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The 2024 Scad Savannah Film Festival announced in a press release they will honor Pamela Anderson with the Marquee Award this Saturday, November 2. The actress will be recognized for her starring role in Gia Coppola’s “The Last Showgirl.” Anderson will receive the award before the film’s Southeast premiere and she will join Coppola for a Q&a. The 2024 Scad Savannah Film Festival is scheduled taking place October 26–November 2.

“We are excited to have Pamela Anderson join us for the last day of the festival for a special screening of ‘The Last Showgirl,’” said Christina Routhier, executive director of the Scad Savannah Film Festival. “Pamela gives a captivating performance in ‘The Last Showgirl,’ and we are so honored to celebrate her remarkable achievements and career with the Marquee Award.”

Anderson, most recently nominated for Best Lead Performance by the Gotham Awards, stars as a seasoned showgirl who must plan for...

Without a doubt, Margaret Qualley is one of the most exciting young actors working today. She’s shown up in recent projects such as “Poor Things,” “Drive-Away Dolls,” “Kinds of Kindness,” and most recently, “The Substance.” And that’s just from the last year or so. She also has a number of interesting projects on the horizon, including new ones from directors Ethan Coen and Richard Linklater.

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Forget the American Psycho remake discourse, it's time to focus on what really matters: Margaret Qualley starring in another movie from Sanctuary director Zachary Wigon and playing a psychopath who gets a job as a governess at a gothic manor in 1858.

Deadline announces that the upcoming horror-thriller movie will see Qualley playing the lead character, an eccentric young woman named Winifred Notty, who has "psychopathic tendencies." Winifred is tasked with tending to the homeowner's children and their education on their family's history. But when staff members start disappearing, the owners realize that something might be very wrong with their newest hire. The plot sounds a little like a reverse Turn of the Screw.

Regarding working with Wigon again after Sanctuary, Qualley says, "Working with Zach [Wigon] again feels like a rare gift, and I can’t wait to step into this twisted world he’s created.”

Wigon describes the character of...

“Gladiator” fans will get an inside look at the making of Ridley Scott’s epic sequel courtesy of a behind-the-scenes special, airing Nov. 18 on CBS (at 10:30 p.m. Et/Pt) and streaming on Paramount +.

The special, titled “The Making of Gladiator II,” is said to offer interviews “unprecedented access encompassing all aspects of production, from the grand scope of the set — including reconstructing Ancient Rome — to characters, combat training, costumes, historical accuracy, scoring and more.”

The Paramount Pictures film, starring Paul Mescal, continues the saga of power, intrigue and vengeance set off in the 2001 Oscar best picture-winner “Gladiator.”

“Years after witnessing the death of the revered hero Maximus at the hands of his uncle, Lucius (Mescal) is forced to enter the Colosseum after his home is conquered by the tyrannical Emperors who now lead Rome with an iron fist,” reads the film’s logline. “With rage in his...

Exclusive: Fresh off acclaimed genre pic The Substance, Margaret Qualley has been set to star in psychological horror-thriller Victorian Psycho, which Anton is launching ahead of next week’s American Film Market.

It’s a strong premise for the in-demand Qualley. Set in 1858, the film will follow a young, eccentric governess named Winifred Notty (Qualley) who arrives at the remote gothic manor known as Ensor House. Winifred’s responsibilities include teaching the children table manners and educating them about their family’s history, all whilst hiding her psychopathic tendencies. As Winifred assimilates into life at Ensor House, staff members begin to inexplicably disappear, and the owners of the estate begin to wonder if there is something amiss about their new governess.

Zachary Wigon (Sanctuary) is directing from a script by author Virginia Feito (Mrs. March), based on her upcoming novel of the same name. Production is set to begin in...

The world’s largest college-run film festival, the Scad Savannah film festival, returns to Georgia Oct. 26 with its consistently eclectic programming mix of documentaries, box office hits, indies, animated films, short films and more.

“Scad honors the screen’s brightest stars, from Annette Bening to Lupita Nyong’o to Richard Linklater,” says Scad President and founder Paula Wallace. “Come for the stars and stay for a tour of Scad’s recently expanded Savannah Film Studios backlot… glitz, glamour, and good films.”

This year’s programming includes of Steve McQueen’s “Blitz” and Pablo Larrain’s “Maria” as well as a centerpiece screening of Robbie Williams’ unconventional biopic “Better Man.” The festival will also screen “Emilia Peréz,” Jacques Audiard’s musical drama which won the Jury Prize at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, and a 35mm print of Brady Corbet’s “The Brutalist,” which netted the filmmaker the Silver Lion for directing in Venice earlier this year.

Athina Rachel Tsangari, the Greek director with roots in New York and Austin, Texas, does not need any convincing when an actor or crew member proposes an offbeat idea.

