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Benedict Cumberbatch recently participated in Variety’s “Know Their Lives” video series and shared some regret over his controversial role in Ben Stiller’s “Zoolander 2.” The “Doctor Strange” actor played a non-binary fashion model named All in the comedy sequel, which was an infamous box office flop in 2016 with just $28 million at the domestic box office.

“I’ve had to apologize for that quite a lot. It’s a difficult one to talk about,” Cumberbatch said about playing a non-binary role. “I love that group of people and it was the chance to sort of be part of something that the first time around was iconic and I was a huge fan of. But it got complicated and it got misunderstood and I upset people. I respect that, so I probably wouldn’t do that again now.”

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From Evil Dead to Alien: Romulus, Fede lvarez has directed some of the best horror movies of the past decade but not all of his films have been quite that great. lvarez first caught Hollywoods attention when he dropped his short film Ataque de Pnico! on YouTube in 2009. He was quickly recruited by Sam Raimis Ghost House Pictures to develop his debut feature, and that debut feature ended up being a remake of Raimis own debut feature, The Evil Dead. lvarezs 2013 Evil Dead introduced the franchise to a whole new generation of horror fans.

Since Evil Dead put lvarez on the map as an exciting new voice in the genre, hes become one of the most sought-after horror directors in Hollywood. Hes helmed daring original projects, like Dont Breathe, and tackled other daunting reboots of legendary franchises, like his Alien movie. lvarez is a visionary filmmaker who goes all...

Lisbeth Salander, brought to life by Noomi Rapace, Rooney Mara, and Claire Foy, is known for her hacking skills and vigilante justice. The Swedish trilogy, led by Noomi Rapace, captivated audiences with a dark narrative of corruption and family secrets, ending on a bleak note. Despite critical acclaim, the American adaptation, directed by David Fincher, delivered a faithful yet more polished version of the original story.

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Created by Stieg Larsson, Lisbeth Salander stars in his Millennium trilogy of crime novels, known to most for the first book in the series, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. An asocial computer hacker with a photographic memory, three actresses portrayed Lisbeth in movies Noomi Rapace, Rooney Mara, and Claire Foy. This includes a trilogy of Swedish-produced films based on all three books, an American adaptation of the first novel, and a movie based on...

A new trailer starring Sir Ben Kingsley has been released for ‘Daliland.’ Coming from the director of ‘American Psycho,’ delving into a crucial period during the later years of legendary artist Salvador Dalí.

Amongst the decadence of 1970s New York, the great surrealist artist, Salvador Dali, enjoys the latter stage of his career with a lifestyle filled with luxury and extravagant parties. Surrounded by his decadence, and his band of eccentric followers who worship his charismatic persona, he is content with avoiding a fast-approaching art show and the demands of his formidable wife, Gala.

The story is told through the eyes of James Linton, a young gallery assistant, keen to make his name in the art world. After quickly becoming enraptured by the provocative world of Dali, the façade begins to fade when he uncovers that behind the glitz and glamour lies a fragile genius, haunted by the past and...

Exclusive: Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment has acquired UK distribution rights to the Ben Kingsley and Ezra Miller pic Dalíland alongside docs RoboDoc – The Creation of RoboCop and Hollywood Dreams and Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story. All three titles will debut on the Icon Film Channel.

Dalíland will debut on September 4, with a theatrical release scheduled for October 6 and home entertainment on November 6. Set in 1973, Dalíland follows a young gallery assistant who goes on a wild adventure behind the scenes as he helps the aging genius, Salvador Dalí, prepare for a big show in New York. Pic stars Ben Kingsley (Schindler’s List) in the title role of Salvador Dalí. Alongside Kingsley are Barbara Sukowa (Two of Us), and newcomer Christopher Briney, in the role of James, the young art enthusiast who finds himself thrust into the center of Dalí’s remarkable and unexpected world. The wider ensemble features Andreja Pejić (The Girl in the Spider’s Web...

“Dalíland” is a film directed by Mary Harron and starring Ben Kingsley.

The movie delves into the catastrophic yet alluring personality of the legendary Salvador Dalí, who has become a caricature of himself and elevated to a genius or symbol of an era.

The director takes the opportunity to provide a portrait of New York during that time, while Ben Kingsley shines in a role that any actor would want to play.

Dalíland Movie Review

The movie is an easy portrayal of a character that is very easy to present superficially, and merely remain in a frivolous portrait, which, on the other hand, was the character that Dalí himself had invented, the Dalí that we all know and that the world looked at in amazement. What does this film bring beyond that? A couple of well-shot scenes and a reconstruction of the artistic environment of that era. There is little...

