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After conquering the pop world for the better part of the 2024, Charli Xcx is set to transition into acting with a number of upcoming film roles, including Romain Gavras’ Sacrifice and Greg Araki’s I Want Your Sex. If there was any doubt that the UK singer has the acting chops, look no further than her debut turn as host on Saturday Night Live over the weekend, where she delivered a number of scene-stealing performances.

Among the highlights was a sequel to SNL’s recent viral sketch centering around heartthrob Domino (played by Marcello Hernandez) and his mistress Kelsey (Chloe Fineman). The original skit starred Ariana Grande as part of a group of bridesmaids recounting a bachelorette party set to the tune of Sabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso.” In the sequel, Charli stepped in the place of Grande as celebrated Kelsey’s pregnancy by sharing the story of their “one last...

Inspired by a true story, The Girl with the Needle draws from one of the most heinous murder cases in Danish history. Mubi has unveiled an official trailer that introduces the grim tale, told in stunning Gothic style.

The Girl with the Needle releases in theaters on December 6, 2024.

The film “follows Karoline, a young factory worker, as she is struggling to survive in post WW1 Copenhagen. When she finds herself unemployed, abandoned and pregnant, she meets Dagmar (Trine Dyrholm), a charismatic woman running an underground adoption agency, helping mothers to find foster homes for their unwanted children. With nowhere else to turn, Karoline takes on the role of a wet nurse. A strong connection is formed between the two women, but Karoline’s world shatters when she stumbles upon the shocking truth behind her work.”

Magnus von Horn directs The Girl with the Needle from a script he co-wrote with Line Langebeck.

After making a splash with his influencer satire Sweat, Swedish director Magnus von Horn returned to Cannes Film Festival earlier this year with the black-and-white drama The Girl with the Needle. Picked up by Mubi for a release on December 6, the first trailer has now arrived for Denmark’s Oscar entry.

Here’s the synopsis: “Karoline (Vic Carmen Sonne), a young factory worker, is struggling to survive in post WW1 Copenhagen. When she finds herself unemployed, abandoned and pregnant, she meets Dagmar (Trine Dyrholm), a charismatic woman running an underground adoption agency, helping mothers to find foster homes for their unwanted children. With nowhere else to turn, Karoline takes on the role of a wet-nurse. A strong connection is formed between the two women, but Karoline’s world shatters when she stumbles upon the shocking truth behind her work. Inspired by a true story and directed by Magnus von Horn...

Now that's how you do a trailer! Today's first look at The Girl With The Needle, the official Danish entry for Best International Feature at the Academy Awards, gives absolutely nothing away but still manages to be bleak and weird and completely intriguing. The main character, Karoline (Vic Carmen Sonne) might have killed her husband.

The 2024 Lacma Art+Film Gala attracted some of the biggest stars of film, television, music and art on Saturday night in Los Angeles.

Among those spotted at the 13th annual event, presented by Gucci, were Kim Kardashian wearing Princess Diana jewels she bought at an auction, the evening’s co-chairs Leonardo DiCaprio and Eva Chow, Colman Domingo, Andrew Garfield, Laura Dern, Ricky Martin, Omar Apollo, Nicholas Hoult, Jennifer Tilly, Matt Friend, Lisa Ann Walter, Kaia Gerber, Cooper Koch, Nicholas Alexander Chavez, Chloe Sevigny, Javier Bardem, Viola Davis, Anna Kendrick, Sarah Paulson, John David Washington, Dev Patel and Eliza Gonzales, among many others.

Baz Luhrmann was honored with this year’s film award, presented by Anna Wintour, while sculptor Simone Leigh received the art award from attorney and social justice advocate Brian Stevenson.

“I am shaking a bit actually,” Luhrmann said, adding, “In fact, I’m a little bit crying inside.

On Saturday November 2 2024, Disney broadcasts Zombies: The Re-Animated Series!

A Fridge Too Far / The Ter-meh-nator Season 1 Episode 16 Episode Summary

The upcoming episode of “Zombies: The Re-Animated Series” titled “A Fridge Too Far / The Ter-meh-nator” promises to be an exciting adventure for Zed and his friends. In this episode, the gang discovers a mini fridge that they hope will help them keep their snacks cool. However, the fridge turns out to be too small for all of them to share, leading to some funny and chaotic moments as they try to figure out how to divide their treats.

Meanwhile, Bree faces a different challenge. She dreams of getting into the Cheer Hall of Fame, a big goal for her. However, a negative comment from someone shakes her confidence and makes her doubt her abilities. This storyline highlights Bree’s struggle with self-esteem and the importance of believing in oneself, even when faced with criticism.

Charli Xcx has unveiled Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat, a remix version of her 2024 smash LP.

