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Movie are we there yet cast11/9/2023 A Willy Wonka prequel doesn't sound like the most promising concept, but then, neither did a live-action Paddington Bear movie and "Wonka" director Paul King ended up making two very enjoyable movies out of that with "Paddington" and "Paddington 2", so hopefully he'll be able to pull off a similar feat here. The latest cinematic adaptation of Roald Dahl's 1964 book "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," following the 1971 film starring Gene Wilder and the 2005 movie starring Johnny Depp, is this film starring Timothée Chalamet as the eccentric chocolatier Willy Wonka in his early days. "The Zone of Interest" premiered earlier this year in competition for the Palme d'Or at Cannes, where it received highly positive reviews as well as four awards including the Grand Prix, the festival's second-most prestigious prize. Jonathan Glazer's first movie in a decade since his entrancing Scarlett Johansson sci-fi film "Under the Skin" is this loose adaptation of Martin Amis' 2014 novel, following Auschwitz concentration camp commandant Rudolf Höss (Christian Friedel) and his wife (Sandra Hüller) who live in a house next to the camp. "Poor Things" looks to have a distinctive visual style based on its trailer, and an intriguing cast also including stand-up comics Ramy Youssef and Jerrod Carmichael. 8 in theaters)ĭirector Yorgos Lanthimos, screenwriter Tony McNamara and actress Emma Stone reunite after previously working together on 2018's Oscar-winning "The Favourite" with this adaptation of Alasdair Grey's 1992 novel, following a young woman (Stone) who is brought back from the dead by a mad scientist (Willem Dafoe) and thirsts for life, running off with a lawyer (Mark Ruffalo) on a cross-continent trip. The cast features Tom Hardy, recent "Elvis" Oscar nominee Austin Butler, Jodie Comer and Michael Shannon, who continues his streak in appearing in all of Nichols' films thus far, including leading roles in "Midnight Special," "Take Shelter" and "Shotgun Stories." 'Poor Things' (Dec. Writer-director Jeff Nichols' first film since 2016, when he released both "Midnight Special" and the Oscar-nominated "Loving," uses Danny Lyon's 1968 photobook of the same name as inspiration for its story following a fictional Midwestern motorcycle club in the 1960s. Multiple movies of Larraín's have been Oscar-nominated, including "Jackie" and "Spencer" for Best Actress and "No" for Best International Feature Film, so while you can already cross off "El Conde" in the latter category - Chile submitted the film "The Settlers" instead this year - you may very well see it nominated elsewhere. 15 on Netflix)Ĭhilean director Pablo Larraín, who has directed the biopics "Jackie" about Jacqueline Kennedy and "Spencer" about Princess Diana (with another biopic about opera singer Maria Callas starring Angelina Jolie in the works), returns to his home country for this film imagining Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet as a 250-year-old vampire. Ticket Newsletter: Sign up to receive restaurant news and reviews plus info on things to do every Friday 'El Conde' (Sept. Release dates are subject to change (even more than usual, with the WGA and SAG strikes.)īest independent movie theaters from Sarasota to Tampa, from drive-ins to movie palacesĥ0+ fun things to do in September in Sarasota, Manatee and Charlotte counties To help keep track of it all, here are the most notable movie awards season contenders of 2023, listed in roughly chronological order. 4), plus films that already earned critical acclaim at Cannes Film Festival earlier this summer and others still yet to make their debut. Yet there are still plenty of movies making the traditional premieres at Toronto International Film Festival (Sept. And this year, two of the biggest awards season contenders are also two of the summer's biggest blockbusters: Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer" and Greta Gerwig's "Barbie," the pair comprising the "Barbenheimer" phenomenon, that now have an even stronger chance of earning Oscar nominations with "Dune: Part Two" moving to 2024 and leaving several races wide open. Since the strike, those studios have pushed back the release dates of films such as "Dune: Part Two," the sequel to the 2021 sci-fi epic that won six Oscars, and "Challengers," the Luca Guadagnino-directed romance that was initially set to open this year's Venice Film Festival. The Writers Guild of America and Screen Actors Guild were still on strike as of press time, with a deal not yet reached with movie studios. And this year looks to be a particularly eventful one, both for the drama happening on the big screen and offscreen. As the summer blockbuster season comes to a close and some of the biggest annual film festivals take place this week, we've entered another one of the most notable times of the year for movies: awards season, where many of the films likely to later compete at the Oscars make their debuts.
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