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Matteo Garrone cast first-time actors Seydour Sarr and Moustapha Fall straight from Senegal to tell this migrant story, now nominated for the Best International Feature Oscar. He tells IndieWire how refreshing it is to campaign with actors who are not jaded about Hollywood. Source link

HBO has renewed “True Detective” for a fifth season, and the network has signed showrunner Issa López to a new multiyear overall deal with HBO in which she will return for Season 5 and will create other content exclusive to HBO and Max. “True Detective: Night Country,” which stars Jodie Foster and Kali Reis, has been the most watched season …

Adam Sandler has gone pseudo-serious before, from a mentally agitated toilet plunger salesman in Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Punch-Drunk Love” to a depressed comic in Judd Apatow’s “Funny People.” But he’s never been so dour as cosmonaut Jakub Prochazka in Johan Renck’s lonely island of a science-fiction drama, “Spaceman,” where he’s six months into a solitary research mission investigating spectral cloud …

Peacock‘s Emmy-winning “The Traitors” is a reality series with the surprising aesthetic of a glossy Hollywood murder mystery — think Kenneth Branagh‘s Hercule Poirot movies or Rian Johnson‘s “Knives Out.” According to production designer Mathieu Weekes, the resemblance is entirely intentional. “Once I’d seen the location, the first thing that sprung to mind was ‘Knives Out,’” Weekes told IndieWire. “It …

All of Hollywood is looking for ways to reinvent successful stories, but what happens when the original is near-perfect? You have to reinvent the wheel while the prototype is still flourishing in the market, and the inventors watch from afar as their blueprints fall into new hands. Such is the case with Netflix’s “Avatar: The Last Airbender,” a dramatic reimagining …

By the time Dominic Asmall Willsdon’s embattled predecessor Rick Peréz finally left the International Documentary Association (IDA) in 2022, the non-profit organization had shed more than 75 percent of its staff, formulated an employee union, and had taken a big hit in its ability to serve the documentary filmmaker community, all as a result of a fractious tenure and broken …

Every year, folks scratch their heads over the “strange” omissions from the Writers Guild Award nominations. That’s because the Writers Guild of America refuses to accept as awards-eligible any movie that did not sign with them; thus, many British and European movies are left out of the nominations, as well as animated fare. This won’t hurt these “overlooked” films at …

It’s been 10 years since Mauritanian–Malian director Abderrahmane Sissako last directed a film (2014’s “Timbuktu,” a devastating account of life under Jihadi rule in contemporary Mali), but his much-anticipated return is suffused with a lightness that belies the long wait. A soft-focus romantic drama that channels some of the same humanism that steeped its way into “Timbuktu,” “Black Tea” finds …

Gareth Edwards’ “The Creator” was the big winner at the 22nd Visual Effects Society Awards (held February 21 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel). The AI-themed, sci-fi actioner earned five awards, including the top photoreal feature VFX prize. The other awards were for modeling (Nomad), created environment (Floating Village), effects simulations, and compositing & lighting (Bar).  “The Creator” utilized an innovative streamlining …

Hosted by Wendi McLendon-Covey, the 26th Costume Designers Guild Awards took place February 21 at NeueHouse, celebrating excellence in film, television, short form costume design, and costume illustration.  Oscar frontrunners “Poor Things” and “Barbie” both took home top awards (for Excellence in Period Film and Excellence in Sci-Fi/Fantasy, respectively), which leaves the Best Costume Design Oscar race still neck-and-neck between …