There are few people in Hollywood right now who are rising as fast as Josh O’Connor. Sure, he’s been working for years now, but he really broke out in a big way recently with film roles in “La Chimera” and “Challengers.” Now, he’s caught the attention of Steven Spielberg.

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According to THR, Josh O’Connor is set to star opposite Emily Blunt, Colman Domingo, Colin Firth, and Eve Hewson in Steven Spielberg’s upcoming sci-fi film.

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Each time a new ‘Knives Out’ film is announced, we typically find ourselves with a flood of news about who is joining the always flashy cast. Well, last week, we heard that Rian Johnson’s new installment in the franchise is called “Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery,” and it appears we have the first two names joining Daniel Craig in the all-star cast.

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Based on the marketing, you might think “Challengers” is at its core, a tennis movie and, well, it sort of is. The film is certainly set in the world of tennis, you can’t deny that, and at one point, Zendaya’s character Tashi Duncan remarks, “We’re always talking about tennis.” The sport is at the center of her life. But despite everyone involved’s best efforts, the serves and volleys in this movie are nowhere near as important as the decade-long love triangle between Tashi and one-time BFFs, Patrick Zweig and Art Donaldson, played by Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist, respectively.

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Having debuted at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival, the immigration drama “Aisha” starring Letitia Wright (“Black Panther”) and Josh O’Connor (“Challengers”), is finally coming to North American theaters. Distributed by Samuel Goldwyn Films and Tubi Films, “Aisha” has been set for a May 10, 2024 release.

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Directed by Frank Berry (“Michael Inside,” “I Used To Live Here”), an award-winning filmmaker whose work focuses on critical social issues in Ireland, “Aisha” centers on the title character (Wright), a young Nigerian woman seeking asylum in Ireland, who struggles to maintain hope and dignity against the looming threat of deportation.

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After incredible, award-winning success with his film, “Call Me By Your Name,” filmmaker Luca Guadagnino has been happily toiling away in the horror film genre with his last two movies, “Suspiria” and “Bones & All.” Now, it appears the filmmaker is leaving the gore behind for something new—a sports drama titled “Challengers.”

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As seen in the trailer for “Challengers,” the film follows the story of a young professional tennis prodigy who is at the top of her game.

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Alice Rohrwacher’s “La Chimera” flits between languages (English, Italian, French, German) as fluidly as it does mediums (35mm, Super16mm, and 16mm cinematography) and styles (jerkily sped up Chaplin-esque scenes, clinical CCTV footage, audacious 180-degree camera flips). Rohrwacher uses this mosaic of disparate approaches to hone in on other kinds of incongruous and unpredictable interplay: modern Italy and its ancient past, heartbreak and new love, and the real world and its spiritual mirror realm.

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Fresh off the debut of “Firebrand,” it appears that acclaimed filmmaker Karim Aïnouz has already lined up his next film, “Rosebushpruning.” And as you might expect, he’s already landed an incredible cast to lead the feature.

According to The Match Factory and MUBI, Karim Aïnouz’s next film will be titled “Rosebushpruning,” and it will be a remake of the classic Italian film, “Fists in the Pocket.” Exact details about the plot are unknown, but if it follows ‘Fists,’ which was directed by Marco Bellocchio, the film will tell the story of a family dealing with various medical conditions and the effect it has on their relationships.

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2022 is shaping up to be a big year for Letitia Wright. Obviously, she is set to have a massive role in the upcoming “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” which will no doubt turn her into an instant A-lister. However, she’s also got a couple of smaller dramas that are arriving this year that will showcase her acting chops. The first one, “The Silent Twins,” arrived recently and is a stunning coming-of-age drama.

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Aisha Osagie wakes up early. She bathes and prays. She takes a long bus ride to a hair salon, where she does menial labor for minimal pay while making small talk with pleasant-enough white ladies, and then she takes the long bus ride home. She’s a Nigerian immigrant, seeking asylum in Ireland, a decision that will be made at a very important interview six weeks from now. “They must know everything that happened,” her mother insists, a sentiment shared by her attorney.

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Last year, during the Cannes Film Festival, director Eva Husson made a splash with “Mothering Sunday.” About a clandestine love affair, the film centers on a maid living in post-World War I England who secretly plans to meet with the man she loves before he leaves to marry another woman. The film stars Odessa Young, Josh O’Connor, with Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù, Patsy Ferran, Emma D’Arcy with Glenda Jackson and Olivia Colman and Colin Firth.

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Over only a relatively small number of feature films, Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher has established herself as one of the most interesting working today. And it doesn’t appear that she’s going to be stopping anytime soon, as she is already in the middle of filming her latest feature, “La Chimera.”

According to Variety, Alice Rohrwacher has started production on “La Chimera,” her newest feature, which will star Josh O’Connor, Isabella Rossellini, Carole Duarte, Alba Rohrwacher, and Vincenzo Nemolato.

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Recently, it was reported that Luca Guadagnino is putting together a cast for his latest film, titled “Challengers.” At the time, we learned the film was set to star Zendaya (of “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” “Euphoria,” and Edgar Wright’s Super Bowl ad fame). But now, we also know a couple of the other folks who will be joining her in the production.

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Tales of forbidden love are a constant in the world of film. And in “Mothering Sunday,” we see yet another take on this, but with the added bonus of one of the best casts of the year.

As seen in the trailer for “Mothering Sunday,” the film follows the story of a young maid, Jane, who finds herself with the rare opportunity to spend time with her lover, Paul.

