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The 2022 BAFTAs ceremony is happening today and we’ll be rounding up all of the fashion in this post!

The Sparks Brothers has won Best Music Film at the BandLab NME Awards 2022.The Edgar Wright-directed documentary about the band Sparks beat out Billie Eilish: The World’s A Little Blurry, If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power, Oasis Knebworth 1996 and Questlove’s Summer Of Soul for the win.“We’re so honoured to be given the finger by NME,” Russel Mael said while accepting the award remotely. “Thanks to the great director Edgar Wright and the whole team who made this wonderful film,” he added.His brother Ron Mael, also shared his “thank you”, noting that he was “deeply appreciative of this award” before throwing up a celebratory middle finger.

Last Night In Soho, the nostalgic sinister feature from director Edgar Wright, has won Best Film at the BandLab NME Awards 2022.The film beat out Licorice Pizza, Promising Young Woman, Sound Of Metal, and The Harder They Fall for the award.Ahead of presenting the award, Stath Lets Flats star and creator Jamie Demetriou said: “I’m incredibly hammered from all the rock music!”He added: “When we think of film, we think of storytelling. When I think of film, I think of the film Forgetting Sarah Marshall.”“Thank you so much, this is such a nice surprise,” director Edgar Wright said on the podium while collecting the award alongside the film’s star Michael Ajao.

EXCLUSIVE: Trailers, posters and global marketing campaigns from the likes of Focus Features’ Last Night In Soho, Netflix’s Ozark and Amazon Prime Video’s The Tomorrow War were among the winners Saturday at the inaugural World Trailer Awards.

EXCLUSIVE: His Dark Materials episodic director William McGregor has come aboard to helm the movie Smile (working title) for Netflix and Matt Reeves’ 6th and Idaho, a project which is described as a vampire story in the spirit of Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive. 

Recently, it was reported that Luca Guadagnino is putting together a cast for his latest film, titled “Challengers.” At the time, we learned the film was set to star Zendaya (of “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” “Euphoria,” and Edgar Wright’s Super Bowl ad fame). But now, we also know a couple of the other folks who will be joining her in the production.

Every year, large corporations shell out big bucks to woo celebrities to help pitch their wares during the Super Bowl. This year was no different.

Zendaya is starring in the Super Bowl Commercial for Squarespace and she looks absolutely stunning in all of her different outfits.

André 3000-narrated advert for Squarespace that will air in full at this year’s Super Bowl.The Euphoria star and musician poses as seashell-seller Sally who is struggling to make her business heard until she creates a new webstore that helps market her products. André 3000 uses parts of the famous seashell tongue-twister to detail her growth.A preview of the commercial shared yesterday (February 9) concludes with Sally’s seashells becoming so successful that “she sailed into the setting sun as a seashell celebrity”.

Zendaya — or should we say  -- is taking the seashore by storm. The Euphoria star is bringing the classic tongue twister to life, thanks to Squarespace's newly revealed Super Bowl commercial. Yes, Sally is still selling seashells, but thanks to Squarespace, she's become a «seaside sensation,» expanding her line to include skirts and sarongs, serenity sessions at sunrise, seaside snacks and excursions of the seashore.

Douglas Trumbull, a visual effects master who showed movie audiences indelible images of the future and of space in films like “2001: A Space Odyssey,” “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” and “Blade Runner,” has died. He was 79.His wife Julia Trumbull said he died Monday of complications from mesothelioma.Director Edgar Wright tweeted, “RIP to an actual visionary, Doug Trumbull...he directed a childhood favourite of mine, the sci fi gem ‘Silent Running.’ Watch it tonight.”Producer and documentarian Charles de Lauzirika, who worked with Trumbull on “Blade Runner: The Final Cut,” tweeted that, “He wasn’t just innovating magnificent visuals, but also pursuing the big ideas behind whatever story he was telling.”Born in Los Angeles in 1942, Trumbull’s father was visual effects supervisor Donald Trumbull, who worked on “The Wizard of Oz.” He got his start at Graphic Works Films, where a short of his caught the attention of Stanley Kubrick who was beginning work on “2001: A Space Odyssey.” At 23 years old, he not only talked himself into a key job on “2001" but helped innovate the process that would be used to create the iconic star-gate sequence."It was a really unique time because we were at these Borehamwood Studios outside of London and it was a highly unionized studio," he said in an interview.

