will be starring in Sally Potter’s latest indie film, “Alma.”

Anderson, Dakota Fanning, and Lindsay Duncan star in the family drama, centered on an extended family gathered to scatter the ashes of their mother. But her presence still haunts them and threatens to unravel buried secrets. Variety first reported the news. “Babygirl” breakout Esther McGregor, Esmé Creed-Miles, and Earl Cave co-star.

“Looking for the alchemical mix of great screen presences to bring a script into vivid life can feel like a treasure hunt,” Potter said in a press statement. “Three of the cinematic jewels now set to be at the centre of the cast of ‘Alma’ are Pamela Anderson, Dakota Fanning and Lindsay Duncan, three brilliant actors I have wanted to work with for some time. Their...

Pamela Anderson, having underlined her indie film credentials last year thanks to her Golden Globe and SAG nominated turn in “The Last Showgirl,” has landed herself another lead role.

The star is set to join renowned British writer/director Sally Potter’s latest feature “Alma,” leading the cast alongside Golden Globe nominee Dakota Fanning and BIFA Award winner and BAFTA nominee Lindsay Duncan. Joining the ensemble will be Arinzé Kene, Esther McGregor Esmé Creed-Miles and Earl Cave, with further casting to follow.

Bankside Films have boarded “Alma” for worldwide sales ahead of the Cannes Film Festival and will be introducing the film to buyers there. The film is currently in pre-production and set to start shooting on location in England in September.

The story follows an extended family who meet to scatter the ashes of their mother only to find that her continued haunting presence explosively, and often comically, unravels the secrets of their lives.

Elle Fanning has an impressive career that has lasted decades across movies and TV. The actress made her acting debut in 2001's I Am Sam alongside sister Dakota Fanning, with her early career seeing her star in Daddy Day Care, Charlotte's Web, The Curious Cae of Benjamin Button, and My Neighbour Totoro. Fanning would receive widespread recognition for her later roles in Super 8, Ginger & Rosa, and Maleficent.

After receiving critical praise for her roles, Fanning would see herself take on a wide selection of genres, from portraying the titular sci-fi pioneer in Mary Shelley, traumatized teen Violet in All the Bright Places, and most recently Sylvia Russo in James Mangold's Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown. Fanning's current next projects will see her come face-to-face with a deadly hunter in the upcoming Predator: Badlands and provide her voice talents and likeness of Hideo Kojima's upcoming action-adventure...

Few people nowadays probably can’t say that they have a favorite film company because of how much the industry has changed. The film genre has become oversaturated with superhero films, leading most people to start a conversation by asking, “Marvel or DC?” We don’t talk about what other companies are putting out or even acknowledge the future films that are coming out. Also, the way Walt Disney Studios has bought other companies makes it challenging for the common audience to step out and watch anything else. However, one company has been talked about a lot recently due to the films they’re distributing or making, and it's the A24 company. Things to do: Subscribe to The Hollywood Insider’s YouTube Channel, by clicking here. Limited Time Offer – Free Subscription to The Hollywood Insider Click here to read more on The Hollywood Insider’s vision, values and mission statement...

After the success of Prey, director Dan Trachtenberg is reportedly working on his next standalone film in the Predator franchise. Titled Badlands, the film reportedly features Elle Fanning in the lead role. While no plot details have been revealed, the film will also be set in the Predator universe like Prey.

Amber Midthunder in a still from Prey | 20th Century Studios

Fanning’s casting might just be a masterstroke for the film as she has been known for her powerhouse performances. While she was recently seen in her Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated series The Great, Fanning has been delivering amazing performances since she made her debut as a child actress in I Am Sam. Here are five performances that prove why she is the best choice for Dan Trachtenberg’s Predator film.

1. The Beguiled (2017) A still from The Beguiled | Credits: American Zoetrope/Fr Productions

Elle Fanning first worked with director...

One year after it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, the New Zealand black comedy “Bad Behaviour,” starring Jennifer Connelly, is finally coming out in North America. The film is the directorial debut of actor-turned-filmmaker Alice Englert. Englert made some noticeable turns in “Ginger & Rosa” (2012), playing Lena Duchannes in the film “Beautiful Creatures” (2013), and in “Top Of The Lake China Girl” (2017), but she is also known as the daughter of famous New Zealand filmmaker Jane Campion, so clearly filmmaking runs in their blood.

Continue reading ‘Bad Behaviour’ Trailer: Jennifer Connelly & Ben Whishaw Star In New Black Comedy Opens June 12 at The Playlist.

Film industry cynics may take one look at a newly announced low-budget comedy called Barbenheimer and a poster that uses Barbie’s iconic pink font over a picture of a nuclear explosion and features the tagline “D-Cup, A-Bomb,” and immediately assume it’s simply a shameless attempt to cash in on a very recent cultural phenomenon. And those cynics would be absolutely correct, says Charles Band, the prolific B-movie icon who has been making low-budget horror comedies since the early 1970s.

