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Reprising the role she played on Broadway opposite Denzel Washington, Viola Davis is a quiet storm of determination, anger and devotion as Rose, the wife of the hard-headed, short-tempered Troy (played again by Denzel Washington, who directed the film from a script by playwright August Wilson). “August Wilson wrote the screenplay more than two decades ago and it lends itself to the cinematic experience because really at the heart of the story it's just about a family and we've seen these epic stories before”, Davis told us.

Colin Farrell, The Lobster. Working with writer-director Yorgos Lanthimos  to build the sad-sack bachelor David, the protagonist of the dystopian love story The Lobster, Colin Farrell was given a mantra of sorts: “(Lanthimos) mentioned the word soft and I just got softer and softer and softer”, he told us in Cannes.

Call Me Thief is the debut feature by South African director Daryne Joshua. The screenplay is based on the true story of John W.

Divines, directed by Houda Benyamina, France. Meet Dounia, a petite tough and brash mixed race teenager from the eastern Parisian suburbs.

Kubo And The Two Strings, directed by Travis Knight. A boy with extraordinary powers goes on an epic quest to find his late father’s armor and vanquish an evil spirit.

Dev Patel, 26, a British actor raised in London by immigrant Indian parents born in Kenya, was a regular in the TV series Skins (2006-2007) co-starring Nicholas Hoult, when he was cast by director Danny Boyle in Slumdog Millionaire (2008) at age 17, as a poor boy from Mumbai who wins a game show and the love of a girl (played by newcomer Freida Pinto). He started acting as a child, as a way to channel his energy, “I was a naughty kid”, he told the HFPA also saying he practiced karate and Tae Kwon Do, because the “discipline helped me.

In a TV interview, Lebanese director, Mir-Jean Bou Chaaya, despairs over the dominance of Hollywood movies in the Arab world, yet his debut feature, Very Big Shot, is dripping with Hollywood influence, echoing classics such as Get Shorty and Argo. One of his characters comments on this issue saying that he doesn’t like movies that require a Ph.

In a first for awards shows, the 74th Golden Globes will live stream its red carpet arrivals on a digital platform: Twitter. On Jan.

As many predicted Rogue One: A Star Wars Story engaged the hyperdrive from day one and blasted off with a $290. 5 million global debut.

The Duelist is a very rare bird for a Russian movie. It was commercially released in the US by Sony Pictures.