Marie Kreutzer’s ‘Corsage’ & Ukrainian Doc ‘Liturgy Of Anti-Tank Obstacles’, From ‘Pamfir’ Director Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk, Among Competition Titles Set For Sarajevo Film Festival

Porter, The Dropout star reflected on some of the uncomfortable situations she experienced early on in her career.“Being 19, walking around without my underwear on — like, are you kidding me?” she said. “How did I let that happen? Oh, I know why: I was 19, and I didn’t want to upset anybody, and I wanted to keep my job. That’s why.”Earlier this year, Seyfried admitted to being “grossed out” by male fans who would frequently approach her and mention a scene from Mean Girls, in which her character Karen Smith said she could predict the weather by holding her breasts.“I always felt really grossed out by that,” she told Marie Claire.

Amanda Seyfried is reflecting on her career and the pressure she felt over shooting nude scenes at a young age. The Dropout Emmy-nominated actor wishes there were intimacy coordinators back when she started as she remembers being put in uncomfortable situations.

“Mean Girls” and “Veronica Mars,” but she sure regrets her early roles.Now 36 years old, the actress recalled the start of her career, calling out one uncomfortable incident in which she was naked on set as a teen.“Being 19, walking around without my underwear on – like, are you kidding me? How did I let that happen?” Seyfried told Porter magazine without divulging which role it was.“Oh, I know why: I was 19 and I didn’t want to upset anybody, and I wanted to keep my job. That’s why.”However, the “Mamma Mia” star said she emerged from Hollywood’s pre-#MeToo time “pretty unscathed.”The actress, who got her start on “All My Children” and “As the World Turns,” also got candid with Marie Claire in May about the creepy interactions she had with male fans after “Mean Girls” premiered in 2004.Her character, Karen Smith, famously believed that she could predict the weather by holding up her breasts, an anecdote Seyfried said men would use as a pickup line.“I always felt really grossed out by that,” Seyfried noted.

Amanda Seyfried recently opened up about the early years of her career and the situations she was put in as a young actress.  "Being 19, walking around without my underwear on, like, are you kidding me? How did I let that happen?" she told Porter.  "Oh, I know why: I was 19 and I didn't want to upset anybody, and I wanted to keep my job.That's why," she said. Amanda Seyfried opened up about the uncomfortable situations she was put in as a young actress.  ( Cindy Ord/WireImage) Seyfried acted in "As the World Turns" and "All My Children" to kick of her career, but things really picked up for the young actress when she was 18 years old and played Karen Smith in "Mean Girls" with Lindsay Lohan and Rachel McAdams.  She previously opened up in an interview with Marie Claire about the uncomfortable comments she received after playing that role, particularly when it came to the scene where her character predicted the weather by holding her breasts.

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorIFC Films has set the U.S. release date for “Corsage,” whose star Vicky Krieps won the best performance prize in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival. Marie Kreutzer’s film will have its North American premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, and the New York Film Festival has just announced that the film will screen there too.

set to kick off on Sept. 30 with Noah Baumbach’s “White Noise” and close with the Oct.

“Dalíland” is set to close out the 47th Toronto International Film Festival.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent“The Batman” actor Andy Serkis is set to showrun and direct “Madame!,” an epic period series about the life of Marie Tussaud, the visionary French artist known for her wax sculptures and the world-famous museum Madame Tussauds.Newen Connect, the distribution arm of TF1 Group-owned Newen Studios, has signed a deal with Imaginarium Productions, the company founded by Serkis and Jonathan Cavendish, to co-develop and distribute the series which Serkis created. Cavendish will produce alongside Marie Guillaumond at Felicita Films.The compelling series will shed light on this ruthless yet pioneering business woman who built her business, starting in 18th century Paris, during the age of enlightenment, the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, before travelling to England.

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has Dave Bautista circling to star in Unleashed, with TAG‘s Jeff Tomsic attached to direct a script by Blockers scribes Jim & Brian Kehoe.

Jovan Marjanović has been with the Sarajevo Film Festival for more than two decades and while he is what he describes as “a true child of the festival” this year marks the first edition where he’ll sit as director of the much-loved Balkan event, taking the reins from founder and long-time director Mirsad Purivatra.