“It’s 100 percent true,” he says. “But it’s also an opportunity to have fun with the bizarre coupling of these two movies and the combination of Barbie’s vibe and the darkness of Oppenheimer. You mix that together and you have such an opportunity for dark humor.”

Barbenheimer, selling at the American Film Market (where else?) with Amp, follows Dr. Bambi J Barbenheimer, a brilliant scientist doll living in Dolltopia,...

Awards contender “Poor Things” will open EnergaCamerimage, the cinematography-focused film festival that will take place in Torun, Poland, on Nov. 11-18.

The film, starring Emma Stone and directed by Greek helmer Yorgos Lanthimos, won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. Irish cinematographer Robbie Ryan, who lensed the film, will introduce “Poor Things” at Camerimage.

Lanthimos and Ryan previously collaborated on “The Favourite,” which in 2018 competed for Camerimage’s Golden Frog Award in the fest’s main competition, and came away with the Audience Award. “The Favourite” received 10 Oscar noms, including for best picture, directing and cinematography.

As well as “The Favourite,” Lanthimos has had two other films in contention in the Oscar race, “Dogtooth” (2008) and “The Lobster” (2015).

“Poor Things,” in keeping with the eccentricities of Lanthimos’ other movies, traces the evolution of Bella Baxter, a young Victorian woman brought back from her death by suicide by a brilliant scientist,...

The Many Saints of Newark cast is composed of younger versions of characters from The Sopranos, and other members of the Dimeo crime family from the time Tony Soprano was just a teen. Set in the 1960s and '70s, The Many Saints of Newark takes place around 30 years before Tony rose to become the family's boss in the original series. Created by David Chase, The Sopranos premiered on HBO in 1999 and came to an end in 2007 after six seasons, and is still widely regarded as one of the greatest antihero crime dramas of all time. Written by Chase and directed by Alan Taylor, The Many Saints of Newark is the first prequel movie inspired by The Sopranos.

The Many Saints of Newark cast is led by a young Tony Soprano and his uncle and mentor, Dickie Moltisanti. With the 1967 Newark riots and the social tensions of the time as its backdrop,...

Mad Man star Christina Hendricks is attached to play the lead in Reckoner, an upcoming psychological thriller based on a short story by the late Rachel Ingalls.

Screenwriter Nissar Modi (Z for Zachariah) will adapt the Ingalls story and step behind the camera for his directorial debut. XYZ Films and Two & Two Pictures are producing, with XYZ preselling the project to buyers at the Cannes Film Market later this month. Reckoner will be released under XYZ’s New Visions label, a recently launched state of elevated genre films from new and up-and-coming filmmakers.

Hendricks, whose indie film credits include Sally Potter’s Ginger & Rosa, and Drive and The Neon Demon from Nicolas Winding Refn, will play an affluent woman whose carefully constructed life is threatened by a young man with a connection to a tightly held secret from her past. Modi called it a “haunting tale of guilt,...

Jeremy Strong has defended his use of the term “dramaturgically” after the Succession star became a meme.

In a featurette airing after the historic third episode of Succession’s fourth and final season, Kendall Roy actor Strong said that he hadn’t been “terribly surprised” by the episode’s events.

“I thought it made sense dramaturgically. And then when I read the script, I found it shocking and emotionally devastating,” Strong said.

The clip quickly went viral online, with many social media users questioning whether “dramaturgically” was even a real word.

In response, the Merriam-Webster dictionary tweeted the word’s definition, describing it as “relating to the art or technique of dramatic composition and theatrical representation”.

Speaking to Entertainment Tonight, however, Strong has now doubled down on his use of the term.

When the interviewer told Strong he had had to Google its meaning, Strong responded: “Well, it’s a real word.

A new short film brings together an unlikely pairing.

This week, a teaser debuted for director Sally Potter’s new short “Look at Me”, which will have its premiere at the Venice Film Festival, and stars Chris Rock and Javier Bardem, along with dancer-actor Savion Glover.

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“Rehearsals for a fundraising gala become the arena for a struggle between two men; one, the gala director and the other, a richly talented but unstable rock drummer,” the official synopsis reads. “As their battle for expression and control escalates against a relentless rhythmic backdrop, their public and private selves explosively collide.”

The teaser features a scene of intense confrontation between Rock and Bardem, giving a taste of the 16-minute short’s tone.

According to a statement from the director, the film was “originally conceived as a self-contained short story within a...

Home to films like “Lady Bird,” “Eighth Grade” and “Mid90s,” A24 is synonymous with a certain brand of indie, auteur-driven coming-of-age story. The company’s latest is “Funny Pages,” the debut feature film from writer-director Owen Kline (who you might recognize as Frank from “The Squid and the Whale”). Set in the suburbs of New Jersey, “Funny Pages” follows Robert (Daniel Zolghadri), a talented high schooler determined to make his way as a cartoonist. When his beloved teacher suddenly passes away, he rebels against his upper-middle class upbringing and abandons future plans to attend art school.

