The Barbenheimer love just keeps coming. After the blockbuster double feature of Summer 2023 collectively dominated the 2024 Oscar nominations, “Oppenheimer” Best Supporting Actor nominee Robert Downey Jr. is calling out the lack of awards recognition for “Barbie” lead actress Margot Robbie. While Robbie was not included in the Best Actress category, she is nominated as a “Barbie” producer for …
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Sundance documentaries are alive and well. And it looks like there’s some acquisition action this year, too. Which Sundance documentaries have the best shot at landing in Oscar contention this year? It helps to get bought early or to have an international footprint. A rickety theatrical market for non-fiction features and a dwindling number of active documentary buyers meant that …
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Writer-director Minhal Baig shares coming-of-age stories from all walks of life, and this time, she’s returning home to Chicago. Baig’s third feature, “We Grown Now,” centers on the housing project Cabrini-Green Homes in Chicagoin 1992. “We Grown Now” follows two young boys who are best friends and neighbors, with first-time actors Blake Cameron James and Gian Knight Ramirez playing respective …
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Last year may have been the official return of the Sundance Film Festival to an in-person experience, but the just-concluded 2024 edition felt even more lively: This wasn’t just back to business, this was a full-on coming-out party, with A-list talent on-hand even beyond what you could have expected from the festival in its last couple pre-COVID years. The best …
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The best unscripted series on television returns January 30 with the Season 11 premiere of Bravo‘s “Vanderpump Rules,” and anticipation was high for both longtime viewers of the series and those who only recently got sucked in by the cultural phenomenon that was “Sandoval.” When Tom Sandoval blew up his relationship with longtime girlfriend Ariana Madix by sleeping with her …
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Dominic West was stressed over Royals’ and others’ reactions to the final season of “The Crown.” West portrayed Prince Charles during his marriage to late Princess Diana, played by Elizabeth Debicki. The sixth and final season of the acclaimed Netflix series included Diana’s death and saw Queen Elizabeth II (Imelda Staunton) scrambling to keep the monarchy relevant in the 21st …
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Steven Soderbergh‘s almost took on “Death Becomes Her.” The “sex, lies, and videotape” filmmaker told Variety that following his breakout Sundance debut, he was approached to direct “Death Becomes Her” in 1992. “I want to preface this by saying I hate it when people talk about things that they passed on. For whatever reason, I just feel like I am …
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Gillian Flynn is returning to HBO following “Sharp Objects.” The author will adapt her novel “Dark Places” into a HBO limited series, as IndieWire can confirm. Variety first reported the announcement. Flynn, whose novel “Gone Girl” was adapted in an Oscar-nominated David Fincher film, will serve as co-creator, writer, and co-showrunner with Brett Johnson (“Escape at Dannemora”). Guerrin Gardner is …
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The romance adaptation “The Idea of You” will close out the 2024 SXSW Film & TV Festival. Anne Hathaway returns to her rom-com roots with the film, directed by Michael Showalter. Hathaway stars as a 40-something single mother who gets another chance at love with a 24-year-old rock star (Nicholas Galitzine) while at Coachella. The film is based on the …
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Anil Kapoor still gets meetings he can trace back to “Slumdog Millionaire.” Chatting with IndieWire shortly after the premiere of Viacom18’s “Fighter,” the Indian actor is one of the rare global stars to enjoy “crossover success” — a buzzy term that, these days, seems to mean less crossing over and more crossing back-and-forth. Indian film stars, once compelled to journey …
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