‘Passages’ Director, Distributor React To Film’s NC-17 Rating By MPA, Plan To Release It Unrated And Uncut

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Marta Balaga FilmSharks has picked up world sales rights to Finnish children’s film “Snot & Splash: The Mystery of Disappearing Holes.” “It was a bidding war. They got offers from everybody,” said FilmSharks CEO Guido Rud. “Snot & Splash” (“Räkä ja Roiskis”) is produced by It’s Alive Films – founded by director Teemu Nikki and Jani Pösö – and set for distribution in its native Finland (Scanbox), Scandinavian sub distribution by Sweden (Folkets Bio) and Norway (Norsk Filmdistribusjon), and Italy in the spring (I Wonder Pictures).

**Editor’s Note: This episode of Scene 2 Seen was taped before the July 14th start of the actor’s strike.

Foals have teased new music as well as their plans for their upcoming Reading & Leeds set while at Lollapalooza 2023.While speaking to NME backstage at this year’s edition of Chicago’s famous music festival, Foals shared that they were working on some new music. Frontman Yannis Philippakis said: “We’ve got a song that is unfinished that we call ‘Tranquillity’, it’s not going to be called that in the future but we were all listening to it and vibing with it the other day.”He continued: “It was something we were writing and recording around the time of ‘Life Is Yours’ and it didn’t quite fit but it’s really exciting and is kind of the coolest thing we’ve ever written so we might try to finish that at some point.”The band also shared what they have coming up for their headlining set at Reading & Leeds later this month.“We’re getting chased for the setlist which feels a bit early since it’s a few weeks away,” said Philippakis.

Michaela Zee “The Incredible Hulk” director Louis Leterrier has revealed there were plans for a potential sequel to the 2008 superhero movie. “Yeah there was, like, a whole sequel,” Leterrier said in an interview with Comicbook.com, adding that the scrapped film would have featured variations of the Hulk. “There was, like, Grey Hulk, Red Hulks — there was a lot of good stuff that we were planning.” Edward Norton starred as Bruce Banner/Hulk in “The Incredible Hulk,” but neither he nor the film’s storyline and characters were included in future MCU projects.

Festivals past are populating a busy specialty market this weekend with films from Sundance and Venice. Sony Pictures Classics is giving Randall Park’s Shortcomings a substantial 400+ screen release. See Deadline review. Mubi is out with Passages in New York and LA – both premiered to critical acclaim in Park City.

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When it comes to “Passages,” Ira Sachs’ witty, wise and very sexy Parisian drama, it all started with Franz Rogowski, who plays the film’s self-absorbed film director, Tomas. “I had seen Michael Haneke’s “Happy End” starring Franz,” remembers Sachs, the auteur of richly textured, grown-up gems such as “Love is Strange,” “Little Men” and “Keep the Lights On,” recently joining me for an interview about his latest, opening in theaters this week.

Follow OK! on Threads here: https://www.threads.net/@ok_mag Newly-engaged Molly-Mae Hague has lifted the lid on her plans to wed Love Island boyfriend Tommy Fury.The loved-up duo, both 24 - who met on the much-loved ITV2 dating show back in 2019 and have just celebrated their fourth anniversary - became engaged in July after Tommy planned a surprise proposal on a beautiful cliff-edge in Ibiza. And now, in the widely-anticipated YouTube video, the blonde bombshell shut down rumours that she and her boxer beau are planning to tie the knot abroad, and will instead opt for a traditional UK wedding, as Tommy is religious.

While a lot of the debate and discussion regarding Zack Snyder films revolves around his superhero work, people tend to forget that before he worked on DC films, he was largely known for films like “300” and “Dawn of the Dead.” He also released his first ever all-original film, “Sucker Punch.” But that film received mixed reviews and is generally looked at as a lesser Snyder movie.

While a lot of the debate and discussion regarding Zack Snyder films revolves around his superhero work, people tend to forget that before he worked on DC films, he was largely known for films like “300” and “Dawn of the Dead.” He also released his first ever all-original film, “Sucker Punch.” But that film received mixed reviews and is generally looked at as a lesser Snyder movie.

