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Politics and the apocalypse collide in Rumours – a horror satire that threatens to steal Megalopolis’ crown as 2024’s most eccentric movie.

When Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis came out earlier this year, opinions were somewhat divided as to whether it was a grand folly, a visionary masterpiece, a piece of demented high camp, or a mixture of all of these.

What most could agree on was that there was nothing else quite like it in 2024’s line-up of movies, whether it was in its unnatural dialogue and bizarre character names (Aubrey Plaza as financial TV reporter Wow Platinum) or its incredibly uneven visuals, which veered from the captivatingly imaginative to the embarrassingly kitsch.

For better or worse, Coppola had managed to finally achieve his goal of creating a vision of the USA as a late Roman empire in danger of tipping over into facism. Which, as 2024 nears its end, now...

Rumours may have a mundane name, but this jet black horror comedy is one of the most insane films you will see all year – just don’t expect to understand it.

Set at the G7 summit in Dankwarderode Castle in Germany we meet the men and women who lead the most powerful countries on the planet. Assembling together to work on a provisional statement for the present crisis they eat, drink and pose for photos in the picturesque grounds of the ancient and eerie local.

Hosted by Hilda Ortmann (Cate Blanchet), the Chancellor of Germany we also meet elderly and oddly English accented Edison Wolcott (Game of Thrones and Alien 3’s Charles Dance), the President of the United States; poetic wannabe intellectual Sylvain Broulez (Inglorious Basterds Denis Ménochet), the President of France; practical and pragmatic Cardosa Dewindt (Nikki Amuka – Bird from Old and Knock on the Cabin), the Prime...

Rank Film (distributor) Three-day gross (Dec 6-8) Total gross to date Week 1. Moana 2(Disney) £6.9m £21.5m 2 2. Wicked(Universal) £5.3m £37.7m 3 3. Gladiator II(Paramount) £1.6m £26.6m 4 4. Paddington In Peru(Studiocanal) £1.2m £29m 5 5. André Rieu’s 2024 Christmas Concert: Gold and Silver(Piece of Magic) £1m £1m 1

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Tentpoles continued to dominate the UK and Ireland box office this weekend with Moana 2 leading the charge while Andre Rieu’s latest event release cracked the top five.

Moana 2dropped 43% in its second weekend with £6.9m, meaning the Disney sequel has so far taken £21.5m. Despite opening ahead ofInside...

Rank Film (distributor) Three-day gross (Dec 6-8) Total gross to date Week 1. Moana 2(Disney) £6.9m £21.5m 2 2. Wicked(Universal) £5.3m £37.7m 3 3. Gladiator II(Paramount) £1.6m £26.6m 4 4. Paddington In Peru(Studiocanal) £1.2m £29m 5 5. André Rieu’s 2024 Christmas Concert: Gold and Silver(Piece of Magic) £1m £1m 1

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Tentpoles continued to dominate the UK and Ireland box office this weekend with Moana 2 leading the charge while Andre Rieu’s latest event release cracked the top five.

Moana 2dropped 43% in its second weekend with £6.9m, meaning the Disney sequel has so far taken £21.5m. Despite opening ahead ofInside...

With major titles still dominating the UK and Ireland box office, it is a quiet weekend for new releases as event cinema leads the way while Nightbitch and Rumours also launch.

Andre Rieu’s 2024 Christmas Concert: Gold And Silver lands in 642 cinemas for A Piece Of Magic. The Dutch conductor’s last release opened with £700,000 while his 2023 Christmas concert scored £1.2m.

Indian actionPushpa 2 is screening in 230 venuesvia AA Films. The Telugu-language sequel follows Pushpa as his sandalwood smuggling business faces strong opposition from the police.

CinemaLive is playing music documentary Rm: Right People, Wrong Place in 109 sites this weekend after opening on Thursday.

What could be stranger than the hollow pomp of neoliberal politics in the face of Armageddon? While crafting this cheerfully bonkers satire, Canadian co-directors Guy Maddin and Evan and Galen Johnson became fascinated by real footage of G7 leaders coming across a puddle and awkwardly negotiating walking around it. This miniature farce didn’t exactly offer much hope for the future of humanity.

Hosted by German Chancellor Hilda Ortmann (Cate Blanchett in a coral power suit channelling Angela Merkel), world leaders representing Canada, France, Italy, Japan, the UK and the US gather for a summit on a palatial estate. They’re here for a terribly serious purpose, of course. But drafting a statement in response to an unspecified catastrophe has to wait until after the hand-shaking and toasting.

Every cast member is clearly enjoying themself, but Rumours — or perhaps ‘How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bog Bodies...

Producers of the Broadway play Stereophonic have settled a lawsuit brought by former Fleetwood Mac sound engineer and producer Ken Caillat.

