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George Miller told press today in Cannes that his new film 3000 Years of Longing is a fantasy story that is "open to interpretation." Five years after Mad Max: Fury Road, Miller has brought a very different kind of film to Cannes, where he enjoyed a standing ovation following the screening last night on the…

When ranging out of Mad Max territory, George Miller's films are highly diverse and unpredictable in nature, and never has this proved more the case than with his time-traveling, narratively far-ranging new drama, Three Thousand Years of Longing. In this Cannes Film Festival out-of-competition entry, the director…

“My name is Alithea. My story is true.” That’s the first thing we hear in the wild new trailer for Three Thousand Years of Longing, Mad Max filmmaker George Miller’s fantasy romantic drama that was 20 years in the making. Check out the clip above and the key art below. Written by Miller and Augusta Gore based on an…

EXCLUSIVE: George Miller is distracted. Five minutes into our meeting, he begs forgiveness to take a quick call. And then, on an iPad tilted in his direction, the filmmaker watches as a camera feed from the Australian outback offers him a live view of a pre-shoot for his next feature, Furiosa. His supervising stunt…

We are hearing that the George Miller MGM-Film Nation movie Three Thousand Years Of Longing starring Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton will make its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. The fantasy drama romance, set in Istanbul, centers around a scholar and a djinn who offers her three wishes in exchange for his…

The wheels have been greased on the hotly-anticipated Mad Max spin-off Furiosa, which is set to star Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth. A press conference with director George Miller and Hemsworth in attendance took place in Australian state New South Wales today to confirm that the spin-off is preparing to film in…

EXCLUSIVE: More than two years after it was announced and after a couple of delays, George Miller’s anticipated fantasy-romance-drama Three Thousand Years Of Longing is now underway in Australia, we can reveal. The Sydney-based production, which is observing numerous on-set Covid safety protocols, is in fact 20 days…

George Miller told Deadline about Furiosa having a deep backstory in the Mad Max universe, and now we’ll finally get to see it: Warner Bros. is in advanced development with Furiosa, a spinoff feature of Miller’s multi-Oscar winning blockbuster Mad Max: Fury Road about the renegade character (played in that film by…

EXCLUSIVE: MGM has landed another major project, acquiring North American rights to the George Miller-directed Three Thousand Years of Longing, starring Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton. Miller wrote the script and is producing with Doug Mitchell. Said Miller: "This film has been simmering in the back of my mind for some…

EXCLUSIVE: George Miller has gotten his green light and a March production start in Australia on Three Thousand Years of Longing, with Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton now locked to star. That Miller is making this film isn't a surprise: independent distributors rarely get a shot at a big-ticket film from a commercially…

EXCLUSIVE: George Miller’s buzzed-about Three Thousand Years Of Longing has scored a near-sellout for FilmNation here at the AFM. In addition to the big deals secured earlier in the market for France and Italy, FilmNation has now finalized key deals for Latin America (IDC), Spain (DeA Planeta and Tri Pictures), CIS…

EXCLUSIVE: Three days into the AFM and buyers are pressing go on George Miller’s Three Thousand Years Of Longing. I understand multi-million dollar deals have closed in France with Metropolitan and in Italy with Eagle following competitive bidding late into the night. These are the first known multi-million dollar…