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Perth Now
13 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Monica Barbaro and Callum Turner to star in One Night Only
Monica Barbaro and Callum Turner are to star in One Night Only. The A Complete Unknown actress and the 35-year-old actor will appear in the upcoming Universal Pictures movie, which follows two strangers who scramble to find someone to sleep with on the annual night when premarital sex is legal. Will Gluck is to direct the movie, and the Anyone but You helmsman is also rewriting Travis Braun's script, which topped the 2024 Blacklist, an annual survey of the most liked but unproduced screenplays in Hollywood. The director - who is known for working with rising stars including Emma Stone, Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney - will also produce with Olive Bridge Entertainment, along with the company's vice president, Jacqueline Monetta. In addition, Senior EVP Production Development Erik Baiers and Director of Production Development Jacqueline Garell will oversee the project for the studio. One Night Only is expected to be released on 7 August, 2026. Callum has a string of new projects in the work as he will next be seen in Rosebush Prunning, Rose of Nevada, and Eternity. Monica - who is preparing to make her stage debut at the National Theatre in London in a revival of Les Liasons Dangereuses - has had a string of offers since being nominated for her first Oscar thanks to her portrayal of Joan Baez in A Complete Unknown. She is currently in production opposite boyfriend Andrew Garfield in Luca Guadagnino's Artificial. The 35-year-old actress previously revealed she had singing lessons two or three times a week while working on A Complete Unknown, turning to vocal coach Eric Vetro – who previously assisted Austin Butler for Elvis – for guidance. She told IndieWire: "I met with Eric two, three times a week for the entirety of this process aside from the strike... in that time, I just sang alone and used the recordings he had created for me. He's the guy. He knows how to do this. "We talked in the beginning about getting her iconic vocal qualities... the tight vibrato and the pitch. I couldn't sing in that key when I first auditioned. "It was about trying to nail those elements of her voice and get that initial believability that this is Joan up there. Replicating her voice is impossible." Monica also got the opportunity to meet the real Joan. She said: "I wasn't sure if I should reach out personally. "I sort of went behind (the production's) back and asked my agents... she agreed to it, we picked a time. It was professionally done just sort of sneakily so. "When we spoke on the phone, I was saying something to the effect of deferring to her on something. She was like, 'I'm just in the backyard, sitting outside, watching the birds.' I was like, yeah, you're not wrapped up in what we say about you. This doesn't define you in any way."
Perth Now
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Timothee Chalamet reteams with James Mangold for High Side
Timothee Chalamet is reteaming with director James Mangold for new heist movie High Side. The pair first worked collaborated on Oscar-nominated Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown and they are now working on a new project in which Chalamet plays a former Motocross racer who is drawn into taking part in a series of bank robberies. Mangold said in a statement: "Timothee is a trusted collaborator, a generational artist and a person I adore. I can't wait to roll up my sleeves and work together again." The film - which is described as a cross between 1995 thriller Heat and 2016 crime drama Hell or High Water - will be produced by Chernin Entertainment and is based on a story by Jaimie Oliveira, who is also adapting the screenplay. Dana Goldberg and Josh Greenstein of Paramount Pictures said in a statement: "We're thrilled to be in business with visionary artists like James and Timothee, and exceptional collaborators [producers Peter Chernin and David Ready] at Chernin. "What Jaime has created reflects the kind of bold, original storytelling we're committed to championing at Paramount – and we couldn't be more excited to hit the ground running with High Side'." Mangold is also working on an adaptation of Swamp Thing for DC Studios as well as a Star Wars prequel Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi, which he's slated to co-write as well as direct. The moviemaker previously insisted he wants the new Star Wars movie to be as "original" as possible. He told Movieweb: "The Star Wars movie would be taking place 25,000 years before any known Star Wars movies takes place. "It's an area and a playground that I've always [wanted to explore] and that I was inspired by as a teenager. I'm not that interested in being handcuffed by so much lore at this point that it's almost immovable, and you can't please anybody." He added of his movie projects: "Success is never guaranteed, but the reality is that the way to get most people to agree is to move them; to somehow find the humanity in a situation. "Whether it's a mega-franchise or a smaller dramatic movie, whatever they are, usually the movies you remember are the ones that move you. "The ones that leave you cold, even if they're clever, even if they're spectacular, even if they're dazzling, somehow just become replaced by the next dazzling object a year later. "It's the feelings, it's 'the feels', right? That truly defines how we feel about these movies and whether we care to visit them again."
