John Waters, for example, bristles at being called an “openly gay director.” In sharing this fact with Luca Guadagnino, whom he spoke to recently at the Provincetown Film Festival, the “Call Me by Your Name” filmmaker concurred. “I don’t believe in openly anything,” Guadagnino said. There is no doubt that the man who introduced Divine to the world makes queer films, his work is both defines and defies the very label....
“When she showed me her references during the interview, I smiled because that’s what I was thinking and we obviously had the same taste,” said Arkapaw, who is rumored but unconfirmed to replace Oscar-nominated Rachel Morrison as the DP on “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.” “TVA especially had a ‘Zodiac’ vibe in the theater and corridors,” she added. “We spent a lot of time in the the Time Theater space upfront. It’s a big character building scene in setting up Loki....
Regardless of where you land on the approach’s merits, the renewed interest in the sometimes intense techniques actors employ to perform won’t be going anywhere any time soon. In a new interview with the New York Times, “The Sopranos” and soon-to-be “White Lotus” star Michael Imperioli reflected on some of his early years as an aspiring performer looking for guidance from the greats. At 19, Imperioli began taking lessons at the legendary Actors Studio in New York City, enrolling in a class with industry titan and acting teacher Stella Adler....
“Mortal Kombat” marks the third live-action film adaptation of the classic fighting video game franchise, which debuted in 1992 and has received over a dozen sequels. Wan, who directed hit films such as “Aquaman,” “Furious 7,” “The Conjuring,” and 2004’s “Saw, produced the film alongside Todd Garner, E. Bennett Walsh, and Simon McQuoid, who also served as director. The Warner Bros. synopsis for the film reads: In “Mortal Kombat,” MMA fighter Cole Young, accustomed to taking a beating for money, is unaware of his heritage — or why Outworld’s Emperor Shang Tsung has sent his best warrior, Sub-Zero, an otherworldly Cryomancer, to hunt Cole down....
Blomkamp has long discussed wanting to create a sequel to “District 9,” but he spent the immediate aftermath of the film’s success developing new projects such as “Elysium” and “Chappie.” Blomkamp was also attached to an “Alien” movie that never made it past the development stage. Addressing fans during a 2017 Reddit AMA, the filmmaker said he was committed to making a “District 9” sequel but was waiting for the right time to start working on it....
Sunday marks the 25th anniversary of the original airing of the first episode of “Neon Genesis Evangelion” in Japan. The celebrated series, created by Hideaki Anno, takes place in 2015 after Earth has been damaged by a cataclysmic event. The fallout includes attacks by aliens that can only be defeated by manned military robots that require a mental connection with their pilots. The existential threat to humanity also serves as an exploration of the human psyche....
“[Paolo] Sorrentino’s movie [‘Hand of God’] is not at all ready,” Frémaux said when asked about Netflix invites in 2021. “Jane Campion’s movie could have been ready, Andrew Dominik’s film [‘Blonde’] could have been ready — it’s beautiful, I saw it — and I invited those films Out of Competition. Netflix doesn’t want to come to Cannes, but I invited them anyway and alas…It’s important, it’s not us refusing Netflix movies, it’s Netflix who doesn’t want or can’t…They want to come in Competition but films that are part of the Competition must be released (theatrically) in France....
