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The timely Ukrainian war drama “Klondike” from Maryna Er Gorbach won the Grand Jury Prize, with Zia Mohajerjasbi’s Seattle-set drama “Know Your Place” earning rave reviews from audiences and winning the festival’s New American Cinema Competition. “As we celebrated our first in-person festival in three years, we were so thrilled to bring great films and new voices from across the globe,” said Beth Barrett, SIFF Artistic Director. “Creating those experiences that bring audiences around film, both in cinema and hybrid, allowed us all to connect, to learn, and to make our own world a little bigger....

“It’s really exciting to see the response from people who are loving the show — and the level of fan engagement,” said Stiller in a statement shared with press. “It has been a long road bringing ‘Severance’ to television. I first read Dan’s pilot over five years ago. It has always been a multi-season story, and I’m really happy we get to continue it. I’m grateful to our partners at Apple TV+ who have been behind it the whole way....

“I’ve been offered a job — a good job, a job I really want to do in Atlanta,” Stone said (via Deadline). “That’s why my hair is standing on end…because the Producers Guild of America will not guarantee that everyone on our show is vaccinated before I go to work.” “Will I go to work before everyone on my show is vaccinated? No. No, I won’t,” Stone continued. “Am I being threatened that I will lose my job?...

Fans, of course, will eat this one up right from the start. “In Wonder” opens with Mendes, muscly and pensive, shown from the waist up in the shower. But eagle-eyed viewers might notice the bright red rings speckling Mendes’ back — traces of cupping therapy, a practice so du jour among celebrities with limitless access to the market of self-care. Related ‘1899’ Canceled By Netflix After One Season ‘Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story’ Sneak Peek: Adjoa Andoh’s Lady Danbury Origin Story Is Revealed Related 23 Controversial Film and TV Book Adaptations That Rankled Their Audiences and Authors 17 HBO and HBO Max Original Series to Get Excited About in 2023 Filmed before the mayhem of 2020, “In Wonder” sometimes comes across as utopian to the point of being tone-deaf....

Representatives for Poitier did not immediately return IndieWire’s request for comment. Poitier broke the color barrier in Hollywood. Rising to superstar status in an industry that has forever been controlled on both sides of the camera by primarily white men, he was an actor, director, and producer who completely shifted perceptions of race that had long been held, prior to his arrival, by both audiences and studio executives. Getting his start in the 1940s, as a member of Harlem’s American Negro Theatre, where he met lifelong friend Harry Belafonte, Poitier emerged as one of the most talented actors of his era....

Since the film premiered at Cannes, there’s been much ado about the actor’s manhood as seen on the screen — including at the Film Independent Spirit Awards, where Rex won Best Male Lead. “I finally had to let it be known,” Rex told People about the prosthetic. Rex plays former porn star-turned-con man Mikey Saber in Sean Baker’s “Red Rocket.” The pandemic-shot film features a slew of nude scenes for Rex, who got his start as a model for Calvin Klein, Levi’s, and Versace before appearing in the “Scary Movie” franchise and “What I Like About You....

“President Biden said Friday he will move ahead with his $1.9 trillion stimulus plan with or without Republican support, because the economy needs a massage and Joe Biden isn’t waiting for permission,” Jost said. “An interview with Biden will air before tomorrow’s Super Bowl between the Bucs and the Chiefs. Incidentally, ‘buck’ and ‘chief’ is also what Biden calls his friends when he forgets their names.” Later in the sketch, Jost also referred to Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene as a “conspiracy huffer” who “believes cancer is a bio-weapon created in a secret Jewish lab....

The Marvel marvel is at $721 million domestic and just under $1.7 billion worldwide. That North American number is almost $500 million better than “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings,” a gap never before seen between the top two films of the last two years. Gravitas Ventures All of the holds were aided by the absence of competition. Two new wide releases stemmed from producers who hoped that the lack of new product could represent an opportunity, but they failed to attract much interest....

Writer, producer, and director Spike Lee came into the 1990s hot. After the critical and commercial triumph of his 1989 masterpiece “Do the Right Thing,” he started the decade with the exquisite jazz film “Mo’ Better Blues” (1990) and kept up the pace with 1991’s provocative, furious, and hilarious “Jungle Fever.” Those three films had all been made for Universal with modest budgets and were all successes relative to those budgets, but for his next movie Lee was ready to go to the mattresses....

“The Hollywood Foreign Press clearly has much werk to do,” Lee wrote in a statement to Variety. “However, it’s been a joy to watch our children Satchel and Jackson serve as the ambassadors to the Golden Globes. I hope the HFPA understands in order to stay relevant, they must diversify their membership. Put some sistas and brothers up on that wall. Y’all buggin’ out!” Lee joins a long list of celebrities in Hollywood who have spoken out against the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for its lack of Black members....

The four-time Oscar-nominated actress revealed that “The Fabelmans” director Spielberg still sends her photos of his parents, Leah Adler and Arnold Spielberg, over a year after wrapping production on his autobiographical film. Williams plays Mitzi, based on Adler, while Paul Dano is Spielberg’s surrogate father as Burt Fabelman. “We’re still talking about his parents. We were just texting about his parents,” Williams said during the MoMA Contenders series panel post-screening....

