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Spencer‘s Pablo Larraín has set the biopic Maria on the life of American-born Greek soprano Maria Callas as his next feature, bringing Academy Award winner Angelina Jolie (Those Who Wish Me Dead) aboard to star.

Netflix’s new Marilyn Monroe movie that hopes to be a major contender during awards season.Running time: 166 minutes. Rated NC-17 (some sexual content). Out Sept.

Anna Marie de la Fuente The 18th Santiago Int’l Film Festival (Sanfic) is paying tribute to Chile’s most internationally renowned and arguably hardest working actor, the peripatetic Alfredo Castro who will attend Sanfic’s inauguration Aug. 14 to receive his lifetime achievement award and kick off a retrospective of his films.Also a playwright and theater director, Castro has worked across Europe and Latin America, acting in French, Spanish, Portuguese and a number of accents and dialects from Latin America, including neutral Spanish.

The Toronto International Film Festival announced its second big wave of programming for the 47th edition, a 54 feature title lineup across its Discovery, Midnight Madness and Wavelengths sections.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentNetflix and ‘Spencer’ director Pablo Larraín have gone into production on “El Conde,” a black comedy picturing bloody Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet as a 250-year-old vampire.Larraín will share screenwriting credits with Guillermo Calderón, Chile’s foremost playwright and Larraín’s writing partner on “Neruda” and Berlin Grand Jury Prize winner “The Club,” the movie which persuaded Natalie Portman to play the lead in the Larraín-directed “Jackie.”“El Conde” is produced by Juan de Dios Larraín at Fabula, the Larraín brothers’ Chile-based film-TV production house whose credits include “Spencer” and “Jackie,” all Larrain’s Chilean movies, and Sebastian Lelio’s 2018 Academy Award winning “A Fantastic Woman.” Moving from fest-winning straight-arrow arthouse fare such as “Tony Manero” to movies with a wider audience appeal from 2012 Cannes Directors Fortnight winner “No,” starring Gael García Bernal and then into English-language titles from “Jackie,” Pablo Larrain has established himself in the vanguard of Latin American cinema.Whatever the setting, his movies combine an acute sense of character and big ideas, on power dyanamics, the fate of women in traditional worlds, the lure and hell of fame and also the multiple hostages left to fortune by Augusto Pinochet’s far right and bloody dictatorship.In a review of “Jackie” Variety’s Guy Lodge hailed Larraín as “the most daring and prodigious political filmmaker of his generation,”“El Conde” looks to drive deeper into some of the themes, mixing character analysis, drama and comedy and a trenchant analysis of the makings of the modern world – not only in Chile but in global terms.The historical black comedy revolves around Augusto

Daniel Bruhl and Macaulay Culkin have joined the cast of 'Rich Flu'. The pair have been tapped to star opposite Rosamund Pike, who has previously been announced as the lead in the pandemic-themed thriller. Spanish director Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia is helming the movie with cameras now set to roll.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentDaniel Brühl and Macaulay Culkin have joined the cast of Spanish director Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia’s pandemic themed thriller “Rich Flu.”They will be starring opposite Rosamund Pike, who had previously been announced as the lead.Cameras are now set to roll this fall on the high-concept social thriller in which a deadly disease starts killing off the richest people on the planet. At first it strikes the billionaires, then the multi-millionaires, and so on.With the whole world panicking and headed for collapse, people are trying to flood the market with assets they no longer want, in hopes of saving their skin.“Rich Flu” will be the second feature for Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia, whose 2019 directorial debut “The Platform” was awarded best film, and best F/X at the Sitges’ Intl.

Daniel Brühl and Macaulay Culkin have joined the cast of the Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia directed thriller, Rich Flu, which we told you about back at EFM with Rosamund Pike attached to star. Production is expected to start in the fall.

Tom Quinn’s Neon has upped Jeff Deutchman to from president of acquisitions and production.

Anna Marie de la Fuente Following, some potential Chilean highlights at Cannes:“Beautiful Yet Mortal” (“Bella Cosa Mortal”), Nicolás PostiglioneAn Oro Films-Whisky Content co-production about star-crossed lovers in an ultra-traditional German community in Southern Chile, from the director of the acclaimed “Immersion.” To shoot in late 2022.Breaking and Entering” (“Allanamiento”), Tomás Gonzalez MatosFrom Sanfic Industry Goes to Cannes, a police procedural where the deputy commissioner of the investigative police unit asks the commissioner to enter the prosecutor’s office and dispose of recordings implicating them in drug trafficking, torture and corruption. In post.“Conditional,” Alvaro Diaz A youth comedy from Juntos Films following Esteban who, in order to impact the girl he fancies, runs for president of his school’s student union.

Ukrainian filmmaker Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi wrote and will direct the feature adaptation of John Valliant’s book The Tiger, in which Emmy, Golden Globe, and SAG Award-winner Alexander Skarsgard will star alongside Oppenheimer actor Dane DeHaan.

EXCLUSIVE: Mauricio Katz & Pedro Peirano have signed a two-year overall deal with HBO. As part of their deal, they are currently working as consulting producers on the second season of Perry Mason. As a duo, Katz & Peirano have developed pilot scripts for STARZ, HBO and FX; and have written screenplays for Hollywood heavyweights such as Martin Scorsese and Benicio Del Toro.

On the heels of her first Oscar nomination for Spencer, Kristen Stewart has signed on to star in the A24 film Love Lies Bleeding from director Rose Glass (Saint Maud), Deadline has confirmed.

