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Elizabeth Olsen’s career soared high after she starred in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Wanda Maximoff. The actress, who had been working on independent movies before her stint in the comic book movie empire, expressed regret about turning down a project she loved because of her commitment to Marvel Studios.

Credits: Elizabeth Olsen in WandaVision / Disney+

Understandably, she might feel like she missed out on many things. She played the mutant role from 2015 to 2022, and seven years would have given her more than enough time to explore many film genres and projects.

Elizabeth Olsen Left A Yorgos Lanthimos Movie To Join the MCU

Before she became the Scarlet Witch, actress Elizabeth Olsen was known as the youngest sister of the famous twins Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, both successful actresses during the ‘90s and early 2000s. The Marvel star lived in the shadow of her siblings until she forged her own path towards stardom.

Elizabeth Olsen has charmed audiences not just with her surname but with her own resplendent performances in Tinseltown. Far from riding on her sisters’ coattails, she is a tour de force in her own right, capturing hearts as Wanda Maximoff, aka Scarlet Witch, in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But did you know her acting journey was also seasoned with indie gems like Martha Marcy May Marlene and Silent House before she stormed the big screen, reacting to the awe-inspiring CGI behemoth in Godzilla?

Elizabeth Olsen in Godzilla (2014) | Warner Bros. Pictures

Indeed, it was in this crucible of special effects and colossal creatures that she not only delivered her best but also found admiration for one Inception star’s dedication. Hint: He is not the one you’re thinking of!

Sharing the screen with Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ken Watanabe, and Bryan Cranston, Olsen was in esteemed company. Yet, it wasn’t the...

Ja Bayona’s Society Of The Snow was the big winner at Spain’s Goya awards on Saturday night (February 10), scooping 12 prizes including best film and director to become the third-most garlanded film in Goya history.

Justine Triet’s Anatomy Of A Fall, was named best European film, and Pablo Berger’s Robot Dreams won the prizes for best adapted screenplay and feature animation.

20,000 Species Of Bees, the feature debut of Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren, received three Goyas for best new director and original screenplay for Solaguren, and best supporting actress for Ane Gabarain. The 15 nominations for Bees were the...

Grammy-winning DJ-producer Tiësto will become the Super Bowl’s first in-game DJ.

The NFL tells The Hollywood Reporter that the Dutch musician will perform a DJ set prior to the game as the players warm up, as well as spin music during featured breaks within the game, becoming the first DJ to perform throughout the Super Bowl. The Feb. 11 spectacle will air live on CBS from Allegiant Stadium in Paradise, Nevada.

“I’m excited to be a part of the Super Bowl Lviii!” Tiësto says in a statement. “And it’s even more incredible that it’s in my favorite place — Las Vegas. Thank you to the NFL for having me. I cannot wait to party with you all at the big game!”

Tiësto joins a list of top-notch artists who will perform at the big game. Usher will headline the halftime show, and pre-game performers include Reba McEntire (“The...

Like writers penning their memoirs, making movies about making movies is a rite of passage for many a director. Fellini famously did it with 8 ½, Truffaut with Day for Night, Godard with Contempt and Fassbinder with Beware of a Holy Whore. More recently, Tarantino gave us Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Spielberg The Fabelmans, Michel Hazavanicius made Final Cut and Damien Chazelle, Babylon.

Almost all behind-the-scenes movies share the same theme: Filmmaking is tough, high-stress work that weighs heavily on everyone involved, especially the directors themselves. That’s certainly one of the main takeaways from Cédric Kahn’s very French variation on the subject, Making Of, which premiered out of competition in Venice.

Kahn is both an actor (he played the douchey Gallic lover in Pawel Pawikowski’s Cold War) and talented director, with a series of strong features under his belt that include hard-hitting thrillers like L’Ennui,...

Toronto — Today, the Toronto International Film Festival® announced this year’s Short Cuts lineup, supported by Ontario Arts Council, showcasing 42 live action narrative, documentary, and animated shorts by a groundbreaking group of filmmakers representing 23 countries. More than half of this year’s selections are directed or co-directed by female and female-identifying filmmakers. TIFF alumni directors with new films at Short Cuts include Yann Demange, Jasmin Mozaffari, Miryam Charles, Farnoosh Samadi, Halima Ouardiri, Renee Zhan, Andrea Nirmala Widjajanto, and the team of Ivete Lucas and Patrick Bresnan. Among the directors with short films at the Festival for the first time are Malia Ann and Canadian actor Mackenzie Davis. Among the notable performers in this year’s slate of new shorts are Riz Ahmed (Dammi) and Kaniehtiio Horn (Redlights).

A robust selection of new animated short films will be showcased in the programme this year. Animated films in Short Cuts include the...

