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Timothée Chalamet is eyeing a reunion with “A Complete Unknown” director James Mangold. The duo are set to reunite on another literary adaptation, this time in the fiction space with Jaime Oliveira’s “High Side.” Deadline first reported the project.

Chernin Entertainment is attached as the producer. Paramount won a highly competitive auction for the feature, as Variety reported.

Oliveira’s unpublished short story centers on a former MotoGP racer who enters into a life of crime. The synopsis reads: “Billy is a former MotoGP racer, haunted by a career-ending crash and a family legacy of abandonment, is drawn back into the world of high-speed risks and extreme danger. His estranged brother, already being pursued by the FBI, recruits him for a series of bank robberies on superbikes. A gifted motocross rider, Billy walked away from the sport after a devastating accident, and he has been making do caring for...

Australian Film Television And Radio School

Australia

Aftrs counts a who’s who of regional cinema among its alumni — Oscar-winning auteur Jane Campion (The Piano) and Hollywood director Phillip Noyce (Patriot Games) are grads — and offers industry-driven programs covering every aspect of filmmaking. Its On Country Pathways Program trains emerging First Nations creators in remote communities.

Beijing Film Academy

China

The academy grants bachelor’s, master’s and even Ph.D. degrees in film, and virtually every major Chinese filmmaker has passed through its halls, including Zhang Yimou (Raise the Red Lantern) and Chen Kaige (Farewell My Concubine).

Ecam

Spain

Spain is one of the few regions that can boast of a production boom — Netflix has invested heavily in the country — and Madrid-based Ecam has been one of the main beneficiaries. Their school-to-studio pipeline is exemplified by Goya-winning director-writer team Rodrigo Sorogoyen and Isabel Peña, who met at Ecam and...

Stellan Skarsgård will receive the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo at the 31st Sarajevo Film Festival in recognition of his contribution to the film industry and his acting career.

Skarsgård created headlines around the world recently when he shared his views on Ingmar Bergman. Speaking at Karlovy Vary Film Festival, he said: “Bergman was manipulative. He was a Nazi during the war and the only person I know who cried when Hitler died.”

Sarajevo Film Festival chief Jovan Marjanović described Skarsgård as “an actor of remarkable depth, strength, and integrity,” and a longtime friend of Sarajevo. He added: “His career is filled with unforgettable roles in films that challenge, move, and stay with audiences. This award is a heartfelt thank you for his outstanding contribution to cinema and for the continued support he has shown to our festival.”

Skarsgård said the festival “remains unwavering and driven in its aim to highlight subjects of great consequence,...

Swedish acting star Stellan Skarsgård will be feted with the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo at the festival’s 31st edition in August.

The actor is a longtime friend of the festival, as well as a curator and one of the patrons of the Katrin Cartlidge Foundation – the scholarships of which were awarded at the Sarajevo Film Festival – and presented the foundation’s scholarship to Juanita Wilson at the festival’s 15th edition in 2009.

“The Sarajevo Film Festival remains unwavering and driven in its aim to highlight subjects of great consequence, underscored by an intense lust for life. I love going there”, said Skarsgård.

The actor follows in the wake of past celebrated Sarajevo honorees who include Meg Ryan, Alexander Payne, Lynne Ramsay, Charlie Kaufman, Jesse Eisenberg, Ruben Östlund, Mads Mikkelsen and Angelina Jolie.

“It is a true honor to present the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo to Stellan Skarsgård, an actor of remarkable depth,...

Abraham’s gorgeous villainy as the bland court composer eclipsed by Tom Hulce’s nitrogen-voiced genius Mozart is a treat

The pure gorgeous villainy of F Murray Abraham once again floods the screen, as saturnine and sulphurous as ever, in this new rerelease of Amadeus in its original 1984 theatrical cut. It was adapted by Peter Shaffer from his stage-play about the two real-life composers, one a genius, one a nonentity (itself a theme-variation from Pushkin’s 1830 drama Mozart and Salieri), and directed by the great Czech film-maker Miloš Forman – his English-language masterpiece, or maybe his masterpiece full stop. Abraham was in his mid-40s when he played this Oscar-winning role; when I first saw it, I thought he would surely dominate the movies for decades to come, no doubt in classical adaptations in which he would be a superlative Iago or Faustus. For some reason, he never again got a starring role to match this,...

Exclusive: Elizabeth McGovern is fired up when she talks about sensuous silver screen goddess Ava Gardner, whom the Downton Abbey star portrays in a stage show that hits New York next week. Gardner, she argues, endured the “objectification of the female body, which is the basis of the entire movie business.”

Being a movie star in the 1940s, 1950s and into the ’60s took its toll on Gardner, who escaped her mink-lined cage in California to spend her final years in England residing in a grand apartment close to Harrods’ department store.

