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Tripoli/A Tale of Three Cities, a documentary by Lebanese director Raed Rafei, will celebrate its world premiere in the Frontlight section of the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), which runs Nov. 14-24. The Hollywood Reporter is revealing the first official trailer for the film, produced by Rafei via his company Anwar Film and Eliane Raheb. “Queer director Raed Rafei returns to Tripoli, Lebanon to confront a hometown that once rejected him,” a synopsis for the doc explains. “He interviews the city’s inhabitants about their cultural and social beliefs and their embrace of new ideas. This contemplative urban symphony paints…

When Andy Goodrich’s wife, Naomi (Laura Benanti), tells him that she’s checked herself into rehab and plans to leave him, few people are surprised. Everyone knew the mother of his two elementary school-aged children reached for pills at night to lull her to sleep and indulged in extra glasses of wine. That the news nevertheless shocks Andy, played with an endearing clumsiness by Michael Keaton, speaks more to his own distracted state. The gallerist has never been a present partner or parent, as evidenced by his relationship to his eldest daughter (Mila Kunis) with his first wife (Andie MacDowell). Now that his…

Taron Egerton and Jason Bateman find a way to make holiday travel even more challenging than usual in the trailer for the Netflix thriller Carry-On. Director Jaume Collet-Serra‘s airport-focused action film hits the streaming service on Dec. 13. Rounding out the cast are Sofia Carson, Danielle Deadwyler, Sinqua Walls, Logan Marshall-Green, Theo Rossi, Josh Brener and Dean Norris. Carry-On centers on an inexperienced TSA agent (Egerton) who ends up in a battle of wits with a mysterious traveler (Bateman) after the stranger blackmails him into allowing a dangerous package onto a flight on Christmas Eve. Collet-Serra (Black Adam, Jungle Cruise)…

The increasing predominance of streaming content over theatrical releasing continues apace with Brothers, a Legendary Entertainment production that distributor Amazon MGM Studios dropped into a handful of theaters for a week without critics’ screenings, ahead of its Oct. 17 debut on Prime. That strategy will likely turn out to be fortuitous for a mildly amusing feature that lacks the heft to compete at the early awards-season box office, leaving the film to find a less-committed audience in the streaming-verse. Josh Brolin and Peter Dinklage play mismatched siblings with heavy jaws (enhanced in Dinklage’s case by a handlebar mustache) in Max…

Irish actress Clare Dunne (Herself, Kin), Once Upon a Time actor Michael Socha (Showtrial, This Is England), and Dexter Sol Ansell, who has been cast in a Game of Thrones prequel A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, have joined Bill Nighy, Jojo Rabbit standout Roman Griffin Davis, and Maisie Williams (Game of Thrones) in road movie 500 Miles, which has started shooting in Ireland. Directed by Morgan Matthews (X+Y, Williams), 500 Miles is about a broken family that is forced to come together. A synopsis describes the film as “a life-affirming road movie that follows runaways Finn (Davis) and his livewire…

Art house streamer and distributor Mubi has snatched up all U.S. rights, as well as exclusive global SVOD rights, to Grand Theft Hamlet, Pinny Grylls and Sam Crane’s award-winning documentary mashup of Shakespeare’s Hamlet and ultra-violent video game Grand Theft Auto. The doc follows two unemployed actors during the 2021 COVID lockdown who attempt to state Hamlet entirely within the GTA virtual game world. Grand Theft Hamlet premiered at SXSW this year, where it won the documentary feature jury award. It also won The Hollywood Reporter critic Leslie Felperin, who called the experimental film “innovative, highly amusing and often touching.”…

Daniel Kaluuya is speaking candidly about his relationship with Chadwick Boseman, kicking down doors for Black actors in Hollywood and the differences between a U.S. and U.K. set. The actor, writer, and producer spoke at a BFI London Film Festival event at Soho’s Picturehouse Central on Wednesday with fellow actor and long-time friend Ashley Walters, who pegged Kaluuya as “one of the most inspirational people that I know.” When asked about meeting Boseman, Kaluuya was full of praise. Boseman died aged 43 in 2020 after a private battle with colon cancer. The two teamed up on Marvel’s ‘Black Panther’ set,…

Ahead of this Friday’s theatrical debut of Matt Tyrnauer’s documentary feature Carville: Winning Is Everything, Stupid, The Hollywood Reporter is pleased to exclusively debut the film’s trailer (immediately below) and poster (at the bottom of this post), courtesy of distributor Greenwich Entertainment. The film, a portrait of the legendary Democratic political strategist James Carville and chronicle of his efforts to to convince Pres. Joe Biden to not seek re-election, had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival, where it was warmly received. CNN Films acquired it for a one-time airing on CNN last Saturday night. Greenwich subsequently acquired its…

Emilie Anthonis will replace Stan McCoy as the new president and managing director of the Motion Picture Association (MPA) for the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) regions, the MPA said Monday. Anthonis will take over on Jan. 1, 2025. McCoy is stepping down after leading the MPA in the region for over a decade. “I’m proud to pass the baton after an exciting decade leading what is undoubtedly the EMEA region’s most skilled trade association across public policy, antipiracy, and all its other fields of expertise,” McCoy said in a statement. “I am looking forward to serving the MPA…

Devara: Part 1 is ambitious, exhausting and so high-decibel that when it’s finished, after nearly three hours, you might need to pause and reorient to reality. Which is both a good thing and a bad thing.  In interviews, writer-director Koratala Siva has said that the story is set in the 1980s and 1990s. But there is little of the film, which was shot in Telugu and dubbed in four languages, including Hindi and Tamil, to suggest this. The world of Devara seems to have sprung entirely from his imagination, where the rules are flexible. Devara: Part 1 The Bottom Line Formulaic…