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Gia Coppola’s The Last Showgirl took home the Special Jury Prize at the 2024 San Sebastián Film Festival, held in Spain’s Basque Country from Sept. 20 through 28.

“For the high quality of its acting, packed with truth and nuances, which with great subtlety and restraint, brings us closer to the feelings of a group of people who must confront a disappearing profession, a world that is coming to an end,” the jury’s verdict read, per the fete’s press release.

About a veteran Las Vegas showgirl who must switch up her life’s routine following the unexpected closure of her three-decade-long show, the drama features a star-studded cast in Pamela Anderson, Kiernan Shipka, Brenda Song, Billie Lourd, Dave Bautista and Jamie Lee Curtis. As Deadline exclusively reported yesterday, The Last Showgirl was just acquired by Roadside Attractions for its North American release.

The Golden Shell for Best Film was...

La Daronne

Director Jean-Paul Salomé’s international reputation should expand significantly with his eighth feature, La Daronne aka Mama Weed, adapted from a celebrated novel by Hannelore Cayre and starring the inimitable Isabelle Huppert. The crime comedy, produced by Jean-Baptiste Dupont and Kristina Larsen is scored by Bruno Calais (Oscar nominated for 2004’s The Chorus) and features a noted supporting cast, including Hippolyte Girardot, Liliane Rovere, Iris Bry (a recent Cesar nominee for The Guardians), Jade Nadja Nguyen, Youssef Sahraoui, Kamel Guenfoud and Farida Ouchani.…...

Un petit-fils

Director Xavier Beauvois will be ready with his eighth feature, Un petit-fils (A Grandson) in 2020. Sylvie Pialat (we featured the producer as part of our The Conversation series) and Benoit Quainon are producing through Les Films du Worso and the project is being shot by Julien Hirsch. Beauvois’ latest starts Jeremie Renier, Victor Belmondo, Olivier Pequery, Madeleine Beauvois, and a pair from his 2017 The Guardians cast, Marie Julie Maille and Iris Bry. Beauvois also scripted with his Guardians writers Maille and Frederique Moreau.…...

Nathalie Baye, Lyna Khoudri and Pascale Arbillot star in the cast of the filmmaker’s second feature film, a Les Films du 24 production sold by Orange Studio. Filming on Sylvie Ohayon’s La beauté du geste wrapped on 19 December. This second feature, following on from Papa Was Not a Rolling Stone (2014), sees the filmmaker entrusting lead roles to Nathalie Baye, Lyna Khoudri (crowned Best Actress in Venice’s 2017 Orizzonti competition for Blessed, leading the cast of Papicha, also known for her role in the series Savages and...

Kayti Burt Dec 10, 2019

Who are the 7 Paragons on Crisis On Infinite Earths? We break down everything we've learned so far.

This Crisis On Infinite Earths article contains spoilers for "Part One" and "Part Two."

The Arrowverse has lots of synonyms for "hero" these days. The most recent is "Paragon."

What is a Paragon? In the context of the on-screen Crisis, the Paragons are the seven superheroes, "beings of the purest will" who might be able to save the Multiverse from the Anti-Monitor. So, no pressure. The idea of a Paragon is first introduced in "Part Two" of The CW's Crisis On Infinite Earths crossover event, relayed to our friends by the Monitor, who only knows the identity of two, has clues for the identity of two, and is ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ about the final three.

The information the Monitor does have about the Paragons comes from the Tome of the Guardians...

The actor is leading the cast of his first feature film as a director, a CG Cinema production sold by Les Films du Losange, starring alongside Nathalie Baye, Arnaud Valois and Laure Calamy. Shot over five weeks spanning October and November in Limoges and in Paris, Garçon Chiffon, the first full-length film directed by the actor Nicolas Maury - who will also be stepping into the film’s lead role - has now entered into post-production. Acting alongside him in the cast are Nathalie Baye (recently well received in It’s Only the End of the World and The Guardians), Arnaud Valois (crowned Best New Actor at the 2018 Lumières Awards and nominated Best...

The Marvel Cinematic Universe is well known for being humorous and not taking itself too seriously, and, while all the movies have some comedic moments, the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise has the most. Both movies are absolutely jam-packed with comedic moments that really make them stand out amongst the rest of the McU. This is one of the main reasons that the original movie was such a huge hit, despite the fact that the Guardians weren't well-known characters beforehand.

Related: Every Guardians Of The Galaxy McU Character Arc, Ranked

With fantastic casting and well-written characters, the movies have proven to be some of the McU's best. The Guardians have since been introduced into The Avengers as well, where their humor has also been injected, but who is the funniest member of the group?...

Freeing wrongfully convicted people is an excellent theme for fiction as well as for documentaries. Think of John Grisham’s latest novel “The Guardians,” in which Quincy Miller, a black man, is convicted of a murder that has no witnesses and no apparent motive. Languishing in jail for 21 years, he has his case picked up […]

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Jérémie Renier toplines the cast of this production being staged by Les Films du Worso and set to be sold by Pathé. On 14 October, Xavier Beauvois will be in Normandy to kick off the shoot for Un petit-fils, his eighth feature, following North (nominated for the César Award for Best First Feature Film in 1993), Don’t Forget You’re Going to Die (Jury Prize at Cannes in 1995), To Matthieu (in competition at Venice in 2000), The Young Lieutenant (Giornate degli Autori in 2005), Of Gods and Men (Grand Prize at Cannes in 2010 and César Award for Best Film in 2011), The Price of Fame (in competition at Venice in 2014) and The Guardians (unveiled at Toronto in 2017). Among the cast are Belgium’s Jérémie Renier (set to grace screens next year in Slalom and Justice), Marie Julie Maille (The Guardians), Victor Belmondo (Sweetheart,...