Ava: The Secret Conversations, beginning at New York’s City Center on July 29, is based on a series of tapes the writer Peter Evans recorded with the one-time screen siren in London over a four-year period beginning in 1988 which he then had published in 2013, more than two decades after Gardner’s death in 1990.

The show moves to Chicago...

Ever since the first Marvel comic book issues were published, we've seen many iconic characters go on countless thrilling adventures through the years, and that won't stop anytime soon. However, history is a bit different when it comes to live-action adaptations. While the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been around for an impressive 17 years and counting, we've already bid our farewells to beloved heroes over this time.

The stories of Iron Man, Black Widow, Steve Rogers, Quicksilver, Phil Coulson, Wanda Maximoff (allegedly), and many more have officially come to an end. However, that list might grow exponentially as we head into the end of the Multiverse Saga. Avengers: Secret Wars will undoubtedly shake the status quo of the MCU forever, and the current generation of heroes will make space for new blood to take over. However, the farewells might've started a little bit earlier than anticipated, as a beloved hero confirmed...

Jack Nicholson’s Oscar-winning cult classic, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, is finally getting a redo, but this time on smaller screens and with a significantly bigger upgrade from the 1975 movie. With the television adaptation will come a chance to finally redeem the one serious fault that the original film has been carrying for all these years.

The Miloš Forman movie, for all its qualities, failed to respect its source novel in a major way. Understandably, that aspect angered the author, Ken Kesey, who got into a financial scuffle with the studio and got himself kicked off the production.

With the television adaptation, there is finally some hope to redeem the storyline following Kesey’s 1962 novel.

Jack Nicholson’s Cult-Classic Gets a TV Series That Honors the Original Novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) [Credit: United Artists]

Released in 1975, Jack Nicholson’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest was celebrated by fans,...

At first glance, Jerry Zucker wouldn't seem like the kind of filmmaker to have a ghost of a chance at crafting a Best Picture-nominated film. But that unlikely event came to pass 35 years ago when the codirector of spoof comedies like Airplane! and The Naked Gun made the supernatural romance Ghost. Released on July 13, 1990, the film went on to become the year's biggest domestic box-office hit and a surprise Oscar powerhouse.

Zucker rose to Hollywood fame as a member of the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker trio that included brother David Zucker and their friend, the late Jim Abrahams. Together, they wrote The Kentucky Fried Movie before helming seminal comedies Airplane! and Top Secret!.

Hot on the heels of their 1986 non-spoof comedy hit Ruthless People, the team locked down a two-year deal with Paramount Pictures. That deal launched with a bang thanks to The Naked Gun, based on their short-lived TV series, Police Squad.

One must be wary of the rating systems on IMDb. As one can see from the website's list of the 250 highest-rated movies (which is selected by its users), IMDb tends to favor ultra-masculine stories centering on criminals, cops, or soldiers. The top-rated film on its list is Frank Darabont's "The Shawshank Redemption," a 1994 drama about prisoners. Next is Francis Ford Coppola's mafia epic "The Godfather," followed by Christopher Nolan's superhero flick "The Dark Knight." Also hovering near the top are films like "Fight Club," "The Matrix," "12 Angry Men," "Pulp Fiction," and "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly." These are all excellent films, mind you, but when clustered together, they reveal something about the taste of the average IMDb user: Crime, violence, and male protagonists all seem to rule the roost. In short, the list is very basic.

To be fair, though, when taken individually, many...

Michael Douglas isn’t necessarily retired, but don’t expect him to be back onscreen anytime soon. The iconic actor/producer said during the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, via Deadline, that he has “no real intentions” of acting again. Douglas’ most recent screen role was in the series “The Kominsky Method.”

“I’ve had a very busy career. Now, I have not worked since 2022, purposefully, because I realized I had to stop,” Douglas said. “I’d been working pretty hard for almost 60 years, and I did not want to be one of those people who dropped dead on the set. I’m very happy with taking the time off. I have no real intentions [to return]. But I say I’m not retired, because if something special came up, I’d go back. But otherwise, I’m quite happy. I just like to watch my wife work.” (Douglas’ wife Catherine Zeta-Jones stars in “Wednesday.

Jack Nicholson may have unofficially retired from acting in 2010, but his legacy lives on thanks to his many classic films. Who can forget his performance in The Shining, or Chinatown, or Easy Rider, or one of the more than 50 other movies he's been in? The man's a true legend. Now, it appears as if one of his Academy Award-winning classics might be coming to the small screen in a new version that will differ significantly from the big-screen adaptation.

