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Italian director Francesca Archibugi will direct sex-trafficking drama “Illusion” toplining Jasmine Trinca as an intrepid magistrate investigating a prostitution ring with links to the European parliament and Michele Riondino (“Young Montalbano”) as a psychologist.

Shooting is set to start next month in central Italy on the roughly $8 million film that will reunite Archibugi with Trinca who played the lead in the director’s feminist fascist-era saga “La Storia” that was Italy’s biggest TV event of 2023. Italy’s Fandango is co-producing “Illusion” with Rai Cinema and Belgium’s Tarantula.

Fandango sales is launching pre-sales on “Illusion” at the European Film Market.

Trinca (pictured) is an A-list Italian actor who was on the Cannes jury in 2023. In “Illusion” she will play judge Cristina Camponeschi who pursues a prostitution ring with ties to Eastern Europe and to the European Parliament. The investigation kicks off after a 16-year-old named Rosa Lazar “dressed like a Dior supermodel,...

Mk2 Films has taken on international sales rights for Frenchdrama Enzodirected by Robin Campillo, who stepped in todirect the feature after his friend and the film’s co-writer Laurent Cantet died unexpectedly in April of last year.

Anatomy Of A Fall producer Marie-Ange Luciani of Les Films de Pierre produces the film shot in and set in La Ciotat in the south of France. It follows a 16-year-old boy who defies his bourgeois family’s expectations by starting a masonry apprenticeship where he meets a charismatic Ukrainian colleague who shakes up his world. Newcomers Eloy Pohu and Maksym Slivinskyi star...

Pablo Larraín’s strange and mordant drama portrays Callas’s haughty struggle as her voice begins to fail but her stardom remains undimmed

Angelina Jolie declaims an imperious performance as opera star Maria Callas in this strange, sad, mordantly witty film from screenwriter Steven Knight and director Pablo Larraín, showing her declining months in Paris in 1977; the lioness in winter succumbing with ecstatic defiance to illness and loneliness. Maria broods over her “medication” and neglects to eat, and she is impossibly difficult with the servants, housekeeper Bruna (Alba Rohrwacher) and valet Ferruccio (Pierfrancesco Favino), who are the aghast witnesses to her decline – and she is beginning to relinquish the idea that she will ever sing again. The whole thing is interspersed with pharma-fuelled hallucination-flashbacks to the days of her celebrity pomp, but also further back to her traumatised girlhood in Nazi-occupied Greece.

This film has had a mixed, sometimes frosty...

Angelina Jolie as Maria Callas in ‘Maria’ (Photo Cr. Pablo Larraín / Netflix © 2024)

A character study rather than biopic, Pablo Larraín’s Maria showcases Oscar winner Angelina Jolie’s acting prowess, capturing the opera singer’s dramatic highs and lows with captivating intensity and emotional depth. Told in three distinct acts, Maria is a bold reimagining of the latter years in Callas’ life – emphasis on “reimagining.” Those familiar with the soprano’s dramatic vocal style and mesmerizing performances will find writer Steven Knight’s take more fulfilling, while those new to her work may find the narrative less accessible.

Maria shuns the banner of realism, preferring a more fantastical approach. The drama focuses on the week prior to her death on September 16, 1977, with the retired singer attempting to rediscover the voice that made her famous. Flashbacks fill in the years when she was a hot ticket. But Larraín’s film doesn...

Last Updated on December 26, 2024

Plot: Famed opera singer Maria Callas retreats to Paris in the 1970s after a glamorous yet tumultuous life in the public eye.

Review: Pablo Larrain‘s loose trilogy about famous twentieth-century women, beginning with 2016’s Jackie and 2021’s Spencer, comes to a close with Maria. Based on the life of revered opera singer Maria Callas, Larrain’s biopic focuses on the least recognizable of the three women. That Callas’ notoriously short life is not as easily remembered compared to Jackie Kennedy or Princess Diana affords Maria the ability to examine the singer’s life from a vantage point that is less sterile and distant than the previous two films. With a direct connection to Jackie, Maria retains some of the languid pacing and uneven creative choices that prevented Larrain’s prior biopics from being as strong as they could have been. However, after solid performances from Natalie Portman and Kristen Stewart,...

Like his most celebrated novel “The Three Musketeers,” Alexandre Dumas’s iconic tale “The Count of Monte Cristo” has been adapted so often in so many different cultural contexts—from the silent era to the American blockbuster to the plethora of Indian interpretations—that it becomes easy to forget a critical element that defines the writer’s oeuvre: Dumas was, in fact, very French. Bringing the story back to its home country, directors Alexandre de la Patellière and Matthieu Delaporte choose to remind viewers of this essential reality by embracing the story in true French fashion, with a cheeky wit in the face of its own posh self-seriousness.

Having seen great success penning last year’s duology adapting Dumas’s most famous story, de la Patellière and Delaporte upgrade themselves to the directors’ chair for “The Count of Monte Cristo” as they relay the tragedy of Edmond Dantès, the prototypical framed man.

