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Fresh off its Oscar win for best international feature film, “Another Round” is getting the Hollywood treatment. The Danish dramedy about four friends who engage in an epic drinking binge will be remade in English. Leonardo DiCaprio is being eyed to star in the film in the role originated by Mads Mikkelsen, but there’s no

On Sunday morning, Hollywood awoke to the news of the sudden passing of fashion designer Alber Elbaz, who died at 59 in Paris from COVID-19. The one-time creative director of Lanvin counted Natalie Portman, Kim Kardashian, Meryl Streep and Harry Styles among his A-list fans. But just as the fashion world mourned the loss of

The 93rd Academy Awards ceremony, broadcast live from both Union Station and the Dolby Theatre in L.A. on ABC, hit a staggering low. Per Nielsen Live+Same Day preliminary national numbers, an average of 9.85 million viewers tuned in on Sunday evening to watch a more intimate and stripped-down version of the Oscars in the midst

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the 29th annual Elton John AIDS Foundation Oscar party was held virtually for the first time. Neil Patrick Harris hosted the streaming soiree, which was filmed primarily at London’s luxury Rosewood Hotel and raised more than $3 million for the AIDS organization. During the hourlong preshow, Harris introduced musical

Oscars producers Steven Soderbergh, Stacey Sher and Jesse Collins had promised a unique telecast this year, and by the end of Sunday night’s show, it was definitely unlike any other Academy Awards in recent memory. The show kicked off with universal high marks for star Regina King, who opened the Oscars while guiding cameras into

With no Vanity Fair party to go to after the Oscars — the magazine opted for series of virtual events leading up to the the 93rd Academy Awards instead of throwing its annual after-party — Hollywood found other ways to cap off the industry’s biggest night of the year. The Sunset Tower hotel became a

Most years, the Oscars media room is as intimate and pedestrian as an award show gets. Agents and publicists drink warm diet coke and pound cocktail shrimp with the global press and a throng of photographers. Movie stars and filmmakers glide through, gossip is shared, Wi-Fi is terrible, a good time is had. But as

Movie theaters started to gradually reopen in Italy on Monday, serving up Oscar-winning titles such as “Minari” and “Mank” in a fraction of the country’s venues, just as COVID-19 restrictions begin to ease. For the moment, it’s a few mostly arthouse venues in Italy’s biggest cities that are becoming active again, while Italian multiplexes remain closed

Streaming giant Netflix has picked up worldwide rights to “Ghost Lab,” a supernatural thriller about experiments that cross the boundaries between life and death. Production was by GDH 559, the Thai studio behind the “Bad Genius” hit film and the Netflix adapted series of the same name. “Ghost Lab” is directed by Goff” Paween Purijitpanya

Anthony Hopkins has weighed in on his surprise Oscar win, accepting the award from home in a short video. The message, posted early Monday morning, featured a smiling, yet clearly surprised Hopkins thanking the Academy and sharing a heartfelt salute to the late Chadwick Boseman. “Here I am in my homeland in Wales,” Hopkins began.

South Korean media were quick to celebrate the Oscar win, as best supporting actress in “Minari,” for veteran Yuh-jung Youn. It was a first ever acting win for a Korean actor. Official Chinese media, on the other hand, were much quieter about the triple triumph for “Nomadland” by Chloe Zhao. The Korea Herald newspaper ran

“Nomadland” led the 93rd Academy Awards with three wins out of its six nominations, including a historic best director victory for Chloé Zhao, who became the second woman and the first woman of color to win an Oscar in the category. Mia Neal and Jamika Wilson became the first Black women to be awarded an

After the humiliating back-to-back scandal of #OscarsSoWhite for the 2014 and 2015 Academy Awards, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences set itself to aggressively increasing representation within its membership. By expanding the perspectives of its voters, the hope was that a greater diversity of voices could find recognition at the Oscars. Five years

What was marketed as “what if the Oscars were a movie?” — the end result was more like, “What if the Oscars were a glossy version of the Golden Globes but with more Black people in attendance?” In an unconventional year, the Oscars delivered an unconventional ceremony, making history, and even rearranging the show so

After all the talk about the unexpected and unpredictable, the 93rd Academy Awards delivered with surprise wins in the lead actor categories for Anthony Hopkins and Frances McDormand. Another shocker was that best picture was not announced last — they saved the lead acting categories for that. Also surprising was how smoothly the ceremony went

