Peacock‘s Days of Our Lives has done some recasting and it couldn’t be more like a soap opera.
14.09.2023 - 15:29 / variety.com
Guy Lodge Film Critic Unorthodox family structures yield correspondingly unpredictable drama in “Housekeeping for Beginners,” a vital, febrile multi-character study that further confirms writer-director Goran Stolevski as a talent to be reckoned with. Departing radically from the poise of his folk-horror debut “You Won’t Be Alone” and the gentle intimacy of its swift follow-up “Of an Age,” this study of domestic, romantic and generational conflicts in a crowded queer household instead embraces a spirit of antic chaos, both in subject matter and jagged, hit-the-ground-running execution.
Selected as North Macedonia’s international Oscar submission shortly after its premiere in Venice’s Horizons strand, the film has already been picked up by Focus Features for its Stateside release, which speaks to the crossover appeal of its offbeat but energizing storytelling. Following the Melbourne-set “Of an Age,” “Housekeeping for Beginners” sees the Macedonian-born, Australia-based Stolevski returning to the motherland — not the historical back country of “You Won’t Be Alone,” but the bustling, unequal social landscape of contemporary Skopje, where put-upon healthcare worker Dita (Anamaria Marinca) shares her suburban house with an assortment of waifs and strays.
Some residents are temporary: a carousel of young misfits who have been cast out of their own homes and found sanctuary in Dita’s patient, LGBT-friendly care. Others are fixtures, forming a modern family unit: Dita’s Roma girlfriend Suada (Alina Serban); sullen teen Vanesa (Mia Mustafa) and ball-of-fire kindergartener Mia (Dzada Selim), Suada’s two daughters from previous relationships; and Dita’s gay longtime pal Toni (Vladimir Tintor).
Peacock‘s Days of Our Lives has done some recasting and it couldn’t be more like a soap opera.
Peacock‘s Days of Our Lives has done some recasting and it couldn’t be more like a soap opera.
Mum of 22 Sue Radford poked fun at the amount of holidays the bumper brood have, as she showed her 517k Instagram followers her most recent luxurious motorhome trip away. Sue, 48, and her husband Noel, 52, plus the children have not long returned from a motorhome holiday and are right back at it, taking advantage of paying £40,000 for the vehicle. No doubt more bike rides and hot chocolates are planned for the adventurous family just like their last trip, but for now, Sue is happy to be settled at their destination.
One of the biggest stars of hit Netflix series Sex Education has been the Norwegian-inspired chalet home of lead characters Otis (Asa Butterfield) and his mother Jean (Gillian Anderson), and now the house is for sale, as the show’s finale beckons.
Lisa Kennedy In “Silver Dollar Road,” documentarian Raoul Peck foregrounds two resolute women, Mamie Reels Ellison and Kim Renee Duhon — the heir of a deceased landowner and her niece — to tell a story of familial grit, land grabs and the failings, if not the outright biases, of the courts. “Going to the water for me was always magical,” Ellison says early in the film, reminiscing about the pier and beach at one end of the family’s 65 acres in Carteret County, N.C. A montage of home movie footage and photo stills of children splashing, teens striking poses and adults having a fine time captures the warmth of the place.
BreAnna Bell Freeform has added three new unscripted series, “Chrissy & Dave Dine Out,” “Royal Rules of Ohio” and “Sasha Reid and The Midnight Order” to its slate. Previously set at Hulu, “Chrissy & Dave” and “Royal Rules of Ohio” will now debut linearly on Freeform, with episodes available for streaming on Hulu the next day. Joel Kim Booster hosts the restaurant series alongside Chrissy Teigen and David Chang where they take viewers to must-try restaurants in Los Angeles that are unexpected.
Naman Ramachandran Signature Entertainment has acquired U.K. and Ireland rights to writer-director Warwick Thornton’s Australian drama “The New Boy” from The Veterans. The film follows a nine-year-old Aboriginal orphan boy who arrives in the dead of night at a remote monastery run by a renegade nun, disturbing the delicately balanced world.
The new revival of The Wiz will begin Broadway previews on March 29, 2024, at the Marquis Theatre, with an opening night set for Wednesday, April 17.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were pictured beaming on Friday, as they attended a charity event for first responders.The One805 Live! event was hosted by actor and film producer, Kevin Costner at his $26 million polo field in Santa Barbara. The Californian city is also where the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and their two children, Prince Archie, four, and Princess Lilibet, two, reside.The royal couple were just two of the many famous faces in attendance at the star-studded do.
Justin and Hailey Bieber kept it stylish during a night out at Bird Street Lounge in West Hollywood, California.
Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tony Awards ceremonies, curated by Variety senior awards editor Clayton Davis. The prediction pages reflect the current standings in the race and do not reflect personal preferences for any individual contender.
Rihanna and A$AP Rocky posed for an updated family portrait after the birth of their youngest son Riot Rose.
While last week proved to be the first time in many weeks that the public saw the Duke and Duchess of Sussex together at the Invictus Games following weeks of speculation about their marriage, the Prince and Princess of Wales also delighted royal fans with their antics during a joint engagement in Hereford.The visit on Thursday provided ample opportunities for the couple to share in their specialist interests of early years development, mental health and the environment.They visited the British Army garrison Sterling Lines in Hereford and met with SAS families, before travelling onto Madley Primary School’s Forest School and an organisation called We Are Farming Minds, both of which are partners of The Duchy of Cornwall. The royal couple - who recently left little doubt that they intend to secure their future as a forward-thinking, savvy brand by advertising for a CEO - enjoyed interesting activities during the day.
Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent “Portrait Artist of the Year,” the popular U.K. entertainment format that will celebrate its 10th birthday on Sky Arts with Dame Judi Dench on Sept. 30, is set for a Norwegian adaptation to be produced by Nordisk Banijay.
Demi Lovato went all out for her performance at the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards on Tuesday night (September 12) at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J.
The season is over for New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers. After just four snaps in the Jets’ Monday night dramatic 22-16 overtime win against the Buffalo Bills, Rodgers suffered a torn Achilles in his left tendon, and reportedly will miss the remainder of the season. An MRI confirmed the tear, according to NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport on X/fka Twitter, citing sources.
EXCLUSIVE: Eureka Productions, the company behind ABC’s Holey Moley and Netflix’s The Mole, and John De Mol’s Talpa recently landed a U.S. version of Dutch format The Floor with Fox.
Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor “I’ve been the model. I’ve been the muse. I’ve been the ingenue.
For an hour, Finestkind is the kind of movie they don’t make any more, and just when you’re starting to adapt to its gentle, circadian rhythms (which is about halfway through), it becomes the kind of movie they make all the time. Though it just about works, it’s a curious hybrid of emotional felladrama and gangster realism, something writer Brian Helgeland has essayed before, notably with his script for Clint Eastwood’s Mystic River. A few years back, this could have been a Malpaso production too, and it’s not hard to imagine Eastwood in the role played here by Tommy Lee Jones, an awards-friendly supporting role that gives the veteran actor his very own mini-Gran Torino.
Naman Ramachandran Tarsem Singh Dhandwar, the filmmaker previously known simply as Tarsem, is returning to the big screen and to his roots with “Dear Jassi,” which has its world premiere Toronto Film Festival Sept. 10. The new film is set in the 1990s and based on a real-life incident.