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Kenneth Branagh has just turned one of his eight career Oscar nominations into a win, stepping up to receive the award for Original Screenplay for Belfast.

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Dakota Johnson and Kate Hudson enjoyed a fun night out together ahead of the Oscars!

Chris Rock called Licorice Pizza “probably the best movie I saw this year,” introducing his friend the director Paul Thomas Anderson at the National Board of Review gala. “I only saw about four movies.”

Jane Campion is walking back on her Critics’ Choice Awards speech.

Sean Penn was scheduled to introduce “Licorice Pizza” director Paul Thomas Anderson at Saturday night’s DGA Awards, but was forced to cancel when he tested positive for COVID-19 ahead of the event.

Licorice Pizza director Paul Thomas Anderson revealed Saturday at the 74th Directors Guild of America Awards that two-time Oscar winner Sean Penn tested positive for COVID-19 following his trip to Ukraine.'Sean tested positive for Covid,' announced the 51-year-old filmmaker to laughter from the industry crowd at The Beverly Hilton.'Which is kind of crazy considering what he's done for all of us. [It's like] a World War I veteran coming home, slipping on a step.

Clayton Davis Belfast native Ciarán Hinds finally received the recognition he’s deserved with an Oscar nomination for his role in the Focus Features picture “Belfast.” Hinds’ career has spanned over 120 films and television series, but he tells Variety’s Awards Circuit Podcast that knew when he began to read writer and director Kenneth Branagh’s script for “Belfast” that he wanted to be a part of it.On this episode, Hinds talks about the impressive career that has seen him share the screen with the likes of Andrew Garfield and Daniel Day-Lewis and working under the guidance of master filmmakers like Paul Thomas Anderson and Steven Spielberg, whom he reunited with at this year’s Oscar nominees luncheon. He also discusses what it was like to work with an outstanding cast that included Caitriona Balfe, Judi Dench, Jamie Dornan and the young Jude Hill.

the BandLab NME Awards 2022 for her dazzling acting debut as Alana Kane in Licorice Pizza.The rock star-turned-actress beat out Benedict Cumberbatch, Jonathan Majors, Riz Ahmed and Thomasin McKenzie for the prize.Last year, she told NME that she had “no movie star training” before taking on the role in director Paul Thomas Anderson’s film.“I jumped in at the deep end,” Alana said. “I had no experience. I asked Paul if I should and he was like, ‘No, don’t do anything.

Haim have revealed that they are releasing a new track tomorrow (February 28).On Instagram today (February 28), the trio revealed that they had a line written for a song for the last year – “I’ll never get back what I lost track of” – but that they “could never figure out what to do with it.” They added: “We kept writing it down, not knowing where it should live.”The trio then went on to say that when filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson did a “director’s cut” issue for W Magazine, with youngest sister Alana on the cover, “an opportunity arose to do a quick music component while shooting the story.”Anderson’s new film, Licorice Pizza, stars Alana in her acting debut and is a coming-of-age drama set in the 1970s in Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley, focusing on Haim’s character, Alana Kane, and Gary Valentine (Cooper Hoffman).The post goes onto explain that the trio recorded a new song for the cover shoot, using the line they had written over a year ago.A post shared by HAIM (@haimtheband)They explained: “Paul mentioned having the book Appointment in Samarra as a possible direction [for the cover]. So we did some digging around the book and were inspired by the scene where the main character throws a drink in someone’s face at a country club.“We were inspired by the idea of someone doing something so drastic to get out of a situation they felt uncomfortable in – just to feel something.“We finally remembered that lyric and wrote and recorded the song and shot the whole thing in a few days! Anyway, felt fun to do something very collaborative/off the cuff.”The new song will arrive tomorrow (March 1), according to the post, which you can see above.

Paul Thomas Anderson, the director of the Oscar-nominated movie Licorice Pizza, is finally responding to the backlash the film received for scenes in which an actor uses a fake Asian accent.

While it’s always best to see a film in a movie theater — especially one that’s singled out as one of the year’s best pictures — that may prove difficult this year given pandemic restrictions and precautions. Some are available in theaters, and some of those are only in theaters, but many are available on streaming services you likely already have.

Bradley Cooper is opening up about his acting career in Hollywood, revealing he was very close to give up and retire in 2020, luckily he changed his mind after he was offered an interesting role.The 47-year-old actor talked about his difficult decision during a new edition of Actors on Actors, in which he was interviewed alongside Mahershala Ali for Variety.Bradley admitted it was director Paul Thomas who made him change his mind, after he was offered a role in his movie Licorice Pizza. This was the actor’s first involvement in movies after the pandemic caused many productions in Hollywood to stop, accepting the role and starting filming in August 2020.“The reason that I didn’t give up acting is Paul Thomas Anderson.

Alana Haim is getting candid about her career and personal life.

UPDATED, 12:39 PM: The National Board of Review has set a March 15 date in New York City for its postponed annual Gala, which had been set for January 11.

Leonardo DiCaprio was at the world premiere for his new film Don't Look Up when he found out his father George DiCaprio had a cameo in another new movie, Licorice Pizza.Director Paul Thomas Anderson's Licorice Pizza is one of the most critically-acclaimed films of the year, following two teenagers in love in the San Fernando Valley in 1973.The 47-year-old actor spoke with Entertainment Tonight at the New York City premiere for his new Netflix film, where he opened up about his dad's cameo.

“Licorice Pizza” director Paul Thomas Anderson is revealing how Leonardo DiCaprio‘s father, George, ended up with a cameo in his coming-of-age film. New York Times journalist Kyle Buchanan took to Twitter and posted quotes from the director that didn’t make his published article, and it’s a good thing he did because it produced quite the comical nugget.

Ever since Bob Shaye launched the company in 1967 to release arthouse, foreign language and cult films on college campuses, New Line Cinema had been a studio known for out-of-the box choices necessitated by being the last stop for good material. From the audacious early John Waters films like Pink Flamingos to Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street, New Line found gems others missed, even after Ted Turner bought the studio. New Line had launched Jim Carrey with The Mask, leveled up Mike Myers with Austin Powers, and given a home to filmmakers like Paul Thomas Anderson with Boogie Nights and David Fincher with Se7en. Shaye had shown his studio to be a place of creative risk taking.

Haim is dishing up cold cuts and imagery in the music video for “Man From The Magazine”.

Fiona Apple opened up about the night she quit cocaine in a candid new interview with The New Yorker.