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Digger trailer: An unrecognisable Tom Cruise goes wild to complete another mission; fans say he is coming for the Oscar

Digger trailer: An unrecognisable Tom Cruise goes wild to complete another mission; fans say he is coming for the Oscar

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Digger trailer: After months of anticipation, the makers of Tom Cruise‘s Digger have released the official trailer of the film. And as many predicted it, the film presents Tom Cruise in a completely unrecognisable avatar- with his face covered in make-up. He plays Digger Rockwell, and the man may have set off a massive global ecological disaster. The political comedy presents itself as a satire on ecological collapse and climate change. Tom Cruise in a still from Digger, which releases in theatres on October 2. About the trailer The trailer opens with Tom’s Digger being presented with an unimaginable crisis. Sporting a thick Southern accent, he plays a billionaire whose company is somehow responsible for having set off an ecological disaster by causing a glacier to shift significantly. “That glacier over there in Greenland shifts five feet. Now, this desk in front of me is bigger than five feet. My dick is a tenth of that size,” he says, irritated, over a zoom call. John Goodman portrays the US president who accompanied Digger in an …

OpenAI founder Sam Altman’s biopic, Artificial, finds new backer in Neon after being dropped by Amazon

OpenAI founder Sam Altman’s biopic, Artificial, finds new backer in Neon after being dropped by Amazon

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Artificial, Luca Guadagnino’s starry film about Sam Altman and OpenAI, generated quite a few headlines in June when Amazon MGM Studios backed out of producing it. This left the almost-completed film in limbo. But now, a new production house has acquired it, pretty much reviving the film from the dead. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is played by Andrew Garfiled in Artificial. Neon acquires Artificial Indie distributor Neon said on Tuesday that it had bought the film following a bidding process, according to a report by Associated Press. Neon has said that it plans to release the film later this year and “compete in this year’s Oscar race.” Neon declined to disclose how much it paid for the worldwide rights to Artificial. “The acquisition underscores Neon’s commitment to partnering with visionary filmmakers, and bringing ambitious cinema to audiences around the world,” the studio said in a statement. In the past few years, Neon has established an enviable awards-season track record with Oscar winners like Parasite and Anora. The speciality label has backed the last seven Palme …

Vishal Bhardwaj among 6 Indians invited to Oscar voting panel by Academy; joins Jacob Elordi, Jenna Ortega, Zach Cregger

Vishal Bhardwaj among 6 Indians invited to Oscar voting panel by Academy; joins Jacob Elordi, Jenna Ortega, Zach Cregger

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On Wednesday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that it has invited 529 people to join the Oscars voting body, a prestigious honour in the cinema world. And while the list is naturally dominated by actors and filmmakers from the United States, it has representation from all over the world, including six names from India as well, including filmmaker and composer Vishal Bhardwaj. Director, screenwriter, producer, music composer and playback singer Vishal Bhardwaj has been invited to join the Academy. (File Photo: AFP) Oscars Academy invites 529 new members The Academy has sent out invites to over 500 people associated with cinema, including One Battle After Another nominee Teyana Taylor, actors Josh O’Connor, Jenna Ortega, Jacob Elordi, and Simu Liu, and filmmakers Josh and Benny Safdie and Weapons director Zach Cregger. Other new members include Anthony Ramos, Bill Skarsgård, Mia Goth, Jon Bernthal, Jemaine Clement, Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù and Stephen Fry. If all new members accept their invitations, the film academy will number 11,319, with 10,338 voting members. This almost doubles the number …

Can This Horror Sensation Beat Michael B Jordan’s Oscar Winning Sinners Domestically?

Can This Horror Sensation Beat Michael B Jordan’s Oscar Winning Sinners Domestically?

