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Blue Moon (Crai Nou) by Romanian director Alina Grigore won the Golden Shell at the 69th San Sebastian Film Festival whose top awards were swept by female filmmakers and actors. For the first time, the film festival a gender neutral acting award. The Best Leading Performance prize was shared. Jessica Chastain was…

Kenneth Branagh’s semi-autobiographical, black-and-white drama Belfast claimed the TIFF People’s Choice Award on Saturday night, affirming its status as a major player to contend with in the 2022 Oscars race. Jessica Chastain (The Eyes of Tammy Faye) and Benedict Cumberbatch (The Power of the Dog, The Electrical Life o…

For John Michael McDonagh's film adaption of The Forgiven, it was important to highlight the main themes of the Lawrence Osborne novel. "It's about the blindness, and the privilege, and the things you're not seeing," he says. Jessica Chastain and Ralph Fiennes star as Jo and David, a wealthy couple on the verge of…

When Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato made their memorable 2000 documentary The Eyes of Tammy Faye, the title was meant to go far beyond perhaps the surface image of a woman known for wearing way too much eye mascara and being great fodder for drag queens everywhere. It was a surprisingly affectionate account of the…

Watching the intriguing and unpredictable adult drama The Forgiven, which takes place right in the heart of the High Atlas mountains in Morocco, I couldn’t help but think that if the 2012 book on which it is based were around a few decades earlier this would be the kind of movie Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor…

She climbs into bed, with body language telling a story. Before she can speak, he asks, “What is it?” So opens the first full trailer for Scenes from a Marriage, HBO’s limited series starring Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain that will premiere on Sunday, September 12. Check it out above. Adapted from Ingmar Bergman's…

Praise the Lord, Seachlight Pictures has dropped the first full trailer for The Eyes of Tammy Faye. Jessica Chastain and Andrew Garfield star in the film about the rise, fall and redemption of televangelist Tammy Bakker. In the 1970s and 80s, Tammy Faye and her husband, Jim Bakker, played by Garfield, rose from humble…

Update: Simon Kinberg’s femme action feature The 355 is no longer being released over MLK 2022, rather a week earlier, on Jan. 7. The only title slotted there on Jan. 7 is an untitled 20th Century Studios feature according to Comscore’s latest release calendar. If Disney decides not to fill that slot, that makes The 35…

EXCLUSIVE: Sylvie’s Love star Nnamdi Asomugha is joining Jessica Chastain and Eddie Redmayne in Netflix’s anticipated serial killer thriller The Good Nurse, we can reveal. We understand the shoot is being lined up for mid-April on the East Coast. Based on the book by Charles Graeber and scripted by 1917 scribe Krysty…

EXCLUSIVE: HBO's Scenes From A Marriage, the adaptation of Ingmar Bergman's classic miniseries starring Jessica Chastain and Oscar Isaac, is the latest high-profile project to shut down production as a result of Covid-19. Deadline understands that production on the limited series has been halted for two weeks after…

EXCLUSIVE: Euro financier Anton is launching sales on buzzy AFM package Mothers’ Instinct, which will star Oscar-nominee Jessica Chastain and Oscar-winner Anne Hathaway as 1960’s housewives whose relationship takes a dark turn. The psychological thriller will follow best friends and neighbors Alice (Chastain) and…

EXCLUSIVE: Jessica Chastain will reunite with Oscar Isaac to star in Scenes From A Marriage, the HBO limited series adaptation of Ingmar Bergman’s miniseries. Deal came together after Michelle Williams exited the lead female role over scheduling issues. Limited series comes from Our Boys and The Affair co-creator Hagai…