Tag: Jojo Rabbit
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Cord Jefferson’s ‘American Fiction’ Wins Toronto Film Festival Audience Award
“American Fiction,” Cord Jefferson’s blistering satire of race and media, captured the Toronto International Film Festival’s people’s choice award, bolstering its Oscars chances.TIFF’s people’s choice award is considered to be among the best predictors of eventual awards success, though the 2023 festival hosted a weaker lineup than most years due to the writers and actors…
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TIFF Audience Award Predictions: What Movie Will Get an Oscar Boost?
What will the people choose?In its final stretch, on Sunday, the Toronto International Film Festival will announce the film chosen by the public for the People’s Choice Award of its 48th edition. After “Poor Things” took home the Golden Lion at Venice, we look to the Canadian awards season staple to boost a film in…
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‘Thor: Love and Thunder’ Writer Jennifer Kaytin Robinson Talks Jane’s Big Storyline, Brett Goldstein’s Cameo and Chasing Taika Waititi With a Laptop
Spoiler Alert: This story discusses major plot developments in Marvel Studios’ “
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‘Thor: Love and Thunder’ Trailer: Taika Waititi’s Highly Anticipated Return To The Thor Franchise
After the success of Marvel’s latest theater release, “Doctor Strange: In the Multiverse of Madness” (2022), fans of the MCU are looking forward to the studio’s next big outing, “Thor: Love and Thunder.”Directed by Taika Waititi, who’s been thought to have brought Thor back to greatness with his previous movie, “Thor: Ragnarok” (2017). Waititi is…
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Taika Waititi Felt Understandably Awkward While Directing Jojo Rabbit In Costume
Directing a film is a hard job to begin with, and adding in playing a role while directing makes it that much more difficult. Layer in acting in a scene with a child, and asking him to switch back and forth between taking direction and acting with you, and it’s a Herculean task. What if, on top…
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Taika Waititi Wasn’t Given A Choice When It Came To His Jojo Rabbit Role
After the massive success that was “Thor: Ragnarok,” it may have been surprising to some when director Taika Waititi decided to work on a smaller-scale dark comedy about a wannabe Nazi kid in World War II era Germany. “Jojo Rabbit” follows a young boy named Jojo (Roman Griffin Davis) who idolizes Hitler and fully buys…
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12-Year-Old ‘Home Alone’ Reboot Star Archie Yates Is Writing a Superhero Movie, and Wants Taika Waititi’s Notes
The latest entry into the beloved “Home Alone” franchise hails from a stacked roster of comedy veterans.“Borat” and “Bridget Jones’ Baby” co-writer Dan Mazer directs the film from a screenplay by Mikey Day and Streeter Seidell of “Saturday Night Live” (and of Variety’s list of 10 Screenwriters to Watch in 2021). The cast includes Ellie…
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What We Do In The Shadows Season 4: Everything We Know So Far
Ever think about how far we’ve come from such a scrapped-together, low-budget, and quintessentially New Zealand-specific goodness that Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement gave us with their “What We Do in the Shadows” film? Waititi and Clement have gone on to much bigger things since 2014, with the former garnering Oscar love for “Jojo Rabbit” after…
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Scarlett Johansson’s 10 Best Performances, Ranked
Scarlett Johansson is back on the big screen this weekend in the loooong-awaited “Black Widow” from Marvel Studios and Disney, finally here after endless pandemic-related delays. Johansson gets the chance to flex her already-established footprint in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Natasha Romanoff, who has also appeared in the “Avengers” series, “Captain America,” and more.But…