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Netflix on Thursday said it has acquired most worldwide rights to The Power of the Dog, the next movie from writer-director Jane Campion and which stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Elisabeth Moss. The movie, from See-Saw Films and based on Thomas Savage's 1967 novel, was one of the buzz titles at the Cannes film market…

Emmy-winning The Handmaid's Tale star Elisabeth Moss and Avengers: Endgame’s Benedict Cumberbatch are in place to star in a film adaptation of Thomas Savage's 1967 novel The Power of the Dog from helmer Jane Campion. The project will be presented to buyers at Cannes via Cross City Films. The story follows wealthy…

From Dear White People and Sorry to Bother You star Tessa Thompson, Oscar winning director Damien Chazelle, Palme d'Or winner and Top of the Lake director Jane Campion, there are a lot of Sundance alums named today as jurors for the 112-film festival kicking off next week. As well as who will decided the victors in the…

On the eve of the Cannes Film Festival, one of the most influential fixtures on the international film circuit has died. Pierre Rissient, a critic, programmer, distributor, press attaché, assistant director, director and talent advocate, passed away overnight last night. He was 81. Bertrand Tavernier announced the…

The Piano and Top Of The Lake filmmaker Jane Campion has said the sexual harassment scandal in Hollywood has made it a "fairytale" time to be a woman in the entertainment business. Speaking at the Screen Production and Development Association Conference in Wellington, New Zealand, Campion said, “Women are being…

Elisabeth Moss and Nicole Kidman are both up for Emmys this year, but based on their performances in Top Of The Lake: China Girl, they should be considered major contenders for 2018 awards too. As I say in my video review above, both Moss –who won an Golden Globe for her role in the first Top Of The Lake installment…

It’d have been hard to guess, going into Cannes, that by far the most entertaining of my Croisette interviews would be with Jane Campion, and her Top of the Lake: China Girl cast. After all, the first season of Top of the Lake was dark, following Elisabeth Moss’s Robin Griffin, a tortured detective investigating the…

The Cannes Film Festival held its 70th anniversary family portrait session this afternoon, with more than 100 veterans of the event posing for cameras. Prizewinners and jury members numbering 115 in total gathered outside the Palais for the snap above. The photo session was held amid the aftermath of the devastating at…

Jane Campion and Gerard Lee's Top Of The Lake can now boast two film festival firsts. When Season 1 debuted in March 2013, telling the story of detective Robin Griffin and her investigation into the disappearance of a young girl in New Zealand, it became the first TV miniseries ever screened at Sundance. Critical and…

“Can you help me?” Words delivered in a whimpering voice on the telephone that no parent wants to hear their child speak — especially the daughter she gave up for adoption and is trying to reconnect with. Here is the first trailer for Top of the Lake: China Girl, the limited-series second season of the SundanceTV…

The Best Picture blunder wasn't the only gaffe at the Academy Awards ceremony last night: During the show's In Memoriam segment, a photo of a living woman mistakenly was used to represent Janet Patterson, four-time Oscar nominee for costume design, who died in October. During the montage, Australian producer Jan…

Janet Patterson, a costume designer who worked on several Jane Campion films and amassed four Oscar nominations over a 30-year career, has died. Rocco Hindman, head of the agency that repped Patterson, told the Associated Press that she died recently in Australia but did not provide details, including her age. She…