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UPDATE: Xavier Giannoli's Illusions Perdues (Lost Illusions) leads nominations for the 2022 César Awards, France's equivalent to the Oscar. The Venice premiere scored 15 mentions, followed by Leos Carax's Annette, which opened the Cannes Film Festival last year and has 11 nominations. They are followed by Valérie…

House of Gucci isn’t even 82-year-old director Ridley Scott’s first movie this fall. His underrated The Last Duel had that distinction, but this sometimes overloaded and overlong but nonetheless highly entertaining saga spanning three decades in the life of the infamous Italian fashion empire delivers the goods…

EXCLUSIVE: As his House of Gucci cast premiered the awards season entry in Europe in concert with the 100th anniversary celebration of the fashion brand, Ridley Scott stayed back in Los Angeles. Glimpsed through the limited lens of a Zoom call, Scott obviously lives well. But he’s quick to say that where he’d rather…

Update: Sony has moved up its release of Sam Raimi production 65 from May 13, which was in the second weekend of Disney/Marvel’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, another film directed by the filmmaker to April 29, 2022. On its new date, 65 stands alone as the only major studio wide release. The movie…

Everyone has their own truth, as they say, but some of those truths are considerably truer than others. Old pals Matt Damon and Ben Affleck join forces with established indie filmmaker Nicole Holofcener to adapt a true story – that of Marguerite de Carrouges, a 14th century French noblewoman who was raped by an old…

MGM has unveiled the first official trailer for House of Gucci, an anticipated crime pic from director Ridley Scott, which United Artists will release in the U.S. on November 24. The film starring Oscar winner Lady Gaga (A Star Is Born, American Horror Story) and two-time nominee Adam Driver (Marriage Story, BlacKkKlan…

MGM on Thursday released a series of character posters from its upcoming film House of Gucci, directed by Ridley Scott. The movie, based on the 2001 book The House Of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed by Sara Gay Forden, stars Lady Gaga and Adam Driver and is set to be released in the…

“There is only one question that matters,” the young woman is told: “Do you swear on your life that what you say is true?” Here is the first trailer for The Last Duel, Ridley Scott’s period drama starring Matt Damon, Adam Driver, Jodie Comer and Ben Affleck. Based on the book by Eric Jager, it chronicles one of…

At a Cannes Film Festival like no other, Leos Carax's Annette may have been the perfect opening movie. Our Pete Hammond described it as an "offbeat rock opera musical fantasy" (not the most populated of genres) in his Deadline review last night, and the film's creativity and originality, typical of Carax, has set the…

Tonight’s Cannes Film Festival world premiere of Leos Carax’s musical rock opera Annette has been a long time coming as it was actually announced to be part of the fest’s 2020 edition. That was canceled, of course, but this film decided to wait 14 months until it could have its moment on the red carpeted steps of the…

Mubi has acquired all UK and Ireland rights for Leos Carax's Annette which is due to open the Cannes Film Festival in competition on July 6, a day ahead of its French release. The distributor and streamer has set a theatrical UK and Ireland release on September 3. This is the second recent UK deal for Mubi on a Cannes…

Here’s the charming first full trailer for musical romance Annette, which was this morning announced as the opening-night pic at the Cannes Film Festival. Marion Cotillard, Adam Driver and Simon Helberg star in the movie set in contemporary Los Angeles. It tells the story of Henry, a stand-up comedian with a fierce…