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UPDATE, writethru with backstage comments : Alfonso Cuaron ’s black-and-white Mexican drama Roma has scooped the Golden Lion at the 75th Venice Film Festival . This is the first movie from Netflix to take such an honor at a major festival, and the second movie in a row from a Mexican filmmaker to win here. Last year, Guillermo del Toro ’s Golden Lion winner, The Shape Of Water, went all the way to a Best Picture Oscar. Del Toro was jury president this year and in announcing his dear friend as the winner, joked, “Now, let me see if I can pronounce the name correctly.” As it did last year with Shape , the press room erupted in applause when Roma won. (The full list of winners is below the original post.) An ode to Cuaron’s Mexico City childhood, Roma , co-produced by Participant Media and Cuarón’s Esperanto Filmoj, has been embraced here on the Lido and its momentum accelerated when it hit Telluride, as Deadline’s Pete Hammond noted earlier this … [Read more...] about Venice Film Festival: Alfonso Cuaron’s ‘Roma’ Wins Golden Lion; ‘The Favourite’ Takes Grand Jury Prize – Full List

EXCLUSIVE: The Saturn Awards have unveiled nominations for their 50th anniversary edition, with organizer the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films saying that the ceremony to reveal winners is set for October 25 in an event that will be livestreamed on ElectricNOW. Warner Bros/DC’s The Batman , directed by Matt Reeves, is the top-nominated film with 12, featuring in categories including Best Superhero Film, and acting noms for Robert Pattinson, Zoe Kravitz, Paul Dano and Colin Farrell. Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare Alley from Searchlight Pictures is close behind with 10 nominations including Best Thriller Film, Best Direction (del Toro), and Writing (del Toro and Kim Morgan). Marvel Studios dominated this year’s noms in the Film and Streaming categories with movies like Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness , Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings , Thor: Love and Thunder , Sony’s Spider-Man: No Way Home , as well as Disney+ … [Read more...] about Saturn Awards Nominations: ‘The Batman’, ‘Nightmare Alley’, ‘Spider-Man’, ‘Better Call Saul’ Top List

EXCLUSIVE: WME has upped Liam Buckley to agent in the motion picture literary department in the agency’s Beverly Hills office. Previously, Buckley supported the department’s clients and covered festivals including the Sundance Film Festival and Cannes Film Festival. In his new role, Buckley will focus on representing screenwriters, directors and producers, and covering film studios. He interned at WME in 2017 before starting fulltime in the mailroom in 2018. He worked his way to becoming an assistant in the motion picture literary department and was promoted to coordinator in 2021. He is a graduate of Emory University. Led by Roger Green, head of the motion picture literary department, the group’s client roster includes award-winning filmmakers such as best director Oscar winners Martin Scorsese, Alfonso Cuarón, Damien Chazelle, Guillermo del Toro, and Bong Joon-ho. The agency also reps filmmakers with upcoming and highly anticipated projects, including Black … [Read more...] about WME Promotes Liam Buckley To Agent In Motion Picture Literary Department

EXCLUSIVE: Willem Dafoe is set to join Nadia Latif’s directorial debut, The Man in My Basement . The film is based on the novel of the same name by Walter Mosley, who adapted the novel with Latif. It depicts the complexities of race, power and identity. Dafoe will be seen as the role of Anniston Bennet, an opulent gentleman who requests to rent out the basement of Charles Blakey’s ancestral home. The story unveils Anniston asking for more than just a place to stay, building a complex dynamic between the two. Jonathan Majors will star as Charles Blakely and executive produce through his Tall Street Productions. Protagonist Pictures will finance the film. Dafoe ’s upcoming projects include Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things as well as Patricia Arquette’s Gonzo Girl. He also has Vasilis Katsoupis’ Inside and Walter Hill’s Dead For A Dollar . His recent projects include Robert Eggers’ The Northman , Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare Alley and Spider-Man: No … [Read more...] about Willem Dafoe Joins Nadia Latif’s ‘The Man In My Basement’

EXCLUSIVE: Max Martini is set for a heavily recurring role opposite Titus Welliver on the upcoming second season of Bosch: Legacy , the spinoff of the long-running Amazon series, on Freevee. Legacy follows Welliver as retired homicide detective turned private investigator Harry Bosch, as he embarks on the next chapter of his career. Attorney Honey “Money” Chandler (Mimi Rogers) struggles to maintain her faith in the justice system after surviving an attempted murder, and Maddie Bosch (Madison Lintz) discovers the possibilities and challenges of being a rookie patrol cop on the streets of Los Angeles. Martini will play Detective Don Ellis, a hardened vice cop in the LAPD. He’s intelligent and fierce, and not above getting down and dirty with the criminals he polices to get the job done. The spinoff is produced by Fabel Entertainment and exec produced by Michael Connelly, Eric Overmyer, Tom Bernardo, Henrik Bastin, Pieter Jan Brugge and Welliver. Known for his … [Read more...] about ‘Bosch: Legacy’: Max Martini Joins Season 2 In Major Recurring Role

Just when you thought Sean Penn had the Best Actor Oscar locked up for his career high in Mystic River , along comes tough competition: himself. In this scorcher of a drama from Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu — it’s only his second film, after the brilliant Amores Perros , and his first in English — Penn burns with ferocity and feeling as Paul, a math professor faced with the possibility of death after a heart transplant. His wife (Charlotte Gainsbourg) wants to have a baby, something of him left behind. Paul sees spirituality in terms of numbers, the twenty-one grams (the weight of a hummingbird, a chocolate bar or a stack of five nickels) that leave our bodies at death. Is it the weight of the soul? Clearly, Inarritu and screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga aren’t afraid of tackling big issues or splintering a plot — as they did in Amores Perros — to make audiences work at putting the pieces together. They intensify the puzzle by adding two equally damaged … [Read more...] about 21 Grams