Local Italian hero Luca Guadagnino swept into the Venice Film Festival Tuesday to debut his much-anticipated erotic period drama, Queer, starring Daniel Craig and Drew Starkey as fleeting lovers in 1950 Mexico City. Craig, speaking at the film’s first press conference in Italy, described the process of building a rapport with Starkey to shoot the …
Zoe Saldaña (Avatar, Guardians of the Galaxy), Lupita Nyong’o (12 Years A Slave), and Daniel Kaluuya (Black Panther, Get Out) are among the stars set to come out for the 68th BFI London Film Festival and its popular Screen Talks this fall. “Audiences have the chance to hear first-hand from leading voices in contemporary cinema …
Netflix unveiled a first look at some of its upcoming films and a series from South Africa at MIP Africa on Tuesday. Ben Amadasun, Netflix’s vp of content for the Middle East and Africa, unveiled the slate additions, which the streamer says are “showcasing Netflix’s ongoing commitment to delivering authentic local stories from South Africa …
Venice has got its sexy back. Erotica of all varieties — gay, straight, kinky and theoretical — is on glorious display at this year’s Venice Film Festival, with plenty of sizzling action on screen and little of it gratuitous. Two of the, em, hottest festival titles this year — Halina Reijn’s Babygirl and the TV …
Sydney Sweeney is “very excited” to head back to Euphoria, the actress said this week. “I’m very excited to jump back into Cassie,” the Anyone But You star told People. “She is definitely one of the most special characters for me and I love my Euphoria family, so I look forward to it.” Sweeney said …
The legacy and inspiration of Soviet director Sergei Parajanov is at the center of I Will Revenge This World With Love – S. Parajanov, a new documentary from director Zara Jian, which premieres at this year’s Venice Film Festival. The Hollywood Reporter has gotten the exclusive first look at the trailer for the film — …
Drew Starkey said heading to the ADR recording booth for Luca Guadagnino‘s Queer was, ahem, a tidge awkward. Starkey recalled the experience while conversing with co-star Omar Apollo in Interview magazine. Both spoke about having to record Automated Dialogue Replacement during postproduction of Queer, which is Guadagnino’s adaptation of the 1985 novel of the same …
Anya Taylor-Joy has a few Disney dreams she won’t let go. The actress said this week she’d love to play Elsa in an adaptation of Frozen. “It would be very fun to shoot ice out of your hand,” Taylor-Joy told Vogue Hong Kong. “Also, you’d just be the favorite at every kid’s birthday party. All …
The numbers are in — domestic revenue for the 2024 summer box office hit an estimated $3.67 billion, down 10.4 percent over 2023, Comscore said Monday. As counterintuitive as it may seem, Hollywood studio executives and theater owners aren’t panicking. They were experiencing far different emotions at the end of May, the official start of …
James Darren, the former teen idol and pop singer who played the dreamy surfer Moondoggie in three Gidget movies before starring on television on The Time Tunnel and T.J. Hooker, has died, his son Jim Moret announced. He was 88. Early in his career, the dark-haired Darren received excellent notices for starring in Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960) …