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Sia has addressed her casting of Maddie Ziegler in her film Music again, describing the decision as “nepotism”.
The singer was on the receiving end of a backlash last year for casting her frequent collaborator over an autistic actor.Read more: LSD – ‘Labrinth, Sia, Diplo Present: LSD’ reviewMusic centres around an autistic teenager, played by Ziegler. Critics argued that Sia should have given an actor with experience of autism the opportunity instead.
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"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us." Indeed, Gandalf, we must use this time to our advantage. We have officially launched our 2022 Release Schedule page (also seen in the header button bar), featuring listings throughout the year 2022 now that we've celebrated the New Year. This is our annual release update, to keep everyone informed about release dates in 2021 and 2022 looking ahead. But things have changed quite a bit… Not only did the COVID-19 pandemic

Jared Leto has left the door open to return to the Joker character again in the future.
Leto, who played the classic DC villain in 2016’s Suicide Squad, is set to reprise the role in the forthcoming Zack Snyder’s Justice League, despite having not appeared in the original Justice League (2017).READ MORE: The Suicide Squad movie – release date, plot details, cast and everything we know so farNow, Leto has spoken about the possibility of playing the Joker

Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical, a virtual Broadway performance crowdsourced and organised via social media, has raised more than $1 million (£730,000) in premiere night ticket sales in support of The Actors Fund.READ MORE: Every Pixar film ranked in order of greatnessThe production began life as a viral TikTok video about a musical adaptation of the 2007 Disney/Pixar film, eventually expanding into a genuine full-scale performance that premiered on New Year’s Day – starring th

Wonder Woman 1984 director Patty Jenkins has spoken of the challenge of making a Star Wars film, saying you could “never” make a successful film in a single year.
Last month, it was confirmed that Jenkins will be making a new Star Wars movie called Rogue Squadron, which is billed to reach cinemas on Christmas Day 2023.READ MORE: Wonder Woman 1984 review – a smart and stylish superhero sequel with lots of heart“You can never do it in one year,” Je

A record-breaking proportion of women directed movies in 2020, according to a new study from America’s San Diego State University.
The university’s Centre for the Study of Women in Television and Film found that women made up 16% of directors working on the 100 highest-grossing films in 2020, up from 12% in 2019 and just 4% in 2018, per Variety.READ MORE: Women in Film 2020: why this year’s movies have been dominated by female storiesWomen accounted for 21% of all directors, wr