Toronto — Today, the Toronto International Film Festival® announced this year’s Short Cuts lineup, supported by Ontario Arts Council, showcasing 42 live action narrative, documentary, and animated shorts by a groundbreaking group of filmmakers representing 23 countries. More than half of this year’s selections are directed or co-directed by female and female-identifying filmmakers. TIFF alumni directors with new films at Short Cuts include Yann Demange, Jasmin Mozaffari, Miryam Charles, Farnoosh Samadi, Halima Ouardiri, Renee Zhan, Andrea Nirmala Widjajanto, and the team of Ivete Lucas and Patrick Bresnan. Among the directors with short films at the Festival for the first time are Malia Ann and Canadian actor Mackenzie Davis. Among the notable performers in this year’s slate of new shorts are Riz Ahmed (Dammi) and Kaniehtiio Horn (Redlights).

A robust selection of new animated short films will be showcased in the programme this year. Animated films in Short Cuts include the...

The Toronto International Film Festival unveiled its Short Cuts showcase counting 42 live action narrative, documentary, and animated shorts from global filmmakers repping 23 countries.

That’s comprised of 21 World Premieres, 13 North American Premieres, and five International Premieres presented in 19 different languages.

More than half of this year’s selections are directed or co-directed by female and female-identifying filmmakers. TIFF alumni directors with new films at Short Cuts include Yann Demange (White Boy Rick), Jasmin Mozaffari, Miryam Charles, Farnoosh Samadi, Halima Ouardiri, Renee Zhan, Andrea Nirmala Widjajanto, and the team of Ivete Lucas and Patrick Bresnan. Among the directors with short films at the Festival for the first time are Malia Ann and Canadian actor Mackenzie Davis. Among the notable performers in this year’s slate of new shorts are Riz Ahmed in Dammi and Kaniehtiio Horn in Redlights.

Animated films in Short Cuts include the...

Forty-two short films from 23 countries will screen in the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival’s Short Cuts section, TIFF organizers announced on Wednesday.

The shorts include “Dammi,” which stars Riz Ahmed and was directed by Yann Mounir Demange, an Emmy nominee in 2021 for “Lovecraft Country”; “Electra,” a new film by Czech director Daria Kascheeva, who was nominated for an Oscar for the animated short “Mother”; “27,” for which director Flora Anna Duba won the Short Film Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival; and “Woaca,” the directorial debut of Canadian actor Mackenzie Davis.

According to TIFF, more than half the films are directed or co-directed by female or female-identifying filmmakers. Almost half the films, 19 out of the 42, are by Canadian filmmakers. Twenty one of the films will have their world premieres at TIFF.

The 2023 Toronto International Film Festival will run from Sept. 7 through Sept. 17.

The Short Cuts lineup, separated...

The Toronto Film Festival has unveiled 42 short films to feature as part of its Short Cuts program in September, led by the Riz Ahmed-starrer Dammi and Redlights, toplined by Kaniehtiio Horn and Ellyn Jade.

Ahmed, who was nominated for an Oscar for his role in Sound of Metal and last year earned a Oscar for the live-action short The Long Goodbye, toplines Dammi, a short directed by French auteur Yann Mounir Demange and set to world premiere in Locarno before landing in Toronto. The film also stars Isabelle Adjani, Souheila Yacoub, Sandor Funtek and Suzy Bemba and is produced by Ami, the French fashion brand, which teased a trailer for the film in Cannes.

Demange has TV series credits that include Secret Diary of a Call Girl and Dead Set, and movie credits like ’71 and White Boy Rick. Renee Zhan, who earned the Jury Award for best animated...

Cillian Murphy is a celebrated Irish actor who is best known for his engrossing role as Tommy Shelby in the British drama series Peaky Blinders and for starring roles A Quiet Place Part 2 and Oppenheimer, incredible performances which earned him international recognition.

Cillian Murphy Biography: Age, Early Life, Family, Education

Cillian Murphy was born on May 25, 1976 (Cillian Murphy age: 47) in Douglas, Cork, Ireland. His father was employed by the Department of Education, while his mother taught French. Murphy’s grandfather, aunts, and uncles were also, ironically, teachers.

Murphy grew up in Ballintemple, Cork, along with his two younger sisters, Orla and Sile, as well as his younger brother Páidi.

At ten years old, Murphy began writing and performing songs he created. He was raised Catholic and studied at the Catholic secondary school Presentation Brothers College, where he excelled academically, but frequently found himself getting into trouble due to mischievous behavior.

Anna Novion’s Marguerite's Theorem (Le théorème de Marguerite), co-written with Agnès Feuvre, Marie-Stéphane Imbert, and Mathieu Robin, stars Ella Rumpf (Julia Ducournau’s Raw) as Marguerite Hoffmann, PhD student of mathematics at the prestigious École Normale Supérieure in Paris and Jean-Pierre Darroussin (unforgettable since Cédric Kahn’s Red Lights) as her professor, Laurent Werner. The film had its world premiere at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival.

Maths formulae written in chalk and with urgency on a blackboard, followed by a quick edit to the most serious face of a scientist or two have been the fodder of spy movies for the past century. Alfred Hitchcock in Torn Curtain made it particularly tongue-in-cheek and sexy with Paul Newman’s Cold War quest traversing East Germany in 1966.

