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Yahoo
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
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Cannes to premiere Kristen Stewart's directorial debut based on Oregon author's memoir
PORTLAND, Ore. () — Kristen Stewart's directorial debut, based on an Oregon author's acclaimed memoir, will premiere at Festival De Cannes later this week. the Academy-Award-nominated actress is slated to headline , alongside musician Kim Gordon, as part of the international film festival on Friday. Both the organization and its annual gala aim to boost gender equality in the film industry. The event will also serve as Stewart's opportunity to discuss 'The Chronology of Water' just ahead of its debut. These are the 50 best donut shops in the US, and 2 are in Oregon, according to Yelp The movie centers on Lidia Yuknavitch's autobiographical book of the same name. The memoir follows the swimmer's journey from Texas to the Pacific Northwest 'to escape an abusive father and an alcoholic, suicidal mother,' according to Hawthorne Books — the Portland-based company that published the memoir. 'After losing her scholarship to drugs and alcohol, Lidia moves to Eugene and enrolls in the University of Oregon, where she is accepted by Ken Kesey to become one of thirteen graduate students who collaboratively write the novel Caverns with him,' Hawthorne Books . 'Drugs and alcohol continue to flow along with bisexual promiscuity and the discovery of S&M helps ease Lidia's demons.' The company said the book goes on to explain how Yuknavitch's career, as well as her husband and son, have replaced 'the earlier chaos that was her life.' In 2012, the memoir earned the Oregon Book Award for Readers' Choice. It is now getting the Cannes treatment, with the new film that will star Imogen Poots of 'Green Room.' Portland Fire & Rescue: Illegal burning letters are a fraud First-time director she traveled to Portland to ask for Yuknavitch's permission to produce a movie based on her work. She later struggled to get funding for the project, but was ultimately able to film it in Latvia and Malta in less than two months. Previous Cannes features, like 'Parasite' and 'Anora,' have gone on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Buzz Feed
15-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Buzz Feed
Michael B. Jordan, Hailee Steinfeld, And The Cast Of "Sinners" Played "Who's Who," And The Chemistry Is 100% Undeniable
It's official, Ryan Coogler did it again! The Academy-Award-nominated director has another masterpiece on his hands, and yes, it's starring Michael B. Jordan — twice! Like Fruitvale Station (2013), Creed (2015), and Black Panther (2018) — Sinners is a Coogler project that critics are obsessed with, featuring one of the hottest actors in Hollywood in another transformative role. To celebrate the release of the already critically acclaimed Sinners, we had Michael and the cast — Hailee Steinfeld, Wunmi Moasku, Jack O'Connell, Miles Caton, and Delroy Lindo — play a wild game of Who's Who with us, and their chemistry is off the charts. Find out who's the biggest scaredy cat, who's the biggest horror fan and believes in ghosts, and who's the least likely to respond to the group chat because they claim they were never invited in the first place. BuzzFeed Celeb
Buzz Feed
05-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Buzz Feed
Jesse Eisenberg Explained Why He Doesn't Want To Be "Associated" With Mark Zuckerberg Anymore
Jesse Eisenberg doesn't want to be "associated" with Mark Zuckerberg anymore. In 2010, the Academy-Award-nominated actor played the Facebook founder in David Fincher's The Social Network, based on Ben Mezrich's book The Accidental Billionaires. The Social Network was a huge success, earning eight Academy Award nominations and winning three. Aaron Sorkin's wordy award-winning screenplay made us believe that the Meta CEO was like his character on the silver screen. On top of that, Jesse's unforgettable delivery virtually made him synonymous with the tech billionaire. But, the writer/director and star of A Real Pain said in a new interview he doesn't "want to think of myself as associated with somebody like that." On BBC Radio 4 's "Today," Jesse said he's no longer following Mark's "life trajectory" and doesn't want to be associated with the billionaire because of his "problematic" decisions. "It's not like I played a great golfer or something, and now people think I'm a great golfer," Jesse continued. "It's like this guy that's doing things that are problematic — taking away fact-checking and safety concerns, making people who are already threatened in this world more threatened." For context, on Jan. 7, Mark announced that Meta would replace its fact-checking systems on Instagram and Facebook with "community notes," similar to Elon Musk's X. Mark claimed that the original fact-checking system had led to "too many mistakes and too much censorship" and was "too politically biased." Following Donald Trump's win in the 2024 presidential election, Mark donated $1 million to his inaugural fund alongside other tech giants, including Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, Apple CEO Tim Cook, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Companies such as Amazon, Meta, Google, Microsoft, Uber, and Toyota also donated $1 million. "I'm concerned just as a person who reads a newspaper," Jesse continued. "I don't think about, 'Oh, I played the guy in the movie and therefore…' It's just, I'm a human being and you read these things and these people have billions upon billions of dollars, more money than any human person has ever amassed. And what are they doing with it? Oh, they're doing it to curry favor with somebody who's preaching hateful things." But this isn't just about Jesse putting distance between himself and the film version of Mark. He said he thinks this way "not as a person who played [him] in a movie" but as "as just somebody who is married to a woman who teaches disability justice in New York and lives for her students are going to get a little harder this year."'