Per The Hollywood Reporter, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is in the very early stages of being developed for television by producer Paul Zaentz, who is the son of one of the movie's original producers, Saul Zaentz. He was on hand at the 59th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Czech Republic, screening a newly restored copy of the 1975 Nicholson drama along with the film's other producer, Michael Douglas.

Veteran actor Michael Douglas, who had, back in 1975, produced One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, a film featuring one of the best Oscar-winning actor performances ever, recently appeared at the Karlovy Vary film festival in 2025, to present a newly restored print of the classic Miloš Forman film that turns 50 this year.

At the event, alongside looking back on his best movies and TV shows, Michael Douglas also remarked on how it's highly unusual today for a 50-year-old film to be honored the way One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was honored at Karlovy Vary. Douglas was also asked about his future in the film industry and poignantly addressed his retirement plans:

“I have not worked since 2022 purposefully because I realized I had to stop. I had been working pretty hard for almost 60 years, and I did not want to be one of those people who dropped dead on the set.

Following a nearly 60-year onscreen career, Michael Douglas‘ leading man days might be in the past.

At the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, the 2x Oscar winner recently noted that unless “something special came up” for him to play, he has “no real intentions” of returning to acting in the future.

“I’ve had a very busy career. Now, I have not worked since 2022, purposefully, because I realized I had to stop,” he explained during a press conference.

“I’d been working pretty hard for almost 60 years, and I did not want to be one of those people who dropped dead on the set,” added Douglas. “I’m very happy with taking the time off. I have no real intentions. But I say I’m not retired, because if something special came up, I’d go back. But otherwise, I’m quite happy. I just like to watch my wife work.

When Michael Douglas semi-sprinted on to the stage of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival’s Grand Hall to introduce the Czech premiere of the 50th anniversary screening (a restored print that also played at Cannes in May) of the late Czech American director Miloš Forman’s iconic Academy Award winning film “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” he joyfully took in the applause of the choc-a-block auditorium.

It had been 27 years since he was last at this postcard perfect spa town two hours west of Prague, which is currently hosting the 59th edition of the underrated Central European film festival. Back in 1998, Douglas and the film’s other producer, the late Saul Zaentz were honored with the Crystal Globe, the festival’s highest award.

At the July 5 ceremony, as a heartwarming and funny gesture, Kviff’s Executive Director Kryštof Mucha presented Douglas with an updated Crystal Globe trophy — the...

Exclusive: Producer Paul Zaentz and director Devin Adair are working on a feature adaptation of Luke Barr’s nonfiction book Provence, 1970: M.F.K Fisher, Julia Child, James Beard, And The Reinvention Of American Taste.

Adair is writing a script for the film. Set in Provence, France, during Christmas in 1970, the 2013 book follows a gathering between six acclaimed culinary figures, who cooked, ate, argued, and talked about the future of food in the US, the meaning of taste, and the limits of snobbery.

“It’ll be a small dinner movie like My Dinner With Andre or Babette’s Feast,” Zaentz told Screen...

Michael Douglas says he’s finished with acting, at least for now, and he’s also seriously worried about the future of the United States. While speaking at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival in the Czech Republic, the Oscar-winning actor made it clear: he’s stepping back from Hollywood and losing faith in American politics.

Douglas, who was in town to present a newly restored version of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, opened up about why he hasn’t taken on any acting work recently.

“I have not worked since 2022 purposefully because I realized I had to stop,” he told reporters at a press conference, according to Variety. “I had been working pretty hard for almost 60 years, and I did not want to be one of those people who dropped dead on the set.”

He explained that he’s not fully retired, but it would take something extraordinary to...

Michael Douglas isn’t planning to return to acting anytime soon. In fact, he says he’s pretty much done—unless something very special comes along. Speaking at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival in the Czech Republic, Douglas opened up about his career, his health, and what he thinks of the current state of U.S. politics.

“I have not worked since 2022 purposefully because I realized I had to stop,” Douglas said at a press conference. “I had been working pretty hard for almost 60 years, and I did not want to be one of those people who dropped dead on the set. I have no real intentions of going back. I say I’m not retired because if something special came up, I’d go back, but otherwise, no.”

He added that he does have “one little independent movie” in the works, but right now, he’s happy focusing on his family.

Miloš Forman's critically acclaimed biographical film Amadeus has found a new streaming home. The 1984 Best Picture winner at the Academy Awards starts streaming for free this month on Tubi. Other titles set to be added to Tubi's library include Oscar winners like Forrest Gump, Pulp Fiction, Titanic, and Thelma & Louise.

