John Singleton of ‘Boys N the Hood’ in coma after stroke
LOS ANGELES (AP) — "Boyz N the Hood" director John Singleton is in a coma at a Los Angeles hospital eight days after suffering a major stroke, court papers filed Thursday showed.
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Hellboy is back and he's got a dirty mouth and a man bun.
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Criterion Collection to launch stand-alone streaming service
NEW YORK (AP) — FilmStruck may be no more, but the Criterion Collection will live on as a subscription-streaming service.
In an announcement that warmed the hearts of cinephiles everywhere, Criterion said Friday that it has reached an agreement with WarnerMedia to launch the Criterion Channel as a stand-alone service in spring next year.
Wildfire torches famed movie site, sends celebrities fleeing
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A fast-moving wildfire in Southern California has scorched a historic movie site recently used by the HBO series "Westworld" and forced numerous celebrities to join the thousands fleeing flames that have claimed homes and prompted the total evacuation of the celebrity enclave Malibu.
Mexican director Cuaron’s ‘Roma’ wins top prize at Venice
ROME (AP) — "Roma," Alfonso Cuaron's intimate, black-and-white portrait of the women who raised him in Mexico City's turbulent 1970s, has won the top prize at the 75th Venice Film Festival.
Cuaron accepted the Leone d'Oro on Saturday, which he said was the birthday of the woman who inspired the lead character Cleo, a young domestic worker with her own troubles amid political strife in the city's Roma neighborhood.
Guillermo del Toro passionately pushes for gender equality
VENICE, Italy (AP) — Guillermo del Toro says a push for gender equality in Hollywood "is beyond a gesture, it's a need."
The Mexican director behind the Oscar-winning "The Shape of Water" was speaking Wednesday at the Venice International Film Festival, where he is head of this year's jury. In a passionate speech during the jury press conference, de Toro said: "The goal has to be clear and has to remain to be 50/50 by 2020."
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Thousands of people gathered in Mexico's second-largest city Thursday to protest the deaths of three film students who were killed and dissolved in acid in a case that has highlighted the disappearance of the country's youth amid a vicious drug war.
Steven DeKnight wants Charlie Hunnam to return to Pacific Rim franchise
Steven DeKnight hopes Charlie Hunnam will come back for a third instalment of the 'Pacific Rim' franchise.
The 37-year-old actor starred as hero Raleigh Beckett in Guillermo del Toro's first instalment of the sci-fi franchise, but due to scheduling conflicts, he was unable to reprise his role in DeKnight's sequel, but the filmmaker hopes Hunnam will return in the future.
Mexico offers reward for 3 missing film students
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Officials in Mexico are offering a $55,000 reward for information about three film students who were abducted a week ago.
The government of western Jalisco state offered the reward Monday after protesters demanded they be found.
Award-winning Mexican directors like Guillermo del Toro and Alfonso Cuaron also joined their calls.
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A trio of Mexican directors known as the Three Amigos has made their mark on Hollywood, dominating the Academy Awards best picture contest in recent years with films that have little connection to their homeland. But a new generation of Mexican filmmakers is finding international success with films produced in their own country.
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A new wave of Mexican filmmakers is succeeding abroad — and unlike recent best picture winners — they're doing it with local productions that spotlight their homeland.
Alonso Ruizpalacios, Amat Escalante and Michel Franco are among the young directors benefiting from tax incentives created after the Three Amigos — directors Guillermo del Toro, Alejandro G. Inarritu and Alfonso Cuaron — left home.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The 90th annual Academy Awards were, by any definition, a moment of triumph for Latinos.
‘Shape of Water’ triumphs at Oscars
"Look around, ladies and gentlemen," Frances McDormand said during her best actress acceptance speech. "We all have stories to tell." She was referring to the female Oscar nominees in the Dolby Theatre, all of whom she'd asked to stand in unison. But it felt like she was also addressing the evening's broader vibe: Change, of many kinds, at the first post-Harvey Weinstein Academy Awards.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Guillermo del Toro paid tribute to Mexico, to immigrants and to the borderless "world of filmmakers" as he accepted Oscars for best director and best picture Sunday night.
