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Did Khloe Kardashian and Lamar Odom have an unexpected reunion? (Photo Credit – Instagram)

Khloe Kardashian’s past came knocking just before she turned 40, bringing an unexpected reunion with Lamar Odom after nearly a decade apart.

The former couple’s paths crossed once more in a scene straight out of a reality TV script, except this time, it wasn’t just cameras capturing the moment. It was Malika Haqq, Khloe’s longtime best friend, who set the wheels in motion after running into Odom at the 2024 Super Bowl.

Watch as Khloe Kardashian and ex-husband Lamar Odom have a heart-to-heart for the first time in 9 years. pic.twitter.com/7yckoS79i3

— Entertainment Tonight (@etnow) February 6, 2025

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Khloe barely flinched when the former NBA star finally showed up, late, “scared,” and “sweating.”

“I haven’t seen you in so long. You make me nervous,” Lamar told Khloe, terming their reunion as an “out-of-body” experience.

Queenstown, New Zealand, emerges as both a postcard-perfect destination and a symbol of quiet menace in A Remarkable Place to Die. Situated beneath sharp mountain ranges and beside the vast blue waters of Lake Wakatipu, the town creates an almost dreamlike picture of nature’s splendor. It’s a place that balances between serenity and danger, an idealized sanctuary that masks the darkness hiding just beneath the surface.

The natural beauty here, while stunning, transforms into something ominous when framed by the show’s enigmas. The picturesque backdrop often contrasts with the haunting sound of an SUV plummeting down the cliffs, or the grim investigations that follow—moments where the verdant landscapes seem almost to taunt the violence unfolding against them.

Central to the story is Skipper’s Canyon, a narrow, hazardous gorge that stretches precariously over the Shotover River. This is more than a mere setting, but a character with its own presence,...

We're halfway through December, and Netflix has already released so many great shows this month. We're talking about series like The Ultimatum: Marry or Move on season 3, Black Doves, Queer Eye season 9, No Good Deed, etc.

Of course, some become instant hits with viewers, but others end up flying under the radar. This doesn't necessarily mean that they're bad. It's just that people either didn't know about them or they just didn't pull them in right away. These are called hidden gems, and they deserve some love and attention, just like the more popular shows.

In this article, we shared four underrated Netflix shows released this month that you should add to your watchlist. Don't you think it's time to broaden your horizons and watch something different from what you're used to watching? We think so!

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December is finally here and with it comes a bunch of new movies and shows to Netflix. This week brings a ton of new additions, including a Christmas special from a famous pop star, a new drama series, and the start of the final season of a popular anime show.

First up is A Nonsense Christmas with Sabrina Carpenter! The Xmas special hits Netflix on Friday, Dec. 6, 2024. In the musical special, Carpenter will sing, welcome guests, and be her overall delightful self. Some of the guests will include Cara Delevingne, Sean Astin, Quinta Bronson, Shania Twain, and Chapell Roan. I will definitely be watching this to start off my holiday season!

Take a look at the trailer here:

Black Doves is also coming to Netflix this week! The series stars Keira Knightley, Ben Whishaw, Tracey Ullman, Sarah Lancashire, and Finn Bennett and comes to Netflix on Thursday, Dec. 5. The series...

Prime Video's Fallout was met with near-universal praise from both newcomers and most fans of the video games, save for a small but vocal contingent of the games' fanbase. These fans, especially those who grew up playing the original Fallout point-and-click role-playing games (RPGs), took issue with what they considered to be the show's most controversial plot point. Specifically, the destruction of Shady Sands and, by extension, the New California Republic (Ncr). In Season 1, Episode 5, "The Past," Maximus showed the bombed-out ruins of the Ncr's capital city, Shady Sands, to a horrified Lucy MacLean. The fact that this happened offscreen didn't help the show's case among the games' more hardcore fans. Worse, what was left of the Ncr was all but wiped out in Season 1, Episode 8, "The Beginning," by the Brotherhood of Steel.

Gamers who supported the Ncr were distraught to learn that the faction was destroyed in such an unceremonious fashion.

Prime's Fallout show made the unusual and compelling decision to place the live-action adaptation in the same universe as the video games, resulting in several moments that only make sense because of the source material's logic. All the Fallout games play by the same rules. By extension, so does the TV show. Because the franchise began as a series of video games, some of the events in the world of Fallout are weighted toward the player's convenience. In isolation, certain show moments may seem odd as a result of the creative choice, but that's just how it works.

