Author: HollywoodReporter
Oscar-winning French actress Juliette Binoche has been named as the new president of the European Film Academy. The EFA board on Thursday said they voted unanimously to name the English Patient and Taste of Things star to succeed Polish director Agnieszka Holland (The Green Border) as president. Binoche’s appointment will be put to a vote by EFA members and, assuming she receives majority support, she will take over as president on May 1, 2024. The French star will be only the second female head of the EFA, after Holland, who took over the role in 2021, succeeding German director Wim…
Lies We Tell, with 13, That They May Face the Rising Sun and Double Blind, with 11 each, are leading the nominations for the movie portion of the Irish Film & Television Awards 2024. Lies We Tell is about an orphaned teenage heiress in 19th-century Ireland who is forced to embrace the dark legacy of her family when she becomes the ward of an uncle determined to marry her off. Rising Sun is an adaptation of John McGahern’s novel of passion, war, and migration. Double Blind is a horror film about an experimental drug trial that goes horribly wrong. Andrew…
With The Fall Guy, Ryan Gosling and director David Leitch created a love letter to below-the-line filmmakers, specifically the stunt teams behind big blockbuster movies. Leitch, who is a former stuntman turned director, noted in the post-screening Q&A at SXSW Tuesday that early creative conversations with Gosling led to personal touches being added to the final film. Gosling plays Colt, a stuntman who, after getting out of the business for a year, is called back into action when the star of a big studio movie suddenly disappears and that big studio movie happens to be directed by his ex (Emily…
When the police stop the young woman on her way to the convent in the Italian countryside, they wonder why such a person would choose to become a nun. As they rummage through her luggage — a search conducted because she has no return ticket — they ask, in English, if joining a convent was a difficult choice. The woman scans their faces in confusion before responding: “I don’t see it as a decision,” she says with bitter force. For Sister Cecilia (Sydney Sweeney), the American nun at the center of Michael Mohan’s oddly cartoonish film Immaculate, a life-long devotion to…
Twenty-six years ago, I had the great fortune to stand on the stage of the Shrine Auditorium and accept the Oscar for best feature documentary during the 70th Academy Awards. It was for the The Long Way Home, a very personal story as it recounted what many of my relatives and hundreds of thousands of Jews endured after the Holocaust, forced to live in Displaced Persons camps while the British government kept them from emigrating to what was soon to become the state of Israel. Others who were trying to make their way to the United States and other places were stymied…
Acclaimed filmmaker Bong Joon Ho‘s Mickey 17 will open several days early in South Korea, his home country. The movie will hit theaters there on Jan. 28, 2025, timed to the Lunar New Year holiday and three days before it begins its global rollout on Jan. 31, Warner Bros. announced Tuesday. “Director Bong’s creativity, vision and imagination always exceed expectations. Mickey 17 will surprise audiences with its original story and characters, unpredictable plot development and humor, as well as great production qualities,” Warners president of international distribution Andrew Cripps said in a statement, adding that opening it first in South…
After premiering The Fall Guy at SXSW on Tuesday, Ryan Gosling made a quick trip to Los Angeles for a special screening on Wednesday night. He was joined at The Grove by director David Leitch and co-stars Emily Blunt, Winston Duke, Hannah Waddingham and Stephanie Hsu, as they gave the crowd an early sneak peek of the film. The project stars Gosling as a stuntman who left the business and is drawn back in when the lead of a movie (played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson) that is directed by his ex (Blunt) goes missing. “I was on a kid’s action TV…
The NAACP Image Awards has announced its third round of winners in non-televised categories, such as outstanding writing in a comedy series, writing in a drama series, outstanding documentary and breakthrough creatives. The Color Purple director Blitz Bazawule won the latter award for the film category, while Survival of the Thickest star and co-creator Michelle Buteau was named the breakthrough creative in television. Wednesday’s winners also include Michael B. Jordan for his hosting gig on Saturday Night Live, while Allen Hughes took the price for directing the FX/Hulu docuseries Dear Mama about Tupac and Afeni Shakur. Netflix’s High on the…
Simu Liu said he danced through the pain during Ryan Gosling‘s “I’m Just Ken” performance at the 2024 Oscars. The actor shared during a recent appearance on Today With Hoda & Jenna that his torn Achilles tendon hadn’t completely healed, but knew he didn’t want to miss the “pretty surreal” Kens reunion on the Academy Awards stage Sunday night. Liu starred as one of the Kens in Greta Gerwig’s Barbie. “I’m like four months into recovering from Achilles surgery, but I’m powering through it because I’m like, ‘I feel like this is going to be a historic moment that I never…
Michelle Pfeiffer predicted stardom for a young, unknown Keanu Reeves. That revelation comes as director Stephen Frears joins The Hollywood Reporter‘s It Happened in Hollywood podcast to discuss the making of his 1988 hit, Dangerous Liaisons. The film starred Glenn Close and John Malkovich, playing conniving aristocrats in pre-French Revolution Paris who manipulate the people around them through sex and deception. Among their victims are characters played by Pfeiffer and Uma Thurman. Reeves, then 23, was cast as Le Chevalier Danceny, a handsome musician who draws the attention of Close’s Marquise de Merteuil and falls in love with Thurman’s naive…