Emerald Fennell, the Oscar-nominated director of Promising Young Woman, is set to write the DC movie Zatanna, which will be Warner Bros.’s new comic book movie and the latest female-led DC superhero film, Variety reported.
The new Netflix Italian horror film, A Classic Horror Story, is supposed to be a tribute to the greats of the genre — The Texas Chain Massacre, The Cabin in the Woods, Midsommar, and more.Instead, the directors’ quest to make it a meta commentary on the current state of Italian horror cinema reduces the film to an overly complicated tale with an unimpressive message.
Nomadland, the American drama film directed by Chloe Zhao, took home three Oscars for best direction, best actress in a leading role, and best picture awards at the 93rd Academy Awards held on Monday. Zhao became the first Asian the second woman ever to win the category.
Chloe Zhao, the director of Nomadland, won the Director’s Guild of America Award (DGA) for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film for 2020, becoming the second woman and the first woman of colour to win the title.
However, the film’s ending itself makes you wonder if someone else hijacked the original story because after spending nearly 90 minutes to create something truly original, the film ends like a masala movie where revenge and vengeance become the conflict point.All said and done, for what it’s worth, Madha marks a promising debut for Srividya and Trishna Mukherjee, even when the film itself doesn’t quite hit the mark consistently.
When a young man (Aadhav Kannadasan) moves in as a tenant in their house, he seems to be paying Vidhya a lot more attention than Kaalidas does.All of the little elements that the film shows us, about Vidhya and Kaalidas’ personalities come to play later.Kaalidas is married but his wife Vidhya (Ann Sheetal) is unhappy in the way, small things can drive a large rift in relationships.
GQ magazine’s list of ’50 most influential young Indians 2018′ has names from across fields like business, sports, entertainment and others. The list includes director Pa Ranjith, actors Parvathy, Nayanthara and journalist Sandhya Menon from the South.
Sandhya Menon
A journalist who spearheaded the second wave of the #MeToo movement in India, Menon has been instrumental in outing powerful ministers, stand-up comedians, actors, and influential men in media. Even as she tweeted out her experience of sexual harassment at the workplace, she also shared, and continues to share experiences of other women.
Alfred Molina, the English actor who was recently seen in Oscar-nominated film Promising Young Woman, confirmed that he would reprise his role as Doctor Octopus in the upcoming superhero film Spiderman: No Way Home.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which announced its nominees of the 93rd Oscars on Monday, created history by nominating two women filmmakers for the best director award- Chloé Zhao for Nomadland and Emerald Fennell for Promising Young Woman. However, it was Netflix’s Mank, starring Gary Oldman as Citizen Kane writer Herman Mankiewicz, that clinched the most number of nominations with a total count of 10.
Writing with Fire, the Indian documentary film that revolves around a team of reporters who launch India’s sole Dalit women-run newspaper in a media landscape dominated by men, has been nominated in the Best Documentary Feature category at the Oscars 2022.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Thursday announced the list of members it has invited to join the organisation this year, and Vidya Balan, Ekta Kapoor, and Shobha Kapoor are the only Indians to feature on the list. The invitation makes them eligible to vote at the upcoming Oscars.
Nomadland, the English film directed by Chloe Zhao starring Frances McDormand, bagged four awards out of seven nominations at the British Academy of Film and Television Awards (BAFTA), including the Best Film award, on April 11. The 74th edition of the BAFTA was held in two parts- the craft awards on April 10 and performance awards on April 11.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which recently announced its nominees of the 93rd Oscars, is expected to present the awards without any host and has planned “for high profile presenters” to anchor the awards on a “rotating basis”, according to sources accessed by Deadline.
The British Academy Film and Television Awards (BAFTA) on Tuesday released the list of nominations for its 74th edition of film awards scheduled to be held in April. Priyanka Chopra Jonas’s The White Tiger received two nominations, including in the leading actor category for Adarsh Gourav, and for best adapted screenplay.
The 26th Critics Choice Awards saw Chloe Zhao’s Nomadland and Netflix’s series The Crown bag four awards each. Minari won the best foreign language film of the year although it got to contest in the best picture category as well.
The 2021 Golden Globe Awards saw Nomadland and Borat Subsequent Moviefilm each bagging two big awards at the 2021 Golden Globes, while Netflix’s series The Crown took home three awards, the highest in the evening.
Chadwick Boseman, the late Hollywood actor most famous for playing the title role in Black Panther, made history on Thursday by becoming the first actor to receive four Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations for feature films in a single year.
The Golden Globes’ list of nominations, announced on Wednesday, saw Netflix garner 42 nominations; with Mank and The Crown leading the way at six nominations each. While Disney followed second with 25 nominations, Amazon Prime Video came next with 10 nominations.
The Hollywood Film Press Association (HFPA), which conducts the Golden Globe awards, received criticism after an exclusive report from Variety revealed that several film categories had been shuffled around, including that of the American film Minari, which had been moved from the Best Picture category to the Best Foreign Film category.
The official trailer of Margot Robbie’s upcoming film Dreamland was released by Paramount Movies on Thursday.
Maaran, directed by Karthick Naren, is the kind of film one assumed to have kicked the bucket sometime in the last decade, when the hullabaloo of social media usurped a space reserved for news production and broadcast.He claims to have worked in seven different media organisations that fired him one after another for “speaking truth to power. ” Although you never see him performing anything close to serious journalism – researching a topic or interviewing a subject – the film calls him the best journalist in the country and flashes on screen his photo on the covers of top magazines.
Directed by Aakash Bhatia, Looop Lapeta is an official remake of Tom Tykwer’s 1998 experimental thriller Run Lola Run, an iconic film that stunned the audience for its innovative form ﹣especially, the fast-paced edit, the use of animation and techno music.While one can understand Bhatia’s decision to situate his film away from the sense of urgency and building of tension Run Lola Run was founded on, an excess of narrative elements undoes the film altogether.
“First of all, this character itself is a very big responsibility for any woman to play,” says Bengali actor Madhumita Sarcar on her role in the upcoming web series Uttoron, which is set to premiere on Hoichoi on Wednesday.She notes that the women in Bengali films have become more than just a “showpiece” or a “mannequin,” and cites as examples her role and that of fellow actor Aparajita Addya in the female-centric film Chini, as well as her character in Love Aaj Kal Porshu.
Jaison (Tovino Thomas), a friendly young man, and Shibu (Guru Somasundaram), the depraved pariah of the village, both get struck by an unusual bolt of lightning one night that grants them superpowers.The quirky elements ﹣Jaison’s peculiar sense of fashion and the presence of a female martial artist in a village square, or the pop coloured walls and the placement of popular Malayalam film songs in different situations ﹣have come to be too typical a set-up in new generation Malayalam cinema.
The Golden Globe Awards, conducted by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), will be held bi-coastally, from the east and west ends of the USA, the association announced on Tuesday, reported AP News. The award ceremony will take place on February 28.