Different mediums have different rules when it comes to storytelling. For instance, life and death aren't necessarily represented in the same way in a video game as they are in a TV show. Fallout's penchant for consistency across the franchise should be respected, as it makes going between the games and...

Terminator: Salvation promised to bridge past and future, but failed due to disjointed storytelling and lack of character development. Despite disappointment, hope remains as future installments like Netflix's Terminator: Zero and Terminator 7 are on the horizon. Learning from past mistakes, future Terminator movies have a chance to focus on characters and human elements to revive the franchise.

Growing up in the 90s, I was glued to cable TV, and Terminator was one of those titles that was always around. I remember seeing Arnold Schwarzenegger donning his leather jacket and shades and saying the iconic phrase, Ill be back! and thinking that he was the coolest guy Ive ever seen. For years, I have been fascinated with Kyle Reeses apocalyptic future, where John Connor was the hero of the rebellion against an army of machines. But when this mythologized future finally came to fruition in Terminator Salvation, it was a...

Expand Jimmy's appearances and develop his friendship with Kasie in NCIS season 22. Explore Jimmy's friendship with Kasie as a source of healing after Jessica's departure. Revisit Jimmy's past nemesis, Miles Bauer, for interesting plot development and career expansion.

Brian Dietzen's Jimmy Palmer has had his fair share of experiencing sad NCIS exits, so there are a few things I want NCIS season 22 to include to make up for it. The NCIS season 21 finale ended with a cliffhanger with Jimmy's girlfriend, Jessica Knight, accepting a new role away from their current NCIS team. In previous seasons, Jimmy also lost his wife Brianna, his mentor Ducky, and had to accept the retirement of the NCIS team lead Mark Harmon's Leroy Gibbs. Overall, NCIS hasn't been too kind to Jimmy.

I think NCIS season 22 is the perfect opportunity to expand Jimmy's appearances on NCIS. While he is a major character, he...

On Monday June 24 2024, Lifetime broadcasts Gypsy Rose: Life After Lock Up!

Ghosts of the Past Season 1 Episode 4 Episode Summary

In this episode of “Gypsy Rose: Life After Lock Up” on Lifetime, viewers are taken on an emotional journey as Gypsy and Ryan navigate the complexities of Gypsy’s past. Following a press trip and a makeshift honeymoon in New York City, the couple travels to Gypsy’s family home in Cut Off, Louisiana, a place fraught with memories and unresolved issues from her upbringing. As they confront these ghosts of the past, Gypsy must come to terms with her troubled history and its impact on her present life with Ryan.

Returning to Lake Charles, Louisiana, Gypsy faces another unexpected challenge when she learns that her ex-partner, Ken, is eager to reconnect. This revelation adds a new layer of tension to Gypsy’s already tumultuous journey of self-discovery and rebuilding. Throughout the episode,...

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The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Kviff) on Monday added a David Lynch short and an episode of his iconic series Twin Peaks to its Franz Kafka retrospective and unveiled the program of its Out of the Past section, featuring classic, cult, rare and “unfairly overlooked” films, screened in their original or restored versions.

Among the highlights are restored versions of Wim Wenders’ 1984 neo-Western drama Paris, Texas and Two English Girls, François Truffaut’s 1971 period drama about a love triangle.

The Wenders film is part of a three-film program presented by Alexandre O. Philippe, the creator of documentary essays about the history of cinema, offering perspectives on the American landscape in cinema. He will also present his 2021 documentary The Taking (2021), which explores American mythology through the socio-philosophical dimensions of the American landscape.

Also part of the Out of the Past program is Let’s Get Lost, Bruce Weber’s documentary about...

Dynamite celebrates Calica's debut in the new Thundercats comic with a striking variant cover by series writer Declan Shalvey. Dynamite's Thundercats series hits the mark by mixing nostalgia with fresh storytelling and character dynamics, such as the love story between Lion-o and Calica. Calica may be a new addition, but she's set to shake up the Thundercats team with her mysterious backstory.

Warning: contains potential spoilers for Thundercats #1 and 2!

A new Thundercats cover showcases the team’s latest addition, Calica, in all her glory. After months of building buzz, Dynamite Entertainment’s new Thundercats title has debuted to critical acclaim and runaway sales. While celebrating the franchise’s past, the book also swings big with the mythos, and in Thundercats #2, a new survivor of Thundera is revealed: Calica, and a variant cover gives fans their first good look.

Declan Shalvey shared his variant cover for Thundercats #2 on X, formerly known as Twitter.

