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  • Colin Farrell Bets It All in Conclave Director & Netflix’s Ballad of a Small Player Trailer

    The first full-length trailer for Ballad of a Small Player has been released.

    Ballad of a Small Player is a forthcoming Netflix movie that is directed by Edward Berger. Starring Colin Farrell and Tilda Swinton, the film will be available to watch on the streaming platform later this month.

    Check out the Ballad of a Small Player trailer below (watch more trailers and clips):

    What happens in the Ballad of a Small Player trailer?

    The Ballad of a Small Player trailer sees Farrell playing a character named Lord Doyle, a man who is hiding out in Macau while “spending his days and nights on the casino floors, drinking heavily, and gambling what little money he has left.”

    The synopsis continues, “Struggling to keep up with his fast-rising debts, he is offered a lifeline by the mysterious Dao Ming (Fala Chen), a casino employee with secrets of her own. However, in hot pursuit is Cynthia Blithe (Tilda Swinton) – a private investigator ready to confront Doyle with what he is running from. As Doyle tries to climb to salvation, the confines of reality start to close in.”

    Based on the 2014 novel by Lawrence Osborne, the cast of Ballad of a Small Player also includes Deanie Ip and Alex Jennings. In addition to helming 2024’s Conclave, Berger is known for directing 2022’s All Quiet on the Western Front. 

    Farrell said of his character in Ballad of a Small Player, via Netflix Tudum, “Lord Doyle is somebody who’s trying to escape his past. I don’t think he has any idea, really, how much his past is carried in every cell of his being. He is, like most addicts, somewhat narcissistic, and can only see the world through the lens of his own needs and his own desires.” 

    Ballad of a Small Player will be available to watch on Netflix on October 29, 2025.

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  • Colin Farrell Teases Bigger Stakes in ‘Scarier’ The Batman Part II

    Academy Award nominee Colin Farrell has opened up about his return in Matt Reeves’ long-awaited DC sequel, The Batman Part II. The movie is still slated to premiere in theaters on October 1, 2027, more than five years after the first installment was released.

    What was Colin Farrell’s The Batman Part II update?

    During a recent interview with THR, Farrell confirmed that he had already read the screenplay for The Batman Part II, which was co-written by Reeves and Mattson Tomlin. He admitted that his appearance in the sequel will be much shorter compared to the first installment.

    “I’ve got an even smaller role in this one,” he said. “But I’m OK with that…I’ve read the script, from start to finish, and I can’t say much about it. But it’s deeper, scarier, the stakes are bigger. I’m really excited to see it.”

    For his leading performance in the HBO miniseries The Penguin, Farrell won an Emmy Award for Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Limited Series, Anthology Series, or a Motion Picture Made for Television. Despite the show’s critical success, HBO and DC Studios haven’t made any announcements about its potential future.

    The Batman Part II will be directed by Reeves, who co-wrote the screenplay with Tomlin, based on the DC characters created by Bill Finger and Bob Kane. Further details about its plot and new characters are still being kept under wraps. The Twilight Saga star Robert Pattinson will be reprising his role as Bruce Wayne/The Batman, along with Andy Serkis as Alfred and Jeffrey Wright as James Gordon. Production is expected to start at Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden in London, UK, on January 1, 2026.

    (Source: THR)

    Originally published by Maggie Dela Paz at SuperHeroHype.

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  • Margot Robbie, Colin Farrell on ‘A Big Bold Beautiful Journey’ and More Original Stories: “Right Now Is a Really Good Time for Film”

    [This story contains spoilers from A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, now playing in theaters.]

    2025 seems to be the year of original films — that’s what the stars of A Big Bold Beautiful Journey is saying.

    The romantic fantasy film, which hit theaters on Friday, is led by Margot Robbie as Sarah and Colin Farrell as David, whose characters meet at a wedding and have both rented cars with a speaking GPS that guides them to locations where they open literal doors and are transported back in time to relive their most pivotal moments.

    The movie’s story is also an original idea. As there have been many remakes, sequels and reboots, especially in the last couple of years, this year alone has seen new stories thrive on the big screen (Farrell mentions his favorites below) as well as last year’s Anora, which won the Academy Award for best picture.

    “I feel like there’s a lot of original films at the moment, which makes me so happy,” Robbie told The Hollywood Reporter at the film’s New York City premiere. “Right now, in particular, is a really good time for film.”

    Farrell echoed Robbie’s point and added that there’s a place for both to co-exist. “I know there’s a lot of sequels and there’s talk about a lot of sequels and IPs that have been used before and reimaginings and revisitings of worlds. This year I saw Bring Her Back, and then I saw obviously Sinners and the other day I saw Weapons,” he told THR. “I get really excited when I see original stuff, really, really excited. So there’s always going to be original stories and there’s always going to be rehashes and there’s room for both.”

    A Big Bold Beautiful Journey is inspired by screenwriter Seth Reiss‘ own personal experiences. “I was heartbroken. I had just been broken up with. I had rented a car and was driving to a wedding and I remember feeling at my lowest moment and then on the way back from the wedding, the GPS was like purge on to I-95 for 290 miles and then I thought, Well, what if it asked me, ‘Seth, do you want to go on a big, bold beautiful journey?’ And I was like, that might be a good idea for a movie,” Reiss said.

    While the film explores the budding love between Sarah and David, which its director, Kogonada, told THR, Robbie and Farrell have a “unique spark together that was undeniable from the first day of rehearsal to the very end of the shoot,” it also examines the life regrets that can haunt you.

    Specifically for Sarah, as she missed the chance to be with her mom when she died. One of the doors Sarah opens is her childhood home, where she then spends time with her mom and forgives herself for her own past mistakes. Robbie spoke about what it was like to shoot the emotional scenes with Lily Rabe, who plays Sarah’s mom.

    “Doing those scenes in the movie were incredible because Lily and I we’re pretty much the same age, but the whole premise of the film is you walk through these doors and everyone sees you as younger self and so we’re doing these scenes where I felt like a little kid even though I’m acting against an actress who’s pretty much the same age as me and we had this mother-daughter dynamic nonetheless,” she said. “That’s really a credit to her and the kind of actor she is but it gives you an idea of the kind of movie it is, where there’s something surreal about it but it feels very grounded at the same time. It gets emotional, it’s funny, it’s romantic, you get a bit of everything.”

    Reiss adds that he hopes the film will spark more new stories: “I think there’s nothing more fun than seeing something that we haven’t seen before, and it’s really exhilarating and it just reminds us of why we went to the movies.”

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  • ‘A Big Bold Beautiful Journey’ Breaks Down At The Box Office With $8M Global Opening: What Went Wrong

    In Sony‘s quest to deliver original movies in an IP laden box office, their $50M+ negative global acquisition of the Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell fantasy romance drama, A Big Bold Beautiful Journey from Korean filmmaker Kogonada, embarked on a road to nowhere at the box office with a $3.5M domestic and $8M global opening, this after critics sliced the pic’s tires with a 37% Rotten Tomatoes score.

    CinemaScore was a B-, but the Screen Engine/Comscore PostTrak exits were worse at 2 1/2 stars, 64% positive and a low 44% definite recommend, overall a complete rejection by audiences.

    Overall for the weekend, per PostTrak, women showed up at 59% giving A Big Bold Beautiful Journey a low 64% score. Those few who showed up had their boyfriends, partners or hubbies with them (close to 40% having a +1). Women under 25 (who showed up for Barbie at 39%) were only 14% in attendance with no patience for Robbie and Farrell’s romantic one hour-49 minutes chit-chat (and hardly any love scenes) with a 42% rating.

    Anecdotally, yesterday I attended a 4:10 PM showtime at the Regal North Hollywood where I was one of ten people watching the movie. There were more people at the Saturday matinee I attended for Vertical Entertainment’s Ron Howard period thriller Eden at the AMC Universal Citywalk on that movie’s opening weekend (which bowed to $1M domestic).

    Quite often studios will tell the media, if we keep writing negative things about original movies, then they’ll stop making them. Not true. When originality is great, and word of mouth is brilliant, and the marketing engines are in force, the creme rises to the top, again and again, even in a theatrical landscape that’s curbed by streaming.

    For Robbie and Farrell, though A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, isn’t their lowest opening stateside, it’s certainly one of them. For the Barbie star, the movie is under the starts of such misfires Babylon ($3.6M) and Amsterdam ($6.4M) and for Farrell it’s under Seven Psychopaths ($4.2M opening) and above Voyagers ($1.4M). Some will argue that both actors are capped in their box office openings when it comes to original movies, but again, it goes back to reviews on A Big Bold Beautiful Journey. Non-starry vehicles like Weapons rallied to a $43.5M opening juiced by 94% certified fresh RT reviews (and, yes, that was horror).