Marguerite’s Theorem is decidedly not a thriller with secret agents, but the profile of a 25-year-old obsessed with maths, who, in a world dominated by men,...

Along with Alice Diop’s Saint Omer, which won Venice’s Silver Lion last year, and Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall, premiering in Cannes’ main competition next week, Cédric Kahn’s The Goldman Case marks a recent trend of arthouse courtroom dramas that, beyond a few exceptions (such as Henri-George Clouzot’s seldom seen masterpiece, The Truth), have never been a major facet of French cinema.

This is because French trials, unlike American ones, tend to be less dramatic, with fewer rulings by jury (outside of murder cases) and with the judge playing a larger role in the proceedings, reviewing facts and statements in a dry manner. However, there have been a number of highly headline-grabbing trials in France these past years, including that of former President Nicolas Sarkozy for election fraud charges, and another concerning the November 13 terrorist attacks, which have brought the courtroom back into the public sphere.

"What matters here is being loved, child, not loving..." Buffalo 8 Films has revealed an official US trailer for an indie romantic musical titled Love Gets a Room, the latest film made by Spanish filmmaker Rodrigo Cortés (best known for directing both Buried and Red Lights a decade ago). This first premiered in Spain in 2021, but is only now getting an official US release this summer. Inspired by true events during the 1942 Nazi occupation of Poland, Love Gets a Room is the story of a Jewish stage actress who must make the gut-wrenching decision to follow her heart or escape the Warsaw ghetto. Told in real time like Cortés' acclaimed Buried, the film is a romantic tale of love and survival in the face of harrowing circumstances. This stars Clara Rugaard, Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Mark Ryder, Anastasia Hille, Magnus Krepper, and Henry Goodman. With cinematography by Rafa García. "With masterful direction and outstanding performances,...

Quinzaine des Cinéastes Artistic Director Julien Rejl broke bread this morning with a camera shy live tweet of the line-up. We count nineteen features (for now), a handful of shorts and Special Screening status going to Manoel de Oliveira’s Abraham’s Valley (1993). We would have fallen out of our chairs just with the opening and closing night selections. Cédric Kahn becomes film festival worthy once again with Le Procès Goldman as the opener. Best know in the early naughts for Roberto Succo (2001) and Red Lights (2004), Kahn currently has two new films in post with this project chronicling the trial of Goldman, a French left-wing revolutionary who was convicted of several robberies and was mysteriously murdered.…...

Mario Casas, one of Spain’s biggest film and TV stars, and Goya Award winner actress Anna Castillo, will headline “Escape,” the new film by writer-director Rodrigo Cortés.

Produced by Adrián Guerra and Núria Valls at Barcelona-based Nostromo Pictures, “Escape” is a free adaptation of same-title novel penned by Spanish author Enrique Rubio.

Nostromo announced the new film project after completing an intense 2022, in which the company lensed seven films and released two more titles – Marçal Forés’ “Through My Window” and Oriol Paulo’s “God’s Crooked Lines” – both achieving a standout global reach.

“Escape’s” story turns on N., a young man who wants to live in prison and will do whatever it takes to get there, raising questions such as if those who care about him will get to stop him from committing increasingly serious crimes and how far will the judge go to not grant him his proposal.

Nordoff Robbins, the UK’s largest music therapy charity, is delighted to announce that Nile Rodgers and Chic will now headline its annual fundraising Christmas Carol Service at St Luke’s Church, Chelsea on Tuesday 13th December, with support from fellow Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee, Richie Sambora.

Sadly, The Who will no longer be performing due to unforeseen circumstances. They have been incredible supporters and champions of Nordoff Robbins for almost 50 years and the charity looks forward to doing something special with them next year.

Nile Rodgers joins the line-up fresh from receiving the Lifetime Achievement award at last week’s Mobo Awards. The legendary songwriter, producer, arranger and guitarist has been making waves in music since co-founding Chic in the 1970s and his music has been an inspiration to generations that have followed. Over more than 50 years in the music industry,...

Mixing music is not new; however, mixing music in 60-second videos using a social media app such as TikTok is brand new. TikTok is encouraging innovation in the music industry. Whether a musician is a pro or a newbie, with the help of Samsung, TikTok users can mix their version of a song written by renowned songwriters and contribute to StemDrop, aka 'A song for the world.'

On Oct. 26, TikTok launched StemDrop. StemDrop empowers users to collaborate with the world's best songwriters. For example, using stems, which are individual loops and sounds, TikTok users will mix their version of "Red Lights" by Max Martin, Savan Kotecha & Ali Payami. Partnered in this project are Simon Cowell, Syco Entertainment, Universal Music Group's Republic Records, and Tim Van Rongen. That means undiscovered musicians can get the attention of some influential entertainment professionals.

