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Digital Trends
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Digital Trends
Deliver Me from Nowhere trailer: Jeremy Allen White as Bruce Springsteen could lead to Oscars
Jeremy Allen White grabs his guitar and rocks out as Bruce Springsteen in the official trailer for Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere. Springsteen and the E Street Band were red-hot entering the '80s following a string of successful albums, including Born to Run, Darkness on the Edge of Town, and The River. On the cusp of superstardom, the Boss grappled with his past and the pressures of being a rock star. Deliver Me from Nowhere picks up in the early '80s and chronicles the making of Nebraska, Springsteen's 1982 album that many consider his true masterpiece. Springsteen famously recorded Nebraska on a 4-track recorder in his New Jersey bedroom. The result was an emotional and ghostly record 'populated by lost souls searching for a reason to believe.' 'Don't need to be perfect,' White's Springsteen says in the trailer while tuning his guitar in the bedroom. 'I want it to feel like I'm in the room by myself.' Deliver Me from Nowhere also stars Jeremy Strong as Jon Landau, Springsteen's long-time manager; Paul Walter Hauser as Mike Batlan, Springsteen's guitar tech; Stephen Graham as Doug, Springsteen's father; Odessa Young as Faye, the Boss's love interest; Gaby Hoffman as Adele, Springsteen's mom; Marc Maron as Chuck Plotkin, Springsteen's producer; and David Krumholtz as Columbia executive Al Teller. 'This is about Bruce Springsteen,' Landau says to Teller. 'And these are the songs that he wants to work on right now.' Scott Cooper writes and directs Deliver Me from Nowhere, based on Warren Zanes' 2023 book of the same name. Cooper will produce alongside Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Eric Robinson, and Scott Stuber. Executive producers include Zanes, Tracey Landon, and Jon Vein. Springsteen and Landau are both involved in the film. Springsteen visited the set numerous times and praised White for his performance. 'Jeremy is such a terrific actor that you just fall right into it,' Springsteen said in a SiriusXM interview. 'He's got an interpretation of me that I think the fans will deeply recognize. He's just done a great job, so I've had a lot of fun being on the set when I can get there.' White, a two-time Emmy Award winner for his role on The Bear, is firmly in contention for Best Actor at the 2026 Oscars. If done well, music biopics tend to lead to acting nominations. Last year, Timothée Chalamet received a nomination for playing Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown. Rami Malek famously won Best Actor as Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody. Strong will be a contender for Best Supporting Actor. The Emmy winner garnered a supporting nomination at the 2025 Oscars for his work in The Apprentice. Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere opens in theaters on October 24.
The Guardian
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Deliver Me From Nowhere: first trailer for Oscar-tipped Bruce Springsteen biopic
The trailer for Bruce Springsteen biopic Deliver Me From Nowhere has offered the first real look at Jeremy Allen White in the lead role. The award-winning star of The Bear plays the musician as he puts together his sixth album Nebraska in the early 1980s. The film, from Crazy Heart director Scott Cooper, is based on Warren Zanes' 2023 book. Zanes has said it will be different from most biopics as 'it doesn't start before success – it starts in the middle.' 'I've got a really talented group of people helping me train vocally, musically, to get ready for this thing,' White also said in a GQ interview. 'I'm also really lucky [that] Bruce is really supportive of the film, and so I've had some access to him and he's just the greatest guy.' Springsteen, who has been involved in the process, has already praised White's performance, calling him 'a terrific actor' who sings 'very well'. 'He's got an interpretation of me that I think the fans will deeply recognise and he's just done a great job, so I've had a lot of fun,' he said in a recent interview. 'I've had a lot of fun being on the set when I can get there.' White, who has won two Golden Globes and three Emmys for his lead performance in The Bear, has also starred in wrestling drama The Iron Claw. He's also set to appear with Pedro Pascal in Star Wars movie The Mandalorian and Grogu. The film also stars Jeremy Strong as Springsteen's manager Jon Landau and, fresh off his Netflix success with Adolescence, Stephen Graham as his father. The actor recently revealed that he received an emotional text from the singer. 'He's a working-class hero,' he said. 'He's an icon to thousands, to millions. And his text just said: 'Thank you so much. You know, my father passed away a while ago and I felt like I saw him today and thank you for giving me that memory.' I was crying reading the text, do you know what I mean? Oh mate, it was beautiful. You couldn't ask for anything more, you know, to share that with someone was gorgeous. He's a lovely man.' Springsteen has recently made headlines after speaking out against the policies of Donald Trump, calling him 'unfit' for office. The president fired back calling him a 'dried out prune'. Deliver Me From Nowhere will be released in October.
