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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.

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

Cold of Kalandar is another brilliant example of the current renaissance in Turkish cinema. The film masterfully mixes realism and the poetry of the harsh life some people have to live because of the place and time they were born into.

The best motion pictures always reflect the times people live in. And our times are pretty troubled ones.

Annette Bening, 20th Century Women “I was 19 at the time this story takes place in Southern California, so (…) when I read the script was the first time I had read something that was placed where I was from, first of all. ”, Annette Bening shared with us, talking about the road that took her to Dorothea, mater familias of a very peculiar kind of improvised family, in 1979 Santa Barbara, CA in writer-director Mike Mills’ film.

Ryan Reynolds loved the Deadpool character so much that, very early on, he decided to come on board as a producer – “to protect Deadpool, to protect the origin story of Deadpool and to protect the canon of Deadpool”, he shared with us. It took him eleven years to realize his goal, and leaving him plenty of time to perfect his fighting skills, especially with his weapon of choice, the katana swords.

The road to War Dogs began for Jonah Hill some years ago, when he read the Rolling Stone article “Arms and Dudes” and, he told us, immediately saw himself in the role of Efraim Diveroli, the head of a flu-by-night gun running operation out of Miami that becomes a supplier of the US military (at least for a while…) “When you're an actor and  you read a story that's interesting that could be a movie you're like wow, okay, I should pay attention to this. I tried to option the article but  (writer-director) Todd (Phillips) had already beat me to the punch…” By the time Phillips had developed the script and offered Hill the part, The Wolf of Wall Street had just come out, and his first reaction was to say “no.

Hugh Grant approached his character in Florence Foster Jenkins – Florence’s conflicted, supportive husband St. Clair Bayfield- from a place of fear.

Ryan Gosling’s involvement with La La Land started with a night of drinks and movie talk with writer-director Damien Chazelle, whom, he met through a common friend, producer Marc Platt. “we talked a lot about film in general, and Damien has a very infectious love of movies”, he told us in Toronto When Chazelle emailed Gosling the theme song for La La Land, the deal was closed.