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This morning, 12-year-old German actress Helena Zengel earned her first Golden Globe nomination for her turn opposite Tom Hanks in Western, News of the World. With this recognition for her American film debut, she becomes one of the youngest actors ever nominated by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, and finds…

EXCLUSIVE: When Oscar-nominated director Paul Greengrass began working on News of the World, he said he set out to create a family movie with purpose and edge. However, he didn’t expect the film’s touching on pandemics and a politically divided country to strike such a chord with current events. “It was sort of eerie…

Though it tells a story set 150 years in the past, the Paul Greengrass-directed News of the World re-teams the filmmaker with his Captain Phillips star Tom Hanks in an Old West tale from Universal Pictures about a country trying to heal. Hanks plays Capt. Jefferson Kyle Kidd, a beaten-down Confederate soldier who…

 WHO Helena Zengel Age: 12 Hometown: Berlin  WHAT After winning the German Film Award for Best Leading Actress with 2019's System Crasher, Helena Zengel made her American film debut alongside Tom Hanks in News of the World. To star opposite Hanks, who plays Captain Jefferson Kidd, a war veteran widower traveling…

The United States is anything but united. The country has gone through a disastrous event that has left 600,000 dead. Half of America has lost the battle and still does not want to accept the outcome. America is more divided that it has ever been, and fake news — or what people want to believe — is rampant. Distrust…

EXCLUSIVE: CAA has signed Helena Zengel, who will next be seen in Paul Greengrass' News of the World starring opposite Tom Hanks. She garnered critical acclaim for her performance in System Crasher and won Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role at the German Film Awards, becoming the youngest actress in…

Paul Greengrass’ News of the World has found its child lead in 11-year-old German actress Helena Zengel. Zengel will play the young girl who is escorted by Tom Hanks’ Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd to her aunt and uncle in San Antonio after she’s rescued from the Kiowa Indian tribe who kidnapped her and killed her family…