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The new global mixed martial arts league led by CEO Scott Coker, the former Bellator boss and Strikeforce founder, has added Steve Bornstein, the former CEO of ESPN and the NFL Network, to its advisory board as the promotion continues to build toward its 2027 debut. Bornstein will “advise the promotion across key areas of growth, including media strategy, distribution, technology, fan engagement and commercial development,” the league said on Wednesday. The advisory group helping shape the league’s global launch also includes Wade Davis, former CEO of TelevisaUnivision and former CFO of Viacom, Steve Kaplan, co-founder of Oaktree Capital and owner of…

Boutique distributor 1-2 Special has acquired Emmanuel Marre’s French period drama A Man of His Time for North America, the company announced Tuesday. A rare look at the Vichy regime and French collaboration with the Nazis, Marre’s movie is inspired by the story of his own great-grandfather. Set in 1940, it follows Henri Marre (played by Anatomy of a Fall actor Swann Arlaud) as he tries to ingratiate himself with the new regime. A Man of His Time was well-received at its world premiere in Cannes, where it won the prize for best screenplay. In his review for The Hollywood…

Christopher Nolan reportedly “grimaces” when told Matt Damon‘s viral quote about making The Odyssey and what it meant for cinema’s future. The Oscar-winning director was being interviewed about his mythological epic, which is open this week, when The Telegraph asked about a recent comment by his film’s leading man. Damon had said he had a nostalgic feeling while making the epic feature “because it felt like the movies when I started working — and I know that that’s going away.” The actor added, “I knew that this was the last chance I was going to have to do something like…

Christopher Nolan says the online conversation surrounding The Odyssey is ultimately “irrelevant.” In a recent interview with The Telegraph, the Oscar-winning filmmaker responded to criticism surrounding his adaptation of Homer’s epic, which has sparked online debate over some of its casting choices and the use of American accents and modern dialogue in its trailers. “Comes with the territory,” Nolan told the publication. “But look, these conversations that happen before people see the film — they’re always irrelevant, because no one having them knows what the film actually is yet.” The director went on to compare the early reaction to The…

The Serbian drama 3 Weeks After (3 Nedelje Posle), directed by Miroslav Terzić, has won the Europa Cinemas Label as the best European film at the 60th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF). The jury of three Europa Cinemas Network exhibitors unveiled their pick on Saturday afternoon. 3 Weeks After, which explores peer violence and which The Hollywood Reporter recently discussed with Terzić, will now receive the support of the Europa Cinemas Network, with additional promotion and incentives for exhibitors to extend the film’s run on screen. The jury statement about the film, which had its world…

Who will be the next James Bond? Few people are better placed to weigh in than Debbie McWilliams, who cast the actors who played 007 for four decades. Speaking at a packed talk on Friday at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF), she stopped short of handicapping specific contenders — names like Callum Turner, Jacob Elordi, Idris Elba and Harris Dickinson have been floated — but she had plenty to say about what the role demands. McWilliams began her career in 1972 and has worked on more than 100 feature films and television productions. She is best known for casting the…

Joanna Pettet, the London-born actress who played one of the eight Vassar graduates in Sidney Lumet’s The Group and a spy put to work by her father, David Niven’s James Bond, in Casino Royale, has died. She was 83. Pettet died Tuesday at Temecula Valley Hospital in California, her friend and former manager Pam DuBois told The Hollywood Reporter. Her death came exactly 31 years after her son, Damien Cord, whom she had with actor Alex Cord, died at age 26 in 1995 of a heroin overdose. Pettet also fell for Tom Courtenay’s German officer in Anatole Litvak’s The Night…

Floating in like a refreshing Pacific island breeze, Moana comes along a mere 10 years after the animated feature on which it’s based, and while the live-action remake knows better than to tamper with the story’s sturdy bones, this charming new iteration stands confidently on its own. Chalk that up to a winning turn in the title role by Australian newcomer Catherine Laga’aia as a Disney princess with no need for a prince to figure out who she is or what she wants; and winking backup from a self-parodying Dwayne Johnson, fleshing out his voice role from the 2016 original,…

Christopher Nolan noted one actor in The Odyssey performed their scene in such a stunning manner that his crew burst into applause — and it’s been nearly 20 years since that’s happened. Nolan singled out Samantha Morton (Minority Report, The Walking Dead), who plays the goddess Circe, despite her relatively brief screen time. “This was a massive film and she is someone who comes in and changes the dynamic,” Nolan told The L.A. Times in a spoiler-filled interview. “In some weird way, the film lived or died over that character. She was the fulcrum. I’ve always admired Samantha’s work, she…

Carter De Haven III, who as a member of a distinguished, multigenerational Hollywood family produced such notable films as Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round, Ulzana’s Raid and Hoosiers, has died. He was 94. De Haven died Friday at UCLA West Valley Medical Center, his son, film editor Carter De Haven IV, told The Hollywood Reporter. He lived at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills for the past eight years. De Haven III also produced three (well, maybe 2 1/2) films directed by John Huston: A Walk With Love and Death (1969), starring Anjelica Huston;…