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• This little-known Liam Neeson thriller is top of Netflix

  29-04-2024 15:52 via nme.com
  
  Liam Neeson‘s recent film In The Land Of Saints And Sinners has topped the Netflix film charts.
  The little-known Irish action thriller, which first premiered last year, comes from director Robert Lorenz and follows a hitman (played by Neeson) who comes out of retirement when an IRA bomber arrives in his small village.
  After being released on Netflix last week, the film is currently (as of April 29) sitting at Number One on the Top 10 film chart, ahead of titles such as Jurassic World: Domi
  
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• Tom Hanks asks son Chet to explain Drake and Kendrick Lamar rap feud

  21-05-2024 06:09 via nme.com
  
  Tom Hanks has enlisted the help of his son Chet Hanks to catch him up to speed on the rap feud between Drake and Kendrick Lamar.READ MORE: Drake and Kendrick Lamar’s feud: the full timelineLast night (May 20), Chet took to his Instagram Stories to share screen grabs of a text conversation with his father, in which the actor asks for Chet to explain what’s going on between the two rappers.
  Tom Hanks messaged his son: “Big Main, can you explain the Drake/Kendrick Lamar feud
  
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• Al Pacino will play a Mafia boss again in new kidnapping thriller

  20-05-2024 22:42 via nme.com
  
  Al Pacino is set to play a Mafia boss once again in a new kidnapping thriller.
  Pacino, who has famously played mob bosses and gangsters in films like The Godfather, The Irishman, and Scarface, will play a real-life mob boss in the film Captivated.
  As per Deadline, the film will focus on Calabrian mafia boss Saro (played first by Tony Kebbell, and then next, in the present day, by Pacino) who kidnaps the grandson of one of the world’s richest men, Jean Paul Getty. The boss puts his organisa
  
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• ‘Goodfellas’ fans ridicule “bonkers” disclaimer for “cultural stereotypes”

  20-05-2024 18:00 via nme.com
  
  Fans of Goodfellas have shared their views on a “cultural stereotypes” disclaimer shown before the film on channel AMC.
  The Martin Scorsese film, which was first released in 1990, is widely regarded as one of the greatest gangster movies of all time.
  However, a trigger warning was issued before the AMC version of the film in 2020, reading: “This film includes language and/or cultural stereotypes that are inconsistent with today’s standards of inclusion and tolerance and m
  
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• This new Demi Moore horror film has a perfect score on Rotten Tomatoes

  20-05-2024 16:55 via nme.com
  
  Demi Moore‘s new horror film The Substance has landed a perfect score on Rotten Tomatoes after premiering at the Cannes Film Festival.
  The new film from director and writer Coralie Fargeat is a body horror that focuses on the titular product, which allows people to create a younger and more perfect alter ego.
  The movie, which also stars Margaret Qualley and Dennis Quaid, made its debut at the festival yesterday (May 19), and critics have shared their praise, with the film debuting with 100
  
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• Kevin Costner in tears during Cannes standing ovation for passion project ‘Horizon’

  20-05-2024 12:16 via nme.com
  
  Kevin Costner was seen getting visibly emotional after receiving a standing ovation for his new film Horizon: An American Saga.
  The Western, which is described as a two-part event and has been a long-term passion project for the actor and director, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival yesterday (May 19).
  Following the screening, Costner reportedly received a seven-minute standing ovation, with footage showing the actor in tears.
  Horizon has been in the work for 35 years, and is set during the A
  
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• HBO’s ‘Dune’ prequel series trailer teases establishment of the Bene Gesserit

  20-05-2024 09:08 via nme.com
  
  HBO Max has released the first teaser trailer for its upcoming Dune prequel series, Dune: Prophecy – watch the trailer below.READ MORE: ‘Dune: Part Two’ review: sandworm-sized sequel should blow a hole in the box officeThis past weekend, HBO Max uploaded the Dune: Prophecy trailer onto its official YouTube page. In the short trailer, we get a look at the world that the Dune films are set in, 10,000 years before the ascension of Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet), as
  
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• Tributes paid to ‘9 To 5’ actor Dabney Coleman, who has died aged 92

