While audiences wait for the arrival of “Poor Things” in theaters next Friday, don’t forget that Yorgos Lanthimos already has his next movie in post-production. And IndieWire reports that it has a new title, too.
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Valerie Wu Intern Willem Dafoe spent six hours in the makeup chair each day for “Poor Things,” the actor recalled in a recent interview with Vanity Fair. Now able to speak about the Frankenstein reimagining after the end of the SAG-AFTRA strike, Dafoe discussed his experience filming Yorgos Lanthimos’s upcoming black comedy. Dafoe stars as the disfigured mad scientist Dr.
Godwin Baxter, whose face was maimed by his surgeon father when he was younger. In the film, Dr. Baxter decides to reanimate a woman’s corpse by placing her brain with the brain of an unborn child.
This woman becomes Bella (Emma Stone), who must navigate human life as an adult while she’s stuck with the brain of a child. When it becomes clear that Bella desires to explore the outside world for herself, Dr. Baxter is faced with the fatherly realization that he must let her go.
Physically becoming Dr. Baxter was no easy feat. According to Dafoe, the makeup team would first mock up scars so that Dafoe could get a better sense of what Dr.
Baxter would look like. The process of getting into character and out of it ended up taking six hours each day, with Dafoe waking up just in time for a 3 a.m. call time.
Everyone else, he said, could show up at seven. “Four hours in, two hours out every day — I’m showing up at three o’clock in the morning, sitting in the chair, meditating and trying to deal with standing still. You can’t sleep because it’s intricate enough that you’ve got to work with the people applying it,” Dafoe emphasized.
While audiences wait for the arrival of “Poor Things” in theaters next Friday, don’t forget that Yorgos Lanthimos already has his next movie in post-production. And IndieWire reports that it has a new title, too.
The Marrakech Film Festival celebrated its 20th edition this year, arriving at the landmark some 22 years after its 2001 launch due to the missed years of the pandemic.
Nosferatu, alongside some first images.Bill Skarsgård is set to play the titular vampire in the upcoming gothic horror, which is the second remake of the 1922 German silent film of the same name, following Werner Herzog’s 1979 movie Nosferatu The Vampyre.Other cast members include Nicholas Hoult, Lily-Rose Depp, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin, Willem Dafoe, Simon McBurney and Ralph Ineson.On Tuesday (November 28), it was announced that Eggers’ Nosferatu will be released on December 25, 2024 in the US, with a UK release date yet to be announced.After the first images from the film arrived last week, some fans are already preparing themselves for a spooky festive season next year. In response to the release date, one X user wrote: “Might be the best Christmas ever.”Another added: “The Nosferatu trailer is likely around the corner and I can’t wait.
We are getting the first look at Lily-Rose Depp in her upcoming horror movie Nosferatu!
The anticipation for films coming out in 2024 just got slightly bigger. While we were all presuming it would arrive next year, Focus Features’ “Nosferatu” horror from filmmaker Robert Eggers is coming much later than expected.
Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Robert Eggers‘ long-in-the-works remake of “Nosferatu” will haunt theaters next Christmas. Focus Features has scheduled the movie for Dec. 25, 2024.
Focus Features‘ second movie with filmmaker Robert Eggers, Nosferatu, will be hitting cinemas on Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2024.
Emma Stone has been very busy promoting her new movie!
his upcoming appearance in “Beetlejuice 2,” the long-awaited sequel to 1988’s “Beetlejuice.”“I haven’t seen any footage yet, but it was fun to do,” Dafoe, 68, told Variety of the movie, which wrapped production in November. “I play a police officer in the afterlife, so I’m a dead person. And in life I was a B-movie action star, but I had an accident, and that’s what sent me to the other side.”Here’s everything to know about “Beetlejuice 2” so far.“Beetlejuice 2” is slated to hit theaters on Sept.
Tim Burton’s upcoming Beetlejuice sequel in a new interview. Speaking to Variety from this year’s edition of the Marrakech Film Festival, the veteran actor discussed various topics relating to his latest projects, including his involvement in Beetlejuice 2. Dafoe straightforwardly explained his role, stating: “I play a police officer in the afterlife, so I’m a dead person.
Willem Dafoe is revealing the character he will play in Beetlejuice 2.
Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent After skipping Venice due to the actors’ strike, a busy Willem Dafoe is back on the festival trail, attending the 20th edition of the Marrakech Film Festival with his wife, filmmaker and actor Giada Colagrande. He spoke to Variety about his ties to Morocco, why he’s “happy to be promoting and starting to work again” now that the strike is over, and his role in Tim Burton’s upcoming “Beetlejuice 2.” How does it feel to be back in Marrakech? I’m happy to be back. Morocco for me is “The Last Temptation of Christ,” a film that was a beautiful experience.
Jessica Chastain and Tilda Swinton provided the ultimate study in contrast while attending the second day of the 2023 Marrakech International Film Festival on Saturday (November 25) in Marrakech, Morocco.
The stars are stepping out in Morocco!
Martin Scorsese has cancelled his trip to the Marrakech International Film Festival at the eleventh hour, which he was due to attend as the special honorary guest of its 20th edition.
Martin Scorsese has cancelled his trip to the Marrakech International Film Festival at the eleventh hour, which he was due to attend as the special honorary guest of its 20th edition.
Jessica Chastain, resplendent in a shimmering silver tasseled jump suit, championed the power of art to bring about positive change at the opening night of the Marrakech Film Festival on Friday evening.
Poor Things, which promises to be one of the weirdest (and most fun) of the year is almost here! is sure to nab at least a nomination for the , and we are fully drooling over the sets and costumes.Based on the novel by the late Alasdair Gray, Poor Things follows Bella Baxter (Stone), a Victorian woman that was resurrected by the “brilliant and unorthodox scientist” Dr. Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe).
Emerald Fennell’s dark comedy Saltburn takes a massive jump from to over 1,500 screens today as Bradley Cooper’s Maestro, Hayao Miyazaki’s latest The Boy and the Heron, animated They Shot The Piano Player and other festival favorites launch awards season runs this Thanksgiving specialty weekend.
Shirley Ballas has said she had one of the 'best days of her life' as she ditched Strictly Come Dancing for another TV role. The BBC One dance contest's head judge, known as the 'Queen of Latin', has swapped the ballroom for the Tardis, it has been revealed.