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    Comparing A Big Bold Beautiful Journey to Sony/Wayfarer’s dark romance It Ends With Us is apples and oranges given that the latter is based on a popular Colleen Hoover penned source material, and the former a surrealist fantasy. It Ends With Us bucked its bad reviews at 54%, and overcame any box office handicaps in its stars Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, the movie providing box office stamina to both with a $50M U.S./Canada start.

    If Sony anticipated great reviews on this romance drama, you bet A Big Bold Beautiful Journey in its lush cinematography (shot on Highway 5 in the state of California by the way; let’s give the production praise for that at least) and great Robbie-Farrell chemistry (they’re both great in the movie) would have found its way to a fall film festival, which is the type of launch this movie requires during a competitive adult Q3 and Q4 marketplace. Knock on wood for Warner Bros’ $130M budgeted Paul Thomas Anderson directed, Leonardo DiCaprio starring anarchist western One Battle After Another next weekend, which literally plays like Keanu Reeves’ Speed in pacing, has a current domestic projection around $20M, and skipped festivals. But, we’ve wrote this till we’re blue in the face: moviemaking is an art, not a science, and these packaged feature auctions are so fevered, that it’s to a movie’s detriment in the final accounting: The art once it’s hung on the wall doesn’t add up to the frenzy. And if you’re going to pull off an original risky movie, keep your costs as low as possible. In the same breath, any studio would have snapped at the Big Bold Beautiful Journey package: it was the project Robbie chose after delivering Warner Bros their highest grossing movie ever in Barbie ($1.44 billion worldwide) in addition to eight Oscar noms and one win. Big Bold Beautiful Journey also had a fellow Oscar nominated star in Farrell, and a hot, up-and-coming filmmaker was attached. While Robbie is known to produce most of what she stars in via her LuckyChap label, the 3x Oscar nominee preferred to simply act this time around, and backed a director she believed in.

    Sony went as frugal as they could with a net $45M production cost, with co-financing of 30% from TSG after buying A Big Bold Beautiful Journey from 30West (U.S. rights) and NEON (foreign rights). Global marketing spend was under $20M. I understand it was an eight-week shoot with no complications in the spring-to-early summer of 2024, with additional photography in an attempt to make the move more commercial (more on that in a bit).

    The screenplay by Seth Reiss which landed on the 2020 Black List with 14 votes (in a year when the top s script had 29 votes), was described by myriad sources as “beautiful.” Other studios passed because of the budget, observing its arthouse patina — which at the end of the day, is what this movie is: It’s more Sony Pictures Classics than Sony in its sophisticated discussion on two potential newfound lovers deliberating whether to roll the dice, and take the risk on a relationship after meeting at a wedding. At one point, I hear, Elisabeth Moss kicked the tires on the project, indicative of its indie sensibility. Farrell was attached before Robbie boarded as he had worked with Kogonada on A24’s 2021 A.I. sci-fi title After Yang (which made under $50K stateside, just over $745K worldwide).

    The vital deal point at auction for this movie was that Kogonada received final cut. Some sources have told us that he was over his skis in making what was hoped to be a mass female-appealing film, but others greatly assert that the director is an epic visionary, and was supported by all, including Sony, in his deliberate choices. “He’s a painter,” praised one source.

    Testing indicated that audiences had a problem with the pacing, it’s arguable chilly tone (though I thought it was quite warm), and the approach to the pic’s ending. Originally the movie had a May 9 release date before it was pushed to this weekend since it wasn’t ready. I’m told that Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group Chairman Tom Rothman and Kogonada teamed amicably to make the best edit possible; there wasn’t a contentious studio boss vs. filmmaker struggle going on.

    The end result with A Big Bold Beautiful Journey was that it was a philosophically mired, meditative, stage-play-like-movie, not a happy-go-lucky Nancy Meyers-like mainstream romance movie which female moviegoers could sink their teeth into, evident in the pic’s exits. It even feels like a specialty title you’d see in Cannes. Many also argue that fantasy dramas are hard to pull off at the box office, and walk a fine line, read the Robin Williams 1998 bomb What Dreams May Come ($85 production cost, $55.3M domestic, $71.4M worldwide take) and Tim Burton’s 2003 Big Fish ($70M budget, $66M domestic, $122M-plus global take).

    The joys of falling in love was a theme sold in the Sony trailer, complete with the Gracie Abrams “I Miss You, I’m Sorry” with the campaign echoing The Umbrellas of Cherbourg in its one-sheets. While Sony pulled off a great social media campaign for the darkly toned It Ends With Us with Ryan Reynolds bombing junkets, flower pop stores at the Century City Mall, and Lively arranging flowers, again, many say that A Big Bold Beautiful Journey isn’t a comp to the Hoover movie given that title’s immediate TikTok faithful.

    For Robbie and Farrell, who aren’t active on social media, Sony paired them up as they’ve done before with other co-stars (Zendaya and Tom Holland on Spider-Man, Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney on Anyone But You) to banter. It unfortunately didn’t set the world on fire.

    Farrell appeared with Dude With a Sign at the movie’s NYC premiere.

    Despite the movie having a social media reach per RelishMix at 266 million across TikTok, Instagram, X, Facebook, and YouTube, 57% ahead of other romance movies, it was 21% behind It Ends With Us‘ 377 million reach, not to mention, a suspicious word of mouth was out there. Sadly, when a movie opens this low and is anticipated to be rejected by audiences, there’s no marketing solve.

    Better days lie around the corner for Robbie and Farrell. She has Emerald Fennell’s smoldering feature take of classic Wuthering Heights with Jacob Elordi out around Valentine’s Day, while Farrell is already winning critical praise for his turn in Edward Berger’s Netflix title Ballad of a Small Player in the early awards season.

    Meanwhile, Sony isn’t giving up on original movies aimed at women.

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  • Colin Farrell Risks It All in Wild Trailer for Edward Berger’s Netflix Movie ‘Ballad of a Small Player’

    Colin Farrell finds himself in a high-stakes state of mind in the teaser trailer for Netflix‘s Ballad of a Small Player.

    Netflix releases Edward Berger‘s feature in select U.S. theaters Oct. 15 and in select U.K. and Ireland theaters two days later before it begins streaming Oct. 29. Fala Chen, Deanie Ip, Alex Jennings and Tilda Swinton round out the cast.

    Ballad of a Small Player centers on Lord Doyle (Farrell), a high-stakes gambler who is dealing with debts and his questionable past. While trying to keep a low profile in Macau, he receives a tempting offer from mysterious casino employee Dao Ming (Chen) while also avoiding private investigator Cynthia Blithe (Swinton).

    The eye-catching trailer features a collection of quick scenes as Farrell is shown sitting on the floor of the shower, cracking open a lobster in a hotel room, screaming during a card game and watching a raging fire.

    “I may be out of puff, but I still have my balls,” Farrell declares in the footage.

    Berger helmed the film from a script by Rowan Joffe that is based on author Lawrence Osborne’s 2014 novel. Berger, Mike Goodridge and Matthew James Wilkinson serve as producers.

    Colin Farrell (left) and Fala Chen in Ballad of a Small Player.

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    Ballad of a Small Player is set to premiere next month at the Toronto International Film Festival before screening at other fall festivals. Farrell is set to receive the Golden Icon Award when the movie plays at the Zurich Film Festival on Sept. 27.

    Berger directed Netflix’s 2022 film All Quiet on the Western Front, which was nominated for nine Oscars. His most recent film was last year’s thriller Conclave, with the Focus Features release landing the Academy Award for best adapted screenplay.

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  • Cristin Milioti Meets Her Moment: On ‘The Penguin,’ Superhero Fatigue, and What It Means to Be Underrated

    Cristin Milioti Meets Her Moment: On ‘The Penguin,’ Superhero Fatigue, and What It Means to Be Underrated

    ​​This post contains spoilers about the sixth episode of The Penguin, “Gold Summit.”

    “People will tell you where they’ve gone / They’ll tell you where to go / But till you get there yourself, you never really know,” Joni Mitchell sings in 1976’s “Amelia”—words that Cristin Milioti found herself sobbing to at the 80-year-old’s triumphant recent Hollywood Bowl concert.

    “I feel like I’m still recovering, because I cried for the entire three hours,” she tells Vanity Fair from her New York apartment. “‘Amelia’ is my favorite, and I couldn’t believe she sang it—I completely fell to pieces.”

    Milioti wasn’t alone in her rapture. “Everywhere you looked, there was someone crying. Then you would catch each other’s eyes, touch your heart, and give each other a nod. It feels like witnessing a miracle—someone who changed music and has certainly whispered in my ear throughout my entire life helped me understand myself and the world. It felt very holy.”

