All aboard the Hogwarts Express!
17.11.2021 - 21:59 / theplaylist.net
Ok, so today we learned Jane Campion will never take on a superhero film because she “actually hates” them. But that doesn’t mean that every auteur filmmaker is anti-superhero, right? To serve as the yin to Campion’s yang, we have Pedro Almodóvar, who spoke to Variety and gave a very different answer.
All aboard the Hogwarts Express!
The first look at the Harry Potter reunion for HBO Max just debuted online!
AFI EUROPEAN UNION FILM SHOWCASEA total of 53 films from all 27 European Union member states screen in-person at this year’s 34th annual showcase, featuring some of the best new films and most promising new filmmakers from the continent, including the latest from legendary gay Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar, whose Parallel Mothers closes out the showcase on Friday, Dec.
K.J. Yossman “Doctor Who” star Peter Capaldi and Raindance founder Elliot Grove have been honored at the first ever British Short Film Awards.Capaldi was given the Icon Award while Grove was handed the Impact AwardThe British Short Film Awards, in partnership with the HearArt Project, were hosted by presenter Alex Zane on Friday evening.
Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz are one powerhouse acting duo, and the two are each other's biggest supporters.The couple and Oscar winners are known for making the awards season rounds, and as Bardem told ET's Nischelle Turner, «it helps» to have his lady love around to navigate the craziness of it all.«I'm very proud of her.
Leo Barraclough International Features EditorSlovak filmmaker Peter Kerekes’ “107 Mothers,” which premiered in Venice Film Festival’s Horizons section and was selected as the Slovak entry for the Best International Feature Film category of the 94th Academy Awards, has won the Arab Critics’ Award for European Films.
VIS Social Impact, the cause-driven production division of ViacomCBS International Studios, is teaming with Pedro Almodóvar’s El Deseo and Spanish indie Mogambo for documentary series Not A Bride. Frequent Almodovar collaborator Penelope Cruz will executive produce and narrate the four-part series which Paramount+ has acquired internationally.
Naman Ramachandran VIS Social Impact, Pedro Almodóvar’s production company El Deseo, and Spanish production company Mogambo (“1917”) are co-producing documentary series “Not a Bride.”The four-part series will be executive produced and narrated by Spanish actor Penélope Cruz and written and directed by Dario Troiani (“Violet”).
Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentBritish director Peter Webber (“Girl With a Pearl Earring,” “Hannibal Rising”) is attached to direct an adaptation of Italian psychological thriller “Le Parole Lo Sanno” (“You Will Find the Words”), which is being produced by Rome-based shingle Fenix Entertainment.Webber, who more recently directed ITV miniseries “Tutankhamun” and high-end Arabic historical skein “Kingdoms of Fire,” said an Oscar-nominated English-language screenwriter is on board to
EXCLUSIVE: Concussion filmmaker Peter Landesman will adapt and direct Scout Comics’ comic series The Recount into a feature film for Don Handfield’s Motor Content and Jonathan Kadin’s KadinCreative. Nick Jones Jr. will co-write with Landesman.
Jamie Lang Already selected as this year’s Spanish Best International Feature Film submission for the Oscars, Fernando León de Aranoa’s dark workplace comedy “The Good Boss,” starring Javier Bardem, has set a new record for most Spanish Academy Goya Award nominations with 20, ahead of Icíar Bollaín’s standout Basque drama “Maixabel” with 14 and Pedro Almodóvar’s “Parallel Mothers,” which secured eight.The 20 nominations include: Best picture, director, original screenplay, original music, lead
If history had gone a bit differently, it might have been The Beatles who first brought The Lord the Rings to the big screen.
J.K. Rowling is opting out.
Penelope Cruz is continuing one of her most fruitful collaborations.
Parallel Mothers.” Whenever the crew would come to collect the doll she was using as a stand-in for a flesh-and-blood baby, Cruz tensed up. She became combative.
Maggie Gyllenhaal had an unusual request for husband Peter Sarsgaard while directing him in an episode of the series “Homemade”.
Deadline has launched the streaming site for Contenders Film: Los Angeles, featuring the full panels from all 31 buzzy awards-season movies that made up Sunday’s all-day showcase at the DGA Theater.
Palm Springs International Film Awards! On Monday, it was announced that the 47-year-old actress will be the recipient of the International Star Award, Actress for her performance in Pedro Almodóvar's .In Parallel Mothers, two women share a hospital room where they are going to give birth. Both are single and became pregnant by accident.