Coralie Fargeat: Last News

The Substance director Coralie Fargeat has pulled her film from the Camerimage Film Festival – find out more below.Last week (November 12), the Camerimage Film Festival found itself in controversy after its director Marek Żydowicz penned a column for Cinematography World magazine that led to claims of misogyny.Per Variety, Żydowicz appeared to suggest that more female cinematographers and directors being showcased in film festival programming could lead to the inclusion of “mediocre film productions” at the expense of “works and artists with outstanding artistic achievements.”He wrote: “Should we reject what is esteemed and valuable just to ‘make space’ for the necessity of social change? Whilst festivals like Cannes, Berlin or Venice are criticized for their selections due to succumbing to or promoting [political or ideological trends], Camerimage remains committed to artistic values as the foremost criterion for qualifying and promoting film art.”Żydowicz has since claimed that his column was misunderstood: “We have always strived to showcase only the best of contemporary cinema, regardless of who creates it. And that is how my statement should be understood, there is nothing more to it, it has nothing to do with lack of respect for women.”On Saturday (November 16), Fargeat announced that she has decided to pull The Substance from the film festival following Żydowicz’s comments: “After discovering teh highly misogynistic and offensive words of the director of the Camerimage Film Festival, I have decided to pull THE SUBSTANCE from the festival (and [director of photography] Benjamin Kračun has decided not to attend.”She continued: “The Substance is about the impact of exactly these types of behaviours on our world.

The Substance, the Cannes Film Festival winning, Demi Moore body swap horror movie, is poised to bust to great heights at the global box office with a $70M-$75M take.

French filmmaker Coralie Fargeat has pulled her latest feature The Substance from Poland’s Camerimage Film Festival following the fallout of a controversial op-ed written by the festival’s founder and head Marek Żydowicz.

Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance and Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Pérez are among the winners of the European Film Academy’s 2024 Excellence Awards, celebrating arts and crafts achievements in eight categories.

Gregg Goldstein Jack Huston is no stranger to the movie business. So when the longtime actor and grandson of filmmaker John Huston launched his directorial debut — the boxing drama “Day of the Fight” — to good reviews at last year’s Venice Film Festival, he knew it would still be tough to find distribution in today’s theatrical marketplace. But he had no idea how tough a fight it would be.

The Substance star Demi Moore has spoken out about how the themes of the critically-acclaimed body horror are connected to the results coming out of the US election.As reported by Variety, Moore, speaking in Paris while receiving a career tribute at the French Cinematheque, said: “America is built on Puritans, religious fanatics and criminals. [And] you’re kind of seeing [as much] in our election right now.”Moore’s speech comes as Donald Trump edges closer to officially winning the US election, with other stars from the entertainment world already reacting to his apparent victory.The Substance is written and directed by French filmmaker Coralie Fargeat, and follows Elisabeth (Moore), an aging TV host who takes a mysterious injection to create a new, better version of herself (Sue, played by Margaret Qualley).

Ben Croll While visiting Paris to present the French premiere of “The Substance” and receive a career tribute at the French Cinematheque, Demi Moore linked Coralie Fargeat‘s bold body horror film to the themes undergirding the U.S. electoral nail-biter now occupying everyone’s minds. “America is built on Puritans, religious fanatics and criminals,” she said from the stage of the French Cinematheque on Tuesday.

Demi Moore is going glam in France!

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent French model-turned-actor Marine Vacth (“Mascarade,” “Double Lover”) is set to headline “Badh,” a “Taken”-style action thriller set in Morocco, from the producers of Coralie Fargeat’s hit debut “Revenge.” The movie is directed by Canadian filmmaker Guillaume de Fontenay, who previously helmed the popular thriller “Sympathy for the Devil,” and is co-represented by Sabine Chemaly’s Federation Studios banner Ginger & Fed and WTFilms who will present it to buyers at the American Film Market this week. Vacth stars opposite a raft of well-known French actors, Niels Schneinder (“Heartbeats”) Emmanuelle Bercot (“My King”), Slimane Dazi (“A Prophet”) and Sofian Khammes (“November”).

Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. The year’s most grotesque, shocking and (for some) fun movie of the year is finally available to stream online. Those who couldn’t manage to see Demi Moore slowly transform into an unrecognizable monster on the big screen now have the chance to stream “The Substance” from home.

