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Tony Todd, an actor who starred in the Candyman and Final Destination horror franchises, has died. He was 69. He died Wednesday at his home in Marina del Rey after a long illness, his wife, Fatima, told The Hollywood Reporter. “The industry has lost a legend. We have lost a cherished friend. Rest in peace, Tony, -Your Final Destination Family,” New Line Cinema, which produced the Final Destination franchise, wrote on Instagram. Born on Dec. 4, 1954, in Washington, D.C., Todd went on to study for two years at the University of Connecticut before getting a scholarship for the Eugene…

Nicholas Hoult is opening up about his reaction to hearing on the radio that Robert Pattinson was cast as Batman in Matt Reeves‘ 2022 movie, however, he was auditioning for the role the following weekend. The actor, who is starring as Lex Luthor in James Gunn’s upcoming Superman, recently admitted on the Happy Sad Confused podcast that it was an “emotional blow” at the time as the role ultimately went to Pattinson. “Your imagination doesn’t know [but] you are aware on a practical level: ‘I know I am auditioning against Rob.’ And Rob is fantastic in that movie. That was…

Oscar-winning Ukraine-Russia war documentary 20 Days in Mariupol from Frontline, PBS and The AP, took home awards in two categories at The Grierson Trust’s 2024 British Documentary Awards Wednesday night. In association with All3Media, the ceremony took place at London’s Roundhouse arts and music venue, where Channel 4 took the highest number of prizes home with five, followed by the BBC with three and Netflix with two. Mstyslav Chernov’s 20 Days in Mariupol, which won the Academy Award for best documentary earlier this year, earned the best current affairs documentary and best cinema documentary awards Wednesday. Me and the Voice…

Yoshida Daihachi’s Teki Cometh proved to be the big winner of the Tokyo International Film Festival’s major awards categories that were revealed Wednesday night at a glitzy ceremony in the Japanese capital. Teki Cometh, a feature adaptation of a book by celebrated Japanese novelist Tsutsui Yasutaka, won the festival’s top prize, the Tokyo Grand Prix, as well as the best director honor for Yoshida and the best actor award for star Nagatsuka Kyozo. The meditative film, featuring monochrome cinematography, tells the story of a retired professor of French literature (Nagatsuka) who gives the odd guest lecture and plans his own…

The Substance by Coralie Fargeat, Emilia Pérez by Jacques Audiard, The Room Next Door by Pedro Almodóvar, and The Seed of the Sacred Fig by Mohammad Rasoulof are among the nominees for the 2024 European Film Awards (EFAs), organizers unveiled on Tuesday. Emilia Pérez and The Room Next Door earned four noms each, including for best European film and best director. Sacred Fig is up for the best film, best director, and best screenwriter prizes. The Substance is in the running for the best film and best screenwriter honors. In the best actress race, Emilia Pérez star Karla Sofía Gascón faces Renate…

Burmese filmmaker Midi Z caused a stir and gained good notices with his 2019 film Nina Wu, which dealt with the exploitation of women in entertainment, and was released in the midst of the global #MeToo movement, a long overdue public reckoning for powerful men who had committed acts of sexual violence and misconduct. Selected for the main competition at this year’s Tokyo International Film Festival, Z’s new film, The Unseen Sister, outwardly at least, has similar themes to Nina Wu — that is, the habitual abuse of women in the entertainment industry as well as the trials of women…

With abortion on the ballot in several states in Tuesday’s election, writer and director Nazrin Choudhury’s Oscar-nominated short film Red, White and Blue about a single mother searching for access to an abortion feels as timely as ever. The British-born multi-hyphenate doesn’t always see it that way. “The upcoming election, in which abortion is such a key topic, means that people talk about this being such a timely subject. ‘It was so timely.’ Sadly, it feels like it’s timeless to me,” she tells The Hollywood Reporter. “We seem to keep needing to tell this story. I keep trying to say…

Tom Hanks is happy to leave Forrest Gump just how it is. The Oscar winner, who reteamed with his Forrest Gump co-star Robin Wright and director Robert Zemeckis for their new movie Here, recently told The New York Times that he’s thankful a sequel to the 1994 film was never made. “It is this extraordinary amalgam that stands completely on its own and never has to be repeated,” he said of the movie. “And thank God we never bothered trying to make another one. Why put a hat on a hat?” Forrest Gump, which saw Hanks play the titular character, was based on late author Winston Groom‘s…

TIFFCOM, the content market affiliated with the Tokyo International Film Festival, closed its doors on Friday, but not before it unveiled the winners of the 2024 pitching contest winners. Now in its seventh year, the MPA/DHU/TIFFCOM Masterclass Seminar and Pitching Contest is co-hosted by the Motion Picture Association, the Digital Hollywood University and TIFFCOM to support young filmmakers looking to take their first steps into the international film industry. After Friday’s first session, the master class seminar, the pitching contest saw five young filmmakers selected from a public call for entries as well as two entrants from the 2024 KAFA-TUA…

“All art is propaganda, but not all propaganda is art.” The saying from 1984 and Animal Farm author George Orwell features in The Story of British Propaganda Film, a new book in the British Film Institute (BFI)’s British Screen Stories series at Bloomsbury Publishing written by Scott Anthony, the deputy head of research at the U.K. Science Museum Group, which consists of five British museums. An archival project based on the BFI National Archive, the book shows how central propaganda is to the development of British film and how it has filtered people’s understanding of modern British history. While the…