‘The Power Of The Dog’ Production Designer Grant Major On Creating Montana In New Zealand: “It’s A Very Picturesque Country”

Benedict Cumberbatch is opening up about his role in Zoolander 2.

“I have tennis elbow” Jane Campion says, stretching an arm out across the Zoom screen from her temporary Joshua Tree home. She’s in California for the release of her film The Power of the Dog—a Western set in Montana and shot in her native New Zealand.

A version of this story about Kodi Smit-McPhee and “The Power of the Dog” first appeared in the Awards Preview issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine.When Kodi-Smit McPhee thinks back to his days on the New Zealand set of Jane Campion’s “The Power of the Dog,” he remembers the darkened barn. In the film, playing the shy teenager Peter, an outcast on a Montana cattle ranch in the 1920s, Smit-McPhee had a crucial late scene with Benedict Cumberbatch in which the two men share a cigarette in the barn – which, on this day during production, had been wrapped in a tent of blackout curtains in order to simulate nighttime.

A couple returned home to find £90,000 of designer clothes, bags and jewellery had been snatched from their dressing room by callous thieves.

EXCLUSIVE: Established post-production venue Levels Audio has expanded to New York, with noted industry vets Sue Pelino and Kassie Caffiero leading its new facility.

UPDATED with new date: The New York Film Critics Circle said the new date for its previously postponed 2022 awards ceremony will be Wednesday, March 16 at TAO Downtown in Manhattan.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorAn aura of economic growth and wealth permeates the new drama “The Gilded Age,” premiering Jan. 24 on HBO. Christine Baranski is Agnes van Rhijn, a socialite living in early-1880s New York City with her sister, Ada Brook, played by Cynthia Nixon.

Editors note: Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will be factors in this year’s movie awards race.

EXCLUSIVE: Jane Campion will have some new hardware on her mantel come March. The Power of the Dog writer-director and Oscar-winning The Piano scribe is set to receive the Art Directors Guild’s 2022 Cinematic Imagery Award.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefThe Christchurch, New Zealand-based University of Canterbury is to build a Digital Screen Campus, developing skills and talents necessary for a more converged media future.The development is expected to be the largest of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere. It will be constructed over 14 hectares (35 acres) and involve a $65 million (NZ$97 million) investment from the university itself.The aim of the new DSC is to add skills in film production, game development and the metaverse to the country’s abundant filming locations, generous production incentives and award-winning craft personnel in traditional sectors.The University of Canterbury expects to welcome the first students to the DSC in 2023.

Lorde went on a five-day trip to Antartica that ended up inspiring her third album, ‘Solar Power’, however she’s now revealed that she “probably shouldn’t have gone”.Speaking to Euphoria‘s Hunter Schafer on the A24 podcast, Lorde revealed that she’d been “totally obsessed” with Antartica throughout her childhood and that obsession grew as she “started to engage more with our planet”.“I felt like I needed to go there. I had this reaction, people call it ‘last chance tourism’ which is going somewhere before it’s too late and that was my first thought.”Despite calling the trip “the best five days of my life” and saying she’d “never do anything like it again, it was so crazy from start to finish,” Lorde revealed that “going there and actually having that experience made me realise, ‘oh no, you can’t go around doing this’.

The stop-motion animation studio Aardman announced the new project on Wednesday, with series creator Nick Park returning as director with Merlin Crossingham. While the film’s title has not been released, the plot will see the cheese-loving inventor and his much smarter dog take on the world of smart technology when Wallace creates a “Smart Gnome” to take care of chores for him…only for the gnome to develop a mind of its own.

Companies across the UK are already offering its employees the chance to work a four-day week.

Harry Styles‘ long-delayed Australian and New Zealand ‘Love On Tour’ dates have been officially cancelled.Styles was originally set to perform a string of arena dates in Australia in November of 2020. Those dates were postponed indefinitely due to the coronavirus pandemic, with Styles commenting at the time: “I really hope to play the shows as planned for 2021 but will continue to monitor the situation over the coming weeks and months.”Dates in the UK and Europe that were originally scheduled for April of 2020, then pushed back to February and March 2021, were also postponed indefinitely in December of 2020.Styles managed to carry out the North American leg of the world tour last year, performing dozens of shows between September and November of 2021.

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorJan Mojto’s international sales company Beta Film has sold police series “Faster Than Fear,” a hit for ARD in Germany, to three high-profile international buyers. The six-hour series has been acquired by ORF in Austria, Disney Plus in Spain, and Walter Presents in Australia and New Zealand. In Germany, the show was commissioned by ARD under its initiative termed “Mediathek First” for shows that launch first on its streaming platform, the ARD Mediathek.

The French Dispatch has just been made available to read online.The film was released in cinemas last year, telling the story of a fictional newspaper called The French Dispatch and bringing to life several vignettes taken from the paper itself.Owen Wilson, Tilda Swinton, Benicio Del Toro, Léa Seydoux, Timothée Chalamet, Lyna Khoudri, Frances McDormand, Bill Murray and Jeffrey Wright starred in the film.Anderson co-wrote the screenplay with Roman Coppola, Hugo Guinness and Jason Schwartzman. The director previously called the film “a love letter to journalists” and nodded to The New Yorker as a source of inspiration for the characters.The screenplay is available to read on Deadline, after the film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival last year and was released via Searchlight Pictures in October 2021.In a four-star review of The French Dispatch, NME wrote: “It’s been seven years since Anderson’s last live action movie, and The French Dispatch is probably his funniest work since 2012’s Moonrise Kingdom.“It’s certainly the starriest.

Jane Campion’s film has been receiving rave reviews since its release in December and is tipped to pick up the top gong at this year’s Oscars. For the first time in two years, there finally seems to be some genuine excitement in the movie world as we approach Oscars season. Thanks to a pandemic that caused chaos to many industries – and not least the cinema – a number of highly anticipated movies had their release dates pushed back, as the red velvet curtain remained closed to the public.

Nightmare Alley got a mostly positive response from critics… but also made about zero dollars at the box office. (For some reason Disney, which now owns Searchlight Pictures, opened it up against their own Sony collaboration, Spider-Man: No Way Home.)

3 min read Mental health is one of the biggest issues affecting the rainbow community across the globe and now the current Mr Gay New Zealand is rolling his sleeves up and leading a project to tackle the problem head-on.

Outlander actor Graham McTavish shared snaps to social media as he visited Lord of the Rings Hobbiton in New Zealand.