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EXCLUSIVE: Keeping intact its long relationship with filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar, Sony Pictures Classics has acquired The Human Voice, the 30-minute short film that stars Tilda Swinton that will be unveiled during the New York Film Festival. It’s an adaptation of the Jean Cocteau play La voix humaine. In the short, a…

Pedro Almodovar and Tilda Swinton heated things up at the Venice Film Festival this afternoon, speaking to the press after the screening of the Spanish maestro's first English-langauge project, The Human Voice. "Freely" based on the 1930 Jean Cocteau play, the 30-minute movie was shot after the coronavirus lockdown…

After a day of early press screenings and conferences, the Venice Film Festival officially was declared open this evening by the directors of several major European fests including Venice's own Alberto Barbera and Cannes' Thierry Frémaux. But before they got to the stage of the Sala Grande, there was plenty to remark…

With a filmography that includes satirical high points such as Veep, In the Loop, The Death of Stalin and The Thick of It, you might not have guessed that a Charles Dickens adaptation would be front and center for writer-director Armando Iannucci, but The Personal History of David Copperfield is an inspired choice…

Oscar winner Guillermo del Toro's stop-motion animated musical movie Pinocchio for Netflix has set its cast with newcomer Gregory Mann in the title role, Ewan McGregor as Cricket and David Bradley (Harry Potter franchise, Game of Thrones) as Geppetto. Other cast includes Oscar winners Tilda Swinton, Christoph Waltz…

Filmmaker Ann Hui and actress Tilda Swinton are each to receive the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 77th Venice International Film Festival (2 September – 12 September, 2020). The decision was made by the Board of Directors of the Biennale di Venezia upon the recommendation of Venice Film Festival…

Sunac Culture has pre-bought Chinese distribution rights to George Miller's anticipated fantasy-romance Three Thousand Years Of Longing. Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton are due to star in the feature, which was meant to start production in March but was pushed back by the pandemic. The movie is expected to shoot in…

EXCLUSIVE: MGM has landed another major project, acquiring North American rights to the George Miller-directed Three Thousand Years of Longing, starring Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton. Miller wrote the script and is producing with Doug Mitchell. Said Miller: "This film has been simmering in the back of my mind for some…

Tilda Swinton will receive a British Film Institute (BFI) Fellowship this year, joining the likes of Martin Scorsese and Akira Kurosawa, in recognition of her "her great contribution to film culture, independent film exhibition and philanthropy". Swinton will be awarded the prize at the BFI Chair's annual dinner…

EXCLUSIVE: George Miller has gotten his green light and a March production start in Australia on Three Thousand Years of Longing, with Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton now locked to star. That Miller is making this film isn't a surprise: independent distributors rarely get a shot at a big-ticket film from a commercially…

Neon has nabbed North American rights to Memoria, the Tilda Swinton-starring Colombian drama from Palme d'Or-winning director Apichatpong Weerasethakul. The secretive project stars Swinton, Jeanne Balibar, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Juan Pablo Urrego and Elkin Diaz. Plot details are being kept under wraps, but it is set in…

EXCLUSIVE: Fox Searchlight has preemptively acquired North American rights to The Personal History of David Copperfield, the Armando Iannucci-directed drama that makes its world premiere next month at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 5, to be followed by its European premiere as the opening film of…