In the initial suit, filed in the Southern District Court of New York in October, Caillat and his co-author Steven Stiefel alleged that the script of Stereophonic took copyrighted material from their 2012 book Making Rumours to create the play, which won the 2024 Tony Award for best play.

The parties have resolved the dispute “in principle” and said in a court filing earlier this week that two parties were working to finalize the settlement and get it in writing. The exact terms of the settlement were not disclosed.

In the suit, Caillat and Stiefel alleged that scenes in the play were “substantially similar” to passages from the book and say the premise of setting the play in the recording studio, with the audience having the point of view of the sound engineer,...

Disney’s “Moana 2” dominated the U.K. and Ireland box office with a £12 million ($15.2 million) debut, according to numbers from Comscore, marking a strong start for the animated sequel.

The film led a robust weekend that saw Universal’s “Wicked” holding strong in its second frame with £8.3 million, bringing its cumulative total to £28.5 million.

Paramount’s “Gladiator II” continued to perform in its third week, adding £2.5 million for a total of £23.5 million. Studiocanal’s “Paddington In Peru” demonstrated staying power in its fourth week, collecting £1.8 million and pushing its total to £27.3 million.

Black Bear’s new entry “Conclave” opened with £1.1 million, while Warner Bros.’ “Red One” rounded out its fourth week with £425,853, bringing its cume to £6.6 million.

BFI Distribution’s “All We Imagine As Light” debuted with £111,033, while Entertainment Film Distributors’ “Heretic” added £96,583 in its fifth week for a £5.7 million total. Park Circus’s 20th Anniversary 4K restoration of...

With artificial intelligence on the rise, Cate Blanchett fears it poses a threat beyond just Hollywood.

The 2x Oscar winner recently admitted she’s “deeply concerned” about the impact AI will have on the entertainment industry, as well as the rest of the world, with the potential to “totally replace anyone.”

“It’s a very public-facing industry we’re in, and I think the discussions around AI were not mainstreamed until the writers’ strike, really brought into the public discourse,” she told BBC. “So, I think it’s very real.”

Blanchett added of AI, “I just look at these things and think, ‘I don’t really know what it’s bringing anybody.’ Sometimes, it’s just experimentation for its own sake, which is creativity when you look at it one way. But then it’s also incredibly destructive, which of course, is the other side of creativity.”

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Peacock announced this morning that its psychological horror thriller Speak No Evil, starring James McAvoy, will begin streaming exclusively on the platform on December 6.

The film drew quite positive reviews in its September release — no easy feat for an English-language remake of a recent, highly lauded international title — and grossed over $76 million worldwide. Hailing from Blumhouse and Universal Pictures, it adapts Christian Tafdrup’s Danish pic of the same name, released in 2022.

The story follows Americans Ben (Scoot McNairy) and Louise (Mackenzie Davis), who after befriending a British couple with a mute son, accept an unusual invitation to bring their daughter for a weekend at an idyllic country estate. Yet when they discover their hosts are hiding sinister motives, Ben and Louise fear their family may be pawns in a disturbing plot. Led by McAvoy as a charismatic man masking unspeakable darkness, a dream holiday warps into an unnerving nightmare.

The “Rumours” are true: Apple TV+ is making a Fleetwood Mac documentary.

The streaming service’s Apple Original Films unit announced Tuesday that director Frank Marshall is making a fully-authorized documentary in which the members of the iconic rock band will tell their story in their own words for the first time ever. The film will feature previously unseen footage, exclusive new interviews, and archival interviews with the late Christine McVie.

“I am fascinated by how this incredible story of enormous musical achievement came about,” Marshall said in a statement. “Fleetwood Mac somehow managed to merge their often chaotic and almost operatic personal lives into their own tale in real time, which then became legend. This will be a film about the music and the people who created it.”

Fleetwood Mac became one of the world’s biggest bands in the 1970s on the strength of era-defining songs like “Landslide,...

Guy Maddin’s “Rumours” (2024), co-directed by Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson, is a satire so absurd and farcical that it almost deliberately tries to pivot away from making too deep a point, choosing instead to delve into the silliness of the entire endeavor and highlight the stupidity of the administrators responsible for running the world. And that’s before Maddin brings in his signature nonsensical elements into the film, the big brain on a patch of field becoming a curious signature for a director comfortable in unconventional narratives.

Rumours (2024) Plot Summary & Movie Synopsis: What does the opening text box signify?

The movie employs its satirical tonality right from the opening beat itself. After the descriptions of the G7 flash across the screen, the consequent line of text reads as a note of thanks to the G7 leaders for the support and consultation for the making of this film. Considering...

