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Annette Bening On Women In The Biz: “The Direction We Are Going Is Positive”–...
The Venice Film Festival kicks off in earnest tonight with the official world premiere screening of Alexander Payne’s Downsizing in competition. Ahead of that (and after the well-met press screening of...
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‘Downsizing’ Teaser: First Look At Alexander Payne’s Venice Opener
UPDATED with press conference details: Alexander Payne's Downsizing splashed onto the Lido this morning as the Venice Film Festival gets underway. The sci-fi comedy was met with applause at the first...
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Dueling Premieres Put Gary Oldman And Annette Bening Back In Oscar Hunt –...
On the first day of the 44th Annual Telluride Film Festival both Gary Oldman as British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour, and Annette Bening as Oscar winning 50s film star Gloria...
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Musings From The Lido: Strong Women, Climate Change, Cold War Parallels – Venice
Annette Bening's jury will hand out its prizes later tonight as the Venice Film Festival wraps up here on the Lido. This is the first time since 2006 that a woman has chaired the main panel, and while...
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‘Downsizing’ Trailer: Matt Damon Gets Small, And Discovers A Big New World
Alexander Payne’s satire Downsizing drew plaudits when it opened the Venice Film Festival two weeks ago, and today Paramount has dropped the first full trailer. The film takes the premise of how much...
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Alexander Payne On ‘Downsizing’ And Finding A Fictional Solution To The...
Alexander Payne had the distinction of opening this year's Venice Film Festival with his new film Downsizing, which followed last year's La La Land in a first-night slot that is often seen as a...
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Matt Damon To Receive Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award From BAFTA LA
BAFTA LA has set Matt Damon as the recipient of its Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for Excellence in Film. Presented by Newegg, the prize is given to “a unique individual, upon whose work is stamped...
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‘Downsizing’ Trailer: Matt Damon Gets Small & Dreams Big In Alexander Payne Pic
“In Leisureland, your $100,000 translates to $12 million.” Sounds great, but there’s gotta be a catch, right? Well yes, a little one: You must be shrunk to five inches tall. Welcome to the wee, wacky...
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Jennifer Lawrence Proudly Owns ‘Mother!’s Polarized Reception; ‘Downsizing’...
“It’s certainly not a darling. It never crossed our mind that everyone was going to love it,” Jennifer Lawrence said at The Contenders today of mother!, Darren Aronofsky’s polarizing Paramount picture...
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Lessons From ‘The Wedding Singer’: Those Good-Natured Screen Gropes Are A...
The Wedding Singer, on cable the other night, brought some unexpected lessons with it. Arguably Adam Sandler’s sweetest work, the film is about a singing schmoe who gets left at the altar and...
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‘Downsizing’ Production Designer Stefania Cella On Contemplating What It...
While Downsizing‘s protagonist, Paul (Matt Damon), is shrunk down to five centimeters in height in the pursuit of a better life, Italian production designer Stefania Cella found herself creatively...
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Little People Played Big Enough At A Guild Screening Of Alexander Payne’s...
The challenge for Alexander Payne's Downsizing is obvious: Its people are small, but its themes are very big. And whether those are too large, and manifold, for a pop culture that likes to gnaw on its...
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‘Downsizing’ VFX Supervisor James E. Price On Satire’s “Spectacularly Banal”...
When visual effects supervisor James E. Price met with Alexander Payne regarding Downsizing—his first film in which visual effects play a major role—Price expressed his desire to work on the film,...
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‘Downsizing’ Golden Globe Nominee Hong Chau Tells How She Got The Role Of A...
Hong Chau, who plays a disabled Vietnamese refugee in the new Alexander Payne comedy Downsizing is on a roll, having nailed a Golden Globe Best Supporting Actress nomination earlier today, as well as...
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‘Downsizing’ Review: Matt Damon Gets Small In A Smart, Funny & Human Movie...
There is no smarter director of wry and human comedy than Alexander Payne, whose filmography includes gems like Election, Nebraska, About Schmidt and Oscar-winning scripts like Sideways and The...
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Scheduled for release next week, Paramount's Annihilation is stirring expectations despite its unsettling title. The cerebral sci-fi genre thriller represents the last in an anomalous slate of films...
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