Tag: Aftersun
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‘Priscilla’ Set to Become Mubi’s Biggest Box Office Hit Ever With $5 Million Grossed Internationally in First Week (Exclusive)
After just one weekend of international release, “Priscilla” — Sofia Coppola’s biopic starring Jacob Elordi as Elvis Presley and Cailee Spaeny as The King’s (then) teenage bride “Priscilla” — has already hit several major milestones for arthouse streamer and distributor Mubi.Produced by Fremantle’s The Apartment, the film currently sits on a box office in excess…
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Great new British directors: five acclaimed debut films to watch
UK film-makers such as Molly Manning Walker, Charlotte Regan and Luna Carmoon are part of a new wave taking top awards at the film festivals‘Stuff happened, you know?’ How to Have Sex director Molly Manning Walker on wild youth, Magaluf and storming CannesYou haven’t imagined it. What started out as a trickle of fresh talent…
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‘Janet Planet’ Review: Mom Means the World to an 11-Year-Old in Playwright Annie Baker’s Indelible Debut
It’s almost cosmic, the way kids start out as nothing more than a twinkle in their mother’s eye. Then they’re born into heavenly little bodies, orbiting the adults who made them like tiny moons, until such time that they overcome their parents’ gravitational pull. So it is with “Janet Planet,” one of those intensely personal…
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TIFF 2023: The Movies We’re Looking Forward to Most
After last year’s Toronto International Film Festival gave us some of the best films of 2022, like the sublime Aftersun, as well as some of the best of 2023 so far with everything from How to Blow Up a Pipeline to R.M.N., this year has its work cut out for it to match that high…
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‘The Quiet Girl’ Ending Explained: Cáit Finally Finds a Family
Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers for The Quiet Girl (An Cailín Ciúin).What does that beautiful, ambiguous ending of The Quiet Girl mean? This year, The Quiet Girl (An Cailín Ciúin in Irish) received a much-deserved Oscar nomination for Best International Feature, and with it, Colm Bairéad’s excellent feature debut is sure to rack up…
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New on Paramount+ in July 2023
As of June 27, 2023, Paramount+ Premium subscribers are able to access everything on Showtime as the two streamers merge into Paramount+ With Showtime. This means that July will bring even more titles than usual to the streaming platform, including the Oscar-nominated drama Aftersun, and subscribers can already stream some of Showtime’s buzziest series including…
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Taylor Swift, Vicky Krieps, Paul Mescal, the Daniels among 398 invited to join Academy
Those who accept will be only additions to Academy’s membership in 2023.Vicky Krieps, Paul Mescal, Warner Bros Discovery head David Zaslav, Aftersun writer-director Charlotte Wells, She Said director Maria Schrader, and Kerry Condon are among 398 who have been invited to join the Academy.Some 40% of the 2023 class identify as women, 34% belong to…
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Oscars Invite 398 New Members: Taylor Swift, Austin Butler, Ke Huy Quan, ‘Rrr’ Stars Ram Charan and Ntr Jr and More
Austin Butler, Ke Huy Quan, Keke Palmer, Nt Rama Rao Jr and music superstar Taylor Swift are among the 398 artists and executives invited to join the membership of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. If all of this year’s invitees accept membership, it will bring the total number of overall Academy members…
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Irish Film, TV Nominations 2023: ‘The Banshees of Inisherin,’ ‘Bad Sisters’ Lead With Most Nods
“The Banshees of Inisherin,” starring Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, led the nominations for the Irish Film and Television Awards (IFTAs) as the full list of nominees was unveiled on Monday night local time, picking up 11 nods in the film category.“Bad Sisters” – Sharon Horgan’s Apple TV+ mystery series – led the pack in…