Author: Hollyood rep

The New Year That Never Came, a drama about the Romanian revolution of 1989, written and directed by Bogdan Muresanu, won the Grand Prix, the top prize, at the 15th edition of the Luxembourg City Film Festival (LuxFilmFest) on Saturday. “December 20, 1989. Romania is on the brink of revolution. The authorities are preparing New Year’s festivities as if nothing – or almost nothing – is happening, but the official façade begins to crack,” reads a synopsis for the film, which world premiered at Venice 2024. “Amid the fervor of the uprising, six lives will intersect over the course of an extraordinary…

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A day after Anora swept several major categories at the Oscars, an anonymous social media post threatened to throw cold water on its uplifting narrative of the low-budget indie that could. On Crew Stories, a popular below-the-line social media hub, one unnamed critic alleged that the $6 million production — and its auteur director, Sean Baker — avoided the major crew union IATSE for part of its 2023 shoot, keeping costs low by “screwing over [Baker’s] crew” and depriving them of working hours they could use to be eligible for union co-administered health benefits. Once the labor group attempted to…

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Opus filmmaker Mark Anthony Green took nothing for granted on the set of his feature directorial debut. The Kansas City-area native, who’s affectionately regarded as “MAG,” took a circuitous route to filmmaking, beginning his career as a journalist and (eventual) editor for GQ. There, he interviewed the likes of LeBron James, Donald Glover and Daniel Kaluuya. Halfway through his 13-year tenure at the men’s magazine, Green realized he could no longer suppress his longtime urge to become a filmmaker, so he put everything he had into a short film known as Trapeze, U.S.A. (2017). A couple years later, he started…

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Bong Joon Ho, the Korean master filmmaker and three-time Oscar winner, is the guest on this episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, the first part of which was recorded in front of an audience at the 2020 Santa Barbara International Film Festival, just days before Bong’s Parasite became the first non-English-language film to ever win the best picture Oscar; and the second part of which was recorded via Zoom last month, just days before Bong’s Mickey 17 was released in U.S. theaters. Bong, 55, has been on the radar of cineastes since his big screen directorial debut, 2000’s…

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Netflix has given a green light to a movie reboot of the Stephen King novel Cujo, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. Roy Lee will produce the remake of the horror story about a mother and son who fight off a rabid dog while trapped in their car. Cujo was first adapted from King’s 1981 psychological horror novel of the same name where Cujo is at first a lovable St. Bernard, but after being bitten by a bat becomes everyone’s worst enemy. In the 1983 film Cujo, a mother, Donna (Dee Wallace), and her son, Tad (Danny Pintauro) come into contact with Cujo and must…

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Katie Aselton‘s fourth film as director is begging for a spoiler. That would explain a lot but also give away too much. Luckily, the big reveal comes 20 minutes into this sensitively played yet too-obvious drama about a couple who go to the desert to regroup and look ahead to an altered future. Aselton plays Erin, whose mood at first veers with annoying abruptness between mournful and happy. Daveed Diggs is Charlie, full of smiling, even-tempered charm. If Charlie seems too good to be true, he is. Aselton’s films include The Freebie (2010), arguably her best and a very different…

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At the center of The Secret of Me is Jim Ambrose, who grew up as Kristi. Looking into the camera as he begins to tell his story, he says, to be clear, that he is not transgender. He is intersex and was in the dark about that fact until he was 19 and discovered the truth: that he was born with male chromosomes and ambiguous genitalia but underwent surgery as an infant and was raised as a girl. Grace Hughes-Hallett, directing her first feature, has created a lucid, absorbing film that uses Jim’s first-person account to reveal a much larger…

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Less than a week after the 2025 Oscars, Emilia Pérez star and best actress nominee Karla Sofía Gascón is reflecting on her experience as part of Netflix’s awards campaign for the genre-bending musical. Though Emilia Pérez scored a leading 13 Oscar nominations, it won only two awards (for best song, “El Mal,” and best supporting actress, Zoe Saldaña) after past, controversial tweets by Gascón were resurfaced online in the days after nominations were announced. The discovery led to Gascón deactivating her X (formerly Twitter) account and repeatedly apologizing before she was phased out of Netflix’s Oscars campaign for the film,…

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Resident Evil is back in Sony’s hands. The studio has won a hotly contested bidding war to nab not only the rights to the horror action movie franchise based on the popular video games, but also for the opportunity to work with hot filmmaker Zach Cregger. The studio has set a release date of Sept. 18, 2026 for the project. Cregger, the writer-director behind acclaimed horror movie Barbarian and the upcoming ensemble piece Weapons, is attached to write and direct. The franchise, which had called Sony label Screen Gems home since releasing the first movie in 2002, found itself in…

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Amy Landecker has a soft spot for SXSW. The veteran actress had small parts in not one but two of the festival’s grand jury award-winning films — Cooper Raiff’s Shithouse in 2020 and James Morosini’s I Love My Dad in 2022 — and she long dreamed of landing a lead role in a film that played in the leading Texas fest. Her wish comes true this year, as SXSW is hosting a hard launch for Landecker’s feature debut as writer, director, producer and star in the romantic comedy For Worse. Her big creative leap has delivered a sweet full-circle moment…

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