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Variety Staff Follow Us on Twitter Variety will return to the Toronto Film Festival this year with its annual interview studio, in partnership with King’s Hawaiian. Running from Sept. 9 to Sept. 12, the Variety Studio presented by King’s Hawaiian will include interviews with cast members and directors from the top movies premiering at the Toronto Film Festival. Talent includes Hugh Jackman, Laura Dern, Florian Zeller and Christopher Hampton (“The Son”); Mark Mylod, Ralph Fiennes and Anya Taylor-Joy (“The Menu”); Gina Prince-Bythewood, Viola Davis, John Boyega, Lashana Lynch, Thuso Mbedu, Sheila Atim and Cathy Schulman (“The Woman King”); Rian Johnson, Daniel Craig, Janelle Monáe, Kate Hudson, Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom Jr. and Madelyn Cline (“Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery”); Darren Aronofsky, Brendan Fraser, Sadie Sink, Hong Chau, Ty Simpkins and Sam Hunter (“The Whale”); Peter Farrelly, Zac Efron and Ruby Serkis (“The Greatest Beer Run Ever”); Tyler Perry, Solea Pfeiffer and Joshua Boone (“A Jazzman’s Blues”); and Lila Neugebauer, Jennifer Lawrence and Justine Polsky (“Causeway”). Talent and creators from the following projects will also participate in the studio: “Inspection,” “The Fabelmans,” “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story,” “Bros,” “On the Come Up,” “The Good Nurse,” “The Eternal Daughter,” “Sanctuary,” “Empire of Light,” “Devotion” and “Catherine Called Birdy.”

Manori Ravindran International Editor Cohen Media Group has acquired producer Jeremy Thomas’ prestigious international sales company HanWay Films in a major deal. Cohen Media Group owns Landmark Theatres in the U.S. and British distributor-exhibitor Curzon. HanWay Films was founded by “The Last Emperor” producer Thomas and is co-owned with his partner Peter Watson. Under the deal, HanWay Films will continue to be branded as an independent label selling theatrical titles to its distribution partners worldwide. It’s still unclear how much an exclusive tie-in there will be to parent company-owned Curzon.

Ving Rhames (Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One), Nicholas Hoult (The Menu), Hannah Waddingham (Ted Lasso) and Cecily Strong (Saturday Night Live) have signed on to star alongside Chris Pratt and Samuel L. Jackson in Alcon Entertainment’s animated feature adaptation of Garfield.

The only thing better than a star showing off their big peen is hearing about a star having a big peen.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterFantastic Fest, a weeklong celebration of genre filmmaking, has announced the full lineup for its 2022 festival.This year’s event, taking place in Austin, Texas, from Sept. 22 through Sept. 29, will open with the world premiere of Paramount’s unsettling thriller “The Smile,” starring Sosie Bacon as a doctor whose mind begins to turn on her after she witnesses a traumatic experience involving a patient.

Not speaking on the actual quality of his more recent filmography, if there is one wide-reaching filmmaker who seems to have a particular recurring bone to pick with the rich and bougie currently, it is Adam McKay. From his Dick Cheney biopic “Vice” from 2018 to his climate change-concerned dramedy “Don’t Look Up” from last year, McKay seems to be having it up to here with those in power and the amount of power they wield.

Sophie Turner has found her newest project. The former Game of Thrones actress is joining the cast of Jessie Barr's upcoming thriller Come As You Are. The movie will follow a young woman whose life begins to rapidly unravel when her social media career exposes her to society's darkest corners.

Top U.K. STX International executives Llewellyn Radley, Laura Austin Little, Jill Silfen and Mike Shanks have reunited with John Friedberg at new company Black Bear International, as it announces a U.K. distribution plan.

EJ Panaligan editorColin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson play lifelong friends, Pádraic and Colm, whose relationship reaches an abrupt impasse in the trailer for director Martin McDonagh’s “The Banshees of Inisherin.”Set during the Irish Civil War in 1923 on the fictional island of Inisherin, the events of the film begin when Gleeson’s Colm seemingly cuts off Farrell’s Pádraic with minimal explanation, setting off an interpersonal dance between the two former friends.The upcoming film will mark the reunion of the three Irish creatives, who first worked together on the 2008 black comedy “In Bruges.” That film chronicled Farrell and Gleeson as two hitmen forced to go into hiding in Bruges, Belgium, away from their enraged boss, played by English actor Ralph Fiennes. Outside of 2017’s “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” McDonagh’s film efforts have included either Gleeson or Farrell, but “The Banshees of Inisherin” is the trio’s second collective collaboration.