Two from Magnolia Pictures, the story of an iconic record album design firm back and a sighting of Brian Cox usher in a specialty weekend with smoke clearing over New York City. Acrid plumes from Canadian wildfires have smothered the key arthouse market over the past few days in an unusual air quality event that had Mayor Eric Adams urging people to home.

Friday the sky was visible and air fresher, a boon for all — including the ongoing Tribeca Festival, which opened Wednesday night and will be unspooling 100+ features and events through June 17.

New openings: From Magnolia, Dalíland by Mary Harron starring Ben Kingsley as the iconic artist in 20 markets (including Quad in NYC and Nuart in LA) and on VOD. Written by John C. Walsh. With Christopher Briney, Barbara Sukowa, Ezra Miller, Andreja Pejic. Premiered as TIFF’s closing night film, see Deadline review here. Follows the later years...

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In the movie Daliland, the indulgent, scandalous lifestyle of famed surrealist painter Salvador Dalí and his wife Gala is explored through the true story of the couple’s 1973 extended stay in New York City. The movie is told through the perspective of young gallery assistant James (Christopher Briney), who is tasked with ensuring that Dalí, played by Gandhi and MCU star Ben Kingsley, completes his latest work in time for an upcoming show. James is quickly sucked into the enticing whirlwind of the painter’s life at the St. Regis hotel, wherein drugs, sex, and excess belie a dysfunctional, waning Dalí.

The biopic explores Dalí’s relationships with numerous real-life characters but centers around his relationship with his wife and muse, Gala (Barbara Sukowa). Theirs is a passionate, twisted partnership further complicated by numerous affairs and the commercial aspect of Dalí’s art.

Heard early in Mary Harron’s new film, “Dalíland” refers to the entourage that surrounds legendary painter Salvador Dalí (Ben Kingsley) as he lives a life of sedentary comfort at New York’s St. Regis Hotel in the early 1970s. His best days as an artist behind him, Dalí himself is now the art, a series of poses and provocations that have attracted a small coterie of mostly aloof models, wannabe artists, and socialites, even a young Alice Cooper (Mark McKenna), who always looks vaguely put out to be one of the least outré people in this retinue.

Into this realm comes James (Christopher Briney), who works for the gallery that’s currently representing Dalí and awaiting new artwork to exhibit and sell. James sticks out like a sore thumb among these bohemians, his sheltered prudishness leaving him additionally prone to the lascivious attentions of both Dalí, who likens James...

Eight years before Disney's live-action adaptation of its trailblazing animated musical The Little Mermaid hit theaters, Sofia Coppola harbored high ambitions for a different live-action version of the classic fairy tale. In 2014, Universal Pictures confirmed the Oscar-winning writer-director of Lost in Translation and The Virgin Suicides would helm an interpretation of The Little Mermaid that followed the original (and much darker) Hans Christian Andersen storyline. There would be no catchy songs or dancing sea creatures in Coppola's venture, which tapped Chloë Grace Moretz for Ariel alongside trans model Andreja Pejić as one of Ariel's sisters.

To say that Salvador Dalí was an eccentric man is an understatement. Outside his artwork, including the famous "Persistence of Memory" painting, chances are you probably remember him for walking an anteater on a leash out in the middle of Paris or when he brought another anteater on The Dick Cavett Show. His life was often as surrealistic as the paintings he produced, only ever being amplified as he became recognized for his strange artwork. Since just about everything -- including products, oddly enough -- are getting biopics, why not base one on one of the most intriguing artists of the 20th century?

Lo and behold, here comes Dalíland. It originally made the rounds at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) before being snagged by Magnolia Pictures for a wider release. Directed by Mary Harron, who previously directed 1996's I Shot Andy Warhol and the hilarious horror-comedy American Psycho, it'll...

Ezra Miller and Ben Kingsley both portray famed artist Salvador Dalí in the first trailer for the forthcoming biopic Dalíland.

The spot for the film from director Mary Harron (American Psycho) was released Thursday ahead of the film’s release June 9 in theaters and on-demand. Magnolia Pictures nabbed the feature following its premiere at the Toronto Film Festival in September.

Dalíland centers on a gallery assistant, played by newcomer Christopher Briney, who is tasked with helping Dalí (Kingsley) prepare for a prominent show in the 1970s amid the artist’s tense relationship with his wife, Gala (Barbara Sukowa). Miller portrays a younger version of the Surrealist painter in flashback scenes.

“Death — it frightens me, and this is the basis of my inspiration,” Kingsley says during an emotional moment from the footage.