With the third wave of Star Trek series on television, some fans are concerned about how these new episodes change the canon from what previous series established. Some Trekkers can simply suspend disbelief, chalking inconsistencies up to what happens when a storytelling universe continues for six decades. However, since Star Trek has more than its fair share of time-travel, the Prime Timeline has been changed before in subtle ways.

Time-travel was responsible for the alterations to Star Trek history that resulted in the Kelvin Timeline, too. In Star Trek: Discovery, the Guardian of Forever suggested the notorious Mirror Universe was also an alternate timeline that branched off from the Prime Universe. Typically, when time travel changes something in Star Trek, it's the timeline itself that changes, often without its inhabitants even knowing about it. While this sci-fi side effect can happen on and off-screen, there are ten episodes that have...

New York City? More like New York Chilly! Amirite?! The first trailer for the unfortunately titled "Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire" has arrived, and it's going to be a cool summer in the Big Apple, as a freezing paranormal threat suddenly invades the city.

Following the events of "Ghostbusters: Afterlife," Callie Spengler (Carrie Coon) and her kids Trevor (Finn Wolfhard) and Phoebe (Mckenna Grace) have returned to New York after heading out to Summerville, Oklahoma to inherit a dusty old farm and a paranormal legacy that will turn them into rising Ghostbusters, alongside the return of Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, and the uncanny CGI double of Harold Ramis as the original Ghostbusters gang: Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz, Winston Zeddemore, and the spirit of Egon Spengler, respectively.

This is a fantastic first tease for the "Ghostbusters" sequel, one that taps a bit more back into the humor of the original franchise,...

Lol Tolhurst, Budgie, and Jacknife Lee have shared their debut album as a trio, Los Angeles.

A post-punk supergroup of sorts, drummers Tolhurst (formerly of The Cure) and Budgie (formerly of Siouxsie and the Banshees) teamed up with producer Lee for the project, which also features a who’s-who list of collaborators including U2’s The Edge, LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy, Modest Mouse’s Isaac Brock, Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie, more.

And though the band admittedly “stole” some of the music on Los Angeles from their musical heroes and their own back catalogs, they made sure to nod to their punk descendants, too: “We asked Mark Bowen from Idles to put some guitar on [‘Uh Oh’] and what we got was sonic destruction design courtesy of the dentist,” Tolhurst says in a press release, while Budgie says the tune draws from The Banshees’ own “Happy House.”

Stream Los Angeles below.

Memento International has acquired international sales rights to Nora El Hourch’s debut feature “Sisterhood” (“Hlm Pussy”) ahead of its world premiere at Toronto. The timely film will play in the competitive Platform section.

“Sisterhood” follows three inseparable teenagers who face a public outcry after posting a video that exposes someone who attacked them. Faced with threats, they must choose between deleting the video or continuing to fight.

“Sisterhood” boasts a cast of newcomers, including Léah Aubert, Médina Diarra and Salma Takaline, as well as Bérénice Bejo, the Cannes and Cesar award-winning of “The Past” and “The Artist.” Philippe Gompel is producing for Manny Films and La Prod in Morocco is co-producing. Paname Distribution will be handling French distribution.

“Nora El Hourch’s energetic debut feature boldly puts the spotlight on the way sexual harassment is dealt with in the French projects,” said Memento Intl. The company said “Sisterhood” deftly addresses social discrepancies.

Editor’s note: One in a series of stories marking the 100th day of the WGA strike.

As the WGA strike clocks 100 days, simply put — the motion picture studios had always been bracing for this.

Unlike the current SAG-AFTRA strike that forced the global shutdown of Hollywood movies including Gladiator 2 and Deadpool 3, the WGA strike, though largely considered to be a TV and streaming fight, has left its mark on the motion picture side — most predominantly on initially shaking up the theatrical-release schedule.

Franchise leader Disney was the first studio to overhaul its calendar with the move of 21 movies from 2025 through 2031. Chief among them was the delay of James Cameron’s long-in-the-works Avatar 3 pushing from Christmas 2024 to 2025, and several Marvel projects redated including Phase 6 finales Avengers: Kang Dynasty going from the start of May 2025 to 2026, and Avengers: Secret Wars shifting from May 2026 to May 2027. Avatar 5 alone jumped three years,...

Legendary post-punk drummers Lol Tolhurst (formerly of The Cure) and Budgie (formerly of Siouxsie and the Banshees) have joined forces with producer Jacknife Lee for a new collaborative project called Lol Tolhurst x Budgie x Jacknife Lee. The trio will release their debut album, Los Angeles, on November 3rd through Play It Again Sam.