With a longer Oscar season than ever before, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences had even more people to remember in the annual In Memoriam segment. But inevitably, there are complaints on social media that some people were omitted. This year, nether “Arrested Development” star Jessica Walter nor “Glee” star Naya Rivera was

Frances McDormand won best actress at Sunday’s Academy Awards for portraying Fern, a woman who takes to the road after the plant in her small-town closes down, in “Nomadland.” It’s McDormand’s third win in the category, tying her with Meryl Streep and Ingrid Bergman, who each have three victories and within striking distance of the

Netflix had a big night at the Oscars, bringing home a total of seven total trophies — leading all studios — although the streamer failed to grab the prize in the best picture category and came up empty in the acting categories. Netflix had come into Sunday night with 36 nominations, far more than any

“Better Days” is Hong Kong’s first Oscar submission to be nominated for best international feature film since 1993, but its nod has only inflamed political tensions at home. Many members of the Hong Kong public believe that “Better Days” does not represent them. Although it was directed by Hong Kong’s Derek Tsang, produced by Jojo

Linda May and Swankie, two of the featured performers in “Nomadland,” are attending the Oscars. The two nonprofessional actors are the plus-ones of Chloé Zhao (nominated for four Academy Awards) and the movie’s nominated cinematographer, Joshua James Richards (who is also Zhao’s partner). “Nomadland,” based on Jessica Bruder’s 2017 nonfiction book of the same name,

Let the glamour flow! The 2021 awards season wraps up on the Oscars red carpet with a final chance for the Hollywood elite to deliver their fashion prowess. The undefined dress code leaves the door wide open for a spectrum of looks that could speak to the escapism of high fashion or the relaxed trends that have emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic.   Because the Academy Awards is an

After much delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 93rd Academy Awards are nearly here, and the world will soon know who is taking home the ceremony’s top prizes. But, who are you rooting for this year? Make your choices known — and compare them to your friends’ — with your own Oscars ballot, brought

For the first time since the pandemic struck, not one, but two movies brought in notable opening weekend ticket sales at the domestic box office. It’s the clearest indication yet that people appear ready to return to the movies after nearly a year of staying home to stream. “Mortal Kombat,” a martial arts-inspired adaptation of the

Almost 50 years ago, another disease was ravaging Europe and called for enforced quarantine measures and mass vaccinations to save lives: Smallpox. The last epidemic in Europe occurred in spring 1972 in communist Yugoslavia. The docu feature project,  “Another Spring” by Mladen Kovačević, pitched at this year’s Visions du Réel’s Industry platform, explores this other spring

Premiered simultaneously in Vision du Réel’s International Competition and at CPH: DOX, “Holgut” is a documentary-fiction hybrid which takes viewers on an immersive double journey deep within the Siberian tundra. Prague-based Filmotor is handling international sales. The film follows the journey of two brothers who travel north upriver to hunt the last wild reindeer and

Among the 16 projects pitched at this year’s Visions du Réel is “Science Fiction” – a genre-busting documentary about Argentine filmmaker Ezequiel Yanco’s flight of imagination during the confines of quarantine. Yanco and producer Ana Godoy first visited the Swiss festival three years ago when “La Vida en Común,” their hybrid documentary about a group of

Mexico-based, El Salvador-born Tatiana Huezo has quickly emerged in the world of documentary as one of its most talented and thought-provoking directors of her generation. As she finally jumps from documentary to fiction with the upcoming “Noche de Fuego,” a strong big fest candidate, the director delivered a three-hour masterclass at this week’s Swiss doc

Germany’s Deckert Distribution, a world sales agent on two-time Oscar nominee “Honeyland,” has confirmed first deals on “The Bubble,” “Bellum – Daemon of War” and “Les Enfants terribles,” three world premiere standouts in International Competition at Nyon Switzerland’s Visions du Réel. “Les Enfants terribles” shared the prestige Swiss doc fest’s Special Jury Prize, announced at

Natalia Almada, who won best director at Sundance this year for her mesmerizing film “Users,” is eager to continue the cinematic journey she began in that work with plans to next explore the boundaries of human endurance and the desire to discover the unknown. “Users,” which is screening at the Copenhagen Documentary Film Festival (CPH:DOX)

Copenhagen documentary film festival CPH:DOX sees the world premiere of “Children of the Enemy,” which captures the journey of a Swedish-Chilean man to a Syrian prison camp to rescue his grandchildren, after their parents – members of the Islamic State terrorist group – are killed. Director Gorki Glaser-Müller spoke to Variety about the film, and