Robert’s decision to drop out of school, rent sketchy (i.e. illegal) lodgings in a boiler room and take a low-paying assistant job bring him into the path of Wallace (Matthew Maher), a former employee at one of the comic magazines Robert idolizes. With the singular goal of getting Wallace to mentor him,...

U.S. born British filmmaker Aaron Brookner (“Uncle Howard”) is plotting his first Nordic noir, slated for a market debut at Haugesund’s Nordic Co-Production Market, part of the leading Scandinavian confab New Nordic Films (Aug. 23-26).

Based on the novel “A Gift to My Mother” by London-based Finnish author and journalist Jouko Heikura, the thriller is being written and produced by Brookner and Paula Alvarez Vaccaro, co-founders of pedigreed Pinball London, which acquired rights to the book and handled the English-translation for the pic’s initial development stage.

The novel was brought to them by their Finnish co-producer Pauliina Stahlberg, credited for Netflix crime drama “Deadwind,” Seasons 2 & 3.

The story – slightly altered for screen purposes- – centres on a London-based human rights female lawyer, as she attempts to solve the mystery of a crime committed years ago against her terminally ill Finnish mother. Her rogue investigation takes her to a suspicious neighbour,...

And just like that, winter has come again. HBO Max’s list of new releases for August 2022 is highlighted by the return of the king. Or more accurately: the return of the queen … of the Seven Kingdoms.

Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon is set to premiere on HBO and HBO Max on Aug. 21, just over three years after Game of Thrones concluded in controversial fashion with “The Iron Throne.” This new series is a prequel, depicting the civil war known as the Dance of the Dragons from George R.R. Martin’s lore. When dragon fights dragon, the realm will be torn asunder. But the viewer will certainly delight in all the Targaryen action.

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An impressive slate of A24 films are coming to HBO Max next month, including Oscar-winners like 2015’s “Room” and Alex Garland’s directorial debut “Ex Machina.”

A total of 28 A24 films will arrive on the streamer on Aug. 1, timed to the studio’s tenth anniversary and marking the largest collection of A24 films made available to stream on the platform. Much of the lineup consists of films released prior to 2016, when A24 was still a distribution house and not yet the full-fledged studio it is today.

Some buzzy titles such as “Everything Everywhere All At Once,” “Eighth Grade,” “Mid90s” and dozens more are not on this list because of prior deals the studio set up with other streamers. Most A24 films can be found on Apple TV+ and Showtime, who set up deals to serve as the home for a number of their digital releases in 2018 and 2019, respectively. But as those deals near a close,...

Kunal Nayyar, Lucy Hale, Christina Hendricks are set to headline “The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry,” a big screen makeover of Gabrielle Zevin’s blockbuster New York Times best-selling novel which has shifted five million copies and been translated into 38 languages.

The film rights to Zevin’s most recent novel, “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow” recently sold to Paramount for $2 million upfront after an auction between reportedly over 25 bidders.

Hans Canosa will direct “The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry” from Zevin’s own adaptation. Bcdf Pictures’ Claude Dal Farra and Brian Keady are producing alongside Kelsey Law, Canosa and Zevin.

David Garrett’s Mister Smith Entertainment is launching worldwide sales at next week’s Pre-Cannes Screenings, with principal photography scheduled for this fall.

Exemplifying one major throughline in Mister Smith’s recent sales slate, “The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry” is not only produced by Bcdf Pictures and based on major IP,...

In Anders Refn’s sweeping second world war saga, a wealthy clan is ripped apart after choosing several different sides in the conflict

Veteran film-maker Anders Refn has had top-billing as a director on a few films that aren’t terribly well known beyond his native Denmark. His reputation is mostly built on his long service as an editor with a very impressive filmography, having cut such films as Breaking the Waves and Antichrist for Lars Von Trier, as well as Sally Potter’s Ginger & Rosa. He also happens to be the father of a more famous film-maker, the flamboyantly talented Nicolas Winding Refn. But judging by Into the Darkness, a historical drama directed and co-written by the elder Refn, father and son couldn’t have more different sensibilities.

Hulu’s “The Great” was one of the rare bright spots of 2020, and it’s all thanks to Elle Fanning‘s career-best performance as Catherine the Great. Equal parts laugh-out-loud comedy and riveting drama, the period program from Tony McNamara was recognized at the Emmys in writing and directing, but Fanning was strangely snubbed. Thankfully, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association righted that wrong when they nominated “The Great” for series, actress (Fanning) and actor (Nicholas Hoult).

