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21-05-2025
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Scarlett Johansson's Directorial Debut ‘Eleanor The Great': Watch Exclusive First-Look Clip
EXCLUSIVE: Deadline can reveal the first clip of Scarlett Johansson's directorial debut Eleanor the Great, which will premiere in the Un Certain Regard lineup at the Cannes Film Festival, which begins next week. The culmination of Johansson's long-held dream to direct a feature, Eleanor the Great stars nonagenarian June Squibb as Eleanor, a woman grieving the loss of Bessie, her best friend and roommate. When she moves to Manhattan to live with her daughter and grandson, Eleanor finds herself going on something of an odyssey in search of connection — with sometimes shocking results. When she inadvertently joins a Holocaust survivors' group, Eleanor is reminded of her late friend Bessie's harrowing experience growing up in Nazi-occupied Poland. But, when Nina, a journalism student, takes a vested interest in Eleanor, the truth suddenly becomes a slippery subject. More from Deadline From Tom Cruise To Emma Stone: Which Stars Are Likely To Walk The Cannes Film Festival Red Carpet? Cannes Competition Lineup: Aster, Trier, Dardennes, Reichardt, Ducournau, Wes Anderson & More — Full List Gilles Lellouche & Lars Eidinger To Star In WWII Resistance Movie 'Moulin' For Director Laszlo Nemes & 'La Vie En Rose' Producer Alain Goldman - Cannes Market The above first-look clip shows Squibb as Eleanor in feisty form. As she readies to pack up and leave Florida for New York, she shuts down her passive aggressive neighbor's comments with a comeback about the woman's husband. 'Say goodbye to Melvin for me,' Eleanor says, with a twinkle in her eye. 'We had such a wonderful time the other night. He's very strong.' Johansson has been behind the camera before, directing a 12-minute short called These Vagabond Shoes for the 2008 portmanteau film New York, I Love You. But this is the first feature she's ever directed. The film also stars Erin Kellyman as Nina, Chiwetel Ejiofor as Nina's father, Breaking Bad's Jessica Hecht as Eleanor's daughter and Holocaust survivor Rita Zohar as Bessie. Kellyman, who will next appear in Danny Boyle's 28 Years Later, was most recently seen alongside Saoirse Ronan in Blitz. Eleanor the Great is from a screenplay by first-time feature writer Tory Kamen, and sees Sony Pictures Classics and TriStar Pictures partnering for the first time. The film is produced by Johansson's These Pictures with Jonathan Lia and Keenan Flynn, Pinky Promise's Jessamine Burgum and Kara Durrett, and Maven Screen Media's Trudie Styler and Celine Rattray. Check out the clip above. { pmcCnx({ settings: { plugins: { pmcAtlasMG: { iabPlcmt: 1, }, pmcCnx: { singleAutoPlay: 'auto' } } }, playerId: "32fe25c4-79aa-406a-af44-69b41e969e71", mediaId: "6349cf47-e197-4742-bccb-71d7c78903a0", }).render("connatix_player_6349cf47-e197-4742-bccb-71d7c78903a0_4"); }); Best of Deadline All The Songs In Netflix's 'Forever': From Tyler The Creator To SZA 2025 TV Series Renewals: Photo Gallery 2025 TV Cancellations: Photo Gallery
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21-05-2025
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Scarlett Johansson's ‘Eleanor The Great' Starring June Squibb Draws Six-Minute Ovation At Cannes
Scarlett Johansson's Eleanor the Great had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival today, where it received a six-minute ovation. She said afterward that her film is 'very timely.' Playing in the Un Certain Regard strand, Johansson's feature directorial debut stars nonagenarian June Squibb as Eleanor, a woman grieving the loss of Bessie, her best friend and roommate. More from Deadline Scarlett Johansson On Why The Script For Her Directorial Debut 'Eleanor The Great' Made Her Cry: 'It's About Forgiveness' – Cannes Cover Story 'Eleanor The Great' Review: June Squibb Is Quietly Powerful And Touching As A 94-Year-Old Woman Caught Up In A Lie In Scarlett Johansson's Impressive Directorial Debut – Cannes Film Festival Breaking Baz @ Cannes: 'Urchin's' Frank Dillane Arrived In Cannes A Virtual Unknown, But Harris Dickinson's Directorial Debut Has Made Him A Star When Eleanor moves to Manhattan to live with her daughter and grandson, she finds herself going on something of an odyssey in search of connection — with sometimes shocking results. When she inadvertently joins a Holocaust survivors group, Eleanor is reminded of her late friend Bessie's harrowing experience growing up in Nazi-occupied Poland. But when journalism student Nina (Erin Kellyman) takes a vested interest in Eleanor, the truth suddenly becomes a slippery subject. RELATED: The film also stars as Chiwetel Ejiofor as Nina's father, Breaking Bad's Jessica Hecht as Eleanor's daughter and Holocaust survivor Rita Zohar as Bessie. Eleanor the Great is from a screenplay by first-time feature writer Tory Kamen. Sony Pictures Classics and TriStar Pictures are partners on the film that's produced by Johansson's These Pictures with Jonathan Lia and Keenan