Author: Hollyood rep

Did we all go completely nuts during those unsettlingly strange first months of COVID-19 lockdown in 2020, when cities became ghost towns and people thrust into isolation started gambling with their mental health by living online and buying whatever the social media echo chamber coughed up? That’s the assessment in Ari Aster’s Eddington, which views that collective national trauma through the microcosm of a fictitious New Mexico small town. Essentially a modern Western marbled with a vein of dark comedy, the movie is neither suspenseful nor funny enough to work as either. Mostly, it’s a distancing slog. After the diabolically…

Nate Bargatze has lined up a comedy powerhouse for his feature acting debut. Will Forte, Colin Jost and Kumail Nanjiani have joined the cast of The Breadwinner, a comedy feature that Eric Appel is directing for TriStar Pictures. Zach Cherry, Kate Berlant and Martin Herlihy have also boarded the feature, which begins production next week in Atlanta. The story sees the life of Bargatze’s character turned upside down when his supermom wife lands a deal on Shark Tank. The lifelong breadwinner of the family becomes a stay-at-home dad, and quickly realizes he’s in way over his head. Mandy Moore is already on board…

Was Avengers: Endgame snubbed at the 2020 Oscars? Scarlett Johansson thinks so. In the June cover story for Vanity Fair, published on Wednesday, the Eleanor the Great director reflected on her time in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, specifically one of her last stints with the franchise in 2019’s Endgame. The film saw the death of her character, Natasha Romanoff aka Black Widow, and she still believes the Academy snubbed the movie.  “How did this film not get nominated for an Oscar?” the Black Widow star questioned of Endgame not receiving a nom in the best picture category. “It was an…

Kesha’s résumé just got even more impressive.  During a Tuesday appearance on the Jennifer Hudson Show, the Dreamgirls star started the segment off by noting how “nice” it was to meet the “Die Young” singer after hearing “that we almost crossed paths one time.” “I was an extra on Dreamgirls,” Kesha admitted, which stunned Hudson. “Serious, Bible. For like $120, for 16 hours, I sat there with my hair teased to the Gods.” The two-time Grammy Award nominee admitted that she “hated” the experience and recalled filming a scene in Downtown Los Angeles for the 2006 Oscar-winning film.  “No offense,…

Neon has picked up rights for North America, the U.K., Australia and New Zealand for Fjord, the English-language debut of Palme d’Or-winning Romanian filmmaker Cristian Mungiu (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days), starring Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve. Neon plans to release the film theatrically in the U.S.. The re-teaming of Stan and Reinsve, who co-starred in A Different Man, is a family drama focused on the Gheorghiu family, made up of a Romanian father (Stan) and a Norwegian mother (Reinsve), who relocate to a remote village in the mother’s homeland. They quickly form a close bond with the…

Tom Cruise is still speaking highly of ex-wife Nicole Kidman, even nearly 25 years after their divorce. During a recent interview with Sight and Sound (via The Independent), the actor looked back at his 1999 film, Eyes Wide Shut, and how he recommended Kidman be cast as Alice Harford in the Stanley Kubrick-directed erotic thriller, opposite his Dr. Bill Harford. “I flew out to his house, and I landed in his backyard. I read the script the day before and we spent the day talking about it. I knew all of his films,” he recalled. “Then it was basically he…

Greg Cannom, the masterful prosthetics and makeup specialist who received Oscars for his work on Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Mrs. Doubtfire, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Vice, has died. He was 73. Cannom worked often with makeup maestro Rick Baker early in his career, and Baker on Friday reported his death in an Instagram post. “His work will be remembered long after his passing,” he wrote. No details were immediately available. In March 2023, a GoFundMe page was set up to help Cannom with expenses as he battled diabetes and a staph infection that led to one of his…

Let’s face it: Family life and being members of an elite assassination squad just don’t mix. It’s hopefully a problem to which few readers can relate, but it afflicts the central characters of Joe Carnahan’s new action film, which quietly snuck into theaters without advance screenings. Kerry Washington and Omar Sy play Kyrah and Issac, who used to be members of the titular organization until they made the mistake of falling in love and having a baby. They’ve since gone rogue, but in a modern manner: Issac stays home and cares for their young son Ky (Jahleel Kamara, adorable), while…

Jake Schreier, hot off of directing Marvel’s Thunderbolts*, is in talks to return to the company with the big-screen reboots of the X-Men. Sources confirm that Schreier, whose movie garnered some of the best reviews for Marvel in quite a few years, is engaged in early talks in for the gig. Michael Lesslie, a writer on Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, is penning the script with Marvel’s Kevin Feige, as usual, producing the feature, which is currently untitled. Marvel has been quietly moving ahead on finding the X-Men director front for a few weeks now. Talk of…

The Hollywood Reporter and Campari are pleased to invite attendees of the upcoming Cannes Film Festival to a very special event: a live recording of THR’s Awards Chatter podcast with the legendary actress Sissy Spacek, featuring an hourlong conversation about Spacek’s life and career, followed by a cocktail reception. Spacek, who will be at the fest as a star of the competition film/sales title Die, My Love — which was directed by Lynne Ramsay and also stars Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattison and Nick Nolte — will be interviewed by yours truly on Saturday, May 17, in the Campari Lounge, a…