The stacked take on Brat features the previously released remixes: “Von dutch” with A.G. Cook and Addison Rae, “360” with Robyn and Yung Lean, the “Girl, so confusing” remix with Lorde, “Guess” with Billie Eilish, and “Talk Talk” featuring Troye Sivan. The project is rounded out by reimagined versions of all the other songs on Brat, including a new take on “Sympathy is a knife” with Ariana Grande and “I might say something stupid” with The 1975, where her fiancé, George Daniel, serves as drummer.

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The album also welcomes Bon Iver for one of the more introspective songs on the LP, “I think about it all the time.” Longtime collaborator A.G. Cook also appears on the new version of “So I,” while Consequence CoSign...

Survivor 47 got off to a good start with last week’s premiere. It kept things simple, made a couple small but great changes, and showcased the potential of what will hopefully continue to be a strong cast. We even saw a player – Andy – have an epic meltdown and still manage to live to fight another day.

And the second episode delivered as well. If this is how Survivor 47 is going to go all season, we could be in for something special.

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Rome is itching to finish the quest for Beware Advantage. The night before he found the box, but was too dark to read the note, so he hid the box to return to later. He also decides he needs to bring somebody else in on this, and settles on Teeny. And Teeny is…less than enthused. Rome had become the initial first target,...

Denmark has selected Magnus von Horn’s The Girl With the Needle as its Oscar submission for the Best International Feature Film category.

Starring Vic Carmen Sonne and Trine Dyrholm, The Girl With the Needle riffs on one of Denmark’s most notorious murder cases to weave a poetic and dark fairytale about the people living on the margins in the aftermath of the First World War. Deadline’s review called the film “an unequivocal and beguiling triumph.”

Karoline (Sonne), a young factory worker, is struggling to survive in post World War I Copenhagen. When she finds herself unemployed, abandoned and pregnant, she meets Dagmar (Dyrholm), a charismatic woman running an underground adoption agency, helping mothers to find foster homes for their unwanted children. With nowhere else to turn, Karoline takes on the role of a wet-nurse. A strong connection is formed between the two women, but Karoline’s world...

Welcome to a new season of Survivor! And a new spot for my recaps! I’ve been recapping the long-running CBS reality juggernaut since season 35, Ghost Island, on my own site, News from the Couch. I’ve done other writing for FandomWire over the years, mostly movie reviews, and now I’m excited to bring my love of Survivor to a new audience!

I’ve been up and down on the new era, with no season cracking the top half of my season rankings. But I’m going into this new season with extra positivity, assume it’s going to be good until proven otherwise. And we’re off to a good start! This was simply a good, solid episode of Survivor. So, let’s get to it!

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As always, before we get into the action, let’s first take a look at our tribe breakdowns.

Survivor 47 premieres tonight, and there is a sneak peek at what to expect from the new season. The sneak peeks show the new competitors and the games played this season. The new season premiere will run for two hours, featuring a new look at a returning game.

Here is what we learned from the sneak peek at the new season of Survivor.

Survivor 47 Tribe Names

Jeff Probst started off the Survivor 47 sneak peek by assigning names to each of the tribes. Here is a look at the names of the tribes and who is in each of them.

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The Tuku tribe: Gabe Ortis, Tk Foster, Sue Smey, Kyle Ostwald, Tiyana Hallums, and Caroline Vidmar. This tribe wears the blue buffs.

The Lavo tribe: Teeny Chirichillo, Aysha Welch, Genevieve Mushaluk, Rome Cooney, Kishan Patel, and Sol Yi. This tribe wears the red buffs.

The Gata tribe: Jon Lovett, Sierra Wright,...

Survivor 47 premieres this week on CBS. The new season, which starts on Wednesday night, September 18, has an interesting cast and a few rule changes coming along the way. While promoting the new season, host Jeff Probst compared the reality television competition series to a popular fantasy epic series.

Here is why Probst says that the evolution of Survivor makes it feel like its own version of Game of Thrones.

Jeff Probst Compares Survivor To Game Of Thrones

Jeff Probst says that people who watch Survivor 47 this season will see how past seasons influence and impact it. According to Jeff Probst, the “moves and strategies employed in Survivor 46 will definitely impact Survivor 47.” Likely, he means that people who compete in this season watched past seasons and learned from other’s mistakes.

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However, it also means that the rules and cast member choices evolve from one season to the next.

The Girl with the Needle draws from one of the most heinous murder cases in Danish history, yet director Magnus von Horn isn’t interested in retreading a familiar serial killer biopic ground. Telling a story inspired by Dagmar Overby presents fertile ground for horror, but Dagmar’s chosen victims were children and babies, making for murkier territory to traverse. Instead, von Horn smartly navigates the treacherous pitfalls of this serial killer tale with thoughtful empathy, framing the story from a broader perspective for a timely, gothic tale of hardship for society’s forgotten and discarded.

Vic Carmen Sonne as Karoline, a young seamstress working in a Copenhagen factory, struggles to survive after her husband was declared missing in action during WWI. No recovered body means she’s without any supplemental support from the government, and her single income isn’t enough to keep the rent paid. Even when her boss,...