    While at the star-studded concert, Milioti received some admiration of her own. “I had a lot of really lovely interactions at that show from people who really are loving The Penguin,” the actor says of her lauded performance in the HBO series as Sofia Falcone, a mobster princess turned murderous villain facing off against an unrecognizable Colin Farrell as Oz Cobb. “I feel very protective of her,” Milioti says of Sofia, who after being tortured for more than a decade in an Arkham prison for a crime she didn’t commit, kills the family members who lied to keep her confined. Homicide aside, “I am just in love with her.”

    Bringing the role to life has been a dream assignment for the 39-year-old actor, who long before she ever auditioned for a comic-book film, dressed as Catwoman for Halloween. The idea of Sofias running around this year makes Milioti’s face light up. “I get emotional just talking about it. I would be so blown away,” she says. “That would be a lot to take in, but I would gladly take it in.”

    Just as Joni sings of a winding journey in “Amelia,” Milioti has been charting her own path since dropping out of New York University after a single year. She launched herself into a Tony nomination for 2012’s Once, the Broadway musical based on the Oscar-winning Irish film. That star-making turn led to roles big (the titular mother in How I Met Your Mother) and small (30 Rock’s “Very Sexy Baby”), but always memorable. Juicy parts alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in The Wolf of Wall Street, Andy Samberg in Palm Springs, and Jesse Plemons in an episode of Black Mirror followed. It’s all led to the most high-profile project of Milioti’s career—no false alarms in sight.

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  • Colin Farrell Talks Prosthetically Baring It All for His Penguin Nude Scene

    Colin Farrell Talks Prosthetically Baring It All for His Penguin Nude Scene

    Much like the movie that spawned it, Matt Reeves‘ 2022 The Batman, new HBO series The Penguin invites the viewer to creep into Gotham City’s dark, gritty underworld. There’s nothing bright and glossy about Oz Cobb (Colin Farrell) and his life on the mean streets—he may have comic-book origins, but authenticity is the buzzword here. That commitment extends even to the character’s prosthetic make-up. Sure, there are the facial layers that make Farrell largely unrecognizable, but The Penguin is also going below the belt when necessary.

    In the opening episode for the spinoff series, Cobb and his foe Sofia Falcone (Cristin Milioti) share a scene in which he’s tied up and tortured by her henchman as she takes him to task for his role in the death of her brother, Alberto. It’s a tense interrogation but the scene is made even more agonizing by the fact that Cobb is completely naked. The audience only gets a glimpse at his fleshy body from the side, but apparently care was taken to transform all of Farrell into the character.

    Speaking to Variety, Farrell explained how the show’s prosthetics designer, Michael Marino, who also made the face and body additions he wears while in character, crafted an “anatomically correct” appliance for him to wear… down there. “I had a velcro piece to stick on, and a nice retro bush,” the actor said, calling the prosthetic a source of “surreal discomfort.” Even though he was technically fully covered, he felt so vulnerable he covered up with a towel between takes.

    “That was kind of the strange psychological no man’s land that you could find yourself in when you’re the canvas to something as powerful as the makeup designed for it,” he explained. “I felt incredibly exposed, even though I was anything but. I was totally covered, but I was covered by a naked man. And it’s not like I thought I was him, but it had a very strange effect on my ego.”

    The Penguin runs for a total of eight episodes, with new installments arriving Sundays on HBO and Max. In addition to Farrell and Milioti, it stars Rhenzy Feliz (as Victor Aguilar), Michael Kelly (Johnny Viti), Shohreh Aghdashloo (Nadia Maroni), Deirdre O’Connell (Francis Cobb), Clancy Brown (Salvatore Maroni), James Madio (Milos Grapa), Scott Cohen (Luca Falcone), Michael Zegen (Alberto Falcone), Carmen Ejogo (Eve Karlo), and Theo Rossi (Dr. Julian Rush). It was developed by showrunner Lauren LeFranc.

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  • James Gunn Says ‘No Truth’ To Recent Batman Game Rumor

    James Gunn Says ‘No Truth’ To Recent Batman Game Rumor

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    Reports of a game set in the universe of Matt Reeves’ The Batman are, apparently, greatly exaggerated. The internet was swirling with rumors of such a game’s existence on the morning of August 30, with many hoping that such a project was real. However, none other than James Gunn, the head of DC films, weighed in to set the record state.

    The rumors stem from an article on news site Puck discussing the state of Warner Bros. and the outlook of its CEO, David Zaslav, on selling assets. The article states that former Warner Bros. parent company AT&T decided against selling the Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment division responsible for games because it was “too valuable to unload.” The article goes on to claim that, in addition to the upcoming Penguin HBO show, there is a game in development “rooted in the 2022 The Batman movie.” This one line made fans theorize on what this could be, and if the game itself would be more closely tied to the movie or the Colin Farrell series. If true, this would be the first Batman game set in the Reeves’ universe. However, it seems the game does not actually exist.

    On social media site Threads, a user directly asked James Gunn if there was any accuracy to the rumors. Gunn succinctly shut them down by saying, “Sadly there is no truth to this whatsoever.” For hopeful fans, though, the use of “sadly” may suggest that he does hope a project like this will exist at some point. Batman fans are long overdue for another great game starring the caped crusader. 2025 will mark the tenth anniversary of Batman: Arkham Knight’s release, which is arguably the last good Batman game Warner Bros. has released. If you are really craving another Batman game, however, the VR title Batman: Arkham Shadow is set to release this fall, and it actually looks kind of good! Still, hope springs eternal for another amazing AAA Batman game.

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  • “We Were All Over Each Other”: Britney Spears Recounts Two-Week Fling With Colin Farrell In New Memoir

    “We Were All Over Each Other”: Britney Spears Recounts Two-Week Fling With Colin Farrell In New Memoir

    Revelations from Britney Spearss love life continue to roll in thanks to pre-release copies of The Woman In Me making their way into the media universe. Colin Farrell, you’re up.

    “Brawl is the only word for it—we were all over each other, grappling so passionately it was like we were in a street fight,” Spears writes of their short-lived romance in her memoir, which Time obtained ahead of its official October 24 publication date.

    Spears and the actor briefly connected in 2003 shortly after her very public breakup with Justin Timberlake, whom she called her first love. During her relationship with Timberlake, from 1999 to 2002, Spears became pregnant and then got an abortion at Timberlake’s urging, and was later broken up with via text message and subsequently portrayed as “a harlot” in the singer’s “Cry Me a River” music video, all of which she writes about in the forthcoming book. 

    Elsewhere in the memoir, Spears writes that Timberlake slept with “six or seven girls” in the weeks after their relationship “officially” ended, so she went out to have a little fun of her own in the midst of her heartbreak. “He was a girl’s dream,” she said of Timberlake. “I was in love with him.”

    She writes that a “club promoter” friend set her up with Farrell, and they had a “two-week brawl.”

    The two attended the premiere of Farrell’s movie The Recruits together, where Farrell insisted they weren’t dating and Spears reportedly dipped as soon as the cameras were gone.

    “We’re not dating,” Farrell said at the time. “She’s a sweet, sweet girl. There’s nothing going on—just mates.”

    Later that year, Spears would tell W Magazine, “Yes, I kissed him… He’s the cutest, hottest thing in the world—wooh!… But it was nothing serious.”

    In her book, per Time, Spears writes of Farrell “for a brief moment in time, I did think there could be something there. The disappointments in my romantic life were just one part of how isolated I became. I felt so awkward all the time.”

    “As I had before when I’d felt too attached to a man, I tried to convince myself in every way that it was not a big deal, that we were just having fun, that in this case, I was vulnerable because I wasn’t over Justin yet.”

    Representatives for Britney Spears and Colin Farrell did not immediately return requests for comment.

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  • The Oscars 2023: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly

    The Oscars 2023: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly

    Whenever I watch an awards ceremony for the “biggest names in Hollywood,” I regret tuning in about 30 minutes in. It sounds like a great idea to watch
    The Oscars in theory, but in practice, it’s more agonizing than a low-scoring football game. Last night’s 95th Annual Academy Awards hosted by Jimmy Kimmel held us hostage and threatened to go on for almost four hours.


    This year, we were faced with the cold, hard truth: every celeb we know and love is on Ozempic. And Nicole Kidman will forever give us a meme even if she doesn’t speak.

    The Winners

    The worst part about these award shows is that you know who’s going to win.
    Everything, Everywhere, All At Once was going for a sweep of their 11 Oscar nominations, so why do I have to watch everyone, everywhere, all at once make a five minute speech? Seems borderline criminal.

    The first award of the night was given to Best Supporting Actress, with
    EEAO having two nominees in Jamie Lee Curtis and Stephanie Hsu, alongside a roster of talent in Angela Bassett (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever) and Kerry Condon (The Banshees of Inisherin). Controversially, or maybe not, Jamie Lee won.