Fewer new openings but important ones for the indie world as the year soon to close welcomes the trio of Brady Corbet’s much-nominated The Brutalist with Adrien Brody, Pedro Almodovar’s first English outing The Room Next Door starring Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton, and a new rendition of revenge thriller The Count Of Monte Cristo. All three are starting in limited release.

Aardman Animations’ latest, Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, is a lighter note in a handful of theaters ahead of its Netflix debut.

The Brutalist opens in four theaters in New York and LA with 70mm and Imax special engagements including Q&a’s with Corbet, co-writer Monda Fastvold and cinematographer Lol Crawley, notable for using large format VistaVision cameras in the film, which expands in January.

Corbet’s third feature centers on László Toth (Brody) a Brutalist architect...

Alba Rohrwacher made a point to step out of Angelina Jolie’s shadow with her role in Maria.

The 45-year-old Italian actress stars opposite the Oscar winner in filmmaker Pablo Larraín‘s biopic as Maria Callas’ housekeeper Bruna Lupoli. And while Rohrwacher says she already knew plenty about the renowned opera singer “because we are Italian,” it was the woman in Maria’s shadow in all the images she found while researching Bruna that captured her attention.

“I started to discover this incredible, tiny, elegant woman, which was Bruna Lupoli,” she tells The Hollywood Reporter. “What I could find about her was only the things that the other people say about her. And so I slowly built an idea and I started to discover her in all the images of Maria Callas and say, ‘Who is this woman behind her trying to hide herself?'”

So Rohrwacher took her fascination with Bruno,...

Netflix still has several holiday flicks on the way before 2024 ends and Christmas fades away. Richard Curtis’ book-based animated film That Christmas, directed by Simon Otto, arrives early on in the month, and Sabrina Carpenter has a musical holiday comedy special also out early in December.

Angelina Jolie’s portrayal of opera singer Maria Callas, which is generating a lot of awards buzz conversation, arrives Dec. 11. A Christmas-set thriller Carry-On will be available starting Dec. 13, and Tyler Perry’s film The Six Triple Eight, which is based on real life events and figures, will be out Dec. 20.

Find the best new movies to stream on Netflix — two of them are technically specials, but they make for hourlong watches all the same — for the month of December 2024 below:

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Santa Claus (Brian Cox) in ‘That Christmas’ on Netflix

Adapted from Richard Curtis’ childrens’ books, That Christmas...

Angelina Jolie has been a celebrated actor for a number of years. She is famous for both her on and off-screen life, as she was in a high-profile relationship with actor and former Mr. and Mrs. Smith co-star Brad Pitt for over a decade. Prior to this, Jolie was also known for winning Best Supporting Actress for her acclaimed role in Girl, Interrupted. She was also later nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress for the stirring family drama Changeling.

While she had a peak period in the 2000s, Jolie's career has slowed down a bit in recent years. In 2021, she made her MCU movie playing Thena in Eternals, but then did not act in any projects in 2022 or 2023. Her career also saw other feature film gaps. For example, the actor had another three-year gap between her 2016 voice acting role in Kung Fu Panda 3 and her starring role in...

This review was originally published on August 29, 2024, as a part of our Venice Film Festival coverage.

Maria makes its intentions clear early. In September 1977, legendary opera singer Maria Callas (Angelina Jolie) is in her final days, and her grasp on reality is tenuous at best. She rearranges the world with herself at the center, though where once entire crowds were subject to her whims, now there remain only her loyal butler (Pierfrancesco Favino) and maid (Alba Rohrwacher). They worry over her declining health. By abusing her medication, she hallucinates entire conversations. She detests doctors, who feel compelled to disrupt her with their facts.

Director Pablo LarrainWriters Steven KnightCast Aggelina Papadopoulou, Lydia Korniordou, Christiana Aloneftis, Toma Hrisztov, Kay Madsen, Luca Gréta Felhalmi, Jeremy Wheeler, Philipp Droste, Marcell Lengyel, Botond Bartus, Alessandro Bressanello, Stephen Ashfield, Zora Gerda Fejes, Rebecka Johnston, Vincent Macaigne, Pierfrancesco Favino, Haluk Bilginer, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Angelina Jolie, Valeria Golino,...

Angelina Jolie stars as Maria's eponymous character, Maria Callas, a renowned opera singer in the middle of the 20th century. The 2024 biographical psychological drama film, directed by Pablo Larraín and written by Steven Knight, follows the later years of Callas' life, which were mostly spent in Paris, France, away from the public eye. Callas experienced a lot of turmoil over the course of her 53 years of living. However, Maria director Larraín wanted to focus on the ending of the opera singer's story rather than chronicle every single detail of her life and career.

Maria is the final installment in Pablo Larraín's trilogy chronicling important women of the 20th century, following in the footsteps of Jackie (Jackie Kennedy) and Spencer (Princess Diana).

Maria is Jolie's first movie in three years as her role on the big screen was as Thena in the 2021 Marvel Cinematic Universe film Eternals. As one might suspect,...

