After a year when Hollywood strikes stripped festival red carpets of their stars, the 81st Venice Film Festival marked a return to oh so glamorous form Wednesday night with an A-list opening night. The Venice fans, many of whom spent up to 10 hours in the searing Italian heat for a glimpse, rarely stopped screaming …
There’s an inventive sequence early in the unexpectedly delightful Beetlejuice Beetlejuice in which the Bee Gees’ “Tragedy” accompanies Monica Bellucci’s soul-sucking demoness as her hacked up body parts are shaken loose from crates in the afterlife’s lost-and-found warehouse, where she proceeds to stitch herself back together like a gorgeous DIY Frankenstein monster. That scene multitasks …
Venice Immersive is the XR (Extended Reality) section of the Venice Film Festival, the part that is dedicated to immersive arts and media. It has been going for eight years already while it was only a few months ago that the Cannes Film Festival made a furtive attempt to introduce a space dedicated to virtual …
There’s a lot to think about in the teaser trailer for Rumours, which features Cate Blanchett, Alicia Vikander and, for reasons that are not immediately clear, an oversized brain. Bleecker Street releases filmmaker Guy Maddin’s politically themed horror-comedy movie in theaters Oct. 18, just ahead of this November’s presidential election. The film premiered earlier this …
Netflix has shared the teaser for Tyler Perry‘s The Six Triple Eight. The film, which was written, directed and produced by Perry, stars Kerry Washington as Major Charity Adams, the first Black woman to be appointed as an officer in the Women’s Army Corps. “Soldiers, you must be perfect,” the commanding officer advises her all-women …
Shakespeare in Love Oscar winner Gwyneth Paltrow is returning to the big screen. The Goop founder will join Timothée Chalamet in A24’s Marty Supreme, to be directed by Josh Safdie from an original screenplay he co-wrote with Ronald Bronstein. Plot details remain under wraps, but while it was previously rumored to be loosely inspired by …
Around 300 filmmakers attending the Venice Film Festival have signed an open letter opposing two Israeli films in the marquee festival. The protest by filmmakers and artists amid the ongoing Israel-Gaza conflict is aimed at Dani Rosenberg’s Hebrew-language film Al Klavim Veanashim (Of Dogs and Men), which is set against the backdrop of the Oct. …
Nicole Kidman has a peculiar reason why she decided to star in Joel Schumacher’s 1995 film, Batman Forever. In a L’Officiel profile, Kidman looked back at her first DC Comics Universe cinematic role, admitting that many were baffled by an actress of her caliber taking on the role of Dr. Chase Meridian, Batman‘s love interest, …
The storied V/H/S horror anthology series is going to the great beyond. The Hollywood Reporter has the first trailer for V/H/S/ Beyond, the seventh installment in the franchise, which launched in 2012 as a project featuring multiple found footage short films. The latest chapter focuses on sci-fi horror, and bows at the genre-centric Fantastic Fest …
Carrie Underwood is ready to take a seat at the American Idol judges’ table. The country singer and 2005 Idol winner discussed replacing judge Katy Perry, who earlier this year made the surprise reveal that the 22nd season would be her last after seven seasons. Underwood’s return to Idol as a judge was formally announced on Good Morning …