  20-05-2024 06:56 via nme.com
  
  American actor Dabney Coleman has died at the age of 92.
  Coleman’s death was confirmed by his daughter, Quincy Coleman, in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter: “My father crafted his time here on earth with a curious mind, a generous heart, and a soul on fire with passion, desire and humour that tickled the funny bone of humanity.”
  “As he lived, he moved through this final act of his life with elegance, excellence and mastery. A teacher, a hero, and a king, Dabney Colem
  
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• Cate Blanchett’s new political comedy film ‘Rumours’ was named after the Fleetwood Mac album

  20-05-2024 05:28 via nme.com
  
  Cate Blanchett has revealed that her new political comedy film Rumours was named after the seminal Fleetwood Mac album.READ MORE: Stevie Nicks: “In Fleetwood Mac, Christine McVie and I were a force of nature”While attending a press conference at the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday (May 19), Blanchett opened up about the film and its title. After receiving a four-minute standing ovation following its premiere the night before (May 18), Blanchett said that the film was named after
  
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• Emma Stone to reunite with ‘Poor Things’ director Yorgos Lanthimos on new film ‘Bugonia’

  19-05-2024 09:53 via nme.com
  
  Emma Stone is set to team up with Poor Things director Yorgos Lanthimos again on the upcoming film Bugonia.READ MORE: ‘Poor Things’ review: Emma Stone’s oddball sex comedy will tickle your fancyStone and Lanthimos are currently in Cannes to attend the premiere of another new collaboration, Kinds of Kindness, where they have announced their next project.
  Bugonia will be the pair’s fifth combination, following on from The Favourite, the short film Bleat, Poor Things and Kin
  
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• Cillian Murphy to return in Danny Boyle’s ’28 Years Later’

  18-05-2024 17:36 via nme.com
  
  Cillian Murphy has been confirmed as returning to the franchise that launched his career, in 2025’s 28 Years Later.READ MORE: ’28 Days Later’ at 20: Danny Boyle and Cillian Murphy on why it wouldn’t get made todayNews of the new film was first announced earlier this year, with confirmation that director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland, who helmed the 2002 original 28 Days Later, were both returning to the franchise.
  Earlier this month, the film was given the offi
  
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• Chris Pratt pays tribute to late ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ stunt double Tony McFarr: “He was an absolute stud”

  17-05-2024 22:32 via nme.com
  
  Chris Pratt has paid tribute to his Guardians of the Galaxy stunt double Tony McFarr, who died aged 47 on May 13. No cause of death has been given.READ MORE: ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy: Volume 3’ review: an oddly dark goodbye for Marvel’s funniest gangMcFarr passed away at his home in Orlando, Florida; according to TMZ, his mother Donna reported that toxicology reports for his death were still pending. He acted as Pratt’s stunt double for both the Guardians f
  
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• Francis Ford Coppola criticises state of modern cinema: “The job is not so much to make good movies”

  17-05-2024 18:18 via nme.com
  
  Francis Ford Coppola has lamented the state of modern cinema, claiming some major studios no longer focus on making high quality films.
  Speaking at a press conference at Cannes Film Festival following the world premiere of his new dystopian drama Megalopolis, Coppola expressed his view that studios are mostly focused on making money due to their high levels of debt.
  “I fear that the film industry has become more of a matter of people being hired to meet their debt obligations because the s
  
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• Barry Keoghan’s new film ‘Bird’ receives seven-minute standing ovation at Cannes

  17-05-2024 17:41 via nme.com
  
  Barry Keoghan‘s forthcoming film Bird received a seven-minute standing ovation following its premiere at Cannes Film Festival.
  The Saltburn actor stars in the new drama directed by Andrea Arnold (American Honey, Fish Tank).READ MORE: ‘Saltburn’ review: party with the poshos in the naughty noughtiesAlso starring Bafta-winning Top Boy actor Jasmine Jobson, Passages star Franz Rogowski, and child actor Nykiya Adams, Bird centres around a 12-year-old named Bailey (Adams) who, after
  
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• Ringo Starr U-turns on ‘Let It Be’ documentary after saying there was “not a lot of joy” in it

  17-05-2024 15:12 via nme.com
  
  Ringo Starr has given the newly restored Let It Be documentary his seal of approval, despite previously claiming that there was “not a lot of joy” in it.READ MORE: ‘Let It Be’ review: The Beatles dust off their spellbinding 1970 break-up docDirected by Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Let It Be was first released in cinemas 54 years ago, and featured footage of The Beatles while they were working their 12th and final studio album of the same name in 1969.
  While the original film has
  