EXCLUSIVE: With a horror project for Universal/Monkeypaw and a Night of the Living Dead sequel still in the offing, Nikyatu Jusu has begun development on The Fly, a new film based on David Cronenberg’s body horror masterwork, which she wrote and will direct for 20th Century Studios and Chernin Entertainment.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Jacques Audiard’s musical thriller “Emilia Pérez,” Coralie Fargeat’s body horror “The Substance” and Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de La Patellière’s epic adventure “The Count of Monte Cristo” have more in common than the fact that they’re directed by French filmmakers. Despite being set in Mexico and Los Angeles, respectively, “Emilia Pérez” and “The Substance” both shot entirely in France, for the most part in studios in Paris.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Demi Moore, whose performance in Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance” as been praised as Oscar-worthy, will receive a career tribute at the French Cinematheque in Paris on Nov. 5, ahead of the movie’s local release. The day-long retrospective and tribute are being co-hosted by Mubi, the global arthouse distributor and streamer which has successfully released the bold and bloody movie in the U.S., the U.K., Latin America, German and most other international territories, as well as Metropolitan which handles the French theatrical release, and the French Cinematheque.

Rotten Tomatoes has pulled together the critical consensus on every horror movie released since January 1, and the film topping the poll is Late Night With The Devil, Colin and Cameron Cairnes’ found footage supernatural horror set on a late night chat show on Halloween 1977.The film stars David Dastmalchian (Prisoners, Blade Runner 2049) as Jack Delroy, the host of the show in question, as he attempts to boost ratings by inviting an allegedly possessed girl onto the show.The film made headlines on its opening weekend in March when it drew exactly $666,666 on its first Sunday of release, contributing to an overall weekend haul of $2.8million (£2.2million). It tops Rotten Tomatoes’ list with a very strong 97 per cent critics score, and is available to stream on Shudder or to rent or buy.The Irish film Oddity makes it into second place with 96 per cent.

Just as its female lead is letting her inner rage come bubbling to the surface, the movie, Your Monster, about this young woman is also crying out from the inside to become a full blown Broadway musical, and not just the cult midnight movie it inevitably will be.

The Substance, the critically-acclaimed body horror starring Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley, will be available to watch at home just in time for Halloween.READ MORE: These are the scariest horror films, according to scienceMUBI, The Substance’s global distributor, announced today that it will be exclusively streaming on their service from October 31.Soon, you can try THE SUBSTANCE in your very own home. Streaming exclusively on MUBI October 31.

Rafa Sales Ross Guest Contributor After canceling the 2022 edition for a “reset” and postponing the 2023 edition from October to December due to the war in Gaza, the El Gouna Film Festival is back in full force for its seventh edition, taking place between Oct. 24-Nov.

Independent movies must be bolder and cheaper if they’re to cut through and help stabilize the business, Working Title co-chairs Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner told a packed audience during a London Film Festival industry talk this afternoon. 

Sam and Colby: The Legends Of The Paranormalfrom popular ghost-hunting YouTubers Sam Golbach and Colby Brock scared up a no. 6 spot at the domestic box office. Also this weekend, Mubi continued a series of firsts for the indie distributor with The Substance. And Columbia Pictures’ Saturday Night saw $280k at just 21 locations.

Ben Croll Bringing Hollywood magic closer to the Seine, the long-awaited TSF Paris Backlot officially opened this week, inaugurating an outdoor cityscape built to scale, staged as a standing, permanent set 38 miles east of the real urban center. Budgeted at €98 million ($107.6 million) and benefiting from $15.8 million in public support as part of the France 2030 infrastructure and modernization plan, the full Backlot 77 project is part of a broader, industry-wide initiative to lure international productions.

Alex Ritman Coralie Fargeat’s bold, bloody and buzzy “The Substance” has become the most successful box office release for arthouse distributor and streamer Mubi. The Demi Moore-starring body horror — which Mubi acquired for multiple territories before Cannes (where it won the best screenplay) for a figure rumoured to be in the low double-figures, its biggest acquisition to date — has a global box office after 10 days of $14.8 million, of which $13.6 million comes from Mubi’s markets.