The Survivor 47 cast has been announced and their first episode is on Wednesday, September 18.

Fiji welcomed 18 new players to compete for the $1 million prize, and Jeff Probst returned as the host.

Caroline Vidmar is one of the new players, and she is a 27-year-old strategy consultant.

That job title might leave fans with some questions.

Caroline is from Palos Verdes, California, and now resides in Chicago Illinois.

She is one of several players that have ties to California.

Anika Dhar, Kisham Patel, and Jon Lovett from the Survivor cast all call California home.

Who is Caroline on Survivor 47?

“It’s just as green, and vibrant, and wonderful as it is on TV,” Caroline said about Fiji during a Survivor pre-season interview.

“I was thinking you guys had a little bit of a filter; it wasn’t going to actually be this gorgeous. It’s stunning,” Caroline added.

Below is a full introduction video for Caroline,...

Jeff Probst is back for Survivor 47 and has spoken about what fans will see this season.

It’s a fresh group of castaways, with 18 people who haven’t played the game before.

The 26-day season was filmed in Fiji, and the season premiere airs on Wednesday, September 18.

The first new episode is a two-hour installment, giving fans some bonus time to meet the new players.

Survivor fans who watch Big Brother must tune in later on Wednesday nights for the Julie Chen Moonves show.

Here’s the updated BB26 episode schedule.

Jeff Probst speaks about the Sweat vs Savvy Challenge

“This season, we’ve updated–or evolved, I should say–Sweat vs Savvy,” Survivor host Jeff Probst told Parade.

“We did it for many seasons because we felt there was more gold to mine there,” Jeff added.

Fans have asked for more challenges, and forcing the castaways to earn their...

Don’t worry, everyone — Brat fall is coming. British bop-maker Charli Xcx has announced a new version of her widely popular album, out on Oct. 11.

“Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat,” the musician posted to her X account Thursday, confirming link-ups with Troye Sivan on Brat tune “Talk talk” and Lorde on “Girl, so confusing.” Billie Eilish will feature on “Guess,” Robyn and Yung Lean on “360” and Addison Rae on “Von dutch.”

The album will include a second disc with the original album and its three bonus tracks.

Critically acclaimed pop album Brat has defined a genre of music for the entirety of this summer, with Kamala Harris’ team even adopting the meme-ified trend and accompanying music to appeal to younger voters in the upcoming U.S. election.

Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat – Out oct 11. https://t.co/vWz35Wccrl pic.

Charli Xcx has announced a new version of her smash 2024 album Brat, titled Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat, due out October 11th. She’s also shared the latest remix of one of Brat’s original tracks, “Talk Talk,” featuring her friend and future tourmate Troye Sivan.

Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat is comprised of each subsequent remix that Charli Xcx has released before and after her album rollout: There’s the “Von dutch” remix with A.G. Cook and Addison Rae, the “360” rework with Robyn and Yung Lean, the “Girl, so confusing” remix with Lorde, “Guess” with Billie Eilish, and finally, “Talk Talk” featuring Troye Sivan.

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The rest of the song titles are yet to be revealed, but based on the album title, they’re likely further reworks of Brat’s original tracks. The album artwork,...

Days after Charli Xcx revealed in an interview that she wants to branch out into acting, she’s been cast in one of her first major film projects: Gregg Araki’s new film I Want Your Sex, which will also star Olivia Wilde and Licorice Pizza’s Cooper Hoffman.

Per The Hollywood Reporter, I Want Your Sex is scheduled to begin production in October. The film’s official logline reads: “When fresh-faced Elliot (Hoffman) lands an exciting job for renowned artist, icon and provocateur Erika Tracy (Wilde), his fantasies come true as Erika taps him to become her sexual muse. But Elliot soon finds himself out of his depth as Erika takes him on a journey more profound than he ever could have imagined, into a world of sex, obsession, power, betrayal and murder.”

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The project serves as Charli Xcx’s second live-action feature film...

Days after Charli Xcx revealed in an interview that she wants to branch out into acting, she’s been cast in one of her first major film projects: Gregg Araki’s new film I Want Your Sex, which will also star Olivia Wilde and Licorice Pizza’s Cooper Hoffman.

Per The Hollywood Reporter, I Want Your Sex is scheduled to begin production in October. The film’s official logline reads: “When fresh-faced Elliot (Hoffman) lands an exciting job for renowned artist, icon and provocateur Erika Tracy (Wilde), his fantasies come true as Erika taps him to become her sexual muse. But Elliot soon finds himself out of his depth as Erika takes him on a journey more profound than he ever could have imagined, into a world of sex, obsession, power, betrayal and murder.”

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The project serves as Charli Xcx’s second live-action feature film...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.

Film at Lincoln Center

An essential series of Jacques Rozier restorations begins.

