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Oct222025 by cineverseNo Comments

Yamada Yoji to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award at Tokyo Film Festival

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By Naman Ramachandran According To The variety The Tokyo International Film Festival has revealed that veteran Japanese director Yamada Yoji will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at its 38th edition, recognizing a career spanning more than 60 years and 91 films. Yamada’s latest work, “Tokyo Taxi,” starring Baisho Chieko and Kimura Takuya, based on the 2023 French film “Driving Madeleine,” will screen as this year’s TIFF Centerpiece and receive theatrical release on Nov. 21. The director will also participate in a talk session with “Kokuho” director Lee Sang-il at the TIFF Lounge As previously announced, legendary Japanese actor Yoshinaga Sayuri will also be honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award. Since his 1961 directorial debut with “Nikai...

Oct222025 by cineverseNo Comments

Kevin O’Leary Suggests Using AI Extras Instead of Humans ‘Could Save Millions’ for Movies Like ‘Marty Supreme’: ‘Just Put 100 Norwell Tillies in There’

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By J. Kim Murphy According To The variety Kevin O’Leary delivered one of his first promotional plugs for A24’s “Marty Supreme” in typically business-minded fashion. The investor and “Shark Tank” host, who gives his debut feature film acting performance in the upcoming Timothée Chalamet vehicle, suggested that movies like his own could “save millions of dollars” by replacing background actors with AI-generated stand-ins. In an interview on the Oct. 16 episode of The Hill’s “World of Travel: The Podcast,” O’Leary discussed his own investments in AI and used “Marty Supreme” as an example to discuss the technology’s potential implementation in the film industry. “Almost every scene had as many as 150 extras. Now, those people have to stay awake for 18 hours, be completely dr...

Oct212025 by cineverseNo Comments

Adam Driver Pitched Kylo Ren ‘Star Wars’ Standalone Movie With Steven Soderbergh, but Disney Rejected Script: ‘One of the Coolest’ Projects ‘I Had Ever Been a Part of’

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By Jack Dunn According To The variety Adam Driver and Steven Soderbergh almost brought their own twist to a galaxy far, far away. In a recent sit down with AP, Driver said that over the span of two years, he and Soderbergh developed a script called “The Hunt for Ben Solo.” The film would have taken place after the events of “The Rise of Skywalker,” and followed Driver’s Kylo Ren, aka Ben Solo, on a search for redemption. Soderbergh roughed out the story with “Logan Lucky” screenwriter Rebecca Blunt. Scott Z. Burns later joined to pen the script.“I always was interested in doing another ‘Star Wars,’” Driver said. “I had been talking about doing another one since 2021. Kathleen [Kennedy] had reached out. I always said: ‘With a great director and a great story, I’...

Oct212025 by cineverseNo Comments

Ewan McGregor Getting BAFTA Honor, Warner Bros. Discovery to Relaunch TLC Channel in U.K. — Global Bulletin

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By Alex Ritman According To The variety MCGREGOR GETS LIFETIME HONOR Ewan McGregor is set to be honored with an outstanding contribution to film and television award by BAFTA Scotland. Across a more than three-decade career, the actor — born in Perthshire — has become renowned for roles in “Trainspotting,” “Moulin Rouge!” “Brassed Off,” “Shallow Grave,” and the “Star Wars” franchise, among many. McGregor has been honored by BAFTA Scotland previously, winning awards for his roles in 1996’s “Trainspotting” and 2003’s “Young Adam.” The outstanding achievement honor will be award at the BAFTA Scotland Awards ceremony in Glasgow on Sunday 16 November. “It’s so lovely to be thought of for this year’s BAFTA Scotland Special Award, and I am excited to go to the event and lo...

Oct202025 by cineverseNo Comments

Lucca Seen as a Place of Liberation and Community in Manlio Castagna Documentary: ‘They Put on Masks to Show Their True Selves’

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By Leo Barraclough According To The variety “I first came to Lucca in 2018, and I thought at the time, it was a sort of a carnival with a lot of people with strange costumes and stuff like that,” film director Manlio Castagna tells Variety. “But when I entered this incredible walled city, I had the feeling it was not just a carnival, but a place where people could be happy with their identities. Lucca Comics & Games is a place where people can be whatever they want to be. They put on masks to show their true selves.” Castagna is the director of the new documentary “I Love Lucca Comics & Games,” a passionate love letter to the biggest comic convention in Europe. For five days, the medieval Italian town in the heart of Tuscany is transformed into a Cosplay Mecca, wi...

Oct202025 by cineverseNo Comments

Robert De Niro Says ‘We Can’t Let Up’ the Fight Against Trump Because ‘He Does Not Want to Leave the White House’: ‘There’s No Other Way to Face a Bully’

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By Jack Dunn According To The variety Robert De Niro is telling Americans to keep protesting against Donald Trump. After Saturday’s nationwide No Kings protests, De Niro told MSNBC that the country needs to show “much more” resistance, because that’s “the only thing the politicians are going to recognize.” He added that we need to make lawmakers “more afraid of the wrath of the people” than the “wrath of Trump.” “We can’t let up,” De Niro said. “Cannot let up on him because he is not going to leave the White House. He does not want to leave the White House. He will not leave the White House. Anybody thinks he, oh, he’ll do this, he’ll do that, it’s just deluding themselves.” He added, “The Republicans, most of all, because they know, but they’re going along ...

Oct192025 by cineverseNo Comments

Bugonia’ Sets Early Screening For Audience Members Who Are Bald or ‘Willing To Shave’ Their Heads: ‘This Is Real

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By Andrew McGowan According To The variety Want to see Emma Stone‘s new film “Bugonia” before its wide release on Oct. 24? The Yorgos Lanthimos-directed film is having an early screening in Los Angeles on Monday, Oct. 20, at 8 p.m. However, there’s a catch: in order to attend the screening at the Culver Theater on Monday night, all audience members must either arrive bald or with their heads shaved before entering the auditorium. DoLA posted the screening’s requirements on its Instagram page on Oct. 17, stating, “Are you bald, or willing to shave your head? On Monday, 10/20, head to the Culver Theater for a FREE advanced screening of ‘Bugonia’ – the new Focus Features fever dream from Yorgos Lanthimos, starring Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons.” The post conti...