Variety.“We can confirm that last night, in Adelaide, Dev Patel and his friends witnessed a violent altercation that was already in progress outside of a convenience store,” the statement said. “Dev acted on his natural instinct to try and de-escalate the situation and break up the fight.

Thanks to her recent turns in “The Lost Daughter,” “Cha Cha Real Smooth,” and the upcoming “Persuasion,” Dakota Johnson is having a career moment right now. But Johnson has had other outstanding roles over the years, too, like her precocious dancing student in Luca Guadagnino‘s “Suspiria” remake or Ralph Fiennes‘ maybe-daughter in “A Bigger Splash.” And of course, there’s her time as Anastasia Steele in the “Fifty Shades Of Grey” franchise.

Kate Mara walks in front of husband Jamie Bell while leaving Claridge’s in London on Tuesday night (June 28).

Fans will have to wait a little longer for an update on which actor will replace Daniel Craig as James Bond.

EXCLUSIVE: James Bond producer Barbara Broccoli has revealed that it will be “at least two years“ before the next 007 movie begins filming and that the task of finding an actor to replace Daniel Craig hasn’t begun “because it’s a reinvention of Bond.”

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaNew York’s theater scene has its next impossible to come by ticket.Ralph Fiennes, Tony winner, Oscar nominee, recovering Voldemort and Monsieur Gustave for the ages, will tread the boards again as Robert Moses in David Hare’s new play “Straight Line Crazy.”The show has already played in the West End, where it scored rave reviews. Variety wrote that in the title role as the super controversial city planner, “Fiennes is all boldly convincing, controlled threat, his monomania teetering on the edge of malevolence.” It will now have a nine-week run at The Shed’s Griffin Theater as part of its fall 2022 season. Nicholas Hytner will direct the show.“Straight Line Crazy” should land with even greater resonance in New York City, where the legacy of Moses’s obsession with erecting highways (often at the expense of the neighborhoods and ethnic enclaves he knocked down in the process) can still be seen and felt.

Jessica Chastain adjusts the tie on her chic dress at the premiere of The Forgiven during the 2022 Tribeca Festival held at BMCC Tribeca PAC on Tuesday night (June 14) in New York City.

EXCLUSIVE: In an eye-catching acquisition, 42 has bought respected UK talent and literary agency Dalzell and Beresford, we can reveal.

Anya Taylor-Joy starts to question the food she’s being served in the first teaser for her new movie, The Menu.

Fine dining has never been this high-stakes before.

The Menu starring Ralph Fiennes and Anya Taylor-Joy has just been released – check it out below.The new thriller, set to be released this November, also stars Nicholas Hoult (The Great), John Leguizamo, Judith Light and Hong Chau.In the first trailer, Ralph Fiennes can be seen introducing customers to his restaurant as a strict but revered chef, before the night takes an unexpected turn.Watch the trailer for The Menu here:An official synopsis for The Meal reads: “A couple (Anya Taylor-Joy and Nicholas Hoult) travels to a coastal island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef (Ralph Fiennes) has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises.”The film was co-written by Seth Reiss and Will Tracy, with the creenplay appearing on The Black List in 2019.

How far would you go for a great meal? With food culture exploding in the past decade, many couples have made a ritual of seeking out trendy restaurants and unique culinary experiences. Given the means, some foodies will travel far and wide to enjoy extraordinary cuisine.

No Time to Die, as well as movies like the original Top Gun, Call Me By Your Name, and Shaun of the Dead – no matter what you're in the mood for, we think there'll be something on this list to scratch the itch. Meanwhile, over in the UK, you can see Lady Gaga and Adam Driver's Italian accents in House of Gucci, as well as Hacks season 2, which already started airing on HBO in the US a few weeks ago. So, without further ado, scroll on to see everything new releasing on Prime Video this June.

Helen McCrory's family and friends were out in force on Friday as they celebrated her life at a moving memorial in London’s Covent Garden, just one year on from her tragic death. A wealth of famous faces were among those at the service, including Benedict Cumberbatch, Eddie Redmayne and Keeley Hawes, as they commemorated the life of such a much loved staple of stage and screen.

Helen McCrory's life has been celebrated at a star-studded memorial, one year after her shock death. The 52-year-old actress passed away in 2021 after a secret battle with breast cancer and stars including Benedict Cumberbatch. Helena Bonham Carter, Ralph Fiennes, and Keeley Hawes came together with her husband Damian Lewis, 51, and children Manon, 15 and Gulliver, 14, this week, to celebrate her life.