Roxy Cinema

Fidelio, our four-film program with Chapo Trap House’s Movie Mindset, has an encore with Eyes Wide Shut on a spectacular 35mm print this Friday and Saturday, the latter day also bringing The Ghost Writer on 35mm; Nathan Silver presents Crossing Delancey on 35mm and Mike Leigh’s Meantime; “City Dudes” returns on Saturday.

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Films by Spike Lee, Chantal Akerman, Lucrecia Martel, and more play in “Sweat!“; recent restorations are given a showcase, including a special premiere of The Spook Who Sat By the Door.

Museum of the Moving Image

70mm prints of 2001, Tenet, and Far and Away screen.

Film Forum

A Blaxploitation series, featuring classics and discoveries alike, begins; Army of Shadows continues.

Anthology Film Archives

Buñuel and Dalí play in “Essential Cinema.”

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The relaxed pace of Filmmaker Lovell Holder’s drama You Say Hello allows his character to breathe and find their rhythm but without sacrificing any audience engagement and immersion. It’s a tricky line to ride, giving your narrative space without becoming self-indulgent but Holder does it with ease and that’s down to his intimate direction and Writer Daniel Talbott’s expertly crafted screenplay. The creative partners’ story follows a young, suicidal man who makes his way to his family’s beach house with the intention of ending his life but when he invites an escort over, his perspective starts to shift. It’s an honest, sincere film that Dn is delighted to be premiering online today accompanied by our discussion with Holder where he talks through the decision to shift Talbott’s original screenplay into a queer story, tonally drawing influence from Jean-Marc Vallée and Eliza Hittman, and...

Exclusive: Calvin Leon Smith, who appeared in the Tony-nominated comedy Fat Ham, will return to Broadway this fall when he takes over the role of Cabaret‘s Clifford Bradshaw from Ato Blankson-Wood.

Smith will be part of a replacement cast that includes Adam Lambert as Emcee and Auli’i Cravalho as Sally Bowles. Original cast members Eddie Redmayne, Gayle Rankin and Blankson-Wood end their limited engagements Sunday, September 14, with the new cast members beginning performances on Monday, September 16.

Smith’s casting was announced today by producers Ambassador Theatre Group Productions, Underbelly, Gavin Kalin Productions, Hunter Arnold, Smith & Brant Theatricals, and Wessex Grove.

Smith most recently appeared in James Ijames’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play Fat Ham in the role of Larry, a Marine with a secret. Smith’s other theater credits include roles in regional and Off Broadway productions, including The Animal Kingdom , Open Throat, and Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Sweat.

Sundance’s Kim Yutani, and Directors’ Fortnight’s Gabriella Trujillo, along with execs from sales companies. including mK2, Coproduction Office, Reel Suspects and Be For Films will be among the industry execs taking part in Polish Days, the industry platform of the New Horizons International Film Festival, taking place in Wroclaw from July 21-23.

The event will showcase new films by Polish directors Aga Woszczyńska, Lukasz Ronduda and Damian Kocur.

Additionally, there will be closed screenings of four completed Polish films.

They are Jan P. Matuszyński’s Minghun, starring Marcin Dorocinski and Daxing Zhang shot in Polish, English and Chinese...

Charli Xcx and Lorde have teamed up for a new remix of the Brat song, “Girl, so confusing.”

Reimagining the A. G. Cook-produced track as a duet, the new version of “Girl, so confusing” marks the first time Charli Xcx and Lorde have officially collaborated — a big moment, considering the murmurs that the original song was about Lorde.

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Fans speculated that the lyrical allusions to another artist — like “People say we’re alike/ They say we’ve got the same hair” — were aimed at Lorde, partially in reference to a long-running in-joke among fans about mistaking Charli for her. Additionally, Charli recently commented on the culture of female celebrities and their relationships, and even revealed that she was “super jealous” of Lorde’s success after “Royals.”

On her verse of the remix Lorde details about how the collaboration came together:

“Well, honestly, I was...

As the longest running reality television series, “Survivor” has become a household name. Just think of the famous catchphrases. Who hasn’t said they wanted to vote an irritating person “off the island” or used “the tribe has spoken” at one punny point in their life? After three decades of filming, this year’s Season 46 is proving that changes to this season’s unique gameplay combining social, mental, and physical elements is the key to keeping the series exciting, highly discussable, and popular with viewers.

New aspects of the game introduced after the pandemic have earned the last five seasons the fan-dubbed moniker “New Era Survivor” for good reason. Instead of 39 days, “Survivor” is now played in a shorter and more intense 26 days. Forget those lavish days of “Survivor’s” past with building supplies, canned food and rice, and comfy hammocks. Contestants are no longer given any food to start,...

Mubi has swooped on its third 2024 Cannes competition title, Variety has learned.

