The Cannes Film Festival has admitted six filmmakers, five women and one man, to its 2024 residency program.
The Cannes Film Festival has admitted six filmmakers, five women and one man, to its 2024 residency program.
Marie Amachoukeli’s Ama Gloria has won the Best International Film Prize at the 40th edition of the Jerusalem Film Festival, running from July 13 to July 26.
Tom Holland might be a superhero and “Spider-Man,” but perhaps rather wisely, the young actor understands he won’t be young forever and knows he needs to create an acting pipeline outside of just Marvel. He’s already done work like that with the Russo Brothers in “Cherry,” and the next project in that vein is “The Crowded Room,” a gripping, upcoming Apple TV+ limited series starring and executive produced by Holland and created by Academy Award-winning writer and executive producer Akiva Goldsman.
The Crowded Room,” which stars Tom Holland, Amanda Seyfried and Emmy Rossum. The 10-episode thriller series will premiere with its first three episodes on June 9. The remaining seven episodes will then air one episode per week, concluding on Friday, July 28. “The Crowded Room,” according to its official plot description, follows “Danny Sullivan (Holland) after he was arrested for his involvement in a New York City shooting in 1979. Danny unveils his life through a series of interviews with interrogator Rya Goodwin (Seyfried), and slowly details to Rya, and the audience, his mysterious past that led him to the fateful incident. As Danny retrospectively examines his life, he reckons with his past and a few pivotal moments, that ultimately leads him to uncover a life-altering revelation.”
Apple TV+ has set Friday, June 9 for the premiere of The Crowded Room, its upcoming limited series created by Oscar winner Akiva Goldsman (A Beautiful Mind). Tom Holland, who also executive produces, Amanda Seyfried and Emmy Rossum lead the ensemble cast. The first three episodes of the 10-episode series will drop on June 9, followed by one new episode weekly every Friday through July 28. The streamer also released the first images of the upcoming series (see above and below).
EXCLUSIVE: Henry Eikenberry (Euphoria), Henry Zaga (Beyond The Universe), Thomas Sadoski (Life In Pieces), Will Chase (Dopesick), Laila Robins (The Walking Dead), Sam Vartholomeos (Bridge and Tunnel) and Levon Thurman-Hawk have joined Tom Holland in The Crowded Room, Apple’s seasonal anthology series from A Beautiful Mind‘s Akiva Goldsman and New Regency. In addition to Holland, they join previously cast Amanda Seyfried, Emmy Rossum, Sasha Lane, Christopher Abbot, Emma Laird, Jason Isaacs and Lior Raz.
EXCLUSIVE: Fauda‘s Lior Raz and Jason Isaacs (Good Sam) have been tapped to star opposite Tom Holland in The Crowded Room, Apple’s seasonal anthology series from A Beautiful Mind‘s Akiva Goldsman and New Regency. In addition to Holland, they join previously cast Amanda Seyfried, Emmy Rossum, Sasha Lane, Christopher Abbot and Emma Laird.
Emmy Rossum (Shameless, Angelyne) has been tapped as a lead opposite Tom Holland and Amanda Seyfried in The Crowded Room, Apple’s seasonal anthology series from New Regency.
Tom Holland is coming off the crazy box office success with “Spider-Man: No Way Home” (the third highest-grossing film of all time domestically) and this weekend’s video game adaptation “Uncharted.” But, the star will soon be pivoting to television with a new drama series from writer Akiva Goldsman that is set up at Apple Studios and New Regency.
Selome Hailu Apple TV Plus announced that Amanda Seyfried has been cast opposite Tom Holland in upcoming anthology series “The Crowded Room” from writer and executive producer Akiva Goldsman. She will play Rya, a clinical psychologist faced with the most challenging case of her career.
Oscar nominee Amanda Seyfried is set as the female lead opposite Tom Holland in The Crowded Room, Apple’s seasonal anthology series from A Beautiful Mind‘s Akiva Goldsman and New Regency.
One should perhaps not read too much into the fact that the press screening of Kornel Mundruczó‘s “Evolution” was timed to coincide with the final of the UEFA European Football Championship.
In Pieces of a Woman, Vanessa Kirby plays Martha, a first-time mother who loses her baby daughter at birth. Based on the experiences of screenwriter Kata Wéber and her director partner Kornél Mundruczó, the narrative explores Martha’s journey through grief, forgiveness and identity, as her mother Elizabeth (Ellen Burstyn) pushes her to seek legal retribution for the midwife’s supposed negligence.
Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorCinematographer Benjamin Loeb received the script for “Pieces of a Woman” from director Kornél Mundruczó in August 2018.Loeb, whose credits include “Mandy,” spoke with Mundruczó not about specificities about the loss of a child, grief and what the film would look like, but about their families, experiences and birth.For Loeb, the words were the backbone of his vision.“It wasn’t trauma porn and the idea of someone using this [trauma] in the wrong way,” were what
Jon Burlingame The dilemma that “Pieces of a Woman” posed for composer Howard Shore was how emotional to make the music in a story about the most wrenching and devastating experience in a couple’s life.“We had many discussions about this exact topic,” Shore says, referring to himself and Kornél Mundruczó, who directed the movie, now streaming on Netflix. “We talked about giving the film a very classical sound.
