Author: Hollyood rep

Some say it is all about the great films! Others mention the picturesque spa town. Some simply love the Bohemian hospitality, food and drink. And others mention the summer party vibes in the air. So, what makes Karlovy Vary and the annual film festival in the Czech town so special? Most could probably agree that it’s a mix of all of the above. As has become tradition for many, film industry folks, movie buffs and people simply looking for a good time are getting ready to head to the first big festival of the summer. After all, the 60th edition of the Karlovy…

The 60th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) is gearing up to celebrate the venerable Czech fest’s past and, at the same time, guide it into its future. One design change symbolizing this connection between what has come before and what lies ahead is the redesign of an iconic KVIFF space. “For this and future editions, the Karlovy Vary festival is redesigning the area around the entrance to the Hotel Thermal’s Grand Hall with a new architectural design that will allow audiences to more intensely experience and share in the festival atmosphere during the festival’s opening and closing ceremonies,…

Renny Harlin has returned to Malta. The veteran filmmaker touched down on the island last week to attend the Mediterrane Film Festival, which screened his latest film, the shark thriller Deep Water, starring Aaron Eckhart and Ben Kingsley. But it was his 1995 action flick Cutthroat Island that originally brought the Finnish auteur to Malta, host of many blockbuster Hollywood productions, including the Gladiator and Jurassic Park franchises. And he was stoked to be back. “Malta is the best-kept secret,” Harlin told Collider’s Steven Weintraub during a masterclass conversation on directing held inside the festival hub in Valletta last week.…

Luca Guadagnino says it wasn’t surprising Amazon MGM dropped his nearly-finished Sam Altman movie Artificial shortly after Amazon announced a $50 billion investment in OpenAI. “I can’t say much because we are right in the middle of this situation,” Guadagnino told Italian television, “[but] these are industrial policies that are certainly not new.” Speaking to news show Otto e mezzo on Italian network La7, Guadagnino cited an incident from 2003 when CBS canceled the broadcast of The Regans, a miniseries about President Ronald Regan and his family, starring Josh Brolin and Judy Davis, following a conservative backlash. (The series eventually…

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Robert Richardson: The White Devil, a feature documentary dedicated to the life and career of the legendary cinematographer and three-time Oscar winner, is set to world premiere at the 60th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) next month. And the feature directorial debut, which is already creating buzz, comes from an unexpected source: Czech filmmaker Jana Hojdová. Richardson continues to be a close collaborator of Quentin Tarantino, Martin Scorsese, Oliver Stone, Andy Serkis, Antoine Fuqua, Ben Affleck, John Sayles, Barry Levinson, Scott Hicks and others. So how did a young Czech director end up making a deep…

Netflix used its Annecy International Animation Film Festival platform on Wednesday to unveil a slate of high-profile projects, led by a first look at Brad Bird’s Ray Gunn and new details on its upcoming Ghostbusters series. The streamer also confirmed December release dates for Ray Gunn and its Cannes animation acquisition In Waves, positioning both as potential Oscar contenders. Ray Gunn, Bird’s long-gestating noir sci-fi film, will debut globally on Netflix on December 18. The film, set in an alternate 1939 Metropia, follows private eye Raymond Gunn as he investigates a case involving aliens, murder, and a multimedia star named…

Jemaine Clement is once again preparing to embrace what he calls his dreaded “writer’s body.” After a self-imposed writing hiatus, the New Zealand multihyphenate — arguably still best known with Bret McKenzie as one half of the musical comedy duo Flight of the Conchords — is ready to return to the shadows of the dark office and the fears of the blank page. He has a TV project set up — a comedy sci-fi series, “which I’m not allowed to say anything about,” that he’ll begin writing “as soon as the deal gets done.” But before he puts pen to…

Timothée Chalamet and Selena Gomez will voice star in Illumination’s upcoming alien movie Not Alone, it was announced out of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival. Chalamet had teased the announcement in his Instagram Story on Sunday night. He posted a photo of a cloudy sky with the caption “new movie announcement tmrw :)” overlaid on the image, with a small rocket emoji, looking as if it was blasting into space. Universal and Illumination shared the poster for Not Alone on social media on Monday. The film will hit theaters on April 16, 2027. The role marks Chalamet’s first feature-length…

Chinese filmmaker Zhong Kaifeng formally introduced himself to the world at the Shanghai International Film Festival on Saturday night, picking up the main Golden Goblet award for his debut, Atlantic Rhapsody. For the Golden Goblet jury — led by Hong Kong star Tony Leung Chiu-wai — the film is a “uniquely compelling visual experience.” For the 29-year-old Zhong, the story of a young man from northern China searching for meaning in life is a sign. “I want to say that Atlantic is not a definition, it does not provide answers — but today it seems to have given me an…