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Set in German-occupied Warsaw during WWII, Rodrigo Cortés’ “Love Gets a Room” is a story of perseverance, resilience and sacrifice. The film, which follows a band of Jewish actors contemplating escape while staging the Jerzy Jurandot-penned play of the same name, will world premiere out of competition at Spain’s Seville European Film Festival, which opens Nov. 5.

“Love Gets a Room” stars several rising talents, including Danish actress Clara Rugaard (“I Am Mother)” and Verona-born Valentina Bellè. The film is also the latest in the burgeoning career of writer-director Cortés, who broke out at Sundance directing Ryan Reynolds in “Buried” (2010), and followed up with Robert DeNiro and Sigourney Weaver in “Red Lights” (2012). Adrián Guerra, his longtime producer, once more produces.

The film is produced and financed by Guerra’s Nostromo Pictures in Spain, with Lionsgate International handling international rights and CAA representing U.S. rights. Top Spanish independent A Contracorriente Films...

Clara Rugaard, a Sundance sensation for her performance “I Am Mother,” and Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, star of “Coda” and “Sing Street,” headline “Love Gets a Room,” a Warsaw Ghetto-set romantic musical drama directed by Rodrigo Cortés.

Shot under the radar in order to magnify impact nearer to release when theaters return, said its producer Adrián Guerra, “Love Gets a Room” is produced and financed by Guerra’s Nostromo Pictures, with Lionsgate International handling international rights and CAA representing U.S. rights. Top Spanish independent A Contracorriente Films will release the film in Spain theatrically at the end of the year.

Written by German bestseller writer David Safier and Cortés, the film captures a group of actors as they perform in the heart of the Warsaw Ghetto, in a life or death context on a run-down stage, “Love Gets a Room,” a real-life musical comedy that was written by playwright Jerzy Jurandot,...

Edgar Wright and Quentin Tarantino are longtime friends, and this friendship ended up playing a role in the titling of Wright’s new psychological thriller, “Last Night in Soho.” It turns out the title was Tarantino’s doing, as Wright recently admitted to Total Film magazine.

“In ‘Death Proof,’ Quentin uses a Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich song, ‘Hold Tight’,” Wright said. “I was talking to him about that song, and that band, and he said, ‘Have you ever heard “Last Night in Soho?”’ He played it for me, and he goes, ‘This is the best title music for a film that’s never been made.’”

The original title for “Last Night in Soho” was “Red Light Area,” but Wright scrapped it once he discovered there was already a Cillian Murphy-starring movie with the title “Red Lights.” Wright’s next title idea was “The Night Has a Thousand Eyes,...

Amidst a global pandemic that presented governments with a clear ethical dilemma between protecting their citizens’ well-being and the heartbeat of the economy, Spain’s government announced last May a robust hike in tax incentives that converted its tourism-driven economy into eye candy for big shoots and international productions.

Now, Spain’s film and TV industries are digesting its consequences: What are the foreseeable effects of the tax spike for locals in the still partially unforeseeable future?

Unveiled May 5, Spain’s new incentive rulings raises the cap on investors’ 25%-30% tax credits for Spanish shoots and local-spend rebates for visiting international productions from €3.28 million ($4.0 million) to €10.8 million ($13.1 million). The general thrust of the new regulation looks clear: a fast-growing industry, galvanized by new international market demand – think “Money Heist’s” viewing households on Netflix – now has even more tailwind behind it.

“Luckily, big audiovisual production in Spain is booming. Incentives...

Opening up multiple shoot possibilities during Covid-19 and beyond, top Spanish producer Adrian Guerra is bowing Orca Studios, a new Spain-based virtual production facility that uses the same Led volume technology employed by Ilm on its Stagecraft system for “The Mandalorian” – hailed by some as the biggest technological step-forward since green screen.

Head of studio at Orca is Adrian Corsei, former head of studio at Trixter, Germany’s biggest VFX studio whose prolific Hollywood credits take in “Fear the Walking Dead” and “Guardians of the Galaxy” 2.

Orca Studios has developed its cutting-edge technology with the support of Epic Games and collaboration of Kinolux in Spain.

Also pioneered by Jon Favreau on 2019’s “The Lion King” sequel, Led wall volumes replace static backgrounds in virtual studios with exterior or interior images that adjust in sync with camera movement, powered by video game PC engines, such as Unreal for “The Mandalorian.”

Allowing...

Sony label TriStar Pictures has acquired an untitled feature film about Nsync superfans who followed the boy band on tour in 2001, packed in a Winnebago bought with prize money from “The Price Is Right.”

Lance Bass, who first teased the project to Variety out of SXSW last year, is producing through his eponymous company along with Cindy Cowan.

Pitched as “Girls Trip” meets “Pitch Perfect,” the film is based on the true story of two best friends from Park City, Utah, who used game show earnings to buy a motor home and travel the U.S. to catch Bass and company — Justin Timberlake, Jc Chasez, Joey Fatone and Chris Kirkpatrick — on their fourth and final national tour.

