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The Michael Caine-produced and -narrated 1960s Britain documentary My Generation received an eight-minute standing ovation when it premiered here at the Venice Film Festival. That's “a long time to stand there,” a bemused Caine told me when we chatted afterward. Opening-night jitters meant he'd been concerned that the…

Studiocanal is now set to fully finance Night In Hatton Garden, the drama that James Marsh is directing. The film is set to begin production next week, and the cast is now set: Michael Caine, Tom Courtenay, Ray Winstone, Jim Broadbent, Charlie Cox, Paul Whitehouse, Michael Gambon, and Francesca Annis are starring, and…

In 1979, George Burns, Art Carney and Lee Strasberg starred as retirees who instead of just waiting to die decide to put some excitement into their lives by robbing a bank. That basic idea has been reimagined for a new era in Warner Bros/New Line’s Going In Style with a trio of Oscar winners in Michael Caine, Morgan Fr…

EXCLUSIVE: It looks like Working Title may have found its Diamond Geezers. Michael Caine, Jim Broadbent, Michael Gambon and Ray Winstone are in talks to play the unlikely gang of elderly London robbers who pulled off the bold Hatton Garden jewelry heist of 2015 in the Brit production powerhouse's upcoming caper…

“Let’s go get our money back.” From Warner Bros’ newly released trailer to the upcoming New Line/Village Roadshow heist comedy Going In Style, which stars Oscar winners Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, and Alan Arkin as retirees on a mission for justice. “These banks practically destroyed this country and nothing ever…

Michael Caine, Bill Nighy and Matthew Goode are set to star in family action adventure pic Four Kids And It. Andy De Emmony is directing the project that's based on Jacqueline Wilson's novel Four Children And It (itself based on the 1902 E. Nesbit book Five Children And It). Simon Lewis adapted for the screen. World…

Youth is Italian director-writer Paolo Sorrentino’s European Film Award-winning follow-up to his 2013 Foreign-Language Oscar winner The Great Beauty. The new film opened December 4 and stars Michael Caine and Harvey Keitel as two friends on holiday in the Swiss Alps. Caine plays Fred, an acclaimed composer and…

2ND UPDATE, WRITETHRU: In a ceremony marked by calls for freedom of speech, democracy and a united Europe, prizes were spread out amongst various countries at tonight’s European Film Awards in Berlin, including Greece, France, Sweden and Ireland. The top winners, however, hailed from Italy and England. Paolo Sorrentino…

Youth, Oscar winning director Paolo Sorrentino’s lilting rumination on aging – and other things – begins its theatrical run through distributor Fox Searchlight today in LA and NY exclusive engagements. The film, which was first seen as part of the main competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival in May, has won…

A host of British filmmaking talent have spoken out in support of Syrian refugees in the wake of the escalating human tragedy caused by the ongoing conflict in Syria. Keira Knightley, Jude Law, Michael Caine, Colin Firth and Benedict Cumberbatch have all lent their voices to a campaign criticising the UK government…

Paolo Sorrentino's follow-up to Oscar-winning The Great Beauty got a killer standing ovation in competition in Cannes and was quickly snapped up by Fox Searchlight, which has set a December 4 U.S. bow. The trailer for Youth that dropped today shows what all that French fuss was about: The pic follows Fred (Michael Cain…

“This is my idea of what older people dwell on later in life,” Italian director Paolo Sorrentino told Deadline today about his latest film Youth, a title much like his Oscar-winning The Great Beauty that centers around accomplished men’s reflection on ‘what could have been’, but against a colorful, absurdist…