Having acquired worldwide rights to Coralie Fargeat’s buzzy body horror “The Substance” and U.K. rights to Andrea Arnold’s Barry Keoghan and Franz Rogowski-starring ‘Bird’ before the festival began, the arthouse distributor, production banner and streamer has now picked up Magnus von Horn’s chilling black and white drama “The Girl With the Needle.” Mubi bought the title for North America, U.K./Ireland, Latin America, Germany/Austria, Italy, Turkey and India.

Directed by von Horn (“Sweat”) from a screenplay he wrote with Line Langebek, “The Girl With the Needle” is loosely based on the true story of Danish serial killer Dagmar Overbye, who helped impoverished women kill their unwanted children and was first sentenced to death in 1921, but it was later changed into a lifetime in prison.

In von Horn’s pic, set in post WW1 Copenhagen,...

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The first two days of competition screenings have whipped up a storm at the Cannes Film Festival. Things started normal enough with Agathe Riedinger's Wild Diamond, this year's only feature debut vying for the Palme. Reactions were a tad tepid, but the same can't be said about Magnus van Horn's Girl with the Needle, which has horrified some viewers. All hell broke loose on the second day of competition, when both Andrea Arnold's Bird and Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis had their world premieres. The British auteur earned general praise, though some found it confounding. As for the American master's long-awaited opus, opinions are so divided that a chasm seems to have broken open across the Croisette. Some say it's a catastrophe of epic proportions, while others see value in its epic mess. Whatever the case, it sounds like a fascinating watch,...

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Loosely based on fact, Magnus van Horn’s fictionalised true crime nightmare leaves you with a shiver of pure fear

Just in case you were thinking that this is an upbeat story of a sweet young seamstress winning BBC TV’s The Great British Sewing Bee, the needle in question is in fact a knitting needle for giving yourself an abortion in a public bath-house in post-first world war Copenhagen. This film from Poland-based Swedish director Magnus van Horn – making his Cannes competition debut – is a macabre and hypnotic horror, a fictionalised true crime nightmare based on Denmark’s baby-killer case from 1921, shot in high-contrast expressionist monochrome and kept at an almost unbearable pitch of anxiety by Frederikke Hoffmeier’s nerve-abrading musical score.

I was unconvinced by Van Horn’s previous film, the social media satire Sweat, but this new one is horribly effective grand guignol, made with enormous technical flair,...

Like one of those fiendish knots that tighten the more you squirm, director Magnus von Horn’s Cannes competitor The Girl With the Needle builds to a devastating climax, taut as piano wire.

Danish actress Vic Carmen Sonne (Holiday, Godland) offers an understated but multi-layered performance as Karoline, a vulnerable but resilient seamstress living in post-World War I/early-1920s Copenhagen, who is left high and dry when her wealthy lover (Joachim Fjelstrup) gets her knocked up but won’t marry her. That leaves Karoline with only two options: give herself a bathtub abortion with a knitting needle or have the baby and hand it over to Dagmar (Trine Dyrholm), a sinister candy-store owner who runs a backstreet adoption agency.

Shot digitally, in black and white and using a claustrophobic 3:2 ratio by rising cinematographer Michal Dymek (A Real Pain, Eo), the film has the haunted, eerily still poise of antique photographs,...

In a pre-feminist age, Karoline is what entirely too many people would call a “fallen woman.” Alone, unemployed and pregnant by a man not her husband, she is acknowledged only to be punished, and invisible for all remaining purposes. Women like Karoline don’t fall of their own accord. They’re dropped, often from a great height, by a ruling patriarchy that doesn’t even care to watch them splatter. That involuntary descent, to not just a grimy gutter but a near-Hadean underworld of human cruelty, is the chief horror in “The Girl With the Needle,” Magnus von Horn’s extraordinary and upsetting film — an adult fairytale abundantly populated with witches and wretches, but where society is revealed as the true monster.

Von Horn’s previous feature “Sweat,” a selection for the scrapped 2020 edition of the Cannes Film Festival, offered a very different study of femininity bending over backwards to meet societal standards.

Magnus von Horn’s sophomore feature Sweat earned its director a spot in Cannes’ Official Selection in 2020, after his debut, The Here After, played in Directors’ Fortnight in 2015. But the festival of 2020 was canceled in the wake of the Covid pandemic, so von Horn’s place in this year’s Competition, with his third feature The Girl With the Needle, must surely mark the Swedish director’s coming-of-age. The film, starring Vic Carmen Sonne and Trine Dyrholm, riffs on one of Denmark’s most notorious murder cases to weave a poetic and dark fairytale about the people living on the margins in the aftermath of the First World War.

Dyrholm stars as Dagmar Overbye, the Danish serial killer convicted of murdering nine children — but suspected of many more deaths — between 1913 and 1920. One was her own; the others were handed to her by struggling mothers with babies born out of wedlock,...

When Liane (Malou Khebizi), the protagonist of Agathe Riedinger’s stylish debut feature Wild Diamond (Diamant Brut), says that she will be the French Kim Kardashian, it sounds more like a prophecy than a desire.

