EXCLUSIVE: Poland will submit animated feature drama The Peasants for Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards.
09.09.2023 - 00:25 / theplaylist.net
There’s no doubt that, at this very moment, scores of documentary filmmakers, both those new to the game and more wizened veterans of the genre, are kicking around ideas for their next great project, one that will hopefully capture the minds of audiences, open eyes to a subject previously untouched and/or inspire society into making some sort of cultural change. It can be difficult to find that balance, as is the case with any narrative feature.
EXCLUSIVE: Poland will submit animated feature drama The Peasants for Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards.
Nicki Minaj‘s husband has been placed under house arrest for threatening Offset.According to The Hollywood Reporter, Kenneth Petty – who married Minaj in 2019 – has been ordered to serve 120 days of home detention after violating the terms of his probation.Petty reportedly posted clips on social media that appeared to threaten the former Migos rapper. The Central District of California ordered Petty’s house arrest on Wednesday (September 20).Per the court order, Petty “was recorded on video making threatening remarks to a specific individual while in the company of someone with a criminal record”.
Jonathan Glazer’s Cannes-winning Holocaust drama The Zone Of Interest has been selected as the UK’s entry for the Best International Feature Film category at the 2024 Oscars.
Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Filming is now underway in Australia on “Desert King,” a neo-western drama series for Netflix that is positioned to be one of the streamer’s iconic prestige productions in the Asia-Pacific region. The story revolves around money and power in Australia’s harsh Outback regions with filming locations in the remote Northern Territory and near Adelaide, South Australia. When the world’s largest cattle station is left without a clear successor, generational clashes threaten to tear the Lawson family apart. Sensing this once great dynasty is in decline, the outback’s most powerful factions – rival cattle barons, desert gangsters, Indigenous elders and billionaire miners – move in for the kill,” says Netflix by way of a synopsis. While describing the six-part series as “one of the largest local screen productions filmed in both the [Northern] Territory and South Australia,” and “an extraordinary cast,” the streamer has not disclosed the identities of any cast. Directed by Greg McLean (“La Brea,” “Wolf Creek”), the show is a joint production between Easy Tiger and Ronde.
From her time as Gossip Girl’s Serena Van Der Woodsen to her many, many incredible Met Gala outfits, Blake Lively has certainly made a name for herself as something of a fashion icon, and her latest beauty look is definitely going to set a few trends this autumn. Arriving for her front row seat at the Michael Kors spring/summer 2024 show at New York Fashion Week, Blake looked stunning with her oversized loose curls and latte makeup (another major trend at the moment).
Tom Sandoval just competed in Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test, said to be the ultimate test of physical, mental, and emotional resilience, but it’s hard to tell if he’s changed. The Vanderpump Rules star, who had a months-long affair with his ex-girlfriend, Ariana Madix’s best friend, Rachel Leviss, who went by Raquel, had some choice words for his ex-mistress, who recently blocked him on Instagram.While Sandoval and Leviss defended their love on the reunion, sources confirmed with ET that they broke up in the wake of the cheating scandal.
Tom Sandoval isn’t here for the shade from Rachel Leviss!
Tom Sandoval is firing back after what he considered to be a friendly gesture toward ex Rachel Leviss resulted in her throwing it back in his face, and publicly blocking him from her Instagram account.
BBC news presenter Clive Myrie has opened up on the reason he didn’t have children with his wife of 25 years.
The partner of a man found dead after leaving his home in Inverness has thanked family and friends for their search efforts. Grzegorz Ulas failed to return home after leaving his family home at Cranmore Drive in the city at around 10am on Thursday, August 31.
He brought zing to a sleepy Comic-Con, and he’s raising the humidity levels here at TIFF. SAG-AFTRA Chief Negotiator and National Executive Director Duncan Crabtree-Ireland took the stage at the festival to give a post-Labor Day update on talks; and still it’s the same old story: The actors haven’t heard zip from the studios about moving forward.
Here are your Manchester City evening headlines for Friday, September 8.
Dwyane Wade is opening up about why he and his family made the move to California from Florida.
Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer The Writers Guild of America and SAG-AFTRA are pushing California lawmakers to grant unemployment benefits to striking workers. In California, workers currently do not receive unemployment pay when they are on strike. But state lawmakers are working on a bill, SB 799, that would extend benefits to workers who have been on strike for at least two weeks.
Oscar-winning Polish cinematographer Janusz Kamiński, best known for his decades-long collaboration with Steven Spielberg, and Stephen Lighthill, who shot the Oscar-nominated doc Berkeley, will be the two special award recipients at this year’s Annual Emerging Cinematographer Awards (ECA).
This Morning fans have been left issuing a very clear demand as Holly Willoughby, Alison Hammond and Dermot O'Leary were seen in a new set of promo images. Holly has returned to the ITV daytime show after a two-month break over the summer holidays.
Wetherspoons will be slashing its food and drinks prices for one day only. Punters heading to the pub chain will see prices reduced by 7.5%.
The cast of Vanderpump Rules took a trip to San Francisco for season 11 — and unsurprisingly, things got very heated!
Fans supported Billie Eilish through her Electric Picnic gig after she complained of feeling “really, really sick” before her performance.The US superstar, 21, headlined the first day of the Irish event at the Stradbally Estate, Co Laois, on Friday. Social media videos showed her delivering her Barbie soundtrack hit What Was I Made For? in a white Nike shirt and baseball cap. She was joined by the crowd who sang along to songs including Happier Than Ever.
Guy Lodge Film Critic Who does a documentary truly belong to — the people who make it, the people who fund it, or the people it depicts? On the face of it, the answer seems obvious: At a spiritual level, if not always a corporate one, we tend to think of art as the property of the artist. Yet in dusting off a long-languishing nonfiction feature from the 1970s that was taken from its stymied director by his bankrollers and sent to the vault, Andrés Peyrot’s thoughtful, mirror-holding doc “God is a Woman” makes a compelling case for the third option.