The musical biopic was adapted by writer Peter Shaffer, who had already tackled the subject for his stage play in the late '70s. He was inspired by the 1830 stage play Mozart and Salieri by Russian playwright Alexander Pushkin. Amadeus follows Antonio Salieri's frequently debated contempt for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as the young musical prodigy revolutionized the musical scene in Vienna in the mid-1700s. Per the Rotten Tomatoes synopsis of the film:

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Hulce) is a remarkably talented young Viennese composer who unwittingly finds a fierce rival in the disciplined and determined Antonio Salieri...

The Oscar-winning Milos Forman-directed movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, starring Jack Nicholson, could get the television treatment.

Producer Paul Zaentz, the nephew of the Hollywood classic’s original producer Saul Zaentz, mentioned plans for a series during a press conference at the 59th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Kviff), in which he appeared with Cuckoo’s Nest producer and Hollywood legend Michael Douglas. The two traveled to the Czech spa town to present a newly restored version of the 1975 classic as it celebrates its 50th anniversary this year.

The movie is based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Ken Kesey about a new patient at a mental institution. Louise Fletcher portrays the domineering head nurse Ratched.

“Over the last 50 years, there have been hundreds of calls from studios, directors and producers who want to remake the movie, and we would never allow...

When it comes to Hollywood dynasties, Michael Douglas is part of one that stretches all the way back to some of the earliest motion pictures. Now, it looks like it could be coming to a close as the actor revealed that although he will not say he has retired from the business, his recent battle with cancer has made him reassess his future in the industry.

Douglas appeared at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival where a restored print of Miloš Forman’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest was being shown. Although the press conference that accompanied the screening was mostly focused on the movie itself, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, Douglas took a moment to talk about his recent cancer treatment, and all but revealed that he will not be returning to acting unless “something special came up.” Douglas said:

“Stage 4 cancer is not a holiday, but there aren’t many choices,...

Michael Douglas, who is at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival to present a newly restored print of Miloš Forman’s classic “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” spoke at the festival about producing the classic and his fears for democracy in the U.S. under the Trump administration. When asked at a press conference about the state of politics in his home country, the Oscar-winner said the nation is currently “flirting with autocracy.”

“I look at it generally as the fact of how precious democracy is, of how vulnerable it is and how it always has to be protected,” he added. “I hope that what we’re struggling with right now is a reminder of all the hard work the Czechs did in gaining their freedom and independence. Politics now seem to be for profit. Money has entered democracy as a profit centre. People are going into politics now to make money.

Michael Douglas spoke out against the risks of autocracy in the U.S. and touted the benefits of democracy during a press conference at the 59th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Kviff) in the Czech Republic on Saturday.

The star came to the picturesque Czech spa town to present a screening of a newly restored version of Czech American directing legend Miloš Forman’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, on which Douglas was a producer and which starred Jack Nicholson. “The 1975 classic, which swept the Oscars and earned dozens of international awards, celebrates its 50th anniversary this year,” the festival highlighted. As one of the producers, Douglas also received the Academy Award for best picture for the movie.

Douglas met the press after earlier in the day receiving a surprise award statuette from the festival. He called Forman’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest “timeless.

Michael Douglas received a special surprise after introducing the screening of a restored version of Czech-American directing legend Miloš Forman‘s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, starring Jack Nicholson, at the 59th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Kviff) on Saturday.

Douglas, who was a producer on the Oscar-winning movie, traveled to the picturesque Czech spa town for the first time since 1998 to present the new version during its 50th anniversary year.

After receiving a rapturous welcome on stage, Douglas shared some history about the film. He earned laughs and applause when he shared that he had arrived only three hours earlier and already enjoyed Czech duck and beer, namely Pilsner Urquell.

He expressed gratitude to the festival and also had a special thanks to his Hollywood legend father. “I have to thank my father, Kirk, for getting the rights to the book,” Douglas said. “He tried...

If you ever thought, Hey, I’d love a spinoff of Once Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest but from the point of view of the one character who doesn’t talk, we have great news…There will soon be a series that centers around Chief Bromden, the Native American mute who was literally a breakout character in the 1975 film.

Producer Paul Zaentz — the nephew of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest producer Saul Zaent, who won the Best Picture Oscar alongside Michael Douglas — recently revealed that an agreement has been made over how the show will work. “Just now, I’ve signed an agreement with Ken Kesey’s widow to develop a TV series which we’ll make through the point of view of the Chief for the first season. Following the first season, we’ll see what happens to the Chief after he escapes [from the psychiatric hospital].” If that sounds like a strange approach,...

Producer Paul Zaentz, nephew of the late Saul Zaentz, who co-produced with Michael Douglas the Oscar-winning Miloš Forman drama One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, sharply criticized U.S. President Donald Trump during an appearance at the 59th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Kviff) in the Czech Republic on Saturday.