Her new film “Harvest” is based on Jim Crace’s interior monologue of a novel and set in the unspecified past. It feels like the middle ages, apart from the occasional anachronism. On the ramshackle set in Scotland, most of the characters were wearing wooden clogs, but Tsangari’s lead actor Caleb Landry Jones (best known to audiences as the brother in “Get Out;” he also won a Cannes prize in 2021 for the drama “Nitram”) strolled up in contemporary hiking boots.

“I loved it,” the director tells TheWrap of Jones’ footwear. “I’m open to stuff like that. It has nothing to do with what people were wearing in medieval times, but it works. Especially in a film like this one,...

Apple TV+’s Girls State and HBO’s Ren Faire scored three nominations apiece to lead all broadcast nominees announced Thursday for the 18th Cinema Eye Honors. The group, which recognizes the year’s outstanding nonfiction and documentary films and TV series, also revealed the 16-film longlist for its annual Audience Choice Prize, won last year by National Geographic’s Bobi Wine: The People’s President, which went on to get nominated for the Documentary Feature Oscar.

The past six winners of the Best Documentary Feature Oscar — this year’s winner 20 Days in Mariupol, Navalny, Summer of Soul, My Octopus Teacher, American Factory and Free Solo — were all Audience Choice Prize nominees. Fans voting will whittle the list to 10 beginning next week, with winners in that and all categories to be announced at an awards ceremony January 9 at the New York Academy of Medicine in East Harlem.

The full list...

Cinema Eye Honors today shared a string of announcements, including the 16 films on its Audience Choice Prize Longlist, the unveiling of this year’s Unforgettables Honorees, nominees in its five Broadcast categories, and its annual Shorts List — spotlighting 11 of the year’s top documentary short films — at its 7th annual Cinema Eye Fall Lunch in Downtown Los Angeles on October 24, 2024.

Spotlighted on the film side are several major Best Documentary Feature contenders including “Will & Harper,” “Black Box Diaries,” and “No Other Land,” which all also factored into the organization’s list of Unforgettables — standout on-camera collaborators from eight feature documentaries. This next ceremony will be the first time those honorees, like Harper Steele, Shiori Ito, and Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham for those respective films, receive a special medallion honoring their contribution to their Cinema Eye-winning films.

Highlights among the Broadcast nominees include filmmaker Lance Oppenheim, nominated for both...

The Apple TV+ documentary “Girls State” and the HBO doc series “Ren Faire” led all projects in nominations in the Cinema Eye Honors broadcast categories, which were announced on Thursday in Los Angeles.

“Girls State” was nominated in the Broadcast Film category and also for its editing and cinematography. “Ren Faire” was also nominated in those last two categories, as well as for Nonfiction Series.

Other broadcast films and series with multiple nominations included Netflix’s “America’s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders,” Apple’s “The Enfield Poltergeist,” HBO’s “Telemarketers” and National Geographic’s “Photographer.”

At its annual Cinema Eye Fall Lunch at Redbird in downtown Los Angeles, the New York-based organization also announced the Audience Choice Award Long List, 16 films that will compete for the audience-voted award; 11 semi-finalists in the short doc category; and “The Unforgettables,” its annual list of the year’s most interesting documentary subjects.

The Audience...

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Dick Pope, a British cinematographer best known for his collaborations with Mike Leigh, has passed away at the age of 77. The British Society of Cinematographers announced the news, but no cause of death was given.

In addition to his work with Leigh, which included “Naked,” “Secrets & Lies,” “Topsy-Turvy” and this year’s “Hard Truths,” Pope had collaborated with Christopher McQuarrie (on “The Way of the Gun”), Barry Levinson (“Man of the Year”), John Sayles (“Honeydripper”) and Richard Linklater.

“Dick had a reputation for being a wonderful collaborator and someone who was passionate about the artform of cinematography,” the Bsc wrote in remembrance. ”He was keen to embrace new technologies and ideas while also ensuring the skills and crafts of those that came before him weren’t lost. To this end Dick would guest tutor at schools such as the National Film and Television School.”

Pope was nominated for two Oscars in his career,...

Dick Pope, the veteran British cinematographer who worked on 11 movies with director Mike Leigh, has died Tuesday, the British Society of Cinematographers said in a statement. He was 77.

No cause of death was given, but Leigh told Indiewire that Pope had undergone “major heart surgery” before work began on Hard Truths, their last collaboration that premiered at the Toronto Film Festival last month.

Pope received Oscar nominations for his work on Leigh’s Mr Turner and the mystery The Illusionist by director Neil Burger. Pope and Leigh also worked together on movies like Life Is Sweet in 1990, Naked, Topsy-Turvey, Vera Drake and Secrets & Lies.

In a 2019 interview with Film Comment, Pope talked about his decades of work with Leigh, with a reference to their movie coming out at the time, Peterloo.