Rupert Graves, Andreja Pejić and Suki Waterhouse also appear in the movie that has a script from John C. Walsh.

Controversial star Ezra Miller appears for just a few seconds in the trailer for Dalíland.

Miller shares the role of the ubiquitous Spanish artist with Ben Kingsley who plays the surrealist in later life.

“Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Mary Harron, Dalíland stars Ben Kingsley as the titular Salvador Dalí, one of the most world-renowned artists of the 20th century and focuses on the later years of the strange and fascinating marriage between Dalí and his wife, Gala (Barbara Sukowa), as their seemingly unshakable bond begins to stress and fracture,” the official logline reads.

“Set in New York and Spain in 1974, the film is told through the eyes of James (Christopher Briney), a young assistant keen to make his name in the art world, who helps the eccentric and mercurial Dalí prepare for a big gallery show. Rupert Graves, Suki Waterhouse, Andreja Pejic and Ezra Miller also star.”

In Miller’s only scene in the trailer,...

Ezra Miller and Ben Kingsley are two sides of the same Dalí.

Both actors transform into artist Salvador Dalí for Magnolia Pictures’ “Dalíland,” directed by Mary Harron.

The film focuses on Salvador Dalí, one of the most world-renowned artists of the 20th century, and centers on the later years of the strange and fascinating marriage between Dalí and his wife, Gala (Barbara Sukowa), as their seemingly unshakable bond begins to stress and fracture, per an official synopsis. Set in New York and Spain in 1974, the film is told through the eyes of James (Christopher Briney), a young assistant keen to make his name in the art world, who helps the eccentric and mercurial Dalí prepare for a big gallery show. “Daisy Jones & the Six” breakout Suki Waterhouse, Andreja Pejic, and Rupert Graves also star.

“Dalíland” debuted closing night at 2022 TIFF and is produced by Daniel Brunt, Chris Curling, Edward R. Pressman,...

"It's like I landed on another planet, and I belong." Magnolia Pictures has revealed an official US trailer for an indie film titled Dalíland, an intriguing creation from Canadian filmmaker Mary Harron. This premiered at last year's 2022 Toronto Film Festival in the fall, and earned some mixed reviews, before hitting a handful of other festivals. It's next set to play at the San Francisco Film Festival this April before going on to open in theaters in June this summer. Sir Ben Kingsley stars as the iconic artist Salvador Dalí in this new take on eccentric genius. In 1973, a young gallery assistant goes on a wild adventure behind the scenes as he helps the aging maestro Salvador Dali prepare for a big show in New York. The cast includes Barbara Sukowa, Rupert Graves, Suki Waterhouse, Andreja Pejic, and Ezra Miller as a Young Dali. This doesn't look like the great film it should be,...

Magnolia Pictures has acquired North American rights to “Dalíland” starring Ben Kingsley and Ezra Miller, according to an individual with knowledge of the deal.

Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Mary Harron, the film stars Kingsley as Salvador Dalí, one of the most renowned artists of the 20th century. Barbara Sukowa, Rupert Graves, Christopher Briney, Suki Waterhouse and Andreja Pejic also star.

The film’s premiere closed the 2022 Toronto Film Festival. Magnolia plans to release the film theatrically next year.

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“Dalíland” tells the story of the later years of the strange and fascinating marriage between the genius Dalí and his wife, Gala (Sukowa), as their seemingly unshakable bond begins to stress and fracture. Set in 1973 between New York City and Spain, the story is told through the eyes of James (Briney), a...

Exclusive: Magnolia Pictures has snapped up North American rights to the Toronto Film Festival closing-night film Dalíland from Mary Harron, Deadline has learned.

Oscar winner Ben Kingsley stars as the titular Salvador Dalí, and Ezra Miller plays the younger version of the world-renowned 20th century artist. Magnolia plans a theatrical release next year.

Dalíland tells the story of the later years of the strange and fascinating marriage between the genius Salvador Dalí and his wife, Gala (Barbara Sukowa), as their seemingly unshakable bond begins to stress and fracture. Set in New York and Spain in 1974, the story is told through the eyes of James (Christopher Briney), a young assistant who’s keen to make his name in the art world and helps the eccentric and mercurial Dalí prepare for a big gallery show. Rupert Graves, Suki Waterhouse and Andreja Pejic also star.

“Ben Kingsley wonderfully inhabits Salvador Dalí’s persona,...

Sir Ben Kingsley has added the famous surrealist artist Salvador Dalí to his list of iconic film roles, thanks to “Dalíland,” which closed out the 2022 Toronto Film Festival. Kingsley visited TheWrap and Shutterstock’s Interview and Portrait Studio at the Toronto International Film Festival for a discussion about the filmmaking process.

