Author: Hollyood rep

Who will be the next James Bond? Few people are better placed to weigh in than Debbie McWilliams, who cast the actors who played 007 for four decades. Speaking at a packed talk on Friday at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF), she stopped short of handicapping specific contenders — names like Callum Turner, Jacob Elordi, Idris Elba and Harris Dickinson have been floated — but she had plenty to say about what the role demands. McWilliams began her career in 1972 and has worked on more than 100 feature films and television productions. She is best known for casting the…

Joanna Pettet, the London-born actress who played one of the eight Vassar graduates in Sidney Lumet’s The Group and a spy put to work by her father, David Niven’s James Bond, in Casino Royale, has died. She was 83. Pettet died Tuesday at Temecula Valley Hospital in California, her friend and former manager Pam DuBois told The Hollywood Reporter. Her death came exactly 31 years after her son, Damien Cord, whom she had with actor Alex Cord, died at age 26 in 1995 of a heroin overdose. Pettet also fell for Tom Courtenay’s German officer in Anatole Litvak’s The Night…

Floating in like a refreshing Pacific island breeze, Moana comes along a mere 10 years after the animated feature on which it’s based, and while the live-action remake knows better than to tamper with the story’s sturdy bones, this charming new iteration stands confidently on its own. Chalk that up to a winning turn in the title role by Australian newcomer Catherine Laga’aia as a Disney princess with no need for a prince to figure out who she is or what she wants; and winking backup from a self-parodying Dwayne Johnson, fleshing out his voice role from the 2016 original,…

Christopher Nolan noted one actor in The Odyssey performed their scene in such a stunning manner that his crew burst into applause — and it’s been nearly 20 years since that’s happened. Nolan singled out Samantha Morton (Minority Report, The Walking Dead), who plays the goddess Circe, despite her relatively brief screen time. “This was a massive film and she is someone who comes in and changes the dynamic,” Nolan told The L.A. Times in a spoiler-filled interview. “In some weird way, the film lived or died over that character. She was the fulcrum. I’ve always admired Samantha’s work, she…

Carter De Haven III, who as a member of a distinguished, multigenerational Hollywood family produced such notable films as Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round, Ulzana’s Raid and Hoosiers, has died. He was 94. De Haven died Friday at UCLA West Valley Medical Center, his son, film editor Carter De Haven IV, told The Hollywood Reporter. He lived at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills for the past eight years. De Haven III also produced three (well, maybe 2 1/2) films directed by John Huston: A Walk With Love and Death (1969), starring Anjelica Huston;…

“The White Devil” got the red carpet treatment at the 60th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) on Sunday. Legendary cinematographer and three-time Oscar winner Robert Richardson received the Czech festival’s highest honor, the Crystal Globe for outstanding artistic contributions to world cinema, in its 80th year. And handing him the award was none other than Hollywood legend Harvey Keitel. Nicknamed “The White Devil” for his long white hair and relentless pursuit of cinematic perfection, Richardson arrived on the stage of the Grand Hall of Karlovy Vary’s Hotel Thermal to a big ovation. “I’m not an actor,” the cinematographer started off…

Dustin Hoffman (The Graduate, Kramer vs. Kramer, Rain Man) just wanted to say one word to the huge crowd that came out to see him at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) in the Czech Republic on Saturday: Plastics. Sorry, I got carried away there by the famous line from the iconic The Graduate, a special screening of which Hoffman introduced on Saturday. No, the Hollywood legend had quite a bit more to say to an adoring audience in the Grand Hall of the Hotel Thermal, the legendary “headquarters” of the Czech festival, which welcomed him with a rousing standing ovation. Asked how he…

Sure, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival audiences come to the Czech spa town for cinematic gems and the best of the past year. But let’s be honest: they also come for the trailers. KVIFF‘s signature pre-show spots have become a festival institution in their own right — edgy, often outrageous short films starring previous festival guests who are put through some kind of ordeal, frequently involving the Crystal Globe statuette being deployed in, shall we say, creative ways. Past victims include Johnny Depp, Mel Gibson, Javier Bardem, Helen Mirren, Jude Law, Harvey Keitel, Milos Forman, Danny DeVito, Casey Affleck, Andy…

GKids has acquired the Studio Ghibli library for the U.K. and Ireland, picking up rights across theatrical, home video, TV and digital for the Japanese animation studio’s entire 23-film back catalog. GKids will kick off the new deal with a theatrical Imax release of Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989) on Aug. 21. Hayao Miyazaki‘s second feature follows the adventures of Kiki, a young witch who moves to the port city of Koriko with her cat Jiji and starts a flying courier service. Future Ghibli titles slated for the Imax treatment include Hiromasa Yonebayashi’s The Secret World of Arrietty (2010) and Yoshifumi…

Barry Pepper will be seeing Kiefer Sutherland at high noon. The two will have a good, old-fashioned showdown in The Horseman, a feature-length Western from Nomadic Pictures set for an early 2027 release across Scripps Networks, which here prominently includes cable channel Grit. The Horseman, directed by Rod Lurie (The Contender, The Last Castle) and developed and co-written by Pepper (Saving Private Ryan, True Grit) and Ed Gass-Donnelly, The Horseman is set in the late-1800s West, “where America’s burgeoning demand for illumination sparked a transformative oil rush,” per the logline. Pepper stars in The Horseman as “The Man,” a “grieving…