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Cate Blanchett has signed on to star in a new stage adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s play The Seagull at the Barbican in London.  The production will mark Blanchett's first stage appearance in six years. Blanchett will portray Arkadina in the adaptation, which is also set to star Tom Burke (The Souv…

This morning, the Toronto International Film Festival announced their list of speaker engagements for the 49th edition in the In Conversation With… series, TIFF Industry Conference panels, and events designed to inspire and spark future collaborations. TIFF runs Sept. 5–15. TIFF's In Conversation…

Going in, I had my doubts about Borderlands, the latest overblown video game adaptation created to entice PG-13 moviegoers. First off, it has a near decade-long history of failed attempts to crack its code, including Craig Mazin, who now shares a…

Cate Blanchett set the record straight on her pay for filming The Lord of the Rings. The star of the Peter Jackson-directed trilogy cleared up the misconception that it was a high-paying job. While appearing on Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live, Blanchett played “Plead the Fifth,” in which host…

Apple TV+ has unveiled the first trailer for Disclaimer, its seven episode limited series from Alfonso Cuarón, starring Oscar winners Cate Blanchett and Kevin Kline. The psychological thriller stars Blanchett and Kline and is told in seven chapters. The limited series will make its global debut on…

Focus Features said Tuesday that it has set Steven Soderbergh's upcoming spy drama Black Bag for a March 14, 2025 theatrical release. The high-stakes mystery stars Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender alongside Regé-Jean Page, Marisa Abela, Naomie Harris, Tom Burke and Pierce Brosnan. Producers are…

Two-time Oscar winner Cate Blanchett will be bestowed with the TIFF Share Her Journey Groundbreaker Award at the upcoming Toronto Film Festival. The actress and producer will also participate in an In Conversation With… event looking back on her career. The TIFF Share Her Journey Groundbreaker Award…

Cate Blanchett has been named jury president of the main competition at this year's Camerimage Film Festival in Torun, Poland.  Blanchett will lead the jury that hands out the festival's main Golden Frog award.  Discussing today's announcement, Blanchett said: "Films are lightning in a bottle…

Academy Award-winner Cate Blanchett, Emmy-nominated producer Coco Francini of Dirty Films, and Dr. Stacy L. Smith, founder of the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, announced the 11 recipients of their Proof of Concept Accelerator program, supported by the Netflix Fund for Creative Equity."We have been…

Mike Figgis has been shooting a behind-the-scenes documentary for the past 18 months about the making of Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis. It's called Megadoc. Figgis told me Monday that it's been edited but there's allowance for the fact that the film played in competition here at the Cannes Film…

Rumours, a political satire that's the latest entry in the oeuvre of filmmaking trio Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson, world premiered out of competition to a nearly six-minute standing ovation in Cannes this weekend, marking the first time veteran Maddin has had a movie here. In fact, the Green…

Remember the communiqué from the Rambouillet G7 conference back in 1975? Of course they do. Tramping through a wooded estate somewhere in Germany, pursued by the zombie remains of Iron Age chieftains recently exhumed from the grounds of the nearby stately home, the leaders of the world's richest…