Calling Guy Maddin’s 2024 film, Rumours, a convoluted and absurd satire would be an understatement, considering that the very appeal of the work is based on lowbrow comedy delivered through extremely unreal circumstances. The plot of this unique film follows the leaders of the G7 countries meeting at a convention of the forum to discuss some international crisis when they get lost in the woods and are haunted by mummified bodies from centuries ago. Rumours is surely not to everyone’s taste, but there is just enough entertainment for those who enjoy absurd and spoofy satires.

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What is the film about?

Rumours begins during a G7 summit being held in Germany, where the leaders of the world’s wealthiest liberal democracies—Germany, France, Italy, Japan, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America—have come together for an annual meeting. As the seven politicians and heads...

Universal Pictures has debuted a new trailer for the upcoming genre-blending satire on political ineptitude ‘Rumours.’

The movie follows the seven leaders of the world’s wealthiest democracies at the annual G7 summit, where they attempt to draft a provisional statement regarding a global crisis. These so-called leaders become spectacles of incompetence, contending with increasingly surreal obstacles in the misty woods as night falls and they realise they are suddenly alone.

Written and co-directed by Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson, the film stars Cate Blanchett as the German Chancellor, Charles Dance as the President of the United States, Nikki Amuka-Bird as the UK Prime Minister and Alicia Vikander as the President of the European Commission.

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The film is released in UK & Irish cinemas 6th December.

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It is fitting that for the 30th year of the Geneva International Film Festival, artistic director Anais Emery and her team are going back to the future.

“It was very important to recall the history of the festival but not through a retrospective,” says Emery of the event that takes place in the Swiss city from November 1-10.

”We wanted to renew, to celebrate and underline Giff’s speciality and specificity.”

That means showcasing innovative storytelling delivered via the myriad audiovisual mediums available to creators, from film, TV and web content to installations, virtual reality and extended reality (Xr) works.

Directors Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson and Guy Maddin’s dark comedy Rumours portrays the situation of the inner workings of Western leadership in a time of crisis as a farcical satire, as comfortable played out on screen as perhaps on stage. As consistently sharp and witty as the dialogue is from its hapless leaders procrastinating over a joint statement of collective action in the middle of a German forest, it also is sobering, thought-provoking and timely in current unsettled times globally. The latter forever plays on the mind, even when presented with surreal moments that include the discovery of a giant live brain parked in the undergrowth.

The G7 leaders of Germany, France, United States, Canada, Italy, Japan and the UK – Cate Blanchett as summit host and German Chancellor Orlmann, Denis Ménochet as France’s Broulez, Charles Dance as U.S. President Wolcott (minus American accent), Roy Dupuis as Canadian premier Laplace,...

Alicia Vikander will lead Rachel Rose’s debut film “The Last Day” alongside Victoria Pedretti and Wagner Moura.

The film, which wrapped production in New York in October, follows a writer and mother who confronts her lack of creative purpose and embarks on a journey of rediscovering herself after encountering figures from her past.

“The Last Day” is produced by Lucie Elwes, Rose, Mason Plotts, Pamela Koffler and Christine Vachon of Killer Films — the production company behind last year’s “Past Lives” and “May December” — as well as David Kaplan of Kaplan Morrison (“The Brutalist”). Maja Hoffmann and Lucas Hoffmann of Luma Projects serve as executive producers.

CAA Media Finance and UTA Independent Film Group co-represent North American rights on “The Last Day.”

Vikander is an Oscar-winning actor whose credits include “The Danish Girl,” “Ex Machina” and “Tomb Raider.” This year she starred alongside Cate Blanchett and Charles Dance in the political satire “Rumours,...

In Rumours, a genre-defying work set at an imagined G7 summit, the United States president might seem as sleepy as the media caricature of Joe Biden. Yet Charles Dance’s incarnation of a figure embodying such stately authority also inexplicably speaks with a British accent. This slippery distinction between reality and surrealism provides a sure sign that the film came from the mind of iconoclastic director Guy Maddin, who co-directed and wrote the project with his former students, Evan and Galen Johnson.

At every step of the way, Rumours thwarts and confounds expectations that this convening of fictional world leaders at a gazebo in the German forest will ever shift into standard political satire. Diplomacy quickly fades from being subject to serving as a mere backdrop to absurdist horror-comedy. As the seven leaders retreat into the forest under the guidance of their host, German Chancellor Hilda Orlmann (Cate Blanchett), their...

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“Rumours” the latest film from Canadian director Guy Madden (with Evan and Galen Johnson), a political satire/surrealist story about the geopolitical international G7 Conference. In select theaters since October 18th See local listings.

Set at the economic G7 conference, which is attended by the main democratic/progressive economies, including host Germany (represented by Cate Blanchett), the U.S.(Charles Dance), Canada (Roy Dupuis), France (Denis Menochet) and the other player countries of Britain, Italy and Japan. As an unnamed world crisis begins to infiltrate the talks, a weird Iron Age archeology discovery comes to life and a giant human brain with unspecific powers … both near the meeting site … also causes havoc. Is this the end of the world as we know it?

