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Dakota Johnson is looking back at one of her first film roles, which saw her star opposite Justin Timberlake in The Social Network. The actress was recently asked during a video interview with Vanity Fair if she had any “preconceived ideas” about the “SexyBack” singer before filming together in the 2010 David Fincher-directed movie. “Are you kidding? I was just like 19 and straddling Justin Timberlake and like whipping him in the face with my hair,” the Fifty Shades of Grey star said. “100 percent had preconceived notions, but he was lovely and kind and really welcoming for a person that was just…

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, The Hollywood Reporter may receive an affiliate commission. Beginning Friday Sept. 27, Wolfs, the New York-set action comedy starring Brad Pitt and George Clooney, is available to stream on Apple TV+. Written and directed by Jon Watts (Spider-Man: Homecoming), the film had its world premiere at the 81st annual Venice Film Festival on Sept. 1, 2024, and follows two rival fixers (Clooney and Pitt) forced to work together. Here’s how to watch the star-studded movie online, including for free. At a Glance: How to Watch…

Margaret Qualley said she “can die happy now” after landing a role in Happy Gilmore 2; however, her husband, Jack Antonoff, had to tell a little fib about her golfing experience to help get her the part. During a recent appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, the actress called the original 1996 comedy starring Adam Sandler her “favorite movie” and its star her “first crush.” So when she learned about Netflix‘s upcoming sequel, she was determined to do anything to appear in it. “I saw that there was gonna to be a Happy Gilmore 2 and I emailed my agents…

Netflix’s The Man Who Loved UFOs (El Hombre Que Amaba Los Platos Voladores) tells the story of Argentinian TV journalist José de Zer and his cameraman Chango. It is 1986, and they travel to La Candelaria in Córdoba upon receiving “an unusual proposal from two shady characters,” explains a plot synopsis on the website of the San Sebastian Film Festival where the film celebrated its world premiere on Tuesday. “Arriving in the village, there’s nothing much to see, only a scorched field surrounded by hills. What happened next was the work of a genius in the art of exaggeration with…

Christine Vachon of Killer Films, a long-time collaborator of Todd Haynes‘ who was meant to be producing the director’s project with Joaquin Phoenix before he exited as shooting was set to start, has told “the truth” of the situation and described what she believes is the most tragic part. Vachon spoke at the San Sebastian Film Festival on Tuesday to discuss the sustainability of making films in an ever-changing industry. When asked about Phoenix pulling out of the gay romance movie — reportedly putting hundreds of crew members out of work — she said she felt most for Haynes. “The…

India has selected Kiran Rao’s comedy of errors Laapataa Ladies (Lost Ladies) to represent the country in the 2025 Oscar race in the Best International Feature category. The Hindi-language film, which premiered at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival, beat out Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine As Light, which had been considered the frontrunner for the Oscar slot, after its rapturous reception in Cannes, where it won the festival’s Grand Jury prize. But Rao’s feature has proven a crowd-pleaser on the festival circuit. The light satire follows Jaya (Pratibha Ranta) and Phool (Nitanshi Goel): Two new brides, whose faces are hidden…

Emilia Pérez star Karla Sofia Gascón has spoken candidly about her performance in Jacques Audiard’s one-of-a-kind Spanish language musical, saying that making history with an Oscar nomination is a possibility out of her control. The actress, a trans woman, has been the recipient of critical acclaim since the film debuted in Cannes, winning her the best actress prize alongside co-stars Zoe Saldaña and Selena Gomez in May. Gascón masters two roles: one, a notorious cartel leader, and the other, a trans woman, Emilia Pérez, who has been receiving female hormone therapy for two years and is ready to complete the gender-affirming…

Sean Baker, director of Cannes’ Palme d’Or winner Anora, discussed the success of his latest movie at a San Sebastian Film Festival event Saturday, admitting that he won’t be using the momentum to take on big-budget studio films like Marvel’s. Baker spoke to a packed crowd about his film — now receiving Oscar buzz — which follows Anora (Mikey Madison), a young sex worker from Brooklyn, who gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch (Mark Eydelshteyn). But the fairytale is threatened when her fiancé’s parents set out to get…

Scandar Copti doesn’t like polemics. In his Oscar-nominated debut Ajami (2009), Copti, a Palestinian director and Israeli citizen, avoided easy answers, and obvious finger-pointing, to tell a story of crime and corruption, family belonging, and political divisions set in his hometown of Jaffa, a mostly Arab city just south of Tel Aviv. Co-directed with Jewish Israeli filmmaker Yaron Shani, the movie paints a subtle picture of a society split along fissures religious, political, cultural, and economic, without ever chiding his characters or dipping into mawkish sentimentality. Copti’s solo follow-up, Happy Holidays, is a similar complex, non-judgemental, portrait of modern Israel.…

French production and sales outfit mk2 films has signed a multi-year financing deal with the Finnish private equity fund IPR.VC to bankroll a slate of new projects, the two companies unveiled on Thursday. The new capital will come in handy for mk2, which is looking to build on recent crossover success, including its co-productions The Worst Person in the World from director Joachim Trier, and Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire, as well as Justine Triet’s Oscar-winning Anatomy of a Fall and Molly Manning Walker’s How to Have Sex, both of which mk2 sold worldwide. In Cannes this…