Night 4 of “BTS Week” went off in style.
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Gregg Goldstein Naomi Watts and director Phillip Noyce are joining forces for the thriller “Lakewood,” set to begin filming Sept.
16 in Ontario under strict COVID-19 protocols.The film, written by Chris Sparling (“Buried,” “Greenland”) and produced by Boies/Schiller’s Zack Schiller and David Boies, Limelight’s Dylan Sellers and Chris Parker, Untapped’s Andrew Corkin, star Watts for Jam Tart Films and Stratagem’s Alex Lalonde, has echoes from today’s headlines.“Lakewood” follows a mother (Watts)
.Night 4 of “BTS Week” went off in style.
“Avatar” director James Cameron gave an exciting update about the second and third film’s progress. “Avatar 2” is slated to be released Dec. 16, 2022, and “Avatar 3” on Dec. 20, 2024, Disney announced in July.Two more sequels are expected in 2026 and 2028.
Angelique Jackson The Sundance Institute announced today that Gina Duncan will join the Sundance Film Festival team as producing director. In the newly-created role, she will report to festival director Tabitha Jackson and work closely with programming director Kim Yutani.Duncan most recently served as V.P.
Though we don’t expect Spicoli to show up in Paul Thomas Anderson’s upcoming film about a kid growing up in Southern California during the ‘70s, social media is abuzz with a sighting of Sean Penn on the set of the filmmaker’s latest production, hinting that maybe the actor could be in the cast of the film.
After Game of Thrones ended, in the summer of 2019, fans were looking forward to watch Naomi Watts in a Game of Thrones prequel. The King Kong star was roped in to play a crucial character in the prequel set 5,000 years before the members of the Lannister House walked into Winterfell and set the ball rolling for the events of the GoT.
Chris Willman Music WriterThe sirens on the rocks are summoning everyone back.
Below Deck is back, back on board My Seanna — and back home in the Caribbean. ET has your exclusive first look at season 8 of the Bravo hit, which includes lots of new faces and a couple familiar ones, too.«It's been years since I've been in the Caribbean, and I missed the hell out of it,» Captain Lee Rosbach says in the trailer.
Big Little Lies star Chris Backus, Luna Lauren Velez, and Holly Taylor are set to appear opposite Tyrese Gibson, John Malkovich and Michael Jai White in director Jon Keeyes’ new action thriller Red 48 for Yale Productions.
Cuties director Maïmouna Doucouré has defended her Netflix film amid a potential US government investigation.The film, which won a directing award at Sundance but has been the subject of controversy since its release on September 9, is still at the centre of debates about the sexualisation of children.“It’s because I saw so many things and so many issues around me lived by young girls, that I decided to make this film and sound an alarm and say we need to protect our children,” Doucouré
Also Read: 'Shadow in the Cloud' Star Chloe Grace Moretz on Fighting Through Her Claustrophobia to Play WW2 Pilot (Video)“Overnight, his relationship, the love of his life, they’re soulmates these two, they met when they were kids, and he changed into principal carer, and I thought that was a magnificent story to tell that I hadn’t seen before on film,” Lincoln added.
Cuties director Maïmouna Doucouré has defended her French indie film on Netflix from accusations that it hyper-sexualizes prepubescent girls, as she argued her directorial debut aimed at social commentary and change. "It's because I saw so many things and so many issues around me lived by young girls, that I decided to make this film and sound an alarm and say, 'We need to protect our children,'" Doucouré told a TIFF panel on French filmmakers Monday.
Naomi Watts said co-starring with a live magpie in Penguin Bloom at first gave her the jitters. "That made me nervous.
“Penguin Bloom” may star Naomi Watts, Andrew Lincoln and Jacki Weaver, but it’s the film’s scene-stealing birds that are nabbing all the attention — including from the stars themselves.
Guy Lodge Film CriticOn the final night of the Venice Film Festival, the awards ceremony of the official selection is currently in progress.Prizes will be handed out in the virtual reality and debut feature contests, before winners in the Horizons section, under the jury presidency of French filmmaker Claire Denis, are announced.
Tomris Laffly There is a world in which the wistfully expressive Naomi Watts would be among the boldest actors working today, like her contemporaries Charlize Theron and Nicole Kidman. But for every daring “Luce” or “While We’re Young,” Watts seems to have a tame “Penguin Bloom” on her résumé: middling projects with predictable beats.
“Mom’s not the same person she once was,” narrates adolescent Noah Bloom (Griffin Murray-Johnston) over the coda of “Penguin Bloom.” He continues, “She’s not the person she wanted to be, but for me, she’s so much more than that.” This is ultimately the place at which any movie centered around the experience of living with a disability should arrive, acknowledging that the paralyzing fall endured by Sam Bloom (Naomi Watts) does not mark the end of life as she knew it but rather a reconstitution
Naomi Watts left fans open-mouthed after sharing an unbelievable video to Instagram in which she’s totally unrecognisable. The Australian star, 51, who is known for her natural beauty, looked anything but in her latest social media post. However, the horrifying results thankfully aren’t permanent as it was just a filter changing up her look. Not that it made her appearance any less scary.
Alexandra Del Rosario Associate Editor/Nights & WeekendsAward-winning documentary filmmaker, journalist and U.C. Berkeley lecturer Carrie Lozano will now be the Sundance Institute’s newest Documentary Film Program Director.