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Apple has landed another big feature project, that being an Audrey Hepburn biopic which Oscar-nominated filmmaker Luca Guadagnino will helm, with 2x Oscar nominee Rooney Mara set to play The Breakfast at Tiffany‘s legendary actress.

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‘Call Me By Your Name’ Writer Talks Being Dropped As Co-Director & How Shia LaBeouf Was In Talks For Armie Hammer’s Role

Released in 2017, “Call Me By Your Name” was an instant critical darling, becoming a real awards contender and breakthrough film for filmmaker Luca Guadagnino, as well as the two leading men, Timothee Chalamet and Armie Hammer. However, as pointed out by writer James Ivory in his new memoir, “Solid Ivory” (via GQ), the acclaimed film began its life on rather contentious ground.

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Shia LaBeouf Nearly Starred Opposite Timothée Chalamet In ‘Call Me By Your Name’

Shia LaBeouf was nearly cast in the Oscar-winning film “Call Me By Your Name”.

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Shia LeBeouf was fired as Timotheé Chalamet’s ‘Call Me’ lover

very different if Shia LaBeouf was cast in the lead.The former Disney Channel star, 35, was in the running to play Hammer’s character Oliver, who was the older boyfriend of Chalamet’s Elio.The 2017 film’s Oscar-winning writer and producer James Ivory explained in his new memoir, “Solid Ivory,” that LaBeouf was first contacted to play the role.In passages published in GQ on Wednesday, Ivory wrote that he was uncertain about LaBeouf’s casting due to the fact that he couldn’t visualize the “Fury” actor playing “an academic writing about the Greek philosopher Heraclitus.”“Shia came to read for us in New York with Timothée Chalamet, paying for his own plane ticket, and [director Luca Guadagnino] and I had been blown away,” Ivory said.

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Shia LaBeouf was almost cast as Timothée Chalamet's love interest in Call Me By Your Name

Shia LaBeouf was nearly cast as Timothée Chalamet's love interest in Luca Guadagnino's 2017 coming-of-age film Call Me By Your Name had it not been for his bad reputation.The movie's Oscar-winning producer-writer James Ivory detailed the behind-the-scenes drama that led to now equally-disgraced actor Armie Hammer playing 24-year-old grad student Oliver instead.'I didn't know much about [Shia], so I watched some of his films. He's an extremely good actor,' the 93-year-old filmmaker admitted in his memoir Solid Ivory, which hits shelves next Tuesday.

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‘Call Me By Your Name’ writer recalls being “blown away” by Shia LaBeouf’s audition

Call Me By Your Name screenwriter James Ivory has detailed Shia LaBeouf’s audition to play Oliver in the 2017 film, describing it as “sensational”.Directed by Luca Guadagnino, Call Me By Your Name stars Timothée Chalamet as Elio who falls in love with Oliver, played by Armie Hammer. The film was nominated for four Oscars, including Best Actor for Chalamet, and won Best Adapted Screenplay.Speaking in his new memoir ‘Solid Ivory’ (via GQ magazine), the film’s screenwriter recalled how LaBeouf was originally recruited to play Oliver.

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Timothée Chalamet Almost Had a Different 'Call Me By Your Name' Co-Star

Timothée Chalamet famously co-starred in Call Me By Your Name and it shot him to stardom.

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Busan: Aparna Sen on Kim Ji-seok Award Contender ‘The Rapist’

Naman Ramachandran “The Rapist,” which has its premiere next month at the Busan International Film Festival is the hardest hitting film that Indian filmmaker Aparna Sen has ever made.A chronicler of different aspects of Indian life, Sen has previously won global acclaim for her eclectic body of work, which includes “36 Chowringhee Lane” (1981), “Paroma” (1985) and “Iti Mrinalini” (2010) as a director.Sen is also one of India’s most feted actors who has worked with the stalwarts of the country’s cinema including Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen and Rituparno Ghosh and internationally with Ismail Merchant and James Ivory.Sen had idea for “The Rapist” some 15 years ago, and decided to revisit the subject after the recent spate of rape incidents in

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Rand Holston Leaving Paradigm To Form Management Company, Bringing Stephen King, James Ivory, Issa López, Robert Towne & More

EXCLUSIVE: Rand Holston is leaving Paradigm to form his own management company. All of his clients are coming with him to Rand Holston Management. The exit is amicable. Holston spent 10 years at Paradigm, this after spending 28 years at CAA. Holston’s last day will be September 30.

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Mia Neal and Jamika Wilson become first black women to win hair and makeup Oscar

Vogue. Gallery: 40 Iconic Photos Of Celebrities At Their Very First Oscars (ELLE (UK))“I know that one day it won’t be unusual or groundbreaking, it will just be normal” for black women, trans women, and Latinas to be claiming Oscars, Neal said.

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Christopher Plummer’s Career – A Photo Gallery

Oscar winner Christopher Plummer died today at his home in Connecticut today at the age of 91.

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Michael Lonsdale, Bond Villain in 'Moonraker,' Dies at 89

Michael Lonsdale, who starred as the mad villain Hugo Drax in the Bond film Moonraker and the dogged detective in the Fred Zinnemann-directed crime thriller The Day of the Jackal, has died. He was 89.

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Film Review: Kate Winslet & Saoirse Ronan In ‘Ammonite’

Todd McCarthy The temptation will be too great for some critics to resist proclaiming, “Ammonite is dynamite!,” as in some respects it is, specifically in the way it resembles a hand grenade thrown into the midst of an otherwise decorous, serious-minded 19th century British period piece.James Ivory might be proud and even jealous of the way writer-director Francis Lee takes the Anglo art house tradition of quality to an uncustomary level of sexual frankness, an aspect that will remind many viewers of last year’s similarly themed French favorite Portrait of a Lady on Fire.