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The time has finally come: Coyote vs. Acme is now playing in theaters. To celebrate the film’s official release day, director Dave Green shared a thank-you letter on social media, writing in part, “COYOTE VS. ACME IS FINALLY, GLORIOUSLY, IN THEATERS NOW. Which means one thing. WE WON. You can go see this movie. In a theater. In your favorite seat. With your favorite snacks. With your favorite people. You can head into a dark room and laugh with strangers. Together. Congratulations to everyone who made this happen.” Coyote vs. Acme, a hybrid live-action and animated movie set in the…

Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters, Nobel-winning writer Annie Ernaux, actor Guy Pearce and a host of Italian and international artists have signed an open letter to the Venice Biennale and the Venice Film Festival calling on the event to take “concrete action” against what they describe as a genocide against the Palestinian people. The appeal under the Venice4Palestine banner follows a similar open letter to the Venice film festival a year ago that has apparently yielded no tangible results for Gaza. “A new normality… has emerged—thanks in part to a false ceasefire. Israel has not only not stopped, but has continued its…

Samuel Monroe Jr., the veteran character actor and star of Menace II Society, has died. He was 52. “I want to thank all of my Facebook family and friends new and old for praying for Samuel Monroe Jr., my son. But today God called him home. Please honor my final request to pray for the family, especially his 3 children,” Joyce Patton, his mother, wrote in a post on Thursday. In a GoFundMe page that is seeking donations to help offset his steep medical care costs, Tayonna Stewart, daughter of Shawna Stewart, Monroe’s partner, noted that the actor had been…

The Match Factory, the world sales company owned by arthouse streamer Mubi, has boarded four newly restored feature films by Palme d’Or-winning Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, adding a batch of the filmmaker’s earlier work to its catalog ahead of the Venice Film Festival. Match Factory has secured international rights, excluding North America, the UK, Ireland, Japan, Switzerland and Thailand, to Blissfully Yours (2002), which won the Un Certain Regard prize at Cannes; Tropical Malady (2004), winner of the Cannes Jury Prize; Syndromes and a Century (2006), which premiered in competition in Venice; and his Palme d’Or winning Uncle Boonmee Who…

Virginie Efira and Tao Okamoto, who shared the best actress prize at May’s Cannes Film Festival for their performances in Japanese auteur Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s French-language debut All of a Sudden, will not be pitted against one another this awards season, The Hollywood Reporter has exclusively learned. Neon, which will release All of a Sudden in the U.S. on Nov. 25, will push Efira, who plays the director of a Paris nursing home in the film, for best actress, and Okamoto, who plays a terminally-ill Japanese playwright, for best supporting actress. The distributor, which has guided a considerable number of non-English-language…

Rene Malo, the Quebec film pioneer best known for producing Denys Arcand’s Oscar-nominated The Decline of the American Empire and Micheline Lanctôt’s Sonatine, a winner at the Venice International Film Festival, has died. He was 84. Malo died Sunday at Montreal University Hospital Center of complications from a hip fracture, his rep told The Hollywood Reporter. He struggled with Parkinson’s disease in recent years. Born on March 7, 1942, in Joliette, Quebec, Malo started out as a music producer for such 1960s artists as Sol, Robert Charlebois, Yvon Deschamps, Diane Dufresne, Claude Dubois and Offenbach. He segued to films as a producer and…

Nick Glennie-Smith, the British composer, conductor and keyboardist known for his collaborations with Hans Zimmer and for his work on films including The Rock, The Man in the Iron Mask and Secretariat, has died. He was 74. Glennie-Smith died peacefully Aug. 16 surrounded by family at his home in Charlottesville, Virginia, his wife of 52 years, Jan Glennie-Smith, told The Hollywood Reporter. No cause of death was revealed. As an orchestral conductor, Glennie-Smith teamed with two-time Oscar-winning composer Zimmer on such notable films as The Lion King (1994), Crimson Tide (1995), The Simpsons Movie (2007), Transformers (2007), X-Men: First Class…

Spider-Man: Brand New Day continues to deliver in its fourth weekend at the box office as it faces off against newcomers Insidious: Out of the Further and the Jason Statham-led Mutiny. Sony Pictures‘ releases are set to claim the top two spots at the domestic box office, as Spider-Man: Brand New Day grossed $9.8 million on Friday, with the studio projecting it to add $36.5 million for the weekend amid its historic run. This would bring its domestic cume to $852.4 million through Sunday, surpassing 2021’s Spider-Man: No Way Home to become the No. 3 highest-grossing film ever at the domestic…

Some stories refuse to stay on the page. The Hollywood Reporter’s Beyond the Book column explores what happens when books make the leap to screen and beyond — unpacking what stayed, changed, how it was done and why it matters with the creatives who made it.  *** Before director Ben Gregor helmed Vertical’s The Magic Faraway Tree, he had never grown his own tomatoes. But during production, he found himself occasionally slipping away to the set’s greenhouse, where some of the most significant moments in the adaptation of Enid Blyton’s The Enchanted Wood unfurl.  “It smelled so good and it was so quiet. I had…

Director Ilya Khrzhanovsky is defending his upcoming film DAU against attacks by the government of Ukraine that it represents Russian propaganda and should not be screened at the Venice Film Festival next month. Khrzhanovsky took to Facebook on Thursday to post a point-by-point rebuttal of the criticism of his film and claims linking him, the film’s financiers, and DAU actor Teodor Currentzis to Vladimir Putin’s Russia. “DAU is not a Russian film and does not represent Russia at the Venice Film Festival,” Khrzhanovsky writes, noting that he is “not a citizen of the Russian Federation” having renounced his Russian citizenship…