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Spike Lee, Juliette Binoche, Terry Gilliam and Jacqueline Bisset will be among the winners of this year’s Turin Film Festival, which will be held in the Piedmontese capital from November 21 to 29. Now in its 43rd year, the northern Italian festival brings together screen icons to pay further homage to Daniel Brühl, Claude Lelouch, Vincent Lindon, Vanessa Redgrave, Stefania Sandrelli, Sergio Castellitto and Alexander Sokurov. The special guest line-up also includes Jason Biggs, Dominik Sanda, James Franco, Dolph Lundgren, Joanna Krig, and Hanna Schigula, all of whom will perform both new and esteemed works. “We want to foster conversations…
It’s been a week since prolific author Neal Stephenson and The Lord of the Rings VFX studio Wētā Workshop launched Artefact, a web game they hope will become a seminal medium in the entertainment industry. Housed on the Lamina1 platform, “Artefact” is described as “a cooperative world-building experience that invites players to step into the aftermath of the Spike, a stalled singularity that tore the Internet apart, ended the reign of the AI megasystem, and forced humanity to rebuild with a new decentralized system.” The goal here is to experiment with the process of IP creation and ownership when driven…
rundownTaylor Swift and Sabrina Carpenter went out to dinner on Friday night. Swift wore a preppy look by Thom Browne. Carpenter just received six Grammy nominations.On Friday, Taylor Swift and Sabrina Carpenter were spotted heading out to dinner at The Corner Store in New York City. The two friends were dressed in fun fall looks, with Swift donning a full Thom Browne ensemble, including an RWB striped polo shirt and matching asymmetrical wool miniskirt. She wore the outfit with very high dark red Gucci slingback pumps. The Eras Tour star wore her long blonde hair partially up and out of…
What you need to know Donald Turnnupseed was driving home when his car collided with James Dean’s car in 1955. He gave only one public interview about the accident, speaking to his hometown newspaper hours after the crash. Turnsnupseed had always been an introvert, and this accident “probably” made him even more so, a friend once said. More than 70 years have passed since James Dean’s untimely death, but the other man involved in the accident, Donald Turnupseed, has spent most of his life avoiding talking about the accident. On September 30, 1955, the 24-year-old Oscar-nominated actor was driving his…
Rami Malek worked hard to land a role in the upcoming drama “Nuremberg.” “I put myself out there, and I think there were a lot of other actors in the running for the role, but I followed it hard and fought for it,” he told Page Six exclusively at the film’s Cinema Society screening earlier this week. The “Bohemian Rhapsody” star said he was reminded of his days as a struggling actor because he was so hungry for roles. Rami Malek told Page Six that he actively pursued the role in Nuremberg. Page 6 In this historical drama, he plays…
Laura Dern is fearless, from her breakthrough in David Lynch’s “Wild at Heart” to her Oscar-winning turn in “Marriage Story.” But as the Variety Awards Circuit Pdocast met with the star to discuss her latest work — two radically different films arriving this fall — the actress seems more interested in talking about purpose than performance, and more concerned with showing up for what matters than chasing the next accolade. “I feel really privileged to be talking to you about two movies at this time that are about empathy and kindness and not missing your life and not being caught…
Drama is taking center stage on Dancing with the Stars as Season 34 of the popular competition show heads to its finals this month. Tuesday’s shocking elimination of actress Danielle Fishel and professional dancer Pasha Pashkov left viewers furious. Many viewers believed that Fishel was unfairly criticized by Judge Carrie Ann Inaba. “The judging was very biased,” one person told the Post, noting that Inaba was especially harsh on female contestants. Even Fishel’s co-host on the podcast Pod Meets World (who also co-starred with her on the sitcom Boy Meets World) expressed suspicions that something was amiss. Some fans believed…
Brothers Matt and Ross Duffer say the upcoming theatrical release of Stranger Things is a “dream come true”. As previously reported, the two-hour series finale, titled “The Rightside Up,” will premiere on Netflix and over 350 movie theaters on December 31st at 5pm PT/8pm ET and will run through January 1st. This will be the first time an episode of a Netflix series will be released in theaters. “This has been a dream of ours for a long time,” Ross told me Thursday night at the world premiere of the series’ fifth and final season at the TCL Chinese Theater…
The 22nd Seville European Film Festival further strengthens its expanded big-tent model of city-wide venues, wider audiences and an enhanced industry platform, as nominations for the European Film Awards once again flock to Seville. The 2025 edition, which will be shown from November 7th to 15th, opens with Anders Thomas Jensen’s The Last Viking, with Mads Mikkelsen at the top, and Juliette Binoche’s directorial debut, In-I in Giraldi Ross of Honor will pay homage to four intergenerational heavyweights: France-based master Costa-Gavras, Irish writer Jim Sheridan, and Seville-born Juliette Binoche, who will be screening “Motion.” Alberto Rodriguez (“Marshland,” “Los Tigres”). “This…
SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for the first two episodes of “Pluribus,” streaming now on Apple TV. Vince Gilligan is in the library at Variety’s New York office, surrounded by tens of thousands of newspaper and magazine archives dating back to 1905. He’s reading from a thick, brown book stamped JANUARY 2008, wherein lies this publication’s first review of “Breaking Bad.” “Vince Gilligan brings a quirky sensibility to the pilot, and the show grows increasingly rich and absorbing in the second and third hours,” he recites. “Whether ‘Breaking Bad’ can ignite to become more than TV’s version of a…