BEST FILMBELFAST Laura Berwick, Kenneth Branagh, Becca Kovacik, Tamar ThomasDON’T LOOK UP Adam McKay, Kevin MessickDUNE Mary Parent, Cale Boyter, Denis VilleneuveLICORICE PIZZA Sara Murphy, Paul Thomas Anderson, Adam SomnerTHE POWER OF THE DOG Jane Campion, Iain Canning, Roger Frappier, Tanya Seghatchian, Emile ShermanOUTSTANDING BRITISH FILMAFTER LOVE Aleem Khan, Matthieu de BraconierALI & AVA Clio Bernard, Tracy O’RiordanBELFAST Kenneth Branagh, Laura Berwick, Becca Kovacik, Tamar ThomasBOILING POINT Philip Barantini, Bart Ruspoli, Hester Ruoff, James CummingsCYRANO Joe Wright, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Guy Heely, Erica SchmidtEVERYBODY’S TALKING ABOUT JAMIE Jonathan Butterell, Peter Carlton, Mark Herbert, Tom MacRaeHOUSE OF GUCCI Ridley Scott, Mark Huffam, Giannina Scott, Kevin J Walsh, Roberto Bentivegna, Becky JohnstonLAST NIGHT IN SOHO Edgar Wright, Tim Bevan & Eric Fellner, Nira Park, Krysty Wilson-CairnsNO TIME TO DIE Cary Joji Fukunaga, Barbara Broccoli, Michael G.

While Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg have fully branched out to have amazing careers on their own, most film fans discovered them as filmmaking cohorts on features such as “Shaun of the Dead” and “Hot Fuzz.” Over the years since the release of 2013’s “The World’s End,” the two men haven’t really been able to find the time to work together again.

Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on demand, vintage and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalogue titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This biweekly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching.

It's a match made in comedy heaven. Bill Hader and Anna Kendrick have reportedly been "quietly" dating for over a year, a source recently spilled. "Anna has been dating Bill quietly for over a year," the insider told People magazine.

Did anyone have this couple on their 2022 bingo cards?!

Bill Hader, 43, is the next Saturday Night Live star to get lucky in love as he is reportedly in a relationship with Anna Kendrick, 36. They have allegedly been dating”quietly for over a year,” a source told People. They first met when the Pitch Perfect actress hosted SNL in 2014. They reunited in 2019 to film the Disney Christmas flick Noelle in 2019, “but they got together well after the movie.”

Scott Pilgrim will make his return to screen with Netflix and UCP teaming up for an anime series based on Bryan Lee O’Malley’s graphic novel series.

We’ve all seen our great share of streaming while in isolation during Covid, but nothing was a better reminder of the power of the big screen than the Edgar Wright-directed, produced and co-penned fantasy-horror-romance Last Night in Soho, from its visceral re-creation of the 1960s London to Anya Taylor-Joy’s sublime crooning of Petula Clark.

Chris Willman Music WriterNo one in the film world had a Year in Music quite like Edgar Wright.

Jenelle Riley Deputy Awards, Features EditorRon and Russell Mael didn’t intend for 2021 to be the year they conquered Hollywood, but there’s serendipity in what wound up happening.

Pop music brothers Ron and Russell Mael, who perform as Sparks, were ‘meta’ before it became a thing, and certainly before Mark Zuckerberg decided to call his company by that name.

Deadline has launched the streaming site for Contenders Film: Documentary, featuring all 25 panels from our Sunday event showcasing the filmmakers behind the buzziest nonfiction feature films of the awards season.