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At the upcoming Golden Globes, Fanning faces off against Lily Collins (“Emily in Paris”), Kaley Cuoco (“The Flight Attendant”), Jane Levy (“Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist”) and Catherine O’Hara (“Schitt’s Creek”) in the race for Best TV Comedy Actress. Of this group, only Collins has been nominated before, for the feature film “Rules Don’t Apply” (2016).

As Catherine the Great, Fanning shows off her range by playing...

BODYBROKERSwhichis directed and written byJohn Swab (Run with the Hunted, Let Me Make You a Martyr) and stars Frank Grillo (The Purge franchise, Captain America franchise, The Grey), Melissa Leo (Prisoners, The Fighter, Frozen River), Jack Kilmer (The Nice Guys, Palo Alto), Michael K. Williams (12 Years a Slave, “Boardwalk Empire,” “The Wire”), Jessica Rothe (Happy Death Day franchise), and Alice Englert (Beautiful Creatures, Ginger & Rosa). Check out the trailer:

One of the key takeaways from the film is that unfortunately, drug treatment facilities are organized as a multi-billion dollar insurance scandal rather than a center created to help individuals with addiction.

Director John Swab saw this first hand, which inspired him to create the film.

Utah and Opal are junkies living on the streets of rural Ohio until a seemingly chance encounter with the enigmatic Wood (Michael Kenneth Williams) brings them to Los Angeles for treatment. While Utah...

One of the best TV shows of 2020 was Hulu’s “The Great,” a period series that tells the semi-true story of Catherine the Great (Elle Fanning) and Emperor Peter (Nicholas Hoult). Equal parts laugh-out-loud comedy and riveting drama, “The Great” was recognized at the Emmys in Best Comedy Directing and Best Comedy Writing; it lost both to “Schitt’s Creek” as part of an unprecedented sweep. However, the regal show has a great shot at awards redemption at the upcoming Golden Globes, according to Gold Derby odds. And if it ends up winning the top prize of Best Comedy Series, it’d be a first for Hulu.

The streaming network so far has one series win under its belt: Best Drama Series for “The Handmaid’s Tale” in 2017. Over on the comedy side, “Casual” is the only show to earn a nomination for Best Comedy Series, but that was way back in...

Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between.

And today we talk to the one-and-only Alessandro Nivola, a star who has played every manner of character in his illustrious, nearly twenty-five-year film career. Conor and I were lucky enough to speak with Nivola about his entire filmography, while focusing specifically on: Love’s Labour’s Lost, Ginger & Rosa, and Disobedience.

We discuss his big break on Broadway in the mid-90s, his break on the silver screen as Pollux Troy in Face/Off, how many thought he was from the United Kingdom for a good long while, and that part of Jurassic Park III.

We also bring up a solid indie dramedy he produced called To Dust, his new show Black Narcissus on FX, and his starring role in the upcoming,...

If you ask me, Hulu’s “The Great” was one of the rare bright spots of 2020, and it’s all thanks to Elle Fanning‘s career-best performance as Catherine the Great. Equal parts laugh-out-loud comedy and riveting drama, the period series was recognized at the Emmys in two major categories: Best Comedy Directing and Best Comedy Writing. It lost both to “Schitt’s Creek” as part of its unprecedented sweep. With awards conversations now focusing on the upcoming Golden Globes, I’ve laid out four reasons below why Fanning deserves her first-ever nomination for “The Great.”

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1. Genre-bending performance

As Catherine the Great, the Empress of Russia, Fanning shows off her range by playing one of the most unconventional characters of the year. Whether she’s weeping in a corner, laughing at her dimwitted husband Emperor Peter (Nicholas Hoult), or plotting to...

If you take a peek at the predictions of Gold Derby’s Top 24 Users for Best Comedy Actress, you’ll see that Elle Fanning is thisclose to receiving an Emmy nomination for Hulu’s period dramedy “The Great.” This category has 86 ballot submissions, which means there will be six nominees (see how voting works), and Fanning comes in behind seven other leading ladies: Catherine O’Hara (“Schitt’s Creek”), Rachel Brosnahan (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”), Christina Applegate (“Dead to Me”), Linda Cardellini (“Dead to Me”), Pamela Adlon (“Better Things”), Issa Rae (“Insecure”) and Merritt Wever (“Run”). But I think we’re all underestimating Fanning’s Emmy chances. Below, see my Top 4 reasons why she’ll beat the odds and score a nomination on July 28.

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1. Genre-bending performance

Emmy voters just can’t get enough of these types of roles that straddle the line between comedy and drama.

Sneak Peek actress Elle Fanning ("The Neon Demon") in Miu Miu's "Little Cats" Shetland wool sweaters including 'Marie' from "The Aristocats", 'Dinah' from "Alice in Wonderland" and 'Snowball II' from "The Simpsons":

The younger sister of actress Dakota Fanning, Elle made her film debut as the younger version of her sister's character in the drama "I Am Sam" (2001). 

