Tag: Moonlight
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2019 Oscar Predictions: 91st Academy Awards
As films are revealed at Sundance and Cannes right through the fall film festival circuit, the 2018-19 awards season slowly comes into focus. The Academy has moved away from the mainstream over the last few years, awarding best picture to the low budget “Moonlight” and fantasy film “The Shape of Water,” which bodes well for…
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A24, Plan B Team On ‘The Last Black Man in San Francisco’ With Jonathan Majors & Jimmie Fails Starring
A24 is partnering with Moonlight collaborator Plan B Entertainment on Last Black Man in San Francisco, inspired by the real-life story of Jimmie Fails, who will also star in the film alongside Jonathan Majors (When We Rise). First-time feature director Joe Talbot is directing the pic from a screenplay he wrote with Rob Richert. The…
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‘The Equalizer 2’ First Trailer: Denzel Washington Wants You to Know He Can Still Kick Ass
Denzel Washington has making movies since 1981, but the one thing he hasn’t done in Hollywood until now is make a sequel. “The Equalizer 2” gives the movie icon his first franchise, and Sony has debuted the ass-kicking first trailer to the sequel to 2014’s box office hit.“The Equalizer 2” finds Washington resuming the role…
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‘Pynk’ Confirms Janelle Monáe and Tessa Thompson Are A Music Video Power Couple — Watch
Tessa Thompson and Janelle Monáe are becoming the new power couple of music videos. Just over a month after the debut of bisexual anthem “Make Me Feel,” Monáe has released the gorgeous music video for her latest single, “Pynk.” The track is a celebration of femininity, self love, and “pussy power,” and it features so…
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Iff Panama: ’Moonlight’ Co-producer Andrew Hevia: ‘Filmmaking Requires a Start-up Mentality’
Panama City — Academy Award winning producer Andrew Hevia is attending the 7th Iff Panama to present his latest production, Ecuadorian writer- director Juan Sebastian Jacome’s “Cenizas” (“Ashes”), as well as conducting a low-budget filmmaking workshop.Hevia and Jacome met at the Florida State University Film School, and decided to team up for “Ashes,” which is…
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Robin Campillo: ‘I spent the 80s thinking I was going to die. Being a director seemed pointless’
The writer/director of 120 Beats Per Minute on how his time with militant Aids activist group Act Up-Paris inspired one of the most feted films of 2018Last Christmas Eve, just before midnight, Barry Jenkins, the Oscar-winning director of Moonlight, settled down in a hotel room to watch the new French film 120 Beats Per Minute.…
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Hollywood’s Gay Double Standard: Why So Many Actresses Can Come Out, But Young Actors Stay in the Closet
There’s never been a better time to be gay in Hollywood. “Moonlight” won Best Picture the same year Kristen Stewart told millions of people on “Saturday Night Live” that she’s “like, so gay dude.” Now in its 10th season, “RuPaul’s Drag Race” boasts two Emmy nominations and ever increasing ratings. The “Roseanne” reboot has a…
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‘Three Billboards’ Composer Carter Burwell to Headline Ghent Film Festival (Exclusive)
American composer Carter Burwell will headline the 18th World Soundtrack Awards with a live concert as part of the Ghent Film Festival, on Oct. 17 in Ghent, Belgium.Burwell, a recent Oscar nominee for his music for “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” will attend, as will composer Nicholas Britell, who was named last year’s “Discovery of…
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‘Moonlight’ Star Ashton Sanders in Talks for ‘Native Son’ Movie
“Moonlight” star Ashton Sanders in final negotiations to take on the lead role of Bigger Thomas in a movie version of Richard Wright’s novel “Native Son.”Nick Robinson, the lead actor in gay teen romance-drama “Love, Simon,” is also in talks to join the cast along with Margaret Qualley, KiKi Layne and Bill Camp.A24, which released…
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‘Hereditary’: A24 Is Promoting Its Next Big Horror Movie By Sending People Terrifying Handmade Dolls
In the horror world, nothing quite says “creepy! but also maybe hug me!” like a well-placed doll. And in Ari Aster’s upcoming A24 release, “Hereditary,” the place is just crawling with them, thanks in part to star Toni Collette’s character’s bent towards building tiny models of the world around her. It’s a weird world, too.…