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The year is over, and it’s time to say goodbye to all of our favorite AMC shows currently streaming on Netflix. From Dark Winds to Interview with the Vampire, all are going alongside 20 other great movies and TV shows. So, we compiled a list of all the AMC shows that will be leaving Netflix on August 19.

Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches Season 1 (August 19) Credit – AMC

Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches is a gothic horror thriller drama series co-created by Michelle Ashford and Esta Spalding. Based on Anne Rice’s novel trilogy titled Lives of the Mayfair Witches, the AMC series follows Dr. Rowan Fielding, a neurosurgeon who discovers that she comes from a long line of witches and her ancestors have been haunted by a sinister spirit. Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches stars Alexandra Daddario, Tongayi Chirisa,...

The black market for Cannes parties and screenings is alive and well, according to a list seen by Screendaily.

One of the most expensive offerings is a pair of tickets to Scarlett Johansson’s Eleanor The GreatUn Certain Regard premiere and after-party on May 20, which are being touted for $5,495 per person. A photo with Johansson is on offer for an extra $1,995.

The film’s distributor Sony Pictures Classics was unavailable for comment. However a festival spokesperson responded robustly.

“Tickets issued by the Festival de Cannes are free of charge and strictly prohibited from being sold. Any attempt to sell or...

The black market for Cannes parties and screenings is alive and well, according to a list seen by Screendaily.

One of the most expensive offerings is a pair of tickets to Scarlett Johansson’s Eleanor The GreatUn Certain Regard premiere and after-party on May 20, which are being touted for $5,495 per person. A photo with Johansson is on offer for an extra $1,995.

The film’s distributor Sony Pictures Classics was unavailable for comment. However a festival spokesperson responded robustly.

“Tickets issued by the Festival de Cannes are free of charge and strictly prohibited from being sold. Any attempt to sell or...

Exclusive: Pathé International will be launching sales at Cannes on Guillaume Canet’s new psychological thriller Karma, starring Oscar winner Marion Cotillard, three-time César nominee Denis Ménochet (Inglorious Basterds) and Goya winner Leonardo Sbaraglia (Pain and Glory).

Canet, who won a César for his Harlan Coben adaptation Tell No One in 2006, has written the script with Simon Jacquet and is directing the project, which is currently in production in Europe. Plot details remain under wraps but we understand Canet devised the main role for his wife and longtime screen collaborator Cotillard.

Luis Zahera (As Bestas) also joins but contrary to some online speculation Mark Ruffalo is not in the cast. Director of photography is Benoît Debie (Spring Breakers) while Laure Gardette serves as editor (Polisse).

The French-language film heralds from ascending French production company Iconoclast, which is also behind Romain Gavras’ starry action-comedy Sacrifice, and Canet’s label Caneo.

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When we say that Netflix has something for everyone, we do mean that because the horror sub-genre of serial killers has always been popular among audiences, making a good show on this topic is pretty hard. That’s why we had to scour through Netflix’s huge library of content to find the best of the best. So, here are the 10 best serial killer shows on Netflix you should watch right now.

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Marcella is a British Nordic noir crime thriller drama series created by Hans Rosenfeldt and Nicola Larder. The Netflix series follows Marcella Backland, a former police detective, as she returns to work to investigate a series of connected murders to find the killer. Marcella stars Anna Friel, Nicholas Pinnock, Ray Panthaki, Jack Doolan, Jamie Bamber, Nina Sosanya, Charlie Covell, Sophia Brown, Amanda Burton,...

Oscar-winning British actor Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out, Judas and the Black Messiah) has joined the jury for this year’s Cannes Critics’ Week sidebar, headed up by Spanish director Rodrigo Sorogoyen (The Beasts).

Completing the five-person jury are Moroccan journalist Jihane Bougrine, French-Canadian cinematographer Josée Deshaies (Passages, The Beast), and Indonesian producer Yulia Evina Bhara (Tiger Stripes, Autobiography).

Together, they will judge the competition titles for the 64th Critics’ Week, Cannes’ sidebar section for first and second features. The Critics’ Week runs May 14–22.

“[Cannes Critics’ Week] unequivocally demonstrates its commitment to supporting and believing in young filmmakers,” Sorogoyen said in a statement, emphasizing the importance of the section’s focus on new voices.

Sorogoyen made his feature debut in 2013 with Stockholm, co-written with Isabel Peña, kicking off a productive collaboration that has included May God Save Us (2016), The Candidate (2018), and Mother (2019), as well as The Beasts in 2022. The slow-burn thriller starring Marina Foïs and Denis Ménochet,...

