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May252024 by cineverseNo Comments

Morgan Spurlock, ‘Super Size Me’ Director, Dies at 53

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By Addie Morfoot Morgan Spurlock, a documentary filmmaker who captured his own psychological and physical symptoms from eating McDonald’s every day for a month in the Oscar-nominated 2004 feature “Super Size Me,” died Thursday in upstate New York due to complications of cancer. He was 53. Spurlock’s family confirmed his death. “It was a sad day, as we said goodbye to my brother Morgan,” says Craig Spurlock, who worked with his brother on several projects. “Morgan gave so much through his art, ideas and generosity. Today the world has lost a true creative genius and a special man. I am so proud to have worked together with him.” Spurlock rose to prominence for “Super Size Me,” in which he conducted an experiment involving consuming only food from McDonald’s for a 30-day stretch....

May252024 by cineverseNo Comments

Emily in Paris’ Season 5 Role Auctioned Off in Cannes, but Netflix Denies Renewal

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By Joe Otterson “Emily in Paris” Season 5? Not so fast. During the amfAR Gala at the Cannes Film Festival, which raises money for research to end HIV and AIDS, Winnie Harlow and Paris Jackson appeared onstage to auction off a walk-on role in a previously unannounced fifth season of the Netflix series. The winner of the auction shelled out €250,000 to appear in the series as well as the chance to attend the Season 4 premiere in Los Angeles. Harlow and Jackson also said that Season 5 of the popular series is scheduled to begin shooting in mid 2025. However, an individual with knowledge of the situation says that Netflix has not in fact greenlit another season of “Emily in Paris.” According to the official amfAR auction website, the walk-on role came “Courtesy of Darre...

May212024 by cineverseNo Comments

In pictures: Mongolian projects pitched in Cannes

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MONGOLIAN FILM COUNCIL Mongolia’s film industry is on the rise, with a momentum that began at Cannes in 2023. Zoljargal Purevdash’s If Only I Could Hibernate was the first Mongolian film to be shown in Cannes’ official selection when it played in Un Certain Regard last year, going on to win a jury prize at Tokyo FilmEx and scoring box-office success both at home and internationally. It was followed by Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir’s City Of Wind, the first feature from the Asian country to play Toronto and Venice. Both features followed the introduction of a film law in January 2022 to promote production in Mongolia, leading to the establishment of the Mongolian National Film Council (MNFC) and Mongolian Film Fund. International film productions can now receive up ...

May212024 by cineverseNo Comments

‘Kurak’ set up as first France-Kyrgyzstan co-production (exclusive)

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BY SILVIA WONG Erke Dzhumakmatova and Emil Atageldiev’s gritty drama Kurak is set to be the first official France-Kyrgyzstan co-production, following an agreement signed between CNC and Kyrgyzstan’s Cinema Department in Cannes. Through Oymo Studio, director Dzhumakmatova is also the main producer of Kurak, an international collaboration co-produced with France’s Johann Chapelan of Girelle Production, along with Kairat Birimkulov from Switzerland’s KBP and Katerina Tarbo-Ignatenko from Serbia’s Spirito Libero. Based on true events, the film touches on the disempowerment of women against the background of the patriarchal society of modern-day Kyrgyzstan. It is set in the capital Bishkek, using locations where the real events took place. The story revolves around a ...

May212024 by cineverseNo Comments

AGC reports roaring Cannes trade on Ron Howard all-star, Venice-tipped package ‘Eden’ (exclusive)

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BY JEREMY KAY AGC International has closed major territory sales here in Cannes on Eden, Ron Howard’s all-star survival thriller and potential awards season contender which is tipped to land a Venice world premiere slot. A multi-territory deal with Amazon Prime Video includes the UK & Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, France, Scandinavia, Spain, Latin America, Japan, South Korea, South Africa, India, Turkey, West Indies, and Asia pay-TV. Jude Law, Ana de Armas, Sydney Sweeney, Vanessa Kirby, and Daniel Brühl star in the story based on an unsolved mystery in the Galapagos which explores the lengths people go in pursuit of happiness. Rights have also gone in: Germany (Leonine); Italy (Italian International Film); Middle East (Selim Ramia); former Yugoslavia, Polan...

May202024 by cineverseNo Comments

Unplanned CSI: Vegas Series Finale Leaves Fans With Some Cliffhangers — Though a Killer Tease Got Edited Out

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BY MATT WEBB MITOVICH The following contains spoilers from the May 19 episode of CBS‘ CSI: Vegas aka the Season 3 finale aka unplanned series finale. In its unplanned series finale, CBS’ cancelled CSI: Vegas featured a final, brilliant bit of bravado for lab boss Maxine Roby. Abducted at gunpoint last week by, it turns out, the true mastermind of the AI robot-manned operation — a Saudi spy (played by Faran Tahir) whose people had infiltrated Truman Thomas’ operation, and recently offed the tech titan — Maxine bought herself some time by pointing out that the DNA hacking method was “sloppy.” After all, the text encoded within the DNA revealed itself to Maxine and her team, after which they were able to locate the hidden lab. Before be...

May202024 by cineverseNo Comments

CSI: Vegas’: Paula Newsome Talks Finale Twist, Max’s New Love & More

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Meredith Jacobs [Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for the CSI: Vegas series finale “Tunnel Vision.”] CSI: Vegas wraps its three-season run by closing out one case and introducing a new one. The robotics case is closed after Max (Paula Newsome) is abducted—to make synthetic DNA for foreign intelligence—and Chris (Jay Lee) ends up in the hospital due to his exposure to a nerve agent. The good news: Max is rescued (her own doing, and with help from the others). But then the final moments tease a new serial killer in Las Vegas, one who has been killing in the shadows. Below, Newsometakes us inside the finale Talk about your reaction to the cancellation and how it’s been looking back at playing Max sincePaula Newsome: First of all, it was a sur...