Banshees The Fabelmans Lead Best Original Screenplay Race

We will update these predictions throughout awards season, so keep checking IndieWire for all our 2023 Oscar picks. Nominations voting is from January 12 to January 17, 2023, with official Oscar nominations announced on January 24, 2023. The final voting is March 2 through 7, 2023. And finally, the 95th Oscars telecast will be broadcast on Sunday, March 12 and air live on ABC at 8:00 p.m. ET/ 5:00 p.m. PT....

February 6, 2023 · 5 min · 945 words · Jessica Rios

Baz Luhrmann Confirms Elvis Concert Cut With Austin Butler

The “Elvis” director confirmed to IndieWire at the 2022 Gotham Awards that there eventually will be a concert cut of the musical biopic. “It’s a directors’ assembly. It’s not a cut. There’s a whole lot of material that adds up to four hours, but I have gone on record now to say not today, not tomorrow, but at some point I would do [it],” Luhrmann said. “Because Austin did his concerts full out....

February 6, 2023 · 3 min · 450 words · Amanda Kelly

Black Panther Wakanda Forever Letitia Wright Is Processing Injury

Wright, who plays the late Chadwick Boseman’s onscreen sister Shuri in the Marvel films, was hospitalized in August 2021 after falling off of a “biscuit rig” riding a motorcycle during a Boston shoot. Per producer Nate Moore in a Variety cover story, the rig “clipped a median and sheared the bike off, and it tumbled.” Wright was hospitalized with a fractured shoulder and a concussion. While Marvel assured the injury would not delay the film, Wright’s accident pushed production back over four and a half months, with Wright returning in January 2022....

February 6, 2023 · 3 min · 542 words · Jaime Cox

Bowen Yang On The Titanic Iceberg Snl Sketch Origins

The sketch helped solidify comedian Yang’s reputation as one of the series’ MVPs, and in a recent sit-down with Jimmy Fallon (via The Hollywood Reporter), Yang shared the backstory behind the sketch, which started as a text exchange between him and head writer Anna Drezen. When she ran the idea by him, he was skeptical, but of course the rest is history, as the video has racked up well over 2....

February 6, 2023 · 2 min · 401 words · Stephanie Owens

Bridgerton Nicola Coughlan Is Netflix S New Comedy Star

The withering description comes courtesy of Lady Whistledown, the mysterious proprietress of a gossip rag in that series that alternates between haunting and flattering the Ton. But really, Coughlan insists that poor Penelope, perpetually forced to dress in egregious neon colors by her mother — operating under the assumption that looking like a deranged, psychedelic peacock is the best way to get her daughter a suitor — is making the best of an impossible sartorial situation in the series that starts streaming today....

February 6, 2023 · 5 min · 956 words · Jill Dixon

Broker Review Hirokazu Kore Eda Teams With Song Kang Ho

“Wise Up” plays through a car radio on a rainy evening in policewoman Su-jin’s (Doona Bae) car in Hirokazu Kore-eda’s bittersweet and complex family drama “Broker.” Mann’s timbre is unmistakable, and the “Magnolia” reference is acknowledged by this lonely cop trying to reach out to her own disconnected loved one at the end of the line, making small talk about the film’s scene and acknowledging “it doesn’t really make sense” while she waits for her job to finally give her the closure she needs from her own past demons....

February 6, 2023 · 6 min · 1069 words · Timothy Vargas

Charles Burnett Money In Filmmaking Could Be Used To Improve Lives

Director Charles Burnett has been documenting Black struggle for decades, and said he was optimistic about the filmmaking that could emerge from these tumultuous times. “I look forward, hopefully, that something really amazing will come out of storytellers that talk about this particular period, because this is probably one of the most unusual periods that we’ve confronted in every respect,” he said. “With this pandemic, we don’t know at this moment who’s going to live or die....

February 6, 2023 · 5 min · 1014 words · Jesse Collier
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