AFI Fest Adds Films ‘Heretic’ and ‘Maria’ to 2024 Lineup

Hugh Grant in 'Heretic.'

AFI Fest continues to roll out alternatives for subsequent month’s competition forward of the reveal of the total lineup. The newest additions, billed as purple carpet premieres, embrace the Hugh Grant-starrer Heretic from Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, and Pablo Larraín’s Maria starring Angelina Jolie because the famed opera singer. Heretic comes first, with its … Read more

Angelina Jolie Maria Biopic Reflects Darker Times Opera Legend’s Life

Angelina Jolie Maria Biopic Reflects Darker Times Opera Legend’s Life

Angelina Jolie says Maria, her newest film the place she performs the world’s best opera singer, is about an artist confronted with artistic struggles and doubt. “In direction of the top of her lifetime of her life she had highs and the best highs, have been the place she might actually really feel she was … Read more

Angelina Jolie and Pablo Larraín on Reactions to ‘Maria,’ Singing Opera and Celebrity

Angelina Jolie, Pablo Larraín

On Sunday, lower than 24 hours after the Telluride Movie Competition’s North American premiere of Maria, a drama concerning the rollercoaster lifetime of the legendary opera singer Maria Callas, The Hollywood Reporter sat down with its star, Angelina Jolie, and director, Pablo Larraín, for a wide-ranging dialog. Jolie stated of taking part in Callas, in … Read more

Angelina Jolie Is in the Hunt for Second Oscar With ‘Maria’

Angelina Jolie Is in the Hunt for Second Oscar With 'Maria'

On the Academy Awards ceremony held earlier this 12 months, Emma Stone was awarded her second finest actress Oscar, a mere seven years after profitable her first. You may assume that profitable a number of appearing Oscars could be an excessive rarity, however you’d be unsuitable. Stone turned the forty fifth performer ever conferred multiple. … Read more