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With all the hype around Will Smith since the Oscars, it was a few days before the Hollywood gossip machine paid attention to some images captured at the traditional Vanity Fair party that didn’t involve Rey’s actor. Richard: A Winning Family. However, yesterday it was his time for the photos that captured Jason Momoa and Kate Beckinsale in lively chat, while the actor put his jacket on his colleague over his shoulders.
The rumor about a possible romance between the two quickly began to circulate in Los Angeles, a city desperate to talk about something other than “slap gate”. Of course, before the speculation got out of control, it was Aquaman himself who clarified that the image captured by the paparazzi does not show anything other than an act of chivalry on his part. “The woman was cold. She is very nice. Now I will not lend my jacket to anyone else, “explained Momoa, interviewed last night at the premiere of the movie Ambulance. Somewhat surprised by the “crazy” conclusion that some came to after seeing the photo, the actor, recently separated from Lisa Bonet, did not reveal anything about his private life but was able to confirm that he will soon begin work on the miniseries Chief of War for Apple TV +. Written, produced, and starred by him, the eight-episode story will portray the story of the unification and colonization of Hawaii, his homeland, from the point of view of his native population.
Harrison Ford hits the small screen
One of the last working movies stars to join the streaming universe, before his fifth appearance as Indiana Jones, a film announced for June 2023, Harrison Ford will appear in the Apple TV+ series Shrinking. The comedy written by Jason Segel and Brett Goldstein, one of the protagonists and screenwriters of Ted Lasso, will focus on a therapist, played by Segel, who in the midst of an emotional crisis begins to tell patients what he thinks of the truth.
According to the official description of the 10-episode series, the change in a method not only turns his back on his training and professional ethics but also begins to change the lives of his patients, the analyst himself, and his mentor, Phil, who will embody Ford. A specialist in cognitive therapy, Phil has a reputation for being brutally honest with everyone, including his family with whom he will have to repair years of estrangement when he is diagnosed with Parkinson’s. This will be Ford’s first “television” role in more than fifty years. Early in his career, the 78-year-old actor appeared in small supporting roles on shows like FBI and Gunsmoke.
Iranian director Asghar Farhadi was found guilty of plagiarism
An Iranian court ruled yesterday that filmmaker Asghar Farhadi, winner of the Grand Jury Prize (second in importance) at the 2021 Cannes festival for his film A Hero, plagiarized the film script from a documentary made by one of her students, Azadeh Masihzadeh, in a non-fiction film workshop.
The conclusion of the case evaluated in the Tehran courts explains that Farhadi, winner of the Oscar in 2012 for the original script of the film separation and again in 2017 in the best foreign film category with The Salesman, violated Masihzadeh’s intellectual property rights by taking elements from his documentary to write the script for A Hero without giving him proper credit. The student screened the documentary film All-Winners All Losers, at the film workshop given by Farhadi in 2014. According to an article in the newspaper El País, since last year, when the film premiered at the Cannes festival, people had spoken of possible plagiarism and from Iran, the criticism of the director also included claims from his colleagues in prison accusing him of being lukewarm and of ignoring the human rights violations in his country.
When A Hero premiered in Spain a few months ago, Farhadi explained that he had based the film’s script on a true story portrayed in a television report about the “hero shown in my film.” At that time, the director also said that the case had not yet been prosecuted, which happened days later when he sued his former student for libel. Both lawsuits were resolved in favor of Masihzadeh. While many associate the court’s decision with Farhadi’s growing public criticism of his country’s government, the truth is that the director now awaits his sentence, which could involve paying a fine equal to his earnings from the film or even jail.
Elvis: From Memphis to Cannes
Although there are still a few days to go before the schedule for the 75th is officially announced. edition of the Cannes film festival that will take place from May 17 to 28, yesterday it was confirmed that the film Elvis, dedicated to the history of Elvis Presley and directed by Baz Luhrmann. will have its world premiere there. Likewise, it was confirmed that the director and his cast headed by Austin Butler (Presley) and Tom Hanks, who plays Colonel Parker, legendary representative of the king of rock, will be present at the movie buff.
Although it is not yet known whether Luhrmann’s film, whose filming was affected by pauses and delays due to the pandemic -Hanks contracted Coronavirus during filming in March 2020 in Australia-, will have the privilege of opening the festival, the background of the director tips the balance in that direction. Luhrmann is the only director in the history of the film gathering to have opened the festival twice: in 2001 he did so with Moulin Rouge and The Great Gatsby took that coveted spot in 2013.
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