As a child actress, she appeared in a string of films including "Because of Winn-Dixie" (2005), "Babel" (2006), "Phoebe in Wonderland" (2008) and Sofia Coppola's "Somewhere" (2010). In 2011, Fanning starred in her breakout role as 'Alice Dainard' in J. J. Abrams' sci-fi-drama, "Super 8"...

...followed by leading roles in "We Bought a Zoo" (2011), "Ginger & Rosa" (2012) and "Maleficent" (2014).

She then made a transition into indie films including "3 Generations" (2015), "The Neon Demon" (2016), "The Beguiled" (2017), "Mary Shelley" (2018) and "Galveston".

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "The Neon Demon"...

Exclusive: Jeremy Thomas’s Brit sales and production firm HanWay is rebranding catalog label HanWay Select to The Collections as part of a drive to highlight and propel its significant library of more than 350 movies.

HanWay has struck a deal with UK distributor Arrow Films to handle distribution and restorations in the UK of the Jeremy Thomas collection, with films including multi-Oscar winning epic The Last Emperor, John Malkovich-Debra Winger romance The Sheltering Sky and David Cronenberg’s Naked Lunch. Arrow recently re-released HanWay’s David Bowie-starrer Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence.

HanWay is currently restoring around five titles a year with recent updates including David Cronenberg’s Crash, which screened at Venice. Upcoming is Gary Oldman’s Nil By Mouth.

We also understand the company is close to striking a deal with a well known filmmaker to bring around 20 movies into The Collections fold.

The catalog drive...

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Lee & Thompson Managing Partner Reno Antoniades is one of the UK’s leading film and TV production lawyers. In almost 30 years at the firm he has repped producers on more than 250 film projects. He has also served as executive producer on movies including Jonathan Glazer’s Under The Skin, Ben Wheatley’s Free Fire, Sally Potter’s Ginger & Rosa and Marv’s Harry Brown.

Despite a handful of films postponing their release dates as a precautionary measure in the wake of the coronavirus, the specialty box office is persevering and hoping that arthouse audience will come through. Last week, A24’s First Cow delivered a career-high opening for Kelly Reichardt — but that was before the coronavirus turned into a pandemic. With events being canceled, the rise of concern and social-distancing becoming a common practice, we’ll have to see how this will impact the limited release titles, which is a very different creature than wide-release titles.

Leading the pack this week is the Focus Features title Never Rarely Sometimes Always directed by Eliza Hittman and starring Sidney Flanigan, Talia Ryder, Théodore Pellerin, Ryan Eggold and Sharon Van Etten. The story follows two teenage girls in rural Pennsylvania. Faced with an unplanned pregnancy and a lack of support, Autumn (Flanigan) and her cousin Skylar (Ryder...

Javier Bardem is a deeply expressive actor — we’ve seen him move audiences without saying a word. Sally Potter is an artist who has used dance, music, video and film (Orlando, Yes) with a forceful experimental fervor. Sadly, the first collaboration between these two in The Roads Not Taken stubbornly refuses to come to life. For the filmmaker, the project is clearly personal. The image of Bardem as Leo, an author lying near comatose in bed in his drab Brooklyn apartment, evokes the same kind of early-onset dementia that afflicted Potter’s younger brother Nic,...

Director Uli Edel (The Baader Meinhof Complex) has signed on to direct the historic drama Heisenberg, about the Nazi's pursuit of the atomic bomb.

Edel will adapt Richard von Schirach's factual best-seller The Night of the Physicists: Operation Epsilon: Heisenberg, Hahn, Weizsäcker and the German Bomb for the screen. The book draws from secret recordings made by the Allies of the physicists involved in the German nuclear program, including Werner Heisenberg, Otto Hahn and Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker. Arrested and interned in an English country house in the spring of 1945 and unaware they were being recorded, the ...

UK writer-director Sally Potter will receive the Dilys Powell Award for Excellence in Film at the 40th London Critics’ Circle Film Awards.

Previous winners of the accolade include Michael Caine, Judi Dench, Quentin Tarantino, Isabelle Huppert, Kate Winslet and Pedro Almodovar.

London-born Potter made her first 8mm short film at age 14, and then in 1983 wrote and directed her first feature The Gold Diggers, starring Julie Christie. Her breakthrough film was the 1992 Oscar-nominated drama Orlando, based on the Virginia Woolf novel and starring Tilda Swinton in her breakout role.

Subsequent features include the BAFTA-nominated The Tango Lesson (1997), in which she starred as a filmmaker named Sally, The Man Who Cried (2000) with Cate Blanchett and Johnny Depp, Yes (2004) with Joan Allen, Rage (2009) with an all-star cast led by Judi Dench, Ginger & Rosa (2012) with Elle Fanning and Alice Englert, and comedy-drama The Party (2017) with Kristin Scott Thomas, Timothy Spall and Patricia Clarkson.