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Obsession North America Box Office: Can It Beat Sinners Domestically? ( Photo Credit – Instagram ) Obsession is the year’s biggest horror phenomenon. It is not falling apart like the Backrooms, and it has been going really strong at the box office. It crossed the $200 million milestone worldwide. The Curry Barker movie became the first horror film of the year to cross a key milestone at the domestic box office. As it continues its amazing run, one big question is whether it can surpass Sinners’ domestic haul in its theatrical run. Keep scrolling for the deets. Obsession crosses the $150 million The Curry Barker movie collected a massive $25.4 million at the North American box office. It recorded the biggest 4th weekend ever for a horror at the domestic box office, which is even more than Sinners’ $22.1 million. It is currently running in 2900 locations in North America. After four weekends, the movie reached a domestic cume of $151.9 million. How much is needed to surpass Sinners at the North American box office? …

Obsession review: Curry Barker’s ‘nice guy expose’ is dark, triggering, splendid; give Inde Navarrette the Oscar already

Obsession review: Curry Barker’s ‘nice guy expose’ is dark, triggering, splendid; give Inde Navarrette the Oscar already

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Obsession Director: Curry Barker Cast: Michael Johnston, Inde Navarrette, Cooper Tomlinson, Megan Lawless, Andy Richter Rating: ★★★★★ I am breaking a cardinal rule of mine for movie reviews with Obsession. This will be a spoiler-filled review. Usually, I talk about how a film has been made and how it made me feel, and that is enough. But with Obsession, it is impossible to discuss its impact or critique it without the specifics of those scenes and themes. To say that Obsession will go down in history as one of the seminal horror films is no exaggeration. Curry Barker’s feature film debut is everything horror needs to be – dark, tragic, scary, and discomforting. But it is so much more. It shines a mirror onto our society’s most privileged and ubiquitous monster – the nice guys. And it does so in a way that feels relatable across genders. Obsession review: Inde Navarrette delivers a performance for the ages. The premise (Spoilers ahead!) Bear (Michael Johnston), a music store employee, has an unrequited crush on his co-worker …

John Travolta breaks down in tears after getting surprise honorary Palme d’Or at Cannes Film Festival: ‘Beyond Oscar…’

John Travolta breaks down in tears after getting surprise honorary Palme d’Or at Cannes Film Festival: ‘Beyond Oscar…’

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Hollywood star John Travolta received a major surprise while premiering his directorial debut, Propeller One-Way Night Coach, at the Cannes Film Festival, when he was presented with an honorary Palme d’Or, the festival’s equivalent of a lifetime achievement award, leaving the actor emotional and in tears on stage. John Travolta received an honourary lifetime achievement Palm d’Or award prior to the screening of the film Propeller One-Way Night Coach at the 79th edition of the Cannes Film Festival. (Photo by Olivier CHASSIGNOLE / AFP) (AFP) John Travolta gets honorary Palme d’Or Festival head Thierry Frémaux surprised John, 72, with the prestigious award onstage at the Debussy Theater on Friday, calling him “one of the greatest actors” deserving of an award. John was shocked and overwhelmed by the surprise honour, and was seen holding back tears while saying, “This is beyond the Oscar.” “Surprise complétement!. I can’t believe this. This is the last thing I expected. You (Cannes director Thierry Fremaux) said this would be a special night, but I didn’t know it would mean this,” …

Made for ₹1400 crore, earned ₹6 crore; world’s biggest box office bomb featured MCU star, Oscar winner; yet saw 99% loss

Made for ₹1400 crore, earned ₹6 crore; world’s biggest box office bomb featured MCU star, Oscar winner; yet saw 99% loss

