The BAFTA Film Awards are underway at London’s Royal Festival Hall, where the best films and performances of the year — according to the British Academy — will be revealed. “Oppenheimer” leads the nominations with 13, followed by “Poor Things” with 11. Both are up
“Wonka” has notched another sweet box office benchmark. The fantasy musical, starring Timothée Chalamet as the eccentric, fictional chocolatier, has crossed $600 million globally. After 10 weeks on the big screen, “Wonka” has generated $210 million in North America and $395.1 million internationally for a towering
Beta Cinema has acquired international sales rights outside Italy to “My Place Is Here,” directed by Daniela Porto and Cristiano Bortone. They kicked off sales on the film at the European Film Market. Set in rural Italy’s southern region of Calabria during the late 1940s, “My
David Tennant roped in a host of celebrity friends for his opening monologue at the BAFTAs. The 2024 show started with Tennant re-enacting his hit pandemic show “Staged” alongside Michael Sheen, the premise being that Sheen wanted Tennant to dog-sit his pup Bark Ruffalo on
Over three hours and five different chapters, Matthias Glasner’s “Dying” chronicles the travails of an estranged family of four: an elderly couple on the brink of death, their successful composer son and their alcoholic, ne’er-do-well daughter. The film casts a wide net over their experiences,
Robert Downey Jr. won the BAFTA Award for best supporting actor for his performance in “Oppenheimer” on Sunday night. In his acceptance speech, Downey Jr. took a walk down memory lane and shouted out “that dude” Christopher Nolan. “When I was 15, I wanted to
Sony Pictures has bought international rights to “Materialists,” Celine Song’s follow up to “Past Lives” which is nominated for best picture and original screenplay at the Oscars. The worldwide deal for “Materlialists” excludes certain territories. A24 will handle the U.S. release of “Materialists” which Song
In November 2021, 61 years after Benin gained independence from the French empire, 26 of the many thousands of plundered national antiquities were returned by France to their African home. Inserting an inquisitive, imaginative intelligence into this key moment in the troubled timeline of post-imperial