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Almost six years ago, Timothée Chalamet talked to Variety as he was about to board an airplane for the Sundance premiere of “Call Me by Your Name.” The actor, then 21 and best known for a recurring role on “Homeland,” claimed that he hadn’t seen the indie movie that would change his life. “I’m trying to hold out,” he explained. “I want to see it in the theater, too, for the first time.” When we talked to Chalamet again 10 months later, he was in the bubble between when a movie premieres at a film festival and when it gets released to the public, a pocket of time where he could retain his anonymity. He still rode the subway in New York. Did his fellow commuters recognize him? “Not at…

Five years after allegations surfaced against Harvey Weinstein, the bombshell investigation that exposed the movie titan to be a serial sexual abuser is getting the Hollywood treatment — and his victims are helping filmmakers tell the story. “She Said,” based on the book by New York Times investigative journalists Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, who first reported on Weinstein’s history of sexual harassment and assault in depth, hits theaters this weekend. The film doesn’t just center on the two reporters. It’s also about the women who came forward to expose Weinstein’s abuse across decades, igniting the hashtag #MeToo, blazing a cultural and societal fire of truth-telling and knocking down systemic abuses of power in the workplace. The Universal-distributed movie includes an unprecedented level of participation from these same women, many…

When Toby Haynes was 6 years old, as he and his brother were watching “Star Wars: A New Hope” for the umpteenth time on TV, his father pointed out that that part of the film’s scenery was actually a painting. It set Haynes’ young imagination aflight. “If someone had painted ‘Star Wars,’ I knew that I wanted to be that person,” he says. “‘Star Wars’ is the whole reason why I’m a filmmaker.” Decades later, Haynes — who’s had a prolific directing career in British television, including episodes of “Doctor Who,” “Sherlock” and “Black Mirror” — had his childhood dream fulfilled when he landed the job as the lead director for “Andor,” the wildly ambitious “Star Wars” series for Disney+ that will conclude its first season on Nov. 23. Ironically,…

Gabrielle Union (1) tells me exclusively that she and Eva Longoria (2) are developing an LGBTQ wedding comedy feature for Amazon Studios. They’ll not only produce the film but star as dueling soon-to-be mothers-in-law whose sons are getting married. “Eva and I try to take over their wedding [planning] and make it the wedding of our dreams versus theirs,” Union said Nov. 13 at a tastemaker screening of “The Inspection.” The untitled project is being written by Ricardo Gamboa and produced by Macro Film Studios, Union’s I’ll Have Another Prods. and Longoria’s UnbeliEVAble Entertainment. Union also gave me an update on “Got to Be,” a Billy Porter-directed road trip movie about three Rhode Island high schoolers who travel to New York City for their first Pride parade. It was inspired…

Nov. 16 Wednesday • Tim Burton, Jenna Ortega, Gwendoline Christie, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Luis Guzmán and Fred Armisen celebrate the premiere of Netflix’s “Wednesday.” Hollywood Legion Theater Post 43, Hollywood • Omar Apollo performs at the Jonathan Anderson-hosted opening party for Loewe Rodeo Drive. Whiskey a Go Go, Hollywood • Amy Adams, Patrick Dempsey, Maya Rudolph, Idina Menzel, James Marsden, Yvette Nicole Brown and Adam Shankman walk the red carpet at the “Disenchanted” premiere. El Capitan Theatre, Hollywood Nov. 17 Thursday • Ryan Reynolds and Jason Blum are honored at the 36th American Cinematheque Awards. The Beverly Hilton, Beverly Hills Nov. 19 Saturday • Euzhan Palcy, Diane Warren, Peter Weir and Michael J. Fox receive kudos at the Governors Awards. Fairmont Century Plaza, Century City Nov. 20 Sunday • The American…

International correspondent Nick Vivarelli went to London to talk with Timothée Chalamet, Taylor Russell and Luca Guadagnino about first love between two American cannibals for our “Bones and All” cover story. That evening he had a veggie pizza. Reporter Selome Hailu traveled to the Catskills to interview Steve Burns, the original host of “Blue’s Clues,” one of her favorite shows growing up. On her drive to the town where he lives, right in front of her car, a chicken crossed the road. TV features editor Emily Longeretta laughed, cried and laughed again while speaking to “Dead to Me” stars Christina Applegate and Linda Cardellini and creator Liz Feldman for the trio’s only interview together ahead of the show’s final season. British photographer Jason Hetherington snapped our “Bones and All” cover…

Given Hollywood’s obsession with tales of great financial ruin — and the trophies many actors have collected for playing the figures behind them — we say confidently that it is only a matter of time before we get a scripted account of the still-unfolding Sam Bankman-Fried disaster. Bankman-Fried is the wildhaired 30-year-old Silicon Valley whiz kid seen as a savior by the financial news establishment, a generous bundler for the Democrats and a deep-pocketed partner to celebrities like Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen. Most interesting? He no longer has a job. The entrepreneur (known mostly by his initials, SBF) has in the past week seen a stunning collapse of his cryptocurrency platform FTX, which at one time held a reported $50 billion in assets. Upwards of $2 billion in customer…

Mark Mylod has a unique gift: telling stories that show empathy for the ultra-wealthy as they treat the world as their playground. “We, of course, realize that we ourselves are flawed and we can’t help but see, if not the same bank balance, some level of ourselves in those characters in our own follies,” says the Emmy-winning executive producer of “Succession” and director of “The Menu,” a Nov. 18 Searchlight release. In the pitch-black comedy, Anya Taylor-Joy plays a woman joining her boyfriend (Nicholas Hoult) on an exclusive foodie trip to a remote island, where an obsessive chef (Ralph Fiennes) is cooking a meal that the visitors won’t forget. While there are jabs at the film’s more clueless characters, Mylod says it was critical to understand the diners, played by…

