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Chapman University's Dodge College of Film and Media Arts announced today that Oscar-nominated director Fernando Meirelles (City of God, The Two Popes) will become its next Marion Knott Distinguished Artist. Meirelles follows Asghar Farhadi (A Separation), Dodge's most recent Distinguished Artist…

EXCLUSIVE: Marc Munden (Utopia) and Fernando Meireilles (The Two Popes) have been tapped to direct episodes of The Sympathizer, a drama series adaptation of Viet Thanh Nguyen's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, produced by and co-starring Robert Downey Jr. The HBO/A24 series also has added three new cast…

EXCLUSIVE: UK outfit Make Waves (The Great Green Wall) and science-focused U.S. producer HHMI Tangled Bank Studios (All That Breathes) are teaming on feature-length documentary Blue Carbon (working title), an environmentally-focused musical piece fronted by Grammy-nominated producer and DJ Jayda G with…

On Wednesday, Netflix unveiled the official trailer for 7 Prisoners, a Brazilian thriller produced by Oscar nominees Ramin Bahrani (The White Tiger, 99 Homes) and Fernando Meirelles (The Two Popes, City of God), which is set to hit select theaters and debut globally on the streamer in November, and may well be put…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-nominated filmmaker Fernando Meirelles, known for hits including The Two Popes, The Constant Gardener and City Of God, is launching a slate of environmental films in association with UK production firm Make Waves. Four of the projects on the $20M documentary slate have already attracted talent and…

Dear God, how does one even begin to rebuild a 536 year old structure like the Sistine Chapel? For Two Popes filmmaker Fernando Meirelles and his production designer Mark Tildesley, they certainly couldn’t fully paint one, because the film production would’ve wrapped before the set’s completion. But there was a clever…

When Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles was first offered the opportunity to direct what would become The Two Popes, he was intrigued by what was presented to him. It was initially a project focused squarely on Pope Francis, an intriguing and divisive figure in South America. But he was caught up directing the…

Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce, arguably two of the greatest actors ever to come out of the British Isles, have surprisingly only worked together once before. The two Welshmen collaborated on a special one-night production of Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood in the presence of Prince Charles in December 1992. But as…

"When we went to the Sistine chapel, it is a spectacular piece. And now, it’s been cleaned from the hundreds of years of candle burning. It’s super bright and vivid, and that’s something that I hope you see in the film. We wanted to recreate that spectacular feeling of how it must’ve been to walk in there for the…

While another Netflix release, The Irishman, has been dominating the awards conversation, Fernando Meirelles' The Two Popes — another story drawn from real life — has enjoyed a healthy life on the festival circuit after making its debut at Telluride. Starring Jonathan Pryce and Anthony Hopkins, the film eavesdrops on…

Netflix signaled that they had no intention of slowing their investment in top-tier talent in the final panel of The Contenders – London, which featured four of the festival season's most popular attractions. In the first panel, Andreas Wiseman spoke to director David Michôd and composer Nicholas Britell about The Kin…

Writer Anthony McCarten became so fascinated by the idea of two popes living simultaneously that he devoted himself to the research to realize a movie that would imagine a conversation between both men before the first, Pope Benedict, resigned his post. With Pope Francis now the Bishop of Rome, we are living through…