“I love his work and also I love the opportunity — I welcome the opportunity to stretch my comprehension and intelligence,” he told Senior Film Reporter Brian Welk. “It’s exhausting and exhilarating at the same time, and I felt that having an opportunity to portray Dalí, and I say ‘portray’ because in a sense, I’m a portrait artist, but I don’t have any paints, so I don’t work with stone or clay. I work with my voice, my imagination and my body. That’s all I have.”

The film also stars Barbara Sukowa as Dalí’s wife Gala,...

Canadian filmmaker Mary Harron came to the Toronto International Film Festival with her first feature film since 2018, Dalíland, and she had a "feast of acting" to mark her return. Featuring the talents of Sir Ben Kingsley and Ezra Miller as an older and younger version of the surreal painter Salvador Dalí alongside the ever-talented Barbara Sukowa, Rupert Graves, and Andreja Pejic among others, there was no shortage of star power aboard the dazzling biopic. Amidst the experienced actors, however, was newcomer Christopher Briney who was thrown into the deep end immediately, starring opposite Kingsley. Before the film was shown at TIFF, Harron and Briney talked with Steve Weintraub at the Collider Supper Suite and Media Studio at Marbl about the film and the process behind bringing Briney on board.

As the Toronto Film Festival comes to its official closing night we say goodbye to the re-energized fest for another year, but not before we say “Hello Dali,” or actually the final world premiere of the festival, Daliland, which picks up the celebrated artist’s life in its later years focusing on the odd relationship between him and his controlling wife. If only this film stuck to that idea and didn’t take a detour into a misbegotten coming-of-age plotline about the young assistant both Dalis take a shine to in their own way.

So it is all set in the mid-1970s at the St. Regis Hotel in New York, where 70-year-old master Dali (Ben Kingsley doing his best impression) and his wife of 50 years, muse, business partner, the very protective and controlling Gala Dali stay for a few months out of the year,...

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A portrait of art-world celebrity indulgence as seen by a youngster who still has some illusions to shatter, Mary Harron’s Dalíland revolves around the titular Surrealist, played with restraint and dignity by Ben Kingsley, while gently nudging the spotlight in the direction of his complicated wife/muse Gala, a role in which Barbara Sukowa more than earns the movie’s attention. Much talk around the premiere will concern scandal-plagued costar Ezra Miller, who briefly plays the artist as a young man; but that bit of casting proves very apt, and the movie deserves to be judged — as enjoyable and enlightening, if pretty familiar in its storytelling — apart from that particular tabloid saga.

Public life was nearly as inextricable from Salvador Dalí’s art as from Andy Warhol’s (an earlier subject of Harron’s, in 1996’s I Shot Andy Warhol), so it...

Twenty-six years after making “I Shot Andy Warhol,” filmmaker Mary Harron returns to the late ’60s/early ’70s New York art world with “Dalíland,” this time with greater mastery and style. Ben Kingsley stars as Salvador Dalí, the eccentric Spanish surrealist artist who paraded around sporting a handlebar mustache and dressed like a 16th-century conquistador in the glam-rock era.

Harron dabbles in her own take on surrealism by converging Dalí’s romantic headspace and the ever-present decadent party scene. Her invocation of surrealism isn’t at all in Dalí’s style, which would be one way to approach the subject. But this definitely feels like her most layered and fully realized vision.

Like “I Shot Andy Warhol,” “Dalíland,” which premiered as the closing-night attraction at the Toronto International Film Festival, centers not on the artist himself but rather on someone peripheral in his circle. The film opens in 1985, as James...

On paper, Mary Harron was the ideal director for “Dalíland.” Set in the bohemian underground of Manhattan circa 1974, the film takes the kinky, codependent marriage between Salvador Dalí (Ben Kingsley) and his wife/business manager/mother figure/financial dominatrix Gala (Barbara Sukowa) and uses it as a case study for a larger deconstruction of gender, fame, wealth, and power. (It all comes down to power in the end.) Harron has fearlessly explored similar territory in the past with films like “Charlie Says,” about the woman of Charles Manson’s “family,” and “I Shot Andy Warhol,” based on the life of “Scum Manifesto” author Valerie Solanas. So why does she pull her punches here?

Dalí is a more sympathetic character than either Manson or Andy Warhol, for starters — as low of a bar as that may be to clear. He’s self-indulgent and allergic to work, but what famous artist isn’t?...