English actor Clive Owen has always been one of the more underappreciated performers, landing notable roles but falling short of being a household name. Yet, fans of Owen's have come to appreciate his intense performances and his adaptability. Never one to want to be typecast, his versatility has led to a unique career, from the acclaim of 2004's Closer, which saw him win a BAFTA and a Golden Globe, to fan-favorite films like Sin City, Children of Men, and Shoot 'Em Up.

While one could say Owen's popularity reached its height in the 2000s, he has remained a consistent force in cinema and TV with a dedicated fandom. Fans' continued admiration for the actor has paid off in spades, with Clive Owen giving his best performance in the limited series Monsieur Spade. A masterfully constructed mystery, we will examine why the underrated series is a must-watch TV.

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Politics and the apocalypse collide in Rumours – a horror satire that threatens to steal Megalopolis’ crown as 2024’s most eccentric movie.

When Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis came out earlier this year, opinions were somewhat divided as to whether it was a grand folly, a visionary masterpiece, a piece of demented high camp, or a mixture of all of these.

What most could agree on was that there was nothing else quite like it in 2024’s line-up of movies, whether it was in its unnatural dialogue and bizarre character names (Aubrey Plaza as financial TV reporter Wow Platinum) or its incredibly uneven visuals, which veered from the captivatingly imaginative to the embarrassingly kitsch.

For better or worse, Coppola had managed to finally achieve his goal of creating a vision of the USA as a late Roman empire in danger of tipping over into facism. Which, as 2024 nears its end, now...

Rumours may have a mundane name, but this jet black horror comedy is one of the most insane films you will see all year – just don’t expect to understand it.

Set at the G7 summit in Dankwarderode Castle in Germany we meet the men and women who lead the most powerful countries on the planet. Assembling together to work on a provisional statement for the present crisis they eat, drink and pose for photos in the picturesque grounds of the ancient and eerie local.

Hosted by Hilda Ortmann (Cate Blanchet), the Chancellor of Germany we also meet elderly and oddly English accented Edison Wolcott (Game of Thrones and Alien 3’s Charles Dance), the President of the United States; poetic wannabe intellectual Sylvain Broulez (Inglorious Basterds Denis Ménochet), the President of France; practical and pragmatic Cardosa Dewindt (Nikki Amuka – Bird from Old and Knock on the Cabin), the Prime...

What could be stranger than the hollow pomp of neoliberal politics in the face of Armageddon? While crafting this cheerfully bonkers satire, Canadian co-directors Guy Maddin and Evan and Galen Johnson became fascinated by real footage of G7 leaders coming across a puddle and awkwardly negotiating walking around it. This miniature farce didn’t exactly offer much hope for the future of humanity.

Hosted by German Chancellor Hilda Ortmann (Cate Blanchett in a coral power suit channelling Angela Merkel), world leaders representing Canada, France, Italy, Japan, the UK and the US gather for a summit on a palatial estate. They’re here for a terribly serious purpose, of course. But drafting a statement in response to an unspecified catastrophe has to wait until after the hand-shaking and toasting.

Every cast member is clearly enjoying themself, but Rumours — or perhaps ‘How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bog Bodies...

Guy Maddin’s “Rumours” (2024), co-directed by Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson, is a satire so absurd and farcical that it almost deliberately tries to pivot away from making too deep a point, choosing instead to delve into the silliness of the entire endeavor and highlight the stupidity of the administrators responsible for running the world. And that’s before Maddin brings in his signature nonsensical elements into the film, the big brain on a patch of field becoming a curious signature for a director comfortable in unconventional narratives.

Rumours (2024) Plot Summary & Movie Synopsis: What does the opening text box signify?

The movie employs its satirical tonality right from the opening beat itself. After the descriptions of the G7 flash across the screen, the consequent line of text reads as a note of thanks to the G7 leaders for the support and consultation for the making of this film. Considering...

Directors Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson and Guy Maddin’s dark comedy Rumours portrays the situation of the inner workings of Western leadership in a time of crisis as a farcical satire, as comfortable played out on screen as perhaps on stage. As consistently sharp and witty as the dialogue is from its hapless leaders procrastinating over a joint statement of collective action in the middle of a German forest, it also is sobering, thought-provoking and timely in current unsettled times globally. The latter forever plays on the mind, even when presented with surreal moments that include the discovery of a giant live brain parked in the undergrowth.

The G7 leaders of Germany, France, United States, Canada, Italy, Japan and the UK – Cate Blanchett as summit host and German Chancellor Orlmann, Denis Ménochet as France’s Broulez, Charles Dance as U.S. President Wolcott (minus American accent), Roy Dupuis as Canadian premier Laplace,...

Canadian filmmakers Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson lampoon the world's most powerful people in Rumours, a spooky and hilariously bonkers satire of the G7 (Group of Seven) - a political organization consisting of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the non-enumerated European Union. The venerated cast, including Cate Blanchett, Alicia Vikander, Charles Dance, Roy Dupuis, and Denis Mnochet, portray the G7 leaders as inept bureaucrats lost in a German forest without any support. They're so embroiled in drafting a comical "provisional statement" that an apocalyptic scenario catches them completely by surprise.

