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Global audiences have already had a chance to see Emilio Insolera in the Netflix drama Feel My Voice, about a shy teenager with a gift for singing, since it bowed on April 3.   But they won’t have heard the Italian actor and film producer’s actual voice — except for two scenes where he yells — as Insolera is deaf. Relying on sign language, in Feel My Voice he plays the deaf father of a hearing daughter with a passion for singing in the Italian-language remake of La Famille Bélier, which was later adapted into CODA, the Academy Award–winning film. Being seen and…

Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni averted a legal battle royale with the surprise settlement of Lively’s It Ends With Us sexual harassment suit against him earlier this week.  But even avoiding an ugly trial and now dealing with legal and punitive damages, the actress and actor-director now face a trial of a different sort. Namely that of rebuilding their Hollywood careers. “They’re in in jail. Both of them,” says one high ranking studio executive. It was a sentiment echoed over and over again by many agents, producers, studio executives and casting directors informally surveyed by The Hollywood Reporter over the question of what was next for…

Nate Bargatze — one of the world’s top-selling stand-up comedians — wants to make his upcoming family movie The Breadwinner affordable for everyone to watch on he big screen. The TriStar and Sony release opens in theaters on May 29, and marks his most high-profile project since hosting the Emmy Awards ceremony in September. Based on an original script he wrote with Dan Lagana and directed by Eric Appel, The Breadwinner stars Bargatze as salesman Nate Wilcox and Mandy Moore as Katie, who is the ultimate mom. But when Katie’s household invention leads to a once-in-a-lifetime deal on Shark Tank and takes her on a…

Ira Sachs had been talking about making some version of The Man I Love, his vividly sad but vibrant drama set in New York circa 1984, for over a decade by the time the moment to do it had arrived — and yet it was only well after production when he realized where it all came from. This was an instinctual work, mined from decades of memory. Sachs took on his first job in New York in 1984, then lived through a decade or so of “deep, painful and also transcendent experiences of gay life.” That informed the texture of…

Glen Basner, founder and CEO of FilmNation Entertainment, will receive the Game Changer Award at this year’s Zurich Summit, the film industry conference held alongside the Zurich Film Festival. Basner is being honored for what the festival described as his “outstanding achievements, excellent cinematic taste, and significant contributions within the film industry.” Under Basner’s leadership, FilmNation has become one of the dominant players in the independent film business, backing awards-season and commercial hits including Anora, Conclave, Promising Young Woman, Arrival and The Big Sick. The company has also expanded aggressively into television, podcasts and theater. Its recent TV projects include…

Mubi has picked up Coward, the new film from Belgian director Lukas Dhont (Close, Girl) for multiple territories, including the U.K, Germany, Australia/New Zealand and Latin America, the company announced Wednesday. The company also secured rights for Ireland, Austria, Italy, Spain, and Turkey. Mubi said it will outline its release plans in the near future. Coward will have its world premiere in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival later this month. Mubi’s film sales group The Match Factory is handling world sales on the feature. Dhont’s follow-up to his Oscar-nominated Close (2022) is a period drama set in the trenches…

Dominic Sessa turns up the heat as Anthony Bourdain in the trailer for the forthcoming feature Tony. A24 releases filmmaker Matt Johnson‘s movie in theaters this August. Sessa (The Holdovers) portrays a 19-year-old Bourdain in the film that also stars Emilia Jones, Leo Woodall, Antonio Banderas, Dagmara Dominczyk, Rich Sommers and Stavros Halkias. Focusing on a period of Bourdain’s life that predates his fame as a celebrity chef and acclaimed author, Tony centers on the titular character (Sessa) as he takes a job at a restaurant on Cape Cod and experiences a transformative summer. “I’m actually not a fucking cook,”…

The 14th Kalasha International Film and TV Awards in Kenya celebrated the best of Kenyan film and TV this weekend, with Nawi: Dear Future Me emerging as the big winner with five honors, including for best film and best lead actress. The best film honor went to the producers Lydia Wrensch, Caroline Heim, and Brizan Were, and the best actress award went to Michelle Lemuya Ikeny. Nawi also won the best costume design and best production design awards, as well as the audience award. The Kenyan-German coming-of-age drama film, which was Kenya’s entry for the best international feature film race at the 2025 Oscars,…

Beau Starr, the Halloween franchise actor, has died. He was 81. Starr’s brother, Mike, told TMZ he died Friday, April 24 in Vancouver, Canada, due to natural causes. Before delving into the entertainment industry, he was a professional football player for the New York Jets, the Montreal Alouettes and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. In 1980, he starred in a play at the American Theater of Actors, and earned his first television credit in 1979 on Bizarre. From there, Starr pursued work in both TV and film, appearing in a 1983 episode of Three’s Company; the Steve Martin-starring comedy The Lonely Guy;…

The Cannes Critics’ Week, the sidebar that runs alongside the main Cannes Film Festival, has unveiled the four short films created for its Next Step Studio initiative from four young directors from Indonesia.The first edition of Next Step Studio has given them a voice by enabling them to co-write and co-direct shorts. which will be screened during the 65th edition of the Critics’ Week. Its Next Step workshops aim to support young talent in world cinema and allow them to move from short to feature films. “Continuing the concept initiated by La Factory at the Directors’ Fortnight since 2013, the program supports the emergence of…