Take a look at actress Elle Fanning ("The Neon Demon") supporting "Twist" fragrance from "Miu Miu", photographed by Mert & Marcus:

The younger sister of actress Dakota Fanning, Elle made her film debut as the younger version of her sister's character in the drama "I Am Sam" (2001). As a child actress, she appeared in a string of films including "Because of Winn-Dixie" (2005), "Babel" (2006), "Phoebe in Wonderland" (2008) and Sofia Coppola's "Somewhere" (2010).

In 2011, Fanning starred in her breakout role as 'Alice Dainard' in J. J. Abrams' sci-fi-drama, "Super 8", followed by leading roles in "We Bought a Zoo" (2011), "Ginger & Rosa" (2012) and "Maleficent" (2014).

She then made a transition into indie films including "3 Generations" (2015), "The Neon Demon" (2016), "The Beguiled" (2017), "Mary Shelley" (2018) and "Galveston".

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "The Neon Demon"...

Take a look at new images of actress Elle Fanning ("The Neon Demon") in the latest issue of "Harper's Bazaar" magazine, photographed by Jason Kibbler:

The younger sister of actress Dakota Fanning, Elle made her film debut as the younger version of her sister's character in the drama "I Am Sam" (2001). 

As a child actress, she appeared in a string of films including "Because of Winn-Dixie" (2005), "Babel" (2006), "Phoebe in Wonderland" (2008) and Sofia Coppola's "Somewhere" (2010).

In 2011, Fanning starred in her breakout role as 'Alice Dainard' in J. J. Abrams' sci-fi-drama, "Super 8"...

...followed by leading roles in "We Bought a Zoo" (2011), "Ginger & Rosa" (2012) and "Maleficent" (2014). She then made a transition into indie films including "3 Generations" (2015), "The Neon Demon" (2016), "The Beguiled" (2017), "Mary Shelley" (2018) and "Galveston".

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "The Neon Demon"...

Sneak Peek new images of actress Elle Fanning ("Teen Spirit"), posing for the latest issue of "Porter Edit" magazine, wearing Norma Kamali, Carolina Herrera and a whole lot more, photographed by Matthew Sprout:

The younger sister of actress Dakota Fanning, Elle made her film debut as the younger version of her sister's character in the drama "I Am Sam" (2001). 

As a child actress, she appeared in a string of films including "Because of Winn-Dixie" (2005), "Babel" (2006), "Phoebe in Wonderland" (2008) and Sofia Coppola's "Somewhere" (2010).

In 2011, Fanning starred in her breakout role as 'Alice Dainard' in J. J. Abrams' sci-fi-drama, "Super 8"...

...followed by leading roles in "We Bought a Zoo" (2011), "Ginger & Rosa" (2012) and "Maleficent" (2014).

She then made a transition into indie films including "3 Generations" (2015), "The Neon Demon" (2016), "The Beguiled" (2017), "Mary Shelley" (2018) and "Galveston".

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek Elle Fanning...

Take a look at actress Elle Fanning ("The Neon Demon") supporting the new "Twist" fragrance campaign from "Miu Miu", photographed by Mert & Marcus:

The younger sister of actress Dakota Fanning, Elle made her film debut as the younger version of her sister's character in the drama "I Am Sam" (2001). As a child actress, she appeared in a string of films including "Because of Winn-Dixie" (2005), "Babel" (2006), "Phoebe in Wonderland" (2008) and Sofia Coppola's "Somewhere" (2010).

In 2011, Fanning starred in her breakout role as 'Alice Dainard' in J. J. Abrams' sci-fi-drama, "Super 8", followed by leading roles in "We Bought a Zoo" (2011), "Ginger & Rosa" (2012) and "Maleficent" (2014).

She then made a transition into indie films including "3 Generations" (2015), "The Neon Demon" (2016), "The Beguiled" (2017), "Mary Shelley" (2018) and "Galveston".

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "The Neon Demon"...

Production has begun in Spain on Sally Potter’s untitled family drama, starring Javier Bardem, Elle Fanning, Salma Hayek, Chris Rock, and Laura Linney.

The story is described as a chronicle of a wild day in the life of a man on the edge, held together by the unconditional love of his daughter with Bardem and Fanning in those roles. Hayek will portray Bardem’s spouse and childhood sweetheart. The film will also shoot on location in New York in January.

HanWay Films and Bleecker Street have partnered to jointly acquire worldwide rights. HanWay Films will handle the international sales and distribution and will commence sales at the upcoming European Film Market at the Berlin Film Festival. Bleecker Street will distribute the film in the U.S.

Potter’s long-time collaborator Christopher Sheppard — whose credits include “The Party,” “Ginger & Rosa,” and “Orlando” — is producing through Adventure Pictures. The film...

It was five long years between the release of Sally Potter’s last two films, 2012’s “Ginger & Rosa” and last year’s “The Party.” However, the filmmaker isn’t about to take that long for her next feature film, as production has begun on a brand-new untitled drama with a stellar cast.