Flynn, Pinky Promise's Jessamine Burgum and Kara Durrett, and Maven Screen Media's Trudie Styler and Celine Rattray. Johansson has been behind the camera before, directing a 12-minute short called These Vagabond Shoes for the 2008 portmanteau New York, I Love has previously appeared in such Cannes premieres as Match Point (2005), Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008), Asteroid City (2023) and this year's The Phoenician Scheme. RELATED: RELATED: Cannes Film Festival Photos Day 7: Spike Lee, Denzel Washington, Dakota Johnson 'Highest 2 Lowest,' 'Splitsville' & Alpha Premieres RELATED: Full List Of Cannes Palme d'Or Winners Through The Years: Photo Gallery Best of Deadline Sean 'Diddy' Combs Sex-Trafficking Trial Updates: Cassie Ventura's Testimony, $10M Hotel Settlement, Drugs, Violence, & The Feds All The 'Mission: Impossible' Movies In Order - See Tom Cruise's 30-Year Journey As Ethan Hunt Denzel Washington's Career In Pictures: From 'Carbon Copy' To 'The Equalizer 3'
Yahoo
21-05-2025
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‘Eleanor The Great' Review: June Squibb Is Quietly Powerful And Touching As A 94-Year-Old Woman Caught Up In A Lie In Scarlett Johansson's Impressive Directorial Debut
Don't let the title fool you. Eleanor the Great is not some royal costume epic set in 1566. Instead Scarlett Johansson's wonderful and richly textured feature directorial debut is a small but beautifully realized story of a 94-year-old woman named Eleanor Morgenstern who, at the point in life where most have just given up, instead packs her bags and moves from Florida to New York City to be closer to her daughter and grandkids. RELATED: More from Deadline Scarlett Johansson On Why The Script For Her Directorial Debut 'Eleanor The Great' Made Her Cry: 'It's About Forgiveness' – Cannes Cover Story Scarlett Johansson's Directorial Debut 'Eleanor The Great': Watch Exclusive First-Look Clip Sebastián Lelio Talks Musical Film 'The Wave' About Chile's 2019 Feminist May Protests: "It Was An Iconic Moment" She is played by 95-year-old June Squibb, who has done the impossible: start a whole new career in her mid-90s as a leading motion picture star. After last season's hit Thelma, in which she showed her action chops in the title role, now she finds a very different kind of title role as a woman who is determined to be on her own but caught up in a little white lie that careens out of control. The Sony Pictures Classics and TriStar Pictures release had its world premiere today in Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival. Grieving after the sudden death of her roommate, Bessie (a riveting Rita Zohar), with whom she lived for 11 years, she now feels so alone in the big city despite a daughter (Jessica Hecht) looking to put her in a home. She is too independent for that and one day, looking for people to talk to, she accidentally stumbles into a Jewish Holocaust survivors group. Bessie was one of those survivors, and Eleanor had heard her devastating story of the camps and Nazis many times. Eleanor did not grow up in the Jewish religion but did convert when she married her husband, but when invited in to sit with the others, she doesn't resist the opportunity to tell Bessie's story. Only one small problem: She makes it her own, and here is where a lie can roll down the hill with no one to stop it. RELATED: As it turns out, there is also a young student, Nina (Erin Kellyman) who is doing an article on this group for her college class and approaches Eleanor to be the highlighted survivor after hearing her (actually Bessie's) life experience. At first reluctant, the lonely Eleanor thinks perhaps Nina could be a friend, so she agrees to interview sessions. Taking this all one step further is the fact that Nina's father, Roger (Chiwetel Ejiofor), happens to be a top local news anchor. After seeing his daughter's article on Eleanor, he decides to make it a featured report on the news, giving the lie even wider exposure. From this point on, it gets even more complicated. Johansson, working with Tory Kamen's screenplay, keeps this all very delicate and a reminder of those wonderful contained New York City-set movies about the human condition, and with the expertise of her cinematographer Helene Louvart, she really captures the city. The most recent example I can think of a NYC tale like this one was Melissa McCarthy starring in Can You Ever Forgive Me? which was about a writer who started falsifying letters from famous people. That one got a few Oscar nominations, and I wouldn't be surprised to hear a lot about Eleanor the Great during awards season, especially when it comes to Squibb, whose moving performance is simply exquisite; there is no other word for it. She completely inhabits this character, and you really feel for her because all she is really doing is keeping the memory of Bessie alive, her grief over her loss so deep. It just gets out of hand. RELATED: Zohar as Rita has a couple of scenes near the beginning but gets a stunning monologue telling her own story to Eleanor in a flashback later on. As