The project was preemptively brought in by TrisStar Pictures head Nicole Brown, from an original concept by Bass.

Bass made his producing debut with “The Boy Band Con: The Lou Pearlman Story,” which...

Actor Cillian Murphy has an impressive horror pedigree. He first hit most genre aficionados’ radars following his appearance in 28 Day Later; his filmography also includes Red Eye, Sunshine, Retreat, and Red Lights. Now, there’s a chance the Irish-born thespian will become part of this decade’s most ambitious breakout franchise: A Quiet Place. Late last […] The post Cillian Murphy Might Be the Male Lead in A Quiet Place 2 appeared first on Dread Central.

Exclusive: Screen Gems is developing a feature adaptation of Edwin F. Becker’s book True Haunting which The Call scribe Richard D’Ovidio is writing.

Cindy Cowan has optioned the book, and will produce with Steve Bersch and Scott Strauss overseeing the project. Screen Gems’ Brian Dukes will oversee for the studio.

True Haunting is the terrifying true story of the first televised exorcism on NBC in 1971. Millions around the country watched the program. The NBC news segment was a success, the exorcism was not. Instead, it made things worse for the Becker family who lived there. Much worse.

D’Ovidio (pictured above) is best known for writing The Call starring Halle Berry and The Forger with John Travolta and Christopher Plummer. He also wrote the spec script for Eye In The Sky which sold to Millennium Films in 2015 with Simon West directing.

Cowan (pictured above) has produced several films...

After a six-year hiatus from feature length filmmaking, Spanish director Rodrigo Cortés is finally back with his latest fantasy horror picture Down a Dark Hall – also known by its alternate title Blackwood. Best known for his tense direction on the Ryan Reynolds-led Buried and the Sigourney Weaver-led Red Lights, Cortés is no stranger to the horror-thriller genre. In Dark Hall, Cortés throws a fantastical twist onto things as the film deals with the supernatural – spookily depicted in the first trailer for the film, which Lionsgate has now released.

Down a Dark Hall centers on a troublesome young adult named Kit Gordy who, after a brief altercation with the law, is sent to a mysterious disciplinary boarding school – “Welcome to Blackwood” the stern headmaster Madame Duret (played by Uma Thurman) announces in the trailer. From here, things only become darker. Accompanied by four other similarly aged girls, Kit and her...

French director and occasional actor Cedric Kahn is probably best known in the U.S. for a trio of thrillers he made more than a decade ago, beginning with the brooding sexual obsession story L’Ennui, which he followed up with the serial-killer portrait Roberto Succo and the Georges Simenon adaptation Red Lights. Since then, Kahn has made a handful of dramas exploring different facets of Gallic life, from the affairs of the bourgeoisie (The Regrets) to the travails of a struggling middle-class couple (A Better Life) to those of a family living on the fringes of modern society (Wild Life).

Each movie ...

French director and occasional actor Cedric Kahn is probably best known in the U.S. for a trio of thrillers he made more than a decade ago, beginning with the brooding sexual obsession story L’Ennui, which he followed up with the serial-killer portrait Roberto Succo and the Georges Simenon adaptation Red Lights. Since then, Kahn has made a handful of dramas exploring different facets of Gallic life, from the affairs of the bourgeoisie (The Regrets) to the travails of a struggling middle-class couple (A Better Life) to those of a family living on the fringes of modern society (Wild Life).

Each movie ...

IFC Midnight has announced a December 8, 2017, VOD release for their UK psychological thriller Kaleidoscope, which stars Toby Jones (Berberian Sound Studio, Red Lights, Tale of Tales, “Wayward Pines”), Anne Reid (The Mother) and Sinead Matthews (Happy-Go-Lucky). Described as a modern-day Psycho, Kaleidoscope explores the destructive relationship between a middle-aged man and his mother and is written and directed by Toby Jones’ brother Rupert […]...

Sneak Peek images of actress Elizabeth Olsen, aka 'Scarlet Witch', in Marvel Studios' "Avengers: Infinity War" posing for "Vogue" (Italia) magazine, photographed by Tom Munro:

Olsen debuted as Marvel Comics' mutant, 'Scarlet Witch' in "The Avengers" sequel, "Avengers: Age Of Ultron", followed by "Captain America: Civil War":

   

By the age of eleven, Olsen had played small roles in series including "How the West Was Fun".

This was followed by appearing in her sisters' straight-to-video series "The Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley". 

She filmed the movie "Red Lights" in 2011, then starred in Josh Radnor's film "Liberal Arts".

Olsen then co-starred in "Very Good Girls" (2013), followed by Spike Lee's remake of "Old Boy".

Olsen was cast as 'Edie Parker', in "Kill Your Darlings" and nominated for the 'BAFTA Rising Star' Award.

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek 'Scarlet Witch'...