Across the album’s 13 tracks, the group is joined by a number of high-profile guest contributors, including U2’s The Edge, Modest Mouse’s Isaac Brock, Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie, Idles’s Mark Bowden, Lonnie Holley, and Mary Lattimore. LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy also pops up on two tracks, including the album’s title track / lead single. Check it out below.

Tolhurst has also announced a new book, Goth: A History, which promises “a fascinating deep dive with stories and anecdotes from Tolhurst’s personal memories as well as the musicians, magicians, and artists...

Hulu and FX’s newest release in the sci-fi/thriller genre is a fresh take on a group of FBI trainees who grow up to move to separate paths in life, only to be brought back together because of a common problem. Created by Tom Rob Smith, who also authored the story Class of ’09, it centers around FBI graduates, each of whom has separate interests in life, but nobody is willing to lay down their cards, at least not this early in the series. The show stars Kate Mara, Brian Tyree Henry, Brian Smith, and Sepideh Moafi, among others, and although it’s too early to give a decisive verdict, some of the actors are doing justice to their roles. Here’s what happens in the first two episodes:

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The Past (2009)

Ashley Poet (Kate Mara) arrives at Quantico for five months of training to become an FBI...

Since FX moved under the Disney umbrella in 2019, it has sometimes been difficult to find its programming; I’m a professional and I’m often stymied when it comes to which FX shows actually air on FX and which are Hulu exclusives. But FX shows have still felt like FX shows.

The new FX-produced drama Class of ’09 is a puzzlement. One of those Hulu-only offerings, Class of ’09 surely has the air and aura of an FX show, from its sturdy, cinematic production values to a cast topped by FX veterans Brian Tyree Henry (Atlanta) and Kate Mara (A Teacher) to its creation by writer Tom Rob Smith (The Assassination of Gianni Versace). But what it feels like? Well, it feels like a broadcast TV show from a decade ago — specifically like ABC’s Quantico, a drama remembered largely by Priyanka Chopra Jonas devotees.

Quantico, which ran three seasons,...

When it came time to title his 2018 documentary about The Kronos Quartet, director Sam Green chose A Thousand Thoughts. Referring to an older Kronos composition, the title also spoke to the film’s approach, which was to use the music and biography of the Bay Area classical group to summon up a range of allusive meditations on ephemerality, culture, legacy and death. For his latest documentary, ostensibly about the much larger and more amorphous topic of “sound,” Green has gone in the numerically opposite direction. 32 Sounds, which opens today at New York’s Film Forum, announces itself as a sort […]

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When it came time to title his 2018 documentary about The Kronos Quartet, director Sam Green chose A Thousand Thoughts. Referring to an older Kronos composition, the title also spoke to the film’s approach, which was to use the music and biography of the Bay Area classical group to summon up a range of allusive meditations on ephemerality, culture, legacy and death. For his latest documentary, ostensibly about the much larger and more amorphous topic of “sound,” Green has gone in the numerically opposite direction. 32 Sounds, which opens today at New York’s Film Forum, announces itself as a sort […]

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Netflix has set Xavier Gens’ (“Gangs of London”) untitled Paris-set genre movie starring Bérénice Bejo (“The Artist“) and Nassim Lyes (“Overdose”) as its next French film original.

Set in the Summer of 2024, the film unfolds in Paris which is hosting the World Triathlon Championships on the Seine for the first time. Sophia, a brilliant scientist, learns from Mika, a young environmental activist, that a large shark is swimming deep in the river. To avoid a bloodbath at the heart of the city, they have no choice but to join forces with Adil, the Seine river police commander.

Bejo and Lyes star in the film opposite Léa Léviant. The film is produced by Let Me Be and is slated for a launch on Netflix in 2024.

One of France’s best known genre filmmaker, Gens previously directed “The Divide” which played at SXSW, “Frontière (s),” as well as the series “Gangs of London.

Two-time Oscar winner Asghar Farhadi, Iran’s best-known director, was at the Zurich Film Festival last September when protests following the death of Mahsa Amini erupted in his home country.

Since then, the auteur of “A Separation,” “The Salesman” and “A Hero” has not returned to Iran. He’s been working on a new film in Los Angeles and Europe. Interestingly, he says he plans to go back to his country before he shoots this film, even though he is not 100% sure they will let him out again. It’s clearly a risk that the enigmatic Farhadi is willing to take.

Farhadi was in Turin on Monday to give a masterclass at Italy’s National Museum of Cinema, where he also received a lifetime achievement award. In a rare interview, he took questions via e-mail from Variety.

