With the Cannes Film Festival right around the corner, the Cannes film market is really heating up this week, with dozens of new projects up for grabs. One of the most exciting projects coming together from HanWay Films is “This “Blue Is Mine,” a new psychosexual thriller starring “Atlanta” and “Deadpool 2” star Zazie Beetz and Elizabeth Debicki from “The Crown” and “The Guardians of The Galaxy” franchise.

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Art often imitates life (and vice versa), and the rumor and speculation swirling before a new season of “The Crown” is released rivals the attention received by the figures it portrays. Outrage about potential storylines hits fever-pitch heights as we enter the final stretch, and it is no surprise that emotion runs high with the events of 1997 about to play out. But this is not a reenactment nor a docuseries, and Peter Morgan’s drama-infused telling shouldn’t be assessed based on accuracy or who it will offend.

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Peter Morgan‘s “The Crown” has been one of Netflix‘s most popular and critically acclaimed series for seven years. But reviews dipped a bit for last year’s Season 5, which means all eyes will be on how the show’s sixth and final season does as it premieres. And to send off “The Crown,” Netflix has broken up Season 6 into two parts, with the first hitting the streamer next month.

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Elizabeth Debicki and director Giuseppe Capotondi teamed up in 2019 for “The Burnt Orange Heresy,” a devilish thriller about the art world, forgery, and the lengths one will go to protect one’s image. Now THR reports that the duo will work together again on a new thriller from producer James Ivory. And the film will be for sale at the Cannes market later this month.

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In a world where studios are desperate to create the next big franchise, it’s always interesting to see these sorts of things pop up in a truly organic way. “John Wick” is a good example of this. You can also lump in Ti West’s “X” trilogy, which began as a cheap slasher but in very short order, has turned into one of the most interesting horror franchises of the past decade.

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Out with the old and in with the new is a now familiar part of “The Crown” and its rotating cast, serving as a reminder of how rich the existing British acting pool is with its slew of recognizable faces. This series can also make careers as Emma Corrin and Vaness Kirby were launched into the stratosphere after her breakout performance as the young Diana Spencer and Princess Margaret.

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It’s been a minute since “The Crown” season four, two years to be exact, which was almost an entire pandemic ago, but Peter Morgan’s acclaimed Netflix series finally returns in November. Season four was set between 1979 and 1990, is set during Margaret Thatcher’s 11-year run as prime minister, and also introduced Lady Diana Spencer into the series. The fifth season of “The Crown” is set entirely in the 1990s and, in doing so, ages up a lot of the characters who are now played by new actors.

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Here’s a Labor Day weekend shocker: Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet” is an Oscar player. Oh, and it’s in the mix for a Best Picture nomination (no, it’s not a lock, it’s 2020 people). I know, this wasn’t the news you were expecting. He’s only directed two Best Picture nominees over the past decade, been nominated for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay (twice). But even with a spotlight on it harsher than Tom Hardy trying to emote through a Bane mask, it’s going to be in play for a number of reasons.

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Elizabeth Debicki is a rising star, with her biggest feature coming soon with Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet.” But the actress isn’t slowing down, as it’s being reported that Debicki will star in “Code Name Hélène,” an upcoming limited series from France’s Vendôme Group and Anonymous Content, the company behind “True Detective” and “The Revenant.” Debicki will also act as an executive producer for the series.

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Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on-demand, vintage, and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This biweekly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching. 

Two potentially major productions caught in the wheels of the lockdown hit disc and (reasonable) VOD this week, alongside a Sundance doc on Apple TV+,  a lovely new musical bio-doc, and the usual bushel of marvelous catalog titles from Criterion, Warner Archive, and Kino-Lorber.

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VRRRRRONNNNKKK! That sound you hear is at once the declamatory score to several enormous action setpieces in Christopher Nolan’s new film, “Tenet,” and the sound of “Tenet” itself, crash-landing like a shipping container full of plutonium in the depleted cinematic desert of 2020. HHRRRRRUNNNNNK! 

READ MORE: The Best Films Of 2020… So Far

“Tenet” is here, and in some senses, it feels right for the times.

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Elizabeth Debicki has been cast as Princess Diana in the final two seasons of Netflix’s series “The Crown.” The news was announced on Twitter via the series’ official account today. “Princess Diana’s spirit, her words, and her actions live in the hearts of so many. It is my true privilege and honor to be joining this masterful series, which has had me absolutely hooked from episode one,” Debicki said in the social announcement.

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Elizabeth Debicki is quickly proving to be one of the best actresses working today. From her supporting roles in films like “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” to more lead roles in films such as the recent “Widows,” the actress is definitely a commanding presence on screen. (She’s also great in “The Night Manager” TV series.) And this is something that was obvious to Christopher Nolan, when he was casting “Tenet.” Unfortunately, Debicki’s skills on screen were so good, it almost pulled her out of contention for the action epic.

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To release Christopher Nolan‘s “Tenet” or not to release Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet?” That is the million-dollar question on the minds of everyone in the film industry. While, yes, everyone wants to get back to work and see the film industry up and running, there’s been a disconcerting element to the “Tenet” discourse online which is all about, “[*fist pump*] Yeah, let ‘Tenet’ be the first big event movie to lead the charge back into theaters!” and definitely not enough consideration whether its safe for audiences and whether Warner Bros., Nolan, and the theatrical industrial complex are putting their customers in harm’s way by opening up theaters too soon and drawing in the heedless.

