A short film, "Love Letter to England," featuring Ian McKellen and James Graham, explores English identity and national cohesion. It's part of an initiative by the Independent Commission on Community and Cohesion to gather public views on belonging and the country's future.
Anya Taylor-Joy joins the cast of "The Hunt for Gollum" as Seren, a new elf character created for the film. Directed by Andy Serkis, the movie focuses on Aragorn's pursuit of Gollum. Taylor-Joy's role suggests a potential "road movie" dynamic with Aragorn and Gollum, exploring themes of espionage and the fate of Middle-earth.
L'acteur Ian McKellen, interprète de Magneto, a révélé avoir crié "Mar-a-Lago !" lors du tournage d'un film, exprimant ainsi son mécontentement envers Donald Trump et ses politiques.
A Neil Diamond tribute act's story is turned into a movie starring Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson, following a Milwaukee couple's rise to fame with their band, Lightning and Thunder.
Ian McKellen joined a London march against the criminalisation of LGBTQ+ people in 29 Commonwealth countries, calling the situation 'appalling'. The protest, 'Commonwealth Walk of Shame', targeted high commissions of 8 countries with such laws, including Nigeria and Uganda where the death penalty applies.
Il 19 maggio 2006 usciva al cinema "Il Codice Da Vinci", thriller di Ron Howard basato sul romanzo di Dan Brown. Il film, con Tom Hanks e Audrey Tautou, incassò oltre 760 milioni di dollari. A 20 anni dall'uscita, ecco come sono cambiati gli attori principali.
From Soderbergh to Aronofsky, esteemed Hollywood directors are starting to find ways to include artificial intelligence in the production of their filmsIn Steven Soderbergh’s beguiling new movie The Christophers, a reclusive artist (Ian McKellen) tangles with the quiet art forger (Michaela Coel) who his greedy children have hired to secretly finish further entries in a well-known painting series. The movie is smart and provocative about the nature of artistry and authorship, exploring what it means to create – and to stop creating. It’s especially fascinating coming from Soderbergh, who has made movies with workhorse dependability (The Christophers is his third theatrical release of the past 18 months) and also spent four years retired from directing features entirely.It also provides particularly jarring context for Soderbergh, in interviews promoting the film, to voice his interest in something that a lot of great artists have pointedly refused to embrace: using AI in films. Soderbergh mentioned in an interview with Filmmaker Magazine that he used what sounds like generative AI to produce “thematically surreal images that occupy a dream space rather than a literal space” for his upcoming documentary about John Lennon and Yoko Ono. He also said that a movie he’s hoping to make about the Spanish-American war would use “a lot of AI”. In a subsequent conversation with Variety, Soderbergh didn’t sound like an AI evangelist, but nor did he back down: “I don’t think it’s the solution to everything, and I don’t think it’s the death of everything. We’re in the very early stages. Five years from now, we all may be going, ‘That was a fun phase.’ We may end up not using it as much as we thought we were going to.” Continue reading...