“It’s very difficult to take Peterloo out of all the other work we’ve done together, because...

Dick Pope, the veteran British cinematographer best known for his decades-long collaboration with legendary filmmaker Mike Leigh, has died. He was 77.

The British Society of Cinematographers confirmed the news Tuesday with a statement.

“It is with deepest sadness that we learn of the passing of our friend and colleague Dick Pope Bsc,” the statement read. “Dick had a reputation for being a wonderful collaborator and someone who was passionate about the art form of Cinematography. He was keen to embrace new technologies and ideas while also ensuring the skills and crafts of those that came before him weren’t lost. To this end, Dick would guest tutor at schools such as the National Film and Television School.”

Pope was born in Bromley, Kent in 1947. He began his trade as a documentary filmmaker, working on the British current affairs series World In Action. He moved into television drama in the early...

Autumnal romance blooms in My Favourite Cake, a film about seeking passion in life and being bold enough to act when opportunities arise. The directors are Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha, a duo whose previous work, Ballad of a White Cow, pointed to excessive measures in the Iranian legal system. Their latest has a lighter touch but is just as candid about the effect of authoritarian overreach on ordinary lives––a sentiment made all the more apparent when the directors were banned from attending the Berlinale premiere earlier this year as a result of scenes involving alcohol consumption and a character not wearing a hijab. The story is set in lovely, sun-kissed Tehran, a city that’s given us romantic cinema over the years, though rarely with such opprobrium.

The film’s unlikely lovers, Mahin and Faramarz, are beautifully played by Lili Farhadpour and Esmaeel Mehrabi––two veteran Iranian actors with 70-odd credits between them,...

Richard Pope, the British cinematographer who worked extensively with Mike Leigh, has died at the age of 77.

Pope’s death was reported by the British Society of Cinematographers (Bsc) on Tuesday, October 22.

A message posted to the Bsc website read, “It is with deepest sadness that we learn of the passing of our friend and colleague Dick Pope Bsc.We pay tribute to our wonderful friend and colleague and out thoughts go out to his family especially his wife Pat at this difficult time.”

”On behalf of Mike, the team at Thin Man Films, and the cast and crew who...

British cinematographer Dick Pope, long-time collaborator of Mike Leigh, had died, it’s been announced. A very sad loss.

Some really awful news to wake up to this morning. Cinematographer Dick Pope has died at the age of 77. Ahead of the filming of what turned out to be his final movie, Hard Truths, Pope said he’d recently he’d undergone heart surgery.

Hard Truths – and it’s a superb film – has thus proven to be his final collaboration with writer/director Mike Leigh, and the pair have been at the heart of some of British cinema’s most notable films. They came together on 1990’s Life Is Sweet, and were regular collaborators from that point onwards.

Pope also, across a career that stretched nearly 50 years, worked with filmmakers such as Mike Newell, John Sayles, Gurinder Chadha, Christopher McQuarrie, Richard Linklater and Barry Levinson.

The news of his passing came...

Dick Pope, the legendary two-time Oscar nominated British cinematographer and longtime collaborator of auteur Mike Leigh, has died at the age of 77. News of Pope's passing was confirmed by the British Society of Cinematographers in a statement shared on their website earlier today.

"It is with deepest sadness that we learn of the passing of our friend and colleague Dick Pope Bsc," wrote the organisation in their post, which highlighted Pope's record three Camerimage Golden Frog wins as well as his achievement of the society's prestigious 'Cinematography in a Feature Film' award for his work on Mr. Turner. Continuing, the society also paid homage to their alumni's commitment to his craft and its furtherance, writing, "Dick had a reputation for being a wonderful collaborator and someone who was passionate about the artform of Cinematography. He was keen to embrace new technologies and ideas while also ensuring the skills and crafts...

Dick Pope is dead. The Oscar-nominated cinematographer best known for his 34-year collaboration with Mike Leigh was 77.

Pope's death was announced in a British Society of Cinematographers statement. "Dick had a reputation for being a wonderful collaborator and someone who was passionate about the artform of Cinematography," the Bsc wrote.

Dick Pope, the esteemed British cinematographer who received Academy Award nominations for his exquisite work on “The Illusionist” and Mike Leigh‘s “Mr. Turner,” has died at the age of 77. His death was confirmed by a publicist on his final film, Leigh’s “Hard Truths.”

“Hard Truths” producer Georgina Lowe shared the following statement: “On behalf of Mike, the team at Thin Man Films, and the cast and crew who worked regularly with Dick on our films for over 30 years, I wanted to say what a privilege it has been to have collaborated with him. His work, both with us, and on the eclectic collection of films he shot over his impressive career, was extraordinary. We have lost a friend and will miss him so much.”

Born in Bromley, Kent, in 1947, Pope became obsessed with still photography as a child and published some of his pictures in local papers as a teenager.