”Rumours” is in theaters since October 18th, including Chicago’s Music Box Theatre. Featuring Cate Blanchett, Alicia Vikander,...

Rumours Cate Blanchett heads the cast of this fun and funny film from writers/director Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson. It’s about our fearless leaders, zombies, and a giant brain. Exhibiting Forgiveness World-renowned artist Titus Kaphar tries his hand at writing and directing a film and chose “Exhibiting Forgiveness” as his first feature film. And

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Canadian director Guy Maddin embraces absurdity. Along with his co-writers and directors Evan and Galen Johnson, Maddin has added to his surrealist oeuvre with Rumours, a comedy satirizing the G7 Summit. Bringing together a lauded cast led by Cate Blanchett playing the Chancellor of Germany, the film follows the seven world leaders as they get lost in the woods amidst a world catastrophe and simultaneously lose their minds.

As with any G7 Summit, the goal continues to be a vague “crisis” and an even vaguer “statement,” a cacophony of empty words, promises, and goals. The supporting cast are game, with Denis Ménochet shining as the President of France, and the filmmakers even choosing a very British Charles Dance to play the U.S. President. Everyone seems to be game; the subsequent film is better for it, with the interplay between these leaders providing the funniest moments. When these leaders attempt to find common ground,...

For theaters still in shock over the historic collapse of “Joker: Folie à Deux” (Warner Bros.), there’s optimism with the “Smile 2” opening of $23 million and Sean Baker’s strong award contender “Anora” (Neon) becoming the year’s best platform debut. (Baker’s also joining IndieWire’s Future of Filmmaking Summit November 2.)

In its third weekend, Todd Phillips’ film grossed under $2.2 million to drop another 69 percent and place sixth. With $56.4 million in, its domestic gross will fall short of $65 million. Bad for the studio and worse for the theaters that counted on another $135 million or so in box office revenue (and accompanying concessions).

With “Smile 2,” Parker Finn’s sequel to his 2022 horror success inched slightly ahead of the original’s opening weekend, which went on to gross $90 million. “Smile 2” will have a hard time replicating that, particularly with “Venom: The Last Dance” (Sony) debuting this Friday.

‘Smile...

After starting as a TV drama on Apple TV+, fans are clamoring for spoiler-filled information about the Disclaimer book. 

Based on the novel of the same name by Renée Knight, the new streaming series is directed by Oscar-winner Alfonso Cuarón. 

It follows Catherine Ravenscroft, played by Cate Blanchett (who also stars in the new Rumours movie), a documentary filmmaker who, after moving into a new house, discovers a controversial novel that she swears she is the main character of. 

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Brian Cox’s feature directorial debut “Glenrothan” — billed as his “love letter to Scotland” — has wrapped production, with a first look revealed showing the “Succession” star alongside Alan Cumming in a room full of whisky barrels.

Alongside revealing a first look from the feature, Protagonist Pictures has come aboard for worldwide sales and is set to screen exclusive footage for buyers at the upcoming American Film Market.

Lionsgate, which co-developed the project with London based studio Nevision, has taken U.K. rights on the family drama, which shot in Scotland.

In “Glenrothan,” Donal (Cumming) reluctantly returns to the Scottish Highlands after 35 years in Chicago to make amends with his estranged older brother, Sandy (Cox). Sandy needs Donal to take over the family’s whisky distillery or he will be forced to sell and give up on the family’s legacy. But their reunion forces the brothers to confront the past...

I love Rumours, it’s a hodgepodge of mystery, thriller, horror, and soap opera and it works! Splendidly I might add. Largely because of the cast, but also the script and direction by Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson. It’s best for you to enter the theater with no knowledge of what the film is

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Rumours.Rumours (2024), codirected by Guy Maddin and brothers Evan and Galen Johnson, follows the world leaders at a G7 summit as they draft a provisional statement concerning an unspecified global crisis. The film finds Maddin operating in a different vein of artifice than the chaotic pastiches of early filmic techniques that characterize much of his previous work. In Rumours, high-key lighting blasts an antiseptic aura, and the babbly performances are urbane to the point of uncanniness (Charles Dance plays the US president with an unexplained British accent). However, the heads of state soon wander into more familiar Maddin territory. Stumbling through the woods, they encounter surreal and fleshy aberrations: self-pleasuring bog mummies, a gargantuan brain, et cetera. In a classic The Exterminating Angel (1962) conundrum, the figureheads drift through an inescapable liminal space, forced to abandon their mannered etiquettes and self-interrogate. Picture Raúl Ruiz’s The Territory (1981), if transposed into the sphere of international politics.