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Venice Film Festival lineup includes made-in-Memphis 'Newport & the Great Folk Dream'
The new movie from Memphis author and filmmaker Robert Gordon will have its world premiere in September at the Venice Film Festival, the world's oldest and arguably most significant film showcase. Crafted from largely never-before-seen footage of Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Howlin' Wolf, Mississippi John Hurt and other artists, "Newport & the Great Folk Dream" is a documentary that covers the mid-1960s glory years of the Newport Folk Festival, including the infamous Dylan-goes-electric performance of 1965 that inspired the recent hit movie, "A Complete Unknown." "It began in Newport, it resided for decades in vaults in Long Island, and it was made in Midtown Memphis," said Gordon, 64, referring to his film and the long unseen footage that made it possible. "Honestly, this is a very prestigious festival," he added, "and I'm elated to be going." The critical and box-office success of director James Mangold's "A Complete Unknown," which earned eight Oscar nominations, including Best Picture and Best Actor (for Timothée Chalamet, who played Dylan), is certain to elevate the profile of Gordon's movie, which presents authentic footage and provides context for some of the events dramatized in Mangold's film, which climaxes at the famous folk festival at Newport, Rhode Island. Gordon said he and his collaborators had been working almost eight years on the Newport documentary when Mangold's movie arrived, "so there's no way we could have planned the dovetailing. I need to send a thank you note to Timothée Chalamet and James Mangold for expanding the audience. Seriously, they made people aware of the subject of this film in a way that I never could have dreamed of." He said audiences who enjoyed "A Complete Unknown" are likely to find his "Newport" movie "very fulfilling, because it shows so much of what folk music was drawing from, and also the tension about change in folk music. Folk is about tradition, but even traditions change." MADE IN MEMPHIS: Pop stars, influencers — why not Jesus? Memphis filmmakers create 'vertical' faith content "Newport" is in part a collaboration between Gordon and New York-based producer Joe Lauro, a longtime archivist and documentary filmmaker who acquired the Newport footage from the late documentarian Murray Lerner. Lauro also rediscovered the footage that was the foundation of Questlove's Oscar-winning documentary, "Summer of Soul." In addition to writer-director Gordon, several Memphians played significant roles in the documentary, including editor and key collaborator Laura Jean Hocking (also a producer). Among the many other Memphians who contributed are producer Kim Bledsoe Lloyd and sound designer/mixer Kevin Houston. "The movie is heavy with Memphis connections," Gordon said. "The creative talent, the mixing... Memphis was able to supply us with access to what we needed, and everything was first class. There was no need to go elsewhere." A three-time Grammy winner for his scholarly and curatorial contributions to projects involving Stax Records and the the power pop band Big Star, Gordon has been an essential chronicler of Memphis-and-more music history for most of his adult life. Among his books are "It Came from Memphis" and "Muddy Waters: Can't Be Satisfied," and his filmography includes documentaries about Johnny Cash, Sun and Stax, and — outside of music, other than the music of witty conversation — the Gore Vidal-vs.-William F. Buckley debates of 1968. Debuting at the 93-year-old Venice Film Festival as an out-of-competition selection, "Newport & the Great Folk Dream" will unspool in a particularly glamorous environment and prestigious context, alongside new work by some of the world's most acclaimed and successful auteurs. Other movies set to premiere at Venice include Guillermo Del Toro's "Frankenstein," Jim Jarmusch's "Father Mother Sister Brother," and Kathryn Bigelow's political thriller, "A House of Dynamite." The Venice Film Festival runs Aug. 27-Sept. 9, with "Newport & the Great Folk Dream" premiering Sept. 5. The movie is almost certain to acquire a theatrical and streaming distribution deal at the festival or in the wake of its Venice exposure, and is likely to be made available to the general public next year. This article originally appeared on Memphis Commercial Appeal: Venice Film Festival lineup includes 'Newport & the Great Folk Dream' Solve the daily Crossword
