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Sources describe the under-$10 million-budget heist movie/romantic comedy set against the backdrop of the pandemic lockdown is going to be Doug Liman’s next movie, Filmiere.com reports. Anne Hathaway is said to be in final negotiations to star, and Cillian Murphy is rumored for another key role.

It’s good that Liman does something modest budget before getting his hands on the next “Edge of Tomorrow” film starring Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt, a close friend of Hathaway.

Hathaway has a mixed recent track record; she got Emmy buzz for “Modern Love” and was in critically acclaimed “Dark Waters” but she also had two of her worst-reviewed movies in “The Hustle” and “Serenity”, written and directed by Steven Knight.

“Serenity” was an ambitious thriller but couldn’t come alive well and the interesting thing is despite its failure, Hathaway seems too eager to collaborate with him again since it’s said that he’s going to write the screenplay.

Some of Knight’s scripts handled by others usually turn well and Doug Liman often delivers entertaining films. So it’s worth to wait. We’ll keep you updated on the news.

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This year is full of sad losses and it makes us, Filmiere.com even sadder to report them all. The loss of the weak is Ronald Harwood, South African-born British author, playwright, and screenwriter, best known for his plays for the British stage as well as the screenplays for The Dresser (for which he was nominated for an Oscar).

The Pianist, for which he won the 2003 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. One of the recurring themes in Harwood’s work was his fascination for the stage, its artists and artisans as displayed in the ‘The Dresser’, his plays ‘After the Lions’ (about Sarah Bernard),’Another time’ (about a gifted piano player),

‘Quartet’ (about aging opera singers) and his non-fiction book ‘All the world’s a stage’, a general history of theater. Harwood also has a strong interest in the WWII period, as highlighted by the films ‘Operation Daybreak’, ‘The Statement’, ‘The Pianist’, and his play turned to film ‘Taking Sides’.

He also wrote “Australia”, “Being Julia” and also adapted “Oliver Twist”.

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The Oscars just announced their watershed new diversity and inclusion standards for Best Picture. Police cars revolving light Starting with the 2024 Oscars, a film must meet 2 of the following 4 standards to be eligible for Oscar’s biggest prize, Filmiere.com reports.

And beginning in 2022, films vying for Best Picture must submit a confidential “Academy Inclusion Standards” form, though they do not need to meet the criteria in order to be eligible. The Academy said its new rules were drawn from the British Film Institute Diversity Standards and adapted to serve its specific needs, in consultation with the Producers Guild of America.

Unlike several more recent Academy decisions, it doesn’t sound like only rating-driven choice which is good. Obviously, it caused a stir on the internet but that’s because most people didn’t read the criteria carefully Yes, “The Godfather”, “Fargo”, “No Country for Old Men” – all would still be eligible.

Sure, there are others that won’t be eligible but they could easily make it happen if they’d hired a female costume designer, editor, or more Asian minority actors. That said, there are still questionable things and issues on the decision but they have nearly three years to figure it out.

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This week was also not without its trailers and teasers. Filmiere.com previously reported about the inclusion of “Nomadland” into major film festivals. Ahead of its Venice/Toronto premiere, the film got a short teaser. Frances McDormand-starring drama teaser is very short where we see only McDormand walking but it’s obvious that it’s going to have very gorgeous cinematography.

The movie is scheduled to be released on December 4, 2020, by Searchlight Pictures. “Rebecca”, a new adaptation of the famous story that already has a very famous Hitchcock version gets a new treatment from Netflix and it’s got its trailer out also.

So far, the trailer didn’t cause much spark but with Netflix’s involvement, probably more people of the new generation will get to see than the ones who had seen Hitchcock’s version. Of course, the biggest trailer of the week must be “Dune” which got the first teaser on 8 September with a followed trailer on 9 September.

Denis Villeneuve’s update on the famous, beloved novel stars an ensemble cast and is already one of the most anticipated films

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A call to boycott the film began when the lead actress of the movie “Mulan” Yifei Liu reshared an image posted by the People’s Daily, an official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party. She was quoted as saying “I support Hong Kong police.

You can beat me now. What a shame for Hong Kong. “This sparked international controversy, with Liu being accused of supporting police brutality. The hashtag, #BoycottMulan, has since started trending supporting a boycott of the movie.

A wave of coordinated social media activity in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Thailand over the weekend urged for filmgoers to skip the movie because of past comments made by its star, actress Liu Yifei, supporting Hong Kong’s police force.

Another controversy The “Mulan” credits also offer a thank you to the public security bureau in the city of Turpan, which is where the detainment centers are reportedly in operation. China refers to the facilities as “voluntary education centers,” designed “to improve the region’s security and economic development.”

But as Filmere.com reports based on Hollywood Reporter about Xinjiang: “Uighur residents have reported being subjected to grueling political indoctrination regimens, forced labor, and forced sterilization.”

Certainly “Mulan” was not seemed to be a film that would find itself in the center of political controversy but the backlash is huge, and we’ll see how it’ll affect its box office results and also Disney+ viewership. Filmiere.com will keep you updated on the news.

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Penelope Cruz is set to play the lead role in Italian movie L’immensita with critically-acclaimed filmmaker Emanuele Crialese attached to direct. Cruz always prefers to collaborate with auteurs and Crialese, while hasn’t made a huge hit yet, almost all of his films were critically acclaimed to some degree.