Guy Maddin didn’t know he was even on Cate Blanchett‘s radar until he saw her pick his film “My Winnipeg” out of the Criterion Closet back in 2022.

“It was a manipulative move. It was a cry for help!” Blanchett joked to IndieWire (and her peers) on the rooftop of the Jw Marriott on the Cannes Croisette back in May when their debut collaboration, “Rumours,” first premiered. She was joined on that day by Maddin and his co-directors, Evan and Galen Johnson, who’ve been chugging away with the singularly absurdist Canadian auteur on short films since 2015 and the feature “The Forbidden Room” in 2016. Their latest, “Rumours,” is a satirical slice of weirdness about seven nimwit world leaders who gather at a fictional G7 conference to draft a vaguely reassuring statement about an unnamed international crisis. Blanchett plays Hilda Orlmann, the Chancellor of Germany, channeling Angela Merkel in a blond bob and European faux-steeliness.

A collaboration between writers and directors Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson, the genre-bending dark comedy Rumours screened out of competition at the 77th Cannes Film Festival earlier this year, and now a wider audience will have the chance to watch the movie when it reaches theatres this Friday, October 18th. In anticipation of the film’s release, we were able to sit down for an interview with its star, two-time Oscar winner (and many-time Oscar nominee) Cate Blanchett, as well as the directors and Blanchett’s co-stars Denis Ménochet, Roy Dupuis, Nikki Amuka-Bird, and Rolando Ravello. To find out what they had to say about the movie, check out the video embedded above!

Rumours has the following synopsis: Ricocheting between comedy, apocalyptic horror, and swooning soap opera, Rumours follows the seven leaders of the world’s wealthiest democracies at the annual G7 summit, where they attempt to draft...

One hit horror sequel deserves another, and Art the Clown won’t be the only one smiling this weekend. Read on for Gold Derby’s box office preview.

Despite the huge success of Damien Leone‘s “Terrifier 3,” Art the Clown will have to deal with the fact there is likely to be an even bigger horror sequel this weekend as Paramount Pictures releases “Smile 2.” It’s the follow-up to the 2022 hit horror movie from filmmaker Parker Finn, which opened with $22.6 million on its way to $105.9 million domestic and $217 million worldwide. It should go without saying that October is the perfect month for a horror release, but oddly, the original “Smile” opened on September 30, then had sustained legs with smaller week-to-week drops. Other horror franchises that have dominated the month of October include the “Saw” and “Paranormal Activity” movies, both which saw huge bumps in business with their second chapters.

The filmmakers behind the upcoming apocalyptic horror comedy film Rumours revealed how they balanced the movie’s comedy, and if they were inspired by any real-life political figures.

The upcoming movie, which stars Cate Blanchett (who recently starred in the not-so-well-received Borderlands film), gallows the seven leaders of world’s wealthiest democracies as they attend the annual G7 summit where they are drafting a big statement regarding a vague global crisis.

The situation gets even worse when all signs point to an apocalyptic event having occurred while they were off in isolation figuring out what to tell the world.

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Cate Blanchett provides a vibrant pop of color on the red carpet while attending a screening of her new movie Rumours at the 68th BFI London Film Festival at BFI Southbank on Sunday (October 13) in London, England.

The actress walked the red carpet at the event in a red and white striped jacket and matching skirt. She paired the statement making pieces with a turquoise top and matching heels.

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He costars Nikki Amuka-Bird and Charles Dance were also present as were co-directors Guy Maddin and Evan and Galen Johnson were also present. We’ve got pics of everyone in the gallery.

Here’s the movie’s synopsis: “Ricocheting between comedy, apocalyptic horror, and swooning soap opera, Rumours follows the seven leaders of the world’s wealthiest democracies meeting up at the annual G7 summit, where they attempt to draft a provisional statement regarding a global crisis.

By the time next weekend rolls around, the box office will have suffered a bit of an unfortunate downturn. There's no need to revisit the truly bleak first half of 2024 when theaters were downright desperate for even modest hits but the point is, the industry really doesn't need any more setbacks. Unfortunately, with "Joker: Folie a Deux" bombing badly with no hope of a rebound, the first half of October is on life support. That being the case, Paramount's "Smile 2" can't come soon enough, as the horror sequel figures to give the box office a much-needed jolt of life.

Director Parker Finn's follow-up to 2022's surprise breakout hit "Smile" is currently looking at a debut between $25 and $35 million when it hits theaters next weekend, per Box Office Theory. Even on the low end, that would put it above the original, which opened to $22.6 million in late September 2022. "Smile,...