Richard Pope, the British cinematographer who collaborated with director Mike Leigh across his career and earned an Oscar nomination for his work lensing Leigh’s 2014 biopic “Mr. Turner,” died Tuesday in London. He was 77 years old.

Pope’s death was confirmed by the British Society of Cinematographers in a statement released Tuesday.

“It is with deepest sadness that we learn of the passing of our friend and colleague Dick Pope Bsc,” the organization wrote. “Dick had a reputation for being a wonderful collaborator and someone who was passionate about the artform of cinematography. He was keen to embrace new technologies and ideas while also ensuring the skills and crafts of those that came before him weren’t lost.”

Pope’s artistic partnership with Leigh, the most enduring of his career, began with the 1990 drama “Life Is Sweet.” The film marked Leigh’s third feature. Pope has served as cinematographer on...

As movie fans are likely well aware, the Criterion Collection is the home video company that distributes prestige editions of some of the greatest films ever made, plus Armageddon. Cinephiles love Criterion so much that they’ll even wait for several hours in the rain just to climb into the back of a van that resembles one of their office’s storage closets.

Criterion recently announced their latest batch of additions to the collection, and it includes a fairly surprising title: a 4K restoration of 1986’s Jo Jo Dancer Your Life Is Calling.

As we’ve discussed before, Jo Jo Dancer is essentially an experimental Richard Pryor biopic that was co-written and directed by Pryor. He also stars as his fictional surrogate who, in the film’s opening moments, nearly burns to death, not unlike Pryor, after freebasing cocaine.

Jo Jo’s soul departs his burned body as it struggles to survive,...

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Anora is a romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Sean Baker. The 2024 film follows the story of Anora Mikheeva, a young stripper who falls in love with and marries Vanya, the son of a Russian oligarch, and finally gets her Cinderella story but once the news reaches Vanya’s parents they come to New York to get their marriage annulled by any means necessary. Anora stars Mikey Madison in the lead role with Mark Eidelstein, Yura Borisov, Karren Karagulian, Vache Tovmasyan, and Aleksei Serebryakov starring in supporting roles. So, if you loved the intensely dramatic story, tragic romance, and compelling characters in Anora here are some similar movies you should check out next.

Pretty Woman (Rent on Prime Video) Credit – Touchstone Pictures

Pretty Woman is a romantic comedy film directed by Garry Marshall from a screenplay written by J.F. Lawton.

Exclusive: Troian Bellisario (Pretty Little Liars) and Thomas Lennon (Unfrosted) have joined Weekend at the End of the World, an indie horror comedy co-written and directed by Gille Klabin.

The pair stars alongside the previously announced Cameron Fife and Clay Elliott. Details as to their roles are under wraps.

Recently wrapping production in Los Angeles, Weekend follows best friends Karl (Elliott) and Miles (Fife), who find themselves in a secluded cabin in the woods with what they think is an opportunity to get rich, with the only thing standing in their way being the end of the world.

The project marks the second outing for Gille Kalbin as director following the release of sci-fi thriller The Wave, starring Justin Long. Klabin, Elliott, and Spencer McCurnin wrote the script, with Hero Moves and June Street Productions producing.

Best known for starring on teen drama Pretty Little Liars, Bellisario’s feature credits...

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The most romantic season of the year is finally here and as the temperature cools down, Netflix has the perfect way to bring the heat. We are talking about its collection of spicy romantic comedy movies featuring salacious scenes and a lot of hilarious comedy. So, here are the best R-rated romantic comedy movies on Netflix you should check out right now.

Plus One Credit – Rlje Films

Plus One is a romantic comedy film written and directed by Jeff Chan and Andrew Rhymer. The 2019 film follows Ben King and Alice Mori, who have been friends since college and now that everybody around them is getting married they make a pact to attend the weddings together instead of being alone. Soon they start falling for each other but their wildly different personalities get in the way. Plus One stars...

Luca Guadagnino is set to direct a new interpretation of American Psycho for the big screen. Christian Bale’s 2000 adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’ original novel was helmed by Mary Harron, who also wrote the screenplay alongside Guinevere Turner. Harron’s film is a cult hit and fans aren’t happy that Guadagnino is directing a “remake.”

Christian Bale in American Psycho | Credits: Lionsgate

However, Lionsgate has enlisted Scott Z. Burns to write the screenplay, which will stay close to the original material, unlike Harron’s film. Moreover, some fans are against the move, sharing that the success of Bale’s movie stemmed from the female vision behind it, namely Harron and Turner.

Luca Guadagnino Can Pull Off A Modern American Psycho Despite Criticisms Luca Guadagnino | Credits: Maximilian Bühn, licensed under Cc By-sa 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

According to Variety, Luca Guadagnino is in final negotiations to helm the modern adaptation of American Psycho for Lionsgate.