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Hollywood’s Big Night is just around the corner, but Hollywood’s Traffic Nightmare is just beginning.

As the town gears up for the 95th annual Academy Awards on Sunday, city officials are starting to close down streets around the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland. Below is a look at which streets and sidewalks already are shut down and the closures taking effect later in the week, courtesy of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the City of Los Angeles.

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There seems to be no end to the supply of new indie projects at this year’s Berlin European Film Market. As the 2023 EFM kicked off Thursday, Newen Connect, the distribution arm of fast-growing production and sales group Newen Studios, added a new title, Another End, with a starry cast and high-concept sci-fi premise that is sure to get buyers buzzing.

Mexican star Gael Garcia Bernal (Old, Amores Perros), The Worst Person in the World breakout Renate Reinsve and The Artist and The Past headliner Berenice Bejo have signed on to star in Another End. Italian director Piero Messina (Netflix TV series Suburra: Blood on Rome) will write and direct.

The film is set in a not-too-distant future where technology allows people to say a final farewell to those who have died. A blurb on the project sent to potential buyers — “what remains of all the love that the bodies...

Fewer franchises work as hard as "Fast & Furious" when it comes to crafting high-speed soap opera nonsense. Each new entry begs the question: how the hell are they going to top the insanity of what came before? You'll remember that "F9" saw Roman (Tyrese Gibson) and Tej (Ludacris) driving a rocket-fueled Pontiac Fiero into a satellite while in the reaches of outer space. Everyone made jokes, but this team just went ahead and did it (and consulted with NASA rocket scientists to work out the logistics). Naturally, that leaves so much room for the highly-anticipated "Fast X" to take this journey to the next level.

I think it's safe to say that they have, going off of the ludicrous new "Fast X" trailer. For the past few entries, "Fast & Furious" made their trailer releases an entire event. On top of wanting to put on a show for the...

The last French acting star to preside over the jury was Isabelle Huppert in 2009.

French actor Vincent Lindon has been named president of the jury for the 75th Cannes Film Festival, running May 17-28.

He will be joined by eight other jury members comprising UK actress and director Rebecca Hall, Indian actress Deepika Padukone, Swedish actress Noomi Rapace, Italian actress and director Jasmine Trinca, Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, French director Ladj Ly, US director Jeff Nichols and Norwegian director Joachim Trier.

In the same release, Cannes also announced that Trinca’s debut feature Marcel! will world premiere as a Special Screening.

Netflix‘s “Locke & Key” fantasy horror series based on Idw graphic novels may be wrapping up with the upcoming final season, but Keyhouse still has a lot of stories left to tell. A brand new collection of stories in the graphic novel Locke & Key: The Golden Age arrives on April 26 in hardcover form. All […]

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With the release of its fifth and final season, Netflix’s The Last Kingdom ruled Nielsen’s latest U.S. ranking of streaming originals.

For the week of March 7, The Last Kingdom amassed 1.423 billion total minutes viewed across 46 total episodes. It was followed closely by Netflix’s Pieces of Her (surging three spots from last week by totaling 1.415 billion minutes over just eight episodes)… the champ from the previous three weeks, Netflix’s Inventing Anna, which had 812 million minutes/nine episodes… and Prime Video’s still-marvelous Mrs. Maisel (702 million/34 episodes).

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Update: An Iranian court has determined that film director Asghar Farhadi violated the copyright of a former student, Azadeh Masihzadeh, for Farhadi’s latest film, “A Hero.” According to The Hollywood Reporter, which first broke the news early on Tuesday, “The case will now pass to a second judge, whose ruling can then be challenged in an appellate court. The judge can also order the case to be re-examined.” It was previously reported that Farhadi had been convicted of plagiarism, but that has not yet occurred according to a new report from Entertainment Weekly.

Earlier, Deadline noted that Farhadi’s lawyer, Kaveh Rad, said on social media that the reports are premature, and that “the decision is not the final verdict of the court and is considered part of the trial process.” In a statement to EW, French producer Alexandre Mallet-Guy said, “We firmly believe that the court will dismiss Ms.

Exclusive: Film Movement Classics has acquired North American rights to 2K digital restorations of Asghar Farhadi’s first two features Dancing in the Dust and Beautiful City, which have been signed off on by the two-time Oscar winner himself. Both restored dramas will be released theatrically this year, with a release on all heading home entertainment and digital platforms to follow.

