A few months ago, Francine Maisler told me a story about securing Wunmi Mosaku for a key role in The Social Reckoning, Aaron Sorkin’s buzzy sequel to the Oscar-winning The Social Network. She’d recently cast Mosaku in Sinners, which had just been released to enormous success. “I worship the woman, and I said, ‘Aaron, I…
Adam Baidawi has been named global editorial director of GQ. Baidawi comes to the role after having served as deputy global editorial director of GQ and head of editorial content at British GQ since 2021. He takes over the role after Will Welch announced he was leaving to work with Pharrell Williams in Paris. His…
Revolving around three generations of women — played by Anna Calder-Marshall, Juliette Binoche and Florence Hunt — within one troubled family, Berlinale competitor Queen at Sea offers a scathingly unsentimental look at the complexity of caring for an elderly person with dementia. Shot in London, this scrupulously realist work by multi-hyphenate Lance Hammer (his first…
Mehdi Mahmoudian, the Oscar-nominated co-writer of Jafar Panahi‘s It Was Just an Accident, has been released from prison in Iran, after 17 days inside, according to local media reports. Mahmoudian was released from Nowshahr Prison along with Vida Rabbani and Abdollah Momeni, all arrested for signing the so-called “Statement of the Seventeen” condemning the actions…
Neon has landed the rights to Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s next film, All Of A Sudden, the latest from the director behind the Oscar-winning Drive My Car. Neon landed the North American rights to the film, which is currently in post-production, with plans for a theatrical release. Virginie Efira and Tao Okamoto star in the film, playing…
Overnight sensations usually gain followers. Gabriel Basso deleted all of his. “You get hit with these algorithmic waves,” says the 31-year-old star of The Night Agent, the Netflix thriller about an FBI agent who stumbles into a web of government conspiracies. “But I never felt like [social media] added anything to my life. I felt…
Israeli NGOs have raised the alarm over a settlement plan signed by the government which they say would mark the first expansion of Jerusalem’s borders into the occupied West Bank since 1967. Israel has occupied East Jerusalem since 1967 and later annexed it in a move not recognised by the international community. Palestinians view East…
