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The longest-acting movie awards voting committee got it done in about 3½ hours this year, with the New York Film Critics Circle finally naming Focus Features’ Tár as Best film of 2022. The movie, which reps filmmaker Todd Fields return to the camera in 16 years also saw its star Cate Blanchett win Best…

Jim Jarmusch was a hot ticket at the Marrakech International Film Festival this week as seasoned cinema professionals, film students and high school kids packed out a rare on-stage conversation with the U.S. director. The 300-strong audience were not disappointed as Jarmusch shared insights into his…

Focus Features'Tár opened in limited release to strong results with $160,000 at four locations in New York and Los Angles for a $40,000 per theater average, one of the best PTAs since Covid and not bad for a 2-hour and 38-minute arthouse film pre-pandemic. Riding strong reviews, the Cate…

While the Emmys drew mixed reviews, the film festivals closed to strong applause this week, not only for their movies (we'd forgotten some) but for their star turnout (forgot a few of them, too). Cate Blanchett, George Clooney, Taylor Swift and Julianne Moore were out there giving interviews and courting critics as in…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winning Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar will not be making his first English-language feature directorial debut with A Manual for Cleaning Women, which has Cate Blanchett set to star and produce under her Dirty Films, Deadline has learned. The filmmaker finally had all the elements to realize the…

UPDATE: The Venice Film Festival has now handed out its awards, and for the second time ever crowned a documentary as the Golden Lion, while also spreading the love around. Oscar winner Laura Poitras' All the Beauty and the Bloodshed walked away with the top honor tonight. It follows Gianfranco Rosi’s Sacro Gra…

EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker Luca Guadagnino (Call Me by Your Name) hopes to revive his dream project to make a mammoth 10-episode television adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited. Two years ago the director had assembled an all-star cast including Cate Blanchett, Ralph Fiennes, Andrew Garfield and Rooney Mara, to…

Ana de Armas has arrived on the Lido for the world premiere of her Marilyn Monroe biopic Blonde. The film debuts In Competition on Thursday and de Armas was joined at a press conference for the NC-17-rated flick by her co-stars Adrien Brody and Julianne Nicholson as well as director Andrew Dominik, and producer Brad…

Todd Field's Tár clearly struck a chord with the world premiere audience inside the Venice Film Festival's Sala Grande tonight. The movie was given a standing ovation of more than six minutes, which was only halted when the film team filtered out. Cate Blanchett, who was in the house, stars in a buzzed about…

It's hard to say that something has been worth the wait when that wait has been 16 years, which is how long it's been since Todd Field's previous feature, Little Children. All the same, it's very good to have this fine filmmaker back on the scene with Venice Film Festival competition entry Tár, a weighty new drama…

Tár, Todd Field's return to filmmaking after a 16-year stretch, and starring a buzzed about Cate Blanchett, has its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival this evening. The Focus Features drama follows Blanchett's titular conductor, the first female chief conductor of a major German orchestra who is at the height…

The Venice film festival hasn't been short of dramatic performances on screen, but also offscreen on the red carpet. Stars like Ana De Armas, Cate Blanchette, Timothée Chalamet, Tessa Thompson, Jodie Turner-Smith, and Mia Goth all showcased bold designs throughout the fest’s 10-day run at the premiers for Tár; Don't Wo…