Netflix's 2024 biopic Maria features a strong cast led by Academy Award winner Angelina Jolie. Jolie, best known for her roles in films such as Maleficent, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, and Girl, Interrupted, returns in her first feature film since Marvel's 2021 action blockbuster Eternals. Jolie has also directed several films, such as First They Killed My Fathers (2017) and Unbroken (2014). Jolie took a break from acting from 2021's Eternals until 2024's Maria to focus on spending more time with her six kids, Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, and twins Knox and Vivienne.

Maria depicts the final days in the life of Maria Callas, who was once considered the greatest opera singer in the world. The film takes place in 1970s Paris as Maria's health declines. Maria sees the world through a near-hallucinogenic and fading lens with her butler, Ferruccio, and her maid, Bruna, who care deeply for her. Maria is directed by...

In the ruins of postwar Naples, 1949 stands out as a crucible of survival when life emerges from the ashes of destruction. Celestina, an orphan, and her streetwise companion, Carmine, navigate a landscape rife with despair while also brimming with youthful vigour. Their bond, formed through adversity, encapsulates the essence of innocence amid chaos—a sad reminder of childhood’s ephemeral purity in a traumatized world.

Their disastrous stowaway adventure on the Victory steamship takes them into the immense unknown, a metaphorical ocean reflecting the stormy depths of the human psyche. As the children avoid the ship’s captain’s inebriated anger and deal with the sharp class disparity, the voyage becomes a liminal realm in which the limits of youthful innocence and the harsh realities of adult struggles blend. Each wave has existential weight, echoing the harsher realities of migration and identity.

The early excitement of the American Dream fades...

Gaetano Maiorino, the former managing director and head of acquisitions at Italian sales company True Colours, has joined leading Italian producer Tramp Limited with a brief to expand its international footprint.

Maiorino, who left True Colours earlier this year, has joined Tramp Limited in the newly created role of head of international co-productions & business affairs.

Until now Tramp Limited has mostly focused on the local Italian market, producing a slate of successful comedies and, more recently, arthouse dramas that have exceeded expectations.

Its 2022 period comedy drama Strangeness, starring Toni Servillo and directed by Roberto Andò, was the highest-grossing Italian film of the year,...

Disney’s “Moana 2” dominated the U.K. and Ireland box office with a £12 million ($15.2 million) debut, according to numbers from Comscore, marking a strong start for the animated sequel.

The film led a robust weekend that saw Universal’s “Wicked” holding strong in its second frame with £8.3 million, bringing its cumulative total to £28.5 million.

Paramount’s “Gladiator II” continued to perform in its third week, adding £2.5 million for a total of £23.5 million. Studiocanal’s “Paddington In Peru” demonstrated staying power in its fourth week, collecting £1.8 million and pushing its total to £27.3 million.

Black Bear’s new entry “Conclave” opened with £1.1 million, while Warner Bros.’ “Red One” rounded out its fourth week with £425,853, bringing its cume to £6.6 million.

BFI Distribution’s “All We Imagine As Light” debuted with £111,033, while Entertainment Film Distributors’ “Heretic” added £96,583 in its fifth week for a £5.7 million total. Park Circus’s 20th Anniversary 4K restoration of...

The story of an Italian submarine commander who disobeyed orders from fascist leaders and rescued enemy sailors after sinking their ship

Here is a stolid second world war drama, directed by Edoardo de Angelis, taken from a patriotic true story of non-fascist Italian decency during the Battle of the Atlantic; it was made with the cooperation of the Italian navy and promoted to the status of opening gala at last year’s Venice film festival when Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers was withdrawn due to the writers’ strike.

Pierfrancesco Favino plays submarine commander Salvatore Todaro whose forthright courage, combined with a certain poetic sensitivity, inspires fervent loyalty from his men. He is also in continuous agony from a back injury which we see being treated at the film’s beginning; negligent doctors put him into a crude corset, telling him: “Fascism is pain.”...

Catching up to three big name festival films that opened Wednesday at the specialty box office to start the extended U.S. Thanksgiving holiday weekend – Luca Guadagnino’s Queer from A24 starring 007 Daniel Craig; Angelina Jolie as Maria Callas in Pablo Larraín’s Maria from Netflix, both of which premiered at Venice; and Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof’s The Seed Of The Sacred Fig, which won a clutch of awards Cannes including a Special Jury Award.

All three are in limited release (Maria the widest) in the midst of a great, big busy few weeks at the box office with Moana 2 setting records in the wake of Wicked and Gladiator II. Indies are good counter-programming but face massive competition and have a hard time finding screens. If the box office continues to boom with big budget studio fare it will become clearer in the weeks and months ahead whether that lifts all boats,...

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts behind the year’s buzziest awards-season films continues with Maria, the Maria Callas snapshot-biopic starring Angelina Jolie. Pablo Larraín directed the screenplay penned by Steven Knight.

