Author: Hollyood rep

Back in February, Hollywood received a message from the future: “I hate to say it, but it’s likely over for us.” This came from Wolverine & Deadpool screenwriter Rhett Reese in response to a clip posted on Twitter by the Irish filmmaker Ruairi Robinson. The AI-generated video, as you’ve almost certainly seen, depicted a fight between Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise atop what appeared to be a Roman ruin set somewhat perplexingly against the New York City skyline. The clip seemed to represent a huge leap forward in AI-generated video, with high production values and realistic facial expression and movement. It looked like a movie. An expensive…

Zach Cregger has checked into Resident Evil, with the first trailer revealing his take on the Capcom video game. There have been seven previous Resident Evil movies. And an IP play like this, on its surface, doesn’t seem like the natural next move for Cregger, who has risen to become one of the most in-demand filmmakers of original fare in Hollywood. Barbarian was a surprise success, while Weapons turned into an Oscar-winning hit that grossed $270 million globally. Both were firmly based on Cregger’s own ideas. But the filmmaker is said to have made a movie that takes the mythos…

Welsh star Catherine Zeta-Jones has joined her fellow countryman Anthony Hopkins in D.J. Caruso’s A Visit to Grandpa’s, which began filming earlier this month. WestEnd Films will handle international sales and will reveal first footage to buyers in Cannes. The initial stills released on Wednesday show the Chicago actress in a yellow dress serving at a bar, and The Silence of the Lambs actor bundled up in a hat and coat. The film, also starring Aneurin Barnard (Dunkirk), Artie Wilkinson-Hunt (Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die), Geraldine James (Sherlock Holmes), and Aimee-Ffion Edwards (Peaky Blinders), is inspired by Welsh poet…

Vanessa Kirby and Lewis Pullman will co-star in a sci-fi thriller The Spacesuit, with HanWay Films launching international sales at Cannes. Written and directed by Kitty Green (The Assistant, The Royal Hotel), The Spacesuit follows an astronaut (Kirby), who is forced to make an impossible decision after an incident with her co-pilot (Pullman) leaves an indelible stain on the mission in the days leading up to lift-off, triggering a race against the clock. The film reunites Green with producers James Schamus (Brokeback Mountain, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) and Scott Macaulay (Raising Victor Vargas, Saving Face), alongside Joe Pirro (We Grown…

Netflix has unveiled the new film from Argentine writer-director Damián Szifron (Wild Tales, To Catch a Killer), El sobrino, starring Leonardo Sbaraglia (Elite, Pain and Glory, Wild Tales). Rita Cortese, Luisana Lopilato, Valeria Lois and newcomer Luan Adler Fuks also feature in the cast. Netflix also promises “special appearances by Vincent Macaigne and the legendary [Italian actor] Franco Nero.” The dramedy, which doesn’t have an English-language title yet, is written and directed by Szifron, whose 2014 film Wild Tales was Argentina’s contender and nominee for what was then known as the Oscar’s best foreign-language film section. “An internationally renowned pianist,…

Filmmaker Kane Parsons is ready to take Backrooms from YouTube to the big screen. The 20-year-old Parsons, who will become A24‘s youngest feature director when the studio releases his horror movie in theaters on May 29, took the stage at CCXP Mexico on Saturday to share insight into his process. Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve, Mark Duplass, Finn Bennett and Lukita Maxwell star in the film that counts James Wan, Shawn Levy and Osgood Perkins as producers and has a script from Will Soodik. Backrooms adapts the YouTube series that Parsons began uploading to YouTube as a teen in early 2022.…

It’s rare that a film artisan attains such a level of craft that they wind up becoming an artist themselves. It’s even rarer that you get to spend hours and hours sitting by that artist’s side, learning firsthand how he pulled off all that movie magic over the years. In the case of legendary production designer Dean Tavoularis, who died Thursday at the age of 93, I had the privilege of doing just that: talking at length with Dean about his remarkable life and career, which began with his childhood as the son of Greek immigrants during the Great Depression;…

WON: Sydney Sweeney: Sure, her cameo was cut from The Devil Wears Prada 2. Yes, she has many media and social media scolds in a tizzy over her racy scenes in Euphoria, which is hot garbage this season. Also, nobody can stop talking about her in the HBO show — even though she co-stars with Zendaya, arguably the hottest actress on the planet right now. And she’s back as the face of American Eagle, in a far more clearly non-racist jeans campaign this time, after boosting their sales last year. Oh, and Christy — her boxing biopic that was mocked…

Michael Jackson fans will not get to see actress Kat Graham portray Diana Ross in forthcoming biopic Michael. Graham took to social media Thursday to confirm that the scenes she filmed as the legendary Supremes singer did not end up in the final version of the Lionsgate film due to “certain legal considerations.” Hitting theaters Friday, director Antoine Fuqua‘s biopic stars Jackson’s nephew Jaafar Jackson as the pop music superstar, with Colman Domingo playing his father, Joe Jackson, and Nia Long as mother Katherine. Miles Teller, Laura Harrier and Larenz Tate round out the cast. “Ahead of the April 24…

Take that, Timothée! Naomi Watts has signed on to play ballet legend Margot Fonteyn in Margot & Rudi, the new romantic drama from Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris director Anthony Fabian that is set in the world of Swinging Sixties ballet. The film explores the iconic partnership between Fonteyn, a 42-year-old prima ballerina and Britain’s most famous dancer, and Rudolf Nureyev, the 23-year-old rebellious Soviet defector who became her partner on stage (and, it was rumored, off it as well). Their explosive, undeniable on-stage chemistry sparked speculation, never confirmed and never fully denied, that their affection extended into their private…