Mary Harron’s latest film Dalíland, a Salvador Dalí biopic set to debut at the Toronto film festival, did not receive approval from the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, the organizaion has claimed.

The foundation, which artist Dalí created in 1983, said it heard about the film’s release through media reports, at which point it contacted the film’s producers to “regularize the rights” but received no response. The foundation also told Deadline that it contacted the film’s director and screenwriter.

“The Spanish institution has not had the opportunity to preview it and exercise its duties in its role of protector of the painter’s work and image,” the foundation said of the film in a statement.

The statement continues to say that the foundation “reserves the right to exercise any legal action it deems appropriate to safeguard the artist’s prestige, that of his creative activity, of the Dalí Theatre-Museum...

As they say here north of the border: Time to drop the puck on the 2022 Toronto Film Festival.

The weather is beautiful, and they’ve cordoned off King Street from the Lightbox to Roy Thomson Hall. People are getting their bearings, most not wearing masks in the open air. This is a sight better than last year, when the cable cars were not rerouted from King Street because so few came for the festivities. Not surprisingly, not a single major deal happened on the ground as the festivals and specialty theatrical business were still feeling the fallout from Covid.

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Will this year be any better? Some believe it certainly can’t get worse. Buyers and sellers expect the pace to be on the slow side, with some possible exceptions. I hear that the hot title is one that isn’t officially on the for-sale lists,...

Ahead of its world premiere at Toronto International Film Festival, Mary Harron’s Daliland has revealed the first look at Ben Kingsley and Ezra Miller as the surrealist painter Salvador Dalí. The new images released by Vanity Fair see Kingsley as Dali in the 70s, standing hand in hand wife Gala, played by Barbara Sukowa. Other images see a portrait of Kingsley as Dali standing next to Andreja Pejic as Amanda Lear. On the other hand, Miller is seen alone in another image as a younger iteration of the renowned painter.

“The Flash” is not the only upcoming movie starring Ezra Miller that is being forced to contend with the actor’s recent controversies. The upcoming Toronto International Film Festival will close with the premiere of Mary Harron’s “Dalíland,” which features Miller in a small supporting role as a young Salvador Dalí. Ben Kingsley stars in the film more prominently as an older Dalí. Harron confirmed to Vanity Fair that Miller is not being cut out of the film.

“The film was completely finished and wrapped,” Harron said. “It might have been different, especially if we were shooting, if there had been bad behavior during that. But this all happened after the film was not only filmed, but edited and mixed and done. I also felt like everybody shot all those things in good faith. Nothing bad happened during our filming, and the film is the film.”

Harron continued, “I...

“Dalíland,” a biopic about the life of artist Salvador Dalí that stars Ben Kingsley, will be the closing night film of next month’s Toronto International Film Festival, TIFF announced on Tuesday.

Mary Harron directs the film that will make its premiere on Sept. 17 at Roy Thompson Hall.

“Dalíland” tells the story of the later years of the strange and fascinating marriage between the genius Salvador Dalí and his wife, Gala, as their seemingly unshakable bond begins to stress and fracture. Set in New York and Spain in 1973, the story is told through the eyes of James, a young assistant keen to make his name in the art world, who helps the eccentric and mercurial Dalí prepare for a big gallery show.

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The 47th Toronto Film Festival on Tuesday selected the Mary Harron-directed Dalíland as its closing-night movie. The pic stars Ben Kingsley as the older Salvador Dalí and Ezra Miller as the younger Dalí. However, the TIFF press release left Miller’s name off the cast credits.

It’s been public knowledge that Miller is in the film. The Flash star this week was charged with felony burglary in Vermont in addition to several other run-ins with the law this year. Deadline learned this morning that Miller has not been cut out of Dalíland.

In a 2021 Cannes Market interview with Deadline, Harron told us: “We started looking at Dalí in the 1970s, the older Dalí, with flashbacks to the younger Dalí, which are rendered like an old movie. That format really excited me. Ezra had like three days between finishing Fantastic Beasts and starting The Flash, and insisted on coming and doing our film.

Director Mary Harron’s “Dalíland,” a movie about influential surrealist artist Salvador Dalí, will have its world premiere as the closing night film for the 47th Toronto International Film Festival.

The movie will debut on Saturday, Sept. 17 at Roy Thomson Hall.

Ben Kingsley is playing Salvador Dalí in “Dalíland,” which tells the story of his strange and fascinating marriage with his wife Gala as their seemingly unshakeable bond begins to crack. Set in New York and Spain in 1973, the tale is told through the eyes of James, a young assistant trying to make a name for himself in the art world, who helps the eccentric and mercurial Dalí prepare for a big gallery show.