Rumours Mocks Power and Politics, Not Specific Politicians

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Rumours is a comedy film directed by Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson, and Guy Maddin. The film centers on seven leaders of rich democracies. While attempting to draft a global crisis statement, they become lost in the woods and struggle to find their way out.

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“Rumours” the latest film from Canadian director Guy Madden (with Evan and Galen Johnson), a political satire/surrealist story about the geopolitical international G7 Conference. In select theaters since October 18th See local listings.

Set at the economic G7 conference, which is attended by the main democratic/progressive economies, including host Germany (represented by Cate Blanchett), the U.S.(Charles Dance), Canada (Roy Dupuis), France (Denis Menochet) and the other player countries of Britain, Italy and Japan. As an unnamed world crisis begins to infiltrate the talks, a weird Iron Age archeology discovery comes to life and a giant human brain with unspecific powers … both near the meeting site … also causes havoc. Is this the end of the world as we know it?

”Rumours” is in theaters since October 18th, including Chicago’s Music Box Theatre. Featuring Cate Blanchett, Alicia Vikander,...

Canadian director Guy Maddin embraces absurdity. Along with his co-writers and directors Evan and Galen Johnson, Maddin has added to his surrealist oeuvre with Rumours, a comedy satirizing the G7 Summit. Bringing together a lauded cast led by Cate Blanchett playing the Chancellor of Germany, the film follows the seven world leaders as they get lost in the woods amidst a world catastrophe and simultaneously lose their minds.

As with any G7 Summit, the goal continues to be a vague “crisis” and an even vaguer “statement,” a cacophony of empty words, promises, and goals. The supporting cast are game, with Denis Ménochet shining as the President of France, and the filmmakers even choosing a very British Charles Dance to play the U.S. President. Everyone seems to be game; the subsequent film is better for it, with the interplay between these leaders providing the funniest moments. When these leaders attempt to find common ground,...

This review was originally published during the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.

Canadian directing trio Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson first partnered together with their 2017 experimental film, The Green Fog. Reuniting to present their latest film at the 77th Cannes Film Festival, the directors put together a star-studded cast for a ridiculous, surreal comedy about world leaders encountering a global crisis while getting lost in the woods. As absurd as it sounds, Rumours begins as a hilarious commentary about power on a global scale. However, as the film progresses, it loses its steam thanks to vague storytelling and less successful humor by the end.

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Director Galen Johnson, Evan Johnson, Guy MaddinRelease Date October 18, 2024Studio(s) Maze Pictures, Buffalo Gal Pictures, Square PegDistributor(s) Plaion Pictures, Elevation PicturesWriters Guy MaddinCast Tomi Kosynus, Ralph Berkin, Alexa Kennedy, Rolando Ravello, Roy Dupuis, Alicia Vikander, Cate Blanchett, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Takehiro Hira, Zlatko Buric,...

Guy Maddin didn’t know he was even on Cate Blanchett‘s radar until he saw her pick his film “My Winnipeg” out of the Criterion Closet back in 2022.

“It was a manipulative move. It was a cry for help!” Blanchett joked to IndieWire (and her peers) on the rooftop of the Jw Marriott on the Cannes Croisette back in May when their debut collaboration, “Rumours,” first premiered. She was joined on that day by Maddin and his co-directors, Evan and Galen Johnson, who’ve been chugging away with the singularly absurdist Canadian auteur on short films since 2015 and the feature “The Forbidden Room” in 2016. Their latest, “Rumours,” is a satirical slice of weirdness about seven nimwit world leaders who gather at a fictional G7 conference to draft a vaguely reassuring statement about an unnamed international crisis. Blanchett plays Hilda Orlmann, the Chancellor of Germany, channeling Angela Merkel in a blond bob and European faux-steeliness.

A collaboration between writers and directors Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson, the genre-bending dark comedy Rumours screened out of competition at the 77th Cannes Film Festival earlier this year, and now a wider audience will have the chance to watch the movie when it reaches theatres this Friday, October 18th. In anticipation of the film’s release, we were able to sit down for an interview with its star, two-time Oscar winner (and many-time Oscar nominee) Cate Blanchett, as well as the directors and Blanchett’s co-stars Denis Ménochet, Roy Dupuis, Nikki Amuka-Bird, and Rolando Ravello. To find out what they had to say about the movie, check out the video embedded above!

Rumours has the following synopsis: Ricocheting between comedy, apocalyptic horror, and swooning soap opera, Rumours follows the seven leaders of the world’s wealthiest democracies at the annual G7 summit, where they attempt to draft...

