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Sep92024 by cineverseNo Comments

Bruce Springsteen Contemplates Mortality With Toronto Film Festival Documentary ‘Road Diary’: ‘If I Went Tomorrow, It’s OK. What a F—ing Ride!

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By Brent Lang, Rebecca Rubin According To The variety Toronto welcomed “The Boss” on Sunday night. But it was a more contemplative Bruce Springsteen on display at the Roy Thomson Hall for the world premiere of “Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band,” a look at the rock legend and his tight-knit group of collaborators, which also served as a meditation on mortality. Throughout the film and in the post-screening Q&A, though, the 74-year-old rocker stressed that he doesn’t plan to hang up his guitar any time soon. He wants to keep rocking until “the wheels come off.” “If I went tomorrow, it’s OK,” Springsteen told the crowd to loud applause. “What a fucking ride!” Also in the documentary, Springsteen’s wife and E Street bandmate Patti Scialfa revealed s...

Sep82024 by cineverseNo Comments

Kevin Costner Says Scrapped ‘Horizon 2’ Theatrical Release Was ‘Probably a Reaction’ to First Film’s Box Office Performance: ‘It Didn’t Have Overwhelming Success’

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By Ellise Shafer According To The variety Kevin Costner spoke on the scrapped theatrical release of his second “Horizon” film on Saturday during its Venice Film Festival press conference, saying that “it probably was a reaction” to the underperformance of the first movie at the box office. “It didn’t have overwhelming success,” Costner said of the first film. “I’ve had a lot of movies that way, that have stood the test of time.” He added that it was a “studio decision” to release “Chapter Two” six weeks after “Chapter One,” and “it became a studio decision to not.” However, Costner asserted that it all worked out for the best because he got to screen “Horizon 2” at Venice. “For me, it fell back into my plan, which was I always wanted to come out with movies about...

Sep72024 by cineverseNo Comments

Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh Bring Steamy Sex, Sobs and Wild Birthing Scene to TIFF With ‘We Live in Time’

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By Tatiana Siegel According To The variety Like a football player emerging from the huddle, Florence Pugh squatted and grunted as she reenacted a dramatic scene from “We Live in Time” after the film made its splashy debut on Day 2 of the Toronto International Film Festival. During a post-screening Q&A with co-star Andrew Garfield and director John Crowley, Pugh described the making of a wild scene from the tear-jerker cancer drama in which she gives birth in a dingy gas station bathroom while Garfield and two strangers looked on. “It was amazing. I mean, you saw like seven minutes of it. We did 15-minute births like eight times. It was insane,” she told the sniffling audience. “The only problem was, I didn’t have a baby that came out, so I was just so exhauste...

Sep12024 by cineverseNo Comments

Ghosts of German Past From Leni Riefenstahl to the Munich Olympics Unspool at Venice Festival

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By Nick Holdsworth According To The variety Andres Veiel’s documentary “Riefenstahl,” which challenges the carefully crafted public persona of one of Germany’s most controversial directors, is one of 17 German films playing in the various sections of the Venice Film Festival. A deep dive into Leni Riefenstahl’s previously inaccessible archive, the 160-minute film lifts the lid on secrets the director of the 1935 Nuremberg propaganda film “Triumph of the Will” struggled more than half her life to keep hidden. Veiel was brought onboard to direct by producer Sandra Maischberger of Berlin’s Vincent Films, who had gained unfettered access to Riefenstahl’s archive after the death of her longtime companion and husband Horst Kette in 2016. “For me, it is the right festival for the...

Sep12024 by cineverseNo Comments

Jude Law Is Officially Back After 7-Minute Standing Ovation at Venice for Fighting White Supremacy in ‘The Order’

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By Alex Ritman, Nick Vivarelli According To The variety Jude Law lit up the Lido with his powerful performance as an FBI agent fighting neo-Nazi terrorists in Justin Kurzel‘s timely crime thriller “The Order” that elicited a seven-minute standing ovation at its Venice Film Festival premiere. Prior to the screening Jude Law, looking dashing in a black shirtless suit, took selfies with screaming fans on the Palazzo del Cinema red carpet. When the lights went up, Law was glowing as he and director Kurzel and co-stars Nicholas Hoult, Tye Sheridan and Jurnee Smollett soaked up the rapturous seven-minute applause, which could have lasted longer had they not exited the theatre waving to the still cheering crowd. Based on true events, the film is set ...

Aug312024 by cineverseNo Comments

Charli XCX Cast in Erotic Thriller ‘I Want Your Sex,’ With Olivia Wilde and Cooper Hoffman, From Black Bear

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By Matt Donnelly According To The variety Charli XCX has booked her second big-screen role, as the mother of brat summer has been cast in Gregg Araki’s “I Want Your Sex.” A feature described as a descent into a world of “sex, obsession, power, betrayal and murder” — albeit with an irreverent tone — the singer joins previously announced leads Olivia Wilde and Cooper Hoffman (“Licorice Pizza”). Details on Charli’s role are under wraps. Director Araki penned the script with Karley Sciortino and production is set for October in Los Angeles via Black Bear. Charli, born Charlotte Emma Aitchison, was also cast last spring in Daniel Goldhaber’s forthcoming remake of the cult classic “Faces of Death” from Legendary Entertainment. The full synopsis of “I ...

Aug272024 by cineverseNo Comments

Rebel Wilson Film ‘The Deb’ Screens at WME Amid Bare-Knuckled Battle Between ‘Pitch Perfect’ Actor and the Producers (EXCLUSIVE)

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By Tatiana Siegel According To The variety The Deb” has finally made its debut. Sort of. The coming-of-age musical, which has been caught in the middle of a bare-knuckled brawl between director Rebel Wilson and a trio of producers, screened for a select group of industry figures at WME’s offices in Beverly Hills on Monday afternoon. Wilson was in attendance for the screening, which was described as an “intimate private” event in an invitation. Before the screening, the “Pitch Perfect” star made a quick speech thanking everyone for showing up and urged guests “to laugh and cry and feel anything they wanted.” After the credits rolled, Wilson reemerged and teared up, apparently moved by the crowd’s enthusiastic response, according to an attendee. Among the guests were ...