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It was a call from David Fincher that lured Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, the two frontmen of iconic ’90s-launched industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, into writing music for movies. Beginning with the Oscar-winning Silicon Valley dissonance of “The Social Network,” “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” “Gone Girl”, and “Mank” followed for Fincher, with scores for Disney/Pixar’s “Soul,” Damon Lindelof’s HBO series “Watchmen,” and Netflix’s flagship original thriller “Bird Box” in between.

Now, Reznor and Ross, based in L.A. where they Zoomed with IndieWire from their studio, are the close creative confidantes of Luca Guadagnino, having scored “Bones and All” first before the electro-amped, ’90s-club-music-inspired “Challengers” and the more woodwind-textured languor of “Queer” landed the composers back in the Oscar race. The instantly all-timer “Challengers” score — thrumming like a propulsive musical libido under the sweaty tennis court antics of Tashi (Zendaya), Patrick (Josh O’Connor...

Bei der Verleihung der DGA Awards am 8. Februar wird der zweifache Oscargewinner mit dem Lifetime Achievement Award ausgezeichnet.

Ang Lee wird von der DGA für sein Lebenswerk geehrt (Credit: Imago / NurPhoto)

Der zweifache Oscargewinner Ang Lee wird von der Directors Guild of America (DGA) mit dem Lifetime Achievement Award ausgezeichnet. Lee wird die höchste Auszeichnung, die die DGA vergibt, am 8. Februar bei der 77. Verleihung der DGA Awards erhalten.

DGA-Präsidentin Lesli Linka Glatter betont: „Ang Lee ist wahrhaftig ein Meister des Filmemachens. Seit mehr als 30 Jahren hat er ein dynamisches Werk geschaffen, das kühn die Grenzen zwischen den Genres überschreitet – vom Historiendrama bis zur Komödie, vom Abenteuer bis zum Western, vom Superheldenfilm bis zum Martial-Arts-Film – und dabei immer furchtlos neue Herausforderungen annimmt, sich nie wiederholt und immer wieder filmische Höchstleistungen vollbringt. Mit seinen Filmen lädt Ang sein Publikum ein, komplexe Charaktere zu erforschen, die noch lange nach dem Verschwinden der Leinwand in Herz und Kopf bleiben.

The Directors Guild of America (DGA) has announced that it will present Ang Lee with the DGA Lifetime Achievement Award at the 77th Annual DGA Awards on Feb. 8, 2025. The Academy Award-winning filmmaker is only the 37th director to receive the distinguished honor, awarded at the discretion of current and past DGA presidents, in the Guild’s 88-year history.

“Ang Lee is truly a master filmmaker,” DGA president Lesli Linka Glatter said in a statement. “For over 30 years, he has directed a dynamic body of work that boldly cuts across genres — from period drama to comedy, adventure to western, superhero to martial arts — always fearlessly taking on new challenges, never repeating himself and consistently achieving cinematic excellence.

“Through his films, Ang invites his audiences to explore complex characters that linger in your heart and mind long after the screen has gone dark,” Glatter continued. “From his earliest features like The Wedding Banquet...

Ang Lee, the Academy Award-winning director of “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” “Brokeback Mountain,” “Life of Pi,” and many other acclaimed films, will be honored with the Directors Guild of America’s Lifetime Achievement Award at the 77th DGA Awards on Feb. 8, Variety reports.

“Ang Lee is truly a master filmmaker,” DGA President Lesli Linka Glatter said in a statement to the outlet. “For over 30 years, he has directed a dynamic body of work that boldly cuts across genres – from period drama to comedy, adventure to Western, superhero to martial arts – always fearlessly taking on new challenges, never repeating himself, and consistently achieving cinematic excellence.”

“Through his films, Ang invites his audiences to explore complex characters that linger in your heart and mind long after the screen has gone dark. From his earliest features like ‘The Wedding Banquet’ to artistic and commercial successes like ‘Brokeback Mountain,’ ‘Life of Pi’ and ‘Crouching Tiger,...

Two-time Oscar-winning filmmaker Ang Lee will have to make some more room in his trophy case. The Directors Guild of America said today that the Taiwanese filmmaker will receive its 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award.

He will put up the hardware during the 77th DGA Awards on Saturday, February 8, at the Beverly Hilton.

“Ang Lee is truly a master filmmaker,” DGA President Lesli Linka Glatter said. “For over 30 years, he has directed a dynamic body of work that boldly cuts across genres – from period drama to comedy, adventure to western, superhero to martial arts – always fearlessly taking on new challenges, never repeating himself, and consistently achieving cinematic excellence.”

Lee won Best Director Oscars for 2005’s Brokeback Mountain and 2013’s Life of Pi and scored another noms for his 2000 epic Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. He also has two Best Picture nominations as producer of Crouching Tiger and Life of Pi. His remarkable filmography...

Ang Lee will receive the Directors Guild of America’s highest honor, the Lifetime Achievement Award, it announced Tuesday. He will receive the award, which recognizes extraordinary achievements in the art of cinema and motion picture direction, at the 77th Annual DGA Awards on Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025.

