Universal’s Managing Director For France, Xavier Albert, Adding Italy To Purview

Director Enrico Casarosa is addressing the comparisons of his new movie, Luca, to Call Me By Your Name.

Pixar’s upcoming animated family film has raised eyebrows for some apparent similarities to “Call Me By Your Name”.

If you loved the cynical, grim nihilism and fascistic wet dream foulness of “Sicario: Day Of The Soldado,” you’re probably going to love Amazon’s “Without Remorse.” Made by the same writing/directing pair, filmmaker Stefano Sollima (the Italian “Gomorrah” TV series) and screenwriter Taylor Sheridan (“Sicario,” “Hell or High Water”), “Without Remorse” feels like a CIA Black Ops recruitment tool—making ruthless assassinations of faceless foreign nationals seem efficiently slick and badass—for

The tradition of featuring the Academy Award winner for Best Director on Variety‘s post-Oscars cover continues with “Nomadland”‘s Chloe Zhao. On the morning after her historic award win that saw her become only the second woman to win the directing honour and the first woman of colour to do so, Zhao tells Variety all about the honour and “Nomadland”‘s Best Picture win.

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Frances McDormand - a woman who leaves her hometown in Nevada after her husband dies and the sole industry closes down, and then travels around the US in search of seasonal work. Fern is not a real person, but the film is based on Jessica Bruder's non-fiction book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century, which follows the trend of older Americans moving around the country for seasonal jobs.

Marvel Studios' upcoming Eternals movie — has broken new ground with an Oscars 2021 win. The Chinese filmmaker won the Best Director prize at Sunday's ceremony for her movie Nomadland, the Frances McDormand-starring film about a woman travelling across the US in a van after her husband's death.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterFor the first time in more than a decade — and only the second time in history — a woman has won the Oscar for best director.Chloé Zhao on Sunday night took home the Academy Award for best director for “Nomadland,” a sweeping drama about a widow in her 60s (Frances McDormand) who travels the Western United States in a van after losing her job in the Great Recession.

Nomadland, which stars Frances McDormand as a restless itinerant worker who lives out of her van, is also up for four other awards tonight. Zhao is the first woman of color ever to be nominated in the category.Accepting the award from Boon Jong Ho, the director of last year's Parasite, Zhao thanked her fellow nominees and the company of Nomadland.

Fashion icon and designer Alber Elbaz has tragically passed away. The Moroccan-born Israeli fashion designer was best known for his contribution in refreshing and modernizing the image of Lanvin in the ’00s, the icon passed away on Saturday (April 24) in Paris, France at the age of 59 due to COVID-19, the New York Times reported.

health issues among hospital staff.But when the pandemic hit, Lilti realized the world didn’t need drama to illustrate that story: It was happening all around him.The creator of Canal+'s hit drama “Hippocrate,” a former doctor himself, was so moved by the urgency of the pandemic that he couldn’t just stand back -- he put back on his scrubs.Lilti — who also writes and directs the TV show that is named after the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates — ended up working in a hospital last year when

Nomadland was the big winner at Thursday's Film Independent Spirit Awards, taking best feature and best director for Chloé Zhao, among other awards. In the acceptance speech, producer Peter Spears noted that Zhao met star Frances McDormand at a previous Spirit Award ceremony.

On Thursday night, Nomadland‘s Oscars push was further bolstered by four wins at the virtually-held 2021 Film Independent Awards, in the categories of Best Picture, Director, Editing and Cinematography.

Black Bread” director Agustí Villaronga, is arguably the most ghastly shipwreck in the history of seafaring.On July 2, 1816 French frigate Méduse ran aground on the Bank of Arguin, off the coast of present-day Mauritania, with 400 passengers on board.147 men were forced onto a makeshift raft, only 66 feet by 23 feet, cut adrift on the open sea. A storm swept many overboard; others, rebellious, were shot by officers; as rations dwindled, some resorted to cannibalism.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentMaximo Ibarra and Nicola Maccanico, respectively managing director and programming chief at Comcast-owned Sky Italia, are exiting the pay-TV operation following its failure to secure a rights deal for Italy’s Serie A soccer league.Ibarra, a Colombian-Italian executive with extensive telecoms experience, had been leading Sky Italia since October 2019.

Alexander Nanau, the Romanian director of Collective which is heading into the Oscars with both best documentary and best international feature nominations, is set to executive produce the newly-announced feature doc Klarsfeld, about French Nazi hunters Beate and Serge Klarsfeld.

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After the COVID pandemic forced the Cannes Film Festival to be canceled last year, it seemed silly to think that we could possibly go two full years without the French event. Well, as we approach the July date for this year’s already-delayed Cannes, the director of the event, Thierry Fremaux is confident the in-person festival will happen this summer, according to a new interview with Rappler.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentVeteran Italian auteur Daniele Luchetti, whose most recent film “The Ties” opened the 2020 Venice Film Festival, is now shooting season 3 of HBO-RAI series “My Brilliant Friend,” taking the reins from helmer-showrunner Saverio Costanzo, who is taking a break.The show’s hotly anticipated third season is based on the bestselling novel “My Brilliant Friend – Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay,” the third book of the quadrilogy by Elena Ferrante published

Hey, Hollywooders! We’re welcoming a new celebrity baby announcement this week: Tan France and his partner Rob France are expecting their first child via surrogacy. How’s that for HollyGOOD news!The Queer Eye celeb took to Instagram to announce the news earlier this week with a photo of him holding an ultrasound picture over his belly.