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Rust director Joel Souza recalled the disorienting moments that followed being accidentally shot on set, and the apology he heard armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed utter, during the latter’s manslaughter trial, Variety reports. Souza — who has not previously shared his recollections of the incident publicly — was shot in the shoulder, while cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was fatally hit in the chest, when Alec Baldwiin accidentally discharged a prop gun while they rehearsed a scene for the movie. In court Friday,…

Heath Ledger, who tragically died in 2008 at age 28, had plans to star in another movie before his accidental overdose, as revealed by director Stephen Gaghan, who had envisioned him for a film adaptation of Malcolm Gladwell’s book Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking.Stephen, who famously directed the 2005 political thriller Syriana, claimed on a recent episode of the Developmental Hell podcast, a spin-off of Malcolm Gladwell’s Revisionist History show, that Heath had other aspirations in the early…

Celebrity deaths have a way to pierce the pop culture landscape, as fans and loved ones alike mourn and honor their legacy. One major example of this is the death of late actor Heath Ledger, who passed away shortly after wrapping his role as Joker in The Dark Knight. The death happened back in 2008, but more information about that time is still trickling out. Ledger was working on a Blink adaptation at the point of his death, and it turns out his father called director Stephen Gaghan at his bedside. The filmmaker has…

The Italian film-maker Paolo Taviani, whose gritty biopic Padre Padrone won top prize at the Cannes film festival, has died aged 92, Rome’s mayor, Roberto Gualtieri, said on Thursday.For more than three decades Taviani and his brother Vittorio formed one of cinema’s greatest directorial duos. “Paolo Taviani, a great maestro of Italian cinema, leaves us,” Gualtieri said on X. The brothers “directed unforgettable, profound, committed films which entered into the collective imagination and the history of cinema”, Gualtieri…

With the Golden Globes and Baftas behind us, we’re turning our attention to who will take home the top prizes at this year’s Oscars.Jonathan Glazer’s disturbing holocaust drama The Zone of Interest is dominating the foreign-language categories, but will it take home the Best Picture gong? Does Yorgos Lanthimos’s macabre comedy-horror Poor Things have enough steam to surpass the Oppenheimer behemoth?Jacob Stolworthy, Annabel Nugent and Adam White predict which films will walk away winners at the 2024 Oscars.Get the latest…

The Last Of Us director Neil Druckmann has spoken about how many more big titles he’ll be able to make. Druckmann spoke about his uncertainty in an interview with rapper Logic, explaining how he finds directing big games tiring. “I guess that I don’t see myself doing this forever at this scale. It’s just a lot, and it takes a lot out of you. It’s very stressful to manage that many people and multiple studios worldwide,” Druckmann said in the interview. “I know that time is limited, so it’s very precious to me, and I…

Almost 30 years to the day after The Crow hit theaters in 1994, a new version of the grim revenge tale is arriving—this time around, directed by Rupert Sanders (Snow White and the Huntsman) and starring Bill Skarsgård. Whatever feelings one might have about the remake, the first images of Skarsgård in character are certainly striking.Spoilers of the Week April 4-8Image: LionsgateAccording to Sanders, the character’s appearance is drawn not from the James O’Barr source-material comic book series, nor tragic star Brandon…

An Israeli film-maker who won one of the top prizes at the Berlin film festival has said German officials’ description of the awards ceremony as “antisemitic” has led to death threats and the physical intimidation of family members, causing him to hold off plans to return to Israel.Yuval Abraham, 29, was on Saturday awarded the Berlinale’s best documentary award for No Other Land, which charts the eradication of Palestinian villages in Masafer Yatta in the West Bank.Abraham’s acceptance speech, in which he decried a…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeJake Gyllenhaal has attempted to calm the controversy surrounding his upcoming action film Road House with director Doug Liman. Liman has previously criticised Amazon Prime Video and said he would be boycotting the film due to Amazon’s decision not to release the movie in cinemas. Road House is a remake of the 1989 film of the same name, starring Patrick Swayze. The movie follows…

In a new interview with GQ, the actor Josh Brolin did not hold back his criticism of his 2010 film, Jonah Hex, and its director, Jimmy Hayward. US actor Josh Brolin arrives for the premiere of �Dune: Part Two� at Josie Robertson Plaza in Lincoln Center on February 25, 2024, in New York City. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP)(AFP) He said to the outlet, “I won’t ever stop s******g on Jonah Hex because it was a s**ty f***ing movie.” Hindustan Times - your fastest source for breaking news! Read now. The film, which…