The visionary director has more than 20 credits to his name and is known for making films with emotional depth across a variety of genres. Lee’s most well-known works include 2005’s “Brokeback Mountain” and 2013’s “Life of Pi,” both of which earned him directing Oscars, as well as 1995’s “Sense and Sensibility”; 2000’s “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” which won the Oscar for best foreign language film; 2003’s “Hulk”; 2007’s “Lust, Caution”; and 2016’s “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk.” Lee, 70, made his feature directorial debut with the 1991 indie, “Pushing Hands,” and his most recent film was 2019’s sci-fi thriller, “Gemini Man.”

“Ang Lee is truly a master filmmaker.

Linda Cardellini has been cast in a lead role opposite Jason Bateman and David Harbour in the upcoming HBO dark comedy limited series “Dtf St. Louis,” Variety has learned.

HBO gave the series a seven-episode order in November. It was originally announced as being in development back in 2022 with Harbour and Pedro Pascal attached to star and executive produce. It was originally inspired by the James Lasdun New Yorker article “My Dentist’s Murder Trial: Adultery, False Identities, and a Lethal Sedation.” However, the creative direction of the series evolved over time and it is now based on a wholly original idea with no connection to the original article and with Pascal no longer involved.

The official logline now states the show is “about a love triangle between three adults experiencing middle-age malaise, that leads to one of them ending up dead.” Cardellini will play Carol.

Cardellini is a three-time...

Some of the greatest Hollywood collaborations have come about through chance encounters and random conversations. Such was the case with "Zodiac," David Fincher's critically acclaimed 2007 true crime thriller about the Zodiac Killer and the investigation surrounding him. The film features something of an ensemble cast, with the likes of Robert Downey Jr. playing journalist Paul Avery and Brian Cox playing celebrity lawyer Melvin Belli.

The two lead roles, though, are played by the duo of Mark Ruffalo and Jake Gyllenhaal, with the latter playing famed writer Robert Graysmith and the former playing detective Dave Toschi. While both actors are big-time stars today -- and already were in 2007, with Gyllenhaal a particularly hot item coming off "Brokeback Mountain" and "Jarhead" -- the pair might never have been put together for "Zodiac" if not for Jennifer Aniston.

"I was talking to Jennifer Aniston," David Fincher explains on the film's DVD commentary track.

Jake Gyllenhaal has some really differing tastes and choices that have left many amazed at his decisions. While his career choices, which have landed him in prominent roles in masterpieces among the likes of Brokeback Mountain (2005), Prisoners (2013), and Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019), are understandable, it’s his personal life decisions that leave his fans baffled.

Jake Gyllenhaal. | Credits: Presumed Innocent / Apple TV+

For one, the actor has earned a lot of backlash and disappointed bombastic side-eyes from a lot of Swifties out there because he didn’t want to date the pop billionaire Taylor Swift for reasons of his own. But while that was that, what has his fans even more stunned is the fact that he reportedly didn’t hesitate to ask a complete stranger out!

The Time Jake Gyllenhaal Unabashedly Asked a Complete Stranger Out

Over the years, Jake Gyllenhaal has earned himself a fairly successful career as...

Melanie Lynskey has come a long, long way from when she made her film debut in Peter Jackson’s Heavenly Creatures. A talented actress known for her remarkable ability to bring authenticity and emotional depth to her characters, Lynskey is known for strong and complex portrayals. While now she might be making headlines for her roles in series like Yellowjackets, back in the day she first caught the attention of fans as Rose, Charlie Harper’s obsessive neighbor in Two and a Half Men.

Melanie Lynskey as Rose | Credit: Two and a Half Men / CBS

A series regular initially, the New Zealand-born actress departed from Two and a Half Men post-season two. Even though she did not quit the show altogether and returned to make a few appearances each season, her decision has always been one that drew significant attention for the show had all the hallmarks of making her a household name.

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In the history of the Academy Awards, only 17 Westerns have ever been nominated for Best Picture. A brief list of the nominees: "In Old Arizona" (1928), "Cimarron" (1931), "Viva Villa!" (1934), "Stagecoach" (1939), "The Ox-Bow Incident" (1943), "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" (1948), "High Noon" (1952), "Shane" (1953), "How the West Was Won" (1963), "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" (1969), "Dances with Wolves" (1990), "Unforgiven" (1992), "No Country for Old Men" (2007), "True Grit" (2010), "Django Unchained" (2012), "Hell or High Water" (2016), and "The Power of the Dog" (2021).

Others may be on the border of the genre, like, say, "Brokeback Mountain" or "The Revenant," but the above 17 are indisputable.

The first of those 17 films to win Best Picture was Wesley Ruggles' American history epic "Cimarron," one of the highest-reviewed films of its day. Variety's 1931 review of the film praised it as one of the modern age's great spectacles, a pinnacle of pop filmmaking.

