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‘A Piece Of Sky’ Team Says Switzerland’s Oscar Entry Is “About How Strong Love Can Be” – Contenders International
A critical hit at this year's Berlinale, Michael Koch's second feature A Piece of Sky is a sober relationship drama with a difference: It takes place in a picturesque Alpine idyll, with its sections interspersed by a folk choir that acts as an unorthodox Greek chorus. Speaking at Deadline's Contenders Inte…
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‘Gen V’ Trailer Reveals A Blood-Soaked First Look At ‘The Boys’ College Spinoff Series
Prime Video has released a very bloody look at it’s upcoming college-set The Boys spinoff, Gen V.
A trailer dropped Saturday during CCXP doesn’t reveal much about the plot, but does give peak at the cast of characters, led by The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina‘s Jaz Sinclair.
Set at America's…
‘Klondike’ Director Maryna Er Gorbach Talks Prophetic Film That Foresaw Russian Invasion – Contenders International
Maryna Er Gorbach's drama Klondike revolves around a Ukrainian couple on the cusp of parenthood whose lives are turned upside down by the rise of the Russia-backed separatist movement in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region.
The pair are impacted further by the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17…
Deadline Studio At The Red Sea International Film Festival 2022 – Photo Gallery
Deadline Studio at the Red Sea International Film Festival 2022 hosted talent on day 2, December 2nd at The Ritz-Carlton, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Guy Ritchie, Shabana Azmi Jemima Khan, Shekhar Kapur, Naughty Boy, Jeff Mirza, Karena Kapoor and Saif Ali Khan all attended the studio’s portrait session on day 2.
Guests who…
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Filmmaker Darin J. Sallam On The Personal Story At Heart Of Jordan’s Oscar Entry ‘Farha’ – Contenders International
When director Darin J. Sallam came to make her feature debut with Farah, she always knew what the subject matter would be: as a little girl, Sallam's mother used to tell her the story of a teenage girl who was locked up in her room during the partition of Palestine in 1948. "She was locked up by her…
‘Joyland’ Filmmaker Saim Sadiq On Ban And Reverse Ban In Pakistan: “I Made The Film I Wanted To Make” – Contenders International
Written and directed by Saim Sadiq, Joyland has had a tumultuous trajectory this season. It burst out of the gate in Cannes as the first Pakistani film ever in the official selection, winning the Jury Prize in Un Certain Regard and taking several awards later down the road.
But after Pakistan entered…
‘Ajoomma’ Director He Shuming “Wanted To Make A Feature My Mom Would Like” – Contenders International
The majority of submissions for this year's International Feature Oscar category deal with serious issues, from major to minor, and while He Shuming's feature debut Ajoomma (the title translates as Auntie) isn't exactly the heaviest of them all, it does make a point of focusing on a character type that is…
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Pierfrancesco Favino Studied Up On Two Languages For Lead Role In ‘Nostalgia’ – Contenders International
Pierfrancesco Favino is best known internationally for strong male character roles such as mobster Tommaso Buscetta in The Traitor, disgraced politician Bettino Craxi in Hammamet and terrorist-targeted vice-police chief Alfonso Noce in Padrenostro, for which he won Venice's Volpi Cup for Best…
‘On The Job: The Missing Eight’ Director Erik Matti Explores The Role Of The Media In Philippines’ Oscar Entry – Contenders International
It's rare that a sequel competes in the International Oscar category, especially when the first part didn't get selected. It's a measure of Erik Matti's latest film that, though it follows on from 2013’s Cannes Directors’ Fortnight title On the Job—or rather, starts in the aftermath—this second instalment…
Los Angeles Rams Season On The Brink, As Quarterback Matthew Stafford Goes Out
In the words of Micheal Ray Richardson, “The ship be sinking.”
The defending Super Bowl champion Los Angeles Rams have suffered yet another blow to their hopes for this season, forced to put quarterback Matthew Stafford on injured reserve today with a neck strain.
Stafford could conceivably…
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‘Holy Spider’ Pair On Seeing Their Iran-Set Movie Launch Against Backdrop Of Current “Revolution” – Contenders International
“I always had a very specific sense of urgency with this idea," said Holy Spider director Ali Abbasi of wanting to make a film noir based on the true story of the "Spider Killer" Saeed Hanaei, who saw himself as on a mission from God as he killed 16 women between 2000 and 2001.
The Persian-language…
Jason Loftus Says Canada’s Oscar Entry ‘Eternal Spring’ Is “A Shared History Of A Shared Memory” – Contenders International
Crackdowns in China seem to be in the news a lot lately, making Jason Loftus's film Eternal Spring all the more timely. The protagonist of this hybrid documentary is a brilliant Chinese artist named Daxiong, who was forced into exile because of his affiliation with a movement known as Falun Gong, a…
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