Woody Allen has lined up a starry, largely European cast for his next movie, which has a working title of Wasp 2019. The cast includes Oscar winner Christoph Waltz, Louis Garrel (The Dreamers), Sergi López (Pan’s Labyrinth), Elena Anaya (The Skin I Live In), Wallace Shawn (Manhattan) and Gina Gershon (Blockers). Mediap…

Taika Waititi, Christoph Waltz and Naomi Watts are among the talent who will sit on the Venice Film Festival’s main jury beginning August 28. They are joining last year’s Golden Lion winner, Guillermo del Toro, who is president of the panel. Also on board are Taiwanese actress and filmmaker Sylvia Chang; Danish star…

Alexander Payne had the distinction of opening this year's Venice Film Festival with his new film Downsizing, which followed last year's La La Land in a first-night slot that is often seen as a launching pad for awards season titles. Starring Matt Damon, the film takes place in a world where Norwegian scientists have…

UPDATED with press conference details: Alexander Payne's Downsizing splashed onto the Lido this morning as the Venice Film Festival gets underway. The sci-fi comedy was met with applause at the first press screening inside a jammed Sala Darsena — and the laughs were hearty from the international audience for what is a…

Vanessa Redgrave is set to join Christoph Waltz for his directorial debut Georgetown, the crime drama inspired by the true story of Albrecht Muth who was convicted in 2011 for murdering his much older socialite wife in Washington D.C. Cornerstone Films is overseeing international sales, with ICM handling U.S. rights…

I haven’t seen the film so I’ve no idea just how far it derivates from the original pulp novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, but the latest trailer for The Legend of Tarzan suggests it’s going to be closer to King Kong than Lord Greystoke. (Obviously, there are apes in the original stories, but the tone of this is much…

A young bride. A dashing portraitist. A suspicious older husband. A tough nun. And a booming market for tulip bulbs in 17th century Amsterdam. That sets the scene for Tulip Fever, and now the Weinstein Company has released the first trailer for the pic. Alicia Vikander plays the married woman who begins a passionate…

Christopher Waltz and Hong Chau have booked roles in Downsizing, Alexander Payne’s film about a man who joins the throngs of people undergoing a new process that reduces them to a tiny fraction of their size. Matt Damon and Reese Witherspoon star. Indie distributor Paladin said today it will release the romantic…

When you ask James Bond, “Why did you come?” and he replies, “I came here to kill you,” it’s generally time to start getting your affairs in order. Probate sales can be so messy. But Franz Oberhauser (Christoph Waltz) isn’t shaken, or stirred. “And I thought you came here to die.” Welcome to the final trailer for Spect…

ChristophWaltz is to make his directorial debut with true crime drama Worst Marriage in Georgetown. The film, based on Franklin Foer’s New York Times Magazine article, tells the true story of Albrect Muth (played by Waltz), an eccentric social climber who seduced and married a wealthy older widow, Viola Drath. Voltage…

Director Tim Burton’s latest movie, Big Eyes, is about Walter and Margaret Keane, a story so crazy that it has to be true, and it is. As I say in my video review above, it features terrific turns by Christoph Waltz and Amy Adams, who both <a title="Golden Globes Nominations: 'Birdman', 'Imitation Game' & 'Boyhood'…

Big Eyes is the story of a husband and a wife, and a defining moment in history where art and commercialism intersected for the first time. Before there was Warhol, there was Margaret and Walter Keane. Walter, a con artist, took credit for the true artist, Margaret’s work for years. As a maniacal salesman, he twisted…