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In the age of shrinking borders in the movie business, film industries around the world are pushing the envelope with bigger, grander productions. Indian cinema is attempting to conquer the world, for instance, with Varanasi and Ramayana, the two most expensive Indian films ever made. Korean films are going bigger and grander in a similar vein, while China recently delivered its first billion-dollar blockbuster, Ne Zha 2. Recently, Saudi Arabia attempted the same, mounting a big film on a massive scale, featuring big Hollywood stars. But the end result was dismal as it all came crashing down at the box office, culminating in the biggest box-office bomb in history. Anthony Mackie and Aiysha Hart in a still from Desert Warrior. The world’s biggest box office bomb In November 2021, Saudi media conglomerate MBC Group’s film production company, MBC Studios, announced Desert Warrior, a grand film aimed to revitalise the Saudi film industry. The film was co-produced by JB Pictures, AGC Studios, and Studio Mechanical, and directed by Rupert Wyatt, best known for Rise of the …

Russian director Pasha Talankin’s Oscar located by Lufthansa after going missing in transit

Russian director Pasha Talankin’s Oscar located by Lufthansa after going missing in transit

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London, German airline Lufthansa has said that it has located the Oscar statuette belonging to Russian filmmaker Pasha Talankin that went missing after airport security at New York’s JFK flagged it as a potential weapon and forced him to check it in as cargo. Russian director Pasha Talankin’s Oscar located by Lufthansa after going missing in transit Talankin, co-director of “Mr. Nobody Against Putin” which won the Best Feature Documentary at the Academy Awards in March this year, had been left in a state of shock after the award vanished during his journey from New York to Frankfurt on Wednesday. In a statement to BBC on Friday evening, the airline said the trophy had been found and will be returned to Talankin “as quickly as possible”. “We can confirm that the Oscar statue has now been located and is safely in our care in Frankfurt. We are in direct contact with the guest to arrange its personal return as quickly as possible. We sincerely regret the inconvenience caused and have apologised to the owner,” Lufthansa …

Oscar trophy for ‘Mr Nobody against Putin’ vanishes after airport check-in at New York | Hollywood News

Oscar trophy for ‘Mr Nobody against Putin’ vanishes after airport check-in at New York | Hollywood News

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Russian filmmaker Pavel Talankin, co-director and star of the Academy Award-winning documentary Mr. Nobody Against Putin, has lost his Oscar statuette after airport security in New York prevented him from carrying it onboard a flight. Talankin was travelling from John F. Kennedy International Airport on Wednesday when officials stopped him at a security checkpoint, claiming the 3.8 kg trophy could pose a security risk. The decision forced him to check in the prestigious award, an outcome that would soon lead to its disappearance. “It’s completely baffling how they consider an Oscar a weapon… (I) flew with it in the cabin, and there never was any kind of problem,” Talankin told PTI from Frankfurt, Germany, where he , where he landed without the statuette. What happened at John F. Kennedy International Airport The filmmaker noted that he had travelled with the Oscar multiple times since winning it in March, always as carry-on luggage, without any issues. This time, Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officials at JFK refused to allow it in the cabin. Attempts to resolve the …

Farah Khan roots for Michael amid negative reviews, wants Oscar for Jaafar Jackson: ‘Critics are morons’

Farah Khan roots for Michael amid negative reviews, wants Oscar for Jaafar Jackson: ‘Critics are morons’

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The biopic on pop sensation Michael Jackson released in theatres worldwide on April 23 and opened to largely negative reviews. However, Indian filmmaker Farah Khan has come out in support of the film, urging audiences to ignore critics and watch it in cinemas. She also expressed hope that Jaafar Jackson wins an Oscar next year for his performance. Farah Khan urges people to watch Michael in theatres. Farah Khan reveals she loved Michael On Saturday, Farah took to Instagram and shared a photo of herself with Michael Jackson. Along with the picture, she penned a note urging people to watch Michael in theatres. She wrote, “Point to be noted… Critics are morons in every country! Go watch MICHEAL!! And someone pls give @jaafarjackson the Oscar next year!” She later reshared the post on her Instagram Story and added, “This film is for us fans and not for the critics. Loved Michael.” Warda Khan also agreed with Farah and commented, “Absolutely, JJ totally deserves an Oscar… Micheal. His story continues….” Fans were equally thrilled to see …