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The Brutalist star Adrien Brody recalled a moment during the making of the film when a make-up artist mistook his nose from prosthetic make-up.Appearing on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, the actor, who is nominated for an Oscar his role as a Hungarian architect struggling to survive in America, recalled preparing for a scene that required him to wear prosthetic ageing make up.He said: “They had to do a prosthetic procedure, and it’s funny – everyone’s very busy, it’s a movie with a lot of moving pieces. I had a new team of people who I had never met, and they were removing this apparatus all over me”.He continued: “This one woman was busily working away with a solvent on my nose, she’s just working away.

Love Hurts has received a poor reception from critics, who were unimpressed by the film’s action and plot.Quan’s first lead role since winning an Oscar for Everything Everywhere All At Once has him playing a former hit-man brought back into his former profession when his brother tries to hunt him down. The film currently has a 21 per cent critics’ score on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, based on 70 reviews.Many critics felt the action scenes were unbelievable.

Bucking Fastard, and star acting sisters Kate and Rooney Mara.Deadline has reported that Herzog will write and direct the film, with production set to begin in the spring in Ireland and Slovenia. The piece is said to be based on a real-life story of Joan and Jean, twin sisters who live together on the fringes of society.Called “the most important film director alive” by French New Wave film-maker François Truffaut, Herzog is known for his intricate, obscure stories that embrace a unique directing style.

Demi Moore has opened up about her relationship with former husband Bruce Willis, saying that the pair remain close.Moore, who is nominated for an Oscar for 2024 horror film The Substance, spoke to Variety about the Die Hard actor, to whom she was married from 1987 to 2000. The pair appeared together in the 1991 film Mortal Thoughts and were one of the most prominent celebrity couples of the ‘90s. They share three children: daughters Rumer, Scout, and Tallulah Willis.“We will always be a family, just in a different form” she said of the bond.

Will Ferrell has told the Academy to “suck it” after his documentary Will & Harper was snubbed at the Oscars.The documentary was released on Netflix and depicted Ferrell on a road trip with his friend Harper Steele, who he first met on Saturday Night Live during the ‘90s. Steele had recently come out as transgender and the pair took the trip across America to process the change.While the documentary was critically acclaimed, it didn’t translate to Oscar success.In an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Ferrell told the host: “Ask me if we got Oscar-nominated.”“It’s such a good documentary, it’s one of the best documentaries I’ve seen in years,” responded Colbert. “It was beautiful, it was timely, it was heartfelt, I was inspired by it.

Sarah Hagi earlier this month.In one 2020 tweet posted in Spanish and translated by USA Today, Gascón wrote: “Sorry, is it just me or are there more Muslims in Spain? Every time I pick up my daughter from school there are more women with their hair covered and their skirts down to their heels. Next year instead of English, we’ll have to teach Arabic.”The exposed posts come amid Gascón’s film “Emilia Pérez” being one of the most critically acclaimed movies of 2024.“Emilia Pérez” led the Oscar race this year with 13 nominations, coming up only one nod shy of tying the record for most-ever nominations for a movie.

Zoe Saldaña has commented on her Emilia Pérez co-star Karla Sofía Gascón causing controversy with her past tweets.Last month, post on X (formerly Twitter) from Gascón’s account showed her expressing hateful views regarding Muslims, the 2020 murder of George Floyd and the Oscars. She has since apologised for the comments, denying she is a racist, and has deleted her account on the social media site.The headlines have thrown into question the film’s chances at Oscar glory. Emilia Pérez has achieved a record 13 nominations for this year’s ceremony, including Best Film, Best Supporting Actress for Saldaña, and Best Actress for Gascón – the first openly Transgender person to be nominated for the category.Saldaña, who stars in the film as a lawyer tasked with helping a drug lord (Gascón) undergo gender transition, spoke to Variety’s Awards Circuit Podcast on the controversy that has seen the film’s awards campaign derailed.“I’m sad.

social media posts resurfaced, in which Gascón criticized Muslim culture, George Floyd and even called her “Emilia Pérez” co-star Selena Gomez a “rich rat” before being cast with her.According to Audiard, her actions are “inexcusable.”“It’s very hard for me to think back to the work I did with Karla Sofía,” Audiard told Deadline on Wednesday of making the flick nominated for Best Picture at this year’s Academy Awards.The musical thriller follows a Mexican cartel leader (Gascón) who transitions into a woman. It features a star-studded cast, which also includes Zoe Saldana (nominated for Best Actress in a Supporting Role), Édgar Ramírez, Gomez and more.Gascón’s nomination made her the first openly transgender performer to be nominated for an Oscar.