The movie is said to be an “intimate portrayal of a family in the 1970s, depicting Italian society at a turning point.” Cruz will play Clara, a mother who is the central character of the story. She’s no stranger to play Italians as she recently pulled Donatella Versace in the second season of “American Crime Story”.

She earned an Emmy nomination for her fascinating portrayal of the character. ‘L’immensita’ is the story of a symbiotic love, the one between Clara and her children, set in Rome in the ‘70s; a world suspended between neighborhoods under construction and TV shows still in black and white.

New social achievements and old family models, said Crialese. Cruz’s choices are always interesting, so filmiere.com will be looking forward to furthering details on the film.

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Filmiere.com was unsure of the fact that if “Mank” will still keep getting released in October or not since not much left but we didn’t have a trailer or poster or anything but the good news is here; now the stills are out. One of the most anticipated films of the year; “Mank” tells the story of Citizen Kane co-writer Herman J. Mankiewicz

(Gary Oldman) on his tumultuous path to developing one of the greatest cinematic masterpieces of all time. Actor Tom Burke will portray Orson Welles. The film will follow Mankiewicz as he attempts to hand off the Citizen Kane screenplay to Welles.

This is a tricky subject, because it may echo Pauline Kael’s “Raising Kane” article which was heavily criticized and damaged Welles’ reputation. Orson’s fans, film historians, critics, and people like Peter Bogdanovich can easily attack the movie no matter how well it is executed.

But Fincher is a smart guy, he probably knows what to do and those stills look great enough – certainly a contender for cinematography Oscar. Amanda Seyfried and Lily Collins are also in the cast, with some rumors are circling around the net claiming that Seyfried can get a Best Supporting Actress to push for her portrayal of Marion Davies.

Davies was portrayed previously by Kirsten Dunst to a great degree in “The Cat’s Meow” (2001) but she didn’t have a Netflix campaign. Probably the trailer is soon.

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Venice Film Festival has started strong enough. Shia Labeouf keeps his comeback going on with “Pieces of a Woman”, a drama that got strong reviews, co-starring Vanessa Kirby who also has another festival film; “The World to Come”.

Kirby has been on fire since her award-winning role in “The Crown” and it’s exciting to see her rise. “The Duke”, screened out of competition, starring Helen Mirren and Jim Broadbent also got very strong reviews, five stars from both The Guardian and Telegraph. British press loving it.

It’s directed by “Notting Hill” director Roger Michell. Daniele Luchetti’s “Lacci” didn’t too strong, as it’s been called “softer Marriage Story”. French Quentin Duplex is going to be a festival favorite; “Mandibles” was very well received. Chaitanya Tamhane’s “The Disciple” did well with critics but may struggle to find an audience.

Jamila Zbanic’s Srebrenica massacre-themed Bosnian film “Quo Vadis, Aida?” also met with strong love. Hollywood Reporter called it “a terrifically harrowing historical film that’s impossible to forget.” Abel Ferrara and Pedro Almodovar also got decent reviews. Of course, it was not without disappointment.

Gia Coppola’s new film is seemingly not on the level of her previous “Palo Alto” but that’s alright, it still looks intriguing just like pretty much everything else of this year’s festival.  Regina King made history today as the first African American woman to have a film play.

And remember, an African American woman has never been nominated for best director. Maybe it could change? Because her film got very strong reviews. Filmiere.com will keep you updated.

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If you follow European cinema close enough, you probably had seen “Head-On”, one of the most celebrated German films of the 21^st century directed by Fatih Akin. Filmiere.com reports with sorrow that the lead actor of the movie, who also starred in two other Akin features; Turkish-German actor Birol Unel has passed away.

In 2005 Ünel acted in the commercially successful Turkish film Hırsız var!; his later films included Transylvania (2006), Seven Heroes, and Soul Kitchen (2009), another. His career declined after struggles with alcohol and he was also in the news with minor criminal charges and homelessness.

Ünel died in Berlin on 3 September 2020, aged 59, at a Berlin hospital, after suffering from cancer. It’s said that alcoholism was his lifelong struggle. Unel won the German Film Award and also nominated for European Film Award for Best Actor for his performance in “Head-On”.

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Not so many British directors have a devoted fan base like Guy Ritchie has. “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels” and “Snatch” were such beloved hits that turned Ritchie into some kind of Tarantino of his country. His career was not consistent, he made “big” Disney films, he had a lot of flops like “King Arthur”, but his fans remained loyal to him.

He came back to the genre that made him famous; those low-class British gangsters and their criminal activities – from “Rocknrolla” to most recently, “The Gentlemen” which earned mostly positive reviews which were surprising given he was never a critical favorite.

Now he’s reuniting with his beloved British star Jason Statham for the fourth time. Statham stopped to make Ritchie style movies and instead, became an action here but seems this movie will please fans of both Statham and Ritchie cause according to early reports it’s a spy action film, Filmiere.com reports.

Statham is set to star as Orson Fortune, an MI6 agent who is recruited by global intelligence alliance ‘Five Eyes’ to track down and stop the sale of a deadly new weapons technology that threatens to disrupt the world order.

Reluctantly paired with CIA high-tech expert Sarah Fidel, Fortune sets off on a globe-trotting mission to find billionaire arms broker Greg Simmonds and infiltrate his inner circle. It’s not their only project, there were also reports of them teaming up on a film called “Wrath of Man”.

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