A specter is haunting the rules-based liberal world order: The specter of shambling, moaning, masturbating bog zombies, rising from the German countryside to terrorize the leaders of the world’s foremost democracies. There’s a giant brain in the forest, the Italian prime minister keeps pulling deli meat out of his pockets,...

Rumours opens with a sarcastic "thank you" to the leaders of the G7 (Group of Seven) a political organization consisting of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States (along with the non-enumerated European Union) for their help with the film. This is an opening broadside from Canadian filmmakers Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson before a dark, hilarious, and often bewildering evisceration of utter ineptitude and fecklessness. The damning point made is that the most powerful people in the world, who should be working together to solve critical problems, are flawed bureaucrats incapable of accomplishing anything.

G7 summits are held annually during the summer. The meetings rotate between member countries to not show any preference. In Rumours, the G7 leaders have gathered in rural Germany under the leadership of Chancellor Hilda Ortmann (Cate Blanchett), who smiles nonstop like the Cheshire cat. French President Sylvain...

Cate Blanchett returns to star in a new black comedy, and there are options for where to watch Rumours. Blanchett's year in movies did start as expected as Borderlands was a critical and financial disaster. Even though she was viewed as one of the film's best parts, it did not offer the type of performance and overall quality that viewers have grown accustomed to with movies that define Cate Blanchett's career. That changes with her second film of 2024, as the political satire plot of Rumours gives her a movie that can delight audiences.

Directed by Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson, Rumours follows global leaders at a G7 meeting as they get lost in the woods while trying to solve a mysterious worldwide issue. Blanchett headlines the cast as the Chancellor of Germany, Hilda Ortmann. Other notable cast members include Charles Dance, who is the President of the United States,...

The first big laugh in Rumours hits before the opening credits have even finished rolling: “The producers would like to thank the G7 leaders for their support and consultation during the making of this movie.” As political bloggers, chronic doomscrollers and any conspiracy theorist with access to the internet will tell you, the “Group of Seven” is an annual summit in which selected world-power presidents and prime ministers discuss global issues and cross-governmental solutions. The national leaders of the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Japan and Italy have...

Krazy House: "When Russian workers in Bernie’s (Shawn Of The Dead’S Nick Frost) house turn out to be wanted criminals, Bernie must man up and save his wife (Alicia Silverstone) and the rest of his studio audience approved sitcom family."

The film is written and directed by Steffen Haars and Flip van der Kuil, and stars Nick Frost, Alicia Silverstone, Kevin Connolly, Gaite Jansen, and Walt Klink.

XYZ Films will be releasing the film on VOD on October 4th. The week prior, on September 28th, filmmaker and podcaster Kevin Smith will host a special theatrical screening of the film at his Smodcastle Cinemas in Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey, with stars Nick Frost and co-director Steffen Haars in attendance.

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Rumours: "Ricocheting between comedy, apocalyptic horror, and swooning soap opera, Rumours follows the seven leaders of the world’s wealthiest democracies at the annual G7 summit, where they...

In the opening scene of the Rumours red band trailer, an archeologist unearths an Iron Age corpse, mummified with its severed penis hanging from its neck. As the summit host and German representative Hilda Orlmann, played by Cate Blanchett, describes the bog body, the G7 leaders in attendance can’t help but wince and give distasteful stares, with one global leader calling it “gruesome.” Following the ceremony, representatives of the world’s wealthiest democracies are stranded in the woods and chased by ancient bodies in a conference gone horribly wrong.

Bleecker Street has released a new trailer for Cate Blanchett‘s political satire movie!

The 55-year-old Oscar-winning actress alongside Alicia Vikander, Roy Dupuis, Charles Dance, Denis Ménochet, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Rolando Ravello, Takehiro Hira, and Zlatko Buri in the new movie Rumours written and directed by Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson.

Keep reading to find out more…Here’s the movie’s synopsis: “Ricocheting between comedy, apocalyptic horror, and swooning soap opera, Rumours follows the seven leaders of the world’s wealthiest democracies meeting up at the annual G7 summit, where they attempt to draft a provisional statement regarding a global crisis. With unexpected, uproarious performances from a brilliant ensemble cast that includes Cate Blanchett and Alicia Vikander, these so-called ‘leaders’ become spectacles of incompetence, contending with increasingly surreal obstacles in the misty woods as night falls and they realize they are suddenly alone.”

Rumours will be out in theaters on Oct.

