63 h. ago Hollywood icon who helped launch Arnold Schwarzenegger’s career dies after health battle

A well-loved figure in the film industry, known for his huge impact on Hollywood and work with both Arnold Schwarzenegger and Quentin Tarantino, has sadly died

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3 d. ago Tilly Norwood: how scared should we be of the viral AI ‘actor’?

A bunch of code is being pushed as the next Scarlett Johansson, a creation that is already causing pushback from real human actorsIt takes a lot to be the most controversial figure in Hollywood, especially when Mel Gibson still exists. And yet somehow, in a career yet to even begin, Tilly Norwood has been inundated with scorn.This is for the simple fact that Tilly Norwood does not exist. Despite looking like an uncanny fusion of Gal Gadot, Ana de Armas and High School Musical-era Vanessa Hudgens, Norwood is the creation of an AI talent studio called Xicoia. And if Xicoia is to be believed, then Norwood represents the dazzling future of the film industry. Continue reading...

Politics

4 d. ago Trump makes new threat of 100% tariff on any movie made outside of the US in potential hammer blow to UK film industry

Trump did not specify when or how the tariff could be enacted, but if he follows through with the threat, it would mark the first time he has imposed a levy on a service rather than a raw good.

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9 d. ago Claudia Cardinale: toughness and charisma went with the sensual allure

The smouldering star of Once Upon a Time in the West, 8½ and The Leopard had her best roles for Italian directors• Claudia Cardinale, star of The Leopard, dies aged 87• Claudia Cardinale: a life in picturesClaudia Cardinale was part of the great wave of Italian movie stars whose postwar career took them from Europe to Hollywood; these included Sophia Loren, Gina Lollobrigida and Monica Vitti, who the American film industry prized not merely for their beauty but also for their mystery: an exotic feline allure and sense of toughness and survival, and even tragedy. But Cardinale perhaps had something her contemporaries didn’t: a kind of simplicity and frankness to go with the sensual allure. She often played opposite Alain Delon, whose own beauty complemented – almost merged with – hers.In Visconti’s early masterpiece Rocco and His Brothers from 1960, Cardinale played Ginetta, engaged to one of Rocco’s brothers from the uncouth south and her parents are openly hostile when their son-in...

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9 d. ago Claudia Cardinale had toughness, charisma and sensual allure. Yet Hollywood just couldn’t do her justice

The smouldering star of Once Upon a Time in the West, 8½ and The Leopard had her best roles for Italian directors• Claudia Cardinale, star of The Leopard, dies aged 87• Claudia Cardinale: a life in picturesClaudia Cardinale was part of the great wave of Italian movie stars whose postwar career took them from Europe to Hollywood; these included Sophia Loren, Gina Lollobrigida and Monica Vitti, who the American film industry prized not merely for their beauty but also for their mystery: an exotic feline allure and sense of toughness and survival, and even tragedy. But Cardinale perhaps had something her contemporaries didn’t: a kind of simplicity and frankness to go with the sensual allure. She often played opposite Alain Delon, whose own beauty complemented – almost merged with – hers.In Visconti’s early masterpiece Rocco and His Brothers from 1960, Cardinale played Ginetta, engaged to one of Rocco’s brothers from the uncouth south and her parents are openly hostile when their son-in...

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1 week ago Mission Alarum review – dreadful Sylvester Stallone spy thriller shames cinema itself

Donald Trump’s ‘special ambassador to Hollywood’ plays a grizzled agent in this dismal action movie Back at the beginning of the second Trump administration (which feels like the Jurassic era now), the president named Sylvester Stallone, Mel Gibson and Jon Voight “special ambassadors to a great but troubled place, Hollywood, California.” No one seems to be quite sure what these ambassadorships entail or if any of that troika of right-wing fellow travellers have fulfilled any official duties. But on the evidence of this, Stallone is already letting the side down – by making a film so bad it shames American cinema itself. And it wasn’t even made in Hollywood! Instead, it was shot in Ohio (pretending, deeply unconvincingly, to be Poland), making this what’s called a runaway production, the phenomenon that is undermining Hollywood’s film-making industry.However, this cheapola would-be spy thriller is bad all on its own, whatever its politics. The idea is that secret agents Joe (Scott Ea...

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1 week ago ‘Conclave,’ ‘Sentimental Value’ Producers Among Expert Voices Set for BFI London Film Festival Industry Forum

‘Conclave,’ ‘Sentimental Value’ Producers Among Expert Voices Set for BFI London Film Festival Industry Forum  The Hollywood Reporter

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1 week ago ‘Conclave’ Producer Tessa Ross Among Headline Speakers At London Film Festival Industry Forum

‘Conclave’ Producer Tessa Ross Among Headline Speakers At London Film Festival Industry Forum  Deadline

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1 week ago London Film Festival Unveils Industry Forum With ‘Conclave,’ ‘Sentimental Value’ Producers Among Speakers

London Film Festival Unveils Industry Forum With ‘Conclave,’ ‘Sentimental Value’ Producers Among Speakers  Variety

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2 w. ago With the Sundance Film Festival and filmmaker labs, Robert Redford brought change to cinema

Robert Redford, who died Tuesday at 89, transformed the film industry with the Sundance Institute and Film Festival

Culture

2 w. ago Sydney Sweeney in talks for a £45m payday as she's offered lead role in Bollywood movie after being given the Hollywood cold

The actress appeared to have fallen out of favour with her fellow Hollywood stars at Sunday's Emmys, and now her sights have turned to the largest film industry in the world.

Economics

3 w. ago Hollywood’s boycott of the Israeli film industry is an important turning point

Olivia Colman and Mark Ruffalo are among the stars who have signed up to an extraordinary boycott against the Israeli film industry, writes Micha Frazer-Carroll, but are these kinds of protests ever effective?

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3 w. ago Pledge to boycott Israeli film institutions draws signatures of top Hollywood actors and directors

Hundreds of prominent Hollywood figures have signed onto a pledge to boycott some Israeli film institutions

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3 w. ago Israeli film industry calls boycott pledge ‘deeply troubling’

Screenwriters’ guild of Israel says campaign that has now won backing from 1,800 film-makers will only ‘deepen the darkness’, while representatives of the country’s documentary and directors’ guild also voice concernRepresentatives of the Israeli film industry are redoubling efforts to caution against the wisdom of a pledge signed by some 1,800 significant professionals vowing not to work with Israeli film institutions they say are “implicated in genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people”.The pledge, announced on Monday, was initially signed by 1,200 film-makers including Yorgos Lanthimos, Ava DuVernay, Asif Kapadia, Boots Riley and Joshua Oppenheimer; and actors Olivia Colman, Mark Ruffalo, Tilda Swinton, Javier Bardem, Ayo Edebiri, Riz Ahmed, Josh O’Connor, Cynthia Nixon, Julie Christie, Ilana Glazer, Rebecca Hall, Aimee Lou Wood and Debra Winger. Continue reading...

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