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Janet Montgomery to Play Young Faye Dunaway in Jonathan Baker’s ‘Fate’
British actor Janet Montgomery has landed a starring role as a young Faye Dunaway in Jonathan Baker’s supernatural love story “Fate,” a film that is shooting in Vancouver for Baker Entertainment. The film will toggle between a yesteryear version of the character (Montgomery) and a present-day incarnation (Dunaway), spanning much of the protagonist’s entire lifetime. …
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Box Office: ‘IF’ Stumbles on Opening Day With $10.3 Million, ‘The Strangers: Chapter 1’ Unmasking Third Place
Paramount’s family comedy “IF” is leading domestic charts in its opening after earning $10.3 million from more than 4,041 locations across Friday and preview screenings. But the John Krasinski-directed fantasy feature has decidedly fallen behind its projections heading into the weekend, which had originally forecast a debut around $40 million. The film is now looking …
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Paul Schrader on ‘Oh, Canada,’ Tarantino’s ‘The Movie Critic,’ and the ‘Worst F**king Idea’ of a ‘Taxi Driver’ Sequel
Schrader goes in-depth with IndieWire about his new Cannes premiere and the Quentin Tarantino movie that almost was — and would've included a new rendition of Schrader's "Rolling Thunder" ending.
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Cannes 2023 Titles ‘Goodbye Julia’ & ‘Four Daughters’ Lead Prizes At 8th Critics Awards For Arab Films
Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania’s Four Daughters and Sudanese director Mohamed Kordofani’s drama Goodbye Julia topped the prizes at the 8th Critics Awards for Arab Films, which were announced on the fringes of the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday. Goodbye Julia won Best Feature Film and Best Screenplay. Four Daughters, which was nominated for best documentary feature …
3-min read - EntertainmentThe Wrap
Emma Stone Bombarded With Sex Scenes Questions in Uneasy ‘Kinds of Kindness’ Press Conference
Cannes 2024: Despite having the entire cast on hand, most questions during the presser were directed at the Oscar winner about sex in the film The post Emma Stone Bombarded With Sex Scenes Questions in Uneasy ‘Kinds of Kindness’ Press Conference appeared first on TheWrap.
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‘Caught By The Tides’ Review: Jia Zhangke’s Romance Is All Mood; Substance Is Harder To Come By – Cannes Film Festival
Stalwart Sixth Generation Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke leads his partner and muse, Zhao Tao, on a decades-long romantic odyssey in Caught By the Tides, which tries too hard to play with time and form for the connection between its leads to be its central preoccupation. Measured in silence interspersed with moments of dance and music …
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‘Caught by the Tides’ Review: Jia Zhangke Weaves a Shimmering New Tapestry from Threads of His Previous Films
The Chinese title of Jia Zhangke’s mesmerizing “Caught by the Tides,” a masterfully poetic and pioneering fusion of the old and the new, can be translated in several ways. Jia himself suggests “The Drifting Generation,” but it can also mean “The Romantic Generation” with the etymology of “romantic” lying in the Chinese words for wind …
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