Adam Driver will be the guest of honor at this year’s Camerimage Film Festival, where he will receive the Special EnergaCAMERIMAGE Award for an Actor and present his Michael Mann-directed biopic, Ferrari.
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The SAG-AFTRA strike, a wild card throughout the fall festival season, has created a closing stretch of the New York Film Festival unlike many (any?) of its 60 previous editions.
The final NYFF press conference this morning featured Ferrari cast members Adam Driver, Penélope Cruz and Gabriel Leone alongside writer-director Michael Mann discussing the Closing Night selection.
The presence of talent onstage at Walter Reade Theater, thanks to an interim agreement for publicity obtained by distributor Neon before the film’s August 31 world premiere in Venice, offered a welcome dose of the familiar. Not only was the stage picture a recognizable one, but the themes of the conversation all covered well-established terrain. (The strike, for example, never came up.) Topics included the film’s production in Italy, Mann’s decades-long quest to get it made and the cast’s exhaustive research.
Cruz said her character, Laura Ferrari, “was even more involved [in the auto company] than we see here. From her reading, the actor added, “I learned that she would sleep next to the tires, during the races, so that nobody would touch them.” Mann’s writing and direction, Cruz added, made the character a “beautiful homage to all the women who continue to live in the shadow of men.” Driver recalled the extensive training on the track learning to drive period-specific racecars, which had no roofs and large, skinny wheels. With no seatbelts, he said, “the goal was to get thrown from the car [in the event of an accident] because that was considered more safe than to be locked in this moving coffin.”
Ferrari‘s splashy Friday followed a premiere the night before that offered a distinctly less glitzy experience. The Curse, an A24/Showtime series
Adam Driver will be the guest of honor at this year’s Camerimage Film Festival, where he will receive the Special EnergaCAMERIMAGE Award for an Actor and present his Michael Mann-directed biopic, Ferrari.
Peter Caranicas Deputy Editor Adam Driver, star of Michael Mann’s “Ferrari,” will travel to Camerimage, the cinematography-oriented film festival, to accept Special EnergaCamerimage Award for an Actor. He will also introduce the film, one of the entries in the Camerimage Main Competition and a prominent awards contender this season. The fest will run in Toruń.
The actors were joined by some hip-hop legends on the picket lines this morning.
Thierry Frémaux is best known internationally as the long-time head of France’s Cannes Film Festival, which is organized out of its offices in Paris’s trendy Marais neighborhood.
Wim Wenders and Thierry Frémaux signalled their support on Saturday for the Hollywood actors strike as the industrial action hits its 100th day.
EXCLUSIVE: After meeting on a Tuesday Zoom call to figure out how to end an actor’s strike that will shortly stretch beyond 100 days, a group of Hollywood’s biggest stars laid out to SAG-AFTRA leaders a groundbreaking proposal that amounts to the town’s biggest earners defraying the costs to AMPTP signatories by eliminating the cap on membership dues, to be used to bolster health benefits and other areas that SAG-AFTRA is trying to shore up.
Peter Caranicas Deputy Editor EnergaCamerimage, the cinematography-focused film festival that will take place in Torun, Poland, Nov. 11-18, has announced three more films for its Main Competition: “El Conde,” “Filip” and “Ferrari.” “El Conde,” helmed by Chilean director Pablo Larraín (“Jackie,” “Spencer”), is billed as a dark comedy/horror picture that imagines a parallel universe in which Chile’s late fascistic dictator Augusto Pinochet is a vampire hiding away in a ruined mansion.
Adam Driver‘s Ferrari trailer is finally here!
Where to start with Michael Mann‘s “Ferrari“? It’s a passion project long in the making, with Mann developing it for over two decades. It’s also Mann’s first film with Adam Driver, and with rumors of Mann wanting to cast the actor in “Heat 2,” it may not be the last.
Ellise Shafer Daniel Kaluuya world premiered his feature directorial debut, “The Kitchen,” at the BFI London Film Festival on Sunday night, calling it “one of the best days of my life.” Kaluuya was on hand alongside his co-director Kibwe Tavares, producer Daniel Emmerson and several of the film’s actors, including “Top Boy” star Kane Robinson and newcomer Jedaiah Bannerman. Set in a dystopian London where all social housing has been banned, the film follows the residents of a community called the Kitchen who must fight to save their home. Speaking before the premiere, Kaluuya and Tavares explained that it’s taken nearly a decade to bring the Netflix film to the screen.
has been nominated for several Golden Globes and Academy Awards, becoming the first Spanish actor to win an Oscar for best supporting actress in 2009.All this to say, Penélope Cruz is and is often regarded as one of Hollywood's best dressed, regardless of the occasion. Among her best outfits is the she wore during the 2023 MET Gala 2023, and it's necessary to talk about the black she wore at the Goya Awards 2017.
Michaela Zee The 61st annual New York Film Festival concluded on Friday night with the North American premiere of Michael Mann’s “Ferrari.” Mann walked the red carpet at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall and sat down for a post-screening Q&A alongside “Ferrari” stars Adam Driver, Penélope Cruz, Shailene Woodley and Gabriel Leone, who were able to attend the premiere due to the film’s SAG-AFTRA interim agreement. “The mindset of a racer was something we talked about,” Driver said of his preparation with Mann for the Enzo Ferrari biopic.
Adam Driver is stepping out for the premiere of his new movie.
Adam Driver is sharing his “terrifying” experience getting behind the wheel of a vintage racecar on the set of his new movie!
Michaela Zee Although Adam Driver portrays legendary sports-car magnate Enzo Ferrari in Michael Mann‘s biographical drama, the actor didn’t get to drive one of the 1950s-era replicas for “Ferrari.” Instead, he drove an “open-wheel single seater” that was modified to connect a camera to it. Asked how it was getting behind the wheel of that particular vintage sports car, Driver simply replied, “Terrifying.” “It teleports you back to the time and you realize if you turn left or right the wrong way, then you’re dead,” Driver told Variety at the “Ferrari” North American premiere at the New York Film Festival Friday night.
They’re reading from the same script.
Negotiations have once again collapsed between the actors’ union (SAG-AFTRA) and Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (aka AMPTP). The actors’ union is on strike as they try and negotiate fair wages in the age of streaming, artificial intelligence, and more.
Heat will be his next movie.The director discussed the follow-up while speaking onstage at Deadline’s Contenders London event on Sunday (October 8), where he confirmed it will be his next movie after Ferrari starring Adam Driver.Asked if the sequel, based on the follow-up novel released last year, will be his next project, Mann said: “Yes. Meg Gardiner and myself wrote the novel Heat 2, which came out right when we were shooting Ferrari. It did very well.
It seems like we’ve been talking about a potential “Heat” sequel film for years now. But really, things have only, uh, heated up regarding a new film since the release of the “Heat 2” novel.
Cailee Spaeny dazzles while promoting her new film Priscilla at the 2023 BFI London Film Festival on Monday (October 9).