IFC Midnight has acquired the UK psychological thriller Kaleidoscope, which stars Toby Jones (Berberian Sound Studio, Red Lights, Tale of Tales, “Wayward Pines”), Anne Reid (The Mother) and Sinead Matthews (Happy-Go-Lucky). Described as a modern day Psycho, Kaleidoscope explores the destructive relationship between a middle-aged man and his mother and is written and directed by Toby Jones’ brother Rupert Jones, who previously directed his brother […]...

Take another look @ actress Elizabeth Olsen, aka 'Scarlet Witch', appearing in Marvel Studios' "Avengers: Infinity War" posing for "Vogue" (Italia) magazine, photographed by Tom Munro:

Olsen debuted as Marvel Comics' mutant, 'Scarlet Witch' in "The Avengers" sequel, "Avengers: Age Of Ultron", followed by "Captain America: Civil War":

By the age of eleven, Olsen had played small roles in series including "How the West Was Fun".

This was followed by appearing in her sisters' straight-to-video series "The Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley". 

She filmed the movie "Red Lights" in 2011, then starred in Josh Radnor's film "Liberal Arts".

Olsen then co-starred in "Very Good Girls" (2013), followed by Spike Lee's remake of "Old Boy".

Olsen was cast as 'Edie Parker', in "Kill Your Darlings" and nominated for the 'BAFTA Rising Star' Award.

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek 'Scarlet Witch'...

Rob Leane Jan 18, 2017

Longer, darker and closer to what came before, the extended version of Batman Forever sounds interesting at the least...

Joel Schumacher’s Batman Forever was a divisive movie, to say the least, and one that we’ve debated the merits of before on this site. But even those of us who like the film (this writer included) would be quick to admit that it’s nowhere near the brilliance of the preceding brace of Bat-movies from Tim Burton.

It’s intriguing to hear, then, that the original cut of Batman Forever weighed in at 2 hours 40 minutes. That’s 38 minutes of extra footage that never made it into cinemas; enough missing minutes to significantly alter the film. Would the original version of Batman Forever have garnered more love?

The fine folk at BatmanOnFilm.com have painstakingly procured information from every available source - earlier drafts of the script,...

Ryan Lambie Jan 6, 2017

We delve into The Art Of Rogue One and The Ultimate Visual Guide to find out some of the new Star Wars film’s dark secrets...

Nb: The following contains inevitable spoilers for Star Wars: Rogue One.

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Even as it was, Star Wars: Rogue One was a pretty dark and intense affair. This is, after all, a movie that reveals the human cost behind the stolen plans for the Death Star - plans that formed the jumping-off point for the much breezier New Hope. But looking back through Rogue One’s earlier trailers, there are hints here and there that Gareth Edwards’ prequel - the first in a planned series of A Star Wars Story spin-offs - might have been darker still as initially conceived.

For one thing,...

The Canadian distributor backed by Teddy Schwarzman’s Black Bear Pictures is expanding operations.

Elevation will partner on the new division with Canadian producer Christina Piovesan, whose credits include The Whistleblower, Amreeka and Red Lights.

The company will offer production services to Canadian and international projects shooting in Canada and move into in-house productions.

“As more producers from around the world have come to recognise the unmatched appeal of Canada as a production destination, and with the growing success of homegrown content as well as international co-productions, a move into production was a natural next step for the company,” said Dan Steinman (pictured), the Elevation Pictures CEO who played an integral role in launching the company in 2013 and also serves as co-president and COO at Black Bear.

“And Christina, who has tremendous production savvy and relationships and taste, is the perfect complement to Elevation as we execute this move.”

Back in May, Elevation co-presidents...

Halloween is her favorite holiday. So it shouldn’t be a surprise to see that Kylie Jenner went all out on Friday night, hosting a “dead dinner” for family and friends with her beau Tyga.

The couple dressed as skeletons for the Halloween weekend dinner celebration — appeared to make use of Jenner’s cosmetics collection by painting their faces ghostly white for the event.

Jenner, 19, wore a sheer dress with black flower cutouts covering her up. Her blonde locks gelled back from her face let her deadly contour and blood red-lips shine.

Tyga, 26, dressed in all black — letting his striking makeup do the talking.

With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight the titles that have recently hit the interwebs. Every week, one will be able to see the cream of the crop (or perhaps some simply interesting picks) of streaming titles (new and old) across platforms such as Netflix, iTunes, Amazon Instant Video, and more (note: U.S. only). Check out our rundown for this week’s selections below.

Amour Fou (Jessica Hausner)

An ecstatically original work of film-history-philosophy with a digital-cinema palette of acutely crafted compositions. Amour Fou seamlessly blends together the paintings of Vermeer, the acting of Bresson, and the psychological undercurrents of a Dostoevsky novel. It is an intensely thrilling and often slyly comic work that manages to combine a passionately dispassionate love story of the highest order with a larger socio-historical...

Exclusive: Creatives behind Buried, [Rec] (pictured) and Kidnapped join for English-language thriller.

