Tag: News of the World
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Expect ‘French Dispatch’ to Leave the Oscar Race and Eye Cannes 2021 Instead
What’s left for the Oscars? The telecast will proceed, two months late, on April 25, but as to what might qualify — the only definitive answer will come when we reach the February 28 submission deadline. As a canary in a coal mine, “Tenet” failed to reignite audiences; instead, it revealed the hazards of theatrical…
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Tom Hanks & Paul Greengrass Reteam ‘News Of The World’ Opening Christmas 2020
Universal has dated News of the World for Dec 25, 2020. Pic will go up against DreamWorks Animation’s Croods 2 and an untitled Paramount/Skydance event movie.The pic, which reteams Tom Hanks with his Captain Phillips director Paul Greengrass, will come in the wake of pre-Christmas releases next year 20th Century Fox/Amblin’s West Side Story, Paramount’s…
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Female Filmmakers Surge Forward in Germany, But Still Face Obstacles
Four feature films by German filmmakers screened at the Toronto Film Festival, and three of them were directed by women – Angela Schanelec’s “I Was at Home, But…,” winner of the Berlinale’s best director prize, Ina Weisse’s “The Audition,” and Katrin Gebbe’s “Pelican Blood,” the latter two both starring Nina Hoss. Germany’s Oscar entry this…