For Larraín and Knight, the Netflix movie reteams them after 2021’s Lady Di biopic Spencer, which earned Kristen Stewart a Best Actress Oscar nomination. Larraín’s 2016 movie Jackie, about Jackie Kennedy, also earned its star, Natalie Portman, an Oscar nom.

Jolie, already an Oscar winner, here plays the famed opera star as she retreats to Paris after a glamorous and tumultuous life in the public eye. The pic reimagines the American-Greek soprano in her final days as the diva reckons with her identity and life. In real life, Callas died of a heart attack at her Paris home in 1977 at age 53.

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Pierfrancesco Favino, who plays Maria Callas’ protective butler in Pablo Larraín’s “Maria,” doesn’t back down from a fight, on-screen or in life.

At last year’s Venice Film Festival, the Rome native erupted with the kind of volcanic indignation that Callas was known for, furious that American actors like “House of Gucci” and “Ferrari” star Adam Driver kept getting cast as iconic Italians. Those parts should have gone to Italian actors, Favino argued at a press conference — though he was quick to add he had nothing against Driver.

With “Maria,” Favino gets the kind of quietly scene-stealing role that could show Hollywood what it’s been missing. In the meditative, slightly surreal drama, he plays Ferruccio, a loyal helpmate who caters to Callas by moving her grand piano around the apartment to whatever window she thinks has the best light that day, despite suffering from a bad back.

“My goal was to recreate and reach perfection in what the clothing was,” declares two-time Oscar-nominated costume designer Massimo Cantini Parrini (“Pinnocchio” and “Cyrano”) about “Maria.” For our recent webchat he adds, “Let’s not forget that Maria Callas is still an icon, and music lovers adore her, they love her, so my goal was also not to disappoint the audience,” he says, adding that it was “a huge responsibility, because I was going to take to the screen the clothing that Maria Callas wore during her performances in her operas, and I have to say that I am maniacal about details. I have to make sure that every single detail is taken care of. So I studied the proportions, the cuts the fabrics very, very closely.” Watch our video interview above.

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“Maria” is directed by acclaimed Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín...

Editor’s Note: This review was originally published during the 2024 Venice Film Festival. “Maria” opens in theaters November 27 before streaming on Netflix December 11.

The last and least familiar chapter in his trilogy of cloistered biopics, Pablo Larraín’s “Maria” is — like “Spencer” before it — a beautifully designed but sparsely furnished mind palace of a movie about a famous 20th century woman struggling to see herself through the inescapable glare of history’s spotlight. Where the opera star Maria Callas differs from Princess Diana or First Lady Jackie Kennedy in Larraín’s conception is that she desperately wants to be on (or return to) the public stage; her most authentic self is only complete with a loving audience.

The trouble is that “La Callas” has a tendency to be conflated with her characters. Tosca. Turandot. The exploited daughter. The unreliable diva. She is all of these things, but also none of them and so much more.

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Netflix is ready with an entertainment-packed December this year. The upcoming month will see the premiere of many of Netflix’s original films including the highly anticipated Angelina Jolie film Maria and the action thriller film Carry-On starring Taron Egerton. Just like every month, Netflix is ready to overload you with great content. So, we’re here to tell you about the 7 best new movies coming to Netflix in December 2024.

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That Christmas is an animated Christmas fantasy comedy film directed by Simon Otto from a screenplay co-written by Richard Curtis and Peter Souter. Based on Curtis’ That Christmas and Other Stories, the 2024 film follows a series of entwined tales of family, friends, love, loneliness, and Santa’s big mistake. That Christmas’ voice cast includes Brian Cox, Fiona Shaw, Jodie Whittaker, Bill Nighy, Lolly Adefope,...

Over the last eight years, Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín has made a triptych of biographies about famous women, starting with Jackie, then Spencer, and now Maria. Starring Angelina Jolie as Maria Callas, one of the most iconic opera singers in all of history, Maria is incredibly intriguing, even if it is uneven. Although Maria suffers from pacing issues that could cause viewers to lose interest in the second act, its visual grandeur, strong performances, and ambitious thematic swings make it a worthy film.

Maria Review

Maria follows the iconic opera singer in the final days of her life in Paris as she reflects on her life. Like the rest of Larraín’s “melancholic” trilogy, Maria is far from your traditional biography. Although it tells the story of one of the most famous women of all time, it’s far more interested in the interiority of her experience than recounting the glory days of her life.

Angelina Jolie is set to receive the Performer Tribute at the 2024 Gotham Awards.

The event will take place Dec. 2 at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City. The Gotham Film & Media Institute said the Oscar winner will be honored for performance as the legendary, but troubled, opera singer Maria Callas in Pablo Larrain’s upcoming film Maria.

“Like the legendary figure she portrays, Angelina Jolie transcends mere performance to craft something extraordinary. Her interpretation captures both Maria Callas’ complexity as an artist and the cultural resonance that defines an icon,” The Gotham executive director Jeffrey Sharp said in a statement.

Maria has already done a tour of the Venice, Telluride and New York film festivals. The biopic explores the final days of Maria Callas in 1970s Paris, as she fights to get back the iconic voice she has lost.

