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Ralph Fiennes – but in Italy, Lithgow himself was a “nobody”.The three all appear in the mystery thriller film Conclave and Tucci had previously worked on a food and travel series called Searching For Italy in the country. During a break from filming, the three went into a wine shop to buy some wine for a party.“It made you feel like a total nobody to walk down the streets of Rome with Stanley,” remarked Lithgow.

Over the past 20 years, screenwriter Peter Straughan has become British cinema’s go-to guy for adaptations. That might sound like a back-handed compliment, but his protean talent makes it hard to pinpoint what exactly constitutes a typical project for the UK-based writer: is it Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), his masterly adaptation of John Le Carré’s classic Cold War spy thriller; is it Frank (2014), which stars Michael Fassbender as a struggling indie musician sporting a papier mâché head; or is it Our Brand Is Crisis, a satirical Sandra Bullock comedy based on a deadly serious political documentary?

EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker Edward Berger says that Ralph Fiennes’ sublime performance as the cardinal charged with overseeing the election of a new pope in awards-season contender Conclave has a “whisper” of the inscrutability Anthony Hopkins displayed in his portrait of a veteran butler in James Ivory’s 1993 film The Remains of the Day. 

In a highly unusual private meeting at the Vatican on Oct. 13, Pope Francis met with LGBTQ+ Catholics to discuss the Catholic Church ban on gender-affirming care for trans people. Reuters was the sole news service to report the event which purportedly lasted 80 minutes and was not listed on the Vatican’s official agenda of Pope Francis’s meetings for that day.

EXCLUSIVE: Fresh off the TIFF premiere of their new documentary Vice Is Broke, Get Out producer QC Entertainment has enlisted Gabrielle Union (Riff Raff) to star in The Casket Girls, a new horror film to be directed by Justin Dyck (Anything for Jackson), which they will produce and fully finance.

EXCLUSIVE: After a strong reception on the fall film fest scene, Edward Berger’s Vatican thriller, Conclave, starring Ralph Fiennes is going one week earlier via Focus Features on Oct. 25. The pic was previously dated on Nov. 1. Coming away from the fests, Conclave currently scored 96% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.

Oscar-winning “All Quiet on the Western Front,” is a master entertainer who’s allergic to lulls. Every second is dripping with drama. His flair for grandiosity that shown so brilliantly in that World War I epic is back with a vengeance at St.

EXCLUSIVE: Though Conclave is fiction based on the Robert Harris novel, you cannot watch Edward Berger’s taut thriller about the election of a new pope without noticing the parallels to the polarizing politics of the race for the White House. The surprise twists and turns abound as it becomes clear the Vatican will either retreat into past conservative, exclusionary policies, or embrace Catholics who’ve been excluded by the institution. The German-born filmmaker is introducing his follow-up to the harrowing WWI drama All Quiet on the Western Front, which won four Oscars including Best International Film. This one-two punch also announces a major filmmaking talent, though he’s no overnight success. Whether he moves on to a major studio franchise like Ocean’s 14 or 007, it is clear from the confident hand in his visual storytelling that Berger is a filmmaker who can make the kind of impact in sophisticated commercial fare as a Sam Mendes or Christopher Nolan. Here, Berger introduces himself to Deadline readers to position Conclave – which Focus Features launches in awards season – and discusses many other things. Ralph Fiennes (already generating strong Oscar buzz), Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, Isabella Rossellini star in a film that made its Toronto debut this morning and screens again Monday and Tuesday.

Brent Lang Executive Editor Isabella Rossellini puts down her fork, straightens her back and shows me how she nailed a pivotal moment in her new movie, “Conclave,” a Vatican-set thriller that unfolds a world away from her 28-acre Long Island farm where we’re having lunch. In the scene, Rossellini’s character, a nun named Sister Agnes, is navigating a darkened hallway, trying to remain undetected, when she glimpses something mysterious unfolding a few feet in front of her. “My heart has to beat much faster, so the camera picks it up,” Rossellini says.

