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Pat Saperstein Deputy Editor The Academy has named Raj Kapoor to return as executive producer and showrunner for the 97th Oscars, CEO Bill Kramer and president Janet Yang announced Monday Katy Mullan will be back as executive producer, and Hamish Hamilton returns as director. It’s Kapoor and Mullan’s second time as executive producers and Hamilton’s fifth time directing the Oscars, which air March 2 on ABC from the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.

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VFX Society Honors: ‘Avatar’ Vet Celebrates ‘Thrill of Technically and Artistically Problem-Solving’

Carolyn Giardina Producer and VFX industry leader Brooke Breton—whose work has included “Avatar,” “Sky Captain and The World of Tomorrow,” and a trio of “Star Trek” movies, reflected on teamwork and the “thrill of technically and artistically problem-solving” as she accepted the Visual Effects Society’s Founders Award. During the annual VES Honors ceremony, held over the weekend at the Skirball Cultural Center, Breton (who also helped launch Digital Domain, where she served as senior vice president of production) remembered when as a filmmaker she started to gravitate toward VFX.

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Raj Kapoor And Katy Mullan Return As Oscars Show Producers; Hamish Hamilton Back As Director

Well, this was no surprise.

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Clive Owen to Lead Stefan Ruzowitzky’s Historical Thriller ‘Kristallnacht’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Alex Ritman Oscar nominee Clive Owen (“Children of Men,” “Closer”) is set to play a police office in Germany on the brink of WWII in historical thriller “Kristallnacht.” The feature — being launched at the American Film Market by International Film Trust — comes from Oscar-winning filmmaker Stefan Ruzowitzky (“The Counterfeiters,” “Barbarians”), who will direct from a screenplay he co-wrote with Julius Grützke, based on an original script by Jonathan Frank and Scott Mann. “Kristallnacht” was announced by Michael Benaroya, the CEO of Benaroya Pictures and co-founder of International Film Trust, who will serve as producer alongside Danny Krausz, Marcelo Gandola and Daniel Zuta.

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Lupita Nyong’o Says Losing Kenyan Accent for Hollywood Roles ‘Felt Like Betrayal’ and ‘I Cried Many Nights to Sleep’ Not Feeling ‘Like Myself’

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Lupita Nyong’o had to lose her Kenyan accent in order to become an American actor and take on different Hollywood roles, and she said during a recent episode of the “What Now? With Trevor Noah” podcast that it “felt like a betrayal” to herself when she made that decision. The Oscar winner was born in Mexico but spent her childhood in Kenya. She attended Yale School of Drama in the U.S.

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Uma Thurman, Phoebe Dynevor & Anthony Hopkins Set For ‘The Housekeeper’ — AFM

Uma Thurman (Pulp Fiction), Phoebe Dynevor (Bridgerton) and two-time Oscar winner Anthony Hopkins (The Father) have been set to star in period drama The Housekeeper.

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Uma Thurman, Anthony Hopkins and Phoebe Dynevor to Star in Richard Eyre’s Forbidden Romance ‘The Housekeeper’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Alex Ritman “Notes on a Scandal” and “Iris” director Richard Eyre has assembled a starry cast for his next feature, an evocative romance fictionalizing the inspiration behind Daphne Du Maurier’s “Rebecca.” “The Housekeeper” — being launched at AFM by Embankment Films alongside CAA Media Finance, which is co-repping U.S. rights — will be led by Oscar nominee Uma Thurman (“Oh Canada,” “Pulp Fiction”), two-time Oscar winner Sir Anthony Hopkins “(The Father,” “The Silence of the Lambs”) and Phoebe Dynevor (“Bridgerton,” “Fair Play”).

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Andy Garcia Joins Anthony Hopkins & Michele Morrone In ‘Maserati: The Brothers’

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar nominee Andy Garcia (The Godfather Part III) has joined Anthony Hopkins and Michele Morrone in the cast of sports biopic Maserati: The Brothers.

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Ralph Fiennes Reveals ’28 Years Later’ Trilogy Plot Details: “Two Have Been Shot”

With the 28 Days Later franchise resuming after nearly two decades, Ralph Fiennes is preparing fans to return to the zombie apocalypse.

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Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival Showcases Oscar Hopefuls, World Premieres And New Doc From Jennifer Lawrence, Hillary And Chelsea Clinton

For generations, people have come to Hot Springs, Arkansas to enjoy its thermal springs and elegant bathhouses. But around this time of year, they’re drawn to the historic spa town for another attraction – the longest running documentary film festival in North America.

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11 Famous Actors Were Considered to Play Gibbs on 'NCIS' Before Mark Harmon (There Are 2 Oscar Winners On The List!)

It’s hard to imagine about anyone other than Mark Harmon playing the role of Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs on NCIS, but he almost didn’t play the role!