Del Toro's "The Shape of Water," a sumptuous, sensual fairytale that is a Technicolor ode to outsiders, was the evening's top winner with four Academy Awards. It also won best original score and production design.
"Growing up in Mexico, I thought this could never happen," del Toro said. "It happens."
Guillermo Del Toro, ‘Shape of Water’ director, Movies erase national sovereignty
The "immigrant" theme dominated the acceptance speech, and not for the first time Sunday, in one of the major Oscar categories the best director award.
Fantasy director Guillermo Del Toro won the Oscar for his film "The Shape of Water" and leaped right into the matter and said movies should lead to one world and erase national sovereignty.
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1. AND THE OSCAR GOES TO ...
Director Guillermo del Toro's Cold War fantasy film "The Shape of Water" wins best picture, but change, of many kinds, was front and center at the first post-Harvey Weinstein Academy Awards.
Del Toro ‘speaking from the heart’ on Oscar stage
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Latest on the 90th annual Academy Awards, which are being bestowed Sunday at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood (all times local):
8:45 p.m.
The Cold War fantasy film "The Shape of Water" is the winner of the best picture Academy Award.
Director Guillermo del Toro's film has been considered one of the front-runners for the evening's top honor. It received a leading 13 nominations for this year's Oscars, and won four Oscars on Sunday night.
Del Toro: Oscar win ‘feels beautiful’
‘Shape of Water’ triumphs at Oscars
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Director Guillermo del Toro's Cold War fantasy film "The Shape of Water" wins the best picture Academy Award.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The end of the Oscars on Sunday felt like an epic do-over.
Just like last year, Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway took the stage to announce the biggest award of the night, best picture.
Last year's announcement went famously awry when Dunaway announced that "La La Land" won best picture, only for that film's producer to tell a shocked audience that the real winner was "Moonlight." Dunaway and Beatty had been handed the incorrect envelope.
‘Shape of Water’ wins top prize on an Oscar night that celebrated the new breed
Introduced flawlessly this time by returning presenters Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, the science-fiction/espionage/romance musical The Shape of Water won the Academy Award for best picture on a night when the entertainment industry seemed to be in the process of reinterpreting itself.
List of winners for the 90th Academy Awards
List of winners for the 90th Academy Awards presented Sunday by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences:
Best Picture: "The Shape of Water."
Actor: Gary Oldman, "Darkest Hour."
Actress: Frances McDormand, "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri."
Supporting Actor: Sam Rockwell, "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri."
Supporting Actress: Allison Janney, "I, Tonya."
Directing: "The Shape of Water," Guillermo del Toro.
Sally Field busts out old outfits at costume guild awards
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Wonder Woman's gilded bustier, the spangled skating dresses in "I, Tonya" and the subdued shades of the 1960s as shown in "The Shape of Water" were among the finest costumes of the year, according to the Costume Designers Guild.
The Latest: ‘Wonder Woman,’ ‘I, Tonya’ costumes celebrated
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on the Costume Designers Guild Awards (all times local):
3:25 a.m.
The Costume Designers Guild says Wonder Woman's gilded bustier, the spangled skating dresses in "I, Tonya" and the subdued shades of the 1960s as shown in "The Shape of Water" were among the finest costumes of the year.
Alexandre Desplat defends Guillermo del Toro’s plagiarism accusations
Alexandre Desplat thinks it "makes no sense" that Guillermo del Toro has been accused of plagiarism.
The critically-acclaimed director is currently under fire from 'Amelie' filmmaker Jean-Pierre Jeunet after he claimed del Toro copied a scene from one his 1991 fantasy/crime movie 'Delicatessen'.
But now the 56-year-old composer - who collaborated with the Mexican filmmaker in his latest movie 'The Shape of Water' - has defended him saying the accusations are a "mistake".