‘Resurrection’ Director Reveals What Inspired the Film That Shocked Sundance (Video)

EXCLUSIVE: IFC Films has acquired North American rights to Julian Higgins’ feature directorial debut God’s Country, starring BAFTA and Emmy winner Thandiwe Newton (Westworld, Crash), on the heels of its debut at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. It will release the film won in a bidding war in theaters this fall.

New Line has acquired Mexican filmmaker Issa López’s original screenplay “The Girl with a Thousand Names,” her follow-up to 2017’s acclaimed “Tigers Are Not Afraid.”López will direct and produce the feature for HBO Max, TheWrap has confirmed.Her breakout film “Tigers Are Not Afraid,” is a hauntingly poetic horror film about a group of children orphaned by cartel violence. It was nominated for nine of Mexico’s Ariel Awards and won two.“The Girl with a Thousand Names” will likely have the same blend of true-life horror and magical realism in its story about unaccompanied minors and children in a detention center who have been separated from their families at the U.S.

The nominations for the 94th annual Academy Awards are in, and Netflix’s The Power of the Dog and Warner Bros/Legendary’s Dune lead the field as the only pics to score double-digit noms. Check out the lists of Oscar nominations by film and by distributor below.

Angelique Jackson When “Nanny” writer-director Nikyatu Jusu got a message from the Sundance team in late January asking to jump on a call, the first time filmmaker realized that the project must’ve won an award, which would be presented publicly the next day.First, Jusu thought that the prize might go to the film’s star Anna Diop, who’d been earning rave reviews for her performance as Aisha, a Senegalese woman who recently immigrated to America and begins working for a wealth family on the Upper East Side in New York City. Then, she speculated the prize could be for cinematographer Rina Yang’s work lensing the film, which would be a win for the whole team.

Naman Ramachandran Jane Campion’s “The Power of the Dog” won four major awards at the 42nd annual London Critics’ Circle Film Awards on Sunday.“The Power of the Dog” won film of the year, Campion director of the year, and stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Kodi Smit-McPhee, actor and supporting actor of the year, respectively. This is Campion’s second film to take the Circle’s top honor, 28 years after “The Piano” won in 1994.Olivia Colman’s performance in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Lost Daughter,” which was snubbed at the BAFTA nominations, earned her the actress of the year award.

Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo will be starring as Glinda and Elphaba in the upcoming Wicked movie and the film’s director is opening up about the audition process.

There’s a reason behind even the smallest details in All Of Us Are Dead.

Outlander'sCatriona Balfe has admitted she is "proud" after she and new film Belfast got a whopping six BAFTA nominations.

Russell Crowe made “Gladiator,” the Oscar-winning actor might have starred in the iconic rom-com “My Best Friend’s Wedding” — but he blew it.Instead, the role opposite Julia Roberts in the 1997 flick was snagged by Dermot Mulroney.The film’s director also revealed that their lead had gunned for Drew Barrymore to play her foe in a romantic triangle with Mulroney’s character, rather than Cameron Diaz.“My Best Friend’s Wedding” follows Roberts’ Jules as she pines for her bestie Michael (Mulroney), and plots against his fiancée, Kimmy (Diaz).PJ Hogan said the gruff Australian actor seemed fit for the part at first. “My first choice was actually Russell Crowe,” Hogan explained in a recent Vulture retrospective of the film.The filmmaker continued, “Russell was, I thought, probably the most amazing actor I had ever encountered.

Halle Berry, Tessa Thompson, Debbie Allen, Jackée Harry, Marla Gibbs and Regina Hall.In ET's exclusive clip, Berry reflects on her legacy as the first Black woman to win the Academy Award for Best Actress in 2002 and how, 20 years later, she remains the only Black woman to have won the award. In the clip,  co-anchor T.J.

Halle Berry, Tessa Thompson, Debbie Allen, Jackée Harry, Marla Gibbs and Regina Hall.In ET's exclusive clip, Berry reflects on her legacy as the first Black woman to win the Academy Award for Best Actress in 2002 and how, 20 years later, she remains the only Black woman to have won the award. In the clip,  co-anchor T.J.

Denis Villeneuve's sci-fi epic Dune leads the 2022 British Academy Film Awards nominations with 11. The movie adaptation of Frank Herbert's epic, starring Timothee Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson and Oscar Isaac, topped the nominations when they were announced in London on Thursday.

The full list of nominees for the 2022 BAFTAs have finally been revealed!

Steven Soderbergh, who is returning to direct the upcoming third Magic Mike movie, is opening up about a major plot point of the film.

said upon introducing the awards ceremony. “This year’s festival expressed a powerful convergence; we were present, together, as a community connected through the work. And it is work that has already changed those who experienced it,” festival director Tabitha Jackson added.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaIFC Films and Shudder has acquired North American rights to psychological thriller “Resurrection” following its world premiere at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The film stars Rebecca Hall as Margaret, a woman who balances the demands of a busy career and single parenthood. Her carefully constructed life is upended when an unwelcome shadow from her past, David (Tim Roth) returns, forcing her to confront the monster she’s evaded for two decades.“Resurrection” was written and directed by Andrew Semans (“Nancy, Please”) and co-stars Grace Kaufman and Michael Esper.

IFC Films and Shudder have taken North American rights to Andrew Semans’ psychological thriller Resurrection starring Rebecca Hall, Tim Roth, Grace Kaufman and Michael Esper.

West Side Story‘s Steven Spielberg, The Power of the Dog‘s Jane Campion, Dune‘s Denis Villeneuve, Licorice Pizza‘s Paul Thomas Anderson and Kenneth Branagh of Belfast have been nominated for the top feature film prize as the Directors Guild unveiled nominations Thursday for its 74th annual DGA Awards.

Premiering in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at this year’s all-virtual Sundance Film Festival, Nikyatu Jusu’s unsettling “Nanny” is a supernatural thriller that weaves together strands of domestic drama and West African folklore.