Yahoo
26-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Oliver Laxe's ‘Sirat' Sold by the Match Factory to Slew of International Territories After Cannes Jury Prize Win
The Match Factory has sold Oliver Laxe's 'Sirat' to a slew of international territories following its jury prize win at Cannes Film Festival on Saturday night. The Match Factory has secured distribution for the film in the United Kingdom and Ireland (Altitude), LATAM (Cine Video y TV), BeNeLux (Cineart), Germany and Austria (Pandora Film), Switzerland (Filmcoopi), Japan (Transformer), South Korea (Challan), Taiwan (Andrews Film), Australia and New Zealand (Madman Entertainment), Poland (New Horizons), Sweden (TriArt Film), Norway (Fidalgo), Finland (Cinema Mondo), Greece (Feelgood Entertainment), Portugal (Nitrato Filmes), Former Yugoslavia (MCF MegaCom), Romania (Transilvania Film), Czech Republic and Slovakia (Aerofilms), Hungary (Cirko Film) and the Baltics (A-One Films). More from Variety Jeremy Strong Says Serving on Cannes Jury Was 'Like "Conclave" With Champagne' and Celebrates Palme d'Or Winner 'It Was Just an Accident': It 'Changed Me' Cannes Awards: Jafar Panahi Vindicated With Palme d'Or for 'It Was Just an Accident,' Marking Sixth Consecutive Cannes Win for Neon Kleber Mendonça Filho's Brazilian Epic 'The Secret Agent' Wins Fipresci Award at Cannes: 'A Rich, Strange and Deeply Troubling Story' Negotiations for additional territories are underway. Earlier this week, Neon acquired rights to release the film in North America, while Mubi will handle Italy, Turkey and India. BTeam Pictures will release the film in Spain on June 6 and Pyramide is distributing in France. 'Sirat' follows a father (Sergi López) and his son as they 'arrive at a rave deep in the mountains of southern Morocco,' according to its official synopsis. 'They're searching for Mar — daughter and sister — who vanished months ago at one of these endless, sleepless parties. Surrounded by electronic music and a raw, unfamiliar sense of freedom, they hand out her photo again and again. Hope is fading but they push through and follow a group of ravers heading to one last party in the desert. As they venture deeper into the burning wilderness, the journey forces them to confront their own limits.' 'Sirat' earned rave reviews out of Cannes, with Variety's Jessica Kiang calling it a 'brilliantly bizarre, cult-ready vision of human psychology tested to its limits' that defies 'all known laws of narrative and genre.' Best of Variety New Movies Out Now in Theaters: What to See This Week Emmy Predictions: Talk/Scripted Variety Series - The Variety Categories Are Still a Mess; Netflix, Dropout, and 'Hot Ones' Stir Up Buzz Oscars Predictions 2026: 'Sinners' Becomes Early Contender Ahead of Cannes Film Festival
Perth Now
26-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Jeremy Strong compares Cannes jury to 'Conclave with Champagne'
Jeremy Strong has compared serving on the jury at the Cannes Film Festival to "'Conclave' with Champagne". The 'Succession' star was among the famous faces entrusted with picking the winners at the glitzy festival this year and he's revealed jury duty was comparable to the election of a new Pope in critically-acclaimed movie 'Conclave'. According to Variety, Jeremy said during a press conference: "I feel immeasurably inspired by what I've seen here. It's been so invigorating, and this sort of cumulative tally of the work I'll carry with me ... "This has been a really wonderful experience, a really connected experience with these people - it's like 'Conclave' with Champagne. It's really great." The festival jury was led by president Juliette Binoche and also featured Halle Berry, Payal Kapadia, Hong Sansoo, Alba Rohrwacher, Leila Slimani, Dieudo Hamadi and Carlos Reygadas. The festival's top prize - the Palme d'Or - was awarded to director Jafar Panahi's new drama 'It Was Just an Accident', which tells the story of a group of former prisoners in Iran who plot their revenge on a man they believe was a guard who tortured them behind bars. Binoche said of the film: "It's very human and political at the same time because he comes from a complicated country, politically