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    EEAO became the most awarded filem of all time, winning Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Leading Actress with Michelle Yeoh becoming the first Asian actress to win. I was on the edge of my seat for one of the closer races of the night, Best Leading Actor. With names like Austin Butler (Elvis), Brendan Fraser (The Whale), Colin Farrell (Banshees), Paul Mescal (Aftersun), and Bill Nighy (Living), Fraser ended up taking home the Best Leading Actor award.

    Believe me, between Ke Huy Quan and Brendan Fraser’s speeches, not a dry eye was in the house.

    The Drama

    It wouldn’t be
    The Oscars without drama. So let’s dig in. Starting with the red carpet – which was actually champagne colored and very ugly this year – we had Vanessa Hudgens and Ashley Graham doing interviews. There was a very clear opportunity for millions of TikTok clips if you would have let Baby V interview ex-boyfriend and permanent Elvis stand-in, Austin Butler, but no. Of course not.

    Ashley Graham instead interviewed Hugh Grant for quite possibly the most awkward interview of all time. Hugh Grant all but refused to answer questions, even calling
    The Oscars “Vanity Fair,” to which Graham responds “Vanity Fair is where you’ll be letting loose later.” The whole thing made me sick to my stomach.

    And does anyone else feel bad that we keep inviting Rihanna to perform “Lift Me Up” at these shows and then she doesn’t win the award? I think adding her and A$AP Rocky to the audience brings added style and attractiveness that would otherwise lack without them – so maybe give her an award to keep her coming back?

    We also have Jamie Lee Curtis’s controversial win as one of the only white women nominated in her category. And while I agree Angela Bassett
    did the thing both in her performance in Black Panther and her outfit last night, it’s hard to get mad at an actress for winning an award the Academy designated for her. Blame The Academy, not the women.

    This year’s major cringe wasn’t a slap, but rather Jimmy Kimmel asking activist Malala Yousafzai if she thought Harry Styles really spit on Chris Pine. After she proceeds to say she only talks about peace, Kimmel nicknamed her Malala-land. Again, just gauge my eyes out at this point.

    And for those wondering about hookups, Bad Bunny and Kendall Jenner were seen together at Jay-Z and Beyonce’s afterparty. Also in attendance? Gigi Hadid and Leonardo DiCaprio. Do with that information what you will.

    The Style

    Perhaps my favorite part of the night: the clothes. Some of my favorite looks of the night were as follows:

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    Hunter Schafer

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    Megan Thee Stallion

    Megan Thee Stallion

    Megan Thee Stallion


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    Rihanna

    Rihanna

    Rihanna

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  • Colin Farrell Reveals He’s Bringing 13-Year-Old Son To The 2023 Oscars

    Colin Farrell Reveals He’s Bringing 13-Year-Old Son To The 2023 Oscars

    By Sarah Curran.

    Colin Farrell is revealing his date for the 2023 Oscars. 

    In a new interview with Vanity Fair, the Irish actor shared that he’d be bringing his 13-year-old son Henry along to Hollywood’s biggest night. 


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    “We’re both wearing velvet tuxes,” said the proud dad, who is also a father to 19-year-old son James.

    Farrell is up for Best Actor for his role as Pádraic Súilleabháin in “The Banshees of Inisherin”, which has a total of nine Oscar nominations.

    Farrell previously picked up the award for Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical at this year’s Golden Globes.


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    The 95th Academy Awards will be held on Sunday, March 12 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.

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  • Video: ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’ | Anatomy of a Scene

    Video: ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’ | Anatomy of a Scene

    Film directors walk viewers through one scene of their movies, showing the magic, motives and the mistakes from behind the camera.

    Film directors walk viewers through one scene of their movies, showing the magic, motives and the mistakes from behind the camera.

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  • The 16 Hottest Male Celebrities Categorized by Type

    The 16 Hottest Male Celebrities Categorized by Type

    You may not be able to define in words what exactly makes a person attractive, but you know it when you see it.


    Of course, there is a huge difference between what makes Justin Beiber hot and what makes Bill Nye the Science Guy hot (don’t judge, we don’t kink-shame in this household). For those of us who find men attractive—god help us—the question of attractiveness is particularly complicated. Why Matt Bomer is hot is a simple enough question (he looks like a naughty Ken Doll who has more than plastic beneath his trunks), but things get more nuanced when you consider why leagues of real human beings with eyes find Benedict Cumberbatch attractive or why women regularly throw their panties at Post Malone.

    To help you through the haunted, endless maze of human sexuality, Popdust has broken down all the types of hot a man can be. Chances are, every man you’ve ever been attracted to falls into one of these categories.

    “Want to Build a Life With Him” Hot

    Example: Paul Mescal

    This is the kind of guy you want to take home to your mother. Sure, the sex is only okay, but what does that matter when you wake up every morning to homemade pancakes? This isn’t the type of guy you fantasize about f**king on the kitchen floor, this is the kind of guy whose eyes you picture filling with tears when you buy your first home together. He’s not exactly a daddy, but he would make a great literal daddy.

    “Church Boy” Hot

    Example: Tom Holland

    Something about this guy’s small-town haircut and innocent, sunny smile makes you want to corrupt the sh*t out of him. He always looks a little shocked when you make a dirty joke, but you just know that with some intervention from the devil (you) you’d have that perfectly gelled hair mussed in no time. But also…some small part of you wants to let him make you a better person??? A very small part. Mostly, you just want to ruin his life.

    “Rearrange My Guts” Hot

    Example: Jason Momoa

    You don’t want this guy to take you to a nice dinner at a trendy restaurant—you want him to eat take-out off your ass and throw you around like a rag doll. Sure, he probably has thoughts in his head and a personality and interests and blah blah blah LOOK AT THOSE ARMS. This is the kind of guy you want to spend 72 hours in bed with every 4-6 months but otherwise never see. This is the kind of guy you agree to go camping with despite hating the outdoors because you just love watching him pitch a tent (yes, that was a double entendre, you filthy minx).

    “Got Your Teenage Sister Pregnant, but You Kind of Get It” Hot

    Example: LaKeith Stanfield

    Okay, not literally!!! (maybe literally). But you know that kind of smarmy guy who works at the gas station and says borderline-inappropriate things to you every time you see him? But for some reason, you just can’t summon feminist rage about it and instead sorta giggle and blush and wonder what his tobacco-stained fingers would feel like pulling your hair? Yeah, that guy. He’s a good-for-nothing, uneducated, creepy, grungy, loser…and that kind of works for you.

    “You Knew He Would Be Weird in Bed” Hot

    Example: Evan Mock

    So he’s super hot in all the traditional ways, from facial structure to swagger, but there’s also something a little…extra. Something about him that’s…unhinged. Some kind of mad twinkle in his eye that speaks of unexplored multitudes. In most cases, those multitudes are just daddy issues and a preference for foot stuff, but the joy is in the journey of finding out.

    “Burnout” Hot

    Example: Jeremy Allen White

    He’s not a bad-looking guy. Just a little limp-looking, with features that start seeming weird if you stare too long. But there’s something about him. The tattoos? The nicotine addiction? The greasy hair? Somehow, it’s working.

    “In Context” Hot (e.g. like a high school women’s lacrosse coach)

    Example: Nathan Fielder

    In most situations, this guy isn’t going to turn many heads. But put him on a public school field with 23 hormone-ridden 16-year-olds running laps, and you’ve got yourself an absolute sex magnet. Alternatively, put him in a political race populated by old, saggy, white people, and suddenly his ability to tuck in his shirt over his gut seems exceptional.

    “Ugly” Hot

    Example: Pete Davidson

    This is a broad but important category that this reputable publication has dwelled on seriously for quite some time. An ugly hot guy has an appearance that falls outside the boundaries of conventional attractiveness. Maybe he has a weird horse face or limbs that flail like a carwash’s inflatable man in heavy wind (think Pete Davidson). But if you take all of his objectively unattractive features and put them together, somehow, it just works.

    “Ascot/Take Me on a Yacht” Hot

    Example: Henry Golding

    This is better than just being rich—it’s looking rich. This is ascot hot. This guy’s actual God-given looks are largely irrelevant because money made him his own God. He has the money and time to ensure his hair, skin, and clothes are flawless in a “Who me? I just rolled out of bed like this…” kind of way. If this is your type, it’s fine, we get it.

    “Ready To Risk It All” Hot

    Example: Michael B Jordan

    This is the kind of hot you leave your husband for. This is the kind of hot you leave your wife for. This is the kind of hot you sell your house for. This is the kind of hot you pretend to like his DJ set for. Is the sex good? It literally doesn’t matter, just look at him.

    “Party Boy” Hot

    Example: Machine Gun Kelly

    Does he have a substance abuse problem? Probably. Is he reliable? Not at all. Do any of his values align with yours? Absolutely not. Is he a great f**king time? Oh yeah. This guy probably has one of those annoyingly hot side smiles, maybe a kind of hard-to-understand accent, and the sex is probably kind of like being mauled by a drunk bear but in a good way. He probably has an earring he doesn’t remember getting but kind of pulls it off. It goes without saying that your Dad hates him.