“We’re excited to premiere Mary Harron’s ‘Dalíland’ as this year’s closing night film,” said Cameron Bailey, CEO of TIFF. “We couldn’t be prouder that Harron is a Canadian who has taken her...

The Toronto International Film Festival has announced that “Dalíland,” Mary Harron’s latest film that stars Sir Ben Kingsley as Salvador Dalí, will close out the festival on Saturday, September 17.

“We’re excited to premiere Mary Harron’s ‘Dalíland’ as this year’s Closing Night film,” said TIFF CEO Cameron Bailey. “We couldn’t be prouder that Harron is a Canadian who has taken her singular explorations of iconic eccentrics to the world stage. In portraying the wild relationship between Salvador Dalí and his partner, Gala, Harron continues to keep moviegoing interesting and engaging.”

The film follows the legendary surrealist painter and “Un Chien Andalou” director in the later years of his career, examining the unique power dynamics in his marriage to his wife, Gala Dalí. The story is told through the eyes of an ambitious young assistant, James, who is tasked with helping the aging painter prepare for a...

Mary Harron’s biopic stars Ben Kingsley as Salvador Dali.

The world premiere of Mary Harron’s Dalíland starring Ben Kingsley as celebrated surrealist painter Salvador Dali will close the 47th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) on September 17 at Roy Thomson Hall.

Dalíland recounts the latter years of Dali’s marriage to Gala, played by Barbara Sukowa, as their seemingly unshakable bond begins to crack. Set in New York and Spain in 1973, the story is told through the eyes of a young assistant, played by Christopher Briney, who helps the eccentric artist prepare for a big show.

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Chicago – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Scott Thompson on Wbgr-fm on January 27th, 2022, reviewing the new release of “The Other Me,” presented by David Lynch, in select theaters and through Video-On-Demand on February 4th.

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Iraklee (Jim Sturgess) is a bartender working towards being an architect. He’s in a bad marriage with Nutsa (Antonia Campbell-Hughes) and has a degenerate eye disease that will eventually blind him. Instead of losing his sight, however, he seems to gain a “second sight,” into a fantasy world that contains a woman artist named Nino (Andreja Pejic).

“The Other Me” is in select theaters and through Video-On-Demand beginning February 4th. Featuring Jim Sturgess, Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Orla Brady, Michael Socha and Andreja Pejic,. Written and directed by Giga Agladze. Not Rated Click here for Patrick McDonald’s full on-air review of “The Other Me”

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Georgian writer-director-producer Giga Agladze has been a musician, a documentarian and Caucasus regional director of the Transcendental Meditation-focused David Lynch Foundation. Yet none of those things has any obvious bearing on, or makes much sense of, his debut directorial feature—apart from Lynch being on board as a prominently billed executive producer.

Shot in 2019 Tbilisi with a largely British cast, “The Other Me” has Jim Sturgess as a man whose sudden-onset blindness is sometimes literal, sometimes metaphorical, sometimes both. That’s symptomatic of . Its cast struggling against material with little real-world or emotional logic, the attempted “surreal” elements uninspired both conceptually and aesthetically, this is a misfire whose intentions are as murky as its results are hapless. Gravitas Ventures is opening on 10 or more U.S. screens on Feb. 4, simultaneous with release to digital platforms.

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Benedict Cumberbatch and Penélope Cruz joined forces for Variety‘s “Actors on Actors” series, presented by Amazon Studios, but it was not the first time the two performers had collaborated on screen. Cumberbatch and Cruz both had roles in Ben Stiller’s comedy “Zoolander 2,” a critical flop in 2016 that also bombed at the box office with just $28 million in the U.S. Cumberbatch’s casting as a non-binary fashion model named All proved problematic, and the actor admitted to Cruz that he would not be cast in the role had the sequel been made today.

“There was a lot of contention around the role, understandably now,” Cumberbatch said. “And I think in this era, my role would never be performed by anybody other than a trans actor. But I remember at the time not thinking of it necessarily in that regard, and it being more about two dinosaurs, two...

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Even before it was out of post production, Habit (not to be confused with the 2017 cannibal film of the same name), was stirring up controversy. According to Variety, it was the subject of a petition due to its casting. Specifically the casting of Paris, daughter of Michael, Jackson as a lesbian Jesus. Whether it was the product of legitimate outrage or a bit of marketing it certainly got Habit noticed. And since I’m reviewing it, it obviously didn’t stop its release. Although maybe it would have been better if it did rather than being responsible for it getting a distributor.

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Main protagonist Mads (Bella Thorne) loves Jesus in her own special way, even though she is a heroin user and possibly a sex and love addict.

