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Netflix has acquired Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s next film Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths, with plans to release it in both theaters and on the streamer at year’s end. The filmmaker is currently in post-production, and is expected to wrap by fall. Shot on 65mm and boasting striking cinematography from Oscar…

EXCLUSIVE: Grantham Coleman is set to join Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu latest film, which is currently shooting in Mexico City. The Spanish-language movie going by the title Limbo also stars Daniel Giménez Cacho, the Mexican actor who starred in Lucrecia Martel's Zama. Story details are unknown as of yet, but it is…

A number of leading Mexican producers have banded together to raise financial and medical support for "the most vulnerable" members of the nation's film and television industry. During a remotely staged audiovisual presentation at which all the participants chimed in from separate locations, the six prominent figures…

He's holed up at his home like everyone else, but two-time Oscar-winning director Alejandro Gonzalez-Inarritu has been busy for the last six months restoring his first feature film, Amores Perros, on the occasion of its 20th birthday. The film won the Prize of the Critic’s Week at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival. At a…

Asked to assess what it meant to get Leonardo DiCaprio for his first starring role since his Best Actor Oscar win for The Revenant, Quentin Tarantino is blunt: "He is one of the most if not the most talented actor of his generation, and the most naturally gifted actor I've ever worked with." Tarantino's first written…

UPDATED: Talk to anyone on the Croisette and they would have bet that this year’s Cannes Palme d’Or belonged to Pedro Almodovar and his latest movie Pain and Glory. Not so, as South Korean director Bong Joon-ho finally got his due in his fifth time at Cannes, winning the Palme d’Or for his thriller Parasite about a…

Four-time Oscar winning director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu today begins his first job in a while, heading the jury at the Cannes Film Festival. He has a few things to get off his chest before he heads into darkened theaters for the next 10 days. DEADLINE: You are the first Mexican born person to head the main jury…

Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu will preside over a Cannes Film Festival main jury comprising U.S. actress Elle Fanning, actress and director Maimouna N'Diaye from Burkina Faso, U.S. director Kelly Reichardt, Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher, French author Enki Bilal, French filmmaker Robin Campillo, helmer Yorgos…

Four-time Academy Award winner Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu has been chosen as the president of the Cannes Film Festival jury. He will head the Official Selection competition at the 72nd edition of the highly regarded festival, and will be the first Mexican artist to sit in the position. Iñárritu’s relationship with…

An elite group of film directors have appealed directly to Warner Bros Picture Group chairman Toby Emmerich to try and save FilmStruck, the subscription streaming service that offers indie and prestige titles that are part of the Criterion Collection. This after WarnerMedia said it would shutter the service at the end…

Multi-Oscar winning filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu spoke at the Tribeca Film Festival Saturday saying that before turning in earnest to the big screen, he had been a "frustrated musician." He still wishes he could have succeeded. "I think it's the highest expression of human beings by far," said Iñárritu during…

EXCLUSIVE: At a time when the Best Actor aspirants are elbowing for position, watch out for Michael Keaton. A fixture in the last two Best Picture Oscar winners Birdman and Spotlight, Keaton this year arrives in the John Lee Hancock-directed The Founder. He plays Ray Kroc, who in his 50s evolved from a failing…