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Joan Collins and Isabella Rossellini look amazing. Collins is fresh from the Cannes red carpet, where the night before she had outshone starlets a third — a quarter — her age. At 92, the actress brought a blast of old Hollywood glamour to a festival that, this year especially, has often felt strangely drained of it. Her sculpted white orchid gown, a custom Stéphane Rolland Haute Couture number with a sweeping train, paired with dramatic black opera gloves, diamond jewelry and similarly encrusted needle-toe pumps, gave off unmistakable Alexis Carrington energy — a reminder of the 1980s, when Collins, as…

The writer and actor Jordan Firstman — known for viral web videos, for films like Rotting in the Sun, for the television series I Love LA — is an acquired taste. He often plays into a certain abrasive, ditzy stereotype about gay men who live in big cities: sex-crazed but loveless, self-conscious and self-aggrandizing at once, literate but dumb, politically aware and yet eager to transgress supposed civility. As a nascent star, he’s been pretty divisive, both embraced for being a gadfly who actually puts in the work and scorned for what is viewed as brash over-confidence.  Firstman’s debut directorial…

Diego Luna had both personal motivations and more universal ones that drove him to make Ashes, his fifth feature as director. While Luna continues to tackle an array of high-profile fare in front of the camera — starring opposite Jennifer Lopez in last year’s Kiss of the Spider Woman, leading the Emmy-winning Star Wars series Andor and nabbing a role in Disney’s live-action Tangled — he continues to tell more intimate stories through his filmmaking work. Adapting Brenda Navarro’s novel Ceniza en la boca, his latest effort centers on Anna Díaz as Lucila, a 21-year-old woman leaving Mexico for Madrid…

The Hollywood Reporter can unveil an exclusive first clip of Leah Nelson’s Cannes-bound Tangles, boasting a star-spangled lineup that includes Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Abbi Jacobson, Bryan Cranston, Beanie Feldstein and Seth Rogen. Also featuring Samira Wiley, Sarah Silverman, Wanda Sykes, Bowen Yang, Pamela Adlon and Fern Grandin, the feature focuses on Sarah, who has left her exciting life as an activist and artist in ’90s San Francisco to return to the small, conservative hometown she fled when Alzheimer’s begins to erode her mother’s vibrant personality. Forced to grow up quickly, Sarah juggles a new relationship, long-held career ambitions, and an eccentric…

Craig Mazin says he knows what you’re thinking: “The Chernobyl and The Last of Us guy wrote a broad comedy mystery about talking farm animals? OK.” Well, Mazin’s comedy roots run deep. Also, we contain multitudes. The Sheep Detectives, Mazin’s adaptation of Leonie Swann’s Three Bags Full, has been a passion project of his for the better part of two decades. And now that results are finally out in theaters — the feature includes an impressive cast on-camera (Hugh Jackman, Emma Thompson, Hong Chau) and voicing sheep (Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Brett Goldstein, Regina Hall) — he seems a little nostalgic. “I…

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…