The first big laugh in Rumours hits before the opening credits have even finished rolling: “The producers would like to thank the G7 leaders for their support and consultation during the making of this movie.” As political bloggers, chronic doomscrollers and any conspiracy theorist with access to the internet will tell you, the “Group of Seven” is an annual summit in which selected world-power presidents and prime ministers discuss global issues and cross-governmental solutions. The national leaders of the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Japan and Italy have...

Bei ihrer Weltpremiere auf dem Filmfest München war die deutsche Vampirserie „Love Sucks“ mit dem Bernd Burgemeister Preis ausgezeichnet worden. Nun wurde sie in den Serien-Wettbewerb des Geneva International Film Festival eingeladen.

Die ZDFneo-Serie „Love Sucks“ feiert auf dem Geneva International Film Festival ihre internationale Premiere (Credit: Zdf/Frank Dicks)

In seiner von 1. bis 10. November stattfindenden 30. Ausgabe zeigt das Geneva International Film Festival laut dem heute veröffentlichten Programm 93 Arbeiten, darunter 44 Filme und 26 Serien. Insgesamt stehen dort elf Weltpremieren, drei internationale Premieren, eine Europapremiere und 54 Schweizer Premieren auf dem Programm.

Ihre internationale Premiere im Rahmen des Serienwettbewerbs wird in Genf die achtteilige Vampirserie „Love Sucks“ (hier unsere Spot-Besprechung) feiern, die bei ihrer Weltpremiere auf dem Filmfest München mit dem Bernd Burgemeister Preis ausgezeichnet worden war. „Love Sucks“, bei der Andreas Prochaska und Lea Becker nach Drehbüchern von Headautor Marc O Seng sowie den weiteren Autoren Julia Penner und Thorsten Wettcke Regie geführt haben,...

Seit Ende September standen Eröffnungs- und Abschlussfilm der diesjährigen Viennale fest. Jetzt wurde das komplette Programm präsentiert.

Viennale-Direktorin Eva Sangiorgi (Credit: Alexi Pelekanos)

Nachdem Viennale-Direktorin Eva Sangiorigi Ende August die ersten Programmpunkte für die von 17. bis 29. Oktober stattfindende Festivalausgabe präsentiert hatte und seit Ende September mit Leos Carax‘ „C’est pas moi“ und Mati Diops „Dahomey“ Eröffnungs- und Abschlussfilm feststehen, hat Sangiorgi jetzt zusammen mit Florian Widegger (Leitung Programm Metro Kinokulturhaus) und Michael Loebenstein (Direktor des Österreichischen Filmmuseums) das komplette Programm der Viennale präsentiert.

Neben den bereits bekannt gegebenen Titeln wie Sean Bakers Cannes-Gewinner „Anora“, Jacques Audiards ebenfalls in Cannes ausgezeichneter „Emilia Pérez“, „Peacock“ von Bernhard Wenger, „Henry Fonda For President“ von Alexander Horwarth, „The Village Next to Paradise“ von Mo Harawe,, „Zwischen uns Gott“ von Rebecca Hirneise, „Bluish“ von Lilith Kraxner und Milena Czernovsky, „Dear Beautiful Beloved“ von Juri Rechinsky, „Dreaming Dogs“ von Elsa Kremser und Levin Peter...

David Twohy’s Riddick 4: Furya, the latest chapter in the Vin Diesel-starring Riddick saga, has been awarded €2m in production support by Germany’s Fff Bayern fund for international feature films and series. It is the maximum amount that can be awarded to a single project.

Most of the principal photography will take place at the Penzing Studios in Bavaria, with further filming taking place in Spain and the UK.

The new film in the space western franchise, to which Diesel owns the rights, has been pre-sold around the world by Rocket Science to international territories including Leonine Studios...

A former sound engineer who wrote a memoir about working on the Fleetwood Mac album Rumors is suing the creators of the Broadway play Stereophonic for allegedly stealing copyrighted material from the book.

In the suit, filed in the Southern District Court of New York this week, Kenneth Caillat, the former sound engineer, and his co-author Steven Stiefel, allege that playwright David Adjmi stole copyrighted material from their 2012 book Making Rumours to create the play, which won the 2024 Tony Award for best play. They allege scenes in the play are “substantially similar” to passages from the book and say the premise of setting the play in the recording studio, with the audience having the point of view of the sound engineer, replicates the trajectory of the book.

“Utilizing the set in the recording studio, Stereophonic then presents a nearly identical story arc as Making Rumours, which Mr. Caillat described as “Ken’s Wild Ride.

Ken Caillat, the sound engineer and producer who worked on Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours, is suing the the hit Tony-winning play Stereophonic for allegedly ripping off his memoir, Making Rumours.

Published in 2012, Making Rumours found Caillat recounting, from his unique perspective in the control booth, the famously fraught creation of Rumours. Stereophonic, for its part, similarly tells the story of a band on the verge of pop stardom, making an album in 1976 amidst intra-band infighting and break-ups.

