Venice Film Festival artistic director Alberto Barbera has become well-versed in dealing with uncertainty. How else could he pull off assembling what will hopefully be the world’s first A-list celebration of cinema after the coronavirus crisis?
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The perennial contender on the pleasures of a quarantined awards season, the pride that came from choreographing her own sex scenes with Saoirse Ronan, and why a virtual Toronto Film Festival isn't the end of the world: "I can be barefoot and I don't
Bell Lightbox will be TIFF's only physical theater after the Isabel Baeder Theater no longer became available as a screening venue.
The Toronto Film Festival has booked Hollywood A-listers Ava DuVernay, Denzel Washington, Barry Jenkins and Saoirse Ron
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Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter are back for another excellent adventure in “Bill & Ted Face the Music,” hitting theaters and digital platforms on Aug. 28. This time, the time-traveling, middle-aged best friends journey out in search of one song that wi
Charlie Kaufman knows he has a reputation for being, well, a bit out there. Maybe it comes from having such a wildly original, meta style, cooking up movies where people step into the mind of John Malkovich or figure out a way to erase a failed roman
Sean Connery helped redefine movie stardom thanks to his role as James Bond, an impossibly suave super-spy with a taste for martinis that were shaken, not stirred. In films like “Dr. No,” “Goldfinger,” and “You Only Live Twice,” the Scottish actor cr
Radha Blank overcomes failure as a playwright by reinventing herself as a rapper in Netflix’s first trailer for “The 40-Year-Old Version.”
The footage starts with Blank teaching a playwriting class in New York City as one of “30 under 30 Playwrights t
“Tenet,” Christopher Nolan’s hotly anticipated and oft-delayed sci-fi epic, may not be unspooling in a drive-in theater near you.
To be fair, when the film touches down in the U.S. over Labor Day weekend, it’s unclear where exactly in the country the
The American Film Institute and Universal Pictures have launched a week-long “Black Stories Matter” series with “BlacKkKlansman,” “Get Out,” “Girls Trip,” “Loving” and “Straight Outta Compton” available for free through Aug. 30.
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Just a little over a month before Hollywood came to a screeching halt in March due to the coronavirus pandemic, about 3,000 people crowded into the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood for the 92nd Academy Awards.
“There were inklings of the virus because peopl
A judge on Tuesday denied Roman Polanski’s request to be reinstated to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, finding that the organization behind the Oscars had a right to expel him in May 2018.
Polanski sued the Academy in April 2019, alle
Director Yeon Sang-ho returns to familiar territory with an oddly timely sequel to his creative 2016 zombie thriller 'Train to Busan.'
Who knew a zombie film could be so prescient? When Train to Busan surprised everyone in 2016 with its simultaneously
A warning message from Alamo Drafthouse requires theatergoers to agree to assume all risks associated with attending movie screenings.
As tickets go on sale for the reopening of various Alamo Drafthouse locations, all ticket purchasers must acknowledg
The Batman director Matt Reeves explains why Robert Pattinson was cast as the iconic DC hero, with the filmmaker citing the actor's versatility.
The Batman director Matt Reeves explains why Robert Pattinson was cast as the next Caped Crusader. Taking
The filmmaker talked about the grounded, "year two" reinterpretation of the Dark Knight.
At the heart of Matt Reeves’ The Batman are a number of questions, not least because the Riddler is one of the villains of the piece. Saturday evening’s panel fro
With less than a month to go before the Primetime Emmys, the telecast’s producers are still building the show and figuring out how to make it as live — and safe — as possible. And at the same time, they promise that they’re not aiming to do “Emmys Li
The toll the coronavirus has taken upon the U.S. TV ad industry is, to date, $3.7 billion, or a decline of 9%.
That’s according to estimated ad spend data from ad analytics firm iSpot. The annual spend to date of $37 billion is the lowest level seen s
A career behind the camera begins at these elite institutions — from USC to NYU — even as COVID-19 complicates curricula.
With both entertainment and higher education deeply impacted by the COVID-19 shutdown, top film schools across the U.S. spent the
By consistently aiming his movies at the PG-13/12A certificate, the director has made himself cinema’s pre-eminent big-budget auteur.
ou can count the directors who’ve been able to command budgets over $200m (£152m) for original blockbusters on one ha