"A black storm comes." Bleecker Street has revealed the full trailer for Rumours, an extra weird & wacky dark comedy about politics from the filmmakers Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson. This first premiered at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival earlier this year to mostly mixed reviews from critics, it burns out pretty quickly after a hilarious start. In times of global crisis, the brightest and biggest brains of the free world gather to provide leadership. The "wildly entertaining" Rumours film is an apocalyptic horror-comedy about how dumb politicians really are. The leaders of seven wealthy democracies come together during a G7 summit in Germany. But they end up getting lost in the woods when everyone else suddenly disappears and they can't where to go, facing danger as they attempt to find their way out. The ensemble cast of politicians features Cate Blanchett (Germany), Roy Dupuis (Canada), Nikki Amuka-Bird (UK), Charles Dance...

Bleecker Street has released the official trailer and poster for the upcoming Rumours movie, which is a black comedy directed by Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson. The film will open in theaters on October 18, 2024.

The Rumours movie, which was rated R for some sexual content/partial nudity and violent content, had its World Premiere at the 77th Cannes Film Festival in May 2024.

Ricocheting between comedy, apocalyptic horror, and swooning soap opera, Rumours follows the seven leaders of the world’s wealthiest democracies at the annual G7 summit, where they attempt to draft a provisional statement regarding a global crisis.

With unexpected, uproarious performances from a brilliant ensemble cast that includes Cate Blanchett, Alicia Vikander, and Charles Dance, these so-called leaders become spectacles of incompetence, contending with increasingly surreal obstacles in the misty woods as night falls and they realize they are suddenly alone.

A genre-hopping satire of political ineptitude,...

The politicians are no help and not okay in genre-bending apocalyptic horror movie Rumours, and a new trailer highlights the satire.

Rumours releases in theaters on October 18, 2024.

About the film: “Ricocheting between comedy, apocalyptic horror, and swooning soap opera, Rumours follows the seven leaders of the world’s wealthiest democracies at the annual G7 summit, where they attempt to draft a provisional statement regarding a global crisis. With unexpected, uproarious performances from a brilliant ensemble cast that includes Cate Blanchett, Alicia Vikander, and Charles Dance, these so-called leaders become spectacles of incompetence, contending with increasingly surreal obstacles in the misty woods as night falls and they realize they are suddenly alone. A genre-hopping satire of political ineptitude, the latest film from incomparable directors Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson is a journey into the absurd heart of power and institutional failure in a slowly burning world.”

The film was...

Premiering at Cannes Film Festival earlier this year, Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson expanded their scale and scope with Rumours, an apocalyptic political satire that brings together the epic cast of Cate Blanchett, Alicia VikanderRoy Dupuis, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Charles Dance, Takehiro Hira, Denis Ménochet, Rolando Ravello, and Zlatko Buric. Now set for a stop at New York Film Festival before opening in theaters on October 18, the first full-length red band trailer has arrived.

Here’s the synopsis: “Ricocheting between comedy, apocalyptic horror, and swooning soap opera, Rumours follows the seven leaders of the world’s wealthiest democracies at the annual G7 summit, where they attempt to draft a provisional statement regarding a global crisis. With unexpected, uproarious performances from a brilliant ensemble cast that includes Cate Blanchett, Alicia Vikander, and Charles Dance, these so-called leaders become spectacles of incompetence, contending with increasingly surreal obstacles in the misty woods...

Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson’s buzzy satirical film “Rumours” is one step closer to theaters.

Cate Blanchett, Alicia Vikander, and Charles Dance star in the ensemble political film that centers on seven leaders of the world’s wealthiest democracies at the annual G7 summit, where they attempt to draft a provisional statement regarding a global crisis.

The official synopsis reads: “These so-called leaders become spectacles of incompetence, contending with increasingly surreal obstacles in the misty woods as night falls and they realize they are suddenly alone.”

Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson co-write and direct. The trio reunite after helming “The Forbidden Room” in 2015, with “Rumours” being billed as a combination of “comedy, apocalyptic horror, and swooning soap opera” per the logline.

Roy Dupuis, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Takehiro Hira, Denis Ménochet, Rolando Ravello, and Zlatko Buric also star.

“Rumours” premiered at Cannes and will go on to screen at TIFF and NYFF.

The new trailer for Rumours dares to ask the question on everyone's lips: what if a bunch of acclaimed actors put on goofy accents to play fictional world leaders doing a real version of Model Un that got interrupted by a horde of zombified bog bodies? To add to the Mad Libs,...

Political horror comedy Rumours is coming this October and a weird first trailer has been released to herald the film’s arrival.

Here’s one of the more bizarre teaser trailers we’ve seen in a while, kicking off the promotional campaign for Rumours, an upcoming political horror comedy that is set to release in October. That places the film’s launch just before the US presidential elections although whether the film is going to satirise that particular political showdown, is as yet unclear.

In fact, the whole teaser trailer is rather unclear. It’s a series non-sequiturs, the unconnected and random nature of it giving the whole thing a rather random, surreal quality. At one point a huge brain appears. What we do know is this: Rumours focuses on ‘the leaders of the seven nations comprising the G7, who meet for their annual summit but get lost in the...

