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Benicio del Toro paid tribute to James Caan at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival on Friday. "I call him The Dream," he said of his The Way of the Gun co-star, who died this week at age 82. "When I met him, I walked up to him and I said 'Mr Caan, it's an honor to be here working with you.' He said, 'You can…

While Covid cases begin to surge again in Hollywood, it's a different story nearly 6,000 miles away as the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival kicked off with a bang on Friday night. The prominent Central European festival showed no sign that the pandemic was going to mar yet another edition of the much-loved…

As the 56th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) is about to kick off on Friday, there will be plenty to discuss at this year's event in the picturesque Czech spa town. The prominent Central European festival, which is returning to its usual early July slot after last year's edition was…

Geoffrey Rush and Benicio Del Toro will be honored with career awards at the 56th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF), running July 1-9 against the backdrop of the picturesque Czech Republic spa town. Australian actor Rush will receive the festival's Crystal Globe for Outstanding Artistic…

EXCLUSIVE: Sicario and Traffic star Benicio Del Toro is teaming up with L.A.-based Exile Content Studio to develop a slate of scripted and unscripted TV projects from emerging creatives. The partnership will look to support talent from Latin America and the U.S. Hispanic market who are working on Spanish- and…

Netflix has acquired worldwide rights to Black Label Media’s Reptile, setting Oscar nominee Justin Timberlake (Palmer, The Social Network) to star opposite Oscar winner Benicio Del Toro (Sicario, Traffic), whose casting had already been announced. The film picks up following the brutal murder of a young real estate…

Trust is a setup. That rather ominous thought serves the tagline for No Sudden Move, Steven Soderbergh’s heist thriller for HBO Max starring Don Cheadle and Benicio del Toro. Check out the new trailer interspersed with 2WEI’s “Boom Boom” above and the key art below. The ’50s-set pic, which has the centerpiece slot at t…

Steven Soderbergh has commenced production on his latest film No Sudden Move (f.k.a Kill Switch), a crime thriller that is being produced under his recently formed overall deal with HBO Max. The starry cast ensemble includes Don Cheadle (Black Monday), Benicio Del Toro (Sicario), David Harbour (Stranger Things), Amy…

Fresh from his Wildlife directorial debut, Paul Dano found himself headed to prison. In Showtime's limited series Escape at Dannemora, Dano plays real-life convict David Sweat, who escaped from New York's Clinton Correctional Facility in 2015. Meeting with Sweat in preparation for the shoot, Dano delved deep into the…

EXCLUSIVE: [Spoilers Ahead!] Showtime’s Golden Globe-nominated limited series Escape At Dannemora draws nearer to a close, as prisoners David Sweat (Paul Dano) and Richard Matt (Benicio Del Toro) get closer to escape while Joyce “Tilly” Mitchell (Patricia Arquette) wavers on her role in their crime. The episode lifted…

Deadline confirms that Traffic Oscar winner and Star Wars: The Last Jedi star Benicio Del Toro will voice the villainous fox Swiper in Paramount’s Dora the Explorer movie. Pic has finished shooting in Australia, but Del Toro will provide the voice-over to the fox who always tries to undermine the young explorer. On…

Sicario star Benicio Del Toro will lead the cast in Oliver Stone’s next directorial outing White Lies. The three-time Oscar winner Stone has written the script for the intimate New York-set drama, which tonally will mark a departure for the big-canvas director. In a story covering three generations, the film will…