La La Land might have been a box office hit, but Ryan Gosling would like a re-do.
La La Land might have been a box office hit, but Ryan Gosling would like a re-do.
EXCLUSIVE: Chloe East (The Fabelmans), Jacqueline Novak (Get on Your Knees) and Jennifer Grant (Babylon) have boarded Sony Pictures‘ romance A Big Bold Beautiful Journey from director Kogonada.
After “Babylon” bombed in theaters in late 2022, many wondered what the future would hold for director Damien Chazelle, if he had any future in Hollywood left. Well, sorry to disappoint, Chazelle haters: his “poison pen letter” to Tinsel Town didn’t oust him from the industry after all, and he’s ready to make his sixth feature over at Paramount. READ MORE: Damien Chazelle Says After ‘Babylon’ Flop, He Won’t Get That “Kind Of Budget Anytime Soon” News of Chazelle’s next project comes out of CinemaCon courtesy of The Playlist’s Gregory Ellwood.
Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer Paramount Pictures CEO Brian Robbins got cheeky about the sales talks surrounding his corporate parent Paramount Global. In a presentation to worldwide theater owners at the annual Las Vegas convention CinemaCon, Robbins got right to the point in his opening remarks about what’s next for his team.
David Ayer may never get to release his director’s cut of “Suicide Squad,” but he’s maintaining relevancy thanks to the success of “The Beekeeper.” Ayer’s latest made $152.6 million at the global box office off a $40 million budget: a big enough success to guarantee that he’ll at least make mid-budget movies for the foreseeable future. READ MORE: ‘The Beekeeper’ Red Band Trailer: Jason Statham Is Out For Revenge In David Ayer’s New Action Film And that’s precisely what Ayer has up next.
EXCLUSIVE: Fresh off the success of his action pic The Beekeeper, David Ayer is continuing to stay busy. The director has signed on to helm Paramount Pictures’ Heart of the Beast. Damien Chazelle and Olivia Hamilton are producing under their Wild Chickens Productions banner as part of their first-look deal with the studio. Ayer and Chris Long will also produce under their Cedar Park Entertainment banner.
EXCLUSIVE: Ethan Embry (Blindspotting) and Li Jun Li (Babylon) have signed on to star in Alma and the Wolf, a new feature from director Michael Patrick Jann (Drop Dead Gorgeous) and writer Abigail Miller.
Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Longtime TCM host Ben Mankiewicz will be returning for more in-depth tête-à-têtes with noted filmmakers. Mankiewicz’s “Talking Pictures: A Movie Memories Podcast” has been renewed for Season 2 by TCM and Max. He announced the renewal on the Season 1 finale featuring guest Bill Hader, star, co-creator and director of HBO’s “Barry” and former “Saturday Night Live” cast member.
Diego Ramos Bechara editor David Bordwell, an influential film scholar and longtime professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, died Feb. 29 after battling a “long illness,” according to the university.
Damien Chazelle is opening up about his career.
As they say in Hollywood quite often, “Who knew?”
A critically reviled box-office bomb or an ambitious and misunderstood marvel that deserves reappraisal? It may take more than a couple of years to assess the legacy of Damien Chazelle‘s “Babylon.” But wherever you stand on the 2022 movie, everyone agrees it was a lot of movie: excessive, derivative, audacious, debauched. A film that polarizing isn’t easy to evaluate, and it remains to be seen if time will be kinder to Chazelle’s latest than initial critics and audiences were.
In perhaps one of the best feel-good stories in Hollywood this year, a coalition of 35 filmmakers have invested in a coalition to save Los Angeles’ fabled Westwood Village Theater. Organized by Jason Reitman, the group will book first-run features and repertory programming from the theater’s directors/caretakers.
Pat Saperstein Deputy Editor UPDATED: Jason Reitman has gathered more than two dozen filmmakers to help acquire Westwood’s historic Village Theater, which will program first-run and repertory programming. The group includes JJ Abrams, Judd Apatow, Damien Chazelle, Chris Columbus, Ryan Coogler, Bradley Cooper, Alfonso Cuarón, Jonathan Dayton, Guillermo del Toro, Valerie Faris, Hannah Fidell, Alejandro González Iñárritu, James Gunn, Sian Heder, Rian Johnson, Gil Kenan, Karyn Kusama, Justin Lin, Phil Lord, David Lowery, Christopher McQuarrie, Chris Miller, Christopher Nolan, Alexander Payne, Todd Phillips, Gina Prince-Bythewood, Jay Roach, Seth Rogen, Emma Seligman, Brad Silberling, Steven Spielberg, Emma Thomas, Denis Villeneuve, Lulu Wang, and Chloé Zhao.
EXCLUSIVE: Jean Smart (Hacks) is developing a limited series about the relationship between a grandmother and her grandson in the final months of her life, which the Emmy winner will star in and executive produce.
The Society of Composers and Lyricists (SCL) will honor the late Robbie Robertson and director Martin Scorsese with the Spirit of Collaboration Award at the 5th Annual SCL Awards, to be held Tuesday, Feb. 13 at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles.
Whiplash” has topped the Sundance Film Festival‘s list of top 10 feature films from the past four decades. In honor of the 40th edition of the festival that starts Thursday, the Sundance Institute surveyed over 500 filmmakers, critics and industry members who selected from nearly 4,000 features that have played the festival.
