Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Hateful Eight’ Script: He Wanted 70mm, and Other Details...
Quentin Tarantino had planned to shoot his next movie, a tense, contained and very bloody Western centered on bounty hunters and titled “The Hateful Eight,” using 70-millimeter stock, a rare and...
View ArticleNicole Kidman’s ‘Grace of Monaco’ Pulled From Release Schedule
“Grace of Monaco,” the Princess Grace biopic starring Nicole Kidman, has been pulled from the Weinstein Company’s release schedule, the studio said Thursday. TWC had originally set a Nov. 27 limited...
View ArticleNicole Kidman’s ‘Grace of Monaco’ Tapped as Cannes Opening Night Film
“Grace of Monaco” will be the opening night film at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, organizers said Friday. The news comes a day after it was revealed that The Weinstein Company had pulled the biopic...
View ArticleNicole Kidman’s ‘Grace of Monaco’ Launches Cannes in a Blaze of Foolishness
The Nicole Kidman movie “Grace of Monaco” was greeted with a single, resounding “bravo!” as soon as its second Cannes Film Festival press screening ended on Wednesday — but it was hard to tell if the...
View ArticleOprah Winfrey to Play Civil Rights Protester Annie Lee Cooper in MLK Movie...
Oscar-nominated actress Oprah Winfrey has joined the cast of Ava DuVernay’s “Selma,” the civil rights drama that the media mogul is also producing. The drama follows MLK’s landmark 1965 voting rights...
View ArticleCannes Winner ‘Mommy’ Heads Canadian Slate at Toronto Film Fest
Xavier Dolan’s “Mommy,” which won the Jury Prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, will be among the Canadian features screened at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival, TIFF organizers...
View ArticleScott Speedman Thriller ‘October Gale’ Lands at IFC Films
IFC Films has acquired U.S. rights to writer-director Ruba Nadda’s thriller “October Gale,” which stars Patricia Clarkson, Scott Speedman, Tim Roth and Callum Keith Rennie. The film was produced by...
View ArticleAnna Kendrick, Sam Rockwell’s ‘Mr. Right’ International Rights Acquired By...
Lakeshore Entertainment announced Thursday that it has acquired international rights to the upcoming Anna Kendrick and Sam Rockwell film, “Mr. Right.” The romantic action comedy was written by Max...
View ArticleDavid Oyelowo Channels Martin Luther King Jr. in First ‘Selma’ Trailer (Video)
David Oyelowo travels back to the 1960s and steps into the shoes of Martin Luther King Jr. in the first trailer for “Selma,” Ava DuVernay’s take on the Civil Rights leader. The Paramount film is...
View Article‘Selma’ Director Ava DuVernay on the One Star Who Turned the Film Down: ‘She...
Ava DuVernay faced a daunting task in bringing “Selma” to the big screen. The drama, about the 1965 Civil Rights marches in Alabama to demand voting rights for blacks, had already been through several...
View ArticleNew ‘Hateful Eight’ Images: Samuel L. Jackson and Kurt Russell Face Off,...
New images from Quentin Tarantino‘s upcoming Western “The Hateful Eight” show Kurt Russell and Samuel L. Jackson facing off in what appears to be a very tense moment. The photo featuring bounty hunter...
View ArticleFIFA Scandal Turns Propaganda Piece ‘United Passions’ Into High Comedy: Review
If North Korea’s Kim Jong-un had rewritten “The Interview” as a paean to his brilliant, saintly reign, it could not possibly be funnier than “United Passions,” the mostly FIFA-funded $29 million...
View ArticleFIFA-Financed Film ‘United Passions’ Flops at Box Office With $607 Opening...
Even its own film can’t save FIFA. The self-financed movie “United Passions” failed to score at the box office, generating a pathetic $607 in the U.S. on its opening weekend. The unfortunately-timed...
View ArticleQuentin Tarantino’s ‘Hateful Eight’ Trailer Teases Eight Strangers With One...
Eight colorful and dangerous characters are trapped together in a blizzard in Quentin Tarantino’s “The Hateful Eight,” and the first trailer for the sure-to-be bloody Western teases tense showdowns and...
View ArticleAFI Fest Completes Lineup With Oscar Contenders, Films With Maggie Smith and...
The 2015 AFI Fest announced its full lineup on Wednesday, with 74 feature films and 53 shorts screening during the eight-day festival in Hollywood November 5-12. In addition to previously announced...
View ArticleQuentin Tarantino’s ‘The Hateful Eight’ Comes Out Guns Blazing in First Full...
The first trailer for Quentin Tarantino‘s “The Hateful Eight” has been released, and it’s full of guns, violence, and epic one-liners. “You’d be surprised what a man would do,” says Samuel L. Jackson‘s...
View ArticleWhere Is Channing Tatum in New ‘Hateful Eight’ Trailer? (Photo)
Who is that scarf-over-the-face man? The new “Hateful Eight” trailer released Thursday may have finally given the world a glimpse of Channing Tatum‘s character. At the 1:30 mark in the new trailer, a...
View Article‘600 Miles’ Director on Borrowing From Legendary Hollywood Movies
Like many of the filmmakers who’ve made gangster movies, “600 Miles” writer-director Gabriel Ripstein admitted that he’s stolen from Martin Scorsese. In his case, he said at TheWrap’s Award Screening...
View ArticleQuentin Tarantino’s ‘Hateful Eight’ Premiere Hits Hollywood, Police Protest...
Quentin Tarantino‘s “Hateful Eight” premiere on Monday night was a surprisingly peaceful affair. Concerns about a police protest in response to the director’s recent controversial comments about cops...
View Article‘The Hateful Eight’ Review: Quentin Tarantino Western Is More Agatha Christie...
