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Sep242025 by cineverseNo Comments

The Bride’ Trailer: Christian Bale Is Frankenstein and Jessie Buckley His Reanimated Bride in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Gritty Horror

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By Lauren Coates According To The variety She’s alive! Warner Bros. Pictures has released the first trailer for Maggie Gyllenhaal’s monster movie “The Bride,” starring Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale. The film’s official synopsis reads: “A lonely Frankenstein travels to 1930s Chicago to seek the aid of a Dr. Euphronius in creating a companion for himself. The two reinvigorate a murdered young woman and the Bride is born. She is beyond what either of them intended, igniting a combustible romance, the attention of the police and a wild and radical social movement.” Inspired by James Whale’s “Bride of Frankenstein” and Mary Shelley’s 1818 “Frankenstein” novel, “The Bride” stars Buckley in the titular role, while Bale plays Frankenstein’s monster. The cast also includes Penélop...

Sep222025 by cineverseNo Comments

Golden Leopard Winner Miyake Sho on Adapting Tsuge Manga for Busan Competition Title ‘Two Seasons, Two Strangers’

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By Jenny S. Li According To The variety Japanese writer-director Miyake Sho‘s “Two Seasons, Two Strangers” is currently screening in competition at the Busan International Film Festival, following his Locarno Golden Leopard win, offering audiences an adaptation that weaves together two separate manga by legendary artist Tsuge Yoshiharu. Drawing from Tsuge’s 1967 and 1968 short stories, the film follows a screenwriter named Lee (played by Korean actress Shim Eun-kyung) as she embarks on contrasting seasonal journeys — a summer encounter at a seaside town and a winter retreat to a remote mountain lodge. “One day the image came to me, as if it were a poster with summer and winter landscapes placed side by side,” Miyake tells Variety. “By presenting two contrasting seas...

Sep222025 by cineverseNo Comments

Tom Holland Suffers Concussion on ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Set, Pauses Filming

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By Jordan Moreau According To The variety Tom Holland suffered a mild concussion on the set of his upcoming superhero movie “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” on Friday, Variety can confirm. The star will take a break from filming as a precaution and return to set in a few days. Sony, who is producing the movie alongside Marvel Studios, will meet on Monday to work out a plan going forward. Nobody else was injured during the incident. “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” began production in Glasgow in early August, and it’s set to release in theaters next year on July 31. Last month, Sony released a video of Holland on set in his new Spidey suit, the first time he’s been back as Spider-Man since 2021’s “Spider-Man: No Way Home.” “It’s day one, my fourth ever day one on ...

Sep222025 by cineverseNo Comments

Film Factory Boards Director Daniel Monzón’s ‘Pray for Us,’ From ‘Robot Dreams’ Producer Arcadia Motion Pictures (EXCLUSIVE)

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By Callum McLennan According To The variety Spain’s Film Factory Entertainment has picked up global rights to “Pray for Us,” the latest from Daniel Monzón, produced by Arcadia Motion Pictures, the Madrid-based outfit behind Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s “The Beasts” and Pablo Berger’s Oscar-nominated “Robot Dreams.” Headlined by Zoe Bonafonte (“The Goldsmith’s Secret,” “The 47”) and Manuela Calle (“Marbella”), the film also stars Adelfa Calvo (“On the Fringe,” “God’s Crooked Lines”), Malena Gutiérrez (“Bitching and Witching,” “All About My Mother”) and María Cerezuela (“Maixabel”). Reuniting Monzón with longtime co-writer Jorge Guerricaechevarría and inspired by real events “Pray for Us” dramatizes one of the most silenced chapters of Franco’s Spain: the Patronato de Protecci...

Sep212025 by cineverseNo Comments

San Sebastián’s Development Program Ikusmira Berriak Sees 34% Increase in Applications in a Year of Outstanding Success

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By Rafa Sales Ross According To The variety San Sebastián’s Ikusmira Berriak residency program is back for its 11th year with a crop of exciting new projects in development. Created in 2015 to promote emerging talent and delivered in partnership with the Tabakalera-International Centre for Contemporary Culture and the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola (EQZE) training centre, the initiative offers five residencies to filmmakers each year. The program consists of a stay of eight weeks divided into two stages comprising a seven-month mentoring program between March and September, culminating during the festival dates. During the festival, the filmmakers complete the last two weeks of their residency at the Tabakalera building and participate in professional activities that inc...

Sep212025 by cineverseNo Comments

In-I In Motion’ Review: Juliette Binoche Revisits a Daunting but Freeing Artistic Experiment

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By Guy Lodge According To The variety Of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, the screen’s most celebrated dance partners, Katharine Hepburn is famously said to have declared that he gave her class, while she gave him sex appeal. Juliette Binoche and Akram Khan each have both those qualities in spades, so what did they stand to gain from teaming up for a terpsichorean collaboration on the London stage? By 2007, the Oscar-winning French actor and the royally honored British dancer-choreographer had reached the summits of their respective professions — but while both were accomplished performers, Binoche was no professional dancer, while Khan wasn’t a dramatic actor. Unveiled at the U.K.’s National Theater in September 2008, the hybrid stage piece “In-I” was the striking re...

Sep172025 by cineverseNo Comments

Barbra Streisand Pays Tribute to Robert Redford and the ‘Pure Joy’ of Making ‘The Way We Were’ Together: ‘One of the Finest Actors Ever’

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By Ellise Shafer According To The variety Barbra Streisand is sharing her misty watercolor memories of “The Way We Were” co-star Robert Redford. “Every day on the set of ‘The Way We Were’ was exciting, intense and pure joy. We were such opposites: he was from the world of horses; I was allergic to them! Yet, we kept trying to find out more about each other, just like the characters in the movie,” Streisand wrote in a tribute post on Instagram. “Bob was charismatic, intelligent, intense, always interesting— and one of the finest actors ever. The last time I saw him, when he came to lunch, we discussed art and decided to send each other our first drawings. He was one of a kind and I’m so grateful to have had the opportunity to work with him.” Redford, the iconic actor and ...