Will Sharpe Is Mozart and Paul Bettany an Envious Court Composer in First Look at Sky’s ‘Amadeus’

Will Sharpe Is Mozart and Paul Bettany an Envious Court Composer in First Look at Sky’s ‘Amadeus’

Will Sharpe is musical prodigy Wolfgang ‘Amadeus’ Mozart in a new photos from the upcoming show Amadeus. Sky released a first look at the limited series on Thursday with Paul Bettany starring as envious court composer Antonio Salieri and Gabrielle Creevy as Constanze Weber, Mozart’s fiercely loyal wife. Based on Peter Shaffer’s award-winning stage play,…

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Thelma Schoonmaker on Martin Scorsese’s “Remarkable” Bond With Michael Powell and Using AI to Help Publish Her Late Husband’s Diaries

Thelma Schoonmaker on Martin Scorsese’s “Remarkable” Bond With Michael Powell and Using AI to Help Publish Her Late Husband’s Diaries

Three-time Oscar winner and longtime Martin Scorsese collaborator Thelma Schoonmaker was the star of an Edinburgh International Film Festival event on Sunday, where she spoke about the life and work of her late husband, Michael Powell. Schoonmaker has worked on a whopping 22 of Scorsese’s films across her decades-spanning career, picking up Academy Awards for…

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Director Kevin Macdonald Recalls Working in “Wasteful” Era of Hollywood, Sending ‘State of Play’ Script to Brad Pitt: “He Said, ‘I Hate It’”

Director Kevin Macdonald Recalls Working in “Wasteful” Era of Hollywood, Sending ‘State of Play’ Script to Brad Pitt: “He Said, ‘I Hate It’”

Brothers Kevin and Andrew Macdonald discussed their respective careers in an ever-shifting film industry on Sunday at the Edinburgh International Film Festival‘s keynote session. Kevin Macdonald, an Oscar winner for his feature-length documentary One Day in September (1999), is also known for his fiction work, including The Last King of Scotland (2006) and State of…

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Renée Zellweger Unveils Her Directorial Debut in First Interview About Hand-Drawn Animation ‘They’: “A Passion Project — That’s What This Is”

Renée Zellweger Unveils Her Directorial Debut in First Interview About Hand-Drawn Animation ‘They’: “A Passion Project — That’s What This Is”

In her first interview as a filmmaker, Renée Zellweger is as gracious as ever. “I don’t think that directing was a personal ambition in and of itself,” the Oscar-winning actress tells The Hollywood Reporter. “I always thought that if there was some organic calling to tell a story and I felt that it was the…

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Jeremy Thomas Reflects on His Rise “at the Tail End” of Cinema’s Golden Age: “I Can’t Find Somebody to Give Me 40 Million Bucks Anymore”

Jeremy Thomas Reflects on His Rise “at the Tail End” of Cinema’s Golden Age: “I Can’t Find Somebody to Give Me 40 Million Bucks Anymore”

British film producer Jeremy Thomas took to the Edinburgh International Film Festival stage Friday night to reflect on his legendary, decades-spanning career. Thomas and Irish director Mark Cousins pondered over the state of the film industry during a 90-minute conversation, which also covered Harvey Weinstein, Harry Cohn and Thomas’ time spent with some of the…

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From the MCU to Edinburgh: Ralph Ineson on ‘Two Neighbors,’ ‘Fantastic Four’ and Preferring “Less Untamed Aggression” on Female-Directed Sets

From the MCU to Edinburgh: Ralph Ineson on ‘Two Neighbors,’ ‘Fantastic Four’ and Preferring “Less Untamed Aggression” on Female-Directed Sets

You’d forgive Ralph Ineson for suffering from a touch of whiplash. The actor — beloved in his native England for his performance as Chris “Finchy” Fincher in the U.K. version of The Office — is arriving in Edinburgh off the back of a wild press run. He’s just starred as the vast, insatiable villain Galactus opposite Pedro…

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Here’s what happened in crypto today

Here’s what happened in crypto today

Need to know what happened in crypto today? Here is the latest news on daily trends and events impacting Bitcoin price, blockchain, DeFi, NFTs, Web3 and crypto regulation. Today in crypto, Coinbase adviser George Osborne warns the UK is falling behind on stablecoins, crypto funds see outflows after 15 weeks of gains, and the US…

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