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EXCLUSIVE: CAA has signed Jojo Rabbit star Archie Yates. Yates earned a Critics' Choice Award nomination for his portrayal of Yorki in the Taika Waititi-directed Jojo Rabbit. He is currently shooting the lead role in the Disney+ reboot of the Home Alone franchise, directed by Dan Mazer. Yates recently voiced the lead…

EXCLUSIVE: Chelsea Winstanley, the Oscar nominated producer of Jojo Rabbit and What We Do In The Shadows, has arrived back in her native New Zealand to begin filming on feature documentary Toi Tu Toi Ora – Visual Sovereignty. The pic will follow the final year of preparation for the first international showing of…

Early on in the Oscars telecast, Steve Martin and Chris Rock took the stage at the hostless ceremony and started riffing on a melange of topics. After spending a bit of time taking some playful jabs at Amazon’s Jeff Bezos who was in the audience, they pivoted towards the topic of diversity this year. “Chris, I thought…

As the WGA looks to meet up with the AMPTP over some serious demands, we asked Adapted Screenplay Jojo Rabbit Oscar winner Taika Waititi tonight what his thoughts were on what writers should be asking for in the next round of talks. After telling us quite seriously at the WGAE Awards last weekend, where he also won…

This is really great and I dedicate this to all the indigenous kids who live in the world who want to do art, and dance, and write stories," said Jojo Rabbit's Taika Waititi tonight at the 92nd Academy Awards upon winning the Best Adapted Screenplay. "We are the original storytellers and we can make it here as well,"…

The WGA Awards boosted a pair of movie screenplays into Oscar frontrunner status on Saturday night, handing its marquee Original Screenplay award to Bong Joon Ho and Han Jin Won for Neon’s Parasite, and its Adapted Screenplay award to Taika Wiatiti for Searchlight’s Jojo Rabbit. Both of the winning scripts are…

Sony’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Netflix’s Marriage Story, Searchlight’s Jojo Rabbit and Lionsgate’s Knives Out were among the film winners as the Casting Society of America handed out its 35th annual Artios Awards for film, TV and at separate ceremonies across two continents. Check out the full list of winners…

On Jojo Rabbit, costume designer Mayes C. Rubeo’s task was to go against the grain. Dodging the drab aesthetics expected of a World War II film, she instead pursued a visual palette that was as poetic as it was realistic. Directed by Taika Waititi, the drama centers on Jojo (Roman Griffin Davis), an avid member of the…

Knives Out, Jojo Rabbit and Maleficent: Mistress of Evil strode away with the film prizes at the 22nd annual Costume Designers Guild Awards, which were handed out tonight at the Beverly Hilton. It was ladies’ night at the CDGAs as seven of the eight winners were female. Mayes C. Rubeo and Searchlight’s Jojo…

Oscar nominations continue to make a difference at the box office, and the box office continues to be important to Oscar contenders. At a time when prestigious, financially risky award bets are often destined to Netflix, nothing beats having that extra exhilaration from great ticket sales, as studios vie to raise the…

EXCLUSIVE: Chelsea Winstanley, producer of Oscar-nominated Jojo Rabbit and festival favourite What We Do In The Shadows, is launching production company This Too Shall Pass. Based in Los Angeles and New Zealand, the new company will focus on telling “authentic stories with unique cultural perspectives” and will act as…

The GKIDS anime feature Weathering with You made its U.S. debut on over 450 screens this weekend, and the forecast was very sunny, as the Makoto Shinkai pic shined with a 3-day weekend estimate of $1,701,195. It is on track for a 4-day weekend estimated gross of $2,007,523. Its two-day preview of fan screenings banked…