speaking. "When we watched the film, it really stood out. The film springs from a feeling of resistance, survival, which is absolutely necessary today. So we thought it was important to give this film the paramount award. "Art will always win. What is human will always win. Our creative urge can transform the world." Strong added: "[We] wanted to recognize films that we felt were transcendent intrinsically as pieces of work ... Ibsen talked about: 'Deep inside, there's a poem in a poem. And when you hear that, when you grasp that, you will understand my song'. "And I feel that this film and the other films have these poems within the poem that allow us to grasp something ineffable that have changed me." Panahi previously admitted the film drew on his own personal experience of prison, telling the Guardian newspaper: "The first time I was in prison I was in solitary confinement. "I was on my own in a tiny cell and they would take me out blindfolded to a place where I would sit in front of a wall and hear this voice at my back. It was the voice of the man who would question me – sometimes for two hours, sometimes for eight hours. "And I would just hang on his voice all that time, fantasising about who this person was from his voice. And I had an intuition that someday this voice would be an aspect of something I'd write or shoot and give a creative life to.' Speaking after winning the top prize at Cannes, the moviemaker said: "Let's put all the problems, all the differences aside; the most important thing right now is our country and our country's freedom. "Let's reach that moment together when no one dares to tell us what we should completely include, what we should say, what we shouldn't do… Cinema is a society. No one has the right to tell us what you should do, what you shouldn't do." The festival's second prize - the the Grand Prix – went to 'Sentimental Value' starring Stellan Skarsgard and the Jury Prize was a tie between ' Sound of Falling' and 'Sirat' while the Camera d'Or award went to 'The President's Cake'.
Mint
24-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Mint
'This has been a really wonderful experience': Jeremy Strong on serving as Cannes jury
Cannes [France], May 25 (ANI): Actor Jeremy Strong reflected on his past 11 days as a member of the Cannes Film Festival competition jury, comparing it to the process of choosing a new pope as depicted in the Oscar-nominated film 'Conclave'. "I feel immeasurably inspired by what I've seen here," Strong said during a press conference after the jury awarded Jafar Panahi's "It Was Just an Accident" with the Palme d'Or. "It's been so invigorating, and this sort of cumulative tally of the work I'll carry with me," reported Variety. Strong continued, "This has been a really wonderful experience, a really connected experience with these people -- it's like 'Conclave' with champagne. It's really great." Strong served under president Juliette Binoche along with Halle Berry, Payal Kapadia, Hong Sansoo, Alba Rohrwacher, Leila Slimani, Dieudo Hamadi and Carlos Reygadas. During the presser, the group explained their decision to give the top prize to "It Was Just an Accident," which follows a group of former prisoners in Iran who must decide whether or not to enact revenge on a man they think was their torturous guard. The film marked Panahi's first project since being imprisoned for several months in 2023 for criticizing the Iranian government, according to Variety. "It's very human and political at the same time because he comes from a complicated country, politically speaking," Binoche said, adding, "When we watched the film, it really stood out. The film springs from a feeling of resistance, survival, which is absolutely necessary today. So we thought it was important to give this film the paramount award." She continued, "Art will always win. What is human will always win. Our creative urge can transform the world." Strong said that the jury "wanted to recognise films that we felt were transcendent intrinsically as pieces of work," aligning with how Robert De Niro kicked off the festival during its opening ceremony by saying that "fascists should fear art," reported Variety. (ANI)