    “Baby” Hot

    Example: Timothée Chalamet

    This is a complicated category. He makes your uterus ache, but you can’t tell if that’s sexual arousal or your biological clock ticking. You can’t decide if you want to take a bath with him or give him a bath. Either way, you definitely wanna smooch that sweet lil face.

    “Retro” Hot

    Example: Aaron Taylor Johnson

    Something about him screams “traditional values.” Not in a scary, baby-Don’t Worry Darling way. More in a Ready For Marriage kind of way. And honestly … if he wanted a trad-wife, I’d be a trad-wife.

    “Artist/Vegan” Hot

    Example: Jaden Smith

    He is comfortable with his feminine side, and he wants you to know it. You wanna argue with him about the fallacy of placing the responsibility for climate change on the shoulders of individuals when a handful of corporations are ultimately responsible—but he has those puppy dog eyes, so you just give in and agree to give up plastic straws. His slam poetry competitions are cringe-worthy, but he just looks so good in ripped Levi’s and a beanie.

    “Wouldn’t Be Surprised if He Turned Out to Be a Serial Killer” Hot

    Example: Robert Pattinson

    He speaks, acts, and behaves like a robot who has heard about the behavior of human beings but never actually seen it. There’s something magnetic about his strangeness, and suddenly the legacy of Ted Bundy makes sense to you. Everything about him is subtly unsettling, but personality disorders aside….he could get it.

    “Prettier Than You” Hot

    Example: Josh Heuston

    He paints his nails, has a skincare routine, and posts thirst traps on Instagram. He doesn’t have a job, but he has thousands of followers on TikTok so he’s working on monetizing social media. Which makes all his hair products a business expense, I guess? Whatever, it’s worth it when he takes his shirt off.

    “Stoner” Hot

    Example: Donald Glover

    He only chuckles at your jokes but cries laughing when his gamer buddy says something about farts. He always needs a haircut, has stains on his shirt, and probably smells faintly of Doritos. Still, something about his anti-establishment, “being handsome is mainstream” attitude does it for you.

    “Garbage” Hot

    Example: Jack Harlow

    This one comes with a lot of justified self-loathing. Just do better.

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  • Colin Farrell Gets Globes Award From Ana De Armas And Then Fanboys Over Her

    Colin Farrell Gets Globes Award From Ana De Armas And Then Fanboys Over Her

    Colin Farrell received the Golden Globe Tuesday for best actor in a movie, but delayed his acceptance speech for a bit of fanboying. (Watch the video below.)

    As presenter Ana de Armas gave him the trophy and walked away, “The Banshees of Inisherin” star called out to de Armas to gush about her performance as Marilyn Monroe in “Blonde.” De Armas was nominated for a best actress Globe, but lost to Cate Blanchett for “Tár.”

    “Ana I thought you were extraordinary,” Farrell told de Armas. “I cried myself to sleep the night I saw your film, ‘Blonde.’ I cried myself to sleep. Something to do with the music as well that played at the moment where the shot opens and you just see her ankles at the edge of the bed. It messed me up so bad.”

    Hearing laughter in the crowd at the Beverly Hilton, Farell added: “Not a joke, but you’re welcome to laugh. It’s not my place to say what’s appropriate laughter, not in this world.”

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  • Breaking Free of A Friendship Prison Is Especially Challenging on an Island: The Banshees of Inisherin

    Breaking Free of A Friendship Prison Is Especially Challenging on an Island: The Banshees of Inisherin

    It’s a simple, yet largely unaddressed subject matter: when one friend wants out of a long-standing friendship and the other doesn’t. But now, Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees of Inisherin is sure to become part of the definitive list featuring the scant few films (including Sandra Goldbacher’s Me Without You) that acknowledge the all-too-common occurrence. Even if it’s usually attributed to an era in one’s life when “growing pains” are more palpable (i.e., adolescence). Maybe that’s why it’s more “believable” to see friendship rifts in teen-centric fare such as My So-Called Life and Thirteen. The Banshees of Inisherin nevertheless illuminates how and why it’s only too possible for a friendship at one’s later stage in life to deteriorate. Or, in Pádraic Súilleabháin’s (Colin Farrell) case, to get pulled abruptly from him like a ripcord.

    The one performing the excision, as it were, is Colm Doherty (Brendan Gleeson). As the older (dare one even say “paternal”) of the two friends, he seems to have an epiphany about the way he wants to spend the rest of his time on this Earth. Which is to say: usefully. He no longer wants to endure the mindless, mostly one-sided chatter that he’s put up with for all these years as Pádraic’s best and ostensibly only friend. Not that he can fully be blamed for that, what with Inisherin being a small (fictional) island off the coast of Ireland… making it an especial challenge to ditch someone when you suddenly realize you can’t handle their inferior intellect any longer.

    The time and place of The Banshees of Inisherin is, in McDonagh fashion, as integral to the story as the characters themselves. Setting the year in 1923, at the end of the Irish Civil War that cropped up right after the Irish War of Independence from Britain, the conflict that keeps escalating on the mainland is suddenly being mirrored in the schism between Colm and Pádraic. One that happens instantaneously with the opening of the film, as Pádraic goes to Colm’s house to see if he’s coming ‘round to the pub. Refusing to answer the door, Colm merely sits in his chair in the center of the room smoking a cigarette as Pádraic peers in at him through the window. Despite his pleas about going to the pub, Colm continues to ignore him until he leaves.

    Flummoxed by this cold shoulder, Pádraic returns to his own modest abode, where a woman one might initially assume is his wife is in the midst of hanging laundry. That assumption is soon debunked when Siobhán (Kerry Condon) demands, “What are you doin’ home?” When he doesn’t reply, she adds, “Brother, what are you doin’ home?” So it is that we’re made aware of the Finneas O’Connell/Billie Eilish dynamic at play, with the two sharing a room together and Pádraic being dependent upon Siobhán to act in the housewife role while he tends to the animals. Among them being a precious and too-pure-for-this-world donkey named Jenny. Her sweetness equaling to “dumbness” (much like the eponymous, Christ-like donkey in Au Hasard Balthazar) is yet another foil in the script, designed to represent Pádraic’s own genial disposition. Before Colm ends up twisting and contorting it with his cruelty. And yet, those who might empathize with Colm’s stance on the matter can understand his reasoning in abruptly deciding to jettison a dead-weight friendship. One that, as he says, doesn’t “help” him in any way—more specifically, doesn’t elevate him intellectually in any way.

    Colm, like most creatives living in an era before major signs of full-tilt climate catastrophe served as a portent of human extinction, is of the belief that spending his time making art is more worthwhile. That this will be the key to an enduring legacy. Not just plodding along through life being “nice” for the sake of avoiding hurt feelings. Who has time for such bollocks when they’ve got an artistic output to focus on? His being musical composition via the fiddle (again, this is Ireland).

    But Pádraic truly can’t fathom this about-face Colm has exhibited. Except, as he drunkenly notes one night, maybe it wasn’t an about-face. Maybe Colm was like this (read: an arsehole) all along, and only “tolerated” Pádraic because it’s fairly impossible to avoid someone on a small island. Colm, refusing to give in to that geographical imprisonment any longer, warns Pádraic that every time he keeps talking to or approaching him like some pathetic beaten lapdog coming back for more agony, Colm will remove one of his fingers with sheep shears. The disbelief in Pádraic’s eyes when he says this is quickly mitigated by the appearance of one of Colm’s digits on his doorstep the next time he tries to communicate with him.

    Such commitment to extricating Pádraic from Colm’s life causes great pain and suffering to the former, who had so few enjoyments on the island to begin with—apart from his animals and the company of his sister, who, like Colm, is too learned for a place like this, and it’s starting to kill her inside. That’s why she takes a chance on applying for a librarian job on the mainland—one that she actually gets chosen for, as the local gossip, Mrs. O’Riordan (Bríd Ní Neachtain), informs her after opening her letter. As Siobhán leaves the general store with the letter in hand, Mrs. O’Riordan calls out, “It’d crucify him, you leavin’!” Here, again, the Christ-like nature of Pádraic, reflected in the donkey as well, is highlighted before we see the complete shift in Pádraic’s personality from happy-go-lucky and affable (qualities that are pronounced in the opening scenes of him smiling and waving to everyone he comes across on the island) to embittered, enraged and vindictive. His innocence totally lost by the midpoint of the film, as even Dominic (Barry Keoghan), the island’s supposed “dimmest” resident, regards him as being among the worst—just like every other miserable denizen of Inisherin.