The 19-year-old waitress from Fréjus is obsessed with fame and beauty. She scrupulously saved her paychecks to get breast augmentation surgery. She had a friend inject hyaluronic acid into her lips to plump them. Now she has her sights set on getting a Bbl. Liane chronicles her body modifications on Instagram, where her thousands of followers leave adoring comments that she repurposes as daily affirmations. “I’m not like everyone else,” Liane says throughout the film to the skeptics and doubters.

Premiering in competition at Cannes, Wild Diamond is Riedinger’s compassionate contribution to the “perils-of-social-media-and-fame” genre. The film expands on themes first explored in the director’s 2017 short Waiting for Jupiter, which followed a young woman,...

In the past decade, Swedish-Polish filmmaker Magnus von Horn has become something of a fixture on the French Riviera, with his latest film, “The Girl With the Needle,” the director’s third feature to debut at the Cannes Film Festival and his first to compete for the Palme d’Or.

But the dark historical drama, which is set in post-wwi Copenhagen, marks a departure for the 40-year-old. Von Horn’s previous features — the 2015 Directors’ Fortnight breakout “The Here After” and his 2020 Cannes selection “Sweat” — are stories of loneliness and isolation spun from the fabric of contemporary life. The director’s first foray into period drama, “The Girl With the Needle” uses the past to tell a very modern story that centers on class, choice and the politics of women’s bodies.

Written by von Horn and Line Langebek (“I’ll Come Running”), the film is loosely based on the real-life...

In 2020, Magnus von Horn was excited to find that his film Sweat had been accepted into the Official Selection at Cannes, a big step up from his debut, The Here After, which made Directors’ Fortnight in 2015. The pandemic put an end to that, but his disappointment was short-lived; this year, his dark atmospheric follow-up, The Girl With the Needle, sees him joining the big league. “This is huge to me,” he beams. “The main competition!”

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Set in Denmark during World War I, the film stars Vic Carmen Sonne as Karoline, a young seamstress whose soldier husband is missing in action. Through a series of mishaps, Karoline falls pregnant, loses her job, and meets a mysterious woman named Dagmar (Trine Dyrholm) who runs both a candy store and an adoption agency.

Now based in Poland, where he graduated from Łódź Film School in 2013, Von Horn has always pursued a career in film.

Inspired by sauna guru Mikkel Aaland’s 1978 book Sweat, Brays Run Productions’s Perfect Sweat explores sweat-bathing around the world, from Tokyo to Burning Man. The seven-part docuseries homes in on the physical health, mental well-being, and culture surrounding sweat, which is having a bit of a zeitgeist moment thanks, in part, to Challengers, Luca Guadagnino’s tribute to bodies in motion.

Perfect Sweat will make its virtual premiere on June 8, Global Wellness Day, with a live screening of “Episode 1: Finland.” The screening will be followed by a panel discussion and audience Q&a moderated by Aaland.

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Swedish-Polish director Magnus von Horn’s dark period drama “The Girl With the Needle” will compete for the Palme d’Or at the 77th Cannes Film Festival. Variety has been given exclusive access to a first-look clip from the film.

Written by von Horn and Line Langebek (“I’ll Come Running”), “The Girl With the Needle” is loosely based on the true story of Dagmar Overbye, a Danish woman who established an underground adoption agency in post-World War I Copenhagen to help poor women dealing with unwanted pregnancies.

Starring Trine Dyrholm, Vic Carmen Sonne and Besir Zeciri (“Wildland”), the film follows Karoline (Sonne), a young factory worker who is struggling to survive on the fringes of society. When she finds herself unemployed, abandoned and pregnant, she meets Dagmar (Dyrholm), a charismatic shopkeeper who helps poor mothers to find foster homes for their unwanted children.

With nowhere else to turn, Karoline...

Charli Xcx is teaming up with fellow pop star and longtime collaborator Troye Sivan for a co-headlining North American arena tour this fall.

Dubbed “Charli Xcx & Troye Sivan present: Sweat,” the 21-city outing kicks off on September 14th in Detroit. Other shows are scheduled in Toronto, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Nashville, Atlanta, Miami, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Diego, and more. Shygirl will appear as a special guest at all of the upcoming dates.

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Registration is now ongoing for an artist pre-sale set for Thursday, April 25th at 10:00 a.m. local time. Tickets will then go on sale to the general public on Friday, April 26th via Ticketmaster.

Charli Xcx is set to release her new album, Brat, on June 7th. Beyond her upcoming tour with Sivan, Charli will support the release with a series of “Brat” club shows in cities like London, New York,...

Acclaimed auteurs Francis Ford Coppola, Yorgos Lanthimos, Paolo Sorrentino and Andrea Arnold are among the filmmakers set to compete for the coveted Palme d’Or at the 77th Cannes Film Festival.

