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The Deadline Studio at Sundance Film Festival runs January 20-23 at Hotel Park City, where the cast and creatives behind the best and buzziest titles in this year’s lineup sit down with Deadline’s festival team to discuss their movies and the paths they took to get to Park City. L’IMMENSITÀ Secti…

Falling somewhere between Ken Loach's most recent films about poverty (Sorry, We Missed You; I, Daniel Blake) and a telenovela, On the Fringe, Juan Diego Botto's debut as a director, sets out to give a snapshot of Spain's eviction crisis. An end-title tells us that around a hundred households are evicted every day in…

Even before the title flashes up for Venice Film Festival competition entry L'Immensita, we know that Penelope Cruz is the most fun mom – most likely the only fun mom – in town. She doesn't just set the table for dinner; she puts on music, leads the kids in a choreographed dance and singalong as they pass plates and…

Emanuele Crialese put in a buoyant performance at the Venice Film Festival Sunday, during which he discussed how his identity informed his Golden Lion contender L'immensità. "The inspiration was my childhood and my story that is being transposed and reinterpreted," Crialese said of the flick. "I tried to find the good…

EXCLUSIVE: Penélope Cruz is a vulnerable yet determined supermarket worker in this first look clip from On The Fringe, Juan Diego Botto debut feature set to debut at Venice. Co-written and directed by Botto, the film follows three intertwined characters who are trying to keep it together and get through 24 vital hours…

Penélope Cruz and Spanish outfit The Mediapro Studio are teaming up to launch production label Moonlyon. The company will produce premium non-fiction and dramatic content, the two parties said in a release, and will allow Cruz to increase her output behind the camera. One of the most recognisable names in Spanish…

Winning her fourth Oscar nomination this year, Penélope Cruz continues to break her own records. The Spanish star was previously nominated for Best Supporting Actress in Nine, and won the Oscar in that category for Vicky Christina Barcelona. Her previous Best Actress nomination came for Pedro Almodóvar’s Volver, and…

The Santa Barbara Film Festival said Thursday that newly minted Oscar nominee Penélope Cruz has been chosen to receive the Montecito Award at the festival’s 37th edition next month. The honor will be bestowed during a ceremony March 8 that will include an in-person conversation with Cruz, who was nominated last week…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s your first look at Oscar winner Penelope Cruz in Italian drama L’immensita, which is in post-production. Emanuele Crialese’s film is set in 1970’s Rome. The Borghetti family has just moved into one of the many freshly-built apartment blocks in the city. Despite the beautiful, sweeping views of the…

EXCLUSIVE: Heat director Michael Mann is getting closer to the start line on his passion project Ferrari thanks to some strong new cast and a big domestic deal with STX. We can reveal that Oscar nominee Adam Driver, Oscar winner Penélope Cruz and Emmy nominee Shailene Woodley are newly aboard for the big-budget…

Javier Bardem and his wife Penelope Cruz were both nominated for Academy Awards on Tuesday, the former for Best Lead Actor in Amazon’s Being the Ricardos, and the latter for Best Lead Actress for her role in Parallel Mothers. Also nominated for Best Lead Actress is Bardem’s costar Nicole Kidman, for her portrayal of…

In an apparent Oscar first, two real-life couples – Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem, and Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons – received nominations covering all four acting categories. A fifth couple came close to a similar duo-nom in two music categories, but although both Beyoncé and Jay-Z were short-listed for…