“Habit” stirred controversy (and a petition to block its release) last year when conservatives caught wind that Paris Jackson was cast as a female Jesus Christ in it, with a purported lesbian coupling adding to the blasphemous offense. Well, it turns out that was much ado about almost nothing: There is no such sex scene in the film’s release cut, if indeed there ever was, and Jackson’s appearance is little more than a silent cameo.

On the other hand, fears that Janell Shirtcliff’s debut feature “ridicules people of faith” are closer to the mark. For those viewers curious enough to investigate, however, what may truly offend about “Habit” isn’t any sacrilegious content so much as the fact that it’s so infantile in that regard — and every other. This candy-colored dress-up excuse for a bunch of slumming models, rock musicians and miscellaneous scenesters might be termed a “Bratz” version of “Faster,...

Habit Trailer — Janell Shirtcliff‘s Habit (2021) movie trailer has been released by Lionsgate. The Habit trailer stars Bella Thorne, Gavin Rossdale, Libby Mintz, Andreja Pejic, Hana Mae Lee, Ione Skye, Aaron Diaz, Jamie Hince, Hayley Marie Norman, Alison Mosshart, Paris Jackson, and Josie Ho. Crew Libby Mintz and Janell Shirtcliff wrote the screenplay for Habit. [...]

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"Always did have a flavor for danger." Lionsgate has dropped a new trailer for a dark, edgy thriller comedy titled Habit, marking the feature directorial debut of filmmaker Janell Shirtcliff. This film has dropped out of nowhere, not hitting any festivals or anywhere else before opening in August this summer. It definitely looks like a very Los Angeles film made by Los Angeles people for Los Angeles people. A street smart party girl gets mixed up in a violent drug deal and finds a possible way out by masquerading as a Nun with her other BFFs to escape a L.A. drug lord. The Habit ensemble cast includes Bella Thorne, Gavin Rossdale, Libby Mintz, Andreja Pejic, Hana Mae Lee, Ione Skye, Aaron Diaz, Jamie Hince, Hayley Marie Norman, Alison Mosshart, with Paris Jackson and Josie Ho. This (obviously) looks all wild & crazy, and instantly forgettable, another of these mediocre crime...

Exclusive: Oscar winner Ben Kinglsey is no stranger to inhabiting larger-than-life characters. From Gandhi to Schindler’s List and Sexy Beast, the actor’s career has spanned a wide variety of roles with presence and gravitas. Despite his comfort with such parts, Kingsley says that approaching the enigmatic and iconic Salvador Dalí in Mary Harron’s Daliland – the story of the artist’s strange and fascinating marriage to his tyrannical wife Gala (played by Barbara Sukowa) – was still a “daunting task”.

“He was exhausting and exhilarating to portray,” comments Kingsley in his first interview since wrapping the movie. “Dali’s cup overflows. I had to give myself the opportunity to take risks. Dali encouraged me to take risks. That could have been catastrophic, but it could also pay off. If I’m in Dali’s silhouette, then I must allow myself to take certain risks. His artwork, writing and public...

Nearly 300,000 people have signed a petition aiming to block the release of the independent film “Habit,” starring Bella Thorne and Paris Jackson, in which Jackson plays a version of Jesus.

Thorne plays a street-smart, party girl who has a Jesus fetish and finds herself in a drug deal gone wrong. She’s able to escape danger by disguising herself as a nun. Multiple times in the film, Jackson appears as Jesus to her.

“A new blasphemous Hollywood film is predicted to come out soon depicting Jesus as a lesbian woman. The film ‘Habit’ stars Paris Jackson who plays the role of ‘lesbian Jesus.’ Distributors haven’t picked it up as of yet, so let’s please spread awareness and wake people up to the Christianophobic garbage that is spread nowadays, but is somehow accepted and praised by society,” reads the description of the petition.

However, there is no indication in...

A petition has been created to prevent Hollywood studios from distributing the movie Habit. In the movie, Paris Jackson portrays Jesus as a lesbian woman, and some people aren't really happy about it. Paris, who is the daughter of Michael Jackson, stars in the movie alongside former Disney Channel star Bella Thorne. As of now, Habit does not have a release date or distribution, though this free publicity may go on to help the cause when all is said and done. You can read the petition's mission statement below.

"A new blasphemous Hollywood film is predicted to come out soon depicting Jesus as a lesbian woman. The film Habit stars Paris Jackson who plays the role of 'lesbian Jesus.' Distributors haven't picked it up as of yet, so let's please spread awareness and wake people up to the Christianophobic garbage that is spread nowadays, but is somehow accepted and praised by society.

