Spike Lee, the American film director and producer who won an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for his film BlacKkKlansman, will be producing the upcoming Netflix film Gordon Hemingway & The Realm of Cthulhu directed by Stefon Bristol.
And the very first flashback sequence give us two artistic choices that make Lee’s modus operandi clear — first, we see a chopper cutting across the orange Vietnam sky from a distance towards the centre of the screen, a callback to that shot from Apocalypse Now (fittingly, just minutes ago, we saw the Bloods exiting Ho Chi Minh City’s famous Apocalypse Now club).
As part of the promotions for his upcoming film, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, actor Nicolas Cage engaged with fans through an Ask Me Anything (AMA) session on the social news website Reddit.
Michael K Williams, the actor renowned for his role as Omar Little in the HBO show The Wire, was found dead in his Brooklyn penthouse in New York on Monday. He was 54.
Titane, the fantasy drama film directed by Julia Ducournau, won the Palme d’Or at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival.
American actor Sharon Stone will return to host the amfAR Gala at the 74th Cannes International Film Festival on Friday, after an absence of seven years, as per The Hollywood Reporter.
Annette, the upcoming English musical film starring Marion Cotillard and Adam Driver, will be the opening film of the 74th edition of the Cannes International Film Festival.
The trailer of Chadwick Boseman: Portrait of an Artist, a documentary on the life of the late actor, was released by Netflix on Twitter on Tuesday. The documentary will premiere on Netflix on Saturday and will be available for streaming only for 30 days.
Chadwick Boseman, the late American actor best known for his role in Black Panther, won two acting awards posthumously at the 52nd NAACP Image Awards on Saturday.
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles will be inaugurated on September 30, it announced, and added that virtual programs will start from April 22, from around the time of the Oscars.
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.
Nomadland, the American film, won big at the National Society of Film Critics’ (NSFC) annual awards, bagging four awards, including the Best Picture Award, on Saturday. The film is also an official entry for the 93rd Academy Awards.
Chadwick Boseman,the Black Panther actor, posthumously won the Best Supporting Actor award for his performance in Da 5 Bloods at the New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC) Awards. The results were announced on Twitter.
Netflix has pitched its upcoming film Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom for the Best Picture Award at the 93rd Academy Awards.
The trailer of the film Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom which marks the last venture of late actor Chadwick Boseman, was released on Netflix on October 19.
Period, End of Sentence has won the Oscar for the best documentary. The film, set in India, and based on the topic of menstruation beat films like Black Sheep, End Game, Lifeboat and A Night At The Garden to emerge as the winner. Period End of Sentence has been co-produced by Guneet Monga under her banner Sikhya Entertainment – the production house behind movies like Masaan and The Lunchbox.
Silverscreen will be covering the film festival as part of a 14-member team of film critics and journalists from across the world.
Led by Cate Blanchett and French filmmaker Agnes Varda on last Saturday, before the premiere of Eva Husson’s Girls of the Sun, 82 women marched up the red carpet, stood on the stairs, locked arms, and turned to face away from the Palais des Festivals and toward the crowd. The number 82 was significant; it’s the number of films by female directors (including seven in mixed-gender teams) that have premiered in competition at Cannes in its 71-year history.
The official list of movies that have been selected for this year’s Cannes International Film Festival are out and Manto, written and directed by Nandita Das, the only film selected from India will be screened under the Un Certain Regard category of the festival.
Corrie Hinschen is a YouTuber who uses his channel ‘Pieces of Work’ to review films from South Korea, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Taiwan and India. His Patreon profile states that he is passionate about promoting Asian cinema to a wide audience because he believes that ‘the Asian cinema community are some of the dedicated and loyal people on YouTube’.
Frank Vincent, known for his role as mob boss Phil Leotardo on The Sopranos and character roles in many Martin Scorsese films, has died.
As films return to cinemas more, and less to OTT, box office numbers seem to have experienced spikes. While Kartik Aaryan-starrer Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 has earned around Rs 14 crores on its opening day, thereby making it the second film with the highest opening post the pandemic for a Hindi film, Kangana Ranaut’s Dhaakad has only garner Rs 50 lakh.
Amidst the rise in Covid-19 cases in Kerala, many Malayalam films, including the biggies like Salute and Thuramukham, which were slated for theatrical releases, have been postponed indefinitely.
Two detectives, a French Karoline (Giorgia) from Interpol and Tamil brahmin Kamakshi (Meena) from CBI embark on a mission in Pondicherry to track down Furkin (Anto Thomas), a mafia don who has allegedly stolen the “Virgin Mary”, an artefact displayed at the fictitious National Museum of Paris.Directed by Vivek Kumar Kannan, the series stars Meena and Giorgia Andriani in titular roles along with YG Mahendran, Balaji Murugadoss, Spike John and Anto Thomas.
The film, directed by Shoojit Sircar and starring Deepika Padukone and Amitabh Bachchan, Piku is a slice-of-life drama that etches out the blooming of a beautiful romance between Piku (Padukone) and Irrfan Khan on the sidelines of the father-daughter relationship.Spike Jonze’s 2013 American sci-fi romantic drama is a soulful film about a man who finds love in a computer operating system with artificial intelligence.