inspiring documentary, “Will & Harper,” from the 2025 nominations list.“Ask me if we got Oscar-nominated,” Ferrell said to Stephen Colbert on a recent episode of “The Late Show.”“It’s such a good documentary, it’s one of the best documentaries I’ve seen in years,” Colbert, 60, told Ferrell.“It was beautiful, it was timely, it was heartfelt, I was inspired by it,” Colbert continued, before asking, “Tell me, how was the Oscar nomination?”“We didn’t get it,” Ferrell bluntly said. Colbert told Ferrell he was sorry about the snub, adding, “Well, f–k those guys, right?”“I know, right? Thank you,” Ferrell said.“F–k the academy.

Neighbours.READ MORE: ‘The Brutalist’ director defends Adrien Brody’s performance following AI backlash Speaking to The Times, Pearce recalled his experiences on the Australian soap opera, in which he played Mike Young from 1986 to 1989.He said: “I have many feelings about that show. In the old days you were either a theatre actor or a film actor, and if you got stuck in a soap you were the lowest of the low — but what an opportunity.

Emilia Pérez star Karla Sofía Gascón has given an emotional interview defending herself after a series of offensive social media posts emerged last week.The actor appeared on CNN en Español last Sunday (February 2) in an hour-long interview in which she described her experiences during the days since the posts were brought to light.As reported by Deadline, she said: “I believe I have been judged, I have been convicted and sacrificed and crucified and stoned without a trial and without the option to defend myself.”Saying that she related to the struggles of Black people, she continued: “I feel and very much identify with the people who were thrown off buses for the colour of their skin, with the people who did not want them to study at university, for the people who were hated simply for existing, like how I am hated in this moment.”Gascón came under scrutiny after the 2025 Oscar nominations were revealed. She is the first openly trans actress to be in the running for the Best Actress award, and musical crime thriller Emilia Pérez is the most nominated film of the year, with a total of 13 nods.The posts, shared on X (formerly Twitter), included controversial opinions on Muslims, the murder of George Floyd, and the Oscars themselves.

according to a new report.The controversial 52-year-old Best Actress nominee came under fire last week for a series of resurfaced, offensive posts on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter) that have been decried as racist, antisemitic and Islamophobic. Because of the backlash, sources told The Hollywood Reporter the musical film’s distributor Netflix will not have Gascón fly from Spain to Los Angeles this week to attend the AFI Awards on Thursday, Critics’ Choice Awards on Friday or the Producers Guild Awards on Saturday.She is also a recipient of a Santa Barbara Film Festival Virtuoso Award, which will additionally honor the likes of Kieran Culkin, Ariana Grande, Mikey Madison and Gascon’s co-star Selena Gomez.

The Hollywood Reporter, Gascón responded to the massive public backlash by setting up an interview with CNN en Español, “without the involvement of anyone working on the film, which was distributed by Netflix.”The performer offered, “my most sincere apologies to all the people who may have felt offended by the ways I express myself in my past, in my present and in my future,” but vowed not to step down from the nomination during the tearful interview.“I cannot renounce a nomination because what I have done is a job and what is being valued is my acting work,” Gascón told anchor Juan Carlos Arciniegas, according to The Hollywood Reporter. “And I cannot renounce a nomination either because I have not committed any crime nor have I harmed anyone.

Dune: Part Two have been celebrating after it won the Grammy for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media last night (February 2).The victory for the space epic’s soundtrack, composed by Hans Zimmer, came its disqualification from the Oscars after it was ruled ineligible due to the amount of music it carried over from the first Dune movie.The rules from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which presents the Oscars, state: “In cases such as sequels and franchises from any media, the score must not use more than 20% of pre-existing themes and music borrowed from previous scores in the franchise.”Dune 2 was still eligible for Grammy nominations, however, and it beat out American Fiction, Challengers, The Color Purple and Shōgun for the accolade. Also last night, it won five awards at the 52nd annual Saturn Awards.Fans of the movie had a lot to say in response, with one on X (Twitter) describing it as having been “robbed” of an Oscar.