Appearing before a screening of a newly restored version of the 1975 classic, which became only the second movie to win all five major Academy Award categories – best picture (Douglas and Zaentz), best director (Forman), best actor (Jack Nicholson), best actress (Louise Fletcher), and best adapted screenplay (Lawrence Hauben and Bo Goldman), Zaentz called Cuckoo’s Nest “a movie about rebellion” and bashed a bill cutting financial support for the poor and other Trump policies.

“It’s ironic that … Cuckoo’s Nest has been honored here on its 50th anniversary, and I am afraid that Ken Kesey’s...

US actor Peter Sarsgaard called for “collective action” to counter divisions in the US, at the opening ceremony of the 59th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Kviff) on Friday, July 4.

Speaking on stage upon receiving his honorary President’s award, Sarsgaard said, “Any actor will tell you that good work is only possible in an environment that supports it.

“There is no going it alone. As my country retreats from its global responsibilities and tries to go it alone, it is also being divided into factions from within. Factions of politics, gender, sexuality, race, Jews split over the war.

“But...

A classic movie is getting a fresh new take with a TV series that will tell the story from a different point of view. Paul Zaentz, who is the nephew of the original film’s producer Saul Zaentz, spoke on the indie filmmaking podcast Ck Café about plans to create a show focusing on Chief Bromden, one of the key characters.

“Just now, I’ve signed an agreement with Ken Kesey’s widow to develop a TV series which we’ll make through the point of view of the Chief for the first season,” Zaentz shared. “Following the first season, we’ll see what happens to the Chief after he escapes.”

This is particularly notable because Ken Kesey, the author of the original novel, didn’t fully support the 1975 movie directed by Milos Forman.

The book is told from Chief Bromden’s perspective, but the film changed that. In the movie,...

‘One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest’ is set to inspire a new TV series, focusing on a fresh perspective from one of its most memorable characters. Paul Zaentz, producer and nephew of the original film’s producer, Saul Zaentz, revealed on the indie filmmaking podcast Ck Café that they have secured the rights to develop a series based on the story, told through the eyes of Chief Bromden.

“Just now, I’ve signed an agreement with Ken Kesey’s widow to develop a TV series which we’ll make through the point of view of the Chief for the first season,” Zaentz said. “Following the first season, we’ll see what happens to the Chief after he escapes.”

This is especially interesting because the author of the original book, Ken Kesey, was not a fan of the 1975 film adaptation directed by Milos Forman.

Kesey’s novel was told from Chief Bromden’s point of view,...

A television expansion of Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is on the way. Deadline says a new drama will chart Chief Bromden’s life after his nighttime escape from the Oregon State Hospital, shifting the spotlight to the towering veteran who narrated Kesey’s 1962 novel.

Bromden is a half-Native American former soldier who feigns muteness to survive the ward’s regime. Producers and a distributor have yet to be named, but the project would reach viewers as Miloš Forman’s Oscar-sweeping 1975 film approaches its 50th anniversary this November.

Writer-reporter Andreas Wiseman broke the story for Deadline, noting that the series is conceived as a direct sequel rather than another origin tale for Nurse Ratched. Social-media trackers Film Updates and DiscussingFilm amplified the news within minutes, driving thousands of reposts and comments.

Bromden’s perspective defined the source material: he quietly observes rebel Randle McMurphy’s showdown...

Another all-time cinematic classic is being revisited with a new series, this time from the perspective of one of its most memorable characters. During an episode of the Ck Café indie filmmaking podcast, producer Paul Zaentz, the nephew of producer Saul Zaentz, revealed that he has signed on to help originate a spin-off of the psychological dramedy One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, told through the lens of Chief Bromden. Compared to the 1975 film starring Jack Nicholson, the new show's change in perspective will look to stick closer to Ken Kesey's 1962 novel, which was narrated by the towering half-Native American. It isn't known whether any studios or creatives are attached at this time.

"Just now, I’ve signed an agreement with Ken Kesey’s widow to develop a TV series which we’ll make through the point of view of the Chief for the first season," Zaentz shared during the episode.

An all-time movie classic is being spun off for the small screen as it has emerged that the rights holders behind One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest are cooking up a new series adaptation.

Speaking on indie filmmaking podcast Ck Café, producer Paul Zaentz, the nephew of the film’s original producer Saul Zaentz, disclosed: “Just now, I’ve signed an agreement with Ken Kesey’s widow to develop a TV series which we’ll make through the point of view of the Chief for the first season. Following the first season, we’ll see what happens to the Chief after he escapes [from the psychiatric hospital].”

Kesey, author of the film’s source material, famously disavowed Milos Forman’s 1975 classic, in part because it diverged from his novel, which was told from the point of view of Chief Bromden, aka the ‘Chief’ (memorably played in the film by Will Sampson).

It’s not clear at this stage who,...