The celebrated actor and filmmaker Kevin Costner has been tapped by the Scad Savannah Film Festival to receive its Legend of Cinema Award, The Hollywood Reporter can exclusively report.

Costner will be presented with the honor following a Nov. 1 afternoon screening of Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter 1, the first installment of an epic Western film series that he directed and stars in, and a Q&a about the film, moderated by yours truly, in which he will field questions alongside the film’s cinematographer J. Michael Muro (Cas), costume designer Lisa Lovaas, film editor Miklos Wright (Ace) and re-recording mixer Joe DeAngelis.

Past recipients of the Scad Savannah Film Festival’s Legend of CInema Award include Samuel L. Jackson, Patrick Stewart and Hugh Jackman.

Costner joins a formidable roster of Hollywood heavyweights who are headed south for this year’s edition of the nation’s largest university-sponsored film festival, which will run Oct.

Most of the single-location movies I have come across have aimed to thrill. Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope, Dial M for Murder, and Rear Window are some of the most beautifully crafted murder mysteries in existence. Sidney Lumet’s 12 Angry Men, Murder on the Orient Express, and Dog Day Afternoon are dripping with tension and drama. The Shining, The Thing, Misery, Krampus, and The Hateful Eight have expertly used a wintery landscape to generate suspense and horror. Snakes on a Plane, Train to Busan, and Greyhound have turned entire vehicles themselves into battlegrounds for survival. And the list just goes on. So, yes, it’s a little hard to find a single-location film that doesn’t get your heart pumping and your mind racing because being stuck in one place is terrifying. That said, Rocky Walls’ Dirty Laundry is a real change of pace. Is it any good? Let’s find out.

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After a short, overwhelming stint in the mobile Criterion Closet, which boasts over 1,200 titles in the order they were added to the collection, Screen Talk co-hosts Anne Thompson and Ryan Lattanzio welcomed Criterion president Peter Becker to the annual New York Film Festival edition of “Screen Talk” Live.

But first, the co-hosts debated the merits of Luca Guadagnino’s artful but long “Queer” starring Daniel Craig as an aging gay junkie suffering from unrequited love. And they also argued about the NYFF closing nighter, “Blitz,” which some think lacks that Steve McQueen edge. His biggest budget film to date is also his most traditional, starring Saoirse Ronan and Elliott Heffernan as a mother and son separated during the London blitz of World War II. Reviews are stronger in Britain than stateside so far (Metascore: 76). Anne thinks it will play for Academy voters,...

Nominations voting is from January 8-12, 2025, with official Oscar nominations announced January 17, 2025. Final voting is February 11-18, 2025. And finally, the 97th Oscars telecast will be broadcast on Sunday, March 2 and air live on ABC at 7:00 p.m. Et/ 4:00 p.m. Pt. We update our picks through awards season, so keep checking IndieWire for all our 2025 Oscar predictions.

The State of the Race

Sequels have been a dominant part of the Best Adapted Screenplay conversation the past couple years, and though those productions show no signs of stopping, we have finally leveled out this year, with only two or three sequels that are seriously in the screenplay awards conversation serving as follow-ups to scripts that have already been nominated for the Oscar.

Though there is a lot of trickiness around how to campaign “Dune: Part Two,” being that voters do not often flock toward the second film in a proposed trilogy,...

Writer-director Cord Jefferson won Best Adapted Screenplay at the 2024 Oscars for turning Percival Everett‘s novel “Erasure” into the critically acclaimed film “American Fiction.” That marked the fourth time in a decade that a film based on a novel won this award. The others: “Women Talking” (Sarah Polley), “Jojo Rabbit” (Taika Waititi), and “Call Me By Your Name” (James Ivory). This is the most common form of adaptation to win. Indeed this award, which dates back to the first Oscars in 1928, has gone to the adapters of 48 novels over the year. (Scroll down for the most up-to-date 2025 Oscar predictions for Best Adapted Screenplay.)

Peter Straughan reaped an Oscar bid in 2012 for his adaptation of John le Carre‘s spy tale “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.” His screen version of Robert Harris‘ taut thriller about Vatican intrigue should bring him back to the Oscars.

“Sing Sing” was written by director Greg Kwedar and Clint Bentley.

Didn't want to brave the hours-long line to make your Criterion Closet—er, Criterion van—picks at the New York Film Festival? The show's not over yet. While some joked about grand theft auto in response to the initial announcement that the Criterion Closet was going mobile, the beauty of...

Top awards contenders “The Brutalist,” “Emilia Perez,” and “September 5” are among the top titles set to screen at this year’s Scad Savannah Film Festival.