For over 30 years, Randy Quaid was one of Hollywood's most colorful and dependable character actors. His career got off to a propitious start with his appearance in Peter Bogdanovich's 1971 classic "The Last Picture Show," and quickly took flight when he earned a Best Supporting Actor nomination for his portrayal of the sensitive, soon-to-be-imprisoned screw-up Meadows in "The Last Detail." 10 years later, Quaid achieved film doofus immortality as the loan-seeking rube Cousin Eddie Johnson in Harold Ramis' "National Lampoon's Vacation." Quaid had been funny in movies before, but now he was a proper drama-comedy double threat, and his brand of performance wasn't the type to curdle. He had a long, profitable journey ahead of him provided he didn't do something crazy like accuse the industry's most powerful people of trying to kill him.

Randy Quaid's downfall was so surreal it felt like performance art like he was playing Cousin Eddie on peyote.

Image Source: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment In the pre-Marvel Cinematic Universe days, a standalone Hulk movie was made. It was directed by Ang Lee, who was the third director attached to the project and a controversial choice at that, despite having won an Oscar for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. While the film was received poorly by audiences, it got a better reception from critics; over time, the film has developed a cult following, and many fans have re-evaluated their feelings about it. The film’s star, Eric Bana, was optimistic from the start. At the time the film was released, Bana told us he thought Lee had done an amazing job, and he’d hoped that fans would agree. (Click on the media bar below to hear Eric Bana.) https://www.hollywoodoutbreak.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Eric_Bana_Hulk_.mp3

Hulk is available on DVD, Blu-Ray, 4K, and most digital platforms.

There are no known recordings of Frida Kahlo’s voice. But the iconic painter, who died in 1954, tells her own story in director Carla Gutiérrez’s documentary “Frida,” which is guided by her words (spoken by actress Fernanda Echevarría) from interviews, essays and diaries.

Acclaimed for its semi-animated visual strategy, the film (available on Amazon Prime) is also a sensory aural experience, propelled by a passionate, rhapsodic score by Victor Hernández Stumpfhauser. The Burbank-based, Mexican-born conductor and songwriter’s credits include features, shorts and three compositions on the “Birdman” soundtrack.

For the documentary, he said, “I thought of the music as Frida’s inner voice, sort of like her spirit. We think of Frida as very strong, loud, rebellious, which is an important part of her, but I wanted the music to also relate to the vulnerable, intimate side of her personality. It’s an aspect of Frida we don...

Some of Hollywood’s most recognizable stars have turned down very iconic roles in acclaimed movies!

Stars have to make a tough choice every time they’re offered a role. They need to field a list of potential projects and decide which one seems the most promising. While juggling them around, they might end up missing out on a chance to star in a project that becomes a serious blockbuster.

We previously rounded up 12 actors who nearly passed on what would become their most iconic roles. However, there are even more actors who did say “no thanks” to appearing in solid-gold hits.

For instance, someone turned down a role and wound up losing a $250 million payday! A pop icon had some regrets about passing on a chance to play Catwoman. One actress was even offered a chance to play Neo, a male role, in The Matrix!

So many stars, including several Oscar winners,...

Taiwanese filmmaker Ang Lee added a prestigious honor Tuesday to his already exceedingly decorated career in the arts. The three-time Oscar winner was presented with the Praemium Imperiale at a black-tie ceremony in Tokyo. Often described as Asia’s version of the Nobel Prize, the award is handed out annually to artists working in various fields. A mark of the prize’s prestige, past honorees in the film and theater category have included true icons of film history, such as Federico Fellini, Akira Kurosawa, Jean-Luc Godard, Martin Scorsese and Catherine Deneuve.

“I’d like to think that my career is a never-ending school where I learn about cinema and about myself and about the world. There is no end to that learning,” Lee said during a news conference in Tokyo ahead of the awards ceremony. “As the first person from Taiwan to receive this award, I’m proud and deeply grateful.

Heath Ledger was a perfect example of cinematic brilliance, that truly shined in the work he did in the industry. Born and raised in Australia, the actor shifted to the United States to pursue his acting dreams. While he was able to do just that, his portrayal of Joker in The Dark Knight received a lot of acclaim, including an Academy Award. This would have been the biggest day of his life, sadly the actor passed away just six months before the release of the movie.

Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain | Credits: Focus Features

But before this movie, he was also a part of another Oscar-nominated movie. However, it was because of this project, that he straightaway rejected presenting an award at the 2007 Oscars.

Jake Gyllenhaal Details Why Heath Ledger Rejected to Present an Oscar

Before his untimely death in 2008, Heath Ledger was part of eighteen movies, ranging across diverse genres.

Stardom came quickly for Anne Hathaway when she first began her career. After one season on an unsuccessful sitcom, Hathaway found herself cast as the star of Garry Marshall’s film “The Princess Diaries.” It was kind of a case of art imitating life since in the film a young high school girl finds out she is really a princess and is launched into the public eye.

The same thing pretty much happened to Hathaway. The acting bug was in her system since after all she was named after the wife of William Shakespeare and her mother was a former actress who gave up her career to raise a family. In one great coincidence, her mom’s last role before motherhood was in a national touring company of “Les Misérables.” In that production she was an understudy for the role of Fantine, the doomed factory worker turned prostitute who sings...