Actors Peter Sarsgaard and Vicky Krieps were honored at the opening of the 59th edition of the Karlovy Vary Film Festival Friday, with Sarsgaard calling for “collective action” in the U.S. in the face of division.

Karlovy Vary presented the Kviff President’s Award to Sarsgaard, who is the winner of the Volpi Cup at the Venice Film Festival, and a nominee for an Emmy and a Golden Globe.

Receiving the award, he said: “Making a film is a collective action […] any actor will tell you that good work is only possible in an environment that supports it […] There is no going it alone.”

He continued: “As my country retreats from its global responsibilities and tries to go it alone, it is also being divided into factions from within, factions of politics, gender, sexuality, race, Jews split over the war. But when there’s a common enemy, there is no going it alone.

Bavaria Media and Beta Film have joined forces on Mozart Mozart, a six-hour drama that reimagines the legacy of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart through the eyes of his (real-life) sister, Maria Anna Mozart.

The series, from the creators of German costume drama hit Sisi, has received a first-season commission from German public broadcaster Ard and Austria’s Orf.

Set in the late 18th century, the series centers on Amadeus’s sister, Maria Anna Mozart, portrayed by Havana Joy (Love Sucks), who steps into her brother’s shoes after his dismissal from the Salzburg court threatens the family’s future. When Wolfgang, played by Eren M. Güvercin (Druck, Eldorado), proves too volatile to secure favor at the court of Emperor Joseph II, Maria Anna disguises herself as her brother, captivating Vienna’s elite and drawing the envy of Mozart’s rival, Antonio Salieri. Her deception grows increasingly complex as she attempts to maintain the ruse,...

The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Kviff) may have lost a key figurehead due to the May death of legendary Czech actor and long-time fest president Jiří Bartoška. But its leadership and majority owner, Rockaway Arts, have vowed to “preserve the values and level of quality that its president built up over the years.”

Rockaway recently lauded the “strong and stable team headed by executive director Kryštof Mucha, saying: “The position of president will not be filled and will remain dedicated to Jiří Bartoška in memoriam.”

Mucha, who joined the festival team in 1997 and has been its executive director since 2004, has also become chairman of the board of the Kviff Group. Remaining on the festival’s management team are artistic director Karel Och and head of production Petr Lintimer.

“For many years, I had the wonderful opportunity to work with Jiří Bartoška and to see how he thought and where he was taking the festival,...

Milos Forman's "Amadeus" may have cleaned up at the Oscars while "Ghostbusters" dominated the box office, but for me, 1984 is best remembered as a vintage year for cult movies. For starters, "This is Spinal Tap" was one of the most quotable movies of all time, and there was more musical madness with Val Kilmer spoofing Elvis in "Top Secret!" and Walter Hill's rock 'n' roll fable "Streets of Fire." Elsewhere, Emilio Estevez was on the trail of a UFO Chevy Malibu in "Repo Man," while Troma gave us an alternative superhero for the ages in "The Toxic Avenger." The list goes on, but arguably the weirdest of the bunch was "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai across the 8th Dimension," a sci-fi action adventure starring Peter Weller that is just as absurd and inventive as its title suggests.

Trying to briefly outline the movie's plot is a challenge worthy...

Fxx's "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" will be premiering its 17th season in July, and along with the record-breaking new season and a surprise crossover beyond their collaboration with "Abbott Elementary" comes the celebration of 20 years on the air. Who would have thought that of all the major shows, both network and/or on basic cable, the raunchy "Seinfeld" of the 21st century would make television history as the longest-running live-action scripted American sitcom?

Naturally, with at least two decades worth of some of the best dark comedy ever produced on television, "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" has had its fair share of notable guest stars. Some of the most memorable guests include Academy Award-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro, who has appeared on the series as Pappy McPoyle, the patriarch of the comically disgusting McPoyle family. Emmy-winner Jason Sudeikis has also appeared on the series as an ex-member of the Paddy's Pub Gang,...

Stephen Frears and Christopher Hampton stay they are struggling to get their previously announced adaptation of Jonathan Coe’s novel Mr Wilder & Me off the ground, but still hope to work together on the project.

“We’d like to make it happen but it’s a difficult time for finding money,” Oscar-nominated The Queen director Frears said of the project entitled Wilder & Me first announced in 2024.

He was speaking to Deadline ahead of receiving a life-time achievement award alongside Hampton at the Scad Lacoste Film Festival in France’s Provence region this weekend, followed by an open-air screening of their 1988 classic Dangerous Liaisons which won three Oscars including Best Writing for Hampton.

Coe’s novel unfolds against the backdrop of Hollywood director Billy Wilder’s struggles to get his penultimate movie Fedora off the ground. Hampton said the previously announced cast of Christoph Waltz, Maya Hawke, John Turturro...