    At the beginning of The Banshees of Inisherin, when Pádraic still has his innocence intact, he hears gunshots in the distance of the mainland, remarking to himself, “Good look to ye, whatever it is you’re fightin’ about.” The wish of good luck is as much for himself and his own defunct friendship as it is for the degenerating relations among Irish people. This also ties into Pádraic’s pub argument about niceness being the best and most enduring legacy. Rebuffed by Colm, who tells him that only art lasts (to reiterate, this is because climate change wasn’t then a fear). That people from centuries ago are only known and remembered for what they contributed in fields like music and poetry. That once everyone who knew Pádraic and Siobhán dies, their “niceness” will be forgotten. What’s the point in being “nice”? A question also demanded by the warring factions of Ireland rowing in the distance.

    As Pádraic grows more and more alienated and disillusioned, he becomes as committed to the cause of his discord with Colm as the IRA is to its own with the Provisional Government of Ireland. Which is why, when Colm notes in an ephemeral moment of kindness, “Haven’t heard any rifle fire on the mainland in a day or two. I think they’re comin’ to the end of it,” Pádraic replies, “I’m sure they’ll be at it again soon enough, aren’t you? Some things there’s no movin’ on from.” He pauses and looks over emotionally at Colm to conclude, “And I think that’s a good thing.”

    Thus, his character has fully mutated into a hardened, unforgiving fear (the appropriate word in Irish for “man”). Who will not rest until he expels the friendship in a far more final way than Colm had imagined. For just as the Irish infighting that began in 1923 has persisted over all these decades—amid illusory periods of “peace”—so, too, will the infighting between Pádraic and Colm. Until someone finally loses their life over it.

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  • List of nominees to the 80th annual Golden Globe Awards

    List of nominees to the 80th annual Golden Globe Awards

    BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Nominees for the 80th annual Golden Globe Awards, which were announced Monday by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

    FILM

    Best picture, drama: “Avatar: The Way of Water”; “Elvis”; “The Fabelmans”; “Tár”; “Top Gun: Maverick.”

    Best picture, musical or comedy: “Babylon”; “The Banshees of Inisherin”; “Everything Everywhere All At Once”; “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery”; “Triangle of Sadness.”

    Best actress, drama: Cate Blanchett, “Tár”; Olivia Colman, “Empire of Light”; Viola Davis, “The Woman King”; Ana de Armas, “Blonde”; Michelle Williams, “The Fabelmans.”

    Best actor, drama: Austin Butler, “Elvis”; Brendan Fraser, “The Whale”; Hugh Jackman, “The Son”; Bill Nighy, “Living”; Jeremy Pope, “The Inspection.”

    Best actress, musical or comedy: Lesley Manville, “Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris”; Margot Robbie, “Babylon”; Anya Taylor-Joy, “The Menu”; Emma Thompson, “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande”; Michelle Yeoh, “Everything Everywhere All at Once.”

    Best actor, musical or comedy: Diego Calva, “Babylon”; Daniel Craig, “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery”; Adam Driver, “White Noise”; Colin Farrell, “The Banshees of Inisherin”; Ralph Fiennes, “The Menu.”

    Supporting actress: Angela Bassett, “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”; Kerry Condon, “The Banshees of Inisherin”; Jamie Lee Curtis,” “Everything Everywhere All At Once”; Dolly de Leon, “Triangle of Sadness”; Carey Mulligan, “She Said.”

    Supporting Actor: Brendan Gleeson, “The Banshees of Inisherin”; Barry Keoghan, “The Banshees of Inisherin”; Brad Pitt, “Babylon”; Ke Huy Quan, “Everything Everywhere All At Once”; Eddie Redmayne, “The Good Nurse.”

    Animated: “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio”; “Inu-Oh”; “Marcel the Shell with Shoes On”; “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish”; “Turning Red.”

    Non-English Language: “All Quiet on the Western Front”; “Argentina, 1985”; “Close”; “Decision to Leave”; “RRR.”

    Screenplay: Todd Field, “Tár”; Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”; Martin McDonagh, “The Banshees of Inisherin”; Sarah Polley, “Women Talking”; Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner, “The Fabelmans.”

    Director: James Cameron, “Avatar: The Way of Water”; Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”; Baz Luhrmann, “Elvis”; Martin McDonagh, “The Banshees of Inisherin”; Steven Spielberg, “The Fabelmans.”

    Original Song: “Carolina,” from “Where the Crawdads Sing,” music by Taylor Swift; “Ciao Papa,” from “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio,” music by Alexandre Desplat; “Hold My Hand,” from “Top Gun: Maverick,” music by Lady Gaga, BloodPop, Benjamin Rice”; “Lift Me Up,” from “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” music by Tems, Rihanna, Ryan Coogler, Ludwig Göransson; “Naatu Naatu,” from “RRR,” music by M.M. Keeravani.

    Original score: Carter Burwell, “The Banshees of Inisherin”; Alexandre Desplat, “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio”; Hildur Guðnadóttir, “Women Talking”; Justin Hurwitz, “Babylon”; John Williams, “The Fabelmans.”

    TELEVISION

    Drama series: “Better Call Saul”; “The Crown”; “House of the Dragon”; “Ozark”; “Severance.”

    Comedy series: “Abbott Elementary”; “The Bear”; “Hacks”; “Only Murders in the Building”; “Wednesday.”

    Limited Series: “Black Bird”; “Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story”; “Pam and Tommy”; “The Dropout”; “The White Lotus.”

    Actress, drama series: Emma D’Arcy, “House of the Dragon”; Laura Linney, “Ozark”; Imelda Staunton, “The Crown”; Hilary Swank, “Alaska Daily”; Zendaya, “Euphoria.”

    Actor, drama series: Jeff Bridges, “The Old Man”; Kevin Costner, “Yellowstone”; Diego Luna, “Andor”; Bob Odenkirk, “Better Call Saul”; Adam Scott, “Severance.”

    Actress, comedy or musical series: Quinta Brunson, “Abbott Elementary”; Kaley Cuoco, “The Flight Attendant”; Selena Gomez, “Only Murders in the Building”; Jenna Ortega, “Wednesday”; Jean Smart, “Hacks.”

    Actor, comedy or musical series: Donald Glover, “Atlanta”; Bill Hader, “Barry”; “Steve Martin, “Only Murders in the Building”; Martin Short, “Only Murders in the Building”; Jeremy Allen White, “The Bear.”

    Actress, limited series: Jessica Chastain, “George & Tammy”; Julia Garner, “Inventing Anna”; Lily James, “Pam & Tommy”; Julia Roberts, “Gaslit”; Amanda Seyfried, “The Dropout.”

    Actor, limited series: Taron Egerton, “Black Bird”; Colin Firth, “The Staircase”; Andrew Garfield, “Under the Banner of Heaven”; Evan Peters, “Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story”; Sebastian Stan, “Pam & Tommy.”

    Supporting actress, musical, comedy or drama: Elizabeth Debicki, “The Crown”; Hannah Einbinder, “Hacks”; Julia Garner, “Ozark”; Janelle James, “Abbott Elementary”; Sheryl Lee Ralph, “Abbott Elementary.”

    Supporting actor, musical, comedy or drama: John Lithgow, “The Old Man”; Jonathan Pryce, “The Crown”; John Turturro, “Severance”; Tyler James Williams, “Abbott Elementary”; Henry Winkler, “Barry.”

    Supporting actor, limited series: F. Murray Abraham, “The White Lotus”; Domhnall Gleeson, “The Patient”; Paul Walter Hauser, “Black Bird”; Richard Jenkins, ““Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story”; Seth Rogen, “Pam & Tommy.”

    Supporting actress, limited series: Jennifer Coolidge, “The White Lotus”; Claire Danes, “Fleishman is in Trouble”; Daisy Edgar-Jones, “Under the Banner of Heaven”; Niecy Nash, “Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story”; Aubrey Plaza, “The White Lotus.”

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  • Keke Palmer, ‘RRR’ Get Huge Oscar Boosts From New York Critics Awards

    Keke Palmer, ‘RRR’ Get Huge Oscar Boosts From New York Critics Awards

    Several scrappy Oscar hopefuls received major visibility boosts with Friday’s announcement of the New York Film Critics Circle winners, the first critics’ group to weigh in with their selections for the favorites of the year. Keke Palmer, explosively good and charismatic in Jordan Peele’s Nope, pulled off a glorious upset by taking best supporting actress, a vital kick start to receiving larger recognition down the road in a messy, overcrowded category. (You might compare it to another breakout first-timer winning NYFCC, the Borat sequel’s Maria Bakalova, who went on to an Oscar nod.) And S.S. Rajamouli, the man behind the action epic RRR, overtook a slew of big names in the directing field, crucial as that audience hit attempts to mount a campaign after India chose not to submit it for best international feature.