Magical realism meets a grand family saga in “Pedro Páramo,” the directorial debut of cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto. As the man responsible for lighting and lensing countless renowned films — including “Barbie,” “Killers of the Flower Moon” and “Brokeback Mountain” — Prieto brings a keen eye to one of Mexico’s most influential novels. A tale of ghosts and memories that slips through time, Mateo Gil’s screenplay follows the structure of Juan Rulfo’s 1955 text with stringent fidelity, laying the groundwork for a melancholic (if slightly imbalanced) adaptation that finds visual splendor in the macabre.

Tenoch Huerta (“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”) plays Juan Preciado, a man who travels to his late mother’s hometown of Comala sometime after the Revolution (1910-20), in search of the father he never met: a figure named Pedro Páramo (Manuel García Rulfo), who he quickly learns has died as well. The missing figure’s name is often spoken in full,...

For the past few weeks, I have been watching stuff that is intentionally and confidently convoluted in an attempt to make it seem like the story is complex, even though it’s clearly not. It’s not like I am voluntarily picking out these projects. They’re all chosen randomly so that they can be covered during the week of their release. And despite the unmethodical nature of the choices, if a pattern shows up, then I think it’s a trend. Joker: Folie à Deux seemed like an ending explainer for the previous movie, but it alternated between what’s real and what’s not in the dumbest fashion imaginable. Teacup was like a wannabe From, which itself was a confounding trip. The Last Night at Tremore Beach was infuriating and baffling. The Man Who Loved UFOs, despite being a biography, was a whole lot of nothing. Then there was Caddo Lake,...

Luca Guadagnino’s new film “Queer” opens with a series of tableaux — little still-life images of glasses, trinkets and books. The objects are meant to evoke the lives of its two lead characters, gay men seeking refuge from their pasts and leaning into their desires in 1950s Mexico City. It’s an example, the film’s stars Daniel Craig and Drew Starkey say, of Guadagnino’s keen eye for how to evoke character through the material world. But it’s apparently even more than that too.

“The opening credits?” Craig asks, sitting next to his co-star in a New York photo studio. “Is the sperm still in there?”

“I think so,” Starkey says matter-of-factly.

We missed this visual, evidently. “See, that’s why you need to see the film again,” Craig remarks drolly. “I think there may have been a lot more at one point, but it’s still there.

Othello, one of the greatest tragedy tales by William Shakespeare, is all set to return to the stages once again through Broadway. Set in Venice and Cyprus, it is widely regarded among the mastermind author’s major tragedies as it brings about the titular Moorish military commander’s story as he is manipulated by his ensign, Iago, into suspecting his wife Desdemona of infidelity.

Of course, as famous as it is, there have been innumerable other iterations of this play over the years. Multiple different star-studded actors have joined the cast of the same, and given epic performances that they continue to be renowned for. And now that Broadway is reviving the saga, a cast of critically applauded actors has once again united to give the performance of a lifetime.

Othello revival on Broadway. | Credits: @othellobway / Ig.

This time around, some of the major names connected to the cast are Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal,...

Exclusive: Amid a surfeit of horror projects heading to next week’s American Film Market, here instead comes a legit blue chip crime-drama-thriller in the shape of James Gray’s next movie, Paper Tiger, which will star Oscar nominee Adam Driver, Emmy and Tony winner Jeremy Strong and Oscar winner Anne Hathaway.

This is the type of project buyers we’ve spoken to this week have been crying out for. Something elevated. Five of Gray’s films have competed for the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

Based on Gray’s original screenplay, the story is set to follow two brothers who pursue the American Dream—only to become entangled in a scheme that turns out to be too good to be true. As they try to navigate their way through an ever-more dangerous world of corruption and violence, they find themselves and their family brutally terrorized by the Russian “Mafiya.

Will the Oscars answer “Conclave’s” prayers?

Edward Berger’s mystery thriller has been one of the buzziest films to emerge from the fall festivals. Adapted from Robert Harris’ 2016 novel, the film premiered at Telluride, where it received raves from attendees. Since then, its awards prospects have grown, especially following its Audience Award wins at the Mill Valley and Middleburg fests. Those regional accolades helped propel future best picture nominees such as “American Fiction” (2023) and “Belfast” (2021) and best picture winner “Green Book” (2018). “Conclave” has popular appeal, but will its religious themes be an advantage or a potential hurdle in the Oscar race?

Read: You can see all Academy Award predictions in all 23 categories on one page on the Variety Awards Circuit.

Rossellini with “Conclave” director Edward Berger

Films that explore issues of faith, and the Catholic Church’s tangled history, have long held a unique place in Hollywood. Critics, and sometimes audiences,...

Few have managed to achieve the kind of success that Heath Ledger did. Even in his absence, all of his iconic works continue to live on in his name. Be it 10 Things I Hate About You, Brokeback Mountain, or The Dark Knight, his impact on the film industry is revisited to this day. Considering how successful the actor was at 28 years old, his untimely passing was nothing short of tragic.

Heath Ledger as Patrick Verona in 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) | Credit: Touchstone Pictures

With this, many cannot help but trace back to his last significant moments and have their hearts broken over and over. However, recently, the last known picture of Ledger has resurfaced, and fans cannot help but be uncomfortable.