The Hollywood Reporter‘s chief film critic David Rooney wrote...

Angelina Jolie may have missed out on a competitive Gotham Award nomination this year for her acclaimed performance in “Maria,” but the Oscar-winning actress will still participate in the upcoming ceremony.

On Thursday, the Gotham Film & Media Institute announced Jolie will receive the Performer Tribute for her performance as Maria Callas in Pablo Larrain’s upcoming film “Maria.” The actress will receive the honor at the 34th edition of The Gothams, taking place on Monday, December 2 at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City. According to a press release, “The tribute will honor Jolie’s rendition of the legendary opera singer Maria Callas.”

“Like the legendary figure she portrays, Angelina Jolie transcends mere performance to craft something extraordinary. Her interpretation captures both Maria Callas’s complexity as an artist and the cultural resonance that defines an icon,” said Jeffrey Sharp, Executive Director of The Gotham. “We are thrilled to...

Tras ‘Jackie’ y ‘Spencer’, Larraín centra la cámara en la conocida cantante. © Netflix

Ya se ha publicado el primer tráiler y póster de María, la película del director Pablo Larraín (El conde) y el guionista Steven Knight, creador de Peaky Blinders.

María narra los últimos días de vida de la legendaria soprano María Callas en el París de los años setenta, cuando se retira a la capital francesa tras una vida glamurosa y tumultuosa en el ojo público.

La película está protagonizada por Angelina Jolie (El sustituto), Kodi Smit-McPhee (Memoir of a Snail), Alba Rohrwacher (Yo soy el amor), Pierfrancesco Favino (El conde de Montecristo) y Valeria Golino (Retrato de una mujer en llamas).

Sobre el largometraje, Larraín ha dicho: «Es una imaginación creativa y un retrato psicológico de María Callas que, después de dedicar su vida a actuar para audiencias de todo el mundo, decide finalmente encontrar su propia voz,...

Studiocanal has launched the full official trailer for Pablo Larraín’s Angelina Jolie-led ‘Maria.’

The movie will tell the tumultuous, beautiful, and tragic story of the life of the world’s greatest female opera singer, relived, and reimagined during her final days in 1970s Paris.

Directed by Pablo Larraín and written by Steven Knight, it stars Angelina Jolie, Pierfrancesco Favino, Alba Rohrwacher, Haluk Bilginer, Kodi Smit-McPhee.

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The film hits cinemas across the UK and Ireland on 10 January 2025.

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The first trailer forPablo Larraín’sMariastarring Angelina Jolie has been unveiled.

It premiered at Venice Film Festival and is styled as a creative imagining and psychological portrait of the legendary soprano Maria Callas. It is set in the1970s near the end of her life when shehad lost her voice and tries to regain it.

The cast includes Kodi Smit-McPhee, Alba Rohrwacher, Pierfrancesco Favino, and Valeria Golino.

Steven Knight wrote the screenplay while producers areThe Apartment, Fabula, Fremantle and Komplizen.

Netflix has US rights toMariawhile Studiocanal distributes in the UK and Ireland.

‘Maria’: Venice Review...

Angelina Jolie shines as real-life opera singer Maria Callas in the debut trailer for Maria.

The film, directed by Pablo Larraín, follows the “American-Greek soprano as she retreats to Paris after a glamorous and tumultuous life in the public eye. Maria reimagines the legendary soprano in her final days as the diva reckons with her identity and life.”

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Pierfrancesco Favino, Alba Rohrwacher, Valeria Golino, Kodi Smit-McPhee and Haluk Bilginer all star.

Maria hits select theaters in the U.S. on November 27 and arrives on Netflix on December 11.

The film received an 8 minute standing ovation at a recent film festival, and THR predicts that Angelina will be nominated for an Oscar for her performance.

Watch the trailer below, and see stills from the movie in the gallery!

"I will sing when I am ready to sing!" Let her sing! Netflix has unveiled the full official trailer for the film Maria, the latest cinematic work from renowned Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larrain, continuing his series about tormented women - after Jackie and Spencer before this. This new film focuses on the beloved opera singer Maria Callas, as portrayed by the beloved actor Angelina Jolie. It premiered at the 2024 Venice Film Festival earlier this year, with stops at NYFF & London as well. And it's set for a theatrical release in November before it's streaming on Netflix in December. From acclaimed director Pablo Larraín, Maria will tell the tumultuous, beautiful, and tragic story of the life of the world's greatest female opera singer, relived, and reimagined during her final few days living in 1970s Paris. Also starring Pierfrancesco Favino, Alba Rohrwacher, Valeria Golino, Kodi Smit-McPhee, and Haluk Bilginer. With costumes by Massimo Cantini Parrini,...

Netflix has released the official trailer and poster for Maria, the drama starring Angelina Jolie. The film opens in select theaters on November 27, 2024, and launches on Netflix on December 11.

Academy Award-winner Angelina Jolie plays Maria Callas, one of the most iconic performers of the 20th century, in acclaimed director Pablo Larrain’s operatic Maria.

