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November 26, 2019 3:46AM PT With Catherine Deneuve still in the hospital in Paris, the filming of “De Son Vivant,” which the French screen icon was shooting when she had a mild stroke three weeks ago, has been suspended, a source close to the production told Variety. The film, directed by Emmanuelle Bercot and produced

November 26, 2019 3:06AM PT Andrea Riseborough will star in “Here Before,” a Belfast-set psychological thriller from Stacey Gregg. The movie is Gregg’s feature directorial debut. She recently co-directed “Inside Bitch” for the Royal Court Theatre in London. Her TV writing credits include Sky’s “Riviera” and Netflix’s “KAOs.” Riseborough will play a bereaved mother in

Justin Kurzel and Shaun Grant, the Australian directing and writing team behind “Snowtown” and the recent “True History of the Kelly Gang,” will reunite for a TV series adaptation of “The Narrow Road to the Deep North.” The series is being set up at Fremantle. The underlying Richard Flanagan-written novel, published in 2013, chronicles a

Singapore is renowned for its education system, which is highly successful, but also rigid and stressful. Singapore-born, Chicago-based documentarian Yong Shu Ling’s “Unteachable” explores the joy of learning through a young woman’s journey to bring empathy back into classrooms. She introduces a new teaching method aimed at empowering teenagers to overcome negatives, and rekindle a

Jørgen Leth hates being called “a multimedia artist,” but the fact is that “filmmaker” doesn’t really do him justice either. Now 82, the Danish polymath has a number of strings to his bow, including poetry, journalism and a passion for sports and cycling that means he truly believes is most famous in his homeland for

“I’m worried, Mom,” says preschool-age Jade, as she nuzzles her mother Betty’s leg in a down-at-heel backyard. When pressed as to the source of her worry, the answer is both plain and quite troubling: “I don’t know.” Inchoate anxiety and a wild, fanciful imagination vie for space in a young girl’s psyche in “I Love

“Let’s Talk,” which interweaves a treasure trove of archive material with cinematic conversations between four women from different generations in the family of late great Egyptian master Youssef Chahine, is a quintessentially personal project for director Marianne Khoury. Chahine, who was Arab cinema’s leading light for over half a century, was her uncle. It’s a

In today’s film news roundup, Maya Hawke, Charlie Plummer and Andrea Riseborough have joined “Please Baby Please,” “Downhill” gets a release date, “Jumanji: The Next Level” will open early in China and “Bully” finds a new home. CASTINGS Maya Hawke, Charlie Plummer and Andrea Riseborough have joined the cast of romance-drama “Please Baby Please.” Amanda

Loath as one is to make even a glancing comparison, it’s hard not to think of Alfonso Cuarón’s “Roma” for at least one short scene in “La Mami”: The camera observes calmly as a tiled floor is mopped by a pair of caretakers, sudsy water splashing across the surface in scalloped waves, only to be

How do you define heroism? For more than a century, movies have shaped our collective idea of the individuals and actions that qualify, often making the word appear out of reach to ordinary mortals. Now, along comes Sam Mendes’ “1917” to smash those assumptions, revisiting a day in World War I when two ordinary British

Brazil-based Habanero Film Sales has snagged the international sales rights to “In a Whisper” (A Media Voz), a moving autoethnographic documentary about two childhood friends who, as part of the Cuban diaspora, find themselves far away from home and from each other. Docu had its world premiere on Saturday at IDFA where it received a standing

November 25, 2019 2:08PM PT Moviegoers will have to wait a little longer to see cinema’s two fiercest monsters duke it out. Warner Bros. and Legendary’s “Godzilla vs. Kong” has been delayed eight months and will now hit theaters Nov. 20, 2020. The film was previously dated for March 13, 2020. Directed by Adam Wingard,

The theatrical market for documentary films is in “robust shape,” with 2019 proving to be a strong year for the genre after an exceptional 2018, reports Oli Harbottle, head of distribution and acquisitions at leading U.K. documentary outfit Dogwoof. Harbottle says 2019 was always going to struggle to match 2018’s “blockbuster” year, which saw the

“Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” will be shorter than previously reported. But its runtime — clocking in at two hours and 21 minutes, according to director J.J. Abrams — still makes it the second-longest “Star Wars” film behind “Star Wars: The Last Jedi.” It was originally reported that “The Rise of Skywalker” would be two

November 25, 2019 12:11PM PT Arclight Films has sold North American rights for “Twist,” a modern-retelling of Charles Dickens’ classic “Oliver Twist,” to Saban Films. The updated version — starring Michael Caine and Lena Headey — was directed by Martin Owen and written by John Wrathall. The cast also includes Rita Ora, Raff Law  and