Radiohead biopic, after forming a friendship with guitarist Jonny Greenwood.The actor’s next film is The Power Of The Dog, scored by Greenwood, where he plays cowboy Phil Burbank who runs a ranch in Montana with his brother George (Jesse Plemons).Speaking to NME, Cumberbatch recounts his “weird” first meeting with Greenwood and Thom Yorke after they watched his performance of Hamlet at The Barbican in 2015.“[Radiohead producer] Nigel Godrich and Edgar Wright came to see me in Hamlet,”

Edgar Wright has been directing scripted films, music videos and episodic television for over 25 years, but he had yet to make a documentary feature—until now.

It’s been three years since filmmaker Steve McQueen has directed a feature, with his most recent being 2018’s “Widows.” However, over that time, the director has definitely not been a slouch, directing an entire anthology series at Amazon and working on various documentaries.

Last Night In Soho co-writer Krysty Wilson-Cairns has defended the film’s twist ending, saying that it was an act of “female empowerment.”Wilson-Cairns wrote the screenplay for the film with director Edgar Wright, which includes a surprising reveal in the film’s final chapter.Ahead of the twist, Thomasin McKenzie’s character Eloise believes that she has seen a vision of Sandy – an abused cabaret singer who she occasionally embodies in her dreams – being murdered by her pimp in the very room that

Yes, a sequel for “Baby Driver” has already been announced. And Edgar Wright has said that he’s written a script.

Edgar Wright has made a career of mashing up genres and bringing an absurd level of energy and charm to his films like “Shaun of the Dead,” “Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World,” and “Baby Driver.” In this episode of The Discourse, Edgar Wright and writer Krysty Wilson-Cairns join host Mike DeAngelo to talk about doing a straight-up, wicked thriller in “Last Night in Soho,” which is in theaters now.

Edgar Wright’s Last Night In Soho is an arthouse film that opened on 3,000 screens — a gamble in a theatrical market where multiplex-goers have been mostly turning out for big-budget, high-octane studio franchises. (Dune, Halloween Kills and No Time To Die took top spots this weekend, a soft one overall where Halloween parties may have dinged October’s stellar recovery.)

Focus Features presents Edgar Wright’s Last Night In Soho, a twisty psycho-thriller with a great soundtrack, as Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch goes wider, testing the appeal of a director whose films have been called the arthouse equivalent of Marvel.

Marvel film’s release. But a pair of specialty distributors will try to draw people looking to spend Halloween with a horror film this weekend as Focus Features releases Edgar Wright’s “Last Night in Soho” while Searchlight Pictures releases the Guillermo del Toro-produced “Antlers.” Neither film is expected to take the No.

Angelique Jackson Universal Pictures has signed a two-year overall film deal with Academy Award-nominated writer Krysty Wilson-Cairns and Jack Ivins’ Great Company.News of the pact comes ahead of the debut of “Last Night in Soho,” which Wilson-Cairns co-wrote alongside director Edgar Wright, as it bolsters the working relationship between Wilson-Cairns and Universal Filmed Entertainment Group. The Focus Features movie arrives in theaters on Friday, Oct.

In the days leading up to the opening of Last Night in Soho, a movie she co-wrote with Edgar Wright, Krysty Wilson-Cairns’ Great Company, which she runs with Jack Ivins, has pacted with Universal Pictures in a two-year overall deal.

Universal Pictures has signed a two-year film deal with Krysty Wilson-Cairns and her production banner Great Company, the studio announced Wednesday. Wilson-Cairns is the co-writer of Edgar Wright’s “Last Night in Soho,” which Universal’s subsidiary Focus Features is releasing in theaters this Friday.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorAnya Taylor-Joy stars in Edgar Wright’s new “Last Night in Soho,” but it wasn’t the first time they could have worked together. “I had read the ‘Baby Driver’ script’ and auditioned for it,” Taylor-Joy told me Monday at the “Last Night in Soho” premiere at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.