Nov. 9 WednesGay Party Los Globos, Los Angeles Netflix celebrated its upcoming “Addams Family” spinoff series, “Wednesday,” with a night of drinking, dancing and drag. “Bros” star TS Madison hosted the festivities, which featured performances by “RuPaul’s Drag Race” breakouts Gottmik, Violet Chachki, Mo Heart and Crystal Methyd. “Wednesday Addams is like a fucking Goth icon in my life,” Gottmik said. “Truly, growing up, I was an ‘Addams Family’ diva.” Nov. 9 ‘Tulsa King’ Premiere Regal Union Square, New York The Paramount+ show marks Sylvester Stallone’s first foray into series television. He plays a mobster tasked with establishing a criminal organization in Tulsa, Okla., after serving a 25-year prison sentence. “It’s very hard to find something original,” the “Rocky” star said on the red carpet. “And when it comes knocking…

Timothée Chalamet has been on a wilder world tour than most rock stars. Between shooting “Dune: Part Two” in Budapest and “Wonka” in London and the cannibal romance “Bones and All” in Ohio, he’s hardly had time to sleep in his own bed. “We did the ‘French Dispatch’ premiere in Cannes,” he says about the debut of the Wes Anderson comedy in the south of France two summers ago, where he walked the red carpet in a silver suit. “And then I was immediately doing the vocal and dance training at Leavesden” — to take on the role of Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka — “which was wonderful, because I went from playing a disenfranchised cannibal on the outskirts of American society in the ’80s to a gifted young chocolatier and…

Ryan Reynolds is one of the last old school movie stars, an actor and producer not only respected for his talent but also his off-screen persona that only enhances his likeability. He’s been a professional actor since the age of 13 and seen his films gross more than $5 billion at the box office. He also co-owns a Welsh football team, has a stake in a gin company and is really, really good at social media, not only to promote his projects but also to solidify his image as a genuinely funny, self-aware personality. American Cinematheque board chair Rick Nicita declared “Ryan Reynolds is a Renaissance Man 2.0 for our times” when announcing he would be the recipient of this year’s American Cinematheque Award, to be presented at a ceremony…

FILM REVIEW Director: JD Dillard Starring: Jonathan Majors, Glen Powell, Joe Jonas Muhammad Ali famously refused to fight for his country, justifying himself with the oft-quoted quip, “No Viet Cong ever called me n-----.” That’s one-half of American history, and an essential one. “Devotion” tells the other, presenting the story of a Black pilot so determined to defend — and die for, if need be — the United States that he was willing to endure institutional bigotry to become the Jackie Robinson of the skies: Jesse Brown, the first aviator of color to complete the Navy’s basic training program. A square but satisfying social justice drama set against the backdrop of the Korean War, “Devotion” features elements of both “Green Book” and “Red Tails.” But the film is not just…

Glen Powell learned the story of naval fighter pilots Tom Hudner and Jesse Brown when he read Adam Makos’ 2017 book “Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice.” It set the “Hidden Figures” and “Top Gun: Maverick” actor on a path to making “Devotion,” which hits theaters Nov. 23. Powell not only stars as Hudner but is a producer on the film, having spent years bringing the project to fruition. Set during the Korean War, the film also stars Jonathan Majors as Brown, who was the first Black aviator in the U.S. Navy and a recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross. • Were you surprised when you heard the story of “Devotion”? I was not familiar with Jesse Brown and Tom Hudner prior to this film. I was the…

With nine shows, Taylor Sheridan can’t be as hands-on as he once was. So, after writing the “Tulsa King” pilot in three days, and getting Sylvester Stallone to quickly sign on to the project, Sheridan handed over the reins to “Boardwalk Empire” and “Sopranos” vet, Terence Winter. Now it’s Winter’s show. After reading the “brilliant” first script, he called Sheridan to talk over some changes — moving the premise from Kansas City to Tulsa, for starters — and went from there. “Taylor was like, ‘This is your baby. I have visitation rights.’ He stayed true to his word,” Winter says. “I went off to the show and I met him one time after that, in person right before we started shooting.” On paper, the Paramount+ show is about former Mafia…

There are some Oscar recipients who don’t have to sweat the big night — they already know they are receiving honorary statuettes at this year’s Governors Awards, which will be held Nov. 19 in Los Angeles. Michael J. Fox Five-time Emmy Award winner Fox will be honored with the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, an Oscar statuette given “to an individual in the motion picture arts and sciences whose humanitarian efforts have brought credit to the industry.” In addition to starring in box office classics like the “Back to the Future” series, Fox has worked with some of the best directors in the business, including Peter Jackson (“The Frighteners”) and Rob Reiner (“The American President”) in a wide range of genres. In 2000, he launched the Michael J. Fox Foundation…

Jason Blum and Blumhouse will be honored by the American Cinematheque this year with the 2022 Power of Cinema Award. Blum, the founder and CEO of Blumhouse, has been a pioneer in making hit genre films at a practical price (“Happy Death Day,” “Get Out”) while also collaborating on prestige Oscar-and Emmy-winning projects like “Whiplash” and “The Normal Heart.” “It was a real honor and surprise to get the email from Rick Nicita,” Blum tells Variety. “I had to read it a couple of times to get the impact. It forced me to reflect on all of the movies we’ve made and the directors we’ve had the good fortune to work with, and that’s meaningful. When you’re in it, you can just get lost in the day to day, moving…