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Rene Malo, the Quebec film pioneer best known for producing Denys Arcand’s Oscar-nominated The Decline of the American Empire and Micheline Lanctôt’s Sonatine, a winner at the Venice International Film Festival, has died. He was 84. Malo died Sunday at Montreal University Hospital Center of complications from a hip fracture, his rep told The Hollywood Reporter. He struggled with Parkinson’s disease in recent years. Born on March 7, 1942, in Joliette, Quebec, Malo started out as a music producer for such 1960s artists as Sol, Robert Charlebois, Yvon Deschamps, Diane Dufresne, Claude Dubois and Offenbach. He segued to films as a producer and…

Nick Glennie-Smith, the British composer, conductor and keyboardist known for his collaborations with Hans Zimmer and for his work on films including The Rock, The Man in the Iron Mask and Secretariat, has died. He was 74. Glennie-Smith died peacefully Aug. 16 surrounded by family at his home in Charlottesville, Virginia, his wife of 52 years, Jan Glennie-Smith, told The Hollywood Reporter. No cause of death was revealed. As an orchestral conductor, Glennie-Smith teamed with two-time Oscar-winning composer Zimmer on such notable films as The Lion King (1994), Crimson Tide (1995), The Simpsons Movie (2007), Transformers (2007), X-Men: First Class…

Spider-Man: Brand New Day continues to deliver in its fourth weekend at the box office as it faces off against newcomers Insidious: Out of the Further and the Jason Statham-led Mutiny. Sony Pictures‘ releases are set to claim the top two spots at the domestic box office, as Spider-Man: Brand New Day grossed $9.8 million on Friday, with the studio projecting it to add $36.5 million for the weekend amid its historic run. This would bring its domestic cume to $852.4 million through Sunday, surpassing 2021’s Spider-Man: No Way Home to become the No. 3 highest-grossing film ever at the domestic…

Some stories refuse to stay on the page. The Hollywood Reporter’s Beyond the Book column explores what happens when books make the leap to screen and beyond — unpacking what stayed, changed, how it was done and why it matters with the creatives who made it.  *** Before director Ben Gregor helmed Vertical’s The Magic Faraway Tree, he had never grown his own tomatoes. But during production, he found himself occasionally slipping away to the set’s greenhouse, where some of the most significant moments in the adaptation of Enid Blyton’s The Enchanted Wood unfurl.  “It smelled so good and it was so quiet. I had…

Director Ilya Khrzhanovsky is defending his upcoming film DAU against attacks by the government of Ukraine that it represents Russian propaganda and should not be screened at the Venice Film Festival next month. Khrzhanovsky took to Facebook on Thursday to post a point-by-point rebuttal of the criticism of his film and claims linking him, the film’s financiers, and DAU actor Teodor Currentzis to Vladimir Putin’s Russia. “DAU is not a Russian film and does not represent Russia at the Venice Film Festival,” Khrzhanovsky writes, noting that he is “not a citizen of the Russian Federation” having renounced his Russian citizenship…

Wild Horse Nine is preparing to run free, as the feature is set to open the 49th Mill Valley Film Festival. Writer-director Martin McDonagh‘s film, starring John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell, will screen as the opening night title on Oct. 1, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. McDonagh, Rockwell and co-star Mariana Di Girolamo are expected to attend the screening. Wild Horse Nine premieres in competition at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival next month. Rockwell’s career of acclaimed work will be the focus of a Mill Valley tribute on Oct. 2. The actor’s memorable performances include his Academy Award-winning role…

A soccer penalty shootout, an (impressive) Elvis Presley impersonation and a bottle of Bushmills Irish whiskey were all on the agenda at Woody Harrelson‘s Sarajevo masterclass on Tuesday afternoon. The three-time Oscar nominee graced the stage at the Bosnian film festival for a conversation with film critic Neil Young, hours before Harrelson’s Honorary Heart of Sarajevo ceremony, set to celebrate his decades-spanning contributions to cinema. At the top of the conversation, Young asked the Natural Born Killers (1994), No Country for Old Men (2007) and The Hunger Games (2012) star about playing 36th U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson in Rob…

James Marcus Haney made his name as a filmmaker sneaking into Coachella, Glastonbury and other top music festivals by posing as press to get exclusive footage of pop stars and their performances. That need to gate crash marquee festivals with his camera was captured in his 2014 feature documentary No Cameras Allowed. Now Haney is headed to the Toronto Film Festival with Black Sunflowers, a feature documentary about Ukrainian youth coming of age amid martial law as they move between underground raves and car racing on the home front and the brutal front lines of war against Russia. Black Sunflowers.…

Jack Rowan and director Kieron J. Walsh are hoping for “some buzz” at the Edinburgh premiere of Skintown. It’s the catchphrase employed by Rowan’s character Vinny and his best friend Jonty (Chris Walley) as they’re just starting to believe there’s life beyond provincial Enniskillen, the Northern Irish town colloquially captured by the film‘s title. Ciarán McMenamin adapts his 2018 novel of the same name, with the movie premiering in competition at the Scottish film festival on Sunday. Backdropped by the Troubles during the 1994 IRA ceasefire, Skintown follows Vinny and Jonty as the young men party with friends, cut deals,…

Spider-Man: Brand New Day continues to fly high in its third weekend at the box office as it fends off newcomers The End of Oak Street and PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie. Sony Pictures‘ Brand New Day pulled in $19 million on Friday as it heads to $67 million, which will top the domestic box office for its third consecutive frame. This would bring the Tom Holland-led feature’s North American total to $782.8 million for its first 17 days to stand at No. 5 on the all-time domestic chart, just behind Avatar at $785.2 million and topping the No. 6…