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There is a point in Giuseppe Capotondi’s film, “The Burnt Orange Heresy,” where the film turns from what seems to be a tale of a torrid romance between an American woman and an ambitious art critic into a thriller/heist film about priceless art. And that shift in tone and plot is perfectly shown in the new trailer for the film.

READ MORE: The 25 Best Movies Of 2020 We’ve Already Seen

As mentioned, “The Burnt Orange Heresy” is a film that follows an art critic that finds himself in a brand-new love affair that quickly gets interrupted by an art dealer and the quest to steal a priceless painting from a reclusive artist.

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“Inception,” “Memento,” “Interstellar” – whenever Christopher Nolan‘s name is attached to a project, it carries the promise of a cinematic behemoth. All has been relatively quiet on the director’s front since 2017 when “Dunkirk“ appeared to audiences in breathtaking 70mm. But now, just days before the year ends, the trailer for the new Nolan film has appeared: the super-secretive “Tenet.”

READ MORE: 100 Most Anticipated Films Of 2020

Nolan has remained classically closed-lipped about the details of “Tenet“ and its production.

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Christmas is almost here, and so it’s fitting that Santa Claus has given film fans a special present — a Christopher Nolan First Look! That’s right, even though the film is technically still more than half a year away, we finally have some first look images for “Tenet.”

Not much is known about “Tenet” and, unfortunately, the images don’t do a whole lot to explain what we can expect from Nolan’s upcoming film that is officially described (via EW) as “an action epic evolving from the world of international espionage.” So, it feels quite obvious that the two images, both featuring star John David Washington, have a very James Bond-ian vibe to them, in so much that they feature well-dressed people that very well could be suave spies.

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What better than a tight, eloquent, Italian-set romance-thriller about the nature of an unctuous, drug-addled art critic to appear on the fall film festival circuit? Critics, industry folk, and fans all meeting at their wit’s end after multiple events’ worth of unrelenting conversation and rumination on film, only to find themselves in front of yet another feature—the meta-experience that is Giuseppe Capotondi’s second film, “The Burnt Orange Heresy.” Scott B.

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The 2019 Venice Film Festival has an opener in Hirokazu Kore-eda’s “The Truth.” We won’t learn what the rest of this year’s competition slate is until later this week, but today we learned what will close the festival, Giuseppe Capotondi’s “The Burnt Orange Heresy.”  

Adapted from Charles Willeford’s 1971 novel, the feature stars Claes Bang, Elizabeth Debicki, Mick Jagger and Donald Sutherland. The screenplay is by Scott Smith who is best known for his 1993 novel “A Simple Plan” which was adapted into an acclaimed 1998 film directed by Sam Raimi.

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The lives of writers Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West are made for the screen. Sackville-West was known as an aristocratic poet and author whose work focused primarily on the countryside of Kent, while her personal life included affairs and dalliances free of gendered norms. Virginia Woolf was, and still is, considered one of the foremost voices of the modernist movement whose brilliance too often lives in the shadow of her mental health struggles.

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Jordan Peele, fresh off his two blockbuster directorial efforts, “Get Out” and “Us,” is ready to fully take over your TV screen. Currently, his Monkeypaw Productions has two series on the air, the acclaimed remake of “The Twilight Zone” and the YouTube anthology series “Weird City.” But his real TV crown jewel, “Lovecraft Country,” is set to debut next year.

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Remember earlier today when we reported that after casting John David Washington and Robert Pattinson, that Christopher Nolan was looking for a female lead? Well, he found her. And she’s yet another awesome addition to the still-untitled film.

READ MORE: Robert Pattinson Reportedly Joins Christopher Nolan’s Next Film

Variety is reporting that Elizabeth Debicki has signed on to co-star in Nolan’s upcoming film that is being described as an “event” movie, whatever that means.

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As Playlist readers are quick to point out, most English-language remakes of foreign films are often pointless. If you want to see the best, perhaps most pure, version of a film, watch the original. But yet, we live in a world where English-language remakes are still all the rage, and sometimes, just sometimes, they become something special in their own right (“The Departed,” “Magnificent Seven,” “The Birdcage,” to name a few).

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Early in “Widows,“ Steve McQueen’s stylish new adaptation of Lynda La Plante’s British miniseries, two Chicago politicians talk over the stakes of their upcoming special election. One is the current alderman, Tom Mulligan (Robert Duvall), the other is his son Jack (Colin Farrell), angling to take over his dad’s seat, who warns that if they can’t crush an outsider candidate, “we won’t have a pot to piss in.” His father, referencing a pricey piece of modern art the younger man has just finished showing off, retorts, “Says the man with the $50,000 piece of wallpaper.”

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“It’s art,” corrects his son.

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It’s been five years since Steve McQueen‘s last film, the prestigious Oscar-winner “12 Years A Slave.” With his return to cinema in “Widows,” written by “Gone Girl” scribe Gillian Flynn, it appears those 5 years will have been well worth the wait.

Instead of pursuing the type of fare one would usually associate with the Oscar category, McQueen dips his hand into the pulp of the crime genre.

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