One day away from one of the world’s most prestigious film festival, the 74th edition of the Venice film festival will take place from Wednesday August 30 to September 9. Known for driving its films onto the Oscar race every single year, Venice has premiered major winners such as Gravity, Birdman, Spotlight, Hacksaw Ridge and La La Land. […]
Known for being the ultimate launching pad for award season contenders, the 74th edition of the International Venice Festival will open with Alexander Payne‘s Downsizing starring Matt Damon. In the past, the Festival has launched Oscar winners Birdman in 2014, Gravity in 2013 and the latest La La Land just last year! Downsizing follows a therapist, played[…]
A couple of weeks ago, the news broke that Zoysia Mamet will take on the role of Patti Smith in the much anticipated Mapplethrope biopic, written and directed by Ondi Timoner. Due to scheduling conflict, she has now been replaced by relatively new comer Marianne Rendón, known for her TV role in Imposters. Timoner‘s project seems on the[…]
Xavier Dolan may be only 28 but he has already been twice at Cannes, directed 6 features, acted in more than 15 projects and won the special Jury Prize at Cannes in 2016 for It’s Only the End of the World starring Marion Cotillard and Léa Seydoux. The multifaceted Canadian is now preparing for the release of his[…]
Part of the Steven Spielberg Science fiction family, Robert Zemeckis is back with a new project and he is bringing in both Steve Carell and Diane Kruger! The Back to the Future and Forrest Gump director will be adapting Jeff Malmberg‘s 2010 documentary Marwencol which won the documentary awards from the Boston Society of Film Critics and the SXSW[…]