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Timothée Chalamet & James Mangold Motocross Heist Pitch Has Town Revving: The Dish
EXCLUSIVE: The Town is abuzz over High Side, a package based on an unpublished short story by Jaime Oliveira that looms as a potential reteam of Timothée Chalamet and James Mangold. They are just coming off A Complete Unknown, the Bob Dylan smash that got eight Oscar nominations. Chernin Entertainment is attached as producer. Sugar23, which reps Oliveira, is out to the town with the short story pitch package that also is making a buzz in publishing circles. In High Side, Billy is a former MotoGP racer, who is haunted by a career-ending crash and a family legacy of abandonment but is drawn back into the world of high-speed risks and extreme danger. His estranged brother, already being pursued by the FBI, recruits him for a series of bank robberies on superbikes. A gifted motocross rider, Billy walked away from the sport after a devastating accident, and he has been making do caring for his addict father and the family garage. He's blindsided when his estranged older brother Cole resurfaces — just after their father's death — with a proposition: use Billy's talents for something bigger: robbing banks. Cole assembles a mismatched crew, including a woman who becomes Billy's lover, and they begin knocking over small-town desert banks with speed and precision. But as the stakes rise, Lennox, an FBI agent who has a complicated history with Cole, closes in as the crew preps its biggest score: a bank job timed with a big motorcycle parade. There are high-speed action and emotional twists and turns in the climax. More from Deadline How They Tuned Up 8-Oscar Nominated Bob Dylan Biopic 'A Complete Unknown' How James Mangold & His Sound Team Collaborated To Bring 'An Indescribable Feeling Of Reality' To 'A Complete Unknown' – The Process Skydance Features & Sports President Don Granger To Lead Film At New Paramount Under Dana Goldberg & Josh Greenstein - The Dish Chalamet is shooting the climax of Dune, and he has the Josh Safdie-directed table tennis drama Marty Supreme coming in December from A24. Stay tuned. Best of Deadline 2025 TV Series Renewals: Photo Gallery 2025-26 Awards Season Calendar: Dates For Emmys, Oscars, Grammys & More 2025 TV Cancellations: Photo Gallery
Express Tribune
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Express Tribune
Timothée Chalamet and James Mangold reunite for motocross heist movie High Side
Timothée Chalamet and director James Mangold are revving up for a new project titled High Side, a motocross-themed heist thriller based on an unpublished short story by Jaime Oliveira. Following their critically acclaimed collaboration on A Complete Unknown, which scored eight Oscar nominations, the duo is eyeing another high-octane cinematic partnership. High Side centers on Billy, a former MotoGP racer coping with trauma from a career-ending crash and a troubled family legacy. Living a quiet life caring for his addict father and running the family garage, Billy is pulled back into danger by his estranged brother Cole. After their father's death, Cole convinces Billy to join him in a series of high-speed bank robberies using superbikes. With the FBI already on Cole's tail, the stakes rise as the brothers assemble a crew — including Billy's love interest — to rob rural desert banks. The plot builds to a final heist timed with a major motorcycle parade, drawing the attention of FBI agent Lennox, who shares a murky past with Cole. The film promises intense action sequences, emotional drama, and adrenaline-fueled motorcycle chases. Chernin Entertainment is attached to produce, with Sugar23 shopping the project to studios. The package has already sparked strong interest in both Hollywood and publishing circles. Chalamet is currently wrapping Dune: Part Two and will star in A24's upcoming Marty Supreme, directed by Josh Safdie. With High Side, the actor continues his streak of bold and diverse roles.