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• Aubrey Plaza addresses negative speculation surrounding Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Megalopolis’: “I thought it was kind of funny”

  17-05-2024 13:49 via nme.com
  
  Aubrey Plaza has addressed the negative speculation surrounding Francis Ford Coppola’s forthcoming dystopian drama, Megalopolis.
  The Godfather director struggled to get funding for the film, which has cost $120m (£96m), taken decades to make, and still not found a distributor. There have also been numerous speculative reports regarding Coppola’s behaviour on the set of the film.
  The film itself received a mixed reaction at is Cannes Film Festival premiere on Thursday (May 16),
  
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• Liam Neeson and Sharon Stone join Stephen Fry in supporting Kevin Spacey’s return to Hollywood

  17-05-2024 13:42 via nme.com
  
  Liam Neeson and Sharon Stone have joined Stephen Fry and F. Murray Abraham in supporting Kevin Spacey‘s return to Hollywood.
  Their comments come on the back of newly surfaced allegations against Spacey in the recent Channel 4 documentary Spacey Unmasked.
  “Kevin is a good man and a man of character,” Neeson told The Telegraph, adding he was “deeply saddened” to learn of new accusations against the House of Cards actor.
  Spacey has not worked in Hollywoo
  
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• Audience boo Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Megalopolis’ at Cannes as long-awaited blockbuster receives mixed reaction

  17-05-2024 12:03 via nme.com
  
  Francis Ford Coppola’s 140-minute dystopian drama Megalopolis received a mixed reaction at its Cannes Film Festival premiere on Thursday (May 16), with some members of the audience initially booing.
  The Godfather director’s new, self-financed film stars Adam Driver as Cesar Catilina, an architect-scientist who wants to improve a fictional version of New York City called New Rome.
  Audience members reportedly started booing after the film ended. However, according to World of Reel&lsqu
  
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• Peggy Gou releases playful new track ‘Lobster Telephone’

  17-05-2024 09:47 via nme.com
  
  Peggy Gou has released her playful new track ‘Lobster Telephone’ – listen to it down below.READ MORE: Beyond The Valley 2023 day 4 recap: Peggy Gou welcomes the new year in styleThe South Korean DJ has shared the new single ahead of her upcoming debut record, ‘I Hear You’. The album will drop June 7 via XL Recordings – pre-order it here.
  ‘Lobster Telephone’, whose name is taken from the famous Salvador Dalí artwork of the same name, see
  
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• Isla Fisher breaks silence following Sacha Baron Cohen divorce

  16-05-2024 21:03 via nme.com
  
  Isla Fisher has updated her fans for the first time since she and Sacha Baron Cohen announced their divorce last month.READ MORE: ‘Borat Subsequent Moviefilm’ review: how the controversial Kazakh journalist got wokeIn April, the couple shared a joint statement on social media announcing their split. Alongside a photo of them in tennis clothes, a caption read: “After a long tennis match lasting over 20 years, we are finally putting our racquets down. In 2023, we jointly filed to
  
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• ‘Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga’ receives six-minute standing ovation at Cannes

  16-05-2024 13:45 via nme.com
  
  Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga received a six-minute standing ovation at Cannes Film Festival, reportedly leaving the cast and director George Miller emotional.READ MORE: ‘Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga’ review: another mighty, petrol-soaked masterpieceThe film, which is set for wide release on May 23, stars Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth and serves as a prequel to 2015’s Mad Max: Fury Road starring Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron and Zoë Kravitz.
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• Led Zeppelin documentary ‘Becoming Led Zeppelin’ is finally set for a cinema release

  16-05-2024 10:53 via nme.com
  
  Led Zeppelin‘s long awaited documentary Becoming Led Zeppelin is finally set for a cinema release.READ MORE: Led Zeppelin – rank the albumsThe authorised film, which was first announced in 2019, has been acquired for release by Sony Classics Pictures in a number of countries including North America, Latin America, Southeast Asia (except for Japan) and the Middle East. No announcement has been made for the UK or Europe yet.
  An official release date for the documentary is yet to b
  
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• Adam Sandler’s ‘Happy Gilmore’ is getting a sequel

