Michelle Pfeiffer On ‘French Exit’: “It Was Unlike Anything I Had Ever Read” – Contenders Film

“My plan was to die before the money ran out” has become the anthem and tagline of the Sony Pictures Classics’ French Exit starring Michelle Pfeiffer as a 60-year-old penniless Manhattan socialite — a role that has been earning her plenty of awards season buzz.

Lucas Hedges is consistently good in everything he does — with the Oscar nomination secured at age 20 to prove it — but he is never better than when he's with his ladies: First, there was Frances (McDormand, in ) then Nicole (Kidman in ), and then Julia (Roberts in ).

“They’re not normal people!”He’s right, of course — they’re not normal people. But they are fun to be around, in an exasperating kind of way.“French Exit” was directed by Azazel Jacobs (“Momma’s Man,” “The Lovers”) and adapted by Patrick deWitt from his 2018 novel.

28 years. That’s how long it’s been since Michelle Pfeiffer was nominated for an Academy Award.

When the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival, the city’s largest film festival, gets underway February 17, it will look a little different from previous seasons. It’s a virtual event, save for some drive-in screenings, but the LGBTQ content is still abundant.

Despite having a majorly successful career, Michelle Pfeiffer still has her regrets. Speaking with The New Yorker, Pfeiffer, 62, reflected on her career and spoke on passing up the lead female role as Clarice Starling in the 1991 film, "Silence of the Lambs," which ultimately went to Jodie Foster.  When asked if she had regrets on things she didn’t do, the actress said, "No, but sometimes you just regret that you can’t maybe do both things" — referring to her busy schedule at that time.

Sony Pictures Classics has made some tweaks to its release schedule for four upcoming pics and one that’s already in theaters.

Michelle Pfeiffer has spoken about her decision to never work with her husband, David E.

Clarice Starling: an iconic role played by an iconic actress that was almost played by another iconic actress.

Michelle Pfeiffer is recalling the reason why she passed on starring as Clarice Sterling in the iconic movie, The Silence of the Lambs.

The Silence Of The Lambs.The revelation comes as new TV series Clarice, a spin-off of the legendary 1991 film, gets ready to air in the US this month.“With Silence of the Lambs, I was trepidatious,” Pfeiffer told the New Yorker in a new interview.

Michelle Pfeiffer is taking a trip down memory lane.

head-on into their car. Jean-Baptiste Ozan, 27, was allowed to walk free from court after a sheriff noted his victims had forgiven him for causing their life-changing injuries.

Staying safe. When Amanda Gorman saw Michelle Obama yelling at Barack Obama at the inauguration, she wondered why like the rest of the country. Then she heard what the former First Lady was telling her husband and it all made sense.

Kelly Reichardt’s First Cow, which won the New York Film Critics’ Association award for best picture of 2020, significantly centers on food and food preparation two centuries ago in the Pacific Northwest region we now call Oregon, four decades before the area became an American state.

“When I thought of Billie Holiday, I just thought of her as a jazz singer, maybe a troubled artist, you hear about drugs, a little bit of trouble with the law,” says Lee Daniels, director of the upcoming biopic The United States vs. Billie Holiday. With all that Holiday accomplished during her storied career, rarely highlighted is her work in the civil rights movement of the 1930s and ’40s, which was why Daniels was inspired to tackle this project.

Lee Isaac Chung’s family drama Minari is named after a Korean herb that “comes in the pockets of immigrants, dies in the first year, thrives in the second, purifies the water and the soil around it.” There couldn’t be a more perfect analogy for this story about the American Dream.

Deadline’s signature Contenders event has come a long way since it started over a decade ago. Designed then—and now—as a kind of one-stop shop for industry awards voters, it is packed with clips and interviews to provide a good idea of which movies should be seen before casting a ballot.