Kristen Stewart and her fiancéeDylan Meyer looked happy in love as they shared a passionate kiss on the red carpet at the94th Academy Awards.After turning heads in a pair of super-short shorts, the31-year-old Twilight star couldn't help but lock lips with her partner of two years as they posed for photos together.The actress, who is nominated forbest actressfor her portrayal of Princess Diana in Pablo Larraín's Spencer, looked proud to have Meyer by her side as they packed on the PDA and held hands. Locking lips: Kristen Stewart and her fiancée Dylan Meyer looked happy in love as they shared a passionate kiss on the red carpet at the 94th Academy AwardsMeyer, 34, best known for penning the script for the 2021 film Moxie, gazed lovingly atStewart, who wore a sheer white button-up, which she left almost completely open, andblack satin shorts from Chanel.

Kristen Stewart and her fiancée Dylan Meyer put on a loved-up display as they held hands at theChanel and Charles Finch pre-Oscar Awards dinner in Beverly Hills, California, on Saturday evening.While attending the star-studded event, held at theThe Beverly Hills Hotel'sclassic Hollywood-style Polo Lounge, the31-year-old Twilight star rocked a strapless black and white tweed minidresscoordinated with conjunction heels.She wore herplatinum blonde hair in anedgy updo with romantic tousled strandscascading down the sides of her face and a black bomber jacket, which she took off for photos with her partner, whom she began dating in 2019. Cute couple: Kristen Stewart and her fiancée Dylan Meyer (L) put on a loved-up display as they held hands at the Chanel and Charles Finch pre-Oscar Awards dinner in Beverly Hills, California, on Saturday eveningStewart, who earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for her role as Princess Diana in Pablo Larraín's Spencer, flashedseveral of her tattoos, including a black rectangle with an eye that had a light bulb in the center inked to her right forearm.

Twilight alum Kristen Stewart drove her surprisingly dirty black Porsche to a Beverly Hills hair salon for a pamper session on Tuesday.The 30-year-old César Award winner was wearing a tiny white bra-top beneath a grey hoodie, faded black jeans, and black lace-up shoes for her appointment.Kristen - who was wearing a face mask despite the mandate being lifted - has been so busy with awards season events she apparently hasn't had time to get her sports car washed. Wash me! Twilight alum Kristen Stewart drove her surprisingly dirty black Porsche to a Beverly Hills hair salon for a pamper session on TuesdayThat same day, Stewart's fiancée Dylan Meyer posted a rare snap of the pair rocking matching NEON T-shirts with the caption: 'We [heart emoji] neon.'Hotel heiress-turned-reality TV icon Paris Hilton commented on the 34-year-old Moxie screenwriter's Instagram post with two lightning bolts and twin emojis.

Gregg Goldstein This year’s Academy Award nominations are dominated by films from deep-pocketed studios, specialty divisions and streamers. Yet as most 2021 indies were sidelined to the Spirit Awards, a few such as “Drive My Car,” “Flee,” “The Worst Person in the World” and “Writing With Fire” managed to score noms in David vs.

Kristen Stewart hinted at her enviably taut midriff when she was spotted stepping out in Los Angeles this week.The 31-year-old Twilight actress has lately been scooping up awards show nominations for her performance as Princess Diana in the biopic Spencer.Sweeping her blonde hair back tightly back into a ponytail, she threw on a fashionably ripped cut-off white t-shirt for her latest outing. Stepping out:Kristen Stewart hinted at her enviably taut midriff when she was spotted stepping out in Los Angeles this weekShe clashed the top with a high-waisted pair of charcoal slacks and slipped into a complementary pair of black shoes.Warding off the California rays with a pair of burnt-orange sunglasses, she added a splash of dazzle with a couple of necklaces.

Apple TV+ has set its first-ever all Spanish-language series Midnight Family from Pablo and Juan de Dios Larraín. Cast includes Academy Award nominee Yalitza Aparicio (Roma), Joaquín Cosío (Narcos: Mexico, Suicide Squad 2), and Óscar Jaenada (The Losers, Luis Miguel: The Series).

Joe Otterson TV ReporterApple has ordered a Spanish-language series inspired by the documentary “Midnight Family” (“Familia de Medianoche”).The series will be Apple’s first series produced entirely in Spanish. “Midnight Family” follows Marigaby Tamayo (Renata Vaca), an ambitious and gifted medical student by day, who spends her nights saving lives throughout a sprawling, contrasted and fascinating Mexico City aboard her family’s privately owned ambulance. Along with her father Ramón (Joaquín Cosío) and her siblings Marcus (Diego Calva) and Julito (Sergio Bautista), Marigaby serves a population of millions by tackling extreme medical emergencies to make a living.“Midnight Family” also stars Yalitza Aparicio, Itzan Escamilla, José María de Tavira, Óscar Jaenada, Dolores Heredia, and Mariana Gómez.

With Oscar season nearly over, plenty of filmmakers, craftspeople, and actors are working overtime in the final leg of their campaigns. One of those actors, who arguably hasn’t overly campaigned, but is still doing her due diligence, is Kristen Stewart, currently vying for a Best Actress nomination for her celebrated turn in the Pablo Larrain drama, “Spencer.” READ MORE: Kristen Stewart Says The Fact She’s In “Five Good Movies” Is “F*cking Cool” [Interview] Yesterday, Stewart visited the 92Y in New York City to host a special screening of “Spencer.” Afterward, Stewart sat down with film critic Thelma Adams to discuss the film — and when the conversation turned to the topic of the state of movies, Stewart took the opportunity to talk up her next project, a collaboration with “Saint Maud” director Rose Glass.