John Michael McDonagh hasn’t had a film out since 2016’s “War On Everyone.” Now, the director behind “Calvary” and “Ned Kelly” returns with a class-based thriller in Morocco’s High Atlas Mountains. READ MORE: ‘The Forgiven’: Ralph Fiennes Shines In John Michael McDonagh’s Latest Effort [TIFF Review] “The Forgiven” stars Ralph Fiennes and Jessica Chastain as a wealthy couple on the way to a lavish party that have a chance accident on the road and must deal with the consequences when their attempt to cover it up goes wrong.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentRobert Lantos, the veteran Canadian producer of David Cronenberg’s “Crimes of the Future,” is set to produce a film adaptation of novelist Michael Ondaatje’s “In the Skin of a Lion,” with Tom Hooper (“The King’s Speech”) on board to direct. Simon Beaufoy, the Oscar-winning writer of “Slumdog Millionaire,” penned the adaptation.The movie was co-developed by Lantos’ Toronto-based Serendipity Point Films, and Film4.

Neon, the Best Picture Oscar-winning studio behind Parasite, has acquired U.S. rights to the psychological thriller Mothers’ Instinct starring Academy Award winners Jessica Chastain and Anne Hathaway.

Ralph Fiennes has signed up to lead conspiracy thriller feature Conclave, with John Lithgow, Stanley Tucci and Isabella Rossellini also joining the cast and Edward Berger helming. FilmNation Entertainment will launch international sales at the upcoming Cannes Market and is co-repping US rights with CAA Media Finance.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaRalph Fiennes will star in “Conclave,” a conspiracy thriller that boasts a cast that also includes John Lithgow, Stanley Tucci, and Isabella Rossellini. “Conclave” is the story of the political machinations that grip the Vatican following the death of a pope and the jockeying that takes place as a group of Cardinals from across the globe gather to select a new leader for the Catholic Church.

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar nominee and BAFTA winner Ralph Fiennes’ hit London stage production Four Quartets is getting a screen version directed by his sister Sophie Fiennes (The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema).

An “English Patient” reunion is finally on the horizon, as co-stars Juliette Binoche and Ralph Fiennes are attached for a new “gritty take” on the beloved ancient Greece tale Homer‘s “The Odyssey,” according to Variety. The original epic focuses on a war-wary husband that sets sail to return home to his wife and son after the Trojan War.

Manori Ravindran International Editor“The English Patient” co-stars Juliette Binoche and Ralph Fiennes will reunite in Uberto Pasolini’s “The Return,” a gritty retelling of Odysseus’ return home from war.The film is an original take on Homer’s “The Odyssey” with a script by John Collee (“Master & Commander”) and U.K. playwright Edward Bond, who was nominated for an Academy Award for his work on Michelangelo Antonioni’s “Blow-Up.”“The Return” is produced by James Clayton and Pasolini for Red Wave Films, while Roberto Sessa’s Picomedia is providing funding.

The English Patient stars Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche are to lead Uberto Pasolini’s Odysseus retelling The Return, which will launch at Cannes.

Spider-Man: No Way Home” and nabbed an 2022 Oscar nomination for “Tick, Tick … Boom!” He also stars in the FX series “Under the Banner of Heaven,” which premieres April 28 on Hulu.“I’m going to rest for a little bit,” he told Variety in an interview published Wednesday. “I need to recalibrate and reconsider what I want to do next and who I want to be and just be a bit of a person for a while.”He also compared the awards season to a churning “washing machine,” suggesting he needed rest and recuperation after it.“I need to just be a bit ordinary for a while,” he confessed.

Italian director Luca Guadagnino (“Suspiria“) is a very busy fella with his cannibal film “Bones & All” on the horizon and a new tennis drama, “Challengers” in the works. The filmmaker has many irons in the fire, but it looks like one of them won’t be moving on into the production phase.

Dame Helen Mirren and her husband Taylor Hackford are still trying to come to terms with the untimely death of his son, Rio Hackford.MORE: Helen Mirren's home with husband Taylor is basically a nature reserve – photosThe couple, who have been married since 1997, released a statement to People in which they said they remain "both inspired by the life of our son and stepson… and heartbroken by his loss". WATCH: Helen Mirren's terrifying visitor at Nevada home"His life showed us how to live in generosity and community," they added.