Tuesday, Mar. 26, 2024

Following the success of " Wonka " and the " Dune" movies, Warner Bros. is staying in the Timothée Chalamet business. The star signed a first look deal with the studio to collaborate on future projects as an actor and producer, Warner Bros. said Tuesday.

This doesn't mean that Chalamet...

Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024

Timothée Chalamet and Austin Butler were really looking forward to their fight.

The actors had been training, separately, with a Kali instructor in Los Angeles to prepare for the climactic showdown between Paul Atreides and Feyd Rautha in Denis Villeneuve's "Dune: Part Two." When they...

Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023

The original 1971 "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" may have been a delicious dream, lined with trees of gumballs and fields of lollipops. But never has there been a more cautionary tale about the danger of too much of a good thing.

Magical as that Roald Dahl-scripted film was, it...

Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023

Hugh Grant learned some years ago that if a filmmaker doesn't make something from the heart, it shows. The films that work best, and are most loved, he's found, are the ones that the directors really meant.

It applied to his romantic comedies with Richard Curtis as well as "Paddington 2...

Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022

It is early afternoon in late August at the Belmond Hotel Cipriani and Luca Guadagnino has just returned from the Palazzo del Cinema at the Venice Film Festival to do a tech check for his new film "Bones and All " the day before the world premiere. It was the first time he'd seen it projected on...

Friday, Sep. 2, 2022

Timothée Chalamet was feeling cut off from the world in the early days of the pandemic. Then Luca Guadagnino, whom Chalamet saw as a father figure while filming "Call Me By Your Name," called with a new possible project. It would be another young romance set in the 1980s. But instead of Italy...

Friday, Sep. 3, 2021

Denis Villeneuve's adaption of Frank Herbert's "Dune" was always envisioned as two films. But even if the sequel is anything but a certainty, it's already been a "dream" for the Canadian director and his star Timothée Chalamet. 

"Simply put, this was the honor of a lifetime for me,"...

Monday, Feb. 8, 2021

The mood on the field was tense during the Super Bowl as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers trounced the Kansas City Chiefs. Off the field, brands sought to relieve the tension of the game — and the year — with lighthearted commercials stuffed with celebrities and nostalgic characters.

They aimed...

Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2019

There aren't many directors who would be happy about a film taking nearly seven years to get off the ground, but that's precisely the case with David Michôd's "The King." The long development process, delays and studio changes for his and Joel Edgerton's vision for a Henry V film had a silver...

Monday, Sep. 2, 2019

Timothée Chalamet is already one of the most acclaimed young actors working today, but he says that the prospect playing young Henry V in "The King" was terrifying.

"It was a real challenge for me," Chalamet said Monday at the Venice International Film Festival, where the film is having...

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