Ayesha Curry and her daughters got to experience a little Disney magic this week.
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Actress, writer and director Mélanie Laurent brings her adapted screenplay “The Mad Women’s Ball”, based on the novel Le bal des folles by Victoria Mas, to the Toronto International Film Festival.
Laurent talks about what initially drew her to create the adapted screenplay, telling ET Canada she was “obsessed” with the book by Mas: “I was working on the beginning of a script about the witches in the middle age and that producer called me and told me about the book.”
She says she found Mas’ novel
Ayesha Curry and her daughters got to experience a little Disney magic this week.
Mónica Marie Zorrilla Hunter Schafer got to present an award tonight to her new friend— Ella Yelich-O’Connor, or, as the rest of us know her, Lorde.But, before they were pals, Schafer was introduced to Lorde the same way we all were, she said in her speech while introducing the honoree at Variety’s Power of Women event: through her 2013 song “Royals.”“Lorde’s debut album and song were everything.
Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterKino Lorber, the New York-based independent film distributor, is launching a free streaming channel dedicated to all things horror.The platform, titled Kino Cult, will be ad-supported and will featured hundreds of hours of curated films, with new titles added monthly. It bows in the U.S.
“Free Guy” is showing his love for The Great White North.
September sued Disney for trademark infringement, accusing the studio of using his father’s likeness without permission for the character Duke Caboom that was voiced by Keanu Reeves in “Toy Story 4.”Though it never refers to Knievel by name, “Toy Story 4” refers to Duke Caboom as a 1970s toy based on Canada’s greatest stuntman.
Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorApple told the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees — which is on the cusp of a member vote to authorize a strike — that Apple TV Plus had fewer than 20 million subscribers in the U.S. and Canada as of July 2021, according to the union.By claiming it had under the 20 million-subscriber threshold for the U.S.
Scotland dates on their world tour for next year. The group are due to play at Cooper Park, Elgin next spring on 16 April 2022 as well as headlining Lanarkshire 's Stereofunk festival on its return on April 30.
The “Muppets” make their way to “The Haunted Mansion” in Disney’s star-studded new movie.
WBTV hosted a panel with top women creators as part of its CTAM presentation on Tuesday where they shared insight into their writer’s rooms and how they’re tackling immigration storylines as the real world evolves.
Julia Ducournau the Palme d’Or at Cannes and Audrey Diwan just won the Golden Lion in Venice.Laurent: When we gave the prize to Julia for “Titane,” she came on stage, she was very moved. She made a beautiful speech.
Christy Carlson Romano is opening up about the story of how she “lost” the role of Mia Thermopolis in The Princess Diaries to Anne Hathaway.
Did you know that Ben Platt and Beanie Feldstein went to high school together and even were prom dates?!
It took a lot of reassurance to get Yasmin Warsame to make her acting debut in the TIFF drama “The Gravedigger’s Wife”. The Canadian-Somali model was very comfortable in front of the camera when it came to still fashion photography, but film was a new challenge for her.
With a prolific career as a documentary filmmaker spanning more than 54 years and 53 films – and counting – Alanis Obomsawin has no plans to slow down any time soon.
Mélanie Laurent cast an assortment of different actresses with disabilities for her new film “The Mad Women’s Ball,” which is set inside a 19th century French psychiatric institution. Because the film is about how women in this time were frequently mistreated and misunderstood, she wanted to make sure her movie could celebrate these women.
Filmmaker Terrence Davies chose “Mary Queen of Scots” star Jack Lowden to play World War One poet Siegfried Sassoon in his TIFF biopic “Benediction” and he says the actor’s transformation into the real life soldier and poet was “an absolute joy to witness.”
For generations, women who pushed against their expected roles in life were written off as mad, and in extreme cases, locked away. For equally as long, these women were fodder for art that depicted their madness as evil.
Mélanie Laurent adapted, directs and stars in The Mad Women’s Ball (Le Bal Des Folles), a French Amazon Original that premiered in the Galas section at the Toronto International Film Festival. Lou de Laâge, who worked with Laurent in Breathe, co-stars in the moving story of oppressed women in late 19th century France. Based on the novel by Victoria Mas, it blends real-life characters with fictional ones in the disturbing setting of a mental institution.