French producer Sylvie Pialat at Les Films du Worso is teaming up with Palme d’Or winning director Cristian Mungiu on “To the Edge of Sorrow,” a drama based on Holocaust survivor Aharon Appelfeld ‘s book.

“To the Edge of Sorrow” inspired by a true story, follows a intrepid Jewish teenager who managed to escape from the Nazis and found refuge in the mountains where he took part in an organized resistance movement along with other Jewish of diverse backgrounds and generations. The film will be directed by Michel Spinosa (“Enchanted Interlude”). The script of the film was written in collaboration with Valérie Zenatti, Appelfeld’s French translator.

Les Films du Losange, the banner behind Michael Haneke’s films, has taken French rights to the project and is handling international sales. The film is co-produced by Belgian coproducer Patrick Quinet (Artemis) and David Silber from Israeli company Metro Communication.

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A different version of “The Sower,” Marine Francen’s poised and petite freshman feature, might have included the extended, rather remarkable story behind its literary source. Aged 84, former village schoolteacher Violette Ailhaud wrote her autobiographical short story “L’homme semence” in 1919, passing it to an attorney with clear instructions that it be given to her eldest female descendant in 1952, a full century after the events it documents; a curious, bittersweet tale of lost innocence and sexual conspiracy in a community of women, it remained in the family for half a century before being published, to steadily building acclaim, in 2006. Some manner of film adaptation was inevitable. Francen’s, however, honors Ailhaud by telling only the story she wrote, albeit with subtly modernized language and aesthetics, underlining its enduringly provocative gender politics in the process.

The resulting film is so delicately wrought and exquisitely visualized that the harsher, eerier details of...

In a time when the term “fake news” is being thrown around and the United States has been added to the list of one of the most dangerous countries to be a journalist, it’s nice to know that there is one silver lining: this year’s New Year’s Eve celebration in Times Square will be dedicated to the freedom of press.

Joel Simon, executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, will initiate the ball drop on Monday in Times Square while yet-to-be-named journalists from various U.S. and international outlets will be the guests of honor at the party in one of the most iconic party spots for New Year’s Eve.

This news comes after a tough year for journalists when it comes to the backlash, wild scrutiny, and the Trump administration. There are two journalist attacks in particular that influenced organizers to dedicate the Times...

“Morning Joe” co-host Mika Brzezinski apologized on Wednesday after dubbing secretary of state Mike Pompeo an aspiring “butt-boy” for Saudi Arabia Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman.

“Super Bad choice of words .. I should have said ‘water boy’ … like for football teams or something like that,” she later tweeted, while tagging Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin — who was on set at the time — to apologize to him too.

“So Sorry!” she said in all caps on Twitter shortly after the show wrapped. MSNBC declined to offer additional comment.

Also Read: 'Morning Joe' Says 'Buffoon' Trump 'Embarrassed Himself' in Fight With Pelosi and Schumer

The “buttboy” moment happened during the show’s final 30 minutes Wednesday, while the gang on set dissected an interview Pompeo gave to “Fox & Friends” that same morning. During his appearance, Pompeo defended Bin Salman and continued to insist — despite an avalanche of evidence to the contrary — that...

Time Magazine has named a group of journalists that they labeled “The Guardians” and the “War on Truth” as its 2018 Person of the Year, passing on President Trump for a second consecutive year along with a number of more famous names on the list.

“The manipulation and abuse of truth is really the common thread in so many of this year’s major stories,” Time Magazine editor Edward Felsenthal said during a reveal on the “Today” show Tuesday. “We chose to highlight four individuals and one group who have taken great risks in pursuit of greater truth.”

Those honored in this year’s issue include murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Filipina reporter Maria Ressa, two Reuters journalists currently imprisoned in Myanmar, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, and the entire staff at Maryland’s Capital Gazette newspaper.

Also Read: Washington Post Fact Checker Introduces Whole New Category for Trump Era:...

You want an old fashioned drama? Look no further, The Guardians is here.

The Guardians (Les Gardiennes) is a film set during World War I about love and loss. While the men are out fighting the war, the women of the Paridier farm have to maintain the land as they also have to worry if their husbands, brothers and sons will return home. The drama begins to pick up when an outsider, Francine (Iris Bry), comes in to help with the workload and the men come home for a short leave.

To get this out of the way, I usually do not watch many subtitled films. I’m just a slow reader and I can’t keep up with reading the subtitles while trying to watch what is going on. That being said, I did not have a problem with keeping up with this film.

For being a two hour plus film,...

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again hits £54.5m in the UK.

Today’s Gbp to Usd conversion rate - 1.28

RankFilm / DistributorThree-day gross (Aug 17-19) Running gross Week 1 Christopher Robin (Disney) £2.4m £2.5m 1 2 Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (Disney) £2.2m £54.5m 5 3 The Meg (Warner Bros) £2.1m £8.5m 2 4 The Equalizer 2 (Universal) £1.9m £2m 1 5 Incredibles 2 (Disney) £1.4m £48.6m 6 Disney

Christopher Robin, director Marc Forster’s film based on A. A. Milne’s classic Winnie-the-Pooh children’s novels, starring Ewan McGregor alongside a CGI Winnie (voiced by Jim Cummings) got underway in the UK with a £2.4m weekend from 658 sites, an average of £3,647. With previews,...

A war movie where the battles are fought far from home but resonate deeply with those who’ve been left behind, The Guardians (Les Gardiennes) marks a satisfyingly low-key return to form for French auteur Xavier Beauvois (Of Gods and Men, Le Petit lieutenant).

Straightforward and simply told, with emotions running just below the surface and then boiling up at key moments, this femme-centric drama — about a group of women holding down the family farm while the men are away at the front — is perhaps a tad too long and restrained for mainstream consumption. But it proves that Beauvois...