In Farhadi’s 2003 feature directorial debut Dancing in the Dust, Nazar (Yousef Khodaparast) is pressured into divorcing his wife (Baran Kosari) because of her family’s bad reputation. This leads to money problems, and before long, he’s on the run due to debts that he can’t pay. Hiding out in the desert, he meets an eccentric elderly man (Faramarz Gharibian) who makes a living by collecting venom from poisonous snakes. Nazar becomes his unlikely partner and gets an unexpected chance at redemption. The film won Best Director,...

Acclaimed British author Tessa Hadley’s latest novel Free Love has been optioned by Fremantle’s Hand of God indie The Apartment and Lorenzo De Maio’s De Maio Entertainment.

The book, which comes out this week in the UK and next month in the U.S., is set against the backdrop of 1960s London, telling the story of 40-year-old Phyllis Fischer, a dutiful wife and mother who sees her life transformed after the 20-something son of an old friend pays her family a visit and they share a kiss after dinner. Newly awake to the world, Phyllis defies convention to pursue love, escape and sexual freedom, and live a more meaningful life.

Fremantle said the book will be fast-tracked to series, although no network is attached yet.

Hadley is a critically-acclaimed British author, whose most recent novel before Free Love was The Past.

She praised The Apartment’s Oscar...

"It's the talk of the neighborhood. People called to say you make them proud." Amazon has unveiled a new US trailer for the outstanding new film from Oscar-nominated Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi, best known for A Separation, The Past, The Salesman, and Everybody Knows. His latest is titled A Hero, and it first premiered at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival earlier this year, where it won the Grand Prix prize during the festival. Rahim is in prison because of a debt he was unable to repay. During a two-day leave, he tries to convince his creditor to withdraw his complaint against the payment of part of the sum. But things don't go as planned. When he returns a woman's purse full of coins, he is hailed as a hero, but the complexities of society and old grudges come back to ruin his newfound fame. Amir Jadidi stars as Rahim in one...

Amazon Studios has dropped the international trailer for Ashgar Farhadi’s “A Hero,” which is Iran’s candidate to represent the country at the upcoming Academy Awards in the Best International Feature Film category.

The film, which launched positively in July from the Cannes Film Festival where it tied for the Grand Prix, the fest’s runner-up prize – and subsequently went to both Toronto and Telluride – will be released in U.S. theaters on January 7 before its online launch on Amazon Prime Video on January 21.

“A Hero” is the Iranian auteur’s fourth film to world premiere in the Cannes competition after “The Past,” “The Salesman” and Spanish-language “Everybody Knows.”

The drama, which saw Farhadi back to shooting in Iran, is about a man named Rahim who is in prison because of an unpaid debt. While on a two-day release, he and the women he loves hatch a plan to...

“Game of Thrones” star Emilia Clarke and Oscar-nominated Chiwetel Ejiofor (“12 Years a Slave”) are set to headline “The Pod Generation,” a sci-fi romantic comedy that will be directed by Sophie Barthes. MK2 Films has boarded international sales, and CAA Media Finance is handling domestic rights.

Set in a near future where AI is all the rage and nature is becoming a distant memory, the story revolves around Rachel (Clarke) and Alvy (Ejiofor), a New York couple who are ready to take their relationship to the next level and start a family. Rachel’s work gives them a chance to use a new tool developed by a tech giant, Pegasus, which offers couples the opportunity to share pregnancy on a more equal footing via detachable artificial wombs, or pods. Alvy, a botanist and devoted purist, has doubts, but his love for Rachel prompts him to take a leap of faith.

After opening the competition in 2018 with Everybody Knows, Asghar Farhadi truly is in a return to form mode with the set in Iran drama, A Hero – a title that Amazon Studios landed well before the Cannes premiere. Winner of the Best Foreign Language Film for A Separation (2012) and The Salesman (also a comp title in 2017), he also presented The Past in 2013. This features Amir Jadidi in the lead role – pulled in just about every direction.

It was a double dose of great cinema with A Hero being unveiled just before Titane. With a combined average of 3.6, eleven of our critics are giving this 3.5’s and 4’s — making this a great challenger for the Palme d’Or and is that fails – the best choice in the Best Screenplay category.…...

Iranian director Asghar Farhadi is no stranger to success at the Cannes Film Festival. While the three films of his that have premiered at Cannes haven’t won the coveted Palme d’Or, two have won other prizes at the festival. In 2013, Berenice Bejo won the Best Actress Award for her performance in “The Past.” Three years later, Shahab Hosseini won the Best Actor Award for his role in “The Salesman,” while Farhadi won Best Screenplay.

