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Most legal observers regard President Trump’s lawsuit over the editing of a “60 Minutes” interview with Kamala Harris as frivolous. Nevertheless, parent company Paramount Global has been angling to settle the case, given that the administration has the power to stall or block its merger with Skydance. Doing so would likely generate backlash from CBS
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While two Mickeys may be better than one, by the time you get to seven or eight (the idea of Edward Ashton’s sci-fi novel “Mickey7”), or a number as unwieldy as 18 (the inflated figure in Bong Joon Ho’s big-screen adaptation), the prospect of an endless supply of gawping Robert Pattinson clones really starts to
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Jacob Elordi had to lose weight to play a prisoner of war in the new Justin Kurzel-directed series “The Narrow Road to the Deep North” — but to him it “wasn’t complete torture.” When Variety asked how the weight loss affected him at a Berlin Film Festival press conference, the “Euphoria” and “Saltburn” actor said
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This century, Catalonia has emerged as a region with a rich filmmaking tradition, supported by public investment in local artists and production companies. This commitment to nurturing talent and fostering growth has led to significant developments in the region’s industry, culminating in a contemporary state of affairs that sees Catalonia involved in every part of
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The Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF) has announced the winners of their 40th annual film awards. All three short award recipients are now eligible for the 2026 Academy Awards. “It’s an undeniable pleasure to celebrate such a diverse and wonderful array of winning films,” said SBIFF director of programming Claudia Puig. “We have been so
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Ben Whishaw isn’t averse to juggling multiple and very different projects, but even he admits there was a point last year when things reached near farcical levels. Around the same time he was shooting Netflix’s pulpy spy thriller series “Black Doves,” playing a contract killer with a conscience alongside Keira Knightley, he was recording the
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For a perpetually frustrated single woman, Bridget Jones always had good taste in men. On the big screen 24 years ago, “Bridget Jones’s Diary” cemented Colin Firth’s sex appeal as human rights lawyer Mark Darcy and made us swoon for Hugh Grant all over again as roguish book publisher Daniel Cleaver. So it’s no surprise
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In his early 20s, Norwegian director Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel held a variety of roles at a primary school, including substitute teaching, leading afterschool programs and working with children with disabilities. The experience was “very profound” and led him to meet “great people,” Tøndel said. It also allowed him to observe parents’ behavior. Tøndel’s time working
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Léonor Serraille has had a career most young directors would dream of — winning the Camera d’Or for her 2017 debut “Montparnasse Bienvenue” before launching her sophomore feature, “Mother and Son,” from Cannes’ competition in 2022. And for just as long, the thirty-something auteur has kept a healthy distance from her own high profile, keeping
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Marvel’s “Captain America: Brave New World” can claim the biggest opening weekend of this young calendar year. The Disney release ripped into $40 million across Friday and preview screenings from 4,105 locations. That already clears the record-holding $36 million debut of Universal’s “Dog Man.” It also keeps “Brave New World” on track with projections for
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Day 3 at the Berlin Film Festival was chilly and very pretty in pink. Timothée Chalamet fired up the Berlinale on Friday by donning a cotton candy-colored hoodie and matching tank top. The “A Complete Unknown” star thoroughly charmed festival attendees. Variety‘s Ramin Setoodeth writes about the Chalamet effect and what it means as film
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The Berlinale is just the start of a big 2025 for Catalan films, filmmakers and companies. Several high-profile Catalan buzz titles are currently shooting or in post-production and are slated to debut later in the year, while others are presently kicking off promising festival runs.  Former Berlin Golden Bear winner Carla Simon (“Alcarràs”) will debut
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Robert Pattinson had a revelation during the Berlin Film Festival press conference for Bong Joon Ho‘s “Mickey 17“: He based one of his wacky accents in the movie off of Steve Buscemi’s “Fargo” character. In the sci-fi comedy, Pattinson plays the down-on-his-luck Mickey Barnes, who signs up to be an “expendable” on a new human
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When Isaac Hernández was cast in Michel Franco‘s upcoming drama “Dreams” alongside Jessica Chastain, he immediately felt the weight of the story on his shoulders. Premiering at the Berlin Film Festival on Saturday, “Dreams” follows Fernando, a young Mexican ballet dancer who crosses the border into the U.S. — leaving everything he knows behind and
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Brazil’s RT Features, producer of Walter Salles’ Oscar-nominated “I’m Still Here,” is backing “Porto” director Gabe Klinger‘s São Paulo-set wine world dramedy “Isabel,” which is currently in post-production. “Porto,” the director’s previous film, executive produced by Jim Jarmusch, was acquired for theatrical distribution in over forty markets after its San Sebastián premiere in 2016. “Isabel”
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Israeli director Tom Shoval is back in Berlin with “A Letter to David,” which is his way of processing the fact that his friend David Cunio – who starred in his first feature “Youth” – is one of the more than 250 hostages kidnapped by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023, from the Nir Oz kibbutz.
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In 1975, Vera Brandes, then an 18-year-old student and part-time promoter, organized a concert for Keith Jarrett in Cologne, a recording of which became “The Köln Concert,” the best-selling solo jazz album ever. Half a century later, director Ido Fluk is in Berlin premiering “Köln 75” about the woman behind this monumental moment in jazz history.
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There are numerous first time directors at this year’s Berlinale, but few come with the sort of indie film credits on Rebecca Lenkiewicz‘s resume. The British playwright and screenwriter had worked on the script for Pawel Pawlikowski’s Oscar-winning “Ida” alongside the director, on “Disobedience” with Sebastián Lelio and on “Colette” with Wash Westmoreland, before going
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The latest from an animation powerhouse, an anticipated biopic from a three-time Oscar nominee and a buzzy Sundance premiere headline the slate of new and upcoming Czech titles on offer at this year’s EFM. DJ AhmetDirector: Georgi M. UnkovskiProducers: Ivan Unkovski, Ivana ShekutkoskaA Czech minority co-production arriving off a buzzy Sundance premiere, this auspicious debut
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Gabriel Mascaro’s “The Blue Trail,” playing in competition in Berlin, marks another great milestone for Brazilian cinema in a year where the country got its first best picture Oscar nomination with Walter Salles’ “I’m Still Here.” Mascaro follows in the footsteps of Salles playing in competition in Venice and Karim Aïnouz playing in competition at
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The sophomore film from “The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire” director Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich and the feature debut of rising Senegalese filmmaker Awa Moctar Gueye are among the projects that pan-African production outfit Yetu (Un)Limited will be pitching to prospective partners at the European Film Market. A collective of five creative producers looking to unlock the growing
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John Mulaney may have spoken best to the mostly wonderful randomness of the lineup for Friday night’s live “SNL50: The Homecoming Concert” special when, late in the show, he invoked the memory of “Saturday Night Live‘s” much-missed music guru, Hal Willner. The comedian spoke about how the seminal figure in “SNL” music history would have
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FilmSharks has scored several new distribution deals, including in North America, for David Bisbano’s Argentine animated pic “Dalia and the Red Book” ahead of the film’s global rollout. Vision Films has acquired all North American rights, with plans for a 2025 release in the second quarter. In Turkey, TME will distribute the film in the
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Sundance prizewinner Lemohang Mosese returns to the Berlin Film Festival with his third feature, “Ancestral Visions of the Future,” which premieres Feb. 20 in the Berlinale Special strand. A deeply autobiographical work, the film is an artful meditation on dislocation and belonging that blurs the lines between reality and reconstruction. Through fragmented narratives involving a young
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