The first teaser for Cate Blanchett‘s new movie has been released!

On Wednesday (August 28), Bleecker Street debuted the teaser trailer for Rumours, which the 55-year-old two-time Oscar-winning actress stars in alongside Alicia Vikander, Roy Dupuis, Charles Dance, Denis Ménochet, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Rolando Ravello, Takehiro Hira, and Zlatko Buri.

Written and directed by Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson, the movie “centers on the leaders of the seven nations comprising the G7, who meet for their annual summit but get lost in the woods and must still draft a statement addressing a worldwide crisis,” according to THR.

That same day, Cate wowed in a champagne-colored dress as she attended the premiere of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice held during Opening Night of the 2024 Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy.

Rumours will be out in theaters on Oct. 18.

Fyi: For the premiere, Cate is wearing a Giorgio Armani Privé dress, Jimmy Choo shoes,...

"The giant brain!!" Bleecker Street has revealed the first teaser trailer for Rumours, an extra funky dark comedy about politics from the filmmakers Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson. This oriignally premiered at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival earlier this year to mostly mixed to negative reviews, as it burns out pretty quickly after a hilarious start. In times of global crisis, the brightest and biggest brains of the free world gather to provide leadership. The "wildly entertaining" Rumours film is an apocalyptic horror-comedy about how dumb politicians really are. The leaders of seven wealthy democracies come together during a G7 summit in Germany. But they end up getting lost in the woods when everyone else suddenly disappears and they can't where to go, facing danger as they attempt to find their way out. The ensemble cast of politicians features Cate Blanchett (Germany), Roy Dupuis (Canada), Nikki Amuka-Bird (UK), Charles Dance...

Bleecker Street has shared a first look at the black comedy Rumours, directed by Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson. Rumours will open in theaters on October 18, 2024.

The movie, which was rated R for some sexual content/partial nudity and violent content, had its World Premiere at the 77th Cannes Film Festival in May 2024.

Ricocheting between comedy, apocalyptic horror, and swooning soap opera, Rumours follows the seven leaders of the world’s wealthiest democracies at the annual G7 summit, where they attempt to draft a provisional statement regarding a global crisis.

With unexpected, uproarious performances from a brilliant ensemble cast that includes Cate Blanchett, Alicia Vikander, and Charles Dance, these so-called leaders become spectacles of incompetence, contending with increasingly surreal obstacles in the misty woods as night falls and they realize they are suddenly alone.

A genre-hopping satire of political ineptitude, the latest film from incomparable directors Guy Maddin,...

Bleecker Street’s Rumours teaser trailer is weird. Really weird, but in a good way.

Described as part political satire, part pulp horror comedy, Rumours‘ big-name cast includes Cate Blanchett, Charles Dance, Alicia Vikander, Roy Dupuis, Nikki Amuka-Bird, and Takehiro Hira. Denis Ménochet, Rolando Ravello, and Zlatko Buric also star.

“Ricocheting between comedy, apocalyptic horror, and swooning soap opera, Rumours follows the seven leaders of the world’s wealthiest democracies at the annual G7 summit, where they attempt to draft a provisional statement regarding a global crisis,” reads Bleecker Street’s synopsis. “These so-called leaders become spectacles of incompetence, contending with increasingly surreal obstacles in the misty woods as night falls and they realize they are suddenly alone. A genre-hopping satire of political ineptitude, the latest film from incomparable directors Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson is a journey into the absurd heart of power and institutional failure in a slowly burning world.

There’s a lot to think about in the teaser trailer for Rumours, which features Cate Blanchett, Alicia Vikander and, for reasons that are not immediately clear, an oversized brain.

Bleecker Street releases filmmaker Guy Maddin’s politically themed horror-comedy movie in theaters Oct. 18, just ahead of this November’s presidential election. The film premiered earlier this year at the Cannes Film Festival and co-stars Roy Dupuis, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Charles Dance, Takehiro Hira, Denis Ménochet, Rolando Ravello and Zlatko Buric.

Rumours centers on the leaders of the seven nations comprising the G7, who meet for their annual summit but get lost in the woods and must still draft a statement addressing a worldwide crisis.

The film’s first released footage does not reveal much about the plot but does tease the terror that lurks in the misty woods as the politicians assess their situation. At one point, a character succinctly exclaims,...

Cate Blanchett may only now be playing a world leader, but this international icon is already ruling 2024.

The actress leads “Rumours,” which premiered at Cannes and will go on to screen at TIFF and NYFF. The feature is the latest collaboration between Guy Maddin and brothers Evan and Galen Johnson after “The Forbidden Room” in 2015. The trio co-wrote and directed the political satire film that is billed as being a combination of “comedy, apocalyptic horror, and swooning soap opera” per the logline.