The film follows the American-Greek soprano as she retreats to Paris after a glamorous and tumultuous life in the public eye. Maria reimagines the legendary soprano in her final days as the diva reckons with her identity and life.

Written by Steven Knight, the movie has been rated R by the MPA for some language including a sexual reference.

In addition to Angelina Jolie, the cast includes Pierfrancesco Favino, Alba Rohrwacher, Valeria Golino, Kodi Smit-McPhee, and Haluk Bilginer.

Juan De Dios Larraín, Jonas Dornbach, Lorenzo Mieli, and Pablo Larraín are the producers. The film’s cinematographer is Ed Lachman,...

The final days, hours, and minutes in the life of Greek opera singer Maria Callas are reimagined to vivid effect in Pablo Larraín’s latest biopic in miniature, “Maria.” As the third and last film in his trilogy of doomed historical women, following “Jackie” and “Spencer,” “Maria” stars Angelina Jolie in the title role. It’s one that demanded seven months of training in the art of opera singing — though what’s ultimately in the Venice world premiere out this fall from Netflix is vocally a blend of Jolie’s more nascent chops with Callas’ iconic and inimitable pipes. Watch the trailer for the film below.

Jolie is widely tipped as a Best Actress Oscar nominee for her role as a pill-swilling, self-pitying, vocally fraying Maria Callas in a drama with dialogue that bites, thanks to screenwriter Steven Knight behind the wheel of Callas’ demise. When Callas’ sister (Valeria Golino...

“Maria” is ready to sing.

On Thursday, Netflix released the first trailer for Pablo Larrain’s “Maria” starring Oscar winner Angelina Jolie as the legendary opera singer Maria Callas. A regular on the film festival circuit since its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival in August, “Maria” will enjoy a limited theatrical release in late November before hitting Netflix on December 11.

The third film in Larrain’s unofficial trilogy on prominent women of the 20th century following “Jackie” (about Jacqueline Kennedy) and “Spencer” (about Princess Diana), “Maria” follows “the American-Greek soprano as she retreats to Paris after a glamorous and tumultuous life in the public eye.” The film, which unfolds over Callas’ final days, “reimagines the legendary soprano in her final days as the diva reckons with her identity and life.” Callas died in 1977 at the age of 53.

“This film is my most personal work yet. It is a...

“Maria” serves as the third entry in the unofficial trilogy from director Pablo Larraín about iconic 20th-century women during a specific period when they receded from public view. 2016’s “Jackie” examined the role Jackie Kennedy played in the aftermath of her husband’s assassination, and “Spencer” took a measured approach to the life of Diana Spencer before her official divorce from the future King Charles of England. To say that “Maria” is the least all-encompassing of this trilogy is not an insult, but rather a calculated choice on Larraín’s part. This isn’t the story about how the consciousness of a nation was thrust on the shoulders of a young woman, but rather a deconstruction of the artifice of celebrity.

“Maria” stars Angelina Jolie in the role of Maria Callas, the world-renowned opera singer who attained such fame that even those unfamiliar with the “bel canto” technique could recognize...

It’s hard to watch Maria without thinking about the woman playing Maria. Watching Angelina Jolie in the Maria Callas biopic feels like seeing Jolie for the first time in a very long time, like witnessing the welcome return of an old friend. Her image has largely existed, of late,...

“September 5,” “All We Imagine as Light,” “The Luckiest Man in America,” “Zurawski v Texas,” and “Oh, Canada” are among the titles that round out the 2024 AFI Fest lineup, organizers announced on Tuesday.

This year’s AFI Fest takes place in Los Angeles from October 23 to October 27.

The festival will open with the world premiere of “Music By John Williams,” the upcoming documentary about the Oscar-winning composer John Williams. The film will have a limited theatrical release before arriving on Disney+.

Clint Eastwood’s “Juror No. 2” will close the festival before it premieres in theaters on November 1.

Other big screenings at AFI Fest include “Here,” “Heretic,” “Maria,” “Nightbitch,” “Bird,” “A Real Pain,” “The Room Next Door,” “The Fire Inside,” “I’m Still Here,” “The Order,” and “Unstoppable.” AFI also plans to honor Robert Zemeckis, director of the upcoming film “Here,” which reunites the “Forrest Gump” Oscar winner with Tom Hanks and Robin Wright.

Between Jackie, Spencer, and, now, Maria, Pablo Larraín has thrice committed the cardinal sin of taking a female icon of the 20th century and, in an attempt to hold a mirror up to her multitudes, flattened her into the equivalent of a kitschy postage stamp. Though his sense of style seems like an attempt to absolve him of indulging in the generic tendencies of the biopic, his dependence on repeating the same ideas with the same self-seriousness does a disservice to his supposed goal of bestowing a sense of agency on complex, hyper-surveilled icons of femininity. Too often, as in Maria, he conflates a woman moping around empty rooms to brash music with a more tactile notion of interiority or complexity.

