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Timothée Chalamet and Saoirse Ronan chat fame and friendship

Dec. 18, 2024 18:08 PM EST

LONDON (AP) — Timothée Chalamet and Saoirse Ronan may be juggling multiple releases and busy schedules, but the bright young stars managed to reunite on Wednesday in London for a conversation at the British Film Institute. The former co-stars met on Greta Gerwig’s 2017 high...

'Emilia Pérez' and 'Wicked' advance in Oscars shortlists

Dec. 17, 2024 15:50 PM EST

The Selena Gomez ballad “Mi Camino,” the Will Ferrell and Harper Steele road trip documentary “Will & Harper” and Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’s pulsating “Challengers” score are one step closer to an Oscar nomination. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences unveiled...

The snubs and surprises in the 2025 Golden Globe nominations

Dec. 09, 2024 11:19 AM EST

The Golden Globes nominated more than 40 individual films Monday — and yet still managed to overlook quite a bit. That may just be the brutal truth of awards season: The field narrows and suddenly great performances and wonderful films are simply left in the dust. The Globes have...

The best movies of 2024 as ranked by AP film writers

Dec. 04, 2024 13:29 PM EST

As much as theaters are humming right now, with “Wicked” and “Moana 2" bringing moviegoers by the droves, it's been a fairly bruising movie year. In between the blockbusters, though, the challenge of not just capturing the attention of audiences but of simply getting to the...

Hollywood stars gather for honorary Oscars event celebrating Quincy Jones, Bond producers, more

Nov. 18, 2024 14:21 PM EST

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The family of Quincy Jones was not sure they wanted to attend the Governors Awards. Their father died two weeks before he could accept his second honorary Oscar, alongside Bond producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson, filmmaker Richard Curtis and casting...

What to stream: 'The Piano Lesson,' 'Wicked' album, 'Spellbound' and 'Cruel Intentions' TV series

Nov. 18, 2024 00:11 AM EST

Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo teaming up for the soundtrack to the upcoming movie “Wicked” and a TV series based on the 1999 film “Cruel Intentions” are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you. Also among the streaming offerings worth...

In ‘Blitz,’ Steve McQueen shows wartime London through a child’s eyes

Oct. 31, 2024 15:28 PM EDT

It was a single photograph that started Oscar-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen on the journey to make “Blitz.” As a Londoner, the German bombing raids on the city during World War II are never all that far from his mind. Reminders of it are everywhere. But the spark of inspiration...

Movie Review: Steve McQueen's WWII drama 'Blitz' is more unconventional than it appears

Oct. 30, 2024 15:57 PM EDT

“Blitz,” set in London during World War II, might technically be Steve McQueen ’s first war movie. But struggle and survival has long marked the filmmaker’s tough and tortured work. No matter the circumstance — slavery in “12 Years a Slave,” the 1960s-1980s London of...

Saoirse Ronan felt happy and settled. That's why she could play an alcoholic in 'The Outrun'

Oct. 02, 2024 22:52 PM EDT

The thing about birthing a lamb on camera is you only get one take. Saoirse Ronan had been getting up at dawn to observe local farmers in Orkney in action, soaking in as much as she could. But soon it was her turn. Not only would she have a life in her hands: She had to look like...

Movie Review: A transcendent Saoirse Ronan illuminates true-life addiction drama ‘The Outrun’

Oct. 02, 2024 12:12 PM EDT

At some point during “The Outrun,” it occurred to me that watching Saoirse Ronan act is a bit like looking into a magnifying glass: Everything somehow feels a bit clearer, sharper, more precise. This singular actor gives one of her finest performances in a two-hour study of...