Heath Ledger’s Final Photo

On the 22nd of January 2008, Heath Ledger was found dead in his Manhattan home. Being found by his massage therapist, Teresa Solomon,...

Mexico’s official entry to the Oscars, “Sujo,” made a sweep of the 22nd Morelia Int’l Film Festival (Ficm), winning the festival’s Ojo Awards for Best Film, Director and Screenplay.

Co-helmer-scribes Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez, whose debut pic “Identifying Features” won a couple of Sundance awards and took the Best International Feature prize at the Gotham Awards in 2021, also snagged the Sundance Grand Jury Prize for World Cinema with “Sujo,” their sophomore feature, in January.

Hailed by Variety as an “optimistic alternative to violent drug war movies,” the poignant coming-of-age story revolves around the impact of drug cartels on the youth. The tale follows young Sujo (played by Kevin Uriel Aguilar Luna and Juan Jesús Varela) who grows up surrounded by their violence. When his father, a sicario (hired assassin), is killed, he becomes a target but Sujo’s intrepid aunt rescues him.

Sujo’s win caps...

Dan Gilroy's "Nightcrawler" is designed to make you feel ill at ease. When small-time thief Lou Bloom (Jake Gyllenhaal) is first introduced, the discomfort evoked stems from the desperation late-stage capitalism embeds into our souls and how it pushes us towards unsavory avenues. However, once Bloom pawns a stolen bicycle for a camcorder, and we are forced to dissect violent, extreme crime scenes with him, the true, eerie heart of "Nightcrawler" is revealed. Bloom isn't just pushed into taking such ethically void measures to ensure his survival: he actively hungers for these excesses, as seen in his wide-eyed, unblinking gaze, which Gyllenhaal invests with an unsettling intensity that grants "Nightcrawler" its discomfiting tint. It is an experience that comes alive solely because of him, and Gyllenhaal carries this burden by channeling a haunting, career-defining performance that is both subtle and felt deeply in our bones.

Gyllenhaal is no one-hit...

Out of all the big-budget blockbusters Jake Gyllenhaal has landed in his career, the 2004 sci-fi-action piece The Day After Tomorrow most certainly wasn’t one. Although it more or less received some fans’ appreciation, a majority of the critics were still as displeased by it as ever, even though it managed to become a considerable commercial success.

Jake Gyllenhaal. | Credits: Siebbi/Cca-3.0/Wikimedia Commons

Gyllenhaal, on the other hand, was rather disgruntled with the piece himself. While it was one of his initial experiences working on a big-budget project, the actor had quite a few issues with it. As he didn’t hesitate to let known to everyone, one of his biggest problems was his dialogue for the film, which he had a hard time translating to the screens.

Jake Gyllenhaal was Brutally Critical of The Day After Tomorrow‘s Dialogue

Even though it was one of his initial big-budget projects,...

Ang Lee is an Oscar-winning filmmaker who has worked in a variety of genres and styles to explore the lives of people around the globe. Let’s take a look back at 12 of his greatest films, ranked worst to best.

Born in Taiwan in 1954, Lee’s interest in film brought him to NYU’s graduate program, where he worked as a crew member on classmate Spike Lee‘s thesis project, “Joe’s Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads.” He directed his first feature, “Pushing Hands” (1991) at the age of 37.

Lee followed up his debut with back-to-back international successes, each one scoring Oscar nominations as Best Foreign Language Film: “The Wedding Banquet” (1993) and “Eat Drink Man Woman” (1994). In both films, the director explored the kinds of complex familial relationships that would animate many of his stories.

He was then drafted by Hollywood to helm the Jane Austin adaptation “Sense and Sensibility” (1995), which...

La película, protagonizada por Manuel García Rulfo y Tenoch Huerta, llega en noviembre. © Netflix

Netflix ha publicado el tráiler de la película Pedro Páramo, la adaptación cinematográfica de la obra cumbre de Juan Rulfo, que se estrenó mundialmente en el Festival Internacional de Cine de Toronto (TIFF).

Pedro Páramo narra el viaje cargado de ilusiones de Juan Preciado (Tenoch Huerta) buscando la riqueza de un padre a quien no conoce. Pero al llegar a Comala, el lugar donde le dijeron que vivía, solo encuentra los atroces recuerdos de un pueblo sometido durante décadas por ese hombre, Pedro Páramo (Manuel García-Rulfo), condenado por su violenta cruzada en pos del poder y por la furia que despertó en él su frustrado amor por Susana San Juan (Ilse Salas). Tanto así que Juan comienza a preguntarse si sus habitantes podrían no estar vivos.

La película, que marca el debut directoral del reconocido cinefotógrafo mexicano Rodrigo Prieto,...

Oscar winning actress Anne Hathaway, aka 'Catwoman' in "The Dark Knight Rises" poses for the “Versace Icons” Fall/Winter 2024 campaign, photographed by Mert & Marcus:

Following several stage roles, Hathaway appeared in the 1999 television series "Get Real".

She came to prominence after playing 'Mia Thermopolis' in the Disney film "The Princess Diaries" (2001) and in its 2004 sequel.

Since then, Hathaway has starred in dramatic films including "Havoc" and "Brokeback Mountain" (2005).