So it’s a shame that Angelina Jolie—portraying Callas in the final week of her life, living somewhat isolated in an opulent Paris apartment—is relegated to playing by the Larraín rulebook.

A strange thing happens when lifelong artists begin to sense the light at the end of the tunnel. Some, like Francis Ford Coppola with "Megalopolis," have the freedom to go out on their own terms, guns blazing and critics be damned, with one of the most bombastic and extravagant works they've ever produced. Others, however, aren't nearly as fortunate. Time and trauma take their tolls, forcing even the greatest legends to contend with a much more complicated reality: the fact that their dreams no longer match reality. By the end, nostalgia crashes hard against resentment and triggers a deep-rooted pain directed towards the very talents that made life worth living in the first place.

Spanish filmmaker Pablo Larraín isn't even close to the finish line, of course, yet in many ways "Maria" feels like his most wistful and self-reflexive movie yet. After guiding both "Jackie" and "Spencer" to such high acclaim in recent years,...

They say that in life there are three guarantees: death, taxes, and that if there is a complicated woman in need of a stylishly done, painstakingly constructed biopic, then Pablo Larraín is the man to make it. Having sensitively explored the grief of Jackie Kennedy in the wake of JFK's death with 2017's Natalie Portman starrer Jackie, and then made a haunting portrait of Princess Diana's vulnerability with Kristen Stewart in 2021's Spencer, Larraín has enlisted the services of Angelina Jolie to help tell the story of fêted opera singer Maria Callas in the aptly titled Maria. Check out the first teaser for the film below:

"Maria, what do you want to sing?" asks a pianist as Jolie's Maria looks out on a grand, empty music hall. From there, we get shots of Callas – in black and white, on vintage film, in a plethora of gorgeous outfits...

Angelina Jolie stars as Maria Callas in the latest aching biopic from Pablo Larraín. Check out the Maria trailer.

Pablo Larraín truly is the king of biopics about sad women. His 2016 film Jackie, starring Natalie Portman as Jackie Kennedy, captured Jackie’s grief perfectly and in 2021, Larraín explored Princess Diana’s complex inner state with Spencer. Of course, the director has done a lot of other, equally excellent films but his latest, Maria, feels like the third part in an unofficial trilogy of films about women grieving.

Take a look at the Maria trailer.

Maria is set in picturesque Paris and explores some of the final years of opera singer Maria Callas’ life. The film had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival where it was warmly received. Maria will also screen as part of the BFI London Film Festival in October.

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Angelina Jolie‘s transformation into Maria Callas is on full display in the new teaser for Maria!

The film, directed by Pablo Larraín, follows the “American-Greek soprano as she retreats to Paris after a glamorous and tumultuous life in the public eye. Maria reimagines the legendary soprano in her final days as the diva reckons with her identity and life.”

“What do you want to sing?” a voice says, as Angelina responds at the end of the video: “Not today.”

The teaser also includes clips of the legendary singer’s final days in Paris during the ’70s.

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Pierfrancesco Favino, Alba Rohrwacher, Valeria Golino, Kodi Smit-McPhee and Haluk Bilginer all star.

Maria hits select theaters in the U.S. on November 27 and arrives on Netflix on December 11.

Check out some of the first photos from the film!

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Studiocanal has debuted a teaser trailer for Pablo Larraín’s Angelina Jolie-led ‘Maria.’

The movie will tell the tumultuous, beautiful, and tragic story of the life of the world’s greatest female opera singer, relived, and reimagined during her final days in 1970s Paris.

Directed by Pablo Larraín and written by Steven Knight, it stars Angelina Jolie, Pierfrancesco Favino, Alba Rohrwacher, Haluk Bilginer, Kodi Smit-McPhee.

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The film hits cinemas across the UK and Ireland on 10 January 2025.

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Netflix has shared the official teaser trailer for Maria, the drama film starring Angelina Jolie and opening in select theaters on November 27, 2024. It launches on Netflix on December 11.

Academy Award-winner Angelina Jolie plays Maria Callas, one of the most iconic performers of the 20th century, in acclaimed director Pablo Larrain’s operatic Maria.

The film follows the American-Greek soprano as she retreats to Paris after a glamorous and tumultuous life in the public eye. Maria reimagines the legendary soprano in her final days as the diva reckons with her identity and life.

Written by Steven Knight, the movie has been rated R by the MPA for some language including a sexual reference.

In addition to Angelina Jolie, the cast includes Pierfrancesco Favino, Alba Rohrwacher, Valeria Golino, Kodi Smit-McPhee, and Haluk Bilginer.

Juan De Dios Larraín, Jonas Dornbach, Lorenzo Mieli, and Pablo Larraín are the producers. The film’s cinematographer is Ed Lachman,...

Angelina Jolie takes center stage in the first trailer for Maria, her first movie in three years. Directed by Pablo Larran, Maria stars Jolie as real-life opera singer Maria Callas, chronicling the figure's final days in Paris in the 1970s. The film, which was written by Steven Knight, recently premiered at the Venice Film Festival. Maria marks Jolie's first movie since appearing as Thena in Eternals (2021).