“Rumours” follows the seven leaders of the world’s wealthiest democracies at the annual G7 summit, which is hosted by Blanchett’s character, the Chancellor of Germany. The international politicians are tasked with drafting a provisional statement regarding a global crisis while at the summit; of course, things go awry.

The official synopsis teases: “These so-called leaders become spectacles of incompetence, contending with increasingly surreal obstacles in the...

American films and television invariably brush up against the issue of language. Since these stories are made for mass appeal — and said mass is English-speaking audiences — the films will depict characters speaking English even if that shouldn't be the case. Take films set during Roman times like "Spartacus" or "Gladiator," which have dialogue spoken only in English, not Latin or even a closer modern stand-in like Italian.

Then there are films with characters from different countries, yet the audience hears them all speaking the same tongue. Some handle this more cleverly than others; in "The Hunt for Red October," the Soviet characters are first heard speaking Russian before a quick switch to English -- letting the audience know while they're hearing English, the characters are hearing Russian.

"Shōgun," which recently went from mini-series to a two-season renewal, makes no attempt to hold its audience's hand. Set in 1600 Japan, Lord Yoshii...

Editor’s Note: This review was originally published during the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. Bleecker Street will release the film on Friday, October 18.

A giant brain the size of a Volkswagen! Ancient bog people who explode when they masturbate! Self-effacing jokes about Canada’s place in the world! “Rumours” might abandon the silent film aesthetic that has come to define Guy Maddin’s singular brand of absurdism, but not even the complete absence of exclamatory title cards is enough to suggest that this ridiculous comedy of manners could have — or would have — been made by anybody else.

Reuniting with co-directors Evan and Galen Johnson for their first proper feature since “The Forbidden Room” in 2015, the pride of Winnipeg returns to the big screen with a movie that shakes up his style without sacrificing any of its silliness, a feat made all the more impressive by the caliber of the actors that Maddin and co.

Cate Blanchett: 'I’ve never been directed before by a threesome' Photo: Richard Mowe Normally Canadian director Guy Maddin has shunned casting star names in his body of work which now spans more than four decades.

Although his compatriots Atom Egoyan and David Cronenberg have been regular fixtures in the Cannes Film Festival firmament until this year Maddin, 68, had never reached the giddy heights of the Croisette with any of his idiosyncratic works.

That omission has changed after a collaboration with his directorial co-conspirators, the brothers Evan and Galen Johnson (also Canadians) on Rumours, an excoriating and dark political satire about world leaders meeting for a G7 submit in the isolated surrounds of a dank schloss in the heavily wooded German countryside turns into a zombie apocalypse and quest for survival.

Cate Blanchett: 'It is very hard not to laugh at the absurdity of the situation' Photo: Richard Mowe...

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Seven world leaders – including Charles Dance’s dozy US president – are trapped in a forest in this amusing but bizarre apocalyptic comedy

Cate Blanchett has supplied the strangest moment of this year’s Cannes film festival; for Brits of a certain age, anyway. Her character reverently invokes the name of the late Roy Jenkins, Labour grandee and former chancellor of both the exchequer and Oxford University. Blanchett plays a fictional German chancellor called Hilda Ortmann who mentions Jenkins as the first president of the European Commission allowed to attend a G7 summit Perhaps in her next film Blanchett can do a big speech about Peter Shore.

Rumours is an amusing drawing-room absurdist comedy, co-written and directed by Canadian film-maker Guy Maddin with his longtime collaborators, the brothers Evan and Galen Johnson. The title is inspired by the 1977 Fleetwood Mac album, because of the emotional crises that are...

Remember the communiqué from the Rambouillet G7 conference back in 1975? Of course they do. Tramping through a wooded estate somewhere in Germany, pursued by the zombie remains of Iron Age chieftains recently exhumed from the grounds of the nearby stately home, the leaders of the world’s richest democracies recite it by heart. What could be more stirring than a well-rounded public announcement that sounds grand, but doesn’t commit anyone to doing anything? A successful joint statement is a work of art.

These leaders – the chancellor of Germany (Cate Blanchett), the prime ministers of the UK, Japan and Canada, and the presidents of the United States, Italy and France – clearly think they are masters of that art in Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson’s Rumours. Surges of orchestral music as they wave in...

Imagine a film where Cate Blanchett plays a version of Angela Merkel. And Charles Dance is a Joe Biden parody in full British accent. Now add Denis Ménochet as a boisterous French president carried around a damp forest in a wheelbarrow and Alicia Vikander as a beautiful diplomat who tells tales of the end of the world in frenzied Swedish. A feel more pinches of insanity and you would have “Rumours,” the newest by Canadian maverick trio Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson.