She starred in "The Devil Wears Prada (2006) and "Becoming Jane" (2007).

In 2008, she won several awards for her performance in "Rachel Getting Married", also earning an Academy Award nomination for 'Best Actress'.

In 2010, she starred in the box office hits "Valentine's Day", "Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland", and "Love and Other Drugs", winning an Emmy Award for her voice-over performance on "The Simpsons".

In 2011, Hathaway had a voice role in the animated film "Rio", followed by her performance as 'Selina Kyle',...

Michelle Williams is being celebrated at the 2024 Deauville American Film Festival!

The Oscar-nominated actress was honored with the Career Tribute Award at the event on Thursday night (September 12) in Deauville, France.

Michelle‘s awards ceremony was held during the premiere of the new film Anora, which is getting a lot of Oscar buzz right now. French director Michel Hazanavicius was on hand to help honor the actress!

Throughout her decades-long career, Michelle has earned five Oscar nominations so far: Best Supporting Actress for Brokeback Mountain in 2006, Best Actress for Blue Valentine in 2011, Best Actress for My Week with Marilyn in 2012, Best Supporting Actress for Manchester by the Sea in 2017, and Best Actress for The Fabelmans in 2023.

She will next be seen in the upcoming FX limited series Dying for Sex.

Fyi: Michelle is wearing Chanel.

Travis Kelce wasn’t the only person Taylor Swift thanked while accepting her 2024 MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year on Wednesday. Swift – who won seven awards during the ceremony, bringing her lifetime total to 30, tying Beyonce for the most VMAs ever – made sure to show gratitude to several collaborators who helped her make the video for “Fortnight,” including stars Josh Charles and Ethan Hawke, featured artist Post Malone, and Oscar-nominated cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto.

“Directing this video and putting it together and writing it was the most wonderful experience. And that is because of all the people that I got to make it with, and that includes Ethan Hawke and Josh Charles who were amazing cameos,” she said. “That includes my amazing cinematographer/Dp Rodrigo Prieto, who goes out of his way to work with female directors. He’s a genius, and I can’t believe I got to work with him.

Grand Praemium

Taiwan-born film director Ang Lee has been named as one of the five recipients of the Praemium Imperiale award of the Japan Art Association. The awards ceremony will take place in Tokyo on Nov. 19.

Each recipient will receive JPY15 million alongside a testimonial letter and a medal. This year’s other recipients are: Sophie Calle (painting, France); Doris Salcedo (sculpture, Colombia); Shigeru Ban (architecture, Japan); and Maria João Pires (music, Portugal/Switzerland).

The Praemium Imperiale is the world’s largest and most prestigious art award in the five disciplines of painting, sculpture, architecture, music, and theatre/film. Now in its 35th year, it gives international recognition to the arts, much as the Nobel Prizes do to the sciences.

Previous film sector winners include Ingmar Berman, Jean-Luc Godard and Kurosawa Akira.

Kiwi Figures

The 2024 New Zealand International Film Festival (Nziff) has completed its marathon tour around the country. Its...

La película, protagonizada por Manuel García Rulfo y Tenoch Huerta, tiene su estreno mundial en el Festival de Cine de Toronto. © Netflix

Netflix ha publicado el primer teaser tráiler de la película Pedro Páramo, la adaptación cinematográfica de la obra cumbre de Juan Rulfo, que se estrena mundialmente en el Festival Internacional de Cine de Toronto (TIFF).

Pedro Páramo narra el viaje cargado de ilusiones de Juan Preciado (Tenoch Huerta) buscando la riqueza de un padre a quien no conoce. Pero al llegar a Comala, el lugar donde le dijeron que vivía, solo encuentra los atroces recuerdos de un pueblo sometido durante décadas por ese hombre, Pedro Páramo (Manuel García-Rulfo), condenado por su violenta cruzada en pos del poder y por la furia que despertó en él su frustrado amor por Susana San Juan (Ilse Salas). Tanto así que Juan comienza a preguntarse si sus habitantes podrían no estar vivos.

Last year delivered some truly spectacular short films, so much so, the genre ended up becoming a highlight of the Oscars for many. Among these standout entries, many thought one Pedro and Pedro movie was snubbed. Directed by Pedro Almodóvar starring Pedro Pascal and Ethan Hawke, the film was called Strange Way of Life.

Pedro Almodóvar with Pedro Pascal and Ethan Hawke on the sets of Strange Way of Life Credits: Sony Pictures Classics

This film, which was Almodóvar’s homage to Brokeback Mountain, seemed set to make waves. However, it missed out on an Oscar nod, and critics pointed to its pacing as a likely reason for the snub. Despite the buzz and anticipation, it appears that Strange Way of Life didn’t quite hit the mark with the Academy. Here is why!

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The International Cinematographers Guild will hand its Distinguished Filmmaker Award to Mexican cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto at this year’s Emerging Cinematographer Awards.

Born and raised in Mexico, Prieto was at the center of the early 2000’s renaissance of Mexican cinema, working on now-celebrated features like Babel, 21 Grams, and Amores Perros with Alejandro González Iñárritu.