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“Once upon a time,” begins any good fairy tale. Though it too begins with this simple phrase, “Mothering Sunday” is no such fairy tale. Rather than dragons, knights, and princesses, filmmaker Eva Husson offers us a maid, a trio of bourgeois families, and a lush yet ultimately bleak view of post-World War I England. The film marks a great tonal departure from Husson’s last trip to the Croisette, “Girls of the Sun,” her 2018 war film about a female battalion in Kurdistan. 

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It’s been a while since we’ve heard any updates on Francis Lee‘s untitled horror film, which he’s said will explore “some fundamentals about being queer.” Well, we finally have a bit of casting news, as Josh O’Connor is reuniting with his “God’s Own Country” director and starring in the upcoming horror film.

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In a profile for Esquire, Lee revealed that Josh O’Connor will lead his next project, which is described as “a horror movie with strong elements of ‘class and queerness’, about a sad young man alone in an epic wilderness.” The film is apparently an adaptation of a novel, but Lee refuses to disclose what novel that is.

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A recurring theme over the first three seasons of Netflix’s Emmy-winning program, “The Crown,” is the familiar old adage that history repeats itself. And, despite the knowledge of their past misfortunes, Britain’s Royal Family continues to fail spectacularly at avoiding embarrassment in the public eye. If you’re looking for a recent example, you only need to see how they handled the racist treatment of Meghan Markle. In fact, even before she became sovereign at the age of 25, Queen Elizabeth II (portrayed currently by Olivia Colman) and her husband, Prince Philip (Tobias Menzies), had witnessed these cycles repeat themselves again and again.  The fourth season of the Peter Morgan shepherded series begins to chronicle perhaps the family’s greatest tragedy of all, the relationship between Lady Diana Spencer (Emma Corrin) and Prince Charles (Josh O’Connor).

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“The Crown” is coming back. Despite being part of the delay with the COVID-19 pandemic that shut down production around the world, Netflix’s Emmy-winning series is coming back for Season 4 later this year and with it, a new chapter in the lives of the British Royals.

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While Season 4 is going to continue the story of the Queen (played one last time by Olivia Colman before being replaced for the final two seasons), the upcoming episodes bring the story closer to the modern-day and introduce a very prominent member of the Royal Family—Princess Diana (Emma Corrin).

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Josh O’Connor is on the verge of a breakthrough. He’s one of those actors who is going to start appearing in the films of some of your favorite directors. That’s how good he is. He first demonstrated his impressive talent on the global cinephile stage in Francis Lee’s “God’s Own Country,” but with his role as Prince Charles in Peter Morgan’s “The Crown” a much larger audience is at his disposal.

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A divorce is one of the hardest parts of life, you feel you are with the one and then it all comes crashing down. It feels especially hard when you’ve been with your significant other for a considerable amount of time and then it just…ends. In “Hope Gap” the turmoil in a couple who have been together 29 years, comes to a head.

Directed and written by Oscar-nominated Englishman, William Nicholson (“Shadowlands”), the film will showcase the breakdown of the marriage between Grace (Annette Bening from “American Beauty”) and Edward (Bill Nighy from “About Time”) as their son, Jamie (Josh O’Connor from “The Crown”), visiting from university is torn between his parents.

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TORONTO – There is a plague festering in the world’s cinemas in 2019 and, no, it’s not superhero movies. From low budget indies to the latest from celebrated global auteurs to studio productions, contemporary film has been beset with…drones. So many drones. Drone shot after done shot it’s as though an Apple TV screensaver has been cut into a film indiscriminately. This problem has slowly percolated over the decade as drones became more commonplace and affordable to filmmakers, but has peaked this year.

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The turkey carcass is nearly bare and extremely unappetizing by now. The tinsel has gone limp and the dog has chewed off all the low-hanging tree baubles. It can only mean the year is ending, and so what better time to look at some of the new starts it’s given us? Over the last twelve months, while most of us have been having, let’s be honest, a pretty terrible time of it, a lucky few have had their big breaks and will look back on 2017 with a fondness the rest of us can only dimly relate to.

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You don’t need great performances for a great movie, we suppose — Nikolaus Geyrhalter’s mesmerizing 2016 documentary/art piece “Homo Sapiens,” for instance, doesn’t feature a single human being on screen and is still excellent. But on the whole, the two things go hand in hand: it’s impossible to imagine “Lawrence Of Arabia” without Peter O’Toole, “Star Wars” without Harrison Ford, “Cabaret” without Liza Minnelli, or “Tokyo Story” without Chishu Ryu and Chieko Higashiyama, to name but a few.

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It had been hot and bright all the days prior, with the sun blazing down from the clear blue skies over Cluj, during my visit to the Transilvania Film Festival in Romania. But the day of my interview with Francis Lee, director of the heartswellingly lovely “God’s Own Country,” which opened the Edinburgh Film Festival this week, dawned gray and rainy and stayed that way.

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We’re a week into the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, and, like American democracy, things are starting to wind down. Most of the major movies have premiered, critics have their favorites (and least favorites), and many of the hot-ticket movies have already been snapped up by distributors, with the box-office success of “Manchester By The Sea” fueling a healthy market for sellers. There’s plenty more to come — we’ll be filing more reviews in the days ahead — but we wanted to start to take a view of the festival as a whole.

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PARK CITY – There is something inherently familiar about Francis Lee’s feature directorial debut “God’s Own Country” which screened for the press at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival on Saturday morning. We’ve seen stories about young gay men struggling with coming out in a conservative community before. We’ve seen the young man be afraid of parents who may or may not be accepting of his sexual orientation.

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