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World leaders at a G7 conference politely bicker, copulate in the bushes and work on wafty, content-free speeches while a worldwide apocalypse commences — politicians, they’re just like us! — in collaborating Canadian directors Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson’s frequently hilarious latest feature.

Although they’ve kept busy with a steady stream of shorts, the trio haven’t made a feature with actors since the fantastical The Forbidden Room from 2015. With a proper beginning, middle and end, and barely any tributes to silent cinema or interactive tricksiness, Rumours may arguably be Maddin’s most conventional film ever, or at least since The Saddest Music in the World (2003). That is, if you can call a film conventional that’s got furiously masturbating bog zombies, a giant brain the size of a hatchback, and an AI chatbot that catfishes pedophiles. All the same, it’s a hoot, even if the energy flags in the middle.

Depending on who you talk to, the world is either in crisis, on fire, at war and/or simply lurching toward a frankly deserved final judgment. So what can be done to save it? Why, a carefully worded provisional statement, of course, from the global leaders currently in possession of both the gas canister and the lit match, but not a surfeit of great ideas for the future. The ineffectiveness of rhetorical politics and symbolic diplomacy — best represented by the Group of Seven, the intergovernmental forum keen on expensive meetings that could have been emails — is kookily but ruthlessly skewered in “Rumours,” a wildly entertaining shaggy-dog satire that sees a stuffy G7 summit devolve into a murky, muddy and strangely isolated zombie apocalypse.

As comedy subgenres go, political satire can often veer closer to the wryly clever than the baldly hilarious. But “Rumours” — the third feature collaboration between veteran Canadian...

Cate Blanchett’s new film “Rumours” took its name from the iconic Fleetwood Mac album, it was revealed on Sunday at a Cannes Film Festival press conference.

The dark comedy, directed by Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson, follows a group of world leaders who meet at the G7 — a political and economic meeting of the minds between Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States — but get lost in the woods while trying to compose a joint statement. Debauchery ensues, and there are romantic connections between a few of the politicians.

“I did confirm something with Galen last night, and it’s weird that it never came up in rehearsal, which is: ‘Why the hell is this movie called Rumours?'” Blanchett said at the presser. “And my husband had said, ‘Is that after the Fleetwood Mac album?’ And you said, ‘Yes it was.

Cate Blanchett blew kisses to the Cannes Film Festival audience as her new film, “Rumours,” earned a four-minute standing ovation at Cannes Film Festival on Saturday night.

The crowd welcomed the film’s dark humor, laughing throughout the entirety of the late-night screening. While some of the auditorium emptied out while the credits rolled, the majority of filmgoers waited patiently to pay their respects to the film’s stars. Blanchett’s “Rumours” co-star Alicia Vikander was notably not in attendance.

The film’s trio of directors — Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson — seemed surprised by Cannes’ relatively new tradition of handing the filmmaker(s) a microphone for post-screening remarks. They made a speech together after the applause wrapped, thanking the audience and quoting their own film by saying “it’s better to burn out than to fade away.”

The dark comedy follows a group of world leaders who meet...

The Cannes Film Festival launches auteur filmmakers, and the best among them have known scenes of triumph at the iconic French seaside festival.

But not Guy Maddin, who for all his accolades as an original and idiosyncratic auteur prized for titles like The Forbidden Room and The Saddest Music in the World, has never — until now, that is — brought a film to the Croisette.

It took Maddin and co-directors Evan and Galen Johnson casting Oscar winners Cate Blanchett and Alicia Vikander and getting the backing of executive producer Ari Aster to get their absurdist political satire Rumours to the Cannes red carpet.

“Once we got some legitimate Oscar-winning movie stars, and other movie stars that are amazing, all of a sudden Cannes cleaned its glasses off for a closer look,” Maddin tells The Hollywood Reporter of the stars aligning ahead of a May 19 world premiere at the Lumière theater. Rumours...

Exclusive: Hereditary and Midsommar director Ari Aster, an exec producer on upcoming Cannes ensemble comedy Rumours, has called the film “stoopid and hilarious and wonderful” as the production reveals an official first look.

Oscar winners Cate Blanchett and Alicia Vikander star with Roy Dupuis, Charles Dance, Denis Ménochet, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Rolando Ravello, Takehiro Hira and Zlatko Burić star in the movie that follows seven leaders of the world’s wealthiest liberal democracies at the annual G7 summit after they become lost in the woods and face increasing peril while attempting to draft a provisional statement regarding a global crisis.

Some sites have been reporting the provisional statement is about the climate crisis, which we hear is inaccurate.

The intriguing official first image (above) shows Roy Dupuis as the Prime Minister of Canada and Alicia Vikander as the President of the European Commission. The other roles are being kept under wraps.