Oscar producers may get their wish as some of the biggest music stars in the world are still eligible for the Best Original Song Oscar. Lady Gaga, The Weekend, Taylor Swift, Selena Gomez and Rihanna all saw their songs make the cut.
09.12.2022 - 17:23 / deadline.com
Taylor Swift will make her feature directorial debut with Searchlight Pictures, the company announced today. The acclaimed singer, songwriter and director has written an original script, which will be produced by the studio.
Additional details will be announced at a later date.
“Taylor is a once in a generation artist and storyteller. It is a genuine joy and privilege to collaborate with her as she embarks on this exciting and new creative journey,” said Searchlight Presidents David Greenbaum and Matthew Greenfield.
Swift recently made history at the 2022 VMA Awards as the only solo artist ever to be honored with two Best Direction awards for her work on All Too Well: The Short Film and The Man. She is the first artist ever to win three Video of the Year awards and only the second female to direct the winning video for Best Longform Video (All Too Well: The Short Film).
Swift is an 11-time Grammy winner and the only female artist in Grammy history to win their most prestigious award, Album of the Year, three times.
The 14-minute production All Too Well: The Short Film, which Swift wrote and directed, recently screened at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival and Toronto International Film Festival with a special 35mm print, following an exclusive theatrical engagement in NYC at the AMC Lincoln Square 15. All Too Well: The Short Film is one of the year’s eligible short film submissions for the upcoming 95th Oscars.
Searchlight Pictures recently announced Academy Award Nominee Yorgos Lanthimos’ next project AND with Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe set to star. Recent and upcoming releases include Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees of Inisherin; Mark Mylod’s The Menu; Sam Mendes’ Empire of Light; Taika Waititi’s Next Goal
Oscar producers may get their wish as some of the biggest music stars in the world are still eligible for the Best Original Song Oscar. Lady Gaga, The Weekend, Taylor Swift, Selena Gomez and Rihanna all saw their songs make the cut.
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super fan knows: She's one of the most influential makeup artists in fashion and beauty, a proud Brit (so much so that she received ), a proprietor of glamour and glitz through her , and a massive film geek. Naturally, McGrath has lent her talents to movies and film, collaborating with last year and creating onscreen looks for the likes of and . Her latest collaboration is a love letter to her favorite movies of all time, the Star Wars franchise. To celebrate the 30-year anniversary of Return of the Jedi, McGrath teamed up with Lucasfilm to create a makeup collection for the iconic films. Available December 16, features the signature Mothership Palette with colors and packaging inspired by the film, along with three five-pan Eyeshadow Palettes, four Chromaluxe Artistry Pigments, four Dark Star mascaras, and eight metallic LiquiLust Lipsticks and Lust Glosses. McGrath, whose makeup is known for celestial-level sparkle and space-inspired metallics, has been a Star Wars fan since “day one.”“I was obviously born in the UK and I remember when Star Wars launched in the U.S.
Taylor Swift is to write and direct her first movie having signed a deal with Searchlight Pictures, it has been announced.“Taylor is a once in a generation artist and storyteller”, say Searchlight Presidents David Greenbaum and Matthew Greenfield. “It is a genuine joy and privilege to collaborate with her as she embarks on this exciting and new creative journey”.Swift has experience of writing and directing music videos – including the recent ‘All Too Well: The Short Film’, a fourteen minute piece that was screened at the Tribeca and Toronto film festivals earlier this year.
Get ready, Swifties, because Taylor Swift is going to become a filmmaker!
Taylor Swift‘s musical accolades speak for themselves: ten albums, eleven Grammy wins and being the only female artist to win Album Of The Year three separate times. But recently, Swift has added video work into her repertoire, with great success.
reports that Searchlight Pictures has picked up Swift's original script (written by her, of course), that the singer-songwriter is also set to direct. "Taylor is a once in a generation artist and storyteller. It is a genuine joy and privilege to collaborate with her as she embarks on this exciting and new creative journey,” Searchlight presidents David Greenbaum and Matthew Greenfield told Variety.
A group of Taylor Swift fans have sued Live Nation’s Ticketmaster over all the issues that occurred when tickets went on sale for her 2023 US tour because, well, of course they have.There was plenty of social media outrage, resulting in widespread news coverage and political commentary, after Live Nation’s Ticketmaster recently struggled to cope with the demand for tickets for Swift’s ‘The Eras Tour’, her first live shows in five years.Following the ticketing meltdown, Ticketmaster issued an apology to Swift and her fans, saying that unprecedented demand for ‘The Eras Tour’, as well as an army of bots trying to circumvent its Verified Fan system in order to buy up tickets to resell on the secondary market, put its platform under incredible strain.“Never before has a Verified Fan onsale sparked so much attention – or traffic”, the company stated. “This disrupted the predictability and reliability that is the hallmark of our Verified Fan platform.
The Swifties are seeking revenge!