Author: Hollyood rep

The 14th Kalasha International Film and TV Awards in Kenya celebrated the best of Kenyan film and TV this weekend, with Nawi: Dear Future Me emerging as the big winner with five honors, including for best film and best lead actress. The best film honor went to the producers Lydia Wrensch, Caroline Heim, and Brizan Were, and the best actress award went to Michelle Lemuya Ikeny. Nawi also won the best costume design and best production design awards, as well as the audience award. The Kenyan-German coming-of-age drama film, which was Kenya’s entry for the best international feature film race at the 2025 Oscars,…

Beau Starr, the Halloween franchise actor, has died. He was 81. Starr’s brother, Mike, told TMZ he died Friday, April 24 in Vancouver, Canada, due to natural causes. Before delving into the entertainment industry, he was a professional football player for the New York Jets, the Montreal Alouettes and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. In 1980, he starred in a play at the American Theater of Actors, and earned his first television credit in 1979 on Bizarre. From there, Starr pursued work in both TV and film, appearing in a 1983 episode of Three’s Company; the Steve Martin-starring comedy The Lonely Guy;…

The Cannes Critics’ Week, the sidebar that runs alongside the main Cannes Film Festival, has unveiled the four short films created for its Next Step Studio initiative from four young directors from Indonesia.The first edition of Next Step Studio has given them a voice by enabling them to co-write and co-direct shorts. which will be screened during the 65th edition of the Critics’ Week. Its Next Step workshops aim to support young talent in world cinema and allow them to move from short to feature films. “Continuing the concept initiated by La Factory at the Directors’ Fortnight since 2013, the program supports the emergence of…

Back in February, Hollywood received a message from the future: “I hate to say it, but it’s likely over for us.” This came from Wolverine & Deadpool screenwriter Rhett Reese in response to a clip posted on Twitter by the Irish filmmaker Ruairi Robinson. The AI-generated video, as you’ve almost certainly seen, depicted a fight between Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise atop what appeared to be a Roman ruin set somewhat perplexingly against the New York City skyline. The clip seemed to represent a huge leap forward in AI-generated video, with high production values and realistic facial expression and movement. It looked like a movie. An expensive…

Zach Cregger has checked into Resident Evil, with the first trailer revealing his take on the Capcom video game. There have been seven previous Resident Evil movies. And an IP play like this, on its surface, doesn’t seem like the natural next move for Cregger, who has risen to become one of the most in-demand filmmakers of original fare in Hollywood. Barbarian was a surprise success, while Weapons turned into an Oscar-winning hit that grossed $270 million globally. Both were firmly based on Cregger’s own ideas. But the filmmaker is said to have made a movie that takes the mythos…

Welsh star Catherine Zeta-Jones has joined her fellow countryman Anthony Hopkins in D.J. Caruso’s A Visit to Grandpa’s, which began filming earlier this month. WestEnd Films will handle international sales and will reveal first footage to buyers in Cannes. The initial stills released on Wednesday show the Chicago actress in a yellow dress serving at a bar, and The Silence of the Lambs actor bundled up in a hat and coat. The film, also starring Aneurin Barnard (Dunkirk), Artie Wilkinson-Hunt (Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die), Geraldine James (Sherlock Holmes), and Aimee-Ffion Edwards (Peaky Blinders), is inspired by Welsh poet…

Vanessa Kirby and Lewis Pullman will co-star in a sci-fi thriller The Spacesuit, with HanWay Films launching international sales at Cannes. Written and directed by Kitty Green (The Assistant, The Royal Hotel), The Spacesuit follows an astronaut (Kirby), who is forced to make an impossible decision after an incident with her co-pilot (Pullman) leaves an indelible stain on the mission in the days leading up to lift-off, triggering a race against the clock. The film reunites Green with producers James Schamus (Brokeback Mountain, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) and Scott Macaulay (Raising Victor Vargas, Saving Face), alongside Joe Pirro (We Grown…

Netflix has unveiled the new film from Argentine writer-director Damián Szifron (Wild Tales, To Catch a Killer), El sobrino, starring Leonardo Sbaraglia (Elite, Pain and Glory, Wild Tales). Rita Cortese, Luisana Lopilato, Valeria Lois and newcomer Luan Adler Fuks also feature in the cast. Netflix also promises “special appearances by Vincent Macaigne and the legendary [Italian actor] Franco Nero.” The dramedy, which doesn’t have an English-language title yet, is written and directed by Szifron, whose 2014 film Wild Tales was Argentina’s contender and nominee for what was then known as the Oscar’s best foreign-language film section. “An internationally renowned pianist,…

Filmmaker Kane Parsons is ready to take Backrooms from YouTube to the big screen. The 20-year-old Parsons, who will become A24‘s youngest feature director when the studio releases his horror movie in theaters on May 29, took the stage at CCXP Mexico on Saturday to share insight into his process. Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve, Mark Duplass, Finn Bennett and Lukita Maxwell star in the film that counts James Wan, Shawn Levy and Osgood Perkins as producers and has a script from Will Soodik. Backrooms adapts the YouTube series that Parsons began uploading to YouTube as a teen in early 2022.…

It’s rare that a film artisan attains such a level of craft that they wind up becoming an artist themselves. It’s even rarer that you get to spend hours and hours sitting by that artist’s side, learning firsthand how he pulled off all that movie magic over the years. In the case of legendary production designer Dean Tavoularis, who died Thursday at the age of 93, I had the privilege of doing just that: talking at length with Dean about his remarkable life and career, which began with his childhood as the son of Greek immigrants during the Great Depression;…