There’s something of an art prank going on with “The Hateful Eight,” which is, as the opening credits portentously point out, “the eighth feature by Quentin Tarantino.” The writer-director has, in...
View ArticleWatch Anna Kendrick Fall For a Killer in New ‘Mr. Right’ Trailer (Video)
Anna Kendrick falls in love with a dangerous man in the new trailer for “Mr. Right,” starring Sam Rockwell and Tim Roth. “Do I just suck? Am I just suck-ball McGee?” Kendrick’s Martha asks her friend...
View Article‘Hardcore Henry’ Review: Murder Meets Motion Sickness in a Go-Go, GoPro Feature
The opening credits of “Hardcore Henry” act as a kind of old-fashioned musical overture, offering a brief taste of what’s to come. Discrete, point-of-impact moments of violence parade across the screen...
View ArticleSofia Vergara Departs CAA for UTA
Sofia Vergara has exited Creative Artists Agency for United Talent Agency, TheWrap has learned. The 44-year-old bombshell, who became a primetime sensation on ABC’s “Modern Family,” had been with CAA...
View ArticleTim Roth Reveals He Was Sexually Abused by His Grandfather: ‘He Was a F–king...
If you’re dreading your own family reunion this holiday season, consider what Tim Roth grew up dealing with. In an interview with U.K. newspaper The Guardian published Sunday, the “Reservoir Dogs”...
View ArticleEvery Quentin Tarantino Movie Ranked From ‘Reservoir Dogs’ to ‘Hateful Eight’...
TheWrap movie critic Inkoo Kang reassesses the director Quentin Tarantino’s 23-year career, from “Reservoir Dogs” to “The Hateful Eight” 8. “Death Proof”(2007) Despite some truly audacious stunt work...
View ArticleBurt Reynolds in Talks to Join Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Once Upon a Time in...
Negotiations are underway to fill out the cast of Quentin Tarantino’s next film “Once Upon A Time In Hollywood,” with Burt Reynolds in talks to play George Spahn, the ranch owner who rented his land...
View ArticleBefore Topher Grace in ‘BlackKkKlansman,’ 12 Actors Who’ve Portrayed White...
There’s a long history of actors winning Oscars for portraying Nazis in war films. But playing a Neo-Nazi? That’s a different story. Be it neo-Nazi, KKK member, skinhead or white nationalist, actors...
View Article‘Luce’ Film Review: Tense Thriller Examines a Model Student Suddenly Under...
Regardless of the premise behind the age-old foundation we still call the American Dream, not all are afforded the same prosperous outcome. Only the most powerful are granted the benefit of the doubt —...
View ArticleSundance Party Report: Zac Efron, Awkwafina, Jason Momoa and More on the...
Big stars – and lots of those not-so-famous actors hoping to ride the Sundance Film Festival train to that same spot in the Hollywood firmament – descended on Park City for Sundance 2019 as the fest’s...
View ArticleKelvin Harrison Jr on How Privilege Plays a Huge Part in ‘Luce’ (Video)
Kelvin Harrison Jr, Naomi Watts, and Tim Roth dropped by The Wrap’s studios at the Sundance Film Festival to talk about “Luce.” TheWrap’s Sharon Waxman asked Harrison Jr how privilege played a part in...
View ArticleAll 18 Robert Rodriguez Movies Ranked, From Worst to Best (Photos)
Robert Rodriguez has come a long way from his micro-budget breakout feature — a landmark of American independent cinema — in terms of scope and technology, but his interest in genre storytelling and...
View Article‘Tin Star’ Renewed for Third and Final Season
The Tim Roth U.K. drama “Tin Star” has been picked up for a third and final season, Sky Atlantic announced on Wednesday. Starring Roth, Genevieve O’Reilly and Abigail Lawrie, the series centers on a...
View ArticleClive Owen, Tim Roth’s ‘The Song of Names’ Acquired by Sony Pictures Classics
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired the U.S. rights to Tim Roth and Clive Owen’s “The Song of Names,” directed François Girard. Oscar nominee Jeffrey Caine wrote the screenplay, based on the...
View ArticleEvery Quentin Tarantino Film Ranked From Worst to Best (Photos)
There are few modern filmmakers with a voice as distinctive as Quentin Tarantino’s, a former video-store clerk who transformed his movie love into blockbuster, arthouse, genre-redefining masterpieces...
View ArticleDoes ‘Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood’ Have a Post-Credits Scene?
“Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood” is Quentin Tarantino’s ninth film, and while his movies have always in one way or another been something of an ode to cinema and to the lesser-known films and stars of...
View Article‘The Song of Names’ Film Review: Cliched Holocaust Drama Feels Flimsy
“The Song of Names” is the kind of mediocre Holocaust drama that used to be taken more seriously in the 1990s, partly thanks to the Weinstein brothers and Miramax. Director Francois Girard (“The Red...
View Article‘Bergman Island’ Film Review: Tim Roth and Vicky Krieps Star in Light and...
Early on in “Bergman Island,” a summer breeze meta-movie that premiered in competition at the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday, one of director Mia Hansen-Løve’s two stand-ins in the film voices a kind...
View Article‘Sundown’ Film Review: Tim Roth Is an Enigma in Riveting and Banal Mexican Drama
In “Sundown,” his latest examination of how his country’s economic and social tensions sometimes explode, Mexican director Michel Franco takes a cold-eyed stare at his characters, even as the Acapulco...
View Article‘Resurrection’ Film Review: Rebecca Hall Keeps a Firm Grasp on Unsettling...
Sundance 2022: Writer-director Andrew Semans' script takes a big narrative swing, but Hall, Tim Roth and Grace Kaufman make it all seem believable
View ArticleCormac Roth, Son of Tim Roth, Dies at 25
The musician was diagnosed with germ cell cancer in November 2021
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