The Savannah College of Art and Design’s 27th annual Scad Savannah Film Festival announced its full lineup on Friday. Netflix’s “Maria” with Angelina Jolie is set as the closing night film. The wild Robbie Williams biopic “Better Man,” featuring Williams portrayed as a CGI monkey, is the centerpiece screening. Netflix’s “The Piano Lesson” is the Scad Savannah Film Festival opening night pick.

Other gala screenings include “Blitz,” “The Brutalist,” “Emilia Perez,” “The Fire Inside,” “Juror No. 2,” “The Last Showgirl,” “Nickel Boys,” “Nightbitch,” “The Piano Lesson,” “A Real Pain,” “September 5,” “Sweethearts,” and “Unstoppable.”

Called “a key stop on the Academy Awards festival circuit” by festival organizers, this year’s Scad Savannah Film Festival runs from October 26 to November 2. It will feature 162 films, including 123 narrative features,...

They might as well hold the Oscars in Savannah later this month, rather than in Hollywood early next year, because virtually every serious contender of this awards season will soon be headed south for the Scad Savannah Film Festival, which will take place Oct. 26-Nov. 2.

Just days after the fest announced special honors for Annette Bening (lifetime achievement), Jerry Bruckheimer (Young Woman and the Sea), Kieran Culkin (A Real Pain), Colman Domingo (Sing Sing), Karla Sofia Gascón (Emilia Pérez), Jharrel Jerome (Unstoppable), Richard Linklater (Hit Man), Mikey Madison (Anora), Isabela Merced (Alien: Romulus), Steve McQueen (Blitz), Lupita Nyong’o (The Wild Robot) and Daisy Ridley (Young Woman and the Sea and Magpie), The Hollywood Reporter has learned that 10 more big names will be headed south to attend screenings and pick up statuettes.

They include three best actress contenders: Demi Moore will receive the Icon Award at a screening of The Substance...

With his decades of work in the movie industry, Richard Linklater brought several coming-of-age movies and shows. Out of the lot, Dazed and Confused would definitely stand the tallest given the huge ensemble it boasted. The film was released in 1993 and featured the likes of Ben Affleck, Matthew McConaughey, and Renée Zellweger, to name a few.

A still from Dazed and Confused | Credits: Universal Pictures

While these A-listers were very new to the acting scene at the time, all of them have gone on to have some of the most illustrious Hollywood careers. In this article, we will take a closer look at what the original cast of Dazed and Confused are up to today.

11. Ben Affleck as Fred O’Bannion Ben Affleck in still from Dazed and Confused | Credits: Universal Pictures

In Dazed and Confused, Fred O’Bannion played by Ben Affleck is the closest character to a villain,...

Zoe Saldaña, the star of numerous blockbuster franchises — among them Avatar, The Avengers, Guardians of the Galaxy and Star Trek — who is currently the subject of best supporting actress awards buzz for her performance in Jacques Audiard’s highly-unconventional musical Emilia Pérez, has been tapped to receive the Scad Savannah Film Festival’s Vanguard Award, the fest announced Tuesday.

Saldaña, 46, who is the only performer in history to have starred in four films that have grossed more than $2 billion, and who shared the best actress prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival with her Emilia Pérez costars Karla Sofía Gascón, Selena Gomez and Adriana Paz, will be presented with her award following a screening of the film on the evening of Friday, Nov. 1, at the Scad Trustees Theatre.

Earlier that evening, at 5:15pm Et, the actress will sit down with yours truly at the Scad Museum of Art,...

Ethan Hawke’s presidential endorsement couldn’t be more direct. “Kamala Harris is driving the bus I want to get on”.

Speaking with The Hollywood Reporter Roma during the Lucca Film Festival, the actor and filmmaker says his mother gave him some particularly insightful advice about this election season: “I was talking with my mother about the upcoming elections, and she told me, ‘Voting is like taking public transit. It doesn’t drop you off exactly at your house, but it gets you close. So, you take the train, or the bus, and it brings you near home.’ In my mind, there’s no question: I want to be on the bus that Kamala is driving.”

While in Lucca, Hawke started his day running along the ancient city walls and cycling through the historic streets. In addition to a lifetime achievement honor he’ll be receiving at the fest, Hawke...

The Criterion Collection has grown and evolved a lot over the years. From DVD’s to laserdiscs and now 4K blu-rays, the boutique label of physical media releases is the benchmark of quality to hard-core collectors. But one thing that has remained unaltered is their dedication to bringing a varied library of new and old classics to life with the highest quality of visuals and sound.

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The September 2024 lineup was stacked, with Happiness being among the most anticipated inclusions by fans. I reviewed that release earlier this month, and you can find that review here. Also among the new releases was Gregg Araki’s Teen Apocalypse Trilogy, consisting of the films Totally F***ed Up, The Doom Generations and Nowhere.

The Criterion Collection’s Release of Gregg Araki’s Teen Apocalypse Trilogy The Doom Generation, part of the Criterion Collection...

