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EXCLUSIVE: United Talent Agency (UTA) has signed up Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch breakout star Lyna Khoudri.
UTA has signed Khoudri, who recently won the Most Promising Actress gong at France’s César Awards for her role in Papicha, in all areas and she will continue to be represented by Agence Adéquat.
The Algeria-born 29-year-old can currently be seen playing a student activist opposite Timothée Chalamet in the highly-anticipated Anderson arthouse flick The French Dispatch.
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The new French Montana album They Got Amnesia will be missing a collaboration with Drake.
Drake has halted the release of an upcoming song with French Montana out of respect for the victims of the Astroworld tragedy, Variety has confirmed. The track, “Splash Brothers,” was set to appear on Montana’s fourth studio album “They Got Amnesia,” set to be released on Nov.
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Will Tizard ContributorRobert Yeoman’s camerawork has been an inseparable element of Wes Anderson’s distinctive style since the dawn of the director’s career in 1996 with “Bottle Rocket” – but his new fantasy farce, “The French Dispatch,” brought the duo to new heights.“It’s how we work,” says Yeoman simply, describing new combinations of quick-change tracks for Anderson’s signature nimble dolly shots and an embrace of more black-and-white filming for the new anthology film.“Not only do we have
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Leo Barraclough International Features EditorDenis Villeneuve’s “Dune,” with cinematography by Greig Fraser, Wes Anderson’s “The French Dispatch,” with cinematography by Robert D. Yeoman, and Ridley Scott’s “The Last Duel,” with cinematography by Dariusz Wolski, are among the movies selected in the main competition section of EnergaCamerimage.
feel like an anthology, but it was all part of an organic whole.) You can feel Anderson invigorated by the possibility of the anthology format, and he certainly maximizes that possibility – the movie shifts from black and white to color (and back again) and frequently hopscotches between aspect ratios, with detours into both stop-motion animation and 2D animation (undoubtedly computer-generated, but with the charm of more traditional, hand-drawn animation).
Opening in 14 cities, “The French Dispatch” is estimated to earn $1.3 million this weekend for an average of around $25,000 per venue. By comparison, the per-theater average for “Venom: Let There Be Carnage,” which set a post-shutdown opening record of $90 million in wide release, had an average of $21,300.