Continue reading ‘A Hero’ Clip: Asghar Farhadi’s Latest Cannes Drama Centers On A Good Samaritan at The Playlist.

Check out TheWrap’s digital Cannes magazine issue here. You can find all of TheWrap’s Cannes coverage here.

While we argued at the halfway point of the Cannes Film Festival that a single film hadn’t quite emerged as the runaway favorite for the Palme d’Or, Asghar Farhadi’s latest “A Hero” is now making a strong case for frontrunner status, with critics calling the Iranian director’s film his best since “A Separation.”

Farhadi has been in the running for the Palme d’Or three times, and he’s picked up prizes for “The Past” and “The Salesman,” along with Oscars for “The Salesman” and “A Separation.” His latest is about a man who is on a two-day leave from prison for an unpaid debt who faces a moral quandary when he comes across a bag of money. “A Hero” premiered on Tuesday and then screened again on Wednesday morning,...

In movies like “A Separation,” “The Past,” and “The Salesman,” the Iranian writer-director Asghar Farhadi has demonstrated a unique ability to take “ordinary” human situations, usually on the domestic front, and play them out in a way that is so minutely authentic yet suspenseful that they give you the sensation that life itself, if observed closely enough, is a kind of thriller. “A Hero,” Farhadi’s latest film (it’s his fourth to premiere at Cannes), very much wants to be a drama of that ilk. Its story of an achingly modest and desperate man who becomes, all too fleetingly, a much discussed figure on television and social media is a story that one could easily imagine being set within the bubbling maelstrom of our own frenetic image culture.

Rahim, the central character, is serving time for an unpaid debt and has been given a two-day leave from prison, during...

Hollywood acknowledges the existence of America’s proto- C.I.A. intelligence agency with this espionage tale of Yanks working with the resistance in occupied France. It’s basic cloak ‘n’ dagger action, with intrepid Alan Ladd and the daring Geraldine Fitzgerald risking life and limb to plant plastic explosive bombs. The details are fairly interesting: Ladd outwits the Gestapo by working with a turncoat inside their ranks. The outcome is grimly realistic, even if that old Paramount glamour is part of the package. The writer-producer is Richard Maibaum, who would later write almost thirty years’ worth of franchise James Bond 007 adventures.

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Starring: Alan Ladd, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Patric Knowles, John Hoyt, Gloria Saunders, Richard Webb, Richard Benedict, Harold Vermilyea, Don Beddoe, Onslow Stevens, Gavin Muir, Egon Brecher, Joseph Crehan, Bobby Driscoll, Julia Dean,...

Asghar Farhadi, an Oscar winner for “A Separation” and “The Salesman,” is in Cannes with “A Hero,” the Iranian auteur’s fourth film to world premiere in the festival’s competition after “The Past,” “The Salesman” and Spanish-language “Everybody Knows.”

“A Hero,” which sees Farhadi returning to filmmaking in Iran, is about a man named Rahim who is in prison because of an unpaid debt. While on a two-day release, he and the woman he loves hatch a plan to try and convince the creditor to let him off the hook. But it spirals out of control due to social media, which plays an important part in this drama exposing the pitfalls of media manipulation in Iran’s repressive regime but also, by extension, the world. Farhadi spoke to Variety in Cannes about his concerns over social media and his certainty that the best antidote to the disconnect it can create is cinema.

Farhadi is making his fourth appearance in Competition at Cannes on July 13.

Memento International has unveiled a raft of deals for Iranian director Asghar Farhadi’s Cannes Palme d’Or contender A Hero ahead of its world premiere on Tuesday (July 13).

Amazon Studios, which announced its acquisition of US rights in April, has since added Canada.

In European deals, the feature has been acquired for the Baltics (Kino Pavasaris), Benelux (Cinéart), Bulgaria (Bulgaria Film Vision), Finland (Cinema Mondo), Germany and Austria (Neue Visionen), Greece (Spentzos), Italy (Lucky Red), Poland (Gutek Films), Portugal (Alambique), Scandinavia (Scanbox), Spain (A Contracorriente), Switzerland (Filmcoopi...

The 74th Cannes Film Festival has unveiled its jury which includes five women; a majority in the nine-person group including President Spike Lee.

The jury includes French-Senegalese actor-director Mati Diop whose 2019 movie Atlantics took home the Grand Prix from the festival; Crazy Heart Oscar nominated actress Maggie Gyllenhaal, French Inglorious Basterds actress Mélanie Laurent, Austrian filmmaker Jessica Hausner and French singer Mylène Farmer.