Kate Aurthur editor SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains spoilers from “With Open Eyes,” the series finale of HBO’s “Succession,” now streaming on Max — and if you haven’t watched it, for God’s sake, please go do that. Sarah Snook didn’t know that “Succession” was ending until she read the script for the Season 4 finale: She was on her way to the show’s last table read of the season when she figured it out. “I was quickly devouring it in the car on the way there,” Snook said during a pre-strike interview for the Aug.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Venice Film Festival artistic director Alberto Barbera is in a good mood after Tuesday’s lineup announcement managed to stave off the impact of the SAG-AFTRA strike, something which could have been “devastating” to the event, he says. In the end, the only U.S. film that skipped the Lido is Luca Guadagnino’s Zendaya-starrer “Challengers,” which Barbera says was against Guadagnino’s wishes.

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In a move that harkens back to the 1950s while simultaneously echoing the ongoing censorship of depictions of LGBTQ identity nationwide, the Motion Picture Association has given the upcoming queer film Passages an NC-17 rating.“We hunger for movies that are in any proximity to our own experience,” director Ira Sachs told Los Angeles Times, “and to find a movie like this, which is then shut out, is, to me, depressing and reactionary.”To be sure, the Sundance drama is quite sensual — it centers on a Parisian love triangle between a movie director (Franz Rogowski), his artist husband (Ben Whishaw), and a teacher (Adèle Exarchopoulos).And yes, it has its fair share of sex and nudity — including a two-minute scene of the two husbands shot in a single take. But none of the scenes are particularly indelicate or over-the-top, the film’s distributor MUBI said in a statement.For Sachs, the rating is “a form of cultural censorship that is quite dangerous, particularly in a culture which is already battling, in such extreme ways, the possibility of LGBT imagery to exist.”“MUBI has officially rejected this NC-17 rating,” the film’s distributor said, per Variety.

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Travis Scott has confirmed that his long-awaited new album ‘Utopia’ will be released next week (July 28) along with an accompanying film.A new movie called Circus Maximus will come to cinemas next Friday alongside the album, which has been teased for multiple years.Scott made the announcement during his performance at the Rolling Loud Miami festival last night (July 22).Before the end of his set, he played a trailer for the album and film on the big screens at the festival, which you can watch below.You just had to be there. #rollingloud #rollingloudmiami #travisscott ♬ original sound – Rolling Loud On the day that ‘Utopia’ and Circus Maximus are both released, Scott will also play an album launch party for his long-awaited LP, to be held at the historic site of the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt.Shortly after the gig was announced, the Egyptian Musicians Syndicate appeared to announce (via Egypt Today) that it would no longer go ahead due to safety concerns and “peculiar rituals performed by the star during his performance, contradicting our authentic societal values and traditions.”However, the gig is still set to go ahead according to promoter Live Nation.‘Utopia’ will serve as the follow-up to Travis Scott’s acclaimed 2018 effort ‘Astroworld’.

Futurama came back to San Diego Comic-Con today to celebrate the revival of the Matt Groening-David X. Cohen series, which hits Hulu on Monday, July 24. Attendees in a packed Ballroom 20 were entreated to the season’s first episode “The Impossible Stream”

Quavo has confirmed a release date and full details of his forthcoming album, ‘Rocket Power’.The album was confirmed earlier this year, and has now been locked down for an August 14 release date.Announcing ‘Rocket Power’ in May, Quavo described the album as “my therapy” following the death of Migos bandmate Takeoff.“This album is a true reflection of how I feel right now,” he wrote in an Instagram post. Sometimes I’m good, sometimes I’m down, sometimes I’m disappointed, sometimes I fall apart, but then I ALWAYS find my strength again.

The 2023 Women’s World Cup kicked off as planned in Auckland on Thursday, with the co-hosting nation New Zealand triumphing in the opening match against Norway just hours after a lone shooter killed two people and injured six others in the city.