Now, Netflix releases the first trailer for Maria, providing a new look at Jolie as the iconic singer. The trailer reveals Larran's old-shool approach to capturing the figure's life, including different film stocks, seemingly for the different periods of Callas' life. Some of the film's supporting cast members are also briefly shown off in the trailer, including Haluk Bilginer, Pierfrancesco Favino, and Alba Rohrwacher. Check out the trailer below:

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Maria (2024) is a biographical drama about opera singer Maria Callas,...

"Maria - what do you want to sing?" Netflix has revealed their beautiful teaser trailer for the film Maria, the latest film from acclaimed Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larrain, continuing his series about tormented women - after Jackie and Spencer before this. This film focuses on the beloved opera singer Maria Callas, as portrayed by the beloved actor Angelina Jolie. It premiered at the 2024 Venice Film Festival earlier this month, and it's set for a theatrical release in November before it's streaming on Netflix in December. From acclaimed director Pablo Larraín, Maria will tell the tumultuous, beautiful, and tragic story of the life of the world’s greatest female opera singer, relived, and reimagined during her final few days in 1970s Paris. Also starring Pierfrancesco Favino, Alba Rohrwacher, Valeria Golino, Kodi Smit-McPhee, and Haluk Bilginer. With costumes by Massimo Cantini Parrini, sets by Guy Hendrix Dyas, and Ed Lachman as Dp.

The emotional teaser trailer for the upcoming Netflix film Maria has been released. The trailer proudly displays the movie as an official selection in this year’s festival circuit, which includes the Venice Film Festival, the Telluride Film Festival, the New York International Film Festival and the BFI London Film Festival. The film stars Angelina Jolie as the titular character — Maria Callas. She is joined by Pierfrancesco Favino, Alba Rohrwacher, Valeria Golino, Kodi Smit-McPhee and Haluk Bilginer in the cast.

The official synopsis reads,

“Academy Award®-winner Angelina Jolie is Maria Callas, one of the most iconic performers of the 20th century in acclaimed director Pablo Larrain’s operatic Maria. The film follows the American-Greek soprano as she retreats to Paris after a glamorous and tumultuous life in the public eye. Maria reimagines the legendary soprano in her final days as the diva reckons with her identity and life.”

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Angelina Jolie is opera icon Maria Callas in the first trailer for “Maria,” Pablo Larraín’s latest biopic. Netflix has debuted the first trailer for the acclaimed film, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival and received an eight-minute standing ovation, launching Jolie and the feature into the awards race.

The actor plays the American-born Greek soprano Callas, who died from a heart attack at the age of 53. As suggested by the time-spanning trailer, “Maria” will cover the life story of the singer. Along with Jolie, the cast also includes Valeria Golino (“Rain Man”), Kodi Smit-McPhee (“The Power of the Dog”), Haluk Bilginer (“Winter Sleep), Alba Rohrwacher (“My Brilliant Friend”), Pierfrancesco Favino (“World War Z”), Jeremy Wheeler (“The Crown”) and Rebecka Johnston (“Midsommar”).

“Maria” is directed by Pablo Larraín (“El Conde”) and written by “Peaky Blinders” creator Steven Knight. The pair previously teamed up on “Spencer,” the Princess Diana feature...

Angelina Jolie goes through all the emotions in the first teaser trailer for Maria, which sees the actress portray the legendary but troubled opera singer Maria Callas.

The film, directed by Pablo Larraín (Jackie and Spencer), follows the “American-Greek soprano as she retreats to Paris after a glamorous and tumultuous life in the public eye. Maria reimagines the legendary soprano in her final days as the diva reckons with her identity and life,” the logline reads.

“What do you want to sing,” a voice says, as Jolie responds at the end of the video, “Not today.” The teaser also features glimpses of Callas’ final days in 1970s Paris, from personal moments to her performing onstage.

Pierfrancesco Favino, Alba Rohrwacher, Valeria Golino, Kodi Smit-McPhee and Haluk Bilginer round out the cast. The film was produced by Larraín, Juan De Dios Larraín, Jonas Dornbach and Lorenzo Mieli.

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Angelina Jolie has transformed into the role of a lifetime, portraying legendary opera singer Maria Callas for Pablo Larraín’s latest biopic, “Maria.”

After Larraín helmed “Spencer” and “Jackie,” the auteur is now taking on the Greek opera star whose own life mirrored the dramatic tragedies she also brought to the stage. The film is set during the last days of the chanteuse’s life in 1977. She died of a heart attack at age 53.

“Maria” concludes Larraín’s biopic trilogy. To note, Callas and Jackie Kennedy both shared a lover in Aristotle Onassis, portrayed by Haluk Bilginer in “Maria.” Onassis famously left Callas to marry Kennedy.

Callas was a world-famous soprano singer and infamously had a feud with Renata Tebaldi. The Greek-American singer suffered from near-sightedness throughout her life and was referred to as La Divina or “The Divine One.”

Per the official synopsis, the film explores the life of the legendary,...