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Antonio Ferme Sit seven rows from the stage at “Good Night, and Good Luck” on Broadway, and you’re bound to catch a whiff of prop cigarette smoke. Cigarettes — and the fading pulse of the Fourth Estate — took top billing during Thursday night’s premiere at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York. For every celebrity with a vape in hand, journalists in the crowd absorbed George Clooney’s call to arms under a sobering haze of scrutiny.

Three stars of the Yellowstone prequel 1923 appearing at Deadline Contenders Television on Saturday stayed mum on the details of the two-hour finale that airs Sunday and could well mark the end of the hit series. But actor Brandon Sklenar, who plays Spencer Dutton, promised that viewers will finish Season 2 in tears, saying, “It’s funny how much you’re gonna cry.”

Director Paul Feig admits that in making his latest film Another Simple Favor, the sequel to his 2018 hit comedy A Simple Favor starring Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively, he found himself choosing to rethink his usual filmmaking methodologies – including his longstanding rule to avoid making sequels at all.

James Bond might have some toxic traits, but it appears that Pierce Brosnan is a feminist.

Interview with the Vampire star Sam Reid and producer Mark Johnson were at Deadline’s Contenders TV to discuss Season 2 of their AMC series, wrapped up Anne Rice’s original novel. They confirmed that Season 3 will tackle her second Vampire Chronicle, The Vampire Lestat, and that means Lestat (Reid) fronting a rock band.

Disney‘s upcoming legacy sequel “TRON: Ares” has a brand new trailer that dropped over the weekend featuring some footage of the film with one of the Program characters out in the real world and being pursued by police while on a light-cycle. “TRON” is set in a universe, created by ENCOM, where digital people inhabit a space where games to the death are commonplace.

Katcy Stephan “A Minecraft Movie” and “Napoleon Dynamite” don’t sound too similar on paper. After all, what could a blockbuster video game adaptation starring Jason Momoa have in common with a 2004 indie comedy? As it turns out, quite a bit. With llamas, tater tots, and Idaho setting and a washed-up high school legend at its heart, “A Minecraft Movie” draws on much of director Jared Hess’ humor from his feature debut two decades ago.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Oscar-winner Walter Salles, fresh from scoring the best international feature statuette for “I’m Still Here,” discussed the impact of his political drama on youth audiences in Brazil and underlined the importance of cinema as “an extraordinary tool of resistance” while attending the Doha Film Institute’s Qumra workshop in Qatar. “I’m Still Here,” the story of Brazilian activist Rubens Paiva’s 1970 disappearance at the hands of the Brazilian military dictatorship and his wife Eunice Paiva’s subsequent search for justice, recently marked a historic first Oscar win for Brazil.

J. Kim Murphy After more than a decade in development, “A Minecraft Movie” has dug deep and struck box office diamonds. Warner Bros.

Jordan Moreau “Tron” is back, more than 40 years after the original sci-fi movie hit theaters. Disney has released the first trailer for “Tron: Ares,” the third film in the “Tron” franchise after the 1982 original and the 2010 sequel “Tron: Legacy.” Jared Leto leads the film, which includes original star Jeff Bridges back as Kevin Flynn.

Anna Marie de la Fuente At the Panama Int’l Film Festival (IFF Panama) to present his latest film “Rita” and give a masterclass, Guatemala’s acclaimed filmmaker Jayro Bustamante sat down with Variety to discuss his upcoming projects, “Mountains of Fire” (“Cordillera de Fuego”) which has just completed post-production, and his first comedy, the adaptation of 1998 Spanish romcom “Nada en la nevera” (roughly translated to “Nothing in the Fridge”). Bustamante, whose films have represented his country three times in the Oscars’ Best International Feature category (“Ixcanul,” “Temblores” and “La Llorona”), is known for using the power of film for dealing with such thorny issues as Indigenous rights, systemic oppression and LGBTQ+ rights.

Brent Lang Executive Editor An unfinished version of “A Minecraft Movie” has leaked online in advance of the video game adaptation’s big screen debut. Screenshots and footage from the fantasy adventure were being shared widely on social media platforms this week, and were also available on file sharing sites. The images seem to have uncompleted visual effects elements.

Callum McLennan Set to premiere at the Panama International Film Festival (IFF Panama), Félix “Trillo” Guardia’s debut feature-length documentary “The Sorcerer: Julio Zachrisson” celebrates the provocative legacy of Panamanian artist Julio Zachrisson. Produced by Tomás Cortés of Cine Animal, with the backing of Panama’s Ministry of Culture, the film melds animation, archival footage, and interviews to chronicle Guardia’s personal quest sparked by childhood memories of Zachrisson’s unsettling yet fascinating artworks. “The first time I saw one of Zachrisson’s prints, I thought it was the ugliest thing ever created.