“Bombshell,” a drama about Fox News journalists who set to expose CEO Roger Ailes for sexual harassment, will be honored the Producers Guild of America’s Stanley Kramer Award. The award, established in 2002, recognizes a production, producer or other individuals whose achievement or contribution illuminates and raises public awareness of important social issues. “Bombshell” will

It took Italian director Valentina Pedicini more than a decade to make observational documentary “Faith,” about a reclusive spiritual sect of kung fu practitioners led by a domineering man known as the Master. Or rather. Eleven years went by between the time when Pedicini made a short doc about the sect and when she then

November 25, 2019 10:42AM PT Netflix has announced that it will keep the New York City’s Paris Theater open through a lease agreement. The venue, one of the oldest art movie houses in the United States and the last single-screen theater in New York, was shuttered earlier this year. It was re-opened earlier this month

Films from Africa and the Middle East have enjoyed significant festival presence this year – such as Mati Diop’s French-Senegalese pic “Atlantics,” which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. “In 2019 we saw a new generation of filmmakers emerging on the scene,” says Rémi Bonhomme program manager of Critics’ Week in

Disney bucked box office tradition this year, opting for the first time since 2014 not to release a movie the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. But that doesn’t mean the studio won’t still gobble up the competition around Turkey Day. Disney unveiled “Frozen 2,” which debuted to a stellar $130 million in North America, a week earlier

FX’s science-fiction series “Legion” scored a leading two nominations for the American Society of Cinematographers Awards. “Legion” received nods in the commercial television category, along with “Project Blue Book,” “Vikings” and “Gotham.” Non-commercial TV series recognition went to “Das Boot,” “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “Carnival Row,” “Titans” and “The Handmaid’s Tale.” Winners will be announced

If there’s one thing I know about real-world little women, it’s that they will read “Little Women” no matter the era. That’s the timeless quality of certain literary classics, and Louisa May Alcott’s Civil War tale of four close-knit sisters continues to delight, feeling every bit as alive today as it must have 150 years

“Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” doesn’t arrive in theaters until Dec. 20, but some savvy fans almost got a chance to find out the conclusion to the Skywalker saga early. Disney and Lucasfilm go through great lengths to keep anticipated movies shrouded in secrecy, but director J.J. Abrams revealed to Good Morning America Monday

On top of Robert Redford, the Marrakech International Film Festival will celebrate veteran French filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier, Moroccan actor Mouna Fettou and Bollywood icon Priyanka Chopra Jones during its upcoming 18th edition. Tavernier, who has directed critically acclaimed films such as “Le Juge et l’Assassin” and “Autour de Minuit” Filmmaker, is a consumed cinephile and

A highly publicized mass brawl outside a cinema showing “Blue Story,” a London-set movie about two friends and the effects of gang violence, was one of 25 separate incidents involving the film at 16 of its venues, according to the Vue cinema chain, which pulled the movie from all of its theaters in the wake

Academy Awards buzz is hard to bottle, but you know it when you hear it. For most movies, the Oscar bees start buzzing early on, turning awards chatter into a self-fulfilling prophecy. As Bruce Springsteen said, though, you can’t light a fire without a spark. “The Report,” an explosive true-life political thriller starring Adam Driver

“Frozen 2” iced out all its competitors in China this weekend, sliding out in front of the pack to top the local box office with a $53.2 million debut – the best ever for a Disney animated film in the Middle Kingdom. “Frozen 2” made more in three days than the original “Frozen” made during

BBC Films and Paramount have defended Andrew Onwubolu’s “Blue Story” as a powerful film about gang violence after a violent mass brawl marred a weekend screening of the movie and caused at least two cinema chains to pull it from their theaters. The fight Saturday outside the Star City entertainment complex in Birmingham, in central

November 25, 2019 12:18AM PT Natesh Hegde’s “Pedro,” Ajitpal Singh’s “Swizerland” (spelled without a ‘t’ for reasons that become evident in the film) and Prithvi Konanur’s “Where is Pinki?” were among the winners at the Film Bazaar project market that concluded on Sunday. The three projects won free digital intermediate packages from Prasad Labs, and

“Before you watch ‘Nina Wu,’ do not have the mindset that you are about to watch a film about the #MeToo movement,” said “Nina Wu” director Midi Z. “Because if you do, you will be disappointed.” At a talk session held during the Singapore International Film Festival on Sunday (Nov. 24), the Taiwan-based Burmese director