Rounding out the jury are French actor and recent Golden Globe and BAFTA nominated The Mauritanian actor Tahar Rahim, Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho and South Korean actor Song Kang-Ho who starred in the 2019 Cannes Palme d’Or winner and ultimate Oscar Best Picture winner, Parasite. Song has been a frequent star in Bong Joon Ho’s canon including The Host and Memories of Murder.

Diop’s Atlantics was shortlisted as one of the ten best international films at the Oscars. She has also directed several short-films...

Led by Spike Lee, the jury contains five women and four men.

The Cannes Film Festival has unveiled the main Competition jury for its 74th edition which runs July 6-17.

For the second time in the festival’s history, female jury members will be in the majority with five women and three men due to join previously announced jury president Spike Lee. In 2018, when Cate Blanchett was jury president, the split was also five women and four men.

This year’s female jury members comprise French-Senegalese filmmaker Mati Diop, Canadian-French singer/songwriter Mylène Farmer, US actress, producer and director Maggie Gyllenhaal,...

The Cannes Film Festival has unveiled the jury for the competition, which will be powered by a majority of women, including American actor-filmmaker Maggie Gyllenhaal, French actor-helmer Mélanie Laurent, French-Senegalese actor-director Mati Diop, Austrian director Jessica Hausner and cult French singer Mylene Farmer.

Spike Lee will presider over the jury which will also include French actor Tahar Rahim, Brazilian helmer Kleber Mendonça Filho and South Korean actor Song Kang-ho. It’s a history-making jury, with a first-time Black president and a ratio of five women to three men.

Gyllenhaal, who just made her directorial feature debut with “The Lost Daughter,” is best known for her roles in “Donnie Darko,” “Secretary,” and Christopher Nolan’s “The Dark Knight.” She earned her first Oscar nomination with “Crazy Heart” and won a Golden Globe for her performance in the miniseries “The Honourable Woman.” She went on to produce and star in the HBO...

Anne Hathaway, Tahar Rahim, Marisa Tomei, Joanna Kulig and Matthew Broderick are set to star in “She Came to Me,” a romantic comedy from writer and director Rebecca Miller.

The film will be presented to international buyers by Protagonist Pictures at the Cannes Film Market later this month, and CAA Media Finance is handling North American rights.

“She Came to Me” is set in New York and follows a string of characters, including a composer suffering from writer’s block who rediscovers his passion after an adventurous one-night stand; a couple of gifted teenagers who fight to prove to their parents that their young love is something that can last forever; and a woman who seemingly has it all who has love arrive in the most unexpected places.

Killer Films’ Christine Vachon and Pamela Koffler are producing alongside Miller and Damon Cardasis from Round Films.

Filming hopes to begin this fall in New York.

It's hard to believe that it has been a quarter of a century since Alicia Silverstone made her name in the high school comedy Clueless. Now she is about to return to the genre that made her a star after joining the cast of Netflix movie Senior Year, which has already cast Rebel Wilson in the lead, with Sam Richardson, Mary Holland, Justin Hartley and Chris Parnell among others. Will it be a happy homecoming for the actress, or will it turn into a school reunion nightmare?

The movie is being directed by Alex Hardcastle, best known for his work on the TV shows Grace and Frankie and Parks and Recreation, from a script by Brandon Scott Jones, and tells the story of a cheerleader who awakens from a 20 year coma and attempts to claim the prom queen crown that she missed out on at her old high school. With...

The Mauritanian is, now available on Digital, and hits Blu-Ray and DVD on May 11th from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. Based on a true story, the film stars Jodie Foster (who won a Golden Globe for her role in the film), Tahar Rahim, Shailene Woodley, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Zachary Levi.

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Witness the astounding and inspirational true story of one man’s decades long fight for freedom and his relentless pursuit for justice in The Mauritanian,...

Alban Ivanov and Sabrina Ouazani lead the cast of the filmmaker’s latest opus, an Escazal Films production set to be sold worldwide by TF1 Studio. The French department of Cantal has seen the first clapperboard slammed on Jean-Pierre Améris’ 13th fiction feature film: Les folies fermières. Starring in the cast are Alban Ivanov, Sabrina Ouazani, Michèle Bernier (of the series The Intern), Guy Marchand (recently seen in season 3 of Call My Agent!) and Bérangère Krief. Written by Jean-Pierre Améris, Marion Michau and Jean-Luc Gaget (the winner of 2017’s Best Original Screenplay César for The Together Project who was also...