Directors’ Fortnight: Matthew Rankin’s ‘Universal Language’ Wins Inaugural Audience Award; Europa Cinema & SACD Prize Winners

EXCLUSIVE: Matthew Lewis, Parvinder Shergill and Kayleigh-Paige Rees are leading comedy-drama Touché, a UK indie feature set in the world of fencing.

Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves McConaughey are sharing their love and appreciation after 12 years of marriage. The fan-favorite celebrity couple is celebrating their anniversary with a sweet photo.

EXCLUSIVE: During their inaugural Gotham TV Awards ceremony in New York City, The Gotham Film & Media Institute, the group behind the annual film-centric Gotham Awards, named 10 Series Creators to Watch, as a means of recognizing rising series writers and creators with innovative vision and bold, risk-taking new series in development.

Director Maria Friedman’s staging of Merrily We Roll Along, both on Broadway and its previous run Off Broadway, just might be the most unexpected success in the long, glorious career of composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim. Long considered all but unstageable, with its hard-to-crack reverse chronology and characters whose flaws are front and center at the start of the show only to soften by the end – again, a reversal of what we’re used to – Merrily We Roll Along rewinds the lives of three show business friends from their sadly splintered end to their heartbreakingly optimistic youth. In other words, a sad ending is inevitable, a happy beginning bittersweet.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Matthew Vaughn recently opened up to Empire magazine about enduring some of the worst reviews of his career with “Argylle,” the $200 million star-studded spy comedy that flopped in theaters this year with $96 million worldwide. The film, backed by Apple and released theatrically by Universal, intended to start a franchise and starred Bryce Dallas Howard as a reclusive spy novelist thrust into a real world of espionage. Henry Cavill, Sam Rockwell, Samuel L.

Before the release of “Argylle,” there was a lot of discussion about Matthew Vaughn’s spy film. First, it was purchased by Apple for a reported sum of $200 million.

Apprentices enrolled in a popular nursing programme at a local university have celebrated significant recognition at national awards this year.

Jamie Lang Late screenwriter-director Sophie Fillières‘ seventh and final feature, “This Life of Mine” was the opening film at this year’s Directors’ Fortnight and today wrapped things up as the France Writers’ Guild’s favorite French-language feature, winning the SACD Authors’ Favorite Prize. In the film, Barbie, once a devoted mother and partner, faces the realities of middle age as she turns 55. Following a classic three-act structure, the film advances from comedy to tragedy to epiphany, at times toying with the absurd.

K.J. Yossman London’s glitzy theater The Old Vic is set to begin searching for a new artistic director after Matthew Warchus confirmed he plans to step down in 2026 after 11 years in the role. The search is set to begin in earnest this summer.

Months after Matthew Perry took his final breaths, police are STILL puzzled by one contributing factor in his death.

Courteney Cox is reflecting on Matthew Perry‘s tragic passing.

The book is far from closed on Matthew Perry’s death

EXCLUSIVE: After seeing her debut feature Palimpsest win an HFPA Special Prize at the Venice Film Festival, Finnish writer-director Hanna Västinsalo has found her follow-up project in Will O’ the Wisp.

Matthew Perry‘s death is being investigated.

Matthew Perry, who was famous for his role as Chandler Bing in Friends, died in October last year. A post-mortem revealed his death was an accident from "the acute effects of ketamine" - which is used a recreational drug and to treat depression. Now it's been reported the Los Angeles Police Department have opened an investigation into why there was so much ketamine in the actor's system.

Friends star Matthew Perry last year.Perry, who was best known for playing Chandler Bing in the hit sitcom, died on October 28 in his home in California, aged 54. Perry’s cause of death was listed as being the result of the acute effects of the anaesthetic ketamine.“At the high levels of ketamine found in his postmortem blood specimens, the main lethal effects would be from both cardiovascular overstimulation and respiratory depression,” his autopsy read.Now, Los Angeles Police Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration have told The Hollywood Reporter that they have launched a joint criminal investigation into his death, and how Perry came to have such high levels of the drug in his system, and in his possession.Perry’s autopsy also listed drowning, coronary artery disease and the effects of buprenorphine, a drug used to treat opioid addiction, as contributing factors to his death.

Jack Dunn The DEA and LAPD have launched a criminal investigation into Matthew Perry‘s death, which was caused by acute ketamine effects last year. Variety confirmed with a LAPD spokesperson that there is an ongoing investigation into Perry’s death; the Los Angeles Times reported the DEA is also involved. Perry died on Saturday, Oct.

Muse frontman Matthew Bellamy has become a father for the third time after his US model wife Elle Evans gave birth to their second child together.

Courteney Cox still feels a connection to Matthew Perry even after his death.

Courteney Cox has opened up about the loss of her Friends co-star Matthew Perry and told how she believes he "visits" her regularly since his death last October. While discussing the 20th anniversary of the comedy series' finale on CBS Sunday Morning at the weekend, the actress opened up about the late star and said: "You know, he’s just so funny. He has genuinely a huge heart, obviously struggled.