    But it was Tár, Todd Field’s beloved portrait of a revered conductor, which dominated, winning best picture and actress for star Cate Blanchett, the clear front-runner at this stage of the latter category. 

    Elsewhere, NYFCC recognized a few heavy hitters already appearing a little more unstoppable by the day. They include Martin McDonagh, taking screenplay for The Banshees of Inisherin, and Ke Huy Quan, universe-hopping patriarch of Everything Everywhere All at Once (who also picked up a Gotham Award this week), winning best supporting actor. The former Indiana Jones child star is riding a heartfelt comeback narrative while representing one of the year’s biggest overall contenders. Rivals including Banshees’ Brendan Gleeson and The Fabelmans’ Judd Hirsch will need to act quickly to dent Quan’s momentum.

    Meanwhile, one of the cinematography race’s strongest contenders, Top Gun: Maverick’s Claudio Miranda, prevailed over fellow Oscar winners in The Fabelmans’ Janusz Kamiński and Empire of Light’s Roger Deakins (Miranda won the Oscar for Life of Pi), while Colin Farrell made a significant leap in the best-actor race, cited for both his contender The Banshees of Inisherin and spring sci-fi hit After Yang. 

    The documentary race, when it comes to the Academy, will open up to more populist choices that critics aren’t as drawn to—remember My Octopus Teacher?—but for now there’s little reason to see any film but Laura Poitras’s All the Beauty and the Bloodshed as the one to beat, at least among precursor groups. The incendiary Nan Goldin portrait, exploring her artistry as well as her explosive activist campaign against the Sackler family and Purdue Pharma, wins with NYFCC to kick off what will surely be a healthy prize run in the months ahead.

    It can be hard to assess the impact of a group like NYFCC on the race as a whole. Last year, voters went for Lady Gaga in the best-actress race, a seeming huge boon to her House of Gucci campaign, but the Academy dismissed that film to such an extent that even she was left off of the nominations list in one of the year’s biggest snubs. Yet that same year, NYFCC also named Drive My Car the best film of the year—at that point, a fairly unknown Japanese film, but thereafter, the toast of film critics around the US (it’d later win with Los Angeles and the National Society of Film Critics) and an inspired best-picture Oscar nominee. You can draw a straight line to that from its NYFCC win.

    So what does this mean for Tár? NYFCC’s top choices tend to at least be nominated for best picture—La La Land, Boyhood, Lady Bird, Roma, among recent examples—though there are exceptions, from Carol to 2020’s First Cow. In this demanding but brilliant movie’s case, it’s proof that it will be a force to be reckoned with as the season revs up.

    Full list of winners:

    • Best Picture: Tár (dir. Todd Field)
    • Best Director: S.S. Rajamouli, RRR
    • Best Actor: Colin Farrell, After Yang and The Banshees of Inisherin
    • Best Actress: Cate Blanchett, Tár 
    • Best Supporting Actor: Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All at Once
    • Best Supporting Actress: Keke Palmer, Nope
    • Best Screenplay: Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin
    • Best Cinematography: Claudio Miranda, Top Gun: Maverick
    • Best International Film: EO (dir. Jerzy Skolimowski)
    • Best Non-Fiction Film: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (dir. Laura Poitras)
    • Best Animated Film: Marcel the Shell With Shoes On (dir. Dean Fleischer Camp)
    • Best First Film: Aftersun (dir. Charlotte Wells)

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  • Honorary Oscar awards celebrate Fox, Weir, Warren and Palcy

    Honorary Oscar awards celebrate Fox, Weir, Warren and Palcy

    LOS ANGELES — Four standing ovations in one night might seem a little over-the-top, even by Hollywood standards. But at the Governors Awards Saturday night, where Michael J. Fox, Euzhan Palcy, Peter Weir and Diane Warren were celebrated with honorary Oscar statuettes, each moment felt worthy.

    After several pandemic-adjusted years, the annual event to hand out honorary Oscar statuettes, put on by the Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, was back in full form at the Fairmont Century Plaza Hotel on Saturday.

    The ballroom was teeming with stars including Tom Hanks, Viola Davis, Colin Farrell, Angela Bassett, Margot Robbie, Jennifer Lawrence, Michelle Yeoh, Robert Downey Jr., Michelle Williams, Cher, Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, Rooney Mara, Jessica Chastain, Damien Chazelle, Jordan Peele and Ron Howard, to name just a few.

    The Governors Awards is a celebration of the honorees and a chance for many of the filmmakers and actors hoping to win awards to mingle with potential voters before everyone takes leave for the holidays with an armful of screeners to watch and consider.

    “It’s a really special night,” Butler said. “I just had a really special moment with Robert Downey Jr.”

    This was the first Governors Awards for the “Elvis” star, who was accompanied by director Baz Luhrmann and Priscilla Presley.

    “Armageddon Time” actor Jaylin Webb, another first-timer and self-proclaimed “superhero nerd,” was excited to see several people from “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.”

    “It’s a little overwhelming,” Webb said.

    The room at the Governors Awards brings many unexpected star pairings, as everyone clamors to meet someone they admire. Near one table, Hanks could be seen sharing a laugh with Yeoh. In another part of the room, Chastain chatted with Billy Eichner, while Jude Law caught up with director Daniel Kwan and Ke Huy Quan posed for a photo with Elizabeth Banks and Rian Johnson.

    But the main event brought everyone to their seats: The presentation of the honorary Oscars.

    Fox, who was given the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for his contributions to Parkinson’s disease research, was up first and received a colorful introduction from his friend Woody Harrelson.

    “He’s a genuinely great guy,” Harrelson said. “What can I say? He’s Canadian.”

    The 61-year-old “Back to the Future’ and “Family Ties” star was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 1991 at age 29 and in 2000 started a foundation to fund further research into the condition. To date, the foundation has raised more than $1.5 billion.

    “My optimism is fueled by my gratitude,” Fox said.

    Fox gave a sharp, funny, thoughtful speech to accept the award. He recounted how he dropped out of high school to give acting a shot and a teacher told him, “Fox, you’re not going to be cute forever.”

    “I didn’t know how to respond and I said maybe just long enough,” Fox said.

    He has had a particularly challenging year with injuries, including a broken cheek, hand, shoulder, arm and elbow, and the loss of his mother, who died in September, all of which he spoke about in-depth in a recent People Magazine cover story. Tracy Pollan, Fox’s wife with whom he has four children, was there to support him and he called her on stage to close his speech.

    “I can’t walk and carry this thing (the Oscar) so I once again ask Tracy to carry the weight,” Fox said.

    Cher was on hand to introduce Warren, the prolific songwriter and 13-time Oscar nominee. She laughed that Warren will often call her to say she’s written her best song yet, to which Cher responds, “You always say that.”

    When Warren took the stage, she said the words she’s been waiting to say for 34 years, since she got her first Oscar nomination: “I’d like to thank the Academy.”

    “Mom, I finally found a man,” Warren said, looking at the golden statuette. “I know you wanted him to be a nice Jewish boy but it’s really hard to tell.”

    Jeff Bridges came out to celebrate Weir, the Australian filmmaker who directed him in the 1993 film “Fearless.” He said it was Robin Williams who brought them together.

    Weir, too, reflected about Williams, with whom he worked on “Dead Poets Society” and marveled about how Williams was when no one was around and inspiration would strike.

    Weir, 78, was a leading voice in the Australian New Wave movement, with pictures like “Picnic at Hanging Rock,” “The Last Wave” and “Gallipoli,” before successfully transferring to Hollywood filmmaking where he traversed genres with ease directing films like “Dead Poets Society” and “The Truman Show” to “Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World.” The Australian auteur received many Oscar nominations over the years, but hasn’t made a feature since “The Way Back,” from 2010.

    “I had a wonderful 20 years of making studio pictures,” Weir said. “I love craft I think that’s what it’s all about. Don’t you love something that’s well made whether it’s a chair a table or a statue?”

    Davis helped close out the night celebrating Palcy, who was first Black woman to direct a film produced by a major studio (MGM with “A Dry White Season.”)

    “I am always defending my womanhood and my blackness,” Davis said. “You said, ‘I ain’t gonna do that, I’m going to wait for the work that is worthy of my talent.’ You used it as warrior fuel.”

    Palcy also retreated from Hollywood moviemaking in the past decade, but unlike Weir, the 64-year-old Martinique native is ready to come back and make films again.

    “Black is bankable. Female is bankable,” Palcy said. “My stories are not Black, they are not white, they are universal.”

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  • ‘Black Adam’ tops box office again on quiet weekend

    ‘Black Adam’ tops box office again on quiet weekend

    NEW YORK — On a quiet weekend in movie theaters before the upcoming release of “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” Warner Bros.’ “Black Adam” topped the box office for the third straight weekend with $18.5 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.