Bleecker Street and HanWay Films have announced that Potter has begun production on a new film that will feature the acting talents of Javier Bardem, Elle Fanning, Salma Hayek, Laura Linney, and Chris Rock.

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Sneak Peek new images of actress Elle Fanning ("The Neon Demon") in Miu Miu's "Little Cats", Shetland wool sweaters including 'Marie' from "The Aristocats", 'Dinah' from "Alice in Wonderland" and 'Snowball II' from "The Simpsons":

The younger sister of actress Dakota Fanning, Elle made her film debut as the younger version of her sister's character in the drama "I Am Sam" (2001). 

As a child actress, she appeared in a string of films including "Because of Winn-Dixie" (2005), "Babel" (2006), "Phoebe in Wonderland" (2008) and Sofia Coppola's "Somewhere" (2010). In 2011, Fanning starred in her breakout role as 'Alice Dainard' in J. J. Abrams' sci-fi-drama, "Super 8"...

...followed by leading roles in "We Bought a Zoo" (2011), "Ginger & Rosa" (2012) and "Maleficent" (2014).

She then made a transition into indie films including "3 Generations" (2015), "The Neon Demon" (2016), "The Beguiled" (2017), "Mary Shelley" (2018) and "Galveston".

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Sneak Peek new images of actress Elle Fanning ("The Neon Demon") in the November 2018 issue of "Vogue" (Japan) magazine, wearing new fashions from the upcoming "Miu Miu" resort 2019 collection, photographed by Mert & Marcus:

The younger sister of actress Dakota Fanning, Elle made her film debut as the younger version of her sister's character in the drama "I Am Sam" (2001). 

As a child actress, she appeared in a string of films including "Because of Winn-Dixie" (2005), "Babel" (2006), "Phoebe in Wonderland" (2008) and Sofia Coppola's "Somewhere" (2010).

In 2011, Fanning starred in her breakout role as 'Alice Dainard' in J. J. Abrams' sci-fi-drama, "Super 8"...

...followed by leading roles in "We Bought a Zoo" (2011), "Ginger & Rosa" (2012) and "Maleficent" (2014).

She then made a transition into indie films including "3 Generations" (2015), "The Neon Demon" (2016), "The Beguiled" (2017), "Mary Shelley" (2018) and "Galveston".

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "The Neon Demon"...

Sneak Peek new images of actress Elle Fanning ("Galveston") in "Vanity Fair" magazine, wearing Valentino, Blumarine,  Gucci and a whole lot more:

The younger sister of actress Dakota Fanning, Elle made her film debut as the younger version of her sister's character in the drama "I Am Sam" (2001). As a child actress, she appeared in a string of films including "Because of Winn-Dixie" (2005), "Babel" (2006), "Phoebe in Wonderland" (2008) and Sofia Coppola's "Somewhere" (2010).

In 2011, Fanning starred in her breakout role as 'Alice Dainard' in J. J. Abrams' sci-fi-drama, "Super 8", followed by leading roles in "We Bought a Zoo" (2011), "Ginger & Rosa" (2012) and "Maleficent" (2014).

She then made a transition into indie films including "3 Generations" (2015), "The Neon Demon" (2016), "The Beguiled" (2017), "Mary Shelley" (2018) and "Galveston".

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Galveston"...

The laughs hurt so good, and the guests at this shindig treat each other like dartboards for 71 minutes. Yes, that's short for a movie, but your nerves couldn’t take more. The Party is the work of Sally Potter, the gifted experimental filmmaker who had a seismic effect on world cinema with Orlando (1992), based on the Virginia Woolf novel and starring Tilda Swinton as an Elizabethan gent who morphs into a woman over the next four centuries. We bring this up only to prepare novices for the fact that Potter,...

Filmmaker Agnes Varda will be honoured in San Sebastian Photo: Courtesy of San Sebastian Film Festival Belgian filmmaker Agnès Varda and Italian star Monica Bellucci have been announced as recipients of Donostia Awards at this year's San Sebastian Film Festival. It ends a good week for Varda, 89, who has also been announced as the first female director to receive an honorary Oscar, which she will receive on November 11.

They will join Argentine actor Ricardo Darín, previously announced as a recipient, at the festival, which runs from September 22 to 30.

Actress honoured with lifetime achievement accolade Photo: Courtesy of San Sebastian Film Festival The festival has also announced the jury members for its 65th edition. Actor, writer and director John Malkovich will head the panel deciding on the Golden Shell. He will be joined by Argentine actor Dolores Fonzi (Truman), British director William Oldroyd, who won the Fipresci award for Lady Macbeth at last year's festival,...