Following “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling’s anti-trans tweets earlier this week – and her further defense of her comments in a 3,600 word essay – alums of the incredibly successful film franchise as well as other celebrities have publicly spoken out against the British writer.

Most recently, Emma Watson, who played Hermione Granger in the series, tweeted a short statement regarding her views on transgender rights. “Trans people are who they say they are and deserve to live their lives without being constantly questioned or told they aren’t who they say they are,” Watson wrote.

Trans people are who they say they are and deserve to live their lives without being constantly questioned or told they aren’t who they say they are.

— Emma Watson (@EmmaWatson) June 10, 2020

Her statement came shortly after she retweeted British Vogue columnist Paris Lees’ reply to Rowling, which included a list of organizations supporting black transgender people that are accepting donations.

Paris Jackson, the 22-year-old daughter of Michael Jackson, is set to star as Jesus Christ in a new film called “Habit” opposite Bella Thorne, the producers of the movie told TheWrap.

“Habit” is a thriller directed by Janell Shirtcliff that stars Thorne as a woman with a Jesus fetish who masquerades as a nun in order to escape a drug deal gone wrong. Jackson then appears several times throughout the film to Thorne’s character as Jesus.

Suki Kaiser wrote the screenplay based on a story by Shirtcliff and “Sydney White” actress Libby Mintz.

Production has begun in Tbilisi, Georgia.

Jim Sturgess will play an architect who can see people’s true motives in mystery The Other Me, which Cinema Management Group has launched in Cannes with David Lynch on board as executive producer.

Production has begun in Tbilisi, Georgia, on the project from writer-director Giga Agladze about an aspiring architect who is diagnosed with a debilitating eye disease that enables him to enter a surreal version of reality in which he can see people’s true motives.

As the visions become intolerable, the man falls for a mysterious woman and confronts the truth about his own identity.

Stars: Claire Foy, Sylvia Hoeks, Lakeith Stanfield, Stephen Merchant, Cameron Britton, Vicky Krieps, Sverrir Gudnason, Volker Bruch, Mikael Persbrandt, Claes Bang, Andreja Pejic | Written by Jay Basu, Fede Alvarez, Steven Knight | Directed by Fede Alvarez

Fede Alvarez’s The Girl in the Spider’s Web is the fifth entry into the famed Stieg Larsson franchise and the second attempt at creating a “successful” American revitalised product after the somewhat lukewarm financial success of David Fincher’s Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara starring remake of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, released in 2011.

Craig, Fincher and Mara are gone and to replace them seven years after the fact is Evil Dead and Don’t Breathe director Fede Alvarez at the helm and The Crown star Claire Foy taking the role of Lisbeth Salander. And while this sequel is a welcoming return to the big screen, with the relentless nihilism and candid horror on offer,...

Kim Kardashian West had some pretty dramatic implants installed under her skin ... and these make her look like she just arrived from another planet. Kim posted a couple vids Monday showing a growth in her neck that lights up to the rhythm of her heartbeat. The temporary piece -- that looks like an alien necklace -- is part of a larger art experience called A. Human ... founded by Simon Huck. Chrissy Teigen wore feathers sprouting from her chest.

Taraji P. Henson, Sienna Miller, Queen Latifah, Heidi Klum, Adrien Brody, Halsey, Rachel Brosnahan, Sara Sampaio, Hailey Baldwin, and Kenneth Cole were among those gathered at the 20th annual amfAR Gala New York at Cipriani Wall Street to pay tribute to writer, producer, and director Lee Daniels and W Magazine’s Editor-in-Chief Stefano Tonchi for their longstanding commitment to the fight against AIDS.

The event raised $1.6 million for amfAR’s life-saving AIDS research programs.

Other guests included Alexander Vreeland, Lisa Immordino Vreeland, Caroline Vreeland, Leelee Sobieski, Serayah, Olivia Culpo, Joan Smalls, Lais Ribeiro, Alexandra Daddario, Odeya Rush, Coco Rocha, Karen Elson, Georgia Fowler, Nina Agdal, Sofia Resing, Alina Baikova, Ashley Graham, Justine Skye, Nicola Peltz, Anwar Hadid, Lucy Hale, Devon Windsor, Hailey Clauson, Sailor Brinkley Cook, Martha Hunt, Andreja Pejic, Blanca Padilla, Sistine Stallone, Gala Gonzalez, Valery Kaufman, Helena Borden, Jessica Hart, Paige Reifler, Sanne Vloet, Lala Anthony, Grace Elizabeth,...