International Oscar Race: Spain Selects Javier Bardem-Starring ‘The Good Boss’, South Korea Picks ‘Escape From Mogadishu’

Australia is sending Granaz Moussavi’s When Pomegranates Howl to the Academy as its submission for this year’s International Oscar race.

Bad Luck Banging Or Loony Porn, which scooped this year’s Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival, has been selected by Romania as its entry for the 2022 International Oscar race.

Iran has chosen Asghar Farhadi’s A Hero as its entry for this year’s International Oscar category.

Mexico has become the latest country to make its submission to this year’s International Oscar race, selecting Tatiana Huezo’s Prayers For The Stolen.

Aaron Sorkin with his last film, The Trial Of The Chicago 7. He's back in based-on-real-life territory for his next awards-potential offering, Being The Ricardos, which finds Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem playing TV icons and husband-and-wife team Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz.

The new trailer for Aaron Sorkin’s “Being the Ricardos”, starring Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem, is here.

Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem are Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz! The actors transformed into the real-life pair in the first teaser for their upcoming flick, , which will tell the story of the stars who married in 1940 and split 20 years later.The teaser shows the pair both on the set of the sitcom and off, as Nicole's Lucille Ball marvels in a voiceover, «I get paid a fortune to do exactly what I love doing.»«I work side-by-side with my husband, who is genuinely impressed by me.

Entertainment Weekly, below.Kidman plays Lucille Ball and Bardem plays Desi Arnaz in the Aaron Sorkin film, which follows one week of production on an episode of “I Love Lucy” and the chaos that surrounds both the show and Lucy and Desi’s lives.In the trailer, Kidman’s Ball says, “I am the biggest asset in the portfolio of the Columbia Broadcasting System,” as glimpses of the fictional versions of Lucy and Desi — both on and off the set of their sitcom “I Love Lucy” — flash on the screen.“The

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111 million globally since its Sept. 17 release, the Korean dystopian drama has, as to be expected, exploded into a real-life phenomenon — with weird and wacky, sometimes disappointing or occasionally dangerous results.St.

Squid Game later this month.According to a report by The Korea Times, the St. John’s Hotel in Gangneung, Gangwon Province will be hosting a real-life version of Squid Game on October 24.

Netflix survival drama about desperate adults competing in deadly children’s games for a chance to escape severe debt hit a little too close to home for Lee Chang-keun.The show has captivated global audiences since its September debut, becoming one of Netflix’s biggest hits.

In 1999, Spain selected “All About My Mother” as its submission for the Foreign Language Academy Award (now known as the International Film Oscar), and the Pedro Almodovar masterpiece won the coveted Oscar. Just three years later, the same Spanish committee passed over Almodovar’s follow-up, “Talk to Her,” which was even more critically acclaimed.

Squid Game's mammoth surge in viewers in South Korea has led to internet service provider SK Broadband to reportedly sue Netflix. The unusual series has skyrocketed in popularity since it was released on the streaming platform last month.

Reuters reported that a spokesperson for SK Broadband said it wants Netflix to pay the costs from increased network traffic and maintenance. “Squid Game” is the No.