  16-05-2024 10:43 via nme.com
  
  It’s official: Adam Sandler‘s 1996 comedy Happy Gilmore is getting a sequel.READ MORE: ‘Uncut Gems’ review: Adam Sandler sparkles in anxiety-inducing thriller that may give you a heart-attackLast night (May 15), streaming platform Netflix took to social media to announce that Sandler will be reprising his role in the 1996 golfing comedy classic for an entirely new sequel that will arrive exclusively on Netflix at some point in the future.
  A release date has yet to be anno
  
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• Working class make up less than 10 percent of film and TV workers, study reveals

  15-05-2024 20:08 via nme.com
  
  A new study has revealed that less than one in ten people working in film and television in the UK are from working class backgrounds, the lowest figure in a decade.
  The same research, as reported by Channel 4, also showed that a similar disparity is present in the music and performing arts sector, with just 16 per cent coming from working class communities, as opposed to almost 65 per cent from middle or upper class backgrounds.
  A lack of diversity has also been reported in other categories, wi
  
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• ‘Wicked’ trailer sees Ariana Grande sing ‘Popular’ and ‘Defying Gravity’

  15-05-2024 18:00 via nme.com
  
  The official trailer for Wicked the movie has been released.
  Coming to cinemas later this year, the film stars Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande and Jeff Goldblum, and is an adaptation of the musical of the same name. It tells the untold story of the witches of Oz.
  Wicked follows Elphaba (Erivo) as she begins at Shiz University, where she forms an unlikely friendship with Glinda (Grande). While navigating their differences, learning about Elphaba’s powers and discovering the truth about th
  
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• King Charles’ new portrait is getting memed with a ‘Ghostbusters’ character comparison

  15-05-2024 14:00 via nme.com
  
  Ghostbusters fans have noticed a resemblance between a character from the second film and the latest portrait of King Charles III.READ MORE: ‘Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire’ review: nostalgic return to the old neighbourhoodThe portrait, painted by Jonathan Yeo, was unveiled earlier this week. Eight feet in height, the oil painting shows the King in his red Welsh Guards uniform against a striking red background, with a butterfly landing on his shoulder.
  However, some have noticed that th
  
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• When is ‘Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga’ coming out in cinemas?

  15-05-2024 13:00 via nme.com
  
  One of the most highly anticipated films of 2024 is Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga.
  Directed by George Miller, Furiosa serves as a spin-off and prequel to 2015’s Mad Max: Fury Road. It is the fifth instalment in the franchise overall, which began with the original Mad Max way back in 1979.READ MORE: Mad Max: Fury Road – Film ReviewThis latest entry stars Anya Taylor-Joy as a young Furiosa, who was played by Charlize Theron in Fury Road. Other cast members include Chris Hemsworth, Alyla
  
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• A Bruce Springsteen concert documentary is coming to Disney+ later this year

  15-05-2024 07:11 via nme.com
  
  A new Bruce Springsteen concert documentary is on the way, and will be available on streaming services later this year.READ MORE: Bruce Springsteen live in London: the heartland hero remains firmly at his majestic peakRoad Diary: Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band has been confirmed to release on Disney+ and Hulu in October, although a firm release date has yet to be announced. The concert film will focus on Springsteen’s ongoing tour.
  The documentary – directed by Springst
  
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• Here’s every song on the ‘Mother Of The Bride’ soundtrack

  14-05-2024 22:13 via nme.com
  
  Mother Of The Bride has become the latest romantic comedy to top the Netflix charts.
  Directed by Mark Waters (Mean Girls), the film follows mother Lana (Brooke Shields) who discovers her daughter Emma’s (Miranda Cosgrove) husband-to-be is the son of an old flame she dated in college.READ MORE: 20 unmissable movies coming out in 2024Other cast members include Benjamin Bratt, Rachael Harris, Sean Teale, Chad Michael Murray, Michael McDonald, Wilson Cruz and Tasneem Roc.
  Mother Of The Bride&n
  
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• Judi Dench on trigger warnings: “If you’re that sensitive, don’t go to the theatre”

  14-05-2024 21:33 via nme.com
  
  Judi Dench has given her view on theatrical trigger warnings, saying if audiences are too sensitive, they should avoid going to the theatre.
  Trigger warnings have become a controversial topic in theatre and film in recent years, with some believing they are necessary to inform audiences about potentially upsetting or distressing content, including sexual violence and themes of abuse, while others view them as reducing the power of art to shock.
  Speaking to the Radio Times, Dench was taken aback
  
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