Cate Blanchett Teams With Todd Field on Focus Features’ ‘TAR’

The highly anticipated movie Borderlands, an adaptation of the popular video game, has completed casting and you can see the full cast list here!

Chris Floyd hit the headlines today as the man behind the beautiful images of Prince William and Kate Middleton taken to mark the tenth wedding anniversary.The photographs were taken at Kensington Palace this week and offer an intimate glimpse into the relationship of the royal couple. It’s fair that say that Chris has shot pretty much everyone in showbiz - from Amanda Holden and Fearne Cotton to Hollywood starlets like Cate Blanchett.

Holly Hunter, or Cate Blanchett, the reactions seem entirely lighthearted; others, such as Burt Reynolds’ acid scowl at the 1997 awards, are as serious as death. Here are our picks for the 10 funniest reactions to losing an Oscar.

Focus Features will release Oscar winner Morgan Neville’s Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain in U.S. and Canada on Friday, July 16.

There were many highlights during the 2021 Independent Spirit Awards on Thursday, which celebrated the best in indie filmmaking from the past year and took place in a virtual format hosted by Saturday Night Live castmember MelissaVillaseñor.

Oscars and the Film Independent Spirit Awards is essentially a circle this year, as films like, and dominate both awards shows.Ahead of Sunday's Academy Awards, the 36th Independent Spirit Awards honored the best in indie filmmaking and, for the first time, television during Thursday's live primetime ceremony on IFC.

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has given the greenlight to Troppo, a new Oz-set crime series starring Thomas Jane (The Expanse). Jocelyn Moorhouse, director of the Cate Blanchett-led series Stateless, has come on board to helm the eight-part series.

Celebrities are continuing to do their bit in the fight against climate change.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterStay Gold Features, a production company whose credits include “Honey Boy,” “Harriet,” “Patti Cake$” and the recent Sundance hit “Together Together,” has enlisted new leaders to its executive ranks.Charlie Alderman, who recently worked at Focus Features, has been hired as head of content, while Becca Camarata has been promoted to head of production.At Focus, Alderman served as director of production and development and was responsible for overseeing films

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaAntoine Fuqua will direct and produce a new film adaptation of “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer Prize-winning look at greed, family, death and sexual repression.The “Training Day” and “Magnificent Seven” director will join forces with producers Stephen C. Byrd and Alia Jones-Harvey, who backed a 2008 revival of the show that made history with a sold-out 19-week run as the first all-African American production on Broadway.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaScott Rudin’s business relationship with A24, the indie studio where he produced such acclaimed films as “Lady Bird” and “Uncut Gems,” is over, sources tell Variety.

Holly Hunter, or Cate Blanchett, the reactions seem entirely lighthearted; others, such as Burt Reynolds’ acid scowl at the 1997 awards, are as serious as death. Here are our picks for the 10 funniest reactions to losing an Oscar.

36th Film Independent Spirit Awards may be breaking from tradition this year — with the ceremony taking place on the Thursday before the Oscars instead of that Saturday — but one thing remains the same: The Spirit Awards is still tapping Hollywood's biggest stars to hand out awards for indie filmmaking.Cate Blanchett, Maria Bakalova, Kumail Nanjiani, Laura Dern, Leslie Odom Jr., Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Dominique Fishback and Don Cheadle will serve as presenters at this year's Spirit Awards, ET can

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaSister has acquired “Never Far Away,” the new novel from bestselling author Michael Koryta, and will develop it as a feature film. Oscar-winning producer Cathy Schulman, who previously oversaw “Crash,” will produce the thriller for the company.

You know those features the Playlist has done in the past, The Lost, Forgotten, Unmade projects of Stanley Kubrick, David Fincher, Quentin Tarantino, etc., etc., looking at big-name feature filmmakers and the various projects they tried to get off the ground that never happened? Well, even though he’s only ever made two films, “In The Bedroom” and “Little Children,” a similar feature for director Todd Field could easily be made.

EXCLUSIVE: Cate Blanchett and In The Bedroom director Todd Field have teamed up for the filmmaker’s next picture. She’ll star in TAR, a drama that Field wrote and will direct for Universal Pictures-based Focus Features. They are keeping the plot under wraps, but it is set in Berlin, and production will begin in September.

EXCLUSIVE:  Janina Gavankar has joined Eli Roth’s feature take of the Gearbox and 2K video game Borderlands at Lionsgate.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaAntoine Fuqua and Will Smith will move production on their big-budget, runaway slave thriller “Emancipation” out of Georgia in protest over the state’s controversial new voting restrictions.The announcement continues the economic fallout from Gov. Brian Kemp and the state legislature’s decision to pass new regulations that critics maintain amount to voter suppression, aimed at reducing the turnout of people of color.

Dominique Fishback and Jamie Foxx have teamed up to turn her one-woman show  into a new special, ET has learned. Fishback will executive produce the project alongside Foxx and his producing partner, Datari Turner. According to , the show, originally written and performed by Fishback, follows an 18-year-old girl named Eden, who lives in the inner city.  depicts «the destruction of Black identity» as seen through Eden's eyes, with Fishback playing more than 20 characters in the piece.

Focus Features has picked up Silent Twins, starring Black Panther break-out Letitia Wright and Tamara Lawrance. The feature is the English language debut of Agnieszka Smoczynska and is based on the lives of June and Jennifer Gibbons, real-life identical twins who grew up in Wales, as the only Black family in a small town.