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Moving On,” released March 17. Although the octogenarian co-stars were happy to lock lips, and eventually did, there were complications at first.“The funny thing was that when that makeout scene came up in the movie, when it was supposed to shoot, Jane had a really bad cold,” the film’s writer and director Paul Weitz told The Post. “So we actually faked it.

Michael B. Jordan isn’t scared of anybody.Still, the 36-year-old actor — who will star in his directorial debut, “Creed III,” out March 3 — does have his fears.“I think the fear of being forgotten is a big one,” Jordan told Rolling Stone in the magazine’s new cover story.Jordan went on to explain the very personal reason why he came to have this fear. “One of my best friends growing up passed away when I was, like, 23,” he said. “And a few years later, I was working, shooting a film, crazy  s – – t going on at the time, you know, it was like the most amazing amount of stress.

will reprise their roles in a limited 14-week run at New York City’s Schoenfeld Theatre starting Oct. 27.

La Vanguardia on Saturday about his next move.“My idea, in principle, is not to make more movies and focus on writing,” he said.He noted that he plans to work more on publishing and writing books, rather than films.His forthcoming feature is titled “Wasp 22,” and will be filmed in Paris next month with a French cast. Allen compared the new movie to his 2005 flick “Match Point,” describing it as “exciting, dramatic, and also very sinister.”However, Allen’s reps shot down retirement rumors in a statement to IndieWire, saying: “Woody Allen never said he was retiring, nor did he say he was writing another novel.

told The Hollywood Reporter in 2011. In addition to his wife, Petersen is survived by his son Daniel and daughter-in-law Berit, as well as two grandchildren, Maja and Julien.

according to Deadline. “In agreement with Lars von Trier, Zentropa has chosen to publish that Lars has [been] diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease,” shared Louise Vesth, Trier’s producer at Zentropa, in the statement.

Instagram Live session with Alec Baldwin. In the conversation, the embattled Allen admitted that his next film will probably be his last and that he wants to retire from his directing career in the very near future.“I’ll probably make at least one more movie.

The king of micro-budget shlock-horror has surprisingly classy digs.In stark contrast to his career championing gross-out exploitation films, Lloyd Kaufman has spent the past 33 years calling a demurely decorated Upper East Side townhouse his home.The 76-year-old is best known for producing and distributing over 1,000 sex- and gore-heavy movies on pocket change through his film company, Troma Entertainment. But at the end of the work day he goes home to the Yorkville townhouse he and his wife Pat raised their three grown daughters in.The four-story brownstone is filled with antique wooden furniture and 19th-century millwork accentuated by fine art acquired on the couples’ travels — rich digs for the sovereign saint of comedic limb loss and noxious waste.Kaufman’s credentials include directing the 1984 cult classic “The Toxic Avenger” (one of Marisa Tomei’s first acting credits), putting Trey Parker and Matt Stone on the map by distributing their 1993 comedy “Cannibal! The Musical” and setting the record for most squibs ever used in a single movie (1988’s “Troma’s War”).While inexplicable to many, Troma’s brand of excessive violence, political incorrectness, enormous breasts and slapstick superheroes has proved enduring, and today the company claims to be the world’s longest continually running independent film company.“The fans are our secret sauce,” Kaufman told The Post, noting that despite years of notoriety this is the first time he has shown off his home in the press.

it’s already back on the market for $15 million. Levy, a frequent Ryan Reynolds collaborator, was just revealed to be the new director of Marvel Studios’ “Deadpool 3.” Levy has also directed and produced films including “Cheaper by the Dozen,” the “Night at the Museum” series, “Stranger Things” and “The Adam Project,” and founded the production company 21 Laps. The five-bedroom, 6½-bath home is at 11 Beach, a 10-story prewar office-to-condo conversion building “redesigned”  by Thomas Juul-Hansen and BKSK Architects in 2015. A private elevator opens into the 5,457-square-foot apartment, which features beamed ceilings, wide-plank hardwood floors and oversize windows.

Poppy Field finally has made its way to virtual cinemas everywhere, available on VOD and digital.The Romanian drama, directed by Eugen Jebeleanu, earned, among other accolades, a Torino Film Festival Best Actor prize for star Conrad Mericoffer for his dynamic performance as closeted gay gendarmerie officer Christi, who lashes out with homophobic violence in order to protect his secret life.Christi’s angry outburst places him at the center of the storm inside a film theater where he and his fellow officers are trying to keep the peace after the screening of a lesbian film is loudly interrupted by a group of anti-LGBTQ protesters.The events of the film were inspired by a real-life 2013 incident in the capital, Bucharest, where anti-LGBTQ protesters shut down a showing of The Kids Are All Right.“I was not in Bucharest at the time. I was in Paris and was working there,” Jebeleanu recalls.