A total of 19 features were revealed today (April 11) that will play in Competition at the festival, set to run May 14-25.

Rarely a festival to veer far from familiar names, the Competition line-up is dominated by directors who have been selected multiple times for Cannes.

They include US filmmaker Coppola with sci-fi epic Megalopolis, which stars Adam Driver and is set in a future version of New York City following a disaster.

Hey, "Survivor" fans. Tonight, February 28, 2024, the brand new, premiere episode 1 of Survivors' new season 46 did indeed hit the air, and we saw the first person get voted off by the end of it. Tonight's new, premiere episode kicked off with the usual introductions of some of the new contestants. The new tribe names are: Siga, Yanu and Nami. They got hit with their first challenge. During it, they had to race through an obstacle course to retrieve puzzle pieces. Then, complete the puzzle and retrieve their flint for the win. The reward for this challenge was a pot, machete and flint camp supplies. Nami won it. Siga came in second place, and Yanu was last. Since Siga came in second, they got to choose to do either the Savvy or Sweat challenge to get a second chance at winning supplies for their tribe. They chose the Savvy comp. So, Yanu...

Screen shines a light on 30 European titles that look set to grab the attention of festival directors in 2023, including new features by Tom Tykwer, Paz Vega, Paolo Sorrentino, Cecilia Verheyden and Baltasar Kormakur.

For our separate list of French festival hopefuls for 2024, click here.

Ariel (Sp-Por)

Dir. Lois Patiño

Patiño won the Encounters special jury prize at Berlin last year for Samsara and picked up the emerging director prize at Locarno in 2013 with Coast Of Death. His latest is a free adaptation of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, shot in Galicia and The Azores islands. Ariel stars Goya winner Irene Escolar...

Nineties rock band Tool continues to rock in 2024.

The tour began last September, and after performing their last North American concert in February, they will be taking a break from the stage until May, when they head over to Germany to commence the European leg.

Joining them on the North American shows will be Elder, a progressive psychedelic rock band.

Frontman Maynard James Keenan made headlines last May for cross-dressing at the Welcome to Rockville festival in Daytona Beach, Florida. His decision to dress in drag created speculation that he did so to go against Gov. Ron Desantis‘ (R-Florida) anti-drag bill.

Keenan denied those rumors, however, and told The Messenger that he had “been cross-dressing since long before these clickbait-junkie dupes were out of diapers.”

“It’s pretty crazy the technology and the prosthetics nowadays, how they’ve come along, and I just was considering bringing the look back,” he said.

Fusion Entertainment has signed Keith Kupferer, the veteran stage and screen actor whose new film “Ghostlight” premieres this week at the Sundance Film Festival. Kupferer has also recently been cast in a recurring role in the new MGM+ series “Emperor of Ocean Park” from John Wells, which is currently in production in Chicago. The thriller series is based on the best selling novel by Stephen L. Carter.

“Ghostlight” centers on Dan (Kupferer), a melancholic middle-aged construction worker, who is grieving a family tragedy. Cut off from his devoted wife, Sharon (Tara Mallen), and talented but troubled daughter, Daisy (Katherine Mallen Kupferer), Dan finds comfort a local theater production of “Romeo & Juliet” featuring a company of amateur actors. “Ghostlight” is directed by Kelly O’Sullivan and Alex Thompson, who are also clients of Fusion Entertainment.)

Kupferer will also continue to be repped by the Grey Talent Group.

A seasoned stage performer,...

Cologne-based The Match Factory has acquired rights to Swedish-Polish helmer Magnus von Horn’s Danish pic “The Girl With the Needle,” billed as a “fairy-tale about a horrible truth.” In the starring roles are Trine Dyrholm, Vic Carmen Sonne and Besir Zeciri (“Wildland”).

First clips of the stylised black-and-white chiller will be unveiled at the Works in Progress at Göteborg’s Nordic Film Market.

“Magnus von Horn is a talent to follow,” said The Match Factory’s head of sales Thania Dimitrakopoulou. “His story of “The Girl with the Needle” hooked us and his choice of cast and narrative style promises a great outcome. We are certain the audiences will relate to this.”

Von Horn’s dark drama is his first foray into period genre, following his 2015 Cannes Directors’ Fortnight calling card “The Here After”, and his 2020 Cannes-selected and international festival hit “Sweat”, a “poised, impressive drama” according to Variety.

Australian and New Zealand indie distributor Umbrella Entertainment will launch Brollie, a free of charge, ad-supported streaming service later this month. It will lean on Umbrella’s library of classic content and claims to be the first free streaming platform specializing in Australian film and TV content.

Brollie will launch on Nov. 23 with over 300 titles including: “Babadook”; “Two Hands” (dir. Gregor Jordan, 1999); cult classics “Sweat”; “Erskineville Kings”; and “Cut” starring Kylie Minogue.