Seems like Millie Bobby Brown may finally get her wish: There might have been one less “Stranger Things” teen heading into the fifth and final season. Ross Duffer revealed on the “Stranger Things After Show” that originally Max Mayfield, played by Sadie Sink, was supposed to be killed off by the end of “Stranger Things 4.” While Max (Sink) does appear to die briefly before Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) revives her (partially, she’s still in a coma), the showrunners teased that Max may not be out of the clear just yet since the original ending was supposed to have Max dying by the hands of Vecna....

Securing six craft nominations were “Succession” (HBO), “Squid Game” (Netflix), the first non-English speaking show competing for Best Drama Series, “Loki” (Marvel, Disney+), “Ozark” (Netflix), and the “Pam & Tommy” sex tape scandal limited series (Hulu). This was followed by the opioid addiction drama, “Dopesick” (Hulu), which earned five, and “The Book of Boba Fett” (Lucasfilm/Disney+), “Star Trek: Picard” (Paramount+), the “Station Eleven” dystopian miniseries (HBO Max), and the “Gaslit” Watergate political drama (Starz), which took four apiece....

After a trio of films that saw François Ozon feeling out the far extremes of his interest and ability — 2016’s monochrome interwar melodrama “Frantz,” the winking De Palma-esque mindfuck “Double Lover,” and last year’s journalistic Catholic priest exposé “By the Grace of God” — the precocious and pétillant “Summer of 85” finds the prolific French auteur circling back to the kind of lurid, playful, and unapologetically queer psychodramas that first made him famous in the late ’90s....

At this Sundance, theatrical buyers’ willingness to act quick in response to their instincts and early buzz was a winning strategy. Neon announced the first deal of the festival with “Flee,” just hours after the animated documentary’s Day One premiere. Related Why NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube Makes the Most Sense Influential Awards Bodies Reshape 2023 Best Documentary Feature Race Related Oscars 2023: Best Original Song Predictions Oscars 2023: Can Anyone Top ‘Maverick’ in Best Sound?...

Officially titled “Sundance Institute | The Asian American Foundation Fellowship and Collab Scholarship,” the program provides Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) artists with “creative and tactical support to develop their skills and grow professionally” and improve AAPI representation in film and TV. The new fellowship will annually promote emerging artists in both fiction and nonfiction storytelling with funding provided by Panda Express and the MacArthur Foundation. The Fellowship and Scholarship are made possible by support from TAAF, through a $400,000 grant provided by its AAPI Giving Challenge partner Panda Express, with MacArthur contributing $140,000....

Somehow in the midst of all that, Waititi is also finding time to promote his latest release. In “Thor: Love and Thunder,” the director continues to revitalize the Marvel character with the comedic polish that made “Ragnarok” such a treasured entry in the MCU. This time, however, the movie injects a surprising degree of melancholy into the plot, which finds the superhero teaming up with his ex-girlfriend Dr. Jane Foster (Natalie Portman) after she manages to wield his old hammer and became a superhero herself....

“I’m talking too much,” Morrison said in an interview with NME. “This bubba doesn’t talk this much!” He went on to reveal that he tried to remove some of his own lines from the script when “Book of Boba Fett” creator Jon Favreau was away from the set. Related Jon Favreau Warned Russo Bros. Against Killing Iron Man in ‘Avengers: Endgame,’ Would ‘Devastate’ Audiences Hollywood Walk of Fame to Give Stars to Jon Favreau, John Waters, and Mindy Kaling Related 2023 Oscars: ‘Avatar’ Is the One to Beat in Visual Effects Oscars 2023: Can Anyone Top ‘Maverick’ in Best Sound?...

When it comes to library titles, the offerings range from hard classics like “Boyz n the Hood” and “A Clockwork Orange” to reliable favorites like “Ocean’s Eleven” and… whatever “The Next Karate Kid” is besides something to watch between seasons of “Cobra Kai.” Lucky for you “The Queen’s Gambit” isn’t going anywhere. Related ‘Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story’ Sneak Peek: Adjoa Andoh’s Lady Danbury Origin Story Is Revealed Netflix’s ‘Kaleidoscope’ Unlocks a Watch-In-Any-Order Format for an Intriguing Heist Show Related Oscars 2023: Best International Feature Film Predictions Quentin Tarantino’s Favorite Movies: 48 Films the Director Wants You to See Here are the seven best movies new to Netflix this November....

While Warhol was seemingly scrupulous about keeping his private life private — often flippantly telling journalists he was “asexual” — there’s plenty beneath the surface of his groundbreaking 20th-century art to suggest otherwise. That’s one of the achievements of “The Andy Warhol Diaries,” which melds talking-head testimonies from those who knew him (Julian Schnabel, John Waters, Fab Five Freddy, Jerry Hall, Debbie Harry, and many, many more) with impressionistic montages of his work and archival snippets from his New York scene at the Factory....