“I thought the whole imprinting-werewolf thing was weird. The baby. Too weird!” – Sofia Coppola on why she turned down directing Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2, via Rolling Stone
“I thought the whole imprinting-werewolf thing was weird. The baby. Too weird!” – Sofia Coppola on why she turned down directing Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2, via Rolling Stone
Time100, Time Magazine‘s annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world, includes some notable show business figures, including Taraji P. Henson, Michael J. Fox, Fantasia Barrino, Alia Bhatt, Sofia Coppola, Colman Domingo, and America Ferrera.
Eleanor Coppola, who won an Emmy for the Apocalypse Now documentary Hearts of Darkness, directed Paris Can Wait and Love Is Love Is Love and was married to Francis Ford Coppola for 61 years, diedFriday at her home in Rutherford, CA. She was 87.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director Oscar-winning dramas and box office genre hits are making their way to streaming platforms this month. Far and away the best movie set to premiere is Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest,” a disturbing masterwork about the Holocaust that picked up two Academy Awards last month: best international feature and best sound design. Distributor A24 inked a streaming deal with Max last year, so “Zone of Interest” now joins other must-see recent A24 films like Sofia Coppola’s “Priscilla” on the Warner Bros.
Kristen Dunst isn’t letting the pressures of Hollywood get to her.
It’s hard to believe that it’s been 40 years since 1984 comedy classic Ghostbusters first barrelled onto our screens and introduced the world to the exciting realm of paranormal investigation and ghost catching. Featuring a star-studded cast that consisted of Bill Murray, Sigourney Weaver, Ernie Hudson, Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis to name just a few, the movie spawned a successful franchise spanning games, cartoons, comics, and even four other movies, the latest of which was released just this year.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director Kirsten Dunst said in a new interview with Marie Claire that she’s finally at a stage in her career where she no longer feels “nervous” speaking her mind, adding: “I feel at home sharing everything on set now.” It’s a far cry from the version of Dunst who was on the “Spider-Man” set decades ago. As a young actor, Dunst didn’t have the confidence to speak up when things bothered her. Case in point: Being repeatedly called a “girly-girl” on the “Spider-Man” set.
American Cinematographer Ed Lachman will be the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award at this year’s Camerimage Film Festival.
Oscars. The uncertainty surrounding the strikes and the restrictions guilds placed on promoting contenders played havoc on Oscar campaigns. But some fared better than others thanks to the labor unrest, according to half-a-dozen industry watchers and awards experts who spoke with Variety.
Rafa Sales Ross Guest Contributor Marcelo Gomes’ new film “Portrait of a Certain Orient” will be represented for world sales by Brazil’s O2 Play. The deal was sealed ahead of the film’s premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, where it plays as part of the Big Screen Competition.
have been announced and, as usual, there are also plenty of 2024 Oscar snubs that came with them. I'm disappointed but not surprised.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director The 2024 Oscar nominations have arrived, and it was a huge morning for the likes of Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer,” Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” and Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Poor Things” as predicted. Nolan’s atomic bomb epic led the pack with 13 nominations, further cementing its status as a best picture frontrunner after winning top prizes at the Golden Globes and Critic’s Choice Awards earlier this season. As is always the case on Oscar nominations morning, dozens of critically-acclaimed films found themselves with zero nominations.
Saturday Night Live (SNL) have spoofed rapper Xzibit‘s hit MTV series Pimp My Ride – watch their skit below.The skit, which can be seen below, did not air during the Elordi-hosted episode as it was cut for time constraints. However, the full skit has now been shared by the official SNL channel on YouTube.In the clip, Elordi plays a janitor named Sergei, who works in the SNL writers’ office.
Sofia Coppola is breaking her silence on her unrealized TV series starring Florence Pugh.
Apple TV adaptation of Edith Wharton’s The Custom Of The Country, which would’ve starred Florence Pugh.Speaking to The New Yorker for a recent profile, Coppola – who most recently directed the biopic Priscilla – spoke of how the production fell apart before it even began. In May 2022, it was announced that Coppola would be adapting The Custom Of The Country for Apple TV with Pugh starring in the lead role of Undine Spragg.However, the project was cancelled by the end of the following year before it had even begun production.
Sofia Coppola is opening up about why Apple canceled The Custom of the Country series.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director Sofia Coppola continues to shed light on her unrealized adaptation of Edith Wharton’s “The Custom of the Country,” which she was developing as a five-episode series for Apple TV+. In a new interview with the New Yorker, it’s revealed for the first time that Coppola had cast Oscar nominee Florence Pugh to star in the lead role of Undine Spragg, a Midwestern girl who attempts to ascend in New York City society. News broke in May 2020 that Sofia Coppola was partnering with Apple TV+ on “The Custom of the Country.” By the end of 2021, the project was killed.
While she’s coming off the praise of her critically acclaimed drama, “Priscilla,” which is turning its lead, Cailee Spaeny, into something of a star (she’s got the leading role in the next “Aliens” movie from director Fede Alvarez), filmmaker Sofia Coppola had less luck with a project that was supposed to arrive before it. Coppola revealed late last fall that Apple TV+ had decided not to proceed with her first series attempt, an adaptation of Edith Wharton’s “The Custom of the Country.
Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Prominent Italian producers Mario Gianani and Lorenzo Mieli are exiting their Fremantle-owned companies — Wildside and The Apartment, respectively — in an industry shakeup expected to lead them to jointly form a new independent scripted content outfit. Gianani and Mieli co-founded Wildside in 2009 and turned it into the powerhouse behind major global dramas such as RAI/HBO’s “The Young Pope” and “My Brilliant Friend,” to name a few.
Alex Ritman After just one weekend of international release, “Priscilla” — Sofia Coppola‘s biopic starring Jacob Elordi as Elvis Presley and Cailee Spaeny as The King’s (then) teenage bride “Priscilla” — has already hit several major milestones for arthouse streamer and distributor Mubi. Produced by Fremantle’s The Apartment, the film currently sits on a box office in excess of $20 million in the U.S., where A24 released the film on Oct.
EXCLUSIVE: Jacob Elordi, Christoph Waltz, Felix Kammerer, Lars Mikkelsen, David Bradley and Christian Convery are set to be a part of the all-star ensemble cast in Guillermo del Toro‘s Frankenstein at Netflix. Elordi will play the iconic monster, replacing Andrew Garfield, who fell out due to strike postponements that led to scheduling conflicts.
In case you missed it, the much-anticipated Sofia Coppola-directed Priscilla movie hit cinemas across the country on New Year’s Day, detailing the life and relationship between Priscilla and Elvis Presley. Since its release, searches for Priscilla-inspired outfits have gone up by 35%, but there’s one item in particular that has proven to be a major hit with fans – her heart-shaped necklace.The necklace featured prominently during Priscilla’s teenage years in the film and was based on a real accessory that Priscilla herself wore during her youth after she’d first met – and fell in love with – the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll, which featured a gold heart pendant dangling from a black velvet ribbon choker.
Brent Lang Executive Editor Greta Gerwig‘s “Barbie” wasn’t just the year’s biggest box office winner. It also made history as the highest-grossing movie directed by a woman. Despite the film’s outsized success, major studios gave most of their biggest gigs to male filmmakers.
Sofia Coppola is an Oscar-winning director with a career that spans decades in Hollywood behind titles like Priscilla, The Bling Ring, Marie Antoinette, Lost in Translation and The Virgin Suicides, to name a few.
Sofia Coppola is speaking out about gender inequality in filmmaking.
Priscilla director Sofia Coppola says that, despite her plaudits and hit rate at the box office, she continues to fight for “a tiny fraction” of the money her male counterparts have to work with.
Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year’s most talked-about scripts continues with Sofia Coppola’s biopic Priscilla. Based on the 1985 memoir Elvis and Me co-authored by Priscilla Presley and Sandra Harmon, the script was adapted by Coppola who also directed.
Ellise Shafer Sofia Coppola‘s “Priscilla” has earned critical acclaim for artfully pulling back the curtain on the title character’s life with superstar Elvis Presley. However, it has also been met with some criticism over Elvis’ portrayal in the film, which shows the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll (played by Jacob Elordi) being abusive toward Priscilla (Cailee Spaeny). In conversation with Richard Curtis at London’s BFI Southbank on Saturday, Coppola opened up about finding the right balance in her depiction of Elvis after the audience watched a scene in which he violently begins packing Priscilla’s bags after she discovers a love note from another woman.
Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Warner Bros. Discovery inked a multiyear U.S.
The 2023 Academy Museum Gala brought out well over 100 celebrities on Sunday night (December 3)!
Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Though the Red Sea Film Festival will feature a slew of films from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region – including 11 feature films from Saudi Arabia – there is a rich roster of international fare set to launch locally from Jeddah. Kaleem Aftab, the festival’s director of international programming, says they received lots more submissions for this year’s third edition.
Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic The Hollywood biographical drama — or biopic, to use the word that always makes it sound like a dental instrument — is enjoying its mega-moment. “Oppenheimer,” Christopher Nolan’s three-hour epic about the father of the atomic bomb, proved that a story-of-a-life movie could be as big and coruscating as the cosmos; not so incidentally, it’s garnered Nolan the most ecstatic reviews of his career.
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Michael Mann’s high octane biopic Ferrari has been announced as the closing picture of Saudi Arabia’s third Red Sea International Film Festival, running November 30 to December 9 in the port city of Jeddah.
Lana Del Rey has revealed that she threw out her gold Gemini jewellery after discovering that her star sign is actually Cancer.The ‘Video Games’ singer spent much of her life believing that her June 21 birthday made her a Gemini, before realising that she was actually about four hours short.“I lived my life as a Gemini,” Del Rey said in a recent video interview with Harper’s BAZAAR. “It’s insane.
NBC is heading to Memphis for its latest holiday special.
Ooh! Biting the hand! Or… spiting the fans??
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