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Amazon’s Hit Australian Crime Comedy ‘Deadloch’ Renewed for Season Two
There’s more in store for fans of Amazon’s Australian crime comedy Deadloch. The producers of the breakout show revealed Tuesday that a six-episode second season will go into production later this year and be released globally on Prime Video. Co-created by Kate McCartney and Kate McLennan, the first season of Deadloch followed a pair of […]
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The American Pavilion Worldwide Student Program Expands to Australia
The American Pavilion is expanding its AmPav student intensive program to the South by Southwest festival in Sydney, Australia. The AmPav SXSW-Sydney student program, taking place Oct. 13-21, will examine the future of tech, innovation, gaming, screens and music, said Michael Bremer, senior director of student programs for The American Pavilion. “The American Pavilion Worldwide […]
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Kevin Spacey Set for U.K. Fest Award Amid Hollywood Comeback Bid
Kevin Spacey is set to be honored with a trophy for a voice role in the 2023 U.K. action thriller Control by the Folkestone Independent Film Awards on July 20. On Monday, organizers of the British indie film awards confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter that the House of Cards star is set to win a […]
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James Cameron, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet and More Remember Jon Landau: “He Gave Everyone a Sense of Purpose and Belonging”
James Cameron, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Zoe Saldaña, Alan Bergman, Peter Jackson and Avatar: The Way of Water cast and crewmembers are among those in Hollywood paying tribute to Jon Landau, who died Friday at 63. Landau was an Oscar-winning producer, most known for his collaborations with Cameron on blockbuster films including Titanic and the Avatar franchise. His other […]
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How That Brutal ‘House of the Dragon’ Battle Death Played Out in the Book
[This story contains spoilers from season two, episode four of House of the Dragon, “The Red Dragon and the Gold.”] If the Dance of the Dragons wasn’t already officially on, it certainly is now. In its fourth episode, House of the Dragon season two finally went there — “there” meaning, full-on dragon-on-dragon violence, in the much-hyped […]
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Willem Dafoe Named Artistic Director of Venice Biennale Theater Department: “I Am a Stage Animal”
Willem Dafoe is the new artistic director of the theater department of the Italian arts organization La Biennale di Venezia, the Venice Biennale, for a two-year term 2025-2026. “Theater is in fact the original home of his lustrous career,” said Pietrangelo Buttafuoco, chair of the board of directors of the Biennale, which is the foundation that oversees the Venice Film […]
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How A Song by The Cure Inspired Italian-French Film ‘My Summer With Irène’
Listening to The Cure song “To Wish Impossible Things” from 1992 was a key inspiration for Italian filmmaker Carlo Sironi in writing, with Silvana Tamma as co-writer, and directing the Italian-French drama My Summer With Irène. “The young and timid Clara meets the spirited Irène,” according to a plot description of the website of the […]
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Warner Bros. Discovery Unveils Three Short Films for Season 3 of Black Britain Unspoken Program
Warner Bros. Discovery Access, the company’s talent development division for underrepresented creatives, on Monday unveiled Donell Atkinson-Johnson, Lauren Gee and Joladé Olusanya as the three filmmakers who will tell their stories of what it means to be Black and British in shorts as part of the third annual Black Britain Unspoken program. Launched in 2022, it aims […]
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“Movies Belong on the Big Screen,” Says ‘Fingernails’ Director as Title Closes Karlovy Vary Fest
Fingernails, the sophomore feature from Christos Nikou, starring Jessie Buckley, Riz Ahmed, Jeremy Allen White and Annie Murphy, closed the 58th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival on Saturday evening. Nikou, the Athens-born director of Apples, used a stage appearance during the closing ceremony ahead of the screening of his sci-fi relationship drama […]
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Tilda Swinton-Narrated ‘A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things,’ ‘Loveable’ Win Key Karlovy Vary Prizes
A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things, Mark Cousins‘ documentary essay about Scottish artist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham and her neurodiversity, including diary passages narrated by Tilda Swinton, won the Grand Prix – Crystal Globe, the top award at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) on Saturday. Clive Owen was honored with a KVIFF award at the closing […]
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How Peter Jackson Inspired the Style of ‘Waves’ and Why Its Czech Director Compares It to a Christmas Tree
The period around 1968 in what was then known as Czechoslovakia has gotten the film and TV treatment numerous times. But the 58th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) saw the world premiere of Waves, a new take on the time before and after the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Soviet Union-led Warsaw […]
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Ruben Östlund on Why He Feels Awards Make Filmmakers “More Insecure”
Ruben Östlund knows it sounds “absurd” to complain about winning awards, however, he admits that they add another level of “pressure” for filmmakers. During a recent conversation with Mother Couch writer-director Niclas Larsson for Interview magazine, the Triangle of Sadness director was asked if “awards create self-confidence or make you more insecure?” “It makes you more insecure, […]
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