A mention of Iran’s capital Tehran may make you think of politics, world affairs and other serious issues. But how about paintball, carwalking and a party of people dancing to music played by a DJ dressed up as the Joker? Welcome to the world of Tehran Another View, the new film from writer and director Ali Behrad (Tasavor), which will world premiere in the Special Screenings program of the 59th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Kviff) on July 5.

“The moment they greet each other at their friends’ wedding, we know that Leili and Pasha were once a couple,” a synopsis on the Kviff website reads. “But something split them apart. We see their story in flashback.”

The festival promises “a charming mix of genres” and highlights: “Iranian director Ali Behrad’s second feature film is a vibrant portrait of Tehran and its inhabitants.”

The cast of the film includes Ali Shadman,...

Actors Stellan Skarsgård, Vicky Krieps, Peter Sarsgaard and Dakota Johnson will be honored at the 59th edition of the Karlovy Vary Intl. Film Festival, which runs July 4-12.

Sweden’s Skarsgård will be presented with the Crystal Globe for outstanding artistic contribution to world cinema, and will present his latest film “Sentimental Value,” which won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival.

In the 1970s and 1980s, Skarsgård appeared primarily in European films. His performance as the lead in Hans Alfredson’s “The Simple-Minded Murderer” (1982) earned him a Silver Bear for best actor at the Berlinale. He also played the lead in the drama “The Ox” (1991), directed by cinematographer Sven Nykvist, which was nominated for the Academy Award for best foreign language film.

After appearing in several international productions – including an adaptation of Milan Kundera’s “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” and the action film “The Hunt for Red October...

As we continue to celebrate the 50th anniversary of "Jaws," cinema enthusiasts everywhere can wax poetic about the film's impact as the godfather of the modern blockbuster. The 1975 big screen adaptation of Peter Benchley's novel of the same name not only captivated audiences and frightened them from visiting the beach that summer, but it also served as the ultimate calling card for the filmmaker who would be king: Steven Spielberg. After making his feature-length debut with his television film "Duel" and his theatrical debut with "The Sugarland Express," Spielberg ventured into uncharted waters with "Jaws," which was a notoriously difficult production for him.

"Jaws" was a cultural juggernaut, becoming the highest-grossing film ever at the time of its release (a record that Spielberg himself would break two more times with "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" and "Jurassic Park"). Adjusted for ticket price inflation, it is the 7th highest-grossing film in history,...

Jawsrepresented a huge leap forward in Steven Spielberg's career, but the director was disappointed at the time that he didn't receive an Oscar nomination for his work. Jaws remains one of Spielberg's best movies, even though he was just 27 years old at the time. It also made history at the Oscars, becoming one of just a handful of horror movies which have been nominated for Best Picture. The genre has historically been overlooked by the Academy, but the quality of Jaws was hard to ignore. However, the Academy's admiration for Jaws didn't extend to a Best Director nod for Steven Spielberg.

In the National Geographic special Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Story, Spielberg revealed his true feelings when he learned that the Academy had passed him over for a Best Director nomination.

"When a film is on the cusp of being considered for awards, it’s not so much...

Exclusive: The Sundance Institute has named the 10 emerging filmmakers selected for the 2025 edition of the Sundance Institute Ignite x Adobe Fellowship. They are Omolola Ajao, Harlan Banks, Ruairí Bradley, Siwoo Kim, Rahul Koul, Giles Perkins, Cloe Raffo Velarde, Leon Ristov, Anooya Swamy, and Brittany Alexia Young.

A yearlong program, the Ignite x Adobe Fellowship begins with the Ignite Lab at Mass MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts, taking place June 23–27. This year marks 10 years of the Lab, created to support the career launch of storytellers, ages 18 to 25, from underserved groups. Participants in the lab are offered a $3,000 artist grant and a one-year complimentary membership to Adobe Creative Cloud. Thereafter, the cohort will participate in monthly webinars geared toward specialized creative development, networking and relationship-building events with the Ignite community at workshops, and a curated program at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival.

This year’s fellows were selected from over 1,000 applicants worldwide. Riley Hooper and Claire Ave’Lallemant,...

When Jaws hit the beaches – that is, theaters – in the summer of 1975, director Steven Spielberg was marked as Hollywood’s next hot wunderkind. After becoming the highest-grossing movie ever at the time, it was on its way to the Academy Awards. But it didn’t exactly pan out the way Spielberg expected, as he missed out on a coveted Best Director nomination. Fifty years on, he remembers the exact moment he felt he was snubbed.