Prieto’s next project–his feature film directorial debut–is an adaptation of the novel Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo, one of the most revered Mexican novels of the 20th century.

Also a frequent collaborator of screen legend Martin Scorsese, Prieto has been nominated for four Academy Awards for his work on Killers of the Flower Moon, The Irishman, Silence, and Brokeback Mountain. Other notable features photographed by Prieto include Barbie, The Wolf of Wall Street, Argo, and 8 Mile. Prieto was nominated for a 2024 MTV Video Music Award for his work on Fortnight by Taylor Swift,...

Killers of the Flower Moon and The Irishman cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto will be honored with the Distinguished Filmmaker Award at the 26th annual Emerging Cinematographer Awards (Eca), the International Cinematographers Guild (Icg) announced on Wednesday.

Cinematographer M. David Mullen will also be awarded the ASC Mentor Award.

Prieto has been nominated for four Academy Awards for his work on Killers of the Flower Moon, The Irishman, Silence and Brokeback Mountain. His other credits include Barbie, The Wolf of Wall Street, Argo and 8 Mile. He was also nominated for a 2024 MTV Video Music Award for his work on Taylor Swift’s “Fortnight” music video. His next project, his feature film directorial debut, is an adaptation of Juan Rulfo’s novel Pedro Paramo.

Mullen has received two American Cinematographers (ASC) Awards and three Emmy Awards for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, as well as two IFP Independent Spirit Awards nominations for Twin Falls Idaho and Northfolk.

Director Ridley Scott is back in the Oscars conversation with a film that hearkens back to his biggest Oscar success: “Gladiator II,” the long-awaited sequel to his 2000 Best Picture winner “Gladiator.” But despite the awards success of that 24-year-old blockbuster film, Scott himself didn’t get to go along for the ride. He lost Best Director in one of the most fascinating races that category has ever seen. Scott, now 86, has a chance to receive an overdue trophy and become the oldest filmmaker ever to prevail.

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To date, Scott has been nominated for four Oscars. Three of those were for Best Director: “Thelma and Louise” (1991), “Gladiator” and “Black Hawk Down” (2001), though “Gladiator” was the only one of those three films to receive a Best Picture nomination. Helming the Best Picture front-runner that year automatically made...

It’s late August. Do you know where (and what) your Oscar contenders are?

In the past, I would have answered that question by saying, “No, but in about three weeks I will.” That’s because the end of August brings the beginning of the three fall film festivals that for decades have been the most fruitful ground for premiering Academy Award winners and nominees.

For 14 years between 2007 and 2020, from “No Country for Old Men” to “Nomadland,” the Oscar Best Picture winner screened (and in all but three cases premiered) at the Venice International Film Festival, the Telluride Film Festival or the Toronto International Film Festival, and in many cases in more than one of those festivals. And for most of that time, the majority of Best Picture nominees came out of the Venice-Telluride-Toronto axis.

But then things changed. The 2021 winner, for the first time ever, was a Sundance movie,...

Charles Melton and Cailee Spaeny are confirmed to engage in a Beef for Netflix.

It was reported back in February that Melton (Riverdale, May December) and Cailee Spaeny (Devs, Civil War and currently starring in Alien: Romulus) were being eyed to play one of two feuding couples in Season 2 of the Emmy-winning dark comedy. (Former Brokeback Mountain and Love and Other Drugs co-stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway were said to be in talks to play the other pairing, but there has been no word on that since.)

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Exclusive: Oscar-winning filmmaker Ang Lee has boarded 76 Days, a documentary from Joe Wein, based on Steven Callahan’s New York Times bestselling memoir Adrift: 76 Days Lost At Sea, as an executive producer.

Lee comes to the project after collaborating with Callahan on his 2012 Oscar winner Life of Pi. He had the author serve as a consultant on that film, examining an unbelievable story of survival at sea, after learning about Callahan’s own incredible tale in the same vein.

On the eve of February 4, 1982, in the middle of the night, there was a loud boom as a whale collided with Steven’s boat. Within minutes, his small craft was flooded with a rush of water. He grabbed what he could, heaved his life raft into the ocean, and snatched his emergency kit. Without food or water, for an incredible 76 days the inflatable raft was his home as he drifted across the Atlantic Ocean.

Scott Budnick was riding what could easily have been the height of any other producer’s career when he took a step back from Hollywood.

As EVP of Todd Phillips’ Green Hat Films over 14 years, Budnick produced comedy juggernauts like “Old School,” “Due Date” and the record-breaking “The Hangover” trilogy, which grossed more than $1.4 billion. But he bowed out to pursue activist aspirations in judicial system and social justice reform full-time, founding the Anti-Recidivism Coalition (Arc) in 2014 in an effort to provide assistance and stability to formerly incarcerated men and women.

Budnick returned to Hollywood in 2018 as founder and CEO of 1Community, a mission-oriented producing and cofinancing company for film and TV that embraces the power of storytelling to drive the same reform he’s advocated for for the better part of 20 years. The idea to marry the two passions and create “entertainment with impact,” he told TheWrap, came in part thanks to Tobey Maguire.