For “White God” director Kornél Mundruczó and his wife, screenwriter Kata Wéber, their latest collaboration, “Pieces of a Woman,” has been more dramatic than your typical cinematic endeavor. Inspired by the couple’s own miscarriage, the story of a woman attempting to deal with her loss went from a play to a screenplay to a movie set in the United States starring Vanessa Kirby, Shia LaBeouf, Ellen Burstyn, Benny Safdie, Sarah Snook, and Molly Parker.
Clayton Davis “Pieces of a Woman” marks the English-language debut for director Kornél Mundruczó, who gained a passionate following with his breakout film “White God” in 2014. The Hungarian filmmaker has brought his latest project to the streaming giant Netflix, earning acclaim for his singular vision and an outstanding performance by Vanessa Kirby.“Pieces of a Woman” is written by Kata Wéber, Mundruczó’s partner, based on their shared personal experience.
One of the most intensely personal entries in this year’s festival season saw Romanian director Kornél Mundruczó and his writer partner Kata Wéber draw on their own private life for Pieces of a Woman, in which Vanessa Kirby plays Martha, a first-time mother whose daughter dies in childbirth. Ellen Burstyn co-stars as Elizabeth, Martha’s mother, who leads the charge to prosecute the midwife present at the birth.
Vanessa Kirby wouldn't have felt right faking it. When she agreed to star in the drama, «I knew that our big job was to represent birth as it actually is,» she explains to ET.
Kornél Mundruczó, the director of Shia LaBeouf‘s new movie Pieces of a Woman, is speaking out in response to the allegations made against the actor by his ex-girlfriend FKA twigs.
It took the fall film festival circuit by storm, and one of the most acclaimed movies of the year expected to be a major player is “Pieces of A Woman,” from celebrated filmmaker Kornél Mundruczó (“White God”). The movie stars Vanessa Kirby and Shia LaBeouf, as a couple that undergoes a terrible tragedy that threatens to ruin their marriage, their lives, and the disintegrating psyches of everyone around them.
Natalie Oganesyan editor“Pieces of a Woman,” starring Vanessa Kirby and Shia LaBeouf in critically lauded leading performances, debuted its first heart-wrenching trailer on Tuesday.Directed by Hungarian filmmaker Kornél Mundruczó, the film is a resonant drama about a Boston couple devastated by the loss of their baby after birth.Kirby portrays an upper-middle class young woman named Martha, who contrasts with her husband (LaBeouf), a blue-collar worker named Sean.
Clayton Davis There’s a singular vision that director Kornél Mundruczó had in constructing “Pieces of a Woman,” and he had the full trust of his actors, particularly Vanessa Kirby and Ellen Burstyn. The film had its world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival where Kirby won the Volpi Cup for best actress.
Hungarian filmmakers Kornel Mundruczo and Kata Weber have a reputation as fabulists. In the surreal opening scene of White God (2014), a young girl cycles through the eerily empty streets of Budapest, pursued by a pack of hundreds of dogs.
Netflix has acquired the worldwide rights to Pieces of a Woman, which stars Shia LaBeouf and The Crown star Vanessa Kirby playing a couple shattered by the loss of their newborn baby. Also Saturday, Kirby was awarded the Volpi Cup for best actress at the Venice Film Festival for her performance in Hungarian director Kornel Mundruczo's first English-language movie after his 2014 break-out film White Dog.
Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterNetflix has swept up a worldwide distribution deal for the resonant festival drama “Pieces of a Woman,” lauded for its leading performances from Vanessa Kirby and Shia LaBeouf.The harrowing drama about a couple struggling after a failed home birth is the English-language debut of Hungarian filmmaker Kornél Mundruczó.
Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: Bollywood star Ayushmann Khurrana is the latest celebrity to call for film festivals to adopt gender-neutral acting awards categories.Following in the footsteps of Tilda Swinton, Cate Blanchett and director Kornél Mundruczó, who have voiced their support for the change while at this week’s Venice Film Festival, Khurrana told us: “Gender-neutral awards should become the norm.
Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó broke through internationally in 2014 with his snarling social parable about the downtrodden rising up against their oppressors, White Dog. He puts aside political allegory to drill deep into the heart of family tragedy in his first English-language feature, Pieces of a Woman.
Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentHungarian stage and screen director Kornel Mundruczo and partner/screenwriter Kata Weber collaborated closely on “Pieces of a Woman,” in which Vanessa Kirby and Shia LaBeouf play a Boston couple devastated by the loss of their newborn baby during a home birth.
Filmmaker Kornél Mundruczó is no stranger to the film festival circuit, with his 2005 film “Johanna” screening at the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival, before “White God” took home the Prize Un Certain Regard later in 2014. “White God” was even selected to be Hungary’s entry for the Best Foreign Language Film category at the 87th Academy Awards.
In the world of film, the title of executive producer is normally something that is given to people who put their stamp of approval on the project. This could be a financier, a producer that was more hands-off than usual, or maybe another filmmaker.
Andreas Wiseman International EditorMartin Scorsese has joined the film team of Venice and Toronto-bound drama Pieces Of A Woman as an executive producer.The movie is the first English-language film from acclaimed Hungarian filmmaker Kornél Mundruczó, the Cannes regular whose previous credits include Un Certain Regard winner White God.The feature will have its world premiere in competition at the Venice Film Festival in September followed by a Gala Screening at the Toronto International Film
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