Nina, British actress Kellyman sparkles in the role of an eager young journalist who befriends who she believes is a Holocaust survivor. Ejiofor plays her dad with reserved power, never letting his own pent-up and unresolved grief over the loss of his wife and her mother surface. In some ways he and Eleanor are both in denial and each processing their grief in ways that will have consequences. Props to casting directors Ellen Lewis and Kate Sprance for their work here including, at Johansson's urging, the request to have actual Holocaust survivors cast as the members of the group Eleanor joins. Using Shoah Foundation recommendations, they did just that, and it gives this lovely movie even more of a sense of authenticity. There won't be a dry eye in the house for this one. Producers are Jessamine Burgum, Kara Durrett,Trudie Styler, Celine Rattray, Johansson, Jonathan Lia, Keenan Flynn RELATED: Full List Of Cannes Palme d'Or Winners Through The Years: Photo Gallery Title: Eleanor the GreatFestival: Cannes (Un Certain Regard)Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics (in association with TriStar Pictures)Director: Scarlett JohanssonScreenwriter: Tory KamenCast: June Squibb, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rita Zohar, Erin Kellyman, Jessica HechtRunning time: 1 hr 38 min Best of Deadline Sean 'Diddy' Combs Sex-Trafficking Trial Updates: Cassie Ventura's Testimony, $10M Hotel Settlement, Drugs, Violence, & The Feds All The 'Mission: Impossible' Movies In Order - See Tom Cruise's 30-Year Journey As Ethan Hunt Denzel Washington's Career In Pictures: From 'Carbon Copy' To 'The Equalizer 3'
India.com
21-05-2025
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This is world's most expensive film, one scene alone cost Rs 188275659, entered Guinness Book of World Records for… not Tom Cruise's film; Name is…, actors are…
When it comes to crazy and costly movie stunts, which movie comes to mind? We bet you're thinking of Tom Cruise's stunts in Mission: Impossible . But did you know there's one movie that broke a record by featuring the world's first million-dollar aerial stunt? Released in 1993, this film made history with the most expensive aerial stunt ever performed. It was so costly that the lead actor even took a pay cut to help offset the million-dollar price tag. To your surprise, the movie also made it to the Guinness Book of World Records for having the most expensive aerial stunt ever performed. With the entire budget of $70 million (Rs 59917040610), the stunt would be close to Rs 188,275,659, adjusted for inflation. We are talking about movie Cliffhanger starring Sylvester Stallone alongside John Lithgow, Michael Rooker and Janine Turner. The film premiered at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival, and was released in the United States on May 28, 1993, by TriStar Pictures. The worldwide box office was 3.9 times the production budget. The movie earned $255 million worldwide and became the 7th-highest-grossing film of the year. Do you know Stuntman Simon Crane was paid $1 million to perform the aerial transfer scene, where he crossed between two planes at an altitude of 15,000 feet (4,600 m)?
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20-05-2025
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Mattel Is Making a Whac-A-Mole Live-Action and Animation Hybrid Movie, Apparently
The MCU is adding another movie to its franchise. No, not the Marvel Cinematic Universe. We mean the Mattel Cinematic Universe, which is bizarrely a thing after the big success of the Barbie movie. The power of Margot Robbie knows no bounds. We know that there are over a dozen films in the works, many of which we've detailed in this very handy post. But there's yet another one to add. Mattel and TriStar Pictures are developing a live-action and animated hybrid movie about Whac-A-Mole. (Thank you Variety for bringing news to our attention that we truly did not see coming.) For those who are reading this and aren't familiar, Whac-A-Mole is a simple game. It involves a surface, whether on an arcade game or a smaller version for your desk, that has about 4-8 holes in it. The player takes a large mallet and, as little moles pop out of the hole, attempts to hit as many as possible until time runs out. The more moles ya whack, the more points ya get. For the Whac-A-Mole movie from Mattel, we assume that the moles are the animated part and the humans whacking at them are the live-action portion. RELATED ARTICLE After BARBIE, Mattel's Cinematic Universe Is Ready with 15 Movies We don't know what the storyline could be or what's going on in Hollywood these days. But we do know that Mattel Films president Robbie Brenner is stoked about this new film. 'Whac-A-Mole is more than a game — it's a laugh-out-loud battle of reflexes that has brought joy and a little chaos to families for five decades,' said Brenner. 'We're beyond excited to team up with TriStar Pictures to turn the iconic experience into a wild, action-packed ride for the big screen.' So yeah, there's your weird news for the day. Have a good one!