[Rec] writers Jaume Balagueró and Manu Diez, Kidnapped director Miguel Vivas and producers Adrián Guerra and Núria Valls of Nostromo Pictures (Buried, Red Lights) are joining forces on thriller Inside.

Looking to replicate the commercial success of female-driven genre titles from Spain including The Orphanage, The Others, [Rec] and Mama, the remake of Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo’s 2007 French horror À L’Intérieur follows a recently widowed mother-to-be living in an isolated new home who receives a most unwelcome visitor: a predatory woman who will stop at nothing to snatch her unborn child.

Trapped and disorientated, the young mother must unleash all her reserves of strength to protect her baby and survive the night.

Embankment Films will launch sales on the project at the upcoming Afm with the production aiming for a February 2016 shoot. Casting on the film is underway.

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At the time of its production, Louis Malle’s 1978 title Pretty Baby (the title derived from the Tony Jackson song) was quite the scandal, a period piece frankly depicting child prostitution in turn of the century New Orleans. But like many provocative titles from the period (another being Richard Brooks’ Looking For Mr. Goodbar), decades of suppression has resulted in unavailability and a disappearance from modern cinematic conversations. Recently made available courtesy of the Warner Bros. Archive collection (solely on DVD) this is property begging for a more masterful restoration.

In the Red Lights district of 1917 New Orleans, legal prostitution is on the wane as a surge of conservative, religious rhetoric begins to sweep through the country. Nell (Francis Faye) owns a booming brothel in the famed Storyville district, and one of her most notable employees is Hattie (Susan Sarandon), whose twelve-year-old daughter Violet (Brooke Shields) has grown up within the house.

"The key is to be mysterious..." Take a look at the first trailer for the directorial debut of a young actor, Craig Roberts, who you may recognize from films like Submarine, Jane Eyre, Red Lights, Neighbors or 22 Jump Street. Craig Roberts wrote and directed and stars in this film, Just Jim, which also co-stars Emile Hirsch. This is the story of a loner. Jim, 16, has no friends and is a bit weird. He eventually makes friends with Dean, a tough kid on the run who moves in next door, played by Hirsch. The cast includes Aneirin Hughes, Nia Roberts, Richard Harrington, Matthew Aubrey, Ryan Owen & Charlotte Randall. Check it out. Here's the first official trailer for Craig Roberts' Just Jim, found on Vimeo (via The Film Stage): Synopsis: In a small Welsh town, a teenage outcast becomes the cool kid when an enigmatic American moves in next door...

Take another look @ actress Elizabeth Olsen, aka 'Scarlet Witch', currently filming Marvel Studios' "Captain America: Civil War",  in a recent issue of "Vogue" (Italia) magazine, photographed by Tom Munro.

Olsen debuted as Marvel Comics' mutant, 'Scarlet Witch' in "The Avengers" sequel, "Avengers: Age Of Ultron" and is currently filming "Captain America: Civil War":

   

By the age of eleven, Olsen had played small roles in series including "How the West Was Fun".

This was followed by appearing in her sisters' straight-to-video series "The Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley". 

She filmed the movie "Red Lights" in 2011, then starred in Josh Radnor's film "Liberal Arts".

Olsen then co-starred in "Very Good Girls" (2013), followed by Spike Lee's remake of "Old Boy".

Olsen was cast as 'Edie Parker', in "Kill Your Darlings" and nominated for the 'BAFTA Rising Star' Award.

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek the 'Scarlet Witch'.

New York prison escapee Richard Matt was shot and killed by police Friday, according to CNN. Fellow fugitive David Sweat is being chased by police following the nearly three-week manhunt. The pair, who were reported missing from the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York, on June 6 were thought to be heading to Canada. Also Read: 'Star Wars' Actor Held After Police Chase: The Force Was Behind Him With Red Lights On Police shot Matt in Malone in New York state. DNA tests had previously been conducted at a cabin in the nearby area of Mountain View following a reported robbery.

Selected as the Venezuelan submission for Best Foreign Language Film for the 2014 Academy Awards, Alberto Arvelo’s The Liberator, a biopic on Simon Bolivar, actually made the shortlist of the final nine films. The positive attention it received from Academy members did little for its box office potential, grossing only $113,000 in the Us. While many seemed to agree on the film’s faults, it wasn’t without its champions, particularly concerning Edgar Ramirez’s noble performance as Bolivar.

Arriving with all the earmarks of a truncated and incredibly abridged version of history in order to cram into the corset of a two hour cinematic straightjacket, this unwisely attempts to chart nearly the entire life of Simon Bolivar in one dense chunk. The result is a jack hammered miasma of assorted clichés, conflating events into a romanticized exaggeration of generalization, which collapses, as these types often do, into a hellishly dull...

What's worse: bad horror movies or mediocre ones that don't leave much of an impression. The latter is the case with Out of the Dark, the latest in a string of Spanish/American co-productions that see Hollywood stars making movies in English that only occasionally see any sort of substantial release in North America. The thing is, sometimes these movies are actually really great, as is the case with Red Lights (trailer) which blew me away when I finally caught up with in on home video a few years ago. This one? Not so much.