In the upcoming National Geographic special Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story, Spielberg – who was 28 when Jaws was released – said that he believed so much of the hype that it was a shocking moment when he failed to land a Best Director nod. “When a film is on the cusp of being considered for awards, it’s not so much what you want for yourself — it’s what everyone else says is going to happen for you.

Jaws, the Steven Spielberg adventure thriller that revolutionized the film industry in the 1970s, is turning 50 years old. That's five decades of numerous titles and recognitions for the Raiders of the Lost Ark director whose name is synonymous with successful forms of entertainment. But despite his early achievement with 1975's Jaws, Spielberg had to earn his medals, and this included recognition from the Academy itself. Jaws was a huge commercial hit in the '70s, and many believed that it was a sure bet that the young director was going to be nominated for Best Director the following year. Unfortunately, this didn't happen, and 50 years later, Spielberg says that he was "surprised" at the snub.

Only a few years after Jaws, Spielberg would earn his first nomination as Best Director for his work in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. And almost 20 years had to pass for him to win an Oscar for Best Director.

For decades, Kathy Bates has been both celebrated and underrated. When she won an Oscar for her fearsome performance in Rob Reiner’s 1990 Stephen King adaptation of “Misery,” she was greeted as a newcomer, even though she had made her film debut nearly 20 years earlier in Miloš Forman’s “Taking Off.” Her career since then has included Oscar noms for “Primary Colors,” “About Schmidt” and “Richard Jewell,” 14 Emmy nominations and two wins for “Two and a Half Men”and “American Horror Story: Coven,” and a varied resume that boasts both dramas like “Dolores Claiborne” and “Titanic” and comedies like “The Waterboy.”

Bates’ latest role is the title character in Jennie Snyder Urman’s “Matlock,” which borrows its name from the Andy Griffith legal drama from the 1980s and ’90s but knowingly subverts it in the process: Bates’ Madeline Kingston, aka Matty Matlock, solves cases just as Griffith’s Matlock had done,...

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Popular director Mike Nichols had a way of showing up exactly when someone needed it most. Natalie Portman experienced that early in her career, when everything looked golden on the outside but felt like something else entirely behind the scenes.

Natalie Portman Struggled For Respect In The Industry Despite Blockbuster Success

The Thor actress had stepped into the industry as a child, with a performance in Léon: The Professional that turned heads. The role proved her skill even at a young age, as she played a girl hardened by tragedy and drawn to vengeance after the men who murdered her whole family.

However, while the film earned acclaim, the attention it brought wasn’t always the kind anyone would want. Portman became the subject of uncomfortable attention from adult men, and that kind of fame weighed heavily. She was...

Michael Douglas: 'There’s so much conflict in the world. It’s all the more reason we should be making movies, being creative …' Photo: Courtesy of Cannes Film Festival

A special gala screening at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival will celebrate the 50th anniversary of One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest in the presence of Michael Douglas who produced the film with Saull Zaentz.

Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Photo: Film Servis Karlovy Vary

The film received five Oscars including Best Picture in 1975 and was directed by Czech icon Milos Forman. Douglas will be accompanied by Saul's nephew Paul Zaentz - a producer in his own right, with such films as The English Patient and The Talented Mr Ripley to his credit - as well as members of Forman’s family.

Forman was a loyal supporter of the festival over the years. Douglas,...

Michael Douglas will present a newly restored print of Miloš Forman’s “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” at Karlovy Vary Film Festival next month. The 1975 classic, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, will screen as part of the festival’s Out of the Past section. The film was restored by the Academy Film Archive.

Douglas will be joined at the Gala Screening by Paul Zaentz — nephew of the late Saul Zaentz, who produced the film with Douglas — as well as members of Forman’s family.

The film made Oscar history as only the second to win all five major Academy Award categories: picture (Douglas and Zaentz), director (Forman), actor (Jack Nicholson), actress (Louise Fletcher), and adapted screenplay (Lawrence Hauben and Bo Goldman).

The screening also honors Karlovy Vary’s ties to the film. Forman was a loyal supporter of the festival, and he, along with Douglas, Zaentz and actor Danny DeVito,...

Michael Douglas will join this year’s parade of stars attending the 59th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, which has long been a magnet for Hollywood stars.

The star will travel to the picturesque Czech spa town to present a screening of a newly restored version of Czech-American directing legend Milos Forman‘s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, on which Douglas was a producer and which starred Jack Nicholson. The screening will be part of Kviff’s “Out of the Past” section.

The film was restored by the Academy Film Archive.

“The 1975 classic, which swept the Oscars and earned dozens of international awards, celebrates its 50th anniversary this year,” the festival highlighted. “Michael Douglas, one of the film’s producers and recipient of the Academy Award for best picture, will personally introduce the restored version at a special gala screening. He will be joined by fellow...