Kris Kristofferson — the tough yet weary country music singer/songwriter behind “Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down” and “Help Me Make It Through the Night,” as well as the rugged leading man featured in romances like “A Star is Born” (1976) and westerns like “Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid” — has died at 88. He passed away in his home in Maui, Hawaii.

A statement released by his family reads, “We’re all so blessed for our time with him. Thank you for loving him all these many years, and when you see a rainbow, know he’s smiling down at us all.”

A proud son of South Texas, Kristofferson was also a military brat who often hopped around before finally settling in San Mateo, California. He went on to attend Pomona College where he excelled in rugby, American football, and track and field. At one point, he was even featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated.

When Kevin Smith made "Clerks" in 1994, he was only 23 and ignorant of the ways of filmmaking. Smith was inspired to make a movie by Richard Linklater's "Slacker," figuring he could write a fun screenplay based on the way he and his friend conversed. Made for only $27,575, "Clerks" was about witty but directionless twentysomethings as they struggled through their romantic angst while trapped at their dead-end jobs. "Clerks" struck a nerve with Gen-Xers, introducing a certain type of pop culture chatter that hadn't really been heard in movies before. It was a huge hit.

Smith returned in 1995 with "Mallrats," another single-day movie about twentysomethings wrestling with their romances and emotional immaturity. His 1997 film "Chasing Amy" was an unconventional romance about a straight man who falls in love with a lesbian, and how the lesbian may be developing feelings for him in exchange. Ultimately, however, the straight man's sexual insecurity causes their relationship to implode.

MSNBC has ordered a new documentary series, featuring a slew of boldface names that will serve as narrators and participants.

The four-part series from NBC News Studios and MSNBC Films, My Generation, will feature interviews and archival footage to explore each of the four generations that make up the vast majority of Americans: Baby Boomers (born 1946 to 1964), Generation X (born 1965 to 1981), Millennials (born 1981 to 1996) and Gen Z (born after 1997).

Each episode will feature celebrity narrators who are from that generation to walk viewers through their experiences.

The Baby Boomer episode will be narrated by Forest Whitaker, and explores those who grew up in the shadow of world events like the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the assassinations of JFK, Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy.

The Generation X episode will be narrated by Ethan Hawke, and will feature interviews with Tony Hawk, Alyssa Milano, and Richard Linklater.

Kristen Bell will narrate the Millennials episode,...

Legendary Hollywood icons Annette Bening, Richard Linklater, and Jerry Bruckheimer will be celebrated at the 2024 Scad Savannah Film Festival.

The Savannah College of Art and Design (Scad) has announced its first list of honorees for the 2024 festival, which will take place from October 26 to November 2. This year, “Nyad” star Bening’s legacy will be honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award. The ceremony will take place after a screening of Bening’s 1990 film “The Grifters.”

Similarly, “Hit Man” writer/director Linklater will receive the Lifetime Achievement in Screenwriting Award, with the Netflix film screening at the festival.

Mega-producer Bruckheimer will reflect on his career during an In Conversation event before receiving the Legend of Entertainment Award at the festival.

The Scad Savannah Film Festival is the largest university-run film festival in the nation. The festival will begin with opening night gala film “Blitz” on Saturday, October 26. Director Steve McQueen will be...

The Scad Savannah Film Festival, an increasingly important stop on the road to the Oscars, will kick off its 2024 edition on Oct. 26 with a screening of Apple’s Blitz — writer/director Steve McQueen will be on hand to collect the fest’s Outstanding Achievement in Directing Award — and will also screen many other top awards contenders including Netflix’s Emilia Pérez, Neon’s Anora, A24’s Sing Sing and DreamWorks’ The Wild Robot, The Hollywood Reporter can exclusively report.

A host of prominent individuals who are in awards contention will make appearances — and collect special honors — at the largest university-run film festival in the nation.

A trio of best actress contenders will be on hand: Karla Sofía Gascón will receive the Distinguished Performance Award at a screening of Emilia Pérez; Mikey Madison will receive the Breakthrough Award at a screening of Anora; and Daisy Ridley will receive the Lumiere Award...

Exclusive: Four-time Oscar nominated filmmaker Jason Reitman became the newest member of the National Assocation of Theatre Owners last night on the Sony lot as part of the exhibitor trade org’s opening festivities for their 2024 Fall Summit.

Reitman, who is leading the charge to renovate and manage the 1931 Spanish revival art deco Westwood Fox Village in LA’s UCLA neighborhood, is part of a small group of filmmakers-turned-exhibitors who are NATO members including Richard Linklater who has the Austin Film Society Cinema, Kevin Smith and his SModCastle Cinemas in Atlanta Highlands, NJ; and Insidious actor and filmmaker Patrick Wilson who has The Playhouse on Main Street in New Canaan, Ct.