    “Black Adam,” Dwayne Johnson’s bid to launch a new DC Films superpower, has surpassed $300 million globally in three weeks of release, including a domestic tally of $137.4 million. That puts the $195 million-budgeted film — the third film this year to lead the box office three consecutive weeks — on a trajectory to likely surpass the $366 million that “Shazam!” grossed in 2019, but less certain to notch a profit in its theatrical run.

    When Walt Disney Co.’s “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” lands in theaters Thursday, it’s expected to score one of the biggest opening weekends of the year. Ryan Coogler’s original debuted with more than $200 million in U.S. and Canadian theaters in 2018, and forecasts suggest it could open with around $175 million.

    With “Wakanda Forever” looming, only one new film opened in wide release: “One Piece Film: Red,” distributed by Sony Picture’s anime division, Crunchyroll. The Japanese anime sequel, part of the “One Piece” franchise, debuted in second place with $9.5 million. While not as robust as the openings of Crunchyroll’s “Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero, which garnered, $21.1 million in August, or Funimation’s “Jujutsu Kaisen 0: The Movie,” which earned $18 million in March, “Red” again showed that anime is proving an uncommonly dependable draw in North American theaters. The 15th film in the franchise but the first to be released widely in the U.S., “Red” attracted an especially young audience, with about 75% of ticket buyers between ages 18-34.

    Third place went to “Ticket to Paradise,” the George Clooney and Julia Roberts romantic comedy. The Universal Pictures release collected $8.5 million in its third weekend, bringing the $60 million-budgeted rom-com’s cumulative total to $46.7 million domestically and $137.2 million worldwide. For a genre that’s struggled in theaters in recent years, “Ticket to Paradise” is showing staying power, especially as the favored choice for older audiences.

    Even with Halloween coming and going, Paramount Pictures’ “Smile” also continued to hold well in theaters. In its sixth week of release, the horror flick added another $4 million to bring it to $99.1 million overall.

    Some of the year’s top Oscar contenders have struggled to make much of an impact in wide release. James Gray’s “Armageddon Time,” a coming-of-age tale set in 1980s New York, expanded to 1,006 theaters in its second week, grossing $810,000 for Focus Features. Focus’ “Tár,” starring Cate Blanchett as a renowned conductor, took in $670,000 in 1,090 theaters for a five-week total of $3.7 million. MGM’s “Till,” about Mamie Till-Mobley’s pursuit of justice for her 14-year-old son, Emmett Till, added $1.9 million in 2,316 theaters for a four-week gross of $6.6 million.

    Best of the bunch so far has been Searchlight Pictures’ “The Banshees of Inisherin,” starring Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson as rowing Irish friends. It took in $3 million in 895 locations in its third weekend of release, brining its global total to $10.2 million.

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    Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Comscore. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.

    1. “Black Adam,” $18.5 million.

    2. “One Piece Film: Red,” $9.5 million.

    3. “Ticket to Paradise,” $8.5 million.

    4. “Smile,” $4 million.

    5. “Prey for the Devil,” $3.9 million.

    6. “Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile,” $3.4 million.

    7. “The Banshees of Inisherin,” $2 million.

    8. “Till,” $1.9 million.

    9. “Halloween End,” $1.4 million.

    10. “Terrifier 2,” $1.2 million.

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  • The Best Fall Archetype: The ‘Sweater Man’

    The Best Fall Archetype: The ‘Sweater Man’

    Colin Farrell in The Banshees of Inisherin. Image: Searchlight Pictures

    The best of all months (yeah I said it), November, is here! That means it is time to brew some tea, sip some hot cocoa, and swaddle ourselves up in the biggest, chunkiest knitwear we can find while watching our favorite fall movies. 

    While we love supernatural autumnal classics like Practical Magic and The Witches of Eastwick that are all about the power of sisterhood and slaying both foes and lewks, it is time to turn our gaze upon one of our most treasured tropes: the sweater man. That’s right. I’m talking about lads in cardigans. The cableknit crew. Yes, a sweaty, glistening, barechested man has his appeal, but it’s fall now! Save those shirtless hunks for June. We love a man who knows how to dress appropriately for the weather! And we love the films that celebrate the changing of the season by parading a slew of well-wrapped men across our screens. 

    So let’s take a look at some classic, and soon-to-be classic, Sweater Men movies and relish the cold weather that makes them possible. 

    To Catch a Thief (1955)

    Carey Grant in a striped sweater and red necktie in To Catch a Thief
    Carey Grant in To Catch a Thief. Image: Paramount Pictures

    The classic Hitchcock romantic thriller, To Catch a Thief has everything you want for a dark fall evening: intrigue, murder, and Carey Grant in an iconic striped sweater. Set on the French Riviera, it’s not the thick, chunky sweater of most fall movies, but it’s Carey freakin’ Grant. He basically invented the sweater man genre. Hell, he basically invented men as a genre. 

    Knives Out (2019)

    Chris Evans wears an Aran fisherman
    Chris Evans in Knives Out. Image: Lionsgate

    Chris Evans in Knives Out continued the cozy bad boy trend and took it to dizzying new heights. Not only was he a devious jerk in the Rian Johnson whodunnit, but his beautiful (if well-worn) fishermen’s sweater stole the show from a star studded cast that included Daniel Craig, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Shannon, and Ana de Armas. His sweater is so worn because it’s full of secrets. Shhh.

    When Harry Met Sally (1989)

    Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal crouching in When Harry Met Sally
    Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal in When Harry Met Sally. Image: Columbia Pictures

    One of the best romantic comedies of all time (ALL TIME!), When Harry Met Sally has it all: a sharp script penned by the legendary Nora Ephron, an amazing supporting cast that includes Carrie Fisher, and a costume wardrobe comparable to none. Both Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal are at their peak, their chemistry and banter sizzle, but more importantly – their sweaters are thicc and chunky. And there is just something about Billy Crystal with his little beard in a chunky sweater and dad jeans, not even Henry Cavill can compare!

    The Lighthouse (2019)

    Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson in The Lighthouse
    Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson in The Lighthouse. Image: A24

    Dirty boys can rock a sweater too! And none get dirtier than Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe as two stranded lighthouse operators in Robert Eggers’ surreal period drama The Lighthouse. A film that is not for the faint of heart, Dafoe and Pattinson give incredible, no holds barred performances as the two men trapped together on a rocky island. There is even a disturbingly squelchy mermaid sex scene/dream sequence. But that doesn’t mean they aren’t staying warm! It’s a cold New England rock they are stuck on, and that means some deliciously thick wool sweaters to pair with their overalls and sea caps.

    The Big Lebowski (1998)

    Jeff Bridges leaning against the bar in The Big Lebowski
    Jeff Bridges in The Big Lebowski. Image: Universal Studios

    Another staple of the dirtbag Sweater Man is Jeff Bridges as The Dude in the Coen Brothers’ cult classic The Big Lebowski. The Dude is a man who is both supremely of and supremely outside of his locale in Los Angeles, California. He is a lazy, laid-back, Cali bum, and yet he wears his thick, out of season cardigan at all times. You know that sweater is full of sweat, you know he’s probably never washed it, and yet, you still want to wrap it around yourself and breathe deep. The Dude will abide.

    Fantastic Mr Fox (2009)

    Ash with his mask and cape on in The Fantastic Mr Fox
    Ash (voiced by Jason Schwartzman) in The Fantastic Mr Fox. Image: 20th Century Fox

    Wes Anderson’s stop motion classic, The Fantastic Mr. Fox, is full of gorgeous visuals, impeccable fall vibes, and cozy sweaters on many of it’s furry cast, but I wanted to give a special shout-out to the bravest boy of all: Mr. Fox’s son Ash. The family misfit, voiced by Jason Schwartzman, might not always see eye to eye with his dad but he boldly pairs his cardigan with a cape and a cozy sock mask. And for that, we salute him.

    The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)

    Colin Farrell as Padraic in The Banshees of Inisherin
    Colin Farrell in The Banshees of Inisherin. Image: Searchlight Pictures

    Currently in theaters now, The Banshees of Inisherin (written and directed by Martin McDonagh) is a gorgeous, darkly funny, and heartbreaking masterpiece about friendship, art, death, and despair. Brendan Gleeson, Colin Farrell, and Barry Keoghan give outstanding (and I would argue Oscar-worthy) performances as three men, two former best friends and the town “gob,” living on a small Irish isle in 1923. But what I am here to talk about today are the sweaters. Farrell’s Padraic wears a succession of stunning sweaters, each woolier and cozier than the last. In fact, everyone in the film is costumed for peak comfiness (it is a cold Irish isle after all) and if I could make an entire film into a Fall Pinterest board, it would be this one. Just as I’m sure McDonagh intended.

    If you have a favorite fall or sweater movie, share it in the comments!

    (Image: Searchlight Pictures)

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    Brittany Knupper

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