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic If you think the American presidential election has been unpredictable, wait’ll you see how capricious things get at the Vatican when the cardinals assemble to choose a new pope in “Conclave.” Adapted from the Robert Harris novel by Edward Berger, who assumes a very different challenge after “All Quiet on the Western Front,” this thinking man’s thriller unfolds like a murder mystery behind the locked doors of the Domus Sanctae Marthae, where the College of Cardinals are cloistered, except no one suspects foul play in the previous pontiff’s death. Still, intrigues abound as the papabili — those considered next in line for the job, played by such formidable actors as Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci and John Lithgow — pull whatever levers they can to be elected.

Coronation Street star has been branded 'gorgeous' by one of her co-stars after enjoying a trip abroad with a few of her castmates. The actress said she 'can't deal' as she returned from Rome and shared a number of snaps on social media.

EXCLUSIVE: Focus Features’ Edward Berger directed papal drama, Conclave, is opening the 47th Mill Valley Film Festival on Thursday, October 3.

Alison Herman TV Critic SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers from “Fear of the End,” the series finale of “Evil,” now streaming on Paramount+. Only on a show like “Evil” would a relatively happy ending include unleashing the Antichrist on the Vatican. In the paranormal procedural’s final minutes, psychologist Kristen Bouchard (Katja Herbers) and Father David Acosta (Mike Colter) have transferred to Rome, where they’ll continue to assess potential demonic possessions despite the deconsecration of their previous home base in New York. There’s just a couple of catches.

Christopher Vourlias Noomi Rapace is teasing her portrayal of Mother Teresa in the upcoming film “Mother,” in which the multi-faceted Swedish talent tackles the role of the Catholic saint when she was just an ordinary woman. Speaking at the Sarajevo Film Festival this week, where she’s part of a competition jury headed by Paul Schrader, “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” and “Prometheus” star said she was drawn to the offbeat portrait of Teresa because she wasn’t interested in doing a conventional biopic.

In Dovecote, an atmospheric drama short film byItalian director and co-writer Marco Perego turns the camera on society’s often unseen citizens: the women confined to a seaside prison in Venice. Making its debut at the Oscar-qualifying HollyShorts Film Festival, Dovecote, filmed inside Giudecca’s working women’s prison on an island in the Venetian lagoon, centers around a woman (Zoë Saldaña) during her final moments before being released. The film was also exhibited at the 60th Venice Biennale as part of the Vatican Pavilion. 

The Zurich Film Festival (ZFF) has unveiled the eleven titles set to screen as part of its Gala programme during its upcoming 19th edition, running October 3 – 13. 

Peggy Moffitt, the iconic ’60s model who was also a contract player at Paramount and who appeared in Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow-Up, died at her Beverly Hills home on Saturday from complications of dementia. Her son, Christopher Claxton, confirmed the news to the New York Times. She was 86.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent The “Last Supper” snafu has yet to die down. More than a week after the Paris Olympics opening ceremony that appeared to parody Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” painting, the Vatican has issued a statement in which it “deplored the offense” caused to Christians.

In a rare weekend release, the Vatican responded Saturday to the controversial drag performance that depicted Leonardo da Vinci’s “Last Supper” painting during the 2024 Paris Olympics’ opening ceremony last week.

Olympics has ignited a firestorm of religious controversy. The organizers found themselves in hot water over a tableau that seemed to evoke Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” — with a decidedly modern twist. The scene, set against the backdrop of the river Seine, featured drag queens, a transgender model, and a singer costumed as Dionysus, the Greek god of wine.

Let’s Talk Off Camera with Kelly Ripa” podcast, “I stole a cross from the Vatican and gave it to my mother,” “The Masked Singer” judge told host Kelly Ripa. “My mom’s like, ‘You know, this is not okay.'”“You did?” Ripa asked.McCarthy went on to clarify that she didn’t “personally” steal the cross but said it was purloined by one of her girlfriends while they were visiting the Pope’s apartment in Vatican City.“I was invited [to the Vatican] when I was in Italy, I was there for an eyeglass party or whatever, and they were like, ‘Do you want to go meet the Pope? Actually, the Pope’s not in town, but we can go in his apartment.’ I was like, ‘What?’ So we went, we literally, at midnight, went in the back of the Vatican, and I went in his apartment and his hallways,” she recalled.“I tried on his hat.