Out of the Dark stars Julia Stiles and Scott Speedman as Sarah and Paul Harriman, both actors who have appeared in their share of mediocr [Continued ...]...

Take another look @ images of actress Elizabeth Olsen, aka 'Scarlet Witch' in "Avengers: Age Of Ultron", from "Vogue" (Italia) magazine, photographed by Tom Munro:

Olsen is currently appearing as Marvel Comics' 'inhuman', 'Scarlet Witch' in "The Avengers" sequel, "Avengers: Age Of Ultron":

   

By the age of eleven, Olsen had played small roles in "How the West Was Fun".

This was followed by appearing in her sisters' straight-to-video series "The Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley". 

She filmed the movie "Red Lights" in 2011, then starred in Josh Radnor's film "Liberal Arts".

Olsen then co-starred in "Very Good Girls" (2013), followed by Spike Lee's remake of "Old Boy".

Olsen was cast as 'Edie Parker', in "Kill Your Darlings" and nominated for the 'BAFTA Rising Star' Award.

Her most recent film is "Godzilla". 

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek Elizabeth Olsen...

Take another look @ actress Elizabeth Olsen ("Avengers: Age Of Ultron"), in a recent issue of "Vogue" (Italia) magazine, photographed by Tom Munro.

Olsen recently wrapped her work as Marvel Comics' 'Inhuman', the 'Scarlet Witch' in "The Avengers" sequel, "Avengers: Age Of Ultron":

   

By the age of eleven, Olsen had played small roles in "How the West Was Fun" and her sisters' straight-to-video series "The Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley". 

She filmed the movie "Red Lights" in 2011, then starred in Josh Radnor's film "Liberal Arts".

Olsen then co-starred in "Very Good Girls" (2013), followed by Spike Lee's remake of "Old Boy".

Olsen wasa then cast as 'Edie Parker', in "Kill Your Darlings" and nominated for the 'BAFTA Rising Star' Award.

Her most recent film is "Godzilla". 

Click the images to enlarge...

Take another look @ actress Elizabeth Olsen, aka 'Scarlet Witch' in "Avengers: Age Of Ultron", from a recent issue of "Vogue" (Italia) magazine, photographed by Tom Munro.

Olsen is currently appearing as Marvel Comics' mutant, 'Scarlet Witch' in "The Avengers" sequel, "Avengers: Age Of Ultron":

   

By the age of eleven, Olsen had played small roles in "How the West Was Fun".

This was followed by appearing in her sisters' straight-to-video series "The Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley". 

She filmed the movie "Red Lights" in 2011, then starred in Josh Radnor's film "Liberal Arts".

Olsen then co-starred in "Very Good Girls" (2013), followed by Spike Lee's remake of "Old Boy".

Olsen was cast as 'Edie Parker', in "Kill Your Darlings" and nominated for the 'BAFTA Rising Star' Award.

Her most recent film is "Godzilla". 

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek Elizabeth Olsen...

Take another look @ images of actress Elizabeth Olsen, aka 'Scarlet Witch' in "Avengers: Age Of Ultron", from a recent issue of "Vogue" (Italia) magazine, photographed by Tom Munro.

Olsen is currently appearing as Marvel Comics' mutant, 'Scarlet Witch' in "The Avengers" sequel, "Avengers: Age Of Ultron":

   

By the age of eleven, Olsen had played small roles in "How the West Was Fun".

This was followed by appearing in her sisters' straight-to-video series "The Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley". 

She filmed the movie "Red Lights" in 2011, then starred in Josh Radnor's film "Liberal Arts".

Olsen then co-starred in "Very Good Girls" (2013), followed by Spike Lee's remake of "Old Boy".

Olsen was cast as 'Edie Parker', in "Kill Your Darlings" and nominated for the 'BAFTA Rising Star' Award.

Her most recent film is "Godzilla". 

Click the images to enlarge... ...

Take another look @ images of actress Elizabeth Olsen, aka 'Scarlet Witch' in "Avengers: Age Of Ultron", from a recent issue of "Vogue" (Italia) magazine, photographed by Tom Munro:

Olsen is currently appearing as Marvel Comics' mutant, 'Scarlet Witch' in "The Avengers" sequel, "Avengers: Age Of Ultron":

   

By the age of eleven, Olsen had played small roles in "How the West Was Fun".

This was followed by appearing in her sisters' straight-to-video series "The Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley". 

She filmed the movie "Red Lights" in 2011, then starred in Josh Radnor's film "Liberal Arts".

Olsen then co-starred in "Very Good Girls" (2013), followed by Spike Lee's remake of "Old Boy".

Olsen was cast as 'Edie Parker', in "Kill Your Darlings" and nominated for the 'BAFTA Rising Star' Award.

Her most recent film is "Godzilla". 

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek Elizabeth Olsen...