We spoke with Reitman about the immediate plans for the Westwood Fox Village. After the press tour for his Saturday Night Live origins movie Saturday Night which opens Sept. 27, he’s focusing all of his attention on getting the...

When Gregg Araki last spoke with Slant in 2011, he remarked, “A pet peeve of mine is when filmmakers keep making the same movie over and over without any kind of progression.” As Araki prepares to shoot another film centered around youth culture and sexuality, I Want Your Sex, he continues to bring a fresh perspective to his pet themes. That evolution was evident even within his Teen Apocalypse Trilogy, the series of movies that helped establish his place at the vanguard of the loosely organized New Queer Cinema of the 1990s.

As Araki revealed in a recent conversation with us, the three films weren’t originally mapped out as a trilogy. When the lo-fi charms of his 1993’s Totally F***ed Up—made on a shoestring budget with few additional crew members—struck a chord with festival audiences, new creative possibilities were opened up to the scrappy filmmaker. The language...

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.

Blink Twice (Zoë Kravitz)

Over a close-up of a turtle, ominous sound design builds at such a deep frequency that the walls of a press-screening room in Beverly Hills began rattling. Once the shaking stopped and it’s realized this was not the third Los Angeles earthquake in as many weeks, the setup of Zoë Kravitz’s directorial debut Blink Twice is doled out in impressively economical fashion: Rent is due for Frida (Naomie Ackie) and Jess (Alia Shawkat). Rather than pay up and keep the wheels spinning in their going-nowhere-fast lives, Frida has a plan: retrieving a hidden wad of bills, she purchases gowns so she and Jess can crash a fancy gala after their waitress shifts end. Looking suitably glamorous,...

Spanish Oscar nominee Society Of The Snow was among the most watched films on Netflix in the first half of 2024, according to the streamer’s latest viewership data.

Ja Bayona’s real-life disaster drama was at number three in the chart, behind action titles Damsel and Lift, with 103.8 million views. Other notable titles in the top 100 included Sam Esmail’s Leave The World Behind, in 35th place with 40.5 million views, and Richard Linklater’s 2024 Venice premiere Hit Man – 47th with 30.9 million views.

Maestro, which scored seven Oscar nominations, was viewed 5.8 million times in the time period, while double nominee Nyad was on 11.2 million.

Finnish director Samppa Batal finds sadness in romance and romance in sadness in the Helsinki-set “Apple Thieves.”

“I see it as a romantic dramedy,” he says.

“I believe we should embrace sadness [in relationships] because it will come. The problems start when we refuse to admit it. I don’t remember when, but I have learned to embrace it and live through it, and it doesn’t feel that bad.”

In the (mostly) black-and-white film world-premiering at Helsinki International Film Festival – Love & Anarchy – previously, it was presented at its industry sidebar Finnish Film Affair – Sebe (Joel Hirvonen) is going through a devastating breakup in the middle of the pandemic.

Forced to go out with his friends, he meets Satu (Satu Tuuli Karhu). Sparks fly, even with their masks on, but they are both terrified of starting anything new.

“With the actors, we talked a lot about where these characters come from and what they fear.

Adria Arjona is set to star in Onslaught, the next film from You’re Next and Godzilla X Kong director Adam Wingard, said to be a ‘gonzo action thriller’.

Having starred in two well-received thrillers over the past year – that’d be Blink Twice and Hit Man – Adria Arjona’s reportedly set to appear in another one, this time from director Adam Wingard.

Most recently, Wingard’s been best known in multiplexes for his expensive monster flicks – 2021’s Godzilla Vs Kong and 2024’s Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire. For his next film, it’s said that the filmmaker’s returning to the smaller-scale thrillers of his earlier career, most notably 2011’s You’re Next and 2014’s The Guest. As reported in May, it’s called Onslaught, and its script, co-written by Wingard and Simon Barrett, is described as a ‘gonzo action thriller’ by The Hollywood Reporter.

From what’s known about that script so far,...

Get ready to relive the iconic vibes of the ’70s with the 30th-anniversary re-release of Richard Linklater’s beloved coming-of-age film, Dazed and Confused.

Dubbed “Dazed Day,” this limited-time theatrical engagement will kick off on Sunday, September 29, 2024, showcasing a brand-new 4K restoration of the film in select theaters across the US and Canada.

The newly restored version of Dazed and Confused offers fans a chance to see the film like never before, with stunning 4K clarity and vibrant colors that bring the nostalgic 1970s setting to life.

Dazed Day will be preceded by a special screening event hosted in partnership with The Austin Film Society at the historic Paramount Theatre in Austin, TX, on September 28, 2024. The evening will include a screening of the film, a red carpet, and a Q&a with Linklater and several members of the film’s original cast.

Richard Linklater’s 1993 coming-of-age comedy Dazed and Confused takes audiences back to 1976 Austin,...