Chris Ayres was a voice actor, director, and scriptwriter known for his performance as Frieza in the “Dragon Ball” anime series.Ayres worked on a number of anime projects, including “Gantz,” “Black Butler,” and “Fairy Tail.” He was best known for voicing Frieza, also known as Freeza, a prominent villain of the “Dragon Ball” series. Ayres began voicing Frieza in “Dragon Ball Z Kai” and continued through “Dragon Ball Super” and “Dragon Ball Super: Broly” as well as in the “Dragon Ball” series of video games.

biggest commercial hit was “Notting Hill,” the Richard Curtis-penned comedy about an awkward romance between a movie star played by Julia Roberts and a London bookshop owner, played by Hugh Grant.After its release in 1999, it was for a time the highest-grossing British film in history, and Michell followed it with Hollywood thriller “Changing Lanes,” starring Ben Affleck and Samuel L. Jackson.But he largely made films in Britain, including “Enduring Love,” based on an Ian McEwan novel, and “Venus,” which gained Peter O’Toole an Academy Award nomination.Later films included “Hyde Park on Hudson,” a historical drama starring Bill Murray as President Franklin D.

Melvin Van Peebles was an actor and filmmaker best known for his influential 1971 film, “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song.”Van Peebles wrote, directed, co-produced, and starred in “Sweetback,” as well as composing its score despite being unable to read music. The result was a classic of indie cinema, created on a shoestring budget.

Once Upon A Time … in Hollywood” — by telling critics to “suck” it. The “Pulp Fiction” director dropped the bombshell during an appearance on the “Joe Rogan Experience” Tuesday.“Where I’m coming from is … I can understand his daughter having a problem with it, it’s her f–king father!” the 58-year-old auteur told Rogan.

“Army of the Dead” filmmaker, best known for his long, high-drama action flicks, confessed there’s still a few film genres he’d like to explore: porn and religion.Despite the two diametrically opposed subjects, the man who brought us the four-and-a-half hour long edit of 2011’s “Justice League” — the infamous “Snyder Cut” — believes he may even be able to combine the two genres. “I’ve always wanted to make a religious film and a pornographic film, and I’ve never really yet had the chance to do either,” Snyder, 55, told The Telegraph,.

the Daily Mail. When host Tracy Grimshaw asked directly if Stone, who has for years said she was exploited during the film’s production, could possibly prevent the new version from coming out, Stone said no.

history-making sweep at the Oscars was almost entirely censored in her China amid accusations that she previously insulted her homeland.The New York University graduate on Sunday became the first woman of color to win best director, while her “Nomadland” is only the second film directed by a woman to take home honors for best picture.Yet her groundbreaking night was ignored and censored in her homeland as she remained embroiled in a backlash over a recently unearthed 2013 interview in which she said there were “lies everywhere” in China.State media remained silent about the 39-year-old Beijing-born director’s Oscars success as of Monday afternoon, with no mention of her win by either CCTV and Xinhua, the two main state-run outlets.A post

th Bomb Squadron who were known as the Burma Bridge Busters, his experience in the war inspired Steven Spielberg to make “Saving Private Ryan.” He helped Steven make his first movie in 1964 by creating special effects for the 17-year old’s debut titled “Firelight.”  Steven came to visit once, and I showed him the factory and the engineering floor. I tried to get him interested in engineering, but his heart was in movies. “At first I was disappointed, but then I saw how good he was in moviemaking.” – 2016 interview for the GE website #RIP Arnold Spielberg, 103.

first Emmy nomination for directing “Su Casa Es Mi Casa,” the game-changing Season 3 episode of “Ozark” in which Marty and Wendy Byrd (Jason Bateman, Laura Linney) angrily confront each other about their teetering marriage (with ugly ramifications).“I was close to not submitting the episode [for Emmy consideration],” says Semanoff, 41. “A day or two before it was due, I turned to my wife and said, ‘Should I submit it? Is this a waste of $250?’“About a week before the nominations came out, I caught wind of a bunch of panels happening around ‘Ozark,'” he says.

BAFTA Fellowship.The same year he succeeded István Szabó as President of the European Federation of Film Directors: FERA.In 2018 Parker donated his significant private archive of scripts and working papers to the BFI National Archive.Alan Parker passed away on 31 July 2020 after a lengthy illness.He is survived by his wife Lisa Moran-Parker, his children Lucy, Alexander, Jake, Nathan and Henry, and seven grandchildren.

Parents have never been more in need of quality distractions that will actually hold a kid’s attention. That’s why The Post called on top directors in the animation field to give us their streaming recommendations. From classic works that motivated these directors to pick up a pencil to modern masterpieces that continue to inspire them today, here are their expert picks.