Bart Walker will join Gersh as Senior Partner in the New York office. The longtime ICM agent, who decided not to stay when CAA acquired that agency, will continue to represent his esteemed clients in film, television and theatre including Oscar nominees/winners such as David Byrne, Lisa Cholodenko, Sofia Coppola, Tamara Jenkins, Spike Lee, Mira Nair, Oliver Stone and Thomas Vinterberg; Cannes, Venice and Sundance prize winners such as Mati Diop, Michel Franco, Mia Hansen-Love, Jim Jarmusch, The Kloster Brothers, and Lorenzo Vigas: and multi-hyphenate artists such as Benoit Delhomme, Iram Haq, Sally Potter, Richard Press, and Olmo Schnabel.

Amanda Holden sparked an online frenzy with her latest sun-kissed snap captured during her family getaway to Greece.READ: Amanda Holden channels inner Victoria Beckham in hilarious postTaking to Instagram, the Britain's Got Talent judge shared a stunning mother-daughter photo against a dreamlike mountain background bathed in hazy sunshine. Posing with Lexi, 16, and Hollie, ten, Amanda looked every inch the doting mum.WATCH: Amanda Holden and daughter Hollie join forces for fun videoDressed for an evening out, the 51-year-old slipped into a silky lime green dress emblazoned with a black and white tiger.

Russia has added to its so-called stop-list, barring a further 39 British politicians, officials, business people and journalists from entering the country including TV presenter Piers Morgan. 

Anna Marie de la Fuente Brazilian filmmaker Julia Murat’s provocative drama “Rule 34” (“Regra 34”) has shared its trailer exclusively with Variety before its bow at the Locarno Film Festival.If the trailer is anything to go by, the movie will make the filmmakers behind “50 Shades of Gray” blush. “Rule 34” competes in the official section of the Swiss festival which posts the following disclaimer on its site: “This film features scenes that could shock the sensitivity of some viewers.”As explained in the Urban Dictionary, Rule 34 refers to “the 34th rule of the Internet, which states that any object, character, or media franchise imaginable has porn associated with it.”“Rule 34” turns on 23-year-old Simone (played by Sol Miranda) who studies criminal law and advocates for women’s rights.

Great British Bake Off star Val Stones seems a little baffled to hear from fans that her voice features in new animated film DC League of Super-Pets. Val starred in the 2016 series when Mary Berry was still judging alongside Paul Hollywood, but was sadly the fifth contestant to be booted out after a disastrous pastry week. At the time, Val amused viewers by listening to her cakes and performing aerobics while baking.

Anna Marie de la Fuente Chile’s Santiago Lab, the Santiago Film Festival’s industry initiative to support Ibero-American projects in development, has selected 28 titles, 14 fiction and 14 documentaries, culled out of hundreds of entries from across Latin America and Spain.Some of the titles were picked from other festivals’ industry events such as “Diamante,” from Malaga’s Mafiz; Constanza Figari’s “A Woman Wants to Die,” which Sanfic awarded at Industria Guadalajara this year, along with “MC Silencio,” a Colombian production from Medellin, an emerging audiovisual hub in Colombia, said Sanfic Industry head and festival co-founder, Gabriela Sandoval.The same goes for some of the documentaries such as “The Silence of a Patio” a gripping documentary about the dark history of the Casa de la Beneficencia of Castellón, Spain which was presented at Doc Valencia. Docu “Bloques Erraticos” is the first full-length feature doc of Thomas Woodroffe whose acclaimed shorts include “Austral Fever” and “Holding Desire.” Sanfic Industry leaned on its advisors for the selection.

At the Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony (on Thursday 28 July 2022), Tom Daley will make a very public stand on the issue of LGBT+ rights in the Commonwealth. "I’ve experienced homophobia all my life, competing in countries where it’s illegal to be me and where I don’t feel safe to leave the venue I’m competing in,” Tom, who came out in 2013 and married husband Dustin Lance Black in 2017 will say.

Faith Santilla has been promoted to assistant executive director of the DGA, the position formerly held by Steven Knauss shortly before his death in March at age 42.