The similarities between Stereophonic and the Fleetwood Mac story have been widely noted,...

A former sound engineer who coauthored a 2012 memoir about his days working on the Fleetwood Mac album Rumours has filed a lawsuit, along with his coauthor of the book Making Rumours, against the makers of Broadway’s smash hit play Stereophonic, alleging that playwright David Adjmi relied on portions of Making Rumours in the creation of the similarly themed Broadway play.

Stereophonic, the suit states, “copies the heart and soul of Making Rumours, and is substantially similar.”

Stereophonic is perhaps best described as a roman a clef of Fleetwood Mac and the mid-’70s making of what would be their 1977 masterpiece Rumours. The play, which does not use the band members’ names or songs, fashions its characters and situations in ways that align closely to Mac’s classic line-up of Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Christine McVie, Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham. The troubled recording of their seminal album, which endured months of romantic break-ups,...

Given the current political state of the world, a movie about the G7 probably doesn't sound like your next must-see addition to the ever-growing watchlist. But how about a G7 movie that sees the likes of Cate Blanchett, Charles Dance, Alicia Vikander, and Roy Dupuis — all adopting bizarre accents — playing inept world leaders whose cosy little Summit gets upended by the discovery of a mummified corpse, some funny business with a giant brain, and more ill-advised, high-powered rumpy-pumpy than you can shake an episode of early season Game Of Thrones at? Because that's exactly what it looks like we're in for with Rumours, a genre-hopping new satire from The Green Fog filmmakers Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson, and producer Ari Aster. Check out the bonkers new trailer below:

Where do you even begin to break down that trailer? It looks like a Wes Anderson joint, has the tone...

Krazy House: "When Russian workers in Bernie’s (Shawn Of The Dead’S Nick Frost) house turn out to be wanted criminals, Bernie must man up and save his wife (Alicia Silverstone) and the rest of his studio audience approved sitcom family."

The film is written and directed by Steffen Haars and Flip van der Kuil, and stars Nick Frost, Alicia Silverstone, Kevin Connolly, Gaite Jansen, and Walt Klink.

XYZ Films will be releasing the film on VOD on October 4th. The week prior, on September 28th, filmmaker and podcaster Kevin Smith will host a special theatrical screening of the film at his Smodcastle Cinemas in Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey, with stars Nick Frost and co-director Steffen Haars in attendance.

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Rumours: "Ricocheting between comedy, apocalyptic horror, and swooning soap opera, Rumours follows the seven leaders of the world’s wealthiest democracies at the annual G7 summit, where they...

“Rumours” is a new live-action ‘zombie’ comedy feature, directed by Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson, starring Cate Blanchett, and Alicia Vikander, releasing October 18, 2024 in theaters:

“…world leaders meet at the ‘G7’ but get lost in the woods while. trying to compose a joint statement on an unspecified global crisis.

“Beset by thick fog and menaced by undead ‘bog bodies’ and a giant brain, they navigate the tortured passions between them…”

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In the opening scene of the Rumours red band trailer, an archeologist unearths an Iron Age corpse, mummified with its severed penis hanging from its neck. As the summit host and German representative Hilda Orlmann, played by Cate Blanchett, describes the bog body, the G7 leaders in attendance can’t help but wince and give distasteful stares, with one global leader calling it “gruesome.” Following the ceremony, representatives of the world’s wealthiest democracies are stranded in the woods and chased by ancient bodies in a conference gone horribly wrong.

Bleecker Street has released a new trailer for Cate Blanchett‘s political satire movie!

The 55-year-old Oscar-winning actress alongside Alicia Vikander, Roy Dupuis, Charles Dance, Denis Ménochet, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Rolando Ravello, Takehiro Hira, and Zlatko Buri in the new movie Rumours written and directed by Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson.

Keep reading to find out more…Here’s the movie’s synopsis: “Ricocheting between comedy, apocalyptic horror, and swooning soap opera, Rumours follows the seven leaders of the world’s wealthiest democracies meeting up at the annual G7 summit, where they attempt to draft a provisional statement regarding a global crisis. With unexpected, uproarious performances from a brilliant ensemble cast that includes Cate Blanchett and Alicia Vikander, these so-called ‘leaders’ become spectacles of incompetence, contending with increasingly surreal obstacles in the misty woods as night falls and they realize they are suddenly alone.”

Rumours will be out in theaters on Oct.

