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This image released by Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures shows Mike Faist, from left, Zendaya and Josh O'Connor in a scene from "Challengers." (Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures via AP)

Movie Review: Prepare to get hot and bothered with stylish, synthy tennis drama ‘Challengers’

Zendaya, Mike Faist and Josh O’Connor are tennis players in and out of love in “Challengers.” Directed by Luca Guadagnino and told in present day and flashback, it’s about friendships, love, competition and sport set to a synthy score from Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.
 
Mike Faist, from left, Zendaya and Josh O'Connor pose for a portrait to promote "Challengers" on Friday, April 19, 2024, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Rebecca Cabage/Invision/AP)

Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist on the steamy love triangle of ‘Challengers’

 
This image released by A24 shows Jacob Elordi as Elvis, left, and Cailee Spaeny as Priscilla, in a scene from "Priscilla." (Philippe Le Sourd/A24 via AP)

Venice Film Festival unveils A-list lineup with ‘Priscilla,’ ‘Ferrari,’ ‘Maestro’ amid strikes

 
This image released by MGM shows Mike Faist, from left, Zendaya and Josh O'Connor in a scene from "Challengers." (Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures via AP)

‘Challengers,’ starring Zendaya, will skip Venice premiere due to actors strike, moves to 2024

 
This image released by MGM shows Mike Faist, from left, Zendaya and Josh O'Connor in a scene from "Challengers." The Venice Film Festival is serving up the romantic tennis drama as its opening night selection. (Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures via AP)

Zendaya tennis drama ‘Challengers’ to open Venice Film Festival

 

Zendaya hits the red carpet in London

Actor Zendaya walks the red carpet in a tennis-themed outfit and scores an ace at London premiere of tennis drama “Challengers.” (April 10)
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Review: Fine young cannibals in the tender ‘Bones and All’

Zombies had a good run. Vampires had their day in the sun. Now, it seems to be cannibals’ turn for their bite at the apple.
 
Director Luca Guadagnino, from left, Taylor Russell, and Timothee Chalamet pose for portrait photographs for the film 'Bones and All' during the 79th edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2022. (Photo by Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP)

First love, first flesh and Americana in ‘Bones and All’

VENICE, Italy (AP) — It is early afternoon in late August at the Belmond Hotel Cipriani and Luca Guadagnino has just returned from the Palazzo del Cinema at the Venice Film Festival to do a tech check for his new film “ Bones and All ” the day before the world premiere.
 
This image released by Sony Pictures Classics shows Italian designer Salvatore Ferragamo with some of his shoe shapes. Ferragamo is the subject of the documentary "Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams." (©Archivio Giuseppe Palmas/Sony Pictures Classics via AP)

Review: ‘Salvatore’ fetes a life devoted to feet and fashion

Next time you arrive home with aching, blistered feet after a long day, take heart: It’s not your feet that are the problem. It’s your shoes.
 
Timothee Chalamet poses for photographers upon arrival at the premiere of the film 'Bones and All' during the 79th edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, Friday, Sept. 2, 2022. (Photo by Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP)

Timothée Chalamet, Taylor Russell play cannibals in love

The cannibal romance “Bones and All” is having its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, where it is among the competition titles.
 
FILE - Olivia Wilde, director and cast member of the upcoming film "Don't Worry Darling" arrives for the Warner Bros. Pictures presentation at CinemaCon 2022 at Caesars Palace, Tuesday, April 26, 2022, in Las Vegas. Darren Aronofsky’s “The Whale,” the Marilyn Monroe drama “Blonde,” Alejandro González Iñárritu’s “Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths” and Luca Guadigino’s “Bones and All,” with Timothée Chalamet, will all have their world premieres in competition at the Venice International Film Festival this fall.  Festival director Alberto Barbera unveiled the starry lineup Tuesday, July 26, which includes the out of competition debut of Olivia Wilde’s mid-century mindbender “Don’t Worry Darling.” (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File )

Aronofsky, Iñarritu films set for Venice Film Festival

Darren Aronofsky’s “The Whale,” the Marilyn Monroe drama “Blonde,” Alejandro González Iñárritu’s “Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths” and Guadagnino’s “Bones and All,” with Timothée Chalamet, will all have their world premieres in competition at the Venice International Film Festival this
 
This image released by Sony Pictures Classics shows Mark Rylance as Maurice Flitcroft, right, and Mark Lewis Jones as Cliff in a scene from "The Phantom of the Open." (Nick Wall/Sony Pictures Classics via AP)

Q&A: Mark Rylance on his still-evolving life in movies

With London’s stages closed for much of the pandemic, Mark Rylance — one of the theater’s most soulful actors — made six films. They span a wide gamut.
 
FILE - In this Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020 file photo, Designer Alessandro Michele acknowledges the applause at the end of Gucci's Fall/Winter 2020/2021 collection, presented in Milan, Italy. Gucci creative director Alessandro Michele teamed up with film director Gus Van Sant to create a seven-part mini-series revealing Gucci’s latest collection, dubbed “Ouverture.” (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, File)

Gucci, Gus Van Sant challenge fashion cycle with film collab

MILAN (AP) — Gucci creative director Alessandro Michele has been looking to transcend the runway show, and the coronavirus pandemic has provided an apt moment.
 

‘Call Me By Your Name,’ ‘Get Out’ top Gotham Awards

NEW YORK (AP) — The 27th annual Gotham Awards appeared headed for a sweep for Jordan Peele’s social thriller “Get Out,” but the sensual coming-of-age tale “Call Me By Your Name” swooped in to take best feature film at the first major soiree of Oscar season.
 

Review: A lovely, delicate romance in ‘Call Me By Your Name’

The hours move slowly in “Call Me By Your Name .”

It’s summertime in Northern Italy in 1983 on a secluded 17th century villa, where life among the antiquities is beautifully tranquil and nothing is ever pressing.
 

‘Call Me By Your Name’ leads Indie Spirit Award nominations

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The romantic coming-of-age film “Call Me By Your Name” has a leading six Film Independent Spirit Award nominations, followed by Jordan Peele’s satirical horror “Get Out” and the Robert Pattinson thriller “Good Time” with five nominations each.