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‘The Brink of Dreams’ Directors Receive Variety MENA Talent of the Year Award

Rafa Sales Ross Guest Contributor Nada Riyadh and Ayman El Amir, whose latest documentary “The Brink of Dreams” became the first Egyptian film to win the Golden Eye Award for best documentary at Cannes earlier this year, have received the Variety Middle East and North Africa Talent of the Year Award. The ceremony was held at the El Gouna Film Festival, where their film is also playing as part of the Feature Narrative Competition.

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James Franco admits 20-year friendship with Seth Rogen ended over sexual misconduct claims

James Franco has confessed that his long-standing bromance with fellow actor Seth Rogen is "over".The 46 year old star, who first shared the screen with Seth in the 1999 TV series Freaks And Geeks and later in movies Pineapple Express, This Is the End and The Disaster Artist, faced sexual misconduct allegations in 2018 and their friendship crumbled soon after. Currently on a promotional tour for his post-war drama Hey Joe at the Rome Film Festival after a noticeable hiatus from Hollywood, James was quizzed by Variety about whether he still keeps in touch with Seth.

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Mexico’s Oscar Entry ‘Sujo’ Makes a Sweep of the Morelia Film Festival

Anna Marie de la Fuente Mexico’s official entry to the Oscars, “Sujo,” made a sweep of the 22nd Morelia Int’l Film Festival (FICM), winning the festival’s Ojo Awards for Best Film, Director and Screenplay. Co-helmer-scribes Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez, whose debut pic “Identifying Features” won a couple of Sundance awards and took the Best International Feature prize at the Gotham Awards in 2021, also snagged the Sundance Grand Jury Prize for World Cinema with “Sujo,” their sophomore feature, in January. Hailed by Variety as an “optimistic alternative to violent drug war movies,” the poignant coming-of-age story revolves around the impact of drug cartels on the youth.

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‘Interstellar’ VFX Supervisor Paul Franklin Joins BeloFX as Creative Director

Jack Dunn Veteran visual effects supervisor Paul Franklin, who won Oscars for his work on Christopher Nolan films “Interstellar” and “Inception,” has joined VFX and technology company beloFX as creative director. Earlier, he spent 25 years at VFX giant DNEG, the company he co-founded in 1998. In joining beloFX, he’s reuniting with fellow DNEG co-founders Matt Holben and Alex Hope.

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Academy Declares Matt Damon, Ben Affleck Documentary ‘Kiss The Future’ Eligible For Oscars, Reversing Earlier Denial

Kiss the Future, the documentary produced by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, is going to get a shot at Oscar recognition after all.

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Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s Documentary ‘Kiss the Future’ Eligible for Oscars After Appeal (EXCLUSIVE)

Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor Academy Award winners and best friends Ben Affleck and Matt Damon have a shot at more Oscar recognition for producing the documentary “Kiss the Future.” Variety has learned exclusively the Academy has granted eligibility to the documentary feature for consideration for the upcoming 97th Oscars. The decision follows an initial ruling by the Academy’s Documentary Branch Executive Committee that deemed the film ineligible, citing a shortfall in meeting required daily theatrical screening showtimes per the Academy’s regulations.

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Oscar Winner Guneet Monga Kapoor Backs Academy-Qualified ‘Anuja,’ a Tale of Sisterhood Against Child Labor (EXCLUSIVE)

Naman Ramachandran Indian powerhouse producer Guneet Monga Kapoor has boarded Adam J. Graves and Suchitra Mattai’s short film “Anuja” as executive producer. The film recently qualified for Academy Awards consideration after winning Best Live Action Short at the 2024 HollyShorts Film Festival.

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The Mediapro Studio Caps Busy Mipcom With Key Sales Deals for ‘Quiet,’ ‘The Head,’ ‘Express’

Jamie Lang Spain’s The Mediapro Studio brought out the big guns at this year’s Mipcom to promote its first-ever English-language slate, which includes projects featuring John Turturro, Melissa Leo, “24” showrunner Evan Katz and Oscar winner Juan José Campanella, among others. Though the ambitious pipeline was The Mediapro Studio’s big Mipcom head-turner, the company also closed noteworthy deals for a handful of its highest-profile shows of the last several years.

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Isabelle Huppert says she never reads “dreadful” critics

Oscars.Some of her best-known performances have come in films such as Paul Verhoeven’s Elle (2016), for which she received an Oscar nomination, Michael Haneke’s The Piano Teacher (2001), David O. Russell’s I Heart Huckabees (2004) and Michael Cimino’s Heaven’s Gate (1980).In a new Q&A interview with The Guardian, Huppert answered questions from fans, one of whom focused on the 2016 Mia Hansen-Løve film Things To Come, in which Huppert plays a middle-aged philosophy professor whose life undergoes a series of personal and professional changes.When asked if she finds it challenging when people don’t “get” films such as Things To Come, she countered that the film was critically acclaimed, picking up the Silver Bear prize in Berlin.

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Cillian Murphy Returns to Red Carpet for 'Small Things Like These' Premiere, His First Event Since the Oscars!

Cillian Murphy is getting back on the red carpet more than six months after he won his first Oscar!

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