Exclusive: There’ s going to be some glory, curves and rage over at Ava DuVernay’s Array this summer, in all the best ways.

Back for its fifth year, the Array 360 conversation and screening series will feature films and more from directors Patricia Cardoso, Bill Duke Ed Zwick over the next two months.

Starting on August 3, Cardoso will be kicking off the 2024 program at Array’s Creative Campus in LA’s Historic Filipinotown with a screening of her Sundance award winning 2002 film Real Women Have Curves. The director, who helmed a May 30, 2018 episode of the DuVernay created OWN TV series Queen Sugar, will provide live commentary on the acclaimed picture for the Scene on Screen event.

Check out the full Array 360 2024 schedule below

Two week later, DuVernay and Array will be hosting a daylong Filmmaker Tribute for Bill Duke. With a spotlight on the Palme d’Or nominated director/actor...

Pride month is over, but just because it is no longer June doesn’t mean we shouldn’t stop celebrating love and telling queer stories. In fact, we should always celebrate love and tell queer stories. So, here is a list of 62 films with canon main Lgbtqia+ characters and couples. Call Me by Your Name Original Title: Call Me by Your Name Year: 2017 Director(s): Luca Guadagnino Writer(s): James Ivory, André Aciman Country: Italy, France, United States, Brazil Language: English, Italian, French, German, Hebrew Genre: Drama, Romance Motion Picture Rating (MPA): R The rather sensitive Elio (Timothée Chalamet), the only son of the American family of Italian and French Perlman ancestry, is facing another lazy summer at his parents' home in the beautiful, languid Italian countryside. Every summer, Mr. Pearlman (Michael Stuhlbarg) hosts an academic to help with his research. This year’s student, Oliver (Armie Hammer), comes to bring change.

When Heath Ledger’s Sister Revealed His Plans Of Returning As Joker After Playing The Part In Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight ( Photo Credit – YouTube )

Heath Ledger passed away in his prime and did not have the chance to do so many things, but his role as Joker in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight will always be iconic in the world of cinema. After his death, Heath’s sister, Kate Ledger, revealed that the late actor was really happy about his role in Nolan’s movie and allegedly wanted to return to the character.

The movie was released in 2008, and Heath passed away after completing filming for the movie but before its theatrical release. he passed away due to an accidental overdose as a result of drug abuse. He had been a part of some acclaimed movies, including Brokeback Mountain, 10 Things I Hate About You, and more.

On Monday, July 15, 2024, Live with Kelly and Mark welcomes Anna Faris, Kylie Cantrall, and Jeremy Rellosa to the show. Anna Faris is an American actress and podcaster, known for her comedic roles in the Scary Movie film series, Lost in Translation, The House Bunny, and Brokeback Mountain. She joins the show to discuss […]

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Luke Gilford knows about rodeos — his father was a rider in the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association.

So it’s no surprise that the gay celebrity and fashion photographer turned his camera on the queer rodeo circuit for his 2020 debut photography book, “National Anthem: America’s Queer Rodeo.”

It’s that work that inspired the Colorado native’s feature directorial debut, also called “National Anthem.” The movie, which Gilford co-wrote with Kevin Best and David Largman Murray, stars Charlie Plummer as Dylan, a young man who goes to work on a ranch that is home to a group of queer rodeo performers. An unexpected romance blooms between him and a trans woman, played by Eve Lindley, as Dylan becomes more attached his new chosen family.

“’Brokeback Mountain’ was almost 20 years ago,” says Gilford, who splits his time between New York and Los Angeles and has had his work published in Vogue,...

Jake Gyllenhaal called out Swift for allowing “cyberbullying” by her fans. ( Photo Credit – Instagram )

In 2022, Jake Gyllenhaal became the unwitting recipient of fans’ rage after Taylor Swift released her version of the 2008 album Fearless and Red, first released in 2012. Shortly after, Jake Gyllenhaal called out Swift for allowing “cyberbullying” by her fans.

Jake Gyllenhaal and Taylor Swift dated for about three months in 2010. While the relationship was brief, it spurred the popular heartbreak song “All Too Well,” which is believed to have been inspired by her relationship with Jake Gyllenhaal.

At the time, the song created a social media storm with Taylor Swift fans (dubbed Swifties) bashing Gyllenhaal for seemingly toying with their queen’s emotions.

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Hell yeah! HBO and Max’s new releases for July include the two-episode debut of Harley Quinn spinoff series Kite Man: Hell Yeah! (July 18) that follows the titular villain and his girlfriend the Golden Glider as they take their relationship to the next logical step – opening a bar for supervillains together. Hilarious hijinks are bound to ensue as Gotham’s hottest new bar takes off.

Football fans will get to follow the New York Giants in this season of Hard Knocks: Offseason starting July 2. This non-scripted series will follow the team as they prepare for their highly anticipated 100th season.

Notable movie releases this month include Love Lies Bleeding (July 19), the Katy O’Brian and Kristen Stewart-starring feature about the love affair between a reclusive gym owner Lou (Stewart) and bodybuilder Jackie (O’Brian). Anyone wanting to rewatch the original Twister before its sequel premieres in theaters this month are in luck,...