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In the near future, during an endless summer break and with a solar eclipse approaching, 12-year-old girl Bego struggles to find her place within her family and among girls her age. You can already feel that The Days Off (Los días libres), Argentine filmmaker Lucila Mariani’s first feature, touches on female identity and coming-of-age themes. But there is also a technology and virtual worlds aspect that comes into play. Just read this part of a synopsis: “As the moon ‘eclipses’ animals and people around her, Bego meets REN__, an online friend, and through her discovers ‘shifting, a practice in which…

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Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman are getting an early start on spooky season. The duo made a surprise appearance at a Cinespia screening of their beloved 1998 movie Practical Magic on Saturday night, arriving to screams from the crowd at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. “[Practical Magic] is [the] perfect movie to show at a cemetery,” Bullock said to the crowd, as Kidman added, “Thank you for all your support for getting this second film made that’s coming to you very soon.” They also introduced the sequel’s new additions in Joey King and Maisie Williams, sharing a toast among themselves and the…

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Vin Diesel is very pleased with the script for the 11th Fast & Furious film. Diesel took to Instagram on Saturday to share that he’s read the script for Fast Forever, which is slated to release in theaters in 2028 from Universal. In a caption accompanying a trailer for the upcoming theatrical re-release of the original The Fast and the Furious, racing back into theaters on Aug. 21 for its 25th anniversary, the actor wrote: “I just read the Fast Forever script by [Michael Lesslie]. It is the best script I have read in decades. I am still crying.” He…

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Vincent Pastore, the Bronx-born actor who portrayed Salvatore “Big Pussy” Bonpensiero, the mob informant who winds up sleeping with the fishes, quite literally, on The Sopranos, has died. He was 80. Pastore was found dead by Steve Villano, the actor’s self-described “right-hand man,” in his Bronx home on Saturday, he told The Hollywood Reporter. He apparently died in his sleep, he added. The son of a real-life wiseguy, he said, Pastore made a living running and owning bars and nightclubs for two decades and didn’t get into acting until he was 42. Yet by the time he was done, he…

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Charlie Hunnam didn’t hesitate to take on the role of serial killer and body snatcher Ed Gein in Ryan Murphy’s Monster: The Ed Gein Story. That is, until he started researching the horrific crimes that were committed. “Being confronted with some of those images of the crime scenes, I really started to get afraid of the darkness and what it was going to be like to inhabit that,” Hunnam tells THR. Then he got access to Gein’s medical records, which shed light on the factors that led to his declined mental state, marking a turning point for Hunnam. Thirty pounds…

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For the past several decades, Rufus Sewell navigated his career with an overarching no-no: getting stuck on a continuing TV show. “The idea of security has always filled me with fear,” says the London native. “The idea of being tethered was never my dream.” Yet, while he’d previously starred on Prime Video’s The Man in the High Castle for four seasons, Sewell has noticed a change in his mentality with Netflix’s political drama The Diplomat, on which he just completed production for season four. “I would rather be killed off than be stuck in a rut, but if [The Diplomat]…

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Cinema buffs of the world, get ready! The leopard is about to be on the loose again! Attendees of the 79th editionof theLocarnoFilm Festival in the Italian part of Switzerland will get to spot the famous symbol and mascot of the annual celebration of cinema, and its gold or yellow and black colors, on all sorts of posters and bunting, on festival merchandise and on street and shop decorations all over town. In other words: Locarno will be covered in leopard print. Fans of the festival will, similar to a big cat, be on the hunt for new and old…

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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, The Hollywood Reporter may receive an affiliate commission. Lego has unveiled its first-ever The X-Files set, arriving Aug. 1 for Lego Insiders (Lego’s free-to-join membership program) or Aug. 4 for the general public. The collectible recreates Fox Mulder’s basement office alongside an alien arrival scene in the surrounding woods. It also includes eight minifigures: Fox Mulder, Dana Scully, Walter Skinner, Mr. X, Alex Krycek, Carl Busch, the Flukeman and a gray alien. Lego 1,478-Piece set ‘The X-Files’ Lego Set Pre-Order The X-Files Lego office is…

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It might seem a bit jarring to hear that an actor “took a sweetness” from a character called Little Death, but Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’s Jack Haven found an innocence to the slasher in Jane Schoenbrun’s latest feature. “It’s someone who isn’t killing because of a wicked and cruel instinct, but sort of just because of inevitability and curiosity,” the 31-year-old tells The Hollywood Reporter. In Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Misasma, a young filmmaker, played by Hannah Einbinder, is preparing to reboot a slasher franchise, Camp Miasma, which found Haven’s Little Death terrorizing and killing…

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