Exclusive: Olivia Colman (The Lobster), Alice Englert (Ginger and Rosa) and Thomas Mann (Me, Earl and the Dying Girl) have been set to star in Them That Follow, which Brittany Poulton and Daniel Savage will direct from their original screenplay. Bradley Gallo and Michael Helfant will produce for Amasia Entertainment, along with Gerard Butler, Alan Siegel and Danielle Robinson for G-base. Amasia is financing an October shoot in Ohio. Them That Follow is a dramatic thriller…...

Liberalism will eat itself! At least according to The Party, that is, and we’re not just speaking figuratively. Indeed, at one point in Sally Potter’s new film — a riotous, if undeniably stagey black-and-white mid-length feature — a central character (played by Kristen Scott Thomas) decides, however subconsciously, to chew her own arm instead of sensibly taking out her anger on her unfaithful husband. “But I don’t believe in revenge,” she cries out. You can tell even she is having a hard time believing it. This poor soul — the main host of the titular gathering – – has just learned that her husband, Bill (Timothy Spall), is not only dying of cancer, but has chosen to live out his remaining days with the younger woman with whom he has been having an affair for the previous two years.

The character’s name is Janet and the party is intended to be a celebration for her,...

Filmmaker Barry Jenkins has never been shy about chatting up his filmmaking influences, and a brand new video essay from Alessio Marinacci helps drive home a series of eye-opening comparisons between Jenkins’ Oscar-nominated “Moonlight” and the films of master Wong Kar-Wai.

Billed as his “homage to two extraordinary filmmakers,” Marinacci’s snappy and stunning essay juxtaposes imagery from “Moonlight” and a number of Wong’s most loved features, including “Days of Being Wild,” “In the Mood for Love” and “Happy Together.” For fans of either filmmaker, it’s a loving look at their works, and one that can surely help increase appreciation for both of their careers.

Read More: ‘Moonlight’ Glow: Creating the Bold Color and Contrast of Barry Jenkins’ Emotional Landscape

Back when Jenkins was first looking for financing for his multi-chapter love story, he put together a slideshow of images that spoke to his vision, and that slide...

Comfortably wedged between Sundance and Cannes in every respect, the Berlin Film Festival is a massive orgy of world cinema that’s come to be known for the unrivaled variety of its programming. Best illustrated by its adventurous sidebars, the festival’s exotic tastes — unusual for such a glitzy and commercialized culture event — often spill over into the more prestigious Competition section, which has served as a launching pad for several of the current decade’s very best films (many of which, like Mia Hansen-Løve’s “Things to Come,” might have slipped through the cracks if not for such a prominent spotlight). And, in stark contrast to Cannes, the festival’s recent winners have been as worthy as they have been unexpected, ranging from a frigid Chinese neo-noir (“Black Coal, Thin Ice”) to a crushingly intimate documentary about Europe’s ongoing migrant crisis (“Fire at Sea”).

The first portion of...

Barry Jenkins is about to become the next big thing, but he’s been here before. “Moonlight,” which he wrote and directed, has been celebrated as the year’s major discovery and the ultimate achievement in modern black filmmaking. That’s nothing new for Jenkins: Eight years ago, the director faced similar acclaim on a smaller scale with his 2008 debut, “Medicine for Melancholy.” However, the lag between his first two features is a testament to Jenkins’ quiet determination — and to a culture that had yet to catch up. It takes time for the world to recognize a genuine vision.

“I think a filmmaker like me isn’t on the outside in the same way that I was in 2008, even though the work itself feels very, very outsiderish,” he said. “It’s completely fucking crazy, because it didn’t used to be that way.” While “Moonlight” marks Jenkins’ transition into a major artist,...

Growing up is hard to do, as countless coming-of-age movies have shown, some more affectingly than others. With "Ginger & Rosa," British avant-garde filmmaker Sally Potter ("Orlando"), offers up a strong entry into the field with what is by far her most appealingly mainstream film to date. An intimate character study, "Ginger & Rosa" is set in England in 1962. It's told mainly from the viewpoint of Ginger (Elle Fanning), a 16-year old budding poet growing up in post-wwii England alongside her best friend, Rosa (Alice Englert, the daughter of director Jane...

The Broadcast Film Critics Association (of which I am a member) announced their nominations for the 2013 Critics' Choice Awards this morning, which was led by Steven Spielberg's Lincoln bringing in a record 13 nominations including a nomination for Picture, Director, Adapted Screenplay (Tony Kushner), Actor (Daniel Day-Lewis), Supporting Actress (Sally Field), Supporting Actor (Tommy Lee Jones), Ensemble, Cinematography, Art Direction, Editing, Makeup and Score (John Williams). The previous record for nominations was set by Black Swan with ten in 2010, a record that was also broken by Les Miserables with 11. Miserables was also nominated for Best Picture alongside Argo, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Django Unchained, Life of Pi, The Master, Moonrise Kingdom, Silver Linings Playbook and Zero Dark Thirty. Just below is the complete list of nominees, which Laremy (a fellow Bfca member) and I will be discussing on today's podcast along with our nominations to see how they matched up.