Anna Marie de la Fuente The Panama Int’l Film Festival (IFF Panama) presented a brief opening ceremony April 4, where IFF Panama board president Pituka Ortega-Heilbron heralded the return of documentary filmmaker Ana Endara to the festival with her fiction feature debut “Beloved Tropic.” (“Querido trópico”). Said Endara: “’Beloved Tropic’ ‘has been traveling, but no screening will ever be as special as this one, because it’s a homecoming, and home means Panama, and home means the Panama International Film Festival.” “It’s also special because I’m here with two incredible women who are my creative core, [producer] Isabela Gálvez and [co-writer] Pilar Moreno. And especially because the actresses I had the honor of working with are here, and because so many people contributed to making this film.

“I’ve made a living doing rewrites for other people and writing scripts for other people, but I’ve only made three films for myself, and I made them under the conditions that I would have as complete creative control as was possible,” Kenneth Lonergan told a group of budding writers at Dublin’s screenwriting festival Storyhouse. 

Anna Marie de la Fuente Big changes are afoot in Panama’s film industry as a young, dynamic (and mostly female) team backed by its newish President José Raúl Mulino is spearheading new initiatives. Leading the charge is Vice Minister of Culture Arianne Benedetti, a filmmaker and former film commissioner for Panama who helped push for the country’s 2012 film law. “We’re focusing on improving incentives across the board – better incentives for infrastructure, labor, and even cash-back incentives,” said Benedetti.

The White Lotus actor Scott Glenn has revealed he almost turned down a role in the hit HBO series, thinking it was another “old guy” part.During an appearance on The Daily Show, the octogenarian revealed that when he was first offered the part of Jim Hollinger, he turned it down. “I just finished a film called Eugene the Marine that was tons of martial arts and dancing and shit like that, and it was basically about ageism and how you deal with it when you’re old and still have a life left in the tank,” he actor said.“And [The White Lotus producers] sent me a description of this old guy with a cane, and I thought fuck that.” In the show, we first meet Hollinger in Bangkok as he recovers at home from a recent hospital visit.

Priscilla Presley has won the first round in an elder abuse lawsuit she filed against her old business associates.On Thursday (April 3), a Los Angeles County judge sided with the former wife of Elvis Presley and ruled that California was the best venue to hear the lawsuit, which claims her ex-associates had conned her out of over $1million.The complaint, filed last July, accused Florida-based memorabilia auctioneer Brigitte Kruse as well as Kevin Fialko, Vahe Sislyan and Lynn Walker Wright of crookedly convincing her to give them power over her and then abusing that control in efforts to steal her money.The case will now proceed with its next hearing in a few weeks.Per Rolling Stone, Judge Mark H. Epstein dismissed the argument by Kruse, Kruse’s husband, and Fialko, who said that Presley’s elder abuse claims against them should be placed on hold while they pursue a separate breach of contract lawsuit against her in Florida.The defendants argued that fighting a lawsuit in California while simultaneously pursuing their previously filed claims against Presley in Florida would be “extraordinarily inconvenient.”Epstein said he considered the argument, “yet another in what seems to be a never-ending series of motions … to move this case out of California and into Florida.” He also rebuffed the claim that Presley signed contracts that agreed to litigate disputes in Florida.“This is not really a contract-based case at its heart; it is a fraud case,” Epstein wrote in his ruling.

Rafa Sales Ross Guest Contributor Those looking for homegrown talent and stories at the largest documentary film festival in Switzerland, Visions du Réel, will be spoiled for choice in 2025. This year’s edition, which runs April 4-13, features a whopping 31 Swiss productions or co-productions, including the festival’s opening film, Christian Frei’s “Blame.” Veteran Frei, the first-ever Swiss filmmaker to be nominated for an Oscar back in 2002 for “War Photography,” stands alongside a crop of new talent in feature debuts such as Agostina Di Luciano and Leon Schwitter’s “The World Upside Down.” On the healthy crop of Swiss productions and co-productions this year, Charlotte Ducos, documentary and marketing strategies consultant at the country’s national agency Swiss Films, says it is “incredibly important to have Swiss films across the program and to have the opening film of the festival not only be Swiss but also a very expected title by a renowned filmmaker.” Ducos also emphasizes how 43% of Swiss films are currently co-productions, a testament to the importance of collaborating with their European neighbors such as Italy, Germany and Austria.

Tanya and Phil Bardsley have finally agreed to throw open the doors of their stunning home for a new reality series – exactly a decade after they made their debut on The Real Housewives Of Cheshire.The couple, who have been married for 11 years this summer, have spent the last few months filming six hour-long episodes with their family – and are being billed as the UK’s answer to the Kardashians. As they invite OK! into their stunning six-bedroom home for an exclusive catch-up before the first episode of The Bardlsey Bunch airs on ITVBe, we’re keen to know what they make of the comparisons to the royal family of the reality TV world.

The behind-the-scenes team at The White Lotus has some tricks up their sleeves to keep the season 3 ending a surprise.