Tag: La La Land
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‘Green Book’ Takes Toronto Film Festival’s 2018 People’s Choice Award
Toronto Film Festival’s audience prize positions Peter Farrelly’s “Green Book” in prime Oscar territory — five audience award winners have gone on to capture best picture, including “Slumdog Millionaire,” “12 Years a Slave,” “The King’s Speech,” “American Beauty” and “Chariots of Fire.” In 2016, the prize went to “La La Land,” while last year’s award…
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Barry Jenkins Recalls Being Called A Racial Slur During ‘Moonlight’ Awards Season
One of the most interesting Academy Awards moments of all time is when “La La Land” was wrongfully announced as the Best Picture winner back in 2017. Luckily, it was rectified and “Moonlight” was announced as the rightful winner of the award, but the confusion on stage quickly went viral and the rest is history.…
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Welcome to the Telluride Film Festival, Your Oscar Race Crucible
For better or worse, Telluride is the real start of the Oscar conversation. Sure, Sundance launched “Colette” and “Wildlife” and a raft of strong documentaries, and Cannes yielded a rich crop of likely foreign-language contenders, but all these films must withstand a powerful riptide of Oscar-bound movies with massive awards campaigns behind them. Distributors don’t…
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‘First Man’ Reviews Praise Damien Chazelle’s Revelatory, Gritty Space Drama
Damien Chazelle has done it again, apparently. The filmmaker took home the Best Director Oscar for his last film, the fantastic musical La La Land, and the first First Man reviews have arrived for Chazelle’s ambitious follow-up feature. Something of a passion project for Chazelle, First Man is a chronicle of the Nasa astronauts’ years-long…
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Venice Film Festival: 10 Must-See Movies at This Year’s Festival, From a Bloody Vince Vaughn to Jeff Goldblum as a Lobotomist
Until a few years ago, the Venice Film Festival wasn’t viewed as much of an awards-season bellwether. After the success of “La La Land” and “The Shape of Water,” it’s hard to imagine it as anything else. And while this year’s edition of the world’s oldest film festival boasts Damien Chazelle’s “First Man,” Alfonso Cuarón’s…
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Casey Affleck to Produce, May Take Supporting Role in Sports Drama ‘Fencer’
Casey Affleck will produce the sports drama “Fencer” through his Sea Change Media company and may take a small supporting role in the movie.Jasmine McGlade is directing from her own script about a hard-charging female fencer attempting to make the U.S. Olympic team while facing personal demons and childhood rivals. McGlade is also producing along…
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Scarlett Johansson is the Highest-Paid Actress of 2018
Sound the klaxon: Forbes has crowned its highest-paid actress of 2018. Scarlett Johansson has leap-frogged over La La Land‘s Emma Stone to earn the title, pulling in more money than any of us will probably ever see in our lifetimes and more than any other actress in […]The post Scarlett Johansson is the Highest-Paid Actress…
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‘Aladdin’: Justin Paul and Benj Pasek Reveal Details of New Songs for Live-Action Reboot (Exclusive)
If an Oscar, Tony and Grammy weren’t enough for Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, they can now say they’ve collaborated with musical legend Alan Menken.It was announced in July 2017 that the “La La Land” and “The Greatest Showman” duo would be working with Menken on new songs for director Guy Ritchie’s upcoming live-action retelling…
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Hollywood Celebrates #ObamaDay & Laments Trump Reign of Error
Barack Obama’s adopted state of Illinois is commemorating its first Obama Day today and the 44th President of the United States is getting a lot of love and otherwise — and it couldn’t be more perfect timing considering it is his 57th birthday. A hit with the Hollywood crowd even before he was elected Senator…
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Tiff Reveals First Slate of 2018 Films, Including ‘Beautiful Boy,’ ‘High Life,’ ‘First Man,’ ‘Widows,’ and Many More
The Toronto International Film Festival has announced its first official slate, with titles in its Gala and Special Presentations program, including some of the most anticipated movies of the year. The 2018 edition will premiere much-anticipated titles like the world premiere of Steve McQueen’s female-driven heist film “Widows,” the world premiere of the Timothee Chalamet-starring…