Joji Fukunaga: Last News

Joe Otterson TV ReporterCary Joji Fukunaga and chef René Redzepi are teaming for a new docuseries at Apple, Variety has learned exclusively.The series is produced by Film 45, Noma Projects, Parliament of Owls and Endeavor Content, with Endeavor serving as the studio. Narrated by Redzepi of the famed restaurant Noma in Copenhagen, the series is titled “Omnivore.”It will look at the world through the lens of food and explores how food binds and defines us, powers politics, shapes our beliefs, explains our past, and forecasts our future .Each episode will take viewers on a journey around the world, exploring the ingredients that have built societies, shaped spirituality, and forever altered the human story. The series was developed by Redzepi, Fukunaga, James Beard, and Matt Goulding, Xan Aranda serves as showrunner and executive producer.

No Time To Die was originally even smaller than the final cut, the film’s writers have revealed.Neal Purvis and Robert Wade recently told The Guardian that de Armas’ character, CIA agent Paloma, was “just a contact” at first.“There’s no denying that what goes down very well with an audience is the whole Paloma sequence,” Purvis said of the scene in which de Armas joins Craig’s Bond for a shootout in Cuba.“We had Paloma in our script, but she was just a contact,” the writer went on.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterCary Joji Fukunaga, the filmmaker behind “Beasts of No Nation,” “Maniac” and the upcoming James Bond sequel “No Time to Die,” has announced the creation of a production grant at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts to support rising filmmakers.The grant, which will fund student thesis films and create mentorship opportunities for aspiring filmmakers, was created to support historically underrepresented voices and to promote Black, Indigenous, or people of color (BIPOC) stories in the film industry.The $20,000 grant will be awarded in the spring of 2021 to a graduate student.