"A black storm comes." Bleecker Street has revealed the full trailer for Rumours, an extra weird & wacky dark comedy about politics from the filmmakers Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson. This first premiered at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival earlier this year to mostly mixed reviews from critics, it burns out pretty quickly after a hilarious start. In times of global crisis, the brightest and biggest brains of the free world gather to provide leadership. The "wildly entertaining" Rumours film is an apocalyptic horror-comedy about how dumb politicians really are. The leaders of seven wealthy democracies come together during a G7 summit in Germany. But they end up getting lost in the woods when everyone else suddenly disappears and they can't where to go, facing danger as they attempt to find their way out. The ensemble cast of politicians features Cate Blanchett (Germany), Roy Dupuis (Canada), Nikki Amuka-Bird (UK), Charles Dance...

With a presidential election fast approaching in the U.S. and tensions at an all-time high, now feels like the perfect time to release a political satire with humor, drama, and the undead. Today, Bleecker Street unveiled the studio’s Rumours trailer, depicting a meeting of the minds that turns into a fight for survival in the face of genuinely bizarre circumstances.

Here’s the official synopsis for Rumours courtesy of Bleecker Street:

Richochetting between comedy, apocalyptic horror, and swooning soap opera, Rumours follows the seven leaders of the world’s wealthiest democracies at the annual G7 summit, where they attempt to draft a provisional statement regarding a global crisis. With unexpected, uproarious performances from a brilliant ensemble cast that includes Cate Blanchett, Alicia Vikander, and Charles Dance, these so-called leaders become spectacles of incompetence, contending with increasingly surreal obstacles in the misty woods as night falls and they realize they are suddenly alone.

Bleecker Street has released the official trailer and poster for the upcoming Rumours movie, which is a black comedy directed by Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson. The film will open in theaters on October 18, 2024.

The Rumours movie, which was rated R for some sexual content/partial nudity and violent content, had its World Premiere at the 77th Cannes Film Festival in May 2024.

Ricocheting between comedy, apocalyptic horror, and swooning soap opera, Rumours follows the seven leaders of the world’s wealthiest democracies at the annual G7 summit, where they attempt to draft a provisional statement regarding a global crisis.

With unexpected, uproarious performances from a brilliant ensemble cast that includes Cate Blanchett, Alicia Vikander, and Charles Dance, these so-called leaders become spectacles of incompetence, contending with increasingly surreal obstacles in the misty woods as night falls and they realize they are suddenly alone.

A genre-hopping satire of political ineptitude,...

The politicians are no help and not okay in genre-bending apocalyptic horror movie Rumours, and a new trailer highlights the satire.

Rumours releases in theaters on October 18, 2024.

About the film: “Ricocheting between comedy, apocalyptic horror, and swooning soap opera, Rumours follows the seven leaders of the world’s wealthiest democracies at the annual G7 summit, where they attempt to draft a provisional statement regarding a global crisis. With unexpected, uproarious performances from a brilliant ensemble cast that includes Cate Blanchett, Alicia Vikander, and Charles Dance, these so-called leaders become spectacles of incompetence, contending with increasingly surreal obstacles in the misty woods as night falls and they realize they are suddenly alone. A genre-hopping satire of political ineptitude, the latest film from incomparable directors Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson is a journey into the absurd heart of power and institutional failure in a slowly burning world.”

The film was...

Premiering at Cannes Film Festival earlier this year, Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson expanded their scale and scope with Rumours, an apocalyptic political satire that brings together the epic cast of Cate Blanchett, Alicia VikanderRoy Dupuis, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Charles Dance, Takehiro Hira, Denis Ménochet, Rolando Ravello, and Zlatko Buric. Now set for a stop at New York Film Festival before opening in theaters on October 18, the first full-length red band trailer has arrived.

Here’s the synopsis: “Ricocheting between comedy, apocalyptic horror, and swooning soap opera, Rumours follows the seven leaders of the world’s wealthiest democracies at the annual G7 summit, where they attempt to draft a provisional statement regarding a global crisis. With unexpected, uproarious performances from a brilliant ensemble cast that includes Cate Blanchett, Alicia Vikander, and Charles Dance, these so-called leaders become spectacles of incompetence, contending with increasingly surreal obstacles in the misty woods...

Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson’s buzzy satirical film “Rumours” is one step closer to theaters.

Cate Blanchett, Alicia Vikander, and Charles Dance star in the ensemble political film that centers on seven leaders of the world’s wealthiest democracies at the annual G7 summit, where they attempt to draft a provisional statement regarding a global crisis.

The official synopsis reads: “These so-called leaders become spectacles of incompetence, contending with increasingly surreal obstacles in the misty woods as night falls and they realize they are suddenly alone.”

Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson co-write and direct. The trio reunite after helming “The Forbidden Room” in 2015, with “Rumours” being billed as a combination of “comedy, apocalyptic horror, and swooning soap opera” per the logline.

Roy Dupuis, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Takehiro Hira, Denis Ménochet, Rolando Ravello, and Zlatko Buric also star.

“Rumours” premiered at Cannes and will go on to screen at TIFF and NYFF.