Award-winning Montreal-based Stranger Things and The Lord Of The Rings VFX studio Rodeo FX has appointed Franck Lambertz to head up its recently opened Paris-based European studio.
Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Iconic, multi-Oscar-winning film “La La Land” is headed back to mainland Chinese cinemas in sessions that dance off on Dec. 22. The worldwide release is overseen by Lionsgate release, while the China re-release is to be piloted by local distributor JL Film.
Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Paul Greengrass has been hired to adapt the big-screen version of T.J. Newman’s novel “Drowning: The Rescue of Flight 1421.” Greengrass will write, direct and produce the film, which is set at Warner Bros. The studio emerged victorious earlier this year in a bidding war, one that drew interest from the likes of Nicole Kidman, Alfonso Cuarón and Steven Spielberg, along with seven-figure offers from Apple and Bruckheimer, Paramount and Damien Chazelle, Legendary and Universal Television.
EXCLUSIVE: Three former Automatik execs are launching a new production company.
Christopher Nolan has been crowned the best director of the past 25 years in a reader’s poll.To coincide with the site’s 25th anniversary, Rotten Tomatoes asked its readers to vote for the best film director of the past quarter century in a tournament-style bracket.A total of 64 directors were pitted against one another in rounds, with Nolan defeating Denis Villenueve (Dune) in the final with 56 per cent of the vote. According to the website, nearly 30,000 votes were cast in the final round.In the semi-final rounds, Damien Chazelle (La La Land) and Jordan Peele (Get Out) were both knocked out.
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Peter Sarsgaard and Cailee Spaeny were among the winners at the 2023 Venice Film Festival!
Guy Lodge Film Critic The closing-night awards ceremony of the 80th Venice Film Festival has concluded, with the critical favorite and presumed frontrunner, Yorgos Lanthimos’s Emma Stone-starring adult fantasy “Poor Things,” living up to the buzz — it has taken the Golden Lion from Damien Chazelle’s jury. Other winners include Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Agnieszka Holland, Matteo Garrone and U.S.
Guy Lodge Film Critic The closing-night awards ceremony of the 80th Venice Film Festival has kicked off, with Yorgos Lanthimos’s “Poor Things,” Agnieszka Holland’s “Green Border” and Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s “Evil Does Not Exist” among the titles most hotly tipped for prizes from the official competition jury headed by Oscar-winning director Damien Chazelle. The list of winners will be updated below as they are announced; full story to follow.
Refresh for latest…: The 80th Venice Film Festival officially draws to a close this evening with the main awards, including the top prize Golden Lion, soon to be handed out inside the Sala Grande.
Republic Pictures President Dan Cohen and producer Annabelle Dunne were among the main representatives of William Friedkin’s last film The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial at its posthumous world premiere at Venice Film Festival over the weekend.
Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Damien Chazelle paid tribute to late great director William Friedkin on Sunday in a moving speech at the Venice Film Festival where Friedkin’s last film “The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial” premiered out-of-competition to warm applause. Friedkin, who died on Aug. 7 in Los Angeles at age 87, completed the film – which stars Kiefer Sutherland as Lt.
Marta Balaga Venice Film Festival’s red carpet swapped glamour for politics on Saturday, hosting a flash mob in solidarity with the Iranian people, fighting against repression, as well as filmmakers who are being oppressed – and arrested – because of their work. Such as “Leila’s Brothers” director Saeed Roustaee, recently sentenced to six months in prison for showing the film in Cannes. He has also been banned from making movies.
Jane Campion, Damien Chazelle, Zar Amir Ebrahimi and Guy Nattiv joined a flash mob on the Venice Film Festival’s red carpet on Saturday in support of the Woman, Life, Freedom protests in Iran.
We’re back, Insiders. Jesse Whittock here. After a week away, we’ve got you covered for all the big news as festival season gears up once again. We’ve been mob-handed in Venice while diligently covering all the major TV and film news around the world. Let’s begin…
Venice Film Festival. But the SAG-AFTRA strike made it impossible for the tennis drama, which MGM pushed to a 2024 release date, to come to the Lido. So instead, Venice kicked off with World War II drama “Comandante” by young Italian auteur Edoardo De Angelis.
Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent The 80th Venice Film Festival kicked off on Wednesday with World War II drama “Comandante” by young Italian auteur Edoardo De Angelis packing a strong political punch. Tensions due to the SAG-AFTRA strike lurked in the background, though without stealing the thunder of strong expectations for this year’s lineup.
The 80th Venice Film Festival officially kicked off Wednesday evening with the world premiere screening of Edoardo De Angelis’ Italian World War II submarine drama Comandante. Running in competition, the film took over the slot vacated by Luca Guadagnino’s tennis drama Challengers, which backed out of the spot amid the actors strike.
Ellise Shafer Venice Film Festival international jury president Damien Chazelle showed support for the ongoing strikes in Hollywood at the event’s first press conference, sporting a “Writers Guild on Strike” shirt and pin. During the jury press conference — which also included artistic director Alberto Barbera, La Biennale president Roberto Cicutto, Orizzonti president Jonas Carpignano and Luigi De Laurentiis president Alice Diop — Chazelle made a powerful statement about the current state of Hollywood, touting “art over content.” “Today is the 121st day that the writers in Hollywood have been on strike; the 48th day that the actors have been on strike,” Chazelle began.
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