A crowd-funded short film spoofing the year’s most Oscar-nominated movie is set to screen in Mexican cinemas, as local backlash against French crime musical “Emilia Perez” pits an amateur comedy against the cinema establishment.“Emilia Perez,” the story of a Mexican cartel boss who enlists a lawyer to help her disappear and transition into a woman, garnered 13 Oscar nominations and swept up awards at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival and the Golden Globes, including best non-English language film.However, the film has met with strong backlash in Mexico over criticisms of its poor Spanish, use of stereotypes, filming in Paris with few Mexican cast members and light treatment of the issue of forced disappearances — more than 100,000 people are missing in Mexico.Auteur director Jacques Audiard also was criticized for saying he did not feel he needed to do much research to make the movie, which debuted on Netflix late last year.In Mexico, a consumer watchdog had to order top cinema chain Cinepolis to clarify its guarantee policy after many spectators complained that they had not received refunds after walking out of the movie.While Mexican screenings of “Emilia Perez” remained largely empty, trans filmmaker Camila Aurora created a GoFundMe to answer with “Johanne Sacreblu,” the story of “a trans heiress to France’s biggest baguette business who seeks to destroy her country’s systemic racism with her strongest weapon… love.”The 28-minute musical, which features croissants, mimes, rats and painted mustaches, premiered on YouTube on Jan. 25 and quickly went viral, gaining some 2 million views in less than a week.On Thursday, Aurora announced that cinema chain Cinedot would screen the movie.

Sir Anthony Hopkins plays a twisted digital vigilante in the trailer for his new horror/thriller Locked, co-starring Nosferatu actor Bill Skarsgård.In the trailer for the film, based on 2019 Argentinian thriller 4×4, Bill Skarsgård plays a desperate young thief who notices a luxurious SUV is parked and unlocked. Going inside with the intent to steal it, the car locks him inside and the voice of the owner (Hopkins) reveals it is a trap designed to lure him into a torturous exercise in justice.The film is directed by David Yarovesky, who made 2019 superhero horror Brightburn, and is produced by legendary film-maker Sam Raimi, director of the Evil Dead and Spider-man films.

Emilia Pérez star Karla Sofía Gascón has issued an apology after it emerged she had posted a series of controversial tweets.Gascón is the first transgender woman to receive a Best Actress Oscar nomination, for her title role in the musical/drama about a Mexican lawyer (Zoe Saldaña) who is hired to help a cartel drug lord (Gascón) with her transition. Selena Gomez also appears in the film, which is nominated for 12 Academy Awards.“I want to acknowledge the conversation around my past social media posts that have caused hurt,” she said in a statement to Variety.

Hans Zimmer will be coming to cinemas with a host of famous names in a concert film titled Hans Zimmer & Friends: Diamond In The Desert.The film features conversations with film luminaries such as Christopher Nolan and Denis Villeneuve; movie stars Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya; as well as music icons Billie Eilish and Johnny Marr. It will screen in select cinemas across The Americas, Europe, Asia, and United Arab Emirates, with limited screenings beginning March 19.A press release read: “Decades of cinematic masterpieces are brought to life by his band and a world-class orchestra at Dubai’s iconic Coca-Cola Arena, the star-studded Al Wasl Plaza dome at Expo City Dubai and beyond.

Wallace & Gromit villain Feather McGraw has become a surprise new favourite among people getting tattoos in the UK, a report has revealed.The character made a return in the Aardman Animation Christmas special Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, having been the antagonist of the 1993 adventure The Wrong Trousers. In this new story, the imprisoned McGraw uses an AI gnome to frame Wallace and get his revenge.The comedy was recently nominated for Best Animated Feature at the forthcoming Academy Awards, and more than 21million people have watched the film on BBC channels and the iPlayer service.

two-time Oscar-nominated film, but his youthful auburn locks faded to gray as the years passed.Now, he’s nearly two decades older than Tom Hanks was when the Penny Marshall-directed movie arrived in theaters. In the hit movie, the young Josh Baskin went to a fortune-telling machine and wished to be made big.The next morning the character woke up in the body of an adult – which was played by Tom Hanks.Hanks prepared for the role by watching videotapes of Moscow performing all of his scenes in the film with the other actors.The “Forrest Gump” star also studied Moscow’s body movements while he was playing with his friends in the park.Hanks received an Oscar nomination for his performance.“He kind of took all the quirky things about being a kid — those weird, awkward things — and [tuned] them up and had them live in him,” Moscow shared with People in 2024.The television personality who was only 13 years old when the film debuted added that Hanks was “not pretentious” and would often come to work in a backpack and take the subway.“He was a big kid.

Selena Gomez has made an emotional video reacting to US President Donald Trump’s actions against immigrants in the country, promising she will “try everything” to help.Since taking office, the Trump administration has acted swiftly on immigration in the country, with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reporting a record 956 people arrested on Sunday (January 26) alone.On Monday (January 27), the Emilia Perez star posted a video to her Instagram reels, showing her in tears saying: “I just wanted to say that I’m so sorry. All my people are getting attacked.