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Monday, Sep. 11, 2023
Biggest U.S. Antitrust Trial In Decades To Center On Google's Search Engine Dominance
The U.S. government is taking aim at what has been an indomitable empire: Google's ubiquitous search engine that has become the internet's main gateway. The legal attack will swing into full force Tuesday in a Washington D.C. federal courtroom that will serve as the battleground for the biggest U.S...
Monday, Sep. 11, 2023
MADRE Adds Mr. Yankey To Its Directorial Roster
Director Ato Yankey--aka Mr Yankey, who hails from the U.K.--has signed with MADRE for representation in the U.S. This marks his first signing in the American market. He continues to be repped by production house Armoury in the U.K. ad arena. With a career spanning over a decade, Mr Yankey has...
Monday, Sep. 11, 2023
Director Craig Gillespie's "Dumb Money" Goes All In On GameStop Stock Frenzy--And May Come Out A Winner
Think of movies about the financial system and your mind is almost sure to go to Gordon Gekko and "Wall Street" or Leonardo DiCaprio's gyrating Jordan Belfort in "The Wolf of Wall Street." When Hollywood takes on Wall Street, it usually heads straight to the C-suite. The protagonist of "Dumb Money...
Monday, Sep. 11, 2023
Park Pictures Signs Director Caroline Koning For U.S. Representation
Director Caroline Koning has signed with Park Pictures for U.S. representation. The self-taught writer and director’s approach to commercial filmmaking is shaped by her experience within fashion and the agency world. Her extensive portfolio of work speaks to Koning’s voracious appetite for creative...
Monday, Sep. 11, 2023
Director Jeana Khoury Joins Tessa Films For Commercials, Branded Content
Director Jeana Khoury--whose work for the Joburg Ballet and her powerful “Bride Armour” anti-domestic violence spot for Carling Black Label have won awards and raised eyebrows--brings her talent for visual storytelling to the roster of Tessa Films for U.S. representation spanning commercials and...
Monday, Sep. 11, 2023
Cord Jefferson Makes Auspicious Directing Debut With "American Fiction"
Fifty pages into Percival Everett's "Erasure," Cord Jefferson knew he wanted to adapt it into a movie script. Halfway through, he began to see Jeffrey Wright playing the book's academic protagonist, Thelonious "Monk" Ellison. By the time he was finished, he knew he wanted to direct it, too. As...
Sunday, Sep. 10, 2023
Paul Simon Takes A Bow After Career-Spanning Documentary Debuts At Toronto Festival
After a three-and-a-half-hour documentary on his life, Paul Simon had only sympathy for the audience. "You're probably exhausted," Simon told the crowd after the premiere of Alex Gibney's "In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon" on Sunday at the Toronto International Film Festival. The 81-year...
Sunday, Sep. 10, 2023
Vicky Krieps Delves Into "The Dead Don't Hurt" and How She Leaves Behind Past Roles
Vicky Krieps noticed that while there's plenty of instruction for getting into a role, there's curiously little about getting out of one. For Krieps, the disarmingly natural Luxembourgish actor of "Phantom Thread,""Corsage" and "Bergman Island," it's not a small issue. It may even be the most...
Sunday, Sep. 10, 2023
"The Nun II" Tops Weekend Box Office With $32.6 Million
Like many horrors before it, bad reviews didn't scare off moviegoers from buying tickets for " The Nun II." The sequel to the 2018 hit, released in 3,728 theaters by Warner Bros., topped the box office in its first weekend in North American theaters earning an estimated $32.6 million, the studio...
Saturday, Sep. 9, 2023
Director Yorgos Lanthimos' "Poor Things" Wins Golden Lion At 80th Venice Film Festival
"Poor Things," a film about Victorian-era female empowerment, won the Golden Lion on Saturday at a Venice Film Festival largely deprived of Hollywood glamour because of the writers and actors strikes. The film, starring Emma Stone, won the top prize at the 80th edition of the festival, which is...