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It is not much of a spoiler to note that it is Zendaya who has the last word in director Denis Villeneuve’s sweeping and spectacular new film version of Dune, which just had its world premiere Friday at the Venice Film Festival. “This is only the beginning,” says her dreamlike fierce fighter Chani. And for…

Warner Bros on Monday released a series of character posters from Dune, its upcoming sci-fi tentpole directed by Denis Villeneuve. The pic, an update of Frank Herbert’s novel which was turned in into a 1984 movie by David Lynch, is set to have its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival in September before it hits…

Norwegian director Maria Sodhal made her first feature, Limbo, a decade ago and her second makes the reason for the long time gap dramatically clear: She developed lung cancer, which then metastasized and spread to her brain, a virtual death sentence. But she fought back and lived to make a film about it, the closely…

Norway has selected Maria Sodhal's Hope as its submission to the International Feature Film Oscar race. The drama world premiered in the Discovery section of the 2019 Toronto Film Festival and was screened in Panorama at Berlin this year. There, it took the Europa Cinemas Label Award and earlier this week garnered two…

Mamma Mia actor Stellan Skarsgard and 101 Dalmatian Street’s Kyle Soller are in final talks to board the next Disney+ Star Wars series Rogue One based off the $1 billion-grossing 2016 feature prequel that starred Diego Luna as rebel Cassian Andor. Rogue One’s pilot will be written by Tony Gilroy, who co-wrote and did…

Terminal illness was a theme that cast a long shadow over this year's TIFF, but Maria Sødahl's film Hope came at the subject from a rather different perspective—from the Swedish director's own experience, in fact, when she was diagnosed with brain cancer several years ago. Nevertheless, the film is not in any way a…

Norway has selected Hans Petter Moland’s drama Out Stealing Horses to represent it in the Best International Feature Film category at the 92nd Oscars. Adapted from the award-winning bestseller by Per Pettersen, the film stars Stellan Skarsgard as a grieving widower who moves to the countryside where a chance encounter…

As Craig Mazin focused on the human drama of the meltdown at Chernobyl, so he alighted on one relationship that came together in the clean-up operation, which would speak volumes to the complications of the Soviet system and the efforts of those embroiled in its politics to work within it. Boris Shcherbina was a…

Craig Mazin's five-part adaptation of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986 begins with Jared Harris's Valery Legasov taking his own life. It is, says Harris, the inciting mystery in a story that will examine both the human cost of the event, and the social and political fallout. Freshly wrapped on HBO, the series…

EXCLUSIVE: There's a lot of anecdotes about what a global sensation Chernobyl has become for HBO, but like the fallout from the horrific nuclear plant eruption of 1986, it is the numbers that tell the real story. And unlike the initially suppressed devastation that still leaves parts of Ukraine soaked in radiation…

While HBO's Chernobyl is as dark and challenging as television dramas come, the series' stars saw it as an opportunity to learn. A five-part miniseries created by Craig Mazin and directed by Johan Renck, the show centers on an infamous explosion, which rocked a Soviet power plant in 1986, killing many, while exposing…

Josh Brolin has joined the epic cast for the Denis Villeneuve-directed film adaptation of Frank Herbert's bestselling novel Dune. Legendary has assembled a lineup of Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Dave Bautista, Stellan Skarsgård, Charlotte Rampling and Javier Bardem. The script was written by Villeneuve, Eric…