‘Lamb’ Transcends Its Delicious Weirdness To Thoughtfully Explore Grief, Deliverance, & Humanity’s Place In The World [Fantastic Fest]

Valdimar Jóhannsson’s Lamb has been selected as Iceland’s official entry for the Best International Feature Film category at the 2022 Academy Awards. Lamb, which debuted in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section and won its Prize of Originality is Jóhannsson’s first feature and is released domestically by A24. This past weekend, it hit the Top 10 for the second frame running at the North American box office, surging past $2M.

Noomi Rapace steps out in a chic cutout dress for the premiere of Lamb during the 2021 BFI London Film Festival at the Odeon Luxe West End on Friday (October 15) in London, England.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorNoomi Rapace and Hilmir Snær Guðnason star in Valdimar Jóhannsson’s A24 drama “Lamb” as a couple, Maria and Ingvar, who live on a remote farm in Iceland and discover that one of their sheep has given birth to a lamb that is half human. The two decide to raise the half-lamb half-human creature as their own child.

IFC presents Mia Hansen-Løve’s Cannes entry Bergman Island, Searchlight debuts Antlers, Film Movement brings Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy to the arthouse this weekend, as A24’s surprise hit Lamb and Greenwich Entertainment’s The Rescue go wider week two after a strong open. It’s early days but a nascent specialty revival may be in the works ahead of a stream of potential hits from The French Dispatch to Spencer to Belfast.

Nicola Sturgeon has said COP26 could be the world's "last chance" to tackle climate change.

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NatGeo’s The Rescue by Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin (Free Solo) stormed the specialty box off in five runs in NYC, LA and Chicago this weekend with a nearly $14,000 per screen average — the best opening PSA for a documentary playing in more than one market in over two years. (Estimated three-day cume was $69,662, per screen average $13,932.)

Naman Ramachandran The ice hockey rivalry between Canada and the USSR, one of the biggest sporting rivalries in the world, is to be the subject of a limited documentary series.“72” (working title), will focus on The Summit Series, a pivotal set of eight games played between the two nations in 1972 in Canada and Russia where political rivalry equalled the on-field competition. The tournament was rife with allegations of dirty play and disputes over officiating.

Noughties girl band, tATu, looked unrecognisable as they reunited to announce a new tour this week. Lena Katina and Julia Volkova are best-known for their chart-topping tracks such as All The Things She Said and Not Gonna Get Us.The Russian stars began performing together in 1999 and made records throughout the early 2000s, before parting ways to pursue solo careers in 2011.

Marvel's latest big budget entry hit theaters and Disney+ the same day after being delayed more than a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.Scarlett Johansson is back as Natasha Romanoff in the film, who has to return to Russia and reunite with her sister (Florence Pugh) to stop an immensely powerful villain.

Danishka Esterhazy’s new remake/reimagining/whatever of “Slumber Party Massacre” begins with an idea so ingenious, it’s surprising no one’s done it before: packing a full feature’s worth of action into the pre-title sequence.

EXCLUSIVE: Saban Films is finalizing a deal to acquire The Exorcism of God, a horror drama from Alejandro Hidalgo (The House at the End of Time), which is set to premiere today at Fantastic Fest.

It’s amusing to remember that back when the original “V/H/S” was released, some resisted or dismissed it because they were tired of found footage movies. Yet here we are, nine years later, and while the format certainly isn’t as ubiquitous as it was, this franchise has proven durable; “V/H/S/2” was, if anything, better than its predecessor.