Father Mother Sister Brother, the latest feature from veteran indie filmmaker Jim Jarmusch, launched this evening at the Venice Film Festival. Starring are Cate Blanchett, Vicky Krieps, Tom Waits, Adam Driver, Mayim Bialik, Charlotte Rampling, Sarah Greene, Indya Moore, Luka Sabbat, and Françoise Lebrun in the story of estranged siblings who reunite after years apart, forced to confront unresolved tensions and …
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Featuring a much-anticipated performance by Jude Law as Vladimir Putin, this new drama looks to explore how the Russian president came to power – and presents him as mild-mannered. Olivier Assayas’s new drama The Wizard of the Kremlin, which has just premiered at the Venice Film Festival, features Jude Law as the Russian president, Vladimir Putin. But the film may …
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Jim Jarmusch has made anthology films before: Mystery Train (1989), Night on Earth (1991), Coffee and Cigarettes (2003). In fact, he could claim to be the pre-eminent specialist in this now very unfashionable movie form. But with his new one, a deeply pleasing and gently quietist triptych on the subject of family, he is giving us something new and personal. …
Read More »VENICE, Italy (AP) — Jude Law transforms into Vladimir Putin for Olivier Assayas’ “The Wizard of the Kremlin,” which has its world premiere Sunday at the Venice Film Festival. Law said Sunday before the premiere that he didn’t enter the project naively, and that he also does not fear repercussions for his portrayal. “I felt safe in the hands of …
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Guillermo del Toro’s lifelong passion project Frankenstein jolted to life on Saturday night in Italy where the Netflix film received a splashy world premiere during the Venice Film Festival. When it was over, and as the credits rolled, the fest audience responded with a 14-minute standing ovation that brought the filmmaker and his title star Jacob Elordi to tears. The …
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Oscar and Golden Lion winner Guillermo Del Toro unveiled his long-in-the-works Frankenstein at the Venice Film Festival this evening. Playing to a very enthusiastic crowd, the monster movie was greeted by a 15-minute ovation. Del Toro has charmed the Lido before, winning the festival’s top prize, the Golden Lion, with 2017’s The Shape of Water, which ultimately went on to …
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Walt Disney Animation Studios has announced Hexed as its next original feature during Saturday’s presentation at Destination D23. During his presentation in Orlando, Florida, CCO Jared Bush revealed the title and a November 2026 theatrical premiere window for the film, which is directed by Josie Trinidad and Jason Hand, with Roy Conli and Juan Pablo Reyes Lancaster-Jones producing. In Hexed, …
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A new original film is coming to Disney. On Saturday at the Destination D23 event held in Orlando, Florida, chief creative officer of Walt Disney Animation Studios, Jared Bush took to the stage to reveal that its next original film is titled Hexed. Here’s the film’s logline: “Disney’s #Hexed is an all-new original film that follows an awkward teenage boy and his Type …
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Guillermo del Toro‘s adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein launched at the Venice Film Festival this evening and the notices are coming in. Oscar Isaac stars as Dr. Victor Frankenstein, the brilliant but egotistical scientist who brings a creature (Jacob Elordi) to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation. The early reaction from …
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The Venice Film Festival on Saturday became the focus of possibly the largest protest ever seen at a major film event over Israel’s ongoing military assault on Gaza. Thousands, young and old, made up of festival guests and members of the public, took part in a major march denouncing Israel and calling for an end to genocide. Amid a sea …
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