Brollie will also have a section for Indigenous Australia, including a collection of films starring Aboriginal screen legend David Gulpilil. These include “Walkabout”; “Storm Boy”; and “The Last Wave”.

A documentary slate includes “Servant or Slave” and “Ablaze”.

Subscribers will be invited to be part of the Brollie Film Club, where Brollie’s in-house team handpicks the best of the catalogue twice a month. Members can terrify themselves with the ‘Australian Nightmares’ collection exploring the best of Aussie...

One of the most talked-about contestants from the “Survivor 45” season premiere was Emily Flippen of the Lulu tribe. The 28-year-old investment analyst from Maryland decided to audition for the CBS reality TV show because she got “really angry” when Mike Gabler won “Survivor 43.” Now it’s Emily who’s causing some fans’ blood to boil at home. The villainess made headlines in the first episode for the way she went after Bruce Perreault on Day 1, and for falsely accusing her tribe mates Kaleb Gebrewold and Sabiyah Broderick of lying about losing the “Sweat and Savvy” challenge.

The second episode, which airs Wednesday, October 4 on CBS, will focus more on Emily as she admits her game is “do or die right now.” Below, watch the “Survivor 45” preview video for “Brought a Bazooka to a Tea Party,” in which Emily decides to go on an idol hunt on Day 4.

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Spoiler Alert: This recap contains spoilers from the Season 45 premiere of “Survivor.”

Every episode of “Survivor” contains a healthy handful of platitudes about how wild the game is, and the Season 45 premiere is no different. But when Jeff Probst says that he doesn’t know if he’s ever seen so much energy from a new cast, a shot of a contestant open-mouth sobbing before the first challenge has even begun makes it hard to disagree.

Among the first personalities to stand out are Jake, the lawyer-bartender-theater teacher dreaming of moving out of his grandmother’s house; Brandon, the tearful superfan who loves the game of “Survivor” more than anything; and Emily, who feels the opposite: “If I’m not gonna win the game, I would rather be the first person voted off. It’s a complete waste of time if you’re not the sole survivor. Excuse me for being honest.

Polish Days runs July 23-25.

New films by Jan P. Matuszyński, Jakub Piątek, Agnieszka Zwiefka and the makers of Loving Vincent are among 22 projects being presented at the 2023 edition of Polish Days, the industry event for Polish cinema running during New Horizons International Film Festival (July 20-30) in Wrocław.

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The event runs July 23-25 and is aimed at sales agents, distributors and festival programmers.

The line-up includes four completed Polish films, including Marcin Koszałka’s historical drama White Courage, produced by Warsaw-based Balapolis, and Amp Polska’s production of Edward Porembny’s docudrama The Life...

Laurel Halo has announced a new album called Atlas, as well as a run of 2023 tour dates. The record is out September 22nd, and lead single “Belleville” is available to stream below.

Halo began writing Atlas on the piano before she took up a residency at Ina-grm Studios in Paris, where she transformed her initial compositions into the type of experimental music she’s known for. In addition to laying down guitar, violin, and vibraphone, Bendik Giske provided saxophone, Lucy Railton played cello, and James Underwood and Coby Sey contributed additional violin and vocals, respectively. The album will be the debut release on Halo’s new label Awe; pre-orders are ongoing.

Kicking off later this month and extending until November, Halo’s 2023 tour of Europe and North America includes both DJ sets and performances specifically tied to Atlas. See her full itinerary below, and grab tickets via Ticketmaster.

“Belleville” feels...

John Legend is writing the score to a stage adaptation of the 1959 film Imitation of Life.

The musical, which is in development and aiming for Broadway, features a book by two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage (Sweat, Ruined) and direction by Liesl Tommy, who directed Danai Gurira’s Eclipsed on Broadway. The production held a private industry reading at the end of April.

Universal Theatrical Group and Get Lifted Film Co, a production company led by Legend, as well as producer Mike Jackson and Friends at Work CEO Ty Stiklorius, are producing the musical.

Imitation of Life, which originated as a 1933 novel written by Fannie Hurst, follows Delilah Johnston, a Black woman and mother living in Atlantic City in the 1920s with her daughter Peola, who passes as white. Johnston forms a friendship and business partnership with Bea Pullman, a white woman who is a widow, and must navigate the...

‘Back To Reality’ is a dark comedy from writer-director Anders Thomas Jensen.

TrustNordisk has acquired international sales rights to two upcoming features from Denmark’s Zentropa, including a new film from acclaimed comedy filmmaker Anders Thomas Jensen.

Jensen’s Back To Reality (working title) is a dark comedy, about a bank robber recently released from jail, who must unlock his traumatised brother’s memory to recover stolen loot.

Zentropa is producing the title, which is at script stage with no cast yet attached; Nordisk Film Distribution will release the film in Scandinavia. Producers are Sisse Graum Jorgensen and Sidsel Hybschmann for Zentropa,...