World Movie News: The Last 24 Hours
The Gotham nominations kick off awards season, Dune: Part Three’s final trailer, Ozzy at the cinema, Ghost Rider’s villain & Peter Medak has passed.
Morning, all. After yesterday’s Bowie premiere and the sad news about Susan Saint James, awards season has officially begun, there’s a new trailer for Dune Part 3 and Ozzy’s roots are exposed.
The first awards of the season: The Gotham Film Awards, the first major awards ceremony of the year, have announced their nominations, with five films tied at the top with four apiece: Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s All of a Sudden, Clarissa, La Gradiva, Olivia Wilde’s The Invite and Mike Leigh’s Tender Loving Care. Leigh’s potentially final film is nominated for Best International Feature, Best Director, Original Screenplay and Supporting Performance, for Kate O’Flynn (I’m afraid I don’t share this love for the TLC leads). The Best Feature nominees include The Debut, which closed the London Film Festival, and A24 landed four of the places, with Club Kid, The Debut, The Invite and Primetime. Pawlikowski’s Fatherland and Lee Chang-dong’s Possible Love, both of which opened in UK cinemas last Friday, are among the Best International Feature nominees, and You Can See Everything picked up a Best Documentary nomination. The winners will be announced at a ceremony in New York on 30 November.
Dune: Part Three’s final trailer: Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary have released the final trailer and a new poster for Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Three, which opens on 18 December. If you want to see it in IMAX 70mm at the BFI, as I mentioned last week, you’d better be quick, as 33,000 tickets sold in a day.
Ozzy at the cinema: In UK cinemas on Wednesday, Ozzy & Black Sabbath: Back to the Beginning documents Ozzy Osbourne’s final farewell performance at Villa Park in his native Birmingham, which took place just 17 days before his death. It features performances from Ozzy and Black Sabbath as well as some of the biggest names in rock, and it should be a must for heavy metal fans.
Ghost Rider’s villain: Connor Storrie, the breakout star of Heated Rivalry, is in talks to play a villain opposite Ryan Gosling in Marvel’s Ghost Rider, according to reports.
Peter Medak, 1937–2026: The Hungarian-born British director died on Tuesday in Los Angeles, aged 88. Born in Budapest, he fled to England during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, worked his way up from the sound and editing rooms to become an assistant director to Joan Littlewood and Guy Hamilton, and made his feature debut with Negatives in 1968. He directed 27 features, including the pitch-black Peter O’Toole comedy The Ruling Class (1972), which competed for the Palme d’Or, the Alan Bates drama A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, the George C. Scott ghost story The Changeling (1980), which won eight Genie Awards including best picture, Gary and Martin Kemp’s The Krays (1990), for which he won the Evening Standard Award for best director, Let Him Have It (1991) and Romeo Is Bleeding (1993). His television work included The Wire, Breaking Bad and Hannibal, and he is survived by his four children and five grandchildren. Malcolm McDowell, who he helped launch into acting in Figures in a Landscape, called him one of his oldest and dearest friends. Rest in peace.
Birthdays: Winona Ryder, star of Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands, turns 55 today, and Richard Dreyfuss of Jaws and Close Encounters of the Third Kind turns 79. Also celebrating is Gabrielle Union (54), star of Bring It On.
That’s all for today.
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