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I have just spent a week at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. I saw no sunlight from Monday at around noon to Thursday, but I did see some movies — or at least part of them. It was, of course CinemaCon week, or as I like to call it, “the unofficial start to Oscar…

Sony Motion Pictures Chairman and CEO Tom Rothman introduced a sequence from Ridley Scott’s Apple TV+ movie, Napoleon at CinemaCon tonight. Apple’s continued foray into theatrical was a big get for Sony, which is distributing the movie. Related Story Sony Pictures Launches CinemaCon…

Apple Original Films has partnered with Sony Pictures Entertainment and set a November 22 worldwide theatrical release launch for Napoleon, the historical action epic directed by Ridley Scott that stars Joaquin Phoenix as French conqueror Napoleon Bonaparte and Vanessa Kirby as Empress Josephine. After…

One of Stanley Kubrick's lost projects, a large-scale biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, has been in the works for HBO for the last seven years. Steven Spielberg, who has been involved for at least ten years, now says he is "mounting a big production" and the project will become a seven-part series for…

Ridley Scott and his executive producer Aidan Elliott were in Rome working on House of Gucci when the two were discussing locations for Scott's upcoming historical epic Napoleon for Apple when the director thought Malta, where he'd famously filmed Gladiator, would make for a great location for a beginning…

Malta has a rich history as a filming location with directors such as Ridley Scott, Paul Greengrass, Ron Howard, Steven Spielberg and Oliver Stone all having shot big budget projects in the country across the last two decades. During this time, productions have been attracted by the country's epic…

EXCLUSIVE: BAFTA Award-nominee Tahar Rahim is set to co-star alongside Academy Award-winner Joaquin Phoenix and Academy Award-nominee Vanessa Kirby in Napoleon, the latest film from esteemed director Ridley Scott, who is directing. Currently in production, the pic is based on the script by David Scarpa and will star…

Kung Fu Panda writers Ethan Reiff and Cyrus Voris have teamed with The Wire and House of Cards director Agnieszka Holland on a series about